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A Fable-How the Coon Presided.

Once upon time there was general
assemblage of fowls and animals. called
together to discuss the question of re-
form. The Tiger shed tcsrs over tho
wickedness Of the Rabbits, the Hyena
Wept at the rapacity Of the Vultures and
the wild Cat pressed his paws to his ach.
Ing heart and sighed over the villanies
perpetrated by the Rats and Mice. A
venerable old Coon was made chairman
of the meeting, and after clearing his
voice he began:
my friends. there is great need of re-.
form. We are drifting down to perdi.
tion at race horse speed. Speak, broth.
ers, speak, and let us have full and
frank expression"
II am for REFORM" said the Tiger ss
he rose up. ~ see the Coons out every
night, stealing corn ond raising old Ned
generally. end hope they may be
brought to see the error of their ways"
"Keform 1e my watch.word," began
the Buffalo as he secured the floor, and 1
hope the Tigers will commence the good
work in their midst. The Tiger who
just addressed you has the blood of nv
slain calf still on his lips"
1T is my opinion" began n veteran
old Hyena, "that reform is most needed
among the Vultures. They have become
20 bold that hardly stand show nova.
days to find carcass for myself"
"And since men have taken to carrying
guns and swords l hesitate to attack
them," said q Wolf "I move you, Mr..
Chairman, that it is tho sense of this
meeting that men no longer go armed"
Hear what have to say" pleaded
the Wild Cat. ri move that the Pan
ther oe censured for eating fesh."
And my friend the Cow should bo
Elephant"
"1n order to get tho sense of the meet
ing move that we no longer eat flesh"
observed Deer.
II move to amend by substituting
the ,Tord grass" promptly responded q
Amendments and resolutions vere
coming in like the Pacific Express, when
the old Coon in the chair called for order
and said.
"My friends, let US begin our reform
by routing out the Serpents."
mol no" no protested a Fox" I
lease my cave to q family ofSerpents at
excellent cash figures: Let's drive the
Worms out of the country"
"But we feed on Worms,r chirped a
hundred Birds. "Drive them out and
we'd starvep
Thus they continued, each one anxious
to preserve whatever was good for him.
SELF and sacrifices whatever was good
for his neighbor, until the Coon cut the
discussion short by saying:
Order Order Now then any bird or
fowl Who is ggi''in9 &c begin this reform
campaign by sacrificing personal gains
please stand up"
Everything continued to SIT
We'll, then, any one willing to begin
the reform at home and under his own
hat please stand up.
No one stood up.
II think we have bitten off more than
we can chew" said the Coon as he laid
down his gavel. 'This is O very wicked
world, and there is great need of reform,
but when Tigers set out to reform Hye.
mas and Wild Cats find fault with the
doings of Wolves it's time to dismiss the
meeting.
MORAL.
Charity may begin next door, but re.
form ehould commence at home.
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A Soldiers Dream.

Just before the battle of Cedar Creek q
camp sentinel who was off duty tempora.
rily and trying to put in little sleep,
dreamed that he was out on q scout.
4 mile to the right Of tho camp he
came upon :. log barn, and as it
began to raiI just then, he sought
shelter, or was about to, when he
heard voices and discovered that the
place was already occupied. After lit
tie investigation he discovered scouts ma d
taken up their quarters for the night in
the place, and he therefore moved away.
The sentinel awoke with sIch vivid re.
membrance of the details that he asked
permission to go over and confer with one
of the scouts. When tho log barn was
described to this man he located it at
once, having passed it o dozen times.
The dreamer described the highway ex-
actly as it was, giving every hill and turn
and the scout put such faith in the re-
ma:nder of the dream that he took four
soldiers, one Of whom was the dreaTer
and set out for the place. Three Con.
federate scouts were asleep in the straw
and were taken without shot being
fired.
Three days before the affair at Reeley's
Ford @ corporal in the Sixth 1Michi.'
gan Cavalry dreamed that a brother Of
his, who was sergeant in another COM
pany, would have his horse killed in
action, and wonld almost Immediately
noun. dark bay horse with white
nose. Within five minutes both horse
and rider would be killed By q shell.
This dream vas related to more than q
score of comrades full two days
before the fight. Early in the fight
the sergeant'B horse was struck
square in the forehead by bullet and
dropped dead in his tracks. 1t was
scarcely three minutes before white.
nosed horse, carrying blood stained
saddle galloped up to the sergeant and
halted. He remembered the dream and
refused to mount the animal, and soon
after picked up black horse. The
white nosed anima! was mounted by a
second corporal in another regiment and
the horse and rider were torn 10 Fragments
by shell, in full sight of four companie.
the Sixth.-Mev York Commercial Ad-
vertiser.
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Tie Tie Spiders Spiders AppaTatu5.

Few things sre moro wonderful than
the spinning apparatus Of theBpider. On
the under side Of the creature'a body are
placed four or six little knobs, each moi
larger than the point of o pin. These
are outlets of certain receptacles within
the abdomen, where the silk is prepared
When the spider wishes 10 5pin thread
it presses the knobs or spfnerets, with
one OF its legs, and forthwith there issuea
from each. not one, but thousand
fibers, of such exquisite fineness that il
10 only when ell the products o.
all the spinerets are united the,
they become Visible to the naked
eye. The thread" of the spider il
thus o tiny rope Of four or six thousand
strands. The twisting of the fibers intc
one cord is performed by the hindmosI
pair of legs, which, like the rest, arefur
nished with three claws apiece. Usina
these claws as fingers, the little ropemakei
twists her groups of thread into one with
surprising rapidity.
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CHARACTERISTICS Is a little
incident connected with MahOnes career
during the late war which is worth re-
lating. On one occasion Malone had O
fight with General Wilson's division near
Petersburg, and Wilson captured a
whole regiment of Mahone's men. Fits
Hugh Lee subsequently gave Wi!eon g
sound drubbing, and recaptured Ma
homes lost regiment and twelve or four.
teen Of Wilson'o cannon. Malone had
the pieces hauled to his quarters, and
sent dispatch to the Richmond papers
announcing that he had whipped Wilson
and captured his artillery. In the mean.
time he had the guns placed in conspic-
nous positions around his headquarters
as trophies of war. Fitz Hugh Lee,
hearing of this scurvy trick, went to Ma.
homes camp at o'clock in the morniaa
and demanded the guns. Malone i'm
pudently refus ed to give them up. Fitz
Hugh Lee went back to his camp and or
dered his men to prepare to take the
difficulty, interfsred, and Malone deliv-
cred the guns to him, refusing to hand
them over to Fitz Hugh Lee, who had
taken them from the enemy and saved
Mahone's captured regiment. In his
magnanimity Fit2 Hugh Lee did not
report to General Lee that Malone had
lost his regiment, but the little brigadier
gave him no thanks, and meanly stuck to
it that he had gained victory and cap
tured the guns. The incident is sug.
gestive of the character OF the man.
Courier Journal
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Whisky Drinking In Dry Climate.

The effect of alcohol on the Indians of
the high, dry plains, even when taken in
small quantities, is to almost instantly
drlve them crazy. Tho craze is evinced by
oioodthirsty savageness and utter reck-
iessness. The frequent assaults that
nave been made by mounted Indians
armed with bows an arrows, on Westarn
trading posts defended by American
rifemen, sharply indicate tue effect of
alcohol in men of highly nervous temper.
ament,, natives of dry country where
the light atmosphere is highly charged
with electricity.
30 it is with white men. The murder.
Gus acts OF the Cow boys" when under
tho Influence of liquor, arc we'll known.
When sober, more hospitable and kind.
er.hearted class does not exist. When
drunk, they exhibit all the characters.
tics OF the Indians. They arc transform.
ed into bowling, bloodthirsty fiends.
Ihey ehoot and stab each other, as we'll
as unoftending strangers. with the saw
ageness of Cheyennes or Sioux. Most of
these men are residents of Western Tex
as.
Almost oil of them have lived ON the
plains for term of years. The country
they inhabit is arid end of an altitude OF
from 1900 to 5000 feet above the sea.
throughout the pastoral region the
atmosphere is surcharged with electrici.
ty that expends its force in terrific thun.
der storms, in tornadoes and in tho
dreaded div w:terspouts. Throughout
the pastoral region the fact that a man
who has become acclimated can not
safely stimulate himself with alcohol 10
well known, and has long been admitted
by all thinking men.
In Kansas, above all other Western
States, has the attempt to settle the Arid
Belt with agriculturists been made. Liy-
ing in this belt arc thousands of voters.
and it was the ballots of these men that
accomplished the adoption of the consti.
tutional amendment prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of Alcoholic liquors
in the State. Unconsciously they, by
their ballots, recognized the conditions
OF the climate in which thoy live. Tho
adoption was measure of self.defcnse
Democrats and Republicans, irrespective
OF party, voted for the measure.--Ne,o
York Sun.
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PUSHING THE PLOUGH.
The Agricultural Progress of tho State
Figures from the Census Bureau Show
ing the Greatly Inoreased Production of
South Carolina.

The tables given below are the first OF
the kind made up by the United States
censas Bureau, from the returns Of las;
year, for any State, and were furnished
In advance by special request to our in
deiatigable Commissioner Of a yriculture,
Col. A. P. Butler.
Of acres cultivated in cotton, corn and
small grain is 3,090,972, which is 8O.442
acres more than all the Improved landI'
in The State in 1875. Tie product OF
cotton is 5i6,490 bales, against 224, 500 in
1870, q gain of about $50 per cent. In
corn the increase is from 7,6l4,2 ,2O7 BUSH
els in 1870 to 11,763,72> bushels in 1880,
or moro than 80 per cent. In oats the
tables shows 2,71S.A bushels against
6I3,593 bushels in 1910, or, in other
words, the oat produ.. of the State has
multiplied more than fourfold in ten
years. In wheat the increase is from
783.6l0 bushels in 1870 to 962, ,43I bush
els in 1880, or nearly 20 per cent.
The United States Agricultural Report,
for 1879, shows that the Average Weld of
cotton per acre for all the cotton States
in that year was 18S pounds. The small.
est yield in any county Of this State for
1880 ia in Beaufort, where It is reported
at 1862, and that, it must be remembered,
is long staple cotton. The average yield
OF corn per acre in the United States in
1879 was 20 bushels the average yield
In this State for 1880 is lnly 8 bushels
per acre, which shows how much room
there 10 for improvement in our methods
or cultiyh"vn. The average yield oi
wheat for 1879 was 1873 bushels; the
average yield in this State for 1880 ia
given at 5.6 bushels. The average oil
oats is given Mt Is bushels as against 2S.7
bushels average per acre in the United
The greatest aggregate yield of cotton,
"a, ,907 bales, is IN E5gefcld County: O,
corn, in York 2o,sO5 bushels; of oats,
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Effect OF n Bad Example,

my early practice" said doctor "was
successful, and soon obtained an envi-
able position. 1 married lovely girl ;
two children were born TO ue, and my
,omestic happiness was complete. But
1 was invited often to social parties
where wine was freely circulated, and i
soon became q slave to its power. Before
was aware Of it l was O drunkard. NV
noble wife never taunted mewith bitter
word. never ceased TO pray ioI my refor.
nation. We were wretchedly poor. 80
that my family became pinched for daily
bread. One beautiful Sabbath my wife
went to church and left me on the lounge
sleeping off my previous nights debauch.
| was aroused by hearing something
heavy fall on the floor. I opened my
eyes and saw my little boy ak years old
tumbling on the carpet. His older
brother said to him, Now get up and
fsll again. That's the way papa does.
Let's play we are drunk I watched the
child as lie personated my beastly move.
ments in q way that would have done
credit to any actor. arose and left the
house, groaning il agony and remorse. /
walked off miles in tile country-think;ng
over my abominable sin, and the exam.
pie WAS setting before my children. I
aolemnly resolved that with Gods help !
would quit the cup, and l did. No lee
ture ever heard from Mr. Cough moy-
ed my aoui like the spectacle Of nv own
sweet boys playing drunk rs papa does"
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The Lion and the Jackals-A Fable

One day troop Of Jackals were aston
ished beyond measure at the appearance
of a Lion in their midst, and their sur.
prise could not be imagined when his
countenance assumed pleasant expires
sion, and he remarked:
Friends, have come to settle among
You and be q neighbor. 1 want to bo
friendly with each and every one and
think we'll of all, and trust we shall
dwell together in harmony"
"Hooray for the Lion Hurrah for
the old man-killer !" cheered the Jack
ais, and they were tickled to death at
their good luck.
But the Lion had hardly got his den
in order when one of the Jackals came
sneaking in and began:
T-I-that is-delicate subject, YOU
know-embarrassed, you see-ah-
hum"
"My friend, if you have anything to
say to me, be at your ease," replied the
Lion.
"Well, simply want to drop you a
hint. Don't be LOO sweet on John Jack.
al. His great grandfather was banished
for cause, and his wife's second cousin is
wall-eyed villain"
The Lion received the information
without remarks, and the caller went
away, chuckling over The idea that he
had sowed good seed. Next day q sec.
ond Jackal appeared, beat around the
bush for o while, and then observed:
II feel it my duty to warn you against
Joe. Jackal, Who l;ycs over the creek.
He beats his wife, cheats his aeishbors.
and is double back-action hypocrite by
the watch"
Soon another appeared with similar
story about some one else in the commu-
nifty, and in the course of o fortnight :he
Lion felt it his duty to call public
meeting. When the Jackals had gather
ed around him he said:
II find by your own statements, thatyou
are a community Of thieves, liars, dead.
beats and swindlers, and henceforth you
can fight your own battlea and hunt your
own bones. Sneaks, sku'.s and vaga.
bonds, farewellp
hiokAL.-He vino tries 10 climb up bv
pulling his neighbor down makes pootr
headway.-Detr0H Free Press.
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A Host Of Contestants.

Testimony in the following contested
elections for Representatives has been
| filed pursuant to law with the clerk ofthe
House Of Representatives Horatio Bis.
bee, Republican, VS.. Jesse ]. Finley,
Democrat, second district of Florida
William III. Lowe, Greenback Democrat
| vs. Joseph Wheeler, eighth district OF
Alabama Robert Smalls, Republican,
| vs. George ID. Tillman, Democrat. fifth
district of South Carolina; John T. Sto.
| veil, Democrat, va. George G. Cabell.
Democrat, fifth district of Virginia :
Samuel Lee, Republican. vs. John 8.
Richardson, Democrat, First district OF
South Carolina; George NJ. Buchanan,
Republican, va. Van H Manning, Demo.
Cat, Second district of Mississippi John
r. Lynch, Republican. vs. james Il.
Chalmers, Democrat, Sixth district of
Mississippi; j. @. Cook vs. Madison E.
Cults, Sixth district of Iowa; Alex.
Smith, Republican, VS.. f. w. Robertson.
Democrat, Sixth district of Louisiana ;
James G. Smith, Republican, vs. James
III. Shelley, Democrat, Fourth district of
Alabama, and Samuel J. Anderson,
Democrat, vs.. Thomas B. Reel, Repub.
can, First District Of Maine.
In addition to the above it Is under.
stood that he seats of the following DEM
ocratic Representatives in the Forty.
seventh Congress will be contested: M.
=. O'Connor, Second District d. Wyatt
Aiken, Third District, and John H. Evans
Fourth District of South Carolina.
Thomas II. Herndon. First District,
Hileary A. Herbert, Second District, and
William G. Oates, Third District of Ala.
bama. Henry l.. Muldrow, First Dis
trict; Otho II. Singleton, Fourth Dis
trict, and Charles L. Hooker, fifth Dis.
trict. of Mississippi. The seat of Gen.
Hooker is claimed by Mr.. Deason, and
that of Mr. Muldrow by Mr. j. L. Morphis
who, because of his duties as United
States marshal, will claim additional
time for taking testimony in this case, j.
ana, and r. G. Frost, Third District of
Missouri.
Mr.. John Lynch, the colored contcs.
tant, says that he will be able to estab.
lish his own title to the seat now
claimed by General Chalmers.
MIR. Van H. Manning, of the Second
Mississippi district, says that admitting
as true all the evidence submitted by his
opponent, Mr.. Buchanan, the latter still
lacks over four thousand votes necessary
to e4ualize his undisputed majority.
1t is believed that the above list en-
brace all the seats likely to be contested
during she Forty.seventh Congress. It
will thus bo seen that the House commit
tee on elections in the Forty seventh
Congress will be not only an important
but an overworked committee, the Re-
publican members of which will be glad
to serve their party in carrying out the
programaie, already announced in these
dispatches, of ordering new elections in
contests where there is any evidence of
fraud on the part of the Democrats.
The minority Democrats will be
equally jealous in defending the fame
OF their brethren whose seats are to be
80 warmly contested, and the work of the
committee on the whole will make po-
litical ccmpaign of no mean Importance.
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HARD TO DIGEsT.-A most remarka.
blestory comes from Middletown, Orange
county. A maiden lady of that place on
the 9Th of January, 1869, swallowed q
new set of false teeth, which became
separated from the rubber mould in which
they had been set while masticating her
food. Before she could eject the food
from her mouth sha test:iti Had gone down
into her stomach. The family physician
was summoned, but all efforts were un.
availing. The teeth caused her no dis
comfort and in short time the matter
was entirely forgotten. A few days ago
Miss Cole felt sharp pain near her left
shoulder, and upon examining the apot
found what appeard like wen under the
skin. With the aid of O pen knife she
extracted hard substance, which proved
to be tooth. She was at q loss to
know how the tooth came TO be in such
an unusual spot till she suddenly recol.
lected that she had, twelve years ago,
swallowed her set of teeth. During
ths pact four days the lady has
been cutting teeth all over he
body, and had, at last accounts, recover
ed twelve of the fourteen teeth that
had formerly constituted her full set.
She is anxiously awaiting the arrival
Of the other two. She has placed the
teeth in glass case and will keep them
as mementoes.
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= a wedding party got 30 drunk at
Waupaca, Wis, that the object of the
gathering was forgotten by ali, including
the bride, bridegroom and minia..r, and
the marriage did rot take place until
next day.
- Some remarkable revelations con-
corning the aduiteration of food are made
in the annual report, just published, of
the inspector of vinegar for the City of
Boston. The total amount of the liquor
sold and used in Boston each year under
the name of vinegar is estimated at about
5000, 900 gallons. Ofthia, the inspector
declares, less than nne.tenth is pure apple
juice, the first being villanous decoc.
ton of molasses, glucose, acid sour ale,
lager beer distillery slops, &C., made for
about half the lowest possible cost of pure
cider vinegar. Nor is this all, nor even
the worst view of the case. Such sub.
stances as oil of vitriol and other mineral
acids are Rrough. into requisition. One
cents worth Of sulphuric acid is sufficient
for the manufacture of fourgallons of vine
gar, and when disguised BY other ingre-
dients its presence cannot be detected
by % alone. Much Of this wretched
stu, At is believed, has been sold in the
Boston market as "Pure Apple Vinegar" !"
Fifteen hundred barrels Of it in n single
cargo were seized by the officers, and
captured In warehouse and ahipped
oack to the former owners. Tho extent
to which this Illegal and inhuman bust.
neas ia carried on is shown by the fact
that the wholesale price of vinegar in
Boston averages 0 cents per gallon,
much ofit being sold as low as 6 cents
While the genuine article cannot be man.
uhctured for less than about 12} cents
per gallon, 1t is only natural that the
inspector, in concluding his report, should
attri6ate the high death.fate Of the city
largely to the consumption of these de-
leteriOua cnmnnlinds
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A. II. Stewards Body.
NEW YnpK

NEW YORK, April Is.
Many persons in Garden CITY and
Hampstead believe that the body of A.
Z. Stewart now lies in the crypt of the
Stewart memorial cathedral at Garden
City. 1t Is said that about two weeks
ago two large slabs of blue stone we're
brought up On freight train. They
were 30 heavy that special appliances
had to be brought into requisition to take
them from the car and carry them to the
cathedral. In each corner Of these slabs
there we're eye-holes for the insertion OF
heavy bolts. It is supposed that one = :
the slabs was designed to lie beneath the
coffin, and the other on top of it, and
that they were to be bolted together.
Next, the story has it that about twelve
days ago special train arrived ut Gar.
den. City at midnight, consisting of an
engine, baggage.car and passenger
car. That Mr. Hilton, Mrs. Stewart and
about half dozen Others got off the train
aud went directly to the cathedral, while
from The baggage car was taken coffin
which was also taken to the cathedral.
The party was there long time; the
cathedral being lighted and the doors
locked. 1t is further said that the body
was put in the crypt in the basement of
the cathedral beneath the chancel, and
that masoEs then laid tho stones, bolted
them, poured lad around the bolts in
the. eyeholes, and sealed the masonry
with cement. 1t is further said that cleo
tricians skillfully led wires from various
parts Of the masonry and of the crypt
up to the chime of bells in the steeple in
such manner that if any person should
attempt an entrance every bell in the
steeple would ring. 1t is further related
that the. cathedral has been lighted up
frequently since tLAt time. and much
work has been goioe Oh in it. Formerly
there was watchman in the daytime,
but now 1t is said there are two at night.
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= Some idea of how much the Amer.
lean people are willing to pay for amuse-
ments may be gathered from the fact that
there have beon taken in at the perform.
ance, already given by Sarah Bernhard,
betw eer, $3.50, 600 and $4,000. This il
an e,rrmoqs sum to be expended upon
one entertainment alone, and when the
other successful organizations are taken
into consideration, and the money they
have received, it can readily be seen now
strongly the. theator.going passion is de.
veloped in onr people. Mile. Bernhardl
viii take back with her, as her share oi
the seasons work, somewhere in the
neighborhood Of $4,000 No wonder
tho foreign singers and actors regard
America az gold mine, the working OF
which brings prCit aud pleasure.