The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, July 06, 1882, Image 2
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W The Journal.
W G. G. ALEXANDER, Proprietor ;
CAMDEN, SOUTE CAROLINA.
The King of the Plow.
The sword is re-sheathed in its scabbard,
The ride hangs safe on the wail;
No longer we qhail at tho hungry
Hot rush of the ravenous ball?
The war-cloud has hurled its last lightning,
ItB last awfol thunders are still,
While the demon of oonfliot in hades
Lies fettered in force as in will;
Above the broad held that he ravaged,
What monarch rules blissfully now ?
Oh I crown him with bays that are bloodless-The
king, the brave kingbf the plow I
T
A king! ay 1 what ruler more potent
Has ever swayed earth h^his nod ?
A monarch! ay, more than$ monarch?
A homely, but bountiful !
He stands where in earth'agpre protection
The seed-grains are Mattered and sown,
To uprise in serene redirection
When spring her soft trumpet hath blown !
A monarch! yea, more than & monarch,
Though toil-drops are thick on his brow;
Oh1 crown him with corn-leaf and wheatleaf?
The king, the strong king of the plow 1
Through the'shadow and shine of past ages.
(While tyrants were Minded with blood),
He reared the pure ensign of Ceres
By meadow and mountaiil and flood?
And the long, leafy gold of his harvests
The earth sprites and air sprites had spun,
flrnzv rVirfhmirt wViAn anrortf V\xr tV?n hrAA7na
Grew royal when kissed by the son;
Before the stern charm of his patience
"What rock-rooted forces must bow!
Come! crown him with" corn-leaf and wheatleaf?
The king, the hold king of the plow I
Through valleys of halm-dropping myrtles,
By banks of Arcadian streams,
Where the wind abngsrare set to the mystic
Mild murmur of passionless dreams;
On the stonpi-haunted uplands of Thule,
By ioo-gfKtled fiords and floee,
Alike speed* the spell of his godhood,
_ Tha&loom of his heritage glows;
OTnroarch I yea, more thana^rronarch?
All dimes to hia prowess must bow;
Gomel mtrwnMm with bays that are stainless^
TheJt&g, the brave king of the plow. 1
Far, far in earth's uttermost future,
As boundless^sf splendor as scope,
T aaa 4)ifl f.!? onm1 frnifiA
Outapeed his high heralds of hope:
The roses of joy rain around him,
ii* The lilies of sweetness and calm.
For the sword has been-changed to the plowshare,
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The lion lies down with the lamb!
Oh, angel majestio! ^e know thee,
Though raised and transfigured art thou?
This lord of life's grand consummation I
Was once the swart king of the plow I
\ ?Paul H. Hayne.
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BLUE TEACUPS.
"WMnnna fltinmif HIta i#*
ajuuwmq wu^ugo* JL u uao UU OUMU
them all to flinders!" Medora Temple
scowled darkly at the row of thick, 1
dumpy little cups she had just finished 1
washing, an<fl|hook out the dish-towel
with an impjby t flirt, '^ey'ro?Lb^I
tilings ever inventedr
"They ain't beauties, to be sure," observed
Dollie, from the low window-sill,
where she was comfortably established
r husking early roasting ears for dinner;
"but there is something kind of attractive
about them?they are so odd."
"Much idea you've got!" retorted Medora,
raising her superb eyebrows in
^^^disdain. You never had any taste about
anything. But if Aunt Boxy wasn't as
provoking and obstinate as the old
' soratoh she'd buy new ones, when she
knows Mrs. Etheredge and her brother
will be sure to come over to tea somo
time."
" I don't suppose the poor blue teacups
would Bcare 'em away, would
'? ?they ?r asked Dollie.
"They'd give them a charming opin
ion of our taste in domestic arrangements,
I presume," replied Medora,
witheringly. "But it's all one to you.
Tou haven't any ambition above thiok
blue teacups."
"Haven't I?" said Dollie, goodnaturedly.
"Well, you see, Dora, I'm
im* one of those who, if they can't get what
^ . they want, are willing to take what they
can get."
"I'll have what I want!" said Medora,
positively.
A big, buff tunnel of a sunbonnet,
wnu two ?uarp grajr twiunuu^
under its stiff frill, was poked inside
the door.
"1m a-going, ohildren," said Miss
r Boxy Trotter, the owner of the eyes and
snnbonnet. "Maybe m fetoh yon
them dressos you're so sot on, if the
batter and garden-track fetches a good
fiL prioe."
_^Ob, goody! Aunt Boxy, you're foo
v,- jolly Jot anything!" shrieked Dollie.
"And remember, auntie, blue-and-white
for me and fcink for Dora."
And Miss fifi&atcher will make them
; for u?," said Medora, "She's?"
1 "She won't?no sich!" Miss Boxy
tied her' bonnet strings tighter, and
|d opened her brown cotton parasol with
B ' a decisive flop. " I ain't got no money
HW ~ ~ V.;ilo t It'll taVo
kyj Jjaj UlCOOUinA^O UiilO ? JLW u UdAD
hree months' butter-and-egg money t6
buy the'stuff fors'em. Yon'll have to
make 'em your own selves."
"But we can't," said Medora, with
an injured drawl; " we don't know how."
"L'arn," said Miss Boxy, briefly, as
she withdrew the buff tunnel and clis
fggMT appearea.
"It's too mean for anything!" MeHjflPr
dora flung the dish towel into a corner,
and gave the unoffending yellow puppy
M? a tosfrwith her neat slipper-toe. "Aunt
PB Boxy is as stingy as she can be. We
Hpi; never can have anything. For goodness
gill sake, Dolly, how can you keep so exas!$g|?
peratingly oool ?"
Easy-tempered Dollie lifted the silky
blue eyes, and
r ' - / r
? _ \ /
* Vy %
^ ir
u Take it easy, Doe," slie answered.
" It is not a tiling matter; and isn't it
rather rongh on poor Annt Ttoxy to call
her stingy when she is going to bny us
the new dresset?"
Medora shook her black braids snap
pishly.
" Of conrse you don't care," she observed,
tartly. "You couldn't look
stylish anyway; little dumpy people
never do. But it's quite necessary for
me to have a decent dress to wear to
Mrs. Etheredge's. She knows what style
is, if you don't; and so does Jerome
Lenox."
" Does he ?" asked Dollie; " but then
he don't have to pay your dressmaker's
bills."
" He may have to yetfr" said Medora,
with an exultant sparkle in her blaok
eyes; "that is, if I don't have to go
looking like an old apple woman." The
last thought, recalling her grievance,
was sumcient to ttpset ner temper ior
the rest of the day. "Aunt is stingy !"
she vcwc d, vindictively; "end she don
care a cent if I do lose my best chance,
between a miserable homemade dress
and her ugly old blue cups."
"Don't be cranky," observed Dollie,
shaking the bits of cornsilk from her
white apron. "Your future salvation
doesn't depend on Sir. Lenox's opinion.
There's that funny old Simeon ooming,
and as we can't buy anything and itiKUl
only be an aggravation to see all The
pretty things he's got, Tm going over
to Cousin Julia's to borrow a polonaise
pattern,before dinner."
Dollie tied her straw garden-hat over
her yellow bangs and fluttered out of
the kitchen leaving Medora glowering
at the blue teacup0.
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Miss Scratcher did make Medora Tem
pie's dress, after all.
"I had a little money left of that
Uncle Tom sent me last fall," she explained
to her aunt and sister?"enough
to have my dress made and get a steel
dagger for my hair."
Lawk! I thought you squandered
all that for ribbons and trash long ago,"
said Aunt Eoxy, bluntly.
"I?1 had some left," answered
Medora, walking out, with rather a
deep color in her cheeks.
Her dress did look well. Dolly could
hardly repress a sigh as she contrasted
with it her own simple costume, on the
occasion of a visit to the wealthy
and fflsthetically-inolined Mrs. Etheredge.
UCOUI D liAC i^uxa O UUCO AiUU UIULIO
the shine out of yours, Dollie," was
Aunt Roxyte consoling remark.
"But Dora would be Jfc best-looking,
anyway, thought collie, resignedly.
"How wonderfully becoming pink
is I" was Mrs. Etheredge's oompliment.
And the handsome eyes of her
brother expressed the same opinion as
they rested on the glowing, June-like
beauty of Miss Temple. /
I prefer"
reminds me of such a sweet set of
blue teacups I bought to-day of old
Simeon. I believe he has just brought
tnem. uome out ana take a loos at
them."
" Ain't it quare," said Miss Boxy. "I
had a set of blue teacups stole just last
week. Leastways they was left in the
kitchen, and turned up missing one
day; and Dora seen a suspicious-looking
feller around, so I reckon he tuck
'em."
Old Simeon?a little, brown, nondescript
personage, half peddler, half
merchant, and $lso dealer in old antique
odds and ends?was in the act of opening
the box when Mrs. Etheredge, Miss
Boxy and Dollie entered, followed at a
little distance by Jerome Lenox and
Medori, jast as the lid was removed ;
and, nestled in folds of white cotton, a
set of dumpy, blue cups was exposed to
view.
" Well, ef them ain't my teacups I
give you? leave to kill me I* shrieked
Miss Boxy, uncompromisingly, looking
doubtful whether to pounce first on the
china or the dealer. " So it was you
stole 'em, you little brown imp, you 1
But I've ketched you at it."
The startled little man jumped three
feet backward, and rolled his twinkling
little black eyes^up in dismay.
" Me?11" he gasped, wringing his
brown hands tragically. " Madame, I
buy all them teacups?I swear?of the
pink-eyed young lady in black. Pardon!
the black-eyed young lady in
pink. She swear the teacup waB all
an-tick. I pay for the teacup. I go
eeu tne teacup, mat is not stealing.
All eyes were turned upon Medora,
thereby oonfusing her. until losing her
presence of mind she dropped upon a
sofa, and burying her head in the
cushion broke into tears of anger and
shame, not attempting a denial.
Proud, handsome Medora Temple was
crushed by the consequenoes of her sin,
"and it was all in vain that Dollie, with
tears flowing from her own eyes, tried
to console he", while Mrs. Etheredge
assured her it was "all right anyway."
"Though I did fall dreadfully in love
with those dear, dumpy little teacups,'
she said, with a regretful sigh.
"Land! you're welcome to 'em, ef
that'*all," said iss Boxy; "but they
ain't no more antio than you air. I
bought 'em down at Jone?Perry."
Needless to say the visit WSa.afailure
as far as Medora was conoernei
"Who'd ha^js thought it of her?"
said Mr. LenoJSpo himself. "But Til
wager that sbft-hetrted, little, blueeyed
Dollie couldn't do such a trick,
though she seemed to feel as bad about
it as if it had been her.".
On what small pivottf do important
circumstances turn t And how strong
are associations! For years afterward
wsBmmm
Medota never saw hernj^BpBB3M
without connecting him vBKfigBB
blue ohina teacups.
The Names of the States, ^
New Hampshire gets its name froti
Hampshire, England. Massachusetts i
derived from an Indian name, first givei
to the bay, signifying " near the grea
hills." Rhode Island has an obscur
origin, the Island of Rhodes, th<
"Island of the Rhodes," and a Dutcl
origin, 11 Red Island," the first seeminj
to have the best historical support
Connecticut is an Indian name, signify
ing "land on a long tidal river." Vir
ginia, the Carolines and Georgia have i
royal origin. Maine was named Iron
the fact that it was supposed to contah
the " mayne portion " of New England
Vermont hasno espeoial question, excep
that it is olaimed to have been first ai
alias?New Connecticut, alias Vermont
Kentucky probably eignifies either "
dark and bloodv crround." or a "blood
river," or "the long river." Tennesse
comes from its river, the name beini
derived from the name of an Indiai
village on the river?" Tanassee.
Ohio is named after an Indian name
signifying " something great," with a:
accent of admiration. Indiana come
from the name of an early land part)
Illinois comes from the Indian?a nam
of a tribe. Michigan is olaimed to mea
"lake country;" it probably cami
from the name of the lake, "Ores
Lake," which bore this name before th
land adjacent was named. Louisian
is from the French. Arkansas and Mil
souri are from the Indian, the farme
being doubtful; the latter is olaimed t
mean in its origin "muddy water," whiol
described the river. Iowa is also Ind v
witn aouDie meaning, xeias is po .
larly thought to be Indian, bnt may >
Spanish. Florida is Spanish, "afl^a
ery land." Oregon has a oonjeotora
origin. It is probably Indian, bnt
Spanish origin is olaimed. Californi
comes from a Sp inish romance of 151(
Nevada takes its name from the moun
tains, who get theirs from a resemblano
to the Nevadas of Sonth Americt
Minnesota is Indian, "sky-tinted water.
Nebraska is variously rendered " shal
low water," and "flat country." lui
sas is from an Indian root, Eaw, coi
rnpted from the Frenoh. Mississippi i
"great water," or whole water." Ala
bama is Indian, the name of a fortress
and a tribe, signiflying as is olaimed
"here we reBt."
The Zodiac.
Very few people know the signifies
tion of the various signs peculiar to th
tit.lo nnorA nf fViA almp.nftf". and somft c
them are not exaotly dear to us.
In the first instance, the man wh
stands in the center with his vest nn
buttoned in snoh a manner as to expos
his alimentary canal, has only bee:
a mystery to us. Why in ever
almanao for the past century thi
fnan, with all his worksexgo^ft
the night air, in aHfc3J^a
liKe tne almanac, should be given t!
most prominent place, we are unable t
clearly understand. He certainly ca
claim no great degree of consideratio
for tliis act. It does not entitle him t
any amount of prominence, for th
public do not thirst for a man who he
made an autopsy of himself and is aj
parectly proud of it. What the plane I
have to do with the cardiao orifice w
do not at this moment know positively
or why astronomy and the gastrio juict
should have anything in common.
Again we must come out and confe;
our ignorance as to the bearing that tl
ram or the tarantula, or the twins, c
the orab, or other astronomical deliriui
tremens may have upon the weathei
Of oourse it is stupidity and we ougl
to be ashamed of it, but we are in thi
fix and we cannot help it. When or
son gets old enough to look into thef
things we will see that he isn't left \
>'??? fliMnnti Ufa and rrtftVa
giupn CUVriJQ i-mvug- ^?w ~
moral show of himself as his father ha
?Boomerang. ^
" Badgers" and " Suckers."
The term " Badger," applied co ti
people and State of Wisconsin, arose i
a singular way. In the lead regions, j
early times, there were two classes !<
miners?those who remained at U:
mines the year round and those wfc
came up from Illinois to operate ^n]
during the summer. The permfthei
residents were aocustomed to dijj! bu
rows in the hillside, where they \300ke
and slept, while the Illinois itineran
lived in pits. The residents, therefor
were called " Badgers" on account "<
their burrows, and to the Hlinoisai
was applied the term "Suckers," b
cause their migrations coincided i
time with that of the suokers in tl
river, whioh appeared in the spring <
the year and vent away in the ial
Both of these cognomens havp stnel
and are at the present time in genera
nse. 4
The Swiss Way.
In theOantonof Geneva, Switzerland
every country schoolmaster is require
to know something of agriculture ai
natural history, to the end that he ms
instruot his pupils therein. Every vi
lage has its night school, in whioh lad
and young men who have attended tl
communal sohool the required termuntil
the completion oteHreir thirteen!
year?may obtaih:furtMr^itruotio n j
mattersrelating to their
during tire winter, lectures are giVen j
the village sohool-rooms?sometimes i
the village churohes?by professors fro:
the university, on agricultural, ohemi
try and kindred subjeots.
A school-teaoher was asking her litt
girls the other day questions in regai
to the growth of plants, and on puttii
the question, "What makes the flowers'
one of them presently answered, "tt
buds."?Oil City Derrick.
( r
this w?
b1^^^^^^^B|HHH|> settle'
<3ie4J
t and
9 $e'
9 Vnoe Iat
thc^^^^^^^^H^Rter at
h of M
the family w^^H^^^^^^Bfeshfaced,
bright-cra^H^^^^^Bpme thj
eighteen yearsr^ThroR^^^^^V in
a her society, Stewart f&nl^H^^kie 48
a yottng lady's manifold chai^^H&s to]
a soon an accepted sputor.
. the yonng man, Having soldWt hiSfc ?Ji
t tereet in tha^lSer Stewart's property/ 8
a began preparing for his retnrn to Amer- ^
j. ica, and snggested that the family of 8*
a his betrothed accompany him. After 1*
y due solicitation on his part and with ?
e great reluotanoS on theirs they finally
g consented to emigrate, and coming to *?
a this country settled in what was then a 00
" small village but is now the city of <*!
i, Cleveland. Stewart and Miss Abby 78
a corresponded for a year or more, SP
s and Stewart visited her at her distant ie
r. home. Upon his returning to New a'
0 York bis lettefcs grew infrequent and oc
n ultimately ceased. Shortly after, Miss
e Morrow received tidings of Stewart's m
it marriage. ThA-news prostrated her
e completely, and after her recovery from in
a the illness whioh ensued she was en- ^
i- tirely changed. Before that time she B
r had been light-hearted and oheerful. cc
o Afterward she was never fcnown to P1
h speak above . ?? ordinary tone, and
n smiled only on rare oocasions. The m
i- rosea permanently left her cheeks and
e die became prematurely aged. Her
r- mother died the year following Abby's 1
- , . w
1 sicnness, ana lor tmrty years sne sepc
a honse for lier two brothers. In the pi
a early years she did not laok for
) suitors, for attractive girls were even *
i- ewer in proportion in those days ^
p than now. None of them sucoeeded in
i. awaking any responsive emotion in her
" breast, and in 18?6 she died, and, with f1
- her griefs and blighted affections, was ^
i- laid away in a gfftve dag by her broth- 1
- ers in front of their cottage door. Two n
a years after his marriage A. T. Stewart p'
b- sent to his former affianced a silk dress a
i, pattern, with the attendant trimmings. 0<
I, Each following year till the time of his ^
death Miss Morrow received a similar
nffarincr frnm hfir iftithlfiRS and nossiblv
emorseful lover. All the presents she ?
k* received without remark, and all were ^
^ carefully laid away and never worn 11
After his marriage Miss Morrow was
never known to refer to Stewart in any
manner, and after her death her brothL
ftl
' era rarely spoke of the man who broke g
their sister's heart.
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V Fftjihlon Fancle*. oi
b New black lacS~?ils have borders. I ta
New mown ha&and putty are the 11
' latest shades talked abont. t<
Stockings of new cherry grade are tl
0 worn with black oostumes.
l6 New York women of fashion display t<
k8 little or no jewelry on the street. si
) Shoulder capes in various styles, made p
:s of the dress material, are to be very 4
e fashionable as a part of walking suits a **
7, little later in the season. ^
ss Laoed boots arc again revived, both 0
in stout material for long tramps in the
53 countrv and in fine kid for the street. ?
,e it
Ribbon neokties are in vogue. These
* are from an inch and a half to three ^
^ inches wide, and pass round the neck '
* outside the collar and inside the dress.
1 tying in front with long loops and ends;1 '
it ' 81
lf Among novelties in lingerie ar$ ^
Elizabethan and Marie Stnart ruffs.
>e ?
_ made, seme of lace and others of ei?0
' q'
a quisitely embroidered India muslin, ^
g They are kept upright by means of a ^
verv?ne-wire covered with gauze and ^
mcalong the edge.
y' Tailor-made costumes of blaok diagonal
clftth or serge without luster, and t
n also of flannel, are worn by ladies in q
the morning. Braiding in paftllel g
l0 rows is theirimming, or else the braid t]
appears merely at ihe edges of the n
iy basque and x>yerskixt, and there are p
lt rows of stifcohiiig above it.
t. Little prino^sse or bebe bonnets c
^ made entirely if flowers are again in 0
ta fashion. Among the prettiest are those ^
Bj made of whit^ lilacs mingled with pale ^
5f pink hedge ioses, or those of white
ta wood violets with trailing arbutus ^
e. blossoms intermingled. These dainty ^
;n little capotes are particularly approte
priate at weddings, either for the bride- a
-* maid or lady truest.
u
A Useful Invention. '
A priest of Bavenna, named Bavagm
ling, has constrnoted an electrical ap- q
% paratns which can be set in operation t
*9 Sfov simply pressing a button, and by f
^ Tfl&ioh the doors of a large building can ?
id beSinstantsneously opened. The apparid
atugfwas tried at the Alighieri theatre i
iy inBttvenna, with the most satisfactory s
1- raault^i All the nine doors opened sim- &
Is utyng^isly, as if through some spirit- a
le uaJa#moy! The inventor hopes to im- I
?. mfive his apparatus, so. that should a* 1
ih^pe break out' on the stage of a theatre I
in?pfrise in temperature wonld itself set s
fftte machinery in motion.
in ? i
n A sad story of cannibalism comes {
from Great Britain. A ! Fijian teacher's
m 8
B< wife and two children i et ont for the .
house of a friend, abo it three miles
distant from their resic enoei and the
le natives killed and roaste-1 the children t
d preparatory to eating twein ?i> uuo ui ?tg
their 'feasts." The vfcman escaped t
>" into the bash, and wa^Hfc^^fter
te roaming about for eighte^^^^HHiving
skeleton.
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^"World's Coal Supply.
BKench statistician has recently
en engaged in ascertaining the t
lotrni of coal piodnoed by the entire a
rid in a given ydar, the area of the t
il fields of the oonntries of the world c
sanare miles, the labor employed in s
a industry, etc. He has chosen the 1
ur 1880, probably because it was the g
est of which he was able to obtain ?
liable figures. In that year 294,000,- I
D tonB were n reduced thron shout the \
irld, being 100,000,000 tons more
in were produced in 1869. Of this
eat Britain produced one-naif, with
4,983 men, each man producing 808
08. The other countries employed
5,000 men to produce their half, each
m producing 200 tons. The total
iges of the 1,219,933 men employed
9 estimated at ?60,000,000 sterling,
vifi% an average coBt for labor of 4s.
sr ton. The value per ton of coal in
reat Britain is stated to be 6a. lid.
bis gives aVatal value of '?46,539,904
the 147,000,0$ tons produced in that
mntry. The 147^180,000 tons proiced
by the othef^cpuntries are
lined at 8s. 6cL per Hon, which
ves a total value of ?61,74^000. It
estimated that these amounts hast be
least doubled to get at the cost to the
insumer, including the charge igr
asportation and the profit of the
iddlemen, so that the aggregate value
' the coal consumed during the year
question may be given at ?220,000,
)0 sterling. Next to Great Britain
elginm is the greatest coal-producing
mntry. The United States and France
odnce nearly equal quantities.
The fntnre coal supply of the world
ust be drawn from the United States,
we are to believe,' the figures before
J, for the ccal fields of this country
we an area of 196,650 sqnore miles,
hile all other ooal-producing countries
at together have only an area of 16,494
[uare miles. The English North
merican colonies have 7,530 and
real Britain 5,400 square miles,
ranee and Prussia each having a
ttle over 900, while Belgium
ram has 510. With the great increase
l the production of coal an increase
as been noted in the development of
always and the iron industry. The
rodnction of iron has indeed increased
; a faster rate than the production of
ial, for whilst coal has increased fifty
sr oent. between 1869 and 1880, iron
as increased sixty-one per oent. This,
owever, we are told, is due to the.
reater economy of fuel whioh has
sen effected in the manufacture of
on.
The Newer Arithmetic.
James has six apples and divides one
song his five brothers and sisters.
low many has he left ?
If a quart-box of strawberries holds a
int and a half, how many boxes will it
ike to make speck, and how quick
jj^f1% of grasgr
lone dayphow many liars will it take
) mow'thirty-eight acres of grass in
iree days?
A gnest at the hotel pays the porter
venty-flve cents to take his trunk uptairs;
ten cents te a boy to bring him a
itcherof water; twenty-five cents to
he waiter to bring hie dinner; twentyve
cents farther to the porter to get
is trunk downstairs; fifty cents to the
mnibus driver, and $3 to the landlord
s the regnlar rate of the house. How
inch has he been swindled, and wha
i he going to do about it ?
A coal dealer has a driver weighing
35 pounds, who is weighed with 750
jads of coal during the winter, what
ro nld have been the gain to the con"mers
had the driver only weighed 150
ounds?
If a policeman on night duty sleeps
n hour aud a half each night for thirjen
years, how many years of such aruous
labor will it take to reduce him
9 a walking skeleton ?
In each oounty in the United States
re seventy inhabitants who believe
hey would ma&e good state governors.
If this number only two per oent. ever
et to be even a constable. Wbat is
he exaot number of constables and bow
lany law suits can a*wide-awake officer
rovoke/n a year ?
A grocer has a horse which he asserts
an trot a mile in?2:40. He puts him
n the traok under] a watch and finds
la haat-. aair."fn Via Ipsa than 3:28. What
'as the difference between the grocer's
stimate and the watch, and why did
e wollop the poor horse all the way
ome?
A merchant who has "a stock valued
t $8,000 advertises that he will dispose
f it at one-fourth off. How much does
ie make?
A citizen has a cow whioh gives six
uarts of milk per day, while his sales
Dot up nine quarts. There is nothing
or the student to find in this case.
Limply turn on the water.
A grocer buys a chest of tea weigh
g eighty pounds, tie sens iwemyeven
pounds of it as "my unapproachble
sixty cent tea," and the remainder
a "our splendid forty-cent Oolong."
low muoh did he receive in all and
low much did he have to give to the
Leathen that year to quiet his con
A plumber who does sixteen cents'
Forth of repairing desires to charge for
our pounds of solder in his bill. Please
uggest how it can be done without innry
to his system.? Detroit Free Preee.
The report of the adjutant-general of
he United States army shows that the
lesertions are in the enormous proporion
of nearly fifty per cent.
The fashionable shade this summer is
jMfshady side of the street.
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\ Pishing In the Blver Jordan.
A \orrespondent traveling in Pales- Wl
ine writes: My tents were pitched At
,mong thbolive trees on the bank of Qr
he east branch of the upper Jordan, Th
>nly a few r^ds below the mighty
ipring at Banias* the ancient Osesarea An
Philipph The Jordan rises from various a 1
prsat sprir gs in the West and southwest
tides of Mount Hermcwq.. The western An
mincb, which comes down the gorge W(
between Hermon and the Lebanon
ange, flows practically southward from 'M
ts sonrce till it comes out on the plain
kbove the waters of Merom. The Balias
branch springs out of therooky T1
nountain side, at that village, descend^
the declivity in a torrent, receives theN
low of the great spring of Dan three \ii
jr four miles below, then joinstfce west
jranch and the river pursues its course; Ai
widening into Merom, and resting again Ai
in the Sea of Galilee. / y
The sun was an hour abov<r the wes- N<
;ern lrills. So I took out a light roifand N<
i book of flies and small spinnohs, and ^
vent up to the spring where tlae waters A]
began their course. Wha^ Ash might
be in the river and whaVflies to use I
knew not But it fo^ery Certain that if
there be any^gam^ fish in any
nro* r*r lalrA^a in^iAmna nan nf fli aa
3rBpinmghwill bring them to hand, to
TJwj cavernous opening in the prewfntous
rook' of the hill, ont ol which
the spring onoe flowed, has crumbled, ^
and the clear,water gushes and babbles
out In countless little springs amoU^
the debris. Remains of pagan worship ^
are numerous, for the Romans, as well
as their (fyeek and Phoenician prede
cessors in power, had cultivated here ^
the reverence and worship of the^goda 0
of the water, the woods and the lower
regions. "
Turning my tXck on the old myths, I c
began to whip the stream where the J
various oozings of the fountain gathered
in a somewhat smooth flow for a little* . 1
There were a host of small fish not j
buree iuuiibb xuug, ?na ub over/ wwi a fc
would take .one or two. Bnt these
young descendants of the snored fish of 0
olden times were entitled to respect, andL
were carefully restoredi?hsi^^are p
gretted thatl made no ca^fai notes of the 0]
characteristics of the fish I took in tie
Sea of Galilee and in various parts of
the Jordan. I then suppled that they *
were known to the boc^g and cata- a
logned. I have since found that no one t
has described the various families, and
it is a subjeot of manifest interest. I
then only said to myself, " ^ese seem
to be some small fry of t^e perch
family," and I began to follc,w down
the stream, seeking larger fish. \
From the very start the river began a
series of white plunges, winding on its
ceurse, 1 ashing itself into millions of
sparkling bubbles too gay and evanescent
to be called foam, pitohing,) toss
ing, furious. There was no plaop fqrj
use pf spinner, fly or bait. Never* wMH
.a mpre noil'e torrent
fimpossTbleT TDown, down,
Uwwd,-and followed ooutenf^_fQi_|ue ,
glory of such a oataraot was worth^n- (
joying. Still the sun went downward ?
also over Lebanon, and the night w (
coming. m ^
Oloee by the bank of the stream I ,
came on a group of Arabs, six men, surj ,
rounding a small fire of a few stalks ofl j
grass and weeds. They welcomed fj|
stranger with frank cordiality, anK
pressed me to share their evening mea^S
which they were then abont to eat.
consisted of tongh, fiat cakes of breads
roasted snails and Jordan wateil*
The snails were roasting in thera
ashes, big fat fellows, the shells nearly ?
two inches in diameter. Boast snailsB
are not at all to be despised. I had
eaten them before. I ate them with the I
Arabs now; and somewhere I have two }
or three of those giant shells, kept as a
memorial of the hospitality of Lebanon
Arabs to a strolling angler. k;
High overhead the snow olad summit v
of the Sheik of mountains, Hermon of j
old, was glowing in the light of the sun, t
whioh had gone down beyond Sidon on ]
the waters of the great sea. A deep i
gloom seemed to be pouring into the 1
southern view, where, away between the j
I ?-V% ill r* 4-VIA AAvcm /InnnaTiar) 4
JTlUigCO VI mtiOj UUO gv&gv \*VW^V?4WV? I
downwarc, beyond Capernaum and i
Chorazin and Bethsaida, toward the eea i
of death. A cold wind swept down, i
making the Hermon dews to seem ioe- 1
like instead ol soft. i
Slowly, rod in baud, without fish, I 1
climbed the hill toward the tents among i
the olive trees at Banias. The red light
faded on Hermon. It was dark before
I reached home; for tents are homes,
though they be movable homes, and all
our homes are at best but oamping
places.
That Was It.
"Sir!" began a Detroiter, as he entered
a grocery the other morning,
"Sir! I ordered some bntter of yon
yesterday!"
"Tea?ah?I know, meant to have
sent it np bnt forgot it. Yon shall have
it right away."
"Sir! the bntter came up on time."
"Oh?ah?it did, eh! Well, I'm
sorry it was poor, bnt we shall have
some better in a day or two."
" Sir! the feter came np on time
and was ail right, beet I've seen in a
year."
"Ton don't say so I Certainly?just
sew?I'll make np the weight on the
next lot." j
"SirI the butter was good, the
weight correct, and 1 called to order ]
six pounds more."
" Is it possible ? Well, I do declare! ; ^
Then that was it ? Well, well, but ao- ;
cidents will happen in the best regulated
groceries, you know. Sorry, but ! 1
will do better next time."?Detroit Free t
Press. \
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Across the Street. #
ion dawn was lighting the rosy heaven,
four in summer, in waiter seven,
Ere Phceboe glowed,
yet the city had turnedin its bed,
ere by the window witn leedle and thread,
She sit and sewed;
d, as the hand so busily plied,
baby boy played soft by her side A
Tho whole day long,
id sad and sweet in the evening mfld
are heard the voices of mother and child
In gentle song.
id tofl and trouble and dire despair/
le child's smile solaced the m^litera car* ^
Thro'Jteary years;
>r the little one had his-flttho1! face
ist faded away from her fond-embrace
' With boning tears.
it there came a day when the song was still
id the needle stopped at the window-silh
\ For the babe was lo^
id there came* day when the boy wasdead
id cold and pale in his little bed
Where the tkieta blow.
*5
> longer the woman site and sews, >
longer the tear of sorrow flows
Or memories throng-^ ,
ir the gentle tones of mother and child
e blended again in the evening mild
In angel song.
PUNGEOTPABAGRAPHR
Food for reflection: Mince
leese, lobster salad. No sleep. Time
think.
"The parting gives me pain," as the
.an said when he had a troublesome
10th extracted.
Before marriage he thought she was
little dear, bat after marriage he found
le was very extravagant.
Fashion at a picuio demands that a
irl shall get wet sooner than hoist an
mbrella that does not match her suit.
Professor: '' What Latin word meanig
money shows the faot that formerly
attle were used as amedium of barter T
uuior: "Bullion."
"She struck him with a fiendish
mile," says aj&ensational novelist.
'hat's better than striking him for
wo dollars. ?'
Young Swelf:.
ffeijpoa^^ "Ob, this
lfenSgyonraMdagetting monotonous.
"?J. ????&? *niw Tianr? fnrtk
r Df ilub uuq^> Uir * *? t."? "ijft'LW
hange?" (
" Were I jib be candled I would say
ou were just about tb* nicest fellow I
ver met, " skid she, while leaning on bis
rm in front of a confectioner's. He
ought the taffv.
A busy retairgrocer,
Whom we allwtarely know, air,
Was asked one day in a friendly way
By ?*?untry chip who had come to stay
Till the mail .came in at the close of day,
"What aflScydhr groes receipts, air t"
"He, ho I ha, ha I ho, ho I air 1"
Laughed the busy grocer, ...
As he pointed out, with laugh and shout,
The barrels and boxes ranged about,
"lou can plainly see, beyond a doubt,
Sjj? What are my grocery seats, sir P'
baa a luoky horseshoe
in the Bonell family for nearly a cen*
;ory. There is in connection with the
ihoe a most interesting history wh ch
;he reporter was made acquainted with,
ft seems that in 1781 General Lafayo; te,
with, the immortal Washington, was
naking a tour through the northern
portion of New York State, and one
ivening, near nightfall, they lened
ip at a neat and c:mfortabl(-lookng
inn, which was kept by Mr. James
Saskins. Here Sib distinguished guests
;arried for a week. Just before reaumng
their journey, Lafayette's horse
&at a shoe, and the famous geneial,
licking it up handed it to "mine host,''
ind smiling, said: "Here, take this
md keep it, for it is an inheritance of
pck." The recipient heartily thanked
Le donor, and carrying the gift into the
fcuse, kept it?treasuring it highly long
fcer. Mr. Haskins handed it over then to
H: son-in-law, Ira Brooks, whose wife
^d in 1876, at the advanced age of 100
,mrs. The mother of Mr. Bunell affivard
came into possession of. the
elrc. This intelligent lady resides
vitlr another of her sons, near Pemirol^e,
Genesee oounty. Though nearly
m octoeenarian, Mrs. Bunell has re
;ainod her mental faculties wonderfully,
md recites some Jfaots in conneoticn
yith this horseshoe which are certainly
most interesting. Mr. William Bun el
;hen ft?ll heir to the shoe, and a short
timeatfo gave it to the present owner,
who takes especial delight in showing
the curiosity.
Advertising'.
The trouble with a great many business
men is, says an exchange, that
they try a dash in the pan" method
of advertising, and because a single
appearance of their advertisement in
print does not bring in a regular throng
of customers, they conclude that advertising
does not pay. Advertising does
pay. Every man engaged in a legitimate
business ought to be a liberal,
careful advertiser. This is a branch of
one's business that is sadly neglected.
Many men who spend much money in
advertising are very careless about tneir
method of applying their money.
Two Home Thrusts.
A young man seated beside an elderly
passenger on the Oinoinnati, Hamilton
and Dayton trainl made considerable
sport in a quiet way of the hat of a
lady near them. At last his elderly
companion replied:^ "That lady is-my
wife, sir; and I told lier that every jroo
fvho saw the hat womd make sport o
,t; bnt she wouldn't- believe me, and
nsisted on wearing p.'1 The young
nan stammered an apology And recreated
to the smoking*-ear. f
There is nothing no (easy as to be wise
or others; a species of prodigality, by
he way, for snoh ;wisdom is wholly
v as ted. (
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