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his thermometer on the knee of his
trousers and put it under the tongue of
the sick man. 1t remained there ten
minutes. Those who have given them
selves up to the gastronomic delights of a
lucent thermometer that has been through
long hospital practice will agree that it
gives one the gay look of man who has
just swallowed soft shell ostrich egg or a
wet umbrella.
After the doctor had gone the wife said:
"Agamemnon," what was that there
thing he give you when he first come in ?"
That" says Agamemnon, was cleo
tricity, and | never got relief SO quick
since | was born"
Faith in physicisn also brought about
the use of turpent ne internally. The
doctor erred in his order and wrote for it
to be used internally instead of exter-
nally. Faith of this kind has been the
father Of many important discoveries.
l knew a doctor very well who was also
digging well, even as / have been doing
this summer, until itgot to running in his
mind. Night or day he could think of
nothing else. When at leisure he was all
the time looking down the road,
watching for messenger who was
expected to tell him that the vein had
been struck and the old we'll was squirting
a column of water eighty feet high. All
the money he earned by his practice he
Pue ii..o oiaStihS HonucA nilu luoS. NOW
and then he set leg or trepanned the
head of his head well digger but most
generally he had to pay cash for all the
work be had done.
Finally he got to prescribing in a wan
dering sort of way, and seemed to ramble
mentally while practicing. The we'll sort
of warped his mind till one day he tried to
remove a stone bruise by administering a
small dynamite cartridge. Faith in the
physician induced the lad to take the
dynamite. and the stone bruise was re-
moved. 1t and the lad were buried in the
same grave. They We're planted by means
of a corn-planter, in hills four feet apart.
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p. S-Thes following proclamation
comes from q friend In louisiana, and
shows that patriotism and love of country
both have a strong hold on the mayor of
Waveand, or else that he has some lots
fer sale there at q merely nominal figure
Everybody. visitors especially. are or is,
as the case may be, requested of providing
theirself or itself with suitable rubbish and
fireworks, as we'll as also to bring their
or its dinner. as our people are anxious of
celebrating this Fourth of July as grander
than ever before:
To the Citizens and Visitors of the toua of Ware
lard: A. our people are ANXIOUS OF celebrating
this Fourth OF July as grander than ever before
you are requested To display flags from your
wharfs and promises, and not absent yourself
from the grand regatta under the penalty of de-
priving yourself and family OF the grand piano.
rama OF magnificent racing yachts.
Race will start from head OF Nicholson avenue
at II o clock
Have ready on your beach piles of rubbish 10
start bonfires Provide yourself with suitable
fireworks, and be ready for the general display
tn be started at o'clock, at Il signal given by
the mayor at the head of Nicholson avenue by
the ascension of balloon, which will discharge
fireworks i'll the air as IL ascends
DO this then TO amuse our people aud for
many years to receive thanks and praise
Given under my hand ard seal this 10Th day of
June. A II. 1872. A. A ULMAN, Mayor.
The proclamation reminds me of text
book which | once studied. entitled
Portuguese Without a Master"
Here is an anecdote which found in
the book, and translated one dav while
herding stock near Dirty Woman's Ranch.
Wv, one of the most romantic spots west
of Skowhegan:
a physician - years of age had enjoyed of a
health unalterabie. Their friends did him OF it
compliments every day. "Mr. Doctor" they said
10 him,"you admirable man. What you make
then Tor to bear as well?' ~ will tell You it,
gentlemen" he was answered them. land ex-
hort you in same time at To follow my example
! live OF the product OF my ordering without
take any remedy who command to my sicks."
/ sent this work to a friend OF mine who
was just appointed as minister TO Portu-
gal. He wrote thanking me, and saving
that he would commit this anecdote in
Portuguese 10 memory, as they were going
10 give him large boiled dinner on his
arrival. 1t was TWO weeks before [ heard
from Portugal. and then / managed to
make out by Lisbon paper that he was
dead b. n
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nearly always colored by partisanship and
are invariably exaggerated. L have been
through three or four presidential cam
paigns, and in those campaigns have
learned enough to make Just estimate
concerning the amount ofmoney employed
on both sides. In one or two instances the
figures | give are practically official. In
1850 the national committee of the Repub-
lican party received in the way of SUBJ
scrptions some $4,000. This money was
disbursed through the Craftsmanship of
Marshall Jewell the former postmaster
general of General Grant. In the cam
paign of 1854 some 100000 was raised. Ii.
+. Jones, of Pittsburg. was the chairman
of the committee that collected the money
and spent it. In 1883 Senator Quay had
the disbursement of some $4,000. This
was the largest sum ever raised and spent
by national committee.
In each one of the years above named
the Democrats had about the same amount
of money. In 1850 and 1884 they had an
equal amount. 1t can be said generally
in every presidential campaign that the
Democrats raise as much money as the
Republicans. In the year 1888 they had
perhaps S100, 900 less. The two commit
tees disbursed in the last campaign over q
million and half of dollars. Some Of
the Democratic subscriptions came from
individuals rather than organizations.
One Democratic leader, a very rich man,
told me personally that he contributed to
the campaign fund in 1sSS the sum of
$25O.O00.
1t is said by those who are experienced
in such matters that it is always easier to
raise money for the party which is out
than for the party which is in. This may
account for the deficiency in the Demo-
cratic treasury in the year 1883.
For what purposes are these vast sums
employed? may properly be asked. have
never seen any evidence or heard any re-
sponsible person directly charge that the
chairman OF the national committee of
either party ever authorized the use of this
money for the purpose of purchasing votes.
/ know it has often been charged in parti-
san speeches and in the heat of the cam
paign, but have never seen any one who
possessed reliable information who was
willing to affirm the correctness of such
charges.
Something of an idea of where the money
goes can De ehtsined by running ever the
disbursements of the Republican national
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shown me where the water could be easily
reached, but | lacked faith. Coming from
New York, was checked up pretty high,
and claimed to know as much of metro
politan life as DIR. Parkhurst, also a good
many other things: SO pooh poohed the
water witch and went my way. / lacked
faith.
Faith is necessary in the affairs of this
life as we'll as those of a future state.
Faith has done much to advance the cause
of progress and human advancement and
progression. Progress and advancement
must naturally go hand in hand. Faith
has done much to advance progress and
to give progression to advancement Isle J.
Faith In physician has done much to
advance the cause of medicine, for in
stance. A neighbor of mine here, through
faith in his doctor, made the discovery
that it was the capsule and not the con-
tents which cured him. One day the
doctor had the capsules with him,
but none of the filling. and so he ad-
ministered the capsule. 1t did the
patient so much good that now he often
uses the capsule by itself with gratifying
results.
Last spring man in Buncombe county
was taken sick with sort of misery in
his side and rising in his head The
doctor was sent for and decided to take the
temperature of the Invalid; so he wiped
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BLACK MAGIC.

Grandfather sun, VIII ON they love so well,
Has lifted from earth his golden spelI
As two little maidens, hand IN hand,
60 tempting the magic OF Sunderland
Twilight's time of enchantment they
Have never yet known, Tor their work, which il
play,
Weights their eyelids tn side by side,
Sleep bears them of on his poppied tide.
Softly the lashes long and brown
Fall on the tender cheeks of down
Falling, too, with II touch as fond,
softly the lashes long and blonde
Grandmother Moon nights magic black
Has turned TO white in her silver track
Hand in hand down her path OF beams
They Journey into the realm OF dreams
SIX ipping past forests aud foods immense
safe by the compass of innocence,
sealing the SUBMITS OF hills OF snow
Watching river of emeralds fowl
Pulling the noses of giants grim,
Aud singular posies IN valleys dim
Welcoming meFmaids in yellow silk
To cranberry tarts and bottles OF milki
's-h- h-h1h Now. from their breathing deep,
They must have entered the palace OF Steep
Whose gates might q warriors knock Withstand
But welcome the babes n slunoeriandi
John Paul BococE
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soon the streaks OF dying sunset
Gioried all the western heavens;
Here a cloud OF lovely amber,
There sheen of crimson beauty
On field OF boundless purple;
And the little white clouds nestled
In the azure vault of even.
Like the lambs by shepherd guarded
When the fold IS wrapped in slumber.
Twas a scene upon the canvas
That is held by ange! fingers,
While the seraphs ana the cherubs
Draw with pencils dipped in color
OF the richest tints harmonious,
Used whene'er the elhn rainbow
Rears its arch OF cleaning brightness
on the breast Of Mother Nature,
When the rain hath gemmed the grasses,
And refreshed the earth with moisture.
Now the liquid OF the river
Caught tint yet still diviner
From the clouds OF mellow richness
Hung upon the evening mantle,
AS she came across the mountains
spriaxiiug wide her wealth Of dewdrops,
Wrapping all the hills "A silence.
Yet the cascade laughing logdc
NAst o fbt+S ~ Ft'.A1N -fF@~fAN's
While the waters churned aud foaming.
Ger the pebbles ana the boGlders
Rushed and whiried ia seethDg eddies-
"oh, sweet Goddess of tie Starlight,
Though you luli the hills 10 slumber,
Sill you cannot chain the fountain
As 1t flashes On forever"
Then the night with loving fingers
Drew the canopy OF psleness
Ger the heads OF stun bering miiiions,
Saying, "Rest, my dearest children,
After ali your toll and labor;
Alter all your strife and longing
For the heights that tower above you;
Obstacles within your pathway
That have sc, your hearts 20 aching.
All who weep aud ell gho sorrow.
Weeping for tnc one Departed;
All whom grief has bonna IN bondage,
All who love without rsauitai-
Rest. and let the signs of sadness
Leave your minds while gentle siurnber
Pods you IN rs peaceful bosom
sslla Wslla, july Il. ". 4. Park.
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" prehension then
t;ndied has since spread to a degree that
has filed all Europe with alarm. The pos
.ible danger to which the United States
has thus become exposed through the
channels of immigration that discharge
their currents within its borders creates a
natural and widespread American interest
IN the subject. In spite of all efforts made
70 stem the danger, at the present writing
II has assumed and retains a more for
midable aspect than ever before The ex-
tension of the trouble into Russia, where
II first took root and which we must now
consider the most prolific source Of dam
ger to ourselves, at once suggests the inn
portance of our getting the Russian YER
sion of the matter in preference to those
necessarily garbled accounts which filter
into our newspapers through English
sources.
The truth is that we must seek for the
birthplace of the cholera epidemic within
the confines of British India. or at least
in those sections of the Indian Empire
which are practically under British con-
troll. In Russia a grave suspicion exists
that the English resident in Cabul, in
Afghanistan, knows more of the true in
wardness of the difficulty than he or his
superiors have ever been willing to admit.
As early as the Goth of April last several
cases of cholera were reported in the val
ley of the Helmund, a river that flows be-
tween Kandahar and the Persian frontier.
The British resident, hearing of the out
break, sent cipher dispatch to the gov
eminent officials at Calcutta, whence in
structions were forwarded to Lahore, di-
recting the shipment of disinfectants in
Quantities to the Anglo-Afghan border.
No public explanation was made for this
action, as it was considered advisable to
keep matters quiet. Meanwhile the Rus
sian governor of Samarkand, Count Ros-
torlzell, received information which gave
him reasonable cause to form the conclu-
sion that at the instance of the Indian
government cholera patients were being
quietly carted over on to Persian territory
from Afghanistan and there left to shift
for themselves.
1t is not for us to take sides in the con-
troyersy, for that is really what the above
occurrence has called forth between Russo
phobes on one side ana Anglophobes on
the other. The Russians practically
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THE MERRY LARK.

The merry. merry lark was up and singing,
Ard the hare was out and feeding on the Tea
And the merry, merry bells below Were ringing
So. the hare is shared, and dead beside the
snowyard, ..-
And NV baby in his cradle In the ehuschSara
Watch there until the bells trlng me.
""e'-' Charles hsags,sy.
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NYE'S PARCHED WE'LL.
The Only Dry Place in the State
Of North Carolina.
THE WRITING OF POPULAR SONGS
Necessity OF Having Faith-Patriotism
IN Louisiana-An Anecdote From
the Portuguese.
copyright, 1892. by Edgar W. Nye !,

Copyright, 1892, by Edgar W. Nyel
From Golightly. S. c.. comes a little
poetic opal or rhythmic carbuncle, entitled
A Mornful Song" 1t would indicate
that there is growing up in the Carolinas,
as 1t were. pOstbellum sort of reminls-
cence in song, and that here in the thought
ganglIa and turpentine centers of the new
South, where erstwhile its diagnosis has
almost had the field to itself, now there is
coming forward free, joyous trill of def
ant giadness which marks the age and tells
OIL It's former environments in an untram-
meied way that l must say like.
This is the rondeau 40 it comes to me,
dated Golightly, S. c.. June 8, of the pres
ent year, and signed Polk Ransom:
A MoRSFUL SONG.
Last summer when flowers and fruit were red
Az the end of that summer my uncle was dead
Alas! we laid him on a messy bed
10 sleep forever.
But the wave OF sorrow still roles high
lie left children on this world to live
And In the sorrow OF life to dy
And meet him.
The American song writer has heretofore
been too graphic perhaps. He should
merely touch a note here and there, leav-
ing the reader to fill in or improvise the
connecting interlude The poet should
say to his reader: ''Let us wander on to-
ward the beautiful West. We will meet
at certain point and you can go your
own way through the meadows. and there
at the end of the stanza we will join each
other and compare woodticks."
Poetry, like music. should inspire those
who are capable of receiving inspiration,
but it should not be too graphic, like the
report of the United States coast survey.
Now We have here a song which is brought
to an abrupt conclusion, leaving the reader
to easily supply the last words himself and
complete the stanZa. as follows:
He left five 81 children on this world to live
And in the sorrow OF life to dy
And meet him.
Oh, yes,
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On, yes,
Well meet him,
Well meet him
When the sun goes down.

Mr.. Ransom could write good cam
paign song if he would turn his attention
to 1t. Campaign songs are more CHEEKY
than the moan We give above. Here,
where we regard clay as vctuals, it is not
pleasant to think of Folks uncle turning
to kindred clay and becoming edible at his
time of life.
Let Polk turn in and write a campaign
song. Let it be a reversible song that can
be used by either party. Any man who can
paint such word picture of his uncle's
death could build a campaign song that
would easily be heard above the noise of
the workmen engaged in mailing the cam
paign lie.
But let US pass on to speak of more
agreeable subjects. Those who are inter
ested in the subject of wells will be glad to
know that workmen on this well-known
structure of mine struck water on the ev-
ening of the Sth inst, and were compelled
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A hand of Russian robbers entered the house
nj Jewish innkeeper and killed the iather
mother and i've daughters, who refused 10 aus
close where their savings were Anollisi
sS.,'.hta, wss discovered in hiding. and after
rn,nneIlinv her to confess they STABBED her re-
peatsdly.
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ceeded in handing in very satisfactory
ra,ort n al II not been for the unlucky cir
c,,mstance of one of his Cossack guards
getting drunk, and while in his cups glY-
ing the whole story away.
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COST OF CAMPAIGNS.
They Are Getting More Expen-
sive All the Time.
LEGITIMATE USE OF MONEY.
Each Side Will Raise . Million This
Year for Bands. Banners, Speeches,
Printing and Persuasive Inf uence.

| f question, "How
much money does it
take TO run q presi-
Dental campaign ~
has often been asked,
but has never been
satisfac Il orily an
swere d. In every
campaign there are
always stories circn-
lated on both sides
concerning the use of
money. These are
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SPREAD OF CHOLERA.
The Course of the Epidemic in
Asia and Europe.
FIRST APPEARED IN PERSIA.
n view Ravages India In the South and
Russia on the North-How Con.
tsgion is Prevented.

VO months ago
the cholera first
made its appear
ance at Djami, an
u n i m por t a n t
place on the from
tier line between
Afghanistan and
Persia, and the
little flame of ap-
prehenSion then
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EVENING ON THE COLUMBIA.

ELIzABETu Ii. CUSTER
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1892-01-27
Repairing Fences.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer.
Among the first items of farm
work that usually have attention In
the spring is the building or repair
ing OF fences. Our own plan is to at
tend to this In the fall, 80 that there
will be no possibility of its interfer-
ing with work that has to do directly
with the production OF crops. We
do not intend now, however, 10 dis.
cuss the best time for doing that
work, but to ask whether 30 much
of Ii Is really necessary.
About the heaviest tax we have
to pay on our own farms in the way
of an expenditure that brings moth
ing back is the labor and material
employed in fence building; but we
have got 30 accustomed TO cutting our
farms up into little fields that it lie
hard to overcome the practice. We
see adjacent fields grown to corn and
wheat and mellow, with strong fences
between them, as If the owner was
afraid that one crop would encroach
on the territory OF the other. The
theory is, we believe, that he may
want to pasture one of the fields at q
season when there is standing crop
i'm the other, but If he does the chances
are much against his getting value
enough from it to pay for maintaining
the fences. Then there is the waste
land of the fence row-no small item
and the fence row is very apt to be q
harbor for weeds, and time is requir-
ed to keep them down that ought to
he given to the cultivation of crops
These things may have all been said
before, but we want to bring them
fresh to your mind just now, so that
before you rebuild those fences you
may stop and ask yourself II they car
not better be wholly dispensed with
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One of the chief concern, of the
farmer should be to see that all things
about his farm have sufficient shelter.
This applies not only to all animals
and fowls, but also to all implements.
Where there is an insufficient shelter
the yearly loss to the farmer in one
way and another will figure up a fair
interest on the money invested in
live stock and machinery.
A light blanket in the stable is bet
ter than a heavy one, but heavy
blanket should be used when the
horse is outside. 1t is exposure to
the winds, when at rest, that causes
the horse to take cold. 1t should he
remembered that horses differ. Some
are more subject to lung complaints
than others, and will not. endure ex-
posture, while some horses will seldom
show signs of being affected by any
kind of exposure.
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Cabbage Growing.

From the Savannah News.
There is no crop probably that gives
the gardener or trucker more pleasure
and profit than we'll grown crop of
cabbages-a crop, for instance, where
not more than 10 per cent of the plants
is lost through the ravages of cut
worm and other causes, and where 90
per cent of the remaining plant ma Z 9
perfect heads, ranging from TO 10
pounds each. This constitutes q
''well grown" crop of cabbages
in the South: though it may
rot be considered such in the ca b bage
regions of the Northwest, New Eng
land or Long Island. A crop of 1000
hard heads, averaging or pounds
each, is certainly TO be regarded as
very fair crop In our latitude. There
are plenty OF cabbage growers who
do not attain such 8 success one year
in three, even though they may have
very good land. The trouble with
them is they use seeds that are of
uncertain origin and of varieties that
are not suited to their soil or climate.
Success in cabbage culture depends
oh u6O vi "Cli ctCu bCcub
of the one or the other of the varieties
that are best adapted to the climate.
By "well. bred" seeds are meant those
that have been saved from perfect
heads, and all the light and
imperfect ones winnowed out.
There is no question that very large
quantity Of cabbage seeds are sold
every year that are not worth carry
ing home. Many are attracted by the
low price at which these seeds are
sold, ouy them, and after going to all
the trouble that would bring success
with good seeds find their venture
ends In failure. 1t Is a maxim of cab
bage culture that it will not pay to
use poor seeds at any price.
First-class seeds are not to be had
for 81 or 81 a pound. for 1t will cost
more than that to save such seeds
seeds that will make plants so or 95
per cent of which will develop into a
large hard head.
The secret of fine crop of cabbages
consists in having the right kind of
seeds. Good land and good cultiya-
ton will do the rest.