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BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. CL WEDNESDAY. JULY 30. 1884. NO. 5. VOLUME XXIX. ||
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HUMILITY.
The tender flowers dream not how sweet they
are.
The buttercup's wee blossom, bright and
g?y,
That gems the meadows like n golden star,
'i'v inkling with dew at sunny break of day,
Knows not how fair it makes this quiet spot?
Sly heart, it knoweth not, it knoweth not!
Swoet ore the roses in the pasture lane?
Like flakes of sunset dropped from some
rich cloud?
Oh, sweet, indeed, but not with sweotness
vain;
Nor is the pasture of their presence prouA?
Not for themselves they blossom, bud and
nod?
They spring to breathe to man the piece of
God.
I never hoard a songster's lay that told
Of aught but simple joy and grateful praise.
The oriole, with throat aflanio with gold,
Dreams not he is a cli.inn to mortal gaze.
No bird to laud himself hatheversung;
His song if for the flowers ho chirps among.
The rainbow streaming o'er the silver mist,
"With hues as soft as morning-glories
bright,
Where, by the glowing lips of sunbeams
ldswd.
The airy clouds blush into colored light?
Calls not for praise; but in a little while
Hides in the passing stonn its modest smile.
\ The mountains, round whoso brows the stars
rejoice,
Whose peaks are hoary with eternal snow,
Look up as if to listen for that voico
That woke creation, cen'uriesago,
Thinking perchance its might again may rise
And bid their summits blossom to the skies.
Go ask the eagle soaring round their height.
And ask the moon that with her beauty
great
Beams on their silent whiteness through the
night,
If e'er they breathe a whisper of their
state.
Unmindful ?how the praising world admires,
They point to God and heaven their dazzling
spires.
The sun that fills the skies with summor
calms,
The stars that light unmeasured depths of
space,
Like distant suns that flash reflected charms,
When on the night Jehovah turns his face?
All those in humbleness tfteir glory wear,
Grateful, not prouil, bocaus? Heaven mado
them fair.
Oh, vaunting man. go ponder on these things:;
Think?what is glory in thy Maker's view? j
Who wins the passing praise the cold world
sings,
Nor always earns the praise of Heaven, too. !
Thon mayst through life thy name with gods
enroll,
Yet hear rebuke of angels in thy soul.
Oh, to be simple in the lives we lead!
To know that what we hold is not our own!
The lily is as modest as the weed,
The mountain humble as the broken
r* stone.
Since man is proud, how wise it is, how just. !
That death should come to teach us we are
dust!
?K W. Shurtleff, in Youth's Companion. j
WHAT THE BEES DID. j
"You can't eat no more idle bread in
this house!'' angrily exclaimed old John
Hurdle, addressing his son Abe. *'Xo.
rir, no more idle bread in this house."
"I must eat it outdoors then, must I?''
asked the boy.
"No, you sha'n't eat it on my farm. I
do believe that you've got less consideration
than any man 1 ever saw. You know i
11 T _i. xi ? .
OS wen as x uu luair luu uuiu aujiniu^ >
for work, but as soon as iny back is
turned you drop your hoe and sit down
in the shade. I wish I may never stir
again if I ever saw the like in my life.
I am a great mind to drive you off. Go
on back there and hoc that corn.
Where're you goin'?" The boy had
atartcd to enter the house.
"Wantcr get something to cat."
"It hasn't been three hours since you
eat breakfast."
'-'"Yes, but I'm hungry now."
The boy entered the kitchen where his ;
mother, among bright pans was scouring j
a brass kettle until it had begun to shine
like a mirror.
"Abe, why do you give your father so
much trouble? Why don't you stick to j
your work. Pleg take that boy! Don't
cut that bread."
"Oh, I can't work all the time," proceeding
to cut the bread. "I'm tired, an'
so Sot out there."
"Abraham," called the father.
"Yes, sir."
"Are you comin'?"
"In a minit," and cutting off a piece of j
butter with a butcher knife, he proceeded i
to spread it on his bread.
"Abe, do hurry up," said the mother.
"Don t you know that if we could afford
it you would not have to work?"
The old man entered, holding with an >
angry grip, an apple tree sprout.
"Pap, don't whip him," the mothw
pleaded. "I am sure that he will go on ,
to his work and stick to it."
"I am a great mind to cut him in two.
Of all the boys I ever saw, he is the most 1
trifling. I don't knc?r what will become
of him when we drap off. What will you
do, hah?"
"JL>on t Know, sir," muncning ms
bread.
"What will you do for a living, bah?"
"Eat, I reckon.''
; "Ob, there's no doubt of that, provided
you can get anything to eat, but if
you don't make a great improvement in
the way you stir your stumps, you'll
starve to death. You don't want to work, !
you don't seem to care for play, but all
you want is to mope around like you'd
lost the last friend in the world. What
do you mean by it ?"
"I am thinking."
"Thinking?" replied the old gentleman
derisively. "A boy that's too lazy to
play, ain't going to do much thinkin'." ;
"Perhaps he does think, pap," said the
boy's mother.
"That's all nonsense. What's he got
to think about? He's too lazy to study
up mischief. Go on now, and hoe that
corn."
Abe slowly dragged himself away. The
^^(>ld man turned to his work of greasing a
set of harness. After awhi e, looking
up, be saw the boy poking around the
yard.
"What are you doing there ?"
"Forget where I left my hoc."
"I do think in my soul, that you are
the most worthless boy I ever saw.
What's that lvin' there by you, hah ?"
"It's the hoe," lazily taking up the implement.
"Now do you think you can recollect
where the corn is ?"
"Yes, sir, 1 reckon."
He moved'slowly away and sought the
()lace where the corn-blades waved in
azy whisper. The "chatter Jack" sat
on the tall iron weed and sang his rip
saw notes; the "snake doctor" flew
around and ' zipped" the top of an old
Btump; a squirrel chattered in the neighboring
woods, and a toad, fat on a diet
of bugs and a drink of dew, lazily fell
from a clod, showed his yellowish underside
and then slowly hopped away. Abe
approached a stump and struck it with
his hoe. A low hum, a loud buzz, and
the air was full of bumble bees. The
boy threshed himself with his hat and
took to his heels; slowly at first, but
when a bee alighted on the back of his
neck and made known the exact locality
of his whereabouts, tne ooy sci up a a-u
and ran toward the house at the top
1 of his speed. The old man saw him
coming. He was surprised to see his son
travel so rapidly, and the old fellow,
throwing down his harness, slapped himself
and roared with laughter. Abe
bounded over the fence like a deer. The
old man was so much tickled that he had
to support, himself against the corner of
v the house, but the next moment he was
^ trying to untangle a bee from his "bushP*
heap" of hair. His wild motions attracted
other bees, and the boy now rescued,
shouted with laughter.
MCome, fight them oil!" shouted the
old man. "Confound it, don't you see
that they are killing me?"
The old lady came out, but she was
too prudent to rush to the rescue, and
the old man, thus left to light his own
battle, fought untill the bees "sheathed
their swords through lack of argument."
| "I ought to take a limli and whale
you," said the old gentleman, smoothing
out his ill-used hat. " Didn't you know
j better than to bring the things here?*'
| "I wasn't trying to bring the bees,"
I the boy replied, "1 was trying to bring
1 myself."
j After an application of cfTcctive retne;
dies for such ills, the old man said:
"Wall, its proved one thing: Tiiat
I ycr can travel faster than a creep. It
was the fust time that I ever seed ycr
j strike er trot. There must be some! bin'
in you. .lingo, how my jaw hurts. Have
| yer got any books?"
''Yes, sir."
"Well, gethcr 'em up and in the
mornin' you may hull out to school. A
boy that's as pert as you are ought to be
eddveated."
The next day Abe arose early. His
father was surprised to see him "beat the
sun," "for," as the old gentleman afterward
declared, "I lister have to pull
him out of bed every mornin'."
When Abe arrived at the school-house,
where a learned bow-legged man smoked
a clay pipe and put "him" in the noini!
native case, the pupils threw up their
sun-bonnets and hats, and shouted: "Ho,
' here comcs lazy Abe Hurdle."
i In disappointment of all expectation,
I Abe did not mope around the grounds,
) but plaved with a vigor which astonished
* .v. \ 1 1
! every one, including me teamen uuwleggcd
man who often indulged in the
false participle of "having went." In
, the school-room the boy devoted himself
to his books, and though he had lost
i much of his laziness, yet he was still too
j lazy to relinquish his mental hold on
anything he once learned. He became a
favorite, and the learned bow-legged
man, who would sometimes allow a
singular verb to follow two nouns, one
day said to Abe's father:
"That boy is going to make his mark,
lie is quite beyond me already, and I
; would advise you to send him to town."
"I ain't got the money."
"Why, my dear sir, you have quite a
large farm here. You regard yourself as
being poor, when in reality you are quite
well fixed. If you haven't the ready
money, sell a part of your land."
j "I'll be hanged if 1 dou't do it. The 1
boy is so pert now that I can't do too
much for him."
Abe was delighted with the idea of j
attending a large school. He promised
his ffitlu'r that if he felt the old feeling
coming buck on him lie would lind a j
bumble bee and sting himself.
At the large school, by leniency called i
a college, Abe retained his stubborn hold
on every fact which came into his possession.
lie entered the law class ;ind de-.
voted himself to the sheepskin books.
He graduated with honors, returned home
and established a law office in the neigh-1
boring village.
Years have passed since then. In the
old farm-house garden there are two
graves, side by side. Little children spell
the words on the large stones, and at
evening, a noted Congressman and his
matronly wife sit under the great elm
that shades the grass-grown mounds. In ,
a little field hard by, where every year
the corn blades wave in lazy whisper, j
stands a stone, bearing this inscription:,
' This is the spot where years ago,
bumble-bees came from an old stump and
nominated a candidate for Congress."?
Arkansaw Trawl r.
The Younarest Soldier of the Revolution.
Richard Lord Jones was born at Colchester,
Conn., on .May 1">, 1707. lie
enlisted at Hartford,for the term of three
years, in Captain James Watson's com- )
pnuy of the Third Connecticut regimenr,
commanded by Colonel Samuel B. Webb,
the father of the venerable General James ;
Watson Webb, and was the youngest ;
enlisted person on the pay-roll of the
Army of the devolution. lie was im-1
mediately placed under the charge of j
Bandmaster Ballentine, and instructed
to play the fife.
The regiment was at one time engaged
in an enterprise having in view the destruction
of a large quantity of lumber
on Long Island. But the colonel and a
number of men. among whom was
Richard, were captured while returning,
after a successful expedition, by the
British sloop of war "Falcon"' and taken
to Newport.
Upon the arrival of the prisoners at
Newport, they were taken before a
British officer for examination. The
colonel, being called forward, was followed
by Dick, who was anxious to learn
what his own fate was to be. The British
officer, noticing the little fellow at the
heels of the colonel, sternly inquired:
"Who are voii?"
"I am one of King Hancock's men, "an
swered Dick, straightening himself
proudly.
"What can you do for him?" asked
tne orncer, wiui a smue, anu so strung iui
emphasis on the "you'' that Dick answered
defiantly:
''I can light for him.'"
"Can you fight one ot King George's
men?"
"Yes. sir," answered Dick, promptly,
and then added, after a little hesitation,
"if he is not much bigger than I."
The officer called forward the boatswain's
boy, who had been curiously look-1
ing on; then turning to the youDg continental,
asked:
"Dare you light liim?"
Dick gave the Briton, who was considerably
larger than he, a hasty survey,
and then answered:
"Yes, sir."
"Then strip," said the officer, and
turning to the British lad, "strip, and do
battle for King George."
Both boys divested themselves of all
superfluous clothing as rapidly as possible,
and went to work at once, and iu
(lire earnest. It was a "rough and tumble"
fight; first one on top and then the
other, cheered iu turn by cries of, "Give
it to him, King Hancock!" and "Hurrah
fnr ICinnr
~ O~ *
It was a memorable encounter for botb
contestants, but at last the courageous
little rebel got the better of his adver- :
sary. The young Briton shouted
"enough,'' and was rescued from the embrace
of his furious antagonist.
"With a generosity natural to greet
minds, but seldom displayed during the
War of Independence, the British officer
ordered the discharge of our young hero,
for his pluck, and lie was set at liberty.
?St. Niclivbig.
Farmers and Dogs.
If the fanners of the country who own
worthless dogs could be induced to destroy
them and substitute one well-bred
shc,Vicrd pup, not more, to each farm,
the wealth of every fanning community
{ would be vastly increased in many ways.
; Farmers, with a little tact in getting
| along with a dog, would soon lind the
; colly saving them many a step. .Eager
j and anxious to learn, willing to do every I
thing within his power, the young dog
1 rxnK- ,i w\<i> Mtirl ruitiont restraint.
" JtClU.7 VillJ m .1 .. v j ?
j an intelligent direction, to become the
most useful hand on the place. The
colly is an alert and discriminative
watcli-dog, answering for this purpose
far better than the heavy, sleeping,
stupid, savage bull or mastiff, who is
liable to attack his best friends or eat up
a child. Asa colly acquires ajje and
' dignity, if he has been well taught, he
j imagines that the whole business of the
; farm hinges upon the performance of
j his duties, and he becomes as punctual
j and regular as the. sun. Canine coinI
panionship, if at liberty, has a bad effect
| upon the colly in most instances. Where
I an old and wise dog is used to tutor
youngsters by good example while at
work, it will do to have two or more
together. The duties of the colly are
practical.and mean work; companionship
means play and is demoralizing.
Especially is this true of companionship
with a hunting dog. The shepherd do?
has enormous perceptives, and is very
imitative; he quickly goes wild over
game when led by a hunting do<;, con
sequently neglects and shirks his work,
and is spoiled.?Urcclcr* (tnzctte.
The Nile Dike at Cairo.
A canal traverses Cairo from east tc
west. This canal is closed, when the
inundation begins, at the junction with
the Nile, by a solid and well-made dike,
and remains thus closed until the watermark
shall have reached a desired point.
The rupture of this dike, which admits
. the water into the city, is accompanied
by festivities in which all classes of the
populatian share.--Harper^ Magazine.
THE SOLDIER'S FUiVERAt,
THE PATHETIC BTORY OP A PHIVATE'S
BuEIAL.
Surrounded l?y Comrades, Far Away
From Homo. lie Dies and h Laid
Away Forever.
Pome of the boy? will remember the
day we buried Hilly Taylor, private, C
company. Forty-seventh Illinois infantry.
I remember, because it was the first time
I ever marched in a military funeral, and
I was only a l>oy; I hadn't seen my nineteenth
year then, and I wasn't much
taller than the musket I carried. Billy
wasn't killed in battle. He had passed
through a dozen lights; every time the
Forty-seventh went in lie was close by
the colors, and shot or bullet never
touched him, but the gods of war demanded
more lives than the ride and
cannon could pile upon his reeking altars,
and so dentil, wearying may be, of the
red carnage of the field, often came to
our tents to select a victim for the sacrifice.
.So Billy was excused from duty
i one day, and sat about in the tent, and
tried to shake oil the sickness that came
creeping over him, ami had time to write
part of a letter, and then he planned
1 what he would do to-morrow. And
the next day lie was excused again, and
. stayed in his bunk, but it was hard,
and he could feel the knots in the
board under the blanket, nud it
made him restless, and he thought if he
didn't feel better to-morrow?but he
knew lie would?ly; would go to the
regimental hospital. And the next day
he was better; so much better that he
was pronounced well, and his name was
stricken from tiie sickdist. It was also
stricken from the company roll and he
was marked off duty forever. Six men
were detailed for pall bearers, a corporal
and eight men for escort, and following
marched the men ana olticers 01 me company,
in the inverse order of their rank.
Somehow, the sunshine seemed dim
and misty as the muilled drums spoke
mournfully, and our slow steps seemed
to be marked off by heart-breaking sobs
in a distant home away up in the far
away Northland. The wailing fifea
breathed the pathetic strains of "The
Land o' the Leal" until the air seemed
filled with tears:
There's nne sorrow there, Jean;
There's neither cauld nor care, Jean,
The day is ever fair
In the land o' leal.
TVe could hear the sweet voices of
women, tremulous, grief-stricken, in the
mourning fifes. Women ? Since he
kissed mother, sister and sweetheart
good-by iu the Prairie State he had not
heard a woman's voice syllable his nam(f.
His last dying looks were bent upon
bronzed, bended faces; and the kind
hands that dressed him for the funeral
march were hard, calloused with toil and
war and scented only with the cartridges
thev had last handlqd. The voice of a
woman would have sounded to him like
the blessing of God. To die, so far
away from home; to die and know that
at that moment, ignorant of his passing,
the dearest of earth were joyous, singing,
laughing, may be; to die and know
that the days would creep on into
weeks, and the weeks drag on
into months before they whose names
were quivering on his loving, praying
lips,.would know it; to die and know
they would be still writing letters to
him when his eyes would be closed and
the heart that longed and loved would
be stilled forever. It is a sad, sad thing
to bury a soldier.
But sorrow's sel' wears past, Jean,
And joy's a coinin' fast, Jean,
The joy that's aye to last, Jean,
In the land o' the leal.
And they?what would lie the measure
of their sorrow in the stricken home.
Ilis dying kiss, his last goodby, the loving
look in the closing eyes, the peace
that death would print upon his face?
they would never 6ee it, they would
never hear it, they would never knsw it.
"What wonder our soldiers1 hearts were
heavy as the burden on the bier, and our
tears were faster than our measured
steps! And the mournful drums, iu their
sad monotone, pattering hkc tears upon
a coffin lid, sobbed 011 like the murmurous
rushing of a troubled stream, hushing
the shrill grief of the complaining
fifes, softening their cries into the plaintive
moaning of a sorrow that has wept
its violence away, and mourns with the
whispers of the plaintive niirht wind:
'"Halt!" and how softly the corporal
voiced his orders. "Rest on?arms!"
The chaplain is reading something from
the only book man read at that time:
"I am the Resurrection and the Life;
he that believeth in 3Ie, though he were
dead, yet shall he live. And whosoever
belicvth in Me shall never die."
With broken voice he prays above the
dead, and our hearts echo his prayer, as
they seem to lie in the rude coffin with
our comrade.
"Attention! Shoulder?arms! Load
at will?tire!"
IIow the ringing volleys over the
grave, making a thousand discordant
echoes in the woods about us break
iu abruptly and harshly upon our grief.
"By platoon, right wheel?march!
Column, forward, guide left, quick?
march
Cheerily the fifes sang out the dancing
measures of "Gerry Owen," merrily rattle
the close-strung, spirited and inspiring
drums, with pieces at a "right
shoulder"' caily back to the camp we
marched. *
What! we have followed the dead soldier
and stood in tears bv his lonely
grave?we have been away from camp
nearly two hours?and the world hasn't
slipped a cog; it hasn't missed a single
heartbeat: it lia-u't stood sMIi a second.
The second relief 1ml just gone on when
we went out, and there goes the third
marching out now.
What arc the drums for? Fall in for
dress parade.?ltunktte.
Proteetiug the (ireat Statue.
In erecting the great Statue of Liberty,
two things had to be considered that
seem very triiling. and yet, if neglected,
might destroy the statue in one day, or
cause it to crumble slowly to pieces. One
is the suu, the other is the sea breeze.
Either of these could destroy the great
copper figure, and something must be
done to prevent such a disaster. The
heat of the sun would expand the ineta
and pull it out of shape, precisely as it
does pull the Brooklyn bridge out of
shape every day. The br'dgc is made in
four parts, and when they expand with
the heat of the sun they slide one past
the other, and no harm is done. The
river span rises and falls day and night,
lt.? i 1 ?U '1M.?
H* IlCill Him UUIU til tui IIilLU. A 11U ^1UUI?
copper statue is likewise in two parts,
the frame-work of iron and copper covtring;
and while they are securely fastened
together they can move one over
the other. Each holt will slip a trifle as
the copper expands in the hot Awgust
sunshine, and slide back again when the
freezing winds blow and the vast figure
shrinks together in the cold. Beside
this, the copper surface is so thin and
elastic that it will bend slightly when
heated, yet keep its general shape.
The salt air blowing in from the sea
has thin lingers and a bitter, biting
tongue. If he linds a crack where it
can creep in between the copper surface
and iron skeleton, there will be trouble
at once. These metals do not agree to
get her, and where there is salt moisture
in the air they seem to quarrel more bitterly
than ever. It seems that every
joining of points of copper and iron
makes a tiny battery, and so faint
shivers of electricity would run through
all the statue, slowing corroding and
eating it into dust. This curious, silent,
and yet sure destruction must be prevented,
and so every joint throughout
the statue, wherever copper touches iron,
must be protected with little rags stuffed
between the metals to keep them from
quarreling. It is the same wherever two
different metals touch cach other. Imagine
what a tremendous battery the
; Liberty voulcfefcnake, with its tons of
| copper surface and monstrous skeleton
of iron. However, a little care prevents
all danger, as provisions will be made,
of course, for keeping the metals from
touching cach other.??>t. Nicholas.
While in 1700 there were but three
patents issued by the United States government,
in 1792 but eleven, and in 1795
but twelve the issue for the year before
last was 18,135, and for the last year it
was 21, IDG.
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FARM GARDEN AND HOUSEHOLDI
When to Cultivate tlio Garden.
With the exception of bciins, which are
injured by being hoed when wet, all vegetables,
bo far as we know, are much
benefited by being cultivated while the
[1 dow is on. This statement is verified by
every farmer who hoes his garden in
early morning, although none can tell
why it is so. We are not aware that
science lias offered any explanation of
this fact. No doubt the freshly-stirred
soil absorbs a great quantity of the dew,
and the weather being cool little evaportion
takes place. Certain it is that early
morning is the time for work in the
garden, and the earlier the better. As
soon as weeds can be distinguished from
the vegetables is a proper time for an
hour's diversion in the garden. If this
work appears unseasonable, it is to be
remembered that it pays both in quantity
nnU quality. .fcarly morning is niso tne
proper time to do transplanting. It is
preferable to evening, when the ground
is dry and hot.?Boston Cultivator.
Ensilage for Com and Horae*.
An Atlanta (Ga.) farmer writes: "Finding
that my cows and calves would eat
corn ensilage in preference to the best
cured hay I could purchase, I determined
to try feeding it to my horses. At the
end of a trial of six weeks (I would have
continued longer, but ensilage gave out)
I found that not only the cows but the
horses were in splendid condition, much
j better than I had ever scon them at that
season of tho year. The feed given the
cows was twenty pounds of ensilage per
day, divided into two feeds, with four
quarts of bran at a feed. The horses
linil llift simfi .imniint. nf onsilnfo. with
four quarts of corn in the place of bran.
No hay was given them during that
period. My impression is that chemical
analysis shows that one pound of hay is
equal to two or two and one half pounds
of ensilage, as food for horse or cow.
My belief now is that one pound of ensilage
is a little better than one pound of
the best cured hay as food for either a
cow or a young calf. My belief is based
on the condition of my stock when fed
on ensilage, as compared with their condition
when fed on hay, the other feed
given being the same."
Cabbazc Pcst?.
Cabbages are attacked by a variety of
I insects; the first enemy is the flea-beetle,
' which injure9 the young plants by eating
the leaves; the next is the cut-worm,
which bites through the stem and destroys
the young plant after it is set out;
the next is the harlequin bug, which
sucks the sap from the halt-grown plants
and kills them; then comes the fly, the
j parent of the root grub, which causes
club root; then the lice, which cover the
leaves; lasuy, tne green worm, wunu
eats the leaves, of which there are two
species. All of these are warriors in
their modes of attack, and what will be
a remedy against one will be of no avail
against another. Dry air slacked lime
drives off the flea-beetle; wrapping
paper about the stem prevents damage
by the cut-worm; the harlequin bug can
only be destroyed by hand picking, and
fortunately there arc few of them; lime i
spread about the roots drives off the root |
maggot, and it never appears on new |
ground, as it is a biennial creature and 1
does not travel; black pepper or Scotch I
snuff fixes the lice; but hand-picking or i
catching the white butterflies which are |
the parents are the only remedies for the
green worm, unless decoction of red
pepper might be useful.?New York
Times.
Clover Hay*
"It is worth while to give the matter ,
i much care, for poor clover hay." says a 1
' writer in the Country Gentleman., "is poor j
stuff for any stock to cat. The only '
proper way to cure it is in the cock. Cut,
it, say in the morning after the dew is!
off, let it lie and wilt, and cure as much
as possible until sufficient time only remains
to nut it up in cocks before night,
and if hay caps can be provided
to cover them, so much the bet- j
ter. Next morning when the
dew is oif open the cocks and spread j
out the clover lightly, and as soon as i
spread begin stirring and shaking it up :
so as to let the sun and air have access to I
every particle. Then, if (he weather is j
favorable, it will do to go to the barn. 1
We have sometimes noted good results ,
from its being allowed to stand through |
the second day and night in the cock,
before shaking out, as it curcs quite as !
rapidly by heating. Moreover, when j
cured in this way the leaves will remain
intact much better than when cured
wholly by the heat of the sun, and the ]
hay will be less dusty when it comes to
bo fed out. Last summer we saw the
experiment tried of driving the clover
direct to the barn, before it had time to
wilt, even, but an examination of the
mow in the winter showed that much of
it had become musty and unfit to feed, j
This custom, however, is practiced in
! some parts of the West, with good sue- j
\ cess, we arc told, but good curing in the
field is always sufest."
I "
Effect of Suit on Soil.
i
! The use of salt, says Professor Sturte-1
| vant, may give an apparent increase of
crop on some soils, and with certain;
plants, and when nitrate of soda is used
i as a spring dressing upon crops, the di- i
lution with from one-half to two-thirds j
; its weight in salt has been found of ad-!
j vantage as preventing in dry seasons
' what is called the burning of the young
i plant, and in wet seasons the excessive
developemcnt of straw. Salt, however,
1 seems to change it in some: degree the
physical condition of the soil, and it has
been stated to me by a good observer!
that asparagus heavily dosed with salt
furnishes a later crop than where the salt
is not applied. In agriculture, however, j
cheap and impure salt is used instead of
the refined salt, and hence it may happen
that other materials are supplied to j
the soil, in practice, than chloride of |
sodium alone. Thus the refuse salt i
from fish packing establishments j
may contain fragments of fish, etc.
In our relations with the soil, we have '
to meet conditions of extreme
perplexity. There is not a chemical con- j
8tituent as a factor which receives gen- j
eral recognition, and also the transfer of i
plant food within the soil through the
action of moisture and capillary attrac-1
tion, the greater or less decompositions |
continually taking place whereby plant
food is liberated or changes its conditions,
but we have also what we mav call'
the mechanical relations, or, otherwise
expressed, the capacity of the soil to receive
and transmit impressions from temperature
and moisture in their relations
with the food, its varied capability to j
the penetration of plaut roots, as well as
the interactions between these and other
named factors. Hence a change in the
mechanical conditions of the soil, which
admits of a greater freedom for plant
feeding or of a quicker access to heat or
moisture, may make available the plant
food, and thus may seem to act as a direct
fertilizer would through the addition
of material to the soil. We thus
oftentimes obtain the apparent cfTects of
a fertilizer, as when sand is added to the
soil, or coal ashes or other material,
which act in like manner. We may also
name drainage as a factor of this character.
ProgTCftnivc noilci in Corn Culture.
Each recurriug season a large propor
tion of the corn crop is uriu piameu unu
receives level culture. Comparatively
few wideawake fanners practise the old
method of planting corn in hills. Occasionally
a piece of land, foul with weeds
or insufficiently drained, is planted to
I corn in hills, but when the ground is fairly
cleaned and the soil dry there remains
no doubt about the superiority of drill
planting, over hill planting for corn.
While flnt culture is largely practised,
! there remains a diversity of opinion as
regards the comparative merits of deep
and shailow culture. Advocates of deep
culture claim that the mutilation of the
roots of the plants objected to by the advocates
of the other system, act as a pruning
of the same and induce a larger jield
of grain. This class, as a "ule, however,
' cultivate deep and close, so long only as
the plants are making a vigorous growth,
following with shallow culture when that
is arrested.
The plan of "laying by" corn after it
; has attained its growth and just before
I the development of the tassel by deep
j plowing is almost a thing of the past
among Eastern farmers. Its injurious
effects have been most plainly demonstrated
during times of drought by the
"firing" of tho crops and the development
of dwarfed cars.
Advocates of shallow culture, many of
them, do not use even a light plow after
the seed is planted, but keep the surfacc
of the ground mellow and weeds subdued
by frequent working of the soil?shallow
and flat?with the cultivator. Mr. E. 9.
Carman, who has succeeded in gaining
excessive yields of corn on comparatively
poor soil in New Jersey, is an enthusiastic
advocate of drill-planting and level
flat culture. lie also advises the use of
a heavy roJler upon the drills after planting,
and in dry weather, believing that a
close contact of the soil with the seed induces
early germination. Professor Sanborn
has made a scries of experiments,
the results of which appear to prove that,
when the surface soil is kept fine by shallow
culture it acts as a mulch to prevent
evaporation, and the growing crop endures
drought better than when the soil
is left rough and lumpy by deep culture.
Professor Roberts, of Cornell University,
ufter some experiment, takes a conservative
ground; lie believes that root pruning
in wet soils, in moist or wet weather,
when growth is very rapid, is apt to be
beneficial; in dry, hot weatheritisliable
to be injurious.
The conclusions to be deducted from
the testimony that is annually given in
various sections of the country is that in
soils requiring it deep culture should be
given previous to dropping the corn,and
! th': day has gone by for stirring the soil
j deeply at every plowing. Three things
; are requisite for the rapid growth of
' corn, viz: light, air and moisture, and to
afford a constant supply of these a stirj
ring of the surface is necessary. By
, keeping the crust of the ground broken,
i without cultivating deep enough to in!
jure the roots of the plants, air can penej
trate, giving a stimulus to the disintegraI
tion of the nutrient elements and the
; chemical elTect of light passes directly to
! the roots. A large amount of moisture ,
i is also absorbed from the ntmosphere by
' the loose dirt, which acts as a sponge.?
j New York World.
Household RccipcM and Hint*. 1
A good hair restorative is a mixture of
equal parts of alcohol and castor oil. If
the combined quantity is four ounces,
add to it two drachms of cantharidesand
a few drops of uny perfume.
[ Corn-incal muflins are appetizing. T<# I
one pint of meal add one cup of flour, a
lump of butter the size of an egg, two
eggs, nearly half a pint of sweet milk,
and a quarter of a cup of fresh yeast.
Mix this at night, and in the iriorniag
bake in muflin tins.
A nice sauce to serve with whortleberry
pudding is made of one cup of
white sugar, a third of a cup of butter,
half cup of cream; put into a saucepan,
and add half a teacupful of boiling
water. Let it simmer gently on the
stove for five minutes; stir it carefully;
ilavor with a few drops of vanilla.
Cut cold boiled potatoes in slices a
third of an inch thick. Dip them in
melted butter and fine bread crumbs.
Place in the double broiler and broil over
a fire that is not too hot. Garnish with
parley and serve on a hot dish. Or,
season with salt and pepper, toast till a
delicate brown, arrange on a hot dish,
and season with butter.
An appetizing way to prepare asparagus
is to boil it in salted water until it
is tender, then serve with drawn butter;
or make a sauce of eggs, butter, pepper,
and salt, put a lump of butter into the
trying pan, break half a dozen eggs into
a bowl, beat them with a spoon, and
then pour them into the frying pan, stirring
all the time; when they begin to
harden pour them over the asparagus.
To clean old marble or alabaster immerse
the objects for two or three days
in water to soften the dirt, lime, etc.,
then take them out and clean them with
a brush or scraper. When cleaned in
this way as much as possible, lay them in
a mixture of one part of concentrated
muriatic acid and three parts of water
until thev appear perfectly clean. Sometimes
it may be necessary to increase the
"biting" property of the sour water with
nitric acid. Finally, soak the objects in
water till thev are pcrfcctly free from
acid. The appearance may often be
improved by rubbing with alittlcalmond
?:i |
Educated Men in Congress.
The number of college-bred men in
Congress, says a "Washington letter, is
linger than usual, although its treatment
of great public questions has not developed
any of the expected results of college
breeding. As is well known, the
President is a graduate of Union. Secretary
Lincoln was educated at Harvard,
and Secretary Chandler is a graduate of
the law department of that university.
The Harvard men in Congress are
Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, Representative
Adams of Illinois, Covington
of Maryland, Hunt of Louisiana, Burns
of Missouri, Weaver of Nebraska, Tillman
of South Carolina, Dorsheimer and
Belmont of New York, Davis, Long, Collins,
Stone and Lyman of Massachusetts.
Yale is represented by Senators Dawes
of Massachusetts and Gibson of Louisiana,
and Representatives Davis of Mis
souri, Seymour of Connecticut, J5cacn ox
New York, and Plielps of New Jersey.
Union graduated Senator Warner Miller
as well as the President he so much dislikes,
Representatives Springs and Wcmple,
of New York, Milliken, of Elaine,
and Paige, of Ohio. Two Senators.
Maxey, of Texas, and Camden, of West
Virginia, and two Representatives, Rosecrans
nnd Slocum. were educated at the
expense of the government at West Point.
Slocum was Sheridan's room mute.
Princeton has in her alumni Senators
Don Cameron and Colquitt, of (Seorgia,
Kepresentatives Kverhart, of Pennsylvania.
Find lay, of Maryland, and Jones,
of Alabama. Hamilton educated Senator
Ilawley and Representatives Van
Alatvne, of New York, and Hatch, of
Michigan.
Dartmouth is represented in the House
by Rannev, of Massachusetts. Dinghy, of
Maine, and Rrewcr, of New Jersey. The
gifted Ingalls is an alumnus of Williams,
and Representatives Potter and Mdlard,
of rsew i orK, gradual ci tneie ai.-o.
Amherst prepared Rockwell, of Massachusetts,
and Hatchings, of New York,
for public life. Brown university is the
alma mater of Senators Anthony and
Hill, of Colorado, and Representatives
Cox and Spooner, Senators Conger and
Allison, are graduates of Western Reserve
college, Ohio. Senator Palmer came
from .Michigan university. Senators Harrison
and Williams, of Kentucky, from
Miami, Reck and Vest from Transylvania
university, of Kentucky, and Senatorelect
Blackburn from Danville university
! iu the same State
Kcifer and llorr were educated at Antiuch
college, the institution planted by
; Horace Mann. Frank llurd graduated
| at Kenyon at the age of nineteen, and
I Bel ford got his learning at Dickinson
: college. The University of Virginia has
j more graduates in Congress than any
! other institution, for before the war it
was the Harvard of the South. The old
William and Mary coliege has two Congressmen
among its aiumni?Coke, of
Texas, and George D. Wise, of Virginia.
It is a singular fact that many of the
ablest men in either branch of Congress
did not have the advantages of a collegiate
education. This applies to Edmunds,
Sherman, "Wilson of Iowa, Bayard and
1 Pendleton in the Senate, and to Randall,
j Carlisle, Kelley, McKinley, Reagan and
Curtin in the House.
Philosophy of Finance.
The man who economizes saves, and
he who saves most can invest most, and
lie who invests most reaps most, in the
way of net profits. This is the law iu a
country where all roads are free to the
citizen. All roaus are irec 10 ine citizen
in this country. Thrift is not the absolute
creatures of statutes though statutes
may afford the means of thrift.?
North American.
Concerning the dampness and unhealthful
condition of new brick houses,
it is an old saying that the owner of ?
new brick house should let it be occupied
during tlu: lirst. year by his enemy,
during the second by his friend, and
during tin; third by himself.
Six thousand venders of fruits and vegetables
:irc licensed to walk the streetsParis.
HEWS SUMMARY,
Kaifcrn and .Tiiddlo state*.
Four persons wero burntd to death, four
others badly injured, two it is believed fatally,
anil ten buildings wero destroyed by
firo in Bradford, Penn. The imme liate dead [
comprised Mrs. Iteibly, Iter two young chil* |
drenand a Swedish girl.
John Ma y, a shoemaker of Conshohocken,
l'enn., fifty years old, entered the room of his
daughter Lizzie, seventeen years of age, and
stabbed her seventeen times, inflicting fatal
wounds, after wliich lie killed himself. The
, crime is attribute 1 to insanity.
A heavy dry goods failure lias occurred in
New York, the long-established firm of
Halstead, Haines & Co. having gone under
with estimated liabilities of $1,0*30,000.
The immense furniture factory of Martin
Worn & Sons in Brooklyn, N. Y., was struck
by lightning, caught fire and was destroyed,
together with adjoining property. The total
loss is estimated at ?-X)0,000.
James Rkilly, a snoke charmer, whiloperj
forming in Now York, was bitten by a rattle
snake und died after twenty-eignc noui-s 01 [
great agony.
While a gang of railroad laborers wore at
work on an excavation near Parker, Penn,,
on the Clarion river, the embankment caved
in, killing two instan ly, and it was thought
fatally injuring two others.
The born of Thomas Leo, a farmer, at Roar"
ing Creek, Penn.. was struck by lightning and
destroyed with all its contents, including eight
head of cattle. Two of the farmer's sons and
n man named Rohler were fatally injured by
falling timbers while attempting to rescue the
stock.
Senator Hawley, of Connecticut, and
Ex-Secretary Evarts, were the principal
speakers at a Blaine and Logan ratification
meeting in New York. At a similar meeting
in Boston, presided over by Governor Robinson,
the principal speakers were Senator
Hoar and Congressman Long.
Mr. William Puiicell,one of the twodele"
gates-at-large on the New York electoral
ticket, has withdrawn. He has also asked
and obtained a four months' leave of absence
from his duties as editor of the Rochester
Union and Advertiser. Mr. Purcell was
strongly opposed to Governor Cleveland's
nomination at Chicago.
The Republican National committee has
its headquarters at the Gilsey house, New
York, and has begun work for the campaign.
Congressman Samuel J. Randall in an
interview in Philadelphia says ho is perfectly
satisfied with the action of the Chicago Democratic
convention, and will do all in his power
to aid in assuring the success of the ticket.
Edmd.nd Yard, Jr., & Co., New York importers
of white goods and laces, have failed
for nearly $1,000,000.
The New York Green backers will hold a
State convention for the nomination of an
electoral ticket in New York city, August 27.
Rev. L. o. Thompson, a popular Presbyterian
minister, and his son, Sidney, and Freddie
Bishop, of Medina, N. Y., lad.s about twelve
years old, were drowned by the upsetting of
their boat while fishing on the Illinois river,
at Henry, 111.
South a lid West*
Three United States prisoners were execu[
ted at Fort Smith, Ark., for murders com
mitteti in tne muian Territory?munuis u.
Tbompsop^a white man; John Davis, a fnllblooded'^iioctaw
Indian, and Jack Womankiller,
alias Gal Catcher, a full-blooded Cherokee.
On the same day Edward Altman and
j Charles Malskey were hanged at Warrensburg,
Mo., for murdering a young German.
Two men named Bealo and Bowie quarreled
in a hotel at Dallas, Texas, and each shot the
other dead.
An armed mob of masked men attacked the
Owensboro (Ky.) jail, killed Jailer W. J. Lu:
cas for refusing to give up the keys, broke
' into the prison, took out Richard May, a
negro incarcerated for an attempted assault
upon a white girl, and hanged lum to a tree.
While two colored men were being conveyed
to jail at Starkvilie, Muss., having confessed
to poisoning two small boys in 1882,
they were taken from custody by masked men
and lianged.
John B. Hoffman, who killed his son Robert
at Cincinnati in 1883, has been sentenced
to be hanged.
Fletcher & Shabpe, of Indianapolis, Ind.,
hitherto considered one of the most reliable
banking houses in the West, have suspended,
with estimated liabilities of $1,800,000 and
assets amounting to $2,200,000. Great excitement
was causid in Indianapolis by the firm's
suspension, and there was a general run on
the other banking houses of the city.
The boiler at Carter's saw-mill, near
T?]^vn,{nrr+^m Til omlcwlpil and blew the I
mill to atoms. Over a dozen men were in the
structure at the timo. Four men were instantly
killed and all the others severely injured.
Albert Milks (colored), was hanged at
Natchez, Miss., for his wife's murder.
Waaliiiigrtan.
Hermann* Bruggemax, a postofflce clerk,
detected in stealing stamps, admitted his
guilt.
The secretary of the interior requested the
secretary of war to cause the arrest of Cap-1
tain Payno and such of his party (reported to
number 1,500 or 2,Of J')) now upon tho Cherokee |
outlet lands of tho Indian Territory, in/viola- !
tiou of law.
An exhaustive treatise on the laboring
classes of tho world, their condition, etc., is in
course of preparation at the state department
Secretary Frelixqhuysen has instructed
by cable tho consular officers at London,
Liverpool, Marseilles, Havre, Bordeaux,
Bremen and Hamburg at once to appoint >
competent physicians to inspect all vessels j
ana passengers departing wr uw
States from tin so ports. The consular officers
are instructed to refuse clean bills of
health in all cases except upon the recommendation
of the sanitary inspector that such bills
be given. The consuls are instructed to rojx>rt
by cable any case of infectious or contagious
disease known to exist on board of a'
vessel at the time of her departure for the
United States. This course is adopted in. ?
order that the health officers in United States j
ports may have timely warning of approach- |
mg danger and bo prepared to take such i
measures as shall prevent the scourge from I
gaining a foothold in this country.
Luther Harrison, chief clerk of the Gen- |
eral Land office, has been appointed to fill tho
new position of assistant commissioner of the
General Land offico, created at tho last session
of Congress.
The Indian offico has been informed that
Koshiway, chief of the Sac and Fox Indian i
tribe, now upon tho Pottawatamie reservation
in Kansas, was murdered a few days ago and
his body thrown into tho river. Koshiway
was opposed to tho jjolicy of the other chiefs |
of tho tribe, who wished to remove into tho
Indian Territory. Tho commissioner of Indian |
affaire has authorized the a^ent to offer a re- j
ward of fcJUO for tho detection and arrest of
the murderer.
More than -'CO promotions have just been
mado in tho clerical force of the pension office.
The court of Alabama claims is on tho
point of completing a series of judgments j
numbering between 2,(HM) and 3,000, tno aggregate
of the awards, including interest, bo |
mg about #2,700,000.
It has been learned by the treasury depart- |
merit that paper rags supjKised to have lieen '
collected in tno cholera infect -d districts of j
Egypt, Turkey mul the south of France, are |
Iteing imported into the United State > through !
Canailian posts.
The treasury department has just issued
warrants for the payment of $'.),< HXJ,DUO 011 I
account of pensions.
Among the visitors to President Arthur the !
other day were ex-.Miui.ster Sargent, General '
Butler, General Sheridan and Senator Wade ,
Hampton.
Foreign.
The Canadian courts have refused to extradite
Jolm C. lino, the defaulting ex-prosident j
of the New York Second National bank, who
(led to Canada during the recent financial |
crash, and was charged with forgery.
OltANOK celebrations in Ireland resulted in j
serious disturbances between Orangemen and |
Nationalists at Belfast, Newry ami < 'leator. j
Two or tlu*ee wrsons were killed and many
were wounded.
Cliia's population is now given ut
fwrsons, of whom 4<i,0US of the mules are Chi- |
uaiueu.
Lot'is Kiel, the leadi r of the Ro 1 river re- !
bellion of 1S70, is again at the head of an agi- |
totion in the Canadian northwest provinces, j
A storm in Moravia has caused immense I
damage to crops. j
I
Great indignation was aroused in Gor
. .. .1 t A utn/loiiti! !
IliailY I>V lIK-U'.-umi "I .-"Hi.- |
who tore down :m<l bunted tin- German flags i
displayed at the Hotel Continental in Paris, j
l'rmte Minister Ferry lias apologized to tlw
German ambassador to France ior (lie insult. :
James Wai.kek. a suspected dynamiter, I
was arrested in Glasgow after a desix;rnte re- j
sistanee.
Tub cholera is increasing in tho country I
around Tuition. Tourists are evading I
Southern France and Italy. The American j
consul at Jjondon insists upon vessels showing
clean bills of health before they will be al- I
lowed to enter American ports.
A DitOKKN axlo resulted in an express train '
leaving tho track and falling from a bridge j
near 1'enniston, England. Twenty-fivo por- |
sons were killed ami forty others more or less [
seriously injured.
Orders have been given by tho Austrian
government to arrest all Mormon missionaries
detected in endeavoring to secure converts in
Austria to their faith.
Advices from Fondichcrry, capital of the
French possessions in India, stato that a rocket
exploded during the celebration of the fall of
the Bastile. The building in which the rocket
exploded contained a large quantity of fireworks,
and a fearful explosion resulted. Fifteen
tmtsous wero killed and many others in- j
jurat
The Spanish troops liavo been defeated j
twice recently by tho Cuban insu'twl ionists |
under Aguero.
The ex-queen and king of Naples, who have
been living in poverty since they were driven j
| from their thrones, are now rejoicing over j
{0,000,(WO left thein by tbo Dowager Em- |
press of Austria.
LATER NEWS.
A prominent medical journal of Philadel.
phia, declares tlmt "the progress of cholera
during the past week has b-jen such as to war"
rant the belief that it will spread throughout
Europe during the next thirty days, nnd may
reach our shores at any time. Its progres* |
can be arrested only by the most watchful
care on the part of our quarantine officers, for i
this disease has always reached our shores by
ships."
Governor McLanE was the principal i
speaker at a Cloveland and Hendricks ratification
meeting in Baltimore. |
Colonel John A. Marti.v, an Atchison
editor, has been nominated for governor by
the Kansas Republicans.
The existence of a plot to blow up the pal.
ace at Warsaw during the czar's stay therein
lias been discovered.
The steamer Thetis, Bear, and Lock Garry,
of the Greely Relief expedition, arrived at St. j
Johns, N. F., with six survivors of the ol> i
jeet of their search, including Lieutenant
Greely. Of the twenty-five members of the
Greely colony, seven were rescued on June 22,
near the mouth of Smith's sound, when at
the point of death from starvation.
One of these died on the way to |
St. Johns. " Lieutenant Greely's retreat j
begun on August 9, 1883, was entirely j
successful until Cape Sabine was reached in !
September. Supplies of food gradually gave j
out during the winter, but it una not until!
last April that starvation and exposure began i
to carry off the men one by one. The Greely J
expedition was sent to the Arctic regions for j
purposes of observation.
A MOB BEFORE A JAIL,
' i
Killing- the Jailer anil ISnn^ing a {
Prisoner.
At 1:30 o'clock, a. si., an armed mob at- j
tacked tho county jail, at Owenshoro, Ky.f i
killed Jailer W. J. Lucas, broko open the
doors of the cell, took out Richard May, a
negro, and hanged him to a tree in tho courtbouse
yard. Between sixty and seventy men
surrounded the jail and demanded the
prisoner, who a few days before had attempted
to assault a daughter of Mr. S. Kelly, a
prominent fanner. The jailor called to
his wife to have his pistols in readiness and re- i
fused to open the doors of the jail. The mob
then began firing and the fire was returned by
the jailer and his son Thomas, aged sixteen
years. They fired thirteen shots, the mob
tiring as many hundred. Jailer Lucas fired
from the porch and his son from the front
windows. Two of the mob are reported to
have been killed, but thev were auicklv car
ried off. After firing six shots from the porch
the jailer was shot, the ball entering his right
breast near the nipple. He was carried to riis
room, still refusing to give up the keys.
His wife took a pistol and tried to repel the
mob, but thoy crowded upstairs ana compelled
her to give up the cell keys. The outer
door was broken down with a sledge-hammer.
The mob then took May from his cell and ,
liangcd him. The jail was badly riddled with '
bullets. The jailer earned a lantern in his j
hand and afforded a good target for the mob.
After hanging their victim tne lynchers de- |
parted, leaving several masks about the jail. ,
May was the third negro hanged by a mob in 1
the court-house yard, and the fourth victim j
of the gallows in the county. Jailer Lucas j
died at 7 o'clock the next morning.
...
THE NATIONAL GAME.
i
Yale has won the college championship for
four successive seasons.
An expert baseball player ought to have
plenty to do in the summer, when good flycatchers
are in order.
The Atlantic club of Long Island City N.
?., has been admitted to the Eastern league
tn place of the disband:>d Harrisburg club.
Gardner, the right-fielder of the Baltimore
club, has been dismissed for drunkenna33.
Emslio and Henderson were heavily fined.
The Chicago club would like to get Catcher
Ewing of the New York club, and it is said
that they are willing to pay $5,000 for him
The California Indians have taken to play-,
ing baseball. It is now only a question of
time when the aboriginal race will be exter-.
minated.
AFTER LONGFELLOW.
The day has come, the maddest of the year,
"When every small boy sheds a briny tear,
And asks his ma to buy a willow bat and ball
To play with near the mossy, garden wall, i
That good old soul, who always knows what's
best,
boon sets ins vast uneasy nun ac reai,
By giving him a bat that makes him fall,
And then the boy goes out and lias a bawL
Another baseball crazy town is Piqua,
Ohio. One day recently, tha Piqua club wont
to Urbana, where they won a handsome vie- !
tory. Upon their return that night thoy were
met at the depot by a thousand citizens and a
brass band, who made a procession uptown
as an escort to the club. There is as much
enthusiasm over the affair as a presidential
victory ordinarily occasions. These Ohio
towns all have it bad.
The eleventh week of the League championship
contest closed with the Boston nine
still in the van, the record of the different
clubs being as follows:
Club*. Won. Lout. Clubs. Won. Lost.
Host on... 41 14 Chicago...; 27 28
Providence 39 1C Philadelphia 18 3S
New York 35 22 Cleveland 21 30
Buffalo 29 26 | Detroit 13 43
The twelve clubs of the A merican association
stood as follows at the end of the eleventh
week's play.
Club*. Won. Lost. | Clubs. Won. Lost.
Louisville....34 14 | Athletic. 29 23
Metropolitan.34 17 i Brooklyn 22 28
Columbus....34 17 I Toledo 18 34
Cincinnati....32 17 | Pittsburgh .. .14 83
St. Louis 33 17 Indianapolis.. 15 34
Baltimore....93 21 [ Washington.. 9 40
In the Eastern League raco the Harrisburg
nine have disbanded. Wilmington team still
held the lead:
Club*. Won. Tjost. | Clubs. Hon. Lost. \
Wilmington....36 8 I Newark 15 28
Trenton 22 19 | Allcntown 14 24 i
Virginia 21 15 Ilartisbunr. Disbanded
Heading 19 18 I .MonuraentalThrown out |
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MUSICAL AND DRAMATIC, ;
Remenyi, the violinist, proposes to go to
Australia via San Francisco this summer.
Madam Janisch, a German actres3, will
star in England next season, under H. J. Sar- i
g'Mlt.
An" American pianist, Victor Benham by
name, has had a decided success in Paris, although
he is but sixteen years of age.
One of the theatrical shows of next season !
will include a professional beauty to represent j
the typical loveliness of each State in tho j
Union.
Mr. Lawrence Barrett is said to have
signed an engagement to play in English in
tho winter of 18S.>86 in a series of Shake>pearian
revivals with Henry Irving and Ellen
Terry.
Albani will bo the leading prima donna at
the New York Metropolitan opera-house next
sciison under Gye's managemont. Ho receives
a guarantee from tho stockholders of J90,00U
tor tlfty-two performances, or over $1,700 for
each.
Sims, the London dramatist, says ho made
$100,000 last year. Tho income of Sir W. Hull,
the leading London physician, is $50,000. Millais
paints about ?50,000 worth of canvas a
year, and Tennyson can got twenty-five dolin
re n linn nil Hm ru"wam? paii tppI fiff\ !
Dion Boucicault, who, it was supposed
would make another dramatic tour of the
United States the coming season, has, it is
said, arranged for a long season in London |
next year, to be devoted to the revival of his ;
Irish dramas and the reproduction of a new
one?"The Nine Live? of Fin MyCoul."
Miss He.vriktta Polf.ak, a young German
soprano, is one of the successes of the London
concert season. She made her debut at Sir
Julius Benedict's jubilee, and her delightful
rendering of a charming English ballad won
immense applause. Miss Pollak has a voice of
high and brilliant compass, and she knows
how to use it. The young lady will soon be a
Used star in the musical hemisphere.
TWENTY-FIVE DEAD.
A Fatal Accident on nil English J
II ail way.
The axle of the engine attached to the ex" j
press train on the Manchester and Sheffield
railway broke near Penniston, and the train
jumped the track and fell from abridge which
It was on III. llltr lime. innuj'iiru |H.-IW1I?
were killed and forty others more or less seriously
injured. The scenes underneath the :
bruise after the train had fallen were most
terrible to witness. The carriages were m- I
duced almost to splinters. Tho groans of the
men and the shrieks of tho women and children
were heartrending in the extreme.
.Some delay was experienced before tho victims
could lie extricated from the wreck.
NEWSY GLEANINGS.
Immense quantities of charcoal aro shipped
from Stonewall, Miss.
About 40,000,000 pennies were coined in
tho United States last year.
OVER $750,000 was paid last year as duty
on patent medicines in England.
During March, April and July thero were
423 suicides in the United States.
Eleven clergymen sailed from New York
for EurojK) in one steamer on Saturday recently.
Tub latest fraud praeti-vd by the bird fanciers
of London is to palm oil* painted sparrows
for canaries.
It is said that tomatoes and cucumbers aro
so plentiful in Florida that hundreds of acres
of them are plowed in because they am uot >
worth the picking. ,
LIEUT. GREELY FOUND.
Only Six Out of Twenty-fke Men
Brought Back Alive.
Another Thrilling Chapter of Arctic
Exploration.
Dispatches received by the secretary of the
navy aivl General Hazen at Washington from
Lieutenant Greely and Commander Sih'ey
announced the safe arrival of tho Grecly lteIicf
expedition at St. Johns, X. F.
The expedition had been successful, but the
success was marred by sorrow, as eighteen
(.nt of the twenty five men who formed tho
? i : 'i > jHiny jHjnsnea irora Hunger aim
i--ciinsure before tho relieving party reachcd
them.
"When rescued, on June 22, tho survivors
were in a most deplorable condition, many
having been frost-bitten, and all dying of
hunger. In forty-eight hours more all would
have been dead. Sergeant Ellison had both
hands and feet so badly frozen that they bad
to bi amputated, but ho did not long survive
(h > operation, and ho died on July 0. Tho
others are rapidly improving in health.
The vessels that composed tho relieving expedition
Mere tho Thetis, commanded by
Commander Schley; tho Bear, in command
of Lieutenant Emory, and the Alert, commanded
by Commander CofUn.
Both expeditions are regarded, from a scientific
standpoint, as tho most successful that
have ever been made into the frozen regions
of tho North, and as all of the records of observations
bearing on the researches of Lieutenant
Grecly have been preserved,tho importance
of his intelligent efforts cannot be over
estimated. For the first timo in a period of
three centuries America can claim the proud
distinction of having penetrated to a point
nn.imr thrv r?nln thon nn\r Atlinr /vwinfmr nn tho
globe. The announcement of the safety
of Lieutenant Greely was macle in the following
dispatch from Commander Schley to Secretary
Chandler, dated at St. Johns:
Hon. IK. E. Chandler, Secretary of the
Navy, Washington,
The fhetis, Bear and Lock Garry arrived
here to-day from West Greenland. All are
well. We separated from the Alert 150 miles
lior.h during a gale. At 9 p. M., June 22, five
miles oil' Capo Sabine, in Smith's sound, the
Tlielisaiul liear rescued alive Lieutenant A.
W. Greely, Sergt. Brainard, Sergt. Fredericks,
Sergt. Long. Hospital Steward Beiderback,
Private Council and Sergt. Ellison, the
only survivors of the Lady Franklin Bay exjjc
lition. Sergt. Ellison had lost both hands
and feet by frostbite, and died July 6 at Godhaven,
three days after the amputation,
which had become imperative.
Eighteen of the twenty-five persons composing
this expc lition perished by starvation
at the point where found. One was drowned
while sealing to procure food. Twelve bodies
of the dead were rescued and are now on board
the Thetis and Bear. One, Esquimau Turnsvik,
was buried at Disco, in accordance with
the desire of lh; inspector of Western Greenland.
Five bodies buried in the ice fort near
Iho camp were swept away to sea by winds
and currents before my arrival and could not
be recovered. The names of the dead which
were recovered, with the date of death,
are as follows: Sergeant Cross, January
1. 1SS4: Wederick. Esauimau. Amil 5:
Sorgeant Linn, April 6; Lieutenant Lockwood,
April it; Sergeant Jewell, April 12;
Private hills, May 19; Sergeant Ralston, May
23; Private Whisker, May 24; Sergeant Israel,
May 27; Lieutenant Kingsbury, June 1; Private
Henry, June G; Private Schneider, June
IS. Karnes of dead buried in the ice fort,
with date of death, where bodies were not
recovered, as follows: Sergeant Rice, April
!), ISM; Corporal Solera, June 3 ; Private
Bender, June 16; Acting Assistant Sergeant
Pavy, June G; Sergeant Gardner, June 12.
Drowned while breaking through the newlyformed
ice while sealing, Jens Edwards, Esquimau,
April 24.
I would urgently suggest that the bodies
now on board be placed in metallic cases here
for safer and better transportation in a seaway.
This appears to me imperative. Greely abandoned
tort Conger August 9,18S2,andreached
baird lulot September 2!', following, with
the entire party well. lie abandoned all
his boats and was adrift for thirty days on
an ice floe in Smith's sound: His permanent
camp w<w established October 21,18$),
at a point where he was found. During nine
months his party had to live upon a scant
allowance of food brought from Fort
Conger,that cached at Payer Harbor and Cape
Isabeli by Sir George Nares in 1875, but found
much damaged by lapse of time: that cached
by B !<:bo at Cape .Sabine in 1882 and a small
amount saved from tho wreck of the Proteus
in lS&i, and landed by Lieuts. Garlington and
Col >vell 011 tho beach whore Greely's part}* was
found camped When these provisions were
consumed the party was forced to live upon
boiled sealskin strip.* from their sealskin
clothing, lichens and shrimps preserved in
good weather, when they were strong
enough to make exertion. As 1,300 shrimps
were required to fill a gallon measure the
labor was too exhausting to depend upon
them to sustain life entirely. The channel
between Cape Sabine and Littleton island did
not close, on account of the violent gales all
winter, so that 2-1(1 rations at tho latter point
could not bo reached. AH of Greely's records
and all instruments brought by him from
Fort Conger are recovered and are on board.
From Hare Island to Smith's sound I had a
constant and furious struggle with ice in impassable
floes. Solid barriers of ice were 1
overcome by watchfulness and patience. Nc I
opportunity to advance a mile escaped me j
and for several miles the ships were forced ta
ram their way through ice varying in thick I
ness iroili turcu tu six. lc-t, uuu wucu muw
much greater. The Thetis and Bear reachec
Cnpe \ ork June 18. after a passage of twentyone
days in Melville Bay with the two advance
ship of the Dundee whaling fleet, and
continued to Cape Sabine. Returning seven
ilays later, we fell in with seven others of the
fleet off Wostenholme Island, and announced !
Greely's rescue to them in order that they I
might not be delayed from their fishing I
pounds or be tempted into the dangers or !
Smith's Sound in view of the reward of $25r !
000 offered by Congress.
Returning across Melville bay we fell in j
with the Alert and Lock Garry off Devil'!
Thumb, struggling through tko ice. Com- I
tnauder Collin did admirably to get along sc 1
far with the transport so early in the seasoD l
before an opening had occurred. Lieutenant
Kmory, with the Bear, has supported me
liroughout with great skillfulness and unflinching
readiness in accomplishing the great
luty of relieving Greely. I would ask instruct
ion about the Lock Garry, as the charter
party held by her master differs in several j
respects front mine. |
The Greely party are very much improved j
unce tlieir rescue, but were critical m iuo ^ i
;reme when found and for several days after. |
Forty-eight hours' delay in reaching them |
would hiive been fatal to all now living. The
?ea.son north is late and the closest for years. j
Smith's sound was not open when I left
Cajx) Sabine. The winter about Melville bay
was the most severe for twenty years.
This great result is entirely due to the un- I
wearied energy of yourself and the secretary
of war in fitting out this ex;>edition for the j
work it has had the honor to accomplish.
\V. S. Schley, Commander.
A Talk Willi Commander Schlcy. j
Commander Schley was found on the deck
of his vessel at St. Johns. He said in reply to
inquiries: j
On the 'J*2d of June, white lying in the drift ;
ice off Cape Sabine, in Smith's sound, latitude :
7S degrea 45 minutes north, longitude 77 de- I
gives :><) minutes west, and which forms part
of Kllesmero Laud, we sighted signals of dis- |
tress at a distance of about seven miles. It
was about 'J o'clock P. M. and the sun shining .
brightly, but bitterly cokl. !
After considerable trouble we steamed i
down toward the pack ice upon which they ;
were, and a horrible sight met our eyes.
Lieutenant Greely, Brainard. Fredericks,
Long. Beirderback anil Connuil were crying
like children and hugging each other frantically.
They seemed frantic with joy. I put i
j(l in a cutter, and alter gi'eat difficulty |
reached them. They (low at me. and I at i
first imagined they were crazy. They seized !
each of the men in the boat, hugged them, j
kissed their hands and did every thing one :
could imagine to show their joy and gratitude.
All but j>oor Ellison. His feet and hands
were so badly frozen that he could not move. J
He lav still oil the ground and moaned.
The others of the party, also, were more or i
less frost bitten, but they seemed to forget ;
their sufferings.
The party on the ice looked as if they could
not live live hours, they looked so feeble, not- j
withstanding the almost superhuman strength
they had shown when we reached them. Slow,
ly. one by one. seventeen of the party had
yielded up their lives tothedemon Starvation, j
One of them, the strongest, had gone seat- i
hunting. He never returned. He was ,
drowned while trying to get to a seal lie fore it
reached the edge of a floe upon which they )
were. He miss <! his footing, fell into i? seam [
in the ice and was seen 110 more.
We encountered a galo day before yester- I
day which was so furious that tin* Alert '
separated from us in it. (freely, in his reiwrt j
to me. said that on August !', 1SX!, he n'tan I
tloneil Fort Conger. They traveled northerly. [
and. after considerable privation ami suffer- j
ing from tlu? cold, reached Baird Inlet on |
Septemlier 2;>. There was no one in the party j
who was not in full [H)ssession of health, ami,
excepting their isolated position, everything J
was well.
Krecly'* Terrible Experience.
fJeneral Hazen of the signal service at |
Washington received the following telegram
from Lieutenant (freely at St. Johns:
"Brainard, Ileirdyrback, Council, Fredor- i
ieks. Li ng. myself, sole survivors, arrived j
her > to day. having lieen rescued at the point j
of death from starvation l?v relief ships The- .
lis and JV-ar June 22at Camp Clay.northwest I
of Cajte Saln'lie. All nre now in good health, |
but weak I abandoned Fort Conger August j
mi l was frozen iu the jmck oir Victoria |
Head August ~!l; aliaudi med steam launch |
September II. eleven miles north-|
east of Cocked Hat island. When on the |
point, of lauding we were three times driven j
southwest. Iiy storms into Kane's sea. Finally i
arrived September iu Baird inlet. Learn- j
ing Iiv scouting parties *?f the Proteus disaster,
and that no provisions had been left for |
us iroin Capo Isubella to Sabine, I moved
and established winter quarters at Camp
Clay, half way between Sabine and Cocked a?
Hat. Inventory showed that by daily ration. -v
four and one-third ounces meat, seven of
bread and dog biscuits and four ounces of
miscellaneous, the party would have ten days'
full rations left for crossing Smith Sound to
Litti .-tnn island up to March 1.
Unfortunately Smith Sound remained
open tlio entire winter, rendering crossing impossible.
Game failed, despite dally hunting
from early February. Before tho sun toturned
only 500 pounds of meat could be obtained.
During this year minute shrimps, - ^
seaweed, sassafras, rock lichens and sealskin
were resorted to for food, with results as
shown in the number of survivors. The last
regular food was issued May 14. Only 150 - .
pounds of meat having been left by Garlington,
compelled me to send in November
Tour men to obtain 144 pounds of Engish
meat at Isabella. During the trip Ellitoa
froze solid both hands nnd feet, and lost them, ksSSHH
surviving, however, through our terriblo i/jrcaggjB
winter und spring, until July 8. Thesur- MjgSWfll
vivors owe their lives to the indomitable
energy of Captain Schiey and Lieutenant
Emory, who, prc.eded by three and accpov- eglRSM
pan it d by five whaleis, forced their vessels
from Upeinavik, through Melville bay, into i
North Water at Cape York with the fore- Hs|||9
most whaler. 'Ihey gained a yard |'^SBSEb
wherever possible and always held it. Smith's
Sound was crossed and tho party res- KreSaH
cued during one of tho most violent gales i fyggNjgH
have ever known, the boats beinc handled
only at the imminent risk of swamping. Fop*
of us were then unable to walk and could riot KSffl
have survived exceeding twen y-four hours. 'B-M
livery care and attention was ^iven as. Wo jgjS^sgj
have saved and bring back copies of meteorological,
tidal, astronomical, magnetic, pendu- 1'
lum and other observations; also pendulum, BcBSB
Yale and standard thermometers, forty-eight
photographic negatives, a collection of blanks /' 'jQhM
and photographic proofs. Esquimaux relics__y
and otherthings necessarily abandoueJ. Tfie
Thetis will remain here for live days probably."
fKOMINENT PEOPLE. ' 'Wk
Joseph E. McDonald mounted from a loa
soldier's bench to & seat in t'ie United States
Senate. B
Franz Hilhan, the man who invented the BfgraZ
polka, recently died in Prague at the age of H&gB
eighty years.
Moodt, the evangelist, estimates that he '
has made 30,060 converts during his last cam* : EsxjjS
pAign in London. ,, B
The Princess Louise is to execute the ststae BjSSB
of her mother. Queen Victoria, for the Litch- Hn
field (England) cathedral.
Bartholdi took for the model of his statue PSfaSl
of liberty, which is to enlighten New York BjajQ
hai b 3r and the rest of the world, his own r^jaSp
mother.
M. De Lksseps says that there is no truth |WH
in the statement of the failure of the Panama BKlwC
excavation works. In 1088, at the very latest, Hyjjg9
he asserts the canal will be finished.
Tt? ATwinMn Anr? IHnc nt Nflnlft? vlinfu-vA _
been firing in poverty gfnce they were driven. IK??S
from their thrones, are now rejoicing over
$6,000,000 left them by the Dowager EmprefiB
of Auatri*.
SELECT SIFTINGS.
The Confederate statutes in paper ;
covers sdl for $50 a set. The Guiteau
trial for $25.
It is noticed as a curious fact that after '
the prairie frass is once killed on Western
cattle ranches the same grass does not ; M
reappear.
Philip, of Spain, says the Philadelphia .3*3
Caterer, gave as n reason for not eating 'j?.3
fish that they were nothing but elements
congealed, or a jelly of water.
Fumigation was first practised by
Acron, a physician of Agigentum, who, ' jZjSI
when Athens was visited by plague,
caused great fires to fce lighted and aro? .,'|S
matic substances cast upon them. ;
Queen Mary, of England, in 1694, the . ' M
emperor of Germany in 1711, and the .
dauphin and dauphincss of France and
their son in 1712, the emperor of Russia
in 1730 and Louis XV. of France in
1774 are a few of the royal personages
who have died of small-pox. "
The Bishareen members of one of the "4m
Soudan tribes have a rather amazing ' .7*
method of arranging their hair. They ., f>art
it just above the ears, and above the ^
ine they dress it so that it stands erect.
Below the line it is plaited ana Jrizzea
and drawn out almost straight, bo as to /. %
shelter the neck from the sun.
Roger Bacon believed it possible for
men to fly by the help of a copper ball
filled with fire. The Persian story-tellers ^
say that a Persian king named K&i-Kavos
tried to fly on a litter borne by eagles
lashed below javelins, on which pieces
of goats' flesh were fastened, but the :',v.
eagles became tired and the monarch - - -!
perished miserably in a desert place.
A medical observer who has been
taking notes in the infant homes and
asylums of Paris, reports that infants
under three years of age cross the left
arm over the right, older children crossing
the right over the left, sixty per cent.
doing so at six years of age. Robust
children cross the right arm over the
left; the idiotic and weak, including
those who are incapable of working, cross
the left over the right.
Vegetable Diet
In a recent issue of the Lonaon Time*
appeared an article which will have some
interest for eaters of flesh, as well as
those who arc occupied in producing
meats, since it attempts to show that
"If it were not for flesh food physicians
would have very little to do." The author,
Dr. Allinson, holds that few domestic
animals arc free from ailments,
fat ones particularly being more or less
diseased. The liver, kidneys and lungs
of eaters of meats arc overtaxed to rid f >^1
the system of the excess of nitrogen
taken in with the meat diet, and disease j <3fg
results. Those who live in towns caa-~, <. &2|
not with safety eat much flesh, bcc^MjrfgaB
they do not get oxygen and exepdaft^^ jflfrgl
enough to burn the excess of nitrogee^HM
If they eat much flesh then they molt
suffer from many complaints, such naiadigestion,
bilious attacks,congested liver,
hemorrhoids, gastric catarrh, and other jjjoB
gastric troubles. If the habit be continned,
gall stones or urinary calculi m>l
follow, or rheumatism and gout. Tbifl
the kidneys become diseased and mocfrSagJ '..-5]'
work is thrown on the heart, which
become diseased; the end is death lib
one of the lingering diseases, whitw
shows a diseased organ somewhere. Even
epilepsy and many nervous diseases a*f
aggrav ated by flesh. Of course,
such views, Dr. Allison is a believer *
diet of a purely vegetable nature, thf
advantages of such a diet lying in the fait '
that it can be obtained without cruelty; -aIKSB
that it can easily be seen whether it is
a wholesome condition or not; that the
human system is formed to assimilato _ '
such diet with little expenditure of vital
force; it affords abundant nutriment at
slight cost; by its use much disease is
prevented, while a varied list from which
to choose is offered. This list includes
wheat, oals, barley, maize, rice, sago,
tapioca, seinelina, hominy, peas, beans,
lentils, etc..all being concentrated foods,
very rich in nutriment. Potatoes, parsnips,
beets, carrots, turnips, onions, cabbage,
sprouts,etc., give variety, bulk and
flavor; to those may be added the sweet
1.n.-Ko fnr mulrinrr saVOFV dishes. ApplCS,
pears, currants, gooseberries, plums,
strawberries, raspberries, blackberries
and other fruits, with melons, peaches,
grapes.etc., arc higher-priced but wholesome
fruits. Dried fruits, as dates, tigs,
apple rings, currants, ra'sins, etc., are
cheap and good. To this rich list may
be added eggs, milk, butter, cheese and
honey, without cruelty to animals. That
a diet such as is described above may be
cheap, nutritious and palatable cannot
iio rt/iniofl. The use of meats is a relic of
ft savage age, beyond question; but the
fact that the most progressive of races
have been eaters of meat, while those
which subsist on a vegetable diet are, to
put it mildly, not the dominant races
in the arts or in science, may be worthy
of a moment's'consideration.
The Red Man's Wail.
A live Indian is lecturing in this country
on "The Red Man's Wail." We have
it?the wail, not the lecture. Most earnestly
do we hope never to hear it agaiu.
It is unlike any other wail in the Zoo.
When the red man wails it is n" sign of
grief, lie is sorry that you ? _ so far
away. And ns he wails he tries to edgo
up a little closer. And when you discover
that when you get clear down to
your inside record you can only hitch
away at the rate of twelve miles an hour,
while the wailing reel man is oasutuuy
edging up an eighteen mile guit, with
plenty of reserve force still left, there is
in the sobbing cadcnee of his wail a
longing. :i weird, fitful yearning, a wild
thrill of pathos with hair on it, that
makes you recklessly willing to trade off
the whole Cour d' \lene country for just
a ten minutes' ri^ht of way inside the
New York State \xae.?BxtrdcHc.
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