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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1883-06-21
4 Breeze In Church.

In a certain village in Maryland q
small boy kicked up a breeze in the
parish church on a recent Sunday. 1t
seems that certain good woman
bought calf's head and put it on to
boil, leaving her little boy to mind it
while she went to the church close by.
The minister had reached his filthy
nv brethren, when a small boy stuck
his head in the door and whispered:
"AIammap'
The good woman recognized her son
instantly, and began to make signs for
him to leave the door.
Mamma" again came the whisper
this time little louder than before.
The mother shook her finger at the
boy warningly, and INDUCED in other
familiar pantomime with which she
was accustomed to awe her son. But
it didn't work worth cent. The boy
was excited and in dead earnest, as the
denouement will show. Raising his
voice, he shouted:
Mamma, you needn't wink and,
blink at me, but had better come home
right away, for the calf's head is but
tin all the dumplins out Of the potv'
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An Uns0phisticated Way.

Any Esquimaux asked to toundertake a
Journey or perform a labor he does
not like does not declare that he is not
at home, but he has a precisely similar
formality adapted to his own circum-
stances. lie does not like to tell the
stranger proposing to him that he does
not wish to go, or that the pay is not
sufficient, or, in short, that he will not
go; but he says, II have no boots"
This is not to be accepted as hint that
a pair of boots would be an acceptable
present; it Is merely a polite REFUSAL
and in strict politeness must I've ac-
cepted as unhesitatingly as our own
Not at home"
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A Honest Man.

A gentleman stopped his horse at a
tollgate, and not seeing the gate-keeper,
went into the house. Finding no one,
he began general search and finally
discovered the gate-keeper out in the
field at work. Although the old man
was quite distance away, the gentle
man went into the field, approached
the old man and said:
"You are the tollgate keeper, I be-
feve."
Eyes, sir" the old man replied, turn
ing and leaning on his hoe handle.
"Well, I want to go through the
gate"
"Ain't the gate open?"
eyes"
"Well, why don't you 60 through9 ?
It's my business to be there"
because wanted to pay YOU"
"And you came all the way out here
to pay me five cents?"
"Yes, sir" said the gentleman, proud
ly looking the old man in the eye.
Couldn't you have left the money
on the table?"
eyes, but I wanted you to know
that paid you"
You are an honest man."
"Yes, sir" replied the gentleman.
while pleased expression spread over
his face.
"You would have walked three times
rs far to have paid me that five cents,
wouldn't you"
Eyes, sir, would"
"Here, John," the old man called to
boy that. lay in the shade, "call the
dog and 60 along and watch this feller
till he gets away. Bet hundred dol
lars he steals something fore he leaves
the place." "-ArkanSaS Traceller.
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Just Like 'Em.

Two ladies who were bound some
where in company yesterday entered
Woodward avenue car together, and
no sooner were they seated than both
made dive for their purses.
."Oh, let me pay" pleaded one.
"Oh, ! couldn't think of it!'
"Oh, do, now; 1 have just the
change"
"Oh, but 1 have tickets"
eyes, but you paid the last time"
"But you can pay some other time.
Here
She was hurriedly searching through
her porte-monnaie, but didn't seem to
find anything.
II told you had"
And the second one began a search
in wild manner, emptying out pins,
needles and buttons, but no money.
"Whyl I do declareT' gasped the
first.
"Strangest thing I ever saw!" added
the second.
"Tll pay for bouh," observed a man
on the seat opposite, and he marched
up, fumbled through his pockets and
held out battered quarter to the dri-
yer. The latter would not take it, and
the man marched out and slid off the
platform in the most solemn manner,
and at the next crossing the ladies said
they had taken the wrong car, rang the
bell and got off.-A. quad.
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A Jealous Songster.

A singular incident in natural his
tory occurred lately at Chester, Eng
land. A thrush in a happy state OF
freedom was thrilling its notes in the
orchard beneath the walls, near the
wishing steps, when its music
excited similar efforts from a Gagged
bird of the same species, which was
suspended in front of the adjacent
houses. These feathered songsters
persevered in raising their melodies to
higher and higher efforts, as if in earn
est rivalry, when suddenly the bird
among the trees darted from its perch
upon the wicker cage of its compel
itor, broke the bars, entered it, and
commenced an assault upon the
musical captive, the owner OF which,
hearing the unusual noise, came out,
took the aggressor prisoner, and sold
it into bondage.
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SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

M. Fourmant has concluded series
Of exact experiments upon trichina in
neat. He finds that to pack the dis
eased flesh in SAT- for fifteen months
does not kill the parasites mice fed
upon the meat died of trichiIosis.
Remains of a mastodon and a num-
ber of curious bones belonging to vari-
Gus other animals lave been found
near salt mins It. New Iberia, La.
Among them we're some fossil teeth of
horses, and they have been presented
to the Yale COLD age museum.
The post-mord dem examination of a
mulatto who .dieh recently in Cincin-
natl revealed a brain weighing sixty
one ounces. Thkre are on record but
two brains heavier than this-that of
Cuvier, weighinE 64.33 ounces, and
Abercrombie's, 9hich weighed sixty
'iiiee oun'e'.
DR. Reklam considers that headaches
and other consequences of sleeping in
rooms containing flowers do not arise
from any spedal properties of the
flowers themselves, but are due to a
straining of the nsrves of smell in the
presence of perfu6e for an unwonted
length of time. me effect zna1aT
gous to that prod3 3ced upon the eyes
by an unusual exposure to light, or on
the ears by long-continued sounds.
An enormous quantity Of water pass
es through the roots of plants. An
English experimenter has ascertained
that for every pound of mineral matter
assimilated by plant, an average of
1000 pounds of water is absorbed.
At the French agricultural Observable
ry of Montsouris it was found that in
rich soil, 727 pounds of water passed
through the roots of wheat plants for
every pound of grain produced; while
in very poor soil, 2693 pounds passed
through the wheat roots for each
pound Of grain"
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At Sea in q Basket.

1t was upon September 20, 1854, the
Arctic, belonging to the now ex tinct
Collins line, sailed from Liverpool to
New York with moro than 200 pas
sengers on board. The voyage was
safely accomplished until the Arctic
got within sixty-five miles of Cape
Race, when she was run into by the
Vesta, a small iron steamer owned and
manned by Frenchmen, and of about
100 tons burden. Within four hours
of the collision the big vessel disap-
peared beneath the waves, and the lit
tie vessel was speeding on her way to-
ward the French coast, where, uncon-
scious of the mischief she had done
she arrived in safety about fortnight
later. About forty. of the Arctic's
lArew and Fa.sseefrs7::: a.seefra were sa aveu m
boat, and few more were picked up
from rafts and bits of the vessel, among
the latter being Captain Luce and
Mr.. Smith, then resident of the state
of Mississippi, but subsequently a
wealthy Glasgow merchant. Mr.. Smith
was saved upon a raft of planks,
lashed together by himself, on the top
of which he tied the basket lined with
tin, into which unwashed plates were
put during the saloon dinner. Upon
the edge of this basket, with his feet
at the bottom, Mr.. Smith sat for two
nights and nearly three days, bailing it
as it filled from time to time. 1t will
be heard with little surprise that for
many years Mr.. Smith preserved this
much-valued historical basket as a
trophy in his drawing-room at Glasgow,
and showed it to his friends as the
vehicle in which he had floated upon
the waves for fifty or sixty hours. The
basket was concealed in the center of
an ottoman made purposely to hold it,
and was only revealed when Mr.. Smith
was surrounded by a few congenial
friends.
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tryin' to come on us. Cousin Jones i:
here Already"
"Asleep in the best chamber, where
I'm goin' to light a fire at sever
o'clock" added Abigail.
"What," roared Abraham.
"Girls!' shrilly exclaimed Mrs. Ack
ley, "it's dreadful mistake as we've
all of us madel This old woman ain't
our Cousin Jones at all. It's the town
puor as Abe has took to board!-old
Cappen Jones' widow, from Frog
Lane"
And she struck an attitude in front
of the stove like Medea before the sac
rificial flames.
"And we gave her cold fowl and
raspberry-jam," cried Maria, "and the
whole of the meat pie"
"And my choicest linen sheets, and
a fire in the best chamber!' groaned
Mrs. Ackley. "Nly goodness me! how
could we be such fools?"
"Go and wake her up at once" said
Maria to Abigail. "Tell her Abe Ack-
ley is here, to take her where she right
ly belongs; and ask her how she dared
to impose upon decent people like u.s."
1T amt her fault" sighed Mrs. Aclk-
ley, "It's ours. Goodness, what
idiots we've been"
,"Well, you haven't asked me to
breakfast" said Abraham, junior,
waggishly; "but I guess I'll stop for a
bite and a sup, and take the old lady
up to our home arterward. 'Tain't a
good plan to travel on an empty
stomach such weather as thisp'
And the bewildered Mrs. Jones was
whisked away on the boX-sled before
she knew the rights and wrongs Of the
case, leaving the Ackley family discon'
solate.
Il never was so mistook in my life
before" said Mrs. Ackley.
But Abe, junior, regarded the matter
as stupendous Joke.
"Old Mrs. Jones got a frst-class
meal and nights lodgin' free gratis
out of mother" said he; "and 1 don't
remember when anybody else has done
rs much"
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A Home Thrust.

"Pa, wish you would buy me a lit
tie pony" said Johnny.
II haven't got any money to buy
you a pony, my son. You should 60
to school regularly, my son, study hard,
and become a smart man, and some of
these days. when you grow up, you
will have money of your own to buy
ponies with"
Then, suppose, pa, you didn't
study much when you were little boy
ike me, or else you would have money
now to buy ponies with, wouldn't You.
pa?'--SDtingS.
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The Hurried BOatman.

"Come on, sir, on'y jest in time.
What blessin' you wasn't a mint
later Jest orr--jump in I! said the
breathless boat owner.
"Just let me get out and have my
hair cut" said the deluded passenger,
some time after.
"Wouldn't never git back in timep
replied the breathless boatman.
"We're jest orr, as soon as we're full
'ul,."
starving, sir?" said the boatman.
"Never mind, don't you git out to git
nothin'-we'll be full in an instant
'ere's the other customers a-comin'." "
But at length (after q month or SOY,
the passengers heart began to fail him
he sank down the last visitor at
the seaside resort was going to catch
the train. "Never mind" said the
boatman "you set still. They'll be
back again next year, and then we'll
start"
But one day, as the boatman gazed
upon his now aged victim, compassion
overcame him, and he said, 81 will
break the most sacred rule of the boat
man; will start afore we're full up. u
And he tried to shove off, but both the
boat and it's passengers were too old
now. They broke up.-London Fun
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Scotch PIoNmen,s Vests.

1t has long been.the custom of agri-
cultural laborers in Scotland to distin-
guish themselves by the grandeur OF
their Sabbath kirk suits. Sunday
claes." The vest Or waistcoat was es-
pecially the center of their pride or
vanity. 1t had a combination of all
the prismatic coors of the rainbow,
the more brilliant prevailing, forming
a complete aurora borealis. About
forty years ago, ina border parish on
the south of Scotland, the. principal
heritor and patrok according to the
law and custom, Wis allotted the chief
seat in the gallery opposite the minis
ter's pulpit. He, however, was non
resident and an Episcopalian. He
therefore dedicated his seat to the un-
married plowmen Df the parish, who
for many years aWled themselves of
the nsiS;.ssi, q tnIIIi tiliS number
fully packed thet saa.----soAas a
member left the parish, he, of course
ceased his seat-possession, and so soon
as he entered the holy bonds of matri-
mony he had to provide accommoda-
ton for himself and his wife elsewhere,
as the pew was held to be of the kind
of the %imited (mail) male" Sabbath
after Sabbath the juvenile rustics wed
with each other who could show the
newest pattern in the design and color
for his chest covering. Often have
clergymen who have never before
ascended the pulpit stair of this parish
been startled as the opposite gallery
brilliantly flashed on his wondering
eyes. The rustic band got the title of
the "robin redbreasts" or "canaries," l"
and their seat was commonly known as
their "nest'' or "aviary." 4 change
however, did occur. The heritage fell
to brother of the late proprietor, who
"knew not Joseph" and was rather
displeased at this weekly display of
foppery. The new laird granted the
pew to a new tenant, who had become
possessor of the home farm, and had a
numerous family. 1t was easy to grant
and possess, but not so easy to annul a
previous grant and dispossess former
occupants. The bovans refused to
remove. pleading grant with long
possession, even for the prescriptive
period-in fact, that they had acquired
both fguratively and literally "vest-
ed interest" The sheriff had to be ap-
preached by way of interdict. 1t was,
however, more by suasion than by
force that at length matters were
peacefully arranged. For many years
the display of colors. which once tiaunt-
ed from the gallery ceased from the
memories of the parishioners of Sunny
side. The epidemic which prevailed in
the south spread to other portions of
Scotland.
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Her King.

She has not found her king as yet
Tho golden days glide by
They bring no sorrows to forget,
Nor any cause to sigh.
No heart for her devotion made
Tho passionate summers bring;
Unframed she walks, and unaffraycd-
She has not found her king.
Men bring their titles, and their gold;
She turns in scorn awsy.
The man must be of different mold
She swears she will obey.
Though poor in honor and in lands,
Rich in a rarer thing,
Titled by God alone, he stands,
When she will own her king.
But when ho comes, as come he will,
Strong to support, and grand,
With supplication that shall fill
Her soul, like her commando
She'll place her hand in his, and take
Whater this world may bring,
Proud and contented for his sake,
Whom she bath crowned her king!
TEMPLE Bal
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PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

Always out of conference.-the
nose.
The blandest counsel may be a cross
examiner.
High words. Zip top peak"
summit" etc.
Now the thrifty fisherman figures
up his net gains.
A mans tongue often betrays him,
but he always can count on his fingers.
A man has invented a chair that
can be adjusted to 800 different posi-
tions. 1t is designed for a boy to sit
in when he goes to church.
The great question of the day at
present is how to wear high all-round
collar and still be able to sneeze hard
without cutting your throat.
One of the sweetest pictures of do
mestic economy is poet blacking a
white stocking so that it won't show
through the fissure Of his boot.
"He's grown to be a polished gen.
tlelnan, anyhow" said an old. lady
gazing fondly as she spoke at the shin
ing bald head of her son, just returned
after a long absence.
Papa" said lad the other night,
after attentively studying for some
minutes an engraving of human
skeleton, chow did this man manage,
to keep in his dinner %
A little chap in Gallatin, Tenn, SON
of a prominent turfman, was asked by
his school-teacher to define "good
breeding" ~ mare with two Lex
ington crosses" was the instant reply.
Johnnie, how many bones are there
in the human body?" Whose human
body? Mine?" eyes, yours, for in
stance" Cant tell. You see I've
been eatin' shad for breakfast, and
that csts the anatomical estimate at
once" ~ I ~
A society has been formed in Me-
York, to be known as the "Order OK
I.e.-rr:---. C: :, It:,--.t.r-.seslto-bo to -bo an
organization to use its influence topper
suade men to wear a tie that the
women folks cannot work UP into a
patchwork quilt.
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Prophecy
I have heard It In tho forest

I have heard It In tho forest
Where the branches gray End bare,
From the seq of pines upstardng,
Stand like phantoms in the air;
Ghosts of beauty once 30 tair.
I have heard the distant echoes,
Faint and far, but wondrous sweet,
Telling that the summer cometh
Crowned with ecstasy complete;
And earth thrills beneath my feet.
! have seen the tidings written
On the far blue of the skies;
have heard the brooklet singing
Softly meath its roof OF ice,
OF the coming mysteries.
"Summer's coming, coming, coming"
Speed tho news from tree to tree.
Clouds of heaven bear it onward,
River, tell it to the sea.
Summer comes! the earth Is Free"
George L. Heath
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Deal very gently with those who ar
on the downhill Of life. Your own
time is coming to be where they now
are. You too are "stepping westward" D."
Soothe the restlessness of age by amuse-
ment, by consideration, by non-inter-
ference, and by allowing plenty of oc-
cupation to fall into the hands that
long for it. But let it be of their own
choosing, and cease to order their ways
for them as though they rs-c children.
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CLIPPINGS FOR THE CURIOUS

Texas has million acres OF lallo III
for sugar culture.
A large number of Nashville boys
and girls are going into silk culture
The national debt of France, 81, ,6o3,
940,OOO,) is three times as large as ours
Twenty-eight mining explosions oc-
Cured last year, of which fifteen were
fatal.
The winner of a cortl-raising contest
near Rome, Ga, raised thirty-seYen
bushels on half acre.
Figures were used by the Arabian
Moors about 900, and were introduced
into Spain in 1850, and into England
in 1858.
The pension list of the United
States is eight times as large as that of
England and ten times greater than
that of France.
The first systematic attempt to
instruct the deaf and dumb was made
by Pedro de Ponce, a Spanish Benedic-
tine monk, about 1870.
A chicken ventriloquist is one Of the
curiosities of Concord, Ky. He crows
with clarion notes, and then makes
echo-hxc crcpcvrrruns- OF tfrem, gr1uuafry
dying away as if at an increasing dis
tance.
William Campbell, a young farmer
Of Mexico, Mo-, won wager of 500,
and received q cents bushel besides
for his labor, at corn-shucking bee.
In eight days he threw over his
shoulder SAP bushels of corn.
Tin is frequently mentioned in the
Iliad, and it would seem that the Greeks
were very familiar with it. 1t was
used for the raised work on shields
and for greaves, and it was also en-
ployed for domestic purposes.
1t has been said that blind man
named Benson, who has been an inmate
of the Wethersfield (Conn. town house
for more than fifty years, has such a
remarkable memory that he can repeat
almost every word of any sermon he
hears.
The demise and obsequies of a
Brunswick (Me.) cat gave a hint to
the long-named society. The family
physician nursed the animal in its i'll
ness, the undertaken composed its re-
mains in $3.50 casket, and its mis-
tress cabled her husband in Europe
that the end had come. .
Catechisms were compiled in the
eighth or ninth century; Luther's
were published 1920 and 1929. The
catechism of the Church of England at
first contained only the baptismal vow
the creed, the ten commandments and'
the Lords prayer with explanations,
but an explication of the sacraments
was added by the bishops in obedience
to an oEler made by James ].
E-,1eu nurses nIye- -stssru-ir-B Brrg-I
land that they are capable of jumping
great distances. Chandler cleared
thirty-nine feet over break at War
wick; Calverthorpe, thirty-three feet
over hurdles at Newport Pagnell;
King of the Valley, thirty-fve feet over
the Wissedine brook, Leicestershire;
Lottery, thirty-four feet at Liverpool;
Peter Simple, thirty-seven feet at Bos-
ton.
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When any calamity has been suffer
ed, the first thing to be remembered is,
how much has been escaped.
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II.s Ia C: r -;'-s..f'fIssed to- DO an
organization to use its influence topper
suade men to wear tie that the
women folks cannot work UP into a
patchwork quilt.
The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-10-02

rods and movable at pleasure; upon
this shaft the rug is rolled rs the work
advances; attached to tho roller and
extending to the beams above are the
| close, strong threads of the wary, and
in the rear, suspended from the ceiling,
with hangingaEAnds Of convenient
distance, aRaahtless ball Of yarn of
varied colAISNtd shade; beneath these
sit the natiXY workmen and boys. I'm
inediaf posite, at the front of the
hut, 'seatsdupon a mat, is the pattern
reader or OVerseer, while upon the
ground before him is the reversed pat
tern OF the rug whose manufacture he
so skillfully directs; it requires the
very closest attention, rapidity Of
thought, sight and unflagging applioa-
lion on his part to keep tho dozen or
more men before HIM busy, for not a
thread is woven but at his direction or
verbal order, as calling each workmen
ny name and noting his position, he
orders the number and color of the
yarns to be used, as he traces them
upon tho pattern vt his feet. The
Workmen III the rear seizes the end Of
the yarn called, weaves the number Or
dered, the substance is driven home by
al iron comb, the rough edges clipped
ana The rug rolls Oh to completion,
every thread OF wool and every stitch
by hand.
The western demand has so vastly
increased as to troble the production
within the past four or five years, and
There are now many thousands Of pe0-
pie, men, women and children, engaged
IN the manufacture of rugs alone ut This
centre. Yet, when the slow progress
or hand work is considered, and the
fact that an ordinary drawing-room
rug is the result of the united labor of
three or four mon perhaps a week or
more, the product is not alarming, nor
is the cost of skilled labor, which COM
mandS Ill this particular branch from
nve TO twenty cents per day. The eX-
tenslYe demand for eastern rugs arres-
ted the attention Of the Indian Govern
ment some years since and suggested
the eXpediency Of proiitably utilizing
the convict labor and establishing the
industry in the Central and Presidency
Jalls. 1t would naturally appear un-
Just and undignilied for the General
Government Of country to thus enter
the open market in competion with
private capital. and it has since occa-
stoned no little commet; yet it is q
question it this venture has not i'm
proved and advanced the art in the
as the rugs manufactured at
the Agra and Lahore jails command
to-day higher prices than any other
grade or make in India, the quality
naturally being superior, the result Of
the slow skilled labor Of long torm Of
life convicts.