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ATLANTA, GA.
c all the delicacies of the season
furnisqed in the best of style arid
-P J- any establishment in the city
Dais furnished at allbours of the
\\LLARD & DURAND. tmej.20
m* GLEANINGS.
jonvillc, FI a., lias six papers.
_fi, has 137,000 square miles desti
| Inhabitants.
■richest county in North Carolina
1 is Montgomery.
[largest single brick-yard in the
jil (States is at Atlanta.
[lessee, North Carolina and Vir
[w ill nil make good peanut crops,
n is offered in Jackson county,
mi twenty cents per bushel, clelivs
WfH n| It's coal mines at Birmingham,
jure the most extensive in the
km aments have proven that the
■esc seedless persimmon will grow
tally in Florida.
I estimated that over 1.000,000 or
llrees will come into bearing in
H' ' OUTity, Fla., this year.
■ said that the first orange tree
1 own to have been injured by
■ng whh struck at St. Augustine,
Bframtiy,
■he immigrants arriving at Castle
W' ( ' nr ine the last six months,
I F r, d 2,080 more than any other
pern State.
r'dv more marriage and natal
P filed articles of incorporation at
F'lle Monday. The grand shaking
Idry hones will h e a thing of the
liture.
r (f,IU '* 1( ' caused the death
[•' persons floods and 15.000 in Texas sheep. In the
N have de-
200 lives and $5,000,000 worth
bperty.
j 1 ,s!mids factory recently sold
I Atlanta broker, for $650, Confed
"' ll( k to *be amount of $ 100 000
1 fa 1 been lying , .
' in tne factory
or seventeen years.
[ * " <>1 leans washerwoman has in
fast fifteen years raised a family of
ffa'-children, given them all good
L r 1 !^nr s .C Ur 00 ° hasedRhandsome laid house
- away for a rainy
f 1 r entire possessions were earned
r wash-tub.
I ^ orchard °f P erry Howard, at
L p’ ; dlere is an apple tree
' U ' ri ! )p fruit is just
L L p now
i" 1 "’ A seoond cr op is upon
l HP nip , R f' f or Ut a third half F r rown, and is still
r'hamsburg, crop.
[ is the oldest city in Vir
s > said to be
one of the quaintest,
tM towns in t] South,
it interest le and of
be cause of its many an*
e and ,(ld ‘ooking buildings. — It
the ej was
ffital of the State.
'Cvp Mav' S U3 m? '’ rnil,etin ' bt : F>. W. Ford,
’ rou £ into our office
i 0 l hi. L ! 7 fC<t natUra ! pitCher
nd , ’
uh^„ ln Texas a few
A "" ,
elm as an excrescence on
™n\ tree i* ,,s
1 ate fixbdJ ' proportions are ac
[h an b ° Ut twolve inches
in diameter, is hols
i*a perfect handle and
spout.
■ f im'hv , rPl1 j 1 large white .
r.’v |, a crane
n T , ^nall
1 a pond evidently
.
' v|l «t could not. They went
'■'"P"' the matter and ascertained
r "ne of rj,, asceriamca
! I , " • r< ,, ^ eet held by I
large 8 was
<n . ^ P' n g terrapin. The
r s Hf,,, e crane
‘ Ut Of the water, but the ter
“ kept hold. Both Kotn
ured alive. were were car- cap
He nrv Tai I'rid.
he who lives in Poripn Si ; c
Yh -loved m n in aaV/*
a youth his a- \ ied and !
nh i*ft«Hfo If f l e
m e ;;
'derate lion 7 ® a d S ° 6
ati nil , d f ^ armin n l g operations Aftpr , and war he
• ’ the en
t,,„ ‘ lumber business. He is
l, xt y five years old band and ia
is worth « *1
i »n n (.nod , r investments. .
]i * New Ojle
ans limes-Democrat, in
an article on “Cotton Mill?, North and
Sout V’ sa y s the Southern mills now
boast 1,237,409 spindles,’and that the
consuption of cotton this year will reach
400,000 bales, or one quarter of the
amount used North, This fact is the
more Ratable because two years ago the
amount of cotton manufactured in the
South was scarce worthy of mention.
The largest individual sheep owner in
Texas is a woman, well known all over
the State as the “Widow Callahan.”
Her sheep, more than 50,000 in number,
wander over the ranges of Uvalde and
Bandera counties, in the southwestern
part of the State* Their grade is a cross
between the hardy Mexican sheep and
the Vermont merino. They are divided
into' flocks of 2,000 head each, with a
“bossero” and two “pastoras” in charge
of each flock.
A North Carolina correspondent of
the Atlanta Constitution writes: “I
suppose Morehead City is the only city
in the world without a wheel in it, I
do not think that there is a wagon or a
buggy horse in town and very few in
the country. Everything is done in
boats. [There is not a house in the
county that a boat cannot get withi n a
mile of. Not a doctor or a lawyer in
the county owns a horse ; they practice
in boats. The people go to funerals in
boats, and when they arrest a man they
carry him to jail in a boat.
A Prussian View of the English Army.
The correspondent of the Cologne
Gazelle at Ramleh expresses surprise at
co °l ness of the British troops.
“They show,” he says, “none of the
excitement and eagerness which dis¬
they tinguish the Continental Rations when
national fight for existence, or at least for
a idea. This Egyptian war,
like most wars in which England is en¬
gaged, business; is treated entirely as a matter of
if the object of the under¬
canal taking it had could been hardly to make have a railway or a
been entered
upon extraordinary more quietly. * and * * Dbeds of
to be expected energy in courage, 0 as is
this wars carried on in
way, are much more rare than in
the national wars of Continental Eu¬
rope. It is true that the feeling of
national solidarity is as strong as, if
not stronger, among the English, than
among other nations, and there is no
lack of manliness in a race of such
consummate the physical development; but
cause for which they fight does not
elicit the enthusiasm Which prompts
men to do more than their duty. More¬
over, deficient the English, however practical,
aro in foresight. It will
scarcely there be believed in Germany that
are not more than two or three
trustworthy maps of Lower Egypt in
the whole of the English camp. Even
most of the stall officers have to use
maps which are not much better i an
those in Baedeker’s Guide Book. And
yet there would have been plenly of
time to get a few hundreds of copies of
the Arabian map of Mahmud Bey, with
tho names of the places printed in
Roman characters. At the same time,
it is not to be denied that the English
antiquated army, notwithstanding its according singular and
Continental notions, organization well adapted to
is for
a war of this kind. The admirable
physique of the men, the wise and busi¬
ness-like way in which they are led,
and the strongly-developed love of
sport, whether military or otherwise,
which is the national characteristic, are
immense advantages in a struggle wiih
a half-civilized adversary. The dis¬
cipline of the army, toe, seems very
strict; for I have not seen any drunken
soldiers since I arrived ”
Lice on Cattle.
The suggestion was recently made in
this paper that our National and State
entomologists could not do a better
thing than to investigate the subject of
the external parasites of cattle and to
devise means that will insure their de¬
struction. Every person is presumed to
know a louse when he sees it, but very
few can identify the different varieties
of this numerous family of insects, or
can tell whether the kind that is found
on one class of animals or fowls will live
and thrive on another. Comparati civ
few know how to destroy them without
injuring the creature they molest. An
Iowa farmer thinks that he has found a
remedy that is at once harmless to the
animal and harmful to the parasites. he In
a communication to The Homestead
it:
“Take common larkspur seed and
steep it,and wash thoroughly every appli- part
of the body. I have known one
cation to destroy every inject and egg.
Two will suffice if done thorough I
give in addition two remedies t hat I con -
sider more efficacious than the other.
mercurial ointment, kerosene and lard,
tobacco smoke, a wash of tobacco.or sul-.
phur in salt. These all will sometimes
injure the stock. A good remedy is dry
dust gathered from the road, and siiteit
fVmn lemeay); P HlV n tub ruh°S it well'bf^and^s well in, ana as Thov they
hatch repeat. Also pulverized charcoal
mixed with dust is still better. I have
heard that fine Indian meal or shorts
"' ere P ood ' " sed in the «““« *»>';, 1
. ihoufi
w,°" y * r ° i.o
\\ i,en an animal is affected it should be
immediately removed from the oth-r
stock and thoroughly treated, and u *t
allowed to run until the whole, herd is
larks P ul I s
the best, as it bears the most seed anu . is
deseed all the seed y vouTill ou will or or ? ou^htTo ought to n«ed.— n 3 P J
gathered^ -Herbs for winter ^Xnte use Ire should )>e
w beu the in fiowe
pl(iered ^, b \ th ® best time t° harvest
them. The herb garden , was formerly
of greater domestic, importance than it,
i whether 8 u^! | h eS t this e h ?*7hRn«£^ftn™d^anSe change is ‘ - b to
health may wed be questioned, them lodiv small
herbs it is best to tie in
bundles and hang them up in an any
gbed . Washington Tribun*'
ERROR CEASES TO BE DANGEROUS WHILE TRUTH IS LEFT FREE TO COMBAT
CONYERS, GA„ FRIDAY OCTOBER 13, 1882.
TOPICS OF THE DAT.
Oregon is now called the Webfoot
State.
Evangelist Moody is trying to stir up
1 religious feeling in Paris.
Prince Bismarck has been[in
dan Ministry twenty years.
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The com acherage is greater this year
than ever before owing to the tooth-pick
ioed boots.
«*•
A tunned is projected under the Elbe,
oetween Hamburg and Steinwarder
Island, to cost $5,000,000.
It wild cost over $ 100,000 to replace
the bridges swept away by the recent
floods at Elizabeth, New Jersey.
Seven citizens of Delaware were pub¬
licly whipped a few days ago, and three
more stood an hour in the pillory.
A gentleman who has made recent
observations in Utah claims to have
discovered internal dissensions in the
Mormon Church which may work its
ruin.
Cincinnati is organizing a swell cav
airy company, to be known as the Cin¬
cinnati Horse Guards. It takes $300 and
a “passable” moral character to become
ft member,
The great Newburgh poker game has
At last been settled, by Hedges and
Scott refunding to their victim, Weed,
$20,000. This makes Weed’s loss, in
round figures, $70,000,
Each of Garibaldi’s children is to
get $2,000 a year for life from the Italian
Government. Yet their late father was
in 1834 con lemned by grandfather of the
present King of Italy to be shot.
The Queen of Madagascar has ordered
that a prohibitory law shall be framed,
prohibiting the manufacture of brandy
or its importation into her territories.
The penalty is the forfeiture of ten oxen
and a fine of $ 10 .
The fruit crop in Scotland has been a
complete failure. It is the worst season
for the last fifty years. At one well
known orchard in the Curse of Gowrie,
which is rented at £ 200 , the crop consists
of one barrel of apples.
Rumor has it that the wedding of Mr.
Chester A. Arthur, jr., and Miss Crow¬
ley, has been appointed for the early
part of October. The bride and groom
elect are extremely young, their com
bined ages not exceeding thirty-six.
Tiie London Truth says that a specu¬
lator in New York has resolved to tempt
Prof. Huxley to cross the Atlantic by
the offer of £100 per lecture for a series
of 200 discourses on popular science, to
be delivered during 1883 and 1884.
Mr. Gladstone wears ready-made
clothing, and while crossing a street
always acts on the principle that the
hypothenuse of a triangle is less than the
two sides. In place of using the cross¬
walk, lie cuts off the corners, or crosses
diagonally on the cobbles.
The Washington Critic says: ‘Star
Route juryman John B. McCarthy, who
voted for conviction all the way through,
has been appointed to a position at the
Government Asylum for the Insane.
Mr. McCarthy was simply an honest
cobbler before he got on the jury.”
Bacon that used to sell in the South for
from five to eight cents per pound is now
worth from fourteen to seventeen cents
per pound. Cotton has depreciated
largely, and it does not pay to raise cot¬
ton to buy pork with. The Southern
farmers are beginning to find this out.
Mr. J. G. Bigelow, the counsel for
Sergeant Mason, states that when he
visited the Albany Penitentiary a few
days ago, to obtain the execution of the
petition of a writ of habeas corjius, Mason
was looking bad and felt quite discour¬
aged. They have him engaged in mak¬
ing shoes.
_ _
num ber of acres " in rice in the
Lmted . Q States , m 1QSA 1880 was 114,113; nin q num
her of pounds produced, 110,131,373
clean rice; an average product of 632
pounds per acre. Number of acres un
cultivation in 1881, ’ nearly / twenty \
d . . &80, and product ,
mnsa ^ ss aan ,J U
. 18b 1 eleven million pounds
m , greater
khan that of the previous year.
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The London Truth ridicules Gen.
Wolseley’s • dispatches f from Egvpt as
sentimental , , twaddle, ,,, „ and , attention is .
called to his account of an engagement
j n which there was “heavy firing for
several hours,” the troops “behaving
admirably f under a hail of bullets,” and
the result was one man killed , and twelve ,
wounded.
A bachelor " "T" of . Oregon, “ * whose
death lately occurred in the East, while
on a visit, has given the most valuable
. ^ , . , r
1 The Ti, buildings * T for ?b the school b T”n will
be erected soon. This farm contains
8 Tr m T rl r ^-f ,iepro -
eeeds from the sale of fruit are some
? 10,000 a year.
-» *
Prof. Boss, of the Dndley Observa
^ torv, at Albany, ‘ says the<4omefc was 10 -
^« ^ mi^leg mdee from m tba t m sun «sun SeDtember beptemUr
1<, and 2l,G .IKK n ■• n tbe
former date it 103,0(KJ,000 miles ,
j was
from the earth, and on the latter 107,
000,000, It is thns going away both
from the sun and the earth. It is plainly
visible in the early morning in the
Eastern sJi y> and is beautifully brilliant.
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The woman suffragist movement
seems to be advancing in the East. Says
the Massachusetts’ Democratic platform:
dens, Equal rights, equal powers, equal bur¬
by law equal under privileges the and equal protection
izen oi tiie republic, government foF limitation every cit¬
without
of race or sex, or property-qualification,
whether it he by a tax on property or a
poll tax on persons.
Says the Republican platform of the
same State:
We invite intelligent and candid consid¬
eration of all propositions in aid of tem
perance and good order, for equal rights of
suffrage irrespective of sQx, and for the en¬
couragement of industry, frugality, con
tentmenq and prosperity among all the
peoplecf our honored State.
Some one has found in one of Ecker
marm's books a record of a conversation
he had in 1825' with Goethe on the sub¬
ject of ship canals. Goethe, he says,
showed a special interest in Humboldt’s
idea of piercing the Isthmus of Panama,
and further said : “ It is a necessity for
the United States that American mer¬
chantmen and men of war should be
able ip set sail Straight into the Pacific
from the Lay of Mexico, and t feel sure
that they will accomplish it. I should
wish to live to see it; but that will not
happen. Secondly, I should like navi¬
gation from the Danube into the Rhine
to be rendered feasible. And thirdly, I
should like to see the English in posses¬
sion of a canal across the Isthmus of
Suez. To live long enough in order to
witness three such great events it would
be really worth while to put up with
existence for some fifty years more.”
Goethe’s fifty years, it will be observed,
were completed in 1876 .
Causes of Typhoid Fever.
A severe outbreak of typhoid fever
which occurred last year at Nahant, a
rocky during peninsula near by Boston, inhabited
the summer a small number
of very rich cottage owners, was fol¬
lowed by an investigation, of which the
results are made public in an article by
Mr. E. W. Rowditeh, in the Boston
Medical and Surgical Journal. In such
cases contamination of drinking-water
is usually the principal cause of the
spread of the di-ease, and the wells and
cisterns which supply the houses were
first examined. Water was taken from
one hundred and ninety of these and
pronounced analyzed. Eight “excellent,” of the samples and were
others seventy
one “permissible,” or “good.”
One hundred and eleven were classed as
“suspicious,” “very suspicious,” or
“bad.” About eighty eases of fever
occurred, nearly all of which could be
accounted for by the actual condition of
the drinking-water used in the houses
inhabited by the patients. In a few
others probable the fiithy surroundings furnished
a source of infection, although
the water appeared pure, as, in one in
stance, where analysis failed to detect
any serious pollution in water taken
from a well situated within ten feet of
one leaching cesspool and fifteen feet of
another, both overflowing, and of
course ready to furnish an occasional
supply under to the well during dry seasons
or other circumstances. One or
the two fact more were probably ice used explained by
that the in the house
hold was brought from a foul pond in
the vicinity; and only one seemed quite
inexplicable, unless perhaps the infec
tion contained might have been brought by milk
in cans which had been rinsed
in foul water. Mr. Bow ditch’s suspi
cion, that the infection was communi
cated in certain t cases by contaminated ,
ice, is strengthened by the fact that a
very severe and fatal epidemic of tv
pnoid this fever was unquestionably caused
in way not long ago at a seashore
hotel in New England; and it is worth
asking whether the public authority
might not be employed with advantage
in exercising some sort of surveillance
°X which e . r ^ ie may codec become, ^ on and and sale perhaps of an already article
is, far more dangerous than the tnchi
n< v^ S u^° r ^ ° r imma ^ ire vead against
which so many precautions are taken. In
one place that we know of, says the Amer
tcan Architect, thousands of tons of ice
are annually gathered at the very edge
of an extensive and well-filled cemetery,
wmch slopes somewhat rapidlv toward
the water; and we have seen the winter
P rod “ ct °f a I^tl© pool formed by the
overflow of what was practically the
drain of a cluster of squalid houses
regularly sold to customers.—Science
American.
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Driven From a Valued Home.
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A will made in a mad-house, of which
the testator has been an inmate during doc
the greater part of his life, is not a
very likely, one would say, to
pass muster in a court of law ; but such
a paper has just been declared valid m
Dublin. The testator was arrenchgen
tleman, who in his youth became insane
from excessive dissipation and was con
fined in an asydum for two years before
he recovered his mental health. Being
then at liberty to go, he refused to do
so, but having acquired a likmg for the
place, he remained there until hi& death,
twenty-eight years later. Only ‘and once
did go out into^ the world on
this occasion he returned to the asylum
80 drunk that he declared he woual nev
J e ru n in l° ^ pta t’.° n again, a resolu
tion t to which he always thereafter ad
h T"'' f»' d oo„ld
not remain any longer and diedmeighteen whereupon he
went butn weeping
mo ? 8 eo -
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-A cnnouS and serviceable device for
the protect! n of the tobacco plant is a
porcelain field, flower placed on sticks through
j the witn a poisomms substanee in
’■ " lde * ? b ^. fcobacco mrstaaes the
: flower for that u o* the jimson, or James
town weed, and dies almost immediately
ueforejt lays the egg which produces
the tobacch worm,
A Parisian Artist’s fieteiig#i
One of the most eminent painters of
Paris was lately commissioned to paint
the portrait of a lady beauty, who but was who some
years ago a famous is
now nearer hfx 'fiftieth than her fortieth
^he wished the portrait to jc ex
habited , itt this year s Salofl, and avfi
the artist endless trouble over its dm
tads. When it was finished howev-L-G
she was far from contented, and de
clarecl that she could not recognize her
own likeness m his eonsciehtious piece
SlifnM have ?ho P & ““he'd‘d
think it to be a faithful one, and it re¬
mained in his atelier as his own unsold
property; Meanwhile he was deter¬
mined to have hiS revenge for the insult
done to his pride as an artist and thS
loss to his pocket as one who lived bv
resolved to traBsforn, it froa, a oortrait
private Shtitiot the in question
Was informed byawell-instn.cted friend
that the artist Mad UtrOdMced a number
ofac-e^m-ies ot accessones into into ner her norfcnlt portrait %hi«h wnien
plfif^ Sh« y TLwJhw dro«”?Mn‘B sindio arid ip?dm iisked re arhMte 4 to seethe To
the nainter’s ?y 1 ?lH
9
lied. There she stood upon the canvas,
life-like and life-size; but the cruel artist
had thinned her hair to scmi-baldncSs,
l“ and v in ttesL one of oTlal« her hands rile held two
table side, which hair he had Upon changed the
at her
into a toilet-table, were ranged a mini
her of bottles, labeled respectively ’’ with
the words- “ Milk of Lilies “ Beauty
Water,” “ Elixir against ,r
“ Golden-hair Dye. The lady cried
out that such treatment was infamous.
madame,” “You have said really no “Youhave complaint,
the artist.
already declared that the picture is in
no sense a portrait and, of yourself. I accept
your opinion, as I cannot afford to
lose so much hard work, I have treated
it as a fantasie piece, and as such I shall
introduce it to the public. I mean to
call it “The Coquette of Fifty Years.’ ”
“What!” exclaimed she. “You mean
to exhibit it?” The lady immediately
begeed him to accept the stipulated
sum for the portrait and, after she had
seen the compromising accessories ob¬
literated in her presence, took out her
check-book and bought the picture on
the spot .—London Hcho.
Western Stories Outdone*
have Newspapers in the West and South
of late enjoyed a monopoly of i'o
markable stories of snakes and other
desirable specimens of natural history,
That the North may not be left behind
in this respect, let us consider the moral
teachings Summer Boarder which are and presented the by the
Freshwater
Clam. Three years ago the boarder iu
question, while straying along the bed
of a stream that had been left partially
bare by excessive drought, discovered,
lying bivalvuiar upon mollusk— the sand, vulg. a conchiferous, clam—which
seemed to be in the last gasp from ex
haustion and thirst. The kind-hearted
stranger, pitying the sore strait of the
unhappy bivalve, at once took it up and
cast it into a deep part of the stream
and then went his way, speedily forget
ting the incident. A week ago, how
ever, as he was enjoying his vacation,
and sitting near the spot where the
above described event took place, he
perceived a clam laboriously climbing
out of the water and dragging itself
over the sand. Arrived, with niuch ex
ertion, at the feet of the amazed ob
server, the clam opened its shell and
disclosed a pearl as large as a hazel
nut, which the gentleman did not hesi
tate to appropriate. Thereupon the
clam, smiling clear way around to its
back hinge, returned to the water and
disappeared with a gurgle of satisfac¬
tion. This affecting incident, besides
showing that even the humblest works
of creation are capable of noble emo
tions, teaches us the fine moral that we
should, v n always 1 v be land , . . to . animals, ... m
which respect it is much to be pre
^rred to the Southern and Western
yarns referred to, which seem devised
simply to entertain the minds of the
mvolous, and convey no edifying lesson
at all. —Bos tonJo u r nal.
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Hogs.
_
If you have hogs running in your pas
tures, now is the time, when the grass
is low and the heat oppressive, to feed
generously, once or twice a day rvith
corn> wheat and oats screenings; with
bran, shoris, rotten or fallen apples, and
other fruits, jointly or separately made
5 b It y boiling into a mush, and or even a swill,
costs something it causes some
labor and trouble, but all will be well
repaid in the quantity that before Christ
mas will go into the lard tubs and pork
barrels. It is perfect nonsense to raise
pork on the old plan if you wish to raise
it for less than twelve or fifteen cents a
pound. If you follow the old plan,
which was turning Out shoats at “kill
ing time,” and starving them all win
ter until clover comes, and then sav,
“root hog or die,” until with dogs and
negroes you hunt them down and place
them in a pen for fattening, after they
have worried you all the year as out
laws, breaking in the fields of corn or
other grain at night, and next day run
aimoskto death and torn by dogs, until
they escape through their holes in the
fence, and a man or more has lost a
half a day to drive then) out and stop
the hole,'for the same thing to be re
peated the next day-von will have pork
at a cost far beyond what you can buy
it for in the market. But if you can get
a good breed, keen the hogs dry and
warm in winter, give a good and pasture in
summer, round, plenty with ot water wood, food the
year rotten ashes,
salt and sulphur what you can should raise pork
costing Should not half you receive
for it vou cho'ore to sell The
hog is naturally lazy and if well sup
phed with food he will not wander far
the tavern that lfrgest gives him his food and
drink in the quantity for the
least exertion on his part. But stow his
meat .ruined and drink, and will no idle marauding Vagabond
or roue turn
rover, chicken-stealer or sneak-thief, bold highwayman
or whether he be as will the hog.
stock.— Maryland high-bred or common
Farmer.
A Down-East Clam-Balce.
To thoroughly appreciate a New Eng
!and c i am _ ba ke one must eat it in New
England, and to make it entirely enjoy
able one must assist in preparing it, hr
at least be present at the oven when the
„ rand funeral pile is lighted. The writer
was present at a feast of this kind in the
i itt le town of Westport, Mass., last week,
and a f tcr “flxins” partaking heartily of the clams
and the is prepared to
deposition t0 the fact that the 6 genuine
ia » r#rp traat i»Wni, {t PW
one to travel many miles Ha to enjoy.
Cadman’s Neck, where the clam-bake
was prepared, into is a the small point of land
jutting 6Ut Westport River,
about four miles from the town. Under
the large trees “ovens” and near had been the long tables two
constructed by
excavating two holes about fifteen feet
long by three broad and two deep, and
“«» !K“ f *
e ! 3 ,“ f °, lam5 *™> h had •»«■> d a >>!? t! >.»
night before . on the shores , of the Provi
d River Thev werp not the laro-e
repnlsivd-lwWhg made do clams which are so
often to service m bakes for
figntoNewEngland 100 King bivalves, whose, but small shells luscious fairly
shone as the* came Close from the na.nds of
the cleaners. by stood twelve
bushel baskets full of lobsters, all greee
and shining and all wriggling ». they came from the
water, about ai l hough
tho Y foresaw the fate in store for them,
and wei *« struggling to escane. Near by
Was another gang ot men dipping high
r spiced and placing dressing from two large, clean
Uihs it in tin pans just from
^\ e store, which were nicely covered
with clean, white cloths securely fas
t eaed around lhe rims * Others were
husking corn for the grand bake, and
still others were washing sweet potatoes
ai ? d Wing them securely in canvas bags,
The preparations were observed by the
hungry crowd, and appetites were
whetted by the sight. There was noth¬
ing to repel, but everything all waiting. to attract to
the feast for which were
Finally the great mass of food was
ready for cooking, and then the grand
event of the day,the closing of cleared the bake, the
began. Men blazing with pitchforks logs, and
ovens of the the stones,
which had been raised to a white heat,
were carefully swept clean of ashes and
embers. These country folks are fas¬
tidious in the matter of cleanliness, and
obj'ect to eating clams garnished cleaned with the
carbon. The ovens onee
work of filling them with the edibles
to be cooked was quickly performed.
Into each was first poured 100 bushels
of clean, shining clams. Very gently
they were deposited in the glowing fur¬
nace that their they shells struck might the not be
broken, and, as stones,
a sizzing noise was heard, as the thous¬
ands of clams apparently breathed out
loud sighs of agony, and a dense cloud
of salt-smelling steam arose, which
tickled the nostrils and served to whet
appetites which bad already been sharp¬
ened by rides of from five to twenty
miles in the fresh morning air of the
country. The lobsters were next sent to
bear the clams company, ” and as they
struck the bed they wriggled and
squirmed in a manner which would have
torn the heartstrings of the good Mr.
Bergh. Next came the corn, with pans
of dressing judiciously distributed from
one end of the great bake to the other,
and the apex was crowned with a score
of long and shallow baskets, in which
were layers of bine fish and tripe, and
the bags of sweet potatoes garnishing pile.
the outer edges of the great A
heavy canyas was drawn over the whole,
and on this was thrown a moss of wet
and dry seaweed, until every crevice
from which steam could possible then escape left
was closed, and the bake was
to cook itself in the steam of the clams
and the heat of the liery furnace.
It takes a bake thus judiciously read* pre¬
pared about half an hour to be
for the table, and at the end of that
t; bTeaten mp ti 1fl xrnmiaehnek hake was readv to
The sea weed was tossed
as i de , the canvas raised from one end,
and ttie ba k e opened by degrees. dipped A
bundred fleet-footed waiters
their pans in the mass of steaming food
an d placed upon the tables before the
hungry crowd the results of the experi
mer r t . Everybody set to work with a
will, oneninn the clains and nickinu
them out with their fingers. The srrounh
beneath the tables afforded a convenient
place for depositing the shells, and little
mounds of these soon appeared by the
side of each eater. The clams were
tender and luscious, and large pansol
them disappeared in a twinkling. Float
ino” in melted butter—butter churned th<
da y before on the farms of Westport—
tbev oresented an appetizing appear
ance which could not be resisted. The
cleaners and £0 sorters had done enfere^thi their work
wd snoif sand
mouth to the taste of the delicious
bivalves. The lobsters were warm and
juicy and impregnated just enough with
the flavor of the steam in which they
hflH h nib>d tn make them a delicate
morseb The fish too, was marvelously
improved in flavor by this same steam, hall
j n which it had been confined for
an hour wb i] e the potatoes and corn
tasted as notatoes and corn never tasted
before, to one individual who was en
j -£——" u:. \’ ow I’nHqnH pkm.Kiikn
-. - ~„
Gne seems never to tire ji at tT g at a
tab)e spread witn sue a luxuri esa^tnese,
S bodtatelfntil'foreed > to > de 0 sistfromDnre Cor^N.
u stton. r > J XY *
^
—The Indiana Bureau of Statistics,
estimating drainage, the benefits to. be land derived which
f roni t j le erlge show that
yie i ded an aV of nine and a half
before drained nf wheat r»er P yieS oere feu- five vears
and
on e-halfbushelsforflvevearsafter!e
■ drained. With corn the increase
^Hodthenu Sness w^^ dtaitoiSS er of case^of mafS
from U840
ca Indian* « ea t 0 400 eases after drainage —
Stale Sentinel.
.
.U .
.* ^ ! f
tlnrteen-year-old girl, .. living
—A near
La., has a ligbt-brown beard
;wo inches long,— N. 0. Picayune.
$150 PER ANNUM IN ADVANCE
NUMBER 39 .
PITH AND POINT.
—^ you can ’t trust a man entirely let
him &k) P ? ^na trying to get an avera<m
Josh on honesty has always been a failure
Billings.
-It is said a cornet trying reaver in Berlin
burst a blood-vessel to sound 1
ing Wagnerian double note. It is comfort
to know that Wagner’s is to be the
music of the future .—Lowell Citizen
—Professor herring?n Huxlev N?rih estimates J «non® i t
of T. before i the wie n.n Sea at o, 0 G 0
aaa aaa relymg , .
timate we would like to on know‘ Huxley
he the fish whether
saw or took the statement of
the fishermen.—Boston Post.
■, ^ t-. ouglass 1 Autz, , , ot Norwich, fell un
Tra,n ie was tl 7 in g to
b )ard * Vfli® n the tram . passed , Douglass
Umi h | S Clgar in bis
mout h * A ' et t iere ! ' rfi ” pnn , a
^ *«•
forltaTmlT appearin“in’th°nnXvX Tj ohn W T W
Sressed aduiessea i“ Master Mas er T Leech: eeeh VA- “Nurse, " S
papa says I am one of those children
.f " 4
111 iron “ ie y uU 10 letch some sponge
«“«? ■» ouee.-’-CUfa*,
tA salt . has , just . ,, been discovered
1 mine
. Australia which believed
w is to be
more than two thousand years old. It’s
would a good thing have it half a salt mine, or it
tbere nt kept so long Now,
are some silver mines in America,
for instance, that fatten t lasted more
than three months alter the assessments
gave out.—Burlington Hawkeye.
—Some men have tact. Said the
bridegroom offend who bride didn’t wish either
to his or die of internal
disturbance: “My dear, this bread looks
delicious; but it is the first you have
ever made. I can not think of eating
it, but will preserve it to show to our
children in after year's as a sample of
their mother’s skill and deftness.”— Bos¬
ton Post.
—Plantation philosophy—Remember,
young man, dat de best frien’ yer’s got
on dis earth is a better frien’ ter himself
den he is ter you. Pay no attention ter
a man by de boasts what he makes.
Thunder doan all de time tell ob a corn¬
in’ rain. . . Doan turn a man outen
de ranks of spectability case he’s a cow¬
ard. A hound dog ain’t much on de
fight, but he’s a mighty useful animal.
. . . While Nature was a foolin’ away
her time paintin’ different colors an’
stripes on de horns obde Jack snappers
an’ odder bugs, 1 doan see why she
didn’t contrive some easier way fur a
chile to cut teeth .—Arkansas Traveler.
The Koran.
Perhaps the chief distinctive mark
co be noted in comparing the Moslem’s
Koran with the Christian’s Holy Bible
is that the Koran is believed to have nc
element at all. Nor is it ever,
held to be a record of what Mohammed
said or did; for that is recorded in the
traditions. The Koran was a wholly
objective, not a subjective revelation. It
was revealed to one man only. It did
not pass through many men’s minds
during successive generations for nearly
2,000 years like the Christian revelation.
The continuous subjectivity of our sacred
scriptures, pi*otracted through so long a
period, and the fact of our acknowledg¬
ing a human element in them, causes
the Musselman to place them in the
same category with his Sunnah or tra¬
dition. According to his view even our
Gospels are not a direct revelation, but
only a record of Christ’s words and ac¬
tions compiled by his followers and
handed down to others. Though admit¬
ted to be inspired, the inspiration is of
a very different kind from that of the
Koran. It is an imparting of ideas, not
of words. The very wrris of the Koran,
on the other hand, andmdeed the whole
complete book, not a mere portion of it,
descended from God in a fixed and un
alterable form on one particular night,
called “the night of power,” though
happily for Mohammed’s purposes its
descent was arrested at the lowest of the
seven heavens. There .it remained treas¬
ured up, or, so to speak, stored away in
reserve, portion after portion being de¬
livered as successive declarations of doc¬
trine, law, or state policy became
needed. Then an audible voice commu¬
nicated each word in a low tone to Mo¬
hammed, or, as some say, whispered
every sentence into his ear. This ac¬
counts for the constant repetition of the
word “say” before each
very important factor in the success of
this wonderful book, which, notwith¬
standing its unequal merit, utter want of
system, and the adulteration of its sub¬
lime ideas by a frequent admixture of
puerile and false teaching, is still revered
as a direct emanation from God by
about 150,000,000 of human beings, was
without doubt this disjointed and frag¬
mentary delivery. It was never in fact
either written or composed like any
other book. It grew like patchwork,
little by little, piece after piece, patch
added to patch. Even ’he,^ Koran s
warmest admirers must admit that it
has often the appearance of being clum¬
sily botched. The Koran’s own account
of “itself is that it descended in a succes¬
sion of parcels. Some of these paice.s
were delivered at Mecca, some at Me¬
dina, during a period of twenty-three
years, the angel Gabriel being the sup¬
posed medium of delivery. About ninety
of the 114 chanters, or more than two
thirds of the whole, are thought to have
been the nroportion assignable to the
Mecca, period; and of these the eai !er
portions, delivered at a time when Iio
hammed really believed himself to be
stirred by divine impulses, though spok¬
en in plain prose, are full of poetic
fire. They are the utterances 01 an en¬
thusiast wrought up by an intense co p*
sciousness of the truth of his prophetic
message, and often rise to great sublim¬
ity .—Nineteenth Century •
—The Agricultural Colleges of the
various States that have a farm attached
should begin a systematic and continu¬
ous effort to develop new hnd different
kinds of fruits, and by interchanging
find out what sorts have the most ex¬
tended field of usefulness; one new
sort of any kind of fruit, especially
the apple, will alone pay the expenses a
millio n fold.— -Si. Low* Globe*