The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, July 08, 1892, Image 1
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. ?
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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.'-*'
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
? Bcjton Transcript. " \