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Tall aw not, la Uto Jlncto,
" Muriag* ia an empty dream !’’
For tha girl is dead that’s single,
And girls are not what they seem.
Life is real! fe is earnest!
Single blessedness a 11b !
. “Man then art: to man retnrnest,”
Has been spoken of the rib.
nd youth is fleeting,
[earta, though light and gay,
at dreams are beating
fmarches all the way.
i’s broad field of battle,
i bironao of Ufa,
te dnmb-driren oattle;
as—ajsifa!
Paliasy.
LoRonuxow.
i anbnrbs here,
; with snch cheer,
mean attire,
nfy features bronzed with fire,
i fig til ine« and rnstie wares
i And him bread from day today ?
aadman, as the people say,
> breaks the tables and the chairs
his flflraace fires, nor cares
i fftifed if they are fed,
Fwbo may live if they are dead V
is alchemist with hollow cheeks,
1 sunken, searching eyes, who seeks,
mingled earths and ores combined
’ of fire to find
ael hard and bright,
hlPpassiou, his delight ?
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VOL. ni. NO. 1S4.
OLD HEKIES. VOL. VII. NO. 3&6.
AIKEN, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1877.
$2.00 per Annum, in Advance.
slissy ! within thy breast
. thg hot fever of nnrest;
i the prophet’s vision, thine
illation, the divine
ity of noble minds,
i never falters nor abates,
labors and endures and waits,
1 all that it foresees, it finds
i it cannot fir'd, creates !
earthern jar
mar ;
t no hand ?
, torn, my wheel!
i can make, a
1 shall it to the Pot!
tmakest then?
I men who think to understand
orld by their Creator planned,
lo wiser is than they.
—Harper's Magazine.
fynfield EUistone’s Vacation.
“ Ah, here yon are, Leono ra I I have
been looking for you everywhere.”
The slight figure leaning over the
balcony railing in the moonlight turned
and looked up at the speaker with a
smile.
•' How you startled me!” she said.
“I am glad you have come, though. Is
it not lovely out here ?”
But Jaffrey Ell is tone shrugged his
shoulder and drew her hand through his
arm.
*' Tire uight wind is damp and chilly,”
be said ; “ and, besides, my brother has
come. Let us- go in and they went
into the house together.
So that was Wynfield, the twin-broth
er of whom she had heard so much.
Miss Vecquerey looked at him curi
ously, as he rose and came forward to
greet her, and her first sensation was
one of disappointment, for she imagined
that he would be much like Jeffrey.
True, he was like Jaffrey in some re^
spects.
There was the same tall, broad-shoul
dered, erect figure, but the new comer was
slighter, and there was an easy grace in
his every movement which Jaffrey,
though never awkward, did not possess.
There were the heavy Ellistone brows,
almost meeting over the rather hi^h
se, and the slender, shapely Ellistone
And, alike in both; but there the like
ness ceased.
Jaffrey’s eyes were dark, like his
brother's, but they had a way of looking
every one sqnarely and steadily in the
face, which Wynfield’s had not; and
while Wynfleld’s month, half concealed
by his long, drooping moustache, was
meek and undecided in expression, Jaf
frey’s was a bit stern and obstinate, the
thin npper lip shutting down firmly and
sqnarely on the slightly prominent low
er one, and Jaffrey’s smile, though
much less frequent than his brother’s,
was as sweet and tender as a woman’s.
Miss Vecquerey noticed these things
at intervals during the evening—the dif
ference between the two; and she no-
^’.moreover, how the grave Jaffrey
d to watch his brother’s every
'*■ Wtth a quiet happiness in his
eyics. V
He had told her long ago how dear
his twin brother was to him, and to-
iight she saw, by the look on his face,
how much had remained untold.
“ Ton are glad to have him back ?”
she nestioned, when Jaffrey sat down
side her fora moment, and he smiled
his slow, sweet smile.
. “Very glad,” he said; “it is nearly
_' ears since we have been together.
- ' Auall want you to become great friends,
Leonora;” and just then Wynfield came
across the room and joined them.
“Intruding, of course,” he said sit
ting down on a low ottoman before them:
and then he announced his intention of
remaining there the rest of the evening.
“Jaffray is inclined to be selfish, I
see,” he said, laughing. “ I strongly
lisapprove of it. I wish to become ac-
qnainted with my sister thet is to be- -to
find out if it is to V 1Ii V duty to forbid
And then Bell Ellistone called Jaffray
from the other side of the room, and
they were left alone.
“I intend, if possible, to make that
young fellow jealons,” said Wynfield,
as Jaffray departed. “ Do you think it
is fair. Miss Vecquerey ?”
“ Scarcely,” said Miss Vecquerey,
smiling, yet half-annoyed.
Then, slipping easily to another sub
ject, he said suddenly, “I am very proud
of my brother, Miss Vecquerey,”—this
with a sudden upward glance, keen and
sharp as a hawk's, and then he east
aside hin unwonted gravity, s»’d laughed
and compler - ‘. <i and talked “society”
until the evening came to an end and
Miss Vecquerey bade him good night.
“ What a fascinating fellow he is !”
she thought as she brushed out her
braids. “ Jaffrey is worth half a dozen
of him, thongh. ”
And with this reflection Miss Vec
querey went off to sleep with her fair
cheek nestled oozily on the hand which
wore Jaffrey’s engagement ring.
“ Very handsome !” was Wynfleld’s
comment, as he went up to his room.
“ Jaffrey’s taste is good, at all events.
She’s got lovely eyes. Heigho ! JafiTs
• Incky fellow!”
And dismissing the subject with a
yawn, Wynfield went to sleep to dream
strange, confused dreams, haunted by
Miss Vecquerey’s lovely eyes.”
Snob pleasant days as followed thin 1
Bides, walks, picnics, boatings, fol
lowed each other in rapid succession.
“ Fairview had never been so gay,” the
villagers said.
The Ellis tones had invited guests
from the city in honor of Miss Vac-
querey’s presence ; and as Bell and
Rose Ellistone were fond of gaiety they
improved every moment of the long,
sunshiny days, seconded always by their
brother Wynfield, who seemed to give
himself up entirely to the occupation of
pleasure seeking.
Suddenly, however, a little cloud
came over Miss Vecquerey’s sunshine,
for Jaffrey was called away.
“ Never mind,” he said, cheerily ;
“I shall come down Saturday nights,
and you—I shall depend upon my
brother Wyn not to let you become
lonesome. Will yot^ look out for her,
Wyn? I leave her in your charge;”
and so Jaffrey departed.
She had thought to find it dolefully
lonesome without Jaffrey, for she had
learned to depend upon him greatly,
but Wynfield proved the contrary.
He devoted himself to her in every way;
he read to her, he talked to her, he sang
to her, he walked and rede with her, and
the days slipped by pleasantly until Jaf
frey went back again.
Then Miss Vecquerey’s heart smote
her because she had not been more lone
some.
But Jaffrey was so honestly glad
that she had not been, that she felt re
assured.
The next week, when Jaffrey was de
tained in the city over Saturday and
Sunday, she was, in truth, greatly dis
appointed.
But still it was impossible not to enjoy
the long, quiet afternoqn under the
apple trees in the orchard, with Wynfield
lying at full length on the ground at
her feet, lazily handsome, reading ever
and anon scraps of poetry, or talking in
the serious way which he exhibited to no
one else.
“I begin to think,” he said, lazily
brushing off an intrusive grasshopper,
•* that, after all, Miss Vecquerey, I am
failure.”
Miss Vecquerey’s wide eyes widened,
“Indeed!” she said, slowly; “and
why? Is there no amendment pos
sible?”
How beautiful she was in her light
muslin dress, hfer soft hair blown about
a little by the fresh breeze, and her wide
hat shadowing her face.
Wyn looked at her covertly under his
long, girlish lashes, and, in his heart of
hf artei; admired her more than he had
ever admired any woman in all his reck
less, careless life.
“ Possibly ?—perhaps ; probable ?—
no. If I might ever find any one to care
for me as yon care for Jaffrey”—the
keen eyes were watching her wistfully,
although she did not know it—“if
might find some one to care for me like
that, I think I should reform.”
“ Are you, then, so very wicked ?”
She smiled as she spoke, bending to
wards him a little, and looked down at
him questioningly; and he answered,
laughing, “ Not a saint, as the world
goes; almost a monster in comparison
with Jaffrey.
Miss Vecquerey laughed; and she rose
as she spoke. “I must go in,” she said.
“It is nearly dinner time, and I have to
dress. Do not disturb yourself;” but he
rose and went in with her.
The next day Bell and Rose had
lawn tennis party; and, as the nights
were growing cool, there was dancing in
the evening. Miss Vecquerey, who had
been in her room all day with a head
ache, came down in the evening, her
beautiful hair loosened for once from
braids and bonds, and floating around
her like a golden clond.
“ You are lovely indeed!” said Wyn,
taking possession of her in his lordly
way when the evening was nearly over,
and she was sitting for a moment in t
quiet corner alone. ‘ * I am most tremen
donsly afraid I shall fall in love with you
myself. ”
He had slipped her hand through his
arm, and led her out on the balcony;
and standing there in the moonlight,
looked down at her with a smile.
I wouldn’t,” she said, with a sage
shake of her golden-crowned head.
“ It wouldn’t do at all, you know.”
4 4 Why not ?” The question was short
and sharp, and she looked up, startled
by the tone. “Why not?” he said
again ; and then a sudden wave of crim
son swept over her face.
44 Brother Wyn,” she said, 44 what can
von mean ?” and she tried to draw her
hand from his arm, bnt he held it
closely, smiling down at her still.
44 Why wouldn’t it do ?” he demanded.
“Such things have happened. They
might happen again. Perhaps it has
happened. It would be Jaffrey’s own
fault. He ought not to have trusted me.
Leonora, Look at me.”
For one moment Leonora Vecquerey
stood silent; then she raised her head
proudly.
• “ W 0 !!,” she said, 44 what is it ?”
Tii*- ; toady eyes did not falter as she
mot liis gaze. She did not drop her
lashes u: oh*' *-nw the look on his face.
“Leonora,” h« soi “
with me ?”
She drew her hand a w
but decidedly.
“No,” she answered, “not .mgrv
and then the band of her en^
ring glistened in the moonlight bei^
his eyes. He spoke again after a pause.
44 Forgive me;” and that was all he
said.
“I have nothing to forgive,” she re
plied, still looking at him steadily. “I
am Jaffrey’s promised wife, and you are
his brother, whom he loves.”
For one moment he stood silent,
gazing down on hei beautiful face, then
his proud head drooped a little, and he
held out his hand.
“Heaven bless you,” he said-
and Jaffrey both, and good-bye.”
44 Good night, you mean ?”
She gave him her hand, and looked up
at him questioningly, but he shook his
head.
44 1 go back to York to-morrow. I re
ceived a letter to day, which is a good
excase. I shall go in the first train, be
fore yon are awake. My vacation has
been too long already.”
“And Jaffrey?”
She asked the question imploringly,
knowing how disappointed Jaffrey would
be.
44 1 shall meet hinyit the railway junc
tion,” said he. “I could not well go back
without doing so. ”
And then, as Rose’s voice was heard
approaching, he said, hurriedly :
44 1 have done wrong, but it is a wrong
which harms no one but myself. Jaf
frey is better than I am in every way,
May you be happy always, both of you,
He is worthy of your love. Give me
your hand for the last time, Leonora,
and good-bye.”
And so he left her.
A BULL FIGHT IN CALIFORNIA.
1 you are angry
»iot hasiily
A Gloomy Scene in Bulgaria.
A war correspondent writes from Sis-
tova : At Gorny Stnden every one from
the emperor downward keeps under cov
er, such as it is. Nobody ventures out
in the thick, deep mud ; to do so is to
run the risk of sliding down up to the
knees in mire into the valley on either
side of which the village hovels are built,
The czar occupies the only house which
exists there. The Grand Duke Nicholas
and a few of his staff are installed in
round dome-shaped tents made with
thick felt laid over wooden frames. The
rest of the little camp nestle under their
few yards of saturated canvas, which
swarm with large mice trying to find
shelter or creep into the holes which
natnre and the Bulgarian peasant have
provided.
A gloom is cast over everything, and
the officers are mostly in low spirits.
No sunlight appears through the thick,
heavy clouds, and at seven o’clock in the
evening it is so dork that it is impossi
ble to walk a dozen yards without a lan
tern to light the way and a big stick to
keep off the wolfish, howling dogs,
which attack unarmed persons at night
with the greatest ferocity. The most
disagreeable sight of all is the hard-
worked horses, of which there are a
great many at Gorny Stnden, standing
out day and night in the cold rain with
out cover or cloth of any kind. There
is not a stable in the village. Even the
emperor’s horses are without shelter.
There the poor beasts stand through the
twenty-four hours, dripping with wet,
with their tails cnrled up under them,
slowly chewing the wet hay, or even
straw, as there is very little of the form
er to be bought. The picture, as I have
it for the last few days from the door of
my mud hut, is a melancholy one indeed.
'you
A Dinner for One Cent.
The New York World says: An en
terprise has recently been started in this
city in the line of cheap eating for the
poor which is even more extraordinary
than Miss Juliet Corson’s famous fifteen
cent dinners. Not long since a woman
who has resided for many years in this
city, and who is well versed in the pre
paring of food, conceived the idea of
opening a restaurant where working men,
shop-girls, newsboys and other poor
folk could have their meals at almost
nominal prices. A few moments’ figur
ing convinced her that she could carry
her plan into effect, not only paying
expenses but making a fair profit. Ac
cordingly she opened a 44 penny restau
rant ” at 413 Grand street, near Clinton,
and distributed large numbers of her
handbills setting forth that a large plate
of baked beans, a bowl of soup, a plate
of cabbage, boiled or in the form of
“cold slaw,” a slice of corned beef, a
plate of bread and butter, a cup of
coffee, a piece of home-made pie and
various other articles of food could be
had at one cent each. As it happened,
the restaurant proved a god-send to
newsboys and bootblacks. They took
the place by storm, and within a week
after it was opened abont five hundred
were in the habit of feeding there daily,
investing from one to five cents at a
time.
The proprietress said that she consid
ered her plan a success—so much so that
she had fitted up another restaurant in
the immediate neighborhood of the one
in Grand street, for the exclusive accom
modation of boys, while the original
place would be reserved for working
men, clerks and shop-girls. “ The place
proves a great attraction for boys,” said
she, 4 4 and I manage to keep them in
very good order, although I have to keep
watch over the portable property.
One newsboy came here one morning
and said he had saved twenty-five cents
with which ho had intended to go to the
theatre; bnt he afterwards concluded to
spend it on his stomach. All day long
that boy was making visits here until he
had spent his quarter, and then lie ex
pressed himself satisfied. Another boy
came in with three companions, and after
they had seated themselves at a table
he placed a cent in front of each of his
companions and cried out, 4 Now, then,
what are yer goin’ ter have ?’ And they
all took baked beans. I do not pretend
that this is a labor of love with me. I
want to make my living, and I am doing
it and making money besides.”
Diphtheria in New England.
•o prevalence of diphtheria, says the
u /* »i' brings out many new facts
mneetion with tho origin and spread
of this dreadeu i-otlmly. A New Haven
paper says it was intruuneed into tha*
part of the country abont twenty-five
years ago in an exceedingly virulent form
by the exhumation of remains in New
Haven. Nearly all who were exposed to
the exhalations from the graves died, in
spite of all that could be done to save
them. The poison that arises from
drains and other receptacles cf refuse
acts in a similar, if less violent manner,
and the subject of ventilation has its
extreme importance freshly illustrated
by these facts.
Working a Bull Up to n Frenzy, and then
Jumping on Hlo Back—A Shocking Spec
tacle.
The San Francisco Chronicle describes
a recent barbaric exhibition in that city
in the following words : The announce
ment that a bull fight would be held at
South San Francisco Park yesterday
afternoon, drew a number of persons to
that resort. Those who expected to wit
ness an old-fashioned Spanish bull-fight,
where a savage wild bull is turned loose
in an amphitheater to engage in mortal
combat with professional matadores,
were disappointed, as the bull was not
fought, driven to frenzy by darts and
finally killed after having gored a man
or two to death, bnt was ridden like a
horse or any other beast of burden. The
vocation of the bnll-rider, or jinete, as
he is called in Spanish, demands only
coolness, agility and excellent horseman
ship, while that of the bull-fighter de
mands all these and dare-devil bravery
into the bargain. Still ihe jinete, coping
single-handed with the savage bulls, as he
does, is necessarily a man of courage.
The jinete does not kill the bull. He
enters the arena, aggravates the animal
with a scarlet banner, and when the
beast is sufficiently infuriated the van-
quero rides into the arena, lassoes the
bull and throws him on the ground.
The jinete then jumps on the bull’s back
and rides him until he is exhausted.
He then springs to the ground, vaults
out of the arena, and the bull is returned
to his pen.
At three o’clock Romon Chevarria ap
peared dressed in a flaming suit consist
ing of bright red shirt and cap, green
trunks and gaudy striped hose, and car
rying a scarlet banner about three feet
square, calculated to torment the beast
to frenzy. He was accompanied by a
vaqnero named Lopez and a chulo, or
blanket man, to distract the attention of
the beast from the rider, when necessary.
Chevarria sprung lightly into the arena,
made his bow to the audience, among
whom were several women, and called
for his brute adversary. The gate be
tween the amphitheater and the pen was
thrown open and the bull with a fierce
bellow, rushed into the arena, where
Ramon, flaming in scarlet, calmly
awaited him. The bull tossed his head
in amazement at Ramon’s audacity, saw ^
his red regalia and with another bellow '!
of rage lowered his head and charged
furiously upon the scarlet man. The
latter stepped aside and the bull encoun
tered the fence with a mighty shock.
Turning, he espied Ramon close by,
and drawing back for a short run, thun
dered upon him. Again Ramon calmly
stepped aside, but the bull remembered
the previous ruse and followed him np.
After two or three darts about the arena
the fnrious beast got Ramon np against
the wall, and lowering his head, dealt a
mighty blow. Ramon seemed cornered
and a prey to the beast’s horns, and a
cry of alarm arose from the audience,
but the jinete had been in the same
position many times before, and knew
how to act. As the bull lowered his
head, before tossing Ramon on his horns,
the Mexican deftly threw the scarlet
banner over his eyes. This blinded
to/o, and Chevarria, slipping qpder his
neck, sprang into the middle of the
arena, while the bull, shaking the ag
gravating banner from his. head, stared
at Ramon in chagrin, amazement and
rage.
This performance wasYepeated several
times, to the intense delight of the au
dience. The bull could never impale
the jinete, and consequently became
worked up to a frenzy. Finally Lopez
and a fellow vaqnero rode into the arena
and threw the lasso around the bull’s
horns and another aronnd his hind leg.
He was then thrown to the ground, and
the jinete sprang upon his back. At
this moment a drunken butcher having
become inflamed by whisky and the
spectacle, jumped down into the arena
despite the appeals of the audience, and
with contemptible brutality endeavored
to pluck one of the bull’s eyes from its
sockets. He succeeded in tearing the
ball partially out, when the bull, roar
ing with pain, struggled to his feet with
a mighty effort, throwing the human
brute to the ground. The latter sprang
to his feet to escape, but too late ; the
brute with Ramon clinging to his neck
for dear life, lowered his head and tossed
his blackguard tormentor several feet
into the air. As the butcher fell, the
bull caught him on his horns and tossed
him again. At this crisis several vaqueros
rushed in and succeeded in diverting the
bull’s attention for a moment, and the
brutal butcher was dragged out of the
arena more dead than alive, and with
his clothing in tatters and bleeding
slightly from several bruises, but res
cued from the fate he so richly deserved.
All this time Ramon was mounted on
the bull. He sat on the neck, facing the
tail, with his legs clasped about the ani
mal’s throat, and holding himself on by
a rope, placed like a surcingle, aronnd
the brute’s body. By this time the bull
began to show the effects of the conflict.
Blood was oozing from his mouth and
nostrils, great patches of skin and flesh
had been scraped off, and the eye coveted
by the drunken butcher was swollen
and bleeding. In vain he struggled to
shake Ramon off; the jinete clung to
him like a monkey, and after charging
abont the arena for a few moments, the
tormented animal gave it up and stood
motionless, glaring at the audience with
Chevarria hanging to his neck like a
great scarlet excres< n nce. It now be
came necestwy to (inert, the bull, in
order that Ramon might spring off his
back and escape. At this moment the
gates were thrown open und a hroidsome
coach-dog, belonging in the noigfi'b
hood, trotted in and wagged his fcul
affectionately at the audience. It is not
positively known that he was driven in
by the Mexican to divert the bull’s at
tention, bnt it is supposed that such is
the case. Several men cried out to
Justo Martinez, the Mexican in charge
of the gate, to take the dog out or he
would be killed, btit the stoUd attend
ant shook his head.
The dog was evidently a pet and was
disposed to make friends with the bull,
and trotted up to him wagging his tad
with good natnre shining in his intelli
gent eyes. But the frenzied beast
charged upon him, and the poor dog,
astonished, darted aside. The bull now
commenced a persistent chase after the
affrighted dog, with Ramon still clinging
to his neck. The dog, whining pite
ously, ran to the gate several times, but
Martinez, inhumanly closed the door
against him, at the same time shaking
the scarlet banner at the bull. Many of
the audience denounced Martinez for
his brutality, and begged him to let the
dog out of the gate, but the hard-hearted
Mexican refused. The wretched dog
presented a piteous picture as he ran
wildly about the arena, springing franti
cally against the gate, moaning and ap
pealing to the audience with his ex
pressive eyes, and with the implacable
bull in hot pursuit. Finally the dog
became bewildered and paralyzed with
fear and amazement at not being assisted
by the human beings aronnd him and
crouched against the wall. The bull
drew back, lowered his head, and charg
ing upon the suffering animal crushed
him against the wall with terrible force.
The crunching of the dog’s bones could
be heard. He screamed in agony- not
with the howl of a dog, but with a shriek
like that of a terrified woman. The dog
lay in a heap, crushed. The respectable
portion of the audience became wild
with indignation.
Captain Henry J. Burns of the Society
for the Prevention of Cruelty to Ani
mals, now interfered and commanded
Chevarria to stop the exhibition under
pain of instant arrest. Ramon, who had
by this time succeeded in escaping from
the bull’s neck, calmly assented. Cap
tain Burns then arrested J us to Martinez
for cruelty to animals in not allowing
the dog to escape. Several Mexicans
and hoodlums manifested a disposition
to rescue Martinez, who struggled with
Captain Burns and refused to go to the
prison, but the stalwart captain was not
to be trifled with, and took bis strug
gling prisoner to the City Hall. After
leaving his friends Martinez became
calmer, and accompanied Captain Borns
quietly.
G. F. T. in Court.
Mr. George Francis Train appeared
as a witness in a Philadelphia court
room the other day, “George Francis
Train the philosopher, affirms,” said
the counsel for the defense. “Then
must the witness repeat,” said the
crier, stepping back dismayed ; 44 let him
repeat, 4 1 do solemnly—. “I don’t sol
emnly,” put in Mr. Train, “ I have noth-
ingtodo with 4 solemnly.’ ” Bnt the judge
explained the usages of the court, and,
snapping his fingers with an indifferent
twirl of his right hand, the eccentric
witness conformed. All eyes then fol
lowed him to the stand. He sat bolt
upright and looked mildly aronnd. His
broad face was bronzed to the hue of
cooper. His shock of iron-gray hair
stood oiu from his head in curls, like so
many little snakes. In response to the
question as to his residence, he said,
“Madison Square.” “And what is
your business, Mr. Train?” continued
the counsel for the defense. “ I am a
loafer ; I have sat ten hours a day for
three years, in Central Park, feeding
sparrows and playing with children.
44 You are a gentleman-at-large,” sng
gesteii the counsel. “ No; I am a
large gentleman. I have been a travel
er, merchant, banker, railroad builder,
and so on,” which was said very com
posedly, and Mr. Train frowned at the
tittering.
FARM GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLD.
The Egyptian Slave Trade.
The department of state at Washing
ton has received from the consul-general
at Cairo a copy of the convention, con
cluded on the 4th of August last between
the governments of Great Britain and
Egypt, for the suppression of the slave
trade in the countries ruled over by the
Khedive. The powers and privileges
granted by the Egyptian government to
British cruisers to visit, search, detain,
etc., suspected Egyptian vessels are very
full, the “law’s delay ” in the trial of
slavers short, and the punishment severe.
Wherever the word “slaves ” occurs in
the convention, it is immediately quali
fied by the words, 44 Africans and Abys-
sinians,” which qualification, it seems,
was intended to exclude from the terms
of that instrument the Circassian and
and Georgian female slaves, who are
purchased in Constantinople by the
middle and higher classes in Egypt and
held in the harems under the designation
of servants and wives.
Curious Cure.
In the valley of the Kander in Switzer
land, is an establishment where invalids
resort to inhale the breath of cows.
There is a large salon or parlor fitted up
with a row of stalls for cows on either
side, and in the center are placed sofas
and chairs, on which the patients sit:
and, the external air being excluded,
they are forced to take into their lungs
the same which has passed through
those of the cows, and which, in conse
quence, is supposed to have acquired a
hygienic and curative quality.
Mntual Compliments.
At a public dinner in Boston the late
Justice Story of the United States su
preme court and Mr. Everest were
present, the former^
of those felicitouq
which he was ■
ed befalling Mr.J
Mr
residing. In one
^ttle speeches for
led, he ooncl
l up and sa;
Medical lllnta.
1. If a man faints place him flat on his
back and let him alone.
2. If any poison is swallowed, drink
instantly half a glass of cool water, with
a heaping teaspoonful each of common
salt and ground mustard stirred into it;
this vomits as soon as it reaches the
stomach; but for fear some of the poison
might remain, swallow the whites of one
or two raw eggs, or drink a cup of strong
coffee, these two being antidotes for a
greater number of poisons than any
dozen other articles known, with the ad
vantage of their always being at hand;
if not, a pint of sweet oil, or lamp oil, or
“drippings,” or melted butter or lard,
are good substitutes, especially if they
vomit quickly.
3. The best thing to stop the bleeding
of a moderate cut instantly, is to cover it
profusely with cobweb, flour and salt,
half and half.
4. If the blood comes from a wound
by jets or spurts, be spry, or the man
will die in a few minutes, because an
artery is severed ; tie a handkerchief
loosely around, near the part between
the wound and the heart; put a stick
between the handkerchief and the skin,
and twist it around until the blood
ceases to flow; keep it there until the
doctor comes; if in a position where the
handkerchief cannot be used, press the
thumb on a spot near the wound,
between the wound and the
heart; increase the pressure until the
bleeding ceases, but do not lessen the
pressure for an instant before the physi
cian arrives, so as to glue up the wound
by coagulation or cooling of the harden
ing blood.
5. If your clothing takes fire, slide
the hands down the dress, keeping them
as close to the body as possible, at the
same time sinking to the floor by bend
ing the knees; this has a smothering
effect upon the flames; if not extinguish
ed or great headway gotten, lie down on
the floor and roll over and over, or
better, envelop yourself in a carpet, rug,
bedcloth, or any garment you can get
hold of, always preferring woolen.
6. If the body is tired, rest; if the
brain is tired, sleep.
7. If the bowels are loose, lie down in
a warm bed, remain there, and eat noth
ing until you are well.
8. If the action of the bowels does not
occur at the usual hour, eat not an atom
until they do act, at least for thirty-six
hours; meanwhile drink largely of cold
water or hot teas, and exercise in the
open air to the extent of a gentle perspi
ration, and keep this up until things are
righted; this suggestion if practiced,
would save myriads of lives every year,
both in the city and country.
* 9. The' three best medicines in the
world, are warmth, abstinence, and re
pose.
Breed from the Beat.
It is exceedingly difficult to induce
some men to believe that a calf from a
full-blooded bull will often be worth
twenty or fifty dollars more when the
steer is three years old, than another
calf got by a grade bull after the steer
has arrived at the same age. Most
owners of cows appear to feel extremely
reluctant to pay over one dollar for the
service of any bnll. Hence, if one has
a bull-calf, the sire of which is a full-
blooded animal, and the dam a cow of
no particular breed, that calf will be
kept for a breeder. The same practice
holds good in the management of horses,
sheep, swine and fowls.
The argument in favor of such a
practice is that “if like will produce
like, as those animals seem to have in
herited every desirable point of form
and symmetry of their respective sires,
they will get quite as good stock as their
full-blooded progenitors.” But here is
an impressive instance in which like will
not produce like. It has been found bv
long and extensive practice, that a grade
animal will not transmit his excellent
points to his progeny with any satisfac
tory certainty, while a full-blooded
bull, or stallion, or ram, will not only
transmit the beautiful form and sym
metry of his own body to his pro
geny, but be will transmit also the power
requisite to enable his progeny to re
produce in their stock those beautiful
and valuable characteristics of the grand-
sire.
The most important practical consid
eration is to select the best mares and
the best ewes that can be obtained, and
employ males that can be relied upon for
transmitting their own valuable charac
teristics to their stock with satisfactory
certainty. If the service of a common
stallion at five dollars will secure a horse
worth one or two hundred dollars, while
a colt from another horse and the same
mare, that will cost ten dollars, can be
sold for three hundred dollnrs when the
animal has become a horse, will it not
be the wisest policy to make an effort to
get stock from more valuable horses ?
The care and feed requisite to develop a
iorse wortli three hundred dollars will
cost no more than for an inferior animal
that can be sold only for one hundred
dollars.—National Live Stock Journal.
Farmer and King.
King Frederick, of Prussia, when he
was out riding one day, saw an old
farmer who was plowing his field, and
singing cheerfully over his work.
“You must be well off, old man.’ 1
cried the king. “ Does this acre be
long to you on which you ao industrious
ly labor ?”
“No, sir,” replied the man, who of
course had no idea that he was speaking
to the king; “I am not so rich as that;
I plow for wages.”
44 How much do you earn each day ?”
asked the king.
“Eight groschen,” returned the man.
That would be about twenty cents of our
money.
“That is very little,” said the king;
“ can you get along with it ?”
“Get along! yes indeed! and have
something left.”
44 However do you manage ?”
44 Well,” said the farmer, smiling, '
will tell you. Two groschen are for my
self and wife; with two I pay my debts,
and two I give away for the Lord’s
sake.”
“This is a mystery which I cannot
solve,” said the king.
“Then I will solve it for you,” said
the farmer. “ I have two old parents at
home, who kept me and cared for me
when I was young and weak, and needed
care. Now they are old and weak, I am
glad to keep and care for them. This is
my debt, and it takes two groschen a
day to pay it. Two more I spend on my
children’s schooling. If they are living
when their mother and I are old, they
will keep us and pay back what I lend.
Then with my last two groschen I sup
port my two sick sisters who cannot sup
port themselves. Of course I am not
compelled to give them the money, but
I do it for the Lord’s sake.
44 Well done, old man,” cried the king
as he finished ; now I am going to give
you something to gness. Have you ever
seen me before ?”
44 No,” said the farmer.
44 In less than five minntes you shall
ee me fifty times, and carry in your
pocket fifty of my likenesses. ”
44 This is inded a riddle which I cannot
solve,” said the farmer.
44 Then I well solve it for you,” said
the king ; and with that he put his hand
into his pocket and pulling out fifty gold
pieces, placed them in the hand of the
farmer.
“ The coin is genuine,” said the king;
44 for it .also comes from the Lord our
God, and I am His paymaster. I bid
you good-bye.”
And he rode off, leaving the old man
overwhelmed with surprise and delight
at the singular interview.
A Small Boy on Hens.
Hens is curious animals. They don’t
have no noses nor no teeth, nor no ears.
Thew swallow their wittles whole and
chew it up in their craws inside of ’em.
The outsides of hens is generally put
inter pillers and inter feather dusters.
The inside of a hen is sometimes filled
with marbles and shirt buttons and sich.
A hen is very much smaller than a good
many other animals, but they’ll dig up
more tomato plants than anything that
ain’t a hen. Hens is very useful to lay
for plum puddings. Fab Fowle eat
eh palm pudding once that it sent
ito oolery. Hens has
when they get
Obtaining India Rubber.
An article in Scribner’s Maggzine
(“From the Atlantic to the Andes”)
tells how caoutchouc or India rubber is
obtained on the Amazon. The writer
says : Narrow paths lead from the hut
through the thick underbnsh to the
solitary trnnks of the India robber trees;
and as soon as the dry season allows, the
woodman goes into the seringa! with a
hatchet in order to cat some holes in
the bark, or rather in the wood of the
caoutchouc tree, from which a milky
white sap begins to flow throngh an
earthenware spout fastened to the
wound. Below is a piece of bamboo
which is cut into the shape of a backet.
In this way he goes from tree to tree
until, upon his return, in order to carry
the material more conveniently, he be
gins to empty the bamboo buckets into
a large calabash. The contents of this
are poured into one of those great turtle
shells which on the Amazons are used
for every kind of purpose. He at once
sets to work on the smoking process,
since, if left to stand long, the gummy
particles separate, and the quality of
the India robber is hurt. This consists
in subjecting the sap, when spread ont
thin, to the smoke from nuts of the
Urncnry or Uauassa palm, which,
strange to say, is the only thing that
will turn it solid at onoe. An earthen
ware “bowl without bottom,” whose
neck has been drawn together like that
of a bottle, forms a kind of chimney
when placed over a heap of dry red-hot
nuts so that the wb ; te smoke escapes
from the top in t lick clouds. The
workman pours a s jail quantity of the
white rich milk-like liquid over a kind
of light wooden shovel which he turns
with quickness, in order to separate the
sap as much as possible. Then he
passes it quickly through the dense
smoke above the little chimney, turns
it about several times and at once per
ceives the milk take on a grayish yellow
color and turn solid. In this way he
lays on skin after skin until the India
rubber on each side is two or three
centimeters thick and he considers the
plancha done. It is then*cnt upon one
side, peeled off the shovel and hung up
to dry, since much water has got in
between the layers, which should dry
out if possible. The color of the plancha,
which is at first a bright silver gray,
becomes more and more yellow and at
last turns into the brown of caoutchouc
as it is known in commerce. A good
workman can finish in this way five or
six pounds an hour. The thicker, the
more even, and the freer from bubbles
the whole mass is, so much the better is
its quality and higher the price.
^ Items of Interest.
There are seventy-two glass factories
in the United States, with a capital of
$6,000,000.
There are 6,000 lakes in the surveyed
portions of Minnesota, equivalent to
1,600,000 acres of water.
What the nation needs is a patent sav
ings bank and a patent lamp chimney,
neither of which can be broken.
There are 1,836,588 single—all mar-
riageble—women in the United States,
•nd still everybody is not happy.
The Chinese language is spoken by
about 360,000,000 people. English
language is spoken by from 80,000,000
to 85,000,000. \
Queen Victoria’s allowance from the
British nation during the past year was
about $3,033,545. The Prince of Wales
received $200,000.
The word d-e-b-t is composed of the
initials of “dun every body twice."
C*r-e-d-i-t is formed of the initial letters
of 44 call regularly every day—I’ll troat.”
Nettie Sanford, editor of the Woman’s
Kingdom, published at Marshalltown,
Iowa, says: 44 A woman has no business
to edit a paper.” Business? Certainly
not. Nobody edits papers for bnamess^^
you edit papers for ixm.-^-BurlingU^^
Hawk-Eye.
A Lowell (Mass.) firm sent a lot of
bills west for collection. The list came
back with the result noted against each
name, one being marked “dead.”
Three months after the same bill got
into a new lot that was forwarded, and
when the list came back the name was
marked “still dead.”
Dom Pedro has awarded to a Pitts*-
burg (Pa.) firm a contract to build a
narrow-gauge railroad from the head of
navigation on the Madeira river a
branch of the Amazon—to a point on the
Mamore river, on the borders of Bolivia.
The road will be one hundred and
eighty miles long, and will cost $5,000,-
000.
The oldest greenback five is under
glass at Nashville, Tenn. The teller of
of the Third National Bank in receiving
a deposit noticed a five marked letter A,
No. 1, and dated March 10, 1863. It
was sent to the treasury department,
where it was identified as the first five
issued under the legal-tender act. It
has been handsomely framed and will
be presented to the Historical Society.
A Lifetime Divided.
7 years in childhood’s sport and play 7
7 years in school from day to day 1*
7 years at a trade, or college life 31
7 years to find a place and wife
7 years to pleasures’ foUies given
7 years to business hardly driven 4*
7 years for some a wild goose chase
7 years for wealth, a bootless race.
7 years for hoarding for an heir
7 years in weakness spent, and care 70
Then die and go—you should know where !
Washington authorities state that the
com crop of the United States is placed
at over 1,350,000,000 bushels annnaUy,
and of this amount only 60,000,000 bush
els are exported. Congressman Hewitt
thinks if provision be made at the Pans
Exposition to practically illustrate the
economic value of Indian com it would
tend very considerably to increase its
consumption in European countries, and
largely increase onr annual export.
The wirld’s Dirtiest City.
. Smyrna, in Asia Minor, has the repu
tation of being one of the most unclean
cities in the world. An attempt is now
being made to put maHers upon a better
footing. During. the /past year, amid
the pressure of other business, municipal
affairs have been allowed to stand over
altogether. The result of this happy
go-lucky system has been that the state
of the city has become almost unbear
able. The streets contain huge sollec-
tions of the bodies of departed cats, dogs,
poultry, and rats in every stage of de
composition, besides refuse of all sorts ,
and the only step that is sometimes taken
to cleanse them is the hanging of the
carcases of the animals on the window- •
bars of the houses in front of which they
have been deposited. This proceeding
has led to neighborly quarrels and the
wider diffusion of horrible smells, and is
for the future to be discontinued as far
as possible. In the meantime the gov
ernor-general has chosen nine “ nota
bles,” three of whom are European gen
tlemen, to constitute the new municipal
conned for Smyrna. The notables are to
begin the work of cleansing the Ang»an
stable without further delay; and, as
some of them are known to be persons
of energy, hopes are entertained that
better days are in store for the city, and
that strenuous efforts will be really
made to improve its sanitary arrange
ments before pestilence is added to the
horrors of the situation.
A Wonderfully Skillful Printer.
Stephen A. Haviland, known among
printers as a remarkably correct type
setter, died recently in New York, aged
sixty-six. He learned the trade when a
boy, in the employ of William E. Dean,
at New and Wall street. He has been
known to set twelve book pages of type,
in mixed Greek, Latin, and English,
without an error; and the remarkable
feat of setting a concordance to the Bible
in diamond type without an error is at-
him. He
for twenty-
theMetho-
Shrewd Theft of a Picture.
Fortuny’s picture, “ The Gonnoil
House in Grenada,” owned by H. C.
Gibson, of Philadelphia, that was stolen
a year ago, has been recovered. It was
found in the studio of an artist near
Niagara Falls. It was valued at $15,000.
The canvas was, with many others, sl
owed to remain on the walls of the
academy daring the spring exhibition,
and it was during this time that the
theft was perpetrated, although it was
months afterward before its absence was
discovered, owing to a clever rose of the
thief, who took a most ingenious method
to conceal his crime. An imitation of
the original picture was made, and when
the original was secretly removed the
copy was hnng in its place. So exact
was the copy—even to the cradling of
the mahogony, necessary on the back of
a panel picture—that when Mr. Gibson
examined his pictures upon their return
to his house, it was a week before he
could make np his mind that an imita
tion had been substituted for his genuine
Fortuny, so carefnlly and minutely had
the copying been done.
The Boston Herald says that the
styles in silk hats are regulated by an
association, and it is this regulation
which insures their being uniform, or
nearly so, throughout the country. The
fashions in tall hats are changed twice a
year, and the association meets semi
annually for the purpose of determining
what the style shall be. At these meet
ings the manufacturers who belong to
the association (or as many as see fit)
each hand in a model hat for the con
sideration of those present. The vari
ous hats handed in are consider
the members, and any
the models which strike
any of those present are st
discussed, and it is then
vote what shall be the style
on for the season.
We place food in onr
much combustible matter.
stomachs
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