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CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. 0., THURSDAY, MAY 13, 1880.'
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NO. 33.
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Ail eommunlcaUons tor IbU p*pnr ilnnitif Iim*
?M?MM %r th# Bin* of the author, not i kh.
mrlif tor hit M hu trMnm ?( (bod
Wftn ?H> part Of U? wrttar. WrlHouly on ou?
aid* of tb? f*p?r. Do particularly cartful in flTin*
?uw wa teUfl ??? b?i tba Wltora plain Mi 4to
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It BBTTKft pro pawl than any otticr offleo la
to execute lu the meet attractive styles amy
tloa of Job Printing, such m Pauiphtcip,
BUI Heads, T/ctter and Note Iluariy. l.?w
Poster*, Dodger*,'Clrculut, llaiUl Kill'. \\\ddl
ViaUtng s*d Address C*>-<1?, PuslnN* Curds,
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Workdouolii Bronse, Ited, Dluo suu Black. ?
The public must remember that the 0?st Is always j
the cheapest.
We do work st Charleetoa Prices, au<l gusrautee
entire satisfaction to our patron*.
We keep constantly oa hand the largest stock ot
Paper* and cards la town. - ? - -' ft
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PROVISIONS, LIQUORS, TOBAOOO, ETO
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WHOLESALE GROCERS,
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DEALERS in CAROLINA RIOE
199 But Bay,
Oharlsston, S. C.
;^*KJUKBRttIONf
hr; V flUUOBL STREET,
Dealersin
>W (Ml Cloths, Mats. Mat
"a?sffiSS*
ew? eto.. eta
Together with a general etook of
S^ple ? and Fanoy Diy Goods.
OhwlMtoq, a o.
w. WOILDEN & CO ,
Cotton * Nayax, Stores Factor ?.
Bagging and Ties Punished at Lowest
Maket Bates.
Offloe/ Not. 8 A 10 Middle Atlantic
Wharf.
Naral Stores Yard, Marshall's Wharf,
Charleston, S. C.
Liberal Adranoes made on all Con
signment*.
J. "?TERttr * <*>?
(Saoowiora to Terry fc Nol?n)
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
tttH, OYSTERS, TERRAPIN,
CAKE AND
NEW YORK POULTRY.
FRUIT PRODUCE AND ICE. \
edto?*- B?U0iWl *** VtompUj attend -
CHARLESTON, S. O.
gOUBTMN, TA VXOIl * CO.
?E0. W.lmXOAHB k CO.
n ^ m mW^lr^^0<HOT
r0 (! T N _P AjO^TQJt
i E BK|P#OT
? Which we wUl sell at
_ Robwuoa.
Jf?BWANDOB4?ITB WOBKS.
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MOSES GOLDSMITH * SON,
___ Key Box 166, Charleston, 8. C.
M:-: Making Sagar torn "Water,
I The Oonoordla (Kannae) Bnterprist
toll* of a spring of water from which
sugar Is mfcde. It fftyei We had * cull 'I
last Thursday from Me. H T. MUt?,
now living on hie new farm, northwest
of Burr Oak. Mr. Mills produoed for
our Impootlon a lamp of eugar, which
he had made fVom wafer caught *? It
ran from a living spring, on his placo.il
Thft ptoc<HM of manufuGture wm similar
to that by wllloh maplo sugar is.pro*
dnood from the sap of the maple tvno,
namely, by " boiling it down." This
experiment was made last Sunday, and
the amount of sugar " tried out" from
three gallons of pure spring watet was
one and a half pounds. Mr. Mills had
hie attention called to the peculiar qual
ity of the water of (his spring by tho
fnot that his cattle refused to drink tt. 1
and then by pewonal " sampling,'Mu
iweetneM Inducing him to try the ex
periment of sug ir-maklng from such
lingular material, with the result stated.
We tasted the sugar?which has almost
the Identical appeavanoo of niaplcMtfltfl
were struck with its similarity of taste,
there Is enough difference, however, to
s^tlnoe one that it Is not mtole, but I
that It is an excellent quality of sugar.
Professor Sheldon, of the royal agri
cultural colloge of KegUnd, writes to
the Aural Nen> torkcrt Or oat nUrnbenl
of famere are Insolvent, and many mort
are giving up the business to save th?
remnant of their caplt'i^vt jhttms to let
ere advertised by hundreds, and renu
are felling rapidly. Many heavy lend
arable farms do not And tenants at any
price, and the owners have to farm them
best they cmv* Sound grass laedr
re, however, depredated very little
nbf rsof English farmers are in <juit<
as the Irish. The Worst
B
MmM
tilliiaiJW
E3E3P#'
ir as the oaUse is concerned
rho had laid by some
probability soon An#
4
* tftw
Tfc* Storm.
The Lempett ng? wild and bigh,
The war* lilt vp thai* roioe ?od ?y
Fierce answer* to the angry sky:
' Miaerere Domine!
Through the black night and driving rain
A ship laMrutUDi. ill In vain.
To lire opoh the stormy main ;
Miserere Domine I
The thunders roar, the llghtixlnga glaro,
Vain It la new to strive or dare ;
A cry goes tip of great despair; "
Mleerero Domine!
The stormy voloes of the main,
The moaning wind and pelting rain
Beat on the nursery window pane ,
Domine!
Warm ourtain'd waa the little bad,
Hoft piliow'd vaa the little bead ;
"The atom will wake the child," they said;
MiBerere Domino I
?v J)f \: n'. v. 7.yt> iv.
Cowering among hla pillows whlto
Be prays, hla Ida* eyes dim with fright;
"Father, save thbBo at |ea to night 1"
Miserere Domine 1
V
The morning shone all oleer and gay ?'
On a ahip at anohor In the bay,
And on a little child at play $.
Gloria tibi* Domine 1
A PARROT'S LOVE.
KM, BM. B. MBBUTO,
"Ada 1 Ada 1 Ada 1"
^tfcthat? Qh, anntio I"
"Ada I
This time louder thau before. Poor
little Amywowdedao close toher auntie
finffloient cause for
might deem her cross
her"not eo her aunt??
withh?r to the matter
?m.. TT??? #he
?S??&Xt . t ^
is^erJpkiS
distance ^ Kumit
separated them from their"home they
soonjeaohed it, and with some diffloulty
olojed the door upon the intruder. Thsy
bail redded In the village but a short
time, and had neVer seen the parrot be
the bird made ite lint appearanoe with
?uoh abruptness, and to one of them at
leaat, with bo oombative a manner there
was no desire for a seoond appearanoe.
Thoy.*ere oareful In the future to take
the
morn
opposite nld oof the street: but one
^ning, not long afterward, Ss the
?0i?yj>Moquet was chattering to itself,
It descried Mrs. Fielding and AmtoiI
thooppodts ride of the street, walking
?PUV Pf* toe house, as if desirous o?
gudtogsomebody. With a cry of joy,
Poll hastened to overtake them, calling;
ytA^^Ad?toe same soene was
enacted. It seemed desirous of showing
"SSE th^l?rdina,7 ^??d.hipmr the
"Ada
???4tle green
m it entered the opeuS'door.
bom of desperation flew at Mtt.Fiu._
ttoSt euahlen!,,0All6d
Thy were .near toe open window, end
raised It to
mournfully
5?JS5 TcXS pM* pttUI A**> Ad?l"
lis death had beeti so sudden, so un*
looked for, that Mr. Fielding oould
scarcely believe he was not dreaming,
for he had not the slightest desire to
X bad rather given
r&smzs:i
oertalnly knew toeffiiflH
SwWfcM*akt h.P
oovered over with a white napkin.
? man with lee* honor than Mr. Field-1
Jag might have vtitod until dark, then
ettrreptltioualy placed it on the veranda,
or made* the ah rubbery, and to aae a
common expression, ?'nono been the
wige*.*
Upon ringing the bell of the house,
Mr*. Fiolding Lad directed kim to, it
waa opened by a lad? in deep mourning.
Without being too abrupt, he, with oaanyr
apologies, tola of the sooidentand of
hi* desire to make up the loaa to them,
if the purchase of another bird would in
aitrway rocompense them.
v The lady told him that a few montha
previous they had lost, by death, their
only,/child. a little cirl ofr four years,'
The paahrbt and Ada. Em child, had been
de4r friends, but since her death, daily
it bad called her name, and appeared to
^DoubUeaSthe bird had mifltaken Amy
for the lost "Ada"?the deeeription of
one answering perfectly as a portraiture
of the other?and considering her aunt
fif' ' ' i responsible for her abeenee,
feltuitoonldonly keep tho
Lmy would return with it.
1 recognition
,to-?I
):?&$ ? ? '*? &?' "V1
3>m anxious
rst
trraiiii oThS
i- &?^P* Thirteen years later still
?ftreful nursing of the cm
press did not suffloe to sare the life of
tills same son, who died at NIm,
putting his brother's hand in that of Ills
[ rSmmlfk? 'the VrinoeM PmK9
. i?V' Illil
Wfcy He Dismally Groaned.
THEED UT W0LYB8.
tM CUtr of Two iUaUn to PwiMtyi
> iai ~
^HW-Wko Mft TbaJbr AIUI
riwiHiMb'
A letter from Wllllamsport to aPhlla
?lph<a paper says: Wolves hare been
lunnally plenty in portions of Elk and
tKean oountfos, and many farm era
iVe loet largo numners of sheep from
these bold intruders. Heavy reward?
ero offered in some instances for th<
lotion of the animals, and man}
ting: adventures arc reported bj
te who engaged in the search. In >
part of Elfc oounty ic is reported
a prick had repeatedly followed t
w , and tho inhabitant wero kept ir
I constant stato of alarm for fear of bo
^Attacked at night by the ravenow
sts.
RichardDavidson and Porter Smith
Jefsey Shore, stimulated partly b\
?large reward and partly by a spirit
adventure, started out on a granr
>li hunt early last week. They pro
led to Elk oounty by rail, acoom
ied by a boy about fourteen years o
9, who insisted on going along. Leav
the cars at St. Mary's they proceeded
he haunts of the wolves In tho wil
nets, where they had been attraobe<!
' tho carcass of an ox whioh had die<
te days before. They traveled in *
|ltt wagon, drawn by two horses 01
lie value, so that in case of dlsastei
>loss would not be heavy. Theyhac
idanco of ammunition, two double
sled rifles, provisions, ropes, axes
' Within a short distonoe of th<
mtlng ground was an old dcscrtoc
>le, whloh had been used by a crew
lumbermen. The horses and wagor
?re left there in oare of the boy wner
started for the hunting ground
i carrying a pine board about six
feet long, for the purpose of put
__ up a platform. Tnoy found tw<
tail trees, about twelve feet apart
{here thoy created a platform with thi
lk and rope about fifteen feet abovt
ground, and to eaoh tree they fast
| topes to assist them up and down
i?Ythen started in search of th?
oives, leaving their guns on the plat
cautiously watohlng eaoh step o!
f. Their pookets were filled with
jda, in order that the wolves might
them. They had gone but a short
100 when the wolves made theh
ance, and they Immediately re
and ascended the platform,wher
^rcs were at the base of the treei
"They^selected four ot the naok anc
>t them at onoe, when, to their dls
nfiture, they discovered that through
oversight they had left; the ammuni
i at the stable, and they were with
>wder or ball. Thil prospect wai
r,. r leering. Night was oomlng on and
id oold was severe. The/ had but little.
torn on the platform to move around,
id at the foot of the trees a drove ot
)lvee, whloh their Imagination mag
led into almost a legion, were making
ght hideous *ith their howlings and
mping up half way to the platform
ley seoured themselves to tho boards
s by means of ropes,^ so that ii
mgli seasonedf.
nine, among them, and soon 1
satisfaction of seeing one of the
struggling .in. the agonies of death.
SooitAtter dark tho paok was reinforoed
hungry-looking devils,
i atthioted by the howl>
i. The night was. spent on the
tform and it was anight of terror.
Id all the gloomier by the yells ol
infuriated beasts, maddened by
r ineffectual attempts to reach the
scaffold. Some time In the night a por
tion of them left, nhd the sharp 'oraoh
of revolver was proof that the boy'i
pis se of refuge had boen discovered
A.b jut t unrlie the remainder departed ir.
th? direction of th0 caroass of the ox.
?v v ?
Motel Plan to Reclaim Desert Lands.
been proposed to sink
rteslan wells upon the
)Ublio;4?nds for tho pur
lon. Thore are 900.000,
arld region, which In
Dakota, Idaho, Mon
aco
levada, and
isas, Nebras
'Not one per cent, of this land
i yet been 8o)d>>y the United States'
tit must remain unsold for *eart to
he unless aome means are found to
*lth- water. Government
low that 800,000,000 acres of
? mountainous, where even
idance of wa^; agriculture
?OSslble. An equal amount
era beds?"bs4 lands ?
or vegetation, and desert
ftlng sand. This leaves an
>,000,0
[>,000,000 acres ot plain and
susceptible of high oultlva
wanting only water. Under
!&mo"
?
t or rivers and small stream* now
available. The remainder, to some ex*
tei t, !? utilised for pasturage, but the
growth of grass Is so Scant? that it re
res from fifteen to twont? icree for
support of each head ofToattle, and
bio of producing twenty-flvf
- - ? oatperaore.trir
f the "W net desire
for bor
link the
Private
Will nob undertake the expov
tinn wells, the land boink tb.(
of the government. PmaUf
4it w mm
bttt let the praetlcabl lity of irrlga
f artesian twills onoe be eetab
and private purchasers will br
"o will carry on the work ol
their own expenfti* vfk>mo of
geologists in theoountry have
the opinion that flowing well*
tainea in many localities on
east and west of the Rocky
d the commissioner of ag
" ?e auspioes spccb?l
veil to the subject,
Mjft, ,^at artesian wells be
-Botion.
IUrriet* aftii4J?t Beale.
" What proved qttlte nn exolttng event
In ioolftl olr?l<u occurred afe'the mnf
rliiM of MlMBolle OhnmlttrHtijof Bel
laere, and Mr.'John Grtpp, of Bonun.
new the ceremony, vrhtn, m thqrbrlda)
V
clergyman, w?? abont to oomtnenoe the
wrvTce. the floor eave Way and eank
about three feet, rnlxlut bride, groom,!
' ' " and ?peetatore in one oom<
Tl ? llghU frefB e*MnKnl?hed
tftythoufc any damagee. and
n^fnatea eonfuolon reigned
It WM eoon ascertained thai
W?7?
LOVE AND FINANCE.
4 (MiTNMUlra I* a *MB0h H*lon?The
UM of ?r Wife.
Tn France marriages are made not in
heaven. but in the notary's parlor. A
bdjiu with a position worth bo much can
mart7 a wife with a dowry of bo mnoh.
It is all reokoned according to a sliding
soale. Theoretioally the wife ought to
bare a dowry, the interest on the capital
of whioh is equal in amount to the an-1
Quad earning of the busband. This ib j
the theory ; the praotloe departs from
it but Tery slightly. Marriages of lovo
are rare, and morriagos of reason are
not on the inoroase. I do not propose
in this letter to treat the question of
marriage in Franco from the point of
?iew of statistics which would moro than
bear out my statement above ; I will
simply treat it from tbo point of viow
of a Frenchman, by reporting as faith
fnlly as I oan remembor a conversation
whioh I hapt ened to overhear in a salon
a few nights sgo. The talon was in the
Boulevard Malesherbes, in one o! those
luxurious abodes where the modern
stockbrokers live like princes. Two
men, still ycttng- that is to say, on the
right side of 40?wete lounging in a
corner of the room, with eyeglasses
fixed and restless eyos, seeking rather to
see than to be seen.
? At the moment when the orchestra
Sve the signal for a fresh quadrille,
e elder said suddenly to the other :
?'Iiook, my friend ; there is tbo
oh arming person whom I wished to
?how you.' ,
??That little brnnotto with a white
rose in her hair ?'
"Yes."
"Very pretty, indeed ; large blue eyes
and long lashes."
?'Well, you bavo only to as\ her
hand, in the old style. You will ob
tain it.* - . ? ? w, .
? ?'One question ! Permit mo. What
is the figure of her dowry ?*'
?'Three hundred thousand francs.
'?A mere nothing 1 1 might as well
buy ? rope to bang mjself with.
Merci, mon ires cher"
"What! Three-hundred thousand
francs ; do you oall that nothing ?"
"Certainly."
??Explain yourself. I pray. a
?Tcroo hundred thousand franos in
1880. Tho game is not worth the
candle."
Sweli r : _ . .J
??For safety's sake, in order to avoid
bankruptcy, ? dowry of three hundred
thousand francs would be plaoed in
State securities at three per pent, or
else in railway stock guaranteed by the
State."
^?*4dmltte<i.w * ? , .
"Consequently it does not bring in
-i per cent; Nevertheless let us sup
phat the dowry when invested does
five per oent.; that means an
would oost mo*? than that"
it "Aht you don't meanlhat ?
??You will see. My dear fellow.
I go to the Bourse every day, ??d I
must be allowed to know something
.boot .rflbraetio. No*. letMoon.id?|
and make our calculations. The little
brunette is pretty ; therefore she must
be seen; and therefore she must be well
dressed. She must have at least two
dresses each season, whioh makes ight
costumes a year, These oostumes will
oost the trifle of six thousand francs at
he least, considering the present prioe
of ribbons, silk, velvet, and dressmakers
work."; \ . _ . ?
"Good ; six thousand franos.
??Love, and by love I mean marriage,
likes linen white as driven snow. Irinen.
laoe, gloves, hair dressing, perfumery,
jeweler y, will oost say two thousand
franos, and that is a redioulously small
sum. Then I have not reckoned shoe*.
She has the feet of a fairy, and so she
needs ailk stookings, chamber brode
mtint like those of Cinderella, and what
not. Pot another thousand franca.
?'Well, that will bring us up to nine
thouaahd franos." ,
??Have I inoluded hats and bonnets,
artificial flowers, feathers, veils, muffs, i
false hair??for the *AJB6
hair. Hoi Well, let me be liberal for
once and not xekon those items. Still
there are oertaln small expenses whioh
art indispensable; there is the piano and
the tuning of it, new music, new novels,
Mk illustrated Journal, Vie ParUionne.
writing materials, postage stamps, wool
sand five hundred franos. t beg you
will remark that 1 hate, out of pure
magnanimity, not said a word about the
neoeseary things of life?house rent,
table, cellar, and servants. I have not
done so. beoause in the actual state of
society It Is admitted on all hands that
? wife is no longer an object of utility,
but an object of luxury. We must,
therefore, continue our calculations on
I this hypothesis. Now madamo, having
?^itwlth her a dowry of 300,000
thinks herself almost a princess.
Beside* the other servants, she must
have a *mme rfs oKambre. spooially
devoted to her sevvioe. The wages,
board, lodging, and presents of this
^Chambermaid will cost at lease 2,000
"Very gOQtf.i 19,600 franca."
"There la en item which I ought to
have mentioned trtnog the first?it la
that of washing, Formerly Washing wee
nothing. In Loula Phufppe'a time,
when people nevertheless flattered them
selves on being moderate!/ clean, waah
ing need to ooet very little, because
mnch lees linen ?m shown then ia now
the mm; and then again it wee tho ens
torn for ladies, even if they were prln
oese. to look after their own linen. Bnt
ill that hea been changed. Now a days
there la not a petit bouryeoiM who doea
not apend fifteen hundred franca a year
on washing. I therefore propose thia
figure at the risk of making my oontem
poraries irradiate their oonntonanoe with
a smile of pity."
??Fonrteen thousand franoa la oor pres
ent total."
"Welti During the winter madamo
will hate been in soolety, at the theatre,
at dinner parties, at raeee. Bummer
oomee. Ah! summer ia vaoation time
for the women of Paris. Paris rivals
SJanaibar in heat. It would be almost
indecent for a pretty faoe to be seen I
there, and so we must go to watering
plaoea?to Switaerland, to Mend on, <n
to the aeaalde. Madams will throw her!
arms round her husband's neck and re
mind him that it ia the xtaSgS to leavo
Paris in the summer. Togo to Vichy
o* Ktretet. to sUy simply a month, with
le chamber
,1 defy
now
committed matrimony; do you call that
nothing?"
?'No, my dour follow, it is merely the
beginning. Just tbiuk for a moment
on the almost inevitable consequences
of marriage. By keeping striotly to the
programme that I have traced, by using
tho inoomo of the dowry as I have sup
posed, by working, by spending nothing
on superfluities on h)B side, by provi
ding for the household expenses, and so
forth, a man might And no reason to
repent of having married. But yon are
aware why socioly advocates marriage;
it is in order to porpctuato tho race.
Lot us suppose that you have only a
?on and a daughter, or what tho 6our
geoia calls a King's desire. Graoious
eavensl Have you refleoted on the
series of servitudes without name whioh
this paternal felioity involves? The
nurse, schooling, professional training,
a dowry?no. I daro not enter into de
tails. It would make your hair stand
on end. No I nol Let othors oull the
white roso; I am not a marrying man."
The two vourg men retired to the
buffet and left me to think. Whose
fault is it that my stockbroker friond is
not a marrying man? Is it the fault of
the girls or of modern society? Former
ly a young girl of 17 used to elope with
a handsome muBketeer, or escape from
the oonvont school with the holp of a
silken laddor. So the novels of those
days were full of oonvents, musketeers,
ladders, and olopemente. In those days
tho heart spoke at tho age of 16; nowa
days it waits before it beoomes the home
of teudernees. The young girl of to
day, ambitious and vain, marries at 18
for position, and takes her revenge at
the age of 25 by means of a combination
known in Franoe as a menage a trota,
or triple household. As tho conversa
tion of my two stockbrokers would lead
you to suppose, thodreamsof the young
girl of modern Franoe are dreams of
pride. She marries a young man only
on the oondition that ho givos her a po
sition in Eooiety, a handsome fortune,
and a fine honso. A young man who
has hopes is refused ; an old man who
has no longer anything to hope is pre
ferred. (feat triate. maia e'eat oovime
oa. Theodore Ohuod.
suaaen Heaths*?Apoplexy.
In apoplexy a blood vessel of the
brain gives way, and the blood accum
ulates near its baso, and pressing on the
cranial nerves, on whioh the aotion of
tab vital organs depends, outs off the
flow of nervous force to the latter.
A slighter effusion may oaudo only
paralypfc, from which the patient may
recover, the wound healing, and the
blood being gradually taken up and
carried off by the absorbents.
Sometimes the serous portion of the
blood esoapes through the pores of the
vessels sufficiently to occasion a similar
result.
Free-livers are especially liable to
apoplexy. They keop the vessels too
biibawkfr vmvmwtewshT* '
where; ltsvesjels are particularly
and as age approaches they grow brittle
through a tendency .to bcoome more or
less ossified. Besides, the vessels of the
brain are subjected to a special strain in
consequcnco of the contraction of its
vessels during sleep and the sudden in
rush of blooaon waking.
There is no doubt that some persons
inherit a tondenoy to apoplexy, though
it is quite likely that they have also in
herited a tendency to luxurious living.
I.ct them abjure their habit in this re
spect. and probably tho sudden stroke
which prostrated a father In death may
never ovortako them.
Tho use of wine or spirit with one's
dinrer incroases tho tendenoy to an
apopleotlc attack, as It greatly quiokons
tho action ol the heart; augments the
power with which that central foroing
pump throws the blood Into tho ongorged
corebral arteries.? Youth'* Companion.
Shocking Cruelty to Children.
Christian Schaeffer has been sent to
iail in Philadelphia for almost starving
Iiis two children. The story oame out
through the attempt- of Josephine Chrlf
tian, aged fourteen, to end hor life by
jumping into the Delaware rivor, She
was resoued by a passing boat. Sohaeffer
is a miserly, repulsive man of thirty
five. He has lived for several years with
his two daughters in a dilapidated little
shanty in 8almon street, not lar from the
Bridcsburg arsenal. Dirt, inches thiok,
oarpeted the floor. The only ventilation
was from a door and a window, three
of whose panes wero stuffed with old
rags. They had no visitor* or friends,
for the father allowed no intercourse
whatevor with the neighbors. Thoy
never went to sohool or to churoh. The
man's only means of livelihood was
catching stray dogs, whioh ho would
kill and boil and render the fat. He
oompellcd his ohildren to live on the
moat of the dogs he caught. From their
infanoy he had taught thorn'to use the
fat for butter, and thev do not know the
taste of real butter. He made consider
able money from selling the dogs' bones
ahd skins, but tiever spent a cent ex
cept for rags to cover his children's
baoks or to protect them from the oold
when all three lay down at night in the
One misorablo bed made of rough boards.
At meal time their, dog meat was poked
out of an old If on boiler and thoy sat on
boxqi to oat it, The girls often contem
Klated snioldo. Thoy were put in the
andfl of the Sooiety for the Prevention
of Cruolty to Children.
fijlnic In the Shade*
The following. fa taken from Mm.
AVnsley'a "Visit to Hlndostan:" At
Uiwar the political agent wished to
plant an avenue of tree* on either tide
pf the road In front of tho shop*, for the
p\HDOM of giving shado, and had de
elded trv put In po<T>ul-trees. whloh are
considered ?wrou by tho Hindoo** but
tho bunnhih* (riaUve shonkeepera), one
and all, declared tl|?t If this were done
thoy would not tAfcq the shops, and
wl en pressed for a reason. replied: " It
was because tliey eoutn not tell un
truths or swear falsely !i>;der their
shado," adding, " How can Wo OUTJ_?,n
business othel-wtscP" The force of t)ft*
Soma to have been acknowledged, as
e point was not yielded, ana other
trees were planted Instead. A few dnys
later, when we were at Delhi, I had an
opportunity of assuring myself of the
correctness of this anecdote. A Hindoo
merchant brought some goods for sale to
tho bungalo where we were staying.
His waroa being very dear, I said to
him, "Would you ask to much If you
were standing under a necpuHruoP"
Ho replied, "No." I rejoined, " Sup
pose yourself in that position, and tell
mo what, under those circumstances,
would be tho price of the articles that I
require?" The merchant at once named
a lower and, I believe, a correct sum.
Daniel Drew originated the term
"watered atook." He wai a drover in
early life, and one day when a party
desired to sell him some inftatM etook,
eaid : "That atook makes me think of
old farmer iJrooka, np in Tot,' who
11 1 "
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST.
One handled and twenty thousand 'p
tons of fertilizers will be sola in Georgia
this season.
A oertain London lady will never put
ooins into her parse until after they \
have been eooared.
A mfta was arrostod in New York the
other day and flaed 825 for borrowing
an umbrella in the asaal way....
Bishop Lay, of Easton,
says there oan bo no religion where JP
cleanliness of person exists, not, > ^
Lord Beaoonsfield has turned podesr '
trian. Ho will not compete in any go*
as-you-ploase matches, however.
The late Mrs. Mary Chapman, an AO
tress well known on the Paoiflo coast,
won the mother of twenty children. V
Ex-Sen a tor Pomeroy, of Kansas, has |$j
a Rold mino in North Carolina whloh
pays him a thousand dollars a weak* ;
Thirty thonsand dollars has bean^
subscribed to found a Christian home
for intemperate men in New Fork olty.
It is said that the "eleotrio middlings
purifier" for flouring mills, invented by
two Tale students, is an entire suooess.
Bishop Biwman, resident in St,
Louis, has been invited by the Balti
more Methodist oonferenoe to remove to
that city.
The river business of Memphis isl
greater than that of any other river ri
in the Mississippi valley, in proport.
to size and population.
Blind Tom was born at a little towi* ^
eallod Winton, throe miles from Colum
bus,. Mnscoproeoounty, Ga.. His father's
nome was Mingo and his mother WS#'\$
known as Annt Charity.
'
Tbe mon who will wait two hours fori^g
his girl to fria her hair to go riding M
with him, swears awfnlly if MS. WW'1-*;
keeps him waiting thirty seoonds 'to ?j
fasten up a stray braid with a hajr
pIn*
Considerable exoitement prevails in
White oounty, Qa., over finding of rieh
pockets of gold in Faoooohee valley ;
100 nuggets were taken out in fonrdsyS, :
one of whioh shown in Atlanta weighs
over a pound. The yield grows rloher
as the. washing proceeds.
The Ring of the Belgians hsa ^
established a yearly prise of 25,006
franoa for the enoonragement Of Ifrrorks >?;
of intelligence. The prise offered for
international competition will be award
ed in 1881 to the best treatise on th#?g>|
means of improving harbors established j$$
on low and sandy coasts, like that of
Belgiom.
A little Philadelphia girl, eight years
old, reoently lost her
through her own heroic self->oontrol.
She wos holding a baby on her lap when '
her olothing caught fire. She bu
ed in placing tbe baby, uuiniu
to iagl'ihyfcttof ttajfoftsfe
down. Her own injuries were SO
that she died.
A clergyman who had been tra
in a remote part of the West was
by a pious old lady If he saw any en?
oonraging signs of the spread of religion.
"I heard something," said he* rather
hesitatingly, ??whioh yon might possibly k'
call enoouraging, As I passed a, cabin
a woman oried out to ner daughter:
'Jerushy Ann I you mean, snarly-headeo^ V
ou8S, oomc right in to prayersl'"
The United States government has "'4
ordered that twelve girls arid twelvebqys
of the Cherokee India* a redding in the
more western counties of North Carolina-^
be educated at the expense of the
government at the Ashville Female and
the Woaverville Colleges, the girls to b
taught at Ashvillo ana the boys af:"
Weaverville, for the purpose of enabling
them to instruct their own people.
Nothing like oheek for an kdvertisin
solicitor. A newspaper Proprietor a<3
vertised for one once, and when fceter
Soung men oalled in answer thereto, to!
iem to get out or he would kick r
oat. Several left in disgust, not k
ing that he was testing.their oh
one man didn't soare worth a oeht,
coolly sat down and swore he would
go until his testimonials had been read. ;;
So he looked the door, put the key in
his pooket, and handed m his papers.?
"Ah," said the advertiser "you'll do, I
oan see. I don't Waht testimonials; your
stylo is enough for mo."
It is estimated that daring 1880
iron mills in this country will '
or eased 800,000 tons. The E
mill Intends to enlarge its da;
90,000 tons, the Northern
Boiling Mills by 90,000, and the
solvents Steel Company, by 1 .
New open*hearth furnaoes are being*
started up fa New Jersey, Pennsyl
vania, Kentaoky, Ohio ana Vermont,
and new blast furnaoes .in considerable
numbers are ready, or almost ready, for
operation in JPennsylvaiMaA.'yirglttla,
Illinois and Delawaro, To illustrate
how these enlargements to the Iron
busfnes will aid the o*u*s of labor, it
may be mentioned that 800 more hands
will be noeded by one Pennsylvania
oompany as soon as it hss completed
some additions to its mills.
A rather amusing Incident' Is told as
having ooenrred recently at a, church jta
Connecticut not many miles from "*
field, The olergymsn, Sa wottld ai
desired to oall the attention of hi
gregatlon to the fact that it being i
last Sunday In the month, he would ad
minister the rite of baptism to children.
Previous to his having entered the pSl
Slt he bad received from one of his el
ers. who, by the war, was' quite
a notice to the effect that ss tfiechl
would be present that afternoon. a?
had the new Snnday school books i
for distribution, he would have ,i_
there to Sell to all who desired them. --
After tha sermon, the clergyman t)
the nottoe of the baptism alaervloe,
"Alr^lthose having children and
sWogtoBWdsthem
them this afternoon v. At I
desf elder, hearing'
dren, supposed It _
reference to his books, and,
??And all those having none,
ring them, will be supplied by tte
the sum of twenty-fivo cunts.'*
Alligators Miiiene*. t?jr a Hen* 'Wa
a. wnrro *omfl ornerohtoJc*
laying, and promt-ad Iwme
egM and pUoen them tin<!
iiwn Tf h^ttf . I n tho online of "I
eventu, the ohlekens wore hai
and behold, theWcartfe forth/
dialed alligatora. It la #upp
ie? not knowing the <
hon.
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