The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, May 08, 1890, Image 1
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BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., MAY 8, 1890,
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MY GAIT,
1 i
1 jr> tny gait; with n^'er a whine
ijr.inurmumuH ton* at that or thin, £
Deot> huryiiiK tn this heart hf mine
Hejrret for Joys that ! may miss.
Whether in jwUIih of wt#e or bliss
I gd •
I go my frait, be smile or frown
jJy i^rtion 90 life's thoroujfhfaro,
Upward 1 look a nit never dooN'h;
A smiling face 1 choose to wear
AcThunil in hand, sometimes with carb,
1 go my gait.
♦ *
1 go my gait, nil snre 0* this—
Who inishes sb-adity ahead
Must gain at last some goal of bliss,
If hungry will at last l«e fed.
With dauntless heart and dauntless tread
I go my gait.
—Chiengu Inter Ocean.
-r 1 -- •
_ , . A # a 1. ». 1 host, as we arose from tbe table: “a
flowers growing in a sort of rude back c i, at( . au „ m ebbe so. 1 '
court, llie place bad a very ancient'! singing and playing stopjied
as if tbe bouse bad been theie so H ] lor ^ as our footfalls on the pass;tgc-
.ong thftt it was sinkingm the gionnd, i w ^y announced our appi^acb br ute
while thc wss and vines and moss n)()tn in wllich t]lt , im ,Kicians. had
t\ civ enveloping it. The boards of the , gathered. I heard a scampering of the
[Wf hegres as they ran out through a >ide
ORIGIN
OF TELEGRAPHY.
SLEEPING IN THE WOODS,
fputretl by a C«wrvkit.
Tlioy wcm sjteakittg r f .slaving.
“it was up at Folsom, and .1 ttdgo
with lichens,* w ltile the walls,made of
pine 1 o(fs, were awry from the decay ;
of fhc foundation, and the rude posts j
of the veranda were weather beaten J
and far from perpendicular.
The girl and a man who had met j
her at the. landing turned at* the
threshold to look back at die when !
they heard niv hoi'se’s feet. 1 saw that
they were father and daughter; their j
attitude and appearance told this.
1mmediate]y iheman ta;me b>ward ■
■'-tne tnid - ^pn1r» r T6Ti 1 eTii Frt*neli, wh ieh
riwa'ntiful I’en I*l ;ture «f,i» Night by “AiU
. rumlwck” Murray. " ^ MurpUy had gone m> dferCtf! at (jeh.
Imagine your bed chamber of o<lnr- [-MidiWdn* invitation to jfoe how the
ons hark, and your bed of pungent prison was run,’’ said a *ews*|Kipcr
boughs. Yum? couch made under ‘
murmuring trees and within'Tr few
door with much giggling aud sui>-
prossed chatUyriug
My host satavitli me until late, tell
ing me much about his wife and chil
dren in Paris and about the mansion
lie intended to. build for them when
they returned.
“Me wife is varoe fair, varee blonde;
yah, salt, she varoe pale,;’ he insisted;.
“an 1 zcm shilrain, too, za varce fair—
yal 1. salt, onite as snow l" :
IgTTT was “"son and
was run,
man. n lT« arrived on Saturday night,
and next morninglafter breakfast the
yardsof tie: lazily’ moving water,whoso, vvuedoir asked him if he didn’t want to
motions caiess rather than chafe the be shaved, adding that there was an
excellent barber
snore. Stretched your full length on
such a couch, spread in such a place, establishment. The judge said that
the process of falling asleep becomes, was just exactly what he did want,
tin experience. You lie and -Watch and lie was shown ^the way to the
yourself to observe the gradual de- shop. A very quiet young negro was
par tit re of your senses. Little by little there, with a white coat oyer bis con-
yon feel yourself passing^nway. --"{"Tiet jdiirt'/hhd'tlie judge knew before
Slowly and easily as,ajA t c.bjjiiig.tide T li^‘ had-beeu iu the
A 9yM«m That Was la Vugno Before the
Chrinliiiii Kra—“igtml* by I.lghta.
There was a system of telegraphy
betw«sDn the site of Chicago and that
of the #k v of Mexico before the days
-of Morse*; before Fraukli 1 ds discovery;
before the discovery of America by
; Columbus—perhaps before the days of
Christ. Snell are the assertions of a
Chicago Tribune correspondent who
, asks consideration of his statement on
.the following liasis: .
j Chicago was certainly the northern
terminus of a telegraph line whose
other end was in M'‘xr(“<>. at so remote
j a period of the world's history tlmttlie ( ^ ^ . n im . 1 _ hi T .
Amw 11 umc.4jL.UM» i-a^--thwPVutfHrit is 1 •.m 0 fa7i expert. ; of 51 fashionable park and garden.
TiurieTTin oblivion. It was not the In- } sensible realmJii'Voml the line-of feel- The ‘first time over’ was through,-and *- Among the ice
Kathcr Awlreertli
Tliere. were two pretty- sister* who
had nurried, one un eminent lawyer^'
Hie other a distinguwdied literary mao*
Literary man dir*, and leave* younger
sister a widow. v :2u:
Borne vears roll away, and the widow
lays aside her weeds. « Now, then, it
happens that a certain author and
.... Clitic has occasion on a broiling day
coimcctcd with the in summer to call on the eminent law-*
verphunbuild of tbe elder sister; *
limls the lawyer pleading and swelter
ing in a crowded court, sees that the;
‘ ‘ l?i
lawyer is su tie ring dreadfully from the
heat, i>ities him, rejoices that he hjoi-
self is not a lawyer, and goes for ft
hue on a horseback journey
through a secluded and somewhat
watery nook of southern Louisiana
I lost my way and wandered for the
Whole-of a bright and breezy after
noon through a region at once the
wildest and most flfiierbal in aspect
can jss-uliarity.' Is.oking over his f ,p-i rTt i iwi M w,iw built the huge mounds of earth that ! your ears drowsily siirrciiTler the lin
head at his daughter 1 saw that she was
a shade darker tlianjie, and the negro
dash appeared to liave come iuto lier
fac«% witb some emphasis, but uotdisa-
tbat <*ver met my eyes. ! greeubly. ^ . j
No bouses, no plantations, no sign l» In a nioment l w^aguesf. ^I^ hoiae
- » Avns e:Tro(i r <t ,. .1 I.uI^iihI I avals wel-f
coined into itlie sijuat but spacious
and other jkimj) 11♦'r 11 alia of wo^il
equijtped dshing folk.' One of them 1
iveogni/.cd as tlio gii*l I had seen in the
pirogue tilt eveiiimr l>efi>ee — .—-
At breakfast m v host was not s<) gay
fbelgcring murmur of—beach and pine;
the vour ev<'S droon their lids little hv lit-
are met with everywhere 111
Mississippi vallev and down to the j your eyes droop their lids little by lit-
Atlantic ct»ast. We call tie; jM'ojile of tie; your nose*slightly senses the odor
liliiit sge snnply-. Mound Kittkirry for } of the piny air, aa you mechanically
^ want a la*tter tirime. T'he raTcTTs T di-aw it iii; the chest, falls as it passes
as he had been at dinner, and hiw —death The hist man of them had 1 as mechanically out, and then—you
of human lift*, save what an occasion
al lierd of thin, wiry domestic cattle
might suggest, as breaking fort Ik from i
borne fringe of 1 veils, or ^•amjKiring 1
across a vertluous ojs niirg -in the
gloomv winxls. the half wild kttleani
• mnls ifed from me with deer like agil
ity, and, what made the solitude most ’
notable, the booming Of alligators cat he
from eta-tain bavous and pends ntar , » ,,( '"|'i t d l)y lank, longctuvtl, snoozing
which 1 i> i vM'd.-~— -bounds. '
-Tim , >111 wrvrhm hrtlTrWsf, almost.} -^naif of rudeyleanliness that was
down to the horizon in fact, wi.cn, af ; ^"lostjuxury jKU vmdciUthe place, and
. I sweet, faintly'fnigrtmt, jus if pc.rfuined dia-ns. The ancestors of T* ctiniM-ii ami ( ipg, -Vf n moniont-mHnt^in which thn jmigiiciqsie out of a nice litth'do/.-
rots midway Ijctwcen that of XeNy Lki-i K , a ne rnre In-rh t -r-rlrr^dti 11 iawatita ;i n* inodiuais compared with J, yuu^ kno-w you are jmssing ovcrTTiQ »-and lav watching the fellow. Pretty
h‘ans ami the- pa hits T>r the "negrme^ m' mornmir whoiri hTok(>dour of the earlipi- race. T— — i very verge of consciouMiessi, You are f goon the judge said: - -a 1
Ilt' was very dark, almost black, w ith jyjy whulow 1 saw live ^vouug persons I he lii*st telegraphic system was T1 aware - you are about to full asleep, j “ ‘Haven't I seen vou Ijcfore? 1
wavy--dead-black hair and beakd,, but ]; ditfereiit and regularly graduated employed some centuries ago by -1 Y u ur cheek but partially interprets: “‘1 guesssq,’safdtUefellbw,wet-
lils features showed little, if any, Afri- ; ages get into a small smack and sail curious race of people that j the cool pressure of the night wind ft ting the judge's face for the‘second
time.’ ;
‘Where was it?’
“ ‘In your court, judge.’
“ Ts that so? What—what was it
about?’ ‘ :
“ ‘Well, judge, I'll tell you,’ said
the fellow, lie was then -cunring
down over the judge's chin and was
Swiiejjing down toward his throat.
‘My name is Wjlliams, and you s«»ut
mo up here for life for killing wo
man on Bush street,’
‘“As he said tin's the fellow laidilio
cold edge of the razor against the
judge's Adaqi's apple, and the judge
closed his eyes, liirkuew there, wasn't
another person but themselves in the
room, and for an* instants ho had the
wild inclination to jiiTitp up and y4*ll
houst*.’ where the lirst thing that at-
tracted my eve^ was a rack of antlers,
ujsm which lay three long, heavy flint
lock guns, one of which was magniti-
centlv jnount'd with silver. Skins
pushed to Ij.is eternal -rest long before
this land became the home of the
works of tiiose simple iieoplc live after
them, W<‘ look upon their great earth-
and like Volnev
hung about the walls of the hall or
wen*spread upon tlie tloqr, two of tliem |
bnakiniS tlmmgh a Jans,- tanirleof l1 "' '■'!»** c f K. fr " m '<«> a>Ij,;nmig f
bay bliala-H liTakihL- my way -tor 1 '""'"* "r , T bamilln-ly sweat and l u ll. ;
• ana .Iwlanao umlar m,,..sv. Imv I,an- ‘.Cai.-.Hj that Urn U,a,r N ,ma on cillicr |
wore a look, as, I thought, of vexa
tion,* The fat 11 ogress was very atten
live tons, but not much was said.
When I was ready to resume my
'ourney the man went to fetch my
mrso while I arranged some, things in works, amt like \ oiney among his
niv saddle [lack;- As I cainc out of my : ouly feel that tu them is
rcsim I was eon fronted hy the m*gix i ss.-j dm* our veneration. k or Hiem wo
“That iiiaTfTsjny hnsbiml.'' she said nui>i entertain at leatit a fading of ro?
lit patois: “lte‘s ashaiu^d of > 1110 and s|*evf, bemg; as tiiev -are, the last i*e-
of his children because you are hero, mainuig vestiges ol a race most re-
He w ishes you to consider hini a white markable :pid most inteis-f ting of all
man ; but he's a negro, just as much as the men on earth, springing mysteri
I and the children arciiegi'iii'S. lie sa OUFIT mtu mvistence, living for cen-
ahdfinallydi
are asleep.
The hours pass, and still you sleep
modern red men. But the mighty . on. The IhhIv, in obetHence to some
occult law of force within the inseitsi
hie frame, still keejKs up its respira
tions; but you aWK somew here—sleep
ing. At last Ibe pirre above you, in
the d eep hush whicli pivcr^k's the com-
iiig <)f dawn, stills its monotone, and
silence weaves its airy web amid the
motionless steins. The water falls
Tbe loon's head is under its
crowd lliere, lie meets pie younger
the two sisters, and for a moment
thinks be is talking to the elder. '
*“0h, Mr. says the ladyv; _
“how oreadfully hot it is hereS” > .i
“Yes. madam,” repliA our luckless <
Critic.A’it is hot here; but I can assure...
you the heat of this place isn't a cir-
eumsUnee when compared with the
heat of the place where your poor dear -
Imsbahd is suffering today.’*
A horror stricken expression comes
over the face of the lady; she riseft
from her chair; And flounces indig
nantly away. —Now York Ledger.
Tb* I>*>**• jr »f Ilcvrim*.
^Hoiv surprising it would ho to any
Nineteenth >»ntui’y^man wlm shouldr
read tlui Psalm* for the first time ~it
the age of rellectiou, to note l*ow filftt
yid (or whoever did Unit terrible cur*-
ing) was in contimm! cottistdn with
The word occurs ninety-
lurie
‘lip. if ’'ntjr
Sh^ jpoke very genii v. without "the«' pleu*! V from tlie face of the .,v;irt Iras
si do of ^!m? y, \\cv& yt k ry nwcIq^ sdww of- Huiitinir in^u n * tlionjfli thw ncvt*r luul WotMi lk>rn. | ,
r .«ii ' ; iinLitoa»Lm—anTruTJBiiigher dtiid hlaRc.Y*hW>-b I»vtng w)lolly uuTcTiown to oilier
the ?
rooms, into one of Which 1 was con
ing, live, oak boughs, ! carm
fkc expansion'of one of v ,, v ■ . . , , r - ,
Imyous. Here mvniml Iftn'se ktoj>iH*tl | dlfCtSI b^.m.vdusky Lmst
of his own accord, -uud, lifting his ' Bit down, la: said, and left me, re-
ln*ad, neiglaMl shrillv
- No
1 turning a few minutes later with
So’ •,','ue run 1,1 l„M.lv , 1 mi 11 i >>"«!<• of wio*- »*«l » f'P-of
n-TTie inh. 1 wat.v rot^-tis '* * n, ‘‘ ' lt ' " as ol, M gdanetdovei
rthe
TTHim. In ony corner a magnilicenl
1 mahogany four post bedstead, exqui
sit<*ly carve«l. amt ctirtaim-tl w ith n il
Itrocaflc, curiouHtaml old; in another a
, low sofa of the no. rich stutF, much
WfurfTjut still lM*autiful, and over the
1 rude mantel a grimy, smoke dimmed
painting of the Virgin, were strangely
and struck.the water with long blades J eontrastwhlj the rough walls 1 ami
o! crimson and gold. Smthward lay a ! “>'«‘Vcn l*>ard th»or, to say nothing «»t
dark, solemn ovpros.s swamp; norths i * !M ‘ W1 ’be l»vllyjncd chairs ami tin* lit
1 tie holm? nm«h* cypress table, on which
“thf
blur as thi: w ing of a jay and ;is still
TK the sky ov«*r om* half of it. while
tB'er the other half the breeze was
Icupinggh cfull v, bearing I .rig! ii£wa ve
lds before it. The snnirght, reddened
by a slight fog that whs beginning' t*i
rise IhmoiuI tiie lake, fell level Hcn^sVa'
vast grassv uiar*li like a sheet of Hame
ft
cypress
want tbe lagoon sw ung j-oitmi tluMive
mi* wood*mL was lu>t. 1 was not very
ln-ar the gull coast, but the nnmistuu-
al>b* salt f ragrance was in the air.
It was May ami the magnolias were
beginning t«> bloom; my horse s feet
w ere l»allie<l in fountains of blue and
*viId violets. Fverywlien: the colors
of tbe rainbow thisheil, and on every
breath I drew in a bewtkieriug sense
of m rfumes. *
1 llumght tbe s|v»t a good one on
which to pass the night, ami was piv-
paring to dismount w hen a d<*g U*g.m
t)»lKiy ju.-t Ian*01 nl a thH*k«*t of » , «alars.
It was a deep voiced hound barking a.-
if for sm*er idleness. The sound was
ns welcome as it was musical, for it
told me that a cabin must l*e near
Settling niv.self at ease in niv saddle
JW isteneu. A noise of row locks or of
a |uuldle touch mg a skill's side now
renebed my car; and 1 wondered why
1 had not Is-fore noticed tire pirogue .
and the person that proisdled it were well prs served and authentic.
Sarcelv »*<i yards awav, and .skim- S.ane«sneof the forefathers, proba-
lumg swiftly over the water, tlie bh not the original Uw»u from S;ui ;
graceful little vessel came shorowant. -Homingo. had U*en a grbat scholar, so
Iks <K*cupaiit, a sh'iidef^/giri apjkmmt- | j 4, . v host said, and had col!.pcte«l niany 1'
iv, ^it m ar the stern and wielded the hooks ami a tew pieturcaduringl.is an-
paddle with vigor and ease. 1 uu '\ l v,s!{s l{ ' i 1 :iris an, i l Avignon, til© '
Kvidentlv the dog was Laving her I n ‘ ll a, “'‘ ,slra i \' hir '' 0 ‘ t!i e tamily.
minmd an antiquated iron lailqi. At
the one square window some tattered
but carefully rhmifcdLheavv silk <*Hr-
faliis nistlej in -the air that llowtxl j
through.
“How long have you lived here?” 1 j
inquired, in voluntarily, as 1 Unik the
cheer the man-offered.
“1 bay 11 yah w'en I s Imj'u sah,” he
answered, jMilite]y striving to mate his J
English with mine.
“You were U»rn h**re?'’
“An' my fahu-rau’ grau'fahter, l>o’n
\*fih. yas. s;ili, all Ihi'ii yah.lk^
His story-w as a simple one when
presently he wbl iL Ati ancestor, he
was not sun* of the generation back.
• had coim* frofh San Hoiningo, fieefng
I from the aw ful insirrrcctions, and had
[-settled her* on this very spot with Ids
! fdhves. iK.uhth-ssTie luul history sadly
; mixed, hut thefs.* was internal evideiiee
that the larger farts of the. tradition
ly kinked hair With lu r Left hand.
TTPt” tTusband's f<k»T soumlcd on tlw
veranda, ami she hurried away.
The man had brought out his own
pony, aiid r hii-ru4*c-with nte to put me
in the right road some four miles dis
taut. All along la* tidied of his abv nt
wife ami children, and sighed as he re
marked that it would Ix^ a long while
to wait for them to return from Paris.
1 offered him money when we wei*c
parting; but lie refused it with a great
show of polite contempt for tlie
thought. 1 could not insist, and so,
bidding him good by with many
thanks, turmsl nrv hor-e logo.
“Dem negro,'' lie ventured to mur
mur; “yah, sah, dem iiegri*s lx- varee
please cef yon gtf'em two <lollaiis*. ]
convey eet to 'em \rarec easy—yah,
I looked deep into hi* mild dark eyes
as I handed him the coins for tie* ne-
gres, ami wondered how tlie man
could l>ear mV sc*rutiuv. There was
_ _ to
peoples of t lui r times. w««Jia*c. ico 4h*ta
on which t4> base a reliable history of
this jmtuliar race of men. Ouranti-
tpiarUTbTTeTT us that they built sule
Ztanlial cities: tiiat they were tiller*
of TVtttrrwm usd Browning.' not to
w^iik of jdii>j4ftgijil^ r ewlpT and~Wtii£
1 tt* ,r . giving ftttemie* Mica a place in-
C
w ith the smell of the sikI ami the ism»i
hu '€ mold of the underlying earth!—
Murray's “Igiko Chumplain and its
Shores.”
not a fljcker in hi* codntmtance. _ ^ .
Maurico Thouipbon in The iadepend sisslppl to Arliaiitifta «ijfl on wind in 1
ent. . . more or loss straight line to the ter-
tiie
all, the sleejM-r slcc]»s. What sleep
such sleeping is! and what a ministry
is ix-ing ministered unto niind mid
ImmIv thi-ough the cool, jmre air. ]mn
ofthestril; that they kncwi ilie prifici- gent with gnininy’odors and strong
ilea of art; (hat they bad a written
anguag-* and a religion filial they bud
a commercial .system, ami that they
could send a message across the coun
try w ith the velocity of light.
A telegraph in prehistoric times, as
we l»K*k hack U}M»n it, J;eeu;s eertiiinly
a myth, yet it is after all the simplest
thing imaginable. The writer dill not
claim for it the electric principle of
the Morse telegraph. Trie electricity
which Franklin found himself able to
control would have been totally un
available in the hands of primitive
people. _ ..
Tlie Mound Buildgrs' telegraphic sys
tem consisted of a chain of large
mounds, starting nt Chicago, heme
bearing across the country to Prairie
du (Turn.’ Wii., thence down the Mis-
euemies*
m to uriip up ami yen j four times in the 15<J Paolms; tliirty-
spotted wing, and the owl lx.'jcamus—-ont-for help. Then lie thought letter 1 live times joined with the possessive
mute. The doer has left the shore, and j of it. and said us placidly as he conhHl ltriiiUJUn “mijie.” Can w e couc*|.vft
lies curved irt its im>ssy ImsI. The rats “ ‘Ain yes^ JL-i^iueiaWr; vury mmI
1*0 longer siwn their across case. Well; I hope yoTPre mlhMgirp
tlie frogs hnre rease<P~ youh cmliUi ’VYilhains.V. *
tlx ir^ro*king. All Uquiet. In thftlJL^—l’raUy gnnd, r rrpliod the convict [ tneir hyiniisT ^m-en Yicbirm has a
profound quiet, fiiiff hiiconscions of it barber, aud tbo razor slid softly up 1 gorwl dr*al larger froiAser than David,
from tlie judge’s tbroAt aud was put , and may lie ofilciull
lu*ck in its 5h.xo. A few more minutes 1 enemies all over
and the hulgo had ituitUnl the chair
and left tug room, smiling and thank
ful. hut w^fen he rejoined the warden
ami party they told hifn he looked as
though lie had - ”seen a ghost.”—Ban
Francisco Chronicle. -
FflVct of m Bit*.
The taxidermist of the Victoria mu
seum, Ixindon, was !jitt**n in the hand
hy a cobra, from which tin* nobuni bag
had Imth extraebst. while feeding it.
Sun]K>j»ing tlx* bite to lx* harmh ss, he
tool: no notice of it till pain and nan
son began. Then ail the u-nial anti
dotes wen* tried without effect. The
man. lost the power of s]x*eoh, became
paralyzed in his muscular system and
ceased to breathe. Artificial respira
tion was applied for eight hourr, after
which he began to. breathe again and
gradually regained consciousness.
After two days he was able io t»*ll
his friends that he had been fully
aware of .ill that uns going on during
the efforts to restore him, but had not
more or loss straight line to the
I minus at the City of Mexico, then
1 capital of the Aztec empire. These
i mounds w ere built in the most suitable
Itieatioiis. so that a lire lighted atone
point could be .sciMt* distinctly at-tbo
next, and thus a signal light could lie
lutstily trausiuitUxl from om .station to
another over the thousands of mi^es
w hich separate the two terminal points
of the line.
|> The. signal stations art* locat* d often
at a distance of many nub s, |>ei lmps a
half tio»*n sjKinning a hundred miles;
thus, as may readily lx* seen, a danger
signal could lx- sent across a state witli
the speed of light. Around these sig-
| nul inoumltuire usually grou[x*d thou-
Siimls tif a h^ssxr size, and sometinit s a
fortification or otln r earthwork, indi
cating that a city of a large si^* h^
Treoanreit In Catxt.
ft - is n'ot long since a Paris Imnk
clerk left papers representing aomc
JJuO.tWO frunes in a can, and was lucky
enough to -find them several hours
after lying untouched on the mat. A
provincial banker who Ux»k a cab on
the bullIcVfiKTx one aftermxhi drove to
the Northern statioii, mid was equally
absentmimled, but was not so fortu
nate. After dismissing the cab nt the
station and taking a ticket he remem
bered that he hud loft on the neat a
portfolio containing hank notes and
papers to the value of 80,000 franc*.
lie rushed ‘to the station enlruuca,
only to find thf,cab gone, and thence
to tlie stand from which be had taken
it. The particular vehicle he lunged
to set eyes upon had not yet returned.
The distracted banker confided lift*
troubles to the policeman on duty at
tbe. spmd, ami was advised to await
Why 100O Will X-.t !!« ik Lrap Tear. j
The question is often asked, “Will j
tbe year 1900 be a leap year?” It will i
not. When Julius (‘msar revised the
calendar ho ap{)oiutod an extra day j
every four years, and bis calendar j
lusted until A. D. V&2. Now tbe or- j
dinnry year is 11 niiuuteti amt 11 sec- J
onds abort of being JP55I day* in I
length, no that there Isn’t really a foil
sized extra day to lie added to Febru- I
ary every fouft years. C'aftuir didn't 1
know this, or didn't care about it, and
for 1,800 yeftrs w*o kept borrowing I
fn»ni the future, until in 1582 we’d “’ r
borrowed ten days. Pope Gregory ®m<n»g the
XIII started ta correct this. Hear-
der»d Oct. 5, 1582, to be called Octo-
l>er 15, and, to square things, ordered
that centuml years should not, as a
rule, Im? b ap years.
But if leap year is oniitted regular
lly sunpoeed to have
[ffie globe; but even
when we sing “God Save the Queen’*
we are content to wish their “knavish
tricks” frustrated and their,“politics”
coiifoumh*d, and do uot want to take
their little ones and dash them
against the stones. But not only may
we congratulate ourselves on tltft
waning of the dread passions of hatred
and revenge; we iiiay also, I feel sure,
rejoice in the positive development of
the converse xaiitiuienta of beuevo-
lence tn id syfilputliy, Tlie eutbusitMra
of bumuuily is a truly modem pae*
sion.—Frances Power Uobbft in Fo
rum.
HnT»xl hy a Do*. ;
Alont anccdotff Have been
published under the aliove title, in
wtiich dogs have figured in preserving
human life. We bud a dog once noted
saving thjpgn, but there wasn’t a
B Among theni. He kept the tbinge
he saved under the summer kitchen,
aud bis hiding place wasn’t discovered
for a long time; not, indeed, until it
became neweaiary to tear up the kitcli- ,
en floor to find a gmai place to deposiC»
somd brnoridc of lime during a chol-
v«4.Ciiiue as hho -ivturuvd fioin
Tic
w;is vatee fttipeytw rrmn*. rat ^rr
CU.3 - I V.tll i -1 i VJIM • £VV * W »—rsrv f -Sr-V-*
a^-^-exeW^-fnr »:oxv n.fipff r v .
Tii if TOVATT
been able to move a ut^e»W«li^e-x< ^ d' iffitl*'
1 fe sec and ” thus al Th,m-,b«,r-.. la . in addition
ly each hundredth year, wo pav liack \ f ra sea * >M *, then we found .what had
I nearly a day too much; *0Pope Greg- ‘saved by a dog
there the n*turu of the* cul>. At tlie t orv fiytb^r ^x)nlf*red tliut every centu- I Tiicre wofo a couple of kittens, &
end of au hour two cabs drove up.to . rial year which could be divided by *00 c *h twoor thros rats and a chicken,
the stand, and the hanker recognized should lx? a leap year after all. Bo wo v< r >’ dead} a large assortment of
11 is dr Ivor. The hittor.tolcl the jxilice* Lljorrow eleven luiuutesoacli your from bones^ tlie refunuuts of uti oitoinuii.
man tiiat aft<*r leaying the railway 1 the future; more than jiav our bor- | grille theft of which the best hired
station he bad driven two ladies to the rowings back by o!uRtiug|/thrce leap j K* r ^ we ever had was discharged; a to-
Palais.de rindustrio. As thev quitted ! years in this** centuriesy&nd finally ' ,ul *h) can, a couple of teuspoonz, a
the cal> they remarked to the Jehu that l square mutters by having a leap year b>ru volume of Hoyle s games, an old
eseat. There in the fourth centurial year. Tliis ar- boopskui, a canary bird, a nutmeg
rangemeut is ho exact that we borrow g ra h‘»‘» a plaster of Paris pigeon and a
zette. , moiH tha»-we pav back to the extent w M) k Ixxjk. It is ruroly that thei*e is*o
of only one day In 3,808 years. i>ix- ,,1UC “ **''<** by a dog, for they afft
• ti,cu hmidrad was a h-up year, gUUfl j generalty improvident.—*T
will--be, but TOOft will %tit r bez Xhy ®gC
them was a |KJi tf<*lio on th
wxs—built was empty.—Pall Mall Ga
ThTh-d
1 lit* ffiV \\ :is tiiriiinir from ht lH*r lu
tla* boriztm, tbe fog was turning from
rose purple t<)silver gray; and-1 no
tired tlnn the nearly full iiaxm was
van against the eastern sky. Above
the dark jungle of the swamp vane
■wide winged birds were slowly hailing
southward.
“Itoo la! hoo-laMioo-ee!’ r quivered
a loud, sweet voice from the pirogue.
“Hoo la—la 1km>, la hoo-hoo-eel'" an-
sweml a baritone from the .shore just
bevond tlu* cedar thicket.
iTicg irl waved her paddle in the air
and repluxl with a yinlel that sent its
silvery ripples to every dreamy nook
of the bayou. ' -■ -
1 kliow not how to suggest the feel
ing that came over me; it was as if I
Jiad a glimpse of old Arcadia, as if a
waft of perfect jxjaee and quiet joy had
rear bed'me from some landof eternal
apple blooms. ■„
Overhead some wild fowl were
blowing their elangerous pipes; and
allliou^Ti 1 did not look up 1 knew
that their wings were shining against
the sapphire sky. In my mind ttoeks
of poems, like strange singing birds,
rustled their silken phrases and flooded
me with unutterable rnebxlyr
V'ery soon tlie pirogue touched shore
at.some distance from me, amll saw
tlio tall girl spring out and loop the
little painter around a stake; • then,’
Springing up the bluff, she was lost to
my view. I could not clearly make out
her features, but I felt that she was not
ill looking; her form was litheness it-
self and tlie very embodiment of wild
grace. *
Quito sure of finding a house on the
Other side of the cedar thicket, I turned'
my horse’s ’head that way 'and rode
through. f To my surprise 1 came ujioii
Tin orange orchard of perhaps 500 large
trees, beyond which the low,, broad
roof of a vine covered cottage showed
dim and gr^y under the wide boughs
of an enormous live oak. The picture
Struck me as one of remarkable ,ex-
pression-r-a sort of vignette from some
«5lJ romance. -
me across tin* hall into an
x»m; and, sure enough, there
: were shelves of books,-none of them
! especially valuable,-unless an old edi
tion of Voltaire or of fh»uss»-au or of
Fern-Ion could be so called; and there
hung some niniits, once l)oautiful, hut
now so smoked with pine smoke- that
they were worthless. On a peg in the
wall, above tlie life place but bciowMtlie
high mantel, hung two long llintToek
pistols, the barrels id brass with hell
muzzles, and each having the flashpun
on top of the breech,• w here the vent
>ed
hear and fro), but not move or twitch.
He was afterward attacked by high
fever and inflammation of tie* lungs,
from which ho died on tiie Sundav
following tlie \Yt dnesday on which
he was bitten.—Philadelphia Ledger.
,W«**v Drying; .Glu®.
Blow drying glue is stronger than
quick drying, and for general use no
method gives such-good results as the
following: Break (he glue small and
cover it with water in an iron kettle
and let it soak twelve hours- after
shaking, boil till done, then pour il
j to one of the most remarkable inclos-
• uit earthworks of tlu* continent, flier*
are mounds of all shapes and sizes, the
number running un into the thou
sands. No belt< r srleetkm of a signal
j station could have been secured tlrun
I this. On tbe very brow* of a great*
j bluff overlooking the Mississippi are
; located the eight huge conical mounds
of eai*th upon which the signal fires
JUiUing G<m>»®
JS__^
faneg jM.sffTutr w Iib do
.not indulge in one or two side issues
for the purpose of swelling their in- \
comes. Billy King, the city passenger
centurial year that can bo divided by i
400 will* bo a leap year.—Hartford j
Times,
Que®r Mark Twain.
Whenever Mark Twain has a large
were lighted, away Ixick in another
age of the world’s history,-telling a
j tale of danger or festivity,
this ]X>int would be instantly observed
U Muscatine, the next stufion'. tw ent v
■ was stopped' with a si 1 iidl quilXnTrurrotiglit box, and whenColil • mil s to the north, or Fliiit Hills, now
ro rod pec la Fs wing. i cover it tight. As it is required, cut 4 Burlim*-
When dinner was announced I was
show 11 into a rea r si led rix im, on 1 y ha 1 f
of whicli was fhx>ml. This was Iroth
kiteheng and dining room, the floored
part st'rving as the latter, the earthen
part as the former; while through a
low window l could (from my scat at
the immaculately tidy board) loolr
right into a very dirty stable.
My host sat at the table with me:
but no otherrneTubeFof tiie household
joined us. We were served by a large,
stout, jot black negro woman, who
scarcely spoke during the meal, which
was homely, well cooked, savory, de
lieimis. -r r ^~> . •
•We ate by the light of a curious iron
lamp, whose oil hud tlie singular fra
grance of candle berries. During tbo j w ho
meal two sweet and powerful voices ; nietl
the words of whicli I
out a portion ami rrit-U iTrrhc'TrVTT.'Tt
way, exposing no moi-e of ,tije made
glue to tlie atmosphere than is ne.ees
sary, as the atmosphere is injurious to
made glue. > ()f course it never should
lx) su!)je.ct(*d to diroct heat. It .is lx-t
ter io irsc'g*iu? r Tftiite thin, working it
into the wood, rather than too thick.
—j’ r Exeepting veneering, glue both
ngton, awaV in the h)i/y distance,
thirty miles to the south,, and thence
could In* transmitted from mound to
agent of the Burlington road, for 111
stance, has engaged in an outside ven
ture which will doubtless bring him in
good money. - He had read a ginnl deal
about ostrich farms in California and
of the vask-prefits accruing then*from,
and he decided to go into a similar
business oil a small scale. According
ly he Tias purchased a flock of gees©
and a small plot of ground on which
A H 'l/t. at | keep-tftem. lie has also engaged a
niaii toatteud to the lloek-gnud Tie i»
jitiTTi si g goose eggs on the market. Pep
nio may think that there is no money
in goose eggs, but from every one to
whom Mr. King has told about his
grxj.M- eggs there has Gome a hearty re
sponse. (loose eggs apjiear to be in attacked hy the dilute sulphuric acid
dinner party at his homo in Hartfora,
A New Yuitaio luttenr. ' [ particularly when he Ium auy English-
A novel form of voltaic battery is j * m ‘ u j 1 or guests, lie is in thft habik it
made ’03* an Italian inventor in ibis
simple manner; A conical cast iron
bowl, partly filled with strong nitric
acid; is fixed in a stand, and in it is
placed a similar bowl of jiorous earth
enware partly filled with dilute sul
phuric acid. Then follows a second
iron cone with a second earthenware
is said, of rising at whpt he cousideni
the proper moment, without at#
warning or explanation, mid begin
ning a set speech of a humoroua kind.
He usually occupies from fifteen to
twenty minutes, and does his best to
entertain and tickle his auditors.;
Sometimes his efforts, always preuiedi-
o^
one, and so on inn series, each vessel bited and caretiBlj' prepared, are
highly successful; sometimes they are
not. Humor cannot be fabricated to
faces and never have the wood heated.
New York Telegram.
mound, from station to station, hun
dreds of miles'in either direction.
This telegraphic Lystem employed by
the MouirI Builders is tlie greatest
wtmder of the western Avorld. Nor is ... , .. . . .
it a mytii, a.s so frequently oi-igiuates uhmstry but thero us money m it
sur- ! jn the fertile imagination of the news vhicago Herald.
containing its respecti ve^acid. Bv this
arrangement the 111 nor surface o^each
i 1*011 vesuel is ex]k»wHl to nitric acid
and Incomes passive, acting the part
of the platinum or carbon of the ordi
nary cell; while the outer surface is
greater denunid than geese, and it look's and takes tlie place of zinc^ No con-
J. very much as though Mr. King would j ncctmns arciiecessary. Apileof flirty
* XA 1 to enlarge the little goose j or forty of thes * eleineutsgivcsastrong
n« * oblignl
farm he has.
1 Voplo. laugh at such<111
JPIslithiK tlie Striker®.
A Bcofcli baker named Cameron* in
Melbourne, bad a strike in hiVslnm,.
and when bis delivery wagon werft Tine i 1 out of
out it was followed bv. a buggy
eohjuimug pickets of tliy strikers,
endeavored to induce the
in tbe wagon to qyut work,
hiird another buggv ami
pajx*!* writer, but the. mounds and
earthworks are there to show for them
selves, and their puri>ose is self evident.
Now forests have grown up, so that
lietweeh many of the stations the line
of observation is cut off; hence the
sang a song, tiie words of which l : Cameron
could not catch, some one playing tlie j drove along behind the pickets with
an* on a dulcimer that I had seen Hi j a ‘ (ruil ju .,. oss . -his knees., Wheh-
the horary (as I may call it) and un- ever the pickets attempted to talk to
other joining m with a flute. = I his men on the delivorv wagon he
repair
archieology assert and believe that the
thousands of mounds in the long line
from Chicago to Mexico City were, be
yond a doubt, signal stations in the
first and original telegraph system.
‘Dem s ma negres smgm zat song. i umi)( . ( , down ami threatened U» si loot.
Yah, sah, 1113* negres, said my host. •] }[ e succeeded in makiiig the pickets
I give Ins pronunciatipn of English ! abandon their work, hut Tve w^t'^iH-
hut imjv'rfectly, as the spelling loses jnom*tl to appertr'iTi~*ouYt forintimida-
tlie nuicliliable sweetness of the into- ; tiqji witharmed wcaisms.—Exchange®
nation. • ’ r '
“He call he shilrain lie negres,”
lisped the fat negress, with low r '
chuckle^ winking at me. ' - . _ - J
“Me sliilrain evairone at ztTschool in 1
liiding around the^ingle of the or
^rd I came infrofiTof the house and
td. A clump of pear trees grew at
ic side and a great fxiwerof seupper-
nong vines flanked a little rt«c gar
den. In front of % wide veranda a
“Di'm’s me negres in zare singin’.”
The negress chuckled again,, but said
no mow?. . • .
“Me ouife,,sah. she in “Paris, too,”
the man added; “she come back nax
year—mebbe sor.”
^"'magnificent oleander spread, its, gloss}’ . rareo < “ rue
greenery. A siiacious. oi>en hufl ran niurmureil die ouian withakmyw'ing
eutirely throu([b the low, ' im ‘ l " •"■' l * - H ”
[ atmoft roUe«. huBding*, g
glimpse of luxuriants tufts rj tlug like
^anta bearing great
Muinmlrd Grocixlilex. , -
British enterprise having been de-
lig’nted with Egyiftian cats, is now
( turning its attention to- the crocodile
I pets at Maabeteh, wliere there is a rich
^SUp}-»Ptttttitr”of^TttTTtfff*?rT^ • mi me use extent j f ,,ai
The crocodiles aro laid like sardines in ;
a box, with palm leaves between tliem. i
' IxMit Ills lirst Cuw.
-A-certain milkman not far from
here recently lost a good cow. Shortly -
1, • , 1 • • 1 ^ . 1 aftervwxrd liis well caved in. and a
I am; yak sah, m 1 am, w U-eu to i tl, c latk-r dr-
> wirs 4uuv, . quickly S|toka mj> tlie man. ^^ulaataiice, askwl if ho l.ad aot
*. A W:t*lier«oinun Princc-sn.
Pope Sextus Y was. a.s all the world
knows, of the very'.humblest origin.
He had been a goatherd and one of
h i s sistei-s was axvas h < • r w om a 11. When,
l)ut students of i however, lu* became supreme pontiff
he brpuglit liis kinswonutu, the laun
diess. to Rome, made her a princess and
installed 1 ier in a magniflee!it p:ila<*c’
The next ihiy the Statue of Pasquin
-was found to be endued with a shirt,
the cleanliness of which left much to*
be desired. The iuimilable Marforio
asked, in a placard whicli was read
witii a universal grin, tbe why and tbe
wherefore of the grimy undergarment,
and the next Piisq 1 " 1 * ^pli^j
coiOd not get his liuc.n washed
because his washerwoman bad become
^princess.—London Telegraph.
current, which diminishes to about
one half in five hours.—New Y'ork
Telegram.
"'T*
ran Count 180 Deacendanta.
The Marietta (0.fJRegist#5r tells of a
somewhat renuwkablc family in that
vicinity. Joseph Burke, a freeman
from Prince William count}’, Va.,
came with his family in 1854. to New-
**port, vvhci*e he died three weeks after
ward, leaving a wife and twelve chil
dren. The widow still- survives, and
most of her children. A recent census
of the family, including children,
grandchildren and greatgrandchil
dren, gives an aggregate of 180 souls.
Mrs. Hannah Burke, now aged 87, is
probably tlie most motherly woman in
Ohio.
order. But they are invariably
laughed at, pf course. It is an abso
lute requirement of common polite
ness that they should be, when a host
demands laughter as a return for hos
pitality. Twain likes to be regarded
a.s eccentric and original; and this is
unquestionably original.—New York
Commercial Ad vertiser.
f> ~ 7' j
;hi m a bit of paper that called
?arly twenty differantsubstances,
g which were a lock of hair from
Remarkable Injjredlentx.
Not loii£ ago a young colored man
brought m a bit of paper that called
for nearh
among
the head of a baby, 1 five whole black
lieppeis, the tooth of a eat. a nail from
the left hind paw of. a dog. a bit of
gum bezoin, and a drop of blood from
the veins,iff a living man. All the
were to be put jAigether at midirigl
when the moon was in a certain
ter. To be taken internally? C
you, no. It was to*be wdrn ii
about the neck, and was,
relic of some old darta;
plantation da}’s.—* "
York Evening" Sun
the
w i th ]
with quite a ISH lah l}’. ’ The reply.
though innocenti}* made, was a little
Muqiirious: “Yes,- Yes; lost' the best
cow l had.’’—Pittsfield Advertiser.
At th« BoarUlng llonta.
Miss Betteruuies—Mamma, I
wish
interstices being filled up
FuroiiHrcratril Groiiml.
done up in Xundles, covered with: YVlieu Molicredjed in Paris in 1673
cloth. It is believcd*thut beyond these the archbishop obstinately refused per-
are vaults containing mummied croco- ! inission to have him buried in conse-
diles, and in wbicTi* vast treasures are crated ground, and he remained alike
stored.—Chicago Herald, j ohdurate to threats and entreaties.
... — ——— j When Louis XiV s;.\V tiiatnrgumi iits
were without avail, he suddenly asked
the prelate: “To what depths does the
con>M*crated groun(l extqjidt”
“All ‘ihconscipas Of the drift of this
question; the archbishop suBenlv re-
'iedi A^Eight fprt, jauui »
Gn}ii|e Koum) the Ksrt-h.
Tlie time recuired for a journey
around the earth, by a nmu walking
day and night, without resting, would
be 428 days; ai i ex press train, 40 days;
sound, al a medium **
nSifitf o/ Letteni.
Not long ago I sent a letter inclos
ing $5 to a relative and it was pur
loined. So I wrote a second note, also
inclosing $5, and on tlie upper left hand
corner I printed in bold characters:
“Notice to post office agents aud road a
agenjs, this contains $5. * ‘
to the 6a me place c< ~
sum and was stolen b
alxive.” The. letter wei
double quick time in m
New Y r ork Letter.
DnwiJ
In the com
Ban Bias,
with, i
nuts.
000'
TXffvrenc® Detvroau
When.thread hn
is termed yani
these
sewing thread.
... ; Tided into the ‘
■■■PPIPi I Moliei'e and
will be four feet below thecoas<*crated flax