The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, July 22, 1897, Image 2
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KLNGSTREE, S. C. J
^QUIg BRISTOL, Ed. & Prop'r.
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A Russian philologist has invented
ft new language, which he fondly imagines..
will fill the bill universally.
He names it "Esperanto," but it is
safe to predict that it will go the same
route as "Volnpuk." It has only one
thing to commend it. The name
seems smoother than the effort of the
Volapuk crank.
Georgia, Massachusetts, Ohio and
. North Carolina each-win reflected glory
this year by supplying one of the class
leaders at Annapolis. The showing is
a pleasant one, remarks the New York
Times, as it indicates that no single
pert of the country has a monopoly of
brains, though three of these bright
boys do come from an Atlantic Coast
State, and the fourth from what is now
well in the East.
Of the philanthropists who hare
given at least a million dollars to the
cause of higher education in this counItry
President Seth Low is the only
one who is a college graduate. Girard,
Bockefeller. Peabody, Cornell, Cooper,
Bioh, Packer, Hopkins, Clark, Drex
Yanderbilt, Stanford, DePauw,
Bage, Lick and all the rest were selfr-'
educated men, who made their money
in business and owed their success in
life to their native shrewdness and in.
lK' dustry.
v Says the American Agriculturist^
R. Judge Baker, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
used vigorous language concerning the
practices of certain street railway official*.
"If the law does not give relief
there ought to be provided by popular
subscription a lot of lamp posts
v. for hanging up the fellows who go into
I such business. With these Napoleonic
systems of highway robbery I have no
sympathy. These fellows will go on
until they will finally induce the peoV
pie of Jkhis country to lynch them."
Indianapolis is not the only city that
Jt', * is suffering from this sort of oppression.
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I The number of children in the pub-1
lie d*y schools of Boston is now abont
72,000. For the past five years the in- j
kta nomred over 2000 a rear:
r .
hit year it was considerably larger.
This is double the annual increase ten
years ago, at which time, according to
Superintendent Beaver's report, the
' average annual expenditure for new
achoolhouses was less than $200 for i
.-V each new pupiL For the last two!
this expenditure has increased j
& ', to nearly $268 for each child, bringing
the cost of new'schoolhouses from less
than $200,000 to more than $o00,000
annually.
34V The famons Giant's Causeway, on I
}- the north ooast of Ireland, has been
declared by the Irish Vice Chancellor
to be private property, with no public
i . right-of-way, in spite of the fact that1
during living memory the canseway
has been freely visited by anybody
H* who wanted to go there. The decision
? is substantially a distinct wrong to
BR sightseers. There will soon be nowhere
that a tourist may go without
paying. Nobody thought of such a
thing as inclosing the Giant's Causeway
until there seemed a prospect
$. that pence and prosperity were coming
back to Ireland and bringing the
tourist with them.
I v The New York "World observes;
When Morse found out the possibility
of s mi ding messages from one place to
another by the electric telegraph his
?? invention was only the clumsy beginjP\-'
ning of a system. He used two wires
, ' to complete the circuit. Presently
somebody discovered that only one
I "wire was necessary, because by
"grounding" it at each end the earth
oould be made to do the rest of the
work. From that hour to this?from
the time when it was discovered that
the earth oould be made to do half the
"work?it has been the problem of electricians
to make the earth do all of it
It has been certain that sooner or later
ore should do our telegraphing without
vires. Mr. Tesla now announces that
he has accomplished this. He can1
aend signals for twenty miles without
the use of wires. Any system that
ends signals can be made to send
messages. And when signalling for
.twenty miles is possible, signalling for
any conceivable distance is a thing nqt
far off. This aarth of ours is a great
magnet,, a gigantic dynamo. We have
<mly to learn how to apply its practically
illimitable magnetic powers to
our uses in1 order to ''make the whole
world kin" in ,a degree uever dreamed I
at by the podt who inTsnted that
phrase.
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South Carolina S. S. Association to
Be Held at Camden.
FIRST REGIMENTENCAMPMENT,
Goes to Korea as a Missionary--Vacancies
at Winthrop -- Anderson's
Growth?Other Squibs.
Here is the official call for the annual
convention of the South Carolina Sunday
School Association, whioh is to be
+Vkta TTOQF Anornut 9,4 tVl
uom IU vauiucu ium J V*?* , ?
to 26th:
The program for the State Sunday
School convention is now being proposed
and will be published in a few
days. It is expected that some prominent
Sunday school workers from
abroad will be present this year and
a practical, helpful meeting is hoped
for.
Let no active Sunday school worker,
whether officer teacher or pastor,
who desires to improve himself and
his school, miss this occasion.
The people of Camden are making
arrangements for loyally entertaining
the convention.
Let every delegate and worker expecting
to attend notify Mr. C. W.
Birchmore as soon as*possible.
Reduced rates on the railroads will
be promulgated from junctional stations
in ample time.
County statistical secretaries are
urged to at onoe proceed 10 peneci
their statistical reports and forward
to Prof. B. 0. Sams, State Secretary,
at Gaffbey, S. C.
County treasurers will also forward
to the State convention treasurer,
Rev. W. J. Hef^ert, at Florence, S.
C., any fungq dte on pledges, etc.
I The ootinty vice-presidents will please
see that tkp county convention is arranged
for, a practical, helpful programme
prepared and assist in every
possible way to make it a success.
Also let everv oounty president prepare
and forward to the undersigned or
bring to the oonVention a report of the
condition of the organized work in his
: county.
"Organization" will be one of the
principal topics for discussion at the
approaching meeting.
Fraternally,
Char. H. Carlisle
Chairjnan Executive Committee, South
Carina Sunday Sohool Association,
Spartanburg, 8. C.
Great preparations are being made
for the encampment of the 1st regiment
of State Volunteer troops to be neia at
Orangeburg for one week, beginning
August 26. All the oommands of the
regiment are expected to be in camp,
and commands from all over the State
are invited to be on hand also. It is
understood that the Governor's Guards,
of Columbia, are endeavoring to make
arrangements to attend the encampment
Adj't General Watte has asked
the war department to detail one commissioned
and two non-commissioned
officers to attend this enoampment, and
instruct the soldiers. This request if
granted, will put two commissioned
army officers in charge of the encampment
Lientenant Stokes being already
detailed for that service. Gen.
Watts will very shortly forward to
Orangeburg all of the tents that will be
| necessary lor the encampment He is
confident also of securing a cent a mile
rate for the commands attending the
encampment
Grand Master Barron, of Columbia,
assisted bv the Masons of Spartanburg
City and County, laid the corner stone
of the new Spartanburg graded school
building, with appropriate ceremonies.
He used the silver trowel made for
Lafayette, which Lafayette used in
laying the corner stone of the De Kalb
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rnrni n mmiL vmuuou iu IUW. AU?V
is now the property of the grand lodge
of the State. After the ceremonies Mr.
Barron made a short address, explaining
that Masonary was not in conflict
with anything, or any order that
sought to male humanity better and
nobler.
Dr. Mattie B. Ingold, of Bock Hill,
expects to set sail from San Francisco
on August 5, bound for Korea, whither
she goes as a foreign missionary, being
seut out by the executive committee of
the foreign mission department of the
Southern Presbyterian church. She
has been under appointment for this
work for about six years and has been
spending that time in thoroughly fitting
herself for the important and difficult
work which she is to undertake.
The following scholarships are vacant
at this time at the Winthrop College,
for women: Aiken 2, Beaufort 1,
Clarendon 1, Chaileston 1, Cherokee 2,
Colleton 2, Georgetown 1. Greenville 1,
Greenwood 2, Lancaster 1, Laurens 1,
Marion 2, Newberry 2, Oconee 1, Richland
1, Spartanburg 1, York 1. They
are to be filled by competitive examination
on Aog. 18th.
The assessed value of the property of
Anderson county, exclusive of railroad
property, as shown by the auditor's
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DOO&S, its CO, *01, **o, an lutrcttoo ui
$220,000 over UMt year. The assessed
value of all property will approximate
$7,000,000.
The Congressional campaign for McLaurin
shoe* is sow on in the Sixth
District The candidotes are J. M.
Johnson, L. S. Bigham, J. ?. Ellerbe,
D. W. McLaurin and F. D. Bryant
The election-of the new county of
Edisto has been ordered for Aug. 18.
The Pythisns of Charleston expect to
celebrate New Year's Day, 1898, in
their castle hall.
J. C. Hunter has captured the postoffice
at Union. He is a Lilly White
Republican.
The Secretary of State has granted
a charter to the Carolina Tobacco
Warehouse Company, of Darlington.
Newberry's electric light and waterworks
plants are neariDg completion.
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WEATHER AXD CROPS.
The Greater Portion of the Corn Crop
Being Laid By, Greatly Improved
By Rains.
Section Director Bauer's Weekly
Crop Bulletin for the week ending July
13th, says:
The rainfall for the week came in the
form of local showers, quite general on
the 4th and 8th and scattered during
the remainder of the week. Some few
places did not receive enough rain,
while some received too much, with
washing rains in Fairfield, Barnwell
and Edgefield, but on the whole, there
is sufficient moisture for the present
need of crons. Eighteen places report- I
ed w eekly measurements of less thau 1
inch; 15 from 1 to 2 inches; 13 from 2 to
3 inches; 3 over 3 inches, with a maximum
fall of 7.25 at Oakland. The average
of these 50 measurements is-1.50
while the normal is about 1.29.
Hail fell, to the injury of the cropst
in Chester, Anderson, Barnwell ana
Clarendon.
The amount of sunshine varied
greatly. The estimated percentage
of the possible ranged from 14 to 83,
with about a normal percentage as the
average for the State.
Crops are in good condition and
grow ing well. This is the tenor of most
of the correspondent's reports for the
week. The exceptions relate mainly to
excessive rains in portions of Berkeley,*
Chester, Clarendon, Fairtield, Richland,
Orangeburg, Horry, Hamptonand
Barnwell, while in spots over the
central and western counties more rain
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wouia prove ueneixuiBi. uavmg vj ui
crops was hindered by heavy rains, and
grass is threatening many fields,
although no harm has as yet been done.
On the whole, crop prospects are decidedly
better than at any time during
the season, except for such as are matured
or ripening, including peaches,
which are rotting badly, and melons
which are inferior.
The greater portion of the corn crop
is being laid by, greatly improved by
the recent rains. Borne fields that were
badly parched by the previous hot, dry
weather are revived and look promising.
Early corn is about all in silk
and tassel, but the stalks are low and
generally small. It is firing in Berkeley,
due to excess of moisture, and aUo
in Darlington. Chinch bugs continue
to damage it in Chester and York.
Late corn without exception is in fine
condition.
Cotton continues to improve in most
sections. The exceptions are portions
of Berkeley, Bumter and Hampton
where it is too wet and the plant has
begun to shed it' fruit. It is vellow in
Barnwell. Cotton made rapia growth
and fruited heavily during the week.
Half-grown bolls are numerous in the
eastern counties, fields are oeginning
to show up grassy in places and some
will be laid by in foul condition. Somo
cotton has already been laid by. The
condition of the plant is verj
promising over the entire State
and in portions of Orangeburg
as fine as ever seen. Sea-Island cotton
is growing vigorously, fruiting heavily
and no adverse conditions whatever
noted.
Tobacco cutting and curing making
favorable progress. The reports on tobacco
vary greatly, indicating a lack of
uniformity in condition. Many report
it poor, some about an average, and a
few an excellent crop both as to yield
and Quality.
Bice continues to maintain its excellent
oondition, but sustained some inS*
try from caterpillars in Hampton.
pland rice not doing well in WilliamsI
bur8- , .
Sweet potato draws still being transplanted
and are doing well everywhere.
Pastures revived and afford good
grazing generally. Qrass for hay,
making rapid growth.
Melons are ripening and shipments
are heavy. The size and quality of
early melons are somewhat inferior,
DUt later growiu are inure
Grapes continue to rot badly. They
are ripening ml being shipped ?rom
the Southeastern counties. Scuppernong
vines are heavily fruited and the
fruit in healthy condition.
LIVELY DEMAND FOR COTTON.
Mills Throughout the State Are Buying
the Staple.
There is a lively demand for spot cot|
ton for home consumption in this State.
Orders have been placed at all the centers
and it has been hard to fill them.
Daring the last few days two agents for
Spartanburg mills have purchased 2,250
bales in Charleston alone, the stock in
the smaller towns being practically exhausted.
The stock in a number of mills of the
State has reached a low stage and it is
said that not a few of the mills are experiencing
trouble in consequence. It
appears that the mills were iu doubt as
to whether they would remain open all
through the summer and for this reason
they did not take on their usual stock.
The demand for cotton goods has kept
up, however, and them Ills have a sufficient
number of orders to keep them
going for some time. They now have
to replenish their stock and find trouble
in so doing.
The Boston Watchman publishes
Interesting Information regarding Formosa
from the Rev. John L. Dearing:
Among other Improvements proposed
are those with refereno to the condition
of the cities. Chinese cities are
proverbial for their uncleanliness.
Within a few weeks the government
has had the condition of most of the
larger towns examined ?/ foreign and
native experts with reference to providing
a water supply and sewerage
system, and the report has been most
favorable, and it is likely that at once
steps are to be taken to make the conditions
more healthful and cleanly. In
one case they propose nothing less
than to build a new city of Taiwan in
South Formosa. The new city has
been properly laid out and water supply
and drainage arranged for, and
now It is intended that the old city,
with Its crumbling mud walls, its filth
and abominations, shall be left If
Japan succeeds In removing from her
Chinese cities in Formosa those features
which are a disgrace to every
city of China, Pekin and Tien-tsin not
excepted, she will deserve praise. An
interesting problem is at least on her
teDds. . .1
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HOUSEHOLD~MATT?RS.
Charcoal for Disinfecting.
No good housewife is without her
own special and favorite disinfectant.
A simple and effective one may be
made of charcoal, mixed with clear
water. Speaking of charcoal, it is
well to remark that a little of it
sprinkled in water containing cut
flowers will keep the water fresh for
some time.
Cleaning the Bread Pan.
A woman hates worse than anything
else the cleansing of the bread pan or
bowl after having made up a "batch"
of bread. Unless absolutely necessary
to put the bowl away at once, fill it
with cold water and let it stand for an
hour. By that time all the hard
particles will have become softened
and fallen to the bottom of the bow!.
The practice of putting the bowl aacl
molding board away unwashed, in the
flour bin, as so many do, is most reprehensible.
The tiny particles will
work off into the next lot of dough and
ferment in the raising, and often spoils
a whole baking of bread, while the
baker is wondering what possesses the
stuff. Absolute cleanliness shoo Id
always be observed in attending to
bread, cake or p istry cooking to obtain
the best results.
To Exterminate Insect*.
Cleanliness is the best safeguard
against insects, fresh air, soap and
water being all powerful, if no scrap
or refuse be left to decay unnoticed.
Floor and shelves of pantries should
be wiped with a damp cloth daily.
The outside of all utensils kept perfectly
clean, the slightest carelessness
in thjs particular being sufficient to
bring a whole army of pests.
Covered utensils not in daily use
should have their covers left slightly
ajar to admit air and prevent mustiness,
and ofttimes rust.
The refrigerator should, be kept
near a window, so that it may be frequently
flooded with air and light. In
no place is more apparent the housewife's
thrift, painstaking and untiring
energy.
Camphor will prevent the ravages of
mice. For waterbugs fill cracks and
crevices with a paste made of two
tablespoons of plaster of paris, one
teaspoon of sugar and one tablespoon
of green tea.
To guard against buffalo bugs the
floors should be wiped with water in
which spirits of turpentine have been
mixed?to a large pailful of hot water
add a pint of turpentine. This is a
perfect preventive against this pest, so
much dreaded bj the best housekeep
ers, and is well worth trying by those
whose closets and pantries have been
infested by these dreadful vermin.
Outdoor Breakfast Rooms.
At one magnificent summer cottage
on Long Island the summer breakfast
room lias been erected in the form of a
nympheum ?literally translating this
means a resort or playground of
nymphs, and it cost a very handsome
sum of money, indeed. The chief
nymph of this Greek bower gave carte
blanche to her architect, who first
covered sixty square feet of level turf,
overlooking the blue Sound's waters, ,
with a charming mosaic floor, in
polished tiles, of white, blue and
green.
From this spring up a series of thirty
white marble Greek columns, to support
a roof of glass, so arranged as to
slide and fold back, and thus open
this lovely room without walls to the
blue bearens. Directly in ths centre
of the tiled floor a sunk basin, eight
feet square, holds ornamental fish and
water lilies, and out of the centre
- ? m arVil a
springs a vei v uua> miuS ...... ?
nymph, who stands in a perpetual
shower of sparkling water. Water
plants 8-nd blooming flowers are
banked about the edge of the fountain,
here and there ia bronze tubs stand
palms and ferns, and on carved perches
are a snow-white cockatoo, with a rose
topknot, and a dazzling red and green
African parrot.
A home-made nympheum may be
built of wire. A dry floor is the prime
requisite for one of these fairy apartments,
and for that reason a place is
selected in the garden, and the first
thing is to lay the space with tiles, or
have it covered with a beautiful
gravel of selected little colored pebbles
and snowy sand. Around or over this
the wire framework is placed, climbing
rose branches and grape vine tendrils
wound in and out of the wire mesh,
and there the delicate furniture, breakfast
tables and chairs are placed.?
Boston Herald.
* Kecipe*.
Strawberry Foam?Wash, hull and
cut, or mash slightly, one cupfal of
strawberries. Beat the whites of two
eggs till stiff, add two heaping tablespoonfule
of powdered sugar and the
berries, and beat until very thick and
stiff, use a nroaa dowi buu a wub
egg-be iter. Pile it lightly on a glass
dish, and serve with sponge cake.
| Deviled Fingers?Cat bread, free
from crust, into slices four inches long
by one and a half inches in width. Plaoe
two of these slices together, with the
following mixture spread between: To
each fi aely chopped hard-boiled egg
add a tablespoonful of finely minced
cold boiled ham and a tablespoonful of
lemon juice, a teaspoonful of grated
cheese and ahalf-teaspoonful of French
mustard.
Sheep's Kidneys en ifrochetto?From
three kidneys remove the ihin membrane
that covers each kidney and split
without cutting the cords. Sprinkle
each piece with a pinch each of salt
and pepper, dip in melted butter and
broil over a good fire. Have ready on
a heated serving platter a sauce made
as follows: Melt two tablespoonfuls of
butter, add a tablespoonful of minced
parsley and the juice of a lemon. Mix
well together, lay the kidneys in the
seasoning,sturaing them once. Then
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BARTOW PHILOSOPHER REGISTERS
A LARGE, HEALTHY KICK.
MUCH WATER, BUT LITTLE LIGHT.
Hot Weather of the Past Month Reminds
Him of the Prediction That the
World 1? Drying up.
I wonder if there is a town or city
in the world whose gaslight and waterworks
satisfy the people. I know that
it is chronic to complain of corporations,
but I am obliged to consider
myself an injured person. Almost
every night I have to go down town
to help nurse and comfort a little sick
child who is very dear to me, and
although the street has a gaslight, I
collide with something or somebody
or fall into a ditch every dark night I
travel. I ran against a big fat negro
woman the other night, and she used
disrespectful language at me. Last
night I had in my hand a bucket of
blackberries that my daughter gave
me, and I fell over a stepping stone
and spilled them all and skinned my
aged shins and dropped my cane, and,
it took me some time to find it. I've
a good notion to bring suit for damages
and have a receiver appointed. That
so-c8lled gaslight does not throw its
effulgent rays a hundred feet, and is
not lighted more than half the time,
and now that lightning bugs have
come again, I think the company
ought to catch some and put them in
a bottle and do away with the gas.
But I don't see any sense in having
gas with the lamp posts a quarter of a
mile apart. We don't want to carry
lanterns and pay for gas, too. That's
all I have got to say about this gas
business, and my folks have hinted
mat ine iauit is more in my eyes ana
my legs than in the dim, religions
light, but I know better. I am not on
the superannuated list by a good deal.
I work every day in my garden and
get all in a sweat of perspiration, and
then clean up and feel good and honest.
The long drought hurt me pretty
bad, but the garden survived it, and
now we have vegetables abundant.
The waterworks man never caught me
stealing more than my share of water
but once, and he didn't make much
fuss about it. He is a very considerate
man. Up north the companies
put meters at every customer's
residence, and he pays for
what he uses, but we have got more
water here than the town can use, and
don't have to be stingy. What a
blessed thing it is! Water, plenty of
water! Water in the kitchen and at
the back door and in the front yard
and the garden, beside a bathtub
upstairs and downstairs. Pure water,
fresh from a big spring that gushes
from the hillside. No river nor pond
nor reservoir nor filtering machines
nor microbes nor bacilli. No well
rope to break nor windlass to get
loose and knock one of the children in
the head. No cleaning ont and finding
dead chickens that we had been drinking
on. The fact is, I never knew the
comfort of water, abundant water, until
we planted our waterworks in Cartersville.
Strange to say, they never
came until we abolished whisky?that
is, the saloons. A great English poet
and jurist says: "Its cool refreshment
drained by fevered lips gives pleasure
more exquisite than nectarean juice,"
and Coleridge's sum of human agony
was to have?
"Water, water everywhere,
But not a drop to drink."
During the late long heated term in
June it was alarming to read from the
weather bureau that the world was
slowly but surely drying up, and the
rainfall was decreasing every year.
What an awfnl calamity is to come to
somebody some timet God grant that
it may not come in our day, nor our
children's nor children's children!
God grant that it may not come at alll
But the scriptures do say that this
world shall be burned np, and I heard
Professor Proctor, the great .astronomer,
deliver a lecture on the "Birth,
Growth, Maturity, Decay and Destruction
of a World" that made the hair almost
stand on end, for he proved that
the world had passed its meridian and
was now on a rapid down grade of decay.
"Kapid, rapid, did I say? Yes,
rapid for a planet, but it may be a million
years distant." That lets us down
easy, and that night the young people
danced and the sports played poker as
usual. Just postpone the judgment
out of sight and human nature will
take the chances.
But the blessed seals that hold the
rain in the heavens have at last been
opened, and once more man and beast
and nature reioice in a temperate at
mospbere and a moistened earth. It
was distressing to read of the sunstrokes
ar d the suffering in the great
cities, and to think of the little innocent
children and the invalids in the
garrets and crowded "rooms of the
tenement honses. Oh, when will the
good things of this world be equally
apportioned? Many of us have far
more than our share, but we are still
ungrateful and long for more. My
opinion is that, independent of all
revelation, there is obliged to be another
life in another world just to
equalize things. "Son, remember that
thou in thy lifetime receivedst good
things and Lazarus evil things, but
now Lazarus is comforted and thou
art tormented." That is a good text
I for us all to ruminate about once or
twice or thrice in a while. I tell you,
[ my friends, it is a fearful thing to be
I rich and selfish. I'm afraid to
risk it But sometimes I do
Cfttch myself wishing that I had a rich
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old bachelor to die and leave me a pile 1
of money to frolic with in my old age. t
Or that Mrs. Arp would realize her
part of that Holt estate in England.
Good gracious! She should have a car- -2
riage and a pair of Kentucky bays before * *1
next Sunday to ride to church. But it ie ;
an old proverb that if wishes were tjjS
horses we would all take a ride. And
there is an old Persian fable that telle 1 ' -V?
how an old man was always wishing JOf
for something and one night as he and
his old wife were brooding over their
poverty and wishing for different
things, a genus came iu and told them
they might have three wishes, and he Jj
would grant them. Of course,they were
happy beyond expression,and as theoid -xi
man was hungry he wished right away :-\l
for a plum pudding. Immediately it waa S
set before him in a silver platter, and [ vft
this foolish wish made the old woman
so mad that she exclaimed: "I wish,
that it was hung on your nose." Prea>
to, quick the pudding jumped up aad v
was fastened to the old man's nose. ;
They had but one wish left, and the old jd
man had to use that in wishing th? M\
pudding loose again. And so the good
genus left them as poor as they were
before he came. I suppose thai . \
fable was designed to teach us that it
is better to trust the Lord and he
content with our lot. Nevertheless,
most of us would try the genus if he
would come.
Once more let me write of Johu *. '.j?
Quincy Adams and his beautiful poem. -s..s
I have received it from just a score of . Vj
good friends, but only two of them ?
have the full poem of twenty stanzasof
eight lines each. Some of them ;
have fourteen, some twelve, and on* JgJ
only eleven. One from Mrs. Hollo- . man,
of Eatonton, has not the laststanza,
beginning?
"These are the wants o! mortal man, 3
I cannot need them long." - /gS
Bnt has instead a stanza that I do
not find in any other copy. Which is
the revised version I do not know.
The poem is remarkable not only for
its thought and felicity of expression,
bnt because its author, "the old man
eloquent," was the only president who- <28
ever wrote a poem or even a verse, ao ;;Jj
far as we know.
As some of these lady correspondents
have suggested that Goldsmith. ^
was the author of the lines,
"Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long."
Let me say that Young preceded1
Goldsmith forty-four years, and hisexpression
is, "Man wants but little^
nor that little long." Goldsmith onlyadded
a word or two to make the
measure fit his ballid.?Bill Arp, in '
Atlanta Constitution.
OF*L?BANON.
Cnrfrraa Foreinf Process to Fattem
Them for Slaschter.
Harry Fenn, the artist, has written ' j9
for St Nicholas an account of hla visit 4
to the famous cedars of Lebanon, :
which place la also noted for ks silk. ;j?R
Mr. Fenn says: Wherever a handful
of earth can be made to rest upon a ^
ledge, there a mulberry plant grows.
It is a picturesque and thrilling sight ?
to see a boy lowered by a rope over the- y^j
precipice, carrying a big basket of earth
and cuttings of mulberry twigs to plant k^g
In bis banging garden. The crop of
leaves, fodder for the worms, Is gath- -uj
ered in the same way. By such patient * ^
and dangerous industry have these- -f;
hardy mountaineers been able to make
their wilderness of rock blossom into [5
brightly colored silks. Not a single 4 i
leaf Is left on the trees by the time the yj
voracious worms get ready to spin their jl
cocoons, but a second crop comes on ']
later, and a curious use is made of .f
t*\at
The tree owner purchases one of ' M
those queer big-tailed Syrian sheep, the
tail of which weighs twenty pound*
when at the full maturity of its fatness,
and then a strange stuffing process
begins, not unlike the fattening of
the"Strasburg geese. When the sheep
can eat no more the women of the ;J|
house feed it, and it is no uncommon
sight to see a woman going out to make 13
au afternoon call leading her sheep by
a string and carrying a basket of mul-.
berry leaves on her arm. Having arrived
at her friend's house, she squat*
on the ground, rolls a ball of mulberry , ?j!
leaves In her right hand, and slips it . ,-j
into the sheep's mouth, then works the- . it
sheep's Jaws up and down with the
other hand till she thinks the mouthful ^ -U
has been chewed enough, when she
thrusts it down the throat of the unfor- : ^
tunate animal. The funny part of the
business is that probably half a dozen
gossips of the village are seated around
the yard, all engaged at the same operation.
Of course, the sheep get lm- V
mensely fat, and that Is the object, for \
at the killing time the fat Is fried out and
put into Jars, as meat for the win- ' .
ter. _
A very curious point has been'sub-,"
mltted to the Derbyshire Football Assoclation
for decision. It Is as to whether
artificial limbs are to be permitted
in the play. It seems that the Burton . }
Football Club had several members of
its team severely Injured In consequence
of a member of the Matlock
/vlrttrnn liorlnn wIotta^ wlfh on
Vicvcu uai vu TTJUU au aitiuviai
arm. It .was reported that Id Derbyshire
alone there are a number of foot- '
ball players who, owing to the loss of \
an arm, use artiticlal limbs. They are
described as "regular terrors" on the
football field, since when once they get
"on" to the ball they swing their dnm- *
my arms around with such force as to
either fracture slculls or cause concussion
of the brain. It has now been determined
by the association that artificial
limbs are henceforth to be barred
Jn all football games.
The Alabama statesman who has
brought In a bill forbidding women to
wear any article resembling masculine . X
clothing, Including bloomers, tights, divided
skirts and shirt waists, is rather: ,
an Iconoclast than an old fogy, so much Ji
have times and fashions changed, J