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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JULY 8, 1892 NO. (10 th school. LESSON FOB !*?X?Y 10, 139?. ? th? day of Pentecost '^W? all with one accord in Ha kjft ] t,hern ten days be '~1 steadfastly in prayer expectation. Fifty days int fruit* was presented ithe feast cf the passover, i to offer a new meat offer - : 1?). Three times a year had to appear before ?; at passover, the feaat of and th& feast of ingatb ~ <HJ*. xxiii., 14-17). The and resurrection of ' the descent oc the Spirit. ~ wbfte the third still fulfillment. See Zech. there came t rom heav^ u*hing of a mighty wind, house where they were ? they waited patiently and ' v ' Ha j At is not unlitceiy ie foregoing facta they be the day of the prorn len when it came. It doea ? was a wind, but a sound ?d. See the Spirit typified xxvil., 9 appeared unto them cloven f lire, and it sat upon each > may be a reference -to this > in Math. iii., 11, but tha certainly yet future and Ftbafoll meaning of Terse 1L '.came upon Jesus at thi* J no fire, for in Him there 'to consume, no purifying necea were all filled with the Holy to speak with other tongues, fave them u iterance. *' As a* otantly caused people of ona many languages, to their imay, so here for their bane* . _ He does similarly. Sea in ?ey were again filled, and ob filled they spake the word boldness. Jesus had them in Bis humiliation that the Spirit u through them (Math, x., 20), 'never seen it on this fashion. were dwelling at Jerusalem men, out of every nation un " God had in His providence so about that they might be wit event and m doe time help i in all the world. It is His dispensation to __ (people for His nar 9, 1 0) but in the next ?fia will through the Je* "" with His glory ilsa. 5), but it will be ljjH and m the name and powfc J?ua. whan this was noised abroad, the came together and were con ecause that every mas heard in his own language " The R. " *?" " was heard," the the erwrd; find it hard to ie'to hear what they ST9 was more of the ly Spirit teaches and >f the Spirit, it is prob l come to hear. Yet of this age who are to a comparatively little (half be poured upon >t the Lord rise noon is come to her sight ;htness of her risin* 8*. See also the re Zech. viii.. 23. all amazid aa i mar ker. Behold, are not i?" Tney were thing should despised Galilee, [athaniel in John i., ?r la*. ix., I isee '8 way is tocboose base things in that are not to that are. tnat no in H& presence (I Cor. i., did not know Him whose name . !ul tlsa. ix, who had been them but ha i bean crucified only a few weess oefore . lA?d how bear we every man in our tongue, wberem we were uoru?" The Spirit is perfect in Knowledge (Job 4>, ail languages are f^ailiar to It' was not the men who spoke by own ability, bat the Holy Spirit in who can talk every language with opa, spoke througu one language, through another another . W hen Moses - - ? that he was slow of sp?eca God who male man's moutb, and (id 4<I will be with thy moutn and jthae what thou sbalt say." S.-e lix. 10-12, alao Jer. i., 7. y ?'partbjwwhn 1 Medes and Eiamite.-. tha dwellers in Mesopotamia, Crete* and we do hear them speaa in our the wonder tu. works of God." I onder how much of the Spirit's wa might know if our tongues were given to declaring the wonder! ul oJ God. In the millennium Israef itn* this song "Praise the Lord, pro same, declare His doings amony make mention that His name a* Sing unto the Lord, for He hath it things. This is known in all >Isa. xii., 4-5\. Why not ante day and let ma vf w9*?ag hearts i to speak and sin? henceforth "al of our King." Then shall we ifha spirit's power as nevei/ before. "And they were all amaatd, and were dasbt, ?ying one to another, W hat k this*' The natural jrian receiveth ithiwrs of the Spirit of God, for they jto hiatf'd Cor. ii., 14i, so sejA that these men were bat P eter called there attention to Is of one of their prophets with if ought to have been familiar, and roe other quotation* from the law fwim*. He preached unto them i tha resurrection. With what re TabaU see in our next lesson. Mean , jt to heart that if it is wrong to be , ?ith wine, it is also wrong not to with the Spirit. See Eoh. v., IS, ? the promise in Luke xi., 13. ? gllTT r Third Party ia Arkansas. e Rocs. Ark ? The People's ty have been in State Con ven dues and completed their iuating the following State r, J. P. Carnahan ; Secretarv, P- T. Davidson; Auditor, A eel; Treasurer, Warren Wight; At y-GeaeraL, W. P Parks. Associa'e je, W. F. Hill ; Commissioner of ? Land. J. M. L. Thomasoa; Super lent of Public Instruction, G. VV. Commissioner of Agriculture, ^ Manning. ' Jfemorial Belief Association mxJSieH. N. C. ? At a meeting of the '$ of the late Col. L L.'Polk, Pres M e| the National Alliance held here. Memorial and Belief Association g (^janized, with a board of trustees. vtfChMarion Butler, president of the l Alliance, is chairman. An execu euemittee was chosen aud Hal W. formerly Polk's secretary, was made and treasurer. The trustees t funds with which to erect a nt ?ver Polk's grave here and tit relief of the family as far as thev *?*? - ? I I*b<nJ?Vr-:. r?f L ^ndon Truth, T* op mmtti to v. orr itt Siiffrasje, on the grouod j^gl ther*- *** m^re women than men, that woman's suffnge therefore petticoat government. ALLIANCE COLUMN. Dr. Houghton Writes a Touching Ballad on the Death of Col. Po!k. The Anti- Option Bill Before Congress. - "More Good Work Needed,'", Says Progressive Farmer. in mrmokiam., 87 os. a. s. HorsnTo*. . A nobie maa Is missing fwxn the front rank la the flght. A voice \m hashed which never spoke except for truth ana ngh?, Hts valiant form no more shall lead oar forces to the i Hi* forceful face la slumber sleep#, oar chHtf has passed awaj. Yet -while we moarn, as mortal must,for him w? lov ' ed to greet. < well face the work he left to do. and trust a^aln to I meet; . ; He lives, though lost to mortal sight; he acts, thocjr* naught we see. He sail Inspires die gathering boats: he helps to make men free. T^romon to*/*' Wi>? toV2d hta her*' the ParP??? Such sools as bis immortal are, they were not born to die; His name our shibboleth shall be. his zeal our model grani. Among the nation's honored dead ius tomb* shall ever stand; j And on the shaft which marks the spot of bl? last earthly sleep, W*2iS?7* fhes* w(irrJs "He sowed the seed ?h?t freedom men might reap." * * * LAND ? LABOR ? CAPITAl ? BT D* A- S 3OC0HTO5. Sufficient seed, a spade or so. A plot of fertile land. And labor as a tne born man Among bis kind can stand; But if one-half the crop must g<9 For use of seed and spade, ot what remains as rent For use of land Is patd, Then laoor r.>bbed. a slave, must fta independent piace, For unrequited toll creates A fee ble^aerrlle race. Iftradeby manifold designs. Is rendered swift and freeT If njoney llows a steady coarse. Then Indolence will flee; Bat If a drought of means exists. Exchanges fall or flag. And business to a standstill comes. And enterprise* lag; T^n,t^*^p8 *o *** for bread. And vice and crtme appear. And health and wealth and happiness Give way to want and fear Its plain to see that what we need To drive dull time away. la freedom to produce and trade. And none to say tw, "nay.'-*' * * V ? t * Washington, D. C.? Last Monday, m the House, just after reading, R pre sentative Hatch moved a suspension of rules so that his pet measure, tbe Anti Optiou bill, could he ociisiclered imme diately. He was bitterly apposed, but succeeded in finding sufficient support to carry his measure. The House refuser! to allow more than 15 minutes te each side for debate, and by vote proh bited the extension of remarks in the Rtoord So this very important measure was rushed through in^ a little over a h?lf hour, and carried by a vr.te of 167 to 46. The bill fixes a l;cense tax of $1,000 pe^ 3 ear on r , m . rnrn n ' a fax of 3r centsapouad on cotton hops, pork, lard, bacon, and other edi ble products of swine, and of 21 cents a bushel on wheat, com,, oats. rye. bar ! ley, giass seed, and flax seed? if sold | subject to any option or future contract j The bill has been sent to~flie Senate and ; laid on the table, <ts there is ?ome doubt , to which committee it should be referred * * * * MORE GOOD WORK N2EDED ; Mr. Powderly, leader of the Knights of Labor, reports his organization in ex cellent shape Nearly 8.000 members have been added in the past three months. It is a go^d thing now to increase the r membership of the Alliance, and it would i not b? a bad idea to do?seme missionary work among people outside the Alliance", j Take none but good men. J It makes no ' difference how poor they are nor how | nch, but be sure they are good men. Evejy farmer and mechanic in the land shcra^be taking p.rt in the Alliance ^mceting< and reading reform literature, ps Like the Knights of Labor aad sll sfhiilar organiza ions, the Alliance has > i>acheu the point where there is solid bottom. All organizations tike in un worthy people *ll make mistakes. The Alliance is now in a health? conditiea. j Someof the unworthy members are in it }et, BHt^tho-e who expected to get rich at once and accomplish in a day things that has taken yt ars to accomplish, have j dropped ent and now it is the greatest ; and bv f r l he most influential organi zation in t:)^ world. By ctrelul manage ment and patience it will vet revolutio-Mze this country, and at no distant dav.^Stand to your guns. ? Progre 'sive farmer. Pardridge, the Chiefs grain gao bier, havl abotrt |400,000 of his ill gotten ! gains squeezed out of him by the recent ' sharp advance in ^heat and corn. If the i ' hardworking growers of these staples had seenred this money, there would have been some comfort io contemplating j the operation. But ?s it simply trans !? ferr- a the mcney f om one robber to j another, the gener.il public is not special I Iv interested in the matter. PRESIDENT POLK'S SUCCESSOR. H. L Loucks, of South Dakota, Vice President of the National Alliance, will ih>w become President He is editor of the Dakota Ruralist. the most influential paper iu the State, and has been promi nently connected with the Alliance movement siuce its introduction. He is said to be an educated man, a good speaker and has ?rijabundance of good, common sense, and a character en tirely above reproach. Q * * y | * t Over 21.000,0C?) acres land in the the United States are owned by foreign noblemen. According to the estimates of the Ag ricultural Department the people of the United States a: e swindled out of not less than $70,010,000 a year by the practice of adulterating foods. Plucky Officer vs. Desperadoes. Birmingham, Ala.? Jim and Jack Morrison, of the Moriisoa gang, were run down by a detective and a guide Wednesdey. When ordered to hold up their hands the Morrkon drew their re volvers and began firing. The office? replied in kind, with the result that Jin^ was killed and Jack fatally wounded. The officer recirad a alight flesh wound. An Unique Emblem. From the Philadelphia Record.] One of the Tennessee delegates at Chi cago asked Gov. Peck of Wisconsin why he had no Cleveland badge on. The Govenor replied Dointing to a safetv pin which was pinned conspicuoulsy on his coat * 'I could not get a Cleveland badge, but I am wearing this safety pin in honor Of B*feJ * North Carolina Crops. | Central Office, Raleigh, N. C. ? ; The reports of correspondents of the | Weekly Weather Crop Bulletin, issued i by the North Carolina State Weather 1 Service, for the week ending Monday, i June 27th, 1892, show that the weather ! conditions have continued generally fav ? orable during the past week. The tem I perature hss been high, ranging from 98 I to 62 : which has been very favorable for rapid growyh. The average rainfall for ; the past week was 1 76 inches, which is i .67 inch above the normal. The excess occurred chiefly in the western district, | where some damage was caused to low i land crops. Han-eating wheat is about completed except - in the western district, and threshing commenced Although the crops were thin in places, the gram was well filled, and, as * before reported, the yield will be excellent. In western dis tricts, owing to excessive rains, some wheat is sprouting in the shocks. Oats | also yielding excellent results. Laying by corn continues. The crops are growing well. Lowland corn has been damaged in western district by ex cessive rains, but upland crops were not injured. Cotton is making good progress every where. Tobacco is growing fast; topping com menced in eastern d strict. In a few places suckers have appeared. Fruit is urood excepting peaches and I apples. ! The yield of Irish potatoes has been ! splendid, many farmers digging from ; 100 to 125 barrels per acre. Eastern District ? In the vicinity of | Edenton excessive rainfall is reported, i but generally the rainfall has been bene ! ficial throughout the district though rather unevenly distributed j AH crops are growing rapidly and work i is well up except in a few places where frequent rains have delayed plowiag. The ?utlook is very encouraging for a good yield of corn, cotton, potatoes, etc. Peanuts only fair. Rice is reported fine in the Wilmington section. Many farm ers have made an unusually- good crop of Irish potatoes, the yield being from 100 to 123 barrels per acre. Rains reported : Lewiston, 0 88 inch; Weldon. 2.69; Conetoe. 1.65; Wilming vfc?n. 0.72: Southport, 0 23; Newbern, 2.90; Goldsboro. 0 13; Lumberton,.0 38. Central District.? The rainfall was less than in any other district until Sun day night, wb?n a heavy rain occurred, not doing any damage, however, t-> crops. The temperature hai been higb. j sunshine normal. Harvesting of wheat seems completed, and threshing begun. Crops need work in a few places, but are generally qjean and growing rapidly. Tobacco growing fast, suckers appearing on plants on a few farms Rains reported : Oak Ridge, 1.00 ; inch; Saxon, 0. 10; Smithfield, 0.85; Lex- i i?)gton, 1 60; Greensboro. 2.17; Raleigh, 2 30. Western District. ? The tempera- 1 tu?"e has been very high, reaching a max imim of 96 degrees on the 25th; the sun I shine has been below the normal . Many 1 stations report too much r.iin, which has put farmers behind with their work, and somewhat interrupted harvesting. Hail and wind storms did some damage on ! the 18th anl 22nd. The excessive rain has flooded lowland crops in places Wheat harvest nearly finished ; wet. : weather can ed some damage by mould- i I ing grain in shocks. J Rains reported: Salisbury. 2.10; Mt. Pleasant, 2.25; Statesville, 1.90; DjI'ss, | oAl ; Edney ville, 4.10; Charlotte, 1.71. j New Industrie* in the South. In its weekly review of new 8outhorn enterprises the Manufacturers' Record of Baltimore, in its last issue, includes the ; following important Items; A $75,000 coal mining snd lumber | manufacturing company at Oakland, i Md. ; a $20,000 cottonseed oil mill com pany at Longview, Texas; an $80,000 broom and bru-h manufacturing company at Nashville, Tenn. ; a $100,000 eponge company at St. Marks, Fla. ; a $20,000 wood novelty company at Roanoke, Va. ; a $50,000 ship-building and dealing com- 1 pany at Suffolk, Va. ; a $20,000 water works company and a.-, $200,000 brick compan^.at Alexandria, Va. ; a 25.000 publishing company at Baltimore, Md^j a 150,000 brewing company at Birming ham, Ala.; a $865, 0C0 brewing company at Louisville, Ky. ; a $300,000 sugar re fining company at Alexandria, La. ; a ! $5,000jcider manufacturing company at Columbats, Ga. ; a $100,000 tool company at Wheeling, W. Va. ; a $25,000 hotel, electric light and water works company at Bayard, W. Va. ; a $30,000 cotton oil company at Ladonia, Texas ; a $25,000 irrigation company and a $10,000 orange grove company at Orlando, Fla. ; a $20,-^. 000 lumber and veneer company at War-1* nell, Fla. ; a $20,000 phosphate and fer tilujr company at Bloomfield, Fla. ; a $10#0 00 coal shipping company at Port land, Texas; a $100,000 thread manu facturing company at Savannah, Ga. ; a $75,000 pulley manufacturing company at Pennsboro, VV. Va. ; a $200,000 lumber company at Sunsbury, N. C., and a $15, 000 milling company at Keyser. W. Va. Mr. Cleveland at Horn*, Bt:zzab$s Bat, Mass.? T^e wire in ; Mr. Cleveland's house was at work pour | ing in congratulations to Mr. Cleveland j from all -parts of the country. Before ; the tired out telegraph operator resumed his post at the private wire in Gray Ga | bles over forty messages had been receiv , ed at the Buzzards Bay telegraph office. : About 10 o'clock the telegrams began to ; come in pretty lively. They were from people in all positions in official as well as civil life. Mr. Cleveland said that he was deeply touched by this latest mark of esteem from his party. He felt, confident, he ; declared, that his fellow-countrymen j stood ready to place the mark of approv i al on true Democracy, and persistency in | the advocacy of these principles was all that was necessqry to succeed. He did not think that differences in Democratic conventions were at all hurtful, but in view of the importance of Democratic success he could not conceive of any ] reason for lack of harmony or united and active efforts to win in the coming cam paign. ' ? ! \ A reporter for the United Press called at the Cleveland house. Mr. Cleveland, j Mrs. Cleveland and Gov. Russell and j Comedian Jefferson were at breakfast. Mr. Cleveland met the Representative Jo | whom he said in reply to a question iafto whether he had any furtfcr message to make public concerning tin work of fhe ? . convention: "I have nothing to say be- ' ; yond what I have already given out. The' I co vention h*s not \ et finished its labors, and until it has it seems to me that any thing from me would be out of place, i aad open to, misconstruction." , IT HOME AND ABROAD. I ' ' i i Telegrams and News of Importiue* Front Everywhere. c Some Bemarkable Event? Happen ing Within and Without . ? the State. j The Democrats of the ninth congres * sion&l district of Texas have re nominate ed Joseph D. Sawyer for Congress. L. E. Leonand, president of the Farnv* ' en' Alliance of Missouri, will accepts 0 People's party nomination for Govtefc/r of that State. Buffalo Bill presented the Wild W tsi Show before Queens Victoria at Windfc* on Friday. :j? : CoL Dan Rice, the ^veteran showrago, offers ta bet ^85, 000 acr<s of land is Ten nessee, worth $350,000', that Cleveland will carry New York. Senor Matta, who was minister, from Ohili to Washington, has writtyt: albocjk defending his course in the tealtttnore affair. Ravachel, the anarchisUand djntfmfim, has been placed on trial at Monttyrimcn, France, charged with committifg firo murders. It is said that the new German army bill will increase Emperor ^11 tarn's forces by 63,000 men ana add 60,008)000 marks to the budget. In Chicago, Agnes Huntington's cbcrrus girls were fined $2.50 for wearing Cleve land badges on the stage, and the girls thereupon destroyed sixty costtxnes. ; An anti-tobacco movement has been started at Chattanooga, aided by a liquid preparation which causes a disgust for the weed either AGr smoking or chewing. The reformers /carry a little vial at this antidote in their pockets, and take a sip whenever th^ cravitg returns. The figured heretofore given out of the total population of the United Spates were close approximations only, and did not include Alaska and some af the In dian tribes. The count has nowttbeen completed and verified, and the total population is officially stated to be 979,766. The People's party of Montana have nominated Miss Etnma Knowles for at torney general, and the candidate of the Independents of Noith Dakota for super tendent of public instruction is Mrs. Eisenhuth, who ran for the lame office ' on the Democratic ticket last year. ' THE VIRGINIA FEOFLE3S FABTY. An Independent State Convention at Richmond. Richmond, Va. ? The first convention of the People's Party of Virginia was/ called to order in Sanger Hall ifltlfcJQ delegates. Capt. Edmond R. Cocfce, sj Cumberland county, w^s temporary chair man. J. J. Silvoy, State Secretary of the Alliance, was chosen secretary. Col. Beverley and son, J. Brad. Bever ley, of Fauquier, made addresses. The Committee an Organization and Or der of Business then submitted the fol lowing report, which was adopted : ' 'Permanent Chairman ? General James G. Field. "Permanent Secretary? J. : J. Silvey. "We recommend that each district del egation nominate a __mporary district chairman, a district elector, and district delegates to Omaha, ? THE PLATFORM. At this point in #the proceedings the Committee on Platform submitted i's re port, recommending and reaffirming the bill of rights of the Industrial Confer ence held at St. Louis on February 22, 1892; declaring for the union of labor forces; demamTiug a national currency, safe, sound, flexible, and issued by the general government only; demanding faee and unlimited coinage of silver; de manding that" the amount of circulating medium be not less than $50 per cafita\ demanding that postal savings banks be established by the government; asserting that all lands now held by railroads and other corporations in excess of their actual need?, and #11 lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the govern ment and held for actual settlers ; assert ing that the telegraph and telephones, like the postoffice system, is a necessity for the transmission of news and should be owned aud operated by the govern ment in the Interest of the people The third and last plank in the plat- ? form was : "We declare for honest elections, the great bulwark of American. liberty, that the will of the people may be expressed, uncontrolled by vicious partisan laws and machinery, either federal or State, or by the influence of money power, and we call upon every freeman to use all lawful and just means to prevent fraud, deceit, : and abuse in conducting elections." The entire report was unanimously adopted, and after the transaction of con siderable unimportant businefe-the con vention adisurned. \ Italy's King and Queen in Germany. A Berlin cablegram says : The German Empress and Queen Margaret of Italy visited Berlin. The weather was bright and no le-s th^n 10#, 000 people greeted the royal and imperial ladies with hearty cheers. Half and hour later the Kaiser and King Humbert proceeded to the municipal pavilion on the Pariser Platz. There fifteen white-robed girls presented King Humbert with a bouquet of cornflower roses. The Burgomaster read an address to the King, in which he spoke of the political sympathy be tween ^ he Italian and German nations based von the friendship between the monarch* of the two countries and the alliance which happily existed between them. 1 King Humbert replied : ^ "I aud the Italian j?eople thoroughly reciprocate the* sentiments expressed. y} After the reception of the Burgomaster King Humbert and Count Waldersee call ed upon Count C'jprivi." They remained . in conference with the Chancellor about , an hour. It is said th?t the subject of discussion was the Italian army and the proposals recently made by the Italian ladical* to redfcfc it. Death of Richest Man. Chabestojt, S. C. ? William B. Smith, the richest man in the State, is dead, j aged 77 years . He was born in this city j and was engaged in the co'ton business nearly all of his life. His faculty foi making good and lucky investments and - turning over money was *xtrc ordinary . I His estate It estimated to be- worth f from two and one-half to three ?!Hto [ dollars 3e leaves three daughters antfj thirteen grand children, f* SELECT SIPTINGS. Siberia signifies thirsty." ? ^ go miQute are the pores of the skin that a grain of fine sand will cover 300 of thenuv The mole can swim erceltently and it often sinks wells for the purpose of ob taining water to drink.' ' A new nndergrouod railroad, four miles in length, is ?6 be constructed in London at a coat of #5,000,000. =^?taban barbers lather their patrons with their hands, from a bowl made to I fit under the chin. 'No brush is used.* A Philadelphia chutefe is ImakingH trouble because its pastor's misfit Bet of*, fase teeth interfere with his enunciation, i The first victim to the guillotine was a highwayman named Peletier, who was executed on the Place de Greve, Paris. Unless an Austrian gains the consent I ot his wif^he cannot get a psssport to journey beyond the frontier of his o wn country. ? Leon Joseph, a sou of the late Chief Joseph, of the Cherokees, is employed in the Government building at Kansas iDity, Mo. A merchant of Yazoo City, Misi., has a young turtle with two distinct heads imd necks. It is covered by one shell and has only one set of legs. ^ The peasantry of the Tyrol and of parts of Germany and Switserland generally carry a case in their pockets cont|ining a knife, fork and spoon. One of the largest of Boston's retail dry-gpois stores how has a gymnasium on th<> top floor for the use of the sales woman and other female employes. The Women's Temple, in Chisago, which cost |600,000, was largely pud for out of the contributions of penny banks, 100,tiD0 of which were opened, It is said for that purpose. * The completion of the Savannah, Americus and Montgomery Railway, a Georgia enterprise, adds another to the interesting list of railroad nicknames. The line is already known as the "Sam" road. .. A Belgian paper declares that the Gov ernment of the Congo Free State, Africa, In. violation of the Anti-Slavery Confer ence decision, has ordered 23,000 re peating rifles which will be bartered with the natives for ivory. Bill Poole, the famous New York prise fighter, lived for days with a t bullet in his heart, before he died giv [ing expression to the famous words; 1 4 Wrap me up in the American flag and I'll die a true American." A curious superstition prevails iu^ [Norway. When people are invest of' a drowned body, they row toimd^fro with a rooster in the boat, ft lly expect ing that the bird will crow when the boat reaches the spot where the corpse ' lies. ! It is said that spectacles, or at least, magnifying lenses were known long be* fore the time of Christ, and it is known that Nero watched the games in the arena through a convex emerald. Layard unearthed a lense of rock crystal from Nineveh. George J. Defoy and Mrs. Mary Ellen Simpson,, of Tacoma, Washington, had just ten minutes in which to t.? married and catch the Victoria bo*l. Justice Sharp was so obliging that be married them in the hack while it was rattling toward the wharf. The origin of the Hound Tower at Newport, R. I., is unknown. There is no authentic evidence of its construction by the Norsemen, who discovered Vine )and about 1000 A. D., though claims to that effect have been made. It is mo6t probable it was built by the Indians. Exactly when and why no one now can tell. Four years ago, Miss Lena Wood ard, living on Thorn Creek, Washington, towed the seed from one head of bar ley. She harvested the crop with a pair of shears and sowed the amount received the next year, again harvesting it with her shears. The third crop her father cut with a grass scythe, getting enough | barley from this crop to sow forty acres last spring, which averaged forty bushels to the acre when threshed, making a total yield of 1600 bushels from one tead of barley in four years. A Great MlniityCitjr? Bnite, X >nta*u Butte Las more thaa 30,000 inhabi tants, and 5000 of its men work in the [mines to produce a mineral output wh-ci (is within five million* of dollars of tue | vaHio of the total yield of Colorado. The ?laborers who repair the streets get $3.50 a day, and the miners earn from $4 to ; $7. When the shifts or gangs of inea change at night ? for the work nevei ; ceases ? the main street of Butte is as crowded as Broadway at Fulton street at noon. At two or three o'clock in the I morning the city is still lively. There is no pretence about the town. It hai few notable or expensive building?, and it is without a good hotel. Dead wood and Butte are the only considerable towns I saw out west of which that could , be said. It gives the reader a hint of i the "beginnings" of Butte to be told that tjte site of the best bri^k and granite buildings on the main street was won by a man who happened to hold only two "Jacks" at the time he was "called. " There are sixteen licensed gambling hells in Butte, and the largest ones are almost side by side on the principal street. They ' pre as busy as so many exchanges. Thej j are large, bare rooms, with lay outs for faro, craps, stud poJcer,;and other games on tables at every few feet along the walls, each table faced by a knot of ?neo, and backed bya"dea!e?,! ani "watcher." < The gambling hell* Kfeep open all the 1 time except from Saturday mid eight to Sunday midnight. In 3iim;ner the doors stand open, and the gambling any be teen from the pavement. The liquor stores never close, neither do tne barber 1 shops, $or ? I fancy ? the concert halls. , ? ffarper's Kagazme. A Hen Takes to Fa no I a*. A Deer Isle man has a curiosity in th? ! shape of an egg whic'.i had oo one sad a cap-like excrescence, which, being lifted, showed a full-sized cranberry bean be tween the cap of the sfceiTand the inner ? tiaiftg membraae of tbe a^g. He winu toJftow how ft got; ttier*,aod M W one- *tcr taw rife 'ike, Tt it a hove/** ay to raise beans* at least. -Bangor. (He.) 1 Commercial. 1 " 'T ; ^ STORIES OF BIG FLOODS GREAT DISASTERS THAT H LVi VISITER FOREIGN LANDS. i ! '/>* ^ C*lami< let In Japan and India Which Destroy Million* of Llleik?Hlsto rio Orei flow# In Kurope. /"""VHINVS earliest records aretbosq ( / of floods. Ia the heart of this VVy mighty empire there is a great plain extending from Pekin in the north to Hangchow in the south, h|Ving a length of over 600 mile^ by a breadth of 300. It is crossed bj |, three river*, the Yang-Tser Yellow anc\ the Pei-ho, each subject to irresisti ble floods dating the summer season. The entire plain of 180,000 square miles, large enough to make three States the size of Missouri, is creased and re-crocsed by canals which conuect the different streams and concert the entire district Into islands, few of a greater 100 square miles. . In years when t^16 Yellow River goes beyond its banlcs, an erent which occur* with snch frequency thj^ this stream ia; poetically called tba 4 'Sorrow of China," the luSering il great, bat whe?, as sometimes h*ppensJ all three riven rise to flood height fronjl general and long -continued rains, the en4 tire country is submerged aud over 10,4 000,000 people are rendered homeless. According to the imperial records ofi China, 872 such floods are recorded^ since the Christian era, each affecting from" 5,000,000 to 10,000,000 people." One of the most disastrous of these visi tations occurred in the year 1871 when | the three rivers rose almost simulta-, neously to flood height. The homes and farms of 9,000,000 people were sub-j merged, and crops were destroyed overj 140,000 square miles of territory. In ithe following year came famine ati 1 pes*' jtilence, and by flood, starvation aud fever $,000,000 human beings are re? 'ported to have perished. The magni tude of such a disaster is beyond com prehension; it as . though the entirq population of Misspiffi were blotted out . of existence in a year; and yet such i* th# density of population in 'China that; ; this appalling catastrophe produced nb> more effect on the apparent populous-; ' nesa of the empire than the drowning oL a few dwellers in the Rowland* of ^ Louis-, iana would cause in the apparent" popu lation of the United Btates. Bu?*the great central plain of China ia not only district which suffers? from flood. Most of the ports are situated at^t he mouths of river*, and along the #lO^ j banks dwell many thousands of poor people, who, by various handlcrafta, ob tain 4 meager and uncertain subsistence. In times of high water great distress in variably results among this elass, no later than the year 1883 10,000 houses being swept away in Canton alone,; while it was computed thai jo that city= and Shanghai over $3,000 persoAj were. drowned. The island empire of. Japan is even, more densely peopled accoriiag to size* than the flowery kingdpm, and altboughj disasters by flood ate not 60 num^rout * they are often terribly fatal. Japan has more seacoast in proportion ta area than kny other country on the^globe, and owing to the frequency of earthquakes, tidal waves aro by no means uncommon. ! A gigantic oc?an s*ell fifty to seventy five feet in height sweeping inland over, j ha ilea of inhabited country would be cer-( I tain to do ioealcuable damage even if all- j the population escaped in time, but when^ J it comes without a instant's warning and j overwhelms districts where hundreis of I thousands dwell the loss of life is often / reckoned by thousands. Score3 of such ! calamities are recorded in the history of ; Japau, most of thein involving immense j Iocs of life. It is stated that in the last ? century no less thau *it great floods oc-t curred, over 1,000,000 lives being lost ia each. The sacred rivers of India do not iu the least respect th% feelings, lives or , -.property of their Worshipers, but from time to time deal destruction among those who bow down on their banks and pour libations into their waves. The Ganges has an .annual flood in early sum mer. When the 4pring haa been fair tha snow water passes away in a steady flood, which covers the delta, fertilizing the rics helds and preparing them for the coming cr>p. When, however, the tpriug ruins in the mountains have been peavvlfie snow raelfs rapiary, every south, }>ound rivulet becomes a roaring torrent,' the Ganges in the lower part of its course! fewells to the 'dimensions of an inland ocean and pours down to tj?e sea a volume of yellow water whichv diacolorai the ocean 600 miles from the nver*^ mouth. Then it is that tbe dwellers on) its banks bring with hurried and trem-j ibling hands their offerings to the go-is of> the river, begging thtra to draw backj the ^aves within the banks and spare th<* countrv. The Indus is so far fro n the 9an5es that the one may be in flood while the other is no higher than usual, bat it has ' happened inorethau once that the Ganges,, the Bra-raapootra aud the Indus were ail* j ra^in# at the same tiro*, and the couse- | iquent distress on the Indian peninsula' j ?was terrible. Such ft disaster occur el. j in the autumn of 1S7.V woen a series of; j Severe storms and gt?ar. preci pita' ion occurred all oveYthe pnoiusula, and ini : the mountains, whic.i constitute itsj i boundary to the ^ortb, over 20,000 per-i < sons were droned, GOO, 000 were re:ii j dered homeiest, and many miiiioas olj i property were d^strojed. i 1 With the excep^Siti of the Danube, the Rhine aad tae itis-i in rivc-rs tbrf j streams of E irope are faostly short, otro j all the more dange. >us on that accouut, i lor, although almos^ry in the summer season, in times of-heavy raio they be- | come torrents which do immense damage. The Spanish pen:nsula has suffered terri-i ' *bly it times from the floods in it? short] j land rapid atreams. In 1617 over 50,000 , persons perished in Catalonia from atud den rise in the rivers of ncrtheast Spain > i in 1787 2000 fere drowned in Navarre.; Torca, a city of Murcia, in Spain, was totally destroyed in 1802. while tha great floods of 1879 in Murcia. Andalu Alicante, Almaria and Mala?*, by which over 3000 hotwes were destroyed and 1300 live* were lost, are still fresh, in the" pubbc memory. The south of, Franc* if voder substantially the same eondijtiou* at the Spanish peninsula. and tee?tr*ctive.?!ooi<; .ftive been ex 're *e'r COBmonr. jjfo 1S4 I the rn-t- to a height that had nstbeea esveeiei.n 2-^? Years! Over of arable land were covered by the Saone and the ^Rhina. Lyons was inundated; in Avig oyer a hundred hou?es were dp taojta, and upward of three hundred at jttansUlss sad Nlmes/ while the lots or lift went up into the thousand*. A gen ? sral flood season recurred in Frajce in 1846, the Loire rose twenty feet In two W three noura, a railroad via.lu?* which coat 6,000,000 francs was swept away, and the total damage done by this. ?:reim alone waa estimated at f 20, 000,0 )0. The ahort rivers of Italy must b$ credited with a great deal of damage; 264 inundations ol Rime by the Tiber am ifittd aince the foundation of the my, while the Po and or->e* -m.* hare been ' equally mischu-v ^ I Danube has experienced sever* n ?. floods. Id 1879, the great *t<>i n y the city of Ssedegin, in Hungry, * almost totally destroyed; out >i V houses only 881 remained wand serentj-evraa persona were uro v jand many thousand rendered home!*M. In 181Jr the Danube destroyed twenty ,two Tillages near Pestb, and two yesrs later a Turkish corps of 2000 men "wen* surprised on a small island near Widdin, and alt perished. In the same summer over 6000 inhabitants of Silesia wero drowned by the floods, while 4000 per- ;J ished, and in Poland in 1819 4000 houses In Dantcic were destroyed and man? lives were lost by a flood in the Vistela. The British ialands -hare been repeat edly devastated by floods, and the in- . stances are frequent of great dama e being done by high water in the Thames, ^ the Severn and the Scottish rivers. The destruction of the forests in tfjMttn, France, Germany and Great Britain, nc doubt, had muca to do with these de tractive floods, aad the policy of exten sive tree planting will probably in the course of a century do something to remedy the evil.? 43t. Louis Globe Dtmo-* tffct. /? SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL. At English doctor declares hot brwvd at night is not injurious to health. A thunderstorm in hot weather trav els at ths average rate of thirty miles an hour. I An alloy of gold, and aluminum" hat recently been made. Its color is a most beautiful purple, and it will be valuable in making jewelry. Use blood-vessels in the white of the eye are so small tfest they do not admit the little red oocpttscles to 'which the color ot' the blood is' due. V> Two ingenious Swedish astronomers sre reported to have produced an artifi cial aurora by establishing electric cur rsats between two mountains. Some tinsmiths use leaden-heade 1 nails for rooting purposes. The last strokes flatten the heaa over the hole made in the, tin, and leaking is thus prevented. n BagBsfc1 electrician i ous case of one-way conduct^ gas conducts the current, but with one' electrode cold it conducts best when that electrode is negative. Cincinnati, Ohio, is to be lighted at an expense of $84.90 per lamp ;ier year. The present contract price is $144. \ The new price is twenty-three cents a night for lamps of 2000 candle power. , Observations made to determine the longitude of Montreal, Canada, sho-v that the transmission of the electric cur rent across the ocean and back occupiei a trifle over one second, the distance be ing 8000 miles. The ordinary, commonplace soap bub ble ha3 recently been playing an impor tant part in experiments on the magnetic qualities of gases, and has proved itielf to be one of the toughest and m?t si n tic membranes known. The earth's surface only exceeds the moon's by about thirteen and one-hslf times. The moon's surface is^fully a^ large as Africa and Australia together, and nearly as large as North and South America without the islands. The "sea serpent*' has been made a subject ol special study by the Director of tie Zoological Gardens at tlie Higus. He has collected reports of 166 appear. I ances, and concludes that the reports must all refer to a single unknown ani mal species. A test of, three spoons during sixteen yea^s has given these results: The sil ver spoon lost 8.78 per cent., part of which was due to polishing; the alumi num, 5.85 per cent.', whioh represents the actual wear; and the German silver spoon, 5.62 per cent., a result far too, low, as this spoon, unlike the others, was not in constant use. The durability of silver and aluminum, therefore, appears to be about the same, and much greater than that of German silver. \ TTISE WORDS. Shadows have no claws. ? No man is rich who is not content^. The greatest coward in the world it a hero to somebody. Birds with bright feathers do not al ways make good pot- pie. Trials never weaken ui. T'~zy only show us that urn are weak. There are so many people who are only pious in pleasant weather. No man can serva two masters, bttt there are people who try to serve 4 dozen. [, Fight your troubles one at a timel Knock down the first one, and the other/ will run. f The world is full of people who ''are always booking for a sledge hamster to crack a peanut. v \ The greatest of all dotiea it the present one. * You can't do bnainest for et .aity on a credit Mfis. Many lives contain whole chapter* of goodness, not a word of which is ever put on a tombstone. It is seldom that anybody falls down on ice. Our hardest tumbles generally come wh^n we think we are safe. Whei we ?ei to the end of life w% ?hall oat that the thingp we hart !o?t are those we tried the baron* to i keep. A baggage ear can run a welt on a down-grade uan engine, but it takes plenty of boiler praaeure to poll a train , ' over the mountains. ? Indianapolis (Md.) ? Rams Horn. The Freneh-Canadian paper* continue ?' to.bcwail tha tight of pepalatioa. MANUr AW ARTICLE I HAT QAI B *00101 A M 10X86ITT TO ^mUBATtf*? , S ?T3 In rented Onl j 150 Tear* A|0-WKM They Have Done for Oostame-* Method* of Mtnolaottn. ' UTTONS have played i pert in the worla," I ) scientific man tot Wi ton ; 6tar writer. were invented only ft century ftnd ft hilf ago, and yet they have revolt clothei . Until modern tbnw lighted in loofo ftnd lowing i were flung around the body. old the tailor^ ftnd di infMklift paid 00 attention to *ffit," fcsving regard meeely; for the gmcefUt-ad^istment of drftMrt. All this was Changed by tjnttotts. * T&ef were not wort originalty (or any ueefal purpose.but Merely for ornament. Thus, If you loon up their history, yon will find thftt the earliest patterns ofrthfss wert splendid and coatly. However, it was not long before their utility for fas* tening garment* came to be -realised. They rendei^d. It possible to nikl clothing (it closely to the body, and soi they brought about a in the theory of coatuma. / "Button* hare become necessary to civiliaatioo. . It ia difficult to eee now mankind coruldget along without them, now. Only sAyages and the iadolant peoples of ! the Went^ dispense with them. Tjey are\made of every conJ ceivable njaterial ah^oat, Including al the metalai from golc ivory, tortoise shell, india rub porcelain, jclay, . leather, papier regetftble fvorv, precious atonea sorts of staff nod cloths. Metal are citherj stpaped with dies or a One firm in As United BUtee ttttfft 65,000,0 JO fon backs tot oovana b tons every /ear. Gk*s buttons are by pinching the half soft material !? 1 pinoers. The pincers are furnished a die, if it is desired to impress a on the buttons^ Wooden button i coma largely from the south of where plenty of wood suitable- for purpoee grows. ? "Common nhirt buttons sre near1 kaixing finely powdered silicate ef soda, otherwiee KOO * water glass.' The*iixtiueU drip repulverlxed *nd the P?w into molds by machinery* n molded buttons are baked I ? i . dipped in 'water glass When cool, they are polished vj. pUccdfeH roUtin??^. _ Finally 'they are dried an a ditiona. polish in a rotaUM^ -i old s, j and the buttons t*m wood, amber,v The oven. sre c? glared dirw&BJ adorned with colon, further baking in the ;Vaa*tr The colors are put on by hand p*ffctilg or by Mfanst'er printing. * By the latter', process the design is printed from aoop*1 per plate with a peculiar ink on tHfia! paper, which is placed while th* fafi> * pression h moist on the biscuit apnea. \ After tht? ink has hsd time to drj tho, ?? paper is removed, leaving the deaitftMl ? the buttonF. N ??Mother-of-pearl buttons are cut by' hand with a small revolving cirouitffifrJ ?' The frork requires great skill, an i| tant pb jeet being to get as many bl as possible out of each shell. R mottier-of-peaiTTs thick enough, >111 sometimes split into two lsyers. of all pearl buttons sre those mada! the white edged Macasary shells bl from the East India seas. These are worth 1800 a ton in the crude* waste mother -of pearl is ground to ^ n?> i powder, which is mixed >mfh gum tSf a paste and molded into buttons of ttfc inferior qtiality." " - II ti 1 : , jj -f lepers Proof A?al ist Electrkitr.' "Down at Honolulu/* said Hary mood, "I bad a lottery aid worked innocent Kanakas with the old tridk the five dollar gold piece. That is, I1 place the piece in the bottom of. a jar water connected with tho battery. I'd tell the native boys thst they have the money if they'd pick it out (jf the jar and hold the hand - on tho Oth^f pole of the battery at the same course the moment their baedafSirotlt the water the circuit was completed, lheir fingers would be doublefi ^ they couldn't touch the money if thai? c fortunes had depended on getting it. I had many a laugh and achieved quite a deputation among the boys as a wiasct Who controlled the devils in the waiter. * "One day when several youBg Udiea were in the offiqjka lad came la, pashed on by a number of companions who had attempted to secure the $5 and failei, , He had been persuaded to try " ffcr thok j ;noney, and I explained the trick to tho : ladies in an aside as I arranged the ftp* ' paratus. The boy tcok the handle and ^ ?we all prepare ! for a creat laugh. i*; | Vile put his hand into the water, jf slowly drew out my fiver, anl 4U?eUjf. walked oil with it, while 1 atoon I w^th my mouth open, afraid to f.ice thou girls, and praying for a volcanic eruj^lj^gl to turn the treod of thought. "The buy had the leprofy, and electricity didn't effect him."*? Stn cifco Examiner. Cndern round Hirers 9?m? The French scholar long made % study of unc__ courses, has recently beett carea and underground* cl Peloponnesus, in Greece. ihete undur^ro-.'.nd rirectiT .tteefui purpoee, (or through jpioribt-^f water in d rawed Vottld otwwciae ?tagn%te? Atki ?i and breei fill health in large that are now healthful end 4f?L agricultural purpose*. It was Meetel; discovered an underground rirtr at' not far from TripoUfr^n Africa, bjl of which some eoorauwa earatipi bad beea the noeai?6n ofvfnuch tvere drainel andliitted a| by the process of conue&tnf?'tl these remarkable undeygrouid i ? 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