Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE COUNTRY CHURCH. Th«r« vrere no cushion**! (tews therein, N*> flnety frenoo'sd ceiiiug— % Tneso teach no plainer >lu Is sin, Nor deeper Christian feeiinjcj But through the church's penal?* shade * The summer air came stealing Vrom o'er the hills whose outlines made Gaunt dromedaries kneeling. I •**« the crowds that gathered then While fauey's eastward winging— Plain country (oik. hut women and men With faith divinely springing. Ther** i>eaeon Hays would h's-iJn prayer, Ike Fite would lead in singing— And •Happy Day" went straight from there To H- aven’s shores up-ringing! And one perhaps who has forgot Her ola-time hoyish lover— Her face still haunts the hallowed spot, As ere a dream was over, While 'mong the colder city's ways He wishes, dreaming of her, He held the dead love of those days Thought's lingers now uncover. -Will T. Hale. tub Slothful suitor. “My dear boy,” observed a certain negligent young man to a certain other negligent young man, as they were / tmth engaged in the laborious opera tion of sitting under a shady tree, subsequently to u particularly heavy country dinner. “My dear boy,’’said he, “do you know that I think that you are—excuse me—a little of a fool?” “Know it? Certainly,” responded the other toiler; “why shouldn’t I ? That is your common run of thought, and as you take cave to express it a dozen times u day I am tolerably used to it. I am not surprised, I assure yon. But what have I done now?” “Done? Nothing. Doing every thing. You are playing the mischief with your after-happiness by allowing yourself to get in love with your 'charmer,’ as you are pleased .to call her. Suppose you many her. She will lead you the life of a servant. Bhe has ten times the money you can lay your hands upon, and, so far as I «au see, is a maiden who would love fondly to rule the roost. She is self -willed, witty, high-tempered and exact ing. And between your stupid good nature and beautiful laziness, and her touch-and-go style, with her Are and pash,you will come out pretty fine,old boy, pretty deuced flue.” • “Upon my word, I’m half incline to think you’re right. Not a sudde •ouversion, by any means, but I been dreaming that she has more pluck in a single day than I’ve ha/l since I was born. And this won’t dr>, you see; can’t bear to be mad^ to do anything, or think of everything, ard she would always be nagging at ay habits and lazy friends. That would be misery indeed. My dear friend, you’re handsomer than I; take her off juv hands. She’d be willing, no , doubt.” “WsU,” drawled the other,” “I don’t mind. Egotism aside, you'll pardon me, of course, if I say that I think we might get on better than if you were in my place. But I can’t j ataud any flirtatious from you, of , course. You’ll have to quit moonlight jdrives and boating, and that stuff, of course, eh?” ’ ' “Certain. As you like. It is too hot to talk. Snppose you hunt her up; she’s playing croquet or some auch rubbish behind the house; do go, uiy boy, for I’m horribly sleepy.” | Upon this, nothing loth, the first .conspirator dragged himself upon his feet, and lounged away to begin his toil of capturing the handsomest and richest girl in the country round about, and immediately after he was lost to sight this identical handsomest and richest girl stepped from behind $he tree, with flashing eyes, and con templated the second conspirator with sublime wrath. He, however, smiles upon her blandly. “Too hot to get up to receive you, ■my love. There, don’t fly off in a fury, fori knew you were there, but I couldn’t stand the trouble of getting you alone in any other way. There’s a shawl or something; fetch it here, and sit down and take my head in yonr lap. Come. ” “Indeed, sir.”quoth she; “indeed, sir, your impudence is beyond every thing, I-” • “Yes,” yawned the prostrate hero; * 44 I expect it is. But you wouldn’t have me get up to get that shawl, would you?” “It is not a matter of a shawl, I as sure you, said the handsomest girl, with a fine drawing up of her figure; “but I demand to know why you pre- •same to talk of me in the manner I was forced to overhear.” Here she dug her parasol deeply into the ground, and looked savagely upon the poor culprit before her. The poor culprit laughed. “A trick of war only, my gem. I wanted to tickle his vanity. He is a consummate dandy,and you area con- •aummate beauty, and I am a consum mate lazy-boues; so, there you have it, if you’ll only take the trouble to find it out. It’s a bore to explain. ” Whereupon he spread a handker chief over his face. Here the parasol name in use to drag it away and throw it off upon the grass, while the perpe trator of the outrage looked in dignantly downward. “Sir,” she began, with much calm ness though her eyes sparkled as if ahe were a burning volcano inside. “My love.” “Sir. I own that I have been foolish enough to suppose that in a person fit to be my husband there would be at least some lingering spark of manli ness, and—” “Love, that was foolish ! It was, indeed. ” “And some faint atom of spirit. That there would be some energy that would show itself on some great occa sion, even if it was usually concealed by other habits. Now, I have been foolishly led into becoming engaged to you, and I hoped that all might come out all right—but—bat,” here the voice began to break a little and the lips to tremble, but they both calmed almost instantly; “but now that I can not help thinking that you will be ut terly worthless to the world and to everybody in it, I now say that I desire to consider our engagement broken.” There was a trifling silence, during which the parasol prodded the earth vigorously, and the party addressed pretended to gape, but presently spoke; “Excuse the slang, if I say that's pretty rough!” “How much worse would it be for mo, a girl who loves spirit and vigor, to be harnessed to a hulking fellow, who can do almost nothing but sleep, whose labor is playing billiards and whose aspiration is to smoke better cigars than all his friends, I feel ashamed to think that I over looked upon you with even forbearance. If you could only show some scar, or show some work done in this great world, or show that you even give some of your wealth to charity or the relief of suff ering, or even had the pluck to knock down the stable boy, I might perhaps think better of yon,for I can’t love a man whose w eapon is a laugh, and his defense and argument a stretch aud a yawn.” After all this the most beautiful girl must needs go into hysterics, or, rather, an hysterical tit of weeping, which prevented her from seeing the scarlet flush creep into the face of the discarded youth] who still affected to be unconcerned. They both remained silent for some, and, indeed, many moments, and both became aware of an approaching storm, bat neither cared to go away, and,indeed,partially forgot that it wis so close, until a whirring cool breeze rushed through the leaves ubou; them. Still they re mained quiet, both perfectly calm, he without a sign of his old habit of laughing, and the resolute and a little white in the face. Presently hi ronsed himself, and, without a word relating to the subject then before them, looked about at the threatening weather. I He offered her his arm, but she drew away aud motioned him to go on alone. He did not move neither did she. It became rapidly darker, aud shelter was some 400 yards off. “Come,” said he,finally, “don’t you think we had better go?” “I will not go with you, for I feel : that I have quarreled with you. Go I on alone and I will follow.” “No, I will follow you, or else I shall stay.” “Then stay!” • It became darker and darker, and soon the rain burst upon them, and inky-black clouds were rising in the horizon. The lightning was terribly near, and he looked at her rather nervously, and perceived that her woman’s nerve was yielding under the frightful noise about them. “I must insist on your going, for you are drenched, and this place is particularly dangerous; the tree is very tall and stands quite alone.” *She trerabed ns a new burst of storm broke upon them, and shrank from him further inward toward the trunk. “No,” she gasped. “I feel quite safe here. Go yourself. I shall not stir.” “But yon must!” cried he,decisively and approaching her. “Must!” She gazed at him in aston ishment, while a thrice terrible burst broke upon them. He looked about, filled with dread, aud upward at the huge, towering shaft above him, aud then at the girl before him. “Come,” cried he again, but she withdrew from him. Another burst broke in rattling thunder from the clouds Above them, and the earth seemed to tremble under their feet. He dared wait no longer, but rushed upon her, and seized her and fled, in spite of her angry struggles and screams. It lasted but a second; she had a sense of torrents of rain beating on her upturned face, and of tierce winds sweeping about her, and of strong arms encircling her, and he had a sense of a beautiful burden, a greater strength, and then all became suddenly- jagged, torn and distorted. There was a vision of splitting, of white tire and bluish flame, and a feel ing of rocking and stumbling, and a great upbearing of all about him, and then a dashing to the earth, and then a stillness and denth-like quiet. The sun was shining when he awoke again, and there were kind faces about him, and among the rest, that of the first conspirator. “Ah, old boy, it was pretty tough, he's all right, bat a little dazed. The lightning knocked the tree to shivers, and you got away just far enough to be knocked over yourself.” “What does she say?” whispered Ihe other. “Not much, but, from what I see, there’s no chance for in*.” “No, I don’t think there is, for I think I’ll keep her myself,if she thinks that I turned out any better than she thought—and if she’ll have me.” “Aud she will,” epoke up another voice, gently, on the other side, “for you’ve got a scar and one I shall always be proud df. Hurry aud get well, lazy-bones, and then—” It was all completed properly, of course, and the second conspirator turned over many new leaves hence forth.—New York News. A pest OF EAGLES. I.unibs an*! Poultry Stolen From Con- eetlcut Farm* by IJia, Fierce Bird*. Eagles have become a pest to farm ers in Connecticut. The boldness and fierceness with which they have been preying upon film animals are re markable. At the same time they are so w ary that few oi them are shot. There is a large and particularly ugly bald-headed eagle in the Gardi ner’s Lake country, in New London county, which has made such a nuisance of itself in the matter of stealing lambs and poultry from the farmers all winter,that a special effort bus been made to slay it, but thus far it has succeeded in avoiding the gnus of a score of hunters aud evaded any number of pole traps which have been set and temptingly baited up in the air for it. J. N. Newton, foreman of the Fish er’s Island farm, killed a big bald eagle on the island. It had become exhausted from some unknown reason aud fallen in the road. Mr. Newton leaped from his wagon and attacked the eagle with the butt of his whip. The eagle turned on him fiercely, and it was some time before be could kill it. The bird had a spread of wings of six feet four inches, and was beauti fully marked, having a white head, neck and tail, and the rest of its body being of a mixed brown. Fisher’s Island is also being haunted by a great golden eagle, attracted there by the large poultry farms. A fierce fight between a bald eagle and a hen, which, strange to say, did not result in the death of the hen, oc curred on Dennis Perigo’s farm in Kent. The hen boldly met the eagle, which dropped like a plummet from the upper air. Feathers aud blood flew at a lively rate for a moment, and the eagle seemed somewhat nonplused by its reception. Then the hen sud denly flew mto the woodshed, leaving her tail feathers In the clutches of the glorious bird. The hen is still in good health. A bald-headed eagle was shot while hanging over James Way’s farm in Lyme. An appetite for turkey led this specimen of the king of birds into trouble. While it was swooping down upon the tnrkey roost Mr. Way poured the contents of an old musket into it, breaking one wing. It fell into the yard, flopping and biting at every thing within reach with its wicked looking beak. This bird was one of the largest ever shot in Connecticnt. It measured seven feet ten inches from tip to tip of wingSj and had for sev eral months keen a pest to the farmers of Lyme. On Goose Island in Long Island Sound, James Monteith, a dnek hunt er, shot a large bald eagle and brought it to the ground. As he stepped for ward to pick it up, thinking it was dead, he was attacked by the bird and badly scratched. Before he finally killed it his clothing was torn into shreds. The eagle measured six aud one-half feet across the wings.—New York Sun. n s 's’S/'-v Pulverization. Perhaps but a small per cent, of farmers have as yet realized the im portance of a thorough fining of the soil. Nature provided for this in vir gin soils, by filling them with roots of plants, but we must do it to quite an extent by mechanical means. Many soils called barren are simply com pacted and heavy, so that the feeding roots of plants cannot penetrate them. A clod yields no nourishment to plants till crushed. Clover Tor Poultry. Some sort of green food is absolute ly necessary for confined fowls, aud clover seems to be more to their taste than any other vegetation. During the summer chopped clover should be kept in the yard at all times, and in the winter a commercial food, known ns clover meal, should be fed. Clover, either green or in meal form, is a sort of balancing ration between grain and meat, and will take the place of any other vegetable food. It is rich in lime, much more so than either bar ley or wheat, and provides a necessity not only for egg-production but for the proper and healthy growth of frame.—Atlanta Journal. Quickly Made Crate For Shipping Poultry, Whether one desires to ship pure bred poultry for breeding purposes, or live poultry to market, the crate figured herewith will serve most ad vantageously, while it is so very easily made that one need spend but little time in preparing his fowls for ship ment. Select an empty grocery box of Teacher Shifted the Topic. The Sumfay school teacher had reached a point in the lesson where she was dwelling upon the future re ward of those who behaved properly here, when the audacious small boy, who frequents most Sunday schools, spoke up and asked if all good people went to heaven. “Certainly,” replied the teacher. “Well, has my grandmother gone to heaven?” persisted the youngster. “Sorely she has, my boy,if she was a good woman.” “No, she hasn’t,” declared the fan- loving youngster, “there she is over there!” The teacher turned to other phases of the lesson.—Confregationalist. The Language of Flower*. Hyacinth means “Jealousy.” The Pansy, “Thoughts of you.” Lilac: “First love.” Red Pink: “Affection.” White Pink: “Pure and ardent lore.’’ White Rose:“Unconfessed passion.” Blush Rose: “Diffidence.” Red-Rose Bud: “Love’s first offer ing.” Geranium: “Preference.” Heliotrope: “I dream of thee.” White Heliotrope: “Angels be with thee.” Poppy: “Consolation.” Red Rose: “Heart’s Passion.” A Misunderstanding. Bridget (to cross-eyed clerk)—An’ hov yez ony frish eggs, sor? Clerk—Plenty. Just look this way, ma’am. Bridget (loftily)—Shure, an’ Oi’ll not look thot way if Oi niver hov any. —Judge.* CRATE FOR POULTRY. the desired size, using one that is made of thin boards—three-eighths of, an inch preferably. Saw it through from side to side in three or more places, as suggested by the dotted lines id the cut. Spread the sections apart and nail inch-square pieces in the corners, as shown, and the crate is complete. It will be well, however, to tack a piece of cotton cloth or bnrlap about the sides, to keep out drafts. In such a crate fowls will go at single express rates and the crate will bo very |gkt —Orange Judd Farmer. • To Cure Hams. Take the hams and shouldeii and cheeks, rub them well with silt on both sides, lay on a declining b(?ard so as to have drainage, and 'cover the flesh side well with salt. Take a lot of fine saltpeter and work in at end and around the centre bone. Let them be three or four days. Have a clean barrel ready, clean off all the bloody salt from the meat, pack in the barrel, rind downward and out ward, pour and cover with a brine of pare salt and water that will bear np an egg. Hams from hogs weighing 250 to 280 pounds dressed weight should remain in this fourteen days only. Take them out, let drain and diy two or three days, then smoke them. Soon after smoking cover and sew up in any kind of clean cotton cloth, and have a barrel of dry, clean wood ashes ready. Cover the bottom with three or four inches of ashes, lay in one layer the best you can and cover again with ashes, so the meat comes in direct contact with other pieces, until all are packed and cov ered. Keep the barrel in some oat- house from the infiaence of moisture. Onrs are kept in the smokehoase, and the other day oar city cousins and the doctor ate dinner with us, and we had ham from December, 1896, and they all declared it first-class.—Texas Stock and Farm Journal. Deep or Shallow Culture For Corn? Shallow culture, for the following reasons: 1. In the average season a larger yield will be obtained. 2. The plants are able to withstand a drouth with less damage. 3. Catting the roots of the corn plant is avoided. In a large number of experiments made at the Missouri, New York and Illinois stations, it has been clearly shown that the cutting or pruning of the roots is in every in stance injurious to the corn plant. The extent of the injury will be largely governed by the amount of moisture there is in the soil at the time the roots are grown. In very dry weather the injury is serious. In wet weather it is of i comparatively little conse quence. 4. An acre of corn can be kept free from weeds and properly crashed on the surface by surface tillage for less money and with less effort than by deep tillage. 5. The land is left in a condition to be better protected from washing and more easily handled the next season, or can be sown to grass, wheat or oats very much more conveniently than if ridged, as will be the case in deep tillage. Experiments at the Mis souri station show that by shallow til lage the moisture within the first foot of soil is larger in dry seasons than in similar deep tilled plots. This is pre sumably due to the fact that the mulch formed by a shallow tillage implement is more evenly distributed over the surface, more uniform in depth, more perfect, and thereby more effective than from the ordinary deep tilling cultivators.- When these deep tillage implements are used, the tine earth that should be spread evenly over the surface is instead thrown in ridges, and the furrows are left bare to eva porate the moisture. In the best corn growing sections of Missouri, some form of shallow til lage is almost universally practiced now, whereas ten years ago this sys tem was ridiculed by the most experi enced corn growers. It should not be forgotten, however, that the weeds must be kept down. If, owing to long continued wet weather, the weeds get the start of the farmer, he must use that system of tillage which will most effectually and most promptly destroy these pests. Often times deep tillage at this juncture ;is necessary. As soon as the weeds have been completely killed, however, the land should be made as nearly level as possible and kept in that condition throughout the remainder of the sea son. The old theory that in dry times deep tillage was necessary in order to “plow the moisture up to the surface,” is radically wrong. Any moisture brought to the surface at this time will be quickly evaporated. Any roots that are cut in the process will; prove very injurious to the plants, and deep tillage at such a time is the worst thing that could be done.—Professor H. J. Waters, in Farm, Field and Fireside. ^ California’* Gold Output. In connection with the recent ob servance of the semi-centennial anni versary of the discovery of gold on the Pacifi- Coast it is interesting to note the magnitude of Coiiforina’a gold output daring the past fifty years. To begin with the amount of gold dug from the mines daring the first year succeeding the discovery aggre gated only $215,301. But with a tre mendous bound the value of the out put for the year following mounted up to $10,151,360. In 1850 the output aggregated $41,273,106; in 1851, $75,- 938,232, and in 1852, $81,294,700. Since 1852 there has been a gradual fallii g off in the annual output of the yellow metal. At the present time the amount of gold mined annually in California ranges in value from $15,- 000,000 to $18,000,000. Since the first discovery of gold on the Pacific Coast in 1848 it is esti mated that California has produced not less than $1,300,398,779 worth of the yellow metal. In view of what California owes to the discovery of gold, the people of that State have not been extravagant in holding such a brilliant festival as the one which has recently occurred on the Pacific slope.—Atlanta Consti tution. Gradual Development of the Mind. Sir H. Holland says: “Whatever theory we hold as to the functions of the brain or mind, it is certain that the powers of the brain are only grad ually developed, and, if forced into premature exercise, they are impaired by the effort.” This is a maxim, in deed, of great import, applying to the condition and culture of every faculty and function of body or of mind, and singularly so to the memory, which forms in one sense the foundation of intellectual life. A regulated exer cise, short of inducing fatigue, is im proving to it, as, indeed, it is to all faculties and functions; but we are bound to refrain from goading it by constant and laborious efforts in early life, and before the instrument is strengthened to its work, or it decays in our hands.—New York Ledger. Overtaxing the Eyea. The way people abuse their eyes is really astounding. They try them, strain them and over-tax them in all manner of ways, and when these poor, ill-used eyes begin to show signs of weakness they are tooprond—save the mark!—to give them the aid of glasses which they need. Farrowed cheeks, sallow complexions and white hair can be hiden under enamel and rouge and dyes, but there is no fashionable nos trum that can cover up weakness of the eyes. —The Ledger. Jerusalem of To-Day, Jerusalem is now nothing but a shadow of the magnificent city of an cient times. It is about three miles in circumference and is situated on a rocky mountain. / Mikk