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FRANK P. BEARD, Editor asd Proprietor. . DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF KERSHAW COUNTY. - TERMS $2.00 pkr A>rxr?c, in advasc*. VOL. I. CAMDEN, S. C., WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 12. 1874. NO. 4">. Washing1 Cp and Washing Down. Thus to a king, one day, who *11 the time wu grumbling, His subjects would uot mond (hinuelf mean while uot humbling). Said Las chief counsellor and fool when aaked . by him, What made him look to-day bo gloomy aod eo | grim ; J3*: 1 he. Tiie cause is thia : t bade the maid ! who washes f*cnib down the palace steps with water and ' with ashes. The stupid jade, iustead of doing aa I told her, Washed up the step*, not down, for which Ihad ' to scold her. For on the lower step, her sense might have taught her, Would run from those above a flood of dirty i water, Xr.d so I said to hor, Your labor is in vain : You have to mop each step over and o'er a?aiu! I said it several times (my words wore vain as air): Beginning from below you'll never clean one stair, I say again, If thou wouldst make the steps all , shine, Scour downward from the top : O King, begin with thine' DOWN IN THE MINES. You see, said the old lady, fath er woh what you might call unfortunate in liia younger days. If 'twant in one way twaa in another. Work hard an ever he c6uld he could never git ahead. So ?when one of the children was down ?with the chills, and Mar.y A*an had her hands full, and I was only twelve, and Bea^y w?a just born, there came the hardest stroke of all. Tbe mill stopped work. I'll never forgit the day father came home with that awfu'l down-look on his face. We knowed what it meant well enough. We'd seen it afore, plenty o' times. It meant bread without butter, no sup^ar, and water instead o' tea. Th'ire waB seven of us then. Polly Ann., she was the oldest, Margy, our b aauty, she oame next, then I, then the wtiatwe'd a done without her. She kept all our spirits up, and was always humbling and laughing when to home. One' day poor father came home look ing lighter hearted than usual. It seemed to me that meant work, and I wasn't mistaken. 4. " I lieerod thej^ wanted a hundred hinds over the hill to Jessup's Cut," h? said, looking at Polly A.nn ; " so I wmt this noon, and I got tbe situation. Itn good wr?ges for us." " I'm so glad," sighed mother. M ithor was a delicate little woman, wth a good deal of the lady in her, por thing ! She used to worry so be c*se her children couldn't be eddioa 'tdi; hut I don't see that they haven't " aloncf as well as the generality o* s. It was pretty to see her pale , and how ?f: w ?pr " r>^n ks flush up, and how she kisssd the ite of r\ baby to hide hor tears ! ?'What's the situation, pa?" asked Polly Ann, putting an extra pinch ol ten into the tea-pot. " O, well, it's a paying one," said father, rather evasivo like. "Ain't no factory to JaSsup's Cut," says Polly, thinking ??I didn't know there was anything put mining goin' on over there," and then she stopped aod looked rather r.aeer, and mother turned her face rou'^d ao's to oatch father's eve, but fa'.her'seye didn't seem tpcare about be\n' canght. it isn't going down there, is it?" mother asked, all the oolor gone oni of her cheeks. " Nancy," said father, in a solemn sort of voice, " we must livo." " O, dear Tx>rd !" that was all wo heard, and then I knew mother waa crying, she was looking at the baby so close. ine's nothing happened* for ^Ather spoke up by-and-by ; best mine in the oonnty. jke*l th< ie Ml his life, and hotilM. j?*t what " he turnea ta jpother; ttid i pa! f Hght at the ?tspkand' and the kittens e*n , Father always railed f -.wS, * settled, and mother wm tin ua?d to Ihings. v> r^th.uk there n?tw roomed house. Why, I've sot there of a moonlight evening, when the light ! streamed over the hills and down into the black gorges, and made the top ot ! the trees seem as if they were swimming in a melted silver?I've sot there at.d j looked over miles and miles of rolling country, all brightened with rivers and | miners' home, and wonderful moun tains, and jest lost myselt for hours I together^ till I'd almost forgot I was a mortal Greater. Mother enjoyed it. She had an eye for the beautiful always, und would talk of God and His works i to us children. For a long time mother was anxious about father. She couldn't seem to | help feeling that there'd be uu explosion or something terrible happen from one dav to another, but by-and-bye, seeing futner always come home regular, eho got over the fear more or less. Our neighbors are mostly rou(?b people, but they all got al.0*jg vrith mother. I don't know w'QO couldn't she was so gentle like. Tho a?ent he lived not far off fror-, a6_a man t'hat had raised himself nom a poor station and was tolerably rich. Well, two y ear8 pa88ed on and noth ing humai^ ever did grow so sweet and beautif*a[ as oar ftjargy. O, I couldn't be?m to tell you what a lovely little thing she was, with doves' eyes and a voice like an angeL The agent, he often come to our house, for he likod father, and gave him opportunities that made the other men jealous sometimes. Margv was his favorite, of course. She took to learning so natural, that ho used to eet ^iei: .BUU18 *od give her leesona in writing. Once he brought her a beau tiful aooordeou, and what does the girl do but play "Sweet Home" the I very first thing, and she never had her hands on one before. One night, says he, " I'm goin' to retire into private life, and give mj nephew Bfn a ohance. He wants to go in for hi jiself, and there's the making of a irian in him. Ben's in Philadelphy no*7 ; but he'<J coming on next week *.nd I'll fetoh him over. There's a something I've got on my mind," and then ho kind o' chuckled, and we hoped it was a promotion oocoing for father. ?"* * sure enough, over be sure he was but that wore off in before we know it he g lessons to Margv on tho I teaching her shorthand and of things. The neighbors got pretty jealous of us, and sometimes called -ub "Them stuck-up Freebbraes." It was a fact that we got all the improvements to our house that we ever wanted, and that the agent and his nephew were over there a goodish part of tho time, but it was all on account of my beautiful sister. I s pose they'll have tlio nicest house there is here, sometime," we heard that they said, but didn't sense what they meant. For the agent's house was the handsomest one, and stood facing the most beautiful prospect you ever looked upon, and had ten rooms with marble mantles and all the modern oonveniencea. Well, we didn t think it had gone so far, when mother told us that little Margy was asked, and that his uncle v'lu "'Id about it, he was so de lighted. I suppose it di4 make us a lrttlo proud, for I thought it over in oboroh, and began to see that I was lifted np a bit to think bo mncli of hay in Ben for a .brother in-iaw. As for Margy, she was as happy and as beautiful as an angel. She a learned to phiy lovely on the guitar ; boat Beu all to piece*. The weddin'-dav was set ; t ie weddin' was to take place in the agent's house, lie was sot on that. Don t you give yourself no trouble about it," ho said to mother. " I'll have everything up from Philadelphy, and all you, #As if got to do is to dress np ana cotuu over in a reasonable time." So as ho took* matters into his own hands, we didn't worry^ Ho give the loveliest white silk to Mai-gy, and a real veil, and everything of.tho beet and finest. Margy was so sweet and lovely, not a bit set np at her good fortune, but modest and quiet as ever. Well, the time had all butoome; the weddin' was to be at five in the after noon, and all the men that cowfd be spared were to have a half hof&day, and there was to He a srrpper on ike green after the weddin', for everybody. We had just got Margy nicely dressed when tbnre came a sound like a thousand thunders, and all of a sudden the air was quite black. Then we heard an awful screening, and somebody oame canning to the hotise, shouting out: ^ e*PJoaitfn. Ben 1 a time may I never Qidtif faint, but she ' eyes staring and as Not onoe did she r? ?* though mother got ? couldn't flnd4KW rfglhly about ?!**? ? nafonte, and the^HHi poor eraaturas that had lost their all, and Margy sitting there so still and white, and mother Bobbing, and father on his knees in the back room, and we all breaking our hearts ovef the trouble. I was just looking at the clock, which was on the atroku of'five, .when sud denly there was a louder voice than ever, and Margv threw up her hands and gave the strangest cry I ever heard ?u my life. Then she begun to sob like a child. " Where is she ? Tell her I'm safe and 6onnd. I did go down, but I only staid a moment ; don't hinder me, boys. I took .Dandy and went over to Block leys : thought I should be back sooner, but Dandy went l^me. O Margy, Mar gy ! my little girl | God be thanked. He has spaced me," and -well yoti may guess bmatters went on after that. T-j gee the tears making great white streaks down the black faoefl, to hear the hurrahs that went up, even from 1 some poor fellows who had lost their | own, was something that don't happen ! i but once in an ordinary lifetime. Yes, the weddin' took place. Margy said no ; but the agent would have it. He was very solems, and so was every ! body; but you see he had given up 1 Ben. Before that he had b^Wl a rough ! sort of a man, fond of his joko and apt | to say whatever came into his head in the way of swearing, but you never heard an oath out of his lips after that, and ho seemed another person like. Every Sunday he waa as regular to church as the minister, and he was so soft-spoken to his men, that they didn't know at first how to take it. It seems that Ben had found that some little matter of business hadn't been attended to in the press of mat ters, and he hadn't a minute to sparo ; ] so he told a boy to run over to the house j and Bay he had gone ; but the boy de layed, and the dreadful accident hap pened?poor little Joe never camo up out of the mine. That's forty years ago. Margy and Ben are both in heaven, I hope, long o' father and mother, and there hasn't been another explosion in that mine since. And it always seemed to me a sort o' mirftcle that Ben waa saved any-1 how. beVotc , they engage in a light, go through a systematic course of training. One of them told a reporter what his traiuiog consisted of. He Baid: 4< I rise every morning about half past three o'clock and take a Hght shower bath of strong brine, ahd am then rubbed dry with Turkish towels, finishing up with a good rubbing with a horse brush until my skin glows like a cherry. I then don my flannels, and after drinking a glass of sherry with an egg in it I start out on a ramble of four or five miles over the hills, returning about seven o'clock. I then eat my breakfast, which usually consists of a mutton chop, a oouole of soft boiled eggs, bread a day ola, a oup of tea ; no sugar or salt; in fact, I use no season ing in any of my food. " After my breakfast I take a light pair oLdumb bells and saunter out for my regul ?r constitutional or daily walk, which usually consists of about fifteen miles. I conre in on a dead run cm the last few miles, and sweat runs from every pore. I then enter a closed room and am divested of every portion of my wardrobe, and my trainers then rub me as dry os a bone with Turkish towels. When dry a oouple of bucketfuls of biine are dashed over me to close my pores and tone my skin, and I am then again dried. As soon as I put on dry clothes I tr.ke ? little exercise with the dumb bells to bring out a gentle glow, after which 1 stretch on a hammock swung nrd?.r the trees and read the pa per until umner is annonnoed. My dinner is of roast beef, a little fish ouoe in a while?in fact, whatever my appe tite craves that reason tells me is not injurious to the sjstem. After dinner I lounge round a while to settle my meal, ana then I go into my gymna sium, where I practice with dumb bells, swing t'^e Indian olubs, ezeroise on the horizontal bar, dance and spar until four o'clock, when, the nun being less hot than in the middle of the aay, I take another tramp aoross the hills, re turning to supper about six o'clock. For supper I generally eat a little chicken, drv toast and tea, aqd then I take a little more gymn&stio exercise, after which I bathe my feet in brine for fifteen minutes and go to bed about 9 o'clock." lllnt* for the Yon nr. Dio Lewis gives the following hints ; " To prevent dyspepsia, have a right good talk, with a funnv anecdote or two, and half a dozen hearty laughs, with earth meal. This eating alone at a restaurant, and shoveling in the pro vender in solemn silence, wonld give dyspepsia to an ostrich." "Strong people may eat mnumber* in small quantities, but it i* a severe trial to a weak stomach, and i* far from a good thing for even the best stomach. I ni^te agtpn with the celebrated Dr. Ab>fnothy, who give* the following directions for preparing s cucumber : ? Peel it, slioe it down into thift piece*, 8ut vinegar end pepper to It, sna then tire*H swtff." ?? Difltor^iit. systems of religion all have their use* and there I? good ill all, Cad none all good. Therefore it is very foolish lot fallible mortals to4ft in lodgment upon any of them." "The number .of little ones killed annual 1] by overheatftd and unvent 1 Uted rseries in thia country is frightful. 1 alone can number them. ** Mother*, never oaase your exhorta tifc to Jonathan end Jeruaha Ann to d, sit, and walk erect," I Caralry and Artillery, Too long ranges and rapid and tic- v( curate firing of the Bmall-arms and field- | guns of to day, says General Geo. B. NlcClellan, have seriously affected the usee and modes of employing the dif ferent arms of service. The employ ment of large masses of cavalry on the field of battle will probably not again occur, unless under some very excep tional circumstanoes, for where the ground is sufficiently open for them to form a"hd act they will be fully exposed to such a fire as will prevent their ad vancing or oven retaining their posi tion. The experience of the war of 1870-71, as far as it went, proved that cavalry oould not attack good infantry armed with breech-loaders without in- I curring certain destruction. . Again, in reference to the other duHes of the | cavalry, suoh as escort and patrol duty, it ib quite oertain that the breech loader will enable very small parties of in fantry to at least annoy cavalry parties so much as to hamper them exceedingly in their operations. The fact that Bmall parties of the German cavalry ranged so far and freel} in France, will not serve as a rule for other cases. In a moderately broken or wooded cowntry two or three good men with breech loaders oould, with entire safety to themsel/ea, very soon put an end to the movements of ordinary cavalry patrols. It ia quite probable that the future changes in the cavalry organization will be in the direction of assimHating a larp:o part of it to mounted iufautry. While the cavalry has lost something i of its impertance, the artillery, on the other hand, has gained in power and ' independence. The breech-loading I field-guns can bo so readily placed un der cover and fired so rapidly that it is possible to plaoe them in positions that the old muzzle-loaders oould never have held, and also to trust them to them selves with slight infantry supports. In 1870-71, especially is the latter part of the war, the German artillery was usually in advance of the infantry line, and often really decided the battle jrhen praotioally entirely without their (infantry supports. The changes now being made in Euror>e seem to be in the direction of ^mall. calibros, ""h^vj nbarge?\ !?ccomplisued fc}"Yneanp ' I* rw^aterial so light that it oan pass ' lover roi^h ground, and find positions klmost anywhere. A oonsequenoe of <dl this will probably be a large increase olF the relative strength of the artillery. In regatd to the mitrailleuse and aimi lar inventions for the rapid nad concen trated discharge of smalV*nn bullets, opinions vary exceedingly. There is reason to believd that the last war did not impress the Germans with a very high idea of the value of such weapons, bat that they have reached the conclu sion that in faoe of active and accnrate and long-range artillery the mitrail leuse can accomplish very little. There seems good ground for believing, how ever, that for the defense of works, of defiles, or of a position of limited ex tent, the mitrailleuse, or, still better, the Gatlin gun, will prove a very re liable adjunct. The effeot of the modern improve ments upon the infantry has been no less marked than upon the other arms of the service. If, on the one hand, their new weapon has freed them from all danger from the once-dreaded cavalry, on the other hand the new ar tillery is so formidable as to render a resort, to new formations and new methods of attack obligatory ; for the dense oolumns and successive parallel lines of former years cannot withstand the distant, rapid, and accurate fire of modern guns. Neither can these old formations possibly snooeed in the at tack of positions held by good infantry itmed with breeoh-loaders. Destruc tion af d wild disorder must be the re buIi ot any suoh attempt. Pine Wood In Iliitldingft. An experienced engineer suggests that the general nae of white pine in buildings is one of thecauses of our ex-' tensive conflagrations. He says that doors, window casings, sashes and in side work are of pine. This is more or less saturated with oil And covered with ftaint, so that dnring a dry season like he present in'jAt'V.igo. which is the largest pine lnmili. raarktl in the world, and where haU iiTo buildings sre of pine, it is a wonder how a fire onoe un- i der good headway oan be stopped. He thinkft h%rd woods should be uaed and piaa rejeoted as mnoh as possible, at in Europe, and that the insurance com panies should oharge for extra risk Wh?>rs pine is the principal wood in a building. "When we purchase kind ling wood," he wvHeef'? we want pine. When we want seourity against fire should we not rejeot pine ?" k Carious Experiment. A our ions and perhaps important ex- I periment f^as juat been tried in Bir mingham, .jEnRland%# which is of local i interest evervwhero. It ifi the conver sion of night soil and "sewerage into fuel. The Matter li ottaralcaHy tested and rendered- Soodortro*. It ia then mixed with a?m*U quantity of ga*4ar, and "compreepsd iutof*o.id block a of any size to sait the oonvenienoc of ciur tomcrs." , tn thisstft* it resembles eorinpressAd small'coal, to which ft small quantity of vegetable matter is added. Wwftre told thftt it is "hird and coW> pact, and only gbne forth a faint odferttt a,as tar." The experiments were to show that thift fuel if superior to engine fof heating steam bAilera. These tried Otf ft large Boiler 20 f< in lei and ftt the beginning the pi age Sh< a preaeore of steam of powria to the square inoh. Building a Railroad, . A condensed sketch of the difficulties and dangers attendant upon the con struction of a siDgle line of railroad will better illustrate the qualities which go to make a successful railroad con tractor, and the nature of his work, than any general description. From Aspin wall to Panama there runs a line of rail road across the isthmus, which bears the latter name. It is not a long line ; i its length is Dut forty-seven miles and a fraction. It is not of difficult grades; its highest point is but 2G3 feet above tide-water, and its maximum grade is sixty feet to a mile. Yet this single, | and in size comparatively insignificant ! railroad involved the construction of I 134 minor water-ways and thirty-six | bridges, the latter ranging from twelve j to 625 feet in length. The construction ; of this road occupied five years and , nine months. It eommencod at Aspin wall in the heart of a swamp. The la ; borers had to clear their way through the tangled underbrush of a tropical forest, thigh-deep in water, subject at ! any moment to the attacks of alligators | and other not less dangerous though less formidable reptiles, and enveloped I in a cloud of flies and mosquitoes. | Every workman went to his labor veiled. Residence on laud was impos sible. An old brig anchored in the bay | served the purpose of barracits. The | coustant motion of their prison-ship subjected the landsmen to continued I nausea by night, which but illy fitted i them for toil by day. The malarious fevers of the country sonverted their movable barracks into a hospital ship. The two engineers in charge took turns^ in the fever with their men, the least i disabled rising from the hospital bed to 1 give place to his companion. Natives were lazy, and would not work. Im ! ported laborers from the North sick l ened and died in such numbers that the | work aotually stopped lor want of \ han^s. The importation of Chinese j coolies proved an unsuccessful experi ment, for melanoholy and amcide thinned out their ranks almost as fast as malarious fever the ranks of their braver oomrades. The house of the | first engineer was built on the tops of j stamps to keep it^^ovo $Jie water-level, river, sometimes in a single might to a ' height of forty ieet above its ordinary level, earried away nearly com ?leted bridge whioh wm to span it. wioe the road was contracted for, and twioe thrown back uron the company's hands, before it was completed so far as to enable a looomotive to pass over it from ocean to ocesn. Indian Women. The life of an Indian maiden, Bays Major Powell, is blithe and merry for a few years, but when she becomes a wife she is soon broken down with the pains of motherhood and the heavy labors which fall to her lot, and she soon becomes wrinkled, garrulous, cross, soolding, in fact an old hag. Of course such hags are not pleasant com pany in camp, and in the belief of the Numa such old hags grow uglier and meaner until they dry up and whirl winds carry them away, when they are transformed into witches ; and lest such a fate should befall old women, they are taught that it is their duty to die when they are no longer needed, and if they do not die by natural means in reasonable time, they must commit nuioido. This thoy soem very willing to do rather than to meet that terrible fate of being transformed into witches being compelled to M-te in snake skins, and wiggle about among the rooks, their only delight being to repeat the words of passers-by in mockery. I once saw three old women thus volun tarily starving themselves. I rode up to what was almost a descried camp, the three old women only remaining, sit ting by the Are and intently gaoing into the embers. They soemurl to heed not my approach, bat sat there mumbling and groaning until they rose, each dragging no her weight with a staff, and then fhey joined in a sidewlse, shuffling, tottering, senfle dance around the fire, pfooped np by their staff*, and singing a doleful song ; having finished wluob, they sat again.cm tkeir heals and gazed into the lire, and I *ode away. On ooming to the new ramp of the tribe th* next day, and inquiring of Gh?i at-an-rrta-peak, their chief, wby the*e wometf wore left behind,, linn what thoy wore doing, I was informed chat they had .determined to oonomit suicide, fearing lest they should be transformed into witches. ' . .. ? T? - .?? ? jij l "No a Dar ro? WpravMwV-*-1The late Dr. Macadam need to tell of a tipsy Hootchman making hia >uy home upon a bright 8unday mornira when tba good people were #endmg *helr way to the kirk. A little pulled the flbbo"h from the hfttaf a l?ly who Wi& lead ing it, and as H ran inray from he*, she appeeind to fcha Asa* peeeer>by, asking him to her poodle. "Wonaau,^ ho xttorte 1, with ? solem nity of visage wmoh only a drunken man can assume, " woman, this is no a ^ day for whistlin' P* i iljl ll I 1 A T/OKO Tail*. f* Comets oerry long taila. The tail el-the oomet of 1680 was 90,000,000 miles long > that of theoomet of l?ll;w*a 100.000.0W mile* in length; the oomet t)f 1843 had a train of li50 OOO.OOO am} dBfltM ofDfartfi. com*, nr l?tf, %i* abont ?o.ood,(>no mi lei In Isagtfc "T|ia?dw*elopTn?nt af the tail is often wonderfully rapid. In the oomet of 186^pn An?n*t 29, the lonflrth of Am tail wa*two dogreoe, or 1,700,00? miles. On OetoberlO it was | sixty degrees, or *1,000,000 mil*. A Fish In the Throat. ? The vicious practice of putting pins and small pieces of money in the mouth has often been noticed as lead ing to dangerous consequence. As lew have heard of a similar or even greater danger from trying to held a live fish temporarily between the teeth, we present the following acconnt of a remarkable incident of this kind, given by a medical practitioner in Madras, iu a'letter to the Mcdieal 1'Hmcs an l Ga zette. Speaking of a visit to the gen eral hospital, under charge of Dr. Geo. Smith and Dr. Psul, ho proceeds : One morning, in the midst of the visit, word was brought to Dr. Paul that a man hud come to the hospital with a live fish in his throat. Accord ingly, there was a general move to the veranda, where wo saw a coolie, aged about twenty, walking in, supported by a man on either side, breathing with intense difficulty, and in great distress. The story was soon told. He was that morning employed in emptying a tank, and in catching the fish that were left floundering when the water was drawn off. In his eagerness ho had one under each foot, one in each hand, and to make sure of a fifth, he tr^ed to secure one by taking its head Detweeu his front teeth ; bnt the fish was too quick for him, and, wriggling itself free from the teeth, made its way into the i pharynx. A fish of the same sort and size was produoed-; it was like a perqh, about four inches long, with a most formidable dorsal fiu, the spines of whioh, when ereoted by being pushed the wrong way, stood out at least an inoh. A finger passed into the throat easily felt the fish. Here was a very pretty case I?but as the first point was to enable the man to breathe, in less time than it takes me to write it,?a bed was brought out into the veranda, and he was laid upon it and traoheotomined. Then what was to be dono ? Pull the fish out any one would say ; but although it was easy to seize the tail, there were the ereot spines of the fina, whioh would have lacerated the parte past re covery had the fruitless attempt been made. Then it was suggested to pus** the fish down into the stomach ; bn^ ?W.AJ Then, when this vras ascertained, it was^ hoped that the head might be turn: tlpwards with a blunt hook, and bo bKv dragged out. Bat the fish would not move. So it was necessary to leave the f>atient for'a few hours?he wrs breath ng freely, and nourished with beel-tea enema. - Next morning it was found that the fish had beoome decomposed, and was easflv broken up into a putrid pulp, some of which made its way into the trachea, whilst the spines offored the greatest obstaole to any removal by the mouth. In order to afford room for clearing the throat, the wound made in tracheotomy was enlarged upward through the junotion of the aire of the thyroid ; but the patient was very much exhausted, and.died before relief could be given. Sardines In California. A new branch of industry has bean opened in San Francisco. The Hon. Thomas Wand lias built a sardine factory at the end of Tread well's wharf, near Long hridpe. The head of the sardines are first cut off, and the fish are oleaned with the kuife," after which they are cleaned by a stroam of water. Tney are then salted, paoked imperforated cans, and put into steam chests on trays. The cooking is done by a volume of dry steam, and occupies about, an hour. The next stage of the process is packing them into the regular cans in whioh they are to be sent to market, and the olive oil is poured in, after which thoy are placed in the steam chests. Here they are thoroughly heated and a small hole is punched in each box to allow the escape of heated air. When this is done the hole ig closed by the soldering iron, and tho sardines arA ready for market. Theso fish are very plentiful, abounding from San Diego to PugotSouud. Mr. Wand has been paying fifty oents per bushel for them. The olive grows luxuriantly in California, and the sardine trade will open a good ma^et for the oil, the most "of which Jln'ow imported from Rn*t>pe. It*** year* $1,000,000 worth of sardines were imported to thu United States. ?-mp? ? Blsobeying Orders. (leorge Waml>old, who resides in Philadelphia, has nine performing dogs artd two mohkeys. The largest monkey is known as Jerry, and Is said to be very vioious in his disposition. A few days ago Mr. Walmbola went to Cauada, and he Cautioned his wife not to take the monkeys from the cage. One after noon some visitors were at the house, and they desired to see a performance. Mrs. WsTlftbold got Jetry out rtf the cage in order that he might SO through some of hi(( amusing trioks. But Jerry didn't to !>e iti a good humor, and, instead of performing, he attacked Mrs. Wambold. This created consider able consternation. The women yelled, and A Httle boy, Ife son of Wambold, raMtot into the street. William Book lej and two men who reaide in tbo neighborhood entered the house, and a#te? aeevere struggle, buttta* nearly fifteen mdnafces. saooeeded in getting the monkey into his cage. La the meantHtie the dogs-Joined in the flght, and theeman were bitten id thelegs. Mrs. Walmbold hacL-l*? fingers and bne ana severely lacerated. Buckley was bitten by the monkey, and 'k Httle boy who rtMhedU* to see tho Inn re ceived a bite ore* the eye. 4L po1ioe man wanted to shoot the monltey, bnt wae n<4 permittee *> doe* ? ei