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? ^ : BEARD, Publisher, ""T'" ' ?? "' < *?'>" T*J " ? ? ? ? * ? I ' ? CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 2, 1883. - . '.i'.-i EL T." 4 " ?? ? TWO DOLLARS A VEAR. NO. 45. ' ^ T? (oWfipo All communist Ion* for H|| eompuilcd by the nuwM tl *rtly for |Mit>llcatton , tmtjM f*lth w? of th?wril( ?l0<of ti?Wa?r. Bop?riicu MBM tM MtN tohCT# tbt It to execute tton of Bill Pc*t VI*. ting *?>d AddrwwtVd*, k 'f * *7" *"?*?" -t" , ^ Work (Jone lu Bronte, lied, Blue ana Btoett ? ' JTP* *> ? Tho p?l>Uo must remember that the feet la al war* the choapett. . . We do work at Charleston Price*, and guaranto* entire tatlaf action to our patrons. ? We keep constantly on ha&d the target* ttock o* | Fapert and Card* In towu. Otokj Bring! Finest E'en a : Seek (o ?etl Learn to im 1 lrUl/tnify c3nft TOn S3 i Bare your ???? { 7** the M#E?w <?*? Try to 0*11 oat ail tbe Wis eft, iktSb} frn jflfcfiltf *??*&! Hold aloft ; but (ear uoman. Ne'er dqppnir { for earth's grand prires Wait for him who says, I can ! J* - "^fUC^Ci J.JjgvHtgt* ^ ne and ask the lllr>wfdt<rmeet p the fact thWt *j now too late to rto-hop?fj lie w lehd* a* flartyt I*e1p ?MUd A AOitifc tela tlves; his profession tondsfaA in the Work of overcoming wjfo felt snre he wottU make his wayagala to the side of this pleasing Uttte lady, jHisrevSieind resolution we r# In terrupted as he signed the hotel register, for when the clerk reed the' signature that official winked at' a rather rough-looking man with whom lie bad Men talking; tfc?tt the rough looking roan read the signature and " You're just the man I'm looking u give me a chcok for bill V It's been running onth, and the boya said " - ' ' " . r . :/>$ ] ^ the man you want," said rat saying something that iook well in print.. fame is-- " 37S3* yes,** interrupted Mar ?4nen,?^*wit tiiere is another man of name, and lie's a swindler. 4 eain^hcre to run hiiu down; I've got 'detectives after him: -come here tt?te evening and 11?' w ill put you on fcls.traok." g For Hn hour or more Marthen was in very bad temper, but ho grew calmer when, strollingout to look at theorowds of carriages and their occupants, he met several acquaintances who had temporarily abjured billiards or flirting fox the same purpose. As he chatted with one of these a carriage passed slowly, ftnl Marthen saw in it the amiable little widow ho had met on the^train In the morning. She did not seem to iSecognlzc him, but his friend raised his hat and was smiled upon. ? "Who is she, Jenks? ? tell me, quick." .... ? " She's Mrs:' Whltlayton,* widow of ! ..Will WhitlAytjn. who was fust start "~iake a fortune in wool wheD, a 1 years ago, ho took pneu jd died. lie left her twenty thousand dollars, though ? Tinake laty, well-dressed fel tm around her like flies ligar barrel." she any family ?" asked !*NO; she makes her honre with an uncle aijd aunt whom she doesn't love #nyw&? well, I'm told. A. young 'dow must have a home, though, you if she doesn't want to be talked .. Excuse me a moment," con Marthen'a friend, taking the i of a gentleman who was about to _ , J them, "here's a good fellow you ought to know, Cranch ; do you know my friend, Anson Marthen? Mr. Marthen, Mr. Craaoh." "I'm very glad to know you, sir," sail Mr. Cranch, "but, if it isn't too impudent a question to ask on so short acquaintance, why are you strolling on foot 'with Fred here, while your charming fiancee is riding alone?" "My flanoee?" exclaimed the en gineer, in astonishment, while his friend looked inquiringly. I hope I am not mistaken," said Mr. Cranch. "I've been told that Mr. Whitlayton was soon to become Mrs. Anson Marthen." Marthen' s face blackened, ns he ex claimed, .through tightly clos3d jaws: "Gentlemen, this is horrible. 1 novqr know tho lady's name until five minut.s ago. My villainous double ? you know all about him, Fred? that rascal has probably made lovo to her for -her monoy and persuaded her to marry him. What is to be done?" One gentleman shrugged his shoul ders, and the other raised his eyebrows; Mr. Cranch finally said: "I suppose It's nobxly's business; tho lady has been married before; she oughti to be able to choose for herself." ??I'll make it my business," hissed Marthen, as ho turned abruptly and hurried to Ids hotel, where ho had the good fortune to tind one of tho detec tives awaiting him and full of news. Tho scapegrace Marthen, he said, had been living quietly at a small boarding houso, but his servant, who had not been paid for so long that he was will ing for a ten-dollar bill to toll all he knew, had divulged tho favt, that the rascal knew he wat\, being watched; he was frightened, and he was up to some new dodge, though tho servant did not know what, that very avening; all the African could fay was that his master hud twice visited a sickly-lock ing man, whom the servant had seen somewhere as a preacher, and that Marthen was to go tiiere again that vei'y evening and meet the sickly man in a garden. The servant suspected a Redoing, for his master had ordered his dress suit and spring ovorcoat brushed with extra care. Marthen almost lost his head in his rage, but the deteotlve rapidly laid a plan to entrap the rasoal. He would hlro the servant to abstract his mas ter's coat and hat, which hp, tho d<v %ffe(X9^91vollld put on and then call upon the mlnhter, just after dark, with the hope of successfully assuming the manner and appearance of the rogue, and worming himseif into the secret. Marthen approved the plan in general, but insisted upon one ohanjxe ; he would wear the coat and hat himself ; the dete.tlve consented, for, afte* all, money was what he was working for, and he was being well paid for h|s s'etVlceB. p servant. was again bribed, and llV6nly took the ove$c6*fc and hat, anted the hour at whioh his mas ... _jad told hlta he jkfOuM go out. Then the faithful servant led Marthen to thestokly minister's boarding-house, while the detectlvo prevented the other Marthen escaping. The oth^f Mar then s:arc<^y knew what to do; he paced the sidewalk opposite the desig nated garJeti*, he saw figures occasion ally enter arid fftiftrgtywit none that he could rocognUe* *' howover, just uftor two plalhrpWessod women ha<l passed In, a thin figure crossed tho street and ' "JttMfthen followed the preacher, wondering . in what words to break tently id Mf?. Whltllivtoh tho intclii fense that the man she had promised ?) marry* wm a worthless scamp. Hut before he could say anything the lady was* loaning on his arm, and the tolnfetev UpM raying tr , "As night, air- ahein -Is vory dfetigwus to my luntfi^hem - 1 know you will excuse mo for losing no time. Anson Marthen. do you take this woman to be your Wedded wife?" Martlien was so astonlshod , that he eould scarcely malntalh his position or find hie tongue. He i recovered, how V Bpeak wmudk? Jf you love me I" M I do," said MArthen, softly, yet earnestly. ?? Yes," whispered the lady. /?Then," said the minister, "I pro nounce you man and wife, and what God has joined together let not man put asunder. Mr. Marthen, I will have the certificate ready In the morning, If you will send for It." '??Come away at once," whispered the bride, "If the dreadful enemies you wrote me about should soe yon, what would happen ? * k.r ' * Marthen talked little but thought rapidly as he drew his wife away and rapidly along. At the first secluded *8pot ho roachedl however, he placed his arma around her, with one band ready to place over her mouth should she attempt to shriek, he rapidly ex plained ' himself. As he had already discovered, Mrs. Whit laytonl was not smart. She was so dazed by all she heard that she knew nothing but that t ho had been legally married to a man whom she tiad never seen but twelve hours before, but whom she had then determined was. very much of a gentleman. What cou d she do In her dedicate position but act according to his advice, which whs that thay should take the night train for New York and go to her new husband's home and his mother? So they did, and when they reached there, and the son had explained to hi3 mother, the bride confided to he* mother-in-law that it seemed she had known her husband for a year. And the- Anson Marthen who re mained a bachelor recovered his hat and overcoat without recourse to law. ? New York Hour. IMPALEMENT. The Exqilnlte Cruelty of Oriental Punish ment. Captain Hiviere, the commander of the French forces occupying Fort Hanoi, in Cochin China, was captured in a skirmish with the Anamites, with fifteen of hi3 men, and executed on the following day with the rest of the prisoners. The Paris Gmiloln says that the unfortunate men suffered death from impalement, a cruel and re volting mode of death. The impaling of por3on3 sentenced to death for great crimen has been practiced in tne East for many cen turies. In Turkey, where this punish ment was most frequently inflicted assasslrita, whose crimes were of an aggravated character, were always condemned to die on the pole ; nnd the traveler who penetrates into the in terior of Asia Minor will now and theu, even in our times, ride past slender posts erected along tfio road side, on which the skeletons of the un fortunates are hanging who havobeen put to death in this horrible manner. Saint Edme, in his Dlctionaire de la Penalite , describes the inauner in which this punishment is inflictcd as follows : "The unfortunate man who is to suf fer death by impalement is laid flat upon the ground, face downward. IJh hands aro tied on his ba-Jk, and one of tho executioner's assistants sits down on his back, so that tho victim cannot move. A second assistant holds the culprit's head firmly to the ground, and a third assistant seizes his legs which he holds so that ho cannot move them. Tho executioner now approaches with the instrument of death, a long stake or pole, which he puBhei into the body from b?h!nd. Tho pole tapers almost to a point, but is rounded off some what at the end, so that it will not penetrate tho entrails all at once. The executioner pushes this po'.o into the flesh as far as ho can with his hands, whereupon a fourth assistant drives it still further with a mallet. Now tho pole, which has penetrated deeply into tho body of the doomed man, is set up right in the ground, and tho victim is left to die upon it. The weight of the body presses it further down upon the stake evpry moment, and the point finally protrudes from tin breast or side of the culprit. Some of those upon whom this horrible punishment has been inflicted died quickly, and their suffering was soon over, but oth ers are said to have suffered untold agony for hours, and even days, before death put an end to their torments." Impalement, horrible as it is, is not the cruelest punishment inflicted in Oriental countries. Getting Wntor in the Desert. The supply of water always formed a prlnclpa' question, and often a pre ponderant one, during the marchos of the French troopB in Algeria and Tunis. Iiivers having a permanent supply of water are very rare In those countries, hut wadie* ? beds of torrents, generally dry, but full after a shower ? ate numerous. The moflt ordinary supplies of water were sedirs, or puddles of tain-water held in natural basins of clay or stone, near which the camps were pitched whenever they were accessible. They arete be found in the beds of w adieu, and sometimes in slight, depressions of the plain, where they are frequently of consider able extent. When full they contain, notwithstanding they aro so shallow, prodigious quantities of water, which is, however, expoped to an enormous evaporation, so that it does not last long.-t These natural reservoirs have baen covered with snnd in many plaoes, whoro a permeable bed several feet high has been formed, >\ ith a dry sur face, corresponding with tho general level of tho surrounding land. It is only necessary to dig a hole, and wait M little while, for the water to rise to a certain level, forming a kind of ex temporaneous well, which the Arabs call an oglat. These welis contain but little waiter, and are soon dried up when drawn from, but will become flllod again In the course of a few hours. These resources, precarious at tho best, aro often wanting ; but the country Is full of ruin?, attesting the former exhtence of alarge population, > and among them are many useful structures, including well-mado ols torijs still almost entire, and very deep. Water is got, from them by going down steps to the surface, or by means of a device rail tho guerher, which is In general use. This is a leathern bottle, .aljustod at the curb of the well by means of pulloys and ropes, which are worked in such a manner by a man and an ox that the vessel goes tip and dbwn, Alls itself with water and empties itself, without any one having to handle it directly. ? Popular Ncifitve. Monthly, , . , Wheat and Other 1'roflnH*. The following table shows. tho value of wheat compared with other products during 1882 : Itanhelv VaIu?. &orefl. Wheat. . . 604.18M70 $40,602,126 87,067,101 Corn 1 ,617,02^100 7K8.867.176 66,060,646 OAfe 488,260,010 lW,mdMl8,4?l,Wl Barley... 48, 968, 928 20,767,015 8,272,10:1 Kye...... 20,000,067 18,420194 2 >^889 Poi?toM. 170,972,60? 06,804,844 $17^636 88,188,049 809,968,188 82,28^6$} HUMOROUS SKETCHES. What Made 111m Tlrfxt. ?" I feel so tired this mornin' I can hardly lift me arrum to me head." . -> M Why, you seemed to sleep soundly, Mr. O'Fagan ; you ought to feel re freshed."* ' "Yis, colonel, I ought to be feelin* refrlshed, but I ain't. It's sawln' wood that is the1 fatagln' occupashun." "Sawing wood! Why, when have you been sawing wood?" 41 Whin have I, is it? Shure an' I dhramed that I wa3 sawln' wood the whole bllssld night, an' I didn't have aven a piece of bacon to grase tho saw with. I feel broke up intirely." ? Texas 8iftlng8. A Report on Hrlonre. Shindig Watkins, chairman of the committee on matters of science, then, asked leave to report. His committed had carefully and conscientiously ex amined the jawbone of a mastod/bn forwarded to th? club museum fr/om Arkansas, and had established the fol lowing points: 1. The animal existed in the year 428, more or less. 2. His chief diet was grass, and herbs, but he had no particular objec tions to breaking into a corntjeld or putting in time in a turnip patoti. 8. He was 900 yearo old when he died. 4. His intellect was largely devel oped, and it wsb evident tfcat he was big enough and knew enough to take c&re of himself. The committee recommended that the club use its influ^pce to encourage a new growth of mastodons and sa credly preserve the bones of old ones, and the report was accepted and adopt ed. ? Lime-Kiln Club. The Mb|1d? B?y. I once heard a boy going down the street singing at the top of his lungs, " Dare to be right, dare to be true!" singing it so loud that he woke up all the babies on the block and tet every last dog In the ward to barking, and as he sang he smashed a window^ln the parsonage, broke a chicken's l;'l^g, with a stone, "sassed" a .matket woman, shot a farmer in the eye?wlth a bean-shooter, hit a dog a crack wi'?h a shinny-club that made poor Caflo howl till his back ached, pulled a piokeo off a fence, slapped a little' boy and J took his cooky away from him. He disappeared inside the schoolroom, and above all other voices I could hear h,1s soulful shriek in the morning soivg, "Oh, howl love my teach-er dearr And before prayers were over lie inked a boy's nose, put-two bent pins, where, they would do the most harm, salto l a claim of shoemaker's wax on the teacher's chair, scratched his name cn his desk with a pin, ato an apple, and flred the core into the ear odf the good boy with a thin neck, who was never absent or tardy. ? K. J. BurHette. Toptioody. When Mr. Topnoody had settled down after supper Thursday evening, ' his wife, after a few preliminary coughs, remarked : " Mr. Topnoody, have you thought anything about where we would spend the summer?" "Yes, my dear, i have given the subject some deliberation." " And have you decided on a plaoe, dear?" "Yes, love, I have." " Oh, you sweet thing, where is it to be ?" "At home, love ; the dearest place on earth, the conservatory of our affec tions in which blooms the freshest,, fairest flowers of hope and happipess, contentment and satisfied serenity." " Oh, bosh, Topnoody 1" " But, my dear, it is true, and I don t see why you want to go to a nasty, crowded hotel in the wann.-^?8^?1" when it is so muoh cooler and more pleasant at home." , " You think it will be cooler at home, do you?" . j , " I know it, my dear." "All right, l\>pnoody. You just irulsj; on making me stay at home this summer after I've done so muoh to make you comfortable. Just go right on making me your slave, but let me tell you before you go any further, that If I stay here during the summer, I'll make it bo hot for you that you'll pray four times a day for a cooling breeze, and bag like a whipped school boy for a house on the refrigerator plan and a salt of clothes made out of palm-leaf fans and sun umbrellas. 1 am usually a mild woman, Topnoody, but even the worm will turn when trod upon." Topnoody has concluded to take his foot off of the worm.? Cincinnati Drummer. A Womnn Rrntored. There was a chap down at the Cen tral market yesterday with a lifting machine. It was Warranted to reeto 'e a torpid liver, cure cold feet, remof e freckles and do ever so fnapy pther things, and it was only (lVe cents to lift and tug and pull and grow rel in the face and bulge your ayvit out lilo half onions stuck upon a btyrn door. Ther% was a trick about the machine. By pressing a spring the handle would come off as the pointer readied ten pounds. After ever so many men had lifted ever so many hundred pounds a woman got down out of a one-horse wagon ami inquired: "What d'ye calL it?" ? " A lifting machine, madamo." " Is it good for a woman ?" "Excellent, madame. You'll feel like a now woman after lifting H00 pounds on this machine." " Well, I'll try It once," she said, as Itso removed her shawl. "The old man fs a good deal bigger than (his ma- 1 chine, and If I can t lift him over the fence I don't want a cent." Sho seized the handles, drew a long breath, and away sho went, landing in a basket of onions and upsetting a score of flower pots and a" btmhfcl of cranberries. There was a yell from the men, a whoop from tho boys, and be fore ono could count twenty the woman was up and aboard of her vehiCJ# and driving off on a gallop. ?$ >: * ,?5 ? ' "Oome bartk I comeback ( yetted the crowd, but sho flourished thehandWof the lifter over her head and broughf it 'down on the horse with a whack, and fcept him at his fastest pace until she was out of sight, and that was how a i lifting-machine oame to stand there all day without anything to lift by, and that was why a sharp-nosed chap with plaid pantaloons and a white hat kept continuaUtffeaylng r "That ore woman probaoly sup poses that she has busted tbls 'ere ma chine all to pieces, and if I don't get tfat 'ere handle back what's to become o? the rest of this 'eve outfit?"? Pc I fo(t J Free Pr&sS eider? A Pen IHodcratc AnwdolM. t "Speaking or carrying the malls, " remarked the captain,' " when rltVed on Feather river, California, in 184l>, 1 saw tho mail carriers and noticed their way of travel. Th< y had sort of snow ahoea, and they would go d >wn a moun tain side at the rate of three miles a minute. I've seen 'em go so fast that the friction turned tho snow to steam, "and a good many of 'em were blown up by it one winter!" How did they g*t up a mountain ired a listener. . " They, would go down one hill so fast that the impetus Would oarry them to tHg, l?e next," replied the tpr>, a fqw min 1 1 em an remarked l jump eighteen & observed ine of what atlca Gulch, itcck corraled I| had put up Air, one night I fence, seized id Fin blessed that colt r cat, and as big as of Jay ^apparently .chipped In . ?j? .eUe could _?Jnds me pf my yacht on Feather rivar.o bhe wosadug out, made of a solid log, forty feet long. I put a sail up on her one day when the wind was blowing pretty fresh, and I made thirty {piles an hour right up the rapids (, The falls on the Feather river are protty high, I should say 200 feet, and the way that yacht went up those falls would make Mr. Gould take down his sign I I had a bad job getting back. Tne wind was dead ahoad, and the rive* was too narrow tobeat in, so I had to row. She was the lightest rowing boat 1 ever got into, and you bet I was going ! The river Is wider fust above the falls, and I thought I would put up eail. You can imagine what headway I was under when I tell you that, as soon as 1 got that sail up and the wind struck it, my boat broke in two amidships, icid I floated home on the bow, while x i _? . the captain, . reply; "that And then the party broke up. ? Brooklyn Eagle. Poll Heal Honor* in China. Wong Chil* IToo, edlto^ of the New York tihiiiese- American In ah article in Harper's Magazine , gays: In order to secure even the first fruits of politi cal emolument, a mode of procedure diametrically opposite to that which obtain* in most nations, and especially in the United States, is required. In stead of money or its equiva'ent in " backers " ant!; <? .heelers^' , brain is thtere required, uhd Sn exceedingly well-ba ahced^aflid disciplined brain at that. In no .ptiier nation upon the l earth are political libnors based upon soientlttc attainments in all branches of study us they are in China, wherein are illustrated the true primiples by which talent and wisdom are honored and rewarded, 1 terature, s ience, morals and philosophy encouraged, and a nation's happiness and prosperity se cured. The av guep td station and power nr$ open ^like to all. Tliere are no dtatfticilP^a save those of education; none illative io nationality* color or previous condition of servitude. All are alike free to seek, and, if compe tent, 1 to obtain, positions of honor, from that of petty magistrate of a vil lage to grand imperial secretary? an [ office second to that qt emperor, Few there are, it is true, Whdpibtfsess fortitude to undergo the necessary ed ucational training consequent to, and upon which depends, his sole hope of success. Of his studies there is no end; T^' dillgence he must add patience, and to patience continuity, else, will' he fall to secure the coveted prize, ' Origin of Home Nursery Rhymes, I .' Many of the nursery rhymes have a curlou* history. Some of them proba bly owe their origin to names distin guished In our literature; As Ollvir 0 oldmrtih, for instahoe> is believed m his earlier days tto have writteb suo^i to some well-known favorites': ? "fflng a Bong of Sixpence " is as ojd as tho sixteenth century, '"thro* M<fUse" whs lloensedln-lbBO. "Thrfo (Hiftdteh ;hAi<fthg oft' the lee" dated from 1080. "London Bridge Is Broken1 Down", is of, uUfalhomed antiquity. "C rlMud;$% wMl'lfty " l? certainly as o)a n| the reign df Charles II , , ii# to ?^so '?lAcy iiO^ket Lost Her Pocket, '' to the tuno of which the Araerhan, song of " Yankee poodle", wn? written. "I"usny PhwSV Cat, Where Have You BeenV" Is of the ago of Queen Hess. "Little Jack Horner " is older than the seventeenth century. "The Old Woman Tossed ill a Blanket" Is of the reign <>f fames II., to which monarch It !? suppt sedto elude. r i i i i i || % ^ Pair Treatment. , "That's a nice life you lead," said Senator Fair tohis son Jim, "You are running after every jlrl in town." " It's not my fault tftat I run after them." i Whoso fault is-iv then ?" rk ' " It's -their own fault. If tlhey would dt aim Still ho I could catch up, 1 twnlanT rlfn after them so much T" - Hiftmi /*. * An alms-box for the secular schools is commonly found now in Belgian drlnklng-plaees. A school building cost ing 9400,000 Is said to have been thus bulli ? Bait Lake CJt y. Salt Lake City Hes at the upper or northern end of a valley of the same name, and oocupies a portion of the sloping "bench, or mesa, which runs toward the mountains from the shores of the lake. Back of the town rises the Wasatch range, broken here into many sized cones and deep, verdant canons. Beyond the valley are the indistinct outlines of more mountains, while in the west rise the sloping, 1 wood-covered Oquirrh range, ending j abruptly in the north at the shores of the lake. The city itself is a place of wide streets, well-built houses, shade trce3, trim gardens and long avenues. The public buildings are mostly owned by the Mormons, and add much to the beauty of the town. As we rode from the depot to the hotel the artist said the Btreets male him think of Paris, they were so wide and shaded, and down their either side flowed a tiny Btream of water, which swept away, every (race of rubbish. Indeed, Young and his followers must have had an un- 1 usual amount of good taste. Not only did they select as a site for their city a mesa which commands an extended view, but they planned that all streets should run at right angles to one an other ; and, consequently, there are formed all over the city squares of reen sward filled with tree', private welllngs and stores. The regularity of design is noticed at the very first. Everything is free, wide, light and open. " I don't believe," said the artist, "you can find a dark spot in Salt Lake." And after our visit was over I fully agreed with him. The sun has unlimited freedom, and its warm rays are never excluded by high walla -and narrow ways. "Salt Lake is a New England vil- | lage, with foreign plans, moved out West," said the artist. "Or modern Edinburgh," gested. / ' * jxT "Yes, sine) yet, after all, it ie simply 8a!t Lake, and a remarkably pretty town, with characteristics all its own." | And that was it; we compared It to > many p' aces and were reminded of this 1 or that city; but, above all, there re mained the fact that nothing we had eyer-aeen befoie was exactly like it. | There was Arcadian simplicity, but j nothing was commonplace. The pub-' lie buildings, the stores, the homes, all i had a peculiar beauty of their own. { They were light-colored, clean, pretty. , No grim stain? of smoke had soiled, no dhll hiyes surrounded them. The ] house had an air of solid comfort, and I whether occupied by Mormon or Gen tile, -had bright flower beds, green lawns and scores of trees about them. Nothing seemed new or crude or "western;" and the longer we stayed the better pleased we were with the Mormon capital and its easy-going life. ? Continent. A Very Common Fl*h. Once, when coming from a throe hours' excursion, with at least twenty pounds of black bass and wall-eyed pikqln the bottom of the boat, which my attendant was rowing at a lively rate abreast of a rapidly gathering storm, one of my lines attached to rod and reel, and which I was trolling, suddenly tightened and came near jerk ing the rod into the lake. " Jewhillikins , Charles ! Put the boat about. Got a ten-pound bass on. Julius CaeBar, how he pulls 1" ii was no easy task to Stop and come round against the wind and make headway backward, so to speak, or hold the boat so that, the game could be property handled. At le^t J100 feet of line ran put before the maneuver could be executed. " In the meantime the line was pulied hither and yon, the moflatej^tugged hard and jerked, tho boaft^vas hatd to manage, the wind in creased every moment and the now angry waves rose and showed their white teeth until Jt seemed that tho elements and all the. accidents and in cidents possible wenre! botistriring to prevent the capture of the " doss flah of Maxlncuckee. But he went on, well hooked, In fact, as was quickly shown, oud unless we were capsized, or I was pulled over bad and towed around the lake, it wouldn't do to give up. Charles rowed all hisstrength, now on the right lefy according to ?ile ibfac& lnvthd boat, \Uk$b of every tutn to koep bold the quarry to his le and tho wind ie waves leaped frates. Still the for twenty mln cuitomer under' opplna tail onto, nd defwy thrpst aolpus branoli ?f wn all ,?Fofert ; y S f w* m, pt? |A>VU? VUV VKVJ VI .IHT7A ico to Garcia, dne fef Abe ptelWd ^Hfctag t owns, le; dd,' The road consists of a mote traok up Onliide and dowii th'6 pther, xyinrilng ?r<tahd i^ee ftnd tjutf might removed. The freight vwktz ilxfcfeftn others 'jffflH IDT fllMwnlJw four. Ipi going Up the hill ttfd or three tefthifi wftt be hitched to' ft fdngle Wafton, froifri twentf-foilf to thirty-six and even with bo much drag ging powfcr the accent la the work of hours. In going tfp there is no dahgor, but serious accidents ave frequent in coming down, when the brakes are liable to bj-e*k, ftnd tho watfoh runs In on the stock and makes a general aver age of mules and load. ? Philadelphia Prm. f. ; Oil on fronblofl Waters. Letters fiflseived from tho British naval shfp Swiftsure state that while on^yoyagfc from Jforiululji to Ksqui m aU;^E?5^wH *let#lc gab* during which several heavy seas broke pver tn*r, shaking everything Inside we^1 over th .iff! etjpr^ree tfiST tho vets^ jro bravely through the gale, which con tinned with great severity, followed by heavy rain squalls, until the Swift sure arrived at Ksqulmalt. There aro 4,000,000 acres of wasto land in Ireland, A DIVER'S OCCUPATION. Whni II* Wrars? CjoInK no,rr' *? l)rp?h?? Pny ?I Dl**1" A Cincinnati reporter, during an in terview with a well-known diver, asked: " Diving bells are not used now, are they?" " Gone completely out of date. They only enabled the workmen to work within the limits of the bell; Whereas, as the suits are now made, one can go {ill around and over a wreck. These suits consist, ilrst, of a copper shell, about three-sixteenths ol an inch in thickness, trade in as nearly globular form as j:o.*sible. This is provided with dead eyes, or glasses, to enable the diver to see, and fits into the shoul ders by means of a yoke. The shell has a strong ring bolt on the top and below, which has se.urely fastened to it a rubber suit, including shirt, pants and stockings. The sleeves tf the jacket are gathered around the wrists and firmly tied. I. oar.se leather shoes are worn, on the soles of which are fastened huge plates of lead, while a series of pockets in the Jackets are also arranged to hold lea len weights. The shoes wtigh eighteen to twenty pounds. Sometimes I carried its much as 128 pounds of lead about me, and when in the water so. great is the buoyancy that you do not feel this weight. The .air should escape as scon as it is pumped "into the shell, though some divers shut it off, and if the suit becomes full then they shoot to the top like a shot from a cannon, and are in danger of striking the barge, cracking the shell, in which case death wuuld ensue at once. I saw an Englishman who had formerly been connected with the British navy try this to his peril. I noticed him coming up one day a few feet from the barge, and his body shot up threo feet out of the water. I said, "My friend, that's dan gerous.' He mado some insolent re ply and wanted to know what I knew about diving. I answered that I knew that some day he would come up once too often in that kind of a manner, and walked off. It was not ten days before my foolish remark proved true, for he came up against the barge and split open his skull and sank to rise no more. Staying tinder water reduces the temperature, and sometimes con gestion ensues. The nose begins to bleed, and sometimes the ears, next consciousness is lost. The pressure ol air on the lungs is about tlfteen pounds to the square inch, and the deeper you go the greater the pressure becomes. So that the great weights are needed to c .untera' t this pressure." " How deep can you go down ?" " The greatest depth I ever went was sixty-eight feet. Though a Frenchman, in examining the wreck off tho coast of England last March, went down 144 or 148 feet, but hd could not remain long. Going down to a great depth is not dangerous from a lack of air, but from a collapse. The pressure of the water may smash your glasses, break , the shell, or if your suit fills it may burst. Then there is a better pump used now than formerly. lt> works with two cylinders, #6' that the supply of air is uniform' and regu lar." v ?' And the wages?" "Oh, they are good. I never wor for less than #10 an hour. Jn Peru was paid in soles, called a dollar, bi(t ?only equal to eighty-two cents .11 American gold. A marine diver re ceives $150 or $200 for making an ex amination and report. This may takfc half an hour or a day or two, accord ing to the condition of the wreck. Then he will work on shares, take the contract, or by the hour. I never work over five hours a diiy, going dowh about 10 o'clock in the morning ami quitting at three in the afbernoonj*] There are only fifty-two divers, all toM,^ in tho United States, and of these on?C oighteen are salt water or marine c vers. The United States naVy ei ploys eight divers, one for oaffbyftf * 0 stations. They are regulttfiy I, and go down chiefly to examine t e hull of the vessel. In the Knglish ?< - vice there are trained divers/ wh? a educated on board thfe and receive additional regular wages allow? All ships commanded are entitled to one, the French service enlisted meh, seleetod fotf their su The Frer MM sWsVeed nan cmc '4Nwfcs at ah oxpens , ?? ? ? Ajcldetttjr/ Vm >?Mtyrd saUl he had having had oho, and' presence o? ro> becoming serious# ! tea dept h of forty ? feet, fearing fch* Way for it? hug# 1,800 Weight which ^as to be loWer.,., to him, for tho purpose of placing, some torpedoes and machinery. Jle found a number of , c^nk shells tying about, and, in kicking thorn away, tofe .off tho lead 8910 or , one of his shoe#!' when tho nton* oamo down, this Jeaif prO|eoting, he \s an caught and held as in a vine. If betook off his shoe he would at once ariso to the surface* and, perhaps, strike the barge, so he utt lac <1 it and held firmly to it Svlth hltf left hand. whilO with bis right ho Used his crowbar to lift the stone and (ilson gago the slioe. Signals, lo the tender nro cominunioatod by means of a luilf ineh manila ropo, which is tied to the diver's le"t arm above the elbow, This line the tender holds in his left hand, nnd answers every fttgnal, which are previously arranged between them. There are in Washington six equen trlan statues, erected in order of time as '(follows: Jackson, .Washington, Scott, MoPherson, Nathaniel t Green and Cteorft* H Thomas. ! TH? Army of flie CifMifal?fo<r i^raiimttf ^itidhw lot . tfnY to Wo n\ r^933aI,tyrot$o VrantA of ^cn'ral Oar Parasols, liats. dresses, entire suits of velvet, sll}<, satin or cloth In Paris, are red, this summer; even the trim mings n:e r?"d; everytb'ng Is red In I Par's except the Jilble, ? Hawkeye, THE LORDS OF LABOR. They come, they oome, in a glorious march You can hear their st?am-stee:ls neigh, A# they dash through Skill's triumphial aroh Or plunge 'mid the danolns spray. Their bale-fires blaze in the mighty forgi, j Their life-pulse throbs in the mill. Their lightnings shiver tho gaping gorge, And their thunders shake the hill. Ho! theso aro the Titans'of (oil and trade.' The heroes who wiold no saber : Bat mightier conquests roapeth the blade That is borne by tho Ix>rds of Labor. L'ravo hearts, liko jewels light the sod, Through the mists of oommeroe shine, And souls flash out like stars of God From the midnight of tljo mino. No pRlace is theins, no castle great, No princely pillared hall. And they well may laugh at tho roofs of state 'Neath tho henvon which Is over all. I Ho ! theao ate tho Titans of toil and trado. The heroes who wiold no saber ; But minhtierronquests reapeth tho blade Which is borne by tho Ix>rdsof Labor. Each bare ", his arm for the ringing strife, That marshals Hie sons of tho soil, And the sweat-drops shed in tho battlo of h.o Are gems in the crown of Toil. And better their well-won wroiths, I trow. Than laurels with life-blood wot; And nobler Hie orchof a bare, bold brow, Than tho clasp of a coronet. Then hurrah for each hero, although his deed ' Be unknown by the trump or tabor, . For holier, happier far is the meed That p-vwneth tho Lords of Labor! i IllMlROUS. The most useful thing In a long run? Hreath. A man whose best works uro always trampled under loot ? A carpet manu facturer. It is easy to make the dull boy smart. Cut his finger and apply salt water. ? Philadelphia Herald. New York women dress to match their dogs; whine color, we suppose, is the popular shade. ? Boston Bulletin. "When a man asks: "Is thi3 hot enough for you V" it is not necessary that you should reply either yes or no. Merely shoit and pass on. There aro 7,000 species of fish kpown to men of. science. The man of soi enco must be a blamed Right luckier than the average fisherman. ? JiurUnp ton Free Prtsf, The (.'row Indians have beefr wftigfi ' putting rocks in the bales of bay |Fey sell to the government * The dfiff^is not far d stant when all IndUuis be civilized enough to vote.? PhUaatl phia Ne wv> * " WHstiffllriiter thnimfeatber,?.?' ' * "The dust in jtblowsin suminor weather." ? " What i? lighter Uinn tho diutt 1 1 "The wind, thct blows ?lio du?t 0\ " And what !b lighter, tfitui " The light* ess of a woman's n " And what is lighter thaw ih?'J ??. Ah,.<her*, look placer a few diTys ag6,c^Md,the whipped nine don't attribute their de feat to* t h iw "irttjmfet decisions* of the unipire." It doesn't seem possible. Tho game slfould be preserved In ale > hoNw*oneof the >greate$fc (ittrtositien century.^ tfoni.* town Herald. ' ,?.<? ' JU a 'Boston fewtitojr:. "Well, what is he, anyway?" "Wty >,fre is qi\ eminent profossdf in the eollego and is known all ovw ilH'o \v6rl<J. ?' Yow should invite him, of course/!^ j'ltow muCh Is he worth V" really do, not know. His salary l&..ftbbtiti&0'J0,< 1 believe,'' "Jn vlte .^"WJiy, wp pay Wff eWbfl TTKJfb'tKStt'that." ? ?* -*H* ,# i *>? tto# tttttfSRSSfc: sleeve that hung at his of glory sough^Und of peril under gone.- i> warn mumtmA i? An V.irjhth ast tM^^eTofaforl. of Ihe steak was done " |'d^|l^l|iy7,and then his iji VWtfc*, anxious to _ J\4Mt09<frW 'one armed man, frofc AftVtlio table and order*!' his breakfast.' jtlj re marks on 'the ease and .grace with Which the feteraii handled his con 'JfJHfy klllffc *nd fo*k were well re* '(feWctt WWtH% Olio-armed man will ingly explained some of tl o many dovlccs that he and others maimed in the war resort to for self-sorvlce. "This knife and fofkj" he said, " wero among the flrAt inventions for one-afmed men, and have been in use for many years. Hut wo hft^ fcther devices not so generally knotfh. Kor instance, when I wash my face' and hand I have afllxed to my basin asmall brush, Uffr>n xWftfrtJ Itubihy soap and thus raiso the necessary suds. When I tfant to cut my nails I stick a sharp knife Into the table and p&M them carefully around the edge of the blade. To tie my shoe Iri a boWkMt f&jjtiired long practice and no little Ingenuity, but 1 eafi do It easily now. How I do it 1 cannot explain In words. For a i"M g time. T hn?i great trdhhle in hut. toning- my collar, but now ho button fan*f??i?tifneu rjt don!tbeiloU J swear MllftfftrnUoh during the operation an mbfft,irtcn wh0 have two nrihe.M-. ? ?van 'yon shave yourself?" ? ? "Oh, vos. Thero is no dhllculty about that. In fact, In the twenty years since Antletam, whero I lost my arm, I have become almost perfect in all the little arts requisite for comfort" ? Philadelphia Tim's.