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? ^ : ^ SUniXD SBXi-WBBBL^ ~ I. m. grist 4 sons, Publisher*. } % Ifamilg IJeirspager: <J[or (he promotion of the political, Social, Agricultural and Commercial Interests of the jpeojte. { termSinole coptEfive cent^!<cf' ESTABLISHED 1855. YOEKTILLE, S. C., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1899. NUMBER~76. _ - j ? - ?? - .... , ., | |H | | | | I | ~ * 1 " 1 J- tU~ ??:?*? fVin* iroop lonlirolu in tViP VianH<a nf thP nfttivM. Tt THE MYSTf COUNT By FRED ^ Copyright, 1S99, by the American Press Assocl Synopsis of Previous Installments. In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment ot this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Count Boris Landrinof, a young Russian student at Oxford,, receives a telegram from his mother that his father, Count Yladiiner Landrinof, is missing and asking him to return to Russia at once. Before starting for home Boris meets his friend Percy Morris, who tells him that he saw his father that very day in London. Boris, on arriving in Russia, finds that his father had gone to the railway station, but bad not taken a train. Here the trail was lost. Boris learns from a peasant that ho had driven three men to a post station. Percy arrives in Russia, and he and Boris interview the master of the post station and are told that the postmater drove the party referred to to St. Petersburg. Percy and Boris direct him to drive them to where he left the party, and be drives them to the Landrinof residence. Borofsky, a detective, is employed, and it is decided that Percy shall return to Loudon and endeavor to obtain a photograph ot the man resembling the missing count. Percy secures the photograph, which greatly resembles the count. The countess then tells her son that ber father had a brother who fell into criminal ways. RrtrnfVik-v or>ou to London for the purpose of bringing back the man who resembles Count Landriuof. Borofsky follows his man, who eudeavors to elude him. They have an interview, and the man agrees to return with him to Russia. Borofsky and the supposed count return. Boris does not believe that the latter is his lather's brother, Andrew LandrinotF. The man (Andre) pretends never to have heard of the count's criminal brother. Andre is visited by a shabby student. Boris fol-) lows the student, who, perceiving that he isshadowed, endeavors to escape by crossing a frozen river. The ice breaks, the student falls into the water and is rescued by Boris. Boris demands information of his father of the student and to secure it takes hiin home and entertains him as a guest. The student admits that he possesses the required information and demands money for it. Boris agrees to pay and he to accept 5,000 rubles. The student tells him that Andre was a Siberian prisoner; that he escaped and came to St. Petersburg; that the police were tracking him when a plot was concocted to palm the real Count LandrinolF as the escaped prisoner. The plan was successfully carried out and the count was arrestea and sent to Siberia. It now becomes a problem how to convince the police of their mistake. Boris interviews the chief of the division who arrested his father but meets a rebuff. Returning home, Boris) finds that the chief has visited his house. The student, on learning of the visit believes that it was with a view to his arrest and that Andre has informed upon him, ne Deiug linpiiciueu. mmjiaivy uuwiium. a free exit if he will tell all ho knows. The student then gives information of a plot to kill the czar by blowing up the train on bis return to St. Petersburg. Borofsky reveals the plot to the police. CHAPTER XXXI. MURDER OF THE INFORMANT. The "high official" at the department received us on the following morning courteously, but. I thought, somewhat superciliously. "I fear I have not much encouragement to offer you today," be said; "it appears that the pristaf of theoochastok in which the arrest admittedly took place has interviewed the count and has heard his version of the story. That version differs so materially from your own that the fullest investigations must be made before we can reasonably hope for any progress." "It would naturally differ from ours," said Boiofsky; "that was to be expected. May we ask what particular line he has adopted ?" "He asserts that his wife is mad and utterly refuses to recognize him, and that his son?whether insane also, or only a blind partisan of his mother? chooses to support her incomprehensible conduct. He is prepared, he declares, to bring forward witnesses?servants and others?to prove his identity. To be otrir-tlv Vintioat it onnoaru trt nifl t.hnt the man. were he an impostor, as you contend, would scarcely dare to brave out his deception, now that the police are in possession of the facts of the case and intend to make an investigation. He would suddenly disappear from the house and"? "He left the house last night and has not since reappeared." The chief winced and remained silent a moment. "Well," he said, "I quite admit that is a point in your favor, so far as it goes. Is that what you came to tell me?" "That and something etillmore startling. excellence," said Borcfsky. "We believe we have unearthed a plot!" "A plot?" repeated the chief sternly. "What kind of a plot? It is very unlikely that you ehould have unearthed anything which is not known to this department. Explain." "The czar is to return this week, I believe, and by train." "Stop! I warn you that the mention of the czar and his movements instantly renders every communication of vital importance. Are you prepared for the responsibility you will incur by embarking upon such a course?" "It is absolutely necessary to inquire into this matter that I have to speak of. We are ready to take the consequences, good or evil. Our fear* may be groundless. If so. so much the bet :RY OF LANDRINOF. iVHISHAW. at Ion. ter. We only know tfiatr which we have been told by one who professes to be accnrately informed." The great man paused awnue to coulider. "The same source," be said presently, "I suppose, as that from which you drew the fairy tale of yesterday." "Yesterday's was no fairy tale, but the plain truth. This may be a lie, told with a purpose; I cannot tell, but you will agree that, lie or truth, the thing must be inquired into." "Well, I will hear, in any case," said the chief. "Speak, if yon will!" "It is a plot to wreck the czar's train!" Borofsky began. The chief started to his feet. "Who's plot? What! How dare yon say 6uch a thing! Such an assertion must be fully proved and should be well tested before it is made in this place. Who are the conspirators? Where and how, do you suggest, would the attempt be made?" "This very impostor, who, as you have seen, would pass as Count Landrinof, is. we suggest, the head and center of the affair. That is our information. The place is a spot between Kirilof and Bootief, on the Moscow-Boulogne line of railway. Our impostor has disappeared, but your men can surely lay bands upon him. For the rest you can, of course, send u telegram to the nearest town or station to the spot where the attempt is or was to be made." "Stop! Your informant?where is |he to be found?" "That is our secret," I said. "My dear sir." said the chief warmly. "do you seriously suppose that we should allow the author of so serious a warning as this to escape our hands? The man must be personally implicated or he would not be in a position to turn informer. Come; we are neither children nor fools. Who is this man, and where is he to be found?" "I have promised that be should remain screened," I 6aid. "Without the giving of such an undertaking I should never have learned the secrets he had to reveal." "And which be revealed doubtless in hope of a reward? What reward?" "Ten thousand rubles?half for the information as to my father's arrest and deportation by a blunder of the police. who fell into the trap laid for them: the other half for this secret." "And why. pray, should yon pay 5.000 rubles for the secret of this conspiracy? It is magnanimous. But why ?" "Because you refused to believe in the imposture of this man. It was necessary to bring home to him some other undoubted offense, such as this. Then I hoped you would realize that a mistake had been made in the other affair and u i V?t? WUU1U IIUV? till; oc? 115UU UJ releasing njy father and punishing this wretch." "But your informer probably invented this new thing in order to gain an extra reward--6,000 rubles. Gracious heaven! What lie would not any man tell for such a sum of money Y" "Well, telegraph and let your fellows see whether the thing is lie or truth. Yon can detain me here, if you like. If it should prove that my informant has not lied. why. then, he will have done yon a signal service, and you will not regret allowing him to escape from the country, on condition that be leaves a written deposition." "I will telegraph, at any rate I" said the chief, who, in spite of his bullying air, put on by way of covering his annoyance to find that so serious a matter as an attempt at the czar's life should be in actual preparation without his knowledge, was obviously agitated and far more inclined to take us seriously than he had been yesterday or at the commencement of the interview. "If you will sit down, both cf you, and rest awhile," he continued, "I will have this matter set going at once. We can settle the question of the informer at a later stage of the inquiry; there may be nothing in it." He left Borofsky and me seated in his nrJroto nnrl dpnnrt.p.d. ?4' "We shall look a pretty pair of fools if the police find the whole thing to be a mare's nest!" said Borofsky. "If the little villain has lied to ns, we need have no mercy. Let the authorities have him, if they want him." We waited a quarter of an hour, occasionally exchanging a remark or so, but mostly sitting silently, being busily occupied with our own thoughts, when a startling thing happened. An attendant appeared and informed me that a gentleman desired to see young Count Landrinof. He was down stairs. Would I interview him here? He must see me alone, he said. A minute or two later Percy burst into the room. He looked pale and haggard, terrified?it seemed to me?as though he had just been scared by some apparition. "A fearful thing has happened," he began the instant bis bead was in the room. "Heaven only knows what it means! I went over to the lodging we took for the student to see that he hadn't escaped, and so on, and"? "Don't say Be has escaped i" 1 said. "It would mean that he had lied all through." "He's dead I" muttered Percy. "Murdered I He's lying there at this moment with the knife in his heart?a fearful sight! I thought I'd better come on here and tell you about it at once. TO BE CONTINUED. pisctUiincoujs fktuling. BIU FKUblTS I.N UI.NSL.Nb. CHINA WILL PAY AMERICAN DIGGERS 81,250,000 THIS YEAR. This In the Height of the Ginseng Season?Dangers That the Industry May He Ruined Through Ignorance?Wide Range of the Plant and Its Great Value?Its Use In the Chinese Pharmacopeia. From New York Sun. Bolivar, N. Y., September 9.?The ginseng diggers of the United States will earn $1,250,000 this season, thanks to the Chinese belief that the root of this plant which grows wild in the forests of fourteen states is a specific for all the ills of mind and body. Practically no ginseng is used in this country. About all that is dug is exported to China. The roots bring $6 a pound this year, the highest price ever received by diggers, and the demand exceeds the supply. The export trade is controlled absolutely by a Chinese syndicate whose profits are enormous. Years ago the wholesale drug firms exported ginseng; but within 15 years Chinese in New York have secured a monoDolv of the business. This is the height of the ginseng season, and from the woods of Canada to the Georgia line the ginseng digger is at work. Some of the diggers earn $5 a day; but the average is about ?2. They walk from 10 to 20 miles a day in their rambles through the forests. The digger carries a small steel pick with a hatchet blade and a handle 18 inches long, with which he loosens the ginseng root and cuts away the tree roots that encircle it, for if it can be avoided ginseng roots are never broken. The roots are gathered up and carried in a cloth sack slung over the shoulder. The successful digger must possess a certain amouut of forest lore, and strength and willingness to tramp many a weary mile out of the beaten path, for ginseng bides away in deep ravines and dense forests. The Indians on the New York reservations and the Indians of Minnesota earn a great deal of money every year by digging ginseng ; but, unfortunately for them, the plaut is fast becoming extinct within the boundaries of those states. The most picturesque diggers ure found in the Cumberland mountain regions in Kentucky and Tennessee. There the women and children join the men in the hunt for the root, which for short is called "sang." Every storekeeper in the backwoods of the Cumberland highlands buys ginseng, and it readily passes for currency. In that region a queer superstition prevails among the diggers. They believe that if the location of a patch of ginseng found at nightfall, too late to be dug, is marked by a blaze on a tree, or in anv other way, the ginseng will disappear before the next morula p. For many years western Pennsylvania was a paradise for diggers, inauy of whom came from miles away to dig the root every season. In 1880 a party <>f four ginseng diggers fouud $10,000 worth of roots in one county in northwestern Pennsylvania. They discovered a mountain stream that ran back into a dense hardwood forest. Both sides of the gully were covered with ginseug and they kept the secret so well that they secured about all of the patches. Many other big patches were found in that region ; but few exist now, though several thousand pounds of roots are dug every season. Every acre of the woods has been tramped over many times. The ginseng diggers have only themselves to blame for the partial extinction of the valuable plant, though many of them assisted in maiming the goose that laid the golden egg through ignorance. The ginseng plant comes up in the spring as soon as the frost leaves the ground. The stock of the mature plant has three prongs with five leaves on a prong and closely resembles the very common sarsaparilla plaut. It thrives best in hardwood timber, on the east and northern slopes of the hills. The signs that guide old diggers are bloodroot and crowfoot, which -always grow near a ginseng ""'"li In the eentre of the fork a __ stem appears tbat bears a white blossom about the first of June. Green berries follow the blossom and at the end of August the berries turn scarlet. The frost turns the stock yellow and the berries drop ofT. Ginseng should never be dug until the berries are scarlet, and the berries should be planted in the forest mould to insure another crop. This the ginseng diggers have seldom done. The rule has always been to begin digging as soon as the flower appeared, thus exterminating the plant. Kentucky, realizing the folly of diggers, has passed a law prohibiting the gathering of roots before the berries are ripe. The Province of Ontario has , passed and enforces a similar law. In , West Virgiuia a law prohibts the digging of ginseng without the consent of i the owners of the land, i The best ginseng comes from Pennsylvania, New York, Minnesota and Canada. Soutnern rooi is quoted ai $1 a pound less than northern root. It takes four pounds of green root dug in the spring to make one of dry. In the fall it takes only three pounds of gften for one of dry. Only dry root is exported. The average mature ginseng plant is 10 inches high and the average root weighs an ounce. Stocks 4 feet high have been found and roots weighing 30 ounces have been dug, but they are very rare. One peculiarity about ginseng is that many of the roots are forked and resemble in form the human body with spurs for arnjs and legs. Such roots, if they are' extremely old, bring their weight in gold in China. The Chinese believe that the root of a plant that thus expands into the human form in dark forests and thickets must be iutended to alleviate the sufferings of the human race. In color the ginseng root resembles the garden parsnip. It has a pleasant, aromatic taste. Nearly every digger chews it and regards it as a specific for stomach troubles, at the same time |pokiug fun at the Chinaman who gives up good money for it. Ginseng is a plant of slow growth and long lived. Every fall the dying stalk leaves a wrinkle that is as plain as the rings by which the age of a tree is told, and old diggers say that they frequently find roots fifty years old. The process of preparing the roots for market is simple. The digger washes them in spring water to remove the earth and dries them in the sun. When cured he carries them to the country store and trades them for cash or goods. All over the ginseng country buyers are many and competition so lively that the digger gets a good price. The country dealers ship the i roots to the city dealer for whom he buys in bags or barrels. One firm in Lexington, Ky., handled $60,000 worth i of ginseng last season, and one ship- I raent by express from a Kentucky i mountain towu to a commission firm in New York was valued at $10,000. All the ginseng root dug in the United < States fiually reaches New York city. There are 20 firms in New York city that buy giuseng from country and I small city dealers. When the ship- l ments reach N?w York they are sort- I ed and the roots placed in heaps on i the floor ready to be inspected by the i Chinese exporters who make daily i rounds. The Chinese pack the roots i into wooden casks that hold 200 I pounds and ship them direct to Hong i Kong. The commission men know | little more about the Chinese end of i the ginseng question than the diggers in the backwoods, for the Chinamen | are reticent. Some diggers are not unlike these honest farmers who put the big apples in the top row when packing a barrel. Commission meu frequently find ginseng roots filled with < lead and other metals, and often cheap southern roots are found mixed with , shipments from as far north as Canada. , A good idea of the value of wild i ginseng may be secured by a visit to < one of the New York commission i houses late in September when business is brisk. On the floor will be seen a > little pyramid of roots, perhaps a bush- ; el in all, that the dealer asks $500 for. i Such roots have been assorted, are of ' good size and perfect in every way. , flo? nnmmlaoinn man SftVS that the Chi- i nese exporters make a strong effort every season to learn the names of the country buyers so that they can deal direct with them aud save the commission man's profit; but the commission men guard their list of dealers carefully. Eveu when approached hy a Chinaman, as they occasionally are, the couutry dealers are shy and prefer to deal with Americans. Three or four years ago uu American went to Hong Kong with a big shipment of giuseug ; hut the Hong Kong branch of the Chinese syndicate blocked his efforts to dispose of it so cleverly that he lostmoney and gave up the idea of being an exporter. Even the commission men are shy about giving out any information about the business. American ginseng ranks third in China. The finest ginseng grows wild in the forests of Manchuria and is rare, choice roots selling readily for $400 au ounce. The Chinese believe that ginseng is endowed with the power of concealing itself from capture and that heaven has appointed the wolf, | tiger, leopard and snake to guard over | l l_ J ?<1 ? I I its satety iu tne aara wooueu gieus. | They firmly believe that it has the i power to ward off disease and evil j spirits and that its use will prolong the ' life of a dying man for days. The | roots are on sale at all the botauic stores ( in China aud are universally used, i The Manchurian ginseug is reserved i for royalty aud the very rich. The poorer classes use cheap grades and , broken roots. < There are three ways of taking gin- ( seng : In pills, in confection and by i infusion. j Ginseng has been an important arti- I ele of export from this country since < 1718. A letter from a missionary in i China describing the wonderful plant ; attracted the attention of a Jpsuit I priest at Moutreal who made a searcn i iu 1716 aud found it growing in the I forests of that locality. The French j at once began digging it for export to < China, and for years enjoyed a mono poly that brought rich returns. In i 1750 ginseng was found in central i New York, and later in Vermont, < Pennsylvania, Ohio, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Virginia, West Virginia, Ken- < tucky, Tennessee, Massachusetts, the Carolinas aud Georgia. Every year 1 some new diggers are found. In 1862 j the export trade reached 700,000 pOUUUH, I lie iivcitt^c piAV/C VU0V j ? being 74 cents a pound. This was high tide. Since that year the amount exported has annually decreased and the price increased. Last season 250,000 pounds were exported and the average price was $4 a pound. One reason why Chinese ginseng brings a higher price than the American root is dne to the care exercised in preparing it for the market. American diggers simply wash the roots and drv them in the sun or in an attic. ? J Id China the roots are scrubbed clean and macerated for three days in water in which rice has been boiled, then placed in a covered vessel and slowly dried over a fire until hard and brittle. When the drying is finished the roots are yellow and semi-transparent. American consuls in China have often informed the state department of the manner in which American ginseng reaches- the Chinese market and have often advised better care in preparing. The faith of the Chinese in the gin-, seng root has not wavered in centuries and is likely to continue for ages to come. One of the presents given Li Hung Chang on his recent visit to New York was a fine collection of giuseng roots, and it is doubtful if any gift could have pleased him more. If America is to continue to profit to the extent of a million dollars or more a year, the extinction of the wild plant through the ignorance of diggers must be stopped by laws such as Kentucky has passed ; but such laws it must be admitted are hard to enforce. The department of agriculture has taken a band in the matter and a systematic effort will be mude to show the diggers the folly of digging the plants before the berries are ripe and the necessity 1 of planting the berries. 1 The ginseng diggers are not a dis - *- -VT ir?i. ? A unci type, id new ium uuu xcuusylvania maDy of them are farmer 1 boys who spend a moDth in the woods after harvesting. Five young fellows uear here earned money to visit the 1 World's fair by digging ginseng. An- 1 other young fellow has paid all the ex- j penses of a normal course in the same way. In every community there are 1 two or three men who spend their ' time in hunting, fishing and finding bee ( trees. These men always hunt gin- 1 sing and are usually experts. Nearly all the mountain people in Kentucky 1 and Tennessee dig ginseng and rely on ' it to furnish the food to tide them over the winter mouths. Ginseng is grow- ! ing scarcer every year, and unless 1 ;reat care is exercised, this profitable 1 industry will be destroyed. , , , i 3ENERAL LAWTON ON THE FILIPINOS. 1 What They Are Today and What They Are Capable Of. Rev. Peter MacQueen, pastor of the I Congregational church in Somerville, 1 who has been for months with our army in the island of Luzon, writes iu 1 the Boston Congregatioualist of ao in* ' * ? > xt_ terview wmcn ne nau wun major vjtcu- ^ sral HeDry W. Lawton. Here is what Lhe general said of the native people : ' "The Filipinos are a very fine set of 3oldiers. They are far better than the Indians. The latter never fight unless J they have the absolute advantage. The Tagals are what I would call a ' civilized race. They are good mechanics, imitative?they manufacture everything. They have arsenals and cartridge factories and powder mills. They can manufacture everything they need. There is a rude arm they are J getting the knack of making. Taking everything into consideration, the ( Few facilities they have, the man} drawbacks, they are a very ingenious and artistic race. And taking into account the disadvantages they have to j tight against in arms, equipment and , military discipline, without artillery, , short of ammunition, powder inferior, | shells reloaded uutil they are de- , fective, inferior in every particular of ] equipment and supplies, they are the , bravest men I have ever seen. , The Filipinos are not military by na- f Lure. They are rather domestic in | tastes and habits, peace-loving and in- | Jnstrious. Nine-tenths of the people , cf the islands will strougly favor peace, ( even at the expense of some of their ( theories, wishes and hopes. I believe ( lhat with a liberal government such as , the United States can and will estab- ; '* * ' 1 ?211 n rvAnnooKln thrlflu Iisn mey Will UC a pcaucauiV) vuiuvj | | happy people. I believe that it was a ? jreat misfortune that we were not able to give them a chance to sample our ] government before hostilities opened. , The only thing we have to fear is | [rom ambitious youths who want to ] control for financial reasons, that they ( may practice what the Spanish have j taught them. j Among the Filipinos there are many ] jultured people who would ornament ( society anywhere in the world. La- | lies who have studied and traveled, , men who have had a good education , md a fine brain. Take them as a class , there can as many of tbem read and | write as the inhabitants in many places in America. As for their treachery, you would not have to come so far as I this to fiud that. There is plenty of t ,t in North America. All nations are , treacherous more or less. Some men ] ind nations have treachery trained out I jf them more than others. What we t want is to stop this accursed war. It ] is time for diplomacy, time for mutual ; understandiugs. These meu are in- ' domitable. At Bacoor bridge they < waited till the Americans brought their I cannon to within 35 yards of their ' trenches. Such men have the right to < be heard. All they want is a little i justice. I established a civil govern- ' ment at Beliuag, with the government i VUHIViJ ? ? V-V w. ? worked to perfection. All these people need for self-government is the protection of our troops till affairs have quieted, and then they will, I have no doubt, advance as rapidly as the Japanese, perhaps more rapidly. I am very well pleased with the Filipinos. TO BAR OUT CONSUMPTIVES. California May Quarantine All Those Who Are Affected. San Francisco, Cal., September 15. In Sacramento yesterday Dr. D. D. Crowley, member of the state board of health, presented a resolution looking toward the Quarantining of the state of California against all persons suffering with consumption. The prepreliminary resolution was adopted. It was declared that if it were found practical, the board would place an inspector on the state line wherever a railroad entered, with authority to go through the cars and quarantine every person apparently suffering with consumption, with a view of returning them to the place from which they came. The board believes it can do this under the authority vested in it by law to exclude persons suffering from smallpox, yellow fever 01 other infectious diseases. In an interview today Dr. Crowley said : "I think that the health of our people should be considered and maudlin sentiment should not take the place of sanitary work. I have not yet formulated an absolute plan for our board of health to act upon. I shall take time and confer with my associates in the profession throughout the state. I shall communicate with the various state boards of health throughout the United States and obtain their opinions upon methods that will not be a hardship to consumptives; but will give protection to our state. "When these things are accomplished I shall present a synopsis of the same to our state board of health, and it will be subject to their action. There is no denvine the fact that we ought to prevent consumptives from entering our state aud mixing indiscriminately with people who are free from the disease." Several well kuown physicians of Ibis city gave their views on the Crowley resolution today. Dr. W. E. McNutt said : "It is nonsense to maintain that because of climatic conditions this state should become the hospital of the nation. Selfpreservation is of paramount importance. The welfare of the greatest number is of first consideration." Dr. W. S. Tborne said the scheme was fantastic and unreasonable. Dr. H. H. Woolsey declared: "I fully agree with Dr. Crowley as to the utility of the various measures to prevent the spread of consumption. Evary step in that direction is a step forward." Dr. Winslow Anderson says he is in full sympathy with the efforts of the nresent state board of health. Dr. J. A. Hodghead said: "For several years I have thought and argued that the spead of consumption in California was one of the most serious problems we are called upon to meet lud solve. It is a mistake, it has always been a mistake, to make California a health resort." Dr. Washington Dodge said: "Afer most careful consideration of the subject, I should say that the objections to the scheme are sufficiently strong to more than counterbalance the argument in its favor."?New Jfork Herald. Shooting In the Field.?The reiable rules for shooting flying birds ire as follows: Hold a trifle low for i bird apparently flying straight away !rom the gun ; hold just above a bird rapidly rising without side motion ; no Id the same for a bird going straight iway and close to the ground ; hold ibove and ahead of birds rising and joing to right and left; bold ahead of nirds going straight to right and left ; bold ahead and below birds going to right and left and lowering; hold dead nn an incomer (and give it to him quickly, for every yard the closer the smaller the spread of the shot); hold ihead of birds passing above you. Cast, but not least, never check the jven swing of the gun in a quartering shot. At a goose or duck passing overhead [ prefer to truly cover the mark, then idvauce the gun till ouly the tip of the nird's bill is visible, or when rather bigh, till the muzzle leads its object by :he proper distance, aud then instant y pull the trigger, vvnen me guu aas to lead the bird in this position, no aesitancy should be indulged in after ,be muzzle has passed aheud of the aill, for the shooter cannot then see his jame, and any sudden change of flight nay prove disastrous. This is a shot it which most men fail by shooting behind.?Ed. W. Sandys in Outing. The August Storm.?The weather aureau at Raleigh has the details of ;he death and damage by the great August hurricane along the coast of Sorth Carolina. It appears that 25 ! ?TVm iiPBotpr nnrf. of lives vvcic iuoii. xuv vm.v. p ,hese were fishermen drowned at Swan Island. The wind blew at the rate of 140 miles an hour ; but only in spurts. While many of the marsh ponies were Irowned, a good many escaped, and Lhe same was the case as to cattle. The greatest loss of all was to crops 3n the mainland. It is said this amounted to half a million dollars, rbe rainfall was greatest at Hatteras, 3 inches in 48 hours.