Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1. la writing to this office on batincaa nlwnya gtre you name and Put office addreea. « —y—*-t- S. Bnainesa letter* and communica tion* to be published should be written on separate sheets, and the object of each clearly indicated by neceaaaty note when required. — 8. Articles for publication should be written in a deer, legible hand, and ou only one side of the page. 4, AU changes in advertisement* must eachuion Friadf. . si. j. a. r. murous, DBNTALBtJHOBON, BLACKVILLE, 8. U. Office atar hi* residence on R R. Avenue. Patient* will And it more ecmfortabU to have their work done at the offioe, as he hsa a good DsnUl Chair, good lirht and the mo*t improved anpliinces. He ahould be informed aeveral daje previous to thairoom- ing to prevent *ny dirappointment—thou?b will generally be found at hi* office on Sat urdays. He will Hill continue to nttend calls throughout Barnwell and adjoining coun- tlcv 1 S [engt8 ly DR. B. J. QUATTUaAUM, SURGEON DENTIST, WILLISrON, 8. C. Office over Capt. W. H. Kennedy's store Calls attended throughout Berawtl, and adjacent cruotiee. Patieuta will find it to their advantage to have work done at his offic.i. jfp DK. J^RYERSQN SMITH, Oprritive and Hrrlianifal Dcntift. WILI ISTON, 8. C. _ Will at'erd calN throughout this and ad —uties. Operations can he more estVactorily rer- formed at Im PsHors, which are supplied with ell the late-t approved appliance*, than at the residences of patients. * To prevent disappointments, patients in. tending to visit'him et Wilii.ton are r* quested tc correspond hy mail before leav. mg boms'; -v. TgepUf - HFMME'S l ILO 2.‘I8 KIor- Street,- Opposite Aondemy of Music, CHARLESTON, S. C. R'-orosio let r.t *0 rent* a night. Meal, • t#Mi bom-—Or*tfr* in everv pfTlc. Ales, Wines,.Liqtior*, Secara, Ac.tmar.Wly CHARLES C. LESLIE Whole;ii!e and Retail Dealer iir Fish. damp. Lobsttrs. Tiirtlps, Tfrrapins, —Qvgtorg, Ktcr 8talM, Noe. 1.8 and 20 Fish Market CHARLESTON, 8. C. All orders promptly attended to. Terms C ash or City Acceptance. augSOly] VOL VI. NO, 45. BARNWELL, C. H., 8. C-, THURSDAY. JULY 12, 1883. SERENADE. Lady mine, Tii thy lover who calk ott thy name, LstQr mine, With the innsetthe water'* aAame, There'* no guard to keep watch oh the gate, For thee doth my gondola wait; Let us float with the tide to the deep; On a cradle of waves a halt thou sleep. Come away, - - For the sunaet i* dying apace; Come away, For here by ftty aide ia thy place. A* we float And the twilight grow* ever more gray, - , Aa we float ^ Mid the beautiful death of the day, There’s a light that I sec in thihe eye*, Like to thjat of the mom that shall rise, Wheh safely all danger we've paused, And I call thee mine oWn one at last. Row apace, „ For the moW.llght shines faint on the tide, Row apace, For the morning must break on my bridai.. J. A. PATTERSON. Surgeon Dentist, Office at the PtuDwell Court House. Vntlrn'a waited on at residence if de sired. Will attend calls in aqy portion of I’arnwel' and Hampton counties. j3iimlaction guaranteed. TeffB¥caab. *ug311yj ROBT. D7WHITE M A R B X, Ti - —AND— GRANITE WORKS —- MEETING STREET, (Corner Horlbeck’s Alley,)—— , CHARLES. ON, : : h. -d- iunt 91y ] SHAKES, THE BUMMER. Every itody in and around Norway Was acquainted with flhakea, Bhakes was every Itody’* favorite, and everybody’* laughing-stock. What his real name was no one on the Flat, excepting the Postmaster, knew or seetned at all anxious to ascertain. In outward np- l>camnce he was a specimen of debased humanity. Debauchery-' w as indelibly stamped upon every feature. It wos deemed A-rare eigtft to see him witli a clean face. Streaks of gray forced themselves throngh the accumulations that cluag to his long matted locks and iintrimmed beard, A coarse blue woolen oversbirt, with tattered sleeves, covered bis back, from whence many doubted whether it had been removed since the day he first put it. on, in Griffin’s store, twelve mouths ago. Ills duck^ants hjpl completely lost their original whiteness, and were tucked into a well-worn, mneh- patehed pair of gum-boots. The verita ble felt hat, worn by him in ’52, still maintained its usual position on the side uL-liia Load. The only clupige it had apparently undergone since then was (bat a piece of an old rubber coat now constituted the crown. Bhakes’ history, outside of the pre cincts of Norway Flat, was wrapped in complete mystery. Even, the time of htP—Norway Flat’s principal hotel, '■drinking pud dancing saloon—and also one of the pioneers of the place, assert ed: “Shakes bummed around here when [ fnst ’rived in ’52.” It was generally believed that he hailed from the State of Maine. Shakes, however, was no ‘temperance man” himself; to the oon*^ 7. (toy. Thbee tiotfart a cord Ke paid —ly the boatman for hauling ifr, Which of coufcse considerably diminished his earnings; still, there wsS a (ddd hiargin left, tfow it Came to pass that he should always be poor, could never be satisfac torily explained. His condition being what he termed “flat bTol|ti»” Wds patent to alb and WtL?, Considered another of the mysteries of his peculiar life that no one cared to solve, and accepted unquestion ing^. Norway Flat since the time of its dis covery in ’6fl has tJbntLniied to be a proe- |w>n)rMi mining camp. Hie fabulous yield of many of its claims'had been re ported in many of the leading newspapers of the ciVilifced WoHti. Numerous op portunities hod been offered to Shakes to liecome the jiosacssor of ground of • promising character, subsequently prov ing rich. Mining, however, ptwefesed no attractions for him. There existed no affinity lietwpen his nature and the excitement of the average gold-miner’s life. He never owned a foot of miuing- grotu.d, “and didn’t intend to,” he was accustomed to say; “I go fur the sure thing,” Even when the Wakc-up Jake Company-struck a two-ounces-to-the-pan prospect Shakes declined taking off the adjoining ground, then vacant, and upon which he was at the time chopping wood. That same piece of gronne^ after ward proved the richest spot on the whole Flat, nearly 1,200 ounces being obtained from it as the proceeds of one day’s washing. This lack of enterprise —this disinclination to venture—was supposed to be the morbid offspring oi his-dissipated career. The only things for which he appeared to have any care were his ax, cross-cut-saw, and frower. Thcse,_gon t stituted his entire stock-in- trade, and for them he cherished some thing bordering on affection. Shakes was viewed as one of Norway Flat's fixtures. It had been settled long ago in the minds of its inhabitants that his bones would decay in the little ceme- tary on the knoll overlooking the Flat. The idea of his removing was never for s moment entertained by anyone in that secluded community. Shakes and Nor way Flat had grown np with one another. Norway Flat was Shakes’s home. If he possessed a home elsewhere, he had never been heard to speak of it. The winter of '59 had set in. It was about the middle of -November. The ■*» mmdm $2 a Year. UHM* In an inside pocket of a vest worn underneath his ragged otershiH, a packet of letters Was found, all of which were written in the same handwriting, and addressed to "JamAs Wilkinson, Esq., Norway Flat.” Sundry photo graphs wete diso discovered in the same pocket-one of an aged lady, another of a woman in the prime of life, and the r. si of three Iveautifnl girls of from ten to fifteen years of age. All the letters bore the same pad-mark, Me.’’ tiacn envelope Was indorsed in peuotl taark. “Rood, (date), J W.” One of them WAS indorend, •• Reod. NoVebibcr ifth, 1^59, d. W.” That was the day that Shakes left Norway Flat. Its contents explained the mystery of his life and poverty, and ran thus : " Maine, Aug. 00, 1859 ''Mv IbtAtt JamSS i Kour last remit tance of 0250 has been duly received, and the mortgage on the farm is now paid. * * * Have yon not impoverished your self to keep ns in comparative Inxifty ? We have wanted nothing. * * * Mother is ailing and rapidly declining. Doctor says she cannot possibly live through the coming winter. She longs to see you, James, before she dies. Emma, Annie and Gerty are all well • * • O, James ! do cotne home at once; if. not, I shall sell the place next spring, and eome to Nor way Flat myself. Your affectionate wife, “Ellen Wilkinson.” The bright side of Shakes's character, which he had so carefully concealed from the sight of his fellow-men, was here re vealed. And he had now gone, to an other home to receive his reward. ^ The Caisson Disease. liis arrival in the camp was unknown. ..... Brown, the proprietor of the “Oeeiden-^ ground was covered with several inches t .I- ..... - ; i i . i ' rrn.. i- , » t. v ,, trnsv. of snow. The tinkling of sleigh-bells was heard in the-distance, and the little town of the Flat was instantly thrown into a commotion. It was all occasioned by the arrival of Barnard’s Monthly ^Ex press. The arrival of the express was an important event in the otherwise mtuiotottous routine Of every day life at he haiT corned the unenviable ■ Norway Flats; for be it remcmliered that —WHOLESALE— Grpceis and Provision Dealers, 102 and 104 East Bay Street, jgglly CHARLESTON, 8. C. 7 Devereux & Co., DKM.SB8 IN Lin^, ffment, Laths Platwr, Hair, Slatfs and Harble Mantiftt, Depot of Baildin* Materials No. 90 Fa«t Bay , Sash, Blinds, Doobs, Glass, Etc. , CHARLESTON, 8. C. reputation of being an inveterate “whin ky bummer.” No one bad known him to pass a single night on the Flat “out of his cups.” It is true that these con- •tant imbibing* had so enfeebled his system as to cause him t > readily suc cumb to its influence. •- A lonely J6g-cabin stood on the liill- side. Shakes owned it, and professed to lie its occupant; but seldom if .ever crossed its threshold. The bar room of - some one or other of thn numerous drinking Sells was his homci.lfieJloo^T bench or n faro-table was his bed. Although a slave to his appetite for intoxicating liquors, none of the venders on Norway Hat were much the richer for leaving Shakes as their customer. It was seldom a coin passed from his hands to the barkeeper’a drawer; but drink he must have, and somehow or other he al ways managed to-obtain it. The man ner in which he obtained it was . but a secondary cunsideiftiion to liinh Noth- Tiig was too humiliating or too degrading for him to do for it When lagging failed, strategy was immediately tesort- ed to, and in this he was invariably sue cessful. He would enter the saloon, go tip to the bar, with his thumb and fore- .... finger inserted in bis pocket, and ad- 1 probable the era of wagon-roads and railways had not then been inaugurated, and com munication between that mountain re treat and civilization was at best infre- quent and uncertain. — Among the anxious faces awaiting the opening of the little wicket at the poet office and the distribution of letters appeared that of Shakes. Shortly afterward he was obi served in ten tl/^e ruling a letter. “Harfged if I don’t make tracks fur hum,” he suddenly exclaimed, and as suddenly bade farewell to Norway Flat, and its surroundings. ' That evening Shakes was missed from his usual haunts, and it soon l>ecame generally known that he had left the Flat This was an. unprecedented epi sode in Norway Fiat’s history. Nothing had ever occurred liefore to disturb its nniforlin equanimity, excepting the shoot ing of Red Alick by Russian Bill in a in the heat of a discussion as to the merits of the parties then engaged in the Crimean War. His departure was the universal topic of conversation around every fireside and in every barroom in the camp. The speculations as to the cause w ere ns varied as they were im- TH0S. McG. CARR, F’ASHION'vVBLK Shaving and Hair Dressing Salon, 114 Market Street, (One Door E»«t of King Street,) marSOly] CHARLESTON, 8- C. «tTRY-w* the GREAT REMEDY FOR PULMONARY DISEASES, OOUGH6, COLDS, BRONCHITIS Ac., AN© GENERAL DEBILITY. total Wfy SURE CURE FOR c aria and Dyspepsia IN ALL 118 STAGES. IS-For Sale by all DfcUGGISTS. GROCERS and 3l> a H. BISCHOFF & CO., Charleston, 8. C. Sol* Manufacturer* and Proprietor* dress the barkeeper, thus: “I say, barkeeper, hurry up; give me a brandy straight.” The barkeeper would first cast a glance at the position of the hand, and then tender the bottle to Shakes, who would unconcernedly drink. “Here’s hick,” and retire from the counter with out paying. “Ho, Shakes?" “EhV “Come and see me.” “No, thankoe; don’t feel like it now; jest bad on. ” And the barkeeper learned that he was duped once more, but dare not punish his deceiver. The indignation of the entire camp would most assuredly fall uporHhe iudividtttfl who dared to abuse Shakes. He was Norway Flat’s “privi leged character.” “Likes his whisky, I know, but he’s a harmless, good- natured old devil for all that,” was the. sentiment universally expressed by the members of that little mining com munity. Inebriate as he was, Shakes was not indolent. He was always, in sunshine or ram, engaral in chopping oord wood, or in riving snakes—long shingles; from which latter occupation he received his nickname. The sun rose on Sliakes enter ing the woods, it set upon him making a “bee-line” for the “Pony Saloon. ” Fire wood was worth six dollars a oord, and shakes sixteen dollars a thousand, in those days, on Norway Flat ’ Shake* The thermometer at Brown’s that evening indicated 15 degrees below zero; btit no fears were harl>ored in the mind of ivny one aa to the safety of the one who had so unceremoniously left tlie camp, “homeward bound.” Weeks passed on and nothing had been seen or heard of Shakes since his depar ture. Norway Flat had almost forgotton him. Brown, the landlord of the "Occidental,” was standing in his door way gazing abstractedly at the distant winding of the “down county” trail. It was only the previous day that a pros pecting party had passed along it from the Flat, bound for the deserted mining camp of Diggers’ Delight, situated about ten milrs distant. His thoughts naturally recurred to their departure and prospects. Suddenly, his qnick eve detected in the distance a group of min, slowly trudg ing toward the Flat, and was somewhat surprised to recognize in them the pros pectors of Diggers’ Delight returning, l>earing with them a heavy burden. The Hews soon spread that Shakes had been found dead at Diggers’ Delight. It was evident that night had overtaken him there, and that he had determined hi spend it in one of the deserted shan ties. The fireplace had been filled by him trith wood, ready for the match; but it remained unkindled. Why, no one could tell. The verdict of all wbo heard the story was that he had fallen a victim to the severity of the weather on the evening of the day he left the Flat, or, on w ^ * V*** • - • m mmr%* , always chopped trpp two to three oord* as they expressed it; “iris deed. '4’ •. » <5?*' * ' — (.The caisson disease, with which Col. Roebling, the builder of the Brooklyn Bridge, is afflicted is always a curious one, and its manifestations in his case have been most peculiar. His intellect is wholly unimpaired, and h : s interest and pride in his work unabated. He has full control of his body, and can move about his room and house freely, but he is unequal to prolonged conversa tion—to listening as to speaking—the effect of over-exertion in such a direction being complete prostration. He has found relaxation from his labors and the tedium of confinement to the house in the study of mineralogy, having been compelled through physical weakness to give up liis mnoh-loved and deftly, han dled violin. When last fall public at tention was directed to the long delays and greitly increased expenditures which bad characterized the construction of the bridge, it was attemptvd to secure the removal of Col. Roebling from the office of Chief Engineer. A motion to this effect was, however, defeated in the Board of Trustees, it l>eing felt that to retire him just aa the enterprise was ap proaching completion would be-a-cruel wrong. “Mr. Roebling,"saidPresident Henry 0. Murphy, who was himself to pass away ere he beheld the completion of the work in which he had so long been a colaborer; “Mr. Roelfling lost—his health while in the service of the. com pany, and it does not seem right to give to another the honor which he has aaroed.” t The Effect of Mortar Firing. The ordnance which Commodore Foote brought for th&attack on Island No. iO, hji; s M. Quad, in a letter to the Detroit Atc Pruts, was the heaviest ever ufled upon the Mississippi —His Mortars were, mounted singly upon great barges and each t.boll when loaded, weighed about 300 pounds. A charge of twenty- five pounds of powder would hurl these bombs over two miles, and the fall amh explosion of each one was truly terrific. The concussion when one of the mon strous mortars were fired, wae such thV.t men became disabled after four or five rounds, and some were rendered dent for days at a time. Hundreds of old logs and roots which had rested on the Ixit- tnm of the river for years were brought to the surface by the concussion, and when all the mortars were engaged the roar and din covered the river with bub bles and drove thousand* of men to fill their ears against the sound. When one of the mortar shells would burst in the river, it would throw mud and water clear into the tree-tops, and when it would fall, npon solid land, it would excavate A hole large enough to bury a horse. Only a few confederates were killed and wounded by the 100,000 missiles buried st them, and those alto- gether by the fragments. One man, who at the moment hod a box of bread on his shoulder, was fairly hit by a de scending bomb, and not so much as a button from his uniform was ever picked np os a reminder of his fate. Again, a Itomb fell npon a cannon around which eight or ten men were lying, and al though the gun was rendered useless, not a man was injured. Concerning Women and Profes sions.—A writer in a New York paper who claims to have “seen the misery and unhappiness of such marriages,” be seeches hi* felldw men to “ not marry a woman with a profession, for yon marry the profession, not the woman.” A man who pan’t win a woman and cut out any professions that may be occupying her time and thought isn’t worthy a woman clever enough to have a profession. Teat chap understood human nature quite well when he remarked: “When your pocket-book is empty, and every body knows it, you can put all your friends iu it, and it won’t bulge out worth a cent" HOW FLOUR IS MADF- DUNNBAPOI.M flttr.t. IVOMKI.MJM. aiNW M* tvhrnt Tnkrn lr*in the Burge *n4 9*1 Thtengli illk JMUI Memly ter tit* Heker—Ad Kxpl*»l«*t Lost year Minneapqlis, Minnesota, made slxmt 9,000,000 bushels of whput into flout - . A CorfesjKjudent of J/arfit r's Magttziiir, tot Jtiue, tells ns how a Minneiqx'lm mill make* flour, and the description is interesting: When tile Wheat comes in it is un loaded froln tho cars, the aid of steam-shov<vfa, Into a hopper bin, whence it is elevated to the fifth floor and fed into a receiving bin, the bottom of winch extends down to tbeTourth floor. Out of this it empties itself into conveyers, consisting of small buckets traveling upon an endless belt, and is taken to storage bins on the first and Second floors. Here it rests until wanting for milling. When this time comes the wheat travels by conveyers to tho top (eighth), floor, whence it is fed down into the grain separators iu the story 'lencath, Which Sift out die chaff, straw, and other foreign matter. This done, it descends another stbry upon patented grading screens, which sort out the larger-sized grains from the. smaller, the latter falling through the meshes of the screen, after which the selected portion drops itito the cockles on the floor be neath, and, tlu'so escaped, fall still further inth.^he Brush machines. All this time tho wheat remain^ wheat—the kernal is entire. I te uefl move, however, begins its destruction, for now the end ing-stones are encountered, which break the germinal point off each grain. This matter accomplished, the wheat fa shot away up to the attic again, and travers ing the^whole length of the mill, falls into an aSpirator on the seventh floor, having passed which, it slides down to the second floor, and is sent through the ixirrngated rollers. These rollers have shallow grooves cut spirally upon them, with rounded ridges between. The op- [Nwing rollers are grooved in an opposite direction, and it is imposnibleTor a grain of wheat to get throngh without being tracked in two, though the rollers ire not sufficiently near together to do mnch more than that. It comes out of this ordeal looking :is though mice had chewed it, and ponr- tng into special conveyers, speedily finds itself up ou the seventh floor again, where the flonr dust which has been produced by this rough handling is bolted out in reels, and all that is left—nolonger wheat—fa divided-into “middlings” and ‘tailings." The tailings consist of the hard seed case and the refuse part, and go into market of “fccd’l and “bran,” whilStlTe middlings are reserved for fur ther perfection into flour; they are the starchy, good centres of the grains. The first operation toward this end is the grading of the middlings, for which purpose they pass upon silken selves ar ranged in narrow horizontal troughs, and arc given a gentle shaking motion by. machinery.— There is a succession of these bolting cloths, so that tho mid dlings pas* through 6en gradings. Next, they go to a series of purifiers, which re- sembfafanning-mncliiuee, and thenoe to corrugated rollers, each successive set of which arc more ctfifrely opposed, where tho meal is grtfand finer and finer. There are live of these corrugations in *11, and between each occurs a process of 'wiling to get rid of the waste, and a journey from bottom to top of the mill and back a;;;un. Nevertheless in spite of all this boiling, there remains a large quantity of dust, which must be removed in order to make the flour of the best quality. And hereby hangs a tale of considerable interest to Minneapolis men. In tbc old mill which not long ago oc- copied the site of this new one there stood upon one side the usual rows of subsequent processes throngh which the middlings p iss in making fine flour be ing omitted. “Fancy” flour differs from the ordinary superfine in that the mid dlings are ground throngh smooth roR. Hate* of A& M M Quarterly, tracts aradsk Omtraet days after ftsat wlsa stipulated. dnaof th# writer, aot pabtleation, hat » • |WUMt?W Ilith. ■ 7 yw*-, v^,v: Address, T^B PEOPLE, Bara well 0. H.. 8 0. GENERAL SCOTT’S ESCAPE. Ih l8fll General Scott was a fellow- voyagst with Thnriow Weed on his mem orable mission to Europe. Mr. Weed, in hfa forthcoming sntobiograpby, says: Olio atoning, after our rubber, I said to the General: “Tbcfe is one question I have often wished to nsk you, but have been rewtrained hy the fear that it might fa- improper. “The General drew himself up and said in his emphatic manner: “Sir, yon are incapable of asking at improper question.” I said : “Ton are very kind ; but if my inquiry fa indiscreet I am sure yon trill allow it to pass un answered.” “I bear yon, aiy” he re plied. “ Well, then, General, did any thing remarkable hapi>en to you on the morning of the battle of Chippewa?” After a brief but impressive silence he said : “ Yes, sir; something did happen |o me—something very remarkable. I will now, for the third time in my life, rei>eat the story ; “ The fonrth day of Jhly, 1814, was one of extreme heat. On that day brigade skirmished with a British force commanded by General lUtll, fNBT an early hour in the morning till late in tho afternoon. We had driven the enemy down the river twelve miles to Street's Creek, near Chippewa, where we enemqped for the night, our army occupying the west, while.that of the enemy was encamped on the east side of the creek. After onr tents had lieen jijtched I observed a flag boms by a man in peasant’* dress approaching my mar quee. He brought a letter from a lady, who occupied a large mansion on the op- l>nsite side of the creek, informing me that she was the wife of a member of Parliament who was then at Quebec: (hat her children, servants, and a young lady friend were alone with her in the house ; that General Riall had placed a sentinel before her door; and that she ventured, with great, doubts of the pro priety of the request, trank that I should place a sentinel on the bridge to protect her from stragglers from onr camp. assured the messenger that the lady’s request should bcq'omplied with. Early the next morning the same messenger, liearing a white flag, reappeared with a note from the same lady, thanking me for the protection she had enjoyed, add ing that, in acknowldgment of my civili ties, she begged that I would, with anch members of my stuff as I chose to bring with me, accept the hospitalities of her house at a breakfast which had been prepared with considerable attention, and was quite ready. Acting npon an impulse which I never have lieen able to analyze or comprehend, I called two of my aids, Lieutenants Worth and Watts, and returned to tjie mansion already in dicated. — “ We met onr howl ess at the door, who ushered us into the dining room, where breakfast awaited ns, and where the young lady previously referred to was already seated by the coffee urn, our hostess asking to be excused for a few minutes, and the young lady imme diately served our coffee. Before we had broken our fast, Lieutenant Watts rose from the table io get bis bandanna ((hat being before tho day of napkinaj, whioh he had left in his cap on a side table by the window, glancing, through which he saw Indians approaching the house on one side, and red coats ap proaching it on the other, with an evi- den't purpose of surrounding it and us— and instantly exclaimed: ‘General, we are betrayed! ’ Springing from the ta ble and clearing the house, I saw our danger, and remembering Lord Ches terfield said, 4 Whatever is worth doing at all fa worth doing well,’ and as we had to run, and my legs were longer than my companions, I soon outstripped them. As we made our escape we were fired at, but got across the bridge in safety. A SUCCESSFUL SILK-CLOTk “The Boy’s Silk-Culture Asaodatfoo of America” has a large room over a corner atore in Philadelphia. You might suppose it to be s large company. Bat it has only five member*. When we called at their oOoe, we were fortunate enough to see the President oi the Aasociatioa himself, s bright-looking boy of shout fourteen years, who ex plained everything very politely. The centre of the room was occupied by a large stand of about five tiers of trays, made of light wooden frames, wHh s net-work of twine on each. Here lay sheets of paper covered with the little grayish eggs, not as big as i pin-bead. On some the eggs had hatched, and the little brown Vorms were already feeding on the finely chopped tearea. . “ This fa svery late brood,’' explained the young silk-culturist, 44 It ia a lot of eggs we sent to Paris for, because ws had more orders for eggs than we oould fill, and they were delayed. ” Then he showed as his j crs. A Sermon to the Young. Hartly Clifford, the Milwaukee young man who *hot Capt. Pugh, of Racine, last year, was sentenced to the peniten tiary for life l>y Judge Bennett, at Janesville, on Monday. The poor boy wept like a child, and when hfa sorrow ing mother was mentioned by the kind hearted judge, Clifford shuddered and almost fell to the floor. Whisky ami gambling have in this case sent a brave man to hfa grave, and a real smart boy to State prison for life, and broke the heart of a fond mother. The lesson ought to be branded into the brains of many young men who are starting out on a career of smartness, but it probably will not be. If they could, aa they sit about the gambling table, see the dead Capt Pugh, the weeping mother of the murderer, and the handsome boy hand cuffed and shackled, on the way to the living death that awails him, and oould realize that tbey are taking the same road, they might give gambling and drinking the shake, and go into a more respectable- business.-^-Iftfu’aukee S'un. •’Iantob.' sOm a fashionable woman, .“Ido wish you conld do something for my husband’s nose. It is very, so very red that I actually hate to go out with him. hod, you know, is very trying to my oomplaxicu.” - - A Cause for Suicide. "I believe there can be no doubt tha Bettini fa insane,” said Mr. DeCaeali, the editor of the Italian paper in New York city, speaking of the young Italian officer who shot himself. “He gave me ton dollars for the new Italian hospital, and insisted on paying hfa subscription to my paper, although I told him it had yet two months to run.” “Yon regard the fact, then, that he wanted to pay his subscription in advance as a striking evidence of insanity sug gested the reporter. “Well, it isn’t often done,” responds Mr. De Caaali, soberly. In other quarters it fa asserted that Bettini was almost penniless, the funds which he brought with him from Italy being exhausted, and the prospect oi hfa being able to get more not being bright, It fa said that Miss Ayer, who he trier so hard to marry, fa worth in her own right $12,000,000. on Biting I* Orr—A good story Is told about Mr. Elliott F, Shepard, *on-in law of Mr. William H. Vanderbilt. It appears that when Lord Coleridge ex pressed his intention to visit Amerie this summer and accepted an invitatii from the State -Bar Association for banquet, Mr. Shepard undertook, write him a letter of acknowledgine and thanks. As Lord Coleridge signi his acceptance, as an English Lord •hodid, simply “Ooteridge/’Mr. Elliott F. recaprooated by signing his letter wit* a plain 44 Shepard.’ 7 coking like fresh peanuts, and the twiste of reeled silk, softer, finer, and more ahining than the most beautiful golden tair, and a piece oi satin, faith the ini tial* “B. S. 0. A.” embroidered on it in ajlk of “onr own make.” It was Interesting to watch the oator- pillars feeding. In the last stage the are smooth and whitish, and two or three inches long. We fancied we eouki ac tually hear them chewing, they ate so greedily. "Do they ever sleep ?” we asked. * T T never saw them at it And, by the way the leaves disappear during the night, I don’t think they take much time for sleep even then.” Here a worm in the center of the tray stood np on its tail and waved its head from side to side. ■“What does that mean?” we asked. Is he tired of eating at laet?” ‘ Yes; he is ready to spin now,” and the boy carefully dropped the warm into a paper cone, where it at once began to spin it* delicate threads and fasten them on the paper. “Some people let them spin ou iwigs, he added, hut we like the cones bettor. We made them in the even ings fast winter. ” At one side of the room stood the red which the l>oy* bad invented and idade themselves. “You won’t find a reel like that any where else," said the President with a pardonable pride. “When I planned that I had never’flfeen a silk reel” Then he showed us the very first silk they had reeled, and a specimen of the later reelings, which an expert had pro nounced equal to the beet. The boys had also experimented with chemioals, and hadTJyed some oi their silk in bright colon*. In the corner stood what looked like an old spinning-wheel. “ That’s a twisting machine,” he ex plained. 44 A gentleman who visited oar place gave it to us to twist oar silk on.” ‘Why, really, you do everything here •but weave,” we oould not help remark ing. 4 Yes,” said he, 44 and we are not go ing to stop till we learn weaving, too.” “ How long have you boon interested in silk-worms ?" we next rsked. “About three years,” he replied. “Do you find your interest in your silk-worms interferes with your studies ?" we asked. “I never let it,” was his {gply. “ When I’m in school, I attend to my ' sons; and when I am here, I attend to my silk •worms. I always keep them separate. We give the worms enough leaves in the morning to keep them busy till we gelback.”' h. Who oould help admiring |Q0h a spirit!—AY. Mohylas for June. The FnntRALor “Attnt” Dinah Jon, the ancient Onondaga squaw, wm held on the reservation in New York State. No one knows how old she was, but local opinion has fixed upon 109 yean as the term of her earthly pilgrimage. She died of no other complaint than old age, and her departure for the happy hunting grounds was painless and psahe- fol She was a member of > two ilfiftftm inatioos, a circumstance to wfaieh aha ealled attention shortly before her death by placing her hand over her heart and saying, “Here me Methodist, ’ touching her head with the words, 44 me PisoopaL” In spite of confirmation, some oi her tribe dee^red that the was not at heart a CtirfaHan, and it ia said that she desired to have a Pagan as well as a Christian burial Her daughter, Mrs. Tall Chief, vetoed the arrangement, however, and two eler- gymen conducted the ■errieeM The In dians were * old woman and Her body was laid out in tome; on her feet moccasins, and bar a large orange, in wish to awry a other world. Rio* Uncle to hfa think there fa that, but !