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Em* 1 ftersfjaw f TllK PEOPLE'S PAPER. rO?MHII(l> AT CAMOW. ?. C. FRANK P. BEAftD. Publisher u-1-u.f- -- - *? '4^, To Corrode ?LtloutnmanJrMl< ?i? (ur ilili* |v?:?.r nS>*U l#M> eompanted by the name or tI?o nut'.Rrr, u?t ncce* jarlly tor t*iWV<rftiU-?>, t?ut a? an trlilettf* of ?<*>d faith ou tbo rfM" of t:?o writer. Write only 0:1 oil* klde or llwpair'r, 11# particularly rare .It 1111 rt'ln* 1 and <Ut?i tultavu the Utters l>Ulu and dU wmfit' ?? ?' ? ? >?"" ?'< ' , - -V. V. IOVE. X. I leaned oat of the window, I smolt the white clc(ver, Dark; dark was the garden, I saw not the 4 Now, if thoro be footsteps, he OQiriee, my one lover? Hash, nightingale, hash! Oh, sweet night ingale, wait Till I listen and hear# If a step drnweth near, For my lovo he is Into t .? ?'?! *r* ' The skies in the darkness stoop nearer and nearer, ? A cluster of stars hangs like fruit in the troo, The fall of the wntor comcs sweotor, coma) t cloarer; To what art thoa listening, and what dost v thou see?" . ' Let the star-clusters grow, Let the swoot wate;*-ilow, And cross quic^i^ to mo. ljft?*"fflglit moths that hovor where honey briinn ovor From sycamore blossoms, or settle or sleep; You glow-worm*, flhino out, and the pathway * discover To him that comes darkling along the rough stoop. ? Ah, my sailor, make haste. For the time runs to waste, " And my love lieth deep ly. " Too doop for swift telling; and yet, my ono lover, I've oonnod tlieo an answer, it waits thee ' to-night." By the syoamoro pnBsod ho, and through +he white olovor, Thon all tlio nwoet speoch I hal fashioned ??:. ^vtook flight; Bat I'U love him more, mori . Than e'er wifo loved before,, Bathe days dark or bright. ? ?Jean Ingelow. ? IJ?L Cruise of the " Jemima.'' Charlie, my young brothor, hud been fagging at his studies; I had just passed the II. C. 8. E., and was propor tionately elate. Wo hud earned our ^sutnmer holiday, wo thought; and nothing loth was I when Charlie, with v a roap in his hand, pointed out a spot on the Caithness coast and exolaimed : "Hera we arel There we'll go! What say you, Frank?" " Very good choice. Plenty of j ozone, fishing and' boating; fashion at a discount. Where is tho time table?" ,, A primitive fishing village?call it " Clanhead?was quickly fixed upon ; and after lh3 usual delight of railway traveling we found ourselves in a place richly endowed by nature, but minus an inn. A Highland cottage, however, proved a comfortable enough shelter; and after a night's rest and a hearty fish breakfast wo strolled off toward the sea. . ? In the one straggling street of Clan head wero yellow-haired children who stood la wide-eyed, innocent wonder, tMand stared at us. Per imps they were Ovorcomo by tli& Sight of our hideous ' brown sand-shoes ; or It might have < been that they were bewitched by Charlie's handsome face. Charlie is the Adonis of our family ; and I?-well, I am an ugly young man with a iharvelously wido mouth, eye sight so near, that I onnnet plok up a sixpence without the help of my ![losses, and an oxpreaslon, to say tho east Of it, scared. Such as we were, wo stood tho lads' and lasses' scrutiny unabashed, plod ding on till we percelvod a middle-aged man leaning on a gate in, I imagined, *?? a dolce far niente condition. He turned, however, and moved to ward us. " Will ye no' be takln' a sail the mornin', gentlemen?" " Just what we want," cried Charlie. " Awoel, tak ye the first turn to the reet an* it'll bring ye tathe head o'the I cliff. Somo way bock ye'll see the openin' to a ravine, dang awathrough the gap, an' ye'll soon be where the soa I washes the ollfT-foot. Be ye canny, for the tide's high the noo, and the shal lowest water there may droun' ye. In Hvo minutes I'll Ikj coomln* roortd wl' my boat an' arty mate at your service." Tho boatman touched hi* oap and1 moved off; wo miulo for the ravine, passed down it, and came suddenly upon the <nost magnificent expanse of rolling water that our eyes had ever! feasted upon. Shortly, from, I suppose, some shel teting nook undor the cliff, came along' oar little craft, the ..." Jemima," with her mainsail spread and her master at m the helm, while Donald, his mate,kept wa^hat the low. I a " Yo hoy I Steady! Yo KOy i" sho w\s ? brought to,,r And in if* scrarabjod we, neck or nothing, g We wero scarcely seated bfforo, emerging from tho ravino, toiling on itfithlhe help of a orutoh over loose ] earth and bowlders, came a girl, with a sweet but vary sad faoe. Evidently I the was suffering in mind and body. ' "Kch.IIinny.lIinny!" said our boat man, with a softened intonation. "Ye should na act sao, ray dear. When j gentlemen hire tho 'Jemima' they dlnnaexpoct, to tak' her master's fam iijr aboord. Gang awa' home agrtin, "Oh, by all moans, take your friend aboard, Mr. " .??Hen IS my namo, s!r, an' I thank S for your kindness. Come, then, rn! an' look yo, dinna trust to your crutch when ye step aboord. Should the boat toff, it may slip true under ye Lot me lay it deon at tho stern, an. gi'e me your hond. Now, steady, an in ye are " Hen guided the boat off, then turnel io the girl again. ';:fe ??Eh, my balrnle, not sfte mlcklo as a speck o' howl-gear 1 an' they bits o' fal-lal clothing Hying aboot.yo; ye'll qotch your d ath f-~yo maun nae my jacket om Mobbe, sir, ye'll he saeklnd as to. haud tli? tiller uhlles I dtea* her here, now, Mamie, are ye no mmt V'j'W ,/e wero before tho w.'nd, our swelling mainsail hiding the man at! e bow. The grand sea and sky threw ! st'le and myself Into ecstaolee; Hen, ? to such scenes, was quiet, and, I ' sad, while the flasslo looked snm ? i ^y. * ) FE m n ? ? i FRANK p. BEARD. PublUhw. 3335 JUST AND FEAR NOT. two dollars a year. ??'vta*A*l'. v-^rSsj^wJ*? ,? c-fy-1-? vro?}V? ? # ?. ?; -i. .?'?'* * -tT^y.-7 v-< <??' ^ :y.*R^Ssyfy>^*K^Wwl??gg .'ioF^ ?jLkjJfeY.WT:.'. <J r. .. . ^ ? ' ' " ...... 'i ?'. ??? ......... - ??' ? "- ?;;? ft ?? .' h '? "?'*? -rr ??????-- ..??????- < ...a. . ??? ? 111 i ? . i ..... . . i . ? .i . ? ? ........ ? VOL. X. CAMDEN, KERSHAW COUNTY, S. C , THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 1883. NO. 62. . - _ . < . . . .. ? . . 1 , v *L; i\ >. .Ti-V . :. . . ; . "Eh, my doo,M said Ben, "ye were oop wi' the birds; I marked ye wend in your way to the cliff by the first glint o* the sun. Ye's liken to a wraith, my dearie. Ye'se aye wanderin'. Aweel, lay doon your h'a i awhile on my shoulder, an* be takln' a wee bit napthenoo." With his disengaged arm Ben sup Eor ted the frail little body, and scon is charge was dozing as restfully as any weary child. As she slept I espied a wedding-ring on her finger, and even in repose her face told a tale of mental and bodily suffering. 8ome heavy calamity, I thought, must have fallen upon her. Her childlike confidence in Ben and his tenderness toward her were pa thetic, and, altogether, my sympathy sympathy was won. * Presently I ventured to ask if she were not an invalid, and returned Ben: . "Oo, yes, sir; an' she is my only balfn. Pretty doo. She married owre early. An' a week after, Tain, her husband, sailed north wi' his crew for the flshln'. Three months hae passe 1 sin' the wofu' day, but riae word can we get of boat or men." "Then you think the vessel?" ?' Went doon, sir, is what you mean ? There is nae doot aboot it; for, miles awa' along coast, a piece of her sail was washed ashore. But my lamb knowsna that; an' sae, i'stead o' puttin' on widow's weeds, sho aye says we'se boun* to find him; an' she watches the sea an' questions every fisherman she meets till it's just pitifu' to hear her." ??She is nearly distraught," thought I. Then I gave Ben a warning note regarding the Imperative need of try ing to divert her mind from her trou ble. Also I proffered a word of advice about her lameness, which, it appeared, arose from some recent injury done to the muscles, and which I gathered, had been treated in anything but a scientific manner. Ben was delighted to find that I was a doctor, and most grateful for my interest in him. Indeed, he was so earnest in pouring out his thanks when I volunteered to take Mamie's case in hand while I was at Clanhead, that the man at the bow (as he afterward owned) became an absorbed and sym Eathetlo listoiter; for Mamie and he ad been playmates, and he felt rather down-hearted. Ben told me, when Tam carried her off. Beep in our subject, and entirely free from apprehension, we scudded pleasantly along. One moment all our thoughts wore of healing; the next?crash! crash! 1 crash!!! over our heads, under our foot, every where! A swift glance at the mainsail, a wrench at the tiller, and a tremendous shout from Ben: 44 Bow, there, bowl are yo sloopin', monr 1 The warning was too late! A largo vessel was down upon us; our ma'n sall pierced through by her bowsprit; our timbers wore Bhivoring under her bows. I heard shouting on the deck above us; I saw a man leap from tho vessel's side; I saw Mamlo wake up in an agony of torror and throw her arms round her father's neck; I heard Hen say, 44Nae dlnnacumber me, butstriko j ye oot an' trust." 1 knew we were all in the water, for I saw Ben supporting Hiis child as he swam vigorously toward the man who had le.iped over. I saw Charley going down (neither he nor I was a swimmer), I clutched at him fruitlessly; then some confused cries of "Keop your heads up!" 4*Here's alife-beltr "Catch this rope!" and soon. But soon the voices sounded far away and undlstlngulshable; 1 knew that salt water was in my nos trils and mouth ; there was Hlnglnit in my ears, roaring in my bead; I felt a mad impulse to rise; 1 did rise; again, for a moment only, 1 heard eager Voices near me, ahd caught a glimpse of the efforts that were being made to save us; in an agony I made an effort to keep up; it was futile; then, hiss ! hiss! swish ! through my very brain; after that, darkness, dense darkness I a dear consciousness that tho hand of death was upon mo;' a cry from my inmost soul to heaven and? a strange, deep calm. * * ? ' * * * The sun was going down In a flood of .crimson glory. I lay upon a well swabbed deck all alone. Where had I been? Where was I going? What had happened? I pinched mysolf and felt the pain; so I was still in the flesh, t tried my voice?44 Hi t hllloa t somebody!" No one oame. I sat up and took a speculative survey. The vessel was taut and trim, and she smelled of tim* ber, but she was not of British build, i As I cogitated?rather weakly, X must ow<k~~a footstep sounded on the deck, and along came a good-natured-looking seaman, fair and blue-eyed; he made his way to me ftnd gated smilingly down. ? What ship is this?" queried I. A shake of tho head. > Are you a German ?" Two shakes of the head. "Speak, man, in some tongue or other, will you V" _ . The word ,4ST>eak he understood, and obeyed with energy. But no word of any language could* I pick out from his strange jabber. Feeling, no doubt, that my under standing wanted arousing, ho went away and shortly returned with six other men t some strong, fair and blue Sred like himself, the rest shorter, arker, but powerfully built, and all chattering the most unintelligible "T they bent their energies to make me acquainted with something or other, I tried hard to discover their nationalities, when- happy thought !-. came flitting through my brain thd words? ?? And then the btae-eyed Norseman told A t a?a of ih* day* of o!d.". 44 You are from Norway!" bawled I * And you," to tlie darker men, "you are Swede4-. Am I right?" ??lift! Nofrow?rNorg;l Norg?1 Aa I Ha I N?nlk? I fl?l 1l?I" , The words were taken up like a| refrain with boisterous satisfaction. Had I only raised my eyes to the vessel's flag, I might Have seen at first that she Was called the '' Jarl Hakon." But Just then my wits Vtere scattered., They begun, however, to disentangle | themselves, and thoughts of Charlie, Ben and the rest crowded upon me. Where were they? Where vii tht Uune girl? and where the "Jemima?" It was useless to question, so I rose up and with rather unsteady gait walked aoroes the deck and found my way to the captain's cabin. On one aide lay Ben, with pain in every line of his laoe; In tho captain's berth, looking absolutely dead, was Mamie; stretched out on a rug lay my brother. He, however, managed to moon out " Bravo I" when he saw me. I went to the girl's Fide and felt her pulse. Then, "Where's the captain?" suid I to Ben's careless mate, Donald, who was standing by, the picture of helpless distress. "Here," came a ready answer from a mellow voice behind me. I turned. There stood a portly gray* headed man, with a trustworthy face. He spoke English; this was worth something just then. "Have you a wife ?a lady on board, sir, who will carry out ray instructions respecting this patient?" "Are you,-then, a physician?" "I am a member of the College of burgeons, and am anxious to do my best in this emergency." " I am heartily glad, sir. A ladv? no; there is not one on board. But there is a man who would lay down his life for this child. He is burly, but docile; let him be her nur^e." " Oh, her father? But he is in sorry plight himself. I fear 1 shall And* some broken bones when I have time to look at him." "No, not her father?her husband." I glanced at Ben. "I knaw," said he; "there's a reet bright siller linln' too oor clood. thank God!" " Bring him in," quoth I. He came, a young fellow having a splendid physique and six-feet-two in height, the very man who had leaped from the side of the "Jarl Hakon'* to our resoue. I stretched out my arm in front of the berth as a warning or barrier. But Tam had tact and caution. He stood mutely looking down on his ghostly young wife, then, in response to a touch on his arm, he bent his head to take my orders While Mamie remained unconscious he wai to keep his post quietly, using the prescribed remedies; the moment she showed signs of consciousness ho was to vanish. I turned to Ben, who I found had a broken arm. "Splints!", said I to Charlie, who was on his feet by this time. " Go to the captain for thin wo^d, and tools to shape it, also linen for bandages?a sheet will do. Now, Ben, you are a Briton, I know; will you trust me to see to that bono?" "Trust ye? Ay, sir; I ne'er wince at sic like. I'd bo poorly off an' it werena set." That business was got through, and Ben had scarcely uttered a moan from first to lust, but cold porspiration stood on his forehead, and I was just dis patching Donald for a strong cup of tea to revive him when?a sudden knock on my arm. I turned Sharply. "Beg pardon, sir," whispor d Tam, as his great bulk rolled and stumbled into a dark corner beyond me. But Mamie's oyes were wido open ; the whiteness had gone from her face; her breath came thick and fast; she even trie I to raise herself on her ol bow. "Father! father! Ye'se foun' my Tam!" ; Quaking with fear lest the remedy should be worso than the disease, I motionod Tam out from his hiding place. I saw the girl's face flush violently ; I saw her throw up her arms to clasp her husband's nock; I saw the young giant turn white and weak with emotion ; then away darted I, never halting till I reachel the stern. Tyro as I was. I would rather have set halt a dozen more bones than have stood out that meeting. Tho captain was there, and very soon we got into conversation. Here is the substance of what he told me. Yfhe "Jarl Hakon " was doing a pine trade between Bergen and Aberdeen. On her last homeward voyage she had picked up Tafn and another seaman who were beating hopelessly about in a small boat, half dead with thirst and exhaustion. Tata's fine frame had battled through, and he was working his way baok to Sqotland; but his oompanlon in peril had succumbed and ww laid in a Norwegian gravo. + * ? * * * Mamie walked without her crutch before I left Clanhead, and Ben's bone was doing famously. 1 was in high spirits at my suocess as surgeon on my own account, si had gained friends, too, stanch and leal. Said Tam at " Terse gl'en me a bonny wife for a slokly ano, an' I'll ne'er thank ye enoo, sir." "All right. Tam; you saved my life when you leapod from the 'Jarl Hakon/ you know, so we're more than quite. And look here, lad, if ever you want a friend, send to me." "Sao 1 will, sir ; an' 'uld ye e'er need an aot o' reet willin' an' faithfu* service, ye'll send tome?" That compact was an honest one. and it will stand. ?* Waip'Wslftled Vampire." The military academy at West Point waa formerly an object of attack by stump orators, anxious to exolte popu lar prejudice against an institution which in the orator's judgment was aristoora' ic. There is a story told of a cadet, named Joe Blankster, who si lenced a stump orater in the days of " Tlppeoanoo and Tyler tor." While Joe was homo lie went to a political meeting. Tho orator spoke of the tyranny of the government, of the President living in a great white palace and feeding off of a gold spoon, and of a place called West l'olnt, where wasp-wa'sted vampiros were educated at the expense of the people. "I'm ono of those ' wasp>wai?ted vampires,'" said Joe, as he stepped upon tho platform. Joe's waist Gould hardly be spanned with a horse's glfth; and when the people p?w him they laughfcdand said; " If that is a sample we want more of them."?Youth'* Companion. 4 v The United States has paid its sol diers $7 vri),000,000 In pensions. Tho R)unr? Whirlpool. To one who looked awe-struck upon the whirlpool at Niagara the fool hardiness of the man who would de liberately commit I imself to its deadly embrace is wholly inoomprehenslbje, if not incredible. Not even the cata-, ract itself makes the spectator feel hi* | infinite littleness as does this griui and awful dei th into which the swimmer Webb Went to his death. Mr. How ells, in the " We ld.'ng Journey," speaks of the whirlpool as " the mofct impressive feature of the whole pro-' digious spectacle of Niagara/' anil his description of it is worth quoting now: " Here, within the compass of a mile, those inland seas of the North, Supe rior, Huron, Michtgan, Erie and the multitude of smaller lakes, all pour, their flocdt, where they swirl in dread ful vorticiM, with resistless under cur- ? rents boiling benoath the surface of; that migl if eddy. Abruptly from this ] scene of secret power, so different from the thunderous splendor of the catar act itself, rise lofty cliffs on every side, to a height or 200 feet, clothed from the water's edge almost to their crests with dark cedars. Noiselessly, so far as your senses perceive, the lake . steals out of the whirlpool, then, drunk | and wild, with brawling rapids roar away to Ontario through the narrow channel of the river. Awful as the scene is, you stand so far above it that you do not know the half of its terrl blene3s, for those waters that look so smooth are great ridges and rings, forced by the impulse of tho currents twelve feet higher in the center than at the margin. Nothing can live there,, and with what is caught in its hold the maelstrom plays for days and whirls And tossed round and round in its toils with a sad, manir.cal patience. The guides tell ghastly stories, whioh even their telling does not wholly rob of ghastliness, about the bodies pf drowned men carried into the whirl pool and made to ena'.t upon its diesy surges a travesty of life, apparently floating there at their pleasure, diving and frolicking amid the waves, or frantically struggling to escape from the death that has long since befallen them." A Cottonseed Oil Manufactory. Cottonseed, whioh only a few years ago was considered valueless by the planter, has become a very important product, its oil being now used for a great variety of purposes, and immense establishments have been erected in different parts of the country for its manufacture. > The Columbus (Ga.) Sim eloee? a long description < f a now oil mill in its olty with the following descript'on of how oil is mado: The need are first put into a hopper, where they are fed j to the cup elevator by a screw conveyer. They pass through a sand screen which takes out the sand, and are then passed over a shaker and fan to take out all heavy substance* which may be found in the seed. From here it is takon to the linters, where it passes through three 108-saw gins and is freed from all lint From thence they are all carried by a belt conveyer to another elevator, and emptied into the hulier, where they are chopped, hull and all. After passing through the hulier they are again elevated to the third story, where theypasiHhrough another screon. Here the hull awl' meat separate, the meat going baok to the > second story, where it passes between large rollers, land they are well compressed. They are now ready for oooking and are oonveyed to the second floor into six heaters. After a certain longth of time the plugs are drawn from the heaters and the contents .are emptied into a bin. They are then taken out and put into gfnall sacks and placed between mats and again pressed. The oil Is then emptied by means of a large ipipe into the ground tank. By means Jof a pump it is forced into two large ?settling tanks in a separate apartmeht, and after two or three days it is drawn 'off into barrels and is now. ready for 'shipment. After being cooked, put :into sacks and pressed, the oil cake re mains and can be used to advantage after being ground into meal. From it a splendid fertilizer can be made; beside, it is fihe for stock feed. ??!?? Heat Lightning. Professor Tyndallhas mado observa tions in Switzerland whioh show that the silent flashes called "heat light ning " are not, as generally supposed, harmless, but Indicate thunder-storms which may not bo twenty miles away. Frofessor Tyndall occupied a station upon the Bel Alp, which is connected by telegraph with Monte Generoso, fifty miles away. "Frequently," says Frofessor Tyndall in Nature, " when the wetterleuohten (reported to be lightning without thunder), as seen from the Bel Alp, was in full play, I .have telegraphed to the proprietor of itho Monte Generoso hotel, and learned in every instance that our silent light ning coexisted in time with a thunder storm more or less ? terrific' in Upper Italy. Persons observing these silent flashes to be repeated with increasing, vividness may take them as evidence I of a storm coming In their direction, and possibly no more than an hour away." , A Hew Order* "Waiter,1" ho began, "yon may bring me a spring chicken, a piece of lamb, a choice cut of?*" He was interrupted by the appear anoe of a friend, who chatted with him for threo or four minute*, and then left y . - " Walter, how far had I got?" asked the gentleman. " You were going to order a choice out." " Ah ! Yes. I was thon under the impression that the West was enjoy ing fine weather, and the wheat was being harvested in nice shape. My friend says it has been raining ovt ry day for a fortnight, the harvest Is de layed, and wheat is being badly dam aged. Waiter 1" 44 Yes, sir."' " I'll make a new order, based upon a falling off of thirteen per cent, in the crop. Bring me a dish of mwk and beans and a glass of milk r Wall SM>?t Aeta. .. I iwtxi'l I . , I>adville, Col., has 8,260 working miners. FACTS FOR TH1? CURIOUS. Piute Indians eat worms. A doable eagle weighs exactly the same as thirty-four one dollar bills. It la estimated that the pawnbrokers of New York city collectively have fully $20,000,000 of pledges in their possession. The curious discovery has been made that tho microscope may fail to show lines or errors in ruled lines which may be detecte 1 with the un aided eye. Chinese thieves are capable of cut ting a man's Auger oft in a crowd ia order to steal a ring. They do this with those broad knives which have sheaths simulating fans. The worshipful company of barbers in London has a gilt cup, given to it by Henry VIII. It is ornamented with bells, and every man who drinks out of it has to ring them by shaking the cup after he has taken tho whole of its contents. After the battle of Lutzen Walien stein distributed 85,210 gulden among officers who had behaved well; but he exocuted as cowards eleven officers by the sword; he hanged others; some had their swords broken by the hang man under the gallows, and the names of many were nailed in infamy on the gibbet. v; ? . , A oook book published in 1759 g?ve> directions how to " unjolnt a bittern," unlace a coney," " display a crane," "unbrace a duck or mallard," "rear a goose," "dismember a heron," "wing a partridge or qua')," " allay a pheas ant or teal," " lift a swan," or " thigh k woodcock." To-day, the very mean ing of many of these phrnsei is for gotten, so much less elaborate has table service become. I In the old Roman law if a father wished to disinherit a child he was required to insert a special clause to that effect or such child could get the will rendered void on the ground th >t he had been forgotten. ' Rlackstone, in his " Commentaries,'' conjectures that this gave rise to the custom in Eng land of leaving to a disinherited child the sum of one shilling to show that ho had been remembered. From this custom springs the well-known phrase: "I'll cut you off w.th a shilling." The most humble of the civil func tionaries of tli a French republic aro the naval (al?. The o are some hun dreds of them, and their Importance Is duly recognize I by tho state, which supports them in such comfort and dignity in b 'lltj thcii' official position. The French naval cat mters the serv ice in his kittenhood, and spends the llr^t year or two of his active career on board a man-of-war, where ho is b6rthed in tho hold and perm'.ttel to devour whatever he can catch. Having thus passod through apprenticeship, ho is 6ont ashore and quartered at ono of the five naval ports as a terror to tho rats and mice that sSvarm in the vic tualing yards and storo sheds. Ho is then entitled to an allowance of five centimes a day, and this sum is regu larly paid on his bohalf to the director of cats, who lays it out.oii horseflesh for the use of his forces. Shooting Stars. The number of meteors which fall to the earth is very great, and to those unacquainted with the figures will ap pear astounding. The number whioh may bo seen- upon an ordinary even ing, when shooting star.* are not nu merous, will vary from three to ten per hour. Rut a single observer sees only a portion of the heavens, and it has been estimated that a complete circuit of the heavens visible from any point would exhibit an average of thirty meteors an hour.' For twenty ? four hours wo should have 720. Rut the portion of the earth's atmosphere intercepted by the horizon of any place is not large, so that the number or me teors which might be seen over the whole earth would be more than 10,000 times the number visible at a giyen point of its surface. Calling this number 10,0X), and multiplying by 720, the number visible from one sta tion in twenty-four hours, we iret 7,200,000 as the total number falling to the earth in oneday. But this esti mate only covers those which are vis ible to the naked eye. It. is estimated from the observations of Pope and Winnecke that the telescope used by the latter showed flfty-three times* as many meteors as are visible to the naked eye. Multiplying by fifty-three, we get upward of 400,W0,000 meteors as the number whioh the earth en counters etery twenty-four hours. Great as this number is, it must be re* members l that an increase of optical power would render it still greater, and that the real number of meteors entering our atmosphere remains un caloulated and perhaps incalculable. Notwithstanding their number, it will bo understood by the reasoning above that one who looks for tfiem cannot expect to see very many within a given time, even when the earth is passing HtrSa a*meteorto 8*reartK?Boston Origin o# the sweet Potato. The sweet potato Is a native of the East Indies, and was introduoed Into Europe by the way of Spain. When early writers speak of the potato (be forh the middle of the seventeenth century) It is usually the sweet potato that Is referred to, though tho Spanish also introduoed our common potato from South America in the beginning of tho sixteenth century, but it did not l>ecome popular ns an article of food for more than a hundred years after, and it was not even mentioned in the " Complete Gardener " In 1719. Though they belong to entirely differ ent species of plants, the common name of both woiikl seem to bo derived from the botanical nsmo (batata) of the sweet potato. # The paper manufactories of the wot Id employ, It is stated, ninety thou Kiwd men and one hundred and eighty thousand women v'and beside thew, one hundred thousand persons are en gaged In collecting rag*. Prom statistics recently publis hed it npprars that there are in the World no fewer than 3,985 paper mills,producing every jut 959,000 tone of paper from all kinds of substances, Including the family dootob. Innihlne and llMp. Sleepless people?and they are many in America?should court the eun. The very worst soporific is laudanum? and the very best, sunshine. There fore it Is very plain that poor sleepers should pass as many hours as possible in the sunshine, and as few as possible in the shade. Many women are mar tyrs, and yet they do not know it. They shut the sunshine out of their houses and their hearts, they wear veils, they carry parasols, they do all possible to keep off the subtlest, yet most potent influence which is intended to give them strength and beauty and cheer fulness. Is it not timo to change this, and so get color and roses in their pale cheeks, strength in their weak backs, and courage in their timid souls? The women of AmericA are pale and deli cate ; they may be blooming and strong; and the sunlight will be a po tent influence in this transformation. Domeatlc Surgery, Cuts must be treated according to their position and severity. If a lin ger or toe is cut, batho or immerse it in cold water until the blood ceases to flow, washing out all dirt and foreign substances that have entered the cut. If it is deep, notice how the blood flows ; if it is dark and oozes from the cut slowly, only a vein is severed and it Is not serious, but will soon heal if kept from the air. But if it is of a bright scarlet hue and spurts out in jets, an artery is severed and a doctor must bo called at once. Meanwhile a ?ligature must be tied above the cut, and the thumb pressed down and held upon the artery to prevent loss of blood. If tho skin gaps from a cut, draw the edges together, apply a piece of sticking plaster over the whole sur face, and put the finger or the thumb of a kid glove over the finger if it is tho injured part. If in a little while the wound throbs painfully, cover it thickly with tho,vaseline with a few drops of laudanum stirred into it, and, if needful from severe inflammation, put on a poultico of flaxseod boiled in a little water with a few drops of laud anum. But vaseline alone possesses great healing powors for all kinds of wounds, boils, inflammations and abra sions of the skin. As long as tho first dressing of a cut remains firm and it docs not throb or burn, it should not be touched. An outer clean cloth can bo addod, but let the inner one alone until tho wound is hoaled. Cuts on the head are apt to bo dangerous and require much care. The hair should be cut off all around, and arnica plas ter put directly over the wound. New Yirk Fire En&lnos. The New York Herald thus de scribes tho movements of men and horses connected with the fire-engines of New York when an alarm of flro has boen struck: Tho engine stands in tho engine house ready for the road, bo does tho tender. Tho horses aro in thoir stalls. Tho mon are lounging about or sleeping. Tho alarm strikes. In a twinkling all are at their posts. By a curious contrivance t.he hammer that strikes the warning gong sets in operation a system of cords and levers that unfasten the horses. The men come down from thoir sleeping or slt tlng-rooms, not by stairways, but by a pole, to the lower floor. They aro all ready In a twinkling. And what of the horses? They generally outstrip the bipeds in responding to the call. The hammer which releases thorn and strikes the gong, sends them an alarm they at once interpret. Standing or tyinfr they are out at once and beside the englno-polo. There is no harness ing, no adjusting of belly-bands and squeezing of collars and fastening of felns. Tho new 'swing' harness used In tho department is a complete caparison, which is suspended by an .Ingenious apparatus above tho spot where tne horses take their places. Close the open collar with a snap, pull a rope .which lifts the suspending apparatus, and they aro equipped and ready for the road. The door swings open, eyery man is in his place and away goos the engine. Ho Hhow For Him. All hands had been telling long stories of what they had done and would do In the event of a smaah-up on tho road, With the exception of one little man, who hail listened attentive ly to the narratives, and taken them all in without a word. "Kvor been in an accident?" asked the patriarch of the party, noticing tho little man's silence. "No," replied tho little man, q?|ftt ?y. ;? 'Theft you have no idea what you would do in the fracas?" continued the patriarch. "No; I don't," replied the llttlo man, sadly. "With all you big heroes blocking up the doors and windows in your ljurry to get out I aon't exactly know what show a man of my slee would havot" And then there was a deep si lence, so deep you might have heard ft cough drop, and the little man was troubled no more about the port ability of accidents.? Wall street SANTA FE. AiptcU of tilt* Old H#w SIcxImb Town ?It* Adob* Iloutri. Six in the evening i& a good hour at which to reach Santa Fe. The cool, pure air, dtotcending straight from a cloudless sky, 'the peaceful streets, running off like alleys stretched apart a little, and tho sheltering rim of mountains, whoso sides tho sun is warming with purple'and red, inspire a feeling of relief and comfort One need not hurry to mount a 'bus to avoid contact with the groups of black hooded native women and low-browed men who gather at the incoming train for they huddle liko timid sheep, but it is pleasanter to look at them from a slight elevation, where you wonder if their faces might not bo set in an adobo j wall without any one detecting tho | counterfeit. A roomy American frame hotel is one of the welcome inno vations in the old-town. Just now it does a thriving business, as it needs to do to offset two years of steady drain ago of the purse of its proprietor, who put a small fortuno in it with tho idea that people would flock to enjoy Santa Fe's unsurpassed climate if they could be sure of enjoying it comfortably. The scheme went agley, and the white haired landlord waited vainly for months for enough guests to keep up expenses. From tho spacious balconies one may overlook the town and region as far as (he mountains. Long lines of mud walls deflno the streets, and a window or doorway cut here and there shows where the wall Is partitioned off inside into a dwelling. Near tho hotel are isolated houses, usually of ono and one-half stories in height and quite broad, occupied mainly by tho white tradesmen whoso shops sur round the plaza, or public park, in tho center of the town. The common height of houses is a single story. Nearly overy structuro in town is of adobe, although some of tho shops and somo of tho residences of tho well-to do are coated to resemble stone or. brick. The prevailing tint, however, is brown, liko cakod mud. Builders mold tho mud, which is of clayey na ture, into brick-liko shapes, which harden undor tho sun. Then tho mouldings aro piled up nine or ten feet high, perhaps, and of a thickness varying from three to four feet. Tho cracks between the layers are stuffed with a mixture of adobo and straw, which acts as mortar and cement. When tho walls aro finished, young trees, like bean poles, but thicker, aro stripped and laid across us the basis for | roofs. Courtyards are not uncommon. ; Whcrover they occur tho street door opens on a hallway, which leads, aftor a fow feet, into the yard. Tho dwell ing in such cases faces tho yard, and thero aro apt to be no windows or other openings from It on tho stroot. | Adobo seoins to be as impervious to the weather as stone. Army officers say it makos tho warmost houses in winter and tho coolest in summer of any material within thoir knowledge. A walk through the town at even ing furnishes a commentary on the loose moral condition of society. It is certainly within bounds to say that in one-third of the houses surrounding the plaza, and on San Francisco street for a block from the lower corner of the plaza, open gambling goes on nightly. Concort-saloon attractions are In some instances introduced to bait visitors, who enter to find one side of the room a bar and along tho opposite wall gambling tables a few feet apart. When the games are not going on right undor the nose, a print ed card directs tho way to '-ho back room. This is the case in tho saloon through which until lately was the only entrance to tho hall in which the atrical performances are given, when ovor a company ventures so far. Thero happons now to be also a side door to reach the thoator without going through the saloon. At a table in one of the resorts a gaudily-dressed young Mexican woman presides. There are private gambling rooms In the same neighborhood froquented "by tndosmon and military people. Tho offlcers formorly had a club, whero sal aries were transferred of toner than pay-day warranted, but It was luckily brokon up, and there is no likelihood of its revival. On almost any of tho streets leading off from tho plaza aro dives quite as pernicious as tho gam bling houses. Many of them are dance houses, and there nightly are held what are known as baile? (hlsle), or halls. There is no admission charge, and visitors havo tho prlvilego of se lecting their partnors without formali ty. After each dance All hands march to the bar. Heer in the common drink on such occasions, and twenty-five cents a pony is tho prlco of It Wants to Hide-Track the Itoja. Two thousand miles of switches laid during tho first six months of the year by the tlreloai railroad men. This ox ample should not be lost upon parents and guardians. About a mile of switch Iftld dally, where it would do the most good, and put down tight and sealed with Whacks, would safely side-track lots of boys now making limited ex press time on the broad gauge, down grade, which lends to destruction. VUttburgh Telegraph. The Gazette ? * ? v> *v*v* i/s - vV*%^ Job Printing Office i- '? * *? * ? ? ? U bxttsk pr?f*t?4 than any other cttM la toexecutv In the moot attractlv??ljrtc?every tlou or Job rrtutlujr. *urh m llMpkkt*, Dill Head*. letter and Note Me*d*. U? lVwtera, Dodjfer*, Circulars Haud UIIU. \Ti Min* , VlftlO*a*d Adarv*sC??\U, ?u?lue?>Cant* Utnh Work done lu Uronae, Kod, l>lu? ana BlacK , The pabUe aiuat remember lhat the bwt U alwaf* the elx?ai<ett. l We do work at l1i?rk*ton Frlc*?, and guarantor | entire wtUfat-tlon to our patron*. We Koop constantly hand the Uuft* etoth ? Paper* and Cfcrda In town. The Moilo of tke Bali* Falling, (idling, on the house-tops, With a musio qdalnt and rare, Like the sound of human heart-thro ba On the silent midnight air. Or the tears of angels (ailing When they Wtep with those who weep, Or the lullaby of mothers When ihey rock their babes to sleep* Liko tho drowsy wine of poppies With its weird, enobautlng power, Coming to tho weary listener Liko the dew to drooping flower; Like calm sleep to thoso who snfler, Or liko tears to those who mourn; Like remembered words of loved ones From our aching boeoms torn. Strangely sweet, bowitohing musio, All enthralled my senses lie, As I watch the mystio Future With the shadowy 1 oat go by, While a calm and holy quiet Steals upon my heart and brain, Then I (all asleep, still listening To tho murmur of the rain. 80, maylmp, sorno time hcrcaftor I ehall lay mo down to rost, Overweary, and shall listen For tho musio I lovod bqp'; When its gentle cadonce falling Through tho midnight silonoo deep, 8oftly soothes my troubled spirit, Whilo it lulls me into sloop. When, at last, my soul has fallen Into sweetest, glnd repose, Thnt on earth sunshine nor shadow No awakening ever knows? Like tho voico ot waiting angols, Or the vosper bells in toll, May tho sottly tailing raindrops Chant a requiem ior my soul. ?Abbe JTinne. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. A man who marries a frivolous flirt "gives to airy nothing a local habita tion and a name." Shakespeare would never have asked, "What's in an aim?" if ho had beer) hit on tho head with a brick. Talk about despair. You ought to see tho face of tho boy when tho circus tent blows down just as ho has paid for his ticket. If a great big man calls you a liar treat him with silent contompt. Do not, however, mako your contempt too conspicuous. Scotch minister: "John, John, I'm ' afraid you are on tho broad road." In obriated parishioner: "Weel, minister, as far as I'm concerned, tho breadth is u' required." Mrs. Summerbrepafo's new girl was told to watch/tluTturnovpr a few min utes; when tlWlady returned tho turn over was burnetl to a crisp, and the? girl remarked, "Sure, I've watched it, mum; but it hasn't turned over yet." A little boy and girl wore discussing tho stars. Tho little boy said they were worlds liko ours and have people on them. Tho littlo girl, with all the dis dain sho could mustor, said: "They aro angol's eyos, 'causo I saw them wink!" A French lion tamor quarreled with his wife, a powerful virago, and was chased by her all round his tent. On being sorely pressed he took refuge In the cago among the lions. "Oh, you contemptible coward!" she shouted, "como out if you dare!" A littlo girl stopped In the midst ot hor play, ono day, clasping her hands to hor ncck as she felt a sharp pain there, oxclaimed, "Oh! oh!" "What is It, dear," said grandma, "a stitch in your neck?" "Why, gran'ma," she askod, with a terrified look, "aro our heads sowed on ?" Entertaining a Burglar. "A burglar can be a gentleman in manner as well as any one else, and the majority of them are men of relfne ment. I was at Saratoga a couple of years ago, and strolling Into tho dining room of a prominent hotel one day I espied ono of tho most notorious ?knucks' In tho business seated by the side of a wealthy banker. I was curious to see how the fellow would behave himself, and sitting close by, observed him. It wasn't long before his engag ing manner completely won the old banker, and I laughed to myself when I saw tho latter introduce him to a mom her of his family. I kept my eye on him, and later on actually heard the fellow Invito him to a drive. I could scarcely bellovo the evidence of my senses. When tho party returned f took the 'crook' to one side and asked what lay ho was on. *For heaven's sake,' said he, 'don't give mo away. I'm indulging In a littlo respectability, and the atmosphero Is improving my health.' Craoksman though ho was I had never known him to tell a lie, and when he pledged me his word nover to take advantago of tho old man's hos pitality I was willing to bellovo him." "Has any harm como of the thing ilnco?" "On tho contrary, good has come of It, for when an attempt was to be made, about six months ago, to break Into the banker's residence, this man gave notice to tho department, and the thieves wero thwarted. Ho you seo there is something in tho old saying fcfter al), 'It's better to have tho gOod will of a dog/" Ducks are reported as being the * ' most profitable foul kept In (irtat Britain. The first in the market bring the highest price* Many duoks Hatched in the winter are kept in cot tage* till the weathtr becomes warm. ?