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Bt HOLDER & WILLIAMSON.
VOL. XVIII.
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CROPS IN GEORGIA
HELPED BY RAINS
No Further Cultivation After
This Date Required.
WORK FOR COMING MONTH
Commissioner of Agriculture Nesbitt
Urges Continued Activity In Carry
ing Out All Plans Formulated at
the Beginning of the Year.
Department of Agriculture,
Atlanta, Aug. 1, 1898.
The widely distributed rains, follow
ing the long continued drouth, have
caused some shedding of the cotton,
and, in some instances, came too late to
rescue the corn crop, but, as a rule,
crops throughout the state are in good
condition and further cultivation after
this date is not only unnecessary, hut
might prove actually hurtful. The
“laying by” of these standard crops
should not mean a cessation of farm
activity, nor an entire abandonment of
the plans so carefully formulated in the
beginning of the year. Fortunately for
Georgia the strictly “cotton farm,” ex
cept in rare instances, is a thing of the
past.
In nearly all sections of the state
there is hay to be saved, orchards a.id
vineyards to be looked after, cattle and
hogs to receive the proper care, and
lastly, fall crops to be prepared for.
Another important branch of his work,
to which the average farmer has been
so far woefully indifferent, is the de
struction of the various insect enemies,
which are beginning to infest our fields
and depredate on our crops. To keep
these in check it has become uecessary
that each individual farmer wage
an incessant warfare on them. At
this season much may be done to des
troy their breeding places. fti the
stubble fields, in the fence corners and
in many byplaces they will be found
entrenched, preparing for their winter
accommodation in order to be ready in
the spring to start out on their destruc
tive work with the first warm days. If
neglected now the result will be an as
touishing increase in numbers and in
the amount of injury to various crops.
In Tennessee in 1894 the chinch bug
was observed in different sections of
the state, but not in numbers sufficient
to cause any alarm and no precautions
were taken to prevent their reappear
ance. In 1895 a territory of nearly 600
square miles was literally covered by
these depredators, and the farmers in
this section not only sustained great loss
by the actual injury to their crops, bat
were compelled to at considerable ex
pense destroy the hordes of bugs which
infested every part of their fields. We
need not therefore lay the flattering
unction to our souls ihat the season of
“laying by” is a season of entire “rest.”
While there may be a comparative let
up in the driving work necessary to the
proper management of your standard
crops there are still various farm oper
ations just as important which should
not be “laid by.” Indeed, after nearly
40 years’ experience on the farm, we
have come to the conclusion that, for
the up to-date farmer, “laying by time”
comes only when life itself ceases.
FALL CROPS.
Because we have failed in one or even
two trials with crimson clover we should
not abandon the attempt to grow it. It
is certainly a most valuable adjunct to
our forage supply, besides performing
for our lands during the winter the
work which the pea crop accomplishes
in the summer, namely, storing up both
humus and nitrogen for future crops.
The general mistake in planting fall
oats and rye, two of our most impor
tant crops, is that they are put in too
late and the laud is not made rich
enough. If the seed are put in early
and the crop forced forward by high
manuring, the result is usually most
satisfactory. In very cold weather it is
always the rich spots which escape,
sometimes when the poor thin spots
are entirely killed out. The pres
ent year the spring oats were an entire
failure, while the fall crop was unusu
ally fine. August is none too early to
begin the preparations for ail crops to
be sown in the fall. After the land is
thoroughly broken it should be har
rowed and reharrowed until smooth
and fine. Time was when the prepara
tion and cultivation of our lands, though
of the rudest and most imperfect
character, produced phenomenal crops,
because the virgin soil abounded in the
elements of plant food. But today,
thoughtful farmers realize the fact that,
even in our incomparable climate,
where we can produce two or three
crops on the same land each year, the
time has passed when muscle can count
against brain. All over the ‘state we
begin to see the evidences of this.
brain work.
Intelligent energy is taking the place
of mere plodding. The farmers who
have a well defined, thoroughly studied
plan, which they follow with uiifsiling
pertinacity, are the men who are forg
ing to the front in successful agricult
ure. Science, by its discovery of com
plete plant foods, and by its equally im
portant findings as to the food require
ments of different crops, points out the
means, but it remains for the farmer tc
take hold of these means and by ju
dicious rotation of crops thorough
preparation of the land and proper
cultivation, to promote the chemical
changes necessary to the most profitable
development of his business. Some oi
the results of such careful methods are
seen in the yields of wheat and oat*
reported to this department the present
year, larger than ever before, in some
cases almost phenomenal.
THE STANDARD BALE.
Equally important with the careful
saving and baling of our cotton is the
necessity of meeting the complaints
made by the various transportation com
panies and mills against the different
sizes of our American bah s. The loss
of space in storing these bales, and the
generally damaged condition in which
our cotton reaches foreign markets,
have given rise to a general protest, and
as about three fourths of our cotton is
handled by European buyers, it is to om
interest to meet their demands in this
respect.
The discriminations which may be
made against our cotton on account of
these objections may amount in the ag
gregate to an incredible suta. It has
been found after several tests that the
best size for convenience of handling
and storing is the bale made from a
press measuring 24 inches in width by
54 inches in length. This is the size ad
vocated by all the cotton growers’ asso
ciations. This size, 24x54, has been
found to press to a greater density, and
after being compressed for final ship
ment the original bagging will entirely
cover the compressed bale and thus
much of the injury from the rough
handling of our cotton will be pre
vented.
All this redounds to the interest of
the farmer, because all the extra ex
' DEVOTED TO JACKSON COUNTY AND THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA„ FRIDAY, AUGUST 12. 1898.
ponses lrom waste t>i space, tnghef in
surance and actual waste of cotton are
charged against his cotton in the gen
eral account, and any method which
will reduce these expenses will add that
much to the price.
In a circular addressed to the ginners
of the south, issued by J. H. Sloan of
Augusta, Ga., one of the ledding cotton
men of the south, he says that our cot
ton, as a rule, reaches the European
manufacturers in such badly damaged
condition that they refuse to pay a good
price for it. He has made a study of
this subject and is in a position which
gives him every opportunity of ascer
taining its true status. In his address
to the ginners he says:
We take the liberty of calling your
attention to the importance of exerting
all our efforts in favor of the adoption
of the standard size col tan bale, which
is a bale made in a press b ix, measuring
on the inside 24 inches wide by ;>4 inches
long, and deep enough to make a bale
weighing about 500 pounds.
It is well understood that the more
cotton that can be stowed in a steamer,
the less the freight and consequently
the more the cotton grower will receive
for his crop. It naturally seems that
a few inches in the size of bales would
make no difference, hot a few inches
running irregularly through an ocean
steamer amounts to a great loss of space,
and in stowing bales of irregular sizes,
they are so screwed in odd shaped spaces
as to often break, and nearly always are
torn and twistM out of shape by the
time they reach the foreign ports. The
lost spaces also form air passages and
in case of a fire the damage is much
greater, consequently the insurance is
higher than it should be. The same
complaints are made by the railroads
and by the mills when they put their
cotton in warehouses.
We think we have fully explained the
reasons for this change, and that it is
to your interest to do all that is in your
power to have every one make this
change by next season. Asa general
rule, the press boxes will have to be
made smaller, either one way or both.
This can be done with very little ex
pense by lining the inside with boards,
one lining on another where the size is
to be reduced several inches. Then the
follow block can be sawn off to fit the
box. The cost of making this change
in most cases will not exceed $5.00.
We have received letters from a ma
jority of the ginners in our territory,
and they promise to alter their press
boxes to the standard size. We re
spectfully solicit the co-operation of all
growers and those interested in the
cotton crop, to urge upon the ginners
the importance of making all bales of
the standard size, as the success of this
movement and the benefits to be derived
from it depend upon them. We are
confident that a large majority of the
ginners will make this change, but it id
necessary that the change be as neat
universal as possible.
Let farmers interest themselves in
this, to them, vital question, and urge
upon their ginners the importance of a
uniform size for press boxes.,
R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.
CONDITION OF THE CROPS
Fresh Growth and Vigor Taken O*
Since Recent Heavy Rains.
For the past two or three weeks rains
have been quite general over the state,
and in consequence the growing crops
have taken on fresh growth and vigor.
cotton.
In most of the counties there has been
too much rain for this crop, and unless
there is very speedily more sunshine
and less moisture the damage will be
very serious. Complaints are coming
in from various points of rust, black
rot, blight, shedding, etc., and all these
are aggravated by excessivo rain, par
ticularly on the light lands of the state.
The fields are generally too wet to plow,
and grass is getting troublesome in
some localities. The crop is just at its
critical stage, and the next few weeks
will decide as to the result. At this
date I think the outlook poor for a full
crop in Georgia. Fair weather, with
occasional moderate rains, is what the
plant needs now, but in place of these
we are having cloudy weather with
heavy rains.
CORN.
This crop has improved wonderfully
in the past few weeks, and the state is
now almost sure of a plentiful supply
of this, our most valuable grain crop.
The very early corn in South and Mid
dle Georgia has been seriously injured
by the dry weather of May and June,
and yet in many cases this corn, with a
dwarfed stalk, and looking as though it
would make nothing, has been revived,
has put out bold shoots and will make
three-fourths of a good crop. The very
early corn is but a small proportion of
the crop, and the rest is making all that
the land and cultivation given it renders
possible. Some reports state that cer
tain counties will make double the crop
made last year, and all report excellent
prospects. A large crop is now assured
in South and Middle Georgia, and twe
more weeks will make the crop safe in
North Georgia. There has been some
injury to bottom lauds from excess ol
moisture and inability on that accounl
to work them, but in the aggregate this
does not amount to much.
FRUIT.
The watermelon crop, most of which
has been shipped, has proved rather dis
appointing. The crop has been abun
dant and the shipments probably an
average in the number of carloads, bul
the melons have, as a rule, been small
and the prices therefore low, leaving
but little profit for the grower. Some
fine melons are now going north, on
which the growers should realize fall*
profits.
The peach crop of the state is the
largest ever grown within her borders,
and the fruit never was so free of
worms aud other insects and diseases.
The mistake made by most of the grow
ers was in leaving too much fruit oi/che
trees, and this with want of rain in
Juue causes the peaches to be smaller
than usual. The growers have in some
cases met with much loss by inability
to obtain crates, the crate manufactu
rers being unable to supply the enor
mous demand. The growers should be
E repared for this and like emergencies
y having at hand drying and canning
plants, aud when it is either impossible
or unprofitable to ship their fruit they
could then can or dry it. There should
be no waste of a product for which the
demand is so great.
Grapes are fine and abundant all over
the state and are being largely shipped
to the northern markets. The pear
crop is short, owing chiefly to blight,
for which there has as yet been found
no remedy. Georgia apples will be
scarce, the crop being very poor in most
of the apple counties, only here and
there a fair crop being found.
POTATOES, CANE, PEAS, LTC.
These minor crops, as they are called,
(though of great importance aud service
to the farmers) are all doing well, now
that the rains have started them to
growing, and the prospect is excellent
for an abundant yield of each
of them. The area sowed in
peas is large, and it is evident that
Georgia farmers have learned that there
is no cheaper or better method lor keep
ms an the far till tv of their lands thgLn
Dy sowing annually In dow pfeaS every
available acre on *heir farms. Past
ures have greatly improved in the past
few weeks and are now very fine. Gar
dens doing well also, as regards the
later vegetables.
Grain Weevils and Moth 9.
Question. —Please give me some in
formation as to grain weevils and moths.
Answer. —The granary weevil, which
is probably the one to which you refer,
is an indoor insect and on account of
having lost the use of its wings does
not venture out into the grain fields.
The mature female punctures the grain
with its snout and inserts an egg, from
which is hatched a white, fleshy, leg
less, larva, which feeds and develops
within the hull. The adult weevils
also gnaw iut-o the grain and devour the
mealy interior and probably do as much
damage as the larva.
The Angoumois grain moth is un
doubtedly one of the most injurious in
sects that we have in this state infect
ing the grains. It does not confine it
self to the grain stored in cribs and bins,
but also attacks standing grain in the
fields. The first white, but soon red
eggs, are deposited between the rows of
grain of the ears of corn either singly
or in clusters of about two dozen, toth
in the field and in the granary. From
these eggs are hatched, in four or five
days, minute caterpillars which burrow
into the kernels and devour the starchy
interior. In about three weeks this
caterpillar reaches maturity, enters the
chrysalis stage, and in a few days
emerges as a winged moth, the females
of which proceed to deposit eggs for an
other ? rood. There are five or six
broods during one season, and they
hibernate in the grain as caterpillars.
A cheap and effective remedy for in
sects injurious to stored grain is fumi
gating with bisulphide of carbon. The
bins should be made as nearly airtight
as possible by the use of boards and
heavy blankets; then the liquid should
be poured into several small dishes dis
tributed over the grain, using from 1
to I>2 pounds for every 100 bushels of
grain. The liquid evaporates very rap
idly, and the gas being heavier than the
air descends and permeates the whole
mass of corn, killing all insect life with
which it comes in contact. The bin
should be ksepfc closed for six hours or
more, and then the covering removed
and the doors and ventilators opened.
Bisulphide of carbon is poisonous and
highly inflammable and fire in any shape
should not be brought near it. It, how
ever, does not injure the edible or germi
nating principles of the g*iiu unless
used in great excess.
Hoping that this is the information
desired, I remain,
W. M. Scott, Entomologist.
Fertilizer Terms In Use.
Question. —l. Is the term (very
handy) “ash element” now in use
in the fertilizer trade and does ic
mean acid phosphate and kainit, or any
form of potash ?
2. I read about “South Carolina rock”
and don’t know if it has been treated
with sulphuric acid or not. Am I right
iu saying that “floats” is the finely
ground South Carolina rock and acid
phosphate the same (floats) treated
with sulphuric acid, not necessarily
ground so fine ?
3. Is “acid phosphate” practically
identical with the old “superphosphate
of lime,” except that burnt bone was
used instead of South Carolina rock?
Answer.—l. The term “ash element”
never has been used in the fertilizer
trade. It simply meaus the ashes left
upon burning any plant. Such ashes
contain some phosphoric acid, some
potash and also other salts that have
been taken up by the plant from the
soil. There is, of course, no nitrogen
in the ashes, that element being driven
off by the heat of combustion.
2. The term “South Carolina rock” im
plies that it has not been treated with
acid. After such treatment it is known
as acidulated South Carolina rock, or
acid phosphate. Floats is the natural
South Carolina rock, gronnd to a fine
powder.
3. The term “acid phosphate” simply
means acid phosphate of lime, and is
identical with the term superphosphate
of lime, it being immaterial from whal
source the phosphoric acid is derived.—
State Agricultural Department.
Victoria’s Weddiug King.
The man who made Queen Victoria’s
wedding ring is living in Philadelphia
today.
“Ja, ja!” he nods when questioned
about it. “I made it. I learned the
trade in Germany.”
He learned it well, too, and his hand
has not yet lost it3 cunning, for he fills
many orders from the large jewelers’
firms in the city.
‘‘But how did it happen that the
commission was given to you?”
The old German took off his spectacles
and with an effort tailed up the details
of the event.
‘‘l went over from Germany to Eng
land,” he answered, “to a shop in Lon
don to work. So! It was a big place.
One day the word came to make the
queen’s wedding ring. I had the spe
cialty. I made all such ringg, and so
they gavo it to me to do. That is all.”
The wedding ring that signalized
Victoria's alliance with Prince Albert
was one of the many instances of the
queen’s preference for richness and sim
plicity. It was quite plain and more
solid than is usual in ordinary wedding
rings.
During the marriage ceremony Prince
Albert wore it on his own finger, and
taking it off at the proper moment pass
ed it to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
His grace handed it back to the prince,
who placed it on his bride’s finger.
Thousands of eyes saw the gold band
pass between the two royal personages,
and at the same moment the cannon
fired a royal salute, and all London
knew’ that Victoria was married.
A pretty incident is related of the re
turn to Buckingham palace. The queen
left the cathedral ungloved, and wheth
er by accident or design Prince Albert
inclosed her majesty’s hand in his own
in such a way as to display the wedding
ring to the best advantage. There were
20 miles of people who saw that wed
ding riug as Victoria drove back to
Buckingham palace. And yet the Ger
man who made it mentions the fact as
an unimportant incident of his life and
lives on contentedly in a little Philadel
phia store. —Philadelphia Prnoa.
THE LAMBTON WORM.
A Carious English Tradition That Reads
Like a Fairy Tale.
The park and manor house of Lamb
ton, belonging to the family of that
name, the head of which is the Earl of
Durham, lie ou the bank of the river
Wear to the uorth of Lumley. Early in
the fourteenth century the heir, young
John Lambton, was leading a dissolute
life. Among his delinquencies was tko
custom of fishing on Sunday, and on one
of these occasions, finding that his nsual
good fortune had deserted him, he gave
way to temper and invoked curses upon
the river, the laud, the fish, himself,
his luck and all that concerned him.
Then he invoked the powers of evil to
give him aid and success in one last cast
of the rod. A great strain came upon
the line, and, after a tremendous effort,
he landed an immense and hideous look
ing worm, rosembling an eft. This, in
disgust, he threw into a well close by,
where it grew with such marvelous ra
pidity as soon to fill it up with its body
and limbs, and consequently it was able
to scramble out. Then it made for a
large rock in the center of the river,
and, coiling its tail around it, made it
its headquarters by day, while at night
it encircled a hill at a little distance
from the river on the opposite bank.
These are called respectively Wormwell
and Wormhill to this day, and the latter
is about a mile from Lambton Hall.
From these, its coigns of vantage, it
would raid the country round, making
forays among the farmsteads, sucking
the cows, worrying the cattle, eating
the lambs and smaller fry, frightening
men, women and children and causing
them to flee in terror for their lives.
Thus it laid waste all the countryside,
and soon reached the castle itself, where
dwelt the old lord in solitary and gloomy
grandeur, the hopeful heir having join
ed the Crusaders and set out for Pales
tine.
Advised by his steward, the lord of
Lambton placed troughs of milk in the
way by which the worm must approach
to propitiate it. But in time the milk
of the region gave out, and the worm,
to signify its anger, rooted up trees and
took to destroying every living thing.
The knight errant of the period sought
to make away with this terrible mon
ster, but one and all perished who made
the attempt. The worm would envelop
them in its tremendous folds and crush
them to death, or should the knight
succeed in dealing what would be
thought a fatal blow or thrust the worm
had the power of reuniting the severed
parts and becoming whole again.
At length, after seven years’ absence,
John Lambton returned home, now a
knight of Rhodes. Acting on the ad
vice of a venerable sibyl whom he con
sulted, he caused his armor to be stud
ded with lance points, engaged to go to
the river at early moruing armed only
with his sword and, taking his stand
upon the summit of the worm rock,
await the coming of the monster. Fur
ther, he made a vow that if successful
in his enterprise he wculd slay the first
living being that he might chance to
meet on his return from the encounter,
and that shonld he fail to perform his
oath precisely as prescribed it was de
creed that no lord of Lambton for nine
successive generations should die a nat
ural death or iu his bed. The result of
the combat between the knight and the
dragon was decisive in favor of the for
mer, who slew bis enemy by embraining
it aud pierciug it with the spearheads
in many places, and then, having cut
the body iu twain, let fall the lower
portion into the stream first, the upper
portion being held upon the spear points
until the possibility of reuniting had
passed. But when, in answer to the
blast on his horn announcing victory,
the old lord came out to greet him, the
oath had to be broken, since filial piety
would not allow of its fulfillment. Dur
ing the period of the curse no lord of
Lambton did die a natural death. The
last of the nine generations, Henry
Lambton, M. P. for Durham in 1761,
died while crossing the new bridge over
the Wear in his carriage. His prede
cessors had all undergone the ban.—
Genealogical Magazine.
UfMiimcs of the Spreeiralil.
Consul General De Kay writes a pa
per entitled “An Inland Venice” foi
The Century. It is a description of life
iu the Serbian swamp, Veudland. Mr.
De Kay says: “School out” at the vil
lage school of Burg is a pretty sight.
The substantial brick building overlooks
the ever murmuring highway, and the
boys and girls, instead of stringing up
a dusty road, tumble into punts and
pole away for dear life—the boys much
like other boys, but the girls reduced
facsimiles of their mothers and elder
sisters, clad in bright but short raiment
and visible afar off through their strange
mob caps with wings. As one moveß
down stream from Burg by Leipe to
Lubbenau, these wings grow smaller
and collapse, while the skirts grow
longer and more resemble the ordinary
dress of women. At a daneo the Spree
walder knows instantly, by the pecul
iarities of her costume, from what vil
lage a woman or girl has come. At
Leipe the multudinous skirts of alarm
ing girth are no more. The gowu reaches
the ankles, and the cap fits close to the
head instead of resting on a fi'amework
as in Burg. Thus the dress in Leipe is
perhaps more graceful, but it is more
commonplace. It no longer testifies to
that pride of the peasant father or bus
hand which is shown by the number of
yards in the skirts of his woman folk
and the variety of their caps, by the
richness of their dress as well us their
jewelry.
Always Play Cards For Money.
“England is termed puritanical,”
said a New Yorker who has been in
London a good deal, “but English peo
ple who consider themselves very prop
er do things sometimes which would
shock people of a similar sort in this
country. Eor instance, even clergymen
often play cards for money, and women
do so as a matter of course. I never
played a game at an English house at
which there was not a stake.
“The stake was small if women were
among the players, and possibly only a
few shillings changed hands, but it
never seemed to occur to any English
people I ever met to play for fun. The
people were of the middle class, which
is anything bnt fast.
“Fancy an American clergyman play
ing cards for money 1 He would be con
sidered a bad lot by many if he played
cards even for fun. And certainly a
young woman who arose from a card
table with a dollar, more or less, of a
man’s money in her possession would
be considered fast, to say the least”—
New York Sun.
HUMORS OF HERALDRY.
Plttill* For the Unwary Dabbler* In the
Ancient Science.
To most ordinary folk the language
of heraldry is as uninteresting ai/d as
meaningless as the jargon of astrology
and of alchemy. Griffins and harpies,
lions, eagles, unicorns, dolphins and
other possible and impossible birds,
beasts and fishes, whether rampant or
sejant or coucbant or statant, convey
absolutely no meaning to any one un
versed in the mysteries of heraldic lore.
Such a oue is apt to scoff, like the Earl
of Chesterfield, at the whole science and
practice of heraldry as a foolish busi
ness. When a herald on a visitation
tour called on Lord Chesterfield aud had
stated the object of his visit, his lord
ship said peremptorily aud none too
civilly, “Begone, you foolish fellow;
you don’t understand your own foolish
business.” This saying has been credit
ed to that past master of sharp and cut
ting sarcasms Lord Westbury, but Hor
ace Walpole tells the original story.
Harry Hotspur, according to Shakes
peare, was of much the same mind as
his lordship of Chesterfield. He talked
with contempt of
A dragon and a fin less fish,
A clip winged griffin and a molten raven,
A couching lion and a rampant cat.
And such a deal of skimble skamble stuff
As puts me from my faith.
It is so easy for the unskilled dabbler
to go astray. A year or two ago a reve
nue officer, giving evidence in oue of
the law courts, described a heraldic de
vice on some chairs as “a rampant lion
standing on its hind legs. ” Thereupon
a daily newspaper poured contempt
upon the official evidence and declared
that a lion rampant, whether “gar
dant, ” “regardant” or “passant,” rest
ed his body ou only one leg, but “se
jant” he rested on two. Next someone
wrote to the learned weekly known as
The Antiquary’s Newspaper, holding
this dictum up to scorn. “Imagine,” he
cried, “a lion ‘rampant sejant’ on two
legs.” Lastly came another correspond
ent of the same paper, who roundly de
clared that the daily journalist was cor
rect, and that the miserable lion “se
jant” did find accommodation on both
legs.
What outsider dare have an opin
ion ou so momentous a subject when
learned doctors disagreed? Heraldry,
however, whether it he now getting out
of date or not, has played a useful part
in personal and family as in national
history, and is still studied with delight
by many amateurs as well as by pro
fessed antiquaries and lovers of the days
that are gone. It is not proposed here to
touch further upon the serious side of
heraldry. It will be more interesting
possibly to glance at some of its more
amusing aspects.
The zoology aud ornithology of her
aldry are richly mediaeval in flavor.
Coats of arms abound with monsters
more or less of a hybrid character,
whose existence was once firmly believ
ed in, but which have loug been rele
gated to the region of myth. There is
the “gryphon” who figures appropriate
ly enough in “Alice in Wonderland,”
and under the name of “griffin” or
“griffon” is one of the commonest of
heraldic beasts. It was usually repre
sented as part eagle and part lion and is
really a very formidable looking mon
ster. Onr forefathers seem to have be
lieved in its actual existence. An an
cient herald wrote of the griffin, “I
think they are of great hugeness, for 1
have a claw of one of their paws which
should show them to be as big as two
lions.” One would like to have seen
that wonderful and unique claw. Then
there is the harpy, taken from the Greek
mythology and represented heraldically
as a vulture with the head and breast of
a woman.
Other fabulous adornments of coats
of arms are the basilisk, the unicorn,
tbe wyveru and dragons innumerable.
The wyveru was of the dragon tribe,
but stood on two legs and feet borrowed
from the eagle. Our ancestors may have
had their doubts about tbe existence of
the wyvern, but iu the unicorn and the
basilisk they had foil belief. Our older
writers have frequent allusions to both,
especially to the basilisk, which was
supposed to be able to kill even by a
look or by its breath. —Fireside.
▲ Tie of Relationship.
It is unkind of Roger to tell tales
out of school. One should kiss qml
keep one’s lips shut.
“I must admit,” he says, “that 1
entered the room rather uncere
moniously, without knocking and
in a hurry. I expected to find Gla
dys alone, and there was also a gen
tleman there, who rose somewhat
confusedly as I went in.”
“But Gladys, dear girl, never loses
her presence of mind.
“ ‘Hello, George!’ she said. ‘Allow
me to introduce to you my brother
from India.’
“ ‘Delighted, I am sure,’ lcried as
I took the Johnnie’s hand. ‘We
ought to become great chums, you
and I. ’
“ ‘Oh—er,’ stammered the John
nie, ‘and why?’
“ ‘Well, you see,’ I answered, de
termined to make Gladys blush, ‘I
also, you know, have been her
brother from India.’ ” —Pick Me Up.
Hoity Tolty.
Seldeninhis “Table Talk” writes:
“In Queen Elizabeth’s time gravity
and state were kept up. In King
James’ time things were pretty well.
But in King Charles’ time there has
been nothing but French-more and
the cushion dance, omnium gather
um, tolly polly, hoite cometoite. ”
This phrase in modern French is
haut com me toit.
The late Dr. Brewer, in his “Dic
tionary of Phrase and Fable,” says:
“The most probable derivation I
know is this: What we call’seesaw'
used to be called ‘boity toity,’ hoity
being connected with hoit (to leap
up), our ‘high,’ ‘height,’ and toity
being ‘t’other hoit’—i. e., first one
side hoits, then the other side.”—
Notes and Queries.
Two of a Kind.
“I told my employer I bad only 10
cents to my name.”
“What did he say?”
“He tried to borrow it of me.”—
Chicago Record.
First Banker—What a breezy fel
low your clerk is!
Second Banker—Yes, but he’s not
responsible for any of tbe draft*.—
Boston Pouring. .
TSBMSt SI.OO A YSAB.
A QUEEN ON THE SCAFFOLD.
Marie Antoinette’s Demeanor on the Way
to the Guillotine.
“The Last Days of Louis XVI and
Marie Antoinette” is the title of an
article by AnuaL. Bicknell in The (Jen*
tury. Miss Bicknell says:
The executioner then seized the beau
tiful, delicate hands and tied them with
a rope behind her back. The queen
•ighed deeply and looked up to heaven,
but although tears were ready to flow she
restrained them. When her hands were
thus firmly bound, the executioner took
off her cap and cut off her hair. As she
felt the touch of the scissors on her neck
she started and turned hastily, evident
ly supposing that she was about to be
murdered in the cell. She then saw the
executioner folding up her hair, which
he put in his pocket. Before she left the
cell she said anxiously to the officer now
on guard, ‘‘Do you think they will let
me reach the place of execution without
tearing me to pieces?”
He assured her that she had nothing
to fear from the mob, but she seemed
anxious as she followed the officials
who led her to her doom, scarcely hop
ing even for the dreadful security of a
guarded scaffold. When she saw the cart
awaiting her, she again started and
seemed to receive a fresh shock. She
had supposed that, like the king, she
would have the protection of a closed
coach. The oart was of a kind seen only
in remote country parts at the present
day and made of four separate sides
rudely tied together, the back part be
ing let down for ingress, with a step
ladder attached. A plank put across the
cart served as a seat. The queen ascend
ed the steps firmly and prepared to sit
facing the horse, but she was immedi
ately told that she must sit backward,
looking toward the spectators. She
turned and took her seat with perfect
calmness and a grave, resolute look,
gazing straight before her, pale, with
red, even bloodshot, eyes, but carrying
her head high, as was her wont. The
executioner and his assistant stood be
hind her, leaning against the sides of
the cart. The priest took his place next
to her, but she turned away and seemed
determined not to speak to him, though
he held up a crucifix before her from
time to time.
She seemed to suffer pain from the
ropes around her hands, on which he
pressed to relieve the tension. The ends
were held by the executioner, pulling
the arms backward. The cart went on
slowly, while an immense crowd fol
lowed in dead silence till they reached
the Rue St. Honore. There they found
hostile elements, especially the aban
doned women who in Paris always play
such prominent part in popular disturb
ances. Here there was such a burst of
insult and execration that the unfortu
nate queen might well dread the possi
bility of falling into suoh hands.
But the cart turned into the Rue
Royale and reached the Place de la Re
volution, where the scaffold was erected.
As the queen passed before the Tuileries
she turned with an earnest, lingering
look.
The scaffold was erected facing the
garden of the Tuileries, before a statue
of Liberty, on the spot where the obe
lisk now stands, and not where the
king’s scaffold had stood, which was on
the opposite side, facing the Champs
Elysees. The priest attempted to assist
her in alighting, but notwithstanding
the increased difficulty consequent ou
her tied hands she turned from him
and stepped down firmly, with appar
ent ease, as quickly as she could, seem
ing desirous to hasten the end as far as
possible. The executioner offered to as
sist her in ascending the scaffold, but
she went up alone and quickly, imme
diately going to the plank on which sho
was to be bound. In doing so she trod
on the foot of the executioner, who
made a motion as of pain. With the
kind courtesy which characterized her
even in this last hour, she quickly ex
claimed, “Pardon, monsieur!” in a tono
of regret and apology. The executioner
and his assistant then fastened her to
the plank, and tore off her muslin ker
chief, lest it should impede the action
of the knife. The last motion of Marie
Antoinette was an involuntary attempt
to bring forward her tied hands a's a
screen for her uncovered shoulders!
* * * When the executioner held up
the head to the populace, to the deep
awe of the spectators, the face of Marie
Antoinette expressed perfect conscious
ness and the eyes looked on the crowd!
The expression was that of intense as
tonishment, as of some wonderful vision
revealed.
Ajiitnals and Water.
Tame rabbits are commonly kept
without water, but they may be seen
licking the bars of tbeir hutch after a
shower and drink eagerly when they
have the chance. Most other rodents,
including rats, are thirsty creatures.
The only animals living in very dry
places which seem able to do entirely
without drink are snakes and reptiles.
In the cold desert of shifting sand iu
Kashgar there were no reptiles, and not
even a fly. But the Afghan boundary
commission found swarms of lizards and
anew and venomous species of adder iu
astonishing numbers in tbe awful des
ert of hot, shifting sand at the corner
where Persia, Baluchistan and Afghan
istan meet. We must note one excep
tion, the giraffe, which Mr. Brydeii be
lieves exists for three-quarters of the
year in the north Kalahari without wa
ter. But this cannot be proved until the
desert has been explored and the total
absence of water confirmed. There is
known to be water beneath the surface,
and if the giraffe does live waterless he
must imbibe bis liquid untrimeut at
second hand in the juices of the leaves
of the trees which have their roots iu
the moisture.
Seals do not apparently drink; neither
do cormorants and penguins, but there
can be little mere evaporation from
tbeir bodies than from those of fish, and
their food is wet and moist. A more
difficult question is that of tbe water
supply of arctic animals in winter.
Possibly they eat snow. There is abun
dant evidence that, though mauy ani
mals can exist without water for long
periods, this abstinence is not voluntary
and when unduly protracted causes suf
fering and loss of health.—Philadelphia
Ledsrer.
KtcMiuj Provision.
Speaking of his rival, she said,
“Every one tells me that he is long
headed. " i
“Of course he is. Nature knows
her business. A narrow mind re
quires a long head. Detroit Free
Press,
The screw of an Atlantic ateamer
NO. 29.