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VOL. XXXYII. CAMDEN, S. C., JANUARY 16, 1879. NO. 26. ,,
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The Song of the Stream.
Over the mosses and grasses
The white clond passes,
a:i a a j
oiieut &uu fvi11 & urtutui;
And the oarth, iaher sby embraces,
Conoeals the traoes
Of tho secret birth the stream :
Till my threads are braided and woven,
And speed through the cloven
Channels, and gather and sink,
And wind, and sparkle, and dally,
With song in the valley
And shout from the terrible brink !
Then the whirl of the wind divides me,
And the rainbow hides me,
As I midway scatter in air ;
And I bath with endless showers
The feet of the flowers,
And the locks of the forest's hair ;
Till proudly, with waters wedded
Hy strength is bedded
By meadow, and slope, and lea; ?
^And the lauds at last deliver ' ' "
Their tribute river (
To the universal sea.
?Bayard Taylor.
A ST.TR-TTT WTSTATTE.
To say that Harvey Frothingham was \
in a bad temper was to pat the mildest
form of words to express the savage ]
mood in which he found himself one j
winter's evening, as he shot through the \
' main 6treet of the town of L , on his j
way homeward. Everything had gone
contrary to his wishes all the week. i
To commence with, he had fallen in t
love with Josephine Ormund, whose ,
pretty face was her only fortune, and
who worked in a pnper-box factory for ]
her daily bread. u 27. *"]
Entirely ignorant of the fact that Har- ]
ev Frothingham was a man of standing i
anil wealth in L , pretty Josie allowed
the minor facts, that he was in- j
sultingly free iu bis addresses, to in- (
fluenoe her so strongly, that her digni- j
fled reserve taught him the lesson he ,
* needed; and when ho sought her for his ,
wife she refused the honor.
To acid to this discomfiture, the heir- ,
- ess, Miss Maude Chesterton?whom he ,
had held in reserve, that his ambition
might win a wife if his love would not?
had coolly informed him that she was engaged
to Fred Holman.
Now, if there was one man above
another who was utterly detestable in ,
the eyes of Harvey Frothingham, it
was Fred Holman.
? They had both been rivals at sohool,
, where both stood well in talent, application
and social position; and Fred was ,
ever a little in advance in every study, .
carryiDg away the contested prizes far
more frequently than it suited Harvey
L he should.
In society, Fred's handsome faoe, 1
ready wit, onnrteona manoora, &n4. -~
frank, sunny temper kept him ever
in higher favor than Harvey Frothingham's
sullen, oold disposition oould f
gain. ? ' ' '
And now, when Mande had been ever
gracious to the son of the wealthy (
banker, Silas Frothingham, she an- i
swered his love-suit by the tidiugs that
his life-long rival had won the promise 1
to be his bride.
" And the w^vst of it is, it will be Just
the match to unit his uncle," mattered ,
Harvey, savagely. " No fear of him
disinheriting Fred now."
For Harvey knew that Fred depended .
entirely npon the good-will of his !
mother's brother, James Rutherford, a
wealthy and eccentric bachelor, for hip *
inoome. He had been left an orphan 11
when a mere boy, and his uncle had
adopted and educated him, and would *
probably make lxim his heir.. ,-> "
But the bachelor, having long ago put *
away sentiment, if he ever felt it, looked
to Fred to make a match., that would, in- n
crease his fortune and sooia! position. t<
Tfc was the wish of his heart to see Fred E
the husband of Maude Chesterton, and n
his wish was to be fulfilled. '* > o
Harvey Frothingham, at odds with b
love, would like to see his rival refused, a
disinherited, humbled m -he JelfcJbimaelf d
humbled, since neither love nor money
would aocept him, or c
He strode over the pavement in a sav- h
ago mood, and Btarted suddenly to see tl
Josephine Onnhhd coming out - of a
shop a few steps in advance of him. tl
In her hand were several small pack- d
ages, and her face was pale and anxious, t
In a moment Harvey was at her Bide, k
"Let me carry some of your parcels," d
he said, lifting his hat as he spoke.
" Thank you, I have only a few steps e
to go," answered Josie, hurrying for- tl
ward nervously. .
" You need" not be afraid of me,"
Harvey said, noting her nervous manner.
"I will Dot annoy you I Why
will you not believe my respeot is as b
great for you as my love ?"
And before he knew exactly where his h
words were leading him, the young d
man was renewing the offer he had made t
before.
At the door of a small lodging-house t
Josie stopped and faced him. f
" You have spoken so before, Mr.
Frothingham," she said, gently; and L
because I believe you are sincere, I g
will tell you what I have kept secret for
six months ; I am already married !" c
"Josie! Be quick I Why do you 1
stand there ?" cried a voioe in the nar- L
row hallway, and a man stepped into
the bar of light thrown across the open ?
door hr a street lamo. t
"Fred Hoi mail !*' muttered Harvey,
starting forward. "Married! and to t
Fred Holman!" - ^ 1
It almost consoled him in his own disappointment
to think of the hold he had c
upon his rival. Engaged to Maude i
ChestertoD, and married to Josie Ormund
! Fancy the proud face when she c
knew she had been deceived for a girl
who worked in a factory. And sweeter
still, was it to Harvey Frothingham to
think of the wrath of James Rutherford 1
when the news reached him.
Rrtf in V*ia f.rirtm nVi TTnrvflv Frothincr- I
ham had resolved to be very cautious to i
have strong proof of his rival's marriage
before venturing to accuse, to either his i
uncle or his betrothed.
He had noticed the number of the i
house in the glare of the street lamp:
} " No. 28 Ralph street."
This was the entry he made in his
note-book, in case bis memory proved
treacherous.
It4 geemed as if fortune favoreji his
planB. . V/?:Vc
Only the next day; happening to go
into a large frnit and flower shop, he
Raw Fred Hoi man selecting the oonlents
of a large fancy basket of ohoioest frnits
and rarest blossoms.
Nodding carelessly to Harvey, he
wrote the address upon a card and
attached it to the pretty basket.
" Yon will send this at once," he said,
and then left the shop.
And Harvey, taking the place Fred
had just vacated, read the card:
"Mrs. F. Holman, No. 28 Ralph
street."
What proof was needed now ? It was
not in the natnre of Harvey Frothingham
to work openly in any scheme. A.
blow in the dark suited him better.
Feeling sure of his position now, he
hurried homeward to write two anony
mous letters, that would, he fondly
hoped, disinherit and utterly confound
bis long suooessful rival.
One of these venomous missives found
Maude Chesterton in her pretty boudoir,
trifling with Borne embroidery, and
dreaming sweet dreams of her love and
Fred Holman's sweet devotion.
She was a handsome, dignified girl of
nineteen, full of all womanly sweetness,
unspoiled by her great wealth.
She loved Fred Holmaia with the
whole strength of her young heart, and
3he was sure that her love was returned.
The dainty work under the slender
Sngers progressed slowly, an Maude, lay
back in her deep arm-ohair, looking into
the glowing fire, ana building castles of
future happiness.
From this tender reverie Bhe was
aroused by a servant, who handed her a
jquarely-folded letter, awkwardly adiressed,
and fastened with a wafer.
. Wondering who her unknown correspondent
could be, she opened the
paper. The same straggling hand inside
n^t'her eyes. Only a few lines were
written: .
' If you would have a proof of the
falsehood of one you believe true, go at
debt o'clock this evening to the seooDd
lour of No. 28 Ralph street, and you
yill find Sir. Frederick Holman and his
vife."
*' Anonymous 1" the proud girl Baid,
ier lips curling and her eyes flashing.
'It is a falsehood 1"
She threw the note upon the coals as
the spoke, and watched the flames curl
md blacken the paper till it flashed out
>f sight up the chimney.
Then, with all the color stricken from
ler face, she took up her embroidery.
Had Harvey watched her then, he
vould have thought that that poisoned
irrow had missed its aim.
But it was not so. The work was ]
hrown aside, the piano rang out under
ler restless Angers, a novel was opened, ]
t room was put in order; but while the J
aim face betrayed no secret suffering, 1
he girl was tortured ail day by the
(Orda of the anonymous note:
- **'^Frederick Holman hnd his wife." ]
Onnlil if. ho 9 . TTiut tlin front hrown
iyes that had looked so lovingly into 1
tens mirrored only a false betxt ? Was (
he, indeed., so far deceived ?
Long before eight o'clock Mande
Chesterton had resolved to prove or 1
alsify the words that seemed burned
ipon her b rain.
Surely, of -all the world- she had the '
>est right to test the troth of such a '
aonstrons charge against her betrothed
over.
And .while she waa striving t > hide
rota any eves the tortures khe endured, !
rames Kutherford ^as~s1ormihg up and |
!own his library, holding the second of ,
larvey Prothingham's communioatiouB "
a ins nana.
In the suae awkward handwriting,
he same facts were s'tated, the same (
iour and place to verify the writer's
raids.
Bat the peppery old bache lor made ?
o secret of his wrath. To have listened
o him, one would have supposed that
making mince-meat of his disobedient
ephew was the least lie intended. He
aflod'him all the pet names suggested 5
>y a furious rage; he used up all the '
busive adjectives in the dictionary to 1
escribe Mr. Frederick Holman. >
He exhausted every threat that he ?
ould devise; long before eighl; o'clock J
ie Lad "wrought "himself up to a rage
bat was frightful to witness. '
It was with a chuckle of satisfaction 1
hat Harvey Frothinghaa, secretly hid- 1
en in a narrow courtway, watched a '
all,stately f gure leave a carriage at the 1
ead of Ralph street, and walk to the <
loorofNo. ^ 1
in tne quiet or me street no uearu a ?
leap voice ask the servant who opened 1
he door:
" Does Mrs. Holm&n live here ?"
" Yes, ma'am; seoond floor."
"Is her husband at home?"
" Oh, yeB, ma'am; youU find them
oth there."
Then Maude Oheeterton entered the
touse, just as a short, panting man
lashed up the steps, and, not pausing
o make inquiry, also entered.
In the passage, Maude Ohesterton,
nrning, tie rapid steps followed her,
aced James Bntherfqrd.
"You here!" he said. "You have
leard too, then, of the trick this ungrateful
hound has played upon us?"
"I have heard," she answered, in a
old voice, "that your nephew's wife
ives in this house. I wish to ascertain <
f it is^true." 1
" We will 30on see i we win saon see i
iecond floor. Here we are. Now, '
hen I" J
And the old gentleman's rapR proved ]
he excitement under which he was
aboring.
A very pale, sweet woman opened the
ioor, her eyes showing that she had been i
veeping very reoently. 1
" Does Mrs. Holman live hens ?" the I
)ld gentleman asked.
44 That is my name, sir."
44 Can I see your husband ?" j
The soft eyes, full of deep trouble, 1
;vere lifted. j
41 Is it on business, sir?" i
44 *7ery important business," was the 1
Lannex u&jr iyouuucu.
" Because the doctor said to-day he
most not have any mental excitement.
He is so very much worse to-day; I?I
am afraid he is dying I"
And sobs broke out again.
44 Dying I"
Maude Chesterton reeled into the
room, and sank dizsily upon a chair.
James Rutherford, with a face white
as death, said: 14 Dying I An accident ?"
"No, sir; it is a fever tori overwork."
" Fever?over-work!"
" Josie?Josie 1"
If ever Fred Holman spoke, he spoke
then from an inner room, and the little
wife, seeming to forget her strange visitors,
answered, quickly:
" I'm coming, Fred."
She went at once to the room frono
which the voice came, and again the
two, listening intently, heard Fred'e
husky voice.
" Bring the last oordial, Josie. Ten
drops! I am sure he knew me ; but he
is faint."
A moment later the same cheer;
voioo spoke again : " Drink this, old
fellow. So I See, here is Josie I .Don't
yon know Josie?"
Then another voioe?oh ! so very
faint!?said :
"Josie?little wife!"
A moment of ntter silence followed,
and then Josie said :
"There is a gentleman sfjd lady in
the other room, Fired, who Wast to we
Frank. Will von see them Y' - ' *
And Fred, Appearing in oomplianoe
with this request, found his trade vigorously
fanning Maude Chesterton with
a newspaper to bring her out of a fainting
fit.
Before ho could frame a question, bis
uncle said, quickly:
" Get me some water I" And he
obeyed.
Then, Maude's blue eyes opened with
a bewildered stare, the old gentleman
oontinued :
"We were sent here to your
domestic felidty, and we seem to be
misinformed."
" My domestio felicity!" cried Fred.
"Read that," said his uncle, handing
the anonymous note. And Fred oomplied.
" Humph! yes," he said. "So you
oame to see Mrs. Frederick Holman.
Well, that lady has made me a happy
man;" and his eyes flashed merrily
upon Maude. "But I will ictroduoe
you to my cousin's wife, Mrs. Frank
Holman. Maude," he oontinued, with
gentle gravity, " sinoe you have oome
here, it will be an aot of Christian
charily to remain, for "?and his voioe
Bank \ery low?" we are afraid the poor
little woman will be a widow before the
morning."
" Poor fellow !" said James Rutherford.
" What is the trouble ? "
"Over-work. He thought he could
increase his small salary by toiling over
Qne engravings in the evening, and he
broke down, I never knew 01 ,dis marriage
till last week, when he wrote me a
painful note, begging me to care for his
wife if he died. I came here lift onoe,
and wes fortunate enough to win poor
little Josie's sisterly confidence and
affection. Maude, if the great trouble
we fear oomes "?
*I will be her true sister, Priad ! "
ntermpted Maude. ' *
Here was a deep silence of several
minutes; then Josie, very pale still,
;rept softly into the room.
* He is asleep 1" she whispered.
" The doctor said if he slept he would
live!"
And when she broke into hjnterical
weeping, Maude held her close in loving
irms, whispering that ahe must let her
stay and oemfort her, for Fred's sake.
Nearly eleven o'clock came, and still
Harvey Frothiugham waited, half
frozen, in the dark oourtway. to see the
lisoomfiture of his rival. Then his pa;ienco
was rewarded by seeing Fred, and
sis ancle come oat of No. 28, arra-inirm,
evidently the best of friends, and
mter Miss Chesterton's carriage and
Irive away.
Not until the day of the wedding,
Then he saw Josie an honored guest,
ind was introdaoed to Mr. Frank ffolnan,
did Harvey Frothingham understand
the slight mistake he had made.
Clothing a Client,
The Eureka (Nev.) Leader is responsible
for the following Btory : A young
awyer of Eureka, who has just bsen ad
mtted to practice at tne oar, naci tne
esponBible duty assigned to bim by
Judge Rives, last week, of defending a
jriminal. confined on a charge of robbery.
Fhe buddiDg Slicks tone visited his
?lient, and was shocked to note his
shabby appearance and generally unwashed
and unkempt appearance. As
;his was his first case, our legal friend
was naturally anxious to acquit his
ilient, and in pnrBtianoe of thiB laudable
imbition he concluded that if the prisiner
presented a cleanly and respecteble
ippearance before the court and jury,
lis chance of getting off would be enhanced,
and, acting on this idea, the
lawyer not only sent to the jail his best
ftit of olothes for the fellow to wear,
but also dispatched a barber to the
scene, with instructions to shave, shun???
fttiJ /Vmf fV?n mort'o faa-i* Tf tnoo oil
\nj\j auu uuv IIUV uihu o **?**? aw nwu WM
ione, and the thief oame into oonrt looking
as neat as a newly-elected candidate.
But, unfortunately, one bad mistake
bad been made. The barber had shingled
the fellow's hiir down to a close
srop, and in consequence a worse-shaped
bead or a more villiinous set of features
aever were revealed. The impression
on the jury was so marked that they
rendered a verdict of gnilty without
leaving their seate. It was time and
join thrown away; and not only tint,
bnt it is said that Blaokstone had to get
out a writ of replevin to regain possession
of his clothes. After this he will
rely on testimony, and let personal appearance
take care of itself.
Tmid Pnlsnnlno
The fallowing singular aooount of the
action of toad poisoning on the human
body, is reported in the last number of
the London Chemitt:
A chili of six years old followed a
large toad on a hot summer's day, throwing
stones at it. Suddenly he felt tliat
the animal had spurted some moisture
into his eye. There suddenly set in a
alight pain and spasmodic twitching of
the sligh tly-injeoted! eye, but two hours
after ooma, jumping eighty desire to
bite, a dread of food ana dnnk, ccnstipatiou,
abundant urine, great agitation,
manifested themselves, followed on the
sixth day by siokness, apathy, and a
kind of sliupor, but with regular pulse.
Some days later, having become oomparatively'quiet,
the boy left his bed ;
his eyes are injeoted, the skin dry, the
pulse free from fever. He howls and
behaves himself like a madman, sinks
irrto-imbecifity and-speechlessness, from
whioh condition he never rallies.
HOW .THE CHINESE MABK TIME.
' Some Very (nrlnua Bxcerpia freui the
) Latest Official Almanac.
The Chinese Official Almanac is issued
annually in December, and is caret
fully prepared by the board of astronoj
my, an important body, imperially ap,
pointed, presided_over by a prinoe of
the royal blood, and equal in dignity to
, any otner government body in the em
, pire. The almanac ib bestowed as a
special act of grace by the emperor on
, the Ooreans, Looehooans, Annamites
i and other tributary states. As this
; publication is so highly respected hy
the Chinese, it may fairly be considered
as the representative of the highest
state of astronomioel scienoe reached by
them. A large part of the astrological
portion of the almauao is intended for a
"{practical guide iff the common affairs
of life." A translation is given of the
, adhioniticns for tkie first days' of the
current year, as follows :
, The first day is favorable for sacrifice
and for entering school; at noon it is
allowable to bathe. It is unfavorable
for starting on a journey or exchanging
residenoe.
The second day ill favorable for sacri
flee and bathing, .it ia unfavorable for
starting on a journey, removing or
practicing aonpunolure.
The third day: there are no indications.
The fourth day : may receive or make
visits and oat ont olothee; at seven
a. *. may draw tip contracts, barter
and make presents, May not go on a
journey or break ground.
The fifth day: may visit, bathe, shave
and clean np ; may not plant and sow.
The sixth is favorable for saorifioe,
visiting, taking on a new servant, starting
on a journey, removing, marrying, repairing,
breaking ground; at three a. m.
may draw up contracts, open shop, barter,
send presents, seal, test the soil and
bury.
The seventh day** may level roads, #
bnt must not start on a journey.
The eighth: may sacrifice, memorialize,
enter offloe, assume ceremonial
olotlies ; at five a. li. may sit toward the
southeast; also favorable for conjugal
union, visits, weddinfs, taking on a new
serviint, starting on Jf journey, erecting
uprights and. putting on crossbeams,
building, removing soil and burying.
The writer givee a few more items and
comments as follows:
And so it; goee on for nearly every day
in the year. Enough has been trans*
lated to show the excessive childishness
and absurdity of this, the principal part
of the imperial almanac. On the seven*
teenth ono may be treated for illness
and Open caches of provision. On the
t wen ty-third it'is allctHble to poll down
old honses and walls v but drains must
not be operaxl cnrwefis dUg until the'
twen ty-seventh. Arrests should be made
ou the fifteenth ; thin is the only favorable
day in the mcmlh?a very satisfactory
firrangement for criminals. There
are i'our days in thirty on which one
may cut out clothes, and the same number
on which one may sweep and clean
up. It is advised to shave on the fifth,
t wen th-third and twenty-ninth, and to
bathe seven times in the month. Un
fortunately, tiie intervals Between ine
bath days are unequal, and the believer
in. the almanac most wait from the fifth
to the thirteenth and f row the fourteenth
to the twenty-third. Besides, on the
first, bathing is favorable at an inconvenient
hour?viz,, noon: the hour on
the twenty-ninth (fire o'cfook) is mnch
better.
These indications* seem too silly to affect
sensible men, yet while the Chinaman
is not only sensible, bnt actually
shrewd and keen, h^guides most of his
more important affairs by the almanac.
The poorer dashes watoh the almanac
carefully, and marry, bnry and do other
things only wlien it advises, and it is to
be feiitred thai the bettor educated do
not start on a journey nor enter offioe
except on favorable days,, though it is to
be hoped they bathe, shave and clean
mueh oftener.?American Journal.
Mining Nomenclature.
Names of mines, like one's emotions
when eating Limbarger cheese for the
first time, are peculiar. The locator of
Dry Eash probably showed his preference
for a dish which is a prominent
feature in a boarding-house, and has a
large circle ol: acquaintances. Little
Bilk leaves one to infer that there is a
Big Bilk; fn laot, on consideration, we
oonoede that there are a great many of
them. Mollie Darling shows that, although
she ia getting to be an old maid,
she still has admirers. The Fraud is no
exhibition ef human nature; the locator
wanted to pique the^pride of the vein
and spur it to belie its name. On inquiring
of one miner why he had named
his claim " I Know All," he explained:
" When I left the East I left my girl
there, and?andl some trouble Iliad with
another lady. When I got out hero I
wrote to my girl that I was doing bully.
That wasn't so; but you know how a fellow
will write. Wrote that I expected
to retnrn soon and cage her in a palace.
OL* I T Irn/vm all VrtTlffl Tift
DUO UUUWOIOU. X uivn g.u
more, Jane."' Asking another why he
chose to name his " Terror," he replied:
"Fora lady." "How? Didn't know
that was a female name." " Well, von
see, that's my wifo; she's a terror. Daft
in Gold Hill." Tom Pike being questioned
as to liis naming a location Joab
Johnson, said: " That?that was my
name in the States." I asked the proprietor
of the Last Chance if ho really
oonsicUired this his last chance for a fortune;
if he failed would he try again ?
" No, sir; no, sir; will go to robbin' the
stages."' To the man whe was showing
me his two claims I remarked: " From
the name, the Treasury, you must have
high hopes of this?" " That isn't why
I named her that. nhen ?"
"There's nuthin' in it." "And this
second one, Hector. Toil admired the
valiant Trojan ?" "Named for my dog
Hector.' He's dead now. Buried
am? Hvm ftnmA an' nee his crave."
Salt Lake Tribune. ?
To the perfection of true friendship it
is neoeteary that there should be one
particular individual selected from the
; rest of mankind, who may be considered
i as another self, to whom we can unbosom
1 our most serious thoughts; before whom
i we.ere not ashamed to lay open our
i weaknesses and--foibles; or, in the
J pre:sivo phrase, to think alone.
The Octopus.
Though all the oetopods, large or
small, can swim freely at a ill, such is
not their habit; they prefer to lie ooncealed,
or partially so, on the side or in
the clefts of rooks. There the ootopod's
body is protected from the attacks of
other animals, while it can extend its
long feelers in searoh of prey, of whioh
fish, molluska, and crustaceans are the
principal objects. Its movements, when
an objeot of food is perceived, are mar
vcjuudij inpiu, Dnuici iuau WID juiguv ui
an arrow from the bow of an experienced
hnnter. The long, flexible arms
grasp the victim; its hundreds of shokera,
acting like pneumatics holders, make
escape impossible; and, as the long
arms draw the object nearer and nearer,
the other shorter arms add theirtaulti{ilied
disks, forming "aperfect mitrailense
of inverted air gims, which take
horrid hold, and the pressure of the air
is so great that nothing bnt closing the
throttle-valve can produce relaxation.".
This throttle-valve is the neck, as we
have before described. Those.lengthy
appendages, the limbs, are rather in the
way when the animal is swimming, and
would act as drag-anchors if left pendent;
but the octopus usually drawB
them olose alongside, whenoe they extend
in a horizontal position, acting the
part.of a tail to a kite. It propels itself
by drawing in and expelling water
through its looomotory tube. Theoo?.
i ^ j J :i T
lopus swudb DUOKwaru, aim ii> hub uwju
remarked that; it changes its color to a
darker hue vqfren it starts out fOr a swim.
This change of hue, apparently at
will, is one of the most peculiar characteristics
of the octopus. It may be considered
the chameleon of the sea. Its
ordinary color when in repose is a mottled
brown; but if irritated it assumes a
reddish hue, approaching to purple.
Nature seems to nave been almost superfluously
careful in furnishing this animal
with protecting elements; for this
coloring matter, which resides between
the inner and outer skin, enables it even
to assume the oolor of the ground or
rooks over which it travels, so that one
can hardly say what oolor it is before it
may have ohanged to something quite
different. When exhausted after a battle
or a struggle to get out of a trap, it
torna pale like a human being.
Others besides Victor Hugo's hero
have had a chance to test the strength
of these devil fishes. Major New some,
B. E., when stationed on the east ooast
of Africa in 1&56-57. undertook to bathe
in a pool of water left by the retiring
waves. He says: "As I swam from
one end to the other, I was borrided at
feeling something around my ankle, and
made for the side as speedily as I could.
I thought at first it was only sea weed;
but as I landed and trod with my foot
on the roek, my disgnst was heightened
at feeling a fir shy and slippery substance
under me. I was, I oonfess,
; alarmed; and so apparently was the
beast on which I trod, for he detached
himself and made for the water. Some
fellow bathers came to my assistance,
and he was eventually landed. * *
As the grasp of an ordinary-sized octo!
pus holding to a rook is not less than
thirty pounds, while the floating power
of a man is between five and six pounds,
I believe if I bad not kept in mid-channel
it would have been a life-and-death
struggle between myself and the beast
on my ankle. In the open water I was
the best man; but near the bottom or
sides, which he could have reached with
his arms, but which I could not have
reached witn mine, ne wouia oerwuniy
have drowned me."?Popular Science
Monthly. ,
A Model New England Farm.
Mr. Burnett, the owner of the three
hnndred acres in Sonthboro, Mass.,
known as Deerfoot farm, makes a specialty
of breeding, raising and fattening
hogs, and converting them into various
artioles of food, and of the products of
the dairy. The conversion of the carcasses
into hams and bacon, and the '
manufacture of sausages and lard are
carried on in the most systematic manner
and on an extensive scale; extra
pains Oeing taKen to produce ior me
private oonsomption of oustomers in
Boston, New Tork and Philadelphia,
the choicest and most palatable articles.
Mr. Burnett raises about 350 hogs an- ,
nually, and purchases from the farmers
of Vermont 1,500 fat Berkshires, which
make the best pork. After being dressed,
the hogs are kept in a refrigerator <
for forty- eight hours, when they are cut ]
up, the hams and baoon cured in the i
most approved manner, the lard tried 1
out and canned free from adulteration, j
and the pork packed in kegs of fifteen :
and twenty pounds weight; the sausage I
meat chopped by machinery and sea- <
soned with the best quality of sage and 1
pepper that can be obtained, ana then i
made into sausages. Mr. Burnett's
baoon bos taken the place of imported I
English baoon in the Boston market, i
and has beoome so popular io Philadel- <
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puio biu>v cuv uvwtv* ,
the entire prodnot of Deer/oot farm, <
which amounts to 300 sides a day, while <
3,000 hams are cnred annually. The
product of sausages averages about j
1,000 pounds a day. Another specialty ]
of Mr. Burnett is the canning of pigs' i
feet, which are sold largely in the sea- 1
son to yachting parties. The piggery at
Deerfoot farm is an extensive affair, <
located at some distance from the main <
buildings, and consists of a building j
eighty by forty feet, with a wing sixty <
by twenty feet, containing pens, in ]
which were seen about 250 swine of all
ages, from the suoking pig to the hog :
ready for the scalding vat. The animals (
are fed twice a day, on a oooked mixture
of two-thirds corn meal and one-third
ground oats, which Mr. Burnett has demonstrated
to be the most profitable
food for fattening hogs. In the dairy,
the Devonshire process of producing
clotted cream is used. New milk, scalded,
is placed in long, large pans, which
are plaoed under a refrigerator, where it
is oooled rapid]y, the temperature being
reduoed in three hours from 100 degrees
to thirty-two degrees, and cream raised
to the thickness of three-fourths of an
inch, whioh ordinarily required fortyeight
hours. This cream will keep
sweet several days, aud is sold for sixty
cents a quart to Boston families. Mr.
Burnett also manufactures from 250 to
300 pounds of butter a week from the
milk of fifty oows, of which twenty-five
are thoroughbred Jerseys, The butter
readily sfiHs * at sevefity-flve" cenfctf" a
pound.?Boston Transcript.
J8S1SSI5ATI0N.
Mi)n In Hick Placet Wbt Were Altleked
Dartaa ike Pa?t Veer*
Fonr times within as many months
were attempts made on the lives of three
sovereigns of Europe. The German
emperor was twice in danger. On the
afttrnoon of May 11, as he was riding in
the Avenne Unter der Linden, Berlin,
with the grand duchess of Baden, E.
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XL ill, IlUOUOl) tt tuiouiivu auu n ovwiatiet,
shot at him with a revolver. The
ball did no damage, and on his trial
Hoedel asserted that he did not aim at
the king. Bat evidenoe to the oontrary
was overwhelming, and, in accordance
with the sentence, he was beheaded on
August 15. The second attempt on
Kaiser Wilhelm's life was made:.just
tbree weeks later, and as he was riding
through the earns, street, when K. E.
Nobiling, from a window in the third
story of the honse No. 18, discharged a
double-barreled gun at him and lodged
forty shot in his head and neck. In
spite of a desperate resistance Nobiling
was immediately arrested, but not until
he bad snooeeded in inflicting upon himself
a dangerous wound, from which he
died on Sept. 11. He was an internationalist,
and, unlike Hoedel, was a man
of good education. The emperor's
wounds were so serious that he was
obliged to resign the government info
me lianas 01 cne crown prince, nmu ne
reassumed his power on Dec. 5.
On Oct. 20, as Alfonso, king of Spain,
was riding in the Oalle Major, Madrid,
J. 0. Moncasi, twenty-three years of
age, a cooper by occupation and an internationalist
in political belief, shot at
him, bat only sacoeeded in slightly
wonnding a soldier. On Nov. 7, an old
soldier unsuccessfully attempted to kill
the Spanish ex-minister of war, Bregua.
The last of the four attempts was on
the life'of Hnmberto, king of Italy, and
was rendered possible only by his com.-;
mand that no guard should surround his
carriage as he. entered cities in.the
course of a tour whioh he was making
through Italy. His intention was that
the presentation of petitions shohld be
entirely ftee. On Nor. 17, as the carriage
containing the king, the qneen,
and Prime Minister Oairoli was entering
Naples in this unprotected manner,
Giovanni Passante, concealing a knife
with a red banner, fhounted on the steps,
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ana tumeu a ueuuiy biuu ul aamuoiii u
heart. Bat the king defended, himself
with his sword, apd before the blow
could be repeated, Cairoli, at the oost of
a severe wonnd, had grappled with the .
murderer, and in a moment he was in
the custody of the polioe. Be was
twenty-nineyearB old, a cook by trade,
and, like Hoedel, Nobiling find Moncasi,
a socialiBt or internationalist.
More sensational, and even, perhaps,
Was the unsuccessful attempt, on ~Feb.
5th, at St. Petersburg, of a young
woman?Vera Sassulitch by name?to
kill Gen. Trepoff, chief of the St. Petersburg
police. Her motive was personal
rather than political, but an idea of the
detestation in whioh the Russian police
is held may be gained from the fact that,
though she fired the shots in broad (Jaylight,
as was abundantly shown by proof
and not denied by herself, she was acquitted
by the jury amid-the applause of the
large and even brilliant audience in the
courtroom. Two high Russian polioe
officials were killed dnring the yearBaron
Heyking, of Kiev, and Gen.
Mezentsoff, chief of the czar's private
police. These were political mnrders.
This mania for assassinations extended
even to Bern and Japan. In the latter
country Mr. Okubo, minister of the interior,
was almost hacked to pieces on
May 14th by six men armed with swords. ;
He was fn reality the power behind the
throne, and was somewhat knowh in this ;
country as a member of the Iwaknra
embassy of 1872. His assassins were of
the Samurai, or privileged class, and ;
professed, probably honestly, to have i
acted from patriotic reasons.. i
In Lima, Pern, on Nov. 16th, Don j
Manuel Pardo, ex-president ; of the re- '
public and acting president of the sen- '
ate, was shot by Melchor Montoya, the
sergeant of his guard. The crime was
to be the firsta>. t ol a revolution, but
Montoya was deserted by his confeder- (
ates. ?
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Trichinosis.
This is a parasitic disease, caused by
sating pork infested with minutest hairlike
worms, oalled trichinae. It is only
since 1860 that the disease has been
fully investigated and understood, but
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n can now do iracea Daa*, anuor uiuei
names, at least two centuries. Since
the above date it has been recognized
wherever pork is eaten raw or imperfectly
cooked; and there have been
many epidemics of it.
The trichinae, after passing through
the stomach, rapidly multiply in the
intestines, and thence they work their
way into the substance of the muscles
generally and of the internal organs, ,
where they soon roll themselves up into
soils, like worms of the earth. '
If comparatively few trichinae are taken '!
into the Btomoch, either because the
pork is but slightly diseased, or is eaten
sparingly, or the meal is not repeated,
the disease is light and soon over.
In severer cases there is vomiting;
iSiawl.aa fnllnma^ hv nhfltinatfi
constipation; profuse sweating; fever;
great pain in the limbs; difficulty of
chewing, swallowing and breathing;
hoarseness, often with entire loss of
voice; neuralgic attacks and sleeplessness,
except in children, with whom the
opposite condition of stupor prevails.
in the milder cases the patients begin
to recover in five or six weeks; in severer
forms, convalescence is deferred for fonr
months, while the full strength is not
restored for a muoh longer time. A
fatal termination is very common, generally
from paralysis of the respiratory
organs. In children, recovery is the
rule. No means have yet been found to
destroy the trichinae.
American hogs seem to be especially
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liaoie to toe disease, mey snouia u?
sold for the market, home or foreign,
only after legal inspection. Bnt thorough
cooking kills the trichinae, Lard, of
course, having been subjected to a high
heat, cannot contain them.- Youth's
Companion.
Instead of leaving flowers and wreaths
on the graves of dead friends, custom
expects the > peep! e*of Madrid to-leave
visiting cards.
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5' ADVERTISING RATESi
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1 Week......7.717 t 1.00 I ft Oft t 9.00 $15.00
2 44 . .! 1:76 - -7:6?)- 12.96 20.00
8 " | 2.60 9.00 16.25 24.00
4 44 I 3 00 10.50 18.00 27.60
8 " 3.66 -41.76 80.60 81 00
6 ? 4.00 12 60 22.76 34 00
7 44 4 50 13.25 24 75 87.oO
8 44 6.00 14.00 2&00 40 00
3 months. 6.60 17.06 82.00 60.00
4 44 7.60 19.00 89.60 69.00
6 44 8.60 24.00 48.00 84.00
9 44 9 60 80.00 69 00 106.00
12 44 ..... 10.26 35.00 68.0Q 120.00 Transient
advertisements most be aooompanied
with the caeh to insure insertion.
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' Items of Interest.
"Anti-fat remedy"?Killing the hog
when young. w ; ? ' ?!-.-. '
in ilia aaaanry luwt "fTTliiod to
?f UilVl XO UiV DVWOVM arw* ?--W
freeze speech.
A hotel bill may be oalled inn-debtedneaa.
Why is a healthy tree like a dog ?
Because the bark is sound.
Look out for the girl who throws her
whole soul into a pair of slippers for the
parson.
George W. Matchett, of the Arkansas
Traveler, has been atioking type fiftyeight
years.. ,
Woman's capabilities are great, but
hardly sufficiently developed to allow of
her driving a nail without hitting her
finger.
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A man who bought % box 01 cigars,
when asked what they were, replied,
' Tickets for a course of lecture* from
my wife/'
Nothing can exceed the intense affection
which a girl deals out to her father
for a day or two before the time when
she's going to ask for a new dress.
Old buttons are in demand hi Paris as
artioles of parlor ornament, and large ?
prioes are paid for those in steel, jasper,
silver, pebbles or Alenoon diamonds.
He that is found' reasonable in one
thing is concluded to be so in all; and
to think or say otherwise is thought so
unjust an affront and so senseless a censure
that nobody ventures to do it. 1
In Belgium, if a candidate dies between
the day: of his nomination and:the
day of the eleotion, his name still remains
on the list and mnst be voted for.
At Ste. Mary, Lnxembourg, * dead man
baa thus been elected to the communal
council.
The St. Louis Republican says: The
correct way to pronounce the name of
this State is as though it were spelled
Miuouri, and,, that of its southern
neighbor as though itwere spelled A rkansaw.
Dictionaries and gazetteers
often give other pronunciations, but
these are the ones which the people of
the reepeotive States generally follow.
Good Resolutions la Chicago.
The Inter- Ocean bestows: the follow ing
good resolutions gratis upon its subscribers.
Every one can easily he a
little, if not a good deal, better than
dnnnof thn n?wwlinr/ fWplvAinnntJl. flat
the mark high, and live as nearly .op to
it as possible, Resolve, among other
tilings, that during the coming year:
1.. You will curb your temper and
your passions. Violent pleasures, artificial
excitement, or a nee rein to a
tamper easily provoked, consume life as
well as render it unhappy. - . ?
That, if addicted to profanity, in
even the smallest degree, you will abandon
it. Aside from moral and religious
considerations, swearing is degrading
and vulgar, and betrays a poverty of expression.
8. That for a year to come, whatever
the temptation to do otherwise. yon will
tell the truth. Lying grows upon a
man, and is a: contemptible, as well as
odious, habit. Reform it altogether.
4. Resolve to speak ill of- no man or
woman, exoepi under proper provocation.
and to the person's face. The
slanderer deserves a place in that lake
which bnrneth with fire and brimstone.
5. Swear off from alcoholic drinks,
and put the dimes, quarters and halves
yon nave been aocnBtomed to spend for
liquid lightning into a savings box. You
will stand on yonr head with surprise
and gratification when you oome to count
up the aooumulation at the end of the
year.
6. Be industrious, keep your promises,
pay your debts, be charitable; in short,
take a big stride ahead in a wiser, better,
more intelligent and useful life, and the
year will not only prove a happier one
to yon, but yon will emerge from it
more successful, more honored, and
richer in everything than on the day
when you began the work of reform.
Try a. : . _7. . / . V
Hats indent and Modern*
How few of us ever trace the history
of the hat, says Forney's Progress.
The felt hat is as ancient as Homer.
The Greeks make them ixi skull caps,
onical, truncated, narrow or broad
Knmwtn/I TPho PhvrffiftTi honnet has an
elevated cap without a brim, the apex
turned over in front. It is known as the
cap of liberty. An ancient figure of
Liberty in the time of Antonius Livv,
A. D. 145, holds the cap in the right
hand. The Persians wore soft caps;
plumed hats were the headdress of the
Syrian corps of Xerxes ; the broad brim
was worn by the Macedonian kings.
Castor means a beaver. The Armenian
captive wore a plug hat. The merchants
of the fourteenth century wore a Flanders
beaver; Charles VII., in 1469,
wore a felt hat lined with red, and
plumed. The English men and women *
in 1510 wore close woolen or knitted
oaps ; two centuries ago hats were worn
in the house. Pepys in his diary in
* * S. 1 1 on A ^
1C64 wrote, oepcemoer, 100*, gut a
severe cold because he took of his hat at*
dinner," and again, in January, 1666, he
got another cold by sitting with his head
bare to allow his wife's maid to comb
his hair and wish his ears ; and Lord
Clarendon in his essay, speaking of the
decay of respect due the aged, says :
" That in his youDger days he never
kept his hat on before those older than
himself except at dinner!" In the
thirteenth century Pope Innocent IV.
allowed the cardinals the use of the
scarlet cloth hat. The hats now in use
are the cloth hat, cork hat, embossed
hat, felt hat, fur hat, leather hat, paper
hat, silk hat, opera bat, spring-brim hat
and straw hat.
Cost of the Yellow Fever.
Loss of life by yellow fever in the
South last year is estimated at about
< f r?rvn ati/1 r\C mnnnv and f*o/1n
10, UlfU poi CSUUO, nuu ut uuuvj mtu UI>U?
at from $175,000,000 to $200,000,000?
ns great as the loss from the Chicago
fire. But some good is likely to oome
out of this calamity. It is thought that
henceforth quarantine regulations will
be more thoroughly established than
they have ever been. Apart from death
and human suffering, negligence is the
worst kind of political economy. . Expenditure
of one-twentieth jjart of what
the feyer-has cost might have prevented
it altogether.?Scientific American. ^