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Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-11-11

TIE HOUSEHOLD,
Edited 10y Miss Emily : Bouton, who de.
votes her energies to- making this especial
department tho bet. Her name j., to
thousands of the readers of tine WEEKLY
BLADE. AS familiar rs household words.
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-11-11

Is a department especially devoted to- the
Young people of the Household, ana is filled
with the choicest "tp0rr selections "t stories
sketches, poems etc. especially adapted to
children and YOUTH
Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1886-11-11

|, 4 department devoted to the answering of
inquiries OF all kinds, and is one of the most
useful, hcp!u and interesting feature, o. the
Weekly BLADE, TIE numbers for year
contain Il, much matte! a. tWu ordinary -
volumes.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
buds of tho Palmetto Cabbage.

It was only very recently that we were
surprised with some of the good things
that abound near Lake Apopka. Mr.
Perkins and his good wife and their
nabors sent the sick boy good deal
more than he can cat just now, for those
were fat, healthy chickens and oranges
and tangerines that had not been irozen'
and cabbages as large as half buShel'
and the buds of the palmetto cabbage j
foot long and foot round, which IS re-
earded by the natives as the finest vege-
table dish in the world. 1t looks like
ivory, pure ivory, and tastes like green
chestnuts, and when cooked is delight
full mixture of green corn and oysters.
When picked it is better than cauli-
flower, and the only reason why it is not
upon the tables of the rich is because yo!H
have to cut down tree to get it.-Bul
Arp's Florida Letter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
rhe pronosed African Inland Sea.

The most recent estimate that has been
made by the the French engineers in re-
gard to the proposed African inland sea
is that the undertaking could be consum-
mated in the maximum period of five
years, at a cost of about $30,O00,O 900, it
being sufficient to cut, in the alluvial
part of the region traversed, canal
averaging some eighty to one hundred
feet in width, which would be further
widened by the action of the current.
1t appears that the estuary of the Owed
Meliah, which is the beginning of the
canal leading to the place to be inun-
dated, offers a port, covered at high
water, of adequate breadth, which might
easily be excavated, and would form Il
port sheltered by nature from all the
winds from northeast to south, passing
by the west; the winds from northeast to
south, passing by the cast, would not be
dangerous to the breakwaters. The nav
igation of the canal, it is also said, will
offer no difficulty, as the canal will form
almost straight line. The proposed in
land sea would be fifteen times as large
as the Lake of Geneva.-Boston Tran
Script.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Manual Training for Every Child.


Superintendent MacAlister writes that
the conviction obtains among the mem
bers of the board of education of Phlla-
delphia, and is, in his opinion, growing
in the public mind generally, that every
child should receive manual training;
that complete education implies the
training of the mind, and that this
feature must ultimately be Incorporated
into the public education. He concludes:
81 feel encouraged to go forward with
the work. The great principles which
underlie the system are with me intense
convictions, and they mean nothing less
than a revolution in education. The now
system is the realization of the dream OF
every great thinker and reformer in edu-
cation, from Comenius, Locke and Rous-
scau to Postalozzi, Froebel and Spencer.
Nv conviction and action in connection
with this movement are based upon
what, in my Judgment, should constitute
an education designed to prepare a
human being for the social conditions OF
to-day, and not merely for the industrial
demands of our time. And this must be
realized in the public schools, or they
will fail in accomplishing the ends for
which they were instituted and arc
maintained. ."-Harper's Magazine.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
AYnnISce Doctor In Paris.

When Professor Frank Billings sailed
for France with the children from this
city who were treated by NJ. Pasteur, ne
exhibited lementable ignorance of the
French language to the passengers and
officers of the steamship Canada. In
Paris he was likewise ignorant, and Pas:
teur was somewhat surprised that a SCI
enlist should have been chosen to &C.
company the expedition who could not
converse with him without an inter-
prefer. He would have been more sur
prised had he followed DR.. Billings home
and heard him converse In elegant and
mastery French with Mrs. Billings, who
is native-born French woman. In fact,
the professor kept it mighty quiet in
Paris that he was q finished French
scholar.
He had laudable object in view III
assuming ignorance. He went to Paris
to learn something, and knowing that
the Frenchmen are jealous of their Sc,
crets he wisely concluded that he could
learn more by listening than by asking
questions. The ruse was successful, and
he came back the possessor of a great
deal more information about vlrusea
than NJ. Pasteur is aware or. In fact, he
discovered some facts not yet known to
the scientific world.-Newark IN. J.)
News
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Tho Powor to Doze at VIII.

The power to sleep when and where
one wills is gift of Providence quite IA
desirable as memory, beauty, or any OF
the other nice things which are presumed
to be heaven sent. Men of the highest
ability have been noted for the ease with
which they could take those cat maps,
far more invigorating than Information,
which repair the nervous waste and
allow them in waking hours to accom-
plish herculean tasks with their brains.
That insomnia is totally unknown to all
these ready sleepers would be assuming
too much, for the disease. if disease it is,
falls alike on the cold blooded deliver and
wiry, impulsive worker, raking them
fore and aft with beautiful impartiaGty,
Benjamin F. Butleris a living example
of the power to doze at will, and another
greater than he, the imperishable leader
of the Liberals in England, mods Like
Homer himself when political stress and
strain are doing their worst for him and
his party. Had Mr.. Gladstone, with the
fame of statesmanship at stake, and the
weight of English supremacy to uphold,
been through all this nervous man,
subject to broken rest, he never would
have celebrated his 10th birthday and
still be the virile exponent of his party
principles. Insomnia has tough fight
to conquer such hardy constitution and
unseat a brain that receives constant
stimulus in swift and momentary
oblivion. Boston Herald.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF ROYALTY.
Potontates Who Lay Aside Neys-Sggs srDm
the Tithcs Of the People.

Potontates Who Lay Aside Neys-Sggs Sro"
the Tithcs of the People.
Louis Philippe was mean in the sense
The Americans attach to the word and
had no perception of any kind of grand
.ur. He cut down ruthlessly, to make
money of them, trees in his parks which
had weathered the storms of many hun
ired wears. His meanness was the ruin
Of his dynasty. From St. Petersburg to
Madrid and London to Athens thrift now
reigns. There is hardly sovereign who
feels that the income allowed him by the
nation. over which he reigns is not for
him or her, but for the dignity of the
crown, and to act as a head walter on
national industry. The czar and czarina
themselves, colossal as their private fort
une is, are intent on making it much
greater. Stinginess is traditional In the
house of Hohenzollern, but their civil
list allowances have been never great,
and they shrink from no duty, however
hard and irksome. They have public
spirit in high degree, and command re-
Bpect. The. late king. Of Sweden be-
'aIieathed his only daughter the largest
fortune that was ever known IN Scandl'
navia, and if would have been counted a
great one all the, world over. His father
was Bernadotte, the son of a Bearnaia
lawyer of small provincial practice.
In Belgium, the royal family is also q
plutocratic one. Although Leopold l
was fleeced by fair harpies in his old age,
he left each of his three children about a
million sterling. Yet M. Etienne Arago
remembers when he had to go in debt for
some French embroidered muslin which
he bought to make presents to the sisters
of his Gin 1916 master, the czar. Empress
Elizabeth is prodigal, and thinks she can
never spend enough on her stables and
dog kennels; but the emperor is anxious
to swell his investments and the crown
prince and princess pare cheese.
In Italy the king saves to pay his
fathers debts, and nobody, therefore,
complains of his thrift. Ludwig of Ba'
yaria is not of his time. His brother OF
Wurtemburg is not personally extrava'
CANT, like our James I, but is profuse
through favoritcs. The one now doml-
mating him is an American, who succeeds
an American. At Lisbon the king
dowager has amassed so much as to be
able to spend millions of francs on hiE
country house near Cintra, and in frrn
ishing it and the palace where he and nj
amiable wife live in winter. Maria Pla
being passionately fond of dress, Dom
Luis pinches in the stables and wherever
else he can. He, however, only saves
out of his income. His ministers plunde'
by means of frequent loans, but he is moi
suspected of receiving a share of the
hauls they thus periodically make.-Lon
don Truth.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Tho Remedies of Our Ancestors.


Before the diffusion of a knowledge of
the circulation of the blood by Harvey,
in 1919, the theories of medicine were
based almost entirely upon the writings
of Galen, physician of Pergamus, who
lived under the reigns Of the Roman en-
perors Hadrian, the Antonenis, Com
modus and Severls, i'll the second cen
tury of our era. The practice OF the
healing art was mostly made up OF the
Use of simples-herbs or minerals-the
form or source of which gave an idea OF
their use. Blood-letting, burning the
skin with the hot iron, the application to
it of balsams and various drugs having
a pleasing o. disgusting odor, horrible
farragoes or sometimes hundreds OF het-
erogeneous materials, blistering, frictions,
bathing in certain springs or rivers sup
posed to have some wondrous power
over certain ailments, applications to
the skin or taking into the stomach OF
oils coming from all sorts of sources
such were the remedies of our ancestors.
Emetics and cathartics held high rank
alongside of blood-letting. Rational med
icine, the child Of patient observation
and physiology, was not born. Chem.
istry had not emerged from the mist OF
alchemy, and had furnished only a few
valuable products for the relief OF suf-
fering. "The "nepenthe" of the ancient
and middle-age writer's was probably a
secret preparation of opium.-CoF'
Globe-Democrat,
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Electric Agriculture in Germany.

An interesting experiment, showing
the influence of electricity on the growth
of roots, has been made III Germany by
Professor Holdetleiss. Plates of copper
were thrust upright into the earth and
connected by wires with similarly placed
zinc plates about 100 feet distant-an
electric battery being thus formed, with
the earth between the copper and zinc
in the circuit. Both potatoes and beets
planted between such plates gave an in
creased yield-beets IS per cent, pota-
toes IS per cent. as compared with other
parts of the same field.-Arkansaw Trav-
eler.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Tho Creole Ladies' OF Now Orlenns.


The creoles give to New Orleans much
of its most charming and polished So
ciety; its fetes, carnivals, and tar-fameo
winter gayeties. They must be seen ana
known to. be properly understood. But
q few years since and comparatively few
had much knowledge of English. With
a very large proportion to-day, even, but
little of it is heard among themselves
The most of this little, again, is with the
young folks. The latter talk it fluently
enough, though the foreign accent is gen
erally discernable. With the older ones,
more particularly in "Frenchtown," that
portion below Canal street, is still well
nigh unknown. They may perhaps un'
derstand it after a fashion. They rarely
affect to talk it. They prefer, generally
that the young folks should act as inter
prefers. The latter here, again, are by
no means confined to French and Eng
lish.
Perhaps nowhere else is there to be
heard such diversity of languages. One
here in French, or rather creole, board
ing-house, for instance, may not infre
ouently hear, at the table, the daughters
Of the landlady, or madame" carrying
ON q conversation in French, English
Spanish, and Italian with those OF the
different nationalities at the same time
The thing is so common as hardly to bf
classed in the line Of accomplishments
New Orleans Cor. Cleveland Plaindealer
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Covenant with tho Animals.

There is something in the nature of a
covenant with the animals that do our
work and supply our tables and cover
our limbs. 1t is not only that they die
for us; they have ever lived for us, and
but for us they would never have been.
Nor is it consistent with civilized ideas
to parade the unchanged exterior of the
animals we are obliged to use. We
clothe our extremities with skins, but so
changed as never to suggest the sleek or
agile forms they once covered. we
fleece sheep for our clothes, but nothing
is less like flock of sheep than crowd
of men. The cowhide, telling its own
tale, has long disappeared from even the
trunk shop and has become curiosity
on a railway platform.
Well, but how about ladies muffs and
sealslzin jackets? Civilization must con-
fess to them and leave the fair sex to
speak for itself. No doubt the lions skin
became Hercules, and the custom has
long since assimilated to our taste the
most outlandish creatures gracefully dis
posed over fair form. But there is no
needless parade, or at least, so little that
we do not notice it. 1t is not so with
the assumption of plumage. The poor
bird is exhibited as whole as possible.
Head, wings and tail are al shown as
faithfully and fully as those Of the
hawk nailed to barn door. But the
most foolish fashion can always exceed
itself, and bad as thing may be, there
is worse. London Times.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Misuse of the Word Crank.

That word crank" with its modern
birth and forcefulness, is sometimes used
with too great freedom and loses Its origa'
nal meaning, which attached it only to
monomaniacs or people of unbalanced
minds. Every reformer is called a
crank by those who misuse the word
every individual. who sees beyond the
line of vision which contents his neigh
Dor, is so designated; every specialist,
or profound thinker OH any particular
subject, or any person who gives utter.
ance to fanciful expression or original
thought, is set down at once as crank
by persons who do not discriminate
between individual power and mental
weakness. kate Tannatt Woods in
Boston Globe.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Disadvantages or Our Hum';w"; "i":;


We have right-handcd VIZ - be
written, with a centrifugal mJ:i"... IL one
direction, across the page from left to
right, a writing which taxes the weak
muscles of the hands, and which takes
four or five times as long as is necessary
for the representation of word, as IS
shown by stenographers, who write as
fast as Il person can speak. In view OF
the increase of writer's cramp due to the
extraordinary amount Of writing to be
done by bookkeepers, book-writers,
teachers, and savants, it was suggested
that a new method of writing should be
intelligently discussed and one inaugur-
ated that should be less elaborate, less
taxing upon the small and weak muscles
of the hand; a handwriting in which the
letters can be formed as in photography,
disconnected, not requiring such precise
and complicated motions to make them
legible, and which can be written from
above downward, from right to left or
left to right. us one may choo:e.-Detroit
Free Press
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
RELIGIOUS Belief of the Aztees.

The Aztecs believed there were three
places assigned as abodes for departed
spirits. Women who died in childbirth
and soldiers who perished in battle or
captivity went to the "House of the Sun, I"
where they enjoyed endless delight.
sAt morning they hailed the luminary
with music and dancing, attended him
in his journey to the meridian, where
they met the spirits of women, and with
similar festivities accompanied him to
setting" After years of these pleasures
their spirits were transformed into clouds
or birds of beautiful plumage and pleas
ant song, but had always power to
ascend at will to Heaven-the House of
the Sun, The notion OF aristocracy was
carried to the other world; for while
kings and mobiles animated gorgeous
birds and dazzling clouds, and fioated
through the purest atmosphere, the souls
Of common people were doomed to crawl
eternally in weasels, beetles and the
meaner animals. y
The spirits of those who were drowned.
or struck by lightning, or VINO cleo OF
wounds, dropsy and similar diseases,
with the souls of children who had been
sacrificed to Tlaloe. the god of waters,
went to delightful place, called Tlalo-
can, where that god resided, surrounded
BY everything which could contribute to
immortal happiness. The third place OF
departed souls was Mietlan, or hell, a
kingdom of total darkness, ruled by an
evil god and goddess, where their only
punishment was the gloomy blackness OF
the realm, cheered by never ray from
sun or moon nor the glimmer OF star.
The ancients located this hell in the
center of the earth, and it may have
been but type of total annihilation.--
Fannie B. Ward in Philadelphia Record.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
The Scarcity Of Small Coins.

The Chicago Herald holds that chill
dren's savings banks are responsible for
the scarcity of small coins in that city.
Hundreds of thousands Of dollars in pen
MES, nickels and dimes, the Chicago edi-
tor says, are boarded in the thousands Of
toy banks throughout the country, and
these, if put in circulation, he contends,
would materially lessen the stringency
of the money market in coins Of the
small denominations.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
TOMORROW

Tomorrow and tomorrow, o fair and far
away,
What treasures lie when hope is high, along
your shining way!
What promises all unfulilled, what better
deeds to do
Than ever yet are softly set beneath your
skies of blue.
Tomorrow and tomorrow, o sweet and far
away,
Still evermote lead on before, along your
shining way!
Still evermore lift up your eyes above what
we have won,
To higher needs and finer deeds that we
have left urdone.
Mora Perry in Youths Companion.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
q Insurance..

GOUTH CAROLINA BRANCH OF
- THE VALLEY MUTUAL LIFE AS
ISOLATION OF VIRGINIA, COLUM-
BJA, S. G., JANUARY q, 1SS6.-l have
been appointed State Agent of the Valley
Mutual Life Association of Virginia and
Col. LEE HAGOOD has been appointed
manager. The Office of the South Carolina
DEPARTMENT is at Columbia, No. - Main
street, (mdcr City llall.)
I will make an active canvass OF the
State, and want the assistance Of number
of live men to canvass every county in the
State.
Thi Company was organized eight (S)
years ago by some of the leading business
men of Virginia, with the view of furnish
ing our people with good sound insurance
at the lowest possible cost It's SUCCESS has
been unprecedented, and far exceeding
that Of any company organized in the
South. Its liabilities from its organization
to this date have been fully met, its Reserve
Fund of SlOS.O0 securely invested, with al
actual membership of about 5000, agSrc'
eating over So U0O. 900 of insurance.
ANY communications addressed to me Ol
the manager at Columbia will rcGeiv,
prompt attention. -
WM. NJ. BOSTlCK, JE.,
Jan 2S-1mo State Agent.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
A Remarkable Maine Superstition.

Talking of superstitions, that of Saco
man is rather remarkable. He never
will allow himself to go to sleep with
the toe of his slippers pointing toward
his bed Should he retire leaving his
slippers in that position, he can not sleep
until they have been changed and the
toes made to point in the opposite direc'
ton. Then he sleeps the sleep of the
iust.-BiddefCrd Times.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Best Herd Dogs of tho Day.

The best herd dogs of the present day
perhaps are the Breton sheep dogs
rough, shaggy, uncouth-with al aspect
as if they had little Of the blood OF
bruin in their veins, but highly valued
by their possessors, who are not to be
tempted into parting with them by any:
thing under the price of the best OK; and
the Breton dog is one of the most saga
cious Of his kind, watching and tending
his tlocks with an almost incredible zeal
and devotion.-All the Year Round.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Best Speed Made by Ice Yachts.

Much has been said concerning the
speed of ice yachts, but reports arc, no
doubt, highly exaggerated. Fifty and
even sixty miles an hour may have been
made under sudden pressure, but one
half that distance is doing well, and how
much better is this, indeed, than the
fastest steaming.-Ncw York Letter.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
A Naturnlized Chinnmnn's Opinion.

Cinnamon are no good-that is, the
Cinnamon you have in this country. 1
would sooner trust Yankee every time.
The only good Cinnamon in the United
States are in Jail, and while they are
there you can be sure Of their goodness;
only then. O, yes, am a Chinaman,
and l love my country, but | am also
naturalized American citizen. Do l be-
lievc in the Bible oath: Yes. Ny re-
ligion consists in belief in q Supreme
Being, and I am firmly convinced that if
I do right I shall so to Heaven. The
Christian religion has no influence on the
Mongolian. He goes to Sunday school
for amusement moro than anything else,
and he never can or will be thoroughly
good mtithe is dead and buried. Wong
Chin Foo ia Giobe-Democrat.
The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-03-04
Burial of the Dead in Thibet.

The nomadic Thibetans do not bury
their dead, but throw them to the wEld
beasts and birds Of prey. In the capita
of Thibet the olergymen decide as to the
disposal of a body, whether it shall be
buried or thrown into the river, burned
or left as prey for birds and beasts
PHILADELPHIA Record.