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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
The Only Female Mason:

The gossip in Masonic circles over the
publication of story to the effect that
the Grand Lodge of Scotland had been
called upon to discipline two of its men,
bers for permitting two women to wit
ness and overhcar part of the ceremony
and proceedings of Masonic lodge
while in session, recalls the legend Of
the only female Mason. In the office of
the grand secretary of the grand lodge in
the Masonic Temple, New York, hangs
an oil painting of woman dressed in
Masonic regalia. 1t was presented to
Colonel Ehlcrs, and is portrait of the
Hon. Mrs. Aldworth. She is said to
have received, about the year 1735, the
first and second degrees of Frecmasonry
in Lodge No. Al, Doncraile, Ireland.
Mrs. Aldworth Qec Elizabeth St.
Leger) was the youngest child and only
daughter of the first Viscount Doneraile
of Ireland. During the mastership OF
Lord Doner..ilc, brother of Mrs. Aid
worth, the meetings were held at Don
eraile House, his residence. The lodge
was held in a room separated from an
other by stud and brick-work. The
young lady determined to crafty her
curiosity. With a pair of scissors she
removed a portion of brick from the
wall. She thus witnessed the first two
degrees in Masonry. When the brethren
were about to separate, she became
nervous and agitated. Being in the dark
she stumbled over chair. The crash
was loud, and the tiler burst open the
door and, with light in one hand and a
sword in the other, appeared to the terri
fed and fainting lady. He was soon
joined by the members of the lodge pres
cnt, and luckily; for it is asserted that
DuI lol thC piohiP0 "PPe oA iiN'
brother, Lord Donerailc, and the other
cool members, her life would have fallen
sacrifice to what was then esteemed
crime. She was placed under guard of
the tiler in the room where she was
found. The members rcasscmbled and
Geliberated as to what was to be DONE
For over two hours she could hear the
angry discussion, and her death deliber-
ately proposed and seconded. Atlength
the good sense of the majority prevailed.
1t was resolved to give her the option OF
submitting to the Masonic ordeal to the
extent she had witnessed Gellowcraft),
and if she refused the brethren were
again to consult. Miss St. Leger, ex-
hausted and terrified, gladly and unhesi-
tatingly accepted the offer and was ini-
tiated.-[Argonaut.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
Preyentiyes of Wood Decay.

Warmth and moisture, by causing fer
mentation of the sap, are the active
agents in inducing decay in unseasoned
wood. Posts set in the ground rot
soonest at or near the surface, and quite
often the lower parts will be compare
lively sound when entirely rotted off at
the point mentioned. An application of
an oily or resinous substance that will re-
sist decay if put on 10 seasoned post
for only few inches at this most vul-
nerable part will be beneficial. Wood
cut in the sap may from too rapid dry
ing be we'll seasoned on the outside, but
unseasoned within, and thus be liable to
decay from that cause, while slower
and more perfect drying would have
made it practically indestructible for
most uses.
Logs when cut should not be allowed
to lie long in direct contact with the
ground. Sawed lumber, such as boards
or joints, should always be separated by
sticks or laths when piled up for drying,
or afterwards while in lumber yards for
sale. Lumber that has been RATED and
kept under water for weeks will season
much more quickly and is believed to be
more durable than lumber seasoned di-
rectly from the saw. The water dis
solves portion of the sap and causes it
to leach out. Steaming lumber produces
the same effect moro quickly besides
making it more pliable and fitting it for
bending into different shapes without
fracturing. Saturating wood with brine
or salt as a rule will lengthen its useful
ness.
While painting wood before it is sea-
soned is not only useless expenditure,
but will often contribute to decay, the
preservation of seasoned wood by paint
ing cannot be too strongly recommended.
The surface of all lumber exposed to the
action of the elements, whether in build
ings or agricultural Implements should
be completely protected in this maj er.
While the adnixture of color, as in ordi-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
Surprising Cheapness of Tinware.

"People often express great surprise at
the cheapness of tinware. Not long ago
lady told me that for $1.20 she pur-
chased wash boiler and enough smaller
articles of tinware to entirely fill the
boiler. If they could see how quickly
those articles are made they would no
longer wonder at their cheapness. A
piece of cheap coke-tin can be made into
stew pan almost in the wink of an eye,
l might say. There is a general impress
sion that because such tinware is cheap it
will not give good service, but this is not
generally the case. The greatest impcr
fection is caused by careless soldering,
but this applies only to the most inferior
grades. The better grades of the So
called cheap goods have double pressed
seams, which are practically everlasting.
Tinware is cheap only because it is made
by rapid machinery. Should this coun-
Try ever produce tin in quantities large
enough for home consumption, tinware
will likely be cheaper than ever -[Bos-
ton Cultivator.
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A Deadly Railroad.

Nobody will ever know how many
lives the building of the Canadian Pacif-
ic Railroad through Maine cost. The
dead unknowns have been buried like
sheep. \ correspondent of the Dexter
Gazette, writing from Elliotsville, says:
can old, unused burying ground (where
an intcrmcnt had not taken place for 25
years prior to the commencement of the
c. P. r. r. is being rapidly filled up.
4 few days ago your correspondent
counted, scattered around among the
skeletons of old horses, seven newly
made graves. These contained the re-
mains of workmen on the G. P. who had
no friends in this part of the world. -
ILewiston OIe.l Journal.
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FOR FARM AND GARDEN.
About Dressing Poultry.

If you want to know how to dress your
poultry so that Gf otherwise goo0 it will
command the highest price, send right
straight to commission house that deals
in poultry, or to some retail dealer in
poultry in the place where you propose
to sell your poultry, and find out just
what kind of dressed poultry sells best
whether dry or wet picked, drawn or un-
drawn, is preferred. You will find this
will be better than going ahead accord
ing to some directions that you have read
somewhere in some paper, for these dl-
rections are for some particular market,
and the chances are they may not fill the
bill for your market.-[Prairie Farmer.
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nary paint, makes harder and more
durable body, where it is thought it can
not be afforded, oiling with raw petro
leum may often be used with good ef-
feet. Immersing in or painting with it
is a cheap and useful prcservativc for
seasoning posts or any kind of wood.
Charring the ends of posts that are to
go into the ground is of doubtful utility,
considering the trouble and the fact that
they are liable to crack. AS q general
thing, heart wood and the wood from ma
ture trees, neither young nor very old,
will last longer than wood from trees of
either extreme. In heavy clay soils, al
ways wet or moist, posts will endure
longer than in gravelly and lighter de-
scriptions that are alternately wet and
dry. As rule, trees grown on dry up
lands in open fields, if of the proper
age, are worth more as fuel or timber
than when grown in dense forest on
low, rich land.-[New York World.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
To Feed a Choice Calf.


There is no better food for fattening a
calf than the fresh milk of the COW. But
when calf runs with the cow it should
be fed only twice day, as frequent suck
ing tends to lessen the yield of milk. To
make fine calf the following method
would be advisable: Give the cow q
liberal feeding of good food. For in
stance, four pounds of bran and the same
of cornmeal daily, in two feeds, with the
usual hay, and feed of hay alone at
noon. Give the calf, if II weeks old, a
pound daily-beginning with little at
frst-of the mixed bran and meal. Very
large calves are reared by giving them
the milk of two COWS, with meal besides,
and a little good clover hay. With two
months such feeding a calf now Z weeks
old may be made to weigh 400 pounds.
Care is to be taken not to crowd the
grain food at first, but to give little to
begin with and increase gradually. Corn
ensilage, 80 pounds daily, might be
given with the aforementioned meal,
and pounds of dry clover hay at noon
to the COW. The cow would milk all
the better after the calf is taken away.
A calf does better to suck than to drink
the milk New York Times.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
Farm and Garden Notes.

Farm ana Garden NOteS.
Indian corn is the best plant we have
for sllo purposes.
Have farm that you can keep up in
fertility, and it will keep you.
If the house plants are in room that
is often swept, don't neglect giving their
leaves washing occasionally.
The need of the American farmer is
not fast trotting horses, but fast farm
horses and fast plow horses.
If you take from the farm little more
fertility each year than you return, you
will soon find farming don't pay.
We believe it best to leave the horns
on milch COWS until it is proven by dis
interested persons that dehorning pays.
BY continually cutting back the white
pine it may, in few years, take form
as compact as that of the common hem
lock.
Make free use of all the conventions
and meetings that you can attend; all
these are means of obtaining informa-
ton.
With plenty of good feed stored under
good shelter and with shelter for the
COWS, winter dairying can be made more
profitable than in the summer.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
Remedy for Collie.

An excellent paper on collie in horses
is published in Bells Weekly Messenger,
Qondon.) 1t was contributed by Mr..
j. Smith, veterinary surgeon. 'This
complaint" he says, ''is rare in cases
where care is bestowed on the diet of the
animals. He recommends that those
who have charge of horses, especially
agricultural horses, should be taught
that the stomach of a horse is not like
the rumcn of COW, mere receptacle
for food, but an essential organ of diges-
ton of but limited capacity, which does
not need to be crammed in order to per-
form its proper functions, and that it
cannot be so treated without danger to
the animal; that the teeth of horse are
provided for the purpose of masticating
the food, and that food which does not
require mastication should bo sparingly,
if ever, used. He further recommends
that no horse be put to work Immediate
ly after full meal, and where horse
has done heavy days work it should
be allowed to stand in the stable until it
is fsf and samf1rtRhs GO 5g RsfQrs being fed
tie good hay be put into the rack it will
occupy his attention, and besides re-
quiring proper mastication, will further
have the effect of slightly stimulating
the stomach to secretion and prepare it
for the reception of the feed which is to
follow. Should horse require more
food than usual to supply the extra
waste Of tissues caused by hard work let
it have it by all means, but let it be in
excess of its. albumenoids or nutritious
constituents and let the horse be fed
oftener and not in increased quantities at
time"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.


Steam was first applied to boats in
America.
The famous Kohinoor diamond of
England weighs LOG carats.
Nine knots made in o black woolen
thread formerly served as q charm in the
case of sprain.
In many parts of England and in the
United States an odd number of eggs is
put under setting hen.
A Quaker witness was ordered out of a
London court the other day because he
would not remove his hat.
".John Bull" a nickname given to
Englishmen, is said to be derived from
DR., Arbuthnot's satire of that name.
A man can hire.a house in Japan, keep
two servants and live on the fat of the
land all for little over $40 month.
AJapanesc is coming over to this coun-
try to prove that man can stay under
water for four minutes as well as for
twenty seconds.
A fissure has recently appeared in the
earth in Churchill county, New, which
is three feet wide, several miles long and
of unknown depth.
A spring of natural cologne has broken
forth in the southern part of Algiers.
The liquid has not been analysed, but
its odor is very similar to that OF
patchouli.
A tourist fell into a Yellowstone park
ceyser the other day and was carried
some distance below the surface of the
earth. An instant later he was hurled
twenty-five feet above the ground.
Mr.. Topliff, of Cleveland, is nothing
if not enterprising. He proposes to take
phonographophonc with him around
the world and record his impressions,
sending the phonograms to his daughter.
When the Olympiau left Victoria,
British Columbia, the other day three
and a half tons of barnaclcs were scraped
off from her bottom. 1t is estimated
that it cost her $50 trip to carry them
Several white topazcs, so much like
diamonds as to deceive even some cx,
perts. have been found on Bald Face
mountain in Chatham, N. II. A small
bow found one, which he sold for few
cents, and the buyer realized $50 for ii
after it had been cut and polished.
Two young Englishmcn who recently
passed through Chicago on their way
around the world, informed a reporter
that they have been making collection
of samples of the water of the great
rivers of the world. The samples art
bottled as soon as collected and the
bottles duly labelled, are sent to thel
homes in England by express.
Near the soda springs at Ashland
Oregon, there is one which emits 3 ga
so poisonous as to kill whatever ma!
breathe it, and it is said that there is al
most constantly ring of birds, snakes
lizards and such small deer, lying deae
about it. The same deadliness i
claimed for spring somewhere in Ida
ho, and in both it is thought that con
ccntrated form of carbonic acid gas il
the acrI7U Hycur uc''1rucrron.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

1t is hard for the clergy to please
every ody nowadays. A Boston woman
compl, ins that her pastor never looks at
her wh'n h breaches, but devotes all his
attention to the sinners on the other side
of the church. For this reason she says
that his sermons do not have the moral
effect on her which they ought to have.
On the other hand, Chicago woman re-
Gently complained that her pastor invari-
ably looked at her when he was preach
ing, especially when he denounced hum
bugs and hypocrites, and she wanted to
know if it wasn't an outrage to treat re-
spectacle pcw-hoders in this way. When
the clergyman finally heard of her griev-
ancc he laughingly explained that he
wasn't looking at the woman at all when
she thought he was but at a certain pill
lar behind her, the sight of which, for
some mysterious reason, always seemed
to clarity his thought.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
COMPRISING SnOWdrifts.

Out in Negaunee, Mich, a genius is
building machine for getting rid of
snowdrifts. The concern consists of an
immense roller built of 1900 feet of hard
wood lumber, an iron axle weighing 500
pounds, and cast-iron heads to which
the timber slaves are bolted.
Some 500 bolts arc used in making the
machine, and a.pole six inches square
and twenty feet long serves to control
the movements of the roller, and forms a
place to which several teams can be at
tachcd.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
Renovating Run-Out Orchards.

6CnOVaUlHS INuh-ouC
We often meet with an orchard of ap-
parently healthy trees, which is practi-
cally fruitless. The owner may tell us
that it formerly bore abundant crops, but
of late years the trees have ''run out. !"
Why have they ''run out?" They for.
merly gave good crops of apples. All
the other land on the farm was expected
to give but one good crop, but this of
the orchard was made to give a crop of
grain, or crop of grass or clover, to be
taken off as hay. The soil soon became
tired of doing this double duty. The
trees "gave out" because they were
robbed of food; the first thing they
need is feeding. Of course if the soil
needs draining, lay the needed tiles at
once, or as soon as the soil will allow.
Such orchards are usually in grass; draw
on heavy dressing of manure and spread
it, and as soon as the soil is in proper
condition, turn over the sod and manure
with the plow; with the hot weather the
sod will decay rapidly. When this is
found to be we'll rottcd, give another
blowing, and deep one. If ashes can
be had, spread heavy coating and har-
row; in the absence of ashes, harrow in
good dressing of lime. If the trunk
and larger branches are covered with
loose scales of old bark upon which
lichens and moses have foot
hold, scrape off the loose bark,
using a blunt, short-handled
hoe as q scraper. Then in damp time
or thaw wash the trees with soft soap,
made thin enough to apply with brush.
Use homemade soft soap, made with lye
or potash. That sold at the stores is
usually merely hard soap mixed with
water and very deficient in strength and
quite inferior to the homemade. Mix
the soap with enough water to work
readily, 60 over the scraped portions
with it, and leave the spring rain to
finish the work. In due time the bark
will be found beautifully smooth and de-
prived of all foreign growth. The soap
that has been washed into the soil will
act as useful fertilizer. Long neglected
trees usually require pruning, and this
must depend upon the condition of the
tree. Never cut out branch without
lc,
come crowded, cut out enough branches
to let light and air into the center; if
grown one side, remove the branches
needed to restore the balance. If large
wounds are made, smooth the surface
and paint them over with some dark
colored paint American Agriculturist.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
"NIost of the sardines sold nowadays,

"NIost Of the sardines sold nowadays" "
says grocer, 'sare nothing but small
hcrrings, put up in boxes with gaudy
labels and French inscriptions. In East
port, Me-, there arc nineteen places
where they turn out sardines, besides
three at Lubec, two at Jonesport, and
ono each at NIillbridge, Lamoine and
Robinston. When it was first attempted
to make sardincs from herrings it Was
found that the difficulty lay in eradicat-
ing the herring flavor. 1t took years of
experiment to accomplish this. Finally
a manufacturer succeeded in producing a
combination of oil and spices which re-
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
After the Sermon.

Husband coming home from church,
"You seemed unusually thoughtful dur
ing the sermon, my dear. 1 was i'm
pressed, too. There seemed to be some
thing genuine about it."
Wife. "Well, there isn't. I'm per-
fectly sure it's only seal plush, for all Mrs.
Veneer gives herself such airs over it. -
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

The startling assertion is made in one
of the opening pages of recent work on
prison reform that Judging by the num-
Der of commitments, year by year, to the
pcnitcntiarics and state prisons, crime
has increased in the United States, rela-
lively to the population, since the war
by not less than one-third.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

1t is asserted by the Rural New Yorker
that more sheep and lambs are killed in
New. York than in any other city in the
world, over two million head being
slaughtered annually, and with the IN
creasing demand for mutton and lambs
the chances arc that she will continue to
hold first place for some time to come"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

1t is the intention to send a portable
steamer from Liverpool to Central Africa,
to be transported by natives to Stanley
Pool, 240 miles from the mouth of the
Congo River, to navigate the Congo,
wh,t1, it is estimated, is navigablc for a
distance of 1000 miles. The steamer, it
is,hopcd, will be running in about a year.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
italy is rcarranging her railroad system

IlHIy IS TcaTTaUSIIIS HCF I1TrEos'e' y N'en
on tk2 ''.i. =. .... ca. :!c;,-hborS, so as
to make it more efficient in carrying
troops to any threatened point. 1t seems,
comments the Cincinnati Enquirer, as If
the war burdens would never close over
them. But they have increased at such
a frightful rate since 1870 that every one
who can is running away.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

|$Thc Detroit Journal recently headed
FITS column of Michigan news with the
following challenge: Leap year is gone,
yet can any one tell of bona fide case
wherein a Michigan girl really proposed
to a man during the year2 Give names,
please; no gcncralizations.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
A Sensible Man

Would use Kemp's Balsam for the Throat and
Lungs. tits curing more cases OF Coughs
Colds, Asthma, Bronchitis, Group apd all
Throat and Lung Troubles, than any other
medicine. The proprietor has authorized any
druggist to give you Sample Bottle Free 10
convince you Of the merit OF this great remeoy'
Large Bottles SOC and 81.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

In addition to the National Bureau Of
! Labor Statistics, it is now proposed to
establish Bureau of Criminal Statistics,
I of a somewhat similar nature so far as
1m.sgathcrin@ of material is concerned.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

greatest centre of industrial ac-
Iday is the Argentine Republic of
America, where phenomenal
more rapid relatively than that
United Statcs-is seemingly affect
!! he European financial market.
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ret is expressed among naval
yellow fever should have

tret is expressed among naval
yellow fever should have
- = upon the United States man
'ston. 1t is sometimes impos-
say, to get the germs out of
Fl, and when the ship is thought
ttirely freed from the disease a
TO the fever country will develop
rms and cause an outbreak of the
3de. 4 fever ship is always feared,
no positive method of fumigation has
been discovered that is regarded as
liable. 1t is question, however,
1hether the germs will find foothold
4 in the Boston, for she is a new ship, con-
structcd for the most part of iron, and
with no rotten or soft wood anywhere in
her frame. As these materials usually
furnish the hiding places for the seeds of
the plague, it is hoped that the Boston
will escape the reputation of being a
''fever ship"
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14
.Rnd.eoI Cure for EpileptIc Fits.

To The Editor-Pleasc inform your readers
that have positive remedy for the above
" Morst cases. So strong is my faith in its vir
tues that will send flee sample bottle and
valuable treatise TO any sufferer who will give
ne his O. and Express address Respy.
H.G. ROOT, NJ. c.. 1S3 Pearl ST.. New York.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

A clergyman, after years OF suffering from
irving every known remedy, at last found o
prescription which completely cured and saved
him from death. Any sufferer from this dread;
full disease sending a self-addressed stamped
cnyeione TO Prof. J. A. Lawrence, So War; en-
st., NY, will receive the recipe free OF charge.
II AFFLICTED with sore eyes use pr. Isaac Thomp-
son'sEye-water. Druggists sell at25c. per bottle
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-02-14

1t is stated by the Medical Record,
5 that the United States Government has
paid more money in the Investigation of
the disease of hogs than it has for all the
diseases affecting the human race.
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Cnfnrrh Cured.

COLONIAL wool on sale this season IN Londol
amounts to some l55 600 bales.