The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, April 01, 1891, Image 1
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DARLINGTON, S*. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 1, 1891.
NO. 30.
CHURCHES.
Presbyterian Church.—Rev. J. 6.
Law, Pastor; Preaching every Habbath
at 11} a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath
School at 10 a. m , Prayer Meeting every
Wednesday afternoon at 5 o'clock.
Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice,
Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at llj
a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5
p. m., Prayer )Iieling every Thursday
at 8 p. m.
Baptist Church.—fev. G. B. Moore,
Paster; Preaching every Sunday at 114
a. m and 8:30 p. m.. Prayer Meeting
every Tuesday at 8 p. m.
Episcopal, Cuapei,.—Rev. W. A.
Guerry, Rector; II. T. Thompson, Lay
Reader. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30
p. m., Lay Reading every Sunday morn
ing at 11 o'clock, Sabbath School every
Sunday afternom at 5 o’clock.
Macedonia Baptist Church.—Rev
I. P. Breckmgton, Pastor; Preacbirg
every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. m.
Sabbath School at 8:30 p. m., Prayer
Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30
o’clock.
COUNTY OFI’ICERS.
Sheriff.—W. P. Cole.
Clerk of Court —W. A. Parrot.
Treasurer.—J. E Bass.
Auditor.—W. II. Lawrence.
Probate Judge.—T. H. Spain.
Coroner.—U. G. Parnell.
School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans.
County Commissioners.—C. B.King,
W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy.
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A DREAM OF THE SEA*
A farmer lad in his prairie home
Lay dreamiug of the sea;
He ne’er had seen it, but well he knew
Its pictured image and heavenly hue;
And he dreamed he swept o’er its waters
blue,
With the winds a blowing free,
With the winds so fresh and free.
Ho woke! and he said “The day will come
When that shall be truth to me;”
But as years swept by him he always found
That his feet were clogged and his hands
were bound,
Till at last he lay in a narrow mould.
Afar from the sobbing sea,
The sorrowing, sobbing sea.
Ob, many there are on tho plains to-night
That dream of a voyage to be.
And have said in their souls, “The day will
come
When my bark shall sweep through the drift*
of foam.”
But their eyes grow dim and their lips grow
dumb,
Afar from the tossing sea,
Tho turbulent, tossing sea.
—Albert Bigelow Paine.
A MIDNIGHT SPELL.
BY M. I.OKING GUILD.
The low range of sand hills over which
Browning Carter was walking was softly
lit by the full, summer moon. From
his position the young man could over
look the level green country at his right,
and the quiet sea at bis left.
It was evident, however, that he saw
neither. In his eyes was tho far-away
look of expectation, and, as ho moved
along in buoyant ccstacy he was quite
unconscious of the slipping sand and
tangled dune grass.
Presently he came to a break in the
hills, a sort of gullcy which the sea had
once cut. Hero the coarse dune grasa
had reluctantly given place to a finer
species, and, in the centre of the hollow
stood a solitary tree. Its twisted, etorm-
whipped arms looked gaunt and appeal
ing in the flood of moonlight.
At eight of the tree the young man
made a low exclamation and quickened
hisalrcndy swift pace. As he approached,
ho scanned closely the scantily leaved
branches. It was not till quite near
them that he was certain of their species.
He heaved a sigh of deep satisfac
tion.
“An oak I I thought so.”
There was a strange excitement in his
manner, and his hand trembled as he
took out his watch.
“A quarter of twelve. Ten minutes
to wait. The incantation takes but
five.”
Rather impatiently the young man sat
down at the foot of the old oak, and
took from his pocket a small, calf-
bound volume, very old and very musty.
He had recently found it among a lot
of old books which had been left him by
bis great-uncle,, a man of much mystical
learning, who, in earlier times, would
doubtless have sufiered under the
accusation of witchcraft.
Carter, at the time of his uncle’s death,
had rather wondered at the odd bequest.
But the elder Carter had evidently seen
in the nervous, sensitive temperament of
tne young man that which would make
him a fit disciple ot theosophy.
The package of books, however, re
mained untouched until one afternoon,
Carter, from sheer laziness, was seized
with a desire to examine the box. Rather
to his own astonishment, he found him
self attracted by the mystical medley
which he met; and presently went to
work to study conscientiously that which
had found so great a place in his uncle’s
life.
In such reading he had spent tho last
six months, until his somewhat poetical
character became more than ever im
practical, and ho longed to grasp the
occult powers of which he read. lu this
mood he first opened the little calf-hound
book.
An introduction in English announced
that it was a collection of incantations
from different tongues, whereby the
spirits of the dead, and even of the liv
ing, might he controlled. The book was
in manuscript, and, oddly enough, these
incantations were written in English
characters, although the words were all
strange.
To-night Browning Carter had come,
under the mystical shadow of the oak,
that he might try Ac power of the spell
which was to show him the spiritual
form of the woman he should love.
With much painstaking he had learned
to repent tbc words, which meant
nothing to him. It had also given him
some trouble to master the musical into
nations on whose vibrations so much de
pended.
When his watch pointed to five min
utes to twelve he rose. A quiver of ex
citement ran over him. He took up his
position tome twenty feet away from the
tree. Keeping time to the lovely
rhythmic chant, he began to move slowly
•round the tree in gradually decreasing
eirdes.
The stillness was the tremulous one of
• summer night; save for the weird
chanting there was not a distinguishable
sound. Even the soft lapping of the sea
wet unheard in the little hollow.
Slowly Carter turned around the tree,
each time coming nearer to the rugged
trunk, until ho was so close to it that he
brushed it as he went around. In the
distance a village clock slowly struck
twelve. The chant grew softer and
•lower, and, at the last stroke, ceased.
Carter leaned dicaily against the old
tree.
I For the first time, looking between the
dunes, he noticed the sea. Suddenly an
odd, numb sensation crept over him.
Out on the quiet moonlight water a
figure was moving. Slender and white-
robed, it seemed to be walking upon the
water. Slowly it advanced, with an un
naturally steady motion.
Browning Carter leaned heavily against
the supporting oak. Nearer and nearer
came the slender, white figure, and the
young man could see that It was a
woman's and that over its shoulders hung
long, dark hair. She moved slowly
across the white sand of the beach and
entered the little hollow.
Fo:- a moment she paused, while the
heart of the watcher beat wildly. Closer
then the figure came, aud as it came he
saw that the dark hair framed an intense
white face and dark, wide-open eyes.
When' but a few feet away, she turned
her head, and the young man felt a wave
of sadness roll over him. On the white
face was a look of intense anguish.
Then the figure moved on, past the
gaunt oak and out of the little hollow.
Suddenly she disappeared, and Carter,
with quivering limbs, sank to the ground.
He would have followed her; hut the
twenty-four hours’ fast, with which ho
had prepared himself for his experience,
told on him, and he was unable to move.
After some time his strength came
back, and he rose and walked to where
the figure had vanished. He saw only a
sudden fall of the ground, and beyond,
a cottage built by some summer rcsideut.
All the world seemed sleeping.
A few days later Carter was snatched
from his dreamy life by a party of young
fellows who had come down from the
city, bent on making the most of their
vacation. Their gaiety grated on the
nerves of the mystic, who had been
somewhat unmanned by his midnight ex
perience. Courtesy, however, forced
him to lend himself to all their plans
and to enter into all their boating, sail
ing and fishing parties.
On one of these he was presented to a
Miss Tremaine. Whether she were
pretty or not Carter could not tell; for
she wore a veil, thick enough to conceal
her features. But she had a low, pleas
ant voice, and a wonderfully easy, un
affected manner.
To Carter’s remark that she had been
in none of the other sailing parties, she
answered that her health had not per
mitted it.
He hoped it had been a merely passing
Indisposition.
“Yes; only a cold.”
The young man noticed a tinge of con
straint in Miss Tremaine’s answer, and
that she immediately left the subject.
The party had started out in the after
noon, for its members wished to sail
home by moonlight. The supper on
board was a merry one, and Carter was
surprised at the heartiness with which
be joined in the general gayety.
“It really is better for me,” he de
cided mentally, “to see more of people.”
As the moon rose the party grew
quieter; even the songs became less rol
licking. Suddenly the gay little dam
sel to whom Carter was talking saw his
face change, while he stopped in the
middle of his sentence.
‘,Why, what is it?” she asked.
But Carter did not hear her. He was
looking across the boat to where sat Miss
Tremaine. She bad taken off her thick
veil, and the face on which the moon
ihone was the face of his vision.
Unconscious of everything else, Carter
rose abruptly and left his little compan
ion.
Miss Tremaine was sitting rather apart
from the others. As Carter approached
ihe smiled up at him and moved a little,
in mute offering of the scat beside her.
As if in a dream, the young man took it.
ft did not occur to him to talk; he meralya
looked at the white face which he had
seen under such strange circumstances.
Presently he became aware that Miss
Tremaine had been talking to him, and
that she was waiting for an answer. But
what could he say? He had heard noth-
ing.
: “I—I beg your pardon,” he stam
mered.
Miss Tremaine laughed easily.
“You have not heard one word I
said.”
Tho merry laugh broke the spell that
. lay over him.
“Excuse me; but you will think me
very rude, but your face reminded mo
of one I had seen lie fore, and iwtr
watching it.”
“So I perceived.”
Seeing the young man’s evident con
fusion, she laughed again, and good-
naturedly helped him out of difficulties.
“I wonder if you have as much trou
ble as I, in locating people. If you do,
I am sorry for you.”
But, during the whole of the conver
sation, which lasted until the landing,
Carter was conscious of an odd sensation
of unreality.
After this the meetings of the two
were frequent. They found much in
common to discuss, and they also found
that long walks together on the hard
sand of the beach were very favorable to
an interchange of experiences.
One afternoon, late in October, tho
two were standing together at the en
trance to the oak-tree hollow.
“Hove you noticed,’ asked Mias Tre
maine, pointing out on the sea, “that
there’s a sand-bar which runs out quite a
long distance? At low tide one can walk
away out on it. I used to have such
horrid dreams about it when I first cams
down.”
“What were they?” asked Carter with
a sudden hoarseness in his voice.
“I dont like to remember them 01
talk about them; only I seemed to be
always walking out on that bar, and the
water would seem to come up, up, and It
would he so cold, so cold. It isn’t much
to tell, but you know how it is in dreams;
there was always such a horrid sensation
about it.”
Carter was silent, and, after a little,
Miss Tremaine continued.
“And, do you know, I became very
much frightened about myself,
tho dream so often. And
know, that once or twice I must have
walked in my sleep and gone out therein
reality. Just think how horrible 1”
“What did you do about it?” her com
panion asked, mechanically.
“I spoke to tho doctor; and he gave
me something quieting. I suppose I was
a little unstrung by my brother’s death.
Why, Mr. Carterl What is the matter?”
For the young man’s face was white.
A moment he paused, looking at hot
with his grey eyes large from disappoint
ment. Then impulsively he began and
told her all of his discovery of tho little
hook; of his midnight incantation, and
what he had considered its result. Hi
recalled their subsequent meeting, and
told how lie had felt when she unveiled
her face and he had seen the one whom
he believed to be the destined companion
of his life. Toward the end his voici
faltered.
“I believed so firmly that wc wen
meant for each other that I felt sure that
some time you must love me. But now
that I know it was all a mistake; that it
was not your spirit, I .”
With a sob he turned away his head.
Almost immediately a soft hand was
slipped into his.
“But it was not all a mistake,” said
Eunice Tremaine.—Drake'1 Magazine.
FARM ANB H6USEH0LD.
nos BEST COWS FOB A CHEESE DAISY.
The Holstein breed is no doubt the,
best for a cheese dairy and the Ayrshire’
the second best. As pure-bred cows are
costly and not much better than half
breds, a good herd may soon be built up
by crossing well-selected native cows
with a pure bull. A good Holstein bull
may be bought for $100 to $200, and an-
Ayrshire for half as much.—Wirt* Font,
Timet.
BRAN AND CORN FOB PIGS.
Among tho advantages which are
claimed for feeding pigs with bran and
If. I had corn over corn alone are a greater economy
I think, "U 1 [q the use of the feed, an increase in the
proportion of lean to fat meat, and a
more rapid and longer continued growth 1
It is well known that if corn is fed ex
clusively pigs will fatten before they at
tain their full growth. But if bran is
given with tho corn they will reach a
larger size, have stronger bones and be
more vigorous than they can be if kept
on corn alone. This applies to the feed
ing of pigs under seven or eight months
of age. After they reach this point they
can be finished off with corn alone o
with corn and a smaller proportion o
bran than had been previously used.—
American Dairyman.
Mysteries of Geography.
In 1776 the Hessian General, Knip»
hausen, sailing to help the English sub
duo the rebellions colonies in America,
said anxiously to the captain of the ves
sel: “Is it not possible, considering tho
time that we have been under sail, that
in one of these dark nights wc have
sailed by America, where these rebels
are?” Mistakes equally as absurd were
made by those who pretented to be well
up in geography and to have a close
knowledge of America and the Ameri
cans.
In 1770 Lorenzana, the Archbishop of
Mexico, wrote a history of that country
in which he expressed tho opinion that
California bordered on Tartary and New
Mexico on Greenland!
Jacques Mareau in 1693 made a map
“of the discovered and undiscovered
portions of the American continent,”
which shows a large river rising at about
the present site of Kansas City and flow
ing west to the “Gulph of California,”
which is marked as running up nearly to
the latitude of Portland, Oregon.
The editor of “Notes for the Curious”
owns an original copy of Heylin’s
“Cosmographic” (1652), containing a
map of North America which has Texas,
Louisiana and New Mexico (not by name,
but by location) marked as islands. A
great chain of mountains runs across
from Virginia to the Pacific at about tho
latitude of Memphis, Tcnn. The head
waters of the Mississippi are located at
about the same place; California is cut
off from the mainland, and the Rio
Grande rises in a big lake in Montana
and flows southwest into the Gulf of
California, which is there called “Mare
Yermiglio.”
Smith never, during his lifetime, suc
ceeded in convincing tho English that
Virginia was not an island; in vain ho
wrote home, “Virginia is no isle, as
many doc imagine.”
Henry Belle’s map does not show a
single trace of tho Great Lakes of North
America.—St. Luuit Itepublie.
Newspapers Svperseedfng Magazines.
Heretofore magazines in competition
with newspapers have had almost a mon
opoly of the highest literary talent, but
the daily press commands more and more
of the best writing and etching of the
two worlds. It is a serious question if
there will be auy great use for magazines
after a few years. Even now the news
paper is giving equal, or almost equal,
literary attractions and a greater variety
of lighter letter press, such as novelettes,
sketches of character and travel, besides
book reviews, accounts of discoveries
and scientific inventions, not to speak of
illustrations of every phase of human life
and thought, from the humorous quip to
the mast momentous events of current
history.— Washington Star.
A Tankard Waahingten Used.
W. E. Dwight, of Plaiuwell, Mich.,
has obtained an heirloom of which he is
very proud. It is a tankard aud bowl
of earthenware plated with a bright hut
much worn substance. The articles were
»
Igiven his mother early in tho sixties by a
colored woman who obtained them from
a New Haven (Conn.) tavurn. It is au
thentically related that the vessels were
part of the table furniture from which
General Washington ale his dinner in
June, 1775, while making the journey to
Cambridge, Muss., to assume command of
■the American army.—Boston Tnsuuutyt.
NOSE BLEEDING IN HORSES.
Bleeding at the nose in horses Is us
ually the result of some injury or disease.
If tho blood came from the stomach or
lungs it would flow through both nos
trils. Sometimes, however, fleshy
swellings appear attached to the mucous
membrane of tho nostrils, called polypi,
and when these break blood flows from
the opening. If a polypus is present
you may discover it by a careful inspec
tion, turning the colt’s head up to the
light. If you discover a lump in the
nostril the services of a veterinarian will
be needed in its removal. If you think
it necessary to check the bleeding, blow
matico powder of strong alum water in
a spray up the affected nostril. If the
flow of blood is only slight, better let it
alone, merely washing out the nostrils
with alum water. Try bathing the lump
on the jaw with common kerosene oil,
which will soften it if hard and cause it
to he absorbed unless the hone is af
fected, as in the disease known as big
jaw, which is very difficult to cure even
when taken in its earlier stages.—AT*i*
York Sun.
don’t thin-out the woodlot.
When a woodlot is once broken into
by cutting out tho most valuable timber,
it is rarely worth much afterward. Trees
used to stand together thickly are a pro
tection to each other in various ways.
They prevent violent winds from uproot
ing them, and by the shelter they afford
they keep snow on tho ground, which
makes the soil moist for the roots in
summer, and prevents deep freezing in
winter. Whenever a portion of the for
est is denuded, the trees unused to the
sweep of winds topple over within a
year or two, or if they do not the trees
begin to die at the top. Trees soon ac
custom themselves to new conditions if
they are not too old when the change is
begun, but old trees that have stood in
virgin forest from the earliest settlement
of the country should be cleared out en
tirely whenever any clearing is attempted.
This explains why attempts to make ma
ple sugar orchards by cutting out all
trees generally result in failure. The
better plan is to clear off all and plant a
new orchard exclusively of maples, and
thickly enough so that they will protect
each other the same as in a natural forest.
— Courier-Journal.
FARM AND GARDEN NOTES.
Frolit is made by reducing cost as well
ts by selling for a higher price.
If your neighbor succeeds better than
yen do, find out how he does it.
Never break off a limb on a valuable
tree; always make a smooth cut.
A bushel of potatoes often commands
as high a price as a bushel of wheat.
There is more profit in the long run
in cultivating one acre than in skimming
ten.
A day lost in transportation does
not help farm work along; repair the
roads.
The man who makes good cheese for
home consumption will find a market for
it near home.
An experienced herder says that when
ever a sheep goes off by itself its owner
may he sure there is something radically
wrong with it.
A nice, fat peafowl makes an extra
good tabic fowl. The meat is tender,
juicy and well flavored, although not
very generally used.
If you do not care to bother with
poultry, turn them over to your wife and
children and let them have what they
can make out of them.
The New York Society for Prevention
of Cruelty to Animals has determined to
enforce the law against docking of horses
tails, a “fashion” which seems to bo
growing.
On the farm, if well managed, poultry
ought to he bred, fed and made ready
for market at as low a cost as hogs, and
will generally sell for more.
., Jf you can arrange to have your
poultry ready for market a little earlier
than the great majority of your neigh
bors, you can generally realize much
better prices.
It is claimed by some farmers that
sheep noed no water. This is a sad mis-
take; sheep will drink a good deal of
water if theyhave access to a running
brook or spring. It is true, however,
that they can do without water longer
than any other live stock. They are
nice about the quality and will not take
water that is foal.
At present prices milk used for mak
ing cheese sells for a little more than its
value for butter, unless the milk is ex
ceptionally rich in fat. Cows that yield
five per cent, and over in fat will give
ibout$l per one hundred pounds for the
milk for buttermaking, which is equal
to a little more than ten cents per pound
for the cheese, and the skimmed milk is
left.
THE SEA COW.
A STRANGE ANIMAL THAT 19 BE-
COMING EXTINCT,
Its Haunts. Habits and Peculiarities
—How It is Caught iu Seines—
Its Dainty Flesh Now Al
most Priceless.
RECIPES.
Apple Sauce—Pare, core and slice 8
quarter of a peck of tart apples, stew
them until soft and then press them
through a colander. Add sugpr to taste.
If the apples arc very sour, stir m a
pinch of baking soda before you takf
them oil the fire; it will then tako less
sugar to sweeten them.
Boiled Mutton—Wipe the joint with a
damp towel; dust a cloth thickly with
flour and wrap the meat in it. Put in a
kettle and cover with boiling water, to
which odd a tcaspoonful of salt; let sim
mer fifteen minutes for every pound.
When done, take up carefully, remove
the cloth, garnish with parsley and
serve with mint sauce.
Rye Bread—To each pint of very light
wheat flour sponge, add a level teaspoon
of salt, a heaping tablespoon of brown
sugar, and rye flour to permit kneading.
Knead well. When light, mold into
loaves, let it rise again till more than
double its first size, brush the top with
melted butter, bake one hour in a mod
erate oven. A delicious bread; with p
crust as tender as cake.
Slashed Potatoes—Pare your potatoes
very thin and let them lie in cold water
one hour. Put them into boiling water
slightly salted and boil steadily until you
can pierce them with a fork, then pour
off the water, sprinkle them lightly with
salt and add, to one dozen medium sized
potatoes a piece of butter the size of a
hen’s egg; mash them with a wire mash
er, add half a cupful of hot cream and
beat them until very light and white.
A Chapter on Heads.
“The heads of men are growing
larger,” said a Broadway hatter, the
other day, as he sold a 7$ hat to a small
man. “Thirtyyears ago,” he continued,
“when I first went into the business, the
average size ranged from 6J to 65. Ol
course, there were plenty of men with
larger heads, hut that was the average
size. Most of onr customers buy hats
nowadays in sizes from 7 to 7(j, and ycl
the men of thirty years ago seemed
to have as much brains as the
men of to-day. The most singulai
thing about the hat trade is the ability
of a first class salesman to judge of the
nationality of his customer by the shape
of his bead. We Americans have long,
narrow heads. It used to he that when
an American head came in for a hat, il
it was long enough for him it would he
very likely too wide at the sides, or if it
fitted at the sides it had to he pulled out
at the ends. But wc now have hats for
heads ot a nationalities.
“When a German head comes in wc
jump for tho boxes filled with hats
especially made for round heads. The
heads of Englishmen are irregular in
shape, notwithstanding the conservatism
of the nation. Irish heads arc the most
easily fitted. They are oval in shape.
Most small men require largo hats, and
there was a great many large men who
wear small tiles. It is a noticeable fact,
however, that as the world grows older
the heads of English-speaking people
re growing more and more alike, and
the shape is tending toward the long
headed American head, all reports to the
contrary.”—New York Telegram.
Newspaper Curiseltles.
“The newspapers of Colombo, on the
island of Ceylon,” says a tourist, “are
curiosities it their way. They are small
sized folios, and they are issued daily.
Their names are the Examiner and the
Independent. They show a liberal amount
of advertising patronage and afair amount
of local news. In the Examiner recently
was quite a long account ot the Colum
bian World’s Fair to be held in Chicago.
In the advertising columns are offered
tea estates for sale, cocoanut plantations
to rent, and one native adve:tiscs some
thing like this: ‘I, Arunasalan Sellapfcy,
of Natara, Vupe, do hereby notify that 1
will, after the 15th of November, 1890,
adopt my maternal name, Razapaxsege,
giving up my paternal name, Arunasalan,
to avoid confusion. 1 In one of the papers a
great Indian circus is announced to take
place.”
The English walnut groves arc fust
coming into good hearing in Anaheim,
Los Angeles County, Cal. They produce
from $100 to $500 per acre, and the en
tire crop for the valley has yielded $20,-
000 this season.
The casualties from fast driving in
London, England, last year were 250
persons killed and 5000 injured.
The most interesting animal in Florida
to most of our winter visitors is the mer
maid, or manatee, but, unfortunately, It
cannot then be seen, as it leaves for a
warmer climate on the approach «f cold
weather and does not return until the
following spring, generally about May.
This harmless creature is locally
known by the names of sea cow, mer
maid, river calf and some others, and
among naturalists as the trichechus
Americanus, or the American species of
the manatee.
The manatee received its name of sea
•ow from the supposed resemblance of
the mouth to that of the denizen of tho
barnyard, and of mermaid from tho sail
ors who saw it far out to sea holding its
baby with one flipper.
The only resemblance tho sea cow
really hears to the land cow is that it is
a mammal, suckles its young, feeds on
herbage, and is gentle hut not timid. It
differs from all other marine mammals
outside its own group in various ways,
notably in its curious structure, it hav
ing « broad, powerful fiat tail, like that
of a whale, which enables it to sink and
rise from great depths by a few strokes;
having foreflippers, like the seal, which)
it uses for walking or swimming; a re
markably thick skin, which allies ill
somewhat to the pachydormata, tho
hardest and densest bones of all the
inammals; eyes even smaller than those of
the hog, and flesh more palatable than
the finest venison.
The tenderness of its meat was one
great cause of its destruction, for man
and the fierce carnivora: waged constant
warfare against, it from the most north
erly shores of Alaska to the waters of
Brazil. The Indians ot the Amazon
River even now consider it the greatest
delicacy obtainable, and capture it ex
tensively during its migrations up aud
down the river.
Its hide is also very useful. The
Seminole Indians, in times of yore, made
canoes out of it, and almost indestructa-
bio ropes, lariats, whips and household
utensils.
The density and hardness of the bones,
the toughness and thickness of the skin,
which is underlaid with about two
inches of the richest kind of fat, and tbc
short time it remains near the surface of
the water to breathe, makes it the hard
est animal in the world to kill with a
rifle, and, for these reasons, one rarely
hears of the destruction of one with fire
arms.
The usual method of capturing the
manatee in Florida is to plant a very
heavy net, about 300 or 400 feet iu
length, and from six to twelve feet in
depth, in places which it is known to
frequent. The net is never anchored,
but either tied to two posts firmly set in
the bottom of the river, or else fastened
by light strings to bushes or trees on
shore, so that the least touch of a wan
derer may break them and allow the
seine to envelop it.
The trappers may either build them
selves palmetto huts on shore for shelter
while waiting for a prize, or secure bet
ter quarters and freedom from the as
saults of mosquitoes aboard a shallow
draught sloop, for the Santa Lucia is
little more than a lagoon and only ten
miles long.
Those in boats keep a constant watcl
night and day to see that prize and net
do not escape them,whilst those on shore
may only visit the seines two or three
times in the twenty-four hours. Whcr
ever they take up their quarters, their
virgil is generally long and must be
silent, for the mermaid has probably the
keenest hearing of any known animal,
that being really its only means of de
fence.
The fall of a blade of grass on the
water will send one fleeing almost as
rapidly as the sight of a dog will s
hare.
Its sight is also very good, consider
ing that the eyes are very small, and
look smaller than they are, owing to
their being largely hidden by heavy folds
of skin. After a period of weary wait
ing the men may have their hearts set
wildly heating by seeing a commotion in
their nets. They hasten rapidly toward
it, only to find, perhaps, that a vagrant
alligator is trying to force its way
though It, a huge sawfish rending it with
its sharp weapon, or a shark floundering
through it, or attempting to tear it to
atoms with its series of mouth-imbedded
lances. Should It turn out to bo object
of their pursuit, they beccmo joyous
and haul it ashore enveloped in its bind
ing but airy costume of meshes.
Should it be too large to be readily
bandied, the captors tie it with cords—
as it never makes any resistance—and by
a series of ropes and pulleys place it in
a tank half filled with water, or they
may build a corral of stakes around it in
water deep enough to float it at all tides,
and leave it there until they get a pur
chaser for it or an opportunity of ship
ping it to a city.
While it remains imprisoned it is fed
on lily pods, manatee grass, cabbage
leaves, bananas or any other - delectable
fruit or vegetable, ft may be very shy
for the first day or two, but, after that
time, it becomes quite familiar, allows
its head to bo scratched and eats food
out of tho hand.
When sold it is generally placed in e
large tank, put aboard a sloop aud carried
to its destination. An adult manatee
could be purchased some years ago for
$50 or $100, but the animal is becoming
so rare that even one seven or eight feet
is now worth from $1000 to $1500. A
mermaid twelve feet long and weighing
1600 pounds could be sold to a circus foi
$3000 at least and the skeleton of such n
one would find a ready sale in most mu
scums of natural history at $1000.
Most of the animals die soon after be
ing captured—not through any Inherent:
disease, but through want of proper care
and attention. One was kept alive in the
grounds of the Subtropical Exposition at
Jacksonville, Fla., for three or four years,
and may be alive now for aught I know.
I asked Mr. Cash Thomas, superinten
dent of the grounds, how he managed to-
keep it in existence so long, and he re
plied that there was no secret about it,
all bo hail done being to keep it in arte
sian well water and feed it solely on lily
pods, of which it ate three bushels a day.
He admitted giving it a very little fresh
grass occasionally, and bananas as a rel
ish. This animal would come when,
called, and ate the herbage thrown it in
a lazy, methodical manner. It rose to
the surface every four or five minutes to
“blow,” and often sent a shower of water
fifteen or more feet into tho air. On de
scending it closed the valves of the nos
trils, swam or walked slowly about, and
groped along the bottom with its mouth
feelers for some delicate morsel. When
a wild one is scared, however, it can
swim very rapidly, and tow a boat with
several men iu at a pace that might be
called wonderful.
The Jacksonville manatco was eight
feet long, about thirty inches wide across
the back, and perhaps a foot or more in'
depth.
When it wished to cleanse itself of
parasites it turned over on its back and
rubbed that part on tho stones and sand
lying on tho bottom until nearly all were
rubbed off. It seemed to enjoy this
operation. Its favorite haunt was pear
the bottom of the pond, with the head
close to tho lower part of the bank, and
when it rose to breathe it merely poked
its nostrils above the surface, opened the
valves, inhaled all the air it could at one
breath, then slowly descended to Its
chosen haunts.
To kill such au animal with a riflo
while it is breathing appears to be aa ex
traordinary feat, yet it has been done by
Indian hunters on Whitewater Bay. Tho
Scminoles formerly captured it with
seines and harpoons, or by surrounding
it with boats ami shooting it as it rose
near the surface. After making a cap
ture, they held a triumphal feast aud
boasted of their own prowess to their
hearts’ content. What they did not need
for their own immediate use they dried
in the sun, and this they often sold to
Spanish trading vessels at fifty cents a
pound, tho fresh meat being worth from
seventy-five cents to $1.
Manitec steak is now probably worth
$100 a pound in Florida, and exceedii%-
ly scarce at that price.—St. Louis Repub
lic.
The Original and New states.
The original States, thirteen in num
ber, were Delaware, Pennsylvania, New
Jersy, Georgia, Connecticut, Massa
chusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, Now
Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North
Carolina aud Rhode Island. The other
States were admitted as follows! Ver
mont, March 4, 1791; Kentucky, Juno
1, 1792; Tenuesse, June 1, 1796; Ohio,
November 29, 1802; Louisiana, Aprii
30, 1812; Indiana, December 11, 1816:
Mississippi, December 10, 1817; Illinois,
December 3, 1818; Alabama, December,
14, 1819; Maine, March 15, 1820; Mis
souri, August 10, 1821; Arkansas, Juno
15, 1830; Michigan, January 26, 1837;
Florida, March 3, 1845; Texas, Deccm
her 29,1845; Iowa, December, 28,1816;
Wisconsin, May 19,1848; California, Sep
tember 9, 1850; Minnesota, May 11,
1858; Oregon, February 14, 1859; Kan
sas, January 29,1861; West Virginia,
Juno 19, 1863; Nevada, October 31,
1864; Nebraska, March 1, 1867, (Col
orado, August 1, 1876; North Dakota
and South Dakota, November 3, 1889;
Montana, November 3, 1889; Washing
ton, November 11, 1889; Wyoming,
July 3, 1890, end Idaho still more re
ceutly.—Courier-Journal.
The Ceffers in the Bank.
The Bank of England is the custodian
of a large number of boxes deposited by
customers for safety during the past two
hundred years, and in not a few instances
forgotten. Many of these consignments
are not only of rare intrinsic and his
torical value, but of great romantic in
terest. For instance, some years ago tho
servants of the hank discovered in its
vaults a chest, which on being moved
literally fell to pieces. On examining
the contents, a quantity of massive plate
of the period of Charles II. was discov
ered, along with a bundle of love letters
indited during the period of the Res
toration. The Directors of the hank
caused search to bo made in their books,
the representative of the original de
positor of the box was discovered, and
the plate and love letters bunded over.—
Chambers's Journal