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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., JULY 21, 1881. ESTABLISHED 1865. FOUR-LEAFED CLOVER. Soft scarlet clouds eck's all the. sky, Palo twilight still delaying, When to her child a mother mild Cried, "May, where* were you staying?7" "0 mother, dear, I wandored far Dy field and copse wood cover, And searched In vain, each grassy plain, For one small four-leaf.Ld clover. I long to dream a lovely dream, And wake to find it real." "Alt, simple child," the mother smiled, "Too well you love tlie ideal. But look beside yon mossy stone, My reckless little rover, For very near I see front here Your long sought four-leafed clover. "And think,- May, while you gather It, Green in the cool gray gloaming, IHow often grow close by and low Tito gifts we seek by roaming. Then, if you learn to find at home Small joys you once looked over, You'll bless the day you whiled away In seeking four-leaf-clover. A TERRtIBLE DUEL. One August evening I was taking a stroll along tho Champs-Elysees, Paris. It was a little after nine, and around me was the usual gay crowd of a summer night. Promonaders by the hundred; merry people seated at the little tables in front of the cafes, talking, drinking, and chatthig. To the right, a cafe-con cert, its front covered with colored lan terns. Before me the lofig Avenue des Champs-El~lsees extended, its hundreds of lights glimmering liko. glow-worms in the dark. Suddenly'. I saw a familiar face by the light of a street lamp. It was Gustave Raisant. "Hello, Major!" said I, extending my hand, "well mOt!" "Ah, is it you?" said, he languidly. "I am glad to see you." His tone struck me. I looked at him attentively. He seomfl to have aged much since I -had seen him before. Already there were gray hairs showing around his temples.' Linking my arm with his, I said: "Come, let's take a stroll." "Willingly." After we had walked some little dis tance I gave up attempting to make hii converse. Ho seemed entirely lestitute of interest in any topid that I might bring up, and plunged into melancholy. "Come, conic, Gustave," said I, "you have something on your mind, haven't you?" He hesitated a moment, but finally replied: "Yes." "A love affair, I'll be sworn." He was silent, and I repoated my some what brusque remark. There are some wounds that will not bear probing. Suddenly lie spoke:- - "Listen," said he, "and I shall tell ou the cause of my melancholy. Per haps I am wrong to chafe under it as I do; perhaps you may give me some good advice. In any event I shall tell you my story. Since I last saw you there has been a tragical event in my life. Oh, you have heard nothing of it. Thanks to the people at headquarters, the papers were silenced, and I won't bore you-my story isn't long; and,.' lie added bitterly, "I think it is interesting. But it in old-the old story of the parents' Hins being* expiated by the children." He knocked the ash from his cigar, and then lie slowly told his story: "Last June, as you may know, the reserve forces were ordered out for their yearly service. We had some of them at Maubonge, where I had boon stationed with the Fifty sixth for a month. One morning I was about to start for Lille, on regimental business, in company with a brother officer of mf regiment. We stepped into a large eating-house to take a chop before the train left. It was a very large establishment, with marble tables around the room, and at 0110 end was a long bar, where thiosoewith light purses were allowed to take rofresnmenta. our table was near the bar, anld at the time we seated ourselves there was a Jong line of private soldiers and laborers drinking there. We talked of various matters, and finally my companion said: " 'Have yell tile son of any 'celebrity among your recruits?' " 'Yes,' said I, 'young Myrian, son of the well-known primter, is in my comn miand. And you?' "'WVell, I hlave the son of a celebrity, too, but of a different kind. It is young George do Ferrisset.' "'Whlati not the son of Madame de Ferrisset ?' " 'Thle same.' "I laughed heartily as I said: "'Well, well! So Do Ferrisset has a grown up son, has she? How the time flies! I was dreadfully in love with the womian once, but another fellow won her not undivided favors'.' " 'And I, too," replied my13 complanion, 'I was a little spoonoy onl her; but then, yeol know, I always had scruples about mnarriedi women.' "'Oh1, you were wr~ong,' I replied. 'She was well worth the trouble. And then poor Do Ferrissot! The typo of an unsuspecting husband! She had twenlty lovers to my knowledge,' and 110 never knew it.' "I had scarcely finished speaking when a stripling soldier quitted his comrades and advanced toward mc. His face was as white as a sheet. His emo. tion was so great that lie trembled as lie walked, with his saber clattering at his heels. When lie roachod our table he glared at me for a moment with wild yet midoeisive eyes, and raised is htapd to strike me. There was a hurried move mnent, an outery, and several of the sol diers arounld leaped upon him, and hold( ,hlis hand, lHe struggled for a momieit, then was calm.n. Still gag~ing at me, he - said in a choking voice: 'Sile is my mot ier.' "In a moment I realized the hideous Insult I had offored-im~. I tingled with shame. What cold have possessed mec tit miorning I do niot )mlow. No officer or gentlemien would ever speak Ill of a woman-least of all in puibhc. "Let hlim gol" I cried to thle soldiers. I rose, removed my cap, and bowing, said: S'Sir, I p~lace myself at your disposi ton.' "At thtis moment the whistle of tile atpproaching train wsa heard. My friend grasned1niy arm anid dragged me to ile station without, where we took the train foir Lillo. "AS soon as I could do so, I hastened to the general conunanding our division. I told him all. . As you may imagine, he reprimanded me severely. 'What!' said Io, 'an officer of your rank to babble thus in public, like a raw boy just out of the military school? It is the fault of the War Department. They should not promote men so young as you to positions of importance.'" "I privately thought .that 'if I had been a gpneral the affair would have boon the same. But I. so richly merited his severe language that I did ,not reply. " 'Well,' said he, finally, 'what do you propose to do?' " 'There is but one course open to me, general,' I replied. 'I have grievously offended this young man. I have, there fore, placed mself at his disposition. We must fight. "'A duol I You are mnd I A major cannot go upon the field with a privato soldier. " 'General, you must allow me to say that thero are certain insults so grave that military usage must yield to them. Grant me ermission to do this.' " 'But I cannot-I have no right to do so.' "' 'Then telegraph the Minister of War.' . 'He will refuse'. 'Well, if' that be the caso, I shall notify Georgo do Forisset, and we will fight in Belgium.' " 'Then you desert?' " 'Yes, general, I will desert and then return for my punishment. I have once dishonored myself in publicly insulting a woman; I shall not again d so in ro' fusing satisfaction to her son.' " 'The goeerAl's porplexity-and angor began to pass away; lie seemed moved. Ho strode up and down the room for some moments, ,and finally, turning to me, said: -" 'Be it so. Do as you will. Bear in minid though, that I know nothing of this affair-this conversation has not taken place.' ''I thanked him, and repaired to my quarters'. That evening, Do Ferisset's seconds arrived. They woro civilians, as was also the two friends whom I named to arrange matters with them. The weapon chosen was the sword; the hour, six o'clock the following morning; the place, a little village just within the Belgian frontier. I put my affiirs in order that night, for I had determined to offoi but slight defense to my oppo nient. ''At the appointed hour the next day we were alone. It was a raw, drizzly morning, and the mud was ankle deep. Do Ferisset apppearc(l inl unif6rmn. One of my seconds remarked that he, like the rest of us, should have come as a civil ian. He replied that lie had been insult ed as a man and soldier, and that reparation was due to him as such. I made a sign to my second and lie did not. insist. "We took our places. It was a curious spectftle-a private soldier in his uni form facing his superior officer in mufti. "The swords were crossed. The word was given. I watched his face with a feverish curiosity. In his eyes there was the same glare of the day before the same indecision. Suddenly a strange smile appeared upon his lips-the smile of a broked heart-a smile I shall never for get though I live a hundred years. Quick as a flash lie abandoned his guard, and grasping my sword with his left hand lie hurled himself upon it. It ran him through the body. Uttering a hoarse cry lie fell backward; a bloody foam tin'ged his pale lips. A conclusive shudder- ran over his body-another thou a groan. He was dead." I listened with horror to his story. He noticed my looks, but woent doggedly en: "Of course I had nt 'killed him--I had ovoni resolved Riot to defoend myself; and I quitted the armuy. But still I feel like a murderer; I fool a though I had committed a. crime. When I think of that poor boy-loyal to his mother, bad though she was-slain in the first flush of youth, I foollike aii assassin. An~d think of that wretched mother! How she must mourn her brave boy's fall! It was growing late; the peop~le were pouring out of the cafes-concerts. Now and then a. passer by would hum over the latest comic song. Strange contrast! Thme follies of the song~ mingled with thme words of the sombre dIranma just unrolled before me. Gustave walked oii by my sie with bent head, .crushed by thme weight of his tragic gtory. And still the Champs-Elysees swarmed with people. Around us was the intense life of a summuer night ini frivolous Paris. On the avenue wore inumorablo car riages, and all around gayly dressed loungers onm the iaton cihairs. As my eye roamned carelessly* over thiem, I saw one group). -the center of which was a wvoman of forty-five, but still very beautiful. See was dressed richly and tastefully, and b~orc ini her hanid a boquet which a smirking dandy had just presented to her. I could not repress an exclamation. Gustave fol lowed my eyes. "'What!" lie cried "it canniot 1bo she." "Yes, I answered hmim, "It is Madame doFerisset".- - -A race of kmngs re igned in India 2300 B. C. -Queen Victoria was born May 24th, 1819. -Duluth talks of a new $75,000 hotel. -Key West sippeti 000,000 cigars last week. -Tho British troops in Ireland number 30,000 men. -The Chinese phmysians receives no fee until the patient is cuired. - Lhe cost of Solomon's Temple is esti nmated at $77,531,098,880. -The Whittaker court- mamrtial will cost the government $100,000. -St. Iaoums lias 202 miles of public Sewers, costing $5,000,000. -Mr. Bl'iine is about to build the largest private residence in W ashingtoni. -The wheel foundries at Altoona, Pa , are mamking 850 wheels per day. -The Bank of England was founded mn 1794. Thme capital is ?15,538,000. -The crops m the neighborhood of Que Snakes Training for Hatile. In a factory in Orango Valley, Now Jersey, throo snakes are in training for battle on the Fourth of July. They are I imprisoned im separato hat boxes. One is a black snake four foot long, another is at copperhead, shorter and of less di aieter, and the third is an adder of still inferior size. The owner of the snakes is Jack Harrison, a workman in the factory. He is 60 years of ago. He lives on the flat over the. ridge of the Orange Mountain toward the Hudson. Quiet, and extremely chary of speech, lie is possessed of a sort of magnotisn which inakes him respected and liked by 8is follows, and which is said to exert a remarkable influence over dumb animals. He ing caught and tameZl woodeliucks biy the scoro, and his power over reptiles such as crawl in the wilds of his native heath has won for him the name of "Snake Charmer." The snakes which Harrison is keeping in the hat factory are expected to furn ish holiday sport. The black snake has boon a prisoner for three months, and it is presuned that lie was pretty hungry when lie was captured.. The others have been two monthis in their respective hat boxes. and in that time they have re coived no food. Their abstinence has served to make them extremely savago and belligerent. 'The black snake, in deed, hias- exhibited such a degree of pugnacious hunger that oin one occasion since his incarceration it has been deem ed advisable to stay his stomach with a small toad. But it is wished to starve all three to a state of blind ferocity by the Fourth of July, when they will be turned altogether into a convenient re coptaclo, and made to furnish an illustra- F tion of the survival of the fittest. That the snakes will fight when they aro thrown together lias already boon demonstrated. The hat boxes in which they are contained have been occasion Aly moved close together, and the covers have )eenl cautiously slid aside just far enough to permit the emergence of the heads and a few inches of the bodies of the reptiles. The result has been that the snakes have distended their jaws frightfully, that their eyes have flashed b)attlo-fire, and they have exhibited tho most insano desiro to be at one another. It is hoped and believed by the workmen in the hat factory that on the Fourth of July the snakes will be filled with uncon trollable fury. The hat boxes in whice the snakes are imprisoned are of the ordinary pasteboard sort. Small holes have been made in them to admit air, and the covers are tightly bound on with cord. The con fined quarters are thought to be calcula ted to exasperate the snakes, as well as the withholding of food. No uneasiness is felt at the presencP of the snakes in the factory except in the trimming room, where a numler o4 yviif Indio nr orm. ployed. As for Jack Harrison, he tumbles all three about with impunity, beiing a trifle cautious only with the copperhead. The battle will take place in a large iron tank ordinarily used for soaking hats, but to be emptied, of course, for the occasion. Betting is $1 to 75 cents on the copperhead against the black snake, and the adder hasono backers. Conoy, Island. Everybody has heard of this polu lar summer resort of the New York era with its splendid hotels, the Man hattan, the Brighton, and the Oriental. It lies directly on the Ocean, and the piiro sea air, safe bathing, and excellent. music, make one forget the heats of summer. The Pennsylvania Rail road Company, and the Iroi Steamboat Company of New York,hiave entored into arrangements by which extra facilities are offered for reaching Coney Island,this popular summer resort. Those palace steamers will connect with trains on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Jersey City, and land passengers at the Iron Pier, Coney Island, direct, also at Bay Ridge, where connection is made with the New York and Sea Beach Railroad. Return trips will be mado at such hours as will afford satisfaction to all visitors to the island, and1( enable them to make sure and close connections with trainis en the Pennsylvania Railroad homeward bound. The time on this line between Jersey City and1( Coney Island will be about forty minutes. This will be a sate, speedy, and pleasant route from all points to Coney Island. A h~ost. Explablied. Some years ago it was my good for tune to lie a frequent visitor at a fine old1 manI~or-houiso ini Dorsetshire, biuilt in the reign of James I., but much altered dur ing the last half century. Like an old country mansion the house was of course ''haunted." Strange sounds, like foot steps, had boon1 heard coursing about at the witching hour of night, in the vast empty garrets and along the great pas sage or corridor, running from 01nd to 01n( of the building, into which the gar rets opoed(; an odd and mysterious rat tling, anid clattering, as of metala or chains. The country folks aind servants, and especially the old people-always the most ready to stick resolutely to a good ghost story --firmly attributed these nlocturnlal noises, without thought or question, to sup~ernlatural agency. The 01(1 mansion had undorgone miany alterations, some of them dictated by roasoni, others by expedionmey. One of these was the removal of the fine 01(1 staircaso, and the erection instead of one of small, confined dimonsions, and very awkwardly situated and contrived. These stairs sprung from the foot of a wall, ini wvhiich was placed, high up, a large win dow, so that any onio going up stairs wouldl have this wvindow above his head and hohlind his back. It was exactly op posite the wall of the first landing p~laco, whence the stairs branched away to the right. 0110o brilliant mioonlight night the famn ily were about to retire to rest, when they'were startled by a loud screami from one of the maids, who rushed inte the dining-room, eyes staring, anid mouth wide opo~n, exclaiming wildly that she had just "see'd a awful ghost on the stairs and was most frightened to death I" All the part~y with one consent arose from their chairs, and ran iinto the hall, some carrying the canles with the. Bn.t Lothing whatever was to he son. The ,irl, however, positively declared e iad tienn a taill dark figuro in a long loack and hood standing on the first anding.; adding, that sho saw it all the noro clearly on account of tho white vainscoted wall just behind, which serv d to throw the figure into relief. A enoral search, and a regular hue-and .ry all around the houao now followed; mt with no result. Nothing was dis loverod in any way irregular, either in lesli and blood or in ghostly appoaran 'Os. About two nights after, however, the rory samo thing occurred again, at near y the sane time; the specter was again ieon by the samo maid, and by the foot nan, who happened to be just ontering he hall; the mai most positively de :lared that the figure stood hooded and loaked, exactly as the maid had d icribed, on the top of the landing. . The roung men rushed into the hall with ights, as before, and with the samo re ult-they saw nothing. Two of the 1ons, genuine ghost-hunters, who thor mghly entered into the "fun" of the hing-determined to sit up aind watch lirough the night, with the pleasant ne ompaiiimonts of plenty of warnh firo and >right light; but I need hardly say the >rave watchers saw nothing, dicovered aothing. His cloaked and hooded .ghostship" did not appear agnin that iight at any rate. About a month afterward, however, ho same thing occurred again. A great ommotion was heard inl the hall-the ,host had again appeared, and what was von iore remarkable, had slowly din Lppeared just as the man-servant caught ight of it. This was almost too inui or my friends, especially the junior >ranches, who Were highly indignant at teing so completely "sold" by the spec er. But there was nothing to be done >r discoverod; so after many threats of vhat they would do if they cotild only atch him, the whole party went oir to )ed. Nothing further occurred to disturb h1 family peace until three days after vard, when Jack, the youngest son, roso rom his supper to lot in a favorito bull errier, Jinks by name-the doughty ioro of the garrets and corridor-who vas whining piteously, and scxateling rigorously at the garden door. Jabk had iardly entered the hall, when lie rushed )ack into the dining-room post hasto, Md holding up his finger in a imysteri mus manner, intimated in a regular stage vhisper: "Here's the ghost on the stairs tgatin, hood, cloak,and-all!" His brother nstantly jumped up, aind both ran into lie hall; aind there sure enough, on the Irat landing of the staircase stood a tall lark figure robed in a long cloak and igh hood. . The young men both re rarded the apparition intently for a few noments, and then boldly asennding the 11n1irm, innuaheoalu ringmn auigh , crying oult thlathel yl~ ha cag he ghost, and shouted for the family to omo out and see, but to bring no lights, mud they could judge for themselves. The terrible mystery was now at an mnd. Just outside the staircaso- window tt the rear of the .house, was a small de ached building used as a laundry; but s the'fireplace smoked very much, ny riends had hit a new and very much allor chimney erected. This was nar ;ow 4t the top, ;md gradynly got wider it weit downward, and was capped by a, large and peculisirly hiil)cd cowl. Tle "ghost" proved to h) merely the shadow >f this chimney and cowl,. outside, pro iected by the bright moonlight through Ahe staircase window, on the clear white )ainted wainscoted wall of the first land ng. The sloping sides of the chimney ave the appearance of a cloaked figure, imd tihe broad cowl looked exactly like a ood, while the (lead white of'the flat wvall behind served' to throw the dark diadow into very strong anti bold( relief. I'ho reason now was clean' why the 'ghost' wvas not seen oftener. It was simply that bhe shadowv was only projected when the in001n was just opposite the window; and ts app~earing gradually to fade b)efore bhie footman's terrified gaze is easily ex pilained by the passage of a dark cloud it the moment over the moon.'s bright hisk. Further, be it noted, that when he family entored the hall on the first dlarm a month previously, many of them sarried lights, and thuns of course de atroyed the alppoartmeoi altogether. The windiow, moreover, was sometimes cov >red wvith a hbliind. A loody Tragedy. A member of a iallroad surveying party, writang from Adambara, Mexico, t hus (des nribes an awful trage'dy in their camp: "Our party was comiposed of M~r. Fdlley, In charge of our branch, Foster, who had 'the transit ;' Martin, 'the -level ;' Jones sndl myself, 'topograpliers,' and .Dr. Back rider, taking lines on the slopes. The doc tor had been compelled to leave home and practice, being the victim of certain perse cutions. His troubles so worked on Is mind that he became crazy. *lie imagined that he were in league with his enemies and were trying to ruin him. For soe time past we all noticed little things which made us agree that lie was slightly unbal anced. Our suspicions were confirmed in a horrible way. On Friday morning I awoke at half-past five, and the first tinmg I saw was the doctor, with one of the largest pistols pointed at and within a foot of Martin's head. I heard him say : 'Where as that diary of mime which you got from the hacienda last evenIng?' "Martin seemed to gasp the situation and said, 'All right I will get it for you,' intending to get hold of the pistol. But lie was not quick enough. The doctor fired, and Martin who was on his knees, fell for wardl, with has head all shattered. The doctor then turned to our side of the tent, going at the same time toward the (leer. Before lie reached it he cocked his pistol, tGred and fatally woundhed Jones, my bed nate, lig alongsiae of tme. He then ran mut andh ten feet from the tent turned and fired at me. Fortunately the bullet missed me, making a hele ini the tent just above my-head. Tho bullet that mortally wound. Jones also made a hole througb my blue shirt. .The doctor then fired a fourth shot through the tent for anyon9, it would hit. Dne of our men by this time had managed .0 get his gun, and I calledout, 'shoot himi 'hoot him P'tHe knelt down by the door >f the tent and shot the- madman threngh ho hant Luck In Lotteries. Curiously illustrative of the tricks played from time to time by Dame Fortune to her votaries are two well-authenticated lottery I stories, recently narrated by the gifted - feuilletonist, Hieronymus Lorm. Some years ago in Berlin, a poor girl dreamed three times running of a certain num ber, which appeared to her in lumin. a ous figures, while an unearthly voice, re peating over and over again, "This num ber will win the first prize in the class lot - tery," resounded in her mind's ear. She imparted the vision to her guardian, and he repaired to the Royal lottery office and enquired what had become of the ticket bearing the number in question, receiving 1 answer that it bad been disposed of to a well-known lottery agent in Koenigsberg d le forthwith wrote to this person enclos ing the price of the ticket and requesting s that it should be forwarded to hun by re turn of post. In reply to this application th he was informed that that particular ticket a had been sold. over the c:unter a day or II two before, to wham the agent could not say. le, however, enclosed in his letter another lottery ticket, which lie naively s recommended as "an excellent and highly- t promising number." But the youthful ri dreamer's guardian, failing to recognize t any special merit in the ticket thus urged al upon his acceptanc.-, sent it back with pe I remptory instructions that his money W should be returned to him without delay. o His vexation may be imagined when at the drawing of the State lottery the number winning the first prize of ?15,000 proved to be, not that of which his ward had a thrice successively dreamt, but the one he II had refused to purchase at the recommend ation of the Koenigsberg ugent. Still stranger is the second lottery incident re-d corded by M. Lorm. It took place in a d small town of Nether, Austria, and led to a long, wearisome lawsuit, with what re- 01 sult, however, the chronicler does not in. ir form us. In the chief square stool a gro- b cer's shop, the proprietor of which, the leading trademan of the place, sold lottery a tickets, as well "as sugar and spice, -also k all that's nice." To him appeared one 01 morning a young student, who was a con- II stant customer, in a state of great excite- h ment about a dream of the previous night, d in which it had been clearly manifested to d him that he had won the great prize in the e local land-lottery with a ticket which had been chosen for him by the grocer's wife. I Ile entreated the grocer to intrust him with a packet of lottery tickete for a few seconds in order that he might solicit the lady in d question to select one from among them, W which ticket he would then purchase and C pay for on the spot. "You cannot see my d wife," replied the grocer, "for she is II In P bed,. but if you like I will take a few of the tickets up to her room and she shall choose one for you." To this arrangement the student agreed, and it was carried out ac- a cordingly. When the lottery was drawn, n the ticket purchased by him upon the gro. _ cer's assurance that It had been picked out But the wily grocer drew the first prize with the ticket really selected by his bet- a ter half, which he had kept for himself, b selling another of his own choice to the too-confiding student. So, at least the story goes. t1 n Lobster Factories The lobster factories are very numerous, i1 and can hardly escape the notice even of 'l the fashionable visitor to Maine. le is confronted by one, for instance, at the land- 9 Ing of Harpswell, the principal island of C Casco Bay, another at the historic old town d of Casthie, another at Southwest Harbor, a Mount Desert, besides the one at Green's Landing. Deer Island has factories at Oceanville and Burnt Cove, forming part of a series twenty-three ia number, which belong to one firiu, andi stretched all the way dlown to the Bay of Fuandy They cannot lbe called intrinsically inviting, owing V to their wholly utilitarian character, E although they arc apt to have redeeming features in an occasional touch ot tje p~ic turesque. t The factory epens at one end on the wharf, close to the water. Two men bring E in the squirming loads oii a stretcher and 'i dump the mnass into coppers for boiling. 6 At intervals the covers are hoisted by ropes and pulleys, and dense clouds of steam arise, through which we catch vistas of men, women and childhren at work. Two men t approach the coppers with stretcher and hi scoop-nets, and they throw rapid scoop. ti fuls, done to a scarlet, backward over their f shoulders. Tihe scarlet hue Is aeen in all h quarters-on the steaming stretcher, in the ii great heaps on the tables, in scattered in dividuals on the floor, in a large pile of a shells and refuse seen through the open v door, and in an ox-cartloadl of the same re- c fuse, further oil, which is being taken away f for use as a fertilizer. c The boiled lobster is seperated, on long tables, into his constituont parts. Thle meat n of the many jointed tail is thrust out with a punch. A functionary called a "cracker" frees that of the claws by a couple of deft n cuts with a cleaver, and the connecting arms are passed on to be pickedl out with a fork by the girls. In another department the meat Is placed In the cans. Thie girl h, puts In roughly a suitable selection of the several part... Tme noxt weighis it, and e, adds or substracts enough to c-omplete the exact amount desired (one or two pounds). n Th~e next forces down the contents with a stampi nvented especially for the purpose. The neout puts in a tin cover with blows of a little nammner. Then a tray is rapidly 2 filled, with the cans, and they are carried to the solderers, who seal them tight cx. cept for minute openings in the covers, and put them in another tray, which by means of a pulley-tackle, Is then plunged in bath caldrons, in order that the cans may ho boiled till the air l4 expelled from their con tents through Ihe minute openings. Then they are sealed lip and boiled again for several hours, w!w'.nthem process of cooking is complete. In the packing-rooim the cans are cleanied with acid, painted a thin 't of green to. keep them from rusting, pasted -.ith labels dlisplaylng a highly'ornamental scarlet 1lob ster rampant against a blue sea, and placed by thme gross in pine boxes to await the ar rival of the company's vessel, which cruises regularly from factory to factory, collecting thme product. Nine-tenths ot the supply at present goes to the foreign market. On "loaf-days." the hanids occupy themelve with making the neat cans'whichm it is their ordinary business to fill. --The census of 1860 gave 18 slates to New .Jrsey. The pyrethruim roeui, or "Persian imuomule," is the powdered leaf of a irmless flower growing in Caucasian Asia i great profusion, where for centuries It is been used to rid the natives of Insects. rith a finely prepared dust made from teso flowers, which can be purchased of most any reliable druggist . at about iventy cents a pound, the house fly, the 'icked flea and the mosquito may all be it to flight or to rest. In order to enjoy dI delicious riddance it is only necessary heap up with a little cone one teaspoon ii of the drug pyrothrum, touch It with a 4hted match and watch the thin bio line. smoke as it rises to the coiling and is afted through the air, changing the busy rono of insect life into a weak wall of in- 1 ct woe. Pretty soon down they come lump onI to the table and over your paper, >in on their tiny backs and then sheathe ieir lancets, curl up their hair-like legs id interest one no more. Up staira the ttle ones sleep unmolested, though there e thousands of usquitoes in the room; LO pests are sick unto death, and cling Idly to the walls, too feeble to think of pping the rich warm blood that flows In Lddy little limbs just below ; the fume of ie pyrethrun has settled their business, id while it lingers in the room outsiders e unwilling to make an entry, though the indows are raised and the lattices are ily half closed. Gauzo bars are hot, uffy things at best, and one must be sadly iven to attempt to sleep under such a >ver; then, as we all know, the mosquito ways finds his way through, no matter >w carefully one may tuck up its folds )ont the couch. Smoke from the Persian camnomile or its isty powder we have found most ellca ous, and your readers will bless me when ice they try It. The purity of the drug ust be assured. This can readily be sted. it must have a bright buff color; ligit, readily burned, and give a pleas it, tea-like fragrance ; one pinch should 11 a dozen flies, conflned in a bottle, at ice. When it fails of these properties it is been adulterated. In common use, Iin rge or breezy rooms, where, from great lution, it fails to kill, it nevertheless pro ices on insect life, through its volatilized sential oil or resin, uidoubted nausea, rtigo, respiratory spasis, and paralysis. acts upon them through the minute spir l'es, the breathing tubes, that stud the irfaces of their little bodies, and forn the licate net-works of veins in their tiny ings. To human beings it is, so far as I III ascertain, entirely innoxious, and not isagrecable. That we-a family of eight ,rsons, infants and adults-have lived for ,veral weeks in an atmosphere of pyre krum dust ani smoke combined, during Is present summer, is suflicient proof of ty statement. 'lo the skeptic I recoi Lend an interesting experiment : Put the yrethrumn into a close, warm room, where les most love to swarm, just after dark. it the door aid ninakeo inothuir Visti, lit 1i1i ,ff1 3ULVI . I lul 01)/1L Un IAISIII,.uj u '. I..A id squirminlg vermin on the floor will do is heart good-that is, if lie is a himnan ings and not an angel. Having drafted our plan of battle against iese little foes, it becomes proper to speak f the care of the wounded. To cure tosquito stings, L know notiing better ian a twenty per cent. solution, in either i1 or water, of pure carbolic acid. This i to be rubbed well on the painful spot. o bath'e one's tingling hands and smarting mbs with this solution, gives a cooling, rateful sensation that is hard to describe. 'arbolic soap will do almost as well, or an Intment compounded of carbol, camphor id cosmoline. Uncle Slio. When poor 01(d Uncle Slas Patterson ent to his grave thme other (lay, not a ourner followed, andt never will a tear ioiston the earth above him. In by-gone sys ho aspiredI to be a p~olitical leader, and mere are plenty of men who' remember ow lie once. runi a wardl caucus. -Know ug his ambition to become a power In the ard, three or four old jokers p~ut lip a plan make him ChaIrman of thme caucus short. rto he held, and they visited him in a "Eiverything will dlepond on how you run mls caucus Be calm. Be dignified. Don't It any one ride over you. Oms will move uis and the other that, but you must re 450 to entertain any motions until you ive ascertained the pleasure of the moot Uncle Silo wvas delighted and puffed lip, nd he could hardly wait for the hour hich was to witness'his triumph.. 11o was illed to the chair, as planned, and after a w remarks to prove lisa gratitude, ho dIed for order, and said: "Now, then, what is thme pleasure of thme mcting ?" A citizen rose in reply and began: "I move yell, Mr. Chairman, that we ow pro--" "Order I Order I " called Uncle Bile. "I amn in order." "You are not I Take your seat or I'll ave you put out." The astonished elector dropped 'back to mcond fiddle, andI Uncle Bile continued: "Nowv, then, what is the pleasure of the iceting?" "I miove that we proceed to bal--" It was'another elector, and lbe had only ot thus far when the Chairman cried out ; "I call for order I If we, can't have order re might as well adjourn. I now fak you r the third time, What is the pleasure of ie meeting ?' The electors were dumbfonded for a me, but one of them recovered a little ooner than the rest and asked : "Is this it caucus?"' "You bet I" ans wered Uncle Sile. "Are we here to nominate wardl cfllcers?" "We are." "Then, sir, I move that we pro-". "Order I ordler I" yelled the Chairman. "That's the third or fourth time that rick has been tried here, and the next man rho-makos a motion before I have found ut thme pleasure of the meeting will be put intli Now, th'en, is there any pleasure in his meetingi If so, where is it, and what sit?" Ile soon discovered. About twenty men ushed for hIm at once, and lie went ouit of he window like a bag of sand, andl before io had come to the caucus had trainsacted ts business and adjourned. The incident met only cured Uncle Sile's ambition to be political leader, but it ms doubtful If he ivar east another voe Wiliiam King. In November, '79, William King went >ut from Deadwood City to visit a brother .n camp seven or eight miles away. lie was called a boy then; and now I'll toll yrou why they changed his nane to "The Wan from Michigan." The boy, whose ionic name is William King, was arnied mith a Henry rifle, a revolver and a light iatchet, and he set out to pursue his jour icy on foot. There were Indians above md below and around Deadwood. They and killed two men only the day before, ind were known to be lurking on the paths knd trails; Young King was strongly ad rised against leaving the town, but having to .rd that his brother was very sick, Ie vas determined to go. He loft Deadwood Lbout nine o'clock in the morning, there eing three'or four inches of snow on the round. "It's like throwing that gun and revol rers into the sea, to say nothing of being icalped," remarked the miners as the boy iet out, and some of the men said It was a ahaie for such good weapons to be carried ,o the Indians. The boy felt safe enough until a mil'i or wo out of Deadwood, when lie grew more :autious. His route lay over the hills, hrough broken ground and along a valley Jelng mapped by compass and no trail to rollow. Three miles from Deadwood lie ieard the neigh of a horse, and he at once iurried from the open ground to the shelter f the timber. Speeding along for a half nile at a dog trot, he became certain that Indians wcre on his trail. ie had seen no iigns and had heard nothing but the neigh )f a horse, but he had a presentiment, as it iver3, that the red men had taken his broad rail and were after him. King made for lighEr ground, and soon obtained the shel ,er of a mass of rocks which could not be inadily approached except from one direc Ion. le intended to secrete himself until :ertai that his trail was not followed, and 10 had not long to wait. In the course of ieven or eight minutes nine Indians walking it single file, appeared in view, following mls footsteps at a fast walk. King could have retreated had he so de iired, but the prospect of a fight did not righten him. The odds were largely igainat him, but the boy had nerve, a good )ositioti, and lie deliberately opened the >attle. The savages did not know how >lose they were to him until a bullet fron ils rifle cut the Jugular vein of the first and mried itself in the shoulder of the next. rl'e first leaped from his feet and fell back % corpse, while the second went down, but icratulened up again and took cover along vith the others, so badly wounded that he ,ould take no part in the desperate fighting which followed. The Indians at first .bought the boy had joined two or three unters, but after uaking a cirole around iis position they found him entirely alone ud they opened fire on him from three lifferent poits. lie was safe enough in Lils retreat, and waited to lot them exhaust their ammunition. As their fire slackened 4o obtrAuod aight of one of them and shot The idea of a-boy having killed two of Lheir number and wounded a third, drove ,he remaining six pavages to desperation, md they left the cover of their trees and iharged on his position, yelling fiercely as they advanced on a run. le had not ex pecter such a maneuver, but was not iltogether taken by surprise. le wounded )no of them in the wrist by a shot from his rifle, and when they were upon hn threw JLown his gun and peppered away with his revolver. "rhoy were right upon md and we were all blazing away at once," he afterwards -xplaincd, but the boy was too much fcr them. The cowardly reds retreated for a moment, having wounded King in the side, in the leg ano in the cheek. In return two ,f them carried away some of his lead, but wore not tod badly wounded to use their rifles afterwards. The gang hauled off for m time, and then one of them crawled as cear as be could and shouted in brokeni "White boy come out-me no hurt lum I" But the white boy was going to stay right there for a while yet. Ho knew the treacherous nature of the savaqges aroundi him, and lie believed he could whip the whole crowd, wounded~ as he was. Thme. Indian finding that King could not be on.. Liced from his position, returned and re p)arted, and1( for an hour all was quiet. The boy was beginning to hope that they hind withdrawn for good, when a savage ap p~eared in view on the loft and wanted to hold a talk. Hie indulged in 'fiirious gest ures, danced around, and ado-overy effort to attract King's attention to him, and then keep it there. "White boy very brave-won't hurt white boy--like to talk with brave white boy l"lhe called out as ho danced around. Meanwhile the rest of the band were sneaking up from the other direction, cal. culating on shooting King in the back as he watched the single Indian. He suspectedl the trick, saw them commig, and drawIng a fair bead on the talker, dropped him (leadh as a crow-bar. Those skulking up num bered four, being all the Indians left alive and~ unwounded out of the nine first sighted. They (lid not rush as the boy expected. On theo cntrary they hurriedly retreated, andi but little time was lost by them in got tinig out of the neighborhood. The boy waited umtil three o'clock in the afternoon, before leaving his retreat, and then his clothing stiff with blood, ,he pursued hals journey, reaching lis brother's camp about dark in safety. Trho men would not credit his story, though the three wounds were plain proof of the bloody contest. 'rhe next (lay a band of a dtozen wont over to the flght, and wheii they had taken a suirveiy they could no longer doubt the boy's story. TIhey found trails of blodid everywhere aroundi the position and trails In the snow where the dead Indlians had been dragged along, and the defense was voted one the bravest ever made against the savages. A boy without signs of a beard, and looked upon as hardly fit to carry a pistol around, had wounded or destroyed five out of the nine redhskins who had anticipatedl securing his scalp) without firing more than one shot. It wasn't enough for the miners to pat the boy oln the back and give im all duo praise, but to further honor and distinguish him they called him "The man from Michi gan." There are other men from Michigan there, but young King hits the sole honor of being "the man," and of being looked upon as thme representatives of the Wolverine S~tate. The niusic,.of .h is voice leoit melody to scorn. Most men know what theoy hate, fety what they love. 30 i