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? , . .? ? ? >? *? ?? ? ????? !*' ? ? ? *? ? ?"???.? -r . ?? < * -i4. .. -..* f t /'#' T _ _ _._ -i ? A ? i 1 ? ? ^ 1 ? ? 7m m ? / ?/%. IJ A L# I i /% m /m / I I?I P j ? % n j I \ k^S I?I /-A m/ m/ ? I Ji I_U JLV 1 IJ p VkJ/JLX jlV ? ? - ??- " ? rrw fr .m_ j T -*P^sff'r*X?P~*r - :n . ..??> -X-.... .. ,- * >,'?? ft, ?/?. i. L*g?W&Bitiilii i ? -{.IV. 'o>"W?lf? ? ?" -J ??==f=^ AZETTE ~ '.'*1 - : V ' ----; J FRANK p. BEARP, Publisher. . \ ? -JBE JTTST ,&?93D PE^ jJOT^ TWO DOLLARS A YEAR. VOL. X. ?' CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1883. NO. 51. My *?-- ?i TUB PEOPLE'S PAPER. ? ?r?r??y*-??""? ? 7"1 ? PDBI.1SUBU AT ? ifflM- BEARD. Publisher ?.*: '-j? -?' ? -i ?J-- .iaj^sw ^ To i'orrc?ij?ci:druts. ntlntm for Vlil? I*per iCv util 1k> ** ifcy |h? i f aut'ji r. Rut MNfc |mv!toMi4 n,v tnif *.r ?u? ?rlit?uc? of *oo<l [ jisiTr of tltfc w rttcr, Writ*only on one IV? p.\KU-?Urljr cavufuMn giving to);a?? t'.ia lettett plain ?nd Jl? (UMMER EVES. ' eves, as twilight lies i earth nnd fhtant skie?, ioou and star* ?ith silver light ' able npon the staps of night, ion in a rapture dies. Evening's warm odors ronnd me rife. Bwect as if blown from Paradise, Ur fairy gar Jen*, of delight, Pair BQinintfr o'ves? And yet, half to my own surprise, I feel the teartvo!erflaw mine eyeer For absent friends ye call to sight, Tone*, hopoe, that made existence bright, That now are only monlorles, Fair sammer eves! CHINESE GORDON. SKETCH OF A WOKDERFUL CAUEElt. , It way be well to recall the fact fiat Chlne3e Gordon, who wna then only | twenty-nino yettrs of age, was lent by j Queen Victoria to tho emperor of i Cliina, anil in fou:teen months ex tinguished the 'looping /ebelllQU that; hud la\toil over ten year.*. ;lifr?ietal, Gordon was more highly exulted by the emperor of Chinu than Lord Na pier of Magdala' or Lord Wolseley of Cairo bus be*n by tlie queen of Eng land. General Gordon, aided by a fow brave Afnericuns, fought with Chines j! troops against Chl:.030, and of (Jenorid , Gordon it is reoj.ded that ho has. gained more pitched battles, taken more citio.*, anil more iron have laid ' down their arms to him than any Brit ish general living. Tho most celel rated feat of Clt'nese Gordon was tho suppression of the Tuoping rebellion, which in tho spring of 18G8 hud reached its apogee. In thirteen years Ilung^sow-tsuon, Iho visionary school-teacher of Canton, had mustered a following of 50.VJ00 men. MoBt of tho principal cities on both banks of tho Yang-tse-Kinng were in his hands. Ills professions of Chris ? tianity and his control of the tea dis trict hod at first enlisted many foreign nations in his favor. The resistance of Nankin to his arms turned tho current of feeling against him. For days the inhabitants and tho imperial garrison had lived ?n the bark of troesand roots of gra's. Leather, boiled In narrow slips, was eagerly swallowed. Human flesh' was openly hawked in tho streets. The surrounding country was de vastated. Water courses were ililed with broken furniture, rotten boats and ruin. Once flourishing marts were entirely deserted and thousands of houses were burnod to tho ground. Here und thoro a solitary old man might bo seen moving with trembling limbs among ruin*, sadly musing over . the desolation that reignod around. s Jn the midst of these events the Taop ing leader put forth a proclamation. " Tho leather and tho Elder Brother," he said, " have de-oonded upon earth and established the heavenly kingdom and have takon me und tho Junior Lord to regulate affairs appertaining to tho word." Tho foreign nations at oncq ? withdraw their 'support and waived their ardor for Christianity in ' favor of their interest in tea. Tho ilrst to tako advantage of the change was an American named Ward. - IIo had been a inat'o on a Boston ship, and had lundeil at Shanghai with a suit of clothes upon his back and six Mexican dollars in his pockot. IIo went to 1'rinco Rung and offered to crush tho rebellion lor $10,000,000. The prince accepted and paid a consid erable sum in advance. Ward's life bad been full of mlventuro. IIo had bom witli Walker in hi* earlier expedi tions, and hiu| had a tasto of civil war fare in South America, Jle flrst sot to work to recruit his men, and then drill them. Dozens applied every day. Marines, sailors from men-of-war, tea planters, members of the police force, all the European adventurers whom chanco had brought to China, wore en rolled under Ward's banners. They were a mutlhoud' an'd 'rapacious mob. They plundered all who came in their way. They broke into pagodas and despoiled thettf of their rare contents; they tore out diamonds from the idols* '? eyes, dug uptreasuro which the priests 'oJtad concealod, and seattored precious k manuscripts of Buddhist classics to the - wind, ward was soon disgusted with them. Hp had been oreated a Man darin of the Blue Button, he had mar ried a Chinese wife, ami he was pre paring to qnjoy the Immense .fortune he hail won wnon a Taeping rebel shot him through thp heart before the walls of Ningpo.,' ' 1 1 This was Gordon's opportunity. Burgevine, who succeeded to Ward's oommandi was disposed to sell his*men to the highest Milder. Tho young Brit ish engineer forestalled him. Fortified with counsel" from Calcutta and nronv ises of unlimited pay rrom IVkiri, he1 called tho remnant of Ward's foroe around him atidoflefred them towns of , service. Thoro wrts to1 be nd looting so. long as th(ir pay was regularly dls tlihtttsd. He then Wertt to work to mature ijls Scheme of attaok. For grasping \mllltory situation his quick ness was NupoleSniX Heretofore the Slan for defending the, city of Shang al was to guard a radius of thirty miles arountVjt rtfld tifniairi'whblly 0ft the defertslvd. This'policy he at once \ reversed. Having rained most of the ? Europeans to i>osts of' etimmand, and f am Chinese, ho Amoved the ? endmy. He .did not 4ireethis attaok ? oh t.hply frnnt,, whf-rpthelr numbers must have ovorw.hamed him, but tfe termined td t^VoV himself on their oommtinloattons, seise them, point after point? tfith the aid H a small flotilla, and so clear tho Miofe country down tfrthe gates.of Nankin, f A stndy df the 0)Mfotione> by whieh he out oft /tho great 9ity of Sooohow prove* him a master of strategy in its highest sense, as his extraordinary con trol over his native contingent and the wild spirits that officered lthad marked him a truo loader of men. His dlfH "cnltles wore unprecedented. The tf-tse-KiAng had so long been Jd %o foreign commerce that the never boc^ Europeans. J?e"sparks that Issued from its funnel, added to their terrors. Whole villages flod from the "fiery dragotfc ship/' Women threw thorn-, selves down from great heights. They say that at jS'altaatt a faith fid subject of the emperor rushed into the rebel linra and fought, desperately on the, side of the detested Taepings. Dimly | through the smoke he saw the black and yellow banner and hesitated. Then the firing oease<l and he was sur rounded by his countrymen rushing through the breach. In his amazement he was still able to cry : 44 Good China man I" * 44Show your gun," was the reply. The barrel was still warm: *' Your hands." His hands were black with powder. They pushed him back against the wall nnu fired. Ho died in ignorance of his offense. With the arrival of winter Colonel Gordon was before Soochow, and opened the slegfe with which his name is inseparably connected. Soochow is cho Venice of the East. When the city of Foscari was a marshy waato poots were singing the glorios of Soo chow, tlxo splendor of its temples, tho beauty of its women. Its canals > traced thoir way through arches ofj osier and weeping willow. Its shops , and streets were an air of Parisian gayety. In the Morning palace the Mowang or commandant of ti e city wandered among exquisito grottoes and summer-houses. Girls fanned him as lie reclined on his divan; musical boxes tinkled In his halls. Despite his luxurlousness, ho was a man of charac ter and ability. Ho was titer favorite disciple of the chief revolutionist, and differed in every respect from the other wangs, whose banners were at all times flaunting through tho city, and whose soldiers quarreled and fought in the tea-houses. Meanwhile the cannon of tho common enemy was making itself heard. The low-mun stockade, one of tho keys to tho town, had been capturcd. From tho great stone wall and tho water gato tho rebels had poured a firo of grapo, canister und musketry. Finding his native troops too cowardly to light at night?for after twilight they feared their own shadows?Gordon had dashed into the moat with his Euro pean followers, had swum across in the face of a murderous volley, had snatched the snake-flag of tho com mandant from the breastwork, and had planted his own within a hundred yards of the city. When the Narwang, who was second in command, heard of this bold ad- j vanco lie hold a secret conference with other subord'nate wangs, and was rowed down tho Grand canal into Gor don's camp. lie offered to throw opon the gates of the city if lie and his fel lows were granted an unconditional pardon. Gordon communicated this offer to General Ching, who com manded the imperial troops, and it wasspee;lily accepted. Narwang then called tho consp rators tog( tlior, and tlipy repaired to the pala-e of - the ino wang. Here, in the hall of the heav enjy fathor, prayers wero offered and the mowang ascended tho throne in his robe and crown, lie made a short address to tho captains, saying that Sooohow should never yield to infldels. At tho last word the congwang rose in the hall, took off Irs robo, walked up to the stops of tho throne, and delib erately stabbed tho speaker to tho heart. The ma wang fell over tho table in front of the throne, and tho other wangs soized him and decapitated him. Then they mounted tho'r horses, rode each to his palace, and tho h>ad was sont to Gordon as n peace offering. The colonel was not a man to waste time in fruitlessthreats. He had prom ised thffte wretches immunity and he meant to keep his word. Tho entry having been effected peaceably enough, he walked up alone to the neighboring heights feeling for the first time dis couraged and sick at heart. In tho plain below ho suddenly noticed a great commotion. Tho imperial troops wero rushing in wild confusion through tho gates. Yells and shouts filled the air. Not without misgivings ho made his way to the Morning palace and found it 'in ruins, half molten bronzes choking up tho passage and only a solitary drum standing as sentinel at the gate. J?ntering one of tho chambers and calling for his servant ho learned that the Imperialists had beheaded him. Tho courtvard around tho palaoo was filling with an angiy mob; swords were being drawn and pistols fired. Irj the midst of the hubbub Gordon ap peared on the threshold. Tho crowd fell baok as though lightning had strioken thorn. Calmly the colonel raised his hand and the noise ceased. A passage was cleared for him, and, touching Ills pith helmtt in ifonlcal salute, h? walked at an easy pace to General Ohlng's stockade. There, in a ghastly row, wem tho heads of all the wangs. The belles had been slashed down the chest; tho wound? on the head were most horrible. Gor$ don said not a word, He knew that A great elamOr of treachery would be raised against him; hut he silentlf turned away, went back to the palaoo, sorAwlod four words on paper?"Thou prince of liars "?sent them to General Ching, and, bidding thoso of his sol diers follow him who would, rodo T the city, lie wrote to _ . ok Dfcu'oe, the ambassador, upon hlmfeelf all responsibility fo baseness. He allowed the missionaries to oarry home stories of his Atrocities. He suffered the t * philanthropists of Exeter Jail to prato of tho wrongs Wii<$h the Taopings had suffered at his hands. He meroly said that he wotild not sheatho his sword till the rebellion was crushed, and he kept his word. His men olung to him with the devotion of the Tenth legion to Caesar. With his gunboats he cut off so com pletely the ootnmunloatlons of Nankin that not a sound could bo heard from the beleagurod city but tho bamboo signals of the sentinels around tho forts and the drums of tile guards in tho lookout houses on the walls. Be fore the spring was past tho capital had fallen, the leader of tho Taepings had poisoned himself with gold leaf, and his fugitive army was suing for peaoe in the Southern provinces. Colonel Gordon was offered a fortune Mr. the grateful country whioh he had savod, lie replied that he had not ?etvedf?ot .inoney, and would accept notlUngy He left China as poor m ty yM^ht ffist ttf J y1 w Jt*' ' He toas to' visit the oouniry oncb more. In the spring of 1880 he went to Pekin on a mission of peaoe. He had elected to mediate between Russia and China. Strango emotions Oiled his mind as he sailed toward the capital. Passing tho mouth of the Yftng-tce-Klang, under a sapphire sky and bright Eastern sunTtie thought of the desolation he had left upon its shore. Once more the richest land in China, he remembered when its horizon was unbroken except by graves, commemorative arches and heaps of ruins. Over its ravaged hills, now clothed with wild tea, he followed in memory the peasants in their (light, the men staggering under heavy loads of goods and chattels, the women hobbling ulong on their smail feet, their arms flllol with bable?. The paddy fields, which the husbandmen were now irrigating, had been white with dead men's bones. The reed hut of the fisherman and the many-color^ pagoda had been chokod with corpses. The boatmen with their hooks drew shoals of bodie3 to the sea, whore the priest to-day sat drumming by the waterside to soothe the great fish thai carriei the world upon its back. It was Gordon who had restored peace tc the nation, and as lie saved it from ruin in 1864 so ho saved it from wai in 1880,?Niw York Hera1 d. flow Spools Aim Made. in the manufacture of spools white bjjrch bark is used exclusively*. The vfrood is first sawed into pieces foui feet in length and of nine sizes, vary lng by sixteenths from an inch to an inch and a half square. It is then dried as thoroughly as it can be out oi doors. Inside the factory it first goes to the roughor, where the strip* art out into cylinders tho length of spool and the holo bored, tho turning and bofing bieng performed at on* operation, and the cutting oif with a small circular saw at another, all on one machine. These little cylinders drop from the rougher into a barrel, from whence they are removed to the rollers or revolving slated cylinders, in which-the finerdirt and fuzz left bv the saw and bits are removed. The pieces aro then picked over by hand and all imperfect ones are sorted out to feed the ever hungry fires under the boiler The next process is a more thorough seasoning or the blocks in a loft, and then they go to tho reamer, where the center holes are made to the exact size required, which cannot be done by the rougher, on account of the shrinking of the wood after leaving that maohine. Until lately tho reaming lias been done by an ordinary reaming tool working in a lathe, the work being fed by hand but a new machine has been recently put in, which will ream the spools as fast as two boys can feed them into the spouts. At each oscillation of the shaft tho spools are reamed, one at ea h end, the machine turning out about 240 per minute. The next machine is tho finisher, which is nn attachment to an ordinary lathe, by which the spools are turned into shape by one operation, at the rate of 1,000 to 1,500 per hour. There are eight cutting-knives on this machine one at oach end, standing up perpen dicular to the length of tho sp ol for trimming tho enu; one at each end horizontally, for turning the outside of tho flango; between these, two others standing diagonally, for the inside of tho flango; another, horizontally, for turning out tho spaco between the two fianges; and a small circular chisel for cutting tho finish on the top of the spool. Tho spools have now received their shape, and need only the finishing touches. These are given, first by tho polishers, which are the same as tho rollers above, tho friction of the spools against each other giving them tho re quired po'Mi. After remaining in this from four to five hours they nro again sorted by hand and all imperfect one* removed, after which thoy go to the embosser, a sort of printing maclrne, whloh stamps the number of the thread and some ornamental devices upon the h^ad of each spool. They are then packed in stout sacks, holding from thirteen to sixty-six gross each, accord ing to tho size of the spools^ The Effff-Dattco in India. The Indian egg-danoe Is not, as one might expect from the name given it, a dance upon these fragllo objects. It is executed in this wise: { Tho dancer, dressed in a corsage andi very ttiort skirt, carries a willow wheel of moderate diameter, fastened horizontally upon the t jp of her hea l. Around this wheel threads are fast ened eaually distant from eacii other, and at the end of each of these threads is a slip-noose, which-li kept open by a glass bend. Thus equlppoi, the young girl comes toward the spec tators with a basket full of eggs, which she passes around for inspec tion, to prove that they are real, and not Imitations. The music strikes up a jerky monoto nous strain, and the dancer begins to whirl around with great rapidity. Then seizing an egg she puts it in one of the sllp-noosea, and with a qulok motion throws it from her in such a way as to draw the knot tight. The swift turning of tho danoer produces a centrifugal forco which stretchos tho thread out straight, like a ray shoot ing from the circumference of the oircle. One after another the eggsarj thrown out in these slip-nooses, until they make a horizontal auroole or halo above the dancer's head. Then the dance becomes moro rapid?so rapid, In fact, that it is difficult to distinguish the features of the girl. The moment Is critical; the loast false step, the least irregularity of time, and tho eggs dash against each other. But how can the dance be stopped? There is but one way; that is to remove the esfgs in tho way in which they have been put in place. This operation is by far the more deli cate of the two. It is necessary tlmt the dancer, by a singlo motion, exact and unerring, should take hold of tho egg and removo it from the noose. A singlo falso motion of tho hand, tho least Interforonce with one of the threads, and the general arrangement is suddenly broken, and tho whole per formance disastrously ended. At last all the ega[B aro successfully roihovOd; then the dancer * tops, and without seeming in tho lea t dizzied tffth6 dance of twenty-five or thirty Itkirtlit^s, advaftrfes with a firm step to the spectators, and presents them with tltft okk?. which are immediately broken in a flat dish to prove that there is no trick In the performance.?Harper's Yountt Ptopl". "I'll give you a licking," sa d the old cat to her kitten, but ohe wasn't mad at all.?Mcrchu ni-Trmdtr. HUMOROUS 8KF.TCUES. Ccniclencc'i WbUper. It was an Indiana niHU, who, when a terrible storm bcgau one night, rush oil into the house of a ueighbor and cried out: "Jones, this is the ending up of earth I" '? I um afraid so," waft the roply. " And what shall we do?" " Make our peace with heaven." Tho wind Hew still stronger, the liuu>e began to shake, and the excited man exclaimed: "Jones, you lost five bushels of wheat Inst fall?" " Yes." "And you have your suspicions?" "I have. The man who took my wheat had better own up." " Can you forgive him ?" MI can." ? Well?" Hire the wind suddenly dropped, and, after a look through the window, tho conscience-stricken man turned and finished, "Yea, If ever I meet him, I'll advise him to call around." Good Children. An old gentleman from tho country was approached by a boy who offered him a newspaper. The old man ac cepted it with a profound bow. Just then another boy came up and offered to black his shoes. He sat down and allowed the work to proi eod. " Best children I ever saw," he said to a man who stool near. " Been raised right. Know how to treat an oil man. Peo ple needn't say that boys are growing worse every year, for I know better. " Qimme a nickel," said the news boy. " I haven't a nickel, sonny. Run along, now." "Gimme a dtmo," demanded the bootblack. "Run along home, children, and let the old man alone." The newsboy snatched his paper and the bootblack went down into the gutter and came up with several pounds of mud which he smeared over the old man's shoes. The old fellow looked at the boy for a moment, then at his own shoes, and remarked: " Well, I never did have a transac tion with a dirt-dobber that I didn't get the wust of it. I want to get out of town as soon as possible, or I'll have to pay a tax for standing on tho streot."? Arkansas J'raveler. A Terrible Drmra. " Forgive me, my precious one," s.iid Cecil in low, murmurous tones a* he bent lovingly over Clytie and pressed a cold, calm,* historical^ society kiss on a brow that was fair as tho cyclamen leaves in tho woods around them, " I will never be late again." " And l-wlil never leave you,".said the girl, " when the maddening ecstaoy of our love has found fruition in mar riage, I will be always by your side until death?" " Hold 1 I)o not speak of death," cried Cecil, drawing her still more closely to him; " I had such a terrible dream last night. Such a dreadful, eerie dream that I shudder oven now when I think of it." "What was It, sweetheart?" asks Clytie. " I dare not tell you," ho answers, his voice seeming almost like a moan, so greatly is he affected. " But you must tell me," she per sists. " Surely you can trust me, your future bride, with any secret." " I Will tell you, then, precious one," ho says, " but you must bo brave? vory brave." " I will," she answors. "I dreamed," ho said, "that wo were married, but had become very, very poor?too poor, In fact, to keep even one servant?and, that you, my bonny little blossom, that had never before known want or sorrow or suf fering, were obliged to do all your own household work." "But there is nothing so terrible about that," interrupted Clytie. "I am young and strong. "Wait," he says, in a ghastly whisper. "I dreamed that on the first day of our poverty you made some pie ?apple pie?and told me nothing about it?" and Clvtio sees his face grow paler as all the horror of the scene presses upon him. "Well?" she says, interrogatively. " I ate a piece of the pie, he con tinued, ''and?oan you not gueM?" " Ah" shrieks tho girl, in an agony of grief. "How long did you live?" "Fifteen minutes. ?Chicago Tri bune. (>i?Ml Advice to Brother Hopewell. "Am Purveyor Hopewell in de hall din even in' V" asked Brother Gardner as the meeting was called to order. "Yes, sah, replied a voice from the back row of seats. " Den please step disway." Brother Hopewell shuttled forward with a mixed look of hope and doubt on his face. He couldn't make out whether he was to be rewarded for pulling a stranger out of the river the other day or ootirt-martlaled for having a wheelbarrow in his possession which three different men claimed to have been stolen from them. "Br udder 11 ope w oil," continued the president, as a great silence fell upon the meeting, " de odder day I met you down street an' I shouldn't have knowed who you was if PicklaijSmlth hadn't identified you. Yon had on a suit of togs dat mus' have cost $40." " Yes,sah." "You had ha'r ile on yer ha'r, you smelt of perfumery, and you card a cane,'\./ i ? M Yet, sah." 1 "When you Walked you acted like a man who oWned half de town, an' when you stopped f oh struck a pose to Hhow off your Agger. Urudder I Lope well, how much money does you alrn a week?" " 'Bout $9, sah." " An' how much am you l>ehlnd on l*>ard?" " I?I?I s'pects 1'ze *l)o\it obmu Hah," \ "Brndder Hopewell, vou am in debll fur board, fur cloze, fur butts, fujQ cigars, au' you has borrowed money whioh you can't pay. I has had my eye on you fur de pas' thfee months^ an' I knows all about it. Now, den, who am you?" ??Purveyor Hopewell, sah." " 'Zactty?'zactly. . You am a single ' man, twenty-five years old, a second class barbed not' worf #20, an' ont of 52,000.000 people In dis kentry not over 100 has eber heard of you. Now, den, you diess up ; you swell around ; you fling on scoll ps ;you try to deceivo people into takin' you fur a uusson ob riches. What am your objick ? ' "I?I doan' know, sah," stammered the victim. " Br udder Hopewell, let me tell you sunthln'. When you flatter yerself dat do people of dis kontry doan* know de dlilerence hot wean de bray of do mule an' de roar of de lion, you ain dreffully mistaken. You have bin fol lerin' de lead of sartin white people. I knows heaps of 'em who goes hun gry an' dodge creditors fur do sake of olii.din' people's eyes. A woman whose husban' a'rns $20 a week has no bizness wid silks and diamonds, a fifteen-dollar ... hat or a seven dollar pa'r of shoes, but she-, am de pusson who'll have'm fur fear dat somebody will think she isn't rich. Half de kentry am in debt fur clozo which only de odder half kin afford. Dn woman who w'ars de best cloze on de street has de moas' holes in her par lor carpet at home. De man who swells ae biggest owes de moas' to his tailor an' shoemaker. You am a poo' man. You'll nebber have a hundred dollars in bank as long as you live. You'll nebber aim mo'dan 'nuff to run a Btnall cabin in a small way, an' yet you am sweilin' arour>' as if a twenty thousand-dollar mortgage wouldn't bother you half an hour. What's your objick V" " I?I?doan' know, sah." " Boy 1 take olf dat swaller-tailed coat! Jump outer dem tight pants] Drap dat silk necktie 1 Den you go to work an' fin' cheap boardln'-house an' begin to pay your debts. Let your cloze match your salary. Let your board match your eloze. Be what you am?a common sort o' pussen whoso assets will kiver his liabilities by hard pullin'.' You can't deceive anybody, an' de less you try to, de better people will like you." Brother Hopewoll retired to his corner all broken up, and his first move was to offer to trade a handkerchief with a red border to Shindig Watklns for a white-handled knifo with all the blades broken.?Lime-Kiln Club. The Postmaster's '?Crank" File. Theanonymous communications and those asking foolish or impudent ques tions received by Postmaster Pearson are filed together, and form an inter esting re ord of the peculiarities of correspondents. One of the most com mon forms of idiocy appearing in these communications is that which leads many persons to send requests that their letters he forwarded to their now addreasca and to append no signatures by which they can bo identified. In this filo also is found the well-known letter Jn whi< HTIrs.TjyulU KjTTHkliam offers the postmaster *10,Q0i>-a- month for the prhil gi of having her name and that of her patent medicine ap {>ended to the canceling stamps used n tl.e postofttco. Impocunious persons apply to tho postmaster with requests that ho will assist them in their need. A ?? Distressed Southerner" sent a let ter by a messenger asking for assist ance on the ground that when ho was a journalist in North Carolina ho wrote kind articles about tbeNew York post office. The author of "A Voyage To and From the World Jupitor anl a Travel Through It" desired to have tho postmaster send him a list of ? wealthy persons to whom he coulel apply for subscriptions. Lunatic*, one of them apparently con fined in a hospital, have written relig ious or philosophical nonsense filling sheet alter sheet of fine writing. A modest correspondent wrote: "Please send me the price of game, if you will, and obllg A more sensible note in a coarse hand on a very poor postal card wns: " Please suggest to the de partment that they do not have their postals made any longer of blotting paper." Anonymous complaints from or about clerks and carriers also occasion ally fin I their place on the "crank" file. A candidate for President?from Ohio, of course?sent a letter to the postmaster inclosing a number of bal lots with the correspondent's name printed on them, "for President of the united States." The postmaster was requested to distribute them. A city correspondent, who did not sign his name or givo any definite clow to the object of his inquiry, wrote: ^A paoket of newspapers did not seem to go down properly when' deposited by me In the lamp-post box. Please sco that you get it." Many letters have been received from young Imbeciles of both sexes requesting that they he given the names of persons with whom they can correspond. A corre spondent who gave his addross as that of a physician said: ?? Will you obllgo me To hand this to some young lady who wants Correspondence with a youhg man with highly intellectual and moral accomplishments." A young lady whose " accomplishments " were not *1 great wrote from Nebraska: M Dlr 8lr ( write to you to find out if i could have a yong jontelman corre spondence. a good looking young man " 1 oets with unreadable stanza*, "cranks" who want to c<nvert the world, authors who want to sell their. books? and beggars with n tiful sto rles All out the records of tne peculiar correspondence of the postmaster.?* New York Tribune. Development of the Fittest. A German writer has recently shown that, the '? first-born of the first-born " reach maturity at an earlier age than those of subsequent birth. That Is, the first calf, colt and lamb develop a little more rapidly than did their par ents or than will their own brothers and sisters. If tho separation be kept up for a number of generations the difference often becomes quite marked. Joseph Cook hopes tho day will come when " we shall have only ono postage stamp for the whole world." And then a nico fix we'd l>o In if some fellow should fold that ono up in his vest pocket, and persplrlngly fuse It agfcintf a (InaU square of hard tobacco and twrt or thre> newspaper dipping*. And that I* Just what would happen1 if the world got down to Its last stamp. ?Argonaut, My suooeti is owing to liberality in advertising.?Bonner, INDIAN LONGEVITY. Two ladlM On* Of Whom I, lt7 ir V Graphically l??*crlbrd. Helen Hunt describes '? The Present loaJitlon of the Miseion India? o ho"tl,ern California " in the twm,? and speak* as follows of two aged San S,?nn Vf""1 : "A few rode from in a n,i' ,53 " cl?",rch of Slln ?t?'riel i ? , a e of bundles of the tale reeds lushed to sycamore poles us the dred v njy' ^n'Ull"s nm:'^ theni a lain worn, n T o ax0, V' 0 two okl In'li:in Is 102 v'i'i HonJamin:?- Laura rLr 0,d' Ji?njainina 117. The seearin0thAb"l*ll,IU8 is still to be soon in the church books ; so there can .nodispute as to their age. it seems not at all incredible. howe\or. If I thrl^T toldthat Benjamina was ? J:LiTci^RItl 0'ear*old NilB mummy. s^esuscitated by some mysterious pro at 'thn ? ? DOt ?av? domurred much at tho tale. The first time I over a en?n UlC flW0 were touching Hnr/n / M0n ho ground, undtr a hove? bT?J h P?rcll'in ^ont of their '? L??ra was making a feint of a?0rn me,U in ft 8tono bOWl ; I J ion jam i na was raking the a?hes with ?rBt?uhikrw ,"n<r'?'? s"??'? to start the fire afresh ; her skin was ? ,ele?)l),mt'8. shriveled, 'black banging in folds and welts on her neck like ?n!!Lan(l ,bony arms : 11 was not eves KJ ng ihur5aa; her drunken under tK T ?*Ah' peered out from under thickets of coarse grizzled gray hair. Laura wore a white cloth band orscarli?rfl1nead'itlea ?n Wlth a 8trlP tori w? I,fl?nne,1: *'>ove that, a tat. tered black shawl, whicn gave her the ^d baskets, old noofi ? old stone mortars and pestles broken tiles and bricks raw straw, boxes, legless chairs?in short* all conceivable rubbish?were strewn a >out or piled up in tho place, making the weirdest of backgrounds for th? aged crones' figure. inside tK Wo ^e , 0 bedsteads and a few boxe3, baskets and nets; and dryino -5Tfew f* t peppera bung on the walls *Vh7 t0Piaway was another hut, only a trifle better than this; four genera Wfr? ,llvln? ln th? two fient mina s stepdaughter, agod eighty, Wa/ Ure; , Wltb a white ban" straight around her forehead close to ? flPf r?ws and a gay plaid handker chief thrown on above it, fallintr squarely each side of her face shf looked like an old Bedouin sheik. ' T miro o ,exIcan friend remembered ,'*'/} as 8b? was fifty years ago. Si teon 5' KVen ?} ,ifty-two, celebrat-d as one of iheswiftest runners and best Sne,ayesL,n aU th? Son ?aSl choir r?h0,wa8a singer, too, in the ,,er UP on ber feet, rnrl 1 g u*" 8hou,ders, entreating and caressing her as one would a child ho torTtno itTS^ h" Kidr b^"'?ntP'o'dolt in bappy and W'sntd to live. Laughing she rfv peated the question to them. < Oh rZZ? Th' tg ltVe f0^ever., thev replied. They wero greatly terrified ilidr?1,tep 8:,ld' when the railway Thev thn?rw uthrouK'? San (Jahriol. fir!, , K 11 was the devil bringing fire to burn up tho world. Their chief k80 ace is tobacco. To 1-07 it Ben in. ??h?hwlH ireep about in tbVvii-i" the hour, bent double over her staff tottering at overy step. They sit for the most part silent mot ors on he ground; their knees drawn un their hands clasped over them, tho r driv?!i 8.un ^ on their breasts. In my drhos in the San Gabriel valley I often saw thorn sitting thus, as if thev were dead. The sight had an"Z describablo fascination. It seemed that J? If i Jl't0Penetrate into the recesses of their thoughts would bo to lay hold upon s;crets as old as the earth." A Change of Sentiment. The newspaper editor who has been vexing his soul over the way tho youth of the land gulped down dime novels of the blocd and tlfander sort can feel better. A change of sentiment has al ready betrayed itBelf, and there is rea son to hope that **One Eyed Dick" and "Dead-Shi.t Jim" will s?on bo out of print. Yesterday a lad of four teen, who has devoured a thousand fivo and ten-cent novels during the last year, entered a Woodward avenue news-store, nnd When tho clerk handed him down "Tho Black Demon of tho Prairies" and other late publications of the sort ho turned away witjfc a sigh and remarked : ? I don't cam lor 'em any moro." 41 Whv, what's tho matter? ' "Woll, I read Injun stories and run away to become an Injun-slayor. Dad brought me back and whaled me half to doath. I road pirato stories and shipped on a schooner for Buffalo nnd almost died of sea-sickness I road hunting storlo*, but there's nothing to hunt around h re except cats 1'vo tried to be a trapper, but the only game I ever caught was the mllkma'i, and he's laying for me vet. I kinder wanted to be a train-robber, but the train wouldn't stop to bo robbed, and when I read of boy ho roes and looked around to savo rich girls in a runaway coupe or old men from the river tliero nover was any chance. I'm going to ohange and read something else." "Well, what shall it bo?" "I want something about a boy who begat) low down and worked up. Ho musn't rush into any burning house, nave any stores from being robbed, d s cover any plots to blow up steamboats or save any old woman from mad dogs. Ho mu*t be juAt likethe?rest of us??have headaches, get licked, hato to get out of bed, flgnt his brothers and steal sugar and tako it to bod to eat." The dealer couldn't find such a book, and the lad went out with tho remark that nobody Beomed to caro to writo anvthlng fur boys, and that he guessod hofd have to get a pair of honos and a song book and beooino a song and danoe man. Who can writo a boy> book which will reflect the oharaet<r lst|os and adventures of the modern boy??Detroit Pre* i'rsw. During the Egyptian war a column of leaded telegraphic dispatches cost the London newspapers from $1,0(K) to |1,2M). He von shillings and two the rate oharged. THE 11 U.MAX KOSE Am lulrrcil|n? Chapter on that V c!ul ami Urnaiuculal Uriau. I avuter, the physiuguo.i 1st of Zu rich, cla mod that the perfect nose had nine essent als. Its length >h Juki be equal to that of tho forehead; it should have a gentle fal lng in near the root: when viewed in f:ont the ridgo must be largOf^yvith the two sides nearly parallel, biuthe breadth a lUtlo in creased toward the middle; not such a one as Solomon lYli's, whose noso was all on one side, as if nature, indignant with tho propensities she observed in him at his birth, had given it an angry tweak which it had never recov ered. Tho tip of tho Lav at r nose should nut be too sharply pointed nor too obtuso; tho lower contcur formed with precision, and connection neithe: too pointed or too large; tht* sides of tho nose must distinctly pio-ent them selves so that the nostrils agreoably foreshorten at the bottom and in the profile; tho b;ise must be one-third tho length, the nostrils should draw more or lass to a point and become rounded as they recede; while the ridge should bo formed archwise; and, lastly, tho upper part must unito with tho arch of the eyebrow, and dimensions on tho side of tho eye must bo at loast a half an inch. Great men have frequently ill-con structid noses. Small noses, oblique in profile, are confined to people with gentleness of temper, forbearance, a' tent:o:i and docility, disposing them to receive and rollsh" sensations of deli cacy. Socrates, tho philosopher, IJoer hoave and Lairesse, though gr.-at men, were of gentle and patient dispositions. Noses arched from tho upper part of tho root belong to elevatid characters, those born to command, firm of pur pose and steadfast in their under ak ings. A noso with a large ridge, straight or curved, announces superior faculties. Such were tho noses of Dean Swift, C.csar Borgia, Paul Sarpo and Titian. Perpendicular noso; sup pose a soul that knows how to act and to suffer tranquilly and with energy. Chaucer says her n se "directed strait* and Danto means tho straight nose when ho styles it ?Id dr.*tto naso." Pug noses belong to little great people ; they always make the motions to adjourn in a public in et ing, aro full of bristling ofiiciousncss, make good errand-runners, are to'era b!y faithful, as lawyers full of techni calities, as preachers run in one rut, and as doctors follow the toxt-books. No man with a pug noso ever set tho Ohio river on lire, <r accomplished much more than to humdrum through life's traces. Snub noses generally be long to critical people, who are hern disgusted with everything. Pugilists have frequently snub m sc. They in dicate a hang-on-ativeness, and some what of that quality in a man called perseverance, in a mule, obstinacy. ? Plato called tho aquilino noso royal, and some modern hath it, "God made tho Roman, man the snub." At any rate, tho Homan-nosed wero the i movers of tho world's destiny, th>; I elegant Greek-nosed tho arbiters of art, and these distinguished for imbe cile ir anity glorying in a snub. In tho Caucas an tho nose averages in length one third of tho face, in tho Mongolian one-fourth, in tho Ethiopian something less. The great painters and sculptors, by | paving attent on to tho noses,.drew characters that wero almost dl' lne. Look ?}t Ecco Homo, of Correggio, or tho Madonna of Raphael. Jupiter, Hercules and warlike Minerva had all the nose of execution?the grand old j It' man nose. Sosostris, Cato tho Cen sor. Lucretius,' Charlomagne, Canute, Columbus, Americus Vespucius, Cor toz, Pizzarro, Robert Bruoe, Queen Elizabeth, Earl of Chatham, Hendrick Hudson, Daniel Iloono, Francis Marion, Andrew Jackson. Samuel Houston, Thomas II. Benton, W infield Scott, had all tho Roman nose. Tho Greok noso was given, by the sculptors to Juno, Venus and" Apollo. It Is the artistic nose, the no o of re finement, culture and tasto. It is found in Petrarch, Milton, Spencor, Boccao clo, Canova, Raphael, Claude, Rubons, Murlllo, Addison, Voltaire, Byron and Shelley. Many famous women have had this nose?Hannah Moore, Loti tia Barbaug'i. Felicia Hem ns, Maria Edgeworth and Madame de Stael. From tho beautiful Andromache to Paulino do B'irgheso, this is tho noso of beauty. " The Greek-nosod woman," says an admirer, ?' whether born in a cottngo or a palace, makes everything about her beautiful. Taste preside* allko in tho adornment of her person and the furnishing and embellishing of her rooms. A wreatli of greon leaves or a littlo vase of flowors may as truly show it as a tiara of pearls or tho appointments of a luxurious bdu* doir.' The Jewish nose, so called be causo so common among Israelite^, in by no moans peculiar to that nation alone. It is found among tho Syrian races ovorywhero. Sir (F. Wilkinson {?roves that tho natives represented In ''gyptian culture with hawk noses are not always Jews, but Syr ans. The ancieht Phoenicians woro Syrians, and they were the greatest merchanls of antiquity. It indicates worldly shrewd noss, insight into character, an 1 abil ity to turn that insight to profitable account. Vespasian, Titus, Theod* Bias the Groat, Adam Smith and Albert Gallatin had thin nose. Life tn Nftlyador. A young enginoer from Philadel phia, now engaged in railroad survey ing in Salvador, Central Amcr.ca, in a letter to a friend, given some Inter esting Information about the oountry. It la a republic, ho nays, In namn only, an absolute monarchy In fact, Inaa tnucii as the president has power to set aside tboacta of congross, can paws a ws without its sanction and ran postr pone the electIons indefinitely. How ever, under the present occupant the country has been Well-g .vorned, and the laws, which am ex ell nt for law Abidtng people, woll carried out. Tlio prisoners aro chained in pairs, and nate to hunt work and earn tholr food, Murdorer* are flogged to death. There is no need to carry arms At all, and ev?n In the cities they merely tie the front door with a string. At Sotmar, in Cermnny, during a thunderstorm, a moth- r and her four children were killed by a nlngle flash of lightning - The Gazette ! Job Printing , Office it vmut thau any ott?r ofln la to oiccuto lu ILo io>?t attractive ?t)ic??vw7< ttou of Job tMutlnj. t>uch as tllU H?uK Utter tnil Xots Uc.vU, U? QiMV drralart, lltmt Dllh, Wvktl**. VI* UiiK AddrvaaO'd.% Vu?ln?j?Uar<U. Utah A- ' - * ?-'<!?* x;.^ Work (ttxiie Iu Hrviiic, I tod, Ulue aiva 1 T)?c (xibllr must temimlwr that th? 1? Ibo cboaiRit. W? do work at rtuirlmtno Prteo*, and guarantor entire ?it i.?facttou to our p*tron?. We keep con?tantljr or. hand Uit I "ft itoak o? l*ai>or? aud Card* In towu. JUST ONE. /ith outstretched hand aud longing tvWi By so many pret'y things surrounded, "Just ouo ! Just on >!" the lit.lu inaidcriea AN i'.h onj{orne.*8 unboundjd ; Fato heels not, bat pas:ee by, Even though littlo mails be# and cry! By silvor t e>s full of apples of gold, The pre ud y outh stood surrounded ; " Juht one ! Ju-tt ouo to have and hold," Ho o ed, with hope unbounded; But Fate, wi h timo and ohnnce, hurrietby, And the golden fruit still hang* on highl lite poor man, toiling day and night, By poverty's vfaU surrounded, For just one ouanoo to soule the height His pitiful ory rcsoundod; But deaf and b ind and hcartlossall, Fato built up higher *till tl.o wall !? 80 many a starved, ill-treated life, By misery and vice surrounded ; Whilo for .u it ono oinld this hcart-siok wifo Would ijivo her woalth unbounded ; But the nn ;el sent that night from heaven, Made her neighbor's fix poor wrotchos seven! Yt t fate is fon.l of the number One ; With one blessing weighs cno oureo; And behold ! ono body, ono soul, ouo sun, *One God, one univorso! And threo great things Fateevor gave, Ono after ono: I-ife, death and a grave ! James Hunter MacOulloch. HUMOROUS. A pen picture?A litter of pfgs. . Kind words and bald heads never die. The homo stretch?The morning yawn. The poultry farmer and the'carriage maker know how to make a opop pay. ?Boston Jiulhtin. llow tan so many butchers he-small men, despite the faetv that everybody knows a butcher's stall ? The bi oti lack shines while he works ? but tho lazy man whjues while ho &hirks.?New Yqrk Journal. Alter a man has been effectually kicked by a full-grown mule ilcouple of times, lightning has no fuaca for him.?atutesnw.ii. El!a Wheeler, an untamed $oet of the West, says, " Show me tho way up to a higher plane." She might comu hero and interview the carpenter who is a'- work on tho shot towur.?Ntw Or leu tut Picayune. Not one of tho tackling old hens in this country appears to know or care that a Florida turtle will lay 150 eggs in a day without making the least bit of noi.-e. Tho hen fuss over one egg is absurd.?piuti/mic. " Well, may I hope, then, dearest, that at some time I may have tho hap piness of making you my wife?" "Yes, I hopo so. 1 am sure," sne re plied. "1 . m gttting tired of suing fellows for breach of promise." Longfellow said: "In this World a man u u t bo either anvil or hammer," L( ngfellow w; s wrong, however. Lota* of men are neither the active hammer nor the sturdy anvil. Thoyaro nothing but bellows.?Philadelphia News. A printer's wrath should bo^meas I ured by a quad-rant.?Georgia Major. And his lovo by an em-brace.?Drum vi' r. And hij lighting po,wor' by his slugs.?Sunday Morning Optic. And his appetite by tho amount ofi.pl he makes.? William sport Grit" And his wealth by tho 1000.?Carl P.retzel. | "Advioo to swimmers" says M Avoid bathing within two hours after a meal." This will ptfobabl^ex plain why tramps look as if they in dulged in a bath only about once in six months. They don't get over two meals a year. Hut they get a lunch now and then, and if the farmer owna a cross (leg they may also bo furnished occasional.y with a "cold bite." 1 UK IIKK AND THK llOV. Bro - ' Tho Bee Fh e Acri Kfl tho Ion To deck The sinnU boy's noo'<c Wi h ft lnmi> The i oof the nozzle of ft primp. lfeft- Iho boy shout. Wi At in it nil about? t , \N hy, (ho bco h got in its work, Or rather its ilirk, And tl.o b.iy indulgoi not in laaghtor. Feren'ter Ho will probably th:nk It boat Not to Hhy n briok into A beo's nl % A Man's Heart on Kin High Dt. II. Illoway, of this bit/, report? a peculiar freak of nature?If it to a froak of nature?in a patient, whose heart, inroad of beating on the left side of tho body, beata on the rlgjit side. T.iis is something not unknown to medical science, though it iaot very rare oocurrem o. Dr. Illoway was seen by an Inquirer reporter, to whom ne said that ho had never before seen a man whoso heart was situated as this man's was. His natno is Joseph Horwltz. lie is a native of Poland, and a peddler, forty-llvo yearn old. Tho doctor had examined tho man, endeavoring to ascertain whether tho strange position of tho heart was duo to disease or whether ho was born that way. He had not as yot determined. The '?a said that beforo coming to thi& .i.ry he was | conilnod for a mouth in hospital in Cracow, Poland, with typhoid fever; that whilo thero the physicians ha I ob served tho peculiarity in Mm, and wanted him to go to Vienna for ex am.nation. Ho did not go, however, coming to this country instead, lie ha t never oxporlonc d any Irtconven I ience from the position of Ids heart, it ' perform.ng its Functions as naturally as If in the proper place, lie had nover boon sick in any way that would lend him to boliovo It was due to hls? heart. I)r. Illoway said that tho other or gans of tho man were apparently* In a normal condition and proper place, and I.Is he rt was apparently In porfect order, There have been a fow nttch cases feport'd l.erotofore In mo Ileal sclenoe. but they worn in foreign countrlos. In this case the beating <>f the heart is very distinct In exactly the satno position on right side as it is usually on the left side, so that it must be completely changed from what it is in' other persons. "-Cincinnati In quirer. An Englishman in Fan Fran-hci has recently married Ah y?n, u h ? it saidJto bo the handsotn st Chin so g.ii aver"Wbught to America.,,