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The Long: Journey*
When our feet become heavy and weary
On the valleys and mountains of life,
And the road has grown dusty and dreary.
And we groan in the struggle and strife.
W e halt on the difficult pathway,
We glauce back over valley and plain,
And sigh with a sorrowful longing
To travel the journey again.
For we know in the past there are pleasures
And seasons of joy and delight,
While before all is doubting and darkness,
And dread of the gloom and the night; *
All bright sunny sj>ots we remember—
How little we thought of them then !
But now we are looking and longing
To rest in those places again.
But rain of the \ainest is sighing,
Our course muat be forward and on .
We cannot turn back on the journey,
We cannot enjoy what is gone.
Let us hope, then, as onward we travel
That oases may brighten the plain,
That our roads be beside the sweet waters,
.Though we may not begin it again.
For existence forever goes upward—
I'rom the hill to the mountain its rise,
On, on, o’er invisible summits,
To a land in the limitless skies.
Strive on, then, with courage unshaken—
True labor is never in vain— *
Nor glance with regret at the pathway
No mortal can travel again.
OUT ON THE LAKE.
Wide open bine eyes, fringed with
jetty lashes—a litlle, slender nose—a
mouth lit for Queen Titauia—white brow,
on which clustered rings of gold, in a
fascination of disorder—a cheek exquis
itely fair, with tint upon it of the sea
shell - two little, soft, helpless hands—
two little, slippered feet, and you have
the picture before Roydon Howard’s
gaze, and the inventory successively
dotted down by him in liis mental diary
“Awfully pretty,” was the verdict ren
dered, “absolutely good for nothing
else. Ah, if life were all summer, such
women would make perfect wives.”
An audible sigh followed the latter
thought of this most grave philosopher;
a sigh so deep, so profound, that it
started the girl from her reverie.
“A penny for your thoughts, major,"
she said, iu a low, musical tone.
The voice suited her; it was like all
else about F^-Richings—in perfect at
tune.
“You bid too low,” answered theinan,
“and yet too high, since you ask upon
a subject of whose reply you must be
conscious. You forget 'that, spending
the last hour iu your society, mv
thoughts could not wander far.”
“But yon sigh. Must I hold mvself
responsible for the sigh, too V”
“I fear so—in remembering that my
furlough is rapidly slipping away, and
that within a month 1 musLjOia my reg
iment on the plains, leaving my charm
ing companion of this morning. Do
you still bid a penny •to inquire into a
thing so deep as a sigh ?”
The color deepened a little on the
beautiful cheek.
“His charming companion of the
morning.” This was how he regarded
her, this man whose brave deeds had
preceded him, until, before meeting,
had assigned him something akin to
hero worship.
A little, sharp stab of pain shot
through her, but she smiled bravely.
“All that was scarcely worth a sigh
from you,” she said. “It is never those
who go amid new scenes who feel most
keenly the parting, but rather those
who are left behind, amid the old famil
iar surroundings, and say, ‘Yesterday he
sat here,’ or ‘Yesterday we heard his
laugh,’ or perchance find a glove that
he has dropped, or a cigar half smoked
—to them it is something felt, some
- tangible.”
“Do you think so ? Does the sand sigh
for the retreating wave when already one
coming claims its welcome ? I should
indeed be glad to feel that Miss Fay
sometimes gave mo a thought among i
the many new aspirants for the honor
the has sometimes bestowed on me.- A j
soldier’s life has many charms, spite of 1
its hardships, and there is somo fascin
ation, spite of its. pain, in the long, sol
itary musings he holds sitting at the
door of his tent, when, instead of the
plain stretching before him, he views
the mental panorama of his past. I’m
afraid mine will confine itself to one fig
ure. Can you guess whose, Miss Fay ?”
There was an instant’s pause—an in
stant when something stirred within
Koydon Howard’s heart, prompting the
impulse to cry out:
“Who but yours ? Make imagination
reality ! Come with me! Share a sol
dier’s life, and let our mutual love
smooth the rough places.”
But scarcely was it bom than he
strangled it. 110 had no reason to sup
pose that this girl cared for him ; but even
so, at best it was but a passing fancy.
And in time of real danger whore
would she be ? How would she fit him
to ride forth to meet a foe ? Either
with hysterical weeping or a swoon.
No, no! Here, under the green tree,
in a ballroom, at the head of a luxu
rious dinner table, such women were
charming enough to turn a man’s brain;
but in moments of peril, when death,
no longer clothed in the poet’s rhythm,
stalked before them, bare and ungainly,
it was little wonder that they fled shriek
ing from his grim presence”
Therefore the pause lasted an instant
only, then Koydon answered his own
question with a laugh :
“I declare, I am almost growing sen
timental. If in anybody’s presence hut
yours, Miss Fay, I should apologize for
bo unwonted a mood. But you are
wholly responsible for it, and” it must
be with you so old a story to inspire it
that I will not waste words. By the
way, there is my horse. I had no idea
it was so late. Au revoir. Remember,
I have the fifst and last waltzes this
evening.”
The girl stood motionless, watching
him as he strode away—watching him
vault upon his horse, his tall, superb
figure, showing to suoh splendid advan
tage, watching horse and rider as they
cantered out of sight, the latter turning
first to give her a farewell salute with
his whip.
THE NEWS Ul : AND FARMER.
VOL. XI.
‘ ‘S°i in scarce a month, will he ride
I 011 1 of my life,” she murmured to her
j self with white lips. “Oh, Roydon, is
it that you are too proud to ask me to
share the peril and privations of a sol-
I dier s life, or that it would give yqu no
j pleasure to have me share it ?”
*****
“Will you go out on the lake with
me this afternoon, Miss Foy ?” asked
Major Howard a week later. “It looks
a little squally, but we will keep close
I into shore, so as to run home if the
| clouds thicken.”
“Of course I will,” assented Fay,
I “and as to the clouds, don’t watch them
! to ° closely. I rather like storms.”
! “What a perfect picture she makes !”
, thought Roydon, as he promptly, at the
i appointed time, assisted her into the
l sail-boat he had named in her honor,
the yachting dress of dark blue fitting
closely to the, ex quisitoly outlined fig
ure, and on the golden braids nestled a
coquettish sailor hat.
Fifteen minutes later a splendid
breeze had carried them far out into the
lake.
“The storm has concluded to postpone
itself in our special favor,” said Roy
don, glancing up at the blue sky, “or
perhaps they don’t think soldiers should
be too severely tried as sailors. Which
is it, Miss Fay ?”
“Do you appeal to me as the spirit of
the storm cloud ? If so, I shall call on
it to avenge mo.”
He answered it simply by a look, but
it caused her eyes to droop.
She stretched the little white hand
down to the water’s edge, watching the
current resist it as the boat sped on
ward.
“So,” he mused, “am I resisting the
voice of my heart—so must I resist to
the end.”
They spoke but little. They were
alone and together—around them water,
above them the sky, beneath them a
grave. And both were young, and in
each heart the same voice was speaking,
yet their lips were sealed.
Thus an hour passed, when suddenly
Roydon tacked.
“What are you doing?” cried Fay, in
a tone of disappointment. “Surely
we’re not going home ?”
“I wish we were already there,” an
swered her companion with a blanched
cheek, just as a little breath of wind,
fresher than any they had felt, blew
upon them. “Don’t be frightened,
Miss Fay,” continued Hoyden, assnr
inglv. “It’s one of these treacherous
squalls. We're in for it, but I’ll do tho
best I can.”
“Can’t I help you I”
The man glanced up amazed. She
neither cried nor groaned. There was
no tremor in her tone. His cheek w*as
whiter than was hers.
“Psliaa*-! "Jio'UiU uui lhcJAza iiw u.m
ger,” he said, mentally. '“Can you hold
this I” handing her a rope as he spoke.
The next moment the squall struck
them. The little yacht lay full on its
side, then righted itself.
Fay’s lips were a little pale now, but
no sound escaped them, only she had
held so tightly to the rope, spite of his
resistance, that it had already cut into
the tender flesh.
The storm was now fully upon them.
It was fierce as it was sudden. They
were drenched w’ith water. They
could no longer see each other for the
spray.
“Fay,” cried Koydon, “you are fright
ened ?”
“With you?” she answered. “No,”
and her tone was firmer than his own.
The next moment tho boat, struck
by a sharper blast than first, went over.
Both found themselves, clinging to its
sides.
“Fay, tell me,” he said, “that you
forgive me for this. Oh, child, must
we die when life holds so much sweet
ness ?”
“The storm won’t last long. Wo may
yet be saved,” she answered, in her
sweet young voice, “but, Roydon, if I
slip, don't try to save me. It will only
lose two, and mine is not worth as much
as yours.”
“My God! without you, what would
mine be?” .
The words escaped him ere he realized
their meaning.
“Live it, then, for my sake, dear,”
Fay replied, “and remember, always,
had 1 my choice, I would have chosen
to have died thus with yon than to have
lived on without you. *My love, good
bye.”
The next instant the waters had
caught her torn and bleeding hands, al;
cut by the rope, from their slight hold 1
but Major Howard had spoken words
with no idle meaning when he had asked
her what his life would be worth with
out her.
Quick as the current, in its hungry
greed for its beautiful prey, ho threw
about her his protecting arm.
Then, as though heaven smiled, the
winds ceased as suddenly as they had
risen, and the sun burst forth from its
hiding place, showing the rescue which
was bearing down upon them. “May 1
see you, if but for five minutes ?” were
the words scrawled on the card Pay
held a few hours later, in her
bandaged hands, as she lay upon her
couch, very pale and exhausted, but
with a .heart full of gratitude for her
wonderful escape, awaiting him who
had penned the words.
How well she knew the quick, impa
tient step, which heralded his coming.
Her cheek flushed as he strode im
petuously into the room.
“I could not sleep before seeing you,”
he said. “My brave girl! how little I
knew you! I thought because you were
beautiful there could be no courage in
your soul; that because your hands
were small and soft and white, they
could have no strength. Dear little
hands,” taking them tenderly in his
own. “They helped to save our lives
to-day. Fay, will you give them to me,
darling? Will you be a soldier’s wife,
and teach him, my own sweet love, some
of the bravery that only such women as
you can teach to men ?”
A great light shone in the beautiful
eyes upraised to his.
“I owe you my life,” she whispered.
“If a debt so rich will receive payment
so poor, take it, Roydon; it is yours.”
LOUISVILLE, <;A„ THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER t, 1881.
Chinese Brigands.
| The outlaws, or declared brigands,
are in China a formidable fraternity.
They are called in the inland province's,
where the pure court language is the or
thodox standard, by the name of Kouan
kouen, or desperado. But on the bor
ders of the empire, in Mantchooria, and
on the edge of Mongolian Tartary, the
Turkish words “orolis” and “liaiduck”
come into use—borrowed from the no
madic tribes of the Tiansoxianian
Steppe. All these words, Chinese or
Turkish, denote a daring and avowed
brigand, an open foe to law, a thiDg
most hateful of all others to bureaucra
tic pedants like the formal mandarins.
The Kouan-kouen are not the most
unpopular persons in the Central Land;
they are admired by women, praised by
men, sung of in the rude ballads of the
peasantry, and when they mingle in the
crowd at a village festival they are re
garded _ pretty much as the mountain
bandit is viewed by the rustics of Cor
sica and Sardinia. There have been
Chinese Robin Hoods who have worn
pigtails and satin boots, and auaffed
corn-brandy in the intervals of their
professional duties, no doubt, and the,
hardy marauders are not seldom liberal
of their ill-got wealth, and scatter among
the lowly what they wrest from the
moneyed world. These free-handed
depredators do not rely entirely on the
popularity which their‘exploits and oc
casional gifts create for them among
the. indigent classes. They have con
federates in the cities; their spies
haunt the markets and hang about
the inns ; they have allies in the ene
my’s camp, and pay handsomely fo • in- !
telli'gence. Here a police brigadier
gives timoly warning of an expedition
against the band ; there a sleek cashier
notifies by writing that such and such
bales, or so much ready money, the pro
perty of his employers', will 'traverse a
certain road or canal on a particular !
dav.
The Kouan-kouen are bold as well as
wily ; often it happens that they have
been honest, well-meaning folk in their
time, goaded into outlawry by some
persecution on the part of the magis
trates, or stripped of their patrimony
by a lawsuit. Many of them can show
the scars of torments wrongly in
flicted by some capricious pedant;
others have seen a .son die in the eangue
or under the lash for a light or imagin
ary fault; some have been members of
a secret society, and detection has
turned them into beasts of prey.
Not every one can be a member of
these predatory clubs. They test their
neophytes by a severe initiatory penance,
by hunger, and pain, and fatigue. A
tremendous oath of obedience and fidel
ity is enforced by the certainty of
dire vengeance on” the false brother;
and the Chinese avow that the faith ob
_ l>r *k<T
other is remarkably evinced, even un
der tortures the most elaborate.
Don’t Whine.
Don’t be whining about not having a
fair chance. Throw a sensible man out
of a window, he’ll fall on his feet and
ask the nearest way to his work. The
more you have to begin with, the less
you will have in the end. Money you
earn yourself is much brighter than any
you can get out of dead men’s bags.
A scant breakfast in the morning of life
whets the appetite for a feast later in
the day. He who lias tasted a sour
apple will have the more relish for a
sweet one. Your present want will
make future prosperity all the sweeter.
Eighteen-pence has set up many a pod
ler in business, and he has turned it
over until he has kept his carriage. As
for the place you are cast in, don’t find
fault with that; you need not be a horse
because you were born in a stable. If
a bull tossed a man of metal sky-high,
he would drop down into a good place.
A hard-working young man with his
wits about him will make money while
others will do nothing hut lose it.
“Who loves his work and knows how to
spare, may live and flourish anywhere.”
As to a little trouble, w’ho expects to
find cherries without stones, or roses
without thorns? Who would win must
learn to bear. Idleness lies in bed sick
of the mulligrubs, where industry finds
health and wealth. The dog in the ken
nel barks at fleas; the hunting dog
does not even know that they are there.
Laziness waits till tho river is dry, and
never gets to market. “Try” swim it,
and make all the trade. “Oan’t-do-it”
would not eat the bread but for him,
but “Try" made meat out of mushrooms.
—John Plowman.
WORDS OF WISDOM
Life •is divided into three terms,
That which was, which is, and which
will be. Let us learn from the past to
profit by the present, and from the
present to live better for the future.
After all the talk of scholars there are
but two sorts of government: one where
men show their teeth at each other, and
one where men show their tongues and
lick the feet of the strongest.
There is no better way to live health
ily and happily than to cultivate a tem
perament wherein the most contradic
tory qualities and properties of the or
ganism are perfectly counterbalanced
and combined.
Our lives are like some complicated
machine, working on one side of a wall
and delivering the finished fabric on the
other. We cannot cross the barrier and
see the end. The work is in our hands
—the completion is not.
Two muscular men of Kildare, Ark.,
agreed to settle their quarrel with a
single blow of the fist, to be struck by
the winner of a tossed coin, and unre
sistingly received by the loser anywhere
above the belt. The man whom chance
condemned to take the blow stood up
bravely, and, though he sought to avoid
some of its force by offering no resist
ance, it felled him heavily, breaking
his nose, and leaving him insensible for
several hours. .
A young lady may look upon her
lover as a beautiful suitor, while the
father considers him a suitable booter.
Yonkers Statesman.
The Western game laws never inter
fere with draw poker. If they did there
wouldn’t be any game laws.
FOR THE FAIR SEX.
Him* About the Hair.
Hair wears lighter, and is changed by
perspiration; lienee, in selecting false
hair, it should be dark enough to begin
with. The hair on the temples ami
forehead is lighter than that further
back, and to be well matched requires
lighter additional hair than that chosen
for a switch. Brushing is the best stimu
lant for the hair, and should be done
twice a day ; fifty strokes in tho morn
ing, ind again in the evening, passing
the hand over the hair occasionally be
tween strokes, is commended bv jadies
who have retained handsome hair be
yond middle age. The ends of the
hair should be clipped once a month to
keep it thick and even To do this
thoroughly, the hair should lie taken up
ia tresses, and r comb drawn through
each tress, beginning at the roots, and
doubling the hair around the comb, so
that in passing the short ends will be
seen, and can bo clipped. To prevent
the hair falling out after an illness, six
inches should be cut oil 1 , and after this
for three or four months halt an inch
should be cut oil' each month. Tho
cheap hair of which so much is sold is
usually unwholesome stuff; it is not
always real hair, and if genuine, is not
taken from the heads of living persons ;
finally, it does not prove to be cheap,
for it is unclean, easily mats and snarls,
and is so brittle that'it does not wear
well, or else so stiff that it is unwieldy ;
hence it is not cheap at any price. To
test the quality of the hair, rub the ends
of the switch between the fingers, and
if good, it will fall away out of the hand
entirely; but if of inferior quality, it
will snarl and mat together. A micros
cope may also bo used to show if the
ends of tho hair are turned the wrong
way.— Harper’s Bazar.
rnsliion Xotr.
Delicate mouse-grav kid shoes are in
fashion.
Braided lace is anew dress trimming
for thin evening toilets.
Clusters of coral pink roses adorn
hats, together with jabots of cream
lace.
Yellow has almost superseded red as
a lining for the flounces of grenadine or
lace dresses.
The “humble field daisy” is just now
creating quite a furore iu the fashion
able world and is worn by the million.
Handsome evoniug dresses are of
silver and steel hand painted satins, or
rich brocaded fabrics, in silver or gold
thread.
Some of the waists which are both
shirred and pointing have colored fac
ings set beneath the points, contrasting
with the material of the waist.
An elegant material for a wedding
iLweadijd with white velvet
111 Which Tlie ‘‘irpfO va'' col' Htftttu <- tvi
out in relief upon the glossy white satin
ground.
Muslin dresses for little girls may be
trimmed on the shoulders in deep collar
fashion with ruffles, which can also be
used to finish sleeves and the bottoms of
skirts.
The designs of some of the new bro
caded gauzes, which come in colors of
lilac, ciel-blue, corn and sea-shell pink
—are outlined with fine threads of silver
or gold.
Eccentric Bequests.
A Manchesterladybequeatlis a surgeon
£25,000, on condition that he should
claim her body and embalm it, and that
he should once in every year look upon
her face, two witnesses being present.”
Another lady, of an economical turn of
mind, desires that if she should die away
from Branksome her remains, alter
being placed in a coffin, should bo in
closed in a plain deal box, and conveyed
by goods train to Poole. “Let no men
tion,” she states, “be made of the con
tents, as the conveyance will not then
be charged mors for than an ordinary
package.” A French traveler, recently
deceased, desired to be buriedin a large
leather trunk to which he was attached,
as it “had gone round the world with
him three times;” and an English
clergyman and Justice of the Peace, who
at the age of eighty-three had married
a girl of thirteen, desired to be buried
in an old chest he had selected for the
purpose. Tastes differ in the matter of
burial. One man wishes to be interre 1
with the bed on which he had been
lying; another desired to be buried far
from the haunts of man, where nature
may “smile upon his remains;” and a
third bequeaths his corpse for dissec
tion, after which it is to be put into a
deal box and thrown into the Thames.
One man does not wish to be buried at
all, but gives his body to the Imperial
Gas Company, to be consumed to ashes
in one of their retorts, adding that
•should the superstition of the times pre
vent the fulfillment of his bequest, his
executors may place his remains in St.
John’s Wood Cemetery, “to assist in
poisoning the living in that neighbor
hood.” A person may approve himself
of cremation, but it is a little hard when
he requires his relatives to approve ol
it also. —London Spectator.
A Singing Cat.
Jacob C. Schaffer, a machinist of this
city, is the owner of a white cat three
years old that has lately developed a
faculty of which the natural historians
make no mention as an attribute of the
feline race. A few days ago Mr. Schaf
fer was eating his dinner, when his at
tention was attracted by a noise as of a
bird in distress. Ho went into the yard
to learn the cause, and there saw his cat
stretched on the ground, his body drawn
out to an unusual length, and from its
throat the creature was emiting sounds
Closely resembling the call of a robin.
A short distance from the cat a robin
was on the lawn moying toward her,
and apparently fascinated. The cat it
self was so intent on its purpose that it
was not distracted by the approach of
Mr. Schaffer, who alarmed the bird and
saved its life. Mrs. Schaffor states that
the cat has captured two robins to her
knowledge by the process above de
scribed.— Soch. (AT. Y.)
Deadwood theaters will keep open all
summer, in order that the breweries
may do the same.
AMEBIC IN FORK.
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Tin* lloar Cliolura.
Many facts of interest, both to Amer
j ieans and foreigners, are given in the
i pamphlet on American pork, published
l by the Department of State at Wash in g
j ton. There seems to be three periods
in a hog’s life at the West, where most
of the porkers are raised—his first six
months of existence, when he roams at
will among the grass pastures and mast
groves ; the time when he is confined
in a pen and to a corn diet, and the
journey which ho takes, when he arrives
at maturity, to someone of the great
; pork centers. Then the squoaling
porker meets the inevitable, and is
I rapidly and artistically dissected into
the various parts which are grouped
under the head of pork products.
Formerly most every farmer was • his
j own pig killer, and the portions of the
| hog which were not intended for im
f mediate consumption passed into the
pork barrel, the trying pot or the smoke
house. This was in the modest times
when a farmer limited the number of
j the occupants of his sty by the capacity
of his swill barrel. In the ambitious
i West, however, hogs are raised in
: droves. When they arc of a suitable
| condition they are sold to buyers pas
sing through the country, and shipped
to the stock yards at Chicago, Cincin
nati, or some other pork market. The
greatest care is taken in the transfer of
the animals to their destination, any
appearance of disease, unsoundness or
rough treatment being sufficient to
cause their rejection by the scrupulous
packers. Upon arriving at the Chicago
stock yards the hogs are placed in shel
tered pens and fed and watered. The
dead are sold to the rendering company,
which is empowered to seize all dead
animals in the yards, and made into
soap grease and fertilizers; while the
crippled ones go to the cheap markets
in the city. After passing a severe in
spection and sorting by packers’ experts
the hogs are weighed, sold and trans
ferred to the packing house, where they
are allowed to rest from twenty-four to
forty-eight hours, according” to the
season, so that they may be thoroughly
cooled and in proper condition for kil
iug. At the slaughter-house machinery
is brought intomse. After the carcases
are dressed, the sides are placed in a
room where the temperature is always
kept at the freezing point, and allowed
to hang from forty-eight to seventy-two
hours, to remove all animal heat and
prepare them for cutting up. In the
cutting room the hogs are sorted accor
ding to weight and quality, and the
lightest and choicest sides and hams
are scientifically and carefully trimmed
to suit the different English markets.
From sixteon to thirty days of curing in
a clean, dry and dark cellar IjcUcu-v
pi.-.*-.. j. j,,,j re tilled
saltpeter and a mixture of Liverpool
salt and the best granulated sugar. No
brine is used, as iu the old New England
pork barrel. Then there is more scrap
ing, cleaning, trimming and inspecting,
and the perfect pieces, colored to the
hue which tho English buyer so much
admires, are sorted into uniform sizes,
rolled in fine Liverpool salt and packed
in air-tight boxes. They are sent to
the seaboard in refrigerator cars built
for the purpose, and by special trains.
Prompt transfer from the cars to the
steamers is secured by special agents,
and branch houses on the other side of
the water take charge of the meats and
keep them in good order. The process
of curing for all the European markets i
docs not vary from that given.
Just as much caro is taken in the
preparation of meats for home consump
tion, though the style is somewhat
changed. Sides and hams are trimmed
in different shapes, and saltpeter and
sugar are omitted in curing them. Do
mestic hams remain lor sixty days in a
sweet pickle, composed of salt, saltpe
ter, molasses and water, and are then
dried, smoked and canvassed. “Mess
pork,” consisting of strips from six to
eight inches long out from the sides,
exclusive of the hams and shoulders, arc
packed fresh in barrels filled with Turk’s
Island salt and tho barrels fifTed with
pickle. Leaf lard and the fat trimmings
from the sides and hams are tried in
iron tanks with steam and refined into
snowy lard. Tho settling of the tanks,
the blood of the Logs and other refuse
become fertilizers. The tenderloins and
spare-ribs are sold fresh to local con
sumers; the loan meat trimmings from
the sides and hams are mado into saus
ages, the feet go to the glue makers and
the intestines and salt trimmings make
good soap grease. All the parts of a
hog are thus utilized, including his
bristles, which are used in brushes, and
to tip the waxed ends of shoemakers.
The hog “cholera,” which has causes
so much alarm, seems to be a conveni
eiit synonym for all the ails of the por
cine species. It is sad, indeed, that the
principal loss of hogs on Western farms
is caused by improper care. In 1879
the deaths among Illinois swine from
the so-called hog cholera were 079,738,
against 1,391,4211 in 1878, a decrease of
fifty per cent., and the percentage of
loss in 1880 was about the same as that
of 1879. Of the animals which died in
1879 only 182,577 were of marketable
weight, the mortality being principally
among the pigs, which like some other
words is used more strictly in this coun
try than in England to designate the
young hog. A confusion of these terms
caused the nlarm in England. But even
if the mortality from “cholera” was
wider spread and more evenly distrib
uted among all classes of swine, under
the present surveillance of the pork
packers it is claimed that it would be
impossible to place unsound meat upon
the market, most of the hog diseases
causing rapid decomposition and a dis
coloration of the flesh. I 1 acts arc also
introduced to show that cases of tri
chiuro are very rare, and that careful
cooking kills the parasite. Dr. John
H. Rauch, Secretary of the Illinois State
Board of Health, says that the eleven
deaths in that State since 1866 were all
caused by eating raw ham or sausage,
Dr. Oscar C. DeWolf, the Chicago Com
missioner of Health, a son of Dr. T. K.
DeWolf, of Chester, says: “Our mor
tality has for the last few years ranged
from 8,000 in 1877 to 10,000 in 1880, and
j only two cases of trichina, have been
j reported during tliat period, and tho
| fact that the meat rejected by the pack
i ers is consumed locally, and is more
likely to be infected than that exported,
j adds materially to the importance of
! this statement.”
The result of so c refill an investiga
j tion makes it doubtful whether any
j other animal food, if subjected to so
much suspicion and inspection, would
i show so clean a health record as Ameri
| can pork. — Surin ft field Ur/nd/litan.
A Chinese Doctor’s Drug-More.
It may not lie known generally to the
; denizens of Chicago that a disciple of
| Esculapius, done in Chinese, drives a
! thrifty practice in their midst, but such
jis the case. His little di nof an office,
! if indeed it deserves the dignity of the
latter appellation, is certainly a curi
osity. It occupies the side room of a
laundry establishment. Its walls present
a display of narrow shelves on which
are arranged a great profusion of
bottles, boxes and small liorn jars, in
which are kept tho various medicaments
dear to the ailing celestial heart. These
medicines we regarded by his neighbors
and countrymen with a high degree of
reverential trust. One little horn jar,
ornamented with the artistic characters
of the Chinese tongue, contains a black
looking liquid which, if these letters are
translated, would be found to be a de
coction of frogs’ feet, dried at a certain
time of the moon, boiled according to
certain mystic rites, and receiving great
virtue from having been bottled under
proper constellation. A few queer little j
boxes, covered with rod hieroglyphics, I
contain, some of them, a peculiar sea- j
weed, which the learned practitioner j
has brought with him from China, and
others a quantity of spiders, dried, j
pressed and packed, and all ready to !
yield their healing virtues to the hand j
of the physician as soon as the sign of
their star becomes propitious.
“Yousick? You wantee medicine?”
said the presiding genius of the place,
a globular specimen of almond-eyed
humanity.
“Les," said the reporter. “You cure
me ?”
“Yes, you payee me twenty-five dolla,
bling you all light.”
“Do you ever cure white men?”
“Yes, in Flisco. Melican li’iong this
town he come slow. Iu California,
Melican lady she come much, much.
Pay bundle dolla sometimes.”
After much more conversation the re
porter learned that this worthy physi
cian had been practicing but a short
time among us, and hence his wonder
ful cures had not become known outside
of liis washing brethren of tho queue,
but that he hoped after a time to secure
i profitable a praoti<a<s <xvxxong the UJeli-
ntrhw hmi - i’iTTn t it*- -■tiirt , ** ■?
where, if he was entirely truthful, he i
had performed marvels. -Chicago Morn- j
iit.j Herald.
Of all the boys young .Jenkins has I
ever heard of, the one he most envies is j
the harbor buoy, because it goes into !
the water so early in the season and j
stays in all summer.— Lowell Citizen.
The Great Wall of China.
An American engineer who, being
engaged in the construction of a rail
road in China, has had unusually favor
able opportunities of examining the
famous Great Wall, built to obstruct
the incursions of the Tartars, gives the
following account of the wonderful
work : “The wall is 1,72 b miles long,
eighteen feet wide and fifteen feet thick
at the top. The foundation throughout
is of solid granite, the remainder of com
pact masonry. At intervals of between
two and three hundred yards towers
rise up twenty-five to thirty feet high,
and twenty feet in diameter. On the
top of the wall, and on both sides of it,
are masonry parapets, to enable the
defenders to pass unseen from one
tower to another. The wall itself is
carried from point to point in a per
fectly straight line, across valleys and
plains and over hills, without the slight
est regard to tho configuration of the
ground, sometimes plunging down into
abysses a thousand feet deep. Brooks
and rivers are bridged over by the wall,
while on both banks of larger streams
strong flanking towers are placed.”
A Tame Walrus.
Captain De Abortiz of the Spanish
bark Odulia has a tamo walrus that he
captured thirteen years ago when it was
a pup. When caught it weighed nine
teen pounds, but it now turns the sca!o
at 411$ pounds, has two enormous tusks,
measures six feet three inches at the
girth, and is eight feet four inches long.
In bright weather it sleeps in the sun
on deck. During heavy blows it re
sorts to a kennel, but when the weather
is -calm it leaps overboard and sports
about the ship for hours, catching and
eating fish. When tired of swimming
it is hauled on board in a great iron
basket. On one occasion, of!' the Cape
of Good Hope, a great shark tackled it,
laying hold of one of its paws and biting
off two of its toes; but the walrus dove,
and coming up under the shark, killed
and devoured him with cries of delight
A Norwegian woman living in Ne
braska, washed, baked, cut, her wood,
killed six rattlesnakes, run off two
tramps and shot an eagle all in one dav,
and it wnsn’t the longest day of the
year, either.
It took a New York society man just
seventeen months to get away with
$300,000 in cash. The only relies were
a lot of lavender kids, a dozen photo
graphs and a bushel of love letters.
A three-legged kitten is n curiosity
belonging to Dr. A. G. Emory of Ope
lika, Ala. It is perfect in every other
respect, and the shoulder blade is per
fect and natural.
“All things come to him who waits,"
but. a quarter judiciously bestowed on a
waiter will hurry the things up a little.
— Picayune.
Glass eyes for horses are now made
with such perfection that even the ani
mals themselves cannot see through the
deception.
NEWS AND FARMER
LOUISVILLE, JEFFERSON CO., GA.
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ITEMS OF INTEREST.
( roquet is not played so much this
season as it was last. NVe arc indebted
to a divorce lawyer for this information.
Albany is to have 300 electric lights,
and if the members oY the Legislature
or Aldeimen can’t get home after this
people will no longer conceal their dark
j suspicions.
A circus acrobat who can tie himself
| in a knot and hide away in a corner of
his vest pocket receives only S3O per
week salary. This should discourage a
i large class of politicians, but probably
I won’t.
Crows are the natural enemies of the
singing bird. They pounce upon the
nests of the lark and plover, and rob
j robins of their voting. They are said to
! be exterminating these birds in New
j England.
No woman ever realizes tlie utter
| helplessness of her sex so much as when
she reaches a steamboat wharf three
! minutes too late for the excursion. In
Milwaukee they give one last, lingering
look around them anil lay down and die.
A specimen of the ancient “horn
book” of 1570 is thus described: Its
dimensions are nine by five inches. The
alphabet was printed on a sheet of
paper laid on thin oak, covered with a
sheet of horn and fastened by a mount
ing of brass. The object of tlie horn
cover was to keep the book clean.
The Japanese have discovered that a
few seconds previous.to an earthquake
the magnet temporarily loses its power.
They place a cup of bell metal under a
suspended horseshoe magnet which has
a weight attached to its armature. On
the magnet becoming paralyzed the
weight drops upon the cup and gives
the alarm, and out rush the family to
the open air lor safety.
A Story of Jenny Lind.
In I<S47 Guila Grisi and Jenny Lind
were singing in London, but at differ
ent places. Each star struggled to out
shine the other, and those who one
evening we t into ecstacies over Grisi's
“Norma” were tho next evening enrap
tured with Lind’s “Casta Diva.” Such
was the rivalry that it was not expected
that they would sing together in a pub
lic concert. But Queen Victoria, think
ing it a shame that two singers so emi
neut should be separated by a petty
jealousy, requested both to appear at a
Court concert. Of course, they com
plied with tho request. The Queen cor
dially welcomed them together for the
first time. Sho then gave the signal for
the concert to begin. As Jenny Lind
was the younger of the two. it had been
arranged that she should sing first.
With perfect confidence in her powers,
gUe .*.-! 1 O T)..i
r-Trnm-rny Txr t- nt tthra the
Southron’s malignant gaze fastened upon
her. The fierceness of her look almost
paralyzed her. Her courage left her,
her voice trembled, and every thing be
fore her eyes darkened. She beeame
so- faint that she nearly fell. By the
utmost exertion of her will, however,
she succeeded in finishing her aria. The
painful silence that followed its conclu
sion —a silence ever noticeable where
those present are embarrassed— con
vinced her she had made a failure. The
conviction was confirmed by the trium
phant expression on Grisi’s countenance.
Despite the semi-torpidity of her senses,
she realized that the failure meant lost
glory, the destruction of her happiness,
and the mortification and grief of her
parents and friends. Suddenly some
thing—it seemed like a voice from
Heaven —whispered, “Sing one of the
old songs in your mother-tongue.” She
caught at the idea as an inspiration,
which had flashed into her mind be
trveen the termination of the vocal part
of the aria and the accompanist’s final
chords. She, unnoticed by the com
pany, asked him to rise and took the
vacated seat. For a few seconds she
suffered her fingers to wander over the
keys in a low prelude; then she began
to sing. Her selection was a little
prayer which, in the long ago, sho had
loved above all other songs ia her child
hood’s repertoire. She had not thought
of it for years. As she sang, she was
no longer in the presence of royalty,
but in her fatherland, surrounded by
those who listened not to criticise. Not
one of those before her understood the
words of the “prayer,” but the plain
tiveness of the melody and the inspired
tones of the pure, sweet voice brought
the moisture to every eye. There was
the silence—of admiring wonder. When,
haring finished the “prayer,” she lifted
her mild blue eyes to her rival, whose
flaming orbs had so disconcerted her,
she found no fierce expression on her
countenance, but instead, a tear dia
monding tho long black eyelashes. A
moment after, with the impulsiveness
characterizing the children of the trop
ics, Grisi rushed to Jenny Lind’s side,
placed her arm around the girl’s neck
and kissed her regardless of the look
ers-on.
Alligator’s Nests.
These nests resemble haycocks. They
are four feet high and five in diameter
at their bases, being constructed with
grass and herbage. First the reptiles
deposit one layer of eggs on a floor of
mortar, and having covered that with a
stratum of mud and herbage eight inches
thick, lay another set of eggs upon that,
and so on to the top, there being com
monly from one hundred and sixty to
two hundred eggs in a nest. With their
tails they then beat down round the
dense grass and reeds, five feet high, to
prevent the approach of unseen enemies.
The female watches her eggs until they
are hatched by the heat of the sun, and
then takes her brood under her care,
defending them and providing for their
subsistence. Dr. Lutzember, of New
Orleans, told the writer that he once
packed up one of these nests with the
eggs in a box for the museum of St.
Petersburg, but was recommended before
he closed it to see that there was no dan
ger of the eggs being hatched on the
voyage. On opening one a young alli
gator walked out, and he was soon fol
lowed by the rest, about one hundred,
which he fed in his house, where they
went up and down stairs, whining and
barking like young puppies.