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The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-03
Our Presidents.

Mr.. Cleveland will be the twenty
second President of the country. Of the
Presidents, seventeen were elected and
four-Tyler, Fillmore, johnson and
Arthur-succeeded to the office from
the Vice Presidency, Thomas Jefferson
and John Quincy Adams were elected
by the House of Representatives in
default of an election by the Electoral
College, and Rutherford B. Hayes was
declared elected by the commission
selected to decide the disputed election
of 1876. Seven of the. Presidents
Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe,
Jackson, Lincoln and Grant-were
elected second time
Gen. Grant. was the youngest of the
Presidents when inaugurated, being Al;
Pierce and Garfield, were 40; Polk and
Fillmore, so; Tyler 81; Lincoln 81; Van
Ruren and Taylor 55; Washington and
johnson were 81; Jefferson, Madison
and John Quincy Adams, ,E58 Monroe, SO;
John Adams and Jackson, 81; Buchan-
an, Sc; Harrison, IS; Garfield died the
Youngest, not having reached his 50th
birthday; Polk was 81 at his death;
Lincoln, 56; Pierce 65, Taylor &c;
Washington and johnson, 81; Harrison,
6S; Tyler and Monroe, 70; Fillmore, "a;
Buchanan, II, Jackson rs; Van Buren,
80; John Quincy Adams, 81; Jefferson,
SO; Madison, So; John Adams, 81.
The honor of furnishing Pr sidents
has not been evenly distributed among
the States. Virginia, Massachusetts.
Tennessee, New York, Ohio, Louisiana,
New Hampshire, Pennsylvania and Illi-
nois furnishing all the incumbents so
far. Cleveland will be the third Presi-
dent from New York-Van Buren, and
Arthur being his predecessors.
1t is somewhat remarkable that no
member of the United States Senate
should ever have been elected to the
Presidency sat the time of his incum
bency. Disregarding the fact that
experience in this body ought to
fit a man for the high office the
people have ignored the Senators.
The army has furnished large number
of Presidents, and, with the exception of
Hancock, Mcclellan and Scott no, mill
tary man nominated for the office has
failed of election. Washington owed his |
elevation to his success in the field. Jack |
sons record in the war of 1912 was the
wave which lifted him into the White
House, and Harrison, Taylor, Pierce,
Grant, Hayes and Garfield wore the
epaulets of a General before they were
honored with the Chief Magistracy of the
nation.
There are now two ex-Presidents liy-
fng-Grant and Hayes-and after the
4th of March Mr. Arthur will make
third.
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Vol. xLVII. JACKSON, MIssIs
Ingratitude to Parents.


The New York News relates the fol-
lowing:
There is a proverb: ga father can
more easily maintain six children than
SIX children can one father" Luther
relates the story:
There was once father who gave up
everything to his ehiIdren-his house,
his fields, his goods-and expected by
this the children would support him;
but after he had been some time with
the first son, the latter grew tired of
him, and said to him: Father, have
had son born to me this night, and
there, where your arm chair stands, the
cradle must come; will yon not, per-
haPs, go to my brother, who has large
room r After he had been some time
with the second son, he also grew tired
of him, and said, Father, you like a
warm room, and that hurts my head
Won't you go to my brother, the baker? ~
The father went, and after he had
been some time with the third son, he
also found him troublesome, and said
to him: Father, the people run ia and
out here all day, as if it were a pigeon
house, and you cannot have your noon
day sleep; would you not be better off
at my sister Kate's near the town wall p
The old man remarked to himself, eyes,
will do so, will try it with my daughter"
She grew weary of him, and she was al
ways so fearful when he went to church |
or anywhere else, and was obliged to |
descend the steep stairs; and at her sis |
ter Elizabeth's there were no stains to !
descend, as she lived on the ground |
floor.
For the sake of peace the old man as
sented, and went to the other daughter;
but after some time, she, too, became
tired of him, and told him, by third
person, that her house near the water
was too damp for a man who suffered
with the gout, and her sister, the grave
digger's wife at st. Johns, had much
drier lodgings. The old man himself
thought she was right, and went out
side the gate to his youngest daughter,
Helen, but after he had been three days
with her, herl little son said to his
grandfather, Mother said yesterday to
cousin Elizabeth that there was no bet
ter chamber for you than such onejas
father digs" These words broke the
old mans heart, so that he sank back i'll
his chair and died
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Rules or etiquette.

Ethel wishes to know ''if she may eat
corn from the. cob, and if so, how?'
We hasten to assure Ethel that she
may. Polite society has recognized the
fact that it is the proper thing to eat
the corn from the cob, and no man
now eating it cob and all is invited a
second time to our best tables. The
manner of deVouring this delicious
bivalve in its natural state varies with
the strength and taste of the consumer.
The DESTROYER may hold the cob in one
hand in perpendicular position and
shave the corn off with dinner-knife.
Care must be taken to smite the edge
of the plate violently with every stroke.
By this means two or three resolute and
active corn-shavers can successfully
drive out the lively conversation Of
twenty people. If the browser is ex-
tremely dainty he may prod off the
corn one grain at a time with a fork.
Thus he will preserve high standing
In society, but will rot get any corn.
In court circles it is permissible to hold
the cob in one hand and nibble with
the other, care being taken not to allow
the nose and chin to meet on the other
side Of the cob. But perhaps the only
feeder who gets all the corn he wants,
and gets it comfortably, is the epicure
who clutches the cob in both hands,
one at each end, sharpens his teeth,
and gnaws away at that cob ike rat
at -four barrel. brooklyn Eagle.
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Fortunes in Honey.

"While California Is the greatest bee
ranching or honey making region in the
world, owing to the excellence of its
climate and the endless variety Of its
honey yielding flowers, the quality of
its honey does not excel. even if it
equals, that of the honey made in New
York State" says a large Wholesale
dealer.
's0ne of the most extensive bee cul-
turists in this or any other country he
continued, 'sis Capt. Hetherington, whose
apiaries along the Cherry Valley Greek,
in Schorarie county, annually turn out
over 1000 pounds of the choicest
honey. 1t takes nine men and two
steam saw mills five weeks to prepare
the lumber for the boxes in which the
honey is made by his bees. Nearly
$50, 600 panes Of glass, about six inches
square, are used in these boxes. Capt.
Hetherington has at work this season
nearly 2, 500 swarms of bees These are
not all on bis own premises, but are
scattered among the orchards and fields
of farmers along the creek, to whom he
pays a rent for the privilege Of his bees
working in the clover, buckWheat, or
whatever blossoms are in season on the
farms. The care Of these bees does not
fail upon the owner Of the land. Capt
HetheriHgton keeps men and teams con-
stantIy employed looking out for them.
He has received as much as 50, 900 for
one seasons crop.
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Consumption of Honey by Bees.

1t may be interesting to bee masters
at the season of apariaan activity to know
that Mr.. Jones de Gelieu, pastor at
Neufchatel, Switzerland, in work
translated into English long ago under
the title of "The Bee Preseryer; or
Practical Directions for Preserving and
renewing Hives" afirms that when
two or three distinct hives are united in
autumn they are found to consume to-
gether scarcely more honey during the
winter than each of them would have
consumed singly if left separate. In
proof of this singular result the author
sets ssforth a variety of experiments,
all of which lead uniformity to the same
conclusion.
He shows positively that of upward of
thirty hives six had their population
thus doubled, and consume no more
provisions during the winter than a
single hive, and that so far from the
bees suffering any diminution, the
doubled hives generally sent forth the
earliest and best swarms. The translator
of NJ. Gelieu's work states that he prae-
tised in Scotland most of the plans
recommended in the original publication
with the same effect.-Ex.
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Bees in Orchards.

1t is said large crop of apples is
raised when a hive of bees is stationed
in the orchard. The bees visit every
flower, busily flying from one to another,
and then passing to an adjoining tree.
The pollen on their bodies is rubbed
against the pistils of myriads of flowers,
which become fertiIized in this way.
Many of the strange notifications in
the form of flowers are due to insects,
the transfer of pollen from different va
rieties resulting in hybreds. Darwin
remarks that .'all experimenters have
been struck with the wonderful yigor,
height. size, tenacity of life and hard
ness of their hybrid productions He
was the first to show that from flower
fertilized by pollen from different
plant the seedlings were much stronger
than from its own pollen. The wind
and insects are natures great agents in
performing this act of cross-fertilizatiOn.
The stamens and pistils of the pines,
birches, poplars, grasses, corn, ETC., are
so arranged that the wind fertilizes
them-bnt in a large number of flowers
they are so situated that they can be
reached only by the agency of insects.
The moths, many of which have tongues
FIVE inches long. probe the long tabular
flowers of orchids and other plants, and
withdraw them laden with pollen, to
leave it on the pistil of some other
plant.
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Farmer Jones.

Medicine has cost the world more thar
bread and has killed more than it has
cured.
A lie is like cat, it never comes tC
you in a strait line.
| When you strike oil stop boring; many
man has bored clean through, and let
the oil run out the bottom.
| A reputation for happines wants as
much looking after as reputation for
honesty.
When a man measures out glory
for himself, he always heaps the
measure.
There are two kinds of men / do not
want to meet when / am in a hurry,
men that owe and men that want to
owe me.
The man who has not an enemy is
really poor.
Advice is like castor oil, easy enough
to give, but dreadful uneasy to. take.
Laziness is a good deal like money,
the more man has the of it more he
seems to want.
Whenever a minister breaches ser
mon that pleases tho whole congrega-
ton, in nine cases out of ten he has
preached a sermon that the Lord won't
indorse.
Politeness never makes any blum
ders; it often gets snubbed but never gets
beat.
When you come across a man that
neither fattery nor abuse will stimulate
let him alone, he has gone to seed.
An idler is twice a thief: he no. only
steals his own time, but hangs around
and tries to steal yours.
| never knew man that lived upon
hope but that he spentfhis old age at
somebody's else expense.
He who has nothing to do in this
world but amuse himself, has the hard
est Job on hand | know of.
/ never knew man to brag on his
money or his pedigree. who has anything
else worth Dragging about.
What a man gets for nothing, he if
very apt to value at just about what it
cost him.
Go slow, young man, if you tap both
both ends of your cider barrel at one,
and draw out of the bung hole besides,
your cider amt going to hold out
long.
Those who are too proud to inquire
what a thing costs when they buy it, are
the first to find fault when they come to
pay for it.
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Time to Roast.

Turkey, 10 pounds, stuffed, hours;
over 10, four hours; under 10, not less
than hours.
After stuffing, let the bird remain
some time before cooking. Heat through
gradually, before bringing to roast. The
chief secrets are to have the bird warm
ed through, the fire bright hot, and to
baste often.
Large foul, hour; small do, I hour,
Duck (be sure it is young), 80 to go
minutes; duckling, 25 to 80 minutes.
Capon, good size full hour.
Chicken 20 to 80 minutes.
Goose, II hours.
Pigeon, 20 to % minutes.
Beef, pounds rib or sirloin, 45 min
utes, to be rare; to be well done 65
minutes, about s minutes per pound !;
add 10 minutes for every additional
pound; add 20 minutes for a rump.
Veal, q hours.
Lamb, II hours, or six pounds to the
hour.
Pork, if spare rib of 10 pounds, p
to 3 hours; chine requires another
hour.
Glaze is simply strong stock boiled
down almost to thick jelly.
Plain joints roasted make their own
except lamb, which also requires
a mint sauce.
For fouls make gravy of the giblets.
For game, beead sauce.
The clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1883-1888, 1884-12-03
A Sensation Among the Knights of
Homer.

LOUISVILLE, Nov. 24.-A sensation
was created here to-day by publication
in the Boston Knights of Honor OBJ
server, charging that Robt. Brecken-
ridge, late supreme treasurer of the
Knights of Honor, is a defaulter for
$l60,000. Incidentally the same paper
refers to COL Breckenridge as rival of
Capt. Kidd and other such personages.
Numerous other insinuations and
charges are multiplied, together to fill
out a half column. In addition to its
local report, the Observer speaks edito-
rally of Col. Breckenridge and arraigns
him for being accountable for large
sums of money belonging to widows
and orphans Of departed brethren.
The Knights of Honor Observer is
edited by Mr.. Cummings, who is
ON very intimate terms with Gen.
Hoyt, Supreme Dictator of the Knights
of Honor, and J. W. Branch, who sue
ceeded Col. Breckenridge as Supreme
treasurer. Col Breckenridge is in the
city, and denies the charge and pro-
noances the whole thing 3 tissue of
faIsehood. Said he: Il We received money
which has not been paid out. / was
ordered by the chancery court to pay no
benefits after October 18th last, and ]
obeyed the order. For this reason there is
now ac0nsiderable amount in the Peoples
bank to the credit of the knights of
Honor. The general opinion among
the members of the Knights of Honor Is
that the Colonel viii sue for libel.
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your hands. Flour these, and knead
the paste into to shape with as few
strokes as possible. Lay the lump upon
a Toured kneading board and rolf it out
into a thin sheet always rolling from
you with quick light action. When
thin enough stick bits of butter in reg
ular close rows all over the sheet, using
knife rather than your hands. Roll
up the part into close folds as you
would sheet of music. FIatten it SO
your rolling pin can take hold, and roll
out again as thin as before. Baste, roll
up then out, until the butter Is gone.
1t is a good plan to sprinkle the inside
OF each sheet with little -four after
buttering it before making It into roll.
Finally make out your crust Bake in
a moderate oven until light brown.
Be careful to have your heat as great at
the bottom as at the top, or the lower
crust will be clammy and raw. It is
best when you can spare the time to
lay the roll when all the butter is used
np, in very cold place for fifteen or
twenty minutes before rolling it into
he crust.
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mot for to hide it in a hedge,
Nor for a brain attendant
But for the glorious privilege
OF being iudeDendent:" :"
Strong Points in Lodges.

If lack of attention to the collectil
of dues and the financial affairs of
Lodge generally is a weak point, cl
attention to this important matter m
be a strong point. After many years
close observation of the management
Lodges we are prepared to say Il.
keeping Lodge in sound financl
condition is one of the strongest poi
that it can establish.
In referring to the Lodge just n
toned we are reminded of two strC
points that we have noticed particula
in visiting that Lodge. Visitors
always most cordially welcomed by d
Worshipful Master, and made to feel
home by the members. The pleas
they experience by such brotherly
tention will bring them back at eyt
possible opportunity. The work, to
is always done in the most perfect al
impressive manner. The impressit
made on the candidate makes him 8
earnest working member. He becom
at once a regular attendant and thV
adds strength to the Lodge. As the
things depend largely upon the Wo
shipful Master, the selection of one
fill the East becomes a matter of grea
est Importance.
Last but not least among the stror
points in Lodge, We VIII mention, is
harmonious, united membership. Rivi
factions for official positions, or to col
troll the management of Masonic bod,
are injurious in many ways and ougi
not to exist. They impair that brothe
ly love and affection, the cement ths
should unite Masons into sacred ban
of friends and brothers, among whoI
no contention should ever exist bu
that noble contention, or rather emuli
ton, of who can best work and be-
agree. Let Masons then cultivate th
noble tenets of their profession in the
intercourse with each other, seekiD
each Others welfare and happine,
with their own, and thus wi
they not only strengthen their Lodge
but will make the principles of Masonr
a living reality throughout the world
Masonic Adr0cdte.
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KEEP your honey bee houses in order
at all times. In this way you viii soon
acquire habit of neatness, which will
find its reward in the extra price and
ready sale, which the neat appearance Of
your honey will insure ] always judge
something Of man and his apiary by
the appearance of his honey in market.
The consumer appreciates clean white
package of honey, and have known
buyers to accept such packages in
preference to all others, even though
the honey was not quite 50 nice.
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Il shock which extinguished all the
| lights in the house at the same time.
The woman's husband was trying to
find match to strike another light,
when he was prostrated by a second
shock. These two recovered, but the
man was speechless for long time af-
terward. Scores of people were para
lyzed by visitation of the lightning, but
no one in Bar Harbor was fatally iniur-
ed. The storm was not confined to
Bar Harbor, but prevailed all over
Mount Desert Island. At Southwest
Harbor and Northwest Harbor vessels
were dismantled by the lightning, and
one sailor was killed. There was
scarcely any craft of any kind in the
harbor but had at least one shattered
mast.
1.-The freaks of this strange electric
visitor outside the buildings were most
extraordinary. At one place one OF the
fiery balls struck the top of flag pole.
The pole was torn into a hundred
pieces and the lightning plunged into
the earth. Usually that would have
ended the career of the ordinary elect
ric current. This ball, however, was
not subdued yet, and after plowing its
way to the bottom of the pole beneath
the ground, between four and five feet,
it started horizontally in an eastern di-
rection. Although the ground was
frozen as hard as rock, this thunder
bolt plowed trench through for a dis
tance of nearly five hundred feet. The
debris from this trench, consisting of
great
MASSES OF FROZEN GROUND
and stones weighing in some instances
hundreds of pounds, we're thrown in
both directions, and some of them high
in the air for long distances around.
One mass of frozen earth as large as a
fishing smack was hurled more than
seventy-fve feet away. Fortunately
for property owners and their lives the
course taken by this erratic ball of fire
was through an open piece Of land with
no buildings near it. If it had chosen
western course it would have plowed
in under several residences, and IN the
inevitable wreck that must have fol-
lowed scores of lives would undoubted-
" have been lost.
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Gays peswsen s1i5 asaa assaueS9' d ~, ,., aned a
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FRANKLIN RIFLES-l7rn Rra,r.l

rendered April 25, 1861 mustered at
MeadvilIe, Franklin county, April %, 1861; !;
mastering officer, NJ. R. Clark. Captain,
w. l. PROXY; 1st Lieut., VIM. NJ. Porter /;
I'd Lieut., Cotesworth P. Harrington Sd
Lieut., Adolphus Brown. Whole number,
including commissioned and non-commis-
stoned officers and privates, 81.
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CARROLL GUARDs-(l1rH Rpe'r.)

rendered February IA, 1861; mustered at
GsFTolton, Car Carroll county, = February 2e'
F. Liddell; 1st Lieut., james S. Stanley !;
I'd Lieut., Lewis T. Howard Sd Lieut.,
Thomas Booth. Whole number, including
commissioned and non-commissioned Off
GERS and privates, 73.
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DEsOTO GUARDS-(9rn REe'r)

rendered February p, 1861; mustered
at -, DeSoto county, February p, 1861 /;
mastering officer, james Il. Chalmer Cap
tain, S. o. B. Crockett; lst Lieut., Jepha
V. Walker; I'd Lieut., VIM. A. Rankin;
Sd Lieut., Richard Baker. Whole num-
Der, including commissioned and nom
officers and privates, 40.
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CLAIBORNE RANGERs-n2rH Rpe'r1

rendered April p, 1861; mustered at
Port Gibson, Claiborne county, May 10,
1861 mastering officer, Rufus Shoemaker.
Captain, Henry Hughes; 1st Lieut., Ben
jamin Humphrey; I'd Lieut., Chas. l..
Banot; Sd Lieut., David S. Pattison.
Whole number, including commissioned
and on-commissioned officers and pri-
Yates, 81.
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CALHOUN AVENGERS.

rendered May /, 1861 mustered at Pitts
boro, Calhoun county, May 6, 1861; mus
tering officer, John NJ. Lyles. Captain,
james R. NJ. Duberry 1st Lieut., Lafay-
cite w. Reasons I'd Lieut., Hugh W..
Castor; Sd Lieut.. Thos A. Mitchell.
Whole number, including commissioned
and non. commissioned officers and privates,
80.
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The oil Of White Birch bark which
gives to Russian leather its peculiar
aromatic and lasting qualities, when
dissolved in alcohol IS said to be excel
lent IN preserving and waterproofng
fabrics. Il renders them acid and in
sect proof and does not destroy the pli-
ability Of the fabric.
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MISSISSIPPI IN THE WAR.
Official Roster Of Companies Mustered into
Service.

CovINGToN FENCIBLEs- 18th REe'r.)
rendered May 8, 1861; mustered at Dry
Creek, Coyington county, May 6, 1861 /;
mastering officer, V. L. Terrell. Captain,
E. R. Bennett; 1st Lieut., Eaton w. Jas
per; I'd Lieut., Mcleod D. Innis; Sd
Lieut., Richard ]. Baugh. Wholenumber,
including commissioned and non-commis-
stoned officers and privates, 56.