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EQUITY CORRESPONDENCE. PST LttfTERS FROM OUR SPE? CIAL CORRESPONDENTS. of Interest From all Part* of and Adjoining Conn ties. HOTICR TO CORRBSPONDBNTS. Mail your letters so that they will this office not later than Mon when Intended for Wednesday's and not later than Thursday far Saturday's Issue. This, of course, ??piles only to regular correspond In case of Items of unusual value, eend In Immediately by telephone or telegraph. Such stories are acceptable up to the of going to press. Wednesday's Is printed Tuesday afternoon Saturday's papsr Friday after DAJLBKLL. Dalsell. Dec. 10.?We are having sold weather enough to sstlsfy us now and ws are having It for the Christmas passed off very quietly although thsre wss quite a lot of boose shipped In here. *We have geea very little drunkenness, only ene or two who seemed to be under Its Influence. Turkeys, sausage, and backbones lee been plentiful end your humble eorreepondsnt has enjoyed his full ?tare for which hs Is thsnkful. Wsll we are to have some changes m sur neighborhood. Mr. J. M. Woodier has sold his plantation and erfll leave our nslghborhooJ for good. Ws hats to give Mr. Woodlsy and family up. Mr. Woodley was s good farmer and we need more like him. Also Mr. Alex. Burrows Is go? ing to move to Richtend county. Mr. Burro sie Is a young min. but Is also a good farmer and those are the kind that help a community, and we hate to give them up. We like mtn who amount to etxiethlng. We see some who are no good, either to themselves or any one else, and one of that kind Is not missed much, but we always hate to see good men die or leave a community. We were very eorry to hear of Mr. Parker getting shot Mr. Parker Is a young man of excellent qualities and ws hope htm a speedy recovery. Prof. A. C. Carson of South Car? olina University Is spending the hol? idays st home with his mother, Mrs. XL J. Carson. Miss Clara Martin is spending her Boljdays at home with her parents, accompanied by her friend, Miss Joes Bentley of Kel*on. S. C. The building committee for the Dalsell Methodist church has placed their order for the pews for the church with the Southern Seating and Cabinet Co., of Jackson, Tenn. and soon hope to have them In place. I wish you. Mr. Edl'.or, and all of jour readers, a very happy and a' most properous new yoar. BROGDON. Brogdon, Jan. 8.?The holiday >n has come snd gone. For the past week the usual social gatherings and dh.ners have been the order of the day. The college girls and young men are now realising that the days of festlvitlee are st a close and that they are soon to return to their re spectlve schools. Among the visitors In our midst for Xmas holidays were Messrs. Gary and Taylor Stukes of Manning, Miss Mabel Proctor of Charleston and Mr Bugene Brogdon. of Denver, Col. Mr. J. I. Brogdon has gone on a elstt to relatives ?n Waycross. Qa aad Montgomery, Ala. Miss Mamie Blackwill is at home from Wllllamsburg county where she has been engaged In teaching. Mr. Lee Jones is at home from Co tumble, where he is In business. Miss Louise Jones, principal of th Graham school, spent Xmas at he home In Newberry and Miss Cope land Smith, assistant teacher, visit? ed relatives In Bennettsvllle. Mise Ethel Blackwell spent the* holidays at Foreston with relatives. Miss Hattle Lou Jones Is at home from Chester county where she has been teaching. Mr. Ed. MoQeei much to the re? gret of his friends. has sold his home here, and will soon leave for Oeorgla. Mr MoGec has been one of our most acopSfOtJl faimers. Mr. J B. Vfettl has also sold his place ami win return to Ssjsater to live HTATFJll'HG. ?tat* ?huric. Jan 3 Mr. RsbSfl Barnwell. formerly of Itont ?n. Mans., but now ,f (;?. . i!\HI.s. ('.. has been spending a few oays In the neigh? borhood with relativ? Dr. Matt MOOJPO, f/ggl has bOCg house ah] lelas at the Ortbepaedk Hospital In Philadelphia during tin past year, fgpeeti to locate in Char? leston In tin- near future. Mr. Harry Bull 1? at bOUSC for the holidays. Miss Sarah Moor?*, who is attend? ing Winthrop College and Miss Frf i" cee Moore, a stud* nt of the M- inmln ger school, are spending a few day* WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC. GRAND Jl'RY TO INVESTIGATE IN NEW YORK CITY. Jury of Which John D. Rockefeller, Jr., Is Foreman Will Investigate White Slave Charges. = New York, Jan. 3.?District Attor ney Whitman of New York and the ?on of the richest man in the world took up today, one directly, the other indircetly, an investigation of the so-called white slave traffic, a subject that agitated the recent mu? nicipal campaign and more latterly formed a basis of a report to con? gress. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is fore? man of the grand Jury sworn in to? day, charged especially with the task of Inquiring into the traffic in w>men, with a view either to a rigid prosecution or an end to "sensational slanders against New York." The district attorney began a similar line of Inquiry. He assigned a special as? sistant to examine witnesses and in a statement tonight he urged that the public come forward with any and all evidence that such traffic ex? ists. He asks that this evidence be given not only to his office but to the grand Jury and the courts also. The district attorney Intimates that prominent men in the city not only indorse the Investigation but stand ready to aid him in more sub? stantial ways. In his address to the grand jury directing that the white slave traffic be thoroughly investigated, Judge O'S,-invan said: "The main object which I desire you to keep In mind throughout the Investigation Is uncovering not alone of isolated offences, but of an organl" zatlon, if any such exists for a traf? fic In the bodies of women. The laws' machinery is at your command* The wealth of this opulent city is at your call. The sympathies and sen? timent of its law abiding citizenry re with you. "Your Inquiry should not be sat? isfied by any half way answer. If organized traffic in women exists in th>s city the law is adequate to end It and punish the persons engaged. If such traffic does not exist your in? quiry should end forever the sensa? tional slanders against the city of New York." mMmmmmmMiMmmmmmmmmmmmmMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm at "The Oaks", their old home. Misses Aimee Moore and Bessie Barnwelll expect to return on Tues? day to St. Mary's College, Raleigh, N. C. Mrs. Guy Nelson, who has been visiting relatives in Columbia, has returned to the neighborhood. Misses Georgie and Theodosla Dargan spent a few days In Columbia during the past week. Mr. and Mrs. John Barnwell, were the guests of Rev. and Mrs. W. H. Barnwell on Xmas day. . Miss Minnie Norris Is visiting her sister, Mrs. Lee Coker and Mrs. Ed? ward Mclntosh in Hartsville. Mr. Frank P. Burgess has return? ed to Manning after a short stay with relatives here. Mr. Henry Moore, who came for the Christmas holidays, will re? sume his studies at the Charleston Medical College the early part of the week. Mr. Hall "Ramsely spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ramsey. Mr. S. R. Cain, who has been the guest of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Ramsey, has returned to Laurens. The Stateburg high school re? opens tomorrow, and the teachers and scholars after a pleasant holi? day, w'lll return to their duties with renewed zest. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rodes, who have been the quests of Dr. and Mrs. F. M. Dwlght, have returned to their home in Atlanta. After the bitter cold of the last week, the weather we an- now hav? ing seems to be spring like. Suimnrrton News Notes. Summerton, S. C, Jan. 3.?The year 1909 with Its favors and dis? favors has gone out, and there re? mains with us Its memory alone, a guide-poet to 1910. To be sure, it witnessed th?- discovery of the North Pole and untold advance! In the navigation of the upper atmosphere, but assuredly more vitally Interest tail and valuable to the south, South Carolina, and Clarendon county is Um lie ootton which she perfected, what itio has In store for us, we ?!" not know, but wc shall not crit? icise bet achievements at all harsh? ly should she neglect the first men? tioned advances, if only she can re? tain that glorious ir.e cotton, Tho carmen <>f this section, with but few exceptions, mad.- good aver? age crops, and satisfied With th? for? tunate high price ol cotton are mak? ing haste to get In readiness for t ii * * coming planting season. Farm hands are being signed up, rent liens exe? cuted, and all available farming lands win soon be under cultivation. Borne of the principal plantations In this locality are Changing hands at FLORENCE AT WORK. PUBLIC SPOUTED CITIZENS GATHER AT FLORENCE COURT HOUSE. Believed That Line From Florence to Georgetown, via Alcolu, Will be Built in Near Future. Florence, S. C, January 3.?The meeting of the parties inter? ested in the building of the Alcolu, Florence & Georgetown railroad was held In the Florence court house today. While there was not a large crowd 1?. attendance those who were present were en? thusiastic and seemed determined to exhaust every effort in carrying through the proposed road. There is already a line extending from Al? colu to within about ten miles of Florence, owned by D. W. Alderman & Sons, and it is a continuation of this line into Florence and down to deep water at Georgetown that is being sought. It is estimated that the building of the road will cost about $6,000 per mile and the Messrs. Alderman have agreed to fur? nish rolling stock and other equip? ment and to lease the road for 20 years, guaranteeing Interest on bonds and taxes. The legislature will be petitioned to authorize the town? ships through which the line will pass to take steps for the Issuing of the necessary bonds. The representa? tives from Georgetown, Williams burg and Florence counties, who are taking an active part in the matter, seem to feel assured that the Alcolu Florence A Georgetown railroad will be built in the near future. EXCLUDE CATTLE FROM SOUTH. Owing to Prevalence of Texas Fever. Governor Deneen Declares Quar? antine Against 14 States. Springfield, 111., Jan. 3.?Owing to the prevalence or Texas fever among Southern cattle, a proclamation was issued by Governor Deneen against importation into Illinois of cattle from California, Oklahoma, Texas, Missouri, Arkansas, Louisiana, Ten? nessee, Alabama, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, between February 1 and November 1, 1910, unless the cattle are accompanied by certificates from the inspector of the United States bureau of animal Industry that they are free from fever. the New Year's entrance, resulting In the loss of one or two families who have been residents In this com? munity for many years. Mr. A. Plumer Burgess, whose family has long been identified with Clarendon county will move with his family to Fort Motte, S. C, Mr. Burgess hav? ing accepted a position with his brother-in-law, Mr. Peterkin. Mr. J. D. Rutledge, who has for severaV years occupied the Wilson, planta? tion will remove to his own farm a few miles from town, and it is thought that Mr. W. B. Wilson will take charge of his father's Interests In this section. The Summerton Furniture Co. in order to accommodate Its very much enlarged stock has rented the ad? joining brick store, recently vacated by the Eadon Bros. Co. These new quarters will be partially converted into an Undertaking Parlor. During the Christmas and New Year holiday season, ^several hunt? ing parties have gone forth into the swamps around the Santee to try their luck with the ducks. One par? ty, composed largely of Summerto nians spent all of last week in the heart of the swamp, but as yet we have not learned with what success they met. A party of Richmond sportsmen are now stopping with Mr. D. M. Rodgers on his plantation some eight miles from town. This seems to be an unusually good game year, and the sport need not be con? fined to any one variety. On Monday evening, Dec. 27th, Misses Lucy and Maria Mood omcr talned quite a number of friend* at their home on Church Street. The parlor was tastefully decorated with holly and evergreens, under which the Jolly crowd of young people passed a few happy but lleettng hours, Many miscellaneous games weir enjoyed) broken first by a lovely display of fireworks, and then by d - lightful refreshments. Those pres? ent were: Misses Annie Rutledge, Mildred James, and EStta Scarbor? ough, Messrs, Harry Davis, Allston James, Ceth Mason, Lawrence Chew nlng. Doc Colclough and Fred Bs rnes, Misses Ada Tennant and Louise Scarborough returned yesterday to Lynchburg S, to resume their duties in the Graded School. Mr. L B. .Martin of Marlon, B. C? Visit? d frlendl In tow n last W eek a i.-s Kate Canty spent the holi? days at home. Mm S. I?. Cantey and family, of Batesburg, are visiting relatives In this c immunity. Miss Berths Davis is spending a i*< w weeks with her sister, Mrs. Sprott, of Manning, Played a Star Role In the History of Some Nations. ????? i COST ONE K!N3 HIS LIFE. The Herring Fisherits Proved en Im? portant Factor In the Overthrow and j Ultimate Execution by the Headsmsn of Charles I. of England. A tale as stirring as auy Action could be based on the part played by the sea j herring in tbe history of some of the principal countries, writes Hugh M. Smith in the National Geographic Mag? azine. Its spawning and feedlug grounds have determined the location of cities, and in several instances tbe actual destiny of nations and the fate of mouarchs appear to have been In? volved in the herring fishery. Even today the herring Is a factor In em? pire. Countries in which the quest of the herring is an important Industry are the United States, tbe Canadian prov? inces of New Brunswick. Nova Scotia, Quebec and British Columbia? New? foundland, England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Russia. Germany, Holland, Belgium, France. Japan and Siberia. The prosecution of tbe herring fish? ery and trade has been considered not beneath tbe dignity of nobility and royalty. Fitz-Greene Halleck tells us that Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt. The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt. The Douglas in red herrings. In 1077 the Duke of York and other personages of rank formed a corpora? tion called 'the Company of the Royal Fishery of England" for tbe purpose of carrying ou tbe herring fishery in tbe North sea. They built a fleet of Dutch "busses" and manned them with Dutch fishermen and then were bankrupted by the capture of their vessels during a war with France. In 1720 some 2.000 of "the principal gen? tlemen of Scotland" formed a com? pany for herring fishing, but were quickly disrupted, leaving a mournful lot of stockholders. In 1780 tbe Prince of Wales became president, or governor, of a herring fishery, with a capital of $2.500,000, whose members "were among tbe first men in tbe kingdom." one of tbe pro? moters being General .lames Ogle thorpe. founder of the state of Geor? gia. Stock was taken with eagerness, vessels were built quickly, and efforts were made to learn tbe secrets of the Dutch methods of curing herring, but tbe company soon suspended, and its failure cast on tbe English herring fishery an odium that continued for a long time. It is a matter of great historical in? terest that tue herring fisheries should have been n prime and perhaps the most important factor in tbe over? throw of Charles 1.. whose attitude toward tbe development of borne and colonial fisheries was most unreason* able and unfortunate. At a time when tbe Dutch herring fishery had attained such magnitude and importance that It was regarded as tbe "right arm of Holland" and when the sturdy Dutch fishermen were pursuing their lucra? tive calling under the encouragement of their government the English peo? ple were chafing under the grievous restrictions imposed by royal approval on all who desired to engage in fishing anywhere off the American coast be? tween the fortieth and forty-eighth de? grees of north latitude. This effort on the part of tbe crown to interfere with the cherished privi? lege of "free fishing'' bad begun under James and was bequeathed to Charles and was perhaps the first in the series Of farreuching differences that sprung up relative to the prerogative of the crown as against the rights of the sub? ject. At the same time there was another restriction placed on the fishermen at home. When James ascended the throne of England his navy consisted of but thirteen vessels, and Charles succeeded to a war fleet but little stronger and utterly inadequate to cope with the navy of the Dutch or French. After Charles had been successfully opposed by the commons in his plan to have no fishing conducted on the American shores except by permission of the company of "noblemen, knights and gentlemen" known as the council of Plymouth he levied "ship money on the fishing and mercantile vessels at home in order to build up bis navy with the distinct object of breaking up the Dutch herrlug fishery on the shores of England and driving the Dutch from "the four narrow seas" over which England claimed jurisdic? tion. At the expense of tbe fisheries and navigation Charles finally fitted out tbe largest war fleet England had ever had and succeeded in his purpose, so far as the Dutch were concerned, but the levying of "ship money" stirred up civil war at home, and Charles paid the extreme penalty. The Exception. "What are the dining hours at your club?" "From 5 to S for all except tbe com? mittee." "Why tho exception?" "Because rule 5 says. 'The commit* tee is At liberty at any time to till any vacancy in their body.'" ? Boston Transcript. Troublesome Teeth. ' The Young One?Do your teeth ever 1 give you trouble? The Old Ode?Oh, yes. I mislay 'em ! sometimes.?Yonkers Statesman. The passion for glory is the torch of the mind.? Spanish. / A Mystery That the Mind of Man Is Unable to Penetrate. THE CAVERN OF MORPHEUS. I It Is Pitch Black as Far ss Human Understanding Goes, For We Know No More About It Than We Do About its Twin Mystery, Death. When all is writteu, how little we know of sleep! It is a closing of the eyes, a disappearance, a wondering re- j turn. In uneasy slumber, in dreamless dead rest. In horrid nightmare or in ecstasies of somnolent fancies the eyes are blinded, the body is abandoned, while the Inner essence is we know not where. We have no other knowledge of sleep than we have of death. In de? lirium or coma or trance, no less than in normal sleep and in dissolution, the soul is gone. In these it returns, in that it does not come again, or so we Ignorantly think. Yet when I reflect on my death I for? get that I have encountered it many times already and find myself none the worse. I forget that I sleep. The fly has no shorter existence than man's. We bustle about for a few years with ludicrous importance, as bottleflies buzz at the window panes. They, too, may Imagine themselves of infinite moment In this universe we share with them. But this is to take no account of the prognostics of sleep. There Is something hidden, something secret, some unfathomed mystery whose presence we feel, but cannot verify; some permeatlve thought In? sistently moving In our hearts, some phosphorescence that glows we know not whence through our shadowy at? oms. Neither sleep Itself nor half Its prom? ises nor mysteries have been plumbed. It is the mother of superstitions and of miracles. In dreams we may search the surface powers of the freed soul. Visions in the night are not all hallu? cinations; voices In the night are not all mocking. There is a prophet dwells within the mind?not of the mind, but deeper throned in obscurity. The brain cannot know of this holy presence nor of its life in sleep. The brain Is mortal and untrustworthy, a phonograph and a camera for audible and palpable existence. Strike it a blow in childhood so that it ceases Its ] labors and awake it by surgery after j forty years and it will repeat the in- j fantlle action or word it last recorded | and will take up its task on the in- i stant. making no f-ecount of the Inter- ( mediate years. They are nonexistent to it. Yet to that hidden memory those diseased years are lot blank. It knows, it has recorded, though the brain has slept. And In hypnotic or psychic trance, when that wonderful ruler is released from the prison of the body, it can speak through the atom blent ma? chinery of the flesh and tell of things man himself could not know because of his paralyzed brain. This ruler is not asleep in sleep, nor in delirium is it delirious, and in death is it dead? Through all the ages it has been our sphinx, which we have Interrogated in vain. It joins not in our laughter nor our tears. We have fancied It with Im? mobile, brooding features of utmost knowledge and wisdom and sorrow. It has asked us but one question, nor from the day of Oedipus unto today have we answered rightly, so that we die of our Ignorance. It is Osiris liv? ing in us. It is the unknown God to whom we erect our altars, the fire in the tabernacle, the presence behind the veil. Not in normal wakefulness at least will It answer our queries, but in sleep sometimes it will speak. And It may possibly be that at last, after all these centuries, we are learning how to question it and In hypnotic trance and in the fearful law of suggestion are discovering somewhat of its mys? tery and how to employ it for our worldly good. Yet to its essential se? cret we are no closer than our fore? fathers were. We may define dreams and night? mare, coma and swoon and trance with what terms we will, search their physical reasons and learn to guide and guard, yet we know no more of them than of electricity. We may be? gin to suspect that telepathy and clair? voyance and occult forces of the soul are not superstitious fancies, and we may even empirically classify and study and direct them. Yet the soul itself is no nearer our inquisition. Though we should know of its real? ity, though our finite minds should fathom the infinitude, of what benefit would it be? Would it modif> our be? liefs or our hopes or our faiths? Would it dictate one action to our passionate lives? There would be no change in human nature and no reforms of the world. We are the children of our fa? thers, and our children will tread the prehistoric paths. Dreams are our life. Whether we wake or sloop. Wo drowse througll existence, awaking and dying and being reborn daily, ever torpescenl and unamascd, and our thousand slum? berous deatbi wo call restorative sleep ?sleep that restores our physical be? ing, building up where we have torn down, recreating what wo destroy. Black?pitch black, indeed Is the cavern of Morpheus. Faith peoples it With varied legions and builds its chaos Into myriad forms. Nightly we enter il and drain the 1 etheau air and forget, and dally we return with re JoIcinCS, babbling of dreams that were nol dreamed, and finally we enter for the last Hme and drain somewhat more deeply the essence of ecstasy and awake no more and no more re? turn to the. autumn dyed skies of the dawn. And yet; we. Shall flie?tu> U lantic Monthly. Flattery is the food of fools. - Swift. Life of the Happy-go-lucky West Indian Negroes. LAZY JOY FOR LITTLE WORK. Six Months' Labor Enables Them to Loll In Indolence For a Year and a Half?Combing the Islands For Men For the Sugar Plantations. A happy-go-lucky, stand up and fall down, genial, inconsequential spirit an? imates tbe West Indian negroes in their labors and in their begging. From tbe sweating toilers on the dock at Macori8 loading sugar Into tbe steamers, with their warning cry. MBee-low r to the men In tbe bold, to tbe grinning boys hauling their fishing boats up on tbe beach at Dominica, tbey live from day to day and take no thought of the morrow. A West Indian negro with $50 will live for a year and never do a stroke of work. And why not? His living costs him only 9 cents a day. He has bis little cabin for tbe occupancy. A mango tree grows In bis yard, and be can pick plantains by tbe road at will. If be Is too lazy to bake U cents will buy bread for tbe family for tbe day. and a few cents more will buy a dosen small fish and one large one. A single garment does for tbe women, and $5 will clothe tbe mao for n year, while tbe pickaninnies run as God made them. Tbe West lndiee sre tbe paradise of the happy loafer. Every year tbe is Isnds sre combed from end to end for hands to work tbe great sugar planta? tions In Santo Domingo, and at that tbe negroes must often be practically kidnaped to get them on tbe boats. In November of each year tbe sugar boats, little sloops and schooners thst spend tbe remainder of tbe year trad? ing among tbe Islands get Into the Santo Domingo negro trade. Their captains and supercargoes, when tbey bare them, and tbe owners go up and down the islands telling tbe negroes that on a certain day tbe resse' will sail for Santo Domingo and take all who want to go to work on tbe sugar plantations. Take tbe little Island of St. Martin's for Illustration. For a week the island is combed, and on the appointed day a dozen sloops and schooners are crowd? ed Into Marlgot bay. The night before the negroes have begun to stream Into the little town that sleeps through the year, wafting for this one day to bring it to life. Boards are laid across boxes, and mm and whisky are set out to arouse the negroes to the pitch that will carry them out to the vessels bound for tbe plantations. Alt day the men stream Into tbe town, traveling barefooted along tbe sandy roads, swept in by the sailors, singing their song of ricbes to be bad for the asking. Ahead of the men walk their women, toting heavy boxes on tbelr beads, while tbe men are dressed In their best, with a cocky straw hat perched on one ear. swinging a dandy cane and carrying tbelr shoes in their hands. At tbe outskirts of tbe town tbey put on their shoes and swing gayly up to the open air bars on the beaeb. The women lug tbe big boxes down to the beach and wall at being left alone until tbey. too. become filled with tbe excitement of the scene and urge their men folks on. Tbe men bang back and laugh and drink and deny that tbey are going. "Is you goin'. Big Tewm?" ?*Naw. Ah aln' goin*. Ah Jus' come tub see." "Yas. Jtf is goin'. Big Tawro. Git in 3at boat." "Come on heah, boy. Ya. ha!" And all the time tbe rowboats. load? ed to tbe gunwales, are plying back and forth between the shore and tbe sloops. By sundown tbe beach is swept clean and six little sloops and a schoon? er make sail and drift out of the har? bor on a dying breeze, loaded down with a thousand black men and wo? men, wbo will wake in tbe morning with a raging thirst. Then woe be to tbe captain who has not filled bis wa? ter casks, for there Is sure to be at least one body to be given to tbe sharks after tbe fight aromd the butts! When the vessels drop anchor off Macoris the plantation foremen come off and look over the cargoes and pay tbe shipmasters $2.50 each for passage money for tbe negroes. Then the blacks are herded ashore and are cred? ited with 30 cents a day for a month for working from sunrise to sunset In tbe cane fields. By that time the $2.50 passage money is paid back. Then tbey receive their 30 cents a day in cash for tbe next six months until tbe cuttiug and grinding season is over, when the sloops show up again and take them to their homes for $2.50 each, paid In advance. The foremen collect from the planta? tion owners 03 cents a day each for pay for the black hands, but with their share of the money tbe negroes can live for a year and a half before they have to think of doiug another day's work. And tbey do it. Year after year the trade is plied, and the Islands are combed for men for the planta? tions, and year after year the negroes return home to eighteen months ot laty joy.?New York Tribune. Teacher was telling her class Uli stories in natural history, and she ass. ed If any one could tell her what a groundhog was. Up wont i little hand. Waring frantically. "Well. Carl, you may tell us what n groundhog is." "Please, ma'am, it's sau*age."?Ev? erybody's Magazine. Groundhog. 1 dare no more fret than 1 dare curse and swear?John Wesley.