The Orangeburg democrat. (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1879-1881, August 01, 1879, Image 1
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1<il^sv;lle, Amson County, N. C,
It!/, jl July 22nd, ,1879. ;
Edilo.r Orangeburg D.epiocrqt:
Did you ever trayel on d slow
train for fivo 1 hours /ojr .atyout stxtv
miles without breakfast or the chance
of getting a toieaUfasJt 4?r.ing the
trip ? If so, you Qn,n appreciate some
what the journey from Charlotte to
wte'j poiut. A ti?ihjfing with the
.words in largo letters "jEating House,"
painted Ahcrcon, stared us while wait
ing at one of ? the stations /or about
half an hour, as a tantalizer and whet
ter of our appetites, ^vxpecting re
lief from this place we were disap
pointed by Unding tho doors closed,
and in being informed that all Li e
breakfast had been eaten up by the
passengers on a train which had
preceded us a short time before.
Strange as it may appear this com
pulsory control of our appetites afford
ed us no little amusement, and, w6
have uo doubt, amusement to some of
the fair oues occupying the small half
car attached to the slow freight train
on jwhi^h wo were traveling. After
passing said eating house, (to which
after its cold treatment of us we gave
the cold shoulder,) we reached a little
station and espying in the distance a
lijttje store wo made for it and procur
ing a few crackers an.<J a bos of sar
dines, (both of which looked like
they might tell of some of Urn .eyents
connected with the late war,) we
made as bold an attack upon them as
ihey and the circumstances surround
ing us would permit. We found that
there was not much poultry in this
region, (perhaps tbey have not got
ten over the spare of Sherman's raid
in 18/??,) for we enquired at several
pjac.es for eggs, but could not obtain
any. pon't think though Hint we
were ^s-baiisted?by no meuns.
Wo are how ander diiferent circum
stances ; though not yet at our jour
neys end, we realize.in the near future
perroapppfc relief from the cravings of
the Inner nmn, as well as pleasures
ofJ wjiich ^^plputiohs can Torm "no
realization.
Bpt jLhis is rolher a strange way to
write about opr tyip, commencirg
with the second day's proceedings,
you must allow cirpt) instance j to con
trol us tins time, ai)d as we have been
somewhat .turned around to gpt here,
must ppt object to our commencing
so near the end of our trip.
Yesterday wc were led off from Or
angeburg by a belle which to us was
upspont ,but knowing j,hnt to yield
gracefully on that occasion would be
the more discrept course to pursue,
wo madp no resistance, but followed
the belle blindly. This is one time
Mr. E/litoy, when the belle did not
lead amiss. In due time we reached
1.l|? other train which was to bear us
on. qur way to the Qld North Stale,
and lmyjpg secured comfortable seats
thereon we were soon wafted over the
iron track of the Charlotte, Cojumbia
& Augusta Railroad to Charlotte. On
the way, there was not much of spe
cial interest to note. Rain is needed
all alqng the line of the railroad)
cotton and corn aro both suffering
for it, apd unless soon obtained as
far as we cim sec tlje crops of both of
these prpi]uct9 of our soil will bo.'ma
terially injured. Clmrlottc seemed
to be all astir, as it has a local trade,
which will always afford its mcrpliants
a chance to dispose of their wares,
we were not surprised at the activity
of its trade circle. We visited the
Mecklenburg Iron Works, and were
pleased with the arrangements there
for manufacturing Engines, Mill
Gear and Farming Implements, #c.
Our next visit was to tho cngino
house of tbe Pioneer Eire Engine!
Company No. 2. The steamer of this
company appeared ready to meet any
call made upon it to control the fiery
clement. Stabled within the build*
ing wore two fine specimens of horse
flesh which aro always near at hand
to be attached upon short notice to
the steamer, and away to the scene
of conflagration. Above the room
occupied by tho steamor and hose
reel, was the company hall, well sup
plied with chairs, floor carpeted and
walls adorned with pictures. Every
thing Arranged in nice order to assist
.in the dispatch of such business as
may be brought before its members.
ATter strolling about for awhile we
concluded it best to look after some
thing to eat, and returning to our
hotel wo found supper ready, which
be assured we did full justice to.
Hearing of a Y. M. CA. room be
ing open that night we Btarted in
search of the same, but.wero disap
pointed jn not being nble to catch lue
Joust .glimmering ray from their
I rooms. Seeing the light of a Lodgo
.of Odd Fellows above their place of
.meeting we concluded that certain re
strictions might bo placed upon the
Association in tho use of its room,
and gave up onr efforts to meet witli
ItheY. M. 0. A. Returning to our
hotel we sought rest in the arms of
Moipheus ; a.id this morning at 5 :30
A. M. found us where we started this
letter, onboard tho train for Wil
mington. Our transportation being
at hand we will bid you adieu for,
awhile at least. Pi^o.
A Revolting Outrage.
I It falls to our lot this week to re
cord one of the most diabolical out
rages that was ever perpetrated in
this county. Tho circumstances are
then: Mr. A. Humphries and his
wife, living four miles from town,
near Sardis Church, on Wednesday
evening left their infant daughtet,
aged about 2 years and 3 monLbs, in
the care of a negro boy, named Ed.
Holmes, aged alout }y yo^ri, whiic
tliey went to church. On their re
turn the mother discovered tliat the
child was very bloody and her
screams brought neighbors to the
house. Dr. lieaty was immediately
sent for, and upon examination dis
covered that the little creature had
been outraged jn a most horrible
manner. As the parents went into
the house the negro boy passed them,
going out, ami at last report wa3 at
largo; but;we jtluuk lie cannot long
escape the vigilant search of the ex
cited citizens w))o are after him. It
is supposed to be; impossible for the
child to live. .Tho simple recital of
this most revolting Outrage makes
the bipod curdle in our veins.:?JJni
qn Times.
A Touching Allegory.
A certain good-natured old Repub
lican farmer, preserved his constant
??fiod-?atnrot-?tupiv up -what ? might.
Que day one of his men came in and
told him that one of his lead oxen
had stampeded, it being that big
blonde oil-ox, Jioscoe Conkling.
"Well," responded the old farmer,
*'hc always was a brcacy cuss. I'm
glad he's gone." Not long afterward
another messenger came in haste to
announce that old lit indie Butler
was dead. "You don't say. so !" re
sponded the happy old granger. "He
was an old ox, anyhow. Just take
off Ilia hide and sell it; it will fetch
more than he was worth. I took him
for a bad debt in the first place."
The thing went on for somo time, udt
til the stalwq.it press began to repri
mand Hayes, saying that all his
losses weio judgments sent by the
Lord for his wickedness. "Well,"
he responded placidly, "if the Lord
will take out the judgment in that
kind of rattle, it is the cheapest way 1
lean pay it."
Sound Advipe.
A physician writes to a young man
as follows: "My profession has
thrown me with women of all classes,
and my experience teaches me that
heaven never gave a greater proof of
love to man than to, place woman
here with him. My udvicc is go and
propose to the most sensible girl you
Know. If she accepts yon tell hor
you will divide the last dollar with
her and that you will lovo her with
all your heart in the bargain ; and
then keep your promise. l^Jy wor?t
for it she will live within your in
come, and to your last hour you will
regret that you did not marry sooner.
Stop worrying about fermnine ex
travagance and feminine untruth.
Just you he truo to her?love herein?
cerely, and a more fond, faithful,
foolish slave you will never meet any
whore. You will not deserve her, 1
know, but she will never know it."
A Good. Rule.
A man who is very rich now, was
very poor when he was a boy. When
asked how he got his riches, ho re
plied : l<My' father taught roe never
to play till my work was finished,
and never to spend my monoy until I
earned it. If I had but an hour's
work in a day I must do that the
first thing, and in an hour. And af
ter this, I was allowed to play ; and \
then could play with much more
pleasure than if I had the thoughts of
unfinished task heforo my mind. I
early formed the habit of doing every
thing in time, ami it soon became
easy to do so. It is to this I owe
i my prosperity." 1
Indian Corn.
Editor Orangeburg Democrat:
How to cultivate corn, to secure a j
good crop a.ud .improve soii requires
some skill aod science Every farm
er thinks his mode the best. I differ
with the most farmers, they practic
ing shallow culture with scrapers and
sweeps, I will give you my plan with
its advantages. What manures pay
best on worn soil? Tho analysis of
.cor? shows that it contains much
starch, sugar and fat. Cotton seed
with carbonaceous and vegetable mat
ter I find to bo the best fertiliser for
coro. To cultivate corn successfully
we m.UBt give it distance five and a
half by four, or fivo by fivo is the
proper distance on sandy land. We
may plant five by three on stiff or
clay lands, with equal success, but if
we plant close on sandy lands it will
invariably get, in farmers' parlance,
the yellows, and be light and chaffy.
Distance in corn secures it against
the injurious effects of droughts, which
are common in recent years. Man?
lers should plant, arid cultivate with
an eye to this. Distance in corn en
ables the farmer to secure a good
crop of peas when sown in proper
lime among the corn. A great desid
eratum.
At the commencement of my letters
I promised to give you my plan of
improving my land and make paying
crops. A discussion of this subject
in our Agricultural Society gave rise
to these letters. I wish your readers
to remember this. Tho proposition
now is, How to raise coru on ex
hausted laud. We haul, in the
months of January and February
four or live loads of wood's earth, (an
admixture of straw, leaves and rotten
wood) to the acre, depositing the
piles convenient to bo spattered
hroadcast with a pichfork. Break
down the bed with a turn plow; lay
off the planting furrow with an open
ing plow. Just bofore dropping the
seed run iu the same furrow with a
?cootcr.as deepens the horse oar^pnH^
drop thp seed, t|iey will bury them
selves ; then sow ten or filtppn bushels
of cotton seed with about one hun
dred pounds of hope pr.r acre ; cover
wjib scooter plow two fuirows to the
row ; block off two or three dnjs be
fore coming up ; this will destroy the
small grass, pulverize the clods and
leave a smooth and even surface for
your first scooter j furrow, which
should be given in eight or ten days
after the corn is up; in eight or ten
days follow with a live inch twister,
adjusting a thin board to prevent the
earth from covering the corn ; in eight
or ten days you may break out the
middles; then in eight or ten days
side with sxiteen inch sweep; and in
eight or ten days more you are ready
to lay .by, which should be done just
before corn shows its tassels with two
Fanner's frieud or Watt plow furrows
and one sweep furrows. Tho peas
having been dropped your corn is
laid by wjth pipe or eleven furrows
to the row, and will yield more than
if twenty-one futruws were given,
which was the custom in olden times.
Mr. Editor, you have my plan, 1
claim for it a decided advantage over
the Hat culture or Dixon plan, which
is the plan of most of our farmers, J
hope some of your correspondents
will discuss this with me. J. C. ]{.
Fork ok Edisto.
Awful.
A Madison paper gives a fearful
account of woman's perfidy. A young
man went to take his girl for a walk,
but found that she had not done her
milking, With a gallantry that does
credit to tho Madisoniau young man,
he volunteered to do the milking for
her while she was making her toilet.
After he had got her milking done,
had hung the milk-tSlool on the bars
and set the pail of milk in the kitch
en, washed his hands at the pump
with soft soap and wiped them on tho
tail of his duster, he discovered that
she had gope to a circus with another
young man who did not Know enough
to extract milk from a milk wagon.
The deserted young man kicked over
the m.ilk pail and went his way a sad
der man*
An editor got shaved in a barber
shop lately, and offered the darkey a
dime, which was refused, because
said he, "J understand you is an
editor!" "Well, what of that?"
?'Wo never charge editors nuflln 1"
uBnt such liberality will ruin you."
tl()h nebber mind, sah, we makes it
up on gentlemen." Heavy on the ed
itors.
Unbsgpy. Marriages.
One of the saddest characteristics
of tho time is the frequency of ac
counts of marital injQdeiI:.y and the
wrack of household!]. ScandaJouo
elopeweuls, ruinous infatuations,
crime led up to by illicit passion, oc
cupy a distressingly large epaoe in
the news of the day. More impres
sive to the feelings than even these
aifairs whoso tragic details are given
to the world, is the thought that if
they have become of so common oc
currence, how vast must be the
amount of domestic unhappineas that
lies concealed from the public eye,
but which must tend to poison and
corrupt society. Why is it that there
are so many unhappy marriages?
How is it that people who have been
drawn together by love can fall a
prey to hatred ? To understand these
problems completely we should have
to understand 11^5 mystery of love,
and that is hid at the core of the
mystery ofbeing\ If, as all meta
physicians agrc"/-, our consciousness
itself hi inconceivable in thought,
bow shall we trace and analyze that
rapport which establishes itself be
tween two beings, and which wc call
love. We knoa from observation
that it is not unerring. Iu youth it
is almost jnvnriabjy mistaken in its
approhensions. The warm and inex
perienced imagination of a boy has
strength to rais^ a mortal to the
skies. 1,1 i;3 spirit h^s established a
mysterious afllnUy with some girl, it
I may be of sterijip mind and ignoble
I feelings. To him she is a loyely ap
! parilion, the /?lscov/ory of whose
graces has enlarged his menial hori
zon nud raised him to perceptions
new and strongp. It jo natural to
jnfer inward perfections from outer
charms. In th sarpp manner will
the true and loyal soul of some gen
tle girl epshrino and worship the
ideal her imagination bas wrought
from the clay of>ome jcoromon-place
ypntb, What warnings shall be Ut
tered, tortbefo3 ^huaiasts?^ The for
slruction of experience would doubt
less be that love adheres where enjoy
ment fastens, and that to know
whether love will be persistent we
should examine our feelings to deter
mine whether our enjoyment of the
loved one's society is based upon
transient things or those wbicji will
endure. Boy and girl love is gener
ally only ? foruc of self-conceit. The
complacency begotten by the adula
tion of love-making is the largest in
gredient in the reciprocating feeling,
and attachments of this sort soon run
to dissolution. JJut while it js fre
quently the casp that ppople marry
under the attraction of pretty faces,
eyes and winning mannprs, without
any real appreciation of one another s
moral qualities, how common is it for
such marriages to result in happy un
ions. Tue yokerfcllows are in the
Uexile, adaptive periods of their lives,
and before the illusions disappear
the}* are hound together by durable
ties of aif-'Ctiou. But then, too, it
must be admitted that a lire-fellow
ship begun with ardent attachment
loo often becomes filled with cruel
and intolerable friction, and the sa
cred bond of wedlock may gall like
the chains of a galley slave. The
man who is above all things a s??S
of honor, will respect his marital ob
ligation^ even should his youthful
love fur hla wife wear away in the
da\\y oontaot of life. Jn entering in
to the lies of wedlock it is not upon
ardent professions that lovers should
base their expectations of happiness,
but upon one another's truth and loy
alty to duty, displayed when pleasure
is not a motive force. Under the
protection of honor love will nestle
securely, and such marriages cannot
provo unhappy.
Paul Morpby, the onco noted chess
player, in his insanity imagines him
self a great lawyer, with nn abun
dance of clients. The great case that
absorbs nearly his whole attention is
au imaginary one against parties who
had charge of an cstato left him by
his father. He utterly repudiates
chess, and denies having ever known
anything about \l. \\o lives in New
Orleans.
It is said that "true lave never did
run Bmootli." Wc have never scou, \t
attempt to run, but it does some of
the smoothest kind of swinging on
the front gate.
Tho evening the young man hasn't
money enough to take Ills girl into nn
ioe-crPam saloon he sends her a note
stating he is sick.
Fr-oo Schools,
JSditor Orangdburq Democrat:
I am looking to your next to Ree
something from some ono of tho fe
male teachers in reference to the Hilly
parenthesis by ''KseuUipius," (and 1
never heard of a woman being guilty
of such a thing,) i. e., being compe
tent to teach. They are well able to
defend themselves, but if they do not
notice such gross aspersions, you
may insert this.
There are many well educated wo
men, who are teachers, and good
teachers, too, who would scorn to tili
such piaccs if they were not compe
tent ; found to bo so by intelligent
patrons, who have known them for
years, and are sending to them still.
Unt enough of this, such a sickly at
tempt to lower their position and lim
it their usefulness, requires no more
than an exposition of its aim, to set
tle tho matter.
Another point. The usual vote for
schools is Irom one to three mills;
this gives a cheap school for two or
three months. We ask how much
has "Esculapius" advocated or pro
poses to vote for this tax ?
As to the question of fifty dollar
teachers. 1 do not object to the best
teachers, but there must be a line
struck somewhere. Shall wo apply
for one who is competent to till the
presidency of a college, or take bn?
who can write welt, read and spell
oorrecilj', with a knowledge of arith
metic and geography.
Does any one preteud to say that
unless our teacher is a thorough
mathematician, a linguist, an astrono
mer, &c.,he wont do for our piney
woods' school? A carpenter may be
competent a;id satisfactory for build
j/ig a nice comfortable house in the
country, who wouhi nojt undertake to
build u five story one iu. tho city.
^Neither woujd the proprietor pixy the
pr;ce for the latter.
It' J3r. Cookc or the School .Com
missioner will say that a good reader,
writer,.cpoileT. /uid .arithmetician. U)
pot competent to teach reading, writ
ing, spelling and arithmetic, .thcjjj I
disagree with .ihcm, and 1 11 have the
millions on my side. Tixv&jee.
Heavy on the Boys.
Perhaps it is because of the grow
ing scarcity of available men, per
haps it is of the increasing independ
ence of the fair sex?what ever the
reason, it is a fact patent to all who
frequent places of amusomeut that la
dies venture abroad in '.he ovening
without male escorts far more fre
quently, than they did ten years ago,
and it is greatly to the credit of our
community that they can dp so wjth
impunity. A lady would hardly go
out alone of an evening, but if accom
panipd by another of her sex, espe
cially if one of the pair be tolerably
along in years?it is not necessary to
give exact figures?both feel compar
tivcly aafe. The result is that young
men are not so much of n necessity
as they once were, and are raude to
feel that they are no longer indispen
sable. Time was when a ypung man,
simply bcoause ho was a man, was
permitted to feel that he was a very
important creature, but now that a
male escort can be dispensed with on
occasion, he has been made to de
scend from his high horse. He was
wont to impose his cheap Mhorse
talk" and slang ou his lady friends,
and was permitted to parade his con
ceit and ignorance simply because he
was a necessary evil; but tiroos have
changed all that, and ho now often
Unds that unless he can command re
spect by knowledge, his character,
or gentlemanly deportment, his room
is considered more desirable than his
company, All of which is having an
excellent effect upon tho average
young man of the period.
Bad luck is simply a man with his
hands in his pockets, and hia pipe ;n
his mouth, looking on to see how it
is coming. Good luck is a man of
pluck ; with his sleeves rolled up, and
working to make it come out right.
Giiti.9, whose opinion about such
things, is always valuable, say there
is too much shirt collar and too little
young man in the present fashion to
unit their tastes. Boys, something
must he douc.
The boy. who left a piece of ice in
the sun, to wajw up was no more fool
ish than the \\\a,\\ who opened a store
and expected people to himt him out,
and buy his goods.
WilKamston Female College.
Genend ffamcs F. Izlar:
?Dfaii Sin?fl have receivod through
a friend, a .catalogue of the Williaiu
ston Female College, from which I
ace that you, with othors -cf m.y -old
time pupils are its patrons.
Do you occasionally photograph
for the instant, the old log school
house with its split long benches, its
clay floor and chimney, and windows
made, if I may make an Irish Bull,
by neglecting to put in a side log.
We learned to spell and read there,
aud learned it well.
But enough. Williamston Female
College seems from its record to be
the very place for our daughters, Ibat
should and will be, the future queens
of Southern households. I do not!
see that they will bo carried there
into an atmosphere so artideia'ly ele
vated as not to know a garden vege
table. I am pleased with what is set
forth as to the elementary English
Department. It says:
Unusual importance is attachod to
Spelling, English Composition, Pen
manship and Drawing of Maps.
Spelling is taught by a judicious
combination of exercises, mostly in
writing ; and the premium oifered for
excellence in this branch is the whole
of the next Session's regular tuition.
Compositions are always written
in tho presence uf iue teacher, who
announces the subject to tho class af
ter they have assembled. If a com
position contains a prescribed num
ber of errors (the higher the class,
the smaller the number,) it must be
duplicated in full with the errors cor
rected ; and, if the duplicate has an
unreasonable number of errors, it
must be re-copied, until a respecta
ble accuracy is attuiucd.
I sincerely hope that others may
sec tbe advantages of a so thorough
tuition and All tbis College to over
flowing. Yours truly,
M. L. B.
A Quaker Printer's Proverbs.
Never send an article for publica
tion without giving tbe editor thy
name, for thy name oftentimes se
ciir^B ^^Jtc?ti?n t?^w?flHess~nTti
cles.
\Vhou shoujust not rap at the door
of a printing office ; for he that an
swerclh the rajp sneereth in bis sleeve
and lose lb time.
Never do thou Ionf about, nor
knock down type, or the hoys will
love thee as they do t,tie ohede trees
---when thou leavest.
Thou sbouldst never read J^e,copy
on the printers' cases or the sharp
aud hooked container thereof,,or,lje
may knock thee down.
Never inquire of the editor for
news, for behold it is his business to
give it to thee at the appointed time
without asking for it.
It is not right that thou shouldst
ask bin) who is the author of an arti
cle, for it is bis duty to keep t>uch
things unto himself.
When *hou dost enter his ofllce,
take heed unto thyself that thou dost
not look at what concerns thee not,
for that is not meet in the sjgut of
good breeding.
Neither examine Ihou the proof
sheet, for it is not ready to meet
thine eye that thou uiayjit under
stand..
Thou ?jipujdst ppt dpludp thyself
with the thought that thou hast saved
a few cents wjicn thou hast secured
a dead-head popy of ))}a paper, for
I whilst the printer may smjje and say
I it's all right, he'll never forget thy
I meanness.
Marrying for Money.
A lato author very truthfully aaya:
"Gold cannot buy happiness and the
parents who compel their daughter to
marry for station or money commit a
greivous sin against humanity and
God. And a woman who marries a
churl for his wealth will And that she
has made a terrible bargain?that all
the gliltcrings of heartless grandeur
are phosporcscent glitteringsof heart
wretchedness; that her life will be
like a crag on the black side of a de
sert mountain, where cold moon
boama sometimes glitter, but no birds
sing, hut wild storms howl and hoarse
thunders roar, and through the sweep
ing storms shall he heard the stern
voice of the great God, saying,
"Your riches are corrupted, your gar
ments are inothcatcn, your gold aud
silver are cankered, and the rust of
them shall ho a witness against you,
and eat your flesh as it were fire."
A horse thief was huug at Sidney,
Nebraska, the other day. He went
West to go up with the country, and
succeeded.
Several Subjects Considered.
Editor'Orangeburg Democrat;
I propose to comment a little in
your valuable paper if you wilt per
mit, occasioally. I bave been the re
cipient of a neW'oM mnu'a ipon" 'I
cull it, a blunt one, and if it writes
bluntly?your readers will please 'for
give. I think the agricultural critic
of the Times must 'have one of the
same. Well, we get at the truth some
tiraee, through pens that aro not too
limber. Critic, you are right, keep
them straight?C. If.," "J. W.
S." and the old ?ogfes, and muke the
way eo ?plain that a young farmer,
though a fool, cannot err therein?a
wide ring for Critic.
O ir friend, Dr. J. H. Fao3er,*has
found peipelual motion, of course.
How often this has been discovered';
still we use the supcilluous steam,
and drive the mdlc, instead of mak
ing use of this stupendous discovery.
When two bricks of precisely the
same weight will lift each other al
ternately, then Dr. Jno. Hunter can
use them for perpetual motion. I
have seen his machinery, and admire
his mechanical skill,ingenuity and en
thusiasm % but when he asks me to be
lieve in anything except muscle as a
propeller, I say, your most obedient,
excuse me.
I Tin history of the Edisto Rifles,
by Gen. J. F. Jzlar, worries us like
going over a troubled dream after
awakening. It is interesting, becauso
many of our friends were missed dur
ing the war, and no one except the
immediate comrades knew whither or
how they went. But the war captain
of the Rifles could only give us a
sketch, a synopsis of casualties and
events There is a history of the
unwritted ; it1 will ever be nnwritten.
It is the every day soldier life. It is>
the enthusiasm, the hope, the fears,
the personal joys and perils; in fact,
each soldier's experience is a history
by itself. I have bad opportunities
to listen to recitals of personal ad
ventures from soldiers of all sorts -T
somi e~cspeueneo in that Btupeudaotrar
corps, the old Reserves, and am sat
isfied that if one single writer could
command the camp literature of the
war, his fortune wonld be made by
the book.
"Society of Friends/' by Muslin,
a Utopian dream. It is to be feared
that the "silvery light of intellect,"
that is to illumine from the Teachers'
(Institute, will never make him who
has stood at the bar, desk and coun
ter, to say nothing of following the
plow, u man without guile.
J.'ic-nie /literature. Is not this get
ting to have ,too /ouch of a sameness?
Allow pic,to suggest a form that will
cover nine out qf ;tep of these effu
sions : "Wei came lq the djnncr talk,
we saw the dinner .table, wo .conquer
ed the dinner table." Any ,on,o wbjb
can't stop ?t tins may add,t|iat Vbeaur
ty was there,'' that "so and so went
home without vest buttons/' ,?u.
Why tjiere js mor? interest in the
standing advertisement of s progres
sive grocer! Let it be iinder*to.o4
that the pic-nic is not objectionable^
everybody likes to eat, frolio and cor
ner beauty ; but when we have it iu a
poluinn of oi)r paper, it is too much
liko stale soda water which the edi
tor and his readers arc obliged, tq
8we}l.oW' J?
OitAH^EBUBjS, July 2{j.
The Zulu Assegai.
The shaft of this instrument of
warfare is about fivp fleet long and
about aa tlpck as roan's little Qnger.
It is made of wood known to bota
nists as t)ie curtissa of loginca, not
unlike mahogany, brittle and
clastic, the latter quality giving the
spear a vibratory motion, on which
its accuracy of flight depends. The
head of the wpappn is generally blade
sbaped, with a raised, pdgp along the
centre, concave on onp sjde and con?
vex on the other, being like the feath
ers of an arrow. The tong of tho
head is made red-hot, and so burns
its way into the wood, around which
a band of wet raw-hide is bound, thai*
contracting as it dries holds the head
as firmly as an iron ring. The Zulus
fling these weapons with great accu
racy, and they carry oval rawhido
shields impervious to the darts to
cover the'r entire bodies. Besides
three or fonr missile assegais a Zulu
soldier carries a shorter and. stronger
stabbing assegai.
How rapidly a num loses all inter
est in politics qtyd, national finance
when lie shuts a door pu his own
thumb.