Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Vlnyed With a Suake. Mrs. Divine, a widow, of Cornwall, N. Y., went to church on a recent Sun day morning, leaving her two little girls, Nora and Jenny, aged respectively siv and four years, alone in the bouse. Half an hour later Mrs. Benton, the wife of a neighboring farmer, saw the children sitting on the grass under an apple tree, striking at something on the ground. At each stroke they screamed with laughter. Mrs. Benton’s curiosity was aroused, and she crossed the road to sco what was amusing them. As she approached them Nora said gleefully; “Big worm playing pcck-a-boo with us.” She had hardly ceased speaking when half the length of a great copperhead snake darted out of a hole in the direc tion of the children. Two switches dropped smartly on it and the ugly head was quickly pulled back. Whether the venomous reptile was really playing with the children, as they supposed, or was kept at bay by their switches, was a pro blem which Mre. Benton did not waste any time in attempting to solve. She called to her husband and rushing for ward she dragged the little girls away from the hole. Mr. Benton arrived just as the snake looked out again to see what had become of them. The farmer's stick fell upon his head ami he wen* back no more. Airs. Divine fainted when she saw the snake and he^fd the story, but her children wept and refused to be comforted because their playmate was dead.—Chicago Pott. Ancient Inks. The ink first med probably was some natural animal pigment, such as the black fluid obtained from various species of cuttlefish; but the limited supply of this materia! soon le I to the use of a chemical mixture of water, gum and lamblack, aud the characters were painted rather than written, by means of a broad- pointed reed. As ink of this simple nature was easily removed from the surface of the parch ment by the mere application of moisture, it was early found necessary to contrive some means of forming a more durable ink, and for this purpose the expedient was adopted of treating the mixture with some substance such as vinegar, of the nature of a mordant, which would pene trate the parchment written upon, aud form au ink not liable to fade. A chemical dye, cousistiug of au iu- fudon of galls with sulphate of iron, was afterward used, as from its vitrious na ture it hit into the medium employed; but a compound vegetable ink, contain ing a good deal of carbon pigment, was subsequently adopted, aud was very generally employed down to the middle ages. With ink of this sort the best and most ancient manuscripts which have been pre served to us were writteu, aud the sepa rate leaves, after being allowed to drj slowly, were bound together in vol umes. Pliny and Vitruvius, as well as othci writers, give receipts for the manufac ture of inks. — Chambers's Journal. A Rose Question. Tn one of the pretty home gardens at Bay 8t. Louis, where the roses grow and blow u-molested by fashion and the new-fangled names that fashion invents for them, there is in bloom a rose tree with eccentric flowers. It is a sweet- scented damask rose, next of kin prob ably to the new, imperious “American Beauty.” The tree is covered with large, lovely roses in full bloom, and from the heart of each rose, growing up above the petals on a single stalk; is a cluster of three or four little immaturely formed roses. Every rose on the tree is thus sprouting this most curious freak of nature. The secoud growth of roses does not come to perfect flowers, but the wizzeu, weak, ill-formed flowers growing from the heart of the mother rose are singularly sweet iu perfume. Can any of our florists explain the eccentric motherhood of this damask rose? New Orleans 1‘icauunji. Weighing Machines. Weighing machines and scales of some kind were in use 1800 B. C., for it is said that Abraham at thattime “weighed out” 400 shekels of silver, current money, with the merchant to Ephron, the Hit- tite, as payment for a piece of land, in cluding the cave and all the standing timber “in the field and in the fence.” This is said to be the earliest transfer of land of which any record survives, and that the payment was made in the pres ence of witnesses. The original form of the weighing scale was probably a bar suspended from the middle, with a board or shell suspended from each end, one to contain the weight, the other to contain the matter to be weighed. The steel yard was probably so called from the ma terial of which it was made, and from its former length. It is also known as the Roman balance, and is of great antiquity. —St. Louis Republic. A beet sugar plant is being erected at Marshalltown, Iowa, with a capacity of 4U0 tons. It Makes Pure Blood And by so doing Hood’s Sarsaparilla cures scrofula salt rheum and all other blood diseases, aids proper digestion, gives strength to every organ of the body, and prevents attacksof that tired feeling or more serious disease. If you will take Hood’s Sarsapa rilla now it will put you in the best condition to tear the hot days of summer. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Told by all druggists, fl; six for $5. Prepared only by C. I. HOOD A CO., Lowell, Mass. IOO Doses One Dollar “German Syrup” “ We are six in fam- A Farmer at ily. We live in a i-. ^ place where we are Edom t TexaB, sub j ect to violent Says: Colds and Lung Troubles. I have used German Syrup for six years successfully for Sore Throat, Cough, Cold, Hoarseness, Pains in the Chest and Lungs, and spitting-up of Blood. I have tried many differ ent kinds of cough Syrups in my time, but let me say to anyone want ing such a medicine—German Syrup is the best. That has been my ex perience. If you use it once, you will go back to it whenever you need it. It gives total relief and is a quick cure. My advice to every one suffering with Lung Troublcsis —Try it. You will soon be con vinced. In all the families where your German Syrup is used we have no trouble with the Lungs at all. It is the medicine for this country. 0 G. G. GREEN, Sole Mau'fr.Woodbury.NJ, John Franklin Jones. REV. DR. TALMAGE The Brooklyn Divine’s Sunday Sermon Text: “//r that passeth bp and meddleth inth strife belonging not to him is like one that laketh a dog by the ears."—Proverbs xxvi., 17. Solomon here deplores the habit of rush- * >e ^' veen TOiitestants; of taking part in th^anfagonisms of others; of joining in fights winch they ought to shun. They do ho good toothers and get damage for them selves. He compares it to the experiment of taking a dog by the ears. Nothing so irri tates canines as to be clutched by the lugs. Take them by the back of the neck and lift them and it does not seem to hurt or offend, but you take the dog by the ear, aud he will take you with his teeth. In all the history of kennels no intelligent or spirited dog will stand that. “Now,’’ says Solomon, “you go into quarrels or controversies that are not yours and you will get lacerated and torn and bitten. ‘He that passeth by and med dleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the ears.’ ’’ This is the time of resounding ecclesiastical quarrel. Never within your memory or mine has the air been so full of missiles. The Presbyterian Church has on hand a con troversy to great that it finds it prudent to postpone its settlement for at least one more j; ear • hoping that something will turn up. homebody might die or a new general assem- bl} may have grace to handle the exciting questions. The Episcopal Church has cast out some recalcitrants, and its digestive or- gans are taxed to the utmost in trying to as- others. “Shall women preach?” Or be sent as delegates to conferences?” are questions that have put many of our Methodist brethren on the “anxious seat. And the waters in some of the great baptistries are troubled waters. Because of the controversies throughout Christendom the air is now like an August afternoon about five o'clock, when it has been steaming not all day, and clouds are gathering, and there are lions of thunder with grumbling voices and flashing eyes coming forth from their cloudy lairs, and people are waiting lor the full burst of the tempest. I am not much of a weather prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly like wind clouds. It may be a big blow, but I hope it will soon be over. In i egard to the Battle of the Creeds, 1 am every day asked about it I want to make it so plain this morning what I think that no one will ever ask again. Lot those who are jurymen in the case- I i mean those who in the different ecclesiasti cal courts have the questions put directly before t hem—weigh and decide. Let the rest of us keep out. The most damaging thing on earth is religious controversy. No one ever comes out of it as good a man as he goes in. Some of the ministers in all de nominations who before the present acerbity were good and kind and useful, now seem al most swearing mad. These brethren I notice always open their violent meetings with praver before devouring each other, thus saying prace before meat. They have a moral hydrophobia that makes us think they have taken a dog by the ears. They never read the imprecatory Psalms of David with such zest as since the Briggs and Newton and MacQueary and Bridgman and Brooks ques tions got into full swing. May the rams of the sheepfold soon have their horns sawed off! Before the controversies are settled a good many ministers w ill, through what they call liberalism, be landed into practical in fidelity, and others through what they call conservatism will shrink up into bigots tight and hard as the mummies of Egypt which got through their controversies three thou sand years ago. This trouble throughout Christendom was directly inspired by Satan. He saw that too much good was being done. Re cruits were being gathered by hundreds of thousands to the Gospel standard. The victories for God and the truth were too near together. Too many churches were being dedicated. Too many ministers were being ordained. Too many philanthropies were being fostered. Too many souls w’ere being saved. It had been a dull time in the nether world, and the arrivals were too few. So Satan one day rose upon his throne and said, “Yc powers of darkness, hear!’ And all up and down the caverns the cry was, “Hear! Hear!” Satan said: “There is that American Board of Commissioners for For- eign Missions. It must either be demolished or crippled, or the first thing you know they will have all nations brought to God. Apol- i lyon the Younger! You go up to Andover : and get the professors to discussing whether the heathen can be saved without the Gos pel. Divert them from the work of missions ; and get them in angry convention in J a room at Young's Hotel, Boston, and | by the time they adjourn the cause of j foreign missions will be gloriously and j magnificently injured. Diabolus the Youn ger! You go ui) and get Union Theological Seminary of New York aud the general assembly of the Presbyterian Church at De- | troit at swords’ points and diverted from the j work of making earnest ministers of religion, and turn that old Presbyterian Church, which has been keeping us out of customers for hundreds of years, into a splendid pan demonium on a small scale. Abaddon the Third! You go up and assault that old Epis copal Church, which has been storming the heavens for centuries with the sublimest prayers that were ever uttered—church of Bishop Leighton. Bishop White and Bishop Mcllvane,and get that denomination discuss ing men instead of discussing the eternities. Abaddon the Fourth! You go up to that old Methodist Church, which has, through her revival, sent millions to heaven which we would otherwise have added to our popula tion; the chureh of Wesley and Matthew Simpson, against which we'have an especial grudge, and get them so absorbed in discuss ing whether women shall tak« part in her conference that they shall not have so much time to discus* how many sons and daughters she will take to glory." What amazes me most is that all people do not see that the entire movement at this time all over Christendom is satanic. Many of the infernal attacks are sly and hidden and strategic and so ingenious that they are not easily discovered. But here is a t»old and uncovered attempt of the powers oi darkness to split up the churches, to get ministers to take each other by the throat, to make religion a laughing stock of earth and hell, to leave the Bible with no more resp^t or authenticity than an old almanac or 18^1, which told what would be the change of weather six months ahead and in what quarter of the month it is best to plant turnips. In a word, the effort is to stop the evangelization of the world. It seems to me very much like this: There has been a railroad accident and many arc wounded and dying. There are several drug stores near the scene of casualty. AH the doctors and druggists are needed and needed right away. Bandages, stimulants, anaesthetics, medicines of all sorts. What are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis cussing the contents of some old bottles on the top shelf, bottles of medicine which some doctors and druggists mixed two or three hundred years ago. “Come doctors'" ‘ 1 ,omo druggists!” cry the people, “and help these wounded and dying that are being brought from the timbers of the crushed rail train. In a little while it Will be too late. Come for God’s sake! Como right away!” “No,” says the doctor, “not until we have settled whether the medicine on that top shelf was rightly mixed. I say there wore too many drops of iaudauum in it, and this other man says there were too many drops of camphire, we must get this ques tiou settled before we can attend to the rail road accident.” And one doctor takes another doctor by the collar and pushes him back against the counter and one of the druggists says, “If you will not admit that I am right about that one bottle I will smash every bottle in your apothecary store,” aud he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, 1 plainly marked and within easy reach are all the medicines needed for the helping of : the suflerers by the accident, and in that drawer, easily opened, are bandages and splints for the lack of which fifty people are dying outside the drug store. Before I apply this thought every one sees its appli cation. Here is this old world, and it is off track. Kin and sorrow have collided with it. The groan of agony is fourteen hun dred million voiced. God has opened for relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great house of mercy, and all ito shelves are filled with balsams, with catholicons, with help—glorious help, treinendoui help, help so easily administered that you need not got upon any step ladder to reach it. You can reach it on your knees and then hand it to all the suffering, and the sinning, and the t dying. Comfort for all the troubled! Par don for all the guilty! Peace for all the dy ing! But while the world is needing the re lief and perishing for lack of it, what of the church? Why, it is full of fighting doctors. On the top shelf are some old bottles, which several hundred years ago Calvin or Arniin ius, or the members of the synod of Dort, or the formers of the Nicene creed filled with holy mixtures, and until we got a revision of these old bottles and find out whether we must take a teaspoonful or tablespoonful, and whether before or after meals, let the nations suffer and groan and die. Save the bottles by ail means, if you cannot save any thing else. Now, what part shall you and 1 take in this controversy which Alls alt Christendom with clangor? My advice is, take no part. In time of riot all mayors of cities advise goal citizens to stay at home or iu their places of business, and iu this time of relig lous riot I advise you to go about your regu lar work for God. Leave the bottles on the higher shelves for others to fight about, and take the two bottles on the shelf within easy reach, the two bottles which are all this dying world needs; the one filled with a potion which is for the cleansing of all sin, the other filled with a potion which is for the soothing of all suffering. Two Gospel bottles! Christ mixed them out of His own tears and blood. In them is no human admixture. Spend no time on the mysteries! You, a man only five or six feet high, ought not to try to wade an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own experience has been vivid. I devoted the most of my time for years in trying to un derstand Gkid’s eternal decrees, and I was de termined to find out why the Lord let sin come into the world, and I set out to explore the doctrine of the Trinity, ami with a yard stick to measure the throne of the Infinite. As with all my predecessors, the attempt was a dead failure. For the last thirty years I have not spent two minutes in studying the controverted points of theology, and if f live thirtv years longer I will not spend the thou sandth part of a second in such exploration. I know two things, and these I will devote all the years of my life in proclaiming—God will through Jesus Christ pardon sin, and He will comfort trouble. Creeds have their uses, but just now the church is creeded to death. The young men entering the ministry are going to be launched in the thickest fog that ever set tled on the coasts. As I am told that in all our services students of Princeton and Un ion and Drew and other theological semi naries are present, and as these words will come to thousands of young men who are soon to enter the ministry, let me say to such and through them to their associates, keep out of the bewildering, belittling, de stroying and angry controversies abroad. The questions our doctors of divinity are trying to settle will not be settled until the day after the day of judgment. It is such a poor economy of time to spend years and years in trying to fathom the unfathomable, when iu five minutes in heaven we will know all we want to know. Wait till we get our throne. Wait till the light of eternity flashes upon our newly ascended spirits. It is useless for ants on different sides of a mole hill to try to discuss the com parative height* of Mount Blanc and Mount Washington. Let me say to all young men about to enter the ministry that soon the greatest novelty in the world will be the un adulterated religion of Jesus Christ. Preach that and you will have a crowd. The world Is sick to regurgitation with the modern quacks in religion. The world has been swinging off from the old Gospel, but it will swing back, and by the time you young men go into tha pulpits the cry will be coming up from all the millions of mankind, “Give us the bread of life; no sweetened bread, no bread with sickly raisins stuck here and there into it, but old-fashioned bread as God our mother mixed and baked it!” Now, what is the simple fact that you in the pew and Sabbath-school class and re formatory association and we in the pulpits have to (leal with? Is is this: That God has somewhere, and it matters not where, but somewhere, provided a great heaven, great for quietness for those who want quiet; great lor vast assemblage for those who like mul titudes; great for architecture for those who like architecture; great for beautiful land scape for those who like beautiful landscape; great for music for those who like music; great for processions for those who like armies on white horses, and great for anything that one especially desires in such a rapturous dominion; and through the doings of one who was born about five miles south of Jerusalem and died about ten minutes’ walk from its east ern gate all may enter that great heaven for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is that all? That is all. What, then, is your work and mine? Our work is to persuade people to face that way and start thither ward and finally go in. But has not reli gion something to do with this world as well as the next? Ob, yes; but do you not see that if the people start for heaven on their way there they will do all the good they can? They will at the very start of the journey get so much of the spirit of Christ, which is a spirit of kindness and self sacrifice and generosity and burden bearing and helpful ness, that every step they take will resound with good deeds. Oh, get your religion off of stilts! Get it down out of the high tow ers! Get it on a level with the wants and woes of our poor human race! Get it out of the dusty theological books that few people read, and put it in their hearts and lives. Good thing is it to profess religion when you join the church, but every day, some how, we ought to profess religion. A peculiar patchwork quilt was, during the Civil War, made by a lady and sent to the hospitals at the front. She had a boy in the army, and was naturally interested in the welfare of soldiers. But what a patch- work quilt she sent! On every block of the quilt was a passage of Scripture or a verse of a hymn. The months and yearsof the war went by. On that quilt many a wounded, man had lain and suffered and died. But out* morning the hospital nurse saw a patient under the Idanket kissing the figured aleaf in the quilt, and the nurse supposed he was only w andering in his mind. Blit no; he wav the son of the mother who had made the quilt aud lie recognized that figure of a loaf as uart of a gown his mother used to wear, nnu it reminded him of home. “Do you know where this quilt came from?” he asked. The nurse Answered, “1 can find out, for thers was a card pinned l ast to it, and I will find that.'’ Sure enough, it confirmed what he thought. Then the nurse pointed to a passage of Scripture in the block of the quilt, the pas sage which says, “When he was yet a great ways off his father saw him and ran and foil on his neck and kissed him.” “Yes,’’ said the dying soldier, “I was a great way off, but God has met me and had compassion on me.” “Shall l write to your mother and tell hei* that the lost one is found and the dead h alive again?” He answered, “I wish you would, if it would rot be too much trouble.” Do you suppose that woman who made that quill and filled il with script ure passages had any trouble about w ho Melchizedek was, oi* how the doctrine of God’s sovereignty cau be harmonized with man's free agency, or who wrote the Pentateuch or the inconsis tencies of the Nicene creed? No, no; go to work for God and suffering humanity and all your doubts and fears aud mysteries and unbeliefs put together will not be heavy enough to stir the chemist's scales, which is accustomed to weighing one-fiftieth part of a grain of chamomile flowers. Why stop a moment to understand the mysteries when there are so many certitudes? Why spend our time exploring the dark garret# and coal h oles of a great palace winch has above ground one hundred rooms flooded with sun- *iiine? it takesaii my time to absorb what has been revealed, so that I have no time to upturn and root out and drag forth what has not been revealed. The most of the ef fort to solve mysteries and explore the ineso* ohcfible and harmonize things is an attempt :o help the Lord out of theological difflcul- lic.-. Good enough intention, my brother, no doubt, but the Lord is not anxious to have you help Him. Hewdll keep His throne with out your assistance. Don’t bo afraid that the Bible will fall apart from inconsistencies. It hung together many centuries before you were born, and your funeral sermon will bo preached from a text taken from its undie- turbed authenticity- Do you know that I think that if all mii> isters in nil denominations would stop this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and take hold the word of God, the only Question with each of us being how many souls we can bring to Christ and in how short a time, the Lord would soon appear for the salvation of all nations? Why not all at once light all the torches of Gospel invitation? Yvhy not ring nil the bills of welcome•* Why not light up the long night of the world's sin and suffer ing with bonfires of victory? Why not un limber all the Gospel batteries and lot them boom aero,-; the earth, and boo n into the part ug heavens. The King ready to land if we are ready to receive Him. Why cannot wo who are now living sec His descent? Must it. all Ik* postponed to later ages? Has not our poor world groaned long enough in moral agonies? Have there not been martvrs enough, and have not the lakes of tears and the rivers of blood been deep enough? Why cannot the final glories roll in now- Why cannot this dying century feed tin* incoming tides of the oceans oi heavenly mercy? Must oureyos close in death and our ears take on the deafness of the tomb, and these hearts beat their last throb before the day c< mes in? O Christ? Why tarriest Thou? Wilt Thou not, before wo go the way of all the earth, let us see Thy scarred feet under some noonday cloud coining this way? Be fore wo die let us behold Thy hands that were spiked, spread out in benediction for a lost race. And why not let us, with our mortal ears, hear that voice which spoke peaoe at Thou didst go up, apeak pardon and emancipation and love and holliness and joy to all nations as Thou eomest down? But the skies do not part. 1 hoar no rum bling of chariot wheels coining down over the sapphire. There is no swoop of wings I see no Hash of angelic appearances. All is still. I hear nothing but the tramp of ray own heart as I pause between those utter- a nets. The King does not land because the world is not ready and tho church is not ready. To clear tho way for thp Lord’s com ing let. us devote nil our energies of body, mind and soul. A Russian genera! riding over the battlefield, his horse treading amid the dying and dead, a wounded soldier asked him lor water, but the officer did not under stand his language and knew not what the poor fellow wanted. Then the soldier cried out “Christos,” and that word meant sympathy and help, and the Russian officer dismounted and put to the lips of the sufferer a cooling draught. Bo that the charmed word with which wo go forth to do our whole duty. In many languages it has only a little difference of termination. Christos 1 It stands for sym pathy. It stands for help. It stands for pardon, It stands for hope. It stands for neaven. Christos! In that name we were baptised. In that name we took our first sacrament. That will be the battle shout that will win the whole world for God I Christos! Put it on our banners when we march! Put it on our lips when wo die! Put in the funeral psalm at oar obsequies! Put it on the plain slab over our grave! Christos! Blessea be His glorious name for ever! Amen! THE LABOR WOBLD. China has iron and steel works. London has 300,000 factory girls. Union men control Detroit’s docks. Illinois miners want nine hoars. Indianapolis has 300 idle carpenters. Key West, Fla., has 4t)0 cigarmakers. London has 15,000 locked out carpen ters. Canada letter-carriers get $360 to $600 a year. Uncle Sah has 1,000,000 working chil dren. Han Francisco has a women’s shoefltters’ union. Home waitresses in Australia work eighty hours a week. Detroit recently had. a working girls' mass meeting. Minneapolis, Minn., has a K. of L. build, ing association. In New York City 300,000 men and womc- are hunting work. New England cotton manufacturers talk of a summer shutdown, i New York furniture workers have bought ground for burial purposes. Hkvkn thousand shipworkers at Clyde bank, Scotland, are out on a strike. An adult laboring man wastes five ounces of muscle in the course of his daily labor, Seattle, (Washington) compositors work eight hours, aud $4 is the minimum wage. Everything is in smooth working order again at the Westphalia (Germauy) mines. England is asked to give a pension of $50 a year to workmen over sixty years of age. During the year 185 girls have joined tha Yonkers, (N. Y.,) Association of Working Girls. The French Chamber of Deputies has de cided to devote one day in the week to the discussion of labor matters. Dieppe, France, suddenly appears as the home of the most marvelous ivory carvers known, the Chinese aud Swiss not ex cepted. Gold beaters, in convention in Boston, Mass., formed an organizition known as the Journeymen Gold-Beaters' Protective Asso ciation of the United States. About 650 men are employed in the con struction of George Vanderbilt's castle at Asheville, N. C. It will re<|uire about two years to complete the building. There is a panic in the shoe business at Firmasens, Germauy. Thirty-six firms have failed and 25 , I0 workmen are out of em ployment. Over-speculation was the cause. NEWSY GLEANINGS. Paris has 2,422,960 people. Vesuvius is again active. The wheat crop will be big. A light hay crop is predicted. Uncle Sam bas 123 piano mills. Scotland is plagued with mice. Danes will colon!** in Maryland. British land values koop declining. The population of London is 4,211,056. North Germany has a bread famine The barley cutput is 825,000,000 bushels. Guatemala will send a band of 200 to the World’s Fair. Hundreds of persons have died of starva tion in Russia. The prune crop of Southern California will be a failure. 8t. Louis has laid the corner-stone of a new $1,000,000 City Hall. Ok the 4,706,162 population of Ireland 8,549,745 are Roman Catholics. Hot Sprinos, South Dakota,was pounded by hailstones as big as a man’s fist. The Kansas Alliance has decided to put the sub-treasury scheme to a practical test. The armored cruiser New York will be the next vessel of the new navy to be launched. From $12,000,000 to $15,000,000 is to be paid in sugar bounties within the next fiscal year. Asbury Park (N. J.) landlords must pay a town tax of twenty-five cents for each room rented. It is said that the lost funds of the Key stone Bank, of Philadelphia, were swallowed up in Wall street. Arthur Caret ran 100 yards in nine and three-quarter seconds, breaking the world’* record, at Princeton, N. J. United States Judge Phillips, at Kan sas City, has decided in an insurance case that death from suntroke is not accidental death. Portuguese immigrants have begun to arrive in considerable numbers,many of them nound for the wine-growing districts of California. There are millions of cricket* in. the Clover Creek section of Idaho. They ’ are said to cover a section of country ten miles long by three miles wide. Ok the 1300 abandoned farms in New Hampshire two years ago, 600 have been purchased by wealthy people who desire pleasant summer homes. The German Emperor bas ordered that the old servants of bis father and grand father, now over sixty years of age, shall ba retired on comfortable pensions. For singing in the Berlin barracka the Socialist song: “A Free Man Am I,” a pri vate of the regiment of German Musketeers has been sentenced to imprisonment for live years. PROMINENT PEOPLE. Colonel Lebel, inventor of the Label rifle, is dead. Pope Leo XIII. will grant no more pri vate audiences. Amelie Rives Chanler is in Paris en gaged in literary work. ) Mark Twain saysT. ri. Aldrich is the wlt- I iest man he ever met. i The Grand Lodge of Free Masons elected William Hberer, Grand Master. Secret art Blaine is said to bee rapidly mprovlng in health at Bar Harbor, Me. 1 Alan Arthur, son of the late President Arthur, is six feet four inches In height,-very erect and slender. General Schofield's bride-elect,.Miss Kilbourne, of Iowa, Is thirty-fourv'yeaA younger than be is. Frank Drmpster Sherman, the poet,-is n professor in the Colombia School of Mines in New York City. Lord Dunlo, the new Earl of Clancartyj husband of Belle Bilton, has taken his seat in the British House of Lords. Prebidrnt Diaz, of Mexico, has a strain of Indian blood in his veins, as had his pre decessors, Juarez and Hidalgo. The Empress Frederick has caused an old '■I'in near her new castle to be turned into a i soi’s 1 . and she personally attends patients .ue;ein. Vice Admiral Adams is to succeed Vice Admiral Watson in command of the English North Atlantic squadron, and will hoist his flag abroad the Hercules. Major Turner Goldsmith, of Atlanta. Ga., enjoys the distinction of having lived under twenty-one Presidents. He is eighty- nine years old and has a host of descendant*. Rear Admiral Carter, who died a few days ago, is said to be the only naval offioer of his rank who had previously been a major general in the United States army. The Duke of Portland is the champion subscriber to newspapers. He take* all the pafiers of England and a heap more from all over creation. The preceding duke used to do the same thing and filled up three bouse* with them. When Ex-Governor Long, of Boston, onoe disturbed the harmony of a meeting over which he was presiding by asking Mis? Susan B. A'nthony, who was delivering an address, to “speak louder” he was snapped up with the reply: “I speak louder than yon do, Governor.’’ Asbestos Deposit. The Industrial Review calls attention !o the wonderful deposit of asbestos which has been found near Hamilton, in Ungit County, Wash., and has been un covered for a distance of seventy-live cct, and at the cropping is said to eight ret in width. Tho asbestos is of ex- •ellcnt quality, tho fibers, fine as silk, ■cing in some instances as much as iglitecu inches iu length. Molasses can be brought from Cuba In a tank vessel for two cents a gallon. THE FARM AND HARDEN. WORMS IN POULTRY. Poultry of all kinds are affected with worms, not only in the intestines, but sometimes in the flesh. How the worms originate, or how they find lodgment in the flesh, is not known, but they may come from substances eaten or from con tract with afflicted fowls, as the drop pings may be a source. The best remedy is a teaspoonful of spirits of turpentine in a quart of corn meal, made into dough and fed once n day to twenty fowls.— Times-Democrat. EFFECT OF OVERFEEDING A YOUNG CALF. When a young calf is gorged with milk indigestion follows and the stomach is clogged with a mass of compact curd. The consequence is that the ani mal be comes dull, dribbles nt the mouth, and grinds its teeth. Tho treatment should be to give a teaspoonful of carbonate of soda or saleratus iu a pint of water, which will desolve the curd and aid its passage through the intestines. In six hours after give one tablespoonful of raw linseed or castor oil. Offer no food until the bowels are cleared out, and then give only one quart of warm, fresh milk nt a meal every three hours. When a calf is drinking milk it should be fed slowly and with intervals of rest, and cold milk should never be given, as this chills the stomach and provokes indiges tion.—American Dairyman. POPULARITY OF ENSILAGE. It is unquestionably true that ensilage has greatly increased in popularity dur ing the past few years. A large propor tion of farmers who have tested it, and who have reported the results of their experiments, have been well pleased with the returns they have received. At the same time the current does not all set one way. There is a minority who are not entirely suited. And there are many feeders who, while believing that it is profitable to use, have found that some of the claims put forth by its more zealous advocates, were highly exaggerated. It is not so much better or cheaper than everything else, as it has been sometimes represented to be. The men who believe in feeding roots aic assuring their readers that the dairyman can make as much money by raising roots as he can by growing ensilage. In a test in feeding 1 -iiry cows at the Ohio Experiment Sta tion mangels gave a little better returns than ensilage. It is claimed that as great a weight of mangels per acre can be ob tained as of ensilage, and that, even when ensilage is used, the mangels will make n useful addition to the food supply. That mangles are excellent winter food for cows cannot be denied. It is possible, however, that the cost of growing them has been somewhat underestimated.— American Dairyman. TO FEED FOR EGGS. A correspondent of the California Cockier, in relation to feeding laying fowls, communicates the following: There has been a very great complaint In some sections about the hens not lay ing as they should. I think every case can be accounted for. I was recently called in to sec a lady’s flock of eighty-eight hens, that were looking, to sav the least, fine, yet •he said she was not getting ns many sggs from them as I was from a pen of iight that were always confined in a yard 3x20,. with a tight house, and hers had free range. I purchased a dozen from her, aud after killing a couple I found that her hens had not sufficient food to produce eggs. While this I believe to bo generally the cause of failure of eggs, yet it is not al ways; some feed too high, and not that food which will produce eggs. I have been for some time experimenting on what kinds of food will produce best re mits, and have found the following by fat the best Bran or barley in the morn- in, scalded with milk; give all they will eat up clean. In this wc have that which is generally acknowledged to pro duce the greatest per cent, of the white of an egg and very little fat. At noon feed wheat or screenings. In this we have the lime for shell and also a good per cent, of the yolk. Give all they want, and if you have an ash or manure pile mix a little in for them to scratch after. At night give a liberal feed of corn, »cd do not be afraid of making too fat. I do believe, contrary to the opinions of J oine, that com will produce eggs, and lots of them, especially in winter. Feed beef scraps every other day (cooked), and plenty of bone meal, with a liberal supply of green food every day. Hens fed iu this manner must lay, if any good at all; if not, get rid of them. An old saying, and a true one, is that a lien propel ly fed must lay or get fat. Of course this will not apply through moult ing time. CARE OF DISOWNED LAMBS. It frequently happens in the spring that one or more lambs in the flock are orphaned from some cause or other, and rather than permit them to perish we have them brought to the house and raised by the band. Sometimes a ewe refuses to own her lamb, another will appear to think all the world of her offspring but will be unable to furnish a drop of milk for its subsistence, while a third perhaps dies, leaving her little one helpless and miseiablc. If the lamb is healthy when it is brought in it is al ways ravenously hungry, and before we learned the danger of overfeeding we lost one or two trying to satisfy their appetite. The first meal of cow’s milk given to a lamb should be not more than one-fourth of a gill, which quantity may be gradu ally increased to half a pint given every two hours when the lamb is one week old. This is enough for a large healthy lamb; a small delicate one should have even less. When very young, lambs are liable to to be troubled with scours, in which case the milk should be boiled for one or two meals. If tho opposite tendency is ob served, a little white sugar or molasses put in the milk will generally prove a corrective; when it docs not, however, a teaspoonful of castor oil should be given in the milk as often as considered neces sary. The milk must be perfectly sweet, as fresh as possible, and slightly warmed. After two weeks the interval between feeding should be gradually lengthened, and the quantity of milk increased, as a robust lamb at the age of two months can take with impunity one and a half pints three times a day, and when three months old this quantity twice a day is sufficient. When the lamb is a few weeks old, if milk is scarce, half th$ quantify advised may be given, mixed witli fhc same amount of well cooked gruel made of line corn meal or oat meal; and when this is done, in order to keep the lamb’s digestion in good order, add to its food a teaspoonful of flaxseed jelly once daily. The jelly is made by boiling flaxseed in eight times its bulk of water for twenty minutes. If the weather is very cold when the lamb is brought in, wc keep it for a few days in a box in the back kitchen, where a big wood fire burns day and night. Here it ties and sleeps on the clean atraw covered with an old blanket, only awak ening at its regular feeding times, when it begins a piteous and plaintive bleat that stops only when its hunger is ap? peased. It is not long, though, before the little fellow learns to jump out of his box and then he goes frisking about, poking his inquisitive little nose into everything, searching for something to eat. Then, lest he runs into the fire, I have to banish him to an outhouse, or on bright sunny days to the garden where he soon learns to nibble the rose bushes and tender shrubs in the dainty manner peculiar to sheep. This is one trouble with pet lambs, they begin to eat en tirely too early, filling their stomachs with food they cannot digest. To obviate this to some extent, we continue to feed the lambs milk ofteher and for a longer period than would otherwise be abso lutely necessary. They are greedy little animals, and when allowed to come about the yard and kitchen rapidly acquire a taste for all sorts of things. When I first began raising pet lambs, I used to feed them from the bottle, which was a great deal of trouble; now I use the bottle and rubber only for a few days at first, and then I teach the lamb to drink by pouring the milk into a shallow pan and letting the lamb take one finger in its mouth, slowly immers ing my hand in the milk until it is able to draw a little into its mouth. At first the liltle fellow is sure that he gets the tnilk from the end of my finger, but he (oon learns better, and dispensing with my finger altogether, he plunges his eager mouth down into the pan of milk, and after lunging about awhile, feeling for something to take hold of, and half strangling himself, he settles down to business, and the milk disappears in a marvelously short space of time. I do not know that tbeie is any real profit in raising lambs by hand. The milk they consume, and the time required for car ing for them are doubtless worth more than the lambs themselves; still, rathei than see them die, we always take them for pets. They make the most gentle and most Interesting pets in the world, and we soon become so attached to them that the work of attending to them be comes a pleasure. They are grateful too, and repay our care with such quick interest, grow so fast and keep so healthy, that it seems but a little while that they need feeding so often.—American Agri culturist. FARM AND GARDEN NOTES. Fussy hens generally make poor mothers. Keep the hen house clean and well ventilated. Cheese boxes are good for nests; they are generally easy to get. When you begin shipping poultry pick out what you want' to keep. Put coal oil on the roosts, and air- slacked lime about the building. Pullets that are hatche 1 early and are kept growing will begin laying early. If a show pig is wanted study the in dividual ; if a breeder, study the family. Fowls that fatten readily should have plenty of exercise or they will get too fat. The young poultry shoujd have a good range as soon as their growth will per mit. Fowls that fatten easily should have plenty of exercise, unless being fed for market. So far as possible keep the young fowls to themselves, at least until they can ba given free range. Whenever a fowl shows signs of a sickness separate it from the rest of tho flock as soon as possible. Chicks do not require to be fed until they are twenty-four hours old. Why ? Nature provides a supply. When you have thoroughly learned to manage a few fowls it will be time snough to manage a large number. Using the straw stack for bedding in the stables, will give more comfort to the stock than using as an outside shelter. No matter what ails the fowl, a sick bird should at once be removed to leparate quarters from the well ones. It is a precaution that always pays. Be careful of the eyes of animals. They are just as delicate as the eyes of human beings. People often work around stock very carelessly with forks. The swine breeder who feeds oil meal occasionally will not regret it. It is a tonic and a regulator of the bowels. Care should be taken not to feed too much. On a farm good facilities, good man agement and good markets are more valuable than the breed of fowls. We must cater to the wants and accommoda tions of the business. Too much stimulating food causes over egg production. The result from such a course will be poor hatches, weak chicks, and inferior stock. Feed breed ing fowls judiciously. By having all ages and all sizes to gether in one feeding place the profit in the hogs will be largely reduced. Less feed wilt be required aud better icsults secured by dividing up into different lots. Hens should be graded according to size and general qualities. Yard Log- horns and Brahmas in the same enclosure and the feed necessary to keep the Leg horns just right would over-fatten the Brahmas. Keep a watch of the potatoes. You may find them sprouting, and if they are, of course the temperature of the cellar is too high. Planting sprouted potatoes is one reason that some people do not have better luck in potato-growing. Dr. C. D. Smead, at the rhrmi rs’In stitute replying to the question, “In a basement barn containing 2,800 square feet, how many sheep can be wintered?” said • “Calculate for merinoes four square feet for each sheep; for the coarse breeds allow at least six feet, and not as many in a pen as of fine woolled varieties. It is better to have the stable divided into small pens than to have one large Ear Trumpets as Cupid s Arrows. With the marriage at Steelville, Mo., of William J. D. Kelly to Miss Anna Mc Donald, of Oakville, Canada, is con nected quite a romance. The groom is a well known young man, living on a farm with his widowed mother, well-to-do, though deaf and dumb. A year or two ago he noticed in the papers a recom mendation of some kind of ear trumpet hy the above named young lady who is also a deaf mute. A correspondence en sued, the tender chords of sympathy and emotion were aroused and an engagement followed. The heroic young bride left her far off Canadian home to meet her distant affianced. For six days and aloue she traveled, but came safely through. This was three weeks before the mar riage, and the intervenitg time was spent in forming each other's acquain tance at the groom’s home, with the re sult that the nuptials were celebrated amidst the congratulations of a host of friends.—St. Ix>ui* Republic. There are about 281)11 counties in the Union with an average size of 10UU square miles, but this average, notes the Chicago Heral/i, is enormously exceeded in many instances, and has also frequent ly fallen below. Leaving out the great uniettled counties of the West, the aver age county would be about 500 square milles in ex font. Manufacture of Watch Glasses. In the manufacturo of watch glasses the workman gathers with the blowing tube several kilograms of glass. Soften ing this by holding it to toe door of tho furnace, he puls the end of the tube in to communication with a reservoir of compressed air, and a big sphere is blown. It is, of course, necessary to get the exact proportion of material nt the commencement of the operation, ac companied by a peculiar twist of the hand and an amazing skilfulness. The sphere ought to bo produced without rents, aud iu such dimensions that it is -if the requisite thickness. Out of these balls the workman cuts convex discs of the required size. This is a delicate operation. A “ tournettc,” a kind of compass furnished with a diamond in one of its branches, is used. The diamond having traced the circle tho glass is struck on the interior and exterior sides with a stick and the piece is detached. The discs, which are afterwards traced, are obtained very easily. They are seized by the thumb, passed through the aper ture already made and detached by the pressure of two Augers. An able work- i mau will cut IjOUO glasses a day. Tho Inhabitant* of a (’’•-■ese. A Swiss scholar has been faking » census of the inhabitants of a cheese. The microscopic examination of one gram of fresh cheese, sueli as is sold under thai name of Gruyere, contained no fewer than 90,000 so-called microbes. . This prodigious encampment, after seventy days, proved to have incisasej to a triba of 800,000. Another sort of rWse con tained within a single gram boCfO and lodging for about 2.000,000 micnJbe»V while in a gram cut from the rind of the same cheese he found about 5,000,000 of these inhabitants. A piece of chees# upon our tables, of a few pounds’ weight, may consequently contain more microbe inhabitants than there are human in habitants in the whole world. Superstitions Concerning Infants. Before an infant's first exit from tha house iu which it was born, it is con sidered lucky for it to “go up”—that is, ascend a few steps of a flight of stairs. This is a common belief in various parts of Europe. If the child was born on the top floor, or there are no stairs to ascend, the person carrying it steps on a chair or box, and then on a table. This proceeding is considered omiuous that the child is likely “to rise in the world.” —New York Weekly. There is more catarrh In this section of th* country than all other tlist-abt-s put together, and until tho last few years was supposed to be incurable. For h great many years doctors pronounced it a hu <*il disease, and prescribed loud remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it in curable. Science has proven catarrh to be a constitutional disease, aud therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall's FatarrhCure, manufactured by F. .!. Cheney Co., Toledo, Ohio, is the only constitutional cure on the market. It is taken internally in (loses from 10drops to a teaspoonful. It a< ts directly upon the blood and mucous surtuees of the system. They offer §100 for any case it fails to cure, bend for circulars and tei-timonia!-. Address _„ . F. J. Ciii’.nkv A Co., Toledo, O. r*' Sold by Druggists, 75c. The shower of rice upon bride and groom s li prayer for copious prosperity and fruit fulness. How tn Ylnhe .Money* Dkau Sin Haying read Mr. Sargents’s ex perience in plating uith i old. -ih.-r and nick el, 1 ain tempt<*d »<* write el my success. I sent toil, i*. Delno \ Co., of Columbus, ()., for a S5 plater. 5 Jiav - h."l in*)!!' tableware and iew- e ry than I could plat- ev. r since. I (lea red *«:. the first w« ek and in Unve weeks $!»7. Any one can do piatim. and make moneyany lo cality the year ro'ind. You ( ;in get circulars by addressing above firm. Wm. Chav. Sunday is the favorite weddt ig day in Id England. For impure or thin Blood, Weakness, Mala ria, Neuralgia, Indigestion and Biliousness, take Brown’s Iron Bitters—it gives strength, making old persons feel young—and young persons strong; nleasant to lake. Bridle tho appetite with reason and sav** •ho stomach. For Dyspepsia, Indigestion and Stomach disorders, use Brown’s iron Bitters. The Best Tonic, it rebuilds the * -tom, cleans the Blood and strengthens th" mu.-eh .-. A splendid ton ic for weak and debilitated persons. If yon woalfl be correct tn pronouncing Manitoba accent the last syllabic. FITS stopped free by Dr. Kline’s Great Nerve Kestorkr. No Fits after first day’s K a Marvelous cure.**. Treatise and $2 trial ttl© free. Dr* Kline, v»oi Arch SU Phila..Pa. He deserves not the sweet who will not f st** the sour. If afflicted with eore eyes use Dr.Isaac Thomp son’s Eye-water.Druggists sell at 25c.per bottle Pretty strong reasons for trying Dr. Sage’s Catarrh Remedy. In the first place, it cures your catarrh— no matter how bad your case, or of how long standing. It doesn’t simply palliate — it cures. If you believe it, go much the better. There ? sT nothing more to be said. You get it for 50 cents, from all druggists. But perhaps you won’t be lieve it. Then there’s atiotbei' reason for trying it. ShtOtf that you can t be cured, and you’ll get S500. It’s a plain business otter. The makers of Dr. Sage’s Remedy will pay you that amount if they can't cure you. They know that they can — you think that they can’t. If they’re wrong, you get the cash. If you’re wrong, you’re rid of catarrh. TRINITY COLLEGE Trill opj’fl sl Durham, its new buildings, September I, 1891. A Oollege ••f Philosophy and Arts, A Collegeof \ collogf* ..f the Sciences; A Divinity h"«»l ..f Techii' buy. \ l aw School;A Common Scbn d; A x-h»*ol of Techii' b gy, School of IVdtl!*■:;} s. tenet , A Medical school. SEND F"h CAr.»/'<U’E To JOHN I ‘ lU’WELh. \ B. President. Ti i<.il if ( •jlb ae P. O . N C. Trinity High >' ’s' d f PYepardtory* In KandofpV county, open A u i 11, ALL ABOUT East Tennessee’s FtHB CLIMATE and Great Resource* n* KNOXVILLE SENTINEL; dally 1 nio„ 50c.; weekly 1 year, $1; sample* 5<J niCTIONARY ?m;Yv ■w postpaid, ‘iOe. ,1. J. I* ...I’00 Words and Definition* ei.y Bound in Cloth. fiymaflL "’I N N K Y* Evergreen, w U l ‘.k, Nkhvous, Wkftchkd mortals get "tdl and keep well. Health Helper tells how. SUcto. a year. Sample) sopy free. Hr, J. tl. I» Y E. Editor, Buffalo, N. Y. t COLLEGE. |SMrrHDEAL» J'sSJt PRACTICAL o Ki?SS£?,!! 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