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VOL. Y. NO. 15. . BEAUFORT, S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 15, 1877. $2.00 per Annum. Single Copy 5 Cents.
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Only a \*?ice.
It was only a voice that swept through the hall,
n accents responsive to somebody's call,
From a form that I did not see ;
But the door stood ajar, and the sound made
way,
As the musical rhythm asserted its sway,
And fatefully floated to me.
At first it was only a thrilling surprise,
Inviting the soul from its slumber to rise
After toil of a tedious day ;
And the paper and pencil seemed tired, too.
And suggested the artist's labor was through, !
Ti 1 lit by the morning's ray.
But the spell of that voice was a potent spell,
And its musical cadences rose and fell
In dreams and in day's ecstacy ;
Till the brain gave heed to no other tone,
And the soul was in bondage to that alone,
Nor mourned for its liberty.
We have' never met?but that voice so clear
With its marvelous melody smote my ear,
As love's own revei le ;
And till heart throbs are silenced by death's
tattoo, h
That voice I shall hear, and the long sleep j
through,
Be the call to eternitv.
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Jack Bullet's Broken Heart.
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A hundred men were digging for gold, j
and they had named the place "Joe
White's X>ream."
Singular name, but they were singular i
men?brawny, rough, grizzled, and some I
of them wicked. They were men from
the East, digging, delving, in a sort of <
mad frenzy, for the golden wealth of ! 1
California. f
Oil this day all work had ceased. Tiic J
men formed in a cirele on the grass, and j
in the center was Jack Bullet. His hands ;
were tied behind him, there was an old ;
blood stain on his face, and from his ,
wolfish eyes he sent murderous glances 1
from one face to another, aud at last ' 1
called ont:
" I wish I had knifed some of ye !" *1 ^
None of the men replied. Some were : '
pale, others nervous, and none seemed !
to relish the business on hand, which i
was the hanging of Jack .Bullet. By- <
and-bye a nr ek and humble looking man <
named Elder Graves by the boys, entered
the circle, and, standing with one hand on
the prisoner's shpulder, he began : 1 j
" Jack Bullet, this is a solemn morn- | i
ing for us all! Here is the rope?there
is the limb-^and we are gathered to hang
you ! You cams to Joe White's Dream ! 1
weeks ago, poor, hungry aud ill. We j
fed and nursed you, and when von were |
well enorfgh to work a full claim was j
staked out for you. JHow have yon re- j 1
paid us, Jack Bullet ? You have stolen I
dust from the men, brought discord aud
jealousies among us, incited rows and
riots, and last night you were detected
when about to murder your partner and i
steal his few hundred dollars. We try i <
to be white in this camp, and to use j j
all men right, but we cannot turn you j
lose to r>rev ut>on some other partv. j
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The men are going to hang von !" ;
" Let 'em liang?I can't die but once!" ' f
sulkily replied the prisoner. t
" Jack Bullet," said the elder, "lam 3
a praying man, and I want to pray with 1
you before you swing ! I am sorry for ,
vou. You are a strong man, and you are '
to die like a dog. Maybe you have a ,
mother in the East, or you may have a }
wife and children. God help them !" (
* The elder sank down on his knees be- fore
the prisoner and prayed such a 1
prayer as the rocks have never echoed 1
again. Before he had fiuished there were .
tears in the eyes of half the men, and : <
Big Sam bent over to C irly Jim and 1
whispered: 1
" Now that's what I call religum?the ,
j-eal old bang-up religum such as we used ;
pfrgit way back in New Hampshire !" ,
When that prayer had ended a newspirit
came to the men. They scanned ,
Jack Bullet's face and saw that it had ,
softened, and as Elder Graves stepped 1
aside the president of the c^pip cut Jack's ]
bonds and said : ,
"We don't want your blood, though ]
you sought ours. You are free to go.
Jack Bullet, but don't you ever enter Joe ,
White's Dream again!" ;:
The reprieved man moved away without
a word, nor did he look back as long ,
as he was in view. When he had dis- ,
appeared from sight the miners returned ,
to their work, each one so busy with his
thoughts that but few words were spoken.
That day two weeks a man came up from
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" uaraooara k. u\ huu ivjwimm mm*
Jack Bullet had been eaten up by a i
grizzly. Every man in camp felt glad
then thai liis town had escaped the disgrace
ofa hanging, and in the afternoon
we saw Elder Graves shoulder a spade
and turn down into a little valley. It
was a beautiful spot, always full of the !
mellowest sunshine and the prettiest i
flowers. When the boys had knocked
off work for the dav thev all descended
into the place, for what reason no one
knew, but by a sort of common consent.
In the center of the valley the earth had
been heaped up like a grave. At its
head was a board?at its foot a wild rose.
On the board Elder Graves had cut with
his knife :
JACK BULLET,
AGED FORTY.
Men may not haveTgiven him
a chance.
BUT GOD WILL!
You wouldn't think those rough men
had sentiment in their hearts, but they
saw through the elder's motives in an instant,
and the roughest man in the lot
stoope 1 down and carefully rearranged
one of the sods. * |
Tiiree weeks more went by, and one
evening Jack Bullet came into Joe
White's Dream, alive and well. He stood
on the little square in the center of the
town, and he said not a word till the
wondering men had gathered about him.
Then he pointed to the grave in the valley,
his eyee filled with tears, an 1 he
chokingly said:
" Bovs, I sneaked back here this morning
to kill some one in revenge, but I
cum across that?that grave down?down
thar, and?and "?
He held out his hands to the men and t
the tears blinded him so that he could
not see a face. Elder Graves went down
on his kDees again, every man with him,
and there were more tears and a prayer
bo beautiful and tender and true that
Jack Bullet sobbed like a child. His
} eart was broken, and all the satan in his
nature was driven out in a moment.
Joe White's Dream was a milling
camp for many months after that, ami
Jack Ballet was one of the best men in 1
it. The headboard grew gray as the rain
beat down and the sun shone, and the |
wild rose grew till it covered all the J
grave, but no one disturbed a sod. The j ]
grave was a sign? beacon light, as it t
were, and perhaps miners were right | <
when they said of our town: <
"They've had a revival up tliar, an'they 4 1
are the best chaps an' the hardest work- ? 1
ers on the slope. "?-M. Quad. ; <
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Thoughts for Saturday Sight.
Our heart is its own grave. ; ]
Things past may be repented, but notj *
recalled. j *
So sad, so fresh, ftie days that are no ;
more. j j
Passions are as easily evaded as imi>os- j t
Bible to moderate. ; j
Pain addeth zest unto pleasure and i j
teaches the luxury of health. | ]
The air is full of farewells to the dying j <
and mournings for the dead. j 1
Opportunity is rare, and a wise man ! !
will never let it go by him. ; j
Passion costs too much to bestow it j j
upon every trifle. j ^
The mind revolts against certain i 1
opinions as the stomach rejects certain j
food. i
The public man needs but one patron 1
?namely, the lucky moment. f
(TKp nnlv sin which we never forcrive ' ^
trim referred to the quartermaster with , a
orders to answer the requisition with the j,
necessary footgear. The quartermaster : t]
transmits it, in Triplicate, to the supply ],
department, secretary of war and quarter- j {
master general, and the contractor is noti- , s
lied by the quartermaster general. The v
contractor indorses the application with a
a request to know what size is wanted, v
and the paper is referred back to the sergeant,
with orders to procure the soldier's e
number. The sergeant then indorses on j r
the original application his linal report rj
that the soldier had been transferred into p
a cavalry regiment and wants boots. He v
is then degraded and placed in the ranks s
for presuming to know what a soldier in \
another regiment wants, and the papers ^
are forwarded to the soldier's cavalry a
regiment jrith instructions for him to ^
make the application for boots througli B
the regular channels. Iu the meantime v
the soldier dies. t
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Better Than Mrog.
A correspondent of the London Lancet, ! f
who owus water power mills, writes : I t
am frequently compelled, at this season t
of tlie year, to have men working in c
water even in frosty weather. I find the ! f
following allowance gives great satlsfae- f
tiou to the men, and we never have a r
case of cold or injury to the men in any g
way : Kettle of coffee, made with half f
sweet milk, half water, three or four eggs (
whipped poured into it when 'off the i t
boil ; hot toasted bread with plenty of ^
butter of the finest quality. SerVe up t
this every two and a half hours. The f
expense is much less than the usual f
allowance of whisky, and the men work v
far better, and if care is taken to have j
the coffee, milk (cream is still better), j
bread, and especially the butter, of the (
very finest quality, the men are delighted j v
with it. I am persuaded it would be \
worth while to try this allowance instead
of grog. Giving extra grog gives the men ]
a notion that it is good for them, and | j
perpetuates the belief in stimulants ,
among workingmen. ,
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Chloroform. }
The qse of chloroform in dentistry is i
said by the Medical Record to be always j *
dangerous. "No surgeon," says the j
writer, " cares to assume the responsi- 1
bility of giving chloroform unless he j 1
knows that the stomach of the patient is
empty, that tie circulatory apparatus is i
in good condition, and the lungs fpree 1
from disease. A previous inquiry into
those conditions is as much a part of the
administration of anv anaesthetic as is
the placing of the napkin to the noae,"
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in each other is difference of opinion.
Predominant opinions are generally j r
the opinions of the generation that, is ; .
vanishing. j (
Necessity is cruel,, but it is the only I e
test of inward strength. Every fool can t
live according to liis own likings. 1
We cannot conquer fate and necessity, 2
yet we can yield to them in such a way i
as to be greater than if we could.
Every man has something to do which c(
be neglects, every man has faults to con- j;
q rer which he delays to combat.
Thou fool ! Nature alone is antique, j
mi the oldest art a mushroom; that idle c
ciag thou sittest 011 is six thousand years tof
age. r
National progress is the sum of iudi- 0
nuum million > 9 niri^y cizivi ai
is national decay is of individual idle- f
net*. selfishness and vice. 4
The happinees of life is made up of '
minute fractions?the little, soon forgot- t
ten charities of a kiss, a smile, a kind t
look, a heartfelt compliment in the dis- y
juise of a playful railery and the count- v
less other infinitesimals of pleasant f
thought and feeling.
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Red Tape in the British Army.
"When a soldier in the British army e
wants a new pair of shoes he communi- E
eate3 the fact of his indigent condition ^
to his sergeant. This sergeant iuvesii- c]
^ates and makes a written report of the t
fact, forwarding it, with the soldier's ap- a
plication, to the lieutenant. The lieuten- t
ant refers the matter back to the ser- ^
sreant, with instructions to ascertain how j
near the soldier's term of service is out, p
[hot he may not go trudging off home iu j
a pair of shoes ahead of the government. v
The sergeant ascertaining that the sol- e
.lier has to servo long enough to wear out I r
a whole case of shoes, indorses the in- : i
3tructions to that effect; and they are for- j s
warded by the lieutenant to the captain. I e
The captain indorses the application with jj
the recommendation that >1 be granted, v
and forward it to the adjutant, who re- ]]
fers it to the major. The major refers it ; }]
lo the surgeon with the necessary in- j
structions, in obedience to which the ^
surgeon refers it back to the sergeant to v
ascertain if the man is troubled with \ 0
corns, bunions, ingrowing nails, or any j
pedal affections or deformities that would i 8
uecessitate the use-of a special last. The '
application then reaches the colonel ^
through the regular channels, and is by ' t
FEXIAN' HISTORV RECITJII. i <
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I'lans for the Liberation of Irelnnd?Eiik- 1
InndN l)incovrr? and flow She Destroyed
#ruiuui.mi?Jobii OMIalioney's Death. (
Jolin O'Mahoney, who died lately in \
Jfew York, was a strange being. He was 1
;all and well formed, and had shaggy, | c
lark brown hair and handsomely chis- f
died features, but a haggard and care i
worn expression. The property in Ire- j
land that he made over to his sister was ; f
considerable, or at least sufficient to sur- i
round a large family witl^ every com- t
:ort, but O'Malioney never received any r
benefit from it in this country or in \
Paris, where, after the attempted Irish s
nsurreetion of '48, he eked out a miser- (
ible existence as a tutor. He taught t
Latin, Greek, and English, and oeea- r
(ionally contributed to some of the i 1
French newspapers. He was all his life ! t
i bookworm, and was master of the He- s
)rew Sanscrit and ancient Celtic lan- a
piages. Dr. Todd, of Trinity College, c
Dublin, in his translation of the " Wars
>f the Gael and Stranger," published r
inder the supervision of the master of \
he rolls, pays a brilliant compliment to s
3'Mahoney for his contributions to Cel- ; a
ic literature and his wonderful pliilo- i
eVlUeiit lllUXilX Ui lilt; xjnti.-ui
rnment during tlie Fenian fever gave , j
ise to the belief tliat there was really
lore in the movement than ever ap eared
on the surface. Perhaps there ^
ras, although Fenianism for a time* ^
eemed to be an open book for evefy- -j
tody. Its collapse is generally attributed ^
o its quarrels and divisions; but this is
mistake, for the sting was completely v
aken out of it by tiie British governQent
before it divided. Nor was it always
a thing to be laughed at, for it cer- ! ^
airily came very near starting a serious j.
ebellion in Ireland. The plan was ; n
imply to spread sedition among the ^
roops?in other words, to Fenianize the ^
rish militia and as many 'regiments of
he line as possible, to bring over the
onstabulary, and to send to Ireland
rom this country, not an armed expedi-;
ion or a Fenian fleet, but plenty of in- 1
locent steerage passengers who had o
erved in either the Union, or the Con-'
ederate army, and whose duty it was to C
>fticer and lead the peasantry*. Except! c
he effort with the constabulary, all this \
vas actually accomplished. The mili- t
ia and regiments of the line were re- a
ruited almost entirely from the disaf- s
ected classes, and the Fenian fever 1
;pread among them with extraordinary \
apid'ty. The constabulary were also , s
? >-?onvlxr flm comn 1
"tJCi U. ttJU Hum piCIIVT UCCU1J mv uiuuv
dass, but they were police officers, and ,
jonsequently rather daugerous fellows to ?
amper with. !
With a few brilliant exceptions, the
[rish-American officers made a bad impression
in Ireland. They went over
with high sounding titles, and with six
nonths' pay in advance. Captains, col- ;
mels and generals were to be had by the
icre?brevets were cheap and plenty?but
it was soon discovered that only very few
if them were competent to drill a company,
and many of them had, like the civilians,
to receive instructions from deserters from
the British army. Still they swaggered
in square toed boots and semi-military
Iress through the streets of Dublin and
other towns, lining themselves thorou ghly
with Guinness' XX and "materials,"
[in 1 talking blood and fire in all the ale
houses or tap rooms ; and when finally
rhey were rammed into jail by o handful
ogicai research anil accuracy, oome 01 j
he German Celtic scholars also speak oi lim
in the highest terms. r
John O'Mhlioney's private life, at least ' c
n this country and ki France, says the a
S'ew York Sun, was one of seclusion rJ
ind poverty. Few of his most intimate a
riends knew where he lived. There was s
dways a romantic mystery about the a
nan; and yet since the days of O'Con- c
lell there never was an Irishman more
jopular with his countrymen than John ?
)'Mahoney, or one more highly esteem- ' \
>d by the republicans of other nationali- ?
ies who were acquainted with him. He *
md friends who were willing to sacrifice I
inything for him; yet he was often sadly j
n need of a dollar, and when his pov- g
srty was discovered he declined to re- g
eive assistance in any shape or form, j
)ne way or another he always managed i
o earn his own living. He seemed, ; _
lowever, to care nothing for success in 1
ife, liis whole mind being absorbed with ^
me -idea?rebellion in Ireland. A ten '
lollar greenback over and above his im- j
aediate wants was a fortune to him, but 1 J
me that he held a loose hold of; for any v
oafer who approached him with a woe- !
ill story was sure to get it out of him. j ?
' When a man tells you," he would say. j
'that he is in want, and you suspect j
hat he is a liar, but doubt it, give him v
he benefit of the doubt, aud help him if ! v
ou can." It is said that at one time he j j,
ras insane, and here is the foundation j Y
of the story: \y
One cold winter's evening, many yeai*s : a
go, John Mitchel was trudging through j
Iroadwav on his way to his home "in '
Brooklyn. He was overtaken and pass- I *
d by a tall and somewnai poony ciau j
aan whose face he did not see; but the
iroad, square shoulders, the swinging, i g
[evil-rnay-care gait, the slouched hat and j
he long curling hair, even without that | *
dditional crushing evidence, the black ^
horn stick, satisfied Mitchel that it was r v
)'Malioney who had just passed him. j x
le quickened his pace, caught up with
lis friend, and looked him in the face. ^
t was ghastly in its pallor, and there ! j.
ras a peculiarly wild expression in the J
yes. Mitchel called him by name, but
eceived no reply. O'Mahoney kept on
ike a somnambulist. At length Mitchel
eized him by the arm and almost shout- g
d:. "Are you asleepi Don't you j ^
;now me ?" O'Mahoney started, and ^
rith a sad smile gave his old companion (j
lis hand, which was cold as death. He j
Lad not tasted food for nearly three ! g
lavs. Tlie friends went together to ;
litchel's house in Brooklyn. Dinner ?
ras served, and O'Mahoney, conscious g
f the dauger of over eating in the con- v
ition in which he was, resolved to retrain
his appetite. But he was unable,
nd instead he ate voraciously and drank j
ilenty of claret. S >on afterward he was
oken, a raving maniac, to the Flatbush ^
sylnm for the insane. There he fell ^
ato a sound sleep, from which he awoke |
he next morning perfectly rational? ^
limself again. He was a little over ' ^
wenty-four hours in that asylum, but ^
ome of his kind Fenian " brothers," ' ^
rho knew all the facts aud circumstances, *
fterward denounced him as a lunatic e
rho had been for years in a mad house. f
mi - ?: i ? x e xl.~ 1
I
)f police officers some of them turned
nformers, and of this latter class, a few, I
t is said, have since been assassinated.
It is known that iu old times the Catholic
clergy generally sided with all who ,
vere opposed to the British government; j
>ut in 1804 the walls of every Catholic
hurch iu Ireland resounded over and
>ver again with denunciations of Fenian-!
sm and its organ in Dublin, the Irish j
f'coplc. Notwithstanding this the organization
and the newspaper still flour?
1 1 ^?1 -in mrmilnfiAii Af
SUtJll illJll iUl'miBCU iJJ l-llvinanvu, .n
his time tlie militia above referred to,
lumbering about 25,000 men, was one i
rast Fenian camp. #Iu addition to this, j
ome regiments of the line were " fixed." i
31 ubs or circles were forme d all through
he country, and were in constant comnunication
with the military. In Dubin
the Royal Barracks, Porto Bello and
he Pigeon House fort were occupied by
ohliers ready on the instant to mutiny,
lid \t is averred that the soldiers in j
ther towns were similarly inclined.
At last the government awoke from its
eal or feigned torpor. The militia,
ehich was the mainstay of Fenianism,
erved only a few months every year,
md after having been disbanded in 18G4, ;
t was not called out again in 1865?the '
ear appointed by Stevens for the rising
-and at the same time the Fenian regi- i
nents of the line were hurried off to In- ;
Lia, jind English regiments were ordered
t once to take their places in Ireland.
Chus the proposed nucleus of the Fenian
.rmy was destroyed without a single
hot, and nothing was left but an un- j
rmed organization. This was the real .
a'use of the collapse of tlie movement.
John O'Mahoney died without a struggle.
Among the friends at his bedside
ras the Hon. Riohard O'Gorman.
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An Alligator Story.
There lived in Calcutta a lovely girl of
eventeen, who was engaged to a man j
he was much attached to; her father, ;
lowever, did not approve of the match, |
,nd was anxious that she should marry j
nother man, who had proposed to her
ome time before. This second lover,
lacked up by the father, was most per- i
istent in his attentions, and ultimately '
loped to win the girl, who, on her part, :
Lisliked him intensely, and declared she ,
Fould only marry the man she was en- j
;aged to, and no one else.
All of a sudden the girl disappeared ; j
nd, though even- search was made, no !
utelligeuce could be gained of her, nor
ras there any apparent reason for her !
Hystericus absence. Suspicion fell on i
>oth her lovers, especially on the one 1
rhose suit she had rejected, for it was 1
Fell known he was highly incensed ,
gainst her for her indifference toward ;
lim. They were both arrested and imirisoned,
albeit they declared their inlocence,
and also their sorrow and astonshment
at her disappearance.
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It was ascertained tuac sue was iusi |
een alive going to tiro tank witli her
(itcher to draw wutor, and that Rlie had !
[ever been seen since. On this it was
iecided to have the tauk dragged, which
vas accordingly done. The first time i
hey found nothing ; however, they tried :
gain. On this occassion they felt some- >.
hing very heavy.in the net; presently
hey saw the huge head of an alligator
ml soon after heard a tremendous splash
rhieh broke the net aud allowed the ani
nil to escape. They immediately comaenccd
making another net of extra !
trength, and one not likely to be broken '
>y the alligator. When it was finished 1
hey dragged the tank, and this this time ,
lid so most thoroughly, but to their
mazement nothing of the alligator was
een.
" Where eato it be?" they exclaimed ;
' surely we were not deceived, for we all
aw it ; and yet, if it was in that tank, '
re must have caught it."
Some one proposed that they should
Tag the tank from the opposite side, j
'his they did, aud their efforts were |
rowned with success, for they captured j
lie alligator and brought him safe to
ind. He was of monstrous size, and a
lost ferocious monster. Inside of him i
hey found no end of gold and silver
angles aud native ornaments ; some of ;
hem were recognized by the bereaved
itlier as belonging to his poor daughter, ;
or they were the same she wore on the t
vening she was seen walking toward the
ink.
The grief of her friends on this terrible
iscpvery can be better imagined than
escribed. She must have put down her
itcher into the water, quite unsuspicious
f. danger, when - she wn*; seized by the
lodster, and in a moment dragged down,
'lite accounts for it's not" being captured j
rhen the tank was dragged 011 so many
jCiVsioHs. How it got into the tank, and
rhere.it came from, are questions f< r
aturaiists alone to answer.
We have heard, but cannot vouch for I
lie trnth, that alligators * have been
mown to travel great distances at night,
rhis animal must have walked straight
hrough the populous city of Calcutta
o the tank unobserved.
Soldiers Afraid of Mice.
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The correspondent of the London
Yew# writes : Our eonqianv is made up
f Servians, Russians, a frenchman, a
bviss, a Prussian, an Austrian and a
'roat, so that we are rather a polyglot
rew. The thatch of the barrack swarms
villi mice, which have a festive habit
>f dropping down on the sleeper's face,
incl they have beeu accused, I cannot
ay with what justice, of attempting to
lestle in beards. The Russians have a
leri'ectly frantic horror of mice. I have
een a veteran who would not turn his
lead at an exploding shell, jump from
lis bed in the middle of the night in a
paroxysm of fear, and, drawing his
iword, make frantic cuts and passes at *
he spot whore he believed his tormenors
ye re harboring. I have seen another
usli out into the cold night air because
i mouse ran across his face, and refuse
o re-enter till the break of day. Gen.
Douchtouroff, who used to be one of the ,
nhabitants of our barracks, immigrated
dtogether on account of the mice, and
ittcd up for himself a rough tentr d'abri
jehind it, iuto which he crept nightly
vithout undressing, and slept there till
lie wind wrecked his habitation, when
1o had to go into winter quarters in the
Jliancellerie. Mice abound there, too,
uit ho fights against thorn by the device i
>f having his iion bedstead in the mid- 1
lie of the room, and he docs not so much
nind their playing on the fl )or under
iim.
FARM, GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
Cutting unci Straining Food for Live Stork.
Joshua Forsyth, n farmer, of Pemberton,
N. J., wrote the American farmer's
club asking if it pays to cut fodder, such
as cornstalks, wheat straw, hay, etc., to
be mixed with wheat, bran, corn meal
and similar materials, and steam the
mixture for milch cows. Also, does
steaming and thoroughly cooking hog
feed pay for fattening hogs.
A New Jersey farmer .of experience
said that cutting and steaming feed for
domestic animals is an economical process
except when the work is done no an exceedingly
small scale. It requires as much
fuel and as many (flitters and steaming
appliances to cut and afx)am feed for two
cows as for ten, and takes a man as long
to make a tire and steam a box of feed
for only one cow and one horse as for
half a score of animals. Therefore, if a
%nner has only three or four cows aud a
horse or two, the expense incident to
procuring steaming appliances and the
labor of cooking the feed would more
than cancel the gain or saving in consequence
of cooking the feed. No elements
of nutrition are added by cooking.
The process simply renders the crude
and otherwise unavailable atoms of nutriment
assimilable by the digestive
organs. It would not pay to put grass
through a fqdder cutter* and afterward
steam it before the food was distributed
to live stock, for the reason
that all the elements of nutrition in good
grass are available to live stock without
having been steamed. It will not pay
to steam hay of prune quality, for the
reason that live stock -will extract all the
nourishment there is in the succulent
leaves and stems without having been
steamed. But when, hay is made of
dead ripe grass the leaves and stems
are often so hard that the nourishment is
not available after- it has l>een eaten.
Many of the sheaths, leaves and the
husks of the stalks of Indian corn are so
hard and rough that live stock cannot
avail themselves of the nutriment such
fodder will yield unless it is cut aud
steamed. Clean anc^ bright straw contains
a large percentage of gum, starch
aud oil which will make milk and fatten
neat cattle or sheep, provided the roughness,
the coarseness and the solidity of
the leaves and stems can be broken down,
so that when the animals eat the mass
their digestive powers may obtain the
nourishment that exists in the rough
material. When whole grain is fed to
neat cattle a large percentage of what is
eaten will pass undigested. This farmer
has tried the experiment so often of feeding
whole gram against the practice of
feeding cooked food that he is satisfied
there is a saving of fully one-third of
all sorts of grain by fii^W^frinding and
steaming the mass before it is fail cut.
In preparing for steaming food care must
be taken not to expend too much for
the steaming apparatus. TEfc Speaker
made a cheap steam boiler, which,
placed on a kitchen stove, is sufficient
with one scuttlo of stove coal to
cook the breakfast for the family and to
steam five hundred swine. Thi? little
boiler consists of . two cast iron cylinder
heads about sixteen inches in diameter,
and the circumference is galvanized
bpiler iron, extending from one head to
the other. Twenty-one inch-and-c-balf
iron tubes extend from one head to the
other, the ends passing tlirougn tne
heads and rivited on the outside to render
the* boiler watertight.' The smoke
and fi&ue from the lire pass, through the
tubes and heat the water in tlfc boiler in
a short time. The steam is driven out
through a small pipe in the upper cylinder
head, and is conducted through gas
pipe to the steam box in which cat fodder
and meal are placed preparatory to
beiug steamed. Such a boiler could be
placed on a cheap atove in the kitchen or
in the cedar and steam sent in pipes
two hundred feet distaut to the barn
or piggery to cook food. By. this arrangement
all danger incident to having fire
about out buildings would bo avoided.
When one has such a cheap and convenient
apparatus the gain by way of cooking
feed will far exceed the cost over ana
above the small expense of feeding rough
and uncooked feed.
DomeHtlc IteripcM.
To Prepare Mutton Chops.?Tuke
eight or more fat covered mutton chops,
pare well, season with salt, pepper and
grated nutmeg ; put them in a saucepan
with four ounces of hot- clarified butter;
cook rare, drain in a dish, especially of
the butter; pour a pint of Espaguole
sauce over the chops; let cool; m^anwhdo
have as many sheets of large, thick
note paper as there are chops, cut them
in heart shape and oil them, spread theul
on the table, put two very thin slices M.
cooked ham or beef tongue* on each
paper, one on Ach side, then place the
chop with its sauce on the right side,
hold the paper over, and with the fore
finger and thumb of the right band
twist the edges of the paper over in very
close, tight folds ; repeat the same operation
for every chop ; fifteen minutes before
serving put the whole in a large fiat
baking pan, and bake a light brown color
in a moderately hot oven ; dish them in
a circle and send a bowl of brown Italian
sauce along with them.
To Make Meringued Apples.?
Peel and skin a dozen apples and take
out the cores; cook them in a "fancepau
with butter, sugar and the, rind of a
lemon chopped tine; reduce to a thick
consistency ; dish up in a pyramid in the
center*ot a rusn ; an nour neiore serving
cjyer the. pyramid with a layer of meringue
; make up a sheet of strong paper
in the form of a long funnel'with a hole
the size of a large pencil at the point ;
fasten the top with a pin ; till it with a
sufficient quantity of meringue; close
the large end by folding the paper, and
with gentle pressure force out the meringue
in decorating the surface; sprinkle
sugar all over and cook for forty minutes
of a very light brown color in a very
moderate oven; garnish around "with
small cuts of currant jelly and serve hot.
To Clean Trays and Japanned Goods.
?Do not pour boding water over tliem,
particularly on japanned ones, as it will
make the varnish crack and peel' off, but
have a sponge wetted with warm water,
and a little soap, if the trav be very
dirty ; then rub it with a <b*y cloth. If
the tray gets marked take a woolen
cloth, with a little sweet oil, and rub it
over the marks. Wipe dry, pttrti&ilnrlfr
outside, for if anv wet be suffered to dry
nr., it will leave the stain.
Are Not Molly Manures.
J Tlie following resolutions were passed ;
by the Aucient Order of Hibernians of
New Jersey:
1. That the Ancient Order of Hibernians
as existing in the State of New Jersey,
j hereby solemnly deny and utterly repro,
bate any and all connection or affiliation i
with the aforesaid association of " Molly I
Maguires."
2. That we utterly reprobate and condemn,
abhor, and anathematize the mur- j
j derous actions of the so-called "Molly Ma- j
guiresthat we sincerely hope the
| members of this detestable society, who 1
1 liave l>ecome the violators of all law, hu- !
: man and divine, and the shedders of the i
bloo<l of their fellow men, will be brought 1
to speedy justice and condign punish- '
: meut for thc-ir horrible deeds of violence
; and blood.
3. That we call upon our brethren of :
the Ancient Order of Hibernians, both in
their general and State organizations, to
follow the example of the order in the i
State of New Jersey in utterly disowning
i all association and sympathy witli the
I aforesaid body of " Mollies," and in most
strongly and emphatically condemning
and reprobating, abhorring, and auathei
matizing the murderous and diabolical
i principles and deeds of this abominable
i association.
| 4. That the national board, whose
headquarters ure in the city of New
1 York, be at once instructed by all State
organizations, and the $?ew Jersey or.
gauization do hereby instruct them to
begin a rigid investigation into the alI
leged connection of the detestable "Mol1
lies" with our Ancient and Honorable
i Order of Hibernians, and in case that
any portion of our order in Pennsylvania
f or elsewhere should be found to be in any j
manner connected with the so-called !
" Millies," or to have lent them any aid
or countenance whatsoever in their liend- j
ish work, to cut off, without any delay, ;
such violators of the principles and ends !
of our Ancient and Honorable Order of
1 Hibernians, and express through the
; public journals ouf utter abhorrence and j
| condemnation of such affiliation with or
; countenance of the bloody deeds of the j
' murderous "Mollies."
5. That the Ancient Order of Hibern- j
I ians is an association of Christian men j
and law-abiding citizens, whose object is
i to put in practice the great principles of
j brotherly love; to assist one another in
i sickness and death; to promote good j
will and Christian charity among its
i members, to ameliorate the moral and
1 physicial condition of our people; to
f obey every law of civil society; to observe
every precept of God's church;
; and to take no means for the accomplish!
nvent of these purposes except what ore
I approved by our lawful superiors,both in
church and State, and will stand every
test of divine and human law.
Saturday >'ight,
Saturday night makes people humail,
] and sets their hearts to beating softly, as .
, they used to do before the world turned
them into wardrams and jarred them to
pieces with tattoos. The ledger closes
; with a crash, the iron-doored vaults come
! to with a bang, up go the shutters with
1 a 'will, click goes the key in the lock.
} It is Saturday night aud business breathes
free again. Homeward, ho ! The door
that has been ajar all week gently closes
behind him; the world is all shut out. J
Shut out ? Shut in rather. Here are J
his treasures, after all, and not in the
! vault and not in the book?save the
j record in the old family Bible?and not:
! in the bank. Maybe you are a bachelor,
frosty and forty. men, poor ieiiuw,
! Saturday night is nothing to yon, jnst as
yon are nothing to anybody. Get a
wife, blue eyed or black eyed, but, above
all, true eyed. Get a little home, no
matter how little; a sofa, just two or two
and a half, and then get two or two and
a half in it of a Saturday night, and then
read this paragraph by the light of your I
' wife's eyes, and thank God, and take j
courage.
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Gold in England.
Notwithstanding the large exports of
gold'from London during the past few
. months, not only to the United States
but to Germany, the north of Europe,
! and Paris, the balance of gold coin and
bullion in favor of England for the calendar
year just closed was greater than
duriufpiny year since 1871. The im-1
pofts of gold into England in 187G, aci
cording to the statement of Pixlev and
' Abell, amoimted to $116,222,350, and
! the exports to $81,097,850, leaving a balance
of $35,124,500. The imports of i
gold were about $5,000,000 greater in j
1876 than in 1875, notwithstanding the
fact that the United States sent to Eugland i
$18,925,425 and Australia $8,347,050 less
last year than the year before. The balance
was made up by increased imports ,
from Russia anfl India. Almost the entire
balance of gold coin and bullion
i gained by England on its commerce of <
1876 is of course found in the vaults of j
| the Bank of England, which had in
creased its stock of gold January 3,
' 1877, when compared with that held
January 5, 1876, by $34,992,020.
?
The Washington Monument,
The board of engineers appointed to
: examine into the stability of the foundation
of the Washington monument has
decided, it is understood, to suggest to i
Congress .the advisability of tearing down i
the present neglected structure, and tiie
^ 1 ^ i.1- ^ rtrt 4 /\ A A1 * /-?! O of I
; removal 01 uie smucs il? mc uiuk
the intersection 01 Massachusetts avenue
and Fourteenth street, where they could
be used as a base for a granite shaft of
} imposing height and design. The site
I selected is the most elevated point in
the district, and is surrounded by some
of the finest dwellings. This action on
the part of the engineers is believed to i
be ii stigated by the fact that in their ,
boring^o ascertain the stability of the
foundation of the monument they have (
discovered that there is not firmness
j enough in the soil to bear the increased
weight of the addition proposed to be
put upon the shaft.
The Rev. Phillips Brocks, in one of
his Yale lectures on " Preaching,'^ells a
story of a backwoodsman, who, after
hearing on exteinj)omneo'us sermon from
Bishop Meade (Protestant Episcopal)
j remarked: " He is the first of them pet- j
j ticoit fellers that I have seen that j
i can shoot- without a rest."
\
Items of Interest. - 1
. An Irishman returned from his travels , .
galautly compared his landlady to
Veqpvius, because she was a tine old
crater.
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Soliloquy of a drunken man: "How
can I leave thee ?" as he hugged a lamp
post. A policeman solved the oonnndrum
at once.
A dealer advertises "A large stock of
bankrupt pianos and organs." Now, who ,
would wish to purchase musical instruments
whose notes were not good.
"Did she leave anything?" was asked
of one of God's poor who had just died.
" No," was the answer, " she took everything
with her." Happy they who can.
"Centennial Bees" are tlie latest.
Tliey are made up of those who visited
the Centennial, and who get together to
talk and gossip over what they saw
there.
The great English gun is pronounced
cracked, the reason being that it was not -ir!
thoroughly bored. If it had been placed
in an American newspaper office the result
must been very different.
Bald headed gentleman in the parquet,
to young lady in the dress circle, * 4
during an affecting passage in the play: T
"I respect your emotion, madam, but .
you are shedding tears on my head."
The papers relate an anecdote , of a
beautiful young lady, who had become
blind, having recovered hsf sight after
marriage. It is no uncommon thing for .~o:
people's eyes to be opened by matrimony.
A cheerful temperament is a good tf; *
thing out in the grasshopper district A
man writes to the Sibley (Nev.) Gazette: 4
As we sit by our bright hay fire and
think of men back in the timbered
country who are obliged to haul wood "
in the cold weather we're glad we esoepedr. rh
such a doflf's life. v
? -' itriv
There are $232,0Q0,000 more of ^old ^
than silver in existence. The amount of
precious metal in existence is $13,740'"000,000.
The increase of the amount of ' *>;
the precious metals in existence lias been s - [
greater within* the last twenty-eight / ?; ^
years than during the previous one hundred
and forty.
A swell Fifth avenue (New York) *
tailor will charge from $70 to $90 for a
winter overcoat, and from $90 to $100 -; $
for a suit of clothes. Nine dollars for a j.
hat is asked now, the same as was pjyd
four years ago. A pair of shoes made to '
order wilT cost from $12 to $16. In a "
word, .the old prices substantially prevail.
Lady (to shopman, after making him
turn over all the stock)?"There, that's
exactly the quality I wont, but it is "
green, and I wanted plum cqlor." Tn-r -t
sinuating shopman?" You can't do.bet- ,:o
ter than take this. Beside, ma'am, it is
plum color." Lady?"What? Plum v
color?" Shopman?"Certainly. Oi^y A
the plums are not ripe."
A superannuated coquette, whp was
suspected of giving rein to her loquacity "
for the purpose of displaying a very fine1'
?L aolro.1 u tumfnrn nl?l
twi U1 icrtiu, UliLO aoavu ? wu..uw
lady what; in her estiipation, constituted ^
a good conversationalist, and* the old
lady'snappishly answered that, in he*
opinion, a good conversationalist was aT 1 ?
person who could talk without betraying? w 1
her dentist .. ...
The ewes of San Joaquin valley, CaL,. ,
are refusing to suckle tneir lambs, large
numbers of which, the Siacramento Bee
says, are dying. Herdets and fanners
think tins portends a severe drouth, and'
thut the beasts have an instinctive '
know ledge that there is to be a short crop .. :
of food, and thus save themselves the
trouble of fruitlessly rearing their young
only to die of starvation.
" How much will you give me for this **
horse?" said the jockey, riding the animal
up in front'of the country tavern to
be inspected by the crowd. " How nucli
will you take ?" asked one of the bystanders.
" One hundred and twenty-live ;
dollars," said the owner. "I will give .
you twenty-five dollars,"said the bidder. } <
"Take lnm," said the jockey, as. te
jumped to the ground, "I never let a 1
hundred dollars spoil a boss trade.n
The story of Salvini's marriage is very *
interesting. She was a poor sewing girl, * V.
working in London for her daily bread, r\,
when Salvini found her, having been , commissioned
by a lady in Florence to .
deliver her a package. He straightway fell
in love with her, and soon married ?
her, and now, in the magnificent house
to which he has transferred her, ho treats
her with the distinction accorded to a ,.?i
princess, with the tenderness of a vox- >f
shipping husband.
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The New Boarder.
': JW 1 Jv . J
At a private boarding house the new
boarder is an object of special interest
He walks into the house awkwardly, ?1
hangs his hat carefully on the rack, casts j* I
a hasty look over his person to see if his 7
vest is pulled down, arranges his collar '
and cravat, runs his bauds over his head '
to mash down some unruly tnft of hair,and
then walks into the parlor as a bash- -*?1
ful lover would ou his first visit to his
sweetheart. Then follows an introduction
to the other boarders and the ladies, r
aud among the multiplicity of names you
catch only one or two. He has now **
crossed the Rubicon, but there are sev
end other tilings to transpire before he,. x! *
is fairly landed. , r
He sits in liis chair with all the grace
at command while he is being measnred
by the ladies. Thev either think him
#..11 w
"perfectly handsome" or - ?wiuuj,
ugly, "(never a compromise between the 9
two. He sits there quietly and with an
attempt at dignity. He has nothing to
say, being a stranger, anil ilie lioarders, ?
being strangers, nave nothing tokay to
him. The ladies all the time keeping up j
a volley among themselves ii wonders as w
to if he is married, what be does for a
living, etc.
After an awkward pause, the bell rings, *1
and the party files into supper. The'
new boarder takes liis seat 111 an easy
way and looks as if he was about to sit
down on a pincushion. He commences ,J 4
Iris supper with the air of a man who * '**
could be satisfied with the tongne of a *
snow bird, and when he leaves the table . ^ ^
he is as hungry as if he had ate nothing
at all.
It takes several days to wear away the - ?
stiffness attendant upen his coming: After
this, he is as one of the family, and '
loses interest. He hikes his seat nearer
the fire, and makes mutual eomuwnU on
some other new boarder*