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,", Z'RI-WEEKLY EDITION: WINNSBORO, S. Q,' MAY 19, 18839
A SONG OF LONG AGO.
X Xgof long ago,
1 'hti -sing it low
Sing , -lice the lisping of the lips-wo
' used0ft2lw
When our baby-latYgiL d .,y,1d
From the hearts forever 111fed
Withi a music sweet as robin over trilled.
Let the fragrant summer. breeze,
A ud the leaves of locust trees,
And the apple-buds and blossoms, and the
wings of honey-bees,
All palpitate with glee,
Till the happy hariony
rings back each childish joy to you and
lte.
Let the eyes of fancy turn
Where the tumbled pippins burn
Like embers in the orchard's lap of tousled
grass and fern;
And let the wayward wind,
1.11l singing, plod behind
The eider-press-the good old-fashioned
kindl
Blend in the song the moan
Of the dove that grieves alone,
And the wild whirr of the locust, and the
bunble's drowsy drone;
And the low of cows that call
Through the past.umre-bars when all
The landscape faints away at. even fall,
Then, far away and clear,
Through the dusky atmosphere,
Let the wailiug of the Kildee be the only
sound you hear;
o sweet and sad and low
As the memory may know
Is the glad-pathetic song of Long Ago!
KATIE'S LANTEIN.
Truth to tell, the comfortable, old
fashioned farm-house, at the foot of the
narrow and rocky ledge, had a most
pictuesgue position. Away to the
southward wound and sm lied the for
tile valley, a goodly proportion of
whose acres appertained to Grandfather
Crowninshield and along the edge
thereof swept the curves of the railway
after what seemed its birth in the clo
vet ledge so very near to Katie Crown
inshield's home. As for Kate herself,
with her sweet, fresh face and her mer
ry brown eyes, the little valley and her
nestling honme were all the world to her,
indeed, that she had ever known,. for
she had been but a wee thing when
Grandfather and Grandmother Crowit
inshield became father and mother to
her, in place of those whose faces she
could now hardly remember. Neither
did it ever occur to her that she was in
any sense an heiress, for she seemed
rather to belong to the valley than the
valley to her ; while the idea, if any
thing had brought it to her mind, that
her good old grandparents were not to
live forever, would - have turned the
brightest June day to the gloomiest
December.
But, in these latter years, one great
entity had painfully struggled into
Kat's world, with an apparent mission
to unite the valley with that great un
known, which lay beyond the hills and
ledges. Kate had seen the ragged rift
cloven in the granite wall, watching it
curiously from door or window, and
listening for the dull reports of the
blasting charges, until the barrier was
parted and the railway crept out and
i ound its way down through the valley ;
and, ever since the trains began to run,
she had connected with them the idea
of a life that was almost human. 8he
had waved her hantlkerchief enthusias
tically to the very first train, and had
belt liberally rispondcd to by passet
gers and conductor ; and, although she
had been then a little girl and was now
a young lady, she had. never yet dream
ed of any uunmaidenly boldness in giving
the same white signal of welcome, at
times, when the great railway mystery
cane rushing out of the cloven wall
There was otto train int pfarticular to
wvhich Kie's attentions wvere at last,
pretty w~ellI restricted-a through-ex
press, wvhich wvent by at eight o'clock in
the morning, and there was another
froni the same direction again at eight
o'clock at tnightt. Firom the forumer,
just as easily as hier- own dainty " good
mtornintg I' f luttered above the gardetn
gaLe, so certainly wVouil theoo be a
hleetmig flash of wvhite to answer her
from thme platform of one of the cars, or
even front the engine itself, for that,,
too, had happened. And .Katie knew
very wvell that, in these latter (lays, at
least, her answer htad always come from
the sanme htand. A tall, erect, manly
fellow Ito was, dressed in dark-blue
cloth ; and Kat'ie had beein wvell aware,
for a good while, that he was thte coni
(ductor of the train, but she had never
yet beent near otnough to speak to himi,
or get atny clearer ntotion of his face and
its mteanig. Ut,an might be given her in
those swift but ahnost (daily glimp.j)es.
When or htow he found his way back to
the beginning of his perpetual journecy,
was a questiotn that Katie never asketd
event or herself. -it was enougli that,
every morning thte swvift train brought
hhntm out of the uttknown country be
yonmd thte hills; and added a somettung
that htad grown to be very pleasant to
the peace and quiet of her day.
'EThere was somiethting very notewvorthty
even to railway mien, about the mantner
in which the road broke In upont that
valley. A (heep) cut, a sharp curyc and
a heavy downi-gradc, comibitned to mtake
the precise p)oint whtere the contductor
'had hearnted to look for Katie's greetitig
an itnteresting one ; and her white ker
chtief tmay even have seemedc( Lo wave a
species of congratulation at his repeat
e(d safe passage of wvhat might at atty
time have shaped itself into a daniger..
But that as it imay, the raIlway "cut"
hatd erought to Katie Crownmiisleid.
among othter results, a shorter and
easier path to the htomte of her aunt, her
itothier's sister, whio lived just a little
way beyontd tihe lodge, and wiho was
ever satisfiled if too imny (lays passedi
ywithout bringing the sunligitt 01
(atle's face across her threshold. 'AndI
*1atie h4~d goe4 returpxi, aniy
mid imanty a time, by tile narrow path
o>weent the granite walhls. .N obotiy In
at peacefutl region dheamed of fear at
ing out after (dark ; ani1 agalit and1
gaimn had good Aunt .Betsy detinttd
ler pet until night had fallen, although
or only compamont0i houmeward wats tier
ttle star of a hlantern.
There camne a day wvhen Katie's hand
rchief fluttered in vaini, andl then an
her, whien even th.e repiy she received
em the train convinced her that there
adbeein a changeQ of some khid, atnd
at she would r.eceive nto more signals.
from the same hand.., And so she sadly
prepared to give it up, in the first lit of
genuine blues she had ever indulged in;
but, a few evenings afterward, she
lingered A i tli i
'burn from Aun Betsey's, o see
the night-express go flashing by. It
was a grand sight when it camne, incoi
parably more interesting and myster
ious in the darkness thau over in the
day, and Katie wondered she had never
thought so before ; but she almost nl
consciously raised her little lantern, and
swung it around her head as she hal
used to wave her handkerchief.
Could she believe her eyes ?
She almost refused to give them any
faith at first, but then there followed a
quick flush in her cheek and a warm
glow at her heart ; for she was sure
there had been an answering light, and
she could almost picture a tall form in
dark-blue clothing, standing on the
platform between the two cars.
And now, while the October days
grew cooler and glorions evenings long
er, Grandmother Crowninshield began
to grumble a little at the disposition
her darling evinced to pay so many
visits to Aunt Betsy.
" It's a long walk for you, child,"
she said, " and it's through the cut
too. What if a railway train should
come along before you get out ? "
0 grandnamma, that'll never hap
pen," laughed Katie ; " the railroad
and I are very good friends."
" You ought to be," said grandmoth
er. "1 never saw any living being care
more for a dumb thing than you've al
ways done for that there train." '
But grandmother was nearer -right
than Katie ; for only a night or so after
that-it must have been that Aunt
Betsy's clock was slow-for Katie was
in the very middle of the cut when her
ears was suddenly filled with the shriek
and roar with wnich the triiii dashed in
at the upper end.
H1er heart beat quickly for a moment
but not with fear; for, as she sprang
lightly upon a projecting rock that she
had often before noted as a very avail
able perch, she gathered her fluttering
dress more closely about her and ex
claimed :
"There, I'm safe enough ; but to
think of is coming so near 1 "
Near enough, indeed, and Katie
leaned back hard against the crag be
hind her ; for it seemed as if she could
feel the breath of the iron monster on
her cheek. In one hand she clutched
more tightly the folds of her shawl,and
in the other she raised the lantern, as if
its feeble star could co of some protec
tion, and then her grasp of it grow sud
denly very tight, indeed ; for leaning
out a little from the plaLform of a car,
and looking forward, as if inpatient
for the train to clear the cut, stood a
tall, handsome, bearded man, in dark
blue clothes, with a lantern in his hand
and his eager, watching, expectant face.
came so very close to her own I
It was like a ilash of lightning ; but
Katie kneNv the face, and she knew also
ht she herself had been seei, and she
had .en mai ked the swift paling of
one bronzed vilage ts it reeoguzed her
and . then swept on into the darkness
beyond.
" lie was afraid I would be hurt,"
she thought ; and thtln she said aloud :
" But he must have seen how safe i.
was, up here on the rock. I don't be
lieve lhe swung his lantern at our gar
deu-gate to night."
Aunt Betsey's house was some little
distance from the upper entrance, and
the approach to the latter was gloomy
enough, the next night of her visit,
even for one who knew every inch of
the way as well as Katie did ; but her
little lantern shn." out cheerily againist
its bright reflector, throwing Its radi
anice aauead, as if it were trying to tell
tier : " There, dear, that's it ; don't
be afraib nowv, l'ul showv you the
track I" She liad. not gone far, how
ev'er, before the granite walls brought
to lher cars, all the way trom tihe lowver
0end and( .,rollmd the curve, as if tihe cut
had been a spleakinlg-tube, the sound of
voices.thiat were evidently meant to be
low and guarded. There wvere other
sounds,mmnigled wvith the voices, and
Katie could not make out more than a
word or so here and there, but there
was something aboult it all that start
led and frightened tier. At first she
was half inceimled to turn anld make the
best~ of her way back to Aunt Betsy's ;
but thiat seemled foolish, anld Katie wais
really a courageous 'little soul. She
hid her lainternl under her shawl, how
ever, and stepp)ed very lightly and
swiftly forward, tryinig to remember if
there were not a rock or hollow wvhere
she would be as safe from men as she
had beeni from the passinig train. She
was very nearly through, herself, be
fore she coulld anyway make out what
it all mount ; but, as she paused in the
deep shadows of tile rocks and p'eered
timidly out toward the now dull and
mnufiled sounds, with whichl the voices
were no0 longer mingled, a broad suick
gleam, as from a lantern suddenly
shaded or extinguished, shot across the
track not many yards below, and then
all wvas dlarkness and silence.
But that one moment of illumina
tioni had- revealed extraordinary things
to thle keen excited vision of Kate
Crowninshieid.
T1here were men, three or four, she
could not say just how many, but
rough, fierce, wild, and anxious-looking
andl before them on thle railwgay track
[rum which tile rails had been1 pried
away just thlere, was a confused heap11 of
heavy granite boulders anId fragmnents.
Katie understood It as clearly as if those
menQi had taken hebr kito their confidence
anId had told her words.
It was a plot to wreck the train
And now slip was om4t in tlle operi air
beygn4i the upper pintmipce, 'aint shle
(ould see the peaceful light still slining
from Aunt B3etsy's window. But there
was no time to go there for 1hp.
TIle train must-le so very near
KCatie did for a moment thin1k of
kindling a bright fire on the track, but
that wotild take too long, anId the great
ruin and horror would1 come before
even a sinall fagot wou1d be well ablaze.
"There's nothing but my own little
lautern," almost sobbed poor Katie.
" Maybe he' will know it when he sees
it, but lhe maust be warnled before h~e
re4es the cut."
-'Tlie lanitern shia like a frosty litl
star determined to be seen as Katie
sprang forward up the track. She had
not far to go, for the train was ahead
of time to night, instead of being be
h I as woi I have been more desir
a o - e circumstances. Never
had anything appeared to Kate Crown
inshield more suddenly than did the
great, glarfig eyes of the locomotive
headlight, that now glowed upon her
out of the overshadowing night, and
her lantern seemed to have instantan
eously vanished.
"It is so small," she cried in agony,
" and lie will never see it."
Nevertheless, on a low mound of
earth and stones, close by the- side of
track Katie took her post of charity
and danger, and swung her little lan
tern frantically to and fro, while she
now tried to make her sweet girl's voice
heard through the roar and clamor of
the rushing train.
On caine the railway giant, tugging
with him his precious freight of human
life, and it flashed upon Kate Crownin
shield's mind what an awful capacity
for suffering that train might have on
board. On, with the great glare and
the all-absorbing torrent of sound, and
almost before Katie knew it, the object
of her hope and fear had dashed ruth
lessly past her, and was quickly swal
1owed up from her sight in the rocky
jaws of the deep cut. With a cry of
grief and disappointment on her lips
and a strange thrill of pain at her heart
the poor girl sank upon the ground and
buried her face in her hands, while the
little lantern dropped neglectedly be.
side her.
Only for one brief instant, however,
did Katie yield to the terror and the
trouble of it, for in another she had
picked up her starry friend, sprang to
her feet, and darted away down the
railroad track toward the cut. She was
light of foot as any fawn, and there
were sad wings to her speed, but it
seemed to her as if she would never get
through the cut. She paused a moment
when she reached the lower one, to
gather breath and to brush the salt mist
from her eyes before she looked upon
the awful scene she knew must be pre
pared for her.
And then-why, there was the train,
the rear car rising close in front of her
while the others (and there were but
few of them that night) stood all erect
upon their wheels beyond-not all upon
the track, to be sure, but all apparently
safe-all, except one great, dark mass,
whose polished metal glittered in the
varying lights that flashed upon it, and
whose hoarse throat screamed angrily
with the escaping steam, for the loco
motive had come to grief pretty decid
edly among the granite boulders that
were heaped on the track by the fiends
who had planned the wreck. The
passengers were swarming out of the
cars, and none of them seemed to be
hurt at all, nor (lid Katie hear a sound
that told of pain as she swiftly thread
ed her way among and past them. She
had caught a glimpse of a group away
beyond even the shattered locomotive,
however, which forbade her lingering
for an instant. Right down toward her
own garden-gate four men were carry
ing a heavy burden, and others werd fol
lowing, and Katie heard theim say, as
she darted by
"Who is it ?"
"Why, its the conducto-. IIe was
thrown fron the platform of the for
ward car.''
" Is he killed ?"
" They say so. Nobody e'ue was
hurt. lie was a splendid ?ello;w
A tall, handsome, bearded n:n, in
dark-blue clo.hing, but his face was
ghastly pale when they laid him on
Grandfather C.rowninshield's own bed,
and the surgeon, who had been among
the passengers, bed~ gloomily above
him.
"heIad all right," muttered the man
of science. " Only a cut or so. Ah,
there's a rib, twvo of 'enm, and his armn
below the elbow. Struck the ground(
so, that's clear, and the other bones are
likely to be all right. Must have been
leaning out to look ahead, 1 should
say. Ilullo, what's that light on his
face ?"
The light in the room, what with the
crowd and the country candles, had
been none of the brightest, but just at
this moment a clear, golden gleam was
pouredl down on the face of the injured
man, andi slowly, as if the radiance it
self had awakened him, lie opened his
eyes and looked dreamily about him.
The surgeon heard a sigh that was
half a sob close behind him, and looked
up to see that the sudden light came
from Katie and her lantern, but just
then the questioning eyes of the wound
ed conductor fell upon her face,
and lhe exclaimed, faintly but earnest
ly :
" I knew it was you. There wvas
hardly room to stop the train in, but
we'd have all gone to pieces if it hadn't
been for you and your light. You've
savedi them all, God bless you I"
And so Katie Crowninshield sudden
ly found herself a heroine, with a
swarm of grateful people about her,
very much to her (discomfort. They
would have made her a presenit if she
would have allowed them, but the only
really wvelcome words dhe hm*rd from
any one were those of the surgeon.
"What, killed ? A nmn like him ?
Nonsense ! IIe'll carry his arm in a
slinig for a month or so, but he'll be up
again in a fortnight."
Of course, no time was lost in repait
ing the track and ini forwarding the
passengers, and a few hours only saw
the farm-house as quiet and peOaceful,
looking as ever, JKven the surgeon) had
dlone his work and gone, The engine
hay battered and helpless among the
boulders who're it had forced its willful
way. Tihe conductor lay still on grand
father (irowninshield's bed, and the
fitful slumbers the surgeonk, opiate gave
were starry with signals that white
fingers held up before lisa dreaming
eyes. As for Kate and her lantern, the
latter had fairly burned itself out and
asleep on the little table in Katie's own
room, and she herself had by no mneans
clearly comprehended, as yet, the happy
consequences of her railway signaling.
It was very much like a dream to her
for katie was no prophetess, .nor could
even the lantern throw-any light upon
the future. She -could not see 'just
then, and yet' the d~a3f that followed
brought it .all to pass, that neither sh
herself nor grandfather and grandmotle
Crowninshield would consent to an
more railroading or signaling. It ws
much better, indeed,, they declared, no
did he himself proteid to deny it tha
Katie's husband should farm i>roa
acres of the fertil valley than that i
should be at the mercy of train wrecli
ere and wayside latiterns. And who
the question was decided to her liking
such a hug and k was that whic
Kate Crowninshlield gave.
" To whoin ?"
" Why, to her lant 4rn, of course."
Medtiaoval Customs.
The Hofburg,, th@'. hief palace of th
Auskrlan sovereigns, . n the scene oc
an ecet stastical 66ie or act of dev<
tion which is. a.QurM i relic of meditavs
custo;s.,. " In sccordance with a usage ob
served from time itiiinemorial on Maun
day-Thursday the cerem my of "washing
the feet of tue poor" was this morning
performed as usual by their Majesties a
the ltuperial residence. In the Middi
Ages the custom prevailed at many otbe
O itholic Uourts, but- in the present da
to faid a parallel would be impossib:e. ex
cept, at the Vatican and the palace of th
King of 8pain. The proceedings opene<
at 9 o'clooc, when twe le old imn. o
wh>m the oldest is in his nine ,- birc
year and the youngest eitzhty-seven, an<
twelve old women, the oldest nmety-slx
and the younest ninety, dressed, as usual
in the okd German costume, presented tc
them by the Emperor and Enipress, en
tered the court chapel, in order to receive
the sacrament, ani were then brought
into the Hall of Cetemonies at the Hof,
burg. On each side of the hall was a
table with twelve covrs, tie one table fo1
the old men anud the other for the oki
women. They are all cit z-ns of Vienna
and many among them showed by theit
behavior that they had taken part in the
ceremony more than once. With the ap
p. arance of the clet'&msn at 11 A M. the
ceremony began. The Emperor, who was
followe+l by all the Archdukes present it
Vienna, served the old men, and the Em
press, followed by all the Archduchesses
and court ladies, served the old women at
their respective tables. The Corps Diplo.
matique was, as usual, in attendance, but
this year. for reasons generally known, the
B -itish, Frenoti and Turkish ambiasadore
dil not appear. All the ministers were
present, as well as court dignitaries anc
privy councillors, the chamberlains, the
grandmasters and the highest representa
tives of the army. The tables being re
moved, the E-iperor andl Empress knel
d,wn in fr< a of eao'h of the oid people,
took off a shoe and stocking from each
washed the foot with towels moistenet
fromn a goikien ewer, held by a chamber
lain. Atter the feet of loe old people had
been wiped the Arehda .and Archduch,
esss replaced the shbe- diU stocking, and
their Majesties concluded the cetemony by
hanging round the neck of each of the ok
people a purse with thirty silver f wrins
The old folks were then sunt hone in cabs
each with a well tilled box of provision
and wine.
The Sheep of,Thib,et.
The sheep of Thibet- which are vera
nuler,,us, are chiefly a small va,riety o
the fat-rumped Persian and Abyssinlan
with black heads and necks. 8ome are
hairy, with short wool underneath, whil<
others bear a long soft and tine wool. I
is from the latter that may of the costi
Indian shawls are made blot a little o
this peculiar wool finds it way to Britisl.
India. and is there manufactured. Thi
breed Is tountt in its purest state In tht
deserts of U eat Tartary : no other vane y
being near to c>ntainu.a e its blood.
reacues far into thle Interior and naortberm
parts oif Russia andl is much dissemninatm
in China, Persia, Hmndostan, A-lit Mano
andl easttern Africa as we I as Tuibet. I,
Pale4tile it is 'more numnerous than an'
other breed ; indeed the largest propt,
tla,n of the shcap of iorihern Asia beint
of this description. Prfessor Pallas coni
jec turesa that this chi 'racter arises an tm
fat aumpi d sheep froim their feeding upol
the bitter and a b!'nns plants found upon t b
borders of the Caspian and [Slack seaP
And he asserts that when they are removei
fronm the places where these plants gros
the fatty excrescence bec. mes less, liu
Banfleld says, as the fat runmped end fat
tailed sheep are varieties which are widel
a's:persed, it seemns more probable that the
may have been produiced by accident, at
may also have been perpetuated by acce
dlent, de,ign or fancy. I ile fat- tailei
sheep is very ex:enslvely diff id it I
found througthonit Asia and a great part o
Africa, as well as through the norther
parts oif Europe, They diTer, like othe'
sheep In the nature of their covering;. I
Madagascar, and in some other hot eti
mates, they are hairy; at,the Cape of ->o.
Hope they are covered 'Wth coarse wo.,l
in the Levant their wo3i 1. extremely fnoe
r'he proportion which the weight of th
tail in some of these sheep bears to thm
w iole carcase IS qiute rem'aikable.
The usnal dressed weight of, the sace
is tr.)m Duty to sixt.y pounds, of which thm
tail is sai-l to make .ninre than one fourt
part R'.assel describes two breeds or fal
tailed sheep abo it Aleppo: in one i. Itl
posit of caudal fat is moderate, in the othie
sort the tall Is much larger. The unctuou
fat of the tails of these sheep is accounte
a great delicacy alike by the Boors anit th
HIottentots of southern Afr.ca. T'he 11o1
.entots, in their primitive condition pos
sessedl im'nense a acas and pursued th
pastoral arts with gre-st success
strong Muolinge.
A very strong teucilage, having snff
olent tenacity to fasten sheets of piste
hoard together, ajid having the' additionis
adv,sntago of being water proof, can 1,
made by melting together s q tal' parts <
pitch tin I gutta p:rcha. To ntine l'arts<
tis add three parts of boiled oil and oni
fifh part of 11tharge. (Jontinue the hei
with stirring until thorough union of tii
lngredients Is eftected. Apply the tnixtui
hot or somewhat cooled, and thinned wn
a small quantity of benzolo or turpentlr
oil.
A GDNTIhRMAN, whose nose and chee
had become distinctly colored with tli
rod wino he was wont to imbibe, sai
one day to his little son at the tabl4
'You mius$ eat bread, my.~ boy; brea
ialtes your cheeks red," th',e littI
boy rephied; "Father, what lots of biea
you must have swallowed."
- + +(e
0 Various Kinds of Drunkards.
r
Some men seem to become drunk
r suddenly, giving no previous indication
t by thickness of articulation or unsteadi
ti ness of gait; this being commonly the
case whore mental excitement from
other causes-as a heated discussion-.
prevails at the time. The niost dread
d ful and astounding cases are afforded
by those unfortunate people who are
never sober. How they manage to
survive so long as they do is a mystery.
There are men who have been perpetu
ally under the influence of liquor for
o twenty or thirty years. Of course, the
brain must have become permanelttly
njured, so that we may infer that the
. drink these persons now take has little
or no real effect on them, and that their
state would just be the same without
it. Others, again, are systematic and
punctual drunkards of regular habits,
men who take their quantum and are
put to bed unconsciaus every night, yet
are capable of attending to their daily
business in the iiost extraordinary
manner. These, as a rule, never ex
ceed a given amount by so much as a
glass, and do not suffer so much as
intermittent drunkards-at any rate
not so soon, for the inevitable conse
quence is only a little longer deferred.
The writer knew an old doctor In Ja
maica who used to aver that the
climate was the finest in the world.
"Yellow fever, sir?" he would exclaim
-" not a bit of it! A vulgar chimera!
A malicious libel on us! The fact is,
its the vicious irregular drinking
habits of the people here that kills 'emt.
I drink a bottle of brandy every night,
and have-done so for thirty years. I
get tipsy seven times a week, in an
orderly and decent manner; and I've
never had yellow fever nor a day's ills
ness!" And to all appearance he was a
file, healthy man~of sixty-live or seventy
years, with a beard as white as snow.
Yet he waa carried off suddenly by a
trifling indisposition incidental to the
climate; and it was found on examina
tion of his papers after death that his
age was only fifty-two.
It does not by any means follow'
either, that because a man is never in
toxicated lie may not be drinking too
much. Men employed In the great
breweries in London, especially the
draymen, consume anl enormous quan1
tity of beer. The daily allowance
which their employers give them is a
very large one, but they rarely confine
themselves to that; and the (lraymen,
in addition, get much gratuitously froni
the customers to whom they are always
delivering the casks; so that ten or
fourteen quarts is no exceptional con
r sumnption for one man; yet they are not
f drunkards, in the ordinary sense of the
term. The very nature of their work
necessitates the employment of none
but steady men, strength being also a
sine qua non. But if one of these men
should break a limb, or get conflued to
bed from any other accident, he is
almost sure to get flelirium tremens;
and a scalp-wound frequently kills him.
Brewers' men are notorious in hospitals
as being thme wvomrst cases for operation,
being pronel to exhibit all the most dIan
geroiis coniplications wvhich fetter the
success of surgical treatment.
A story 0Z ''Johmn Phonix.''
The invitations senit of late to naval
oflicers requesting theln to furnish sug
gestionus for a change of uniform "'re
m nind( me"--as Air. inicolni would have
1saidl-of a similar invitation issued1 by
Jeff D)avis whlen lie was Secretary of
-War under General Frank Pierce.
One of these invit ations was sent to
i Lieutenant Derby, a good dlraughitnan
- and( a nierry wag, who sent in response
a propositioni for having a twvo-inch iron
ring appendedl by a p)iece of stronug
leather to the seat of each enlisted
r man's tm'busers. Long and fornmal
1 specificationis demonstrated thme utility
of tis ring. Each oficer was to carry,
instead of a sword, a long ah pole0, with
a hook on one end. By hooking into
3 the ring of a p)rivate lhe could be kept
3 in line of battle if hg were disp)oscd to
Shang back, or caught if lhe attempted
a to run away. T1hie ring would also be
useful in the artillery service for draft
purposes, and in the cavalry men could
be locked to other rings in their saddles
eandl so kept from -falling off. Thme
illustrations which accomplanied the
e specifications represented oficers catch
- ig infantry stragglers and forcing
them into thme ranks, dragoons p)ad
locked to their saddles, and artillery
men with cannon-pirolongs hitched to
their rings, haling huge pieces of ar
.tillery up steel) heights. It was very
funny, and the clerks in thme War D)e
I p)artment enjoyedl some hearty laughs
over it; but when it reached the Secre
Stary lie became indlinant and regarded
.it as an insult, lie ordered charges and(
* specifications to be drawn up, and a
u court-martial was actually ordered,
e when it came to the ears of Governor
hMarcy, then Secretary of the4etate, who
was level-headed, and who advisela
Davis to let the matter drop. He
k might convict Derby and dismniss him
8from the service, but lie Wvould be
*laughed at from one end of the counti'y
jto the other. Davis took the adsiceu
e and Derby's "suggestions'" aro stll to
[be found on th.9 (#19s of the War. Do,
partusenit.
Cattle Raising In Texae.
The typical cowboy Is with us almost
a thing of the past, not simply because
the number of cattle has so decreased
of hlte, but because the manner of hand
lhig them has undergone a radical
change. Time was when an owner of
1,500 or 2,000 head of cattle would find
employment for fifteen or twenty
vaqueros; under the present system
three men can now perform the functions
for which five times that number were
requisite a few years ago. It was for
merly the custom upon our ranches to
"loose-herd" the cattle during the day
and to round thorn up on the "bed
ground,' or pen them In corrals for the
night. Now we have immense past
ures, inclosed by many miles of barbed
wire fencing, in which cattle roam at
will by day or night. The pasture fen
ces are examined and kept in repair by
men detailed upon the ranches for that
purpose. Ten years ago the cattle were
driven North from Texas without re-'
gard to sex, age or condition. The re
sult was that Texas was almost drained.
of breeding as well as of beef cattle.
Now there is some discretion exercised,
and it is the exception not the rule for
cows and calves to be driven "up the
trail" or the shipping centres. Many
of our stockmen have introduced fine
cattle of Durham and other breeds on
their ranches with a view to improving
their stock. Full-blooded cattle how
ever, are not easily acclimated, nor d10
they do well unless fed. Thie half-bred
cattle seem to thrive, and in time the
long-horned native cattle will be sup
planted by a mixed breed of liner qua'
ity. Two species of the musea, known
here as the "heel fly" and "screw fly,"
are the bane of the cattle men. The
former look very like the ordinary honey
bee, and deposit a nit upon the leg of
the annmal below the knee. The nit in
time devolps into a worm, and eats Its
way into the flesh. The "screw fly" is
much like the blue bottle fly, and at
tacks the animal wherever the flesh is
laid bare, by branding or making the
ears; it leaves a nit from which the
worm is hatched by animal heat. Some
time since a valuable calf got screw
worms In one of its ears. It was doc
tored, and it was thought cured. It
died recently, and upon opening the
skull it was found that the screw wornn4
had eaten their way to the brain. The
present system of branding and making
the ears not only disfigures the cattle
and destroys the hide, but as may be
seen from the above statenmenlt is dan
gerous.
A llorolno of Tai-ol-Kobir.
The old retriver Juno, who earned
such undying fame by leading the gal
lant Gordon Highlanders at Tel-el-Ke
bir, wlas[tho admired of all observers t.he
other day at Cairo when the regiment
paraded to receive the medals won by
its members during the campaign. (ol
onol Iammill, C. B., pointed out the
distinguished dog to (eneral Sir A rch
ibald and Lady Alison, and we doubt
not that among thme sp)ectatorJ there was
a very general feelinig of regret whmen
Juno had to content herself with comn
ipliments and caresses insteadl of re
ceiving the honorablo whwratn 1. he soh
thoroughly dleservedi. Owing, too, to
unavoidable circnst ances she cold(
not be Included ini either of the p)homto
grap)hic groups of the regiment which
were takent by command of the Queen.
One of these gave the p)ortraits of all'
who (distinmguished themselves at Tel
el-Kebir, and1( thme other was rep)resenta
tive of each rank in the gallant corps.
T1here was room for ,Juno on bo0th, in
the former by reasoni of her b)eing the
first member of the British force to
rush'' Arab)i's entrenchments, and in the
second on beccoumnt of her being "the
regimental (dog" par excellence, it
will be a national shame and scandal if
.Juno's likeness is handed (downl to pos
terity without something in It to show
that thme English people)1 recognmized
their debt of gratitude to thme noble1
dlog. Whmen we first described her gal
lantry at Tel-el-Kebir we suggested
that a silver collar, bearing a sultalble
inscription, wouldl form an appropriate
dlecoration, and we nowv venture to re
peat the proposal. The senti mental ity
which went to suclh excess~es In tihe case
of Jumbo mIght find( a munch more
deserving object in Juno.
How Uoaada (ot Its Name.
Thme origin of the wordl Canada Is cu
rious enodgh. Tihe Spaniards visited
that country p)revious to the French,
and mad.e piartlal searches for gold and
silver, and finding none, they of teln
said among themselves "A cani nada"
(TVhere is nothing here). The Indians,
who watched closely, learned the sen
tence and its meaning. After the de
parture of thme Spaniards the French ar.
rived, and the Inianitrs, who wanted
none of their company, anud supposed
they also were Spaniards come on~ thme
same errand, were anxious to Inform
them tha~t their labor was lost by tar
rying in that,country, and freqpebntly
repeat0ed to them the Spanish septence
"M Cn natda." The French, who knew
as little of Spanish as the Indians, shep
posed this hIcessantly-recurrig sotiu
was tihe wne of Canada, which it has
baorna ever since1
Exereising the Devil.
A corrospondent at San Luis Rey
Indian Agency gives the following de
scription of the manner in which the
savages drive the evil one away: "The
Indians do not like to take medicines,
but they held a few days ago a festa for
three successive nights for the purpose
of decoying the demon of sickness, and,
if possible catch and kill him. It was
the best I have yet seen in the many
years of my acquaintance with the life
and customs of these Mission Indians.
After a lot of bucks, naked, but fixed
up with paint and feathers, had exhaus
ted themselves by dancing and stanp..
ing tile ground about an hour around a
big fire, and got hoarse from grunting
and howling, an old gray buck, the
chissero, stepped into the center of the
ring and began, in a low, mournful voice
tosing. le was dressed--or rather, utn
dressed- the same as the others, witl}
the exception that lie held a rattle mfde
out of the tails of rattlesnakes i 'his
,iand, while on his head was - tiara
formed of three bunches of plu es.
"From time to time lhe we out of
the ring up on the hillside at looking
up in the air in all directions called in
a decoying voice for the gh1o . When
he returned lie always expl ned in a
few whispered words how c icult it
was and how dangerous it w for him
atnd that he was very much af id. At
last, when he camte back again 'om the
hill, he danced three times ar id the
lire, when lhe was seized with avy
convulsions, which brought him, '
fearful moans (and seemingly lie suf
fered terrible pains), to the ground.
But lie still had force enough left to
pull out the bundles of feathers from
his head. With these he rubbed his
chest, and this releasing him from the
power of the demon, he jumped up and
with fearful yells everybody followed
hn in a wild tumult, men, women and
children crying: 'Mactalo, matalo,' (kill
him), and beating the ground with the
sticks they had ready for the occasion.
" 1 got out of the way then, for they
seemed to be a lot of wild maniacs,
When they returned to the ring they
all stod up in a circle, the old 'clissero'
dug a hole in the center, and after some
more singing and stamping the ground,
pulled one of the bundles of feathers
from his head, and going around rub
bed it against each person. From thin
to time lie returned to the hole, and
seeming to suck some juice from them,
he spat it into the hole. Then lie filled
it again, stamped the ground down,
and with fearful yells the same wild
beating of the ground followed, in
winch even old Vicente took part. This
conchided the cermonies and everybody
went home feeling sittisiled that lie was
the one who had hit or killed the ghost
and no more sickness was going to pre
vail in the village. The whole made a
picturesqtue scenle-the swarthy old
bucks with their sweaty faces illumina
te(l by excitement and dancing; thie
huge fire burning in the middle, of
which once in a while a kick would send
the Ilanies. and sparks away up to the
tops of the trees; the stern face of the
cap,tain sitting on a chair with a long
rod1 in his hand and the audience with
eager expectation. sitting on tihe ground;
the 'fair sex' dloing their part in 'sing
Iig.' Then owls would fly overhead
through thme branches of the dark,
shiadowing oaks, joiniing in with their
voices andI adding to the9 awe of the
whole, while fair Lunma's face rose,
shining In its soft - splendor, above the
mountains to illuminate it all. "
(O,iossal Mexican Farmsg.
Much has been said and written of
the great extent and large possibilities
of Mexican haciendas. Bunt probably
few people in the United States even
yet realize the extent of some of these
tracts of land, whore a million or a miu
lien and a hailf of acres often coiistitute
a single estate in the hiand(s of the own
or. There are muany such estates in
Mexico large eiiough to hide away
many a Eluropean princip)ality, large
enough to awaken the envy of many a
land p)rop)rietor ini thn Pacific Coast
Sit es of the American Union. They
are to be found in many of the Central
and Northern States of Mexico. The fa
muous Salado ranch, for example, con
tains over 6300 square miles of land. It
lies partly in the States of .N uovo Leon,
Coahmuila, Zacatecas and San Luis Po
tosi, on the highway to Mexico, and on
the line of thme new railroad. It occlupies
the central table lands of Mexico at an
average elevation of 4000 feet. Chdins
of mountains traverse the estate, rich
in interal wealth. Thue bounderies of
the estate extend more than 100 miles
from north to south, and flourshing
farms aind large mining towiis are met -
at frequent Intervals.
A New Methodi for the A,iaiysis of Oli.
Th'le author treats a mbaisured quantity
of ol with a measuredi quantity of stand-.
ard e>iustic alksia. Ten o. o. of oil mea.
sured with a pipette were heated In a
boiling water bnth for an hour with 20 o.
o of a somution of potaisa. whtoh would
neutralize 128 o. o of sulphuric acid as
98 grmns -100) o. o. -At the ern. of this
heating the.inseed 0118 mentioned )a tho
purvious 'midshor' all libded a' caice ot
goals Solid or very firm"when hot, always
solid when doldi, and easily septarated by
mere drailning. The aiKaap e 1o.iO s
very diflerently sored ammi $ )to~n ~)
satt.p'ea. 1t sill1 u rat i 4he.
qufintitios of 'acld, di~,U~h * t
e ry 040$10