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The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Fate OF Crest Explorers.

De Sofa and his men-the flower of
the Peninsula ohlvalrY--braved every.
thing, suffered; everything. in their
search for Ell Dorado. The hot springs
of Arkansas they thought the tabled
fountain of perpetual youth, They
penetrated Missouri from the South :;
twice crossed the Ozark Hills. and spent
the winter of 1541-r42 among them.
They found the region swarming with
fierce Indians. They fought the Paw
nees, who still do al thriving business
at scalping surveyors and throwing
trains of the track along the Union
Pacific Railway in Nebraska and the
Kaws, of whom miserable remnant
yet survive, to rnise ponies, and beg
tobacco and whisky, ,son, the fertile bot
toms of the y kafisas River. They
smelted ore, and were 'disgusted TO find
it lead instead Of silver, Vernon
county, Missouri, still contains ruins OF
old Notifications and furnaces, believed
to. mark the, winter camp of those gal
liant, ill-starred soldiers of fortune.
Their fate served as q warning. For
one hundred and forty years the great
| river was left undisturbed, unseen by
civilized man. Then Marquett the
missionary, with Jolie the explorer,
starting from Canada, Aoated down it's
silent current to the mouth OF the Ar
kansas. Like later travellers, they were
surprised to find the stream so clear
and blue above tho mouth of the Mis-
souri,, 30 muddy and turbid below.
Before reaching the Gulf, they turned
back from dread of the Spaniards. But
after them, also from the north. came
La Sale the fearless. He rode the
muddy current until he had planted the
lilies OF France at the mouth of the
Mississippi. Louis XIV. was at the
zenith of his glory! In the name of
the Great KING, the bold explorer took
possession of the entire country. baptis-
ing the river est. Louis" and its val
ley Louisiana. 49,,
Poor La Sallei He hoped for wealth,
fame and honor for his discoveries.
They brought hardship. heart tsickness
and death. For years he faced appalling
disaster with unshaken soul. At laat,
after long, frultless endeavors to find
again the banks of the Mississippi, q
bewlldered wanderer in north Texas,
he fell, assassinated by one of his own
soldiers. How great explorers, like
great orators, have suffered the most
cruel mockery OF destiny They form
the saddest pictures in ali history. Co.
lumbus, of the broad brow and majestic
frame, in all old age of poverty and
CHAINS; Ponoo De Leon, feeble and
gray-haired, shot to death by savages,
even while seeking the immortal foun-
tain La Sale, the dauntless and tire.
less, with his thin arms folded, and his
tattered cloak wra. - about him,
Graded in an unknown ave, among
the barren hills of Tril ity River Ra-
leigh, the early darling Of fortune, his
narrow, bald head under the shining
axe, his oalm lips murmuring. "This
is sharp medicine, but it cures the worst
disease ;" De Sofa, lowered at midnight
to the bottom of the Mississippi, with
no audible prayer for his hearG-broken
comrades, lest the lurking red mon
should learn that the bold leader was
Mt rest after all his wandering, in peace
after all his troubles
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
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Salmon IN the raOltto.

Salmon fishing in the Columbia river
begins about the Goth Of April and the
season lasts four months. Astoria is
the great centre Of the trade, as it is
most conveniently situated to combine
facilities for the catch and for trans
portation. Fishermen who furnish their
own boats are paid by the packers sixty
| cents for each salmon weighing not less
than eight pounds. The salmon are
taken as they ascend the river from the
| sea on the way to their spawning
grounds, which are hundreds Of miles
inland. In fact they make their way
far up the small tributaries Of Snake
river and the northern headwaters of
the Columbia branches until small
streams in the heart Of the western foot
hills Of the Rocky mountains are some
times fairly alive with them. There
are thirty-six canneries on the Columbia,
employing capital Of $2,O0O,OOO and
employing about 7 900 mon. The catch
last year was 535, 900 cases, worth So
| $4,000. Each year the means Of en-
snaring the fish grow more perfect, and
the barrier of nets and scoop-wheels has
become so close that it almost seems
strange that any should escape or find
their way through. There has been
considerable talk of limiting the destruc-
tiveness of the fisheries, or at least of
enforcing the law which prohibits fish
ing on Sunday, SO that one day in the
week the salmon may be free to pass un-
mOlested, and so insnre the preservation
Of enough to keep the waters stocked.
| At present there Is no limit placed to
the slaughter, but it is said the run
shows no apparent diminutiOn as COM
pared with earlier years. Should it fall
off, artificial hatcheries are tn be estab-
! lished.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Woro the Ancient Hebrews Lert-Handed9

Therets new problem for the Auglo-
Israelites. We're the ancient Hebre ws
left-handed people? DR.. Erlenmeyer
has just given an interesting and
learned lecture to prove that they were.
Most OF the Aryan peoples, as we know,
write from the left to the right of o
sheet of papor, and their books are so
printed as to be read in this direction,
Most of the Semitic people, on the
contrary, write from the right to the
left OF tho paper. Hitherto this very
emphatic difference has been simply
represented to he mere characteristic
OF habit, kept up by the reverence for
tradition which Is 30 deeply rooted in
| the Semitic m ind. 1t has never oc-
CURED to any one, 80 far as we know,
that the direction taken by the hand OF
q Semitic scribe in writing was due to q
physiological cause, namely, to the fact
that his left hand was his bett er hand,
and was much moro ready and '.dex.
ferrous" than the land which we Aryans
call the dexter. DR.. Erlenmeyer insists
that the writer's OF the Old Testament,
and probably the early TaImudists after
them, naturally wrote with their left
hands, and would have found it difficult,
1t not impossible, to write with the
other hand. Hence it was only natural
that manuscript should travel along q
line which started from the right and
ended on the left. DR.. El.enmeyer
says that this hypothesis is not mere
happy thought of his own, but that he
has found striking confirmation of the
theory in the Talmud. For instance
he cites passage which insists that
certain special prayers and inscriptions
ore always to be written with the right
hand, aud not with the left. The exc
cution of this exceptional prescription
was work Of time, patience and diff
Guilty. and it is implied that the process
of writing with the right hand was n
departure from the ordinary, easy and
natural way of writing. The learned
doctor also cites passages from the Re-
brew OF the Old Testament in which q
particular stress seems to him to be
laid upon the ''left-han dedness" of the
old Hebrews. Jacob and Job, he says,
preferred to give the pre.eminent bene-
diotion with tho left hand instead of
the right. Jacob, "knowlngly and de-
liberately," laid his left hand upon the
head of his eldest grandohild. We
commend the question to tho Anglo
Israelites. If they can prove that the
majority OF Englishmen are naturally
lefthanded they will be in possession Of
one more ''identity,'' In that case we
may expect them to write their letters
and print their magazines in future
after the proper Semitic manner.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Houses Where Washington stopped.

Years ago the attention of travellers
on the stage going from Hartford to
Middletown was usually attracted to a
quaint and picturesque old mansion Just
outside the Village of Rocky Hill. It
stood near the road, facing the west,
and was built Of brick, two stories and
attic, was a gambrel roof, dormer win
dOWs and circular light In each gable
above the two attic windows. The
solid foundation OF dressed stone, The
carved door and generous proportions
Of the structure, with it's three chimneys
and kitchen wing, bespoke it the abode
of some gentleman of eye olden time"
But the most charming feature of this
house was the profmsion of w0oiibil1e
(Virginia creeper) that draped the ex-
terror. How it clambered over gable
and window, entirely covering one end
of the house. Such reVel of greenery
was seldom seen on sober dwelling. It
embraced one Of the chimneys, embroid-
ering it with q mat of shining green,
more lovely than any decorative art
could have produced, then after reach
the top threw it's bright tendrils out on
the air, where they swung in the breezes.
In the early autumn the old vine was
gorgeous in its varying shades. 1t is
still there, but not rs flourishing now,
although still a picturesque and pleas
ing feature. The old brick house, ono
Of the few remaining mansions Of COL
onial times, was built by "John Rob-
bins, gentleman, A. D., 1767," as the
date over the front doorway will show.
Some years since 1t was stated thai a
house somewhere in Massachusetts was
the first ever built Of native bricks pre-
pared for that purpose. The Robbins
House, however, was built Of bricks
burned In Connecticut, and it Is claim
ed at an earlier date thar. the one above
mentioned. OF course this famed old
house standing on the main road to
Hartford, was one of the favored where
"Gen. Washington stopped !" on that
memorable journey through Connecti-
cut. 1t was at that time, It is believed,
opened and kept for few years 40 an
inn. The old sign is still preserved In
the family. Its device is an equestrian
representation of the Duke Of Cumber-
land. The wooden surface is pierced
with bullet holes, and is altogether q
very interesting relic Of colonial and
revolutionary days. The Robbins fam
lily now occupying the place are direct
descendants, Of Esquire John, who
builded 80 we'll one hundred and six
teen years ago. The first estate, how
ever, has diminished in the course Of
time. Only q few acres Of the large,
original tract of land now remain in the
possession of the family, the remainder
having been sold during the passing
years. The mansion is still solid and
well preserved and bids fair to remain
intact for another centlirv Tn the ward
still stands one Of the fast disappearing
appliances for drawing water, the old
fashioned well sweep.
You can hold an opinion more firmly
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
American Pork.

If the Western papers are not inaoou-
rate III their STATISTICS, although the
prohibition of American pork in Ger
many, on the ground of trichinous in
fection appears to be very destructive
measure as regards the export of that
commodity, it is1not in reality likely to
prove Injurious to any great extent to
the interests OF hog rnlsers and pork
packers in this country. AS published,
the decree compr, ses sides, bacon, hams,
sausages, and the flesh of The animal In
oil forms of preparation, but is under
stood not to include lard, although q
question may hereafter arise on that
point, and Western manufacturers should
not congratulate themselves too soon.
IT the exception, as respectt lard, should
prove correct, however, the now legfs-
lation will not seriously emha. rass tho
ordinary course of trade, for with the
exception Of that article, our direct ex-
port to Germany of the products of the
slaughter and packing house Is not very
important. While, for illustration, our
total shipment to foreign markets Of
bacon and hams last year amounted to
nearly 81, 1000, 900, and our shipment
of salt pork to about $1,000, ,OGO, Ger
many took the value of less than half a
million of dollars in the three articles
combined. In tho matter of live swine.
the German demand amounted to less
than tho paltry sum of five hundred
dollars-that is, practically nothing; but
in compensation for tho small trade in
live stock, moro than one-flfth of all the
lard exported from the United States
was consumed by the people from over
tho Rhine, whose call for tho article was
represented by $55, 100000. If, then,
this commodity has been excepted from
the prescription, our people can afford
to laugh at the decree in its present
form. es IT will only load to larger de-
mand for American pork in England, to
be repacked, relabeled, and sent to Cor
many as the genuine English product
trick of trade that already engages
considerable capital and industry in
English centros of export, and will re-.
ceive new impulse from the i'll consid
ered measures OF Bismarck and the
Bundesrath.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
The Scarlet Fover.

It is as unnecessary for O child to die
Of the scarlet fever as it is that It should
be blind with cataract. Let us see.
At any time before the body has fin
ished its Intellectual struggle we are able
to help 1t, not by wonderful medicines,
but by the knowledge of anatomy, and
the application of common sense. We
consult the sympathetic nerve, and do
| what it commands us to do. We must
give this child salt when 1t wants it !;
we must give it acid when it has fever
and anxiously Graves lt-not vinegar,
but lemon juice, because the first CO.
agulates albumen, and tho latter does
not, on account of the surplus OF oxy
gen which it contains. To initiate the
soothing mucus in the intestines, whioll
is now wanting, and to give some re-
| spiratory food at the same time, we add
| some gum arabic. To restore and re-
lleVe the injured nerve, we apply moist
warmth. In practice we can fulfil all
this with the following simple manipu
latlons Undrest the child and bring it
to bed ut the very first sign of sickness :.
Give it. if it has already fever, nothing
but sourish warm lemonade with some
gum arabic in it. Then cover its abdo.
mon with some dry flannel. Take q
well-folded bed sheet and put it in
boiling hot water; wiring it out dry by
means of dry towels, and put this over
tho flannel Oh the ohild's abdomen.
Then cover the whole, and wait. The
hot clothes WILL, perhaps, require re-
peated heat. According to the severity
of the case. and its stage of progress,
perspiration Will commence in the child
in from ten minutes to two hours. The
child Is then saved; 1t soon falls to
sleep. Soon after the child awakcs, it
shows slight symptoms Of returning in
olination for food; help its bowels, If
necessary, with injections Of oil, soap
and water, and its recovery will be as
steady as the growth Of greenhouse
plant, if we'll treated. OF course, if the
child was already dying, nothing could
save it, or if it has already effusions in
tie lining of the heart or brain, it is
| much bettar that it should die. But If
the above is applied in due time, under
the eyes and direction of a competent
physician, will guarantee that not one
in hundred children will ever die Of
scarlet fever. I know this will startle
some of my readers, especially those
who have lost children already, but 1
shall go still farther. I maintain that
a child will nevor get scarlet fever if
properly treated. Tia child has correctly
mixed blood, it will not catch the dis .
order If put IN bed with q sick child.
This is still more startling, but nothing
is easier OF proof.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Paris SllOpkecl>ers.

The French correspondent furnishes
the somewhat overdrawn skotoh relative
to the complaints of dull trade on the
part of Paris shopkeepers: Formerly
they comp!ai ed every fifteen ye rs.
Nowadays the smallest shopkeeper wants
to live like lord, to have horues, car
riages. country house. good table,
a good cellar. and all the rest of it,
and to make his fortune in five years.
Every shopkeeper has the pretentions
of nobleman, and gives himself the
airs of Riohelieu, and have just read
on very elegant paper an invitation in
which M. Three-asterisks begs Ma.
dame N. to do him the honor of visiting
his showrooms and inspecting his stuffa.
( am told that refreshments, bouquets
OF vlolets, and credit are offered to the
fair visitors. When we add up the ex-
penses of the show, and when we re-
member that the gentleman who invites
means to make big profits and save
enough to live on his income in four or
five years. 1t will be granted, I hope,
that 1t is being bore to excess to '1isten
for fifty years to tie monotonous burden
Of tho song that the trades-people are
complaining, and TO acqdiesce, thanks
to that d1tty, In France being ruined
and revolutions enacted over and over
again." i, .ies&f,f Il,
The fishermen beats the buyer by
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
HERE AND ELSEWHERE.

The Am. ,,SSS.ar sun Is sinking low;
Only the tres toOs redden and glow;
Only the weatherco6k'tl2,t he spire ..r;T..
OF the neighboring church Is 4 1Iane of
fire.
All is In shadow below.
0, beautiful, awful summer day,
What hast thou given, what taken away"
Life and death, love and hate,
Homes made happy or desolatc
Hearts made sad or gay!
In tho book of life one leaf turned 0'eri
Like red seal in the setting sun
On the good and the evil men have done
Naught can to-day restore.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Gas tor Starting Locomotive Eiros.

In Germany the practice of starting
locomotive fires with gas instead of
wood is being adopted on some of the
railways, ,aud is found to be economical
The apparatus used consists of hori-
zontal tube and several vertical tubes
with burners. Each vertical tuhe has O
nozzle. in which the gas mixes with air
drawn in laterlly, before issuing at the
copper burner. The lighting of the an.
thracite coal ON the crate is done in ten
to twenty minutes. according to the gas
pressure. In gap between the bars is
inserted from below an iron plate, the
length of the system Of burners, and 80
that 1t projects somewhat above the
CRATE surface. Then three or four shov-
elfuls Of dry coal pieces about the size
Of one's fist are placed about the plate,
and the rest of the crate surface is COW
or, d with thin layer OF coal. Then the
plate is drawn out, and the system of
burners put into its place; three hundred
quarts of gas lights the coal sufficiently.
In the course of thirty to forty FIVE min
utes, according as the locomotive was
previously warm or cold, the burning
coal Is pushed apart so that the fire may
extend as quickly rs possible over the
whole CRATE. The gas is conveyed to
the burner apparatus through rubber
tube from small gas holder, ana the
pressure can be easily varied at will. A
recent improvement in the apparatus
consists In doing away with the nozzle
of each burner, and producing the mix.
ture OF gas and air by means OF o single
nozzle in the connecting pipe.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22

The fishermen beats the buyer by
weighing the fish on it's own scales.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22

You can hold an opinion more firmly
than you can clutch a hornet.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-05-22
Danpness or Walls.


The dampness on the wallis of brick
and stone honses ie often due to the
cause which deposits moisture on 9
glass or pitcher filed with ice water and
brought INTO warm room. Tho walls
become cold aud remain so for long
time, and when the weather changes
suddenly from cold to warm, the air is
full of moisture and 10 deposited on the
walls by the chill when the air strikes
them. 1t is easily prevented, says q
mechanical journal. No plaster should
be put directly upon wood or stone. In
its place furring strips should be nailed
to the wall, and the laths should be put
on these. Cellars are often made very
damp in warm weather from the same
cause, because of too much ventilation.
The warm air pouripg in becomes
chilled and deposits its moisture till it
runs in streams to the surprise Of the
housekeeper. who wonders how 1t rs
that the more her cellar Is saired the
damper 1t becomes.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-08
" On The RinLiO.v

The "street has puzzled itself unavalingly
since the appearance OF the last Planters
Monthly over Mr.. T. III. Davies apparent at
titude of conversion to the blithe political
mormanism Of Mr. Gibson eve thought
Davies was an out and OUTER" said several.
Surely Gibson can't have bought him with one
OF those good, fat contracts" "One re-
members how Mr.. Davies rushed into print
over the Madras muddle and made Hon
olulu howl for few weeks at Gibson's es-
pense. What's up, wonder?" The reply of
one of Mr.. Davies friends according as it
does with Mr.. Davies public utterance-is
given IN justice TO that gentleman, who will
doubtless defend himself soon in print. Mr..
Davies friend says that Mr. Davies present
attitude is one of simple justice. Believing
MIR. Gibson--for once in his life-to be right
ESQ far as the Chinese question is concerned) he
does not choose to quarrel with him needessly
The friend further says that it is not true that
Mr.. Davies was promised government patron
age because clerk in his store negotiated a
loan of $4,000 for the benefit of the impe.
cunlous interior department.
Saturday press. [volume] (Honolulu, H.I.) 1880-1885, 1883-12-08
Merchant Vessels Nov in Port.


bosIoN' Am bk CEiLoH, ........ ......... Barstow
Due, an 1915. L. Brewer AZ Co., agents.
BkEAihN, fiaw. bk. MALE. Rothfoss
due Dec. 2o-25 II. Hackfeld & Co., agents
BknMES Ger. bk. SricA ....................to HOLMAN
Due March 2Slo Haekfed Co., agents
CARpirF, Haw. bk. IoLAEi Carols
Due Dec. III. iackfed q Co., agents.
CoNsrRADr, II. |. X. NJ ). RAsBoYNis :. ....--
Due-uncertain.
GLASGOW, Brit. bk. BIRAiAH. ............... Win
Loading. G.. w Maearane a Co., agents
JALulr, Haw sch kAlusA ...................L Lowell
Due now \. r. CookE, agent.
kAnULuI, Am. blk. y. s. IHoMpsoS. ....... Potter
Due now.
LIVERPOOL. Brit. ship ABRRysTwlrH CASTLE .Harres
Due Jan. Io-I5. L. II. Davies X Co.. agents,
Pogr GAABLe, Am. sch. DoKA BLuHM........--
Due Dec. ISso II. Haekield 4 Co., agents.
PoRr GAMBLE, AM bktne. kIIsAp ....... Robinson
Due Dec. io-is Hackfeld a Co, agents.
SAN FRANCISCO, oss. MAkirosA...........H Howard
Due Dec. g. ". q. IRWIN Co, agents.
UTsALADy, Am. bktne. kLIsrrAT.............Cu Cutler
Due Dec. a53o Haekield Co, agents.
SYDNEY Brit. SIS 'LEALASpIA. .Webber
Due, Dec, 49, Hackfeld x Co, Agents.
SAN FRANCISCO, Brit SIS. Chest
Due, Dec. ~. Hackf.d & Co.. Agents
SAN Francisco, Am. SIS ALAMiipA.... ...... Morse
Due, Dec. "a. W. q. Train a. Co.. agents
SAN FRAhcIsco, Am. bk EIsIsoRn. ........... Jenss
Loading Nov as Y. A. Sehaeter & Co., agents.
SAN FRAscisco, A. b. J. A. fALgisBuR nc. :. Goodman
Loading, Nov. a. Castle a Cooke, agents.
SAN fRASrlsco, Am bkine. DiscoyEKy. =. .prrriman
Loading Nov, s6 Hackfeld & Co, agents.
SAs FRANCISCO, Am sch. RosAsiO ............Smift
(for kahuluD Now due.