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Waiting:.
With waiting and wishing our courses we pave;
We wait for the port as we battle the ware;
ji j waiting forever from cradle to grave.
Waiting tor mora, so serene in its light;
Waiting lor noonday, so brilliantly bright;
Wuitins at eve lor repose in the night.
Waiting for zephyrs in springtime that blow;
Waiting lor tummer and flowers that grow;
Waiting for winter and swift-falling snow.
Waiting is eTcr the bosom's refrain,
In moments oi pleasure and moments ol pain;
Waiting, though stricken again and again.
Waiting in childhood for youth's joyous time;
"I'm waiting," say Youth, " but I'll certainly
climb
The top ol the ladder on reaching my prime."
In manhood awaiiing tlo timo when he may
Find rest on a calmer, a happier day,
When ngo shall relieve from the worrying fray.
Waiting hcn fortune sheds brightly her
smile;
When choice arc tho ple!iurc9 the pathway
beguile.
There always is something to wait for the
whilo.
Waiting in i-overty, auguibh an J grief;
Waiting for heaven to send us relief,
Idling the heait that the trial is brief.
Aye, waiting lor pya that will never appear
Wailing for voices wc never shall hear;
Waiting lor momenta that never are near.
Waiting when sinning and worn in tho strife,
With penitent throbbings the bosom is rile,
Waiting the dawn ol a holier life.
Waiting at last for the spirit's release;
Waiting a rest in the dwelling ol peace,
Where waiting and longing forever will cease
KATE'S ADVENTURE.
Of course I can tell my own adven
turcs a deal better than any one can
tell them for me. That stands to nature.
I'm not a practiced writer, and I don't
know how to produce what the fashion
able authors call "grand pen-effects,"
but I believe I can make you under
stand how it was. And that is all that
is necessary.
Leeman had sprained his ankle that's
my brother and he could not go to
town with the load of russet apples that
was already piled into barrels, and
stood waiting under the big red shed.
"It's too bad!" said he. "Those
russet apples are worth a deal at this
time of year--and we shall miss the
market day!"
" Can't you ask Neighbor Hutton to
take them?" said my mother.
Neighbor Hutton is a deal too sharp
a practitioner for me," said Leeman.
" It's a hard thing to say about a neigh
bor; but I can't trust his honesty."
"Mr. Hall?"
" Hall would be casting it up in my
face, for the next six months, that I had
asked a favor of him," said Leeman.
" No, I'd rather lose the apples than lose
my independence. But it is too provok
ing that I must needs have slipped on
that piece of orange-peel, now, of all
times in the world. I have been saving
up these apples all the winter with a
special eye to this particular market
day."
" Leeman," said I, ' I'll go."
" Nonsense !" said Leeman.
"But why not ?" said I. " Old Tonip
is as gentle as a kitten, and I know
ev.iy inch of the way."
"But there are tho Red Swamp
woods that desolate stretch of ihreo
miks, with never a house on either .ido
ol the way, except the deserted cabin
where the old negro hanged himself,
twenty years ago," argued my mother.
"Who cares for the lied Swamp
woods?" said I, valiantly I never was
afraid of frogs and whip-poor-wills, and
I'm not going to begin now. Lil, will
you go out and help me harness early in
the morning, and "
" Oh, I wish I was going too! Can't
I go, Kate?" cried ' Lil, my hoiden
younger sister, with her blue eyes
giutering with delight at the idea of
anything unusual.
"Stuff!" cried I, imperiously. "Of
course you can't. Hasn't Pomp a heavy
load enough, without your ninety
pounds ct mischief loaded on? Be
sides, you must stay at home and take
care of mother and Loeman and finish
the chintz 'curtains for the big west
chamber; for Colonel Hay may come
at any time cow."
Cbionel Hay was our city boarder
R gentleman who had been recom
mended by his physician to try the
fresh, pine-scented breezes of the
Shawaugeenta mountains, and whom
our rector had recommended to the Icy
Spring farm.
We were rot rich, although mother
and; Leeman had managed the farm
economically and well since father's
aeath, and the weekly addition to our
income would be something worth con
sidering. The idea of a city boarder was very
pleasant, too, and Icy Spring farm was
very lovely spot, although we seldom
aJ lowed ourselves to think of that.
So, after a little, I coaxed mother and
I'Cenian to consent, and the next morn
Jr.g Lil and I were up long .before Jday
twak, harnessing old Pomp, and getting
ady for the day's journey.
the time the red, level light of tfia
ansing sun touched old Pomp's gra
mane with radiance, I was driving
through the Red swamp, where the
aple trees from which it took its name
fere all aglow with crimson blossoms,
&nd the thrushes and robins cal ed to
one another with flute-like notes.
Well, I managed splendidly. I knew
here I was going when I started. I
fiold the six barrels of russets to the man
fco kept the Park hotel for four dot
apiece, and that was more than Lee
Ian himself anticipated. I
VOL. III. NO. 25.
"Be careful' -rou don't get robbed.
now," said the man, as he watched me
put the biJh into my little leather port-
monnaic.
"Robbed?" said I, with a laugh
" Why, who should rob me?"
' Oh, I don't know," said the land
lord. " There's always tramps and bur
glars around. They're a crop that don't
belong to any particular season of the
year.
As I turned away I did not notice it
a ine time, but it came back to me after
ward, as things do come back, like a sud
den flash across the dark shield oi mem
ory a man who was lounging on the
steps looked hard at me.
I colored a little, and thought to my
self: "Well, he will know me the next
time he sees me," and then forgot all
abeut it: lor I had mother's black bom
bazinc to match and Lil's spring hat to
buy, and some dinner china to select,
and tLe doctor s prescription for Lee
man to fill out at the druggist's, so that
it was well on to seven when I turned
old Pomp's head homeward in the su
burbs of the town, with a feelins- of ela
tion which was quite pardonable, when
one considers my inexperience in the
marketing line, and my exceptionally
good success.
The sunshine was warm and still on
the high road, and I was rather irlad
when at last we came to the cool shad
ows of the Red swamp, where the birds
were all silent in the noon-heats, and the
sweetest of odors came floating up from
the tangled recesses of fern and cowslip
on either side of the solitary, railed-in
road.
All at once old Pomp gave a sidewise
start his ancient idea of snying and
then I saw a man, pale, dusty and
tired-looking, sitting on a fallen log, just
outside the road. I felt sorry for him : I
was like mother who never would let
the shabbiest or meanest looking vaera
bond go pa t our house without, a
draught of milk, or a piccsc of fresh-
baked pie. or a slice of her famous home
made bread-cake and without stopping
to think, I drew in old Pomp's rein.
" Are you going toward Lenox cross
roads," said I. "Yes?" "Theniumpin:
I'm going in that direction, too, and I'll
give you a lift.
He thanked me in a silent, droopine
sort of way, and seated himself on the
board at the back of the wagon, toward
which I pointed with the handle of my
whip.
"You look ill," said I.
"I am not ill," he said, with a smoth
ered cough. " Only tired with my long
walk. 1 didnTt know it was so far to
Lenox.
" I suppose you are going for work?"
said I. "Deacon Brierley has a e-ood
many hands just now, in his tobacco
factory.
"No," said he; " I am not going to
work."
I asked no more questions. I did not
like the idea of a man's shroudine him
self in mystery in that sort of way ; and,
as I glanced around once more, a sudden
revelation came across me, like a blaze
of light.
It was the same man who had eysd
me so keenly on the steps of the Park
hotel.
Then I remembered my mother's
words of caution, Leeman's reiterated
exhortations, the landlord's friendly
words of warning.
And, in spite of it all, I had deliber
ately thrust my silly head into the jaws
of danger. There was only one thing
remaining for me to do to get out of
the scrape as well as I could.
I cast about in my mind how to do
this ; and presently, with beating heart,
I dropped a little paper parcel of blue
ribbon into the road.
"Oh!" 1 cried, checking up Pomp,
"I've dropped my parcel. Would
would you mind getting out after it?"
" Not in the least," said the stranger,
and he climbed laboriously out of the
wagon.
He had scarcely set his feet on the
ground before I laid the whip on old
Pomp with a will, and rattled away
over the long straight road at a pace
that seemed positively marvelous to me
and Pomp both.
So we left our passenger behind, in
the middle of the Red swamp. I could
see him standing there, blank and
astounded, the sole figure in the long
perspective, as I ventured to lookback;
but I only whipped Pomp the harder,
and never let him 'bate his pace until
we were well out of the Red swamp.
"I've out-generaled him," said I, to
myself, "and I've saved Leeman's
twenty-four dollars. I'm sorry about
the blue ribbon; but it was only a yard
and a quarter, after all, and I can trim
Lil's hat with something else."
They were delighted &t my prowess
when I related my adventure at home.
Leeman declared i was a capital little
market-woman; mother shuddered at
the idea o the desperate tramp alone
with me in the tangled wilderness of the
Red swamp ; Lil declared that I was a
heroine.
Wan't it a good idea for Kate to
drop the blue ribbon, and send him
after it ?" said she.
Kate was a goose ever to let him
get into the wagon?" said Leeman,
knitting his brow.
"Kate mustn't go by herself such a
long distance again," said mother.
And I drank my cup of tea, ana rest
ed myself, and went cut afterward to
see the new brood of darling little yel
low chicks, which old Speckle had
brought off the nest during my absence.
I was on my knees in the henhouse,
feeding them with scalded meal from the
palm of my hand, when I heard mother
caiung me irom me nouse.
tl! 11 1 I
Kate! Kate' come up at once! Colo4
nei nay has arrived."
PITTSBOKO', CHATHAM CO., N. C, MARCH 3, 1881.
"Colonel Hay?"
I started up, looking with blank dis
may at my calico dress and the meal
stains on my hands.
However, there was nothing for it but
to obey the summons ; so I went up to
the house. A sort of blur seemed to
come before my eyes as I entered th
sitting-room, and heard mother saying:
"Colonel Hay, this is my eldest
daughter, Kate."
And then the blur cleared away, and
I knew the man I had twice before seen
that day the pale, tired traveler, whom
I had so recklesely abandoned in thd
middle of the Red swamp.
" I I beg your pardon, Colonel Hay !
I cried out, immediately. " I thoughi
you were a thief!"
The burst of laughter that followed
from every inmate cf tho room effec
tually scattered every embarrassment.
That was my adventure. And Colo
nel Hay has long since forgiven mo thai
unkind desertion of him. In fact this
is quite private and confidential, mind
we are to be married soon, and I am
going with him to Florida, to try th
cnect of a bouthern climate on his
health. That is all. Isn't it enough?
LIbby Prison.
An eastern paper says: Although
thousands of Northern men have been
inmates of Libby prison, comparatively
iew are acquainted with the history ol
the now memorable buildine. constant
ly pointed out to persons visiting Rich
mond. The former militarv i nil wnn
lately sold at auction, and brought but
9b,, 25, although the auctioneer pro
nounced its associations so precious in
the North that, if it were pulled down.
every one of its 240,000 bricks would
sell for a dollar apiece . The purchaser
was James T. Gray, a Richmond capi
talist, wno nas rented it to F. M. Bov
ken to be used as a tobacco factorv. m
it has often been before. The building
140 feet front and 105 deep, was nut nn
fifteen or twenty years before the war bv
James Libby, and occupied by him and
his sons as a grocery and ship chandlery
within a short time before the breaking
OUt Of the CIVll War. Thpir si trn vrt
mamed on the building until 1863. and
&
is probably remembered by many of
the Union soldiers immured with:n its
dreary wars. The eider Libby, who
accumulated a large fortune, lived on
what was called Church hill, near the
famous Sr. Julia's cLu-cb, in which
Patrick Henry delivered (March, 1775)
h:s celebrated "Give me liberty or
give me death' harangue. The hill
overlooking the Jame3 liver has bsc n
turned into a park sinca the war and
named Libby Hill park. Libby was not,
.as is commonlv t hone lit. u.n rot-
military prison in Richmond. The
first was a large frame s'ructure
that aad been employed to house
negroes previous to their sale.
It was in Lumpkin's alley, and got the
name of Castle Goodwin, but havine
proved inadequate for its miuiary pur
poses the prisoners of war were re
moved to the larger structure on the
dock, which has just been sold. Not one
of the Libby prison officials is now, it
is said, in Richmond, though a number
of men who guarded it are st;ll there.
Major Turner, its commander, -was one
of the youngest men in the Confederate
service. When Virgin'a had seceded,
he left West Point, where he wa3 then a
cadet, and went South. Before Rich
mond had fallen he fled from
the city, believing that he would
be slain by the soldiers of
the victorious army, and afterward
went to Mexico, where he entered the
service of the ill-fated Max imiiinn.
After the execution of the Austrian
archduke, Turner fled back to his native
land, studied dentistry in New Orleans
and has for some years been practicing
his profession in Mississippi. He could
not believe for a long while that his life
would be safe where he was eenerailv
known, and it is said that he still think
he would be killed by some of the i non-
dam prisoners if he should come North.
Libby looks very much as it did during
the war, though the bars have been
removed from the windows, and some
of the inner partitions have been taken
down. It is so interesting a relic of
history that it should be carefully
(reserved.
" 1 Know TnaV
A London paper has heard of a case
where a droll fellow named Scrubbs got
into a first-class railway carriage, betou
smoking carriages were invented. In
the carriage was seated a sour-looking
old gentleman. After the tram had
started, Scrubbs took out his pipe.
"You mustn't smoke here," at once
laid the old gentleman.
I kno w that," replied Scrubbs. He
then calmly filled his pipe.
" Did I not tell you," said the o. e.
again, " that you can't smoke here?"
I know that," gloomily replied
Scrubbs, taking out his fusee box. He
lit a fusee, but now the wrath of the o.
g. was dreadful.
"You shan't smoke here, sir !" he
shrieked.
' I know that," added Scrubbs, alio w-
ine the fusee to exhaust itself, when he
lit another, and another; the stench was
awful, the smoke suffocating.
The o. g., coughing and spluttering,
struggled for words. "You'd better
smoke," said he.
" I know that," replied Scrubbs, ap
plying the blazing fusee to the expectant
pipe.
.There are
20.000 hounds in Great
at an estimated cost of
Uritain kept
$2,500 000.
Ay v-
Chapped Hands,
Chapped hads are sometimes really
quite an afil iction, and always an annoy
ance. The tendency to them is caused
by a deficiency in the oil, which is con
stantly being poured out on the surface,
for the purpose cf keeping the skin sofc
and supple.
Thi3 lubricating oil must be con
founded with perspiration, which is
waste matter eliminated from the blood.
The former ia secreted by minute glands
imbedded in the true skin (cuti3 vera)
which is situated beneath the scarf-skin
or epidermis.
The scarf-skin is very thin and trans
parent, and has very little vitality,
having neither blood vessels nor nerves
It needs constant oiling to keep it from
cracking. When sound, it protects, not
only the nerves and vessels of the true
skin, but, to some extent, the whole
body. For, thin as it is, it prevents the
absorption of harmful substances.
It is for this reason that, in vaccina-
nun, me vaccine matter must be in
serted beneath it, where it is readily
taken up and diffused through the sys
tem. When the scarf-skin is chafed, or
scratched, or otherwise broken, various
kinds of poison, often resulting fatally,
may be readily absorbed, as in the case
oi pnysicians opcnine: abscesses, or
conducting a post-mortem examina
tion.
Now this is a point wo wish to em
puasi?e. viz., wnen one's Lands are
chapped, he is always more or less liable
to absoib poisonous matter into his
system in the handling say of putrid
meat, or in the washing of clothes from
a sickroom, or dressing some foul sore.
Where the surface oil is deficient, it is
apt to be washed off, especially with
warm water, faster than it is secreted.
But the difficulty is greatly increased by
the alkali (sods, or potash) of the soap,
which not only takes up the oil, but
actually eats through the epidermis.
The best help for chapped hands is,
having washed them thoroughly before
retiring, to rub them over with mutton
tallow and wear through the night a
pair of easy setting leather gloves. Per
sons in whom the tendency to chap is
not so strong, may keep their hands in
condition by an occasional resort to this
treatment. YoutWs Companion.
The German Census
In Germany, as in England, the cen
sus is taken in one day. Schedules are
furnished in advance to be filled by each
male inhabitant, which are collected bv
officers. This fulfillment is insured "by-
making each owner cr agent responsible
for the occupants of every house com
plying with the law. This method is
declared by statisticians to be the least
subject to incorrectness, and it has been
adopted since the creation of the em
pire. The last census was taken on
December 1. Though not yet com
pleted, comparisons sufficient exist to
show that the population has increased
to a greater degree than in France, or,
in fact, any European nation.
In 1871 the whole German empire was
found to contain a population of 41,
058,792. During the next term o four
years the nalional procrcative power
was certain to experience a sbrinkace
corresponding to the adult males in the
Franco-German war. For at least two
years of the same period t'jere wa3 also
a great drainage through emigration to
America. Nevcrthele3s, in 1875 the
number of inhabitants had reachoJ 42,-
27.36D In the interval between the last
and the present enumerations the
German bureau of statistics has kept a
careful record of births and deaths, as
well as of emigration, with a view of
determining the net gain at the end of
every twelve-month. It was deducted
from these in vestigatisns that the regular
yearly increment of the population is
not lc3s than 650:000 souls. This infer
ence is confirmed by the last census
taken ; for although the details are not
compiled, the broad result is known,
namely, that the German empire now
comprises from forty-five and a half to
forty-six millions of inhabitants.
In Experiment in Chemistry.
When the kind-hearted Isaac Hopper.
a member of the Society of Friends, met
a boy with a dirty face and dirty hands
he would stop him and inquire if he
ever studied chemistry. The boy, with
a wondering stare, would answer no.
" Well, then," said Isaac Hopper, " I
will teach thee how to perform a curi
ous chemical experiment. Go home,
take a pfoce of soap, put it in water-
rub it bnskly upon thy Hands and thy
face. Thou hast no idea what a beau
tiful froth it will make, and how much
whiter thy skin will te. That's a
chemical experiment: Iacrvise thee to
go home and make it."
One of the erowine industries of Aus
tralia is the cooking and canning of
rabbits. The Colar Preserving company
near Melbourne had on an average 7,000
of these agile rodents brought in every
night at the beginning of the past sea
son. and the supply increasing, orders
were given to limit the daily quantity
to 2,700 pair. During the season, which
lastea for twenty-five weeks, 673,000
rabbits were canned by this establish
ment aioi.e.
If there is anvthins that will make a
man rip stavin'. roarin'. bilin' mad. it is
to have the cook appear before him at
breakfast with th e announcement that
the two pounds of lamb chops purchased
by him the evening previous, durinc
the wee small hours disappeared down
the capacious maw of the family
Thomas G. ext. Lockport Union.
5
H.
A PfltKOMEAON.
A. Touns Wonwn Who IThs Not Spoken
for Fifteen Yeisri.
The Bulta (Montana) Miner tells the
following interesting story of a young
woman who has refrained for fifteen
years from speaking: It is not gener
ally known, but it is nevertheless a fact,
that on Lower Willow creek not many
miles from Butte, resides a woman dif
ferent from all others of her sweet sex.
She is probably the only woman known
in ancient or modern times who, pos
sessing the natural feminine ability to
talk, studiously abstains, with a perse
verance truly admirable, from expres
sing herself on any subject. For fifteen
years, except on one occasion, she has
not uttered a word tvtn to her nearest
relations. Her organs of articulation
are perfect, and the friends of the strange
lady entertain not the slightest doubt of
her speaking Cipabiiiticj were she dis
posed to exercise them.
It is the impression of those best ac
quainted with the history of this phe
nomenal woman that her absolute re
fusal to speak results from a disappoint
ment in love while she was yet in her
teens. Fifteen years ago, in the classic
btate of Missouri, Miss M , then a
beautiful and accomplished drl of six
teen summers, became the object of a
young neighbor's affection, which she
reciprocated with the full strength of
her impressive soul. He told his love
and they became secret ly engaged. But
the news was too good and fraueht with
too much future happiness to keep, and
it was accordingly communicated to tfie
young girl's parents. The parents, for
reasons which they doubtless considered
good and sufficient, sternly and re
lentlessly withheld their consent for the
proposed union of two loving hearts.
More than this, they ordered the young
gallant to cease his attentions, and their
decision was irrevocable. Soon after
this the family moved to Montana, and
since the day of their starting the young
lady, now grown to a woman of thirty
years, but still eomely of form and fea
ture and apparently intelligent, has not
articulated as much as half a dozen
words. Her long silence is attributed to
intense and abiding indignation at the
supposed cruelty of her parents in re
fusing to permit her marriage, and prob
ably conceiving words to be useless and
inadequate to express the poignancy of
her suffering, she concluded never to
speak again, a resolution which she has
adhered to so far with remarkable per
tinacity. She lives with her parents on
Willow creek, as before stated, occupies
a room by herself, refuses to see strangers
and to all intents and purposes is abso
lutely dumb. Hjr memory is strong
and accurate for one who neither talks
nor reads nor takes other intellectual
exercise. Through the partition of her
room she will sometimes lis en to the
conversation of those in the adjoining
apartment, and occasionally, several
days after it has taken place, it will bj
found on paper in her room written out
verbatim. A severe mental exertion is
necessary to accomplish this feat, and
the fact that she is capable of such ex
ertion is regarded as sufficient evidence
of her entire sanity. It is reported that
several ranchers on Willow creek, con
vinced of her determination never to
speak again, have ma te matrimonial ad
vances, but have been spurned. On the
whole the case is an interesting one. the
more so as she is still young, beautiful
and intelligent.
Words of Wisdom.
A man of courage never lacks
weapons.
Half the ills we hoard in our hearts
are ills because we hoard them.
Without the company of fools a man
of wit would often be embarrassed.
A man who cannot mind his own
business is not fit to be trusted with the
king's.
It is as easy to draw back a stone
thrown with force from the hand as to
recall a word once spoken.
No man is born wise; but wisdom
and virtue require a tutor; though we
can easily learn to be vicious without a
master.
No man possesses a genius so com
manding that he can attain eminence,
unless a subject suited to his talents
should present itself, and an opportunity
occur for their development.
Turn the point of thy curiosity upon
fcMself and thine own affairs, and thou
shalt within doors find matter enough
for the most laborious inquiries.
The cause of virtue and liberty is con
fined to no continent or climate. It
comprehends, within its capacious
limits, the wise and good, however dis
persed and separated in space and dis
tance. A Hollow Man
Joshua Joyne3, a man weh Known in
the eastern part of Virginia as a glutton,
sat down to dinner near Onancock, Ac
comae county, and disposed of a bill of
fare which consisted of fifteen pounds
of pork, twelve links of bologna sausage,
souse from one large hog, one large
goose, which the gormandizer had been
fattening for a month, one full grown
chicken, one peck of sweet potatoes, one
dozen large biscuits, one large mince
pie, and six cups of strong coffee.
Joyhes sat down to this repast at one
o'clock, and at 2.30 he had disposed of
every article named, picked the bones of
the fowls, and tocx a glass of eggnog.
He then smoked a pipe, jumped on a
horse, and rode five miles through the
frosty air. Joynes weighs 350 pounds,
and is a good-humored old feilow of
sixty.
A. 10HD0H, Jr., Editor and Publisher.
What Will Happen This Tear.
To an end the world shall come
In eighteen hundred and eighty-one."
Mother Shipton made some notable
prophecies; for instance, the "Tele
graphs," the "Great Ironclads," and
sundry other things equally astonish
ing; but search reveals the fact that the
above prophecy, alleged to have been
made by Mother Shipton, as well as a
certain prophecy about the railways,
are spurious and false, and do not appear
if! any of the editions before 1862. They
were then published by a Mr. Hindly,
of Brighton, who subsequently acknowl
edged the forgeries as is own in "Notes
and Queries." It therefore amounts to
this, that Mother Shipton never proph
esied any such a thing as the world
coming to an end in 1881, and, so far as
she is concerned, my readers may not
disturb their minds. It cannot, how
ever, be denied that 1881 will be a
remarkable year, chiefly on account of
the great conjunction of Saturn altid
Jupiter (and the proximity of the smvat
the time) in the sign Taurus. Such an
event will alter the face of the earth by the
prevalence of great and continued earth
quakes, the uprising of islands, and the
subsidence of land already above the
sea. Plato in his " Timon " mentions
that there was a gigantic island in the
place where the Atlantic ocean now is,
and that it was larger than all Lybia
and Asia together, and was inhabited
by a very warlike race; but in succeed
ing times prodigious earthquakes and
deluges taking place, the whole island
was made desolate in one day and night,
and absorbed in the sea. There is not
the least doubt but that the subsistence
of this island caused the upheaving oi
the land now called America. Loui3
Figuier also, in " The World Before the
Deluge," says : " The upheaving of the
Caucasus and an adjoining range of
mountains was the cause of the Asiatic
deluee in Noah's time." It is a fact
that in the bowels of tho earth there
is a heat, generating steam, vapor,
and lava, to which we arc infants, and
can form no idea of its intensity, and
earthquakes are the results of a combin
ation of steam, water and gases, which
congregating together, at length bursts
the crust of the earth and escapes. In
the earthquakes at Manilla the other
day the earth opened, and fire and
water were ejected to an immense ele
vation. Vesuvius and other burning
mountains are outlets, or safety valves,
as they have been frequently called. In
mountainous countries shocks of earth
quakes are frequent, and mountains are
formed by the upheaving of the crust o
the earth.
In conclusion, although I do not and
ticipate the appr?'h of the " last day,"
yet I cannot close my eyes to the fact
that there will be startling phenomena,
and such as the oldest man living never
saw before. In the Cabala nine is a
mystic number signifying "comple
tion," and 1881 has the singular prop
erty of being divided thus 1 plus 8
equal to 9. Nine is a peculiar number,
for in all its multiples the total is 9.
Thus nine times 3 equal to 18, 1 plus 8
equal to 8, 9 times 3 equal to 27, 2 plus
7 equal to 9, 9 times 4 equal to 36. 3
plus 6 equal to 9, and so on to any
amount ; and this is the only number
w'jich can be multiplied into itself.
Thi3 also marks an important year, and
I look forward to some grand physical
and martial events, to which at present
we are strangers. It is true the world
may be destroyed, for the time when
this will happen is known to no one.
Everybody is in doubt abcut it, so I
must leave it, and I candidly confess
that neither I nor any one else know
when it will be. Iiapliacl's Frcphetic
Messenger for 1881.
Fotatoes Preserved.
The great drawback in the past in the
way of an extended export trade of po
tatoes from this country has lain in the
fact that in ocean voj ages the vegetable
is susceptible to sweat and rot, and on
arrival the losses from this cause are
often found to counterbalance the profit
made on the intact part of the cargo.
This inconvenience seems to be over
come by the recent invention of a
machine for pressing and preserv
ing potatoes in such a manner
that they may be dried and
kept for a number of years in any cli
mate. It is said that no oxidation or
fermentation takes place in the process,
and that often tho potatoes after they
go through the entire process retain to a
great extent their nature 1 taste and
original freshness. We understand that
shipments of these potatoes made to
England recently, more particularly
those from Calif jrnia, have commanded
earnest attention, and that the demand
for them largely exceeds the present
supply. It is claimed that in the opera
tion of curing no chemicals are needed,
everything being done by a simpla
machine, which is capable of pre
serving six hundred bushels of
potatoes in twenty-four hours. The
machine not only presses the potatoes,
but lays them on a tray in a concave
form with the hollow side down. After
the pressure they are put into a drying
apparatus, where they remain for two
hours, then they are ground into coarse
meal resembling cracked rice. The first
shipment ol preserved potatoes to Liver
pool brought the handsome sum of $160
perton more than all expense of ship
ment. Last year about twenty tons
were shipped by one San Francisco
merchant which brought forty-five
English shillings per hundredweight, or
at a rate of 1.50 per bushel for green
potatoes. This surely would leave a
good margin for cost of preserving and
profits notion Commercial Bulletin.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
flow to raise the wind Use a pair of
bellows.
A novelty in needle work Setting up
the obelisk.
An expert skater possesses an ice ac
complishment. " Teeth inserted without payin'," re
marked the tramp, as he bit into a stolen
pie.
" Figures won't lie." Yes they will!
See how nicely they lie on each other
Grant's cigars are said to cost $22.50
per 100, Bob Ingersoll's cost $50 per
100.
Better to keep warm by a thirty dollar
stovo than freeze by a polished liv3
hundred dollar heater.
The boots and shoes for the army are
made at the Leavenworth (Kan.) military
prison, which turned out 25,225 pairs of
boots and 31,220 of shoes in the last
.fiscal year.
Miss Kellogg was called before the
curtain at the Imperial Opcra-House, in
St. Petersburg, one evening, twenty
times, and in order to empty the house
it was found necessary to turn out the
lights.
Two Italians were standing in front
of a thermometer which hung on the
street while the crowd was watching
the weather en it, and one of them said :
"Hot weather, go up macaroni stem;
cold weather, come down macaroni
stem."
Capitalists interested in the Shenan
doah valley have formed a company to
build a hotel and open up the Luray
(Va.) cave, whose ramifications are ex
pected to prove as wonderful and
attractive as those of the Mammoth
cave.
Virchow, an eminent German anato
mist, has written a treatise on the well
authenticated cases of human beings
with tails. He says, an infant, born at
Aldenburg, bad a tail whose movements
were under its control, though it was
usually doubled up like a pig's tail.
C. S. Read, the English commissioner
who inspected the farming in this
country, told an English farmers' club
recently that if farmers in England
would live as poorly as the Western
pioneer and do without the same com
forts, they could make as much money.
If there is anybody who has our sin
cerest sympathy it is the dear young
man who has on a white vest so stiflly
starched that he feels as if he was clap
boarded in front.
Esoofally Hiptala, a Bombay mer
chant prince, who arrived in New York
a short time ago, brought with him his
four native wives. These are in charge
of another woman and eunuch. In ad
dition were three servants of the male
sex, varying in height, size and age.
The prince says each servant has cer
tain things to do. " No servant does
two things, and when I get tired . and
weary I make them amuse me. They
are all good musicians. During our
trip across they had plenty of opportu
nity for practice, as in that time some of
our most solemn feasts took place. . To
the last of these we invited all of the
passengers, and they appeared highly
amused. Then I have also my conjurer,
my snake charmer and my women who
dance for me after dinner. When tho
Prince of Wales visited Bombay some
years ago I entertained him, and on that
occasion my wives showed him the
nautch dance." The prince says he is
here just to see the United States.
Changed Her Mind.
George Bovard is the name of a young
Mctl odist minister who attended tho
annual conference of the M. E. church
at Mercer a couple of years ago. While
there he and a young laly teacher of the
Soldiers Orphan school, located in
Mercer, fell in love with each other. Her
name was Clara Shaffer. He was about
to start for India to Christianize the
heathen. A correspondence was kept up
between the two, and he wanted her to
come to him, be married, ands ssist him
in his labors. He had no money to
pay her expenses, and she
had none. In this emergency
a few months ago she made a confidante
of Dick " Wright, a heavy clothing
merchant of Mercer, and lie being a big
hearted man with generous impulses,
offeied to supply her with what money
she needed to reach her far off lover.
She gladly accepted his offer, ahd at
once began her preparations f or the long
journey. " Dick " and Mis3 Shaffer were
thrown much together for a while, and
about the time she was ready to start he
was deeply in love with her himself.
But he said nothing, and she started for
New York with enough of "Dick's"
money in her pocket to take her to
India.
Two or three days after her departure
he grew despondent, and chided himself
for having given away his chance for
marrying Miss Shaffer himself. A
thought struck him, and that was to fol
low her, and, if possible, overtake her
before she boarded a stcamtr in New
York for distant India. He acted
promptly on the thought, took the cars,
reached New York, and found the ves
sel on which she was to sail. Miss
Shaffer was already on board; he made
known his affection, asied her for her
hand for himself, was accepted, and the
two returned to Mercer a few days ago
as man and wife.
The outcome is a little rough on the
young minister who is wrestling with
superstition and idolatry in the jungles
of .India. Pittsburg Pa.) Commercial.
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