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VOL. IV. NO. 30. POET ROYAL, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 30, 1874. iW?
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ConnubLilitles. .
A pretty little maiden
^ Had a pretty little dream,
A pretty little wedding
Was the pretty little theme,
A pretty little bachelor
To win her favor tried,
, And ask her how she'd like to be
His pretty little bride.
With some pretty little blushes.
And a pretty little sigh,
And some pretty little glances
From a pretty little eye;
With a pretty little face,
Behind a pretty little fan,
8ho smiled on the proposal
^ Of this pretty little man.
Some pretty little " loves,"
And some pretty little " dears,"
( And some pretty little smiles.
J And some pretty little tears;
j Some pretty little presents,
1 And a pretty little kiss,
a \v,.w> onmp nrettr little nroludes
h3 To some pretty little bliss.
? This pretty little lady
And her pretty little spark
Met the pretty little parson
And hie pretty little clerk,
A pretty little wedding-ring
United them for life,
A pretty little hue baud
And a pretty littlo wife.
THE RED LIGHT.
" Maggie, is the light there ?"
"'Yes, father."
" Is it a red light ?"
"Yes, father, but don't go out tonight,
pleaso don't?stop at home for
your own Maggie's sake."
They were father and daughter?
these two speakers, and the only occupants
of the little cottage that stood by
I the cliff, near the booming sea. In a
pleasant little cottage, where everything
was kept bright and cheerlul by
Maggie ; her mother had been dead
many a year. They ought to have been
nnd wonld have been but for
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r circumstances "which will be made
| kDown as wo progress in our story.
' Quite a number of people lived in
the neighborhood of the cliff?one of
of whom was named Joe Clay. If there
ever was a singular character dwelt on
the face of the earth, this same Joe
was one. He sold liqnor and when the
red light shone from his window you
could have had liquor for cash or for
credit. Once in a while Joe would
have what his neighbors termed
"moral fits " come over him and would
wake up to seeing how much misery he
was causing by his traffic and howwrong
it was for him to deal out the
liquid poison.
At such times the red light was withdrawn
from the window and a white one
was placed in its stead. If this light
was seen you might, as well try to walk
off with the State House as to induce
him to let vou have a drop of liquor,
for he wouldn't do it?neitker love nor
money would tempt him to depart from
his resolutions.
How often and often Maggie wished
the white light always was shining
there. On the railway a red light signifies
danger, as much as did the one in
Joe Clay's cottage to the heart of Maggie.
"Now what's the use of your wanting
to deprive me of having a pleasant
I . evening once in a while, Muggie?"
said the child's father.
" Beoause it is goingto be a wild and
dark night, father, and you always appear
so dazed like when you come home
from the Clay cottage that I fear yon
wiill Irico vrrnr wnv niul makn a rmssten
and fall over tlio cliff. Oh, it is so
lonely here for me when you are gone,
^ and 1 get so uervons and fearful someKB
times,-that 1 don't hardly dare to look
V over my shoulder?tlio very stillness
often makes mo -cry aloud for fear,"
answered Maggie.
"There's uothiugcau harm ye, child:
I to bed when I am gone and get to
f sleep, and I'll wake ye up bright and
early in the morning with a father's
kiss."
" I could not go to bed, much less
, go to sleep, knowing you wero out.
Do stay home, and I'll sing to you nil
the songs I know, and you shall tell mo
all about dear mother."
There was a tear in the old man's
eye, but ho wiped it away, saying as
' he did so, " Now Birdie, don't feel so
badly ; I'll not be gone long anyway,
and maybe I'll bring you back something
nice."
" I'd rather have you stay at homo
Lwith me than all the nice things you
could bring."
"Well, I can't stay foi all that, and
all your whimpering and whining can't
prevent me from going."
" Won't you let mo go with you ?"
"No, I won't. A pretty thing it
wonhl seem to have a girl in Joe Clay's
bar-room. Why 'twould look just us if
I didu't know how to take care of myself."
Maggie pleaded no more, she knew
from experience?poor child?that it
would not be of the slightest use, so
she was obliged to let her father have
his own way and saw him leavo the
house going in the direction of the red
light.
An hour passed and Maggie had never
felt so lonely before. It grew darker
and darker outside, the wind had risen
aod the rain commenced to como down
in torrents. Fitful Hashes of lightning
would for a moment light up the scene,
^ and then die away only to make the
darkness denser than it was before.
The windows rattled in the casements
and the door shbok as though some one
i was striving to gain an entrance. The
L child crept close to the fire as though
k for protection. The old clock struck
m the hour, but Maggie was so nervous
I she did not catch the number tolled and
1 so sho raised her eyes to see. As she
k. did so she caught sight of a lanteru
0 hanging from a beam.
"Thko, if father hasn't forgotten his
iSntern," exclaimed Maggie to herself.
"How ever will he find his way home
without it such a pitch dark night ?
1 Sapposing ho should have started bek
fore this?he would certainly lose bis
i ~w
t HaYlngr a Picture Taken
j? Tlio operator is just about t
[| draw the cloth. His back is
o you. The index finger of his t
pied hand marks the place for t
? Every nerve in your body is bra
the ordeal. The cloth is dra^
r the noiseless and unseen fingers
7 prepared plate are picking u]
e features one by one and tranf
s them to its mysterious surface,
s an influence is this you are un<
3 which you cannot explain, whicl
^ ens every nerve and unloosens
j cord and muscle, and sets fr(
r and over you a myriad of sen
n jou never knew before. The
e the camera glares upon you 1
eye of an offended and threi
0 power. Prickling sensations
? in under your scalp, and a heati
d within with amazmg rapidity fin
the surface of your body and If
u pierced with a thousand pains,
r stare at the mark with an intens
n threatens to obliterate your
d Heavens ! how slowly the time
e Your eyes grow weaker and ^
't filling with water as they die on
d know they are closing, but you
d help yourself. Will he never p
that cloth? A thousand refl
e upon your appearance, on the
in the street, on things irrevere
e /tisnctrmig to vonr comoosure
would get into his head and he migb
fall over the rocks way down into th
dreary moaning waves. Perhaps I fhal
never see him again. I know what I'J
do. I'll just take the lantern and g
after him.''
She did not seem to think of the will
storm outside or the perilous and dar
road she had to traverse?all she ap
peared to remember was that her fathe
was in danger and that it was her dut;
to rescue him from his peril if it wer
in her power to do so.
She covered over the fire with aslie
and, having taken all due precaution
against a conflagration she wrappei
herself in her cloak, tied her hoo'
closely over her head and with th
lighted lantern in her hand startei
forth on her merciful errand. He
progress was slow, for even with lanter
alight and the red light shining in th
distance but dimly, the road she tra^
eled was full of deceptive holes, int
any one of which she might stumbl
unless she took heed where she place
her little feet.
The wind was high and would ofte
strive to whisk her cloak from he
shoulders and snatch the lantern fror
her hand, but bravely and nobly di
this child keep on, praying all th
while to God to give her strength to ge
to the hut of Joe Clay's?praying Go
to keep him there until she had placei
the lantern safely in his hands.
Ever and anon would her light b
thrown on the surrounding objects
fearing if her father had fallen on th
way she might miss him. The red ligh
never seemed so far off to Maggie as i
dM that night?it seemed tokeepgoin
farther away the moro she advance
towards it. What if it should not pre
ceed from Joe Clay's house at all bu
merely be some " will o' the wisp " at
trading her towards the sea and the:
into it?
At last it shone brighter and brighte
and Maggie know she was near her jom
ney's end. Then 6lie could hear lou<
voices above the storm -then slio ap
proached the window and peered inshe
could see Joe Clay and four othe
men seated around the table, 6mokin|
and drinking, but hei" father was no
one of them?her father was not in tli
room 1
Maggie's heart Bauk within her?:
blinding flash of lightning shot througl
the sky. Maggie gave one wild, pierc
ing scream and fell prostrate below th<
window.
The scream called the men from tin
room and as they gazed out into tli<
darksome, boisterous night, this wai
the scene presented to their view.
A little figure drenched through witl
the rain, lying on the ground clasping
in her cold hands the lantern. The]
thought she bad been struck by th<
lightning, but she had only faintcc
from exhaustion and excitement.
"Why, bless my soul!" exclaimei
Joe Clay, "If it haint Mark Gordon'i
little gal, Maggie ! What could hav<
brought her out such a wild and un
cauny night ?"
They soon knew well enough, for tin
child opened her eyes and, looking
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VilUUlluj' iiuuui, CAUUiuicii . a n
brought the lantern, father then, ni
if the memory of not seeing her pareu
came to her mind, she added, " He ii
not here. He is dead, and Muggie wil
never see him more."
" Don't take on so, little one?youi
father's not dead?he's sound asleep ii
my chamber ; he was drowsy like, anc
so I thought I'd best put him to bed
Ho wanted to go home, but I was do
termined he shouldn't; as ho was per
sistent, I jest put him in my room am
turned the key upon him," said Jo<
Clay.
Maggie told her story to the men as
sembled there?it struck deep dowi
into their hearts and the roughest o
them felt a twinge of conscience.
"Seo here, my men," Joe Clay says?
and Joe was himself the speaker?" i
this wee slip o' a gal had died out ii
this storm, I should always have fel
that I murdered her?yes, jest as mucl
murdered her as if I'd shot her dowu
Now, from this time forth aud forever
more as long as I live on these premises
the light that shines from that window
shall never bo the danger signal red
but the purer one of while, and yoi
very well know what that means, eh ?"
" It means that you'll sell no mor<
Hnnnr 9" nn? of flirt mull.
"Precisely so, and von know wlicn !
put the white light in the window yoi
might as well try to make mountaini
walk as for mo to sell liquor."
It was a wise resolve of Clay's?bet
tor and wiser still that ho kept hi:
resolution. It made the cliff better
and the dwellers on it happier.
Maggie's father?when he learnet
how much his child had imperiled hei
life to save his?forswore the use of tin
wine cup, and did all in his power t<
make Maggie's life far pleasanter thai
it had been before, lie never strayec
from his hut at night?ho told he:
tales of the dead mother while sin
listened, and, at their close, woulc
sing him sweet songs of home am
heaven. * Such is their present lifemay
their future be as calm aud peace
fill as it has been since the bunishmeu
of that ill-omen in Joe Clay's window?
j the red light.
The Lion ami the 1'nicorn.
James I. was the first who united tin
i lion nnd tho unicorn heraldicaliy
adopting tho latter beast from the sup
porters of the Scottish sovereigns. Tin
conjunction of those animals on ai
ecclesiastical vestment of the period o
the Information must be attributed t<
..liftiftna c.MnlifiliL'lii fa41w.>. 4 linn tr\ nni
, 11,'ll^lUUO OJ IUUVUOU4 iUiun IUUU IV ?ut
heraldic arrangement; the lion typify
ing fortitude and strength, while th
uuicorn is typical of fortitude an<
1 chastity. As such the former may hav
reference to the Lord, " the Lion o
Judali," and the latter may be an cm
blem of the blessed Virgin Mary. Tin
tradition with regard to the unicorn
that it never would bo caught, excep
bv a virgin, and that if its skin was de
filed it pined away and died, is wel
known. Its capture was a favorite sub
ject with the mediaeval artist. I hav
before metwith theso apjmals.as a pow
ering for a vestment, I think, amoni
t&e inventories in Sir William Dug
dale's "History of St. Paul's,"?Note
and Queries.
it your mind, and take such hoi
t you that you cannot shake tb
K And yet no move to restore thai
5 He stands like a statue cut froi
?- And you?quivering from the
t the foot to the crown of the hea
eyes blinded by tears, with p<
a tion oozing from every pore, am
muscle strained until it seems
r to snap and let you down upon tl
- a mpss of disfigured and palf
I flesh. He need not put up th
k now. The opportunity which
- trolled to reproduce you in per
r is gone. It matters not now
g looks, only that you may get av
t be at rest. You grow hysteric :
e despair. It settles down upon y
a cloud compressing your throat
a its grasp until your breath surgi
x on your lungs as if it would renc
- A weight is pressing upon you
a struggle to wrench yourself fre
the dreadful oppression, and y<
? muscle of your body is in i
j' What dreadful thing is this ? Yc
s shriek; you The cloth is t
thirty seconds have expired, at
j are photographed.?Danbury Nt
I
? Catching the Sea Lion.
j So far as I can learn, says a
spondeut writing from the Cal
1 coast, the Farallon sea lions are
* disturbed by men seeking prof
5 them. In the egging season one
are shot to supply oil to. the la
? the eggers; and occasionally
caught for exhibition on the mai
} How do they catch a sea lion ?
they lasso him ; and odd as it s
, it is the best and probably th
1 way to capture this beast. An
Spaniard, to whom the lasso or i
r like a fifth hand, or like the trunl
1 elephant, steals up to a sleepii
gregation, fastens his eyo on t
' gtst one of the lot, and, bidi
. time, with the first motion of t
1 mal,with unerring skill, flings hi
3 rawhide noose, and then holds
dear life. It is the weight of an
the vigor of half a dozen that
tugging at the other end of hi
1 and if a score ofv men did no
ready to help, and if it were n
sible to take a turn of thfe reata
a solid rock, the seal would sui
away. Moreover, they must ban
I beast tenderly, for it is easily ii
Its skin, softened by its life
1 water, is quickly cut by the ro
* bones arc easily broken ; and it
frame, too rudely treated, mai
' hurt that the life dies out of *
r quickly as possible the captui
' lion is stuffed into a strong
1 cage, and here, in a cell too na:
permit movement, it roars ant
3 in helpless fury, until it is tranf
r to its tank. Wild and fierce as
seems to reconcile itself to th
' life very rapidly. If the narrot
* of its big bath-tub frets it, you
nerceivo this, for hunger is it
* passion, aud with a moderate
1 stomach the animal does well i
' tivity, of course with sufficient v
I Thomas Hood and His YVif
3 I never was auytbjng, deares'
J knew yon?and I have been bett<
I pier, und a more prosperous mn
r since. Lay by that truth in la1
s dearest, and remind me of it >
1 1
. fail, f am writing fondly and w
but not without good cause. Fir
own affectionate letter, lately re<
" next the remembrance of our dei
dren, pledges?what darling one
our old familiar love ; then a d<
impulse to pour out tho overflow
my heart into yours; and la
least, the knowledge that yon
e eyes will read what my hands a
writing. Perhaps thero is an
' thought that, whatever may bel
- the wife of my bosom will have 1
- nf lior tnn/ln
0 l\IiU? It U^IlICJJH Vi HV4 WUV4V
, worth?and excellence?all t
f wifely or womanly, fipm my pe
3
v Au Office Holder.
' We are quite serious, says
1 change, in recommending officee
to go to Gainesville, Florida.
f respondent sends a paragraph fr
paper published in that place
8 says: "When the Hon. L. G.
t left us for his Northern trip, to
i- sent several months, we lost iD 1
.1 Senator, county commissionei, I
i- instruction, deputy marshal,
e sheriff, deputy county clerk, tr
- of school funds, custodian of
I treasurer's books, senior conn
- and acting mayor. Nearly all
9 business was suspended nntil
turn."
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RACING LOCOMOTIVES.
0 with
.1 An Exciting Twilight Match Between
lowaru Two Iron Horgeg>
inoccu- j,flw perBOns who have traveled over
h? ey?. either of the two great routes, to wit,
ced for Lake Shore or Fort Wayne, from
rn, and (jhicago eastward, have escaped notic?*
tlie ing the fact that the two roads run side
p your ^ gide for a distance of twenty miles
iferring t>efore they diverge so much that the
^kat passengers on one train cannot dialer
and tinguish the features of friends upon
1 weak- the other train, providing two trains
every are alongside. A rivalry has
se upon exi8ted between the operatives of the
isations two routes ever since the completion
eye of the Fort Wayne road. By the time
ike the the trains reach South Chicago, the pasar^felt
8?n&?rs a*? ?^v? the excitement
evolved of the race. On a recent occasion the
ishes to Timts representative was invited to
saves it <?get up" at Grand Crossing, and see it
Ycm down just once, so he jumped off as the
ity that train slacked at the crossing, and runsight.
ning quickly forward, did get up, and
drags, perched upon the narrow seat of the
weaker, fireman at the left of the cab, ho took a
t. You few notes "onto" as pretty a race as
cannot Was ever ran over this course. The
at back rival train had a little the start, but our
ections engineer thought he could get out of
sounds South Chicago even with them, and
nt and ??then was when the fun would come."
, flood Jt had grown dark enough to have the
d upon sparks gleam brightly as the two enlem
off. gines vomited forth,. with nervous,
t cloth, spiteful coughs, great volumes of coal
n flint, smoke mingled with steam, which
sole of streaked off away over the trains and
d, with iay like sullen storm clouds over the
;rspira- iow landscape. We left South Chicago
d every wen together, and each engine was
i ready 8oon put to lively work. As the flrehe
floor man opened the furnace doors bright
itating streaks of glaring angry, red light
e cloth would shoot backward through the mass
he con- 0f smoke and steam, for a moment lightfection
jng it up with a lurid glare that smackhow
it ea 0f the internal regions. Faster and
ray and faster flew the driving wheels, and the
in your lightning like motion of the parallel
ou like bars bewildered the eye. Tho headwithin
light of our engine seemed to throw its
38 back luminous rays ahead by jerks, lighting
I them. Up a weird scene of low, sedgy marsh,
You sandy wastes, stunted pines and single
from giBh lagoon, through which lay the
it not a iron-bound course over which our ponnotion.
derous engine glided nt a fearfully rapid
iu must oaco, seeming to givo every energy to
ip?the the struggle, as much as if it wero a
id you thing of life and reason. Side by side
:iv8. the two trains sped for many miles,
ours leading by half a car length.
Onr engineer was one of the most
cardful on this road, aud one who very
. * seldom indulged in a race, but he conlfornia
ciuiied that it would never do to suffer
seldom a "scoop," as that is something the
it from paper never allows ; so to show what
or two pride of an engine could do, just
before parting company with his rival
mps of be gave the old machine a little more
one is latitude, and the faftbful assistant
n land, heaved in an extra dose of coal, when,
with an intensified growl, away he sped
' at a rate of speed rarely accomplished
ounus, by a locomotive, and with a parting
e only screech of the steam-whistle we left the
adroit vainly struggling rival far in the rear,
eata is roa^8 diverged we could see the
. engine of the opposition line plunging
c to the matjiy through the low oaks and pines,
lg con- seemingly running twice as fast as we
he big- were. We had jumped by switches,
ner his airlines and stations, bnt now a coterie
he ani- 0f red and green lights appear. The
s loose reverse bar is thrown over, the throttle
on for valvo closed, the-bell set to ringing by
ox and steam, and, with hand on the valve
he has which governs the air-brake, the ens
rope, gineer, with great drops of perspiration
t stand standing on his brow, gently reins his
ot pos- glowing steed, and stops the pondrous
around monster right where ho can water it
ely get easily, and then remarks, with great indie
the ward satisfaction, "Well, they got it
ajured. that time." Then, as he gets down
in the with torch and oil can to muke the
pe; its grand rounds, the representative bids
s huge him a hearty good-night, and slips back
j bo so to full-sized seats and lazy-backB, and
it. As ig greeted with the remark, " You were
red sea out there, were you ? I wondered what
box or had got into the old man."
rrow to The passengers are all elated over
I yelps the victory, each one regarding it in
iported the light of a new case of personal
it is, it prowess, quite as much as if they had
e tank run the engine, or in fact owned the
v space road. No other topic entered into the
do not general conversation, and, as the train
s chief drew up to the supper station, sixty
dy full miles out of Chicago, every person on
n cap- the train seemed to have a keen nppernter.
tite, which the excitement of the grand
raco had begotten. Of conrse all the
e, passengers of that train will over after
... T swear by that road, unless, perhaps,
t, till 1 bIjouIJ somo time sulTer defeat,
ir, liap- and that would leave them in a quandary
,n ever as to whether they had been beaten
render fairly, and whether they did not have
j more and heavier cars than tho rival
vken I trajUj jn a year or two mere, when the
armly; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, the
st your Canada Southern, and the Air Line
ieived ; Railroads are completed, there will bo
ir chil- many a lively race in that neck of woods
s !? of which skirts the lower lake shore, so
dicious that tho representative American may
ings of hope for any amount of fun of the
st, not rapid kind.
ir dear
ro now What Constitutes a Car Load.
fall me Some one who has been investigating
tbis ac- the subject says that in general 20,000
mess? pounds is a car load, which might con*8
sist of 70 barrels of salt, 70 of lime, 90
of flour, 60 of whisky, 200 sacks of
flour, G cords of hard wood, 7 of soft,
18 to 20 head of cattle, 50 to 60 head of
ftn ex" hogs, 80 to 100 head of sheep, 0,000
seekers feet of solid boards, 17,000 feet of
A cor- siding, 13,000 feet of flooring, 40,000
om the shingles, one-half less hard lumber,
v I one-fourth le~s green lumber, one-tenth
' . less of joists, scantling, and all other
Dennis iarge lumber, 340 bushels of wheat, 360
be ab- of corn, 680 of oats, 400 of barley. 360
lim our of flax seed, 360 of apples, 480 of Irish
joardof potatoes, 360 of sweet potatoes, 1,000
deputy bushels of bran. The foregoing figures
easurer may not be exactly correct, for the reacounty
son that railroads do not exactly agree
cilman, in their rules and estimates, but it appublic
proximates so closely to the general
his re- average that shippers rill find it a great
oonvenienoe as a matter of reference.
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Adventure with a Panther.
Nearly half a century ago, when that
beautiful section of the pountry, now
thickly dotted with villages and improved
farms, along the Nolachucky
river,in upper Tennessee,was comparatively
a wilderness, the hero of my
story had an adventure with a panther,
which I have often heard him delate,
and which I shall never forget.
Immediately after nightfall he found
that ho was lost in an extensive forest,
without even a path by which to find
his way out. His first impulse was to
dismount, lie down and try to rest until
morning; but with the hope that he
might be heard, he resolved to halloo,
which, to his horror, was immediately
answered by a loud, shrill cry, which
was soon repeated muoh nearer him,
and again in close proximity to him.
He was riding a young, but spirited
horse, and at once knew that his only
safety was to remain upon him if possible.
The panther was now crouching before
him?the noble horse leaped furiously
over him?the panther in turn leaping
over both horse and rider. He gave
tho horse the rein and bado him go
through tho trackless forest. The
flight was rapid and inexpressibly terrific
; and great drops of perspiration
fell from the rider's brow, as he fell
tho keen breeze, made by the panther
in leaping over him. Hatless, lacerated
and bleeding, the rider was carried
over fallen trees and young saplings,
until the bridle caught over one, as it
sprang back to its place. Having no
knife to cut the rein, various attempts
were made to bend down the sapling,
or unbridle the horse ; with a laBt desperate
effort the bridle was loosed, and
the horse, maddened almost to desperation,
again bounded forward until he
reached a cleared field, and having been
trained in a regiment of light horse, (of
which our horo was Colonel) he leaped
the fence and tho pather gave up the
chase.
A light was seen in the distance,
which, when reached, proved to be the
abode of a friend, who took the horse
and bade our hero ' go in ;' and upon
going into the house and seeing the
scratched and bleeding condition of hie
guest, declared that ho would not have
put up his horse for all he possessed,
if he had known of his hair-breadth
escape.
The next day, after hearing of the
adventure, Maj. James Britton and
others started from Greenville with a
pack of hounds in pursuit, and reaching
the locality, soon 'struck trail,' and
on reaching the river beheld a large
pauther emerging from tho water on the
opposite side, which Anally made ite
escape.
The adventurer, bending under the
weight of neurly four score years and
ten, now lives within 18 miles ol
Athens, Ga., having survived all of tec
children but three. Ho worked on the
Arsenal near Richmond, Va., and haf
built forty public buildings in Tennessee
and North Carolina, and was n
-member of the Georgia Legislature
during the war.
A Jiew Pledge.
One feature of the temperanco revival
is both commendable. In certair
places a pledge is now circulating
among young men by which the signers
bind themselves to refrain fron
asking other men to drink. There is
nothing that is moro absurd, in itscll
considered, than the theory that a man
is under obligations to pay for the
drinks consumed by his friends. Nc
man thinks of asking a friend ont tc
take a social pair of boots or a friendly
barrel of flour, and yet he is regarded
as committing a breach of etiquette ii
he ventures to drink without asking r
friend to drink with him. No mar
would feel otherwise than insulted if ur
acquaintance asked him to accept f
friendly fifteen cent stamp, aud yet h<
feels himself insulted if ho is not asked
to drink fifteen cents' worth of nrdeni
spirits. The exceeding folly of tin
custom is equaled only by the evil in
fluenco which it exerts. Many a mar
is forced to drink by one of a group o
acquaintances when ho is not in tin
least thirsty, and he is thus in tnrr
compelled to invite them to drink f
second time with him to tho detrimen
not only of his purse but of his health,
it is not too much to say that at leas1
one-half of the ardent spirits consumed
in New York City is drunk by men win
do not want it, but who are compellet
by a stupid and senseless custom botl
to drink when invited to do so and t<
invite others to drink with them wh<
had much rather not do anvthinc of tin
kind.
The pledge against " treating " ougli
to produce good results. It commeudi
itself to all seusiblo men, and the fac
of having signed it gives them a suf
ficient excuse for ceasing to observo i
preposterous custom. The now pledgi
ought to bo vigorously circulated, am
the more signers that can bo obtaine<
for it the more hope there will be o
putting an end to the folly of social tip
pling.
The Great Wall of China. *
Seen from the Chineso side, tin
Great Wall resembled a hugo earthei
mound, crowned with battlements buil
of brick. .Everywhere it had an old am
dilapidated appearance. In som<
places it had been altogether destroyed
On the Mantchoorian aide, on the othe
hand, the Great Wall seemed construct
ed of bricks, resting upon a pavemen
of stono. It is flanked bv square tow
era throughout its whole length. Thes*
are placed at the distance of about tw<
kni&Bhrkfa in nr/lor that, tlifl pnflmv ma'
be everywhere witbin range. It de
Bcends into the sea in two parallel pier
or jetties, whi^h slope so gently tba
one can ascend to the top from the wa
ter flowing between them. The larges
ships may approach within two mile
of the wall, and, indeed, it is the ver
place at which visitor* should in futur
disembark.
1'isning in me iropjcs.
The Chnae and Capture of the WhaleAn
Kxcttlng Scene.
Whaling stations were established
nearly forty years ago at Trinidad, ant
eight or ten boats leave the shore earlj
every morning daring the months o:
February, March, and April, in searcl
of these monsters of the deep. Eacl
. boat is manned with five or six pollers
a horpooner and steersman, the har
pooner being captain of the boat. Thi
crews, mostly Africans or of African de
scent, are, as a rale, remarkable loi
their great physical development o:
chest and arm. '
The moment a whale is seen, eithe;
blowing or stretched on the water, thi
i greatest excitement prevails of board
The fisherman is at all times easily ex
cited, and may be excused in a case o
this kind, when he sees a fish wortl
from fivo hundred to seven hundret
aud fifty dollars not far off: perhapi
- - j
in a abort time to do mooreu u uiwcdi
, mass alongside his boatr Off goes tin
shirts of the pnllers, the boat's head ii
turned in the directson of the whale
, and with their muscular back and armi
( shining in the snu, the boat, impeller
! by the regular stroke of six oars, dashei
in pursuit. Wheu within fifteen oi
twenty feet of the whalo, the harpoonei
! drives his haipoon into the huge fish a:
! near the breast as possible, and throw
ng over ten or fifteen fathoms of loos<
rope coiled in the bow, draws his lonf
knife, and stands prepared to cut away
in case of accidents from entanglement
of the rope with the clothes or limbs o
! any on board. The oarsmen have mean
while, laid in their oars, and sit readj
to check the rope on one of the thwarts
as soon as this may be done withoul
risk to the boat, or injury to the palmi
, of their hands.
If the whale goes straight down, 01
I "sounds," as they term it, rope must
be allowed to run out till it takes it int(
, its head to rise again towgrds the] sur
face. When partially exhausted aftei
its first burst, the rope is hauled it
, hand over hand, and the harpoonei
( prepares his lance. A good harpooner
i if he gets sufficiently near to strike tin
( whale in some vital part, may cause i
( to blow blood with the first lance-thurst
t and so end its straggles at once. This
is, however, the exception, not the rule
When the chase takes place withii
sight of those on shore, the excitcmen
, among the relations or friends of tin
I crews knows no bounds.
Tho yells of delight that hail eacl
lance-thrust, and the " paean" that risei
L when the monster blows blood, eeh<
, and re-echo from tho hillsides behind
j Even a stranger feels tho blood coursi
( more quickly through the veins as In
sees tho harpooner strike, and the boa
( almost instantly bound over the water
I in obedience to the first rush of tin
. wounded whulo, then bury itself be
' tween tho waves, which form like i
( wall on each side, leaving only tin
( heads of the crew visible to the sp ec
tator.
Tho whale is now dead; tho othei
J boats coming up, assist in towing it t<
the station, where, as soon as dayligh
" 1 * 1 ,1
permits, all nanus are empiuyeu, ouui<
cutting off the blubber, while other
attend to the caldrons, set in a row 01
. biickwork. Tho blubber, when it ha
( passed through these caldrons, an<
been made to part with as much of th>
> oil as possible under tho circumstances
ij then used for fuel. While thus em
i ployed, the different groups of work
. men present a fine study for auy ram
bling photographer who may chance t
come that way. The scene is enlivenci
i by songs,* often by fighting, owing t
> the great facility with which rum ma;
, be obtained in exchnngo for fat o
" whale-beef and tho proprietor o
' the station must keep a shar;
r look-out at this stage of tk
I proceedings on the fleet of small canoe
f that crowd around, ready to carry ol
t any blubber they can lay their hand
i on.
, In the case of a female whale, th
L sea is often whitened by the milk tha
, flows while sho is being cut up. Steak
I cut from a young whale are not ba
|. eating when fresh, and possess this ad
} vantage over other kinds of fish, tha
. they may be eaten by Roman Catholic
j through Leut, the whale, though ir
f habiting tho sea, being a mammal.
; Great numbers of vulture-like crow
L blacken the trees round the statior
t and regard the proceedings below wit
t much interest, descending uow un
again to steal any flesh or fat they ca
I lay their beaks on. It is often nmusin
1 to see a couple of them fighting over
j long strip of beef. Having begun t
1 swallow it at the same time at opposit
j ends, thcu perhaps having got dow
j some five or six inches of if, each cro'
becomes aware of a sudden jerkin
, sensation imparted to tho meat froi
the other end. One or other must di;
t gorge, and then a regular light ensue;
B The fishermen of the neighborhoo
t cut the meat into slices, nud hang it t
. dry for future use. After exposure t
j the sun it becomes quite black iu nj
B pearance, and very rauk both in sme
j and taste; but for all that they seem t
1 like it, and what is more to the pui
2 pose, get fat on it. Pigs, dogs, au
. cats improve tho occasion, and all b<
come quite round and sleek during tb
whaling season. For some days after
whale has been taken, every bush an
tree near the fisherman's house is hun
? ' ? 1 i
" with tins jericeu meat, ruiuer icuimu
a morsels for tlio crows that hov<
t round ready to take advantage of evei
j chance that may offer of filching.
The Stars.
r Hero is a beautiful thought <
- Thomas Carlyle : " When I gaze inl
t the stars, they look down upon me wit
^ pity from their serene and silent spac
3 like eyes glistening with tears, over tl
y little lot of men. Thousands of gene
ations all as noisy as our own, hat
s been swallowed up by time, and thei
t remains no record of them any mor
yet Arcturus and Orion, Sirius an
t the Pleiades, are still shining in the
s courses, clear and young as when tl
y shepherd first noted them from tl
e plain of Shinar 1 What shadows we ar
and what shadows we pursue I"
Care for a felon?Take it to the peni
tentiary.
An Iowa man who was called a fraud
1 has "recovered 13 oents damages.]
1 The Auburn flying maohine is der
elared a failure,and its inventor a huml
bug.
j The sharpest torments ore said to
be those caused by trouble which never
1 comes.
> Dry weather, high winds and sparks.
- Young ladies will please be careful of
3 sparks.
Three millions of coooanuts are exr
ported in a single year from the island
j of Ceylon.
Marriage is described by a French
cvnio as a tiresome book with a very
^ fine preface.
A remarkable spear-head and a silver
plate have been discovered in an Indian
f grave in South Florida.
i It is a common thing, in the voyage
1 of life, to mistake, like Sinbad, a
9 whale's back for an island.
' A nervous editor, whenever he gets
) excited, goes into the composing-room
?.1 1?< (/iAmnnao/1 "
5 UliU UCUUUicn wui^vw^.
' A doctor writes to the Baltimore Sun
| that hydrophobia can be produced by
J the bite of a perfectly healthy dog.
r "The one thing," says Jean Paul,
r " which a maiden most easily forgets is
3 how she looks?hence mirrors were in*
vented.
* Three tons of base ball bats have
! been shipped by a single Vermont
* mannfactnrner to the Boston market
t this winter.
f Eight yonng ladies took the final
vows of the sisterhood and four received
r the initiatory veil at St. Joseph's Oon
vent, Troy, lately.
, A Western paper is dead. In its last
gasp it gently whispered: " Two hunr
dred subscribers, and only thirty-one
t of thorn paid up."
> Few take care to live well, but many
- to live long: though it is in a man a
r power to do the former, but in no man's
1 power to do the latter.
r "Isay," said a rough fellow to a fop
' with conspicuous bow-legs?"I say,
? don't you have to havo your pantaloons
out with a circular saw ? ' '
' In a murder case in Kentucky 300
' men were summoned as jurors before
\ they could get 12 who didn't know anyt
thing and were therefore eligible as
3 jurors.
The telegraph message boys of
i Albany formed a ring recently, and
a oharged and reoeived p-y for over
3 2,000 messages that had never been rc
. ceived.
3 If a New York Alderman attends
a strictly to business he can in the course
t of two years accumulate two race
? horses, eight coach dogs and acomforta3
ble brick house.
3 A Cincinnati editor accusses another
3 of stealing three lead pencils and a
sheet of paper. The progress of editorial
courtesy in Cincinnati appears to
r bo "stationery."
3 A Portland school teacher, to punish
t a little boy for chewing gum, compelled
b him to chew all taken from the other
s scholars, and for one day that boy got
i tired of gum.
* The St. Cloud (Minnesota) Journal
1 says that several Chippewa Indians
o were in that placo a few days since,
> " studying civilization and picking up
* cigar stubs in front of the saloons."
It is relnted of Poussin that being
0 shown a picture by a person of rank,
j ho remarked, "You only want a little
0 poverty, sir, to make you a good painty
er."
r I clasped her tiny hand in mine, I
t "-i aiiial<1 l,or from the wind and
p from the world's cold storms. She set
e her beauteous eyes on me, and with her
s lips said she, " An umbrella will do as
ff well."
8 Dr. Brown-Sequard successfully ingrafted
a cat's tail in a cock's comb, but
c there are some coxcombs so firm on the
head that not even a tale of sorrow like
8 that could bo made to penetrate or toko
hold on them.
l Silver was first coined by Phidon,
,8 King of Argas, about 8G0 B. C., the
( epoch of the building of Carthage, and
about 140 years after the building of
Solomon's Temple.
Parson.?This term, now vulgarly
h used for a minister of nuy kind, has a
d classical origin^ and is derived from the
u Latin term "persona ecclesiae," the
g rector being a corporation sole,
a A young lady in Gloucester is charged
0 with keeping her light burning in thq,
c parlor until very late on Sunday night,
n in order to harrow the sensitive feelings
(v of nn envious neighbor into tho belief
g that she had really got a beau.
11 A lady asked ft pupil at a publio ex1
amination of a Suuday school, " What
' was the sin of the Pharisees ?" " Eatd
jng camels, ma'am," was the quick re0
ply. She had read that the Pharisees
0 "strained at gnats and swallowed
jj camels."
A young man recently wrote to the
Mayor of Pittsburgh : " I desire to get
(j some information in regard to razor
j grinding. Will vour Honor Jiloase visit
" the place where" they grind them, and
' writo to mo whether they grind on one
^ side or both sides at the same time,
what size stones or wheels they use and ?
if dry, and oblige."
,t Yon may step out of your Pullman
y car to get a breath, in journeying
through Nevada, at somo little way station,
and stumble over a pile of silver
bricks breast high, and worth fifty or a
hundred thousand dollars. Yon will
>f generally perceive, on very close in
- i?j-J
spection ol tlio puenomeuuu, a uxiueu.
v revolver which has a singular trick of
following your movements like a mage?
net.
ie The latest thing in dolls is a young
r- lady of tinted wax, who. when wound
re up and given a high chair at the table,
re reaches out her arms, seizes a bit of
e, bread, and slowly puts it in her mouth,
id When she has done this a certain num-^
ir ber of times, it is necessary to open
ie her back, remove the food, and wind
ie her up again. Would that human
e, beings could be relieved of indigestion
in this manner 1