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An Anglers Paradise.

In Alaska the salmon jam the estuaries
and inlets so that the fish cannot move at
all. 81 have secn," says writer in the
american Angler, "the outlet OF Lake
Losing, which is rivulet two miles long
and two rods wide, connecting the sals
water with the fresh, so choked with
living salmon that if plank were laid
across the protruding backs man could
walk across dryshod. One can lift them
out with his hands until he is tired. IL
is almost impossible to thrust spear or
a boat at-hcok into the mass, and, of course,
fish must come out whenever it is with
drawn. Bears take their opportunity to
scoup them out with their great paws,
and when they have regaled themselves
to safety they retire to the adjacent
tbicket for a dessert Of berries, which
grow there in great abundance and w.
riety. Of course, great many salmon
get into the lakes at every tide, but aftes
each recession muititudes are stranded,
of which the lustiest flop back to tina
ocean, while the MANNED and hapless re.
main dead on the denuded rocks
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Trouhle Does us Go ed.

1t was dreary day in midwintcr, and
as we drove under the dripping Tennes-
see evergreens, said, 'How dismal
everything looksw Despite the fitting
birds and numberless natural rockeries,
spotted with orange and black, draped
with soft gray lichens, and made gay by
gorgeous moses, it was dark and de-
pressing. There happened to be no
sunshine to illumine the d:izzle, and
make pearls of the raindrops. Then the
rough and tumble joltings, and the al
most impossible mudi We were half
inclined to turn back and face home
ward, but we pressed on, for we wished
to visit an aged couple in the forest, and
the neighbors told us we would find the
old man pretty bad off. But there he
stood in the door of the tidy cabin,
leaning on his staff and welcoming us
with a cheerful smile. 1t is no task to
talk with a Christian almost home, about
his lively hope and the happy exchange
in prospect; heavenly mansion for a
cabin Of logs. We spoke of the release
of the soul from the crumbling taber-
nacle, and the exemption from earthly
suffering, and asked if rheumatism was
among his ailments.
eyes, madam, that is one trouble, and
my old lady there IS right smartly
afflicted with neuralgia"
sIndeed, in the head and face2"
'My eye, madame" she answered, n
have lost the sight of one entirely"
"Ah! then, you cannot enjoy the
papers have brought you, perhaps you
can see the beautiful pictures in them"
ooh yes, madam, 1 can read with my
other eye"
"Yes, mum, if you'll believe it," saia
the husband, ''she's up with the paper
and down with it, and up with it again,
tillshe's reading full one.third of the
day, mum, with her one cye."
''Well, I'm glad you can see at ALL"
said I, "but you are afflicted"
'sYes, madam, but trouble does US
good. If I never had no trouble ]
Shouldn't know how to behave myself"
"You think uninterrupted prosperity
dangerous 2" said.
eyes, madam, we would get high
spirited apd worldly minded, and so
duAlOuS Seltiu thihSS toSe1hei, VIC
wouldn't be thinking of what we had
ought to, so reckon it's all right"
Ireckcned so too, and was reminded
of that ADLER, apostolic calculator who
wisely rcckoned, that the "suffcrings of
this present time arc not worthy to be
compared with the glory which shall be
revealed in us.-Merry's.
The soul of true Christian is often
like the sea, the surface of which is often
so rough in storms that it seems all con-
fusion, while yet at the same time, deep
down, there are silent, placid deeps, un-
touched an unditurbed by the noisy sur
face troubles. So with the believer; to
the eye of mere sense his outward life
seem often torn to pieces, and his mind
tossed to and fro like a bark at sea, but
deep down the peace of God reigns su-
preme in his heart. He cannot hush the
surface commotion, but his faith is Sc
cretly at rest in Cod " Poole BtJe'n.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1886-07-21
Guineas on the Farm.

Guineas are profitable for the reason
lat they cost almost nothing to raise.
hey prefer to seek their own food in the
fields, and seldom come home for food as
long as they can find supply for them
selves. AS rule they mate, and it is
best, therefore, to have the sexes equal.
The hen steals her nest, but cannot re-
ain from making noise when she
comes off, which betrays her to the
watchful farmer. Guineas are valuable
On farms where the range is wide, as they
destroy very large number of insects
c1d do not scratch up seeds. In fact, a
lock of twenty guineas will consume c
number of insects so large as to almost
anpear incredible, as they are active and
"a ways searching. They also consume
grass and young weeds, as well as the
seeds of undesirable plants and grasses.
The hens lay about 1875 eggs year, espe-
cially if they are taken from her before
Ehe begins to set. The flesh of a guinea
N rather dark, but juicy and of a "gamey'
flavor. They may be raised to remain
near the house by placing the eggs under
hens, and add few chicks to the brood
when the young guineas are hatched.
They will learn from the chicks and soon
tecome tame and accustomed to the same
habits as the chicks, growing up with
them. The eggs require four weeks for
incubation, and are usually Matched
under hens in the poultry house.
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An Old Epitaph's Story.

Of course, thinking of doctors and
their calling, one cannot forget that it is
their disagreeable duty to deliver lee
ture on the anatomy of many dead bod
les obtained in "dark, unseemly way"
and this is the excuse for reproducing an
cpitaph from an old graveyard down.
town almost lost sight Of:
The body snatchers they have come
And made snatch at me;
It's very hard them kind Of men
Won't let body be.
Don't come to weep upon my grave
And think that here be;
They haven't left an atom
Or my anatomie, >,
--Neu York Herald.
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Two Kinds of ofTcmptntion.

Young people are in especial danger
from temptation which may oe classified
Rs the gradually destructive and the I'M
mediately destructive; the former ac-
complish their work slowly, but none
the less surely. Like the tide, they wear
away the most durable substance by con-
slant assault. Temptation to vulgarlty,
to lying, to meanness, to a low, coarse
life, are like swarms of insects such as
strip the orchard of its foliage and BIOS
SONS, leaving it bare and dcsolate, or
like parasitic plants, which derive their
growth from the trees and plants about
them. Such are the sapping, cxhaustlng
temptations of life that push their feeders
out to lay hold ON human hearts-to
draw from goodness its vitality, and to
rob manhood of its strongest and noblest
elements.
Temptations which are Immediately
destructive exist in frightful abundance.
They are swift flying arrows, and the fall
Of so many weak natures shows how
deadly is their aim. To change the
figure, they may be likencd to the Amer
ican plant known by the botanical name
Dionea. 1t is endowed with strange de-
structive capacity. 1t is malignant
trap-like contrivance for the destruction
of insect life. At its summit are two
leaves joined together on one side and
surrounded on the other sides with sharp
sensitive bristles: 1t opens by day that
it may be prepared to close upon the
hapless insect that may even carelessly
brush against one of its slender spirals;
then suddenly closing it holds its prls-
oner in an unyielding clasp, pressing
more and more closely together as the
insect struggles vainly to escape,
till at last the captive, worn
out by its exertions, falls dead in
a receptacle at the bottom of the fatal
interior. Then the plant again opens to
repeat it's work of death. Wherever
men and women seek toll or pleasure
these temptations spring up around
them, and once enfolded within their
power escape is as impossible as it would
be thrc ugh wall of levelled bayonets.
Only one power is protecting shield,
and that is divine. The One who can
invest us with this power is familiar
with all the arts, the seductions, the il
lusions of temptation. He knows it in
the awful sweep of the malignity it in
spires, and in the terrible scope OF the
disaster it effects, and from his own "a
dient throne he can bestow deliverance
upon him who will manfully strug-
gle for the mastery of self and the
world.
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How to Tell COunterfeits.

The United States treasury department
has, of late years, adopted for bonds and
currency q peculiar paper described be-:
low, and which is deemed stronger
protection against counterfeiters than
that used by the Bank of England, which.
has recently been dangerously counter
feited in ESQ, e1O0 and $500 notes.. /.
AS the first issue of greenbacks, whicl,
were not printed on fiber paper, were
most dangerously counterfeited, but havs
almost wholly disappeared from circula-
ton, therefore receive them with great
caution, or refuse them If in doubt about
their genuineness.
All other genuine greenbacks, gold
and silver certificates and later issues OF
national bank notes are printed on tho
government fiber paper: the first kind
with the fiber distributed in short pieces,
localized with a blue tint, detected by
picking it with pen; the other with
the fiber in two parallel threads, red and
blue silk, running lengthwise through
the note, seen by holding the note up to
the light. The public are cautioned not
to draw these threads out of the paper.
If in doubt about the genuineness OF
any bank note in the report, refuse it
unlest printed OF government fiber paper.
All national bank notes not in this report
are genuine, whether printed on govern
ment paper or not.
The counterfeit $40 and $40 silver
certificates are not printed on govern
ment paper.
Some Of the counterfeit IS, SO and
$50 greenbacks (series of 1879 and $50
and $500 (series of 1870 are an imita-
ton distributed fiber paper. Very dan
perous. These are all the counterfelts on
the new greenbacks worth noticing.
Better refuse all twenties, fftie: and
one hundreds on the banks in this report
unless printed on the government paper.
All genuine bank notes have brown
back and seal, have both kinds of tho
6bcr paper combined while the counter
felt SO, on the Third National Bank OF
Cincinnati, Ohio, and the Photographic
counterfeit So, on the First National
Bank of Milwaukee, Wis, have no fiber.
These two are the only counterfeits on
the brown backs.
Better refuse all pieced notes. All
United States currency having brown
seal has the parallel threads or cables.
All United States currency printed since
1879 is on government fibre paper.
There are in circulation great many
very dangerous counterfeit greenbacks.
dated 1875. All the genuine of that
date are on distributed fiber paper
Detroit Free Press.
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AGRICULTURAL.
TOPICS OF INTEREST RELATIVE
TO FARM AND GARDEN.
Successful Peach-Growins.

The conditions of success in peach
growing as concisely stated by "Michi-
gan Horticulturist, ,"are:
/. An elevated location that is not
subjected to late frosts in the spring or
early frosts in the fall.
2. A warm and moderately fertile soil
chat is we'll drained by nature. Artificial
drainage may prove successful, but its
utility has not yet been fully demonstra-
ted in this region.
3. Thorough cultivation, without ma
nure, until the trees come into bearing
then combine the two so as to supply all
HE depletion produced in the soil by
growth of trees and fluit.
4. Never let tree overbcar.
5. Continue cultivation until the close
of the dry season every summer, even if
It continues until September.
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Twelve Ways of Injuring the Health.

I. Wearing of thin shoes and stockings
On damp nights and in cool, rainy
weather: Wearing insufficient clothing,
and especially upon the limbs and ex.
tremities. ....., .,... .r,- . ....- ... .
2. Leading life Of unfeeling, stupid
laziness, and keeping the mind in an un-
natural state of.excitement, by reading
trashy novels. Going to the theatres,
parties and balls, in all sorts of weather
in the thinnest dress; dancing till in q
complete perspiration, and then going
home without sufficient overgarments
through the cool, damp night air.
8. Sleeping on feather beds in seven
by nine bed rooms, without ventilation
at the top of the window; and especially
with two or more persons in the same
small unventilated bed room. '". ..,,
4 Surfeiting on hot and very stimulat-
ing dinners; eating in hurry, withoR
half masticating the food, and eating
heartily before going to bed, when tho
mind and body are exhaused by the tolls
of the day and the excitement of the
evening. -. .-. 5.'.-,.'.. -,
S. Beginning in childhood on strong
tea and coffee, and going from one step
to another, through chewing and smob
ing tobacco and drinking Intoxicating
liquors, and personal abuse, and mental
and physical excesses of other kinds.
6. Marrying in haste and getting an
uncongenial companion, and living tho
remainder of life in mental dissatisfac-
ton, cultivating jealousies and domestic
broils, and being always in mental fer.
ment. -,a.. ..... .s-
Z. Keeping children quiet by giving
paragoric and cordials, by teaching them
to suck candy, and by supplying them
with raisins, nuts and rich cakes; when
they are sick by giving them mercury
tartar emetic and arsenic, under the mis-.
taken notion that they are medicines and
not irritant poisons. .. =.
s. Allowing the love of gain to absorb
our minds, so as to leave no time to at
tend to our health; following an un'
healthy occupation, because money can
be made by it. 80. ~ -
Q. Tempting the appetite with bittera
and niceties when the stomach says no,
and by forcing food into it when nature
does not demand, and even rejects 1t;
gormandizing between meals.
10. Contriving to keep a continual
worry about something or nothing; CIV,
ing away to fits of anger. ....,..<.
IL. Being irregular in all habits OF
sleeping and eating; too much, too many
kinds of food, and that which is too
highly seasoned. ...- -.
12. Neglecting to take proper care OF
ourselves, and not applying early for me.
dicinal advice when disease first appears,
but by taking celebrated quack medicines
to degree Of making drug shop of the
body. .-. r. ~
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An ApDr0priate Text.

The minister was struggling to put on
q four-ply collar and the perspiration was
starting from every pore.
"Bless the collar" he calculated:
"Oh, yes, bless it. Bless the blessed
collar"
"My DEAR" said his wife, "what is
your text for this mornings sermon"
''T- twenty first verse fifty fifth
Psalm" he replied, in short gasps. ''The
w-wo1ds of his mouth were s-smoother
than butter, but w-war was in his heart. !"
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am here! Will my head nsver ache again?
Shall never stumble over grave again'
Win I never say goodbye to loved ones
again! Can it be possible that the stream Is
pust, that the bank is gained that the glory
is begun! Show ME Jesus that l may
suffering has run down it will never be
wound up again. Amid the vineyards of the
heavenly Engedi, that will be restoration
without any relapse That will be day with
out any su :reeding night. That will be 1.-THE
saints everlasting rest"
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TEMPERANCE DEPARTMENT.
What q jug Did.

"Why is my home so shabby and old,
Atevery crevice letting, in cold,
And the kitchen walls all covered with
mouldF'
II you'll allow me to be so bold
Go ask your jugl
"Why are my eyes so swollen and redl
Whence this dreadful pain in my headl
Where in the world is our nice feather bed,
And the wood that was piled up in the
shed.n
Go ask your jug!
"Why is my wife broken-hearted and sadl
Why are MY children never now glad?
Why did my business run down so badi
Why at my thoughts am well-nig madF'
Go ask your jug!
"Oh, why 10 pass the old church door
Weary of Eeart and sadly foot sore,
Every moment sinking DOWN lower,
A pitiable outcast evermore?"
Go ask your jugl
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RELIGIOUS READING.
Why?

Why?
With such a grovelling heart how shall J
dare
Ask ih:e, my Lord, to take Thy dwelling
there?
Because the Bethlehem stable Thou dldSs
share.
With restless passions, surging like sea,
How can | think to find repoSe for Tnee!
Because Thy voice hushed stormy Gallee.
With quilts defilement strained without,
within,
How may hope Thy cleansing grace to win'
Because Thou saidst. Il have forgiven
thy sins"
With soul affections stony cold and dead,
What claim have to plead for life instead!
Because in Joseph's tomb was laid Thy
hsad.
-Margaret J. Preston.
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THE HOME DOCTOR.
Eating just Before Bed Time.

The ancient prejudice against eating
Just before going to bed is strongly con-
demned by modern science, experience
having shown it to be unfounded. There
are exceptions to the rule, but few peo-
pie are injured and many positively bene-
fitted by slight repast before retiring:
A glass of milk and biscuit or cracker
is better than any hypnotic drug to put
one to sleep, and in most cases may be
taken without fear of nightmare" or
any other form of distress. Going to
bed ION an empty stomach" is q good
way to invite sleeplessness and ultimate
arrangement of the digestive organs and
general health. -Culticator.
The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1886-09-10

"fall in, "fall in" We did So Roll cal was
dispensed with. He went along the linz and
looked each man in the face to see that arwere
in line. No noise was made. The ords was
given BY the Captain forward aud keep tossed
up We marched of. As we passed tie in
Urinary corps, with their litters and oths ap-
paratus for taking care Of the WOUNDED, it
made one feel solemn. Silently we vsnt to
watts cut and crossed on the boat w had
placed across it few nights before and
"douole quicied, SO as to gain our plao in
line. The column marched by fours. More
rifles were in front, thrown out rs skirmihers
They soon reached the Federal piokets aud the
firing began. Two men were killed. They
belonged to the 55th Pennsylvania Regt. Oar
line OF battle was now formed, and we mo,'cd
through field for halfa mile. Here We k,aed
| and waited for the issue. When dayIight made e
Its appearance, Capt. McKissick was ordered
to take charge of the dismounted men, move to
the right, and surround the picket head
quarters. When we got there everything was
gone, except their cooking vessels, and some
other camp fixtures which they left in their
haste. Tickets were thrown out and We waited
house and opened oil the windows, and raised
the sash that NC might in case of an attack, be
able to defend ourselves. The main column
had gone to the left and were advancing on the
Federal breastworks, when the heavy artillery
opened on them. We were ordered to another
position-to road coming in the rear of oar
army, and told to h old it ut all hazards
jim Askew brought the order. We were soon
on the appointed spot and remained there un-
til Major Palmer had got his men on little
Edisto, and the bridge was DESTROYED behind
him. The main column returned and we
crossed back TO Jehosse. Major Palmer cap
tured several prisoners and our men brought off
several trophies. We got back Oh the main
land just before the Federal gunboats camo up.
Had we been little later our success would
have been doubtful. We bad 500 men on the
Island.
Jimmy Heron got some envelopes from o
Yankee and was selling them out the next day
ut auction. Everybody, of course, wanted one
to write home. When his supply was gone he
said, "lf any of yc hv any more invilopes ye
want to sell fir Yankee ENVELOPES bring them up
and I'll sell them fir yes
While at Camp Taylor, Gillian Jetcr killed
All alligator: Joe Lawson caught one and
brought it into camp alive. lie kept it :. few
days and put it in barrel of water and it
died. There was good many of these "var-
mints' about Camp Taylor. UNr>.
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The ancients had the i'ir greatest horror OF all
that was feeble and infrm; with them pow
erty was dcspicabie and suffering a scandal.
1t is no wonder, chen, that among the
beauty and pleasure-loving Greeks the deaf
mute was looked upon as disgrace to hu-
manity, and under the barbarous laws cf
Lycurgus they were exposed to die. Ncr
was highly cultured Athens less cruel than
Sparta toward these unfortunate creatures.
Deaf mute children were pi'ilessly sacr-
feed without a voice being raised in ther
behalf. Th first who seems to have sci-
ously occupied himself with this phenom-
non Of deafmutism was tho philosopher
| Aristotle. and he declared congenital dea-
mutes to be incapable of instruction, ana
this was the universal opinion of classical
antiquity. The iomans treated these uI-
fortunates with the same cruelty as tic
be deaf and dumb it was sacrificed to tic
Tiber. Only those escaped whom tnc
waves washed back to the shore, or whom
the natural love of their parents kept mid
den from the eyes of the world. Yet in
the centuries Immediately preceding the
Christian era there was sensible dininu-
barous laws, although, about $50 years Is.
c., the poet Lucrctius pronounced himself
in favor of Aristotlcs opinion regarding
deaf f-mutes But iu the course Of time
certain rights were granted to those deaf
mutcs who gave proof Of ability, such al
had been brought u2 secretly by parent:
showing some signs Of intellect. Thi:
gradually dissipatcd the horrible prcjudic,
with which their brethren in msfortun,
had hitherto been regarded. Pliny men
tions congcnial deaf mute, called Quintus
Pedius, who distinguished himself as al
c artist lie was a grandson of the Consu
S of the same name, who flourishcd in TIN
reign Of Augustus. 1t is also probable
that deaf-mutcs were employed as panto
mimists when pantomime was one Of tn
fayoritc amuscmcnts of the Romans. NJ
t I. Muller gives to the Egyptians the crcdi
= of first instructing dcal-mutcs. They a
: well as the persians always respected pei
= sons thus afflicted, and their hicroglyphl
. mode of writing was especially suited
= their education. 1t is Doubtless somcthin
:. more than mere coincidence that their be
,. ter treatment by the Romans dates irol
l. the time of the incorporation of Egypt I
" a Roman province.
.. With 70,OO0,0OO bushels Of whc;
e California will have au income Of at lea
's S54 600, 900, where last year it had one
=, only $4,000 600. Its barley crop Of Is
i 600, 600 ccntals will bring in 81 100000
/, as asains! $4,000, 600 last year.
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With 70,0O0,0OO bushels Of wheat
California will have an income Of at least
$54 600, 900, where last year it had one Of
only S2S, 100000. Its barley crop of is,
10000 ccntals will bring in S1G,000,OOo
as asains! $9OOO,OOO last year.
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Concluded on fourth page.)
Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1886-09-22
A Useful Sprig of Royalty.

Within the past two months Duke
Charles Theodore of Ravaria, assisted
By hls wife, has treated more than one
thousand eye patients, and performed
one hundred and thirty-two surgical
operations. The duke is grandson of
Macmillan l.. King Of Bavaria, and o
cousin of Msximilizn H., father of the
unfortunate monarch who has just COM
misted suicide; and the Duchess. who
ably assists him 10 his successful med
icI and surgical practice, is an infanta
OF Portugal, the Princess Marie-Josephe-
Beatrix -Jeaane-E 1lalie- Leopoldine -Ad-
e&aide- Elizabeth Caroline Michaele-Ra-
le-Gabrielhe-F Francois d Assise ct de
Paule Inez Sophie Joachime -Therese
Benedicite- Bernadine. II is not COM
pulsory upon her patients to address
her BY her full name.-Bossos Tran
scFfpk