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BARNWELL, S. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1884.
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ejr Hear the Sirens for the Secoo
•* Time.
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The ireHTr gallt • moment ilept.
The osre were tilent for s apace, I
Aepaat He* perl an ehorea.we twept.
That were as a remembered face.
acvn «tter tapes of hopeless years,
In Hades, when the shadows meet.
Dun through the mist of many tear*.
And strange, and, though a shadow, oWt-
Bo seemed the half-remembered shore
That slumbered, mirrored In the blue,
« ith heavens where wo touched of yora
And ports that over-well we knew, ~
Then broke the calm before a breeze >
1'liat sought the secret of the West; ,
And listlees all wo swept the seas
Towards the Island* of the blest / J
Deside a golden-sanded bay
Wo saw the Sirens, very fair;
The flowery bill whereon they lay,
The flowers set upon their hair.
Their old sweet song came down the Vid
Itemombcrod music waxing strong-
Ab 1 now no need of eords to bind.
No need had we of Orphic song.
It once had seemed a little thing
To lay our lives down at their feel ti
That dying we might bear them sim
And dying see their faces sweet
Hut now we glanced, and, passing 1,
No care had wo to tarry long;
Kalnt hope.Hin! rest and memory
Wore more than any Siren’s sons
—Andrew Lnng'flallada
THE ASIATIC CHOfERA.
Where It Starta, How It T^vels, and
by What Koatl^'
There are comparatively nw people
r/v
now livin" in this countrywho have
spread outside of the sanitary cordon
or befell but a few persons in the pro
tected quarter.
We need, therefore, have in our conn-
try but little fear of a visit by the As
iatic cholera if we bat use the common
precautions which modern sanitary
scienoo has taught us. Ail vessels ar
riving at our shores should bo carefully
inspected, all ships coming from in
fected ports should be forced to under
go a strict quarantine, all emigrants
should bo rigidly examined, and the
streets and alloys of our cities should
bo kept as thoroughly clean as careful
and uninterrupted attention can make
them. Thus prepared wo may have
reasonable hope of escaping the
dread visit The united exertions of
the Tnost enlfghtened nations may suf
fice to prevent the disease from spread
ing beyond its original limits; still we
had better adopt tho most efficient
means ourselves to keep tho destroyer
from our boundaries. — Philadelphia
Times.
Irrigation.
West of the Missouri the majority of
the surface of the earth is more or less
neglected by tho celestial sprinkling
pot, and it behooves poor weak man to
irrigate artificially wherever he can.
Now you can go into California, Utah
and Colorado, and by irrigation raise
arden sass that will make
WORK AND PLAY.
How the Colored People Enjoy Them
selves Down South,
ever witnessed a case of Alatic cho i. prden sass that will make your eyes
era, and there is probably o disease 1 MR*; but trough Wyoming, especial-
of which mankind in genert standfl in I ^ on the P lains . the mowing
greater fear, nml which is tl> object of
more superstition. Tho $t of tho
dread malady spreading itsuontagion
by personal contact, and foowing in
its march the main roads of tommorce
induced Eugene Sue to sclecv Ahasuo-
season is confined to the time between
July 31 and August 1. So that things
don’t have time to mature. I will ex
cept promissory notes paying two per
cent, per month, however.
The season is so abrupt, and when it
As
ms as tho personal propagati of cfaol- l i 50 ™* 18 K™ 6 ^ a ! 1 “ ^ 8 P on '
cra, especially as it formctly ivanced Unelt y a >'-forthwith immediate move-
with the slowness with whic) eastern ment P cculiar “> ll V 0 ^at before
you can put ear muffs on your corn, tho
ears are frozen and the season’s work
is nothing but frost bitten chaos and
wpted wrgck.
Still with all this knowledge and in
the light of a full experience wo had
years ago a man on the plains named
Ilayford, who had been a fever and
ague doctor a year or two in tho South
till people told him that they preferred
tho ague to the stylo of knowledge he
had. Then ho drifted West, worked
on the night shift in a Colorado mine
and practiced law in a quiet, shyster
kind of a way till tho vigilantes got all
his practice and threatened to get him.
Then lie came to Wyoming to grow up
with tho country, started a paper and
printed it on one of those tittle ama
teur card presses that sell for three
dollars. This paper ho published every
dayy-aad in the old Hush times during
tho building of the Union Pacific rail
way. sold it at twenty-five cents a
week. He used it as a little pocket
blackmailer and worried himself into
office by knowing things about promi
nent men and threatening to publish
them.
Well, bo was the champion of irri
gation in Wyoming, and he devoted a
stickful a day to Wyoming agricultural
possibilities. He favored tho organi
zation of a stock compauy for tho pur
pose of constructing a canal thirty
miles long to irrigate a dozen town
ships. Ho said we had heretofore
raised nothing but hemp and bell, and
ho favored this great scheme. Finally
ho got it to going and tho company
was organized, and a civil engineer
from Missouri named Crout took a cast-
iron plow and a "bull team” and con
structed tho pioneer canal, as it was
called. Tho canal worked well enough
where the cuts were, but along tho fill
Mr. Crout found, when it was too late,
that he had forgotten to put on any
side boards, and therefore' the water
slopped over and went down tho gulch
es and buffalo wallows and alkali fiats
that didn’t need any irrigation. Alto
gether tho scheme was a Failure. There
is some water back a mile from the
river where it has run down during tho
Juno freshets when tho snow melts in
the mountains, nnd there the antelope
comes to drink and wriggle his brief
tail, but there are no fields of waver-
ing grain. Not a wave. Irrigation on
the Laramie plains is still confined to
that class pt agriculture where two
men soak slices of pine apple in spirits
and greet each other with the Indian
toast, "How!”—Bill Nye, in New York
Mercury.
caravans carried the tea aero* the
iatfc prairies.
In Asia, in tho neighborhoa of Cal
cutta; in Arabia, near Mecca and in
Egypt, not farm from Cairo* aro the
breeding-places of cholera. There
famine is a frequent occurren|. Tho
people grow up surrounded *y filth
such as an American citizen *as not
the faintest idea of, and an ifectious
disease finds tho most fuvorab) condi
tions for its development in tose un
healthy districts. Tho pilgrin who in
thousands yearly proceed froi Egypt
to Mecca, and who live off thepoorost
food and amid tho greatest qualor,
carry with them the seeds of 'bolera,
and thus form tho connecting ink in
the transmission of tho disome from
Asia to Africa. If wo conslcr tho
commercial importance of AUandria
wo can not wonder that the holera,
once epidemic in Egvpt, shoukswiftly
travel to Europe. Thus far icdical
history has not recorded a siqle in
stance of an original out-break < chol
era anywhere but at the place, men
tioned. Filth seems to bo the sue qua
non of its development and clcfiliness
tho most powerful barrier to itsuarch.
Thu fact has been establish^ that
tho human being alone acts as to car
rier of the cholera poison. TWo is
no well-authenticated case on '■ecord
where rags or clothing, as hai been
proven of yellow fever, has traujnittod
tho infectious material of tho Asiatic I
disease. In olden times, when to rail-!
roads, no steamships, hastenrd the i
travel, tho march of cholera ko|t pact*'
with tho rapidity, respective slqvncss, j
of human intercourse. Tho tisease
either followed tho road o! tho great
tea caravans, which brought the high-
priced loaves from Asia to iussiik or it
traveled the usual ways o: commerce
across the Mediterranean sia. Whcre-
over a largo belt of tvatc.* separated
two countries tho epkfepic disease
marched from the one to tae other in
the same length of time tint it took a
ship to sail across the waur. Such in
stances wo saw in the spreading of the
contagion from tbecontimctof Europe
across the channel to Ingland and
from Great Britain to Amfrica. In tho
latter case the infectious material is
not wafted across' the Atlantic ocean
and carried the long distance by tho
air. From the moment of tho out
break of cholera in Eigland about
seven days must at least (lapse ere the
il)S
first case of tho disease cm happen in
our country, for tho fastest steamer
needs about that time to cross the
ocean.
Wo know, therefore, lotg since that
neither in Europe nor America could
Asiatic cholera develop iaelf without
its germ having first bee* introduced
into these countries. Wi also wore
aware of tho fact that human inter
course aloue propagates the contagion,
and experience has taught us that filth
favored and cleanliness pnvented the
spread of the disease. In modern
times, where public hygiene had be
come such an important factor in the
governing of nations, whore tho public
sanitary matters are generally under
stood and highly appreciated in civil
ized countries, the facts just enumer
ated have been made subservient to the
general welfare of the people. The
original breeding-places of tho malady
were first determined; then the utmost
precautions were taken on the first
signs of the outbreak of the disease to
confine it to its limits—to isolate the
district attacked. Besides every state,
every city, every county established its*
own board of health. This board had
to see that tho greatest cleanliness
existed in its locality, and that travel
ers from the suspected regions were
first quarantined ere they were per
mitted to enter the protected district.
That it is possible to limit tho spread
of Asiatic cholera, to lesser The num
ber of its victims, and to diminish its
severity by the measures just described,
tiie experiences of the last ten years
has proven. The last epidemio just
reached our shore, but, finding no
suitable soil for its development, it
died out of its own account after hav
ing attached a few victims in the filth
iest quarter* of the metropolis. The
epidemics which last year raged in Egypt
and Calcutta were totally confined to
ral starting pomt Perha
proof of the utility
Hair Dressing in the Soudan.
The Bishareen are a fine, tall
slender, but well proportioned.
The negro delights In his ootton-field.
To him, “Dar’s nothin’ like cotton,
sab.’’Wife and children all “tote” to
the field, and, after an extra hard day’s
labor, they invito their neighbor in to
have a dance. An invitation came
to mo and from a small boy one even
ing "to toto ober to Brudder Syca
more’s, case dey’s gwine to hah a
time.” The boy had barely clothes
enough on to cover his black skin, but
he was an active, fine-looking little
fellow, the grandson of Brudder Syca
more, who lived in a cabin two miles
away.”
"What do they do when they have
a time?” I asked.
The boy grinned, showing teeth as
white as cocoa-meat, as ho gave the
universal answer:
"Dunno.”
"Are they going to dance?” I asked.
"Yes; Uncle Juniper ho got a fiddle,”
was tho reply.
"Is there any Uncle Water Oak or
Spruce Pine in your family?” I in
quired.
"Dar’s Uncle Jured—dey calls him
Water Oak,” was tho grinning reply.
"Wlmt other trees does your house
hold represent?” I asked.
"Duuno,” with a chuckle.
That evening, in company with a
friend, I went to Brudder Sycamore’s
log cabin. Tho usual tires were burning,
round which hovered coal-blagt imps,
shouting and laughing, dancing first
on one leg, and then on the other.
Inside tho cabin chairs were brought
in for tho white party. The cabin had
a yawning fireplace and a mud floor.
Candles stuck in potatoes graced every
corner and every spot where they could
be made available. The company sat
on boards ranged round the sides of
the cabin while the fiddle was being
tuned up. At last it seemed to me 1
had got into a prayer-meeting, every
body was so grave. Presently a dea-
conish-looking young man, with a hi
shock oi hair, stood up and beckone
a girl on the opposite side, who came
over with much embarrassment, shak
ing her shoulders like a child, and
stood up to dance. Then the fiddle
began with a wail of unspeakable des
pair. and presently another and then
another couple joined in tho dance. It
was not till they were thoroughly
warmed up that they began to beat the
air and pound the mud floor. By de
grees the enthusiasm of tho dance dis
played itself. One commenced to shout
and sing, and another to use all kinds
of ejaculations, till finally it looked like
a scene from pandemonium. I tried to
get at tho words, which ran like this:
Jos, you darky, take vour turn.
Oh, dar's a ringin’ ob da bellal
Sue, dem pancakes Is on de turn.
Oh, dar's a ringin' ob do bells!
De sky Is clear an' de moon la bright.
An'de coon la a gwine fur to sleep to
night.
Meantime the children had extem-
E orised a ball-room out of doors and
ooted and screamed as they ran
through tho fire, danced over tho
flames, and shouted in ever-increasing
hilarity. Presently I saw an old gray-
beared man take a strong young girl
by the suoulders and deliberately put
her outside the door.
“What has she done?” I asked, for
the black face was very sulky.
"Done break do rules ob de dance,
I reckon,'” was th* reply.
"What rules?”
"Laws, dar’s hundreds of’em; Uncle
Sycamore knows,” was the answer.
When wo went away the girl still sat
angrily biting her lingers on the bench
outside the door, and in her eyes was
a dangerous light.
“Wliat did you stop dancing for?”
I asked her. She looked up, but an
swered never a word, and we went offi
wondering if she had flirted with some
other girl’s sweetheart.—Florida Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Perhap*
of strict
sanitary measures was given by the
epidemio in Egypt- In the immediate
neighborhood of the infected jjlace chase of the /eras naturae, which abound
race—
Thov
take especial care of their teeth, which
are regular and of lustrous whiteness,
which is in part dno to their simple
diet, and in part due to a root (taki-
wood) which they chew perpetually.
Their dress is scanty but graceful. It
consists of a piece of white linen wound
around tho waist and thrown over the
shoulder. Each man carries a Ion
straight sword and a shield of small
mensions, made of hippopotamus or
rhinoceros hide. A spear is carried in
the right hand. The Bishareen, in
common with the rest of the Arab
tribes in the eastern Soudan, take great
personal pride in their hair. A consid
erable portion of their lives is spent in
its adornment I doubt whether a Pa
risian coiffeur would care to take les
sons in his metier from these children
of the desert, bat he would be puzzled
to imitate them. The hair is jet blaek,
coarse, wiry and abundant It is part*
ed in a horizontal line ronnd the head,
the parting passing close to the ears;
the hair above this line is perpendicu
lar and looks like a mop. Below it is
plated and frizzed, and sticks ont over
the neck and shoulders like the roof of
a pent-honse, doubtless affording groat
protection to the back of the neck from
the rays of the sun. The whole is stiff
ened with grease, and when the Bisha-
reen;has n*wly performed his toilet
and grease is plentiful, his sable looks
assume tho snowy whiteness of those of
Jeames. The son melts the grease,
which drips on to the back and shoul
ders, forming a deposit bv no means
savory of the conventional' spicy odors
of ‘‘Araby the blest” A long skewer
or hairpin transfixes this wonderful
coiffeur, and serves tho double purpose
of a comb and a weapon used in the
Phosphorescence of Diamonds.
A curious point in diamond lore has
just been established to tho dolight of
savants in Paris, where tho exhibition
of tho crown jewels at the Louvre has
made the subject very popular for the
moment. It has long been laid down
that tho diamond has the power of re
taining light and of afterward emitting
it in the dark. The theory has been
well buttressed by reasons; but the
proof has not been easy of test Ail,
or nearly all. of the great diamonds—
such as the Kohinoor, tho Regent, tho
Grand Mogul—can not for public
reasons, be made the subject of expe
riment, and stones of lesser size do
not always give satisfactory results.
Happily, a private individual, the own
er of a gem of carats, and estimated
at a value of 300,000 francs, has lent
his diamond for scientific investiga
tions. Theso have been most satisfao-
tor, and the "phosphorescence” of the
stone may be regarded as proved. The
diamond was exposed for an hour to
the direct action of tho sun’s rays and
afterward removed into a dark room.
For more than twenty minutes after
ward it emitted a light, feeble, indeed,
but still sufficiently strong to make a
sheet of white paper held near it qnite
visible in the dark. A similar result
was arrived at by a very different ex
periment, and light was generated by
nibbing the stone with a piece of hard
flannel—Poll Mall Oasette.
The Buffet Oar.
some
place
thousands of English soldiers
were camping; many foreigners from
all parts of the civilized world ware
then living not fifty miles froa^ the
dangerous district; a greatly segmented
Intercourse took place between Egypt
•ad Europe, and still th* disease agrir
in its immediate
Magasine.
vidn ity,—Comhill
inking” with notched
is retired for the
silks that change
from oae color to another.
The dld-time
and scalloped
d-time "pinkln
doped Mges is
of ohattmeoai
“I do declare, James,” said
farmer’s wife, as she walked about
waiting-room reading the railway ad
vertisements, "here’s something I
never hoard tell on before. A buffet
car. What do you suppose that is,
James?” "Don’t you know what a
buffet ear is, Sarah? Guess you
haven’t been reading much of late,
have you? You ought to know thAt a
buffet car is a car recently invented to
pnt on the end of the train. It is fixed
up with springs and thing* and is de
signed to act as a sort of Duffer for the
rest of the train in case of collisions.
They're making such improvements in
railroading au the while, Sarah, I
b’lieve, if It wern't for me to tell yon
what is going on in the world, yon
wouldn’t imow anything.”
An mronantio detachment of engto*
eers has been formed in Berlin, and th
bard at work learning the ut
of iBiiitary baUooniOfs
No Longer a Deceit.
One more miracle, says the New
York Bun, has been wrought in the
orient The whole length and breadth
of the great Algerian desert arid and
almost without vegetable life for years,
is now a mass of living green. Dry,
sandy Sahara is a luxuriant grassy
! arden, rich and refreshing as a New
ngland orchard.
Notwithstanding the elaboratelv
formulated scientific theories, which
arranged for continued dryness in Al
geria, until tho reluctant inhabitants
wore forced to leave the country or
die of thirst so dismal an exodus is
not likely to take place at present
Last winter the rainfall was beyond
precedent so far as the memory of the
“oldest inhabitant” goes, and copious
thunderstorms continued all through
the spring months and even into the
summer. Such a wet season there
never was in Algeria before, and in
consequence this season’s crops will
constitute p...utiful abundance personi
fied. The uuo fear of the farmers is
that tho rain may last throughout the
summer and interfere with their
harvests.
Rain in winter is frequent enough in
this naturally dry climate, but it is
seldom excessive. The only harm it
has done is to dissolve tho raw, sun-
dried brick of which the houses are
built. Scores of families have seen
their homes melt under their very
noses without any means of checking
the destruction. Even tho French
garrisons lost their barracks and wore
compelled to accommodate themselves
to tent life. This soluble Algerian
brick, called "attob,” corresponds ex
actly with the "adobe” of the Mexi
cans and Spanish Americans. Phi
lologists, in fact, pretend ,to trace both
to a common Arabic origin.
In support of the theory or fallacy
that the desert is gradually creeping
toward tho sea-coast is the fact that
countless ruins exist in Tripoli and
Tunis, marking the places where con
siderable vegetation unco was bat now
is not. The truth is, however, that
their desertion is not due to any nat
ural phenomena, bnt wholly and en
tirely to tho depredative invasions of
nomadic Arabs, *vho finally killed off
and drove away all of tho unfortunate
inhabitants of the present ruins. Tho
wells with which the latter sustained
vegetable growth in their region are
now filled with dry sand. They coaid
easily be opened again and made just
as servicoaolo as formerly. Tho taxes,
too, were dreadful enough to discour
age any race or people and probably
had some influence upon the depopu
lation.
Tho constant decrease of the wood
land is dangerous to every interest and
should be legislated against. By pre
serving the timber now standing, by
planting more, and by taking advant
age of the same opportunities that have
so wonderfully increased the rain-fall
in western North America, tho great
desert of Sahara could be redeemed
from its supposed perpetual aridity
and become one of the greenest, rich
est and grandest in all the earth.
Tightly-Fitting GloTesu
*T want a No. 6, ten-button black
kid glove!” The speaker came into a
Broadway glove store yesterday and
seated herself before tho tired-looking
attendant, with an "and-don’t-you-for-
get-it" sort of an air.
"A 6! Are they for yourself?” asked
an attendant, looking questioningly at
tho enstomer's hand.
“Why, of course they are for me.
Do you think I wear an 1|?”
"Excuse mo. I thought that per-
hapvyou had made a mistake, and was
about to suggest measuring your hand.''
"I guess I know what size glove I
wear. They cost me enough goodness
knows.” No more was said. The
customer selected a pair of sixes, paid
her $3.25 for them and departed.
"Do you have many such custom
ers?” asked a reporter who had been a
witness of the scene.
"Very many. AU are not so snap
pish, however. It is strange what an
amount of torture ladies wUl undergo
to wear a small glove. That lady
ought never to wear a glove smaller
than a seven. I do not wonder her
gloves cost her a great deal. Gloves
are the most costly items of a lad;
dress. The most frequent compl
against gloves is that the fingers are
too short. The trouble really is, the
glove is too small everywhere. A lady
who should take'a six and three-quar
ter glove can get her hand into a six
and ono-quarter glove; bnt in doing so
the length of the glove is taken np in
the width, consequently the fingers,
instead of going well on, only go partly
on. The tnumb fares still worse, for
it retches, as a rule, only down to
within a quarter of an inch of its prop
er termination. The end of the glove
which is made to go around the wrist
has to be buttoned across the ball of
the thumb.”
"What constitutes a well-fitting
glove?”
"One that conforms to the shape of
the hand. Some think a glove to fit
well must fit tightly. Such is not the
fact. A comparatively loose-fitting
S ’ovo has a better appearance than one
at is half a size too small. Some wo
men are not content unless their gloves
are so tight that their fingers look like
sausages, and tho back of tho hand
like parchment stretched over a drum
head. If ladies would wear their
gloves so that they could put them on
without the aid of powder or the troub
le of working them on for an hour,
their hands would bo better dres:
and their glove bills reduced tw<
thirds. 1 should not complain, though,
1 suppose, for it makes business good,
and that is tho main point with us
after all.”—N. Y. Mail and Express.
HENRY CLAY'S HORSE.
Tb# Nag the Greatest Stateaman Won
at a Game of Poker.
Rhymes In the MHO*
A Washington letter in tho Honston
Post says: 4 T recollect Henry Clay’s turn
out very well.” said an old-timer; "he
had one of the (fid stylo Concord bug-
f ios, with a top that suggested a
[other Hubbard bonnet. It was evi-
dentit a second-hand affair that Mr.
Clay had picked up in » trade, and
nowadays would do very well for a
woman to haul vegetables around tofrn
in. Tho cushions wore stuffed with
moss and were so well worn you could
see the moss, sticking out at the sides.
I’ll bet Henry Clay didn’t know what
a lap-robe was, and, as for a whip, ho
didn’t have any. He used to slash his
old sorrel stallion with the ends of the
reins so loud you could hoar it a block
off. Tho steps to tho buggy were gqpo
and Mr. Clay used to jump over the
wheels. When he wanted to got in ho
put one foot over tho hub and swung
tho other around over tho wheel and
dash-board. Tho wheels wore so high
ho had to let tho top down to got out
They had axle-groaso in those days,
but Mr. Clay had evidently never found
it out He always drove his horse at
a canter, you could hear the front
wheels of his buggy squeaking as many
notes as there are on a piccolo.
"Ah, well do I remember that sorrel
stallion,” continued tho old-timer.
"Henry Clay won him one night at
poker in John Hancock's saloon, which
is still rnnning on the avenue, from
Col. Jim Bright who lived at Falls
Church, Va. Bright used to come over
every week and play with Clay, and he
generally wont back to Falls Church
with a pocketful of money. Bnt that |
was Clay’s lucky night Ho got away 1
with $1,200 of Bright’s money, his
watch, saddle and bridle, overcoat
saddle bags, a new suit of clothes that
were in the saddle-bags, throe finger-
rings and a breastpin, a brace of pistols
anu a bowio knife, and a pair of
boots
"Oh, you needn’t laugh,” said tho
old-timer, with great animation; "that’s
the way they played poker in them days.
A man went the whole hog or nothing.
Why, didn't you never hear of tho time
Henry Clay bet himself clean down to
his undershirt and ho offered to pull
that off, bnt tho other follow didn’t
wear an undershirt to put up against
it Well, sir, it’s so, any how. and tho
very table ho played the game on is
now in the front room, up-stairs, in
Hancock’s saloon. It is an old pine
table about three feet square, with a
hole in the middle to drop tho porcont-
ago through for threes, fulls, flushes,
and jack-pots. Well sir about that
old stallion. He was well known
around Washington for several years.
Ho always nickered when Clay came
near him. Clay carried a pocketful of
shelled com, and he gave tho horse a
handful every time ho got into the
baggy. Tho boys knew the stallion
yroll, and they used to give him pieces
of bread, cake, nuts, or anything of the
sort He’d eat watermelon and meat,
and I’ve seen him cat wads of paper as
though he was trying to make the boys
laugh. Well, sir, Clay had a nigger
named Sam. One day ho loaned the
stallion to Sam to drive to Alexandria.
Sam got drunk before ho left town, and
he started out on a gallop. He didn’t
stop till ho got to Mount Vernon,
twenty miles off. There he turned
around and galloped all the way back.
The old stallion dropped dead at the
edge of South Washington. There
were over one hundred boys at the
fnneral In revenge Clay sold the
nignor to a Louisiana sugar-planter,
with a proviso in the bill of sale that
the planter should hitch Sam in shafts
and work him in the cane-mill Fact,
sir!”
Some very curious and fanny letters
are received at the Dead-Letter Ottos.
The outside of some is more onkme
•note
than the inside.
say to
show
more
The following
relopes ox
which have found their i
Dead-Letter Office. They
poetical bent of the writers:
"Fly little mesMnver, quick and straight.
To Humboldt County of Iowa State:
Fly, little messenger, aad Book with MM
For Miss Annie Fabey, you'll flad bar
, tboro.”
Unfortunately there was no stamp on
it, and the matter-of-fact P. M. hustled
it off to the Dead-Letter Office.
A trusting parent writes on the en
velope of his letter:
this letter to
b great <
sad the i
to ay sob, who
of red oxen, and tho railroad
“Please send
drives a team
runs throurh his plaoe.”
Another envelope has:
“ Rummer’s letter, send It ahMd,
Dead broke and nary a red;
Postmaster, put this letter throurh,
And when 1 ret paid I’ll pay you."
Another envelope has this address:
“James Irwin. Try all over the Stats."
Still another brief address is:
“H. A. Kenyon, P. M„ 111.”
A would-be housekeeper pats on the
envelope:
“P. M. Please forward to tho physician
who was looking for a housekeeper In 8t.
Louis lost week; Isa widower with two chil
dren; don’t know hts name.” 9
This is no doubt an answer to an ad
vertisement. It is a pity the widow
did not get it
Another envelope has:
“To Oonoral W. Knowles this letter Is sent.
To the town of Brighton where the other
ono went
No matter who wrote It—a friend or a foe—
To the State of New York I hope It will fa"
But it went to tho Dead-Letter Office
instead.
Another envelope has:
“Hello! Uncle 8am; let me go In your wall
As I’ve taken a notion to ride on anil
To Illinois Stage, and there let me stop.
And In McLean Co. jnat please let me drop;
In LeRoy P. O. there let me my.
Until Reason K. Oay take# me away. 1
"Flvu
mfovta
—irefa tL. _
—Noristostn.
An ‘ex
brought t
long drink oost
"Ont cook m
steak!” cxelafas
tioolarly alee |
kitchen boned to a erlsf
Free Press.
A Kentucky
in a duel aad It Is tkwattft
accident will have the Cjfin^
a damper on dealing hi f
Boston Post.
"An Amerioan lady
Italian Prince a year i
eft him.” The Mm*
through her fertnue <
Jersey City JoumnL
But tho
says—
P. M.’s reply jost below
idy’s
laint
&
says tuo Detroit rre
politics, and presently
white plug hat iitqui
whom do you consult
They sat side by side on the car,
says tho Detroit Free Press, talking
the man in the
utred: “Colonel
you consider the greatest
living orator?” The colonel coughed,
stroked his chin whiskers, and
no reply. At the end of the block he
got off without a word, and a
ger on the opposite seat loaned I
and said to tne white hat man: "That’s
a pretty blunder you made! Why he's
the very mair himself I” "in that soP’
gasped the other; and he an to th*
platform to watohhbn ootedi
“Played out, my dear boy.
There is no use In talking.
If you can’t pay yonr way
You’ll have to trr walking."
One who waa careful to pay postage
wrote—
“Now baste with this letter as fast as yea
can.
I've just paid your fare to good UDole flai
The ease Is quite urgent, so don’t stop to
think.
Don't tarry for lunebea or even a drink,
Lvman street you will very toon find.
Where the people are honeat, good-natnrs4
and kind,
Frank Taylor, the roan to whom yoe must
BO,
Is 48 Lyman street, Cleveland, Ohio.”
— Washington Capital.
How
Commodore Garrieoa Fell In
love.
"How did the a
his young wife?”
ilntance
Making Screws.
The process of making •crqmp is a
very interesting one. The ron^, large
wire in big coils is, by drawing through
a hole of less diameter than itself,
made the needed size. Then it goes
into a machine that at ono motion cuts
it a proper length and makes a head
on it. Then it is put into sawdust and
’Tattled,” and thus brightened. Then
the head is shaved down smoothly to
the proper size and the nick pul In at
the same time. After,‘Tattling” again
in the sawdust, the thread is cut by
another machine, and after another
"rattling” and a thorough drying, the
screws are assorted by hand (the
fingers of those who do this move al
most like lightning), grossed by weight
and packed for shipment That which
renders it possible for machines to do
all this is a little contrivance that looks
and opens like a goose’ bill, which
picks up a single screw at a thine, car
ries it where needed, holds it until
grasped by something else, and returns
for another. This is one of the most
wonderful pieces of automatic ma
chinery ever seen, and it does its dis
tinctive work at the rate of thirty-one
screws a minute, although this rate is
only experimental as yet. Ninety-
three gross a day, however, has been
the regular work of ouo machine.—
Philadelphia Inquirer.
The Origin of the Turnpike.
An etymological crank has discover
ed that the name of turnpike comes
from having a pike hang across a road
way so that no one could pass without
turning it. Toll-roads were instituted
about 600 years ago, the first one being
built in England by a monk whose self
appointed work was to guard the shrine
of St Anthony, on Higngate HOI Not
having mnch to do he carted dirt from
tiie top of the hill and filled up a deeg
ed commodore
asked of au
qusintance.
"She whistled and he came to her,
my lad,” was tho reply,"but she didn't
do it in the spirit of ths girl lu th* bel*
lad. It happened six years ago tide
summer, and in the very hotel in which
we are sitting. Garrison hod been for
forty years a widower. He was a tasty
old fellow and had not been suspected
of c&ring a rap for women. The poe*
session of somewhere from $10,000,00(1
to $16,000,000, mnch of it in compli
cated use for the promotion of railroa<
and steamship schemes, had hsrsied
him all winter and spring, aad he
come down here for rest and qotet. He
took a suite of the best rooms in t^4
row of cottages whioh are an annex «!
the main establishment,
that he would there be a littie
from the bustle of a public hone*,
it was for a few days as he had
anticipated. Then the family
1L Randall of St. Louis, took
sion of
nnmbered
adjoining apartments. They
d a half dozen persmtCfnolud*
ing a
tiuon
persona;
ugh tin
on the commodore heard aad
whistler. Through the thin per*
m
!8l
Don't be’
money th* I
A!
Caught a j
Off*
ont the walls ot the 1
If the faults *(
virtue*, aad hie 1
would be so i
he couldn't tteyl
of the mailer.—i
In
i Dtettft Ml
* IP** m •
wUraottoVj
irsEw
tasted
child does not
youngster it
godparents.
A southern
s husband
ticks with •
rat,” end
Honoris evttcftthr
would'
An c
town, Ga., has
floor. Now If \
oonld cook, wash
the cows, what a!
be as a wife—j
end In conns otian with 1
ties hs has
lots of ptes
never been WI
any Mg eua #f
I’m glad BBhr had
marry a settled era ftteH
ma Wiakum *t I
kinder ths
"What,
yelled a I
"DnU tt tM,
cia? Wo
inn m%m wv»
disliked
I Kw it tA WJW IHre
annoyed by the whistling. He
it exceedingly. He was driven by it to
exasperation. There was a boy in ths
Randall party, and to him ths vettraft
attributed the aolse. He would no* at [i
that time hear the soft melody of tlte
whistle, nor its clever fidelity to tnf
music which it interpreted, but simply
kept his ears open to it as a torture.
Randall was an acquaintyce of ■ his,
and one day he said tfohlm, as they sat
chatting on the veranda: ’That boy of
yours will be the death of me, John.
Won’t you plug his mouth, just to
please me?’ >
" ‘Oh, it ain’t the boy,’ replied Bap*
dall, ‘but my daughter. Here, Leti-
tia!’
"It was a lovely girl of SO who re
sponded to tho call and was presented
to the commodore. She whistled for
him that evening’ta apiano
ment, and it was no Jo
to him. They were married ia. the
suing October u
a million dollars in sound
In no season sine* that has any
belle at Long Branch been dressed or
diverted in a more costly manner than
the fair whistler.”—BaWtnere Ameri
can.
■w i w» -
- His wedding "gift was
* securities.
The Pecan Tree.
hollow. In doing this he expended
his fortune, but the King came to the
rescue, and published a decree address
ed to our well-beloved William Philip- There is * no'
pi in which, after approving the mo
tives which induced him to benefit our
The pecan tree is found in a wild
state in the woods of the varioi
tions of the South and West It _
to a very largo size, and bears yitarly
many bushels of fine-flavored nuta.
Though little or no attention has beeft
paid to these valuable tree* cultiva
tion greatly improves them, the ant
S rowing mnch larger and improving in
avor. The pecan tree lives to a
age, and continnes long in *
There is no good reason why it
not be grown extensive!
tho United States. It i
to almost ant kind of, sofl,
even on rocky hint and
rood an what
"I don't scs
ha te*
sir!”
tiy of tirat
"What lie
prosperity?”
"Money, pra
b*d bey a* th* I
«gr. Mot
Hhal
down
-^.to
line shot
The boy who!
called six timaa i
without I
his piste
pamuatoi
is out of
formad,aJ
they ninei
JJJJ "And act
lorsly
ignorant 11
Qaieksoat
ktst
people passing through the highway
between Higbgato and Smitiifield, in
many places notoriously miry and deep,
fixed him to set up a bar and
many
be au
take toll so that he might keep the
road in order and himself in comfort
and dignity.
> nut or fruit tree
valuable aad requiring so little
tion. Every fanner, hi my
should have his not orchard,
rate especially th* peean
or sate. The nuts always
sale at „ . ^ ,
trees the only ohfaet ia
fresh nute.
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