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Year: 1879

silently, and without further incident
we reached our landing place at the
outlet.


When the boat touched the shore, l
stepped ont upon the bank, and, hold
ing her prov, swung her around so that
Steve could get out without climbing
over the two deers, which seemed to
fill the boat.


Morse socn started rousinR fire,
Which l was glad enough to see, as /
was thoroughly chilled, and in a few
minutes We were each discussing "hard
tack and a dipper OF steaming tea,
"to brace us up for the rest of the
night, as Steve observed.


AS soon as this necessary ceremony
had been gone through with, we hung
up the deer to two trees that stood near
the landing place, and Steve soon had
them dressed and ready for removal to
the camp, holding the lantern for him
and assisting as best could.


IL was nearly two o'clock before we
were done, and when / threw myself
upon the ground beside the camp fire, /
was 30 thoroughly tagged that in less
than minutes time was sound asleep.
We awoke at sunrise, and while l start
ed the fire, Steve took the heads and
other offal of the deer and buried them
deep in the ground, excavating the soft
earth with his paddle. He did this, he
said, because if the meat were left un-
covered the deer would at once forsake
their runs about the pond, and "deer-
hunting would be spilled there for long
time to come"


After breakfast was dispatched and
the inevitable pipe smoked, we cut up
and packed in the canvas sacks the
largest of the two deer preparatory to
starting for "the camp.P


The meat fairly filed the bag, and
Steve had a load that I did not envy.
I took the gun and all the other i'm
pedimenta, and Morse, throwing his
load upon his shoulder, led the way on
the return trip; the other deer we left
for one of the other guides to come for,
Morse assuring me that it would be in
camp before night.


Our return tramp, whether because
there was more of down hill to it than
there was the other way, seemed to me
much shorter and easier than the weary
jaunt in, and almost before I realized it
we were at the lake and in the boat, on
the way to the camp.


When we arrived our friends were at
dinner, and the shouts that vent up
when our approach was seen made the
welkin ring. Morse and had some of
the venison for dinner.


AS we sat down to enjoy the rich, juicy
meat. Gardner handed over the amount
of his bet to Steve; Morse folded up the
bill and placed it in his wallet, remark
ing in his quiet way, "One can most
always get a deer if he knows where to
find it and how to shootssit."
Year: 1879

Governor Wade Hampton has q re-
markable Maltese cat-very large, very
intelligent, very fond of his master.
When the governor was in health, Tom
was his constant companion in his daily
walks about the yard, and would occa-
sionally accompany him on longer RAM
bles through the adjacent woods 1t
made but little difference to Tom that
his master was sometimes mounted on
such occasions. Nothing daunted; he
would truige along at his horses heels
for hours together, perfectly satisfied 30
long as he could "keep up" or even
KEEP his owner in sight. The govern
or's election to Office was severe blow
to bis queer follower, as it involved a
daily separation which was eminently
distasteful to him; but, like the sensi-
BILE animal he is, he finally reconciled
his own affections to the claims of pub
lie expediency, and contented himself
each morning with escorting his excel
lency to the gate, at some distance from
the house, when he would bid him a
sad, if silent, goodbye, and return to
the house until evening. The governor
always observed as regular hours as
possible in the discharge of his duties at
the statehouse, and generally returned
to his home about the same time every
evening. This regularity Tom seems to
have remembered for. his own benefit,
as he proceeded to avail himself of it to
the extent of hurrying back each after
noon little before the appointed time
to the gate, where he ever and anxious
ly remained to welcome his too-long-
absent friend on his return. During
the governors illness Tom has been a
constant and evidently sympathizing
attendant.-NeWY York Tribune.
Year: 1879

Because you forgot to address it.


Because you forgot to stamp it.


Because you forgot to write the town
or State on the envelope.


Because you didn't write the street
and number plainly.


Because you didn't put three cents on
the letter for every half ounce or frac-
tional part thereof.


Because you used a once. cancelled
stamp.


Because you crt cut an envelope
stamp and pasted it on your letter.


Because you used internal revenue
stamps instead of postage stamps.


Because you used patent medicine or
proprietary stamps instead of postage
stamps.


Because you used an old, out-of-date
stamp.


Because you used foreign stamp.


Because you wrote the address so
badly that no one could read it.


Because you wrote the address on the
top of the envelope, and it was surely
obliterated by the postofice dating, re-
ceiving and canceling stamps.


And because You put your letter in a
blank envelope and sealed it and for
warded it to-r.the dead letter Office,
where thousands of letters are daily de-
stroyed because the people are either
careless or ignorant of the postal laws.
St Louis Spirit.
Year: 1879

A Geneva (Switzerland) letter to the
London Times says: The Gothard
tunnel is now the longest tunnel in the
world, the length bored from both sides
reaching total of 49, 481 yards-twen-
ty-three yards longer than the Mount
Gents. Very nearly 5000 yards still re-
main to be excavated, and if the work
goys on as rapidly this year as it went
on last, the navvies from Goschen and
those from Airolo may expect about
this time twelvemonth to shake hands
in the heart of the mountain. This,
however, is far from being certainty,
for according to the calculations of the
geologists, the workmen will find direct
ly under the Kastelhorn thick mass of
serpentine and schist, which may prove
a considerable hinderance. Most of the
laborers employed in the galleries are
Italians. They work night and day in
shifts of eight hours each, and their
work is described as being terribly
severe. The heat is 80 great that they
can wear no clothes whatever. They
return to the mouth of the tunnel
streaming with perspiration; their faces
are yellow and CHASTITY; they cannot
bear the light of the sun; they walk
with bent shoulders, and stagger as if
carrying burdens too heavy for their
strength. They are, nevertheless. said
to be cheerful and even merry. They
support their hard lot without repining,
and save money. 1t is satisfactory to
know that the contractors by whom the
men are employed treat them with
every consideration. A surgeon is al
ways on the spot, accidents being fre-
quent, and ample hospital accommoda-
ton is provided for the ailing and the
hurt.
Year: 1879

1t has become so common to write
the beginning of an elegant, interesting
article and then run it into some adyer-
tisement that we avoid all such cheats
and simply call attention to the merits
of Hop Bitters in as plain honest terms
as possible, to induce people to give
them one trial, as no one who knows
their value will ever use anything else.
Year: 1879

Sun writes sensibly as follows;
u There lise 1ot;, as ~far az I can find
out, a single school in New York or
its neighborhood where the pupils are
cohscientiously and inteligently taught
The teachers are occupied in simply
setting" the lessons and in hearing
them recited; how they have been
learned or whether the child under
stands Of what he speaks, they neither
know nor care.


1 might appeal, in support of this
assertion, to the vast army of parents
that really do tie teaching, and to
the vaster army Of unfortunates who,
having no elder friend to teach them,
struggle through long winter even
ings. in vain attempts to learn what
has been appointed by the SO called
teacher.


Now, let me suggest remedy Tor
all this-a remedy that might easily
be tried and is certainly worth the
trial. Let the course be confined to
reading, writing and arithmetic, while
the sternest censor cannot, thinks
object to the addition of geography.
Reading and writing might be called
mechanical accomplishments were it
not for the we'll known deficiency Of
children in reading clearly and intel
ligibly. Arithmetic ought undoubt-
edIy be taught without any text book
instruction in this branch, at any
rate with children under Is, should
be oral; and no rules should be
learned by rote, except such as are
brief enough for the teacher to COM
municate from hisown memory. Thus
only can we secure that familiarity
with this important study in the
teacher that is so essential and thus
only can we secure its being impaired
understandingly to the pupil. The
mode of teaching geography is less
open to objection than that OF any
other study.


Finally, let the trashy readers
be rejected, and for them substitute
as necessary practice for fluent read
ing, ordinary books on various sub
iects. Let the children read in turn,
and the teacher read to them any
simple wo:k in history, astronomy. OF
any other natural science, or even
good Fiction.


In place Of the collection Of scraps
called readers, y a class might easily
read cne or two books IN seaso?
much to the advantage ol their pow,
era Of reading, because elocutlonary
efforts would be out of place, while
they would learn more Of what they
read than if it had been crammed
into them by rote.


In this way, with the strict neces
sares of education, we may combine
} an acquaintance with what is done
aid known in the world that is bu
proper in an age Of fuller life thai
has ever been before, and that cal
hardly be condemned as superilnou'
or useless.


Thus shall school become place
) not perhaps Of pure delight, but Ger
tainly not Of prolonged torture; an'
teachers shall be so. notonly in name
but in very deed.
Year: 1879

UeueEdi 1dSoou eo'o'


In response to the request to say
something at this meeting upon the
rearing Of live stock, | have net
had time to prepare an exhibit oi
profit or loss in the pursuit; nor does
tie space allotted to the discussion,
amid Che other matters Of interest
claiming your attention, warrant the
going into detail upon the methods to
be successfully followed. A consid-
GRAFTON of the balance sheet and oi
the minutie. by attention to which a
credit Established, has most interest
for the practical farmer when new
subject is brought to his attention or
he is urged to resume a neglected
branch of his business. l will only,
however, attempt to present in tins
connection some general views, which
may elicit from others an expression
Of experience and opinion, more val
liable, perhaps, than my own.


propose, too, to consider the sub
ject-


FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE COTTON


PLANTER.


Stock farms, pure and simple, in
my judgment, can be successful only
in particular localities in our State,
viz: those where alluvial lands per
NIT perennial meadows without COM
merciel fertilizers, or those, as in
some of the lower counties. where a
range over lands Of little market
value may be had.


On the other hand, am persuaded
there is scarcely cotton planter IN
the Stale whose interests would not
be promoted by judicious attention
: to the rearing of live stock and the
conversion of his pursuit from the
production of staple to that OF
mixed husbandry. To what extent
this change would be judicious de-
pends upon his special surroundings.
The minimum Of stock that his plan
tttion should carry may, however, be
safely put at so much as will consume
the waste of his barn yaro,
with the summer pasturage OF his
lands not under the plow, and to be
carried through the winter upon the
gleanings of his corn and costor
fields, with the shucks and straw
necessarily harvested with his crops
Without stock these products oil th'
plantation are waste: with them they
are money. The maximum OF stoci
to be carried each planter must de
iermine for himself. 1t depends upol
the special adaptation of his lands t.
the cereals and grasses and the natu
raj pasturage his unploughed land
afford. The facility and extent o
his market is an element to be con
:sidered, if his production OF hv'
stock is is to go beyond his own con
sumption and the character an
abundance of labor available is


matter of prime consideration. Th
cotton plantation needs numerou
human hands. Machinery may DO
large part of the labor upon stoc
farm, but The laborers, fewer in nun
ber, must have more fidelity and II
telligence. While labor cannot b
successfully worked in gangs upon
cotton plantation, it is well adapte
to stock farming, and in any locallt
ths higher wages stock farming ca
afford. in consequence of the sma
number needed, will always attra'
the best laborers, whether white
black.


Before emancipation our plante
generally exceeded the minimu
above indicatsay Of stock on the
plantation, without making speci


provision Of cereal and forage crop
In consequence, except in horses, OIL
Year: 1879

y student of the curious would find it
interesting TO note the places in which
women hide their money.


Mrs. Hansen put fifty dollars in the oven
OF her stove, one night, to keep it safe
Next morning, after bcaktaSt, the national
One excellent and frugal dame used to
tuck her little savings away under Il corner
of the carpet. The tiny roll of grecnbackS
grew fltter and t,tter in the course of Il
year, or two; when, the day after it counted
up to two hundred and fifty dollars, the
house took fire, burned to the ground, and
again the national debt w.,S diminished by
Il little roll of womans piu-money There
WAS that other careful lady, too, who used
sometimes To hide her diamond rings be-
tween two tcacups in the kitchen cllpboartl
sometimes behind Il certain brick in the
cellar, and again under the lining of IN old
hat. She had divers other places of safety
for her jewels al>o--the only trouble bein.
that she had so many hiding places that she
occasionally forgot where she had last put





months would fancy she had been robbed
and the house would be turned inSiLe-out
and all therein made very uncomfortable
until the missing gems would he found
carefully tucked away i'll TIE folds of the
bottom towel of the pile in the letthand
| corner of the lowrr-,lrawcr i'll The cloth
press, ut the ea>t-rnd of til. diningrnom.
This periodical excitement about Mrs
GillicuddyS diamond rings WAS the only
event whirh broke the monotony of an
otherwise rather dull life in Il suburban
residence.


Shakespeare knew the soul of the sex
when he made he merry wives of Win sol
hide Falst,Ii in a basket of linen. Thcir
| idea is To hide things in Il place where pee
pie would not be apt TO look for them. 1t is
| unusual, perhaps. tor Il woman 10 have
much money To take care of: therefore, she
puts il away III an unusual place An csti-
mahlc Lady used to hide her gold watch and
| pocket book under the inverted wash hand
basin in the kitchen every night. \ few
| days ago, Il New York woman put her eight
hundred dollar diamond ring in the folds OF
4 lace curtain. She put it there because
that WAS Il place where thieves would not be
APT To look for it, \ servant who was dust
| inm he room shook the curtain and away
wen, the diamond ring out of the window
without hope.
Year: 1879

THE REPORTED WONDERFUL INVENTION M


OCEAN TELEGRAPHY Observation-Disclosures Is


THE COMPANY?


Considerable discussion caused in telegraphc
circles yesterday by the story omansting from Boss
ton. and published in the HERALD. concerning won-
derful invention to be applied to telegraphy-
by the American Cable Company of New York. As
no Office of such organization the American
Cable Company found to exist in this city y
HERALD reporter sought for Information at tho
offices of the established ocean telegraph companies.


PRESIDENT GREEN INcnEpuLous.


At the Western Union Telegraph Company's-
building President Green, who is also Vice
President of the International Ocean Tele-
graph Company, found. He said
II have read the story which comes from Boston and
have just been talking about it. think it highly
Improbable. There is no such organization tho
American cable Company in existence. If there is it
must have been got up within very few days or
should have heard of IT, OH no; there little reason
to believe that story The fcats proposed to bc per-
formed. such sending ten messages of twenty
words each in miniitc and reproducing the HERALD
In fac simie stcrcotyped plate altogether too
wonderful for belief"


At the Office of the Direct Cable Company in Broad
street, the reporter found superintendent Ward,
who laughed heartily the matter ana said IT
do not believe the story. There Is such company
this pretended American Gable Company in exist
cncc. TX there is any truth in this Boston story
whatever the organization referred to may be tho
projected Franco-Amcrican line. do not believe
that there IL any known system machine that can
send 300 words minute through ocean cable.
As tor the fac-simile system referred to- you may
say that that system has been tried by the British
postal tclegraphs and that IL demonstrated be
much too slow even for the land wires. You can
judge how little use 1t would be for the cable
service. The whole story. from top to bottom, ap-
pears to be very absurd The statement of the great
offer of 100000 for the invention by Anglo Cable
Company Is too wildly absurd to demand oven
Year: 1879

Cricket on the Hearth,


One OF the great social problems of the
day is to explain why there are so many
marriageable women who never get mar
ried. Some say that it is owing to an ex.
cess in numbers of women over men, H.
consequence of which there are not hus.
bands enough to 90 round. This, however
is disprOved by statistics. Take the world
through and the figures show that there
are as many men in it as there are women
Others attribute it to the eXpensiveness OF
modern life.


Men do not marry because, it IS said,
they cannot afford to. But the fact is
that no man who truly loved a woman
ever hesitated to become engaged to her
and eventually marry her because of pow
erty. There are cold-bloodGd men, with
no idea Of any feeling for a woman
stronger than a languid admiration, who
may be deferred from assuming what they
regard as burden IN the shape of wife,
unless assured OF liberal income, but
most are not so calculating. Others, again
attribute the evil to women's tastldlous-
ness. They expect too much in hus-
band, and, while waiting tor an lmpos-
sible shadow, let the possible substance
slip through their fingers.


This is libel on the sex. As a rule
they are more fastidious than men are,
and are just as susceptible as men to the
enchantment of love, which invests its OBJ
ject with every perfection and covers up
every fault. So far as men and women
themselves are concerned they are as prone
to marriage now as in any period of the
worlds history, Nevertheless, there are
women waiting for husbands and not get,
ting them, They are pretty, they are ac.
complished, they are sensible, and, under
proper training, they would make excel.
lent wives and mothers; but they never
get chance. What seems to he needed
is more thorough method of bringing
men and women into social contact with
each other,
Year: 1879

The government, and not individuals or
corporations, shall coin and issue all the
money ana paper currency of the country,
and under the constitution congress shall
regulate the volume and value thereof.
Year: 1879

From the New York Herald.


A delighted audience assembled at
Brewster Hall, corner of Fourteenth street
and Fifth avenue, last evening to examine
Miss Millio Christine and the Italian Mid
gets now there exhibiting. Miss Chris
tine, as she is commonly called, is plural
number and the object of more wonder.
ment than anv natural monstrosity ever
exhibited in America. She has two heads,
four arms, four legs, soprano and con-
tralto voice, can talk German with one
mouth while the other holds forth in Eng
lish and French.


She can whistle and sing at the same
time, needs no companion to waltz with
as she is sufficient to herself for all
terpsichorean evolutions; can be asleep
and awake at the same time; can read a
novel with one pair of eyes while the 9th.
er contemplates collection of engravings;
can eat with one mouth and drink with
the other, and can sew and indite letter
at the same time, and, in fact, perform
no end of extraordinary feats with her
hands, Among her other efforts
to entertain the audience last evening she
sung duet, soprano and contralto.
Year: 1879

The bullionist organs have been very
loud in their praises of the successful sale
of the 4 per cent. bonds. What benefit
this sale has been to the country we are
unable to ascertain. One thing is certain
we have stipulated in these bonds to pay
them, principal and interest in coin, with
the absolute certainty that we can never
obtain the coin. And yet it has never oc-
CURED to the people that the associated
banks have purchased every one of these
bonds with their private promises to pay.
All the government receives or all it will
receive for these bonds is bank bills, at
the same time it stjpulates to pay them in
coin. This is fragrant act of injustice.
We hear considerable about the spirit
and letter of the contract" but nothing
about what kind of money the A per cents.
are being purchased with. They are, how
ever, purchased by the banks with their
paper bills? Why not pay them in bank
bills2 why continue to cheat the public?
why continue the robbery longer? Are
the people blind that they cannot see this
chicanery, or is it the deceit of such pa
pers as the Lewiston and Boston journals
that misleads them. The papers that up.
hold such fraud are unworthy the name
Of journals, hence let us forever designate
them as organs, base, low, treacherous,
party organs.
Year: 1879

An elephant keeper in Philadelphia


tried the other day to get a venerable an


imal, Old Chief, to draw wagon. The


Times of that city thus reports the result:


"Old Chief didn't object much while the


harness was being placed on him. He


merely blinked steadily, and now and then


cast glance at his prosecutors, as though


he would say that his time would come.


His actions puzzled the keepers not little


and they began to suspect that he was


brewing some mischief. At length they


got him hitched to the wagon. The gap


ing spectators looked on with the deepest


interest. Chief manifested no S ign that he


was going to move. The trainers put


their hooks into his trunk and began to
pull on him Chief snorted little and
shook his head disapprovingly. They
pulled harder. Chief snorted and tapped
his ears like the roofs Of two houses COM


ing together. They gave his trunk a jerk.
Chief lifted his ears up with yell and
made dash forward, jerking the trunk
free of the hooks and projecting it out be-
fore him like bayonet, tearing through
the yard with the wagon at his heels, scat
terlng the afrighted spectators in every di.
rection. He went tearing diagonally
across the long yard, taking in pile Of
tent-pOles in his course and making
straight for the gap in the lower corner Of
the inclosurc. As he dragged the wagon
over the pile of timber party of half
dozen, who had retreated there ior safety,
ran for their lives. One man tried to jump
a six-teet wall and fell back to the ground
white as II sheet. When he looked up he
saw the wagon, complete wreck, not ten
feet from him, and old Chief with the bro
ken harness clinging to his body, standing
wedged in between the corner of the wall
and the corner of the stable. He had
knocked out the whole corner of the sta
BILE, scattering forty or fifty bricks over
the ground at his feet After a good deal
of trouble, the keepers succeeded in back
ing him out of his tight position, and he
was sent back to the stable, still snorting |
and defiant. No moderate estimate will |
cover the amount punishment Chief will |
have to receive before he is reduced to sub
l. rtiOn ~
Year: 1879

llIE Chicago Times says:


Millions of money are now lying idle
in the bank vaults of New York, Boston,
and Philadelphia, begging investment at
per cent.


Yes, and there are millions of idle men
all over the country begging for work,
millions of hungry and half clad women
and children begging for bread and cloth
ing. Which are most entitled to the con.
sideratiOn of congress?