Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I know her eyes are peerles* blue, Long laahee downward (weeping, A mow-white ruff around her throat. Beneath hee pouting petticoat A little foot out-peeping. Oh, ia Me wooed and U «he won, Or i* the very fond of fun ? ' f maktn* thotuand gueaaee! A nroet young face, »o full of hope, A dainty hand on the tiller rope, And Min Arope in her treeice, Three tiny roae bud* lightly reet Within the haven of tier breait— Her loefe* are ahort and curly. The aun la gone! Down oomr* the rain. I leave my heart deft well in twain Within the lock at Hurley ! J. Abhbt-Ht«8rv. GREAT CAmE RANGES. DIHPILIJNO TH* OLillOUB OF CATTLE BaiRIHO — TH* liOOKR VKKHUS THE HIBD8—HOW CAPITAMHTB ARK TAKEN IN. | fFrom the New York Bun.] The high price of beef has greatly stimulated the buaineae of cattle breed ing. English and Eastern capital eagerly seeks inveotment in Western cattle ranches. It ban been estimated that about $30,000,000 of English and East era money has been invested in the re gion extending from the Rio Grande River to tlt« northern boundary lino durmg the pwt three jean. At tyMtal the excitement about cattle approaches in intensity a mining craze. The writers for the press and illustrated mags rises am, in a great mensnre, re- apongihle for ealling public attention to the Western plains and the Rocky Moun tain vallej* aa desirable localities for cattle breeding. The majority of these writers know absolutely nothing about the breeding and successful handling of cattle. Descriptions of life on the plai us and in the mountains abound ia these writings. The pictures are attraetive, but are they true? *„ The census of 1880 shows (and the figures for 1880 are approximately cor rect lor 1883) that in the strictly pas torn I region embraced within the lines of New — Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, Dakota, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Washington, — and Oregon there ware 1,928,148 cattle, or 418,878 leae than in the State of New York. Kansas and Nebraska, - States that extend from the Ifksouri River westward into the arid belt, gmzo more cattle than all the so-called “cattle coun try,” excepting Texas. Colorado hss been puffed more extensively than any other State as a desirable location for oattk breeders. For years cattle have i 7 been driven from Texas to Colorado. In i 1880 there were 846,789 cattle in Colo rado! South Carolina, a State never spoken of ae a cattle country, possessed J. 363,709 cattle in 1880. Arkansas, where ^ the man are falsely guppoeed to spend thai* time lying fa i vaft behind corn* Vnl aVft.Abair personal foes, contained Colorado. In 1880 467,880 catUe, over 120,- Martian Colorada ' The osttls country contains, not in dtjjttttg Texas, about 800,000 square Thralghout this vast range cat food wretchedly cooked. A bright, ner vous, intellectual young man would abandon the msuieas, aa it ia generally conducted, in less than a week. Aercaa the plain* waves of heat roll in the summer, causing the air to trebmle, and through which heat medium all ob jects are distorted to the vision. In the winter arctic storms sweep out of the north. The snow files horixontaliy through the air. The furious wind drives it intotbe ravines, there not being enough vegetation on the levels to hold the snow particles. In the eattle country there are no trees, no good water, unleea in mountain valleys. The grass becomes brown and dry in late June or early Jnly. Every drop of rain that falls after the gma has died for want of water, injures the feed by washing nutriment out of it. This early death of the grass is ex plained to stnuigera in an airy manner. The cattle breeder indicates an extensive oeope of arid country with out stretched sweeping arm, and says : “No need for mowing machines here. Nature makes the hay. No heavy work for men in providing feed for the cattle during the winter. The grass cures where it grew. The cuttle help themselven.” The truth is that on the plains enough grass could no l>e cut on a hundred acres to feed a a cow through the .winter. In tbs valleys grass can be grown if the land ia irri gated, and better hay—that ia, more nu tritious—made than in any of the East ern States. But where cattle are bred in herds of ten, fifteen, or tweuty thou sand, it is not i>os8ible,to procure hay for them. At the present prices much money can • ie made in raising cattle. But will thu price of beef rule aa high in the near future as it does now ? The high price of beef is easily explained by the fact that there have been three successive short corn crops. A full corn crop re duces the prices of meats. The bottom will fall out of the present excitement about cuttle raising promptly after the husking of the first full crop of corn. Another function that will aid in reduc ing the price of beef is the fact that no calves are killing in the corn country. In many of the towns lying along the railroad in Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, and Missouri, it is impossible to bny veal. The butchers say that they cannot pur chase calves from the farmers. ' The mortality among cows is very large on all the ranges of high altitude. This is necessarily so under the present system of management. Two year-old- heifera drop calves in the early spring. An animal two years old has not reached maturity. They shed their teeth at that age. The young creatures are called u|>on to feed strong calves running at their sides, to nourish others, and to complete their growth. The young ani- mais apparently thrive until late in the summer. Then the calves are strong and demand more milk than their dams can supply when fed on dry grass that has had a portion of its strength washed out by rains. The heifer could be saved if their owners wflnld wean the calves and allow them to reeruit before the iey- blasts of winter sift through them; but this is seldom done. The calves stick to their dams until the en feebled system of the cows oanjjo longer supply milk, By this time the animals are' mere bones encased in a rough hide. They have lost allmnbition, all desire to live. In the case of armature cow tho results are much tho gfane. These ani mals are never in goei^dtadition, unlees the grass has been of unusual goodness and the winter cxfAedJBgiy Mild, thou sands of cows die every winter because their owwers neglected to wean their calves. On the plains, the breeding ) stock of A herd rapidly disappear; but , they do opt disappear from the herd ' books. / It is not generally known, in fact I be- ' lievo that it hhs never b«en published ' that the movement of young eattle has Itogun to tend westward. I hear a sniff of incredulous disl>elief. The fhet re mains the same. Many of the cattle breeders of Wyoming and Colorado have agents in the real cattle country com posed of Iowa, Missouri, Arkansas, and the eastern portion of the Indian Terri tory, Kansas, and - Nebraska. These agents buy young flattie, chiefly steers, i winter. It is asserted that A.4he lorn of etoek is very small on these' ‘ bleeding grouncta. With all pick up their living / which they ship to tho western ranges cattle Btates dc stock aa New York, a ^containing but 47,000square miles, tbe cattle are fed hay and l"4sv six months every year. The ^New York by freexing and Hot equal the loss in any of l of the far West in one l latter portion of the winter. "Mgat^e raising in the West is life on tk frontier. It is a life of ceaseless grati ny. There is nothing fascinating of c-*' ie of a cowboy, or in that of an uuiyn.mall herd. It can be summed j ,, v weeks’hard riding in the; Cr, P s *' the branding roundup, three-year-old ireifers. Ldc tor uny^ more riding during M>od torty or t the fall. The rest ifll misfortune* ilk iajwatohing the « * .solution tUvt thin> counting the - , 1Ky llut a better >i«>« ^ (6 (.mate with hard tt ra families and Mulwartfon shod i*g in some little 4 l,cro enlisted for J life in of own lotagii^ andt*"* Yf c havv*^ our farmer friends no^T need it. AVy arc Ican.in-T*^ iarc of themselves and the u^ea, professional mttn now DCt ‘d t and ,ti<m of practical knowkdpA oft Leflpiny aiid book learning tiwntly Uki. io k«p op toodithms of the couutrjr H ^ to replenish the herds. These eastern cattle are branded on their arrival in the west; but just how they appear on the Itooks, none, excepting their owners, know. To those accustomed to place confidence in magazine romances, this movement of yonng cattle looks like im- (>orting organ grinders into Italy. Bui it is a truth that should at onoe dissipate all glamour about the “great, natural cattle breeding ground.” The stockmen have not been able to breed cattle to re- plcniah their herds. Since the settlement of Colorado and Wyoming thousands ana tnousanas oi Texan cows have been driven thither. The larger portions of the herds driven from Texas to the new countries are two They were hopefully expected to live for eight or ten years, and to form the foundations oi herds from which hundreds of thou- -anda of cattle should spring. Where are the cows that a few year* ago were driven from the gamma and mesquite ranges of Texas ? Their bones whiten the plains. Their flesh wm eaten by wolves. They died from exposure in an Arctic climate. It must not be believed that all the land represented in bright colors on the maps of the land grant railroads are grazing lands. There > jm extensive tracts of land in the West that are re mote from water. Theee are grassy deserts. There is a limit to the distance that homed atook can travel toVid from a range for water. The daily drive of a herd of Texas cattle, and they ate by far rite beet traveler* of all cattle, is limited to fifteen miles. Tbe animals will about hold their flesh when traveling that dis tunes per day. If pushed to twenty wiflvs they rapidly low flesh. This be ing so, it k plain that native settle, that -are notorkmoly poor traveled, cannot they ore ten Bodies from water the ani mals will lots fietfh. The limited capac ity oi the etoek to travel bars them-out of extensive rangeo. Certain men, who hove bean success ful in cattle raising, are seized by the coat collar and dangled before tbe eyes of the Eastern public as remarkable ex- of West Point, and served four yean on ample# of what industry and paying dose attention to homed stock will ac complish for any young man who baa the [duck to go West and work faith fully. If the stories are to be believed, these successful men always came West penniless. They arrived at certain towns astride of a spavined, ringboned hone. This worthless animal they traded for a spotted heifer. This heifer is represented as the foundation of the herd. They worked, and every cent they earned they put into female cattle, gradually they became rich. That is the regulation tale. The truth is that they invested considerable money in cat tle. They branded all the calves they scold catch. When their herd was filled with steers fit for the butcher, they op ened a butcher shop in the nearest town and drove the other butchers, who did not own herds of cattle, to despair by the low prices of the beef they sold and finally drove them out of the busi ness. This accomplished they promptly increased the price of beef until there was 606 per centum profit to it. They kept the price up until the other ohope resaw "i business. Then down went the price of beef, until the other batchers could not afford to dull their knives and Raws in cutting roasts and stedks. Again they shut up their, shops. That very instant the blackleg and other kindred diseases broke oat in the Eastern States, and skyward went the price of beef. For fonrteen yean I have seen this game jilayed in the West. Another exceed ingly profitable branoh of the cattle business wm, and io, the supplying of Indians with beef. Au Indian beef con tract is a prize; it is a fortune for any Western cattle breeder. A thin, scala wag Texan steer, that has been reduced by hard driving and alkaline water until it is doubtful if he will tip the scales at (500 pounds, staggen off of the platform under the weight otf 1,300 pounds of beef. It is astonishing how heavy a is when an employee of the Deport ent of the Interior weighs him. As the business of oattle breeding ages, it tends to separate into different branches. At present some of the men who handle siook on the high plains re fuse to own any cows. They have tried raising oattle and abandoned it as un profitable. These men procure three- year old steers from Oregon and Wash ington. These animals ore bought m the early spring, and are slowly driven to the Wyoming or Colorado ranges, ar riving there in October. They are turned loose on the range and allowed to shiftior themselves. In my opinion tlfis is the safest branch of the oattle business. The young sterna hate not obtained their full growth. They ora hearty and strong. It is seldom that any of them die. They are held Over the winter until the nest flail. T^ey grow m size and weight, and, of eompe, in valtie. • * Another branch ofthe business is the fattening of cattle on hay. Again three- year-old •teen om-aeiaetwk Thai art drivert into i corral, and there get all the hay they can eat The mountain hay is so nutritious that the steers be come A* fat as corn-fed animals to the Eastern States. It has been the anatom for several yean to ship heal faring the winter* whim oattle are thin on the range, from Kan*w dMfloDattVsr. IK* beef so shipped is of Af food quality. This spring I saw bettor hoof that is, fatter beef—hanging in a batcher ah op in Laramie dty, Wy., than I saw in Denver. This choice beef was fattened on hay out on the Little Laramie river. -The business of winter feeding steers on (he pirina promises to increase rapidly mo y e . in the nearioftam It is a perfectly safe business, and very profitable. As it in creases, so will the value of the hay lauds obtained under the Desert Land act. V Frank WnxnsoN. CAPTURING A DEFAULTER. Tbs HyWff Trsaswrvr et Tea* tbe Tteeble Re ie Is. Ex-Treasurer Folk, of Tennessee, sentenced to prison for "robbing his Stole, is 81 years Aid. He ie a graduate tbe frontier. He woe a Captain of tillery in the Confederate army in Cheatham’s division. He lost a leg at the battle of Shiloh, and afterward •erred on the ataff of Gep. Leonidas Polk, to whhtn he was related. After the war he resided on a farm near Boli var, Tenn., until elected Treasurer, six years ago. He is a nephew of the late President Polk, bes a large family, and occupied a high sociaPpoeition in Nash ville and throughout the State. He wonld be heir to tbe Polk estate in case of the death of Mrs. Polk, widow of the late President Polk. After the embez zlement from the State Treasury was discovered, Polk, fled, but was captured in Texas just ss he wm about to cross the border into Mexico. Polk had been in San Antonio several days, and while there took no pains to conceal his identity. At length, learn ing that he wm being pursued, he start ed for the Mexican-border, accompanied by one Cameron. A young man named Cook, wm tbs conductor of tbe sleeping coach they entered at San Antonio. When the train stopped st Webb Sta tion, Polk and Cameron quit the car, and mounted horses in writing for them. “Send on Joe Sheely to help me ; I am after this man !” yelled Cook, the con ductor of tbe train, and he then has tened after the fugitives. Polk and Cameron rode through the chaparral toward Laredo, and on reaching the town, made a circuit ronud it and toward the Rio Grande, which they intended to cross. Cook toiled on after them, and over took the fugitives on the Itank of the Rio Grande just ns they were making preparations to cross. He hid in tho bushes to deliberate on the best method to capture them. He then recollected that be was unarmed. The situation was a desperate one, but -Cook,' with the bravery of a lion, jumped from behind the bnsh suddenly and said: “Gentle men, you are my prisoners.” Instantly two revolvers were leveled at him, but he never flinched as he quietly added: “You had tatter surrender, for I know you, Mr. Polk and the Rangers are all around you. Put up your arms, or I’ll have your heads blown over into Mex ico.” Polk turned pale, and his com panion appeared to be nervous. Cook saw the impression he had made and quickly pulled out his watch and impatiently exclaimed that if they did not give their weapons to him in a quar ter of a minute be would command the Rangers to fire. When the time had nearly expired he took his cap in his hand m though to signal with it As he did so Polk tremblingly handed his re volver to tbe brave young man and Cam eron followed suit With their own re- volyers pointed at their heads the men started to Laredo. At this juncture Bhqely came uftand assisted in guard ing the prisoner. THE HCMOROuf PAPEBS. About The Engine Heme. Wfavsitv*™ i$ very little i The Telegraphic Blunder. Telegraphic anecdotes being in order reminds us of a dispatch which some years ago a busines man in Boston sent to his correspondent in New York, requesting him to have a room reserved for him at the hotel, as he should oome on that afternoon. Arrived late at night be stood serenely tahmd the crowd at the old Astor House who were registering their names,' even till the clerk tag&n to turn appli cants away for lack of room—assured that his dispatch in advance must have .secured aeeoaukodatioa, bat wm sur prised sud indignant that no order Ida 9 room had been received and was obliged to hunt up lodgings for the night else where. "* Early next morning, in response to the demand if his dispatch had been re ceived, his correspondent replied in ths affirmative and that a store-house had been hired for him in Beaver street ad ordered. “A store-house t I never ordered s •tore-house.” The dispatch wm produced. It read: “Shall be on to-night; have room ia a itore-bouse secured at onoe.” Application at the telegraph office re vealed the fact that the young woman who received the message as it oamo slowly from the wire, supposed the oper ator had been abbreviating and she there fore corrected (?) the spelling of the mes sage, which originally read: “Have room to Astor House secured at onoe.” The division of A-stor and addition of an e produced quite a different result than wm desired. An old miner waa shown a bag of sam ples by a newly-arrived prospector and Naked what it would run. He turned the specimen over, held it up to the light, and ^gonciatod: “I should say that if yon eon save the gold in this and catoh the silver, and not waste the load, that it might run about—well, about $9 t*** fa fad to tfa county.” «oao#pii*l#4.-4teafai*ar Expru*. oundaha fire-en gine bouse it very little concerned in toe great business whirl in which mankind is turning. He has found his place of pleasure and he intends to stay there. All he wants is a dark pair of trowsers and a blue shirt aftl a chair with the hind legs a trifle short. He does not belong to the file department, but early in toe morning he leaves home hurriedly and rushes along the street as though a moot important piece of business needed hie immediate, attention. When ha resohes the engine house he. takes his ohrir, selects s comfortable place and is established until the sun makes him He chews tobacco and spits at flies and tbe engine house dog. He likes to talk about flies, and knows whioh en gine threw the first water. When a fire alarm is sounded he bonuoee up, hustles around and yelb “hi hi Jar” when the engine leaves. Sometimes he rides to tbe fire and proudly stands near the en gine while thgjjMkis going on. When he comes back' fa*'says “she did good work, lemme tell you,” and then throws water on the engine wheels with a hose.—Arkamaw Traveler. Satisfied. stray sm tin* » OVKH THIS Tfa Heavy latorest “Yes,” said the fanner to the keepci of the store fli his village, as he came down to report the effects of using a new preparation which had {teen recom mended as sure confusion and sudden death to insects of all sorts whatsoever; “it works like a charm. I- never saw any thing that, so discouraged the bugs. I tried it on my potatoes and squash .vines, and iqpr there ain’t a bug in either patch.” “Good 1” said the storekeeper, “killed 'em all oft didn’t it, just as I told you ?" “Not exactly,” said the fanner, “but it killed every tarnation vine on the place, and then the bugs got discour aged and left. Got any good, quick growing squash-seed in your stock? And how about good planting potatoes ? It's pretty late to start crops again, but I reckon if the season holds off until late I shall realize something. And if the agent for that bug-killer cornea around, tell him he min get a boas recommend, if he’ll oonfstipto my place.” Bach is oMof the experiences of agri- culture with Ahemioal science. V Safi max. “I want to get my life insured for $ 0,000,” said a southern editin’ to an u.* luranoe agsnt; •‘but to be frank witb you, I have accepted a challenge to fight a duel, next week. H yen care to take the chances yon can make out the policy at once.” “Who is tfa othsr assn?” naked toe agent, as he handed over the papers and pocketed the .premium. He was told, aud when he went to bed that eight he felt that ths Wo potisias touted ths* ever Last year tbe old man Hastings settled down in a village on the other side of the Hudson to enjoy old age and lead money at twelve per ewt, but he haa dosed out business, so: or as We land ing goes. He lent $860 at 1$ per cent, per annum for four months, and when the note fell dne and the man came to pay it, Hastings was alone in the house. He called up all his knowledge of'arith- me tic, got out a shingle and a lead pen cil, and after figuring away for half an hour without any satisfaction, he called out to a man who waa posting in a buggy: “Hey, you! How do you Agger 12 per cent, interest ?” “I take $20 off the capital,” shouted the man, os he drove on. The old man figured away on the new theory, and by-and-byj he wiped Ihe sweat off his brow and said: “See here, Smith, this comes out mighty queer. You’ve had my money four months at 12 per cent, and yet 1 seem to owe you four, dollars. Here— toke'yonr old note and give me $350, and we’ll call it sqnare, and if I lend iny more money round 'here I’D bargain for a calf or a hOg for toe in terest, and drive the blamed brute home in advance.”— Wall Street Newt. A GOOD BUBINKSM. The late Mayo Watkins of Virginis was somewhat noted for hia. quaint wit. On one occasion a pompous young man with very high notions of his own im portance, consulted him in regard t> choosing a vooatlan for life. He said “Mr. Watkins, as you have been a very successful man, I am sure yon are capa ble of giving excellent advice to a young man just starting in life. What busi ness would you advise me to engage ia ?” “Shoemaking,” was the sententious reply. The young man gazed at him in blank amazement for several seconds, bnt see ing that he wm apparently in deep ear nest, he inquired his reason for recom mending such a humble cocupation. Without cracking a smile Mr. Wat kins replied: “Shoemaking ia a good busineM, a very good business, and it will always remain a good busineM m long m babies are born barefooted.”— Harper'a ‘'Drawer." TH* ADVANTAON. “You have tbe advantage of me,” said the oMhier, blandly. “You will have to get some one to identify you." “Identify me? Why, I am your sou, just back from college for the summer vacation.” “May be, may bo,” answered the eashier, “but my son did not look like a fool, wear a cockney hat, monkey toil coat, skin-tight breeches, tooth-pick shoes, nor did he suck cane handles. When my wile returns from Europe, in September you might present your claims to her, and if she decides that you are our offspring I shall be happy to bid you an affectionate good-by on your return to college. In tbe meantime woold suggest that you earn your living hiring yourself out for a tailor sign Good-day, sir. ''—Philadelphia Jfewa. ths rnm norm. “Didn’t you say you never knew that dog to bite?” cried the lightning rod agent as he otimbed up a maple bee and Irit a large section of the west end of his pantaloons in the dog’s mouth, “Yes, I did,” said the tanner, “and told the truth. You are the first man I ever saw that dog bite. You see, bought him conditionally. The man got him oi guaranteed him. If be bit the first lightning rod agent that came fooling around the premises, I was to pay $5 for him, and if he didn't, ! v to send him back. I am satisfied with him. I wouldn’t sell him now for $15. Writ till becomes down, Tomer."--Mid dletown TYonacript. NOT DIFFICULT TO SATISFY HIM. “Now you see if I wm rich I wouldn’t slavo myself at work this ‘hot weather,” said Job Shuttle, reflectively. “Ah, yes, you would,” exclaimed Patience, With a smile. “You always would work. I should like to know when you would call yourself rich enough to stop work?” r- “Well, P*tienoe, my .dear, if I was rich enough to keep a coupon outtei running by steam I would take it easy .for a fortnight, right in the heat of the weather.”—Harf/ord Poat. That to orrs him. It is said that the postnutster of New York keeps s file of all the foolish letters he receives. If the newspapers through out the country were to act in like man ner, special store-room would be neces sary. It seems that when the foolishly inclined man has nothing else to do, he writes a silly letter ’to an editor. The other day the editor of this paper re ceived the following from s Tennessee poet ouster: “There’s a sick man in this town who claims to be from Arkansaw. What shall we do with him as he a without means?” There was but one natural reply: “Give hip medicine I” Embezzlement in the official service of Russia is not severely punished. Mus- charoeoh was chief of the Taganrog Custom House, and accused of complic ity in the misappropriation of some $2,700,1)00 rubles. The statute of limi tations, however, was suoeessfully inter posed as a bar to his prosecution, and he wm only removed to another post, being now chief of the Onstom Department at Sebastopol A year or so ago eorrap- tion was exposed in the tax oflks at 8k Petersburg, and embezzlements amount ing to millions of rubloa were dmeosuccd. By special imperial dostue, however, the investigations that won instituted in this osas were suddenly discontinued, AMERICAN SARDINES. a BHinr vmohiptwm ot row AKB PUT HP. I*w Hm UtKa pish t* It is not generally known that very few, M any, sard hiss ore imported. Nearly all the fish consumed in America oome from the southeast part of Maine. At Eastport there are nineteen places where they turn out sardines; at Lubeo three, and along the coast at different porta many others are found. The pro cess of preparation is very interesting^ To oatoh toe fish small trees or brush are thrust into the bottom of little bays or directly into the main body of fhe w%-.. wind and commenced to bar ter. They are arranged in a line quite close together, running out from the shore some seventy-five or one Unudred feet, then curved like a horseshoe, with a line returned to the shore. In this is placed a net. At the proper tidal mo ment the net is raised and the fish taken up in scoop nets. The fish are not sar dines at all, but small herring. The catch is always very unoertsin. Some times only a bushel or two will be taken, and at others so many m to endanger the safety of toe net Aftet being placed in the boats they are at once taken.to.tofl'packing place and laid upon long tables in heaps. The first step re quires toe cutting off of the head and the removal of the entrails. The degree of dexterity with which both of these op erations are performed is astonishing, especially m they are done entirely by very young children. The writer counted one little girl’s work during s minute, and found she had decapitated and removed the interior portions of eighty fish in that time. Both opera tions are done with one stroke of the knife. The head is neatly severed from the body, and the knife is then pulled slightly away from the fish, removing the one canal Which composes the on- tire digestive arrangement. A large box IteMtng about a bushel lies directly at the feet of each operative, into which the fish slides, while tho head ri thrown by the same total stroke into another. The pay ft* this work is ten cents for • ach box full. Some of\ the more ex pert make from $1 to $1.60 a day. Tho fish are then platicd in warm water, which is slightly agitated in order to cleanse them thoroughly. After this necessary precaution they are placed on very large gridirons of which toe bars are thin and wide apart, and are then suspended over a very hot fire, where they are partly broiled. These gridirons ire called “flakes” and hold about one hundred and twenty fish. The sardines ire placed in position on the “flakes” by little girls, whp receive ten cents for fill ing every hundred. After broiling the fish are ready for the boxes. Thcs j aie already prepared with the attractive French labela. The oil used is common i-ottonseed. The first quality of oil is used, however, for the sardines sold m prim a. , The boxing or packing of sardines is a branch of the operation at which chil dren are quite expert. A fish is seized in each hand and laid lengthwise in the box, first a head at the outer end and then a tail In watching the packing, nn observer. Ts struck with tfep idea that it is much easier to put them in the box than to take them out After the box is full, a small quantity of cottonseed oil, about half a gill,is poured in, and it is then passed to another set of girls, who place the bottoms in position. These fit snugly just inside the outer rim and rest upon a little shouMpr of tin. The taxes are now ready Tor the sealers, riiese men sit at long tables, arid enph **ne has a little stove and soldering iron at his side. The box is placed in a little grooved platform, which forms the top of a revolving frame, extending below the table and worked by the feet. The solder, in jong, thin aticka or orita, m placed about half an inch above, the end of the hot oopper-pojpted iron, and ^ vapidly melted, running fawn alongtiir point and filling up tbe groove. Af ci slightly scratching with the point of the copper a number or Aark to indicate the sealer, whose identity is thereby estab lished in case of bad work, the taxes are taken to on immense oaaldron, where the contents are boiled for two hours, thus completing the cooking process and dissolving toe bones of the fish. After tailing, the boxes are. placed side by side, and a small hole Is punctured in one corner, in order to permit the air, which was necessarily sealed in the box, to escape. This sometimes comes with a spurt, throwing a tiny stream of stc un aud tat oil in all directions. Immedi ately after this a boy seals the hole with solder, and the box iathen placed with others in a revolving chamber partly filled with sawdust. A few revolutions cleanse them of all dirt and oil, and they are then ready for testing. Each box is taken np separately between tbe tbnmb and finger, and slightly pressed. If it yields tjiere ia a hole somewhere, through whioh air enters the box, oi there is still some remaining ait whioh did not escape when the box was pierced. It is thrown aside and returned to the sealer, who must pay the value of the box thus spoiled. The final hand ling is done when the sardines are packed in huge wooden boxes for shipment. A naughty boy said to his mother: “You see, ma, ron’ro always telling me to behave as well to the family as I do to oompafly, but why don’t you behave tl)e same to me as you do to company, and ask mat to have another piece ot pier* • v 4 Frontier Lynching Isa. The latest tynchtof episode ooenmd recently oaken ton sefautifa frontier of Texas. Kosstaak© ®al«y»ple nssia hard dhameter, with a reputation as big as a court bunas, but not so symmetrical, perhaps, and at timos ha was looked upon with longing, avaricious eyes by rigilantes. On* day they nabbed him WT mV euptaioae circumstance#, hurried him put of town to a neighboring grove for the purpose of helping him over the gravelly bed of the shining river of light. On this involuntary trip toward eternity Koeky earnestly and eagerly protested his innocence of the express crime charged in tbe rude indictment, and when the party arrived at the grove and took a breathing spell Kosky got augue the multitude with all the ve hemence of Mark Antony over the ooxyse of Ciesar, if not with that distinguished Roman’s eloquence sud addreM: < ^‘Gentlemen,” he said, “I’m a Lard citizen.” “The point is well taken,” said the chairman of the committee, fiiut tell us something new.’ “Yes, I’m tough. You know all about me, I suppose; know my record, and have got me down pretty middlin’ fine ?” “We are on to you, Kosky, this time for a fact’’ “Yes, gentlemen, you’ve got me at a disadvantage. I’m a bad man from away back, but I just waht to remove one stain from my reputation. I want to say just one word before I’m swung up, and it isn’t that I’m a-going to r glory and to play on an organette. It isn’t one last word to my poor old mother, for she has been dead these twenty years, God bless her. It isn’t to coufeM and tell the young men to let whisky alone and never to learn the dif ference between the nine-spot and the lady-card. No, gentlemen, none of these things agitate me now at this supreme moment of my life. Rut what I want to , know, gentlemen, is-this.—.They say J stole Gabe Runnel’s horse.” “That s tho charge, Kcsky,” said the chairman. “That’a why you are going to do for me now, I suppose ?” “That’s about it” “All right, gentlemen. Do any of you who know me off aud on for four or five years believe I don’t know a good horse from a mustang, from a broncho, from a scrub colt with the glanders, an old, watch-eyed, swenied, poll-evil ani- mile with his shoulder knocked down and thrushes in all four feet, mape roaehed with a jack-knife and saddle galls m big a* a platter ?”_ “You always wva a good judge of n horse, Kosky.” “I wm ?” 1 1 . , “Yes, I’ll saj that much for yon." “Well, that’s all I got to say, gentle men. Now, if I look like a man who would steal any of Gabe Runnel’s stock when there wm plenty of good horses not forty rods away;if I look that mean, and low down, and insignificant, wopple- jawed and freckled, why, gentlemen, it was high time I wm hung high. Go on with the matinee;- I’ve had my say. If Pm that low down in the scale of hu manity, why, pull me up to glory and let me die like a chicken thief.” The ohairman ordered the rope thrown off Kosky’a neck, and, covering him with his Winchester rifle, said, laconically: “Skip I” Aud Koaky wm off like the wind.— Texaa Sifting*. A Sooth African King. Cetewayo, the South African King, whose death is announced, wm the son of Panda and the nephew of Chaka, the Zulu Napoleon, who, in 1812, reorganized the Zulu nation. Aa a boy, Chaka formed the purpose of.creating a power ful onny wad oonquoringall South Africa. tTiv scheme wm successful, and sixty nations became his subjects. In 1828 ho wna mnrdswuL—Panda, the father of and ths whnto matter was quietly buried, ehisf of the tax sAas happened to The fas “Joy* who ia- “Is TEA* dbg mad?” he asked the the boy «f the annimal dashed by. “1 reckon he'is,” replied the boy. /T just see X butcher take a piece o’ meat away from him and trick him six feet into the sir.” Boal Bport—nanarman: “Use any •pocttatMs stream, Pat?” Pot: “in- dea^w# do, mn—tfa bight o’ sport, sort we always throw ths baQifl* in Cetewayo,* who ruled from 1840 to 1872, was a man of much administrative ability, who consolidated the Zulu nation and made friends of the Dutch and English. After Panda’s d< rib,,Cetewayo wm for mally crowned by Sir Theophilus Step- stone, in the preeence of It),000 warriors. He acted M regent during the closing years of his father’s life. In October, 1876, when the English Governor of Natal sent Cetewayo a remonstrance against tta execution of hia subjects who had refused to obey the marriage laws, the Zulu monarch returned a haughty eply. “Why,” said he, “dpes the Governor of Natal speak to me abont my laws ? Do I go to Natal and^ictate to him about his ?” Finally he was driven into the war in which his power waa broken and his throne loot In Augnst, 1879* Cetewayo was a fugitive in tho wilds with a handful of faithful follow ers, hotly pursued by bodies of EngliJi and colonial cavalry under Lord Giff >rd* and Major MaMr. On the 28th of timt month he was captured, and on Sept. 18 he was removed to (tope Town, and remained in captivity at Osstle Barracks for several years. On Aug. 1, 1882, ho arrived in England. He waa a lion in England during Us stay, and was after a few months sent back to his kingdom, where he was reinstated with great honor. » That Dress. A young tody in the rural district* wrote to us poking advjoa about how to have a dress made. Now, we didn’t know what to say. But we winted to accommodate her, so we got a fashion magazine, copied z description of x dross, sad sent it to her. Yesterday the queerest creature we ever saw bouueed into our office. “Do you sm this dress r she domrilied. “I’ve worn it in here to let you sea it This is the thing you advised ms to moke; look at it.” Thau the went on. She had caused tfa dres^toba made up, woca it totkarity, expecting it to be right in - ityto,aud found it tobsaiem*. In- rwtigatkm showed that to* msgasms of l$l7.-vfi*etou JVai, HI