Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Special Heauesta. h In writinn ta tki' oflen oa buiiiMa “*»y* fiv* your bum nod Post cfioe nddiMt !• Budnssj Irtlm and conanaies* (Ions to bn |;ub!i«)i<d should bnwritton on ssjpsrnte sbtets, and the object of each tkony indicated by necessary note when required. t. Articles for publication ahoitld be written in a dear, Irtible hand, and on •aly one side of the pnfe. 4 t All chaagta in ndTertiMnienta ntmt . - reel us < n Fr adr. VOL VII. NO. 11. BARNWELL. C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 15. 1883. $2 a Year. isnftneers Making Lots. Hearlj every engineer on the New Teak and New England Railroad has a sweetheart or wife in New Britain, Oodxl Every train would whistle a salute to sonse fair dame, and the din grew so fcarfnlly ear-splittiug that the authorities have had it stopped. It’s boob when Thlrty-flye ti due, - An’the oomei on time like a fluh of light, An’ you hear I er whistl , •* Poo-te. -too !" long 'fore the pilot twinge In right. Bill Uaddoti’a drivin’ her in today aWke’i callin'hi* etreeiheart, faraway— Gertrude Hurd—lir- a down by the mill; Ton might ^e her blnahin'; rite knew it's Bill. “fn-die! T<>ot-ee 1 To-die! TaP Mx-dm a m. tbeiv’a a local cornea— MakA np at B iatol niunin’ eaat; An* the wayher whiatle aiitga an’ »««« la a liriu' caution to m.n au’ beaut. SrerTOue know, who Jack White cal la— Little Lon Woodba y down by the fade; Bummer or wlqter, alwa a the name, Bee beam her lover calliu her name— “Lou-ic! Luu-iu! Lou-ite I" At aix flfty-clxlit you can hear Twenty-one G«i thunderin' w> at, an' of ad the acreama That aver atartlc l the riatn' sun,—" Jebn D.ri* semi* int > your dreams. But I don’t mind it; it makes me grin— For Juet down here wlieie the cr. ek lets l» His wife, L ruxha, ean hear him ca‘1, ^ Load-a a ihroa of hi aw can bawl— “Jaee-roo-ahee I Jl-Iumj 1” But at one Fift v-one old Sixty-four— Boston expieaa run- east, clear throngh— HOW THEY TAN HIDES. AN (NTBKVUW.WITH A TANNKK. PRACTICAL TO* (US War and the New Way—Hww Near They are Alike—The Haaell at Drown* Tier rattle and rumble ami roar With the softet whistle that ever blew. £ ■ ♦ Au* away on the furthest edge of the town Sweet Sue Wtuth u p’s eyta of hi own. Shine like the »tai light, bright an* clear Wh n nhe bear, the whistle of kbelUear, - ‘‘You-ou-oti, Su-u-n-u-e P __ <3 Along at miduight a freight comes In, Leaves Berlin some time—I don't know _ ; , when— But it rumbles along with a fearful din, TUI it reaches the Y-.witch there and then. The clearest notes of the softest bell That out of a brazi n goblet fell, Wake Nell.e Minton out of her dreams— To her like a wedding bell it seema— - - “Nell, Nell, Nell 1 Neil, Nell, Nell P An’ somewhere Late in the afternoon, Yon’U see Thirty-seven go streakin’ west; it’s local, from Hartford: same old tune New set for the girl that loves him best, Tom Wilson rides on the right hand side, Givin’ her steam at every stride; An’ he touches the whistle low an' dear, For Lulu Gray, on the hill, to hear— “Ln-lu! Loo-loo I’’ Bo it go: s on aU day an' all night, TUI the old folks have voted the thing a bore; Old maid* and bachelors nay it ain't right For folk* to do courtin’ with such a roar, Bat the engineers their kisses will blow From a whist e valve to the girls they know, An the stokers the name of their sweet hearts ted, With the Belie 1 Nell I Dell! of i he swaying bell Kosxbt J. Bcbdbtts. fi-wenlng Grapes. Inquiry is freqaeutly made as to tho best method of preserving grapes, with out indicating the variety. Grapes dif fer in their keeping q ialities almost as much as do apples. Wui le some last for only a week or two, others, with a little care, may be had in good condition un til after the holidays, end we have known them to keep well until March or later. The most generally cultivated grape, the Ooneord, is the poorest keeper, and ws have not heard of any snooesafnl attempts to preserve it long aHeTM'S '^iiihMed. The Diana, Ca tawba, Isabella and Iona keep longest; the Delaware lasts for awhile, but not ao long as the others. With more recent varieties our friends must experiment. These is mnoh need of information re garding the keeping qualities of these. Grapes, to keep well, most be thorough ly ripe: sosm varieties color and an eat able some time before they are fully ripe. When the stem of the cluster loses its firmness and the portion be tween the fruit and its point of attach ment to the vine is limp and bang* down ns if it were a string, the frnitmay be gathered. It is the practice of those who send fruit to market to place it in small baskets, after it has been exposed to the air lor a few days to '‘core.” This renders the skin tough and pre vents it from cracking in handling and packing. The boxes are then kept at as low and as even a temperature as possible without freeaing. Large es tablishments have fruit houses, the walla of which are filled with sawdust to pre vent sudden changes of tempqntuze. Foe family use the grapsa may be laid hi convenient boxes, which should be covered to prevent shrivelling from dry ing, and kept in a room that is not heated, or in a dry, cool cellar. Grapes have been kept by packing them te atone jars and burying them below the reaeh of frost. In Europe the eanea an out with the fruit on them and their lower ends placed in a bottle of water.— American AgrieulturUL m ■ i ' A Gsxnoos Otciokr.—4 Michigan cyclone twept throngh e streak of tim ber, gathered fp several oords of wood, earned it six miles across a prairie and deposited it on the premises of a poor widow, who waa too poor to boy a flick and unable to carry it from the timber. There wear at least ten cords deposited within easy reach of ' \ / W« oteittiwpdl faults in order to in* »o«rsat — The march of the tannery has been westward, a result of natural causes. Hemlock and oak forests of the East have been depleted, and m it is neces sary that the industry be nearer the base of supplies a removal to the virgin forests of the West was a business virtue. There are a few tanneries in Massachu setts, but they get their bark at Urge expense from Maine. In Connecticut there are only two or three—among them one at Glastonbury and another at Westchester. Not longer than 20 years ago there was a thriving tannery at Windsor. If the old ones have not been removed they have been closed and the tanners have returned to agriculture. Small operators cannot compete with big ones who use the most improved ma chinery. Mr Pliny Jewell, of P. Jewell A Sons, mentioned facts of interest concerning the industry. "We tan hides to-day,” he said, "exactly as my lather used to tan them in Winchester, N. H., years ago. Of course we have more facilities, but the processes arc just the same. We tan more rapidly, to be sure, and this process is not productive;, of inferior leather, ns some may argue;'the product is every whit aa good as that of years ago. We simply hasten the same result, that is alL My father’s vats, when I was a very little boy, were out of doors, and when cold weather came he had to cover them over and let the hides lie all winter. Afterward he built a shed so that the hides could bo worked as well in storm as in sunshine.. In our large tannery near Detroit, MicK—it coat us $150,000— such a delay would never be thought of. There the work proceeds day in and day out year after year. "Again, in old times the bate—a mix- tore in trod need tofemove the lime used to take off the hair of the hide—would sour if a thunder-storm came np. I re member times whep we had to work Sunday to remove hides from this soar bate ao that they wouldn't spoil Now the bate never sonra; scientific knowl edge prevents it Wo never use acids in our tannery. We leach the bark and use the liquor. Let me remark juat here that you may have heard that it is injurious to tan leather with hot liquor. How absurd is such s statement! Why? you can’t tan leather with hot liquor; it will close the pores so that none of the tannin can get in^ It is very important that the liquor be not more than that of a blood heat. To insure this temperature we have built, at au expense of $1,000, several oooluig vats into which the liqnor is run. "f think that is a mistake,” he said, when shown a published statement to tbs effect that American tanners had never been able to closely imitate the beauty and odor of the celebrated Rus sia leather. "I believe Russia leather is now made at or near Newark. I know my brother, when ~ Minister at St Petersburg discovered the secret Ton have heard the manner of the discovery, have you not?” "I have heard several versions of It ” "Well, I will tell yon the true version. Over in Rnaaia they didn’t think he had any practical knowledge of mechanics— they thought he must be as helpless as they. One day he was going throngh a tannery with some of the officials. Reach ing a passageway he noticed some mix ture in barrels. He didn’t recognise its character, and thrust his fingers in sev eral times as a sort of investigation. There was no handy washing-room, so he completed the tour with his soiled hands, but as soon as be reached his room he washed up. In passing his right hand over his face—aa all men will, you know—he oanght his nose between his thumb and finger—thus. There, most certainly, was the odor of Russia leather. 'Russia leather to be sure,’ he exclaimed in ecstasy. He repeated the operation, and found the same odor. The secret was oat. "He didn’t know the agents need, butit proved that they were employed, not to prodnoe the fragrance, bat because they ware cheap. The General immediately wrote to Mr. Schulte, or the Shoe and leather Reporter, and the process was tried in this country. The beoe of it was asafoeddA, which is also, aa you may know, the base of Worcestershire Do I think the beauty of Bus- dress of the writer. Ml jnibUcatiou, but as afiguarsaty of Aidrem, TJfi PEOPLE, Bara watt 0. f?.. SO not yet been touched. There most be, I should think, material enough to last a hundred years anyway. And then other forests may grow. In New Hampshire to-day, where my father had his tan nery, there is more hemlock than there was when I was a boy. "An oak forest, however, is of slow growth. Soft wood springs np where hard is cut down. Chicago is our head- quartern for hides,” he continued. "We buy them wherever wo can, bat we get our great supply there. We use none bat the best of American cattle hides we buy none of the imported ones. Tanners manipulate buffalo skins, but they are not the skins of our biaonH^ they come from India. The Importa tion of hides is veiy large—some mil lions a year. I am not fearful that the American supply will be exhausted.” "Sumach is used as well as hemlock, and oak bark for tanning purposes, is it not; and terra japonica as well, which is supposed to have 50 per cent, of tannin —much more than any of the others ?” asked the reporter. "Yes, sumach is used,'’ replied Mr. Jewell, /‘And terra japonica as well. Bat do not call it by that name ; it it known as g&mbier. It is very ostrin gent, but I am not so certain abont its exceedingly large percentage of tannin. I will show you some.” Au attendant brought a reddish lump. " There it is; that ia gambier. Oh, it is very sweet and by no means unpalatable, although if you should swallow any of it, it would tan the inside of yonr stomach in less than no time. Terra japonica (Japanese earth) is gathered from trees in Japan. The drippings enter a re ceptacle placed in the earth at the foot of the tree, and when taken out in a gammy condition sometimes appear cov ered with earth. Therefore, the sub stance, which is the gum of a tree, has received the appellation of Japanese earth.” In tanning, the hides are first put to aoak in a solution of weak lime water and hang np in a sweating vault so that jost enongh decomposition may set in to permit the removal of the hair. When this has been accomplished—and the^ critical period moat be carefully watched ao that the hides will not spoil—they are introduced after suitable cleaning to a solution of henbane or pigeon manure which circulates through the pores and removes every trace of the lime. Then the tannin—vats are employed and after repeated chargings the hides become thoroughly saturated with the liquor and are tanned—that is, the pores of the akin have been filled with the tannin. A good workman will increase the horn-dry skin 80 p>er cent, in weight by the process. Mr. Jewell says in the tan ning of his hides, which ore not usually so dry, the weight is enhanced 55 per cent The changing of the hides from weak to increasingly strong liquors usu ally oeasea after 10 or 15 days. They are then placed in layaway vats. Upon each is a shovelful of ground bark and over all ia the bark liquor. There are perhaps half a tloiwn laynways, consum ing two mouths or more, beginning with liqnor of 10 degrees and closing with one of 30 degrees. At least four months is required for the entire process of tan ning sole leather. ^ ^ ia ^ - - - N ' , . . A City Moving Off on Wheels. * - I arrived at Bartlett, D. T., abont the middle of “the afternoon of a beautiful day. I found some stir and activity among the people of the city, but it seemed to be the excitement incident to the emigration of a city on wheels. The people generally had abandoned all hope of the city, and were moving their houses bodily to Devil's Tiake and other places. The houses were first lifted on to large timbers of sufficient size and strength to bear the weight of the house. These timbers were then suapeuded under two monstrous freight wagons on either side of the building; four large horses or oxen were then hitched to the wagon on each side, and the road to 1 Devil’s Lake being across a smooth prairie, the teams were able to move along easily with a fair-sized building., Some ef them, with the teams attached, presented to my mind sights most mag nificent. It was the iirst time that I had ever seen a city moving on wheels. I had seen people moving on s large scale in tbeir ao called "prairie schoon ers,” but tbs sight was tame compared with this. I thought of s remark I once heard to the effect that "the approech of a train of cars drawn by a powerful engine was a magnificent sight to be hold,” and I thought to myself a road , , lined with two-story houses, moving to sis leather has ever been reproduced the mnste of the steady tread of Of eight powerful oxen, was a sight equally magnificent. And such was the fate of the cnee proud city of Bartlett. here? Oh, yes, I believe it has, but the odor it all there h to U ton find Rnssla leather pocket booksforM sente, do yon not? Well, that’s m^t the im ported material but the leather snooeea- fully tanned hen by the Russian method. "The acids,”continued Mr. Jewell, M Us need to a great extent in Europe and on the Continent beoeoaethe oaks and helmloeks have disappeared or be came they can be obtained cheeper than the bark. Why, tn England they strip ovary little twig to get the bark. In this eoontry nothing bwt the trunks of tree* are stripped. Mote c< the hemlock bark -w« ms ft oar tannery oomes from Canada. There are minions of acres oi virgin oak and heesViet testes In the Squib and Boethwest, in Psnneytvauia ITS The Mauafaetire ef Matches. The ingenuity and skill required in the manufacture of matches are matters that rarely rater into the minds of those who use them. Yet the match-making industry has reached vast proportions *■ latomtiae On+ratiM ta Msrvvr sowm in the United States and Canada, which “ IUw , “*“ can be better realised when it in known that one firm alone paid $4,000,000 in taxes daring the year 1881, being at the rate of one cent per box. From the cor respondent of a Scotch publication, who has been visiting one of the largest fac tories in Oanada which manufactures match-boxes and match-splints, we learn something of the labor required in the product ion of this domestic ne cessity. The wood used is pine and spruce, the poor ends of merchantable lumber. In consequence there hr an enormous wsste in manufacturing. Match-boxes ore made from a square piece of word by one turn of a machine, after which pro cess, which leaves them rough, they are placed in a hollow roller which is re volved by water or steam power. By this means all defects are removed. The match-sticks or splints are cut doable the length of a match by a ma chine, which cuts them with wonderful rapidity, as many as 43,000,000 splints being made at fome factories every day. When the splints arc mndo they must be dried. For this purpose they are paelred in r«/»h« plaaad in COOUia he&ted by steam pipes. ▲iter being token from the racks the imperfect splints are sorted from the perfect ones. This is not such a serious task as may be imagined, and is accom plished by skillfcl shaking, by which the bad ones are made to go to the top. These splints must then be dipped on both ends into the phosphorus and cut into two, and the match is ready for the packers’ hands. The bulk of the labor is performed by boys, girls‘and young women. They work ten hours in each twenty-four. The young women are paid the munificent sum of forty cents a day, the boys and girls a trifle more than half that amount, which seems lika CASTING GEN. LEE’S BODY. «KKAT CARR HKQCIKKft TO MAKE A PKRFRCT CAMT. BAYING PORI EM’S FLEET. Tka There was a gala day last week at the foundry in Mercer street, New York, of the Bronze Manufacturing Company, which is making the castings for Doyle’s colossal statne of General Robert E. Lee, ordered by the city of New Or leans. The statue is to be sixteen feet high. The figure is being cast, accord ing to the ordinary practice, in frag ments, which will be riveted together so deftly as not to show any of the jointa. The statne represents the -Confederate General standing in a contemplative attitude with his arms folded. His mili tary boots have already l>een oast and one-half of his folded arms, and on the day of which we write the principal frag ment, consisting of - the cheat and abdo men, was cast, requiring over 2,000 pounds of metal. The visitors stood upon a mound of some other part of General Lee’s t>ody, which is ready, or nearly so, for the metai, and upon snob other places as seemed out of danger. Silence had IS'en requested, as heavy castings arc awkward operations, and the foreman is the only one who is per mitted to speak until the metal has eeased to fiovr. r The clay mould in its offering a premium for vice and immor ality. Disarmament of War. \ The Paris correspondent of the Lon don Standard observes that, while the Parisians are discussing the ixiesibilitics of a war with China, they are overlook ing a serious and much greater danger nearer home. Ho says: "Roumania, riervia, Italy and Spain'have become members of the Austro-German alliance, and I have reason to believe that this alliance will very shortly have a practi cal result. I am assured by a person whom I know to be in the confidence of Prince Bismarck that Germany has agreed with Austria and the other mem bers of the alliance, which now em braces the whole of Continental Europe excepting France, Russia, Denmark and the Scandinavian Kingdoms, to propose a general cougnvs with a view to a mu tual and general disarmament. Aa to the time when tbis-thunderbolt of war is to be launched under pacific pretences 1 cannot say; but I am assured it haa been assented to by Austria, Spain and Italy, and I can hardly suppose that some inkling of the matter has not reached Her Majesty’s government. Some knowledge of it has certainly reached Russia^ and it would render the rxxip d'etat in Bnlgarie intelligible enough.” ^ iron castings was in the centre, showing clearly the hole into which the molten bronze was to be poured from a huge iron pot swung by strong chains from a stout crane. Around the furnace were the crucibles of fire-clay, iu which the bronze glowed with a fierce, dull-reddish light, bright ened by occasional flames of a blue colpr. Each crucible held 400 pounds pf metal, and to cncli crucible were six men grasping the callipers by which it was to be raised. At the great pot swinging from the craue were twelve men, six on each side, each holding a stout wooden- bar fastened croaawise to the iron bar that A Hotel ter MoMtem. Jack had gone off and got himseli lost, and he also found himself and walked home. "Are you net sorry that yon ran away and got lost?” asked the paternal ancestor with a tone of grief and reproval "I wasn't lost.” "But nobody knew where yon was.” "I knew where I was myself.” That set- fled te. A boy who knows where he is Utmasif can never get lost. The most curious of all Paria curiosi ties will cease to exist when the demoli tion of the Grand Hotel Leguay, known as "La Table d’Hote dea Monstres,” ia completed. The hotel in itself is like any common provincial hotel, but the guests of its table d’hote, as described by the reporter of the Lantern?, form an assembly hardly to be met with in any other place. "Dinner being an nounced,” says the privileged goeat, "the first couple to enter the dining hall with an air of perfect propriety are a bearded woman accompanied by a skeleton-like gentleman. She receives his whispers With thoughtful eyes, gently stroking her beard. A dwarf with an enormoua nose site next to them on s high stool; her neighbors are a well known abpwman, who now and then toms his face round to the middle of his back—a convenience whenever the waiter is wanted—and a young giantess of sixteen, weighing four hun dred pounds.^ Somnambulists, acrobats and i many more of tlte same school complete the circle, who, ; after their ■tehl is ended, will aomatitnes tor the benefit of an occasional visitor unite ia S dance, fantastic, grotesque and hide ous to the Iasi degree.** Pour men stood with lighted torches to fire the plugs of cotton wsste iu the vents throngh which the gases must escape when the flow of metal began. Jean Pischoff, the foreman, raised a whistle to his lips and gave a shrill call He then cried in French—for all the workmen are French—"Raise the metal,” and the seven crucibles went up with unanimity and precision. “Pour the metal,” and the contents of each crucible were poured into the big pot. "Pour 1" he now shouted like a maniac. "Fire the vents,” and the hnge pot was tilted up, half the men raising and half depressing their bars. The operation of pouring was soon over, and the vents were left as clean and dear as could be desired. "It is a good casting,” said the president, "or there woull have l>een trouble in one of the vents. ” Gen eral-Lee’s head is to be cast shortly. PensftiM Net Applied Per, A Washington dispatch tays that Pra- lion Commissioner Dudley takes excep tion to the charge made in certain quar tets that the soldier is degenerating into grabber and is trying to coin his ser vice* and his wounds into the highest Mssible amount of cash, often to the irejudiee of the interests of the national Government. To show the injustice of the outcry against the soldiers, Gen. Dudley states that there are living to day almost aa many veterans who have not applied for pensions aa there were soldiers on the roll of the army in May, 1865. There were 1,000,516 names on the rolls on that date, and there . are at the present time 962,000 veterans who have never asked a dollar of the Govern ment. There are on the file in Washing ton 169,000 certificates of disability have not been acted on, simply because that number of living veterans, who are clearly and indisputably entitled to pen sions, have not asked for anything at the hands of the Government. Although M. Quad, of the Detroit Free Freer, gives us an interesting account of the dam built by Oapt Bailey, of a Wiscon sin regiment, in the Red River during Banks's' famous campaign, which dam saved Porter’s fleet, which had aocuaa- panied the expedition. The vesssls of the fleet had made their way np on a rising river, and were all above the Al ex mdria Falla, when, early in May, Banka received orders to e vacua te the country. When Porter waa informed that the army would soon take np the march in retreat hit entire fleet was above the falls. Some of the vessels had been taken above after great trouble and now all were in a trap. The river had fallen until there was not sufficient depth to float the lightest craft over the falls. The current of the river was about eight miles an hour and the greatest depth of the water on the rapids only six feet The bed of the river seemed full of rocks and the waters tumbled over them until it seemed aa if a skill ooold not find a safe channel. Porter must either get his fliiet bgjow these rapids or nliandoii it aul mxrch his men with the army. Captain Bailey was a Wisconsin lum berman. He saw at a glance the posi tion in which the fleet waa placed,and the danger to it He had assisted in taking many log jams over the falls in the Wis consin river when the 'water ia low, and ha saw at a glance that the plan followed there would answer in tha present emergency. He had plenty of men and plenty of trees. The latter were cut down and with their full bran ches were placed in the water and sunk. The gathering sand assisted in forming the dam, and in a remarkably short time the water in the river bed was turned into a narrow channel left between the dams of trees extending from either shore. The fleet, aa is well known, in safety. The passed engineers, of Yorho George Yanderbilt, fourth son of the millioaaire, wants to be a news paper reporter. There it crops out again; the natural, educated a hereditary greed for gold; the insatiable thirst for wealth, the paaakm for ama ing millions by the easiest and quickest methods, attveaehing a fabulous con petrace by the shortest ways. It’s I -amfly trait —BarUngUm Hawkey** A woman In Philadelphia has charged a man with bewitching her, but there b nothing strange about this. It often oequw a»d then aq atopement fellows. JlF • .7 Wf Em tf ahoy te whfeOing "I want to be an angel,” it ia better ip keep the cookies on the top shelf and put the atepladder in the garret ' through course, laughed at Bailey and his sohqme, and even Porter, before the work begun, scouted the idea and announced that he would blow up every boat in his fleet if the water did not rise in time. But for Bailey’s dam Porter oould not have saved his fleet, and Bailey, in speaking of the aflkir, modestly dis claimed any credit for ingenuity, aa the same thing had been done thousands of times. • The Confederates were sadly disap pointed at the result, as they believed the fleet of gunboats as good as in their power. A piece of similar primitive engineer-' ing waa performed by another Wisoooaii) soldier, Oapt. P. R. Ray, during Ous ter’s Northern Pacific expedition. The commend came to a river that the melt ing snows had flooded ao that it could not be forded. ' The army , was on tha eastern bank of the river and the sity for its advance was argent The engineers were unable to suggest say plan, as they ware without pontoons or boeta. Oapt Bay took the boxes of the wagon train, covered them with ’paulins and thus made boats in which the in fantry crossed. With rafts made of these boats tire artillery and stores taken over. Although the __ laughed at hie plan, the army fall that the Wisconsin Captain had brains. Yery Plain. George F. Barttow, of Ban Fran era ao, who left an estate valued at $86,000, gave these injunctions in his will: "Having observed that ostentation and expensive funerals are injurious to the people, after absorbing money which poverty cannot well spare to vanity mid pride, therefore, by way of example, for which I beg pardon of the undertaken, redwood AN INTERRUPTED PRAYER MAR COMMOTION CAVHRR BT THB WEI,I~MEAN1N<1 COLONEL. Wbv a Oivtas CmM ms Crailssr Ae GmS Wsrfc. Min- Unintentional brings the gospel into eon tempt. Istera «ho proCsastq be of clothes but "sisereap” of i sometimes make errors that drive well- meaning men away from tha fold. The other day a new mkuetev while making calls in tha suburbs of the city, visited the house of Colonel Alfred Oofedon, a well-known eitteea. Colonel Ootedon wee at work in the garden a abort dis tance from the house. He wee dwed very plainly, of course, ia fset he looked very much like a day laborer. The ' minister passed hhp without speaking and entered the house. The eoloate turned end watched the divine while an expression, closely resembling one of contempt, settled on hie face and seemed to hang ia dark folds from hie bulging brow. Shortly after the minister en tered, Mrs. Ooledon, who is devoted to the church, came out and said: "Colonel, Brother Rinze is in the house and is going to p^ay with ua.” "Ill be blamed if he preys with me,” the colonel replied, "He passed ase just now in his high-headed way without even noticing me. Now he wants to pray with me, eh ? Confound him, if he fools with me I’ll wrap e hoop-pole around him. Fine preacher of the goa- pel Takes me for a tramp, no doubt.' You can go on and pray all day with him if you want to, but count me out, if you plume. The good women wae grieved, but knowing that argument would ba uee- less, she went beck into the house end wae soon kneeling in devout prayer. Juat abent this time e cow jumped into the garden, and the colonel, calling his dog, hissed the animal on the invader. The dog baited furiously and teisesd the sow around tha house. Her bell rang like a fire alarm, and infuriated she rushed on the porch. The eotooel seized a squash, from which all haaHh- fulnesa had departed, and threw it at the oow. The squash went through the window and struck the Minis tar on the left temple, sseehing all over him, aad giving to hie evangelical head a coloring that would have driven him, bed he ap peared ii suoh a plight, from any well organized body of religionists. He ■prang to hfe feet just ia time to meat tha sow, who, followed by tha dog, rushed into the room. The oow knocked him down end tramped on bias. Hz aroze with greet dtifleulty Just as the animal, finding an outlet in any other direction impossible, turned to go out. She knocked him down again, and poundad him in tha back with her sharp hoofs. The ooipoel rushed to the res cue, aad apologized, and washed the » minister's bead, but the good man could mte be teduesd to eoBttRM hiepi^fMt--- Arkmeow Traveler. si Wk let my coffin be a plain redwood box, lilts of tiie'.pomioDen now”on the'roU.-ip' 1 * " tt “, f 0 "" 0 " ^ ” were printed in many newspapers , throughout the country several days ago, not a single complaint baa reached the pension office going to show that persona not entitled to receive pensions are getting assistance. A Waznino.—An exchange desires to warn farmers against a new swindle. Two strangers meet at a fanner’s house to stay all night, and daring the evening they get op a trade between themselves, which requires a witness, and the farmer is asked to sign the papers, simply to witness tha trade. If he does ao he aoan finds that hie name is signed to e note which he haa to pay. Toe law does not appear to touch these eases, but it cer tainly should be made to do so. Thb enuRznir Bum, while on her way from King George’a Bound to Co- Inmbo, paeaed (or more than four hoars through lavs, which extended ae far ee the eye oould see. The lava waa float ing in a succession of "lanes” of from five to ton yards wide, and its direction was northwest to soul heart. . The cap tain says: “The nearest lead wee the <*MBt of Sumatra (distant 700 miles), Imkrethere areas eurreatof 15 to 80 B dtB, eottiag to the rezlarerd, the not have come from there, I cob only imagine it most have ■crews, without paint or varnish, with plain iron handles, and ail etae about the funeral to correspond with the plain- Let there bee cheap shroud and no flowers. What it a deed zwm but a handful of dust? Instead of a heanel may jost aa well be carried to the grave upon rr** ordinary vehicle in every day cae, since life ia but a journey and the day of death the float teat” Called OeL W*' ________ The Btateaville Landmark says;-—Mr. Patrick Heary Winston, Jr., who has juat joined tha Republican party, waa a delegate to the National Democratic Convention which met ta Bt lamia in 1875. acquired promtaease ta body, according to a story of Us telling, ia this wire: While a eminent statesman waa addramtag Oa Convention, a eertata person peered rauidlv aasonw the deleeatea. mme of there knowing who he wae, and whis pered to aa many of there aa he oould reaeh to "Call for Winston, the speaker eooolnded, one shout went up for “Winston; Winston !** Patrick Henry mounted the platform and was unlimbering for a speech, when a delegate with a shrill votes screamed out from tha middle of the hall “Why, that’s tha UtUe rascal that told as to call (or Winston!” v an only ia Rplbrejan i” Tfiere v , ** the spot” TDere was a IhefcwKrtatm A TOCOHU ROBY zm yean that which came from Halifax a few weeks ago about the wrecked berk Britannia being left to her fate by a veaael which approached and then tailed away from her while she waa making rignab of die- tress, is now told by the captain of the wrecked berk Lizzie, who, with his crew, waa rescued from opsn boats at sea by a sailing vaaael. He says that while his vsreel waa ta a tanking acRtiWoh. 1 aad tire crew were working for their Hvre at the pumps, five steamers peered ao close that they must have heard hie guns and seen hie signals of distrsm, and yet took no notice of them. No writer of see yarns would have dared to toll so feul a story, and tha wool of tUe to that it ia tree. „ "Emxir i m aaka tha animal attaehre Mmsalf the Four Mlautes Coat $85,000. On the day of one of the great faitarea in Boston recently a check of the taaolv- rat firm for $25,000 was deposited toe Boston bank and sent to the Oleartag- Houae. It waa then transferred to the aoqoont of another bank and wm taken 16 that bank for redemption.