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nPTTTT' HMJI ..- ".'-.-..I.: .oJUU A YOL. III.-NO. 43. MORGANTON, N. C, SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1878. WHOLE NUMBER 147 ;.V TfiE WOOD PATH. Along the path to yonder wood. Star-eyed and fair this autumn day, The asters stream a blotawmed flood, A kind of fallen milky way. The golden-rod their borders add Unto this garden wildly grown, LiVe banner of -Sir Oalahad. With pearl, and gold, And purple sown. For Autumn blends her choicest hues. And mixes many a precious dva; The glories of her gentian hi ues Mate the deep splendors of her sky. And all the groundlings don their best And brightest; ere the trees arrange A naming red and crimson Test for the great festiTal of change. The very clods with richness gleam Where golden o:opt skirt the track; i The squaw Tines, 'neatha leafy screen, , Bears a red berry on its back. oatMr tnter-ewee fetf iiahters glow. The tamsoU JUnnts it danger sign, The olematU drifts like winter's snow Interpretation of the oncoming horse men. I gave the horse the whip as soon as- his unstable legs were well under him, and sent him scouring ahead; while I ran off on foot to the right, mak ing for a little hollow that I discerned in the darkness. It proved to be a shal low, dry ravine ; and here, to my pro- rouna astonishment. I discovered a low cabin or hut. about the dimensions of an ordinary countrv loir-house. J o .Dashing up to this, I gave a rapid succession of knot.-ks. A shrinking. pale and cowering woman opened the uoor. "What Is it?.;' was her nuestion. no ticing my breathless haste. "Is there any chance to hide here? My hoise has thrown me. and I believe a party of desperadoes are close up with me." " ' . She mechanically cloned the door be- stsU n, heftr ifJkaOaurled my ex planation. "No. no: there Is no place!" she gapped, her ear catching the sound of the coming horsemen. "This is all Than when June's sunshine gilt the moss; I there is ; this one room." T; A ,i;l L-ii j " I If i i.j . AUUQ Uil, UCU Bill! Hl.f , - Poiuta out no faintest sign of loaa. Hid 1m the warfare and the strife Deep down in nature's inmost heart. In full perfection of tier life , The season's glory Shall depart i ! . Bo miy I quit this mortal scene, far know a waiting alow decay; "Mid the mil 1 autumii's golden sheen Come Death, fair harvester, and slay. A NIGHT OF DANCER. Riding hard and fast, almost as for plied. dear lite, aloug the wilds o a vast prai rle. I found tnvself. to my intense as tonishment, entering upon a straggling settlement, and pulled up to reconnoi tre aud consider. Mr eves bad been seeking for a place of concealment, but in vain. Suddenly they rested on a dark object in the far corner. "But this? what's this?" I exclaim ed, making a rush for it. . 'It's & oeffln. Get in aulck." I had barelv time to ulaoe nivself in this receptable for the dead, when the hoarse voice of Bill Wolf was heard outside. Here, you Dick! Is Dick here?" TV. t u- t . w. n n ..... 1 t liVi i 1 lie has not came back yet! 8he,e- ;Oh.not vet! Jenny. have vou heard a horse go by yonder ? , ' ies. just now." "Driving on like the devil eh?" ' !rlri n rr t'atl alia anda'itrtul ''Ymi UI4IS, now. aiiu vu tt a iy-u . .at ni tti a ' - 1 raiffht perhaps near its tracks still-. That 1 had unftsed my wav was all too plain; for, on the-eourse that I ought - . , . 1 tan jsui must nave oeen 01 a suspi- 10 nave come, loere was not a cauiu w . . T , , u . , r l plAiia 11 urn ret I haaril niin laan frnnv J. . . . t 1 1 mo iiwui v . a. va a'vs iiiiii ivoi; Aavruv Almost any traveller in the border! . , ., ... , . , , , . .. not help pushing up the corfln lid and section would have been reioiced tol. . . rT , . , - , ,, ' , , i looKing inrougn ine cninit. where food aud shelter might be oh tallied. At another time I should have been so myself. Not now In the breast pocket of my. closely buttoned coat I carried five thousand four hundred and ninety odd dollars, United States money. It was during our time of war. This money had been given into my charge to carry it with out stoDDlnar. and bv the most unfre quented route, to one of the forts, and place It in the liauJa of Colonel South ard, who was waiting for it. But there I was, having lost my route, and not knowing whether I was safe or notat least, whether the mon ey would be. And now that I had blun dered on to the verge of, this scanty settlement, what must be my course? Should I halt tor refreshments, as an Ordinary traveler would ; or should I ,A lire was burning on the stone hearth. Bui Wolf had a hand on each door post. His brutal head was thrust inside the room peering about. "What's that? he questioned, point ing to my retreat. "It's Staffer's coffin " she answered "Are you In pursuit of the man gone bv ?" " Av. But what's it to you If we are ? He can't have gone far either, on that i i ' R'tuHie away In Search of me, and of what I carried, Wolf clattered on". The woman watched him Join two comrades who had waited at a little dis tance; then she: came lu and barred the door. I was out of the coffin in a moment. I looked around in despair. Td go out was fatal. to stay in meant discov ery. Drobably death. The coffin was no ." 1 - ery, prooauiy ueaui. iiic uiu nao u ride straight through without stopping? iouget available, for Dick was comin The latter course might of itself ex- f it cite suspicion. So, pushing on to the rftar there's the rain barrel out house of entertainment with the most Li(le. 4 I, in desperation. "They've nuif-lMHs air I coiild assume. I zot off my ., .u.., . ..t lnk- nr. it j- 1 I lr , U.1.J " " - again tnv driver threw the reins across the horse, leaped down and started off to-- wards his ft lends. Perhara the temn- tatlon of the moner Ittikt thev miirht be then dividing) was too much for him. I In a moment I sprang from the coffin to the ground. A few lightning-like strokes and I , bad severed the traces and the rude bands of the harness. . I mounted the horse and urged him onwards. All might have bee u well had not the quick ears of the men caught the echo of his footsteps. Looking around they saw me making off aud 1 think must have known me, for I was lighted up by the bright moonlight. With a wild shout thev came on in pursuit. There was the sharp report of two rifles. I felt a sting in my foot. mother in my shoulder: but the horse was unharmed, and the race for life be gan. - The issue I knew would rest chiefly with the horse. 1 knew nothing of the one which I rode; I knew nothing of those who were pursuing me, excepting my own horse. On. and on. mv steed bore ahead, actually eausinz me to sasp for breath ; and not two hundred yards in the rear rode those would-be-assassins. A momentary dizziness threw me forward on my horse's neck. Whether I should have yielded to the taintness I know uot, but a distant sound struck on my ear and brought me up. Oh, it was good that pound: but 1 was not quite sure yet. I broke iuto the wild, long, fierce veil of the border rangers.and sped on again ;but my horse had that peculiar twitch now and then in his gait that told me he was faltering. Azaiu that echo reached me. It was the shrill music of the fife and the rum ble of the drums!" the infantry, who were probably returning to-the fort from some expedition. . Aeain I sent out that wild cry, which I knew the soldiers heard, and were coming to my aid A oartinsshot, and my two pursuers turned ; they could not lace the soldiers. But I called to my horjse by a peculiar whistle that he knew, and he came to wards me in spite of his rider, who was Wolf, who only gave up the fruitless struggle and leaped from his back as a squad of infantry appeared on the scene. "It is Wolf," I panted, "Qo in pur suit of him."- There was no need to urge them. A Drice was set for Wolfe's head, as they knew, Ar h wa ihe mo-H dfrRgcima and most desperate outlaw of the time. Then I fainted, and when my eyes opened again they fell on Mr. Wolf a prisoner. Oui men had brought him in to receive his deserts. As for myself, I was saved, and the money also. "It was a near touch, uaptatn, on- served one of the men tome; "and I should not have liked the coffin at all." But it was the coffin that saved my life. HotaadOsU BattM. , The London Lanut,ia a recent numb er, points out the difference between the effects of hot and cold hatha." The ef fects of the cold bath, K says, being mainly due to impreaf Jons 'made upon the cutaneous nerves, the modifications of the cojd bath largely depend on their power of increasing it stimulating ac tion. The colder the water the more violent the Impression. Ihe frequent change of water, such as la found in the sea or in running streams, Increases the stimulating effect. Great force of im pact, as when water falls from a height or comes forcibly through a hose upon the body ; the division wf the stream, as seen in shower baths aud needle baths t and the addition of aekli or salt to the water, all act, it weuM seem, by ln-rrftasiiip- the atimnli nower swhicb the waler exerts QSCTfvvU nerves. v arm Dams prt-auce an eueci upon the skiu directly contrary to that brought about by cold water. The cu taneous vessels dilate immediately an der the influence of heat; aud although this dilation is followed by a 'contract ilou of the vessels, thia 'contraction is seldom excessive; and the. ultimate re sult of a warm bath Is to increase the cutaneous circulation. 5Ch pulse and respiration are both quickened as la the cold bath. The warm Sbath Increases the temoerature of theibody, and, by lessening the necessity fbr the internal production of heat, incBases the call upon certain vital processes, and ena bles to be sustained witha less expen diture of force. While aeold bath caus es a certain stiffness of the muscles, if continued for a too long tine, a warm bath relieves stiffuess aud fatigue. ,The ultimate results of hot and celd batha, if their temperature beimoderate, are about the same, the diflerence being, to use the words of Braun, that "cold re freshes bv stimulating the functions, heat by physically facilijating them; and in this lies the important practical difference between the 60M water and hot water systems." , ' Perfumery. being that Balzac paints. It may be that he ia not of kin to the wretches in the towns of the south of France, who despoil the str auger; . wrong and cheat him with so much unction, and thia is all the wore probable as the boast of that section Is, that they have much Greek blood in their veins, and their conduct proves It. Bat these peasants are probably a mixture of Burgundian, French and Goth and original Gael. When the roses, were weighed, auo a tall Yenclan. standing beside the pro prietor, with his hand full of coppers, had taid everybody his sous, the now- era were repacked in baskets by the three handmaidens of the establishment and taken below. Here were raU half filled with warm oilri some Instances. and in others with warm grease, made by mixing lard and beef suet, most care xJ4pret' 4adtlsid ii the winter montni. i o tvery luxee cKrew, or tbip. was a man armed with a wooden paddle and as the girls poured the rose-blos soms Into the oil and grease, they stir red about until the whole was one bid- eons' wretched paste of a dirty brown color. The men who manipulated the grease had a warm time of it, for It offered considerable reslstanbe to the noddle, and the perspiration fairly poured down their brows as they work their spatules. Twenty-four hours the leaves remained soaking, and then they are packed. Into coarse linen Dags ana nnt nnder a powerful press, which F ' squeeses the perfumed oil iuto a stone gutter, from which It poura oy a pipe into a straining vat. To warm the oil and grease precautions have to be ta ken. They are not placed m communi cation with the fire, but are lodged In huge, copper boilers, half filled with water, fixed in a range, whlc.i occupies one entire end of the apartment. When warmed to blood heat the oil and grease are poured into their respective euwset, and the ooeratlon with the paddle is re peated with fresh roses. Twenty-five times are the roses poured into the vats before the olearhious matters are suffi ciently saturated to be sent to the great perfumers and chemists as matfct pre mierer For orange flowers from teu to twenty-five infusions are necessary, ac cording to the quality demanded, me violet demands at least thirty, but for the matiertt premieres of the jessamine and the tuberose there Is an immense diversity of range. The best qualities, however, demand sixty iniasiona, out rhn a perfumer wants the best that nan nosaiblv be made, there is no limit, r . . and the operation of infusion is repeaieu as long as blossoms can be procured, i - IUQ, irivyiKvwt "- sirh "stfMjfo rin priuBioiTtnrr-nB w yea, for jessamine and tuberoses, ine strong odors of the orange flower and the rose render fewer Infusions neces sary, and Indeed, for some low grades of orders there are not so many Infusions even as ten. I hen again the warming of the oil draws out the perfume much faster, but the delicate character, o the lessamlne and the tuberose is opposed t niip.h a course, and for them there is a different procedure. Numerous shal low trays are used which are provided with a wire grating over which a coarse cotton cloth is stretched, which has been previously steeped In cold oil. Ihe flowers are then delicatley placed upon the cloth and renewed day by day, and sometimes if the blossoms come in fast enonirh. twice a dav. I am glad to think that the beautiful star-like bios soms of the jessamine, are not plunged Into the dark-hued. creasy mvs that looks exactly like boiling sugar, for it was destructive of all romance to see the fate of the roses. But the manner in which the jessamine is cultivated ia nnt wlint nnp would call picturesque. Instead of trailing over some projecting tree as in India, or upon a summer- house or long wall, as with us, it is cut down like a vine, and is restricted to a number of shoots which send out sprays thickiy covered with flowers. This n.nrHarniii t rnwRn makes the plant so very sensitive, that It has to be covered with Miih from October to we enu 01 March. ) horse. There were only two men In the bar room, when I entered, the landlord and the hostler. I ordered supper, and sat down. Two travelers next rode up and or dered drinks. One of them went with the hostler, the other threw himself down on a bench outside and began fil ling a huge pipe And before you would be able io sneak a sentence, the water was dashed out of the cask, and I was lu the bar rel, the woman dropping a tub half filled with water In at tne top as a cov 1 er. She had barelv time to re-enter 1 the house, the door which fortunately open- i r.. fi. cWlo nwatr from the moon. O " . ' I UU .v j ' a.vnii. aui-IajdIv ohrtnf) thn room. T I ...i. n .taIiioIa Hrow nn at. fhp auviiiug vat cwuv 1 1 wueu a iaiwiui ,ouivv - "i- - - .i .o itqv1 tn o-lanoe from Che window. I ,i ,i 1 ku.nl a hrvirjA vo! cp ravine uiuuagvi. I U LMJ 1, rtljvi A iinwv. .- . 0 aay nean leapeu into ""i ana swearing at iue "iu.u the i man seated thera I recognized Bill thing done.or Left undone.and then from vCrr ,; f tlio mnut rlaarwriitp nlmraL' .u kMnAni. thu nlnor hnvinir been fl, VI 4 , VHC V L i V uiv.v " " f - l Lllfj LFU II JI. V., f D v ters that ever figured In the annals of dislodged by upsetting of the cask, I ea ; 1 . . i . . f t . f Vi vn ooraer rumauism i saw tne iurious reiuru ui iu I sat down again and went through ottier renegades ;the form of eating my supper; but whatever appetite I might have felt on : mv fntrani to the Inc had vanished now. Presently the men came In together and ordered supper. Mine was finished, aud now was mv chance to leave. Paying nay score. and saying a gener- There ensued a good deal of loud talking, explanations and oaths. A lorum of hot nectar was prepared. . . and thev all went to partake 01 it. Dick refused to join In the hunt alter me, on account of haying to take the corfln to its destination. At that moment a wild and desperate al good evening, I crossed the dim smo-Lplan entered my brain. Vv bar-room. Thev took no notice of me whatever; only, the landlord looked furtively after me. ' My spirits rose; I hoped my fears had misled me, and that I should get safe away. It was quite dark outside, but the hostler was flitting about the stable with his lantern; he brought out riiy steed, and I trotted away. I was feeling infinitely relieved at my 'providential escape from contract with the desperate characters whom 1 had left at the settlement, when ray acute ears detected the sound of swift riding. I drew up my horse on. moment to listen. On thev came. o chance travelers ever rode like that. It meant nitranlt.. I gave ray steed a lash and he broke Into a convulsive cat, hove, his body up with one or two plunges, stumbled, and pitched me literally heels over head. What was the matter with the horse? He had a -s hite spot on his face, and - this seemed to come off on my hand a - I touchecTTrkn, a wet, slimy, sticky substanw, bearing a remarkable re semblance to whitewash. With my heart In my mouth I stooped to feel hia white legs and feet. Yes, they were whitewashed too. The trappings had been taken off my owuhorseat the inn, and transferred to. this worthless anl- -mal. which bad been whitewashed over to Imitate mine. This discovery brought an appalling The horses of the three renegades mv own. which had been retained by the hostler at the inn, amonffthem were hitched on the, other ride of-the door, where moonlight, striking by the end of the cabin, rested fully upon them it was suicide to attempt seizing one 01 them my own, as I had hoped to do and riding off. So I embraced the only alternative leaping from the barrel (the tub having been removed to water the horses with) and creeping into ine wagon while the woman muttered some thing about covering the coffin. Dick veiled out to her to minu ner own business and let the thing alone. But she succeeded lu accomplishing Disposing the Blanket across the coffin, as he was beginlng to ' - . . e'it drive away, she contrived to nit its uu aud drop inside a bowie knife ' You may be sure I seized u nearuiy and" gave her a blessing, too.poor thing; anri the first use. I made of it was to lodge the lid up just a fraction, so that my breathiug was easy, thougn my po sition .was cramped. They kept within ahailin distance for some three or four miles, Dick driv ing the heavy wagon along t a steam ing pace and I expected that the coffin would be jostled out. Bv-and-bv. there was a sudden shout, a loud "tally-ho," as if the huntsmen had sighted the quarry. It came from the gang. No sooner was the noise heard, than Von Moltke. General Von Moltke Is now seventy- eight, and yet he does not look older than he did 20 years ago. In more 're spects than one he is an iron man, hav ing an iron will, an iron constitution and an iron character. He deservas to he called the Iron Count quite as much as Wellington ever deserved to be call ed the Iron Duke, for he is, u anytning, more unyielding and of sterner dispo sition than the great Irish-Englishman. He is a member of an ancient lamiiy 01 Mecklenburg, where he was born, and -.vhere his ancestors had had their seats for centuries. Soon after his birth his father, a military officer, a regular mar tinet, leit Mecklenburg and went to Holsteln, acquiring an estate in tne Duchy. The Younger Moltke, having spent twelve years there, has been thought by many to be a native. At eighteen he was sent, with his brothers to the military academy at Copenhagen, where discipline, almost bpartan in severity, laid the foundation 01 nia inflexible character. Four years later he entered the Prussian army as cornet, and his father soon after losing all his property, the young man had hard work to retain his position, the pay of Prus Bin ntflwra of the -tower grade beta very small. Having determined to get nn come how. he got on. for with him to will was to succeed. He even saved enough from his pittance to take lessons in foreign languages, which have since served him in excellent stead. He has said that without such knowledge he could not have been half so useful as i.o hna lweii in the field. He thinks the knowledge of languages indispensable toacommandingofilcerinEurope. As a strategist he is without a peer, most of the battles of the, wars of Prussia with noor little Denmark (a military oppression), Austria and France having been planned by him beforehand and fought according to his plan, tie nas incurred our displeasure by a remark ascribed to him, that he did not, allud ing to our civil, contest, feel any inter est in armed mobs. It is altogether likely that he said sc. Our forces, both north and south, must nave seemeu as mobs to a thoroughly trained and ex clusive soldier of his stamp. He could not conceive that near two millions or m.n tiken from every grade of civil life, could render efficient military ser vice, and he does not, In all probaoiuty, understand it yet. Over 2,000 farmers in Maine have taken hold or tne oeet sugar euwryriw and are raising this root for the factory in that state. The fumouR nftrfnmet factory of M Herman Is locsted at Cannes. During the months of Kebruaiy, March and a rt-it tVio violet, waa thrf flower in sea- sen. and the price was f iom. 85 cents to $1 for two pounds weigli of the flowers. The kind used is known as thearmese violet, which Is doubles id exceedingly fragrant. May. June ai d balf of J uly is the time for roses and the flower of the orange-tree. In Venice, these blos soms are very cheap, the former costing 7W.xsnta per. popd4fra!ifc?ttr H ceuts. From the nd of Vuly until the oeginntng of Oebber, the jessamine and tuberose are Jn flower, and then there is a lull f the mountain regions, but not for Cmnes, for at' that time begins the season of the flowering cassie, a tree of which I must beg to confess my igno rance. It is not, so M. Herman says, an acacia, but the tree has enormous thorns and the blossom is a light yellow, and resembles a pea. But It Is the special nature of this tree that it will not flow er upou a lime or chalky soli, only upon or.ii or decomnosed granite. Hence though it blossoms at Cannes, it retuses to flower at Antibes. half a mile south. and Is altogether a plantof very restrict ed habitat. It blossoms until the begin ning of December, aud fetches 30 to 60 cents per pound, according to the aDun- dance or scarcity of the season. At the present moment, in Vence, roses are the order of the day, and on tne aeuciousiy clean and cool tlle-floorlng of the fac tory, the rose-blossoms were piled up thlcklv In huge. glowing heaps, in back room was a lone table, covered with a snow-white table cloth, and around this were seated some thirty women and young girls, waiting Impa tlently to be served with roses, which they were to pluck. There was only a sample Quantity, so Mr. Herman in formed pie, for the rains had interfered aomawhat with the Vence crop, and these came from the neighboring village f T. Tonrette. from a new man. Three verv pretty girls, who were permanent lv employed in the factory, at a signal from the proprietor, took great wicker baskets, and heaping them wiin roses, emptied ' them upon the table-cloth In front of the pluckcrs. It was a very charming picture the village girls and old women amd JlUietou not seven years old, in picturesque costume and verv wonderful straw hats, all seated around the board heaped up with the slowing blossoms, wonderfully relieved by the white cloth. The good-looking girls did not wear any hats trust them for that and immediately, from natur al thirst for decoration, chose the love liest roses and stuck them behind their ears. Then plucklug oegan in earnesu Seising the unhappy flowers firmly in the left hand and grasping the stalk elne to the ovary, they, with an angry twist, separated the blushing corollas, and threw them into a big basket en sconced between their knees. Mr. Her man told me that the grown girls could work, very fast, but that, Dy a tacit convention, when th amount of roses to be plucked was limited, they restrain ed themselves to giv the very old and the very young a chance to earn a trifle. A cent a pound was the tarin, ana wnen there is no stint of flswers, the girls can always earn half a franc, or ten cents, but on this occasion the utmost that any earned was four-'cests; but then old women of 70 and little things of 7 earned either a cent ftwo cents. That Ann .Mention and cfaselflsh kindness, gave me a much hfcber idea of the French peasant thani lormeny enter .in.ri and I fancy he does right accor ding to bis ideas, andis sot the wicked He PMt WwstAay. . The other day a weU-dred stran ger, carrying a hand valiae, called into a life hiurauce omoar w Detroit, and luqulredif the agent was in. The agent came forward ftibUag bis hands, and the ftranger asked: Do you take lift Insurance risks here?" Yes, sir; glad to see yon, sir; sit down, sir," replied the agat. "What do you think of life Insu rance, anyway ?" laotHred the stran ger, as he sat down and took off his hat. V'""' It's a national blessing, sir an in stitution which IsJooked upon with sovereign favor by, every enlightened man and woman la America." , i'That's what I'yealways thought. answered the man. . Ioea the coa.- 6n rmv its loss'VotiLifr1' 'Yes. sir : vee.r. If you ww ! w - JS ' - sured with ine, and you should die to- nbrM. I'd band your wife a check within a week!" "Couldn't ask 'or anything hctter'n that." "No. sir: no, sir. The motto of our company is : 'Prompt pay and honor able dealing." 'How much will a $5,000 policy cost now?" inauired the strauger. after a long pause. "You aro let me see, say tnirty flve A policy on you would cost $110 the flrot vear." "That's reasonable enough." "Yes. that's what we call low. but ours is a strong company, does a sate business, and invests only In first class securities. If you think of taking out a policy, let me tell you that ours Is the best and safest, and even the agents of rival companies will admit the truth of what I say." And when I die my wife will get her money without any trouble r ' "I'll guarantee that, my dear sir." "And I'll set a dividend every year?' "Yes. this is a mutual company, and part of the profits come back to the pol icy holders." "And It won't cost - but sno ror a policy of $5,000." "That's the figure, and it's as low as you can jjet safe insurance anywhere. Letrae write you out a policy, lou'ii never regret It." " l hem s the blanks, i s pose, saiu the stranger, pointing to the desk. "Yes," replied the merchant, as ne hauled one up to him and took his pen. 'What do you say shall I fill out an application ?" "No, I guess I won't take any to day," replied the stranger, as he un locked his valine, "but if you want sumeuniig TtiaT wtftTaatythat Twart your nose Inside of a week, I've got here. It's good for corns, buntons,the toothache, earache, sprains, " . He was placing his little bottle on the table; When the agent reached over and took him by the shoulder and fiercely whispered : ' Mister man. if you don't want to become a corpse, you will not be two MEWS IN BRIEF. 1 ' - i The F renci. vtuUa tloei not prom-: i i I minutes getting out of here I" tie new, The Apple as Food fbr Man and Baast. A Soldier's Ufeon tne Frontier. A correspondent of the Boston Trave ler now with the army in Montaua, writes: The discomforts and hardships that our officers and soldiers have to undergo In campaign or on a seo'it are things that people In the East have no idea of. and cannot appreciate. About sunset a Sergeant of the detachment reported to the Captain for the instructions for the guard during the night, which we were given In detail. I heard the Captain add, "Re veille at three o'clock," and thought "that's early enough, any way." I had not thought of a guard, and when It flashed across me that we were all alone, and were to go into a new coun trr. at least one hundred and fifty miles from the post. I wondered if we had .1 - men enough. I looked around-, and notierd for the first time that a sentinel had been posted on a hill about two hundred yards from camp, fro:n the top of which hill he could see three or four miles each way. up and down the river, and also the little tableland the camp was on. We were all tired, and I was glad to lie down for the night, about eiaht o'clock. Just before dark the sentinel on the bill was called in, ana nonies were picketed closer to the i - , . tents, after being led to water. I coum oot sleep at flrt, and kept looking out nn. end of the tent at the stars, minu inr nnveltv of all this, and bow most of my friends would like to try !..cr anoh a aVMIt. However. I WSS tOO tired to keep awake long, and while listening to the quiet tread of the sen tinel, as he patrolled camp, I was soon fast asleep, dreaming of home and of friends so far away. Consume all the apples possible at home. They are good food, whether eaten cooked or uncooked. Baked ap ples and milk will put rounded muscles and rosy cheeks on children faster than any other food, and they are equally good for children of a larger growth. There Is nb end to the way In which apples may be cooked. The old-fash- ioned apple pie, discarded as Jt Is In some quarters, is always ah acceptable dessert, and we notice that those who decry all kind of pastry cannot resist the temptation to partake ofa fresh ap ple pie. Apple sauce is Incomparable as a relish for the tea-table. Plum sauce, grape sauce, and even peaches pall on the palate with constant use; but who ever tired of nicely prepared apple sauce? But we have not space to go Into the various modes of cooking apples. The-txua way to eat apples, and roost' other fruit, is In the raw state, cook ing drives off the exquisite but volatile aroma on which their virtue so depends. They are more healthful also, without the addition of sugar and spices. With two to six apples eaten each day lu the vear we expect our stomach and all the internal viscera to in good working or der. One man's experience is net sui- fitient to establish a universal law, but so far a our observations goes, malic acid (apple juice) operates favorably on most stomachs. The exceptions only nrtiw the rule Tn no najiA la there anv " "X - necessity for apples) rotting on the ground. They are ecellent food ror all kinds of stock. Horses, cattle, sheep, and swine eat them with avidity, and the only danger is that they w ill eat too many If allowed free access to them. The old notion that apples made cows dry up their milk arose from the practice of letting the herd Into an or chard to eat ad libitum. Of course, they would eat till their stomachs were de ranged, and fever and iarrhcea would ertue. The same result would follow. with some modifications, if the cows were let Into a fresh clover patch or cornfield, but this does not prove that clover and corn cause milk to dry up. The true way to feed apples to cows and horses is to give them a rew at first, and increase the rations as their stomachs become adjusted to this diet. m-hen half a bushel a day and ome- times a bushel, if the cow la large wl I cause a great flow of milk, and at the same time give an Increase of Qesn. Hogs may be turned into an orchard at anv time with impunity. They have stomachs like an ostrich, and are seldom disturbed by what they eat. A ahlnnwner of Zaandam. Collaod. is worth ISJ.OOO 000, but be iitet In a . house worth $4,0.0. and be eejoys him self sitting in the UtUe dooryard play lag aominoes wiin n iw uauguvRra, The new stationery baa an English mmlmiui tld namr. eBVcdooae and cards, which are made appropriately to reseui me oar a. .iora ansinauv snu. regret cards and seaside paper are also new. ' , -..- w' h:I ., ., '.nf.tn TTenrv Altan. af Ralem. Massachusetts, has a pear tree 9 years old la bis garden. Nxt to the ndt eott pear-tree it is probibly tue oldest in tne country. . it nas bww severs bushels ot fruit this year. The Russian government talks of, exiling lu crimis to -aarbie quar- n- t r iiii.ni r w set . In a Mali rioliah. and nromlSeS a ' very important article of export. Cotton mills are bewmlng Dumer ous in India, more particularly lu Bom bay, and it seems probable that with improved machinery, cheap labor, and the saving on freight, they will be able to compete successfully with English goods. Subscriptions are invited for the reller of the family of Lieutenant Beit- f ner, the gallant officer who volunteered uimnunilir of the relief boat that went from fit. Louis down the Missis sippi river iuto Oie fever districts, and Mled at his post. Y)nrini7 the five vears since the panic of 1873 we have exported more than we Imported 448.000,000. The change since the panic, as compared with five years before the panic. Is in favor of the prosperity of the country to the amount ol $1,000,000,000. The consumption of cotton by American manutacturer was greater by 110,000 bales in 1878 than in 1377. The yield of the staple iu the United States exceeds that of any year " re cord, being 4,811,263 bales, of 1,483 pounds gross each, up to Sept. 1. "Jumping sheets" are being Intro duced into English Are brigades. Tbey are of stout canvas, with sixteen loops or handles, to be held by so many men. aud so break the fall or a person jump ing into them from a bnrnlng house, trials have resulted very satisfactorily. The Philadelphia and Beading Rail road Company has a fleet compruing fourteen iron steamers, which this year have made WO voyages, r'unnlog483 336 milos ana carrying ojz ?o ions oi mmi. Since J8C9 the fleet has run J,0W,000 miles and delivered 2,000,003 tons of coal. 1 Trade marks are evidently of value to the cotton trade, for the British Com missioners of Patents have been obliged to make special provision at Manches ter to meet the demand for them. Wlth- U avysar aesasaWOe- or Xrri uaa examined 41,712 marks for cotton piece goods. The Government contractors want- ed $40,000 to move the 2500 Indlaus at ' Red Cloud agency to their new re?rya- tion ; but the authorities will save $3J, 000 of the sum by buying the necessary . wagons out-and-out at South Band, Ind., and hitching the ponies o( the trl'jetothem. The Grosser Kurfurst, the Geriran Ironclad sunk In the British channel oy a collision with the Konlg Wilhelm, is to be raised, but whether bv the German Admlrallty or by contractors Is not de cided. One hundred and forty-five of- -fers have been made from diJerent quarters to perform the service. The Grand Orient of Free ;Maon In France has expunged from Its ritual all recognition of God, and lh conse quence the Grand Lodges of Ireland, Scotland, and England have severed all relations with the French body. Action by the Grand Lodges of the United States and Canada will be taken soon. In Liverpool, many of the street letter boxes now have a door which shuts with a spring and at the same time moves a plate showing the hoiir of the last clearance, inepu uic can tnus ascertain whether haters hav been tak en out for a particular mall, and tho Post Office has a check upon its men. The Aca lemy of Sciences, at Paris, has begun the lsue, decided upon a year ago. of a complete edition of the works of Lsplace, the celebrated French tavant. The preceding editions; now very rare, contained only seven volumes, but the new edition will Include six others, containing all the other memoirs which he ever published. The Chief of the Seminole tribe of Indians was recently found dead in the everglades of Florida, having been bit ten by a moccasin. While In a state of intnTlmtinn ho is supposed to hsveUin on the snake, and was bitten several times. He was 70 years old, and known among the tribe a Great Tiger. His son, aged 20, a young warrier, succeeds him. The Secretary of the Connecticut Home Missionary Siciety says that in 1800 Connecticut had 200 Congrega tional churches, with about 27.000 mem h.r tn 1ROO these churches raised - $2232 for home mUslons, averting $11,16 for each church, and eight cents for each member. In 1877 they raised $76, 140 for home ml-sions, thirty-four times as much, or $255 50 for each church, and $1 40 for each member. One-'.hird of the liquid portion of the sewage or Paris is con veyea to txen nevilllers, a kind of peninsula made by the windings of the Seine 'below As nleres. A medical visitor says thst be did not discover as much smell ss be has often detected In walking over farms manured wltb guano or In tne ordinary nanner, and he could no learn of any unfavorable effect on the health of the people. Magnificent crops are raised. The committee appointed by tli Italian Parliament to inquire Into the dobts of the municipality of Florence, which have culminated in the bank ruptcy of the city, has completed its re port. The only point which has yet folly transpired is that the Cc n rail! tee confirms the statement that municipal ity expended 72,000,ouo lire (sia.suv.uw; in cash upon Government buildings, to meet which they had to borrow the nominal som of $20,800 000, or, In other words, to allow a discount of about forty-four and a half per cent, to flnaa ciers. I
The Blue Ridge Blade (Morganton, N.C.)
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