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Alliance Department. A hekok: GiitL. Atlopiwl « t!re^enunty tfrgan^yttic Coan- ty AUiunce July3th, ISS'.t'. M. J. 1*ATK, ApsoctATr Kpfroji, To‘Whom all Cdinmualcation» cm Alliance Matters should be addres-sed. “■ "did yon i Offirerit of the l onilty .t!l!an( c. W. II. Imnean, President. % ' L. B. Toole, Vice President. W. 8. Bambercr, BocrctarJ-. A. K. Free, Treasurer. W\(j Britton, Chaplain. T.-ST Weeks, Count j lyeturef. W. A. All, Steward or Assistant Lecturer. W. K. 8adler, IhHir Keeper. K. K. Hurley, Assistant boor Keeper. I). W. Itedltord, Bcrueitnt <it Arms. F. 11. Creech, Business A if* 1 lit. Wreeutlve (JoinmittciC- Patrick, \V. A. Faust! "Trade Cojmnitfce-*0: M- HubUir, E. IL Dowling, J! M. Ulmer, W. A. All. *. Committeesm tiodd.of the Order—J. C. Me- Mlllan, C. M. Fsl mHel.l, W. Tr-Cavo, .1. K Snelling, E..B.,Uinrss. get any mnil?” ‘Vc*,‘plot lief, u lettetlfroin Aunt Maria, and I was just dying to learn wlmt she ways. A uni Maria always bus some plan ou hand for me. Wrij. Craig tore open the;missive. “She only wants'you Jo la- ready to go to Niagara fulls, with her when she arrives here on her way to New York—that's all.” And "Mr*?. Craig folded.the letter and tricti tonp pear unconcerned; “To Niagara falls! It's the grandest thing that ever happened." „ ^Of course you'll let me go?” s;ii(l Slit*, re- lensitiK her hold aud starinj? at lier motlii r C. B. Free, W. W■ Rs jf thereioight he. after all, a possibility of a disappointment. ( A REAL SNAKE STORV. | WHERE THE ^ Hop 4irou«*r< Uml Mm srrvirr^ ns a (irab *■ lU'stroyrr I — “We prtitrt*i nlrunkn lu_my section uf I'redertckslturg, • >a., X,. w York state, ' said a hop grower of Oauns .that w hile iraveling to dappa- .. Otsego county, who was visiting in Seennton a few days ago, “t\ >tli asmuch rh©Aj§erpont (lot 4nto tho Hornets* Nest Y to Catch llurnets. citizen of FIGHTING HIKlliK 88 «tn African Dorvishos. ^ocrlessnoss and Foroolty of th* A Kashl .nahle roi,o . v.t Only tau.r- —White PuddIBg Sauce.-Mol.ten ato.Mt l»y rmresstonal Cliemlstii. 1 » »,7i_k. . . ... <ri . . ,, . ... i one tablespoonful of cornstarch with a Tha f%t is that, with the excepthwi- n..i , , . -'»»iy.er”” “ b * M * hannilek ho saw a large blacksnalco slowly crawling among the bfanehe* of 'fi tree that stood by the roadside. Following the snajte with his eye tho tibserver saw an ufi usually large hornets’ nest attached to one of the branches of the tree, and toward whicli the snake was advancing. VVhen close to the ncSt the snake coiled itself about a limb, releasing its inil, and with it gave! several hunt raps , upon t he exterior of the nest as if knocking for<5idmis;don. Tho,.iioise of the blows and the sNyayingof the nest caused tho hornets to leave their home it.Ly yourself.’ The Alliance tn Bant well • The Quarterfy meeting df th'e Codntv 1. .'j'H'promise And 1M1 keep my promise, . , .. . , ,, too^ldothof, lllilt Vtua 1. Ik* 1iuiM. 4 Alliance on last Friday wffs wx41 ats f *• v7ry" \v. Ll. You know the danger. If lendcd, otilV rrm? siih-.\ IlmUi e. he mg you shwild hi* c.'iught lit Huge whcH'.i trAttt “Yes; Sne,” said Mrs. Craig, paUdirg her ; emV prepim* for im attack upon tlai-.in- dauglifer fondly on the hack, "you siiall go. trnder. The snake ceased Mapping hut just on one eomlftion, and that is that Mvith its tail as s.;on ns\l-.ediornetsJeft you vrill never rnghtett tm ^krTbry.^dld j" ^,01! and qnbhly VesU'nlny by tnrouirn the rniifoTui .. * , . . . . 1 . tunnel or crossing the trestle at the end of dUam^red, talwmg.the Dlace of tho tare us we do song birds. Nobody in the hop-raising region 'of ecntral New York traps or shoots the skunk nowa days, for-lhe reason that the little black and white animal is the best friend the hop grower has, It vised to la' supposed .that {lie skunk, in his nocturnal provvl- ings through the bop yards in the early summer, did a great deal at injury to the tender vines of the growing hops, but the discovery was made a few years ago that the contrary was tho fact, Hioi since tpoo every owner of a liop'yard, in-Head of laying plans to de stroy the skutrk, ns he had done before. -Iras Jiucorne kis friend and protectory—It Cndnanteil t>y Superior N■inher* Yhey (.'Uurgo Their K.iiflWh Toss anil I'lKht ns I.odk the ttreath of l.lfe Ite iialn* In Tl-eiu. hornets within their nest j Lnseutly t to r eef the snake's head was seen .• hood f >r cVery hop grower Id educate 1 his dpgs to kill skuufts, but of lata | years energetic farm dogs-that showed "It is easier to turn a hungry t,lger aside from his prey than a thoroughly excited Dervish, from his swoop on Kh enemy," says the military correspond ent of the London Telegraph. “IDs half brother ill fanaticism and creed, the Indian or Afghan gha/.t, is terrible, but the African and Arab) dervish I9 superlatively frwful, with an Incurable delirium-fur his oppone.rit's gor”. Howl- lilg.and whirling dervishes. Such as travelers arc ‘specially eOnduclcd to A^mxisiiUuLlbjtL C usl^’Jire jl roi pamtdvcly harmless sort of lunatics compared with those types of the Afri can bigots who, ‘converted’ to Mahd- most nobody, dtnowH either the nature or the. genesis of untlpyrin. Even the initiated tind it rather dillicult to ex plain to the profane, to Hhoui It might mitlicc to ftnow tha f substantially atfti- pyrin, like aniline, benzine and phenol, Is a derlvatc of coal tar, from whic’.i so tnaffy things heterogenemrvttTi l-mntm-- ilictory are now extraT ted. 11!»tx'yond doubt that by some unexplained siircery antipyrin possesses the precious Virtue of attenuating and oven st^ppresairi. pint of boiling water; bare reaily th« well-beaten whites of two eggs; add to - the cohistafch or.t^half cup of pow dered sugar. Tour this gradually over the whites, bfatlng all the time! when cold add the vanilla This idakes a light and very palatable sauce. —Doeton i ^ ... —Plum Pudding.—One pound and 4 a half of stoned laisins, halved, but nof chopped; fyidf a pound'of dry, picked currants 1> *lt a pound of mixed pool, three-qnartdrs of a ]s>iind of grated bread crumbs, three-quarters of a pound of suet, minced fine; eight eggs, well beatettf Mix Die ingredients Well and press the pudding into a buttered mold, bargain Uf lower ’the ^‘lowu. tightly witU a buttered cloUi, a e«r ! an " ^Hl f<»r five or six houra —Detroit - -1 r wd p pain insta'itancously. With' opium wliieli the handling is so ticklish, jt is incontestably one of the ipuekest and i most powerful s<K)thi-rs. _..Wc know also that in the mmt diverse febrile case it is able fn the TtTTlV unrepreseii^ted. In • delegates there w ere who laid aside home allaii ^season tu give one clay to the good of the order to w hich they arc so deeply attached. Hon. W. J. Talbert, State Lecturer J It. Jclli ies, of I'uion, and District Lecturer d«diu T.. Gaston favoredjthe meeting with their presence, words of w ise conn-Cd am} hearty cn courageme’nt. Addresses' were made addition to - the is aiming, I dun't know w-lmt would hc- tnnny meinh-rz conn-of ^ou I’atl.cy ami I an-going over i„ ... Mrs. IT us to 11 s to stay all afternoon, and at tills' l>us> > , vu „ . iut y,,u.todo, Gu-TlagifVGt >f any may lie r^tplirisl. There are only the two tx presses Is-forc. 7 o'clock, ami wo will, he home by th/it time.” Mr. and Mrs. Urai^ went on their visit, and Sue .was left by herstlf in eiuu.w of -the tunnel watch house, tjlid '•huld see right straight through the long black hole and catch a glimpse of tiie distant moun tain pekks lieyond and she safrin the little door ami gazed in thttttllrection a full hour after her parents had gone, for thither lay ^Niagara fiUjs.jlu miles away. So hi tent were her thoughts cm the’pmtpisec! jour liey that slie forgot everything else and failed to takenote of any', hhig aro'ujcl her , ifnd 1 y'- thmvefnF the iookihh . j'lfcwasdn.' lyToti- scions of a Strang.* sound, as of di*t.tut u crashing timber, but she gate it no ini- Alliance itioniber>liip_jygxu auto tig hi** niwiiuU- heed, if.indeed sju* heard it at a'!, most attentive hearers, lie spike for would shrink drew, his head duringjthe morning session by Cols Tal bert arid (jTaalb n . 77 ~ In the a f ternoon the door* thrown open and State I.eeutrer .L number of • citizens not entitl glistened ns he Wfi’i.-Ji tho hr:*.vest man with fcr.r. The snake h'ithinthe entrance holctodhe nest Un til nothing \vas l.<*en of it except an oe- AsVona.l forkeil tongue !ha* darted in' and out with lightning cupidity. Think ing.the coast clear the h rnets began to return to their nest,'when the snake, took them in ns fast ak they could cuter.4 Watching • the* proeecalings for sotiio time our informant concluded that ail the hornets had 1 cn safely hived, and 'he sIo<k1 up in his buggy, tapped tho nerlt with his whip, and awaited the re- au iueiuiation ioslay tile. Uannless little ' s,n ‘ burn to r l’u. jimtu k Nvith the rest of p —s-.11—•— Qncc fairly tw bright black.e^es a tiiuals Ivave l>e-eti taught to let t-hci*v T unbelieving humtUilty. intieipateplti feast Jroin a ] , Whcm skunk pelts wont up in bitten suit. were. II ries Hut aft<-r a few sveotuU more ■ seemed upwards of two liott-s iipoit the history, i u "‘'V'!’ 1 soineUM prineiplvsi ail'd jmrposes of the A]lialie£ aad made the profound impression that he is the right man in tin* right place, » worthy successor inutile State lecture" Held to Col. Talberr: Ills ad dress was no appeal -to passion or prejudice, but a convincing nud logical array and statement of historical facts that could not fail to convince any candid ami tin prejudiced mind that the future of the country for good depend-’ In largest measure upon the accom plishment of tlie aims of the Alliance. ' Dut w’**- hrtpe and expect that during the coming suniuuT Col. Jcllrics will make a wider acquaintance with the people of this county. The fade ihas given whets tho tippotitc for more \lle has expressed It lift self as quite wujittg to come w henever his brethren call him, proybled timely noticj ^be up and iK*come g bild l|p||>|)i*lie<l conscious , No honjet* appearing, tho nest was jUten knocked to the ground, opened, and bis sntikeship found iti a ti>rpid condition, with his size greatly ir»- crensed. The snake was l-tiiled and a postrmortein hi Id with the following result:. Stomach stailed with dead hornets. ESQUIMAUX IN SUMMER. Them She sprang quickly froth her clitiir.and What vvui r.e D .ne to .Keep rati across the track lleyon^the (.;it!u*r t'ic»n not) Healthy, mouth of the t in.iwl, which wascUt throi.d, j <- ons i t l Pral(lo at.xiety is expressed by a sma lull, the railroad lirKt.c|«jli..«o two . cxp „ siti ,, n otlitials- concerning the the ont* turmn‘4 simtH ^ntd n a .i!!dv, i ... .- ., t ... . and the other imme.liately cro-sing a long ! ’ h ‘? I ' fi, iV U * 1UU V,ll: ^ e . ut ,he | treRtlO, from /‘the watehiiouse and 'yorld s fair will have <m tho roputa* then skirtingtthe opposite nuiuntaiii side tion of .laekson park qs a health resort toward tlie east. Tiie junction was known The entire park l as l>een sewered and ns the Kox Tunnel Y, tlic sojithern line was its sanitary coiidi.trirnv rend,'Fed as callisi the Valley Fork, and the eastern the nearly perfect as' possible. The village. Trestle Fork however, has been Wated in the one. I or a full minute after she Had eros-.ed corner most affected by. every uxifavop- I ‘D‘« k sht-.lid mu t,«r.*r aunther#»hiH. able TeatuK A part of the space as- 1 hnestfNMlHM ohe i ht'f nil at ♦ *4 » • i i , * . ; once she sprang fo, wartli.d l,H,ke.l again, "fi 1 ™ 1 ‘‘ * l . ,s »>.v a sheet of ! “Yes. the trestle has slid!’’ she giisjasl, w “ U ‘ r J V hat 'f stagnant In turmn^ white us a .shci*t, »ainl the trains \ e (‘nuouvorn to uer.p it pure, i ate biTth tbte here in tdie next l*j minutes— j ihe. Lsquunaux tlH tnsclves, says tho the southern express first and then the east- Chicago Inter Oet<aiOkro not thc.clcan- t crn—alMl both cotniug thisjyay through the, ( est people in the world,'and unless tunnel'” they are very closely watched they are Her knees trcmlfU-d, and she shook like a , liable to assume a cnnrTTtton not pleaa- ,price a few years ago, many young »connti\men who had no hops began to. set deadfall traps’ for skunks on other people’s JandA The farmers upset the ., deadfalls before any skunks had liecn Crushed to' death under, them, going through their fields thre * or four times it day in search of the quickly con- Btructefl fiat stone traps. Then the trappers went to setting steel traps for ukuiiks in secluded palaces These the hop farmers confiscated every time and before long the ♦ rappers abandoned the work in disgusti “The reason why the hop raisers in Otsego cYmnty and the adjoining coun ties saw* tit to foster tho .skunk was l>e- cau-ea small family of skunks, if no one molests them, will, in the course of a few days, hunt up and destroy all the grujis in every hill of hops in a good sized yard. The grubs gnaw the Vines., off at The roots and if they are not dug out they w ill rtrin a yard before the midd e -of summer. Noon - snow go, >, off liti the spring pairs of old I skunks take up their aliotid .near tho borders of Imp yards, generally ifi a^ stone wail, or under a log, and if men and dogs don't disturb them they will ! stay' there all summer, raise their j young antidestroy all the grubs in the t ^yurd. “It is interesting to sec a skunk steal through a hop-yard in search of grubs. ; As a general thing lie sallies forth after nightfall from his nest, but I huveocea- 1 sionajly seen him pairing in the hpp- ' hills in broad daylight. The grub, as 1 said before, invariably works at the base- of {ht* hop-vine, and unless a man nr a skunk digs it out, it will soon eat the vine in-two. The skunk begins his with the tarantula of Moslem 1 fttNMftrhitv y.cin, the pi'.iSclyto tfr con* Mimegl with the belief that the delights of tho seventh or any number of heav ens awaits Ir.m if he ean only engage in sturdy, steady butchery with ‘infi dels,'of his own or any race. Ills a matter of' indifference to him. if, in the operation, while he sheathes Ids sword in his and his Prophet's enemy, the lat ter is doing the saTTie to him. (Juick and happy trunslulion he hoRls as his sure reward.” “The stiff fight -the other day lav' tween The Egyptian' troops south of Wady Haifa and Mahdists reeaJTs to me many a bygone incident and fierce- struggle Ix-twcen llritish ami Egyptian troops dnd foreeK ln* ; f** , l^ cohiposetl of dervishes. Ambigol eataraet, where the skirmish tisik plai'e, is ahqut sixty u)iles south hf Wady Haifa. There is an Egyptian outpost at Gymui, where the great Second cataract 'proper Imv gius, and another at Surrnss. The one tainty and regularity almost miracu lous. Nothing more is needed, especi ally In an epoch like the present high ly strung, owrworke 1 and fertile in exasperated nerves to earn the reputa Vcs-v i. tlon of a veritable gift from Heaven. Hut excess Is a fault of everything, anil antipyrin is no exception. It is to be. feared that in their blind ad miration of it the inconsiderate crowd have got to the point of abusing the application of the drug. The time has come to sound the alarm. Hct. it not l»e forgotten that •antipyrin, in spite of its advantages and services, is art undoubted poison—even a violent poison.^. The accidents attributed to it during the seven or eight years that it has l>cen known as a remedy *fc tod numer ous to count; and i|ishould be noted that .the cases tha£ come-to light are fijfeh taerc has been Ueat man with <1 dqhes aeeitrd- What, then, the dally l^qlhotlzn- ttexlhg. — A Gixxl Pudding.—itlien yod have ’oatmeal or breakfast fiskl left over you can make an excellent pudding for din ner out of it ^ihl to it d eliee or two of bread or two or three crackers soaked ■ in milk, two eggs, well beaten, 8 -egg*! of vigar. nutmeg to taste and milk enough to thin to the i-opsisteney of an ordinary pudding. Mix;Will together, put in the buttered pmjding dish «u<l usually those in wlfeh the intervention o express prescriptio ing to rule and for! must Is? the coniwqi^f line, by guess' work, w lion, which legions of from nervous to suppress pain—that a. slice two or threegood-slized apples over the top; then bake.-LUhlengo- fJsdger. —Celery flaftoe—Cut <he tendtr parts of a head of celery very fine; pour .oil. water enough to covey them; cover the , saucepan in which you put the celery, and place on the back of the stove to simmer one Ihxjm”.,. Mix two tablespoon- fuls of flour ana four of butter. When the celery has 1 toiled one hour, m1<1 to It the butter and flour, one pitil oi milk or cream, and season to taste. Boil up once, and serve with roast duek, turkey or broiled fowl — Health and Hu manity. . —Orange &>nWe„—Peel and slice six f pfcgnrtVkufferlfig. oranges, pijt in a glass dish d layer of pains make dr* antqzprin; oranges, then one of sugar, and soon thC s *btil all it to say. thirty-three miles fnrtt^rup the stream, leaf. given so that tin* StjuvExecutive Coin inittee, tinder whose direction he labors, ay arrange that the Barnwell meetingmay not eon filet with other appointments. I; was suggested that after crops are laiiTby we have ax'cntral. pie nte at some place most convenient for all sections of the county, to which Cols. Jeffries, Talbert Htnl other dis tlngtiUKetl .Mliance iwen-bc invited. Immediately after tlte following resolutions ntonsly adopted*by the tn “I know!. The southern r first! I'll stop it just ns soon as through to this siili»of the tuiun'1, ar.il it can fun back.thcn irrid w arn Jltc tfasteruex press of tbeihmger! But suppose the first train ^loulil Ik 1 late! '1 hi-y are never timr-.- thaa five minutes wnartT’ She wrung her rhmrils again anil jv. striving in vain to sohe ^lu-nw ful prohh-ni. She n tuniril to the wntchhouseatul looked fit the cluck. “Tlwreis no more time to w;ist~ T T|o r<‘ -i*is but One Way—I must- try to get tlmmgh the tunnel lieforc the first truin comes. If it ovc-rtiikes me while, I am in theye—hut I speaking 117.^—■ -* -f t r-||t l^jjl* ‘■' itin thing must jfeilbm.*!’’ She hc/iril ,a f.iint J'. hlM It - ; itqr to tha faatidums. • They delight to press conns j datth .themselves with oil, which often '■ l < ts i becomes rancid and very^ offensive. The attegipt to .reproduce the condi tions that surround these peculiar peo ple in their nativt-land induced theeoxt- : pany -QvvnJng the ?oniTfisinn jjto ere.t from the forts, they fell bach from tho river towards thej-easjer going tracks in land, along which they must have sped On their catnels. 4 The Eg^ jitlarl ckvxlrV —which, under careful English train- ing, has learned to trust their weapons and their own physical strength in a contest with the-Bislnuinese—probably not numbering more than two squad rons, overtook the raiders at the pleas ant aforetime camp of Ambigol. There, no doubt, under the palm trees’ grateful shade, bard by .the rush and quest for grubs at the edge of the yard, roar of the mighty river, the Egyptian where he cooks his head over a hill of troops at once opened flro upon them, hops and listens. If a.grub is working ~ Althmtgh thetvhole qf thg ’ptivYfiy wcrB~ nt any one of the- foue trailing vines, j unlikely to have l>een dervi'shea—for the skunk's keen ear catches the slight these gentry never run away, but, when sound that n human ear couldn’t detect, | necessary, walk svdately out of a Cght, not to suppress the malady. On the and the railroad and ironclad train stil! contrary, it may be the creation ttf a run through to both posts. No doubt when the dervish faii^rs, numbering four hundred strong, were repulsed dangerous illusion, lulling cMsixust and paralysing defensive acth-ri. An inva lid is so ready to believe himself efifed and free from the trouble of taking pre cautions when h- has ceased to feel pain. The truth is that antipyrin has vices to match its good qualities, and that its beneficial effects themselves are not without peril. It is by stupefy ing the system anil, la particular, the vaso-motor nerves—the springs of the circulatory system, the ntyves which govern the construction and dilation of the blood vessels—that antipyrin exer cises its soothing influence. There ^follows' necessarily a Blowing of the circulation, more or less, of an approach to stagnation, of the blood, which becemea thicker ami tends to Cotrgirtnte Ttrenr follows the sugar, orange is used, and let disorder or disease—U stand two hours; make a soft bollixl custard of the yolks of three eggs,- ope and immediately the knowing little . merely to assume a fresh coign yan- . ventUato. v w^r mss re titidAi- t nee ting i»t ..... far'n,way down tiie Valley Fork, which st leiigtheiml Uiy resolution to ait. Site rushed into t h-.* 1-onse, 11)0- 1 of Democratic citizens: Whereas there hts bee., an attempt "ag ..ml tire next incut liati ili-appeainl into the tnont to blacklist M>me of our Kefonn ton- , tiie dark, daiiip.lu.li-. The sudden ehillimss gresstnen in Washington by certain seen nil to cim>I her heated h.ain, and sl.e r '-~»i«nvters , of thenremMrt-A-dnndTrtYaHon. j K r *‘'v UMW-^iointiosetlut^strongej*. She tf-.-.v . ** iMnoni over the 1 tes as fast JUT hcTMilthblt? * * | lect would i avrv licr, hut her swiftest move - liesolved that - we the Alliance of j mette appeaml hardly equal to a smiil s , Barnwell County in muss meeting i inceuiow. Tfif, on, she sped thio the d;T?Tr huts that {ire impossible to ( Tin n. too, t hen* tiro the hounds main tained in tho village. These animals arc no’ther‘,l» antiful nor cloaitTanil un less given bejter jjnarters than they | now occupy will prove a ijnisaii.ee. Even now the atmosphere tltat sur- routiiis the v111 acre is not too nvcQt. T M hen t hoTTotTEays of July arrive It wTTI j lie ilifficult to keep it front giving of fense.. Should an epidemic break out in the viliege it will, at least, give the i officials a good srare, and. prove more serious to tin- Esquimaux themselves. | Those who arc in'ifliarpe of the village, however, de-dare that they can keep it ns clean ami healthy a-s any other por tion of Jackson park. They-guarantee : their ment in the elimination of those ashes of life which are to the aniinakorgan- ism d-hai hoilxchdld reftisd U to a great animal sfarts to paw vigorously In tho tage—a sharp engagement seems to city. As a proof, one may point out- soil d'rcctly over tlqj spot where tho have ensued. The Mahdists, ~nothlii{p thqt antipyrin diminishes senslbl^f the grubds working, taking great care not to . loth, swarmed,, mounted and foot, op j kidney secretion and that it has been ...u ,i *■“*“*-*—»» - _ t . ' tlio rocky hiHs, which their pursuers i cm Pl°yed to stop hemorrhariha In in- luui, with jjpund, tactical judgment, | feetlpus and parasitic jnaladie.* like fn- crowned aniL.whence they had .opened fire. .. , “I think it was at the battle of El Teb I first made the acquaintance of through a wire sieve, and beat with an f egg whip until light W'h*n cool'lmt ashes sth* in the weH bMtten white^ * scratch tiie vine or injure it fSTffe lea^t. The skunk draw.-, in the tlirt so carefully that he doesn't break a vine that the grub has eateny s > far through that nothing but a slender thread separates it from the root “As soon as the skunk has unearthed the destructive griih he gobbles it down ...mr ness, with tiie light from. the. farther, ciiil.. . , ,, , . , . streaming into her e\is. JVt first ali.w.iS" and will uphold them in their effort-to st ill, s.»ve the echo of hcr.W. f.w x x agseniblUd endorse tlie-i*. CongreMiiten wauls to breed m ithef the chol era nor the smallpox. . A’t present the ■attendanee at the village is quite fib- t-ijal. carry out tiie principles of the Carolina Democratic platform. No it tit A correspondent of tiie Knterprine writes irmnT3 j j Orangeburg K it terp r i se wrrtes’frTiTnTd'nvS'TfFIM i sb. Umli-r date of the 1 Jth in-t:. On last Saturday night the out buildings dt Mr. Andrew J. Smoak, living on the Cannon Bridge load, 7 11 Utiles front your city, were eom- ' ’ pleteiy destroyed by link containing six or seven hundred bushels of corn, distasee j s' it* hut will'll she liail i-ros-ed half t he she hraul a low, ominous rumblin^ meaning she knew only too wi ll, the sound of the southern express ! up the Valley Fori; not a mile ewav. .Kt-ill bad a goisl sinjyh to LTfori eon Id'reach the Tiioiyth Coutil shege; t before the cxpi'tSs? Nhe had Re.-m-ciy aske.! i V?" .'J' herself the mh'sfioti when I lie train len;.i d , * into -tjit* UiTiniT with j» slTriek. Nhe had i gnintd the w»li ipiiidt i*s a (lash. S! e w.,,. right opposite a luanhole. and inio this, she '{pTiyzeii .herself. Nhe had i.wiped, by a EC ME SUBJECTS FOR DEBATE.' "he. ■ , I s11.!i t i:ivers!ty StUilosts ittsrinnfttiig It V .e. I _ a Curious Varirty ol qucRiloii*. . boring *: Tho coll’ego d-.liating societies nt sat; ’a ■.* hairbreadth, had for the ;r~ j } il la t great' iron monster lujil parsed her with a short like n wii-l .. , , ..i beast ntTd hud puffed a huge Vnlumu of w ith a like proportion of other grain ! black snn/ke into her very (are U-fore she and forage. Nttpposed to be the w ork.:J?lid hai! time to.pr.t fiet: lianilkereiiief to of an .diietny, Notwiitli-taiidihg 11^..' I her mouth. With a crustrlike thunder the Stnoak’.- ffttiticlal CondllTbrt was above that of the average rainier of hi- scc- tion. the big-hearted neiglibor-, noted for tbeir liberality, won Id not allow Mr. Smoak to sustain tin* loss, ;l nd by Monday 10 o'clock tiie lumber wagon* began to come in loaded with nooe-- sary material until Mr. Smoak told Cambridge, Fnglaail, sccrt} ty discuss a eurions varieVy of questions. A recent 14st of motions, as given by the Tnr,into inelndes the following olio of o<b.iitics: .At Cliri;-!“That U'djHtaon ought not to have been frightened at- tlii* footprint in the sand,” which' ex- kdtctl a great variety of opinions, and . ultijnsitely. was Ipe-t'hy twenty-six votes against HI ayes, eig.it auditors remain ing iiiidocitied. A'Jcsns, the still more , startling proposition was moved, i’Tdiat radical istu spells ruin;” which w as, of as though ibttisted mighty good. Then he listens again, ajid, if his unerring eats tells him .therpiis another grub in the hill, he speedily paws—ft out and eats it. If lie hears no grub he trots to the next hill, asd so he dodges around the yard until ho gets his fill of fat grubs. He will never paw -in a hill where there is no gmb. “Skunks often become very confuting when they find that the men ahd dogs on the premises make no effort to scare or harm therq. Last mi miner there Were more than a dozen skunks around my hopynrd. and not one of them of fered to run off or to fight when any of us came noa the farm to frighten them, and they gradually gut .so that they realized that they Wj-re welcome there; and last summer,-they frequently hunted for grubs in the hopynrd in the day time. They searched white my .man was run- * fliienSa, while mrsulng and killing the poisoners, the capital necessity is to eliminate the poison' with all haste, for Urn action of microbes is double. the Mandist dervishes. The Fuzzy-TVuz- | Not only do they live at the expense of ^ zy Hadendowah trilH-Hihan is the brav- the tissues in which they have lodged, ■> « || ow to Obialu Correct Face Wear Keep It Tii Itooil Cn illllon. The purple veil is abroad in the land, rst brtlio da’y.Tmt tlie dervish is hero ism run crazy, ‘ijltese ao-callcd ‘holy beggars,’ 'self-sworn to dvvotc them selves to tiie I’rophefs cause, came at Gen. Graham's square of marines,"'lligh- landmen and stout linesmen as if we bail been children to be frightened by a cry. Clad in their patchwork rags, with shaved, bpred heads, many armed with no better weapons than sticks, they eharged full iu front of the lire- \vailed square. Down they went .by sc-ores and hundreds, but others quickly tOCk qp the running toward uh. I saw them that* day —more than one of them — pierced through and 1 don’t allow any one on thro.ugh with. Martiui-IIcnry bul let wounds, come fiercely on, reeling like drunken men, their teeth gleaming and eyes aflame with hatred. Happy were they if they could but cross weap ons with our bayonets. When exhaust ed uaturc failed them, their last net hut they distill subtle viruses, which accumulate in the caverns made by these infinitely little gnawers and cause frightful ravages. It is not by apply ing anscsthctics to tiie nervous system, by diminishing the rate of the excre tions, by augmenting the viciousness of the vital fluids, transformed by the con tact of antipyrin into sirups, that this congestion-causing drug can give to the human organism the lash necessary to cause, the ejection of-the rascally mt- crobian handiwork. It is true that antipyrin deadens pains ' and lulls exasperated nerves, but mor phine does the same, perhaps more surely, and we know where morphine ' leads. One should no more play with morphine than with fire.—Pall Mai DazeDe. WHEN RAILROADS WERE YOUNG.’ K* OM pist of inilk, SUgar to suit the ta-le. with grating of orange peel for flavor; and pour over the oranges when cool enough not to break the dish; -beat whites of the egg to a stiff froth, stir in sugar, ahd put ovof’ the pudding.— Woman’s Work. ~ ... » —Beach Budding.—Drain the sirup from a quart of canned peaches, bring ‘ it to the boiling point; add a teacupful of granulated sugar, and when it bolls, add the pearlies and cqok soft. Soak an ounce of gelatine.dntil soft 1ft enough cold water to cover. Add the grated rind of one lemon to the peaches, and the strained juice of two tp the gela tine. Turn the latter upon the pedchea. stir until thoroughly mixed, strain •* of two eggs, pour into a mold, wet in cold watrU* and set in htf ice box eight hours. When ready lo servei, tnrn the sponge out on a deep dish and ponr the filllobing sauce around it: Bring t.W i-jap/uls of milk {o the boiling point; stir in the beaten yolks of two eggs, two tablespoonfuls of sdg&r, ahd Stii* until creamy, When cold, flavor with Icmofl and use.—N. Y. Observer. VEILS AND THEIR ABUSES/ • d ning a cultivator Is*tween tlTe vows, J was generally to hnrl the weapon they ii'id the’y eventually Jpecatne so epufid- carricd^stiek, lance or sword, toward ing that they didn't take fright at. the 1 our fanks and shout rfh Arab impiffca- inan when he yelled at tlu^horsc uml^ tiop against us. ‘Ni>srani!’(Nazaruno!) turned it around at the ends of the' tiain win.t roanng hy. Sue. half hlimlvd rnil suffoeateiL wait to svewketkiT tin* sunt Gam express would stop i t not. She leiip- d out to tin: track again kin! flew on her r,:G - ■ oii tosaye -the o. .‘ht't;a.n e.iii»ing Ik.vv;I l oI*1 1 Fork. Slie was hut a moment in gi-uing o'er the letn.lining ground and reaeliing tin* ties of the trestle. <i ft ' Nile had taken Ikt station, raised the red ,lie flog and was all ready before the eastern wrl^J he hail to cry out,‘‘it is enottglt.” ; express whistled for the curve a mile he* Hltiifgle-, nails and otltor material were 1 low. The one whistle was followed by a sent in by Tuesday morning, tlte day | series of sharp shrieks, and Sue knew the *Pl>oiHted J.urj. yoj'u tnry work. This, train was savwL scribe was on tlte ground in duo time ; The engineer reversed the lever, the to meet Ji other “one jfuljus boys”with | brakemen sprang to the platforms, theair- | cnitiTor can-ied by BThirffc nrjjaiftty. At (hi saws and hatchets in hand.' The hands, dividedMli three -cetioiis suberintendtid by as many catpcntcrs. began to -aw and drive nails, and you never heard such a racket nor saw a- nnteh work done by a- many volunteer men. On ^Wednesday twelve of us returned and completed corij-hmi-e, barn, -tahle- for eight head of stock and rebuilt the lot fence, attil left for bur )n>im*.s none the worse for our help; but had the pleasure of knowing, that Mr. Smoak was one oEtln* deepest moved men and exprc-sed more tiiaukfuliiessythaii any ^uin we had ever seen, ^■'liis scribea-ked Mr. Smoak to nanie first ami most liberal to respond and in reply he said everybody, hut, among the lead were some lady ffiend- brakes whist led, the whole train gave a mighty groan and shiv, r, and aiu*r a few imgular'Whuot.s umtie to a dead stop. Tilt* excitement over, it was found that nobody was stgiut*.ly Lut L aitnough tcv- cial persons were hruiseil hy being thrown forward, and all wire terribly frightened. Sue uml to get awiy.-but the giattfiU people would not let her. (pi-fore she hail, a chance to escape her mother and father eame. “Mother, forgive me!” erica Fue, throw ing her arms around Mrs. Craigs 'hetk^ “1 Imil to disobey you!” '’Sue, my child.” said her father, blow ing his nose very hard, “here i- your Aunt Maria. Slu? arrived on the southern ex press, and she is going on to Niagara right away. J ou had better run home and get Yeudy to go along with her.” and Mr. Craig The Farmers* Alliance prlncinle- a* m i • . . taught tw for the last five years mn-t bl ^' v hlsV ‘'(T hard again, bear credit for this greatest overflow of - hU - n ! ut e . 1,er ,ri B* ar,d enjoyed liberslity ever shown in any sectionnf thin county, and it caused me to remark •’iha'Vthore-4- tvo n-c for* ^farmer oftliis socthut to take out an insurance poller a* we arc all iHsurcd by ’fellow^up. ... ... it. too, despite her broken promise to her mother. But whenever the matter was referred to- Aunt Maria Would shy,' “There are great ditties arid small duties, Sue—great dttties ftud small'duties.” And tLtcu Nud would sit and think. —Exchange.’ •\ lieeii s a disapproval of “W omaa's cn- criiaelnncnts upon ma^'adunilnlop" was carrie ! hy nlnetoon to tliirt en. And at Nt. John’s the h.*rc,sy, “That uriiver- >H-y ^alunaUi *«-untitr, a man for jvracti.vvl-. life,"' was rejected hy t wenty-sixtimInst 1 mx. At Kilty's the society found thcin- se’ves equally (livii’.rd as to tho tru-tlrof the asecrliou, “That art had ceased to exist.” At Trinity hall it was' decided “That political prisoners Should wear the prison dress.” At Pembroke a resolution, “That personal liberty is too much restricted in this university,” was, singular to Say; rejected. Sydney ei-He^r* voted, by a large majontv, “That the learned professions ago dot yet played “tit;” and CavcnAl|^li, htev. by’ a large majority, atvprovcd Lord Tyn- n\son’s iloetrine, “ i'haX to have loved and lost is better than never to have loved at ail.” Ayer.it hall refused to condemn theaters, and Selwyn voted “That war is necessary to the welfare of a natioia” A Ouccr Railway Rule. In Norway there is a premium on marriage by giving married people a discount. Thu* a jnan“ and jtis wife can travel for a fare and a half, I schedule of rates much more satisfying ' to everyone than "children half price,” i and much more reasonable. It is sug- I posted that this privilege is liable to abuse. i\ prudent man might prolong his coprtship indefinitely it reduced rates. This, howc ver, could be easily prevented by obliging married people j Y. Post, to carry their certificates about with-1 Ahem, .as they could easily* do, in red | morocco eases, like commutation tickets t on railroads. v - rows. ' ! “One of mv neighbors had a skunk family in his hopynrd one summer that attracted much attention. It was cofn- puseilaif twoolil skunks and tlieir five kittens. The young ones tagged their parents about in the daylight, while people looked at them in plain sifrht. The owner 6? the yard was proud of thenrr hut one day two strange dega came along and tackled the whole fam ily. They killed them all, and the. farmer actually shed b*ars when he saw h s seven pets lying dead on the ground. The dogs had skndaddled, and the man never learned who their owner was."— N. Y. Trrbune.’ An old gray-haired sheik actually charged the square, reading the Koran aloud, which he held in his hands. Later on, when Sir Herbert (then colonel) Stewart charged tho worsted Arab footmen with his two regiments of cavalry, tlieir mounted dervishes face*! his wliole force and boldly charged them in return. Again, at A l»*ftcrlpt Ion nt One of the First Rsllroadi Operated In This tlnnntry. — The race of the locomotive witli the stage coach from Baltimore to the Be lay house, in which the equine steeds landed the wager, is only'one specimen of what man had to accomplish be fore the tea kettle should develop into the unchained lightning. This prob- leta, yet to bo solved, had its amusing accoftipantmcnts TTr thc earliest or one of the earliest passenger tramways in this country, which ran from New Cas tle, on the Delaware, to Frerrehtown, this county, on tne Elk river. TafnUi, when the ArabsTwoke into Gen. I Davis* square. wlicroT was, arut having ' , „ , ,,,,, , , , , temporarily captured our six machine ^r way of.Traveling from BhUadelphta guns, on which they danced in fiendish t ? 1 ‘ a . lt ' ,n0 ? ! tl ; aa th ‘ glee, the-dervishys - were in the {tyre- 8 affcr vqach, whose Modl»h rtrciilnr « ape. Here are the very simple directions given* by a weH-krirrwtr dressmaker fur cutting ou^ the’ new fin do siecle cape— the “circle” capo it is called for short: fiVmt of the attack. A big marine, who had bayoneted one of them, found his riflo caught and clutched by the fanatic savage, who strove to reach his focman with his sword. It was at the, moment we were being driven back, and while -Utc maritu: tugged and swore to-got- his weapon free, the reeling dervish es sayed with his parting strength to slay Take double-width goods and first'cut or wound ouf Tommy Atkins. In the nut a perfectly round .shape in paper, desperate battle of Abu-Klca similar lay this Upon the cloth and copy this ‘ s c, ’ n< ^ occurred. I state it as a fact, of j- shape exactly. You will then have which I took personal note at the time. I somcTiing that looks Tike an immense ^^at during the tnclce iu whkT. CotT ; Burnaby fell, a dervish, who had ten Aniles an hour was only reached by the sacrifice of the horses’ hearts, and so it came to pass that a connection from New Castle to Frcnchtown was established. Passen gers were changed from boat to car at one end of the rail, staged across the peninsula and conveyed ia. steamboat to lhe further journey. The turnpike was destined to be superseded by the railway, and aftey a hard tussle gave up the contest But the railroad. What ' s)*aFsaid of its sleepers and of its cloth moon. In the imiitcdi.ffe center cut out a round piece large chough to fit the neck, then cut one straight front opening from this neck part down to the outer edge of the large cloth circle and you have your seamless fin dc siecle cape that will not flare out in any one place, but will fall in soft, even folds all around. If the. cape is a little tow long on the front and sides trim The edges until the right-proportions are obtained. It would Jae a good plan to first make a-paper cape entire and try it on before cutting iuj^Ttre cloth.—N. struck that .officer ami was promptly bayoneted through the book, twisted about while the steel was protruding aii(i tried to thru»t his lance into tiie Bplmcr. , Even Uje crippled and wound ed deffTslics Oh the field of battle lay in wait to stab vfc»L,chance-passing enemy. Asked to ‘surrender’ and put down their swords and spears, the in variable answer of the sorely stricken dervish was; 'Ghriitian (or infidel) dogs, never I* When I saw theiu_out,in ■ tho Soudan, a few years ago, there was no abatement iit their bloodthirsty —There is nothifig some people are f . n ° r * h . OW , 0 , f ^-aitatiou, , so slow to learn as that they have bcCn * i • ^ f" 13 *?' v or raan Y- humbugged. Sam’s Horn. .' , i ^ ^ ^ i cart-tire track? It was an improve ment over, the rough pike, even when horses continued to supply tho motive power. •* ' But when it came to the steam, there was the rhb. The engine was built be hind closed dgpM. lest some “Paul Pry” should catch a Bint, and when it was finished it l>eearue a laughing stock. People laughed till they erietl at the Idea of a grasshopper pulling a stage ‘coach, but when it did move .they stopped laughing till it Was liookOTto a ear^sThen the laugh began again. It couhrThove a little bit on a dead level, but when the grade* was reached, ten feet in a mile, all it could do was to hiss and phiz. Xlie road referred to wa^, one of the first builb in the United Slates, and the ffcry first upon which steam was sus- • —.T-ft* *’,S and wheTf It covers (f plain, dark face, not altogether guiltless of wrinkleaand blotches, what a horror it is* . 11 is significant to note that the start ling purple veils eame out on people In' tiie middle strata of soyiety^ and “the best people,” so called, hate no* adopted the (pnovation, though it, not now appear what they may da To be brutally frank, the purple'veil is to most women about avtiubecoming as anything could be. -Tl makes an ordin ary complexion wistful, a poor one posi tively ghastly. A radiant blonde—a rarely radiant blor.dy—U actually tho only person who ean Wear purple net stretched over her face and avoid hide ousness. —, N^afly as trying are the very newest things in pSrti-colors, such as a black net spotted with pink, green andy<*tlow dots.' One of this sly!6 was mounted 6h wire and trimmed about the top with a ruffle four inches deep, leath ered slightly belovr the chin, it was finished by a rosetfe of bebe ribbon. Unite elaborate this, and not partic ularly good for<h, after all The French women adhere to black veils, and some of these, in delicate textures, are calculated to refine tho beauty (if the most perfect complexion. Navy-blue 1 and brown veils are also becoming and in good form if they match the hat ajid suit. As veiling, to be of any use, is expensive, facedra^ery proves one pf the most extravagant small itejns in Ht woman’s wardrobe. A great deal may be^ done to lesserf tho expenditure by pr iper care, flow few have learned the knack of putting-ou a veil properly. Some- women always have they* veils hanging loosely 'about their chins, aed others always haro ends sticking rakishly out at the baekf giving them a roost untidy appearance. The proper Way to' preserve a veil is to gather ihe ends so that they may be safely tucked up h^rneath the hat, at the same time gather the top of the veil -directly in tin* uruhltc. A few stitches will do, and the desired fullness will be given without a constant tweaking at the delicate fabric in order to pull it loosely over the nose. In this way even illusion may lie made to last a Reason able time. For real durability the veil ing known as the thick spider wed will outlast atfjr other Bind.—Chicago Nun-' day Post. - ^ A Mo«l*-rn ImprovstMif. Nat. Banks—Tinker’s got a new idea for a slot machine that'll make him lota’ Z 7 of money. ~ * • Kirby Stone—What's his scheme? Nat < Banks—Why, it’s a machine with two slots. Yon put a dime la one,, then you put a nickel In the other get your dime bock. Ik UifP*; and b a dean saving uf — Puclo —\ ■fe- ;«!. ■ ^ as 4 Hi