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PLANT A HOME.
Young beginners in life’s morning,
Don’t forget the rainy day ;
tJnn-hine cannot last forever,
Or the heart be always gay.
Save, the dune and then the dollar,
Lay up something as you roam—
Choose some blooming spot, of beauty,
Some fair lot, and “plant a home."
Yon, too, who have babes around y< i,
Coming up to take your place ;
Give them something to remember,
Homestead memories let them trace.
Would you feel the pride of manhood,
Let the sun your dwelling greet,
Breathe tho blessed air oi freedom,
Own the soil beneath your feet.
You, too, who perhaps have squandered
Life's fair morn—'tis not too late !
Start at once to woo bright Fortune,
Kail no more at so-called fate.
Sow the golden seeds of saving
In the rich and quickening loam ;
Spend your last days not with strangers
Enter Heaven’s gate from home.
LOST OX AN ISLAND.
THE REMARKABLE ADVENTURES OF THE
CREW OF TIIE SHIP RAINIER—A
BRIDAL TBIT TO UJAE ISLAND.
Among the passengers who landed at
San Francisco from the Pacific Mail
steamer Rio de Janeiro were the captain,
captain’s daughter, mate and part of the
crew of the American ship Rainier,
which was wrecked in January last er.
oue of the islands of the Marshall
group. Captain Morrison is a native
and resident of Bath, Maine, is a typi¬
cal New Englander, and has been a mas
ter iu the American merchant marine
for the past twenty-eight years. Seat¬
ing himself opposite the reporter the
skipper spun his yarn as follows:
The ship Rainier was as tidy a craf .
as a seaman could wish to handle, aud it
is enough to make any man sad to think
of her being lost on her first voyage and
without even being insured for quite
one-tliird of her cost. I was part owner
in her, superintended her building aud
took her around from Bath to Philadel¬
phia, from which port she had a charter
for a cargo of coal oil to Hiogo, Japan.
My first mate, Mr. Humphreys, "they was en¬
gaged to my daughter and were
married in Bath on the day before the
Rainier was to sail, and reached Phila¬
delphia just in time tho next morning,
for I had promised my daughter she
should make her bridal" trip on the new
ship.
Everything went well, and our voy¬
age promised to be a short and pleasant
one, for we had got around the Cape of
Good Hope all right and were bawling
before the trades at a fine rate. On the
2d of January last we were off the Ra¬
lick group of the Marshall Islands, in
about longitude 164 degrees east and
latitude 9 degrees north. Our course
lay ten miles clear of the nearest island,
over water that was given on the charter
as free of reefs, and we had not the
slightest idea of danger, when at 9.30
p. m. we suddenly struck and stuck fast
on a hidden reef. There was only a
slight breeze at the time and the sea was
smooth, so there were no breakers to tell
us of the unknown rocks ahead. As it
was very dark and as there was no im¬
mediate danger of the ship's breaking
up, I determined to wait until daylight
and see if I could not get my craft
afloat once more. In the meantime we
provisioned the boats and got everything
in shape for a hasty leave-taking if it
should prove necessary. Toward morn¬
ing it came on to blow and the sea rose
rapidly, shoving the ship further up on
the reef and at timeB breaking clear over
us. As soon as it was broad daylight I
made out that we had struck on a reef
that Inclosed a large lagoon; that it was
still water within a couple of hundred
yards low from island where we lay, "ten and that there
was a some miles to the
east of us. Not knowing anything about
the natives in those waters, we made up
our miuds to stick to the ship as long as
possible and then to trust to our boats
and a passing ship, rather than venture
on land. Just before noon a high sea
broke over her stern, lifted the Rainier
up and dropped her on the rocks so hard
that she stove in her bottom and listed
off shore.
We had already noticed some canoes
comiDg toward us across the still waters
of the lagoon, and by the time the ship
stove in they were close aboard and mak¬
ing friendly signals to us. As there
were only a few of the natives and wo
numbered twenty-eight, all told, we de¬
termined to get into our boats and pull
into tlie lagoon through an inlet they
pointed out. This was accomplished
withont any worse mishap than a wet¬
ting, although our boats were loaded as
deep as we dared have them. Once in
side the reef we held a consultation aud
as the natives seemed to be so kindly
disposed, decided to make for the island.
Quite a number of canoes had gathered
about us by this time and the natives
voluntarily to their took us in tow aud pulled us
island home. On landing we
were and hospitably received by the King
given two large huts to live in—one
for my daughter and the officers and
the other for the men. From that time
till the end of our stay we were always
treated kindly, and I have nothing but
good words to say of those savages and
their tiny island. It proved to he the
Island oi' Ujae, and you can scarcely
imagine a queerer little patch in the
ocean than that. Ujae, which lies at
the Southeast end of a lagoon some
thirty miles long and which is more
than thirty miles distant from the
island, is a mile and a half long, at most,
Whi certainly not more than a quarter of
WRIGHTSYILLE, GA., SATURDAY. AUGUST 16, 1884.
a ruffe wide. The inhabitants, copper
colored Kanakas, number about seventy
five, of whom some fifteen are young¬
sters and the remainder pretty equally
divided between males and females. Be¬
fore describing the people however, I
might say that the island has no eleva¬
tion to speak of and rises very little, if
anything, more than three feet above
high tide.
If not protected by the reef on which
we would struck everything on the island
be washed away in a heavy gale,
but as it is it is as safe as though it was
locked in an island harbor. The soil is
pretty thin, but for all that the island is
covered with vegetation of one land and
another, such as cocoa and breadfruit
trees aud wild arrowroot, although the
salt air and poor soil prevent the growth
of the tender plants that we depend
upon for food. The natives have no
gardens, nor .plant anything of
any kind, and couldn’t be made to un¬
derstand what we were doing when wo
made an attempt with beans aud pota¬
toes. These vegetables took root, but
for all the care we gave them they
withered before the tops were a foot
high.
As you wish to know about tho na¬
tives, I will say that they seem to be a
good-natured and contented lot, al¬
though they are certainly the most ig
norant people I ever saw. The children
wear no clothes at all, aud the men and
women are completely naked except for
a narrow mat which is worn around the
hips, and which they are not always
particular to adjust after the most
modest fashion. On the other hand,
they are proper enough in their con¬
duct, and during our stay with them wo
saw no evidences of immorality, al¬
though I and my mate kept a sharp
eye upon both the natives and our men.
The young girls marry early in life, and
are apparently well treated by their
husbands. None of the men are allowed
to have more than one wife, except the
King aud his two sons, each of whom
has two wives. The King, years before,
had come in contact with some sailors
on one of the trading islands, so he
talked a few words of pigeon Euglish,
and called himself Elijah Block. Htill
he knew absolutely nothing of the out¬
side world, except that men of-war are
things to be dreaded.
His government is a mild-mannered
despotism, to which his subjects bow
without grumbling, so far as we could
see. Every day the men bring him
such provisions as they have gathered
from land or sea and he takes what ho
wishes for himself and family. If he or
his sons wanted anything belonging to
any of the people, 1 noticed that they
took it as a matter of course and that the
owner surrendered it without any open
expression or discontent. In that way
royalty managed to confiscate many of
the things that we gave to the natives.
These latter eagerly accepted anything
we offered them and were especially
pleased with giving anything in the shape of
clothing, in return whatever they
had in the way of eatables. The fun¬
niest thing I ever saw was a couple to
whom I gave a paper collar and an old
pair of cuffs. Tho woman put the collar
around her neck, and the man fastened
the cuffs around his ankles, and then
they marched off in all their nakedness.
There are no animals on the island, ex¬
cept a few chickens that were imported
from some larger island, to ships. which they The
were brought by trading
consequence is that the natives know
nothing of food in the shape of flesh,
and live mainly upon a paste made of
wild arrowroot aud cocoanut, upon
breadfruit aud upon an occasional feast
of fish. At the dark of the moon they
go out at night upon the lagoon in their
canoes, in which they carry flaring
torohes. The lights attract the flying
fish, and with dig-nets in the water and
spread across *he boats they manage to
catch a good many. This is the only
way only they have of fishing, and as they
can long employ it on dark nights there
are times between bells.
The only thing we saw in the way of
religious ceremonies were at the changes
of the moon, when the chief men go
through a queer sort of dance, or series
of quivering movements, without mov
iug from the spot on which they stand.
Meanwhile the women make a hideous
noise by beatiDg on wooden drums, and
other people stand around the place
with bright torches burning. As well
as we could understand their explana
tion, this performance was intended to
asisxtfjs ShX'Lr.. ^ sax
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men daughters were especially inquisitive about
my dress and habits. This
sort of thing was annoying at times, but
it was so natural that we could not
afford to be really angry about it. Taken
all in all, they are the happiest, most in
dolent and kindest savages I have ever
seen or read about.
As soon as we were housed we set
about making preparations for our re¬
turn to civilization, and to that end
industriously gathered everything we
could in the way of salvage from the
wreck. A great deal of driftage was
washed over the reef into the lagoon, and
from the water and the hulk itself we
gathered material to build and rig a lit¬
tle vessel of our own. As Ujae is about
three thousand miles distant from any
continent, we had no idea of making
such far-off lands in a boat of our own
construction, our only intention being
to reach the larger islands where traders
touch. Meanwhile, it was well to make
ajj effort to catch a passing ship as soon
as possible, as our provisions could not
last forever, and as we lacked all sorts of
comforts and necessaries. We had no
medicines nor forks nor plates, and a
host of other things were missing, to say
nothing of the fact that the native food
was scarcely suited to our civilized
palates and stomachs. The second mate
and four men volunteered to take the
long-boat and make an effort to reach
Jalut, an island some hundred miles
distant, whore two Germau trading
houses were established. I provided
them with a chart of the course, with
nautical instruments and with water and
provisions for twenty j days, and they set
sail on tho 10lh of i.nmny.
After they had gone we prisoners on
tho island commenced to build a
schooner, and got it finished about the
middle of March. She proved to be a
neat little craft and quite seaworthy, al¬
though not exactly of a size which one
would choose for a long voyage. Her
dimensions were 40 feet in length, 9 in
beam and 5 in depth of hold, and she
was decked all over. On the 15th of
March our steward died of dropsy, and
this east a gloom over the party. Tire
trouble aud worry had already made mo
sick, but I sailed in the schooner on
March 18, Inking with me eleven of the
crew and two natives to act ns pilots,
leaving my daughter with her husband.
the mate, nnd nine men on the island.
Wo thought it best that she should not
risk the sea in such a craft, and besides,
were all the time hoping that help
might be brought by tho volunteers
who had sailed in the long-boat. We
had to beat up against the northeast
monsoon to Jalut, but reached there all
safe on March 24. We found there a
German in one of tho two trading
houses, who held the position of Ameri¬
can Consular agent, aud to him I ap¬
plied for assistance. A schooner was
just sailing for Hong Kong, and ho
shipped other ten volunteering of my men by her, tho
I had one become partially to stay with mo,
ns had almost entirely lost paralyzed and
my speech. I
made repeated efforts to get that Con¬
sular agent to send medicines and pro¬
visions to my people in Ujae, but ho
declined, on tho ground that his house
could not afford to lose tho time that it
would take for ouo o 1 their schooners to
go there. Then I tried the other house,
but thev 1 declined to render any assist¬
ance. day was beginning to Jalut despair when
one a yacht reached from an¬
other island on which lives King
Kaborra, or King John, who is the chief
royalty on the Ralick group. This ves¬
sel was the old yacht Lottie, which for¬
merly belonged in San Francisco and
which had been brought to the islands
some years before and sold to King
John. The yacht was in charge of the
king’s chief navigator, and ho agreed to
return at once and ask the king’s per¬
mission to carry medicines and pro¬
visions to my people and to bring them
over to Jalut, By this time I was bed¬
ridden, but x managed tilings through
the aid of my sailor lad, who volun¬
teered to sail with the Lottie. I bought
the necessary outfit from the Germans
with 8350 borrowed from them at five
per cent, a month, my schooner, chro¬
nometer and nautical instruments being
held by them as security. The Lottie
sailed with Willis Jackson on hoard and
a handsome present of tobacoo and
other trifles for King Kaborra. Subse¬
quently trading I heard from Jackson, by a
schooner, that the Lottie had
sailed for Ujae, but I never saw or
heard of him again, although 1 have
every reason to believe that he is all
right. He reached Ujae too late, and
must have then returned to Jalut, where
I left my nautical instruments for him.
As he is a Bath boy and a competent
navigator, he is sure to get along all
right whether he stays for awhile among
the islands or returns by way of Hong
Kong on the first schooner from Jalut,
for which arrangements were made
before we left.
Now comes the story of how we were
rescued from our island prison. The
second mate and his four men in the
long-boat left Ujae, as I have said, on
January 10. After several days had
been spent in an unsuccessful attempt to
beat up to Jalut the boat was headed
for Ulan, or Armstrong Island, and
when just in sight of that place the crew
were picked up by the British hark Col
nmna . Tlie we ather had been pretty
rongh a nd the men were completely
exhausted by the experience to which
they had been subjected. The boat
have been half so great had they only
looked out for themselves and kept be
fore the wind. One of them died shortly
a ft er being rescued by the hark. For
three days that British captain tried to
] )e at up to Ujae, but he found it im
possible to make any headway against
the wind and sea, and finally destination. squared
off for Saigon, his port of
From that port my men were forwarded
by steamer to Hong Kong, which place
they reached about two months after
leaving Ujae. Tho mate explained our
condition to General Mosby, our Consul
at Hong Kong, aud he immediately tele
graphed the particulars and to the asked Aigcricau
Admiral at Shanghai that a
vessel be sent to our relief. The Ad
miral telegraphed to Canton ordering
the sloop-of-war and reach Essex Ujae to get under way
at once as soon as pos
sible. The Essex picked up the second
mate at Hong KoDg and made her east
ing to Nagasaki, and Japan, where she
ooaletJ quiokly started for our
island. the Essex Reaching Ujae on April 11,
picked up my people, made
a survey of the reef and steamed for
Jalut, where the rest of us were sup¬
posed to be, reaching there on the 18tli.
It isn’t necessary for me to tell you how
I ielt when that man-of-war came iu
with my people ou board and all of them
well,
Summer Dresses.
The summer dresses seen ou the city
Streets during the montti of Juno
are of the simplest design and materials,
and owiug to the great heat, full
dress is scarcely worn even at elabor¬
ate entertainments. The glace mohair
dresses with wide Hercules braid, or
with black or blue velvet trimmings, aro
seen in the palest French gray shades
for driving toilettes, at the races, at
church, and also at day receptions.
These are most often imported dresses,
as Worth and other Paris modistes de¬
light in this lustrous fabric, and make
them up with a groat deal of white lace
about tho corsage, and add to them a
bonnet of white lace, with a little gray
velvet on tho brim, and some gray tips,
or a marabout aigrette. This delicate
combination of gray and white makes a
very refined and summery costume, but
only the palest clear shades of gray must
bo used, as the deep steel tints havo an
silver elderly look. Sometimes a trimming of
beads is used to form a plastron
or a vest, and there may be rows of large
cut beads across ft velvet vest, or elso
many rows of drooping fringe-like orna¬
ments that lap over each other and give
a solid effect. A whito Valenciennes or
Oriental plastron fully gathered at the
throat is also Jilted in these pale gray
dresses. Tlie mushroom shades are
next most iu favor, and may be of the
mohair, with velvet of a darker golden
brown, or elso with the contrast of dark
maroon-red velvet for the vest, collar,
bracelet-like cuffs aud for cross-bands on
the left side of tlie lower skirt, where it
is disclosed by tlio opening of the upper
skirt, aud also a broad velvet rovers
down the right side, whore it joins tlie
back drapery. Other mohair dresses
are made in the severe tailor styles, trimming, with
merely rows of stitching for
or else they are combined with a little
watered silk that appears only in the
skirt at the foot, and on tho left side iu
hollow organ pleats, and in some narrow
(inch wide) folds that form the cuffs and
collar. A piping fold of white moire
may bo added inside gray silk folds, or
of bright coquelioot red in the neck and
sleevos of mushroom-colored drosses.—
Harper's Bazar,
Tli© Cold Fact.
Some fifteen years ago about a dozen
large conical shells were removed from
tho United States gunboat Vanderbilt,
and thrown, with some other nautical
rubbish, into a vacant lot near the
Spear street wharf. A boat’s crew from
one of the war ships lying in the harbor
was ordered to remove them the other
day, and a crowd of interested specta¬
tors gathered to observe the singularly
gentle and careful manner in which the
blue jackets convoyed the venerable
missiles from tlie wharf to the boat,
from which they were to he dumped into
the channel,
strolled Presently a party of Boston tourists
up and a white-haired old gen¬
tleman observed to his daughters :
"Look, my dears, at the solemn, al¬
most reverential, manner in which that
gallant old salt places yon shell in the
boat. It doubtless recalls to him a
score of terrible sea lights. He looks
father upon each of those grim projectiles child. as Is a
would upon his favorite
it not so, my bravo lad?"
“Wot yer givin’ us?” replied the
hardy his tar, wiping the perspiration from
glowing face.
“1 say,” continued the patriotic Bos
tonese, “that you handle those terrible
harbingers of destruction with such lov¬
ing gentleness because each seems to
you to be, as it were, in a certain sense,
the repository of your country’s honor
—and—”
“Oh ! belay that dude lingo,” said
the able seaman. “In course we han¬
dles ’em gentle—blamed gentle. We
kinder suspicions tlie things are
loaded !”
And the procession moved on .—San
Francisco Post
A Joke of Associate Justice Story’s.
*3»»» society of the place. AVc di e once a
£ 0n ear 0,jl " ‘ lth er da * 1,e >’“. 1 w0 rcs, f tak t 1 nt ? ’ ,° aIld [ t \ 1 -
gether, f] and discuss at table the n quts
tlons wl ' lch are argued before us. Wo
are great ascetics, and even deny our
selves wine, except m wet weather,
Here the Judge paused, mortification as if thinking he had
that the act of
mentioned placed and too severe presently a tax added: upon
human credulity, the
‘'W hat I say about wine, sir, gives
you our rule; but it does sometimes
happen that the Chief Justice will say
to me, when tho cloth is removed,
‘Brother Story, Kte|> to the window and
see if it does not look like rain.’ And
if l tell him that the sun is shining
brightly, Judge Marshall will some
times reply: ‘All the better, for our
juri diction extends over so large a
territory that the doctrine of chances
make, it certain that it must be raining
somewhere, and it will bo safo to take
something,' ’’—Josiah Quincy’is f)hurv.
A KU KLCX PARADE.
[Mounted Men lllHsuised so tlint Their lies!
Friend* did Not Know Them.
From the authentic history of “The
Ku KIux Klan : Its Origin, Growth and
Disbandment, ” by Rev. D. L. Wilson,
iu the July Century, we quote the fol¬
lowing : “Soon after nightfall the streets
were lined with au expectant and exci¬
ted throng of people. Many came from
the surrounding country. The members
of tho Klau in the county left their
homes in the afternoon and traveled
alone or in squads of two or three, with
their If paraphernalia carefully concealed. that
questioned they answered they
were going to Pulaski to see the Ku
Klux parade. After nightfall they as¬
sembled at designated points near tho
four roads leading into tho town. Here
they donned their robes and disguises
and put covers of gaudy materials on
their horses. A sky rocket sent up from
some poiut in the town was the signal
to mount and move. The different com¬
panies met and joined each other on the
public square iu perfect silence; the dis¬
cipline appeared to be admirable. Not
a word was spoken. Necessary orders
were given by means of tho whistles.
In single file, in deatli-like stillness,with
funeral slowness they marched and coun¬
termarched throughout headed the town. While
the coin mu was north on one
street it was going south on another.
By crossing over in opposite directions
the lines were kept up iu almost unbro¬
ken continuity. The effect was to create
the impression of vast numbers. This
marching and countermarching was kept
up for two hours, and the Klan departed
as noiselessly as they came. The pub¬
lic were more than ever mystified. The
etlorts of the most curious to find out
who were Ku Klux failed. One gentle¬
man from the country was confident
that ho could identify the riders by the
horses. But, as we have said, the horses
were disguised as well as the riders.
Determined not to bo baffled, during a
halt of tho column lie lifted the cover of
a horse that was near him, and recog¬
nized his own stoed and saddle on which
he had ridden into town. The town
people were on the alert to see who of
the young men of the town would be
with the Ku Klux. All of them, almost
without exception, were marked ming¬
ling freely aud conspicuously with the
spectators. illusion
“Pehaps the greatest pro¬
duced was in regard to the numbers
taking part iu the parade. Reputable
citizens were confident that the number
was not less than three thousand. Oth¬
ers, whose imaginations were more easi¬
ly wrought upon, were quite certain
there were ten thousand. The truth is
that the number of Ku Klux in the pa¬
rade did not exceed four hundred. This
delusion in regard to numbers prevailed
wherever the Ku Klux appeared. It il¬
lustrates how little the testimony of even
an eye-witness is worth in regard to any¬
thing which makes a deep impression ou
him by reason of its mysteriousness.”
OUR RAILROAD INTERESTS.
The It nilroii <!n In tlie Country nnd llif
Mile* of New Kond Built Uiust Year.
The New York Herald in a lengthy
article on our railroad interests says:
The future of our railroads is not dark;
on the contrary, even upon the present
condition of affairs, substantial pros¬
perity may be predicated. What may
now appear to bo useless roads have
been built, but as time goes on oven
these may bo wanted; others have been
constructed long in advance of their
need. On tho whole, it may be said
that insufficient. the railroad mileage Many miles of the of country railroad
is
must be built each year, and, while
some prove unprofitable will ventures, by The far
the largest part be needed.
year 1883 could not be regarded as
offering conditions favorable to railway
construction, and what was built was
probably called The for following by the needs is of the
population. last the total
added to our mileage year:
Roads. Miles.
New England Middle States.. 13 84.2
Eastern States. 38 770.2
Middle Western States. 59 1,344.1
Southern States....... 45 1,212.0
Pacific belt............. 19 1,040.3
Missouri belt......... 30 835.5
Kansas licit........... 35 834.5
Colorado belt......... 11 742.8
Totals 250 0,809.0
—as against 11,591 miles of new road built in
1882.
While depression, loss and discourage¬
ment appear to be tho incidents of the
present hour, they aro but the remedy
for misjudged, wrong and dishonest
methods. But underneath lies the solid
wealth of the country, and the minds of
able, honest aud sagacious men are now
engaged in surmounting the dangers
which have been caused by the kuaves
aud fools who havo had their day.
Til© Difference.
Two brothers, who had a few thou¬
sand dollars apiece, went into business,
one going West, ou a farm the other
going to Chicago as a speculator.
After a year they met. Chicago
“Well, John," said the man,
“how goes it?”
“Oh, first rate. I’ve got a nice farm,
nnd I’ve been raising corn out there to
heat the mischief, and I’ll raite
the same way next year. That’s
kind of a farmer I am. Now what
you doing ?”
“Oh, I’m on top. I haven’t got
farm; but I’ve got the gall to go ahead,
and I’ve made a corner and raised
here at home to beat the entire
and I’ll raise wheat next year in
same way and scoop the village.
the kind of a burner I
Traveler,
NO. 13.
MILLIONS OF FIRE WORMS.
1’ECULIAR APPEARANCE OP AN OR¬
CHARD WHEN THEY LEAVE.
An ICnMt-Bonncl I’lnguc flint in Dcvnulutlnfl
the WrNlclieslrr Apple Orchard*.
Some of the finest apple orchards in
tho country are iu Westchester county,
Now York. The crop is valuable, and
owners of orchards have taken care to
have young trees coming into bearing
before the older orchards were past their
prime. The best varieties are cultivated,
the fruit ripens to perfection, and good
prices are obtained in this market. Ap¬
ple raising is one of the important in¬
dustries of the region. Two years ago
the fire worm did considerable damage
in the orchards thereabouts. Last year
also the trees suffered. This year the
crop iu a large wholly proportion of the or¬
chards will be destroyed by this
pest.
The devastating creature is called the
fire worm because the apple trees look
as though scorched by flame after the
worm has loft them. The leaves are de¬
voured down to the little leaf stalk and
ribs, and these turn red. The young
fruit withers and falls off. The worms
are black, smooth, aud tliree-fourtlis of
an inch in length. They crawl like
measuring worms. When the limb on
which they are feeding is jarred they
drop down in showers, spinning webs
on which they ascend if they are not
further disturbed. The worms made
their first appearance for this season
about two weeks ago.
Mr. A. J. Quimby, of New Castle,
fias about sixty acres of bearing trees.
He said: “The lire worms have made
their appearance by millions, and aro
ruining the apple crop around New
Castle, Cliappaqua, Pleasautville, and
all through that region. The trees that
they attack aro crippled not only for
this fall’s crop, but for tho next fall’s,
for they will not recuperate in time to
bear next season. We don’t know what
to do. All we have done so far is to
plow up the orchards in the hope of
turning under the worms and eggs, and
lessening the swarm that will come out
next spring.
“You can’t get an idea of the num¬
bers of these worms till you see the or¬
chards. The other day I sent a mau
out with au ox team to plow among the
trees. The worms drove him out.
They swarmed over him and the oxen
till they were black with worms, and he
had to give it up. When a man stands
under a tree and jars a limb the worms
shower down upon him and almost stifle
him. In the villages people walk in the
middle of the streets rather than en¬
counter the swarms of worms that are
dangling from the apple trees which
overhang tlie sidewalks. At Pleasant
viile, the people found that the worms
had taken possession of the front of the
Presbyterian church, covering the steps
and door with a black, wriggling coat.
The other day I saw Stephen Palmer, of
Pleasautville, sweeping the worms down
from tho back side of his house. The
house happened to be in their path, and
they wont right up the clap-boards and
into the windows, and would have filled
the rooms up solid if he hadn’t discov¬
ered them in the them. beginning and com¬
menced fighting
“A curious thing about the fire worms
is that when they drop to the ground
they always start toward the East,
Eastward the star of these myriads takes
its way. 1 don’t see how they oan keep
themselves after straight spinning on the round points and of round the
compass down their webs; but
as they come on of these
just as the soon ground us one he strikes out worms
touches to¬
ward the East. When they begin orawl
ing toward the East, they continue till
they find an apple tree in their path.
Up they go and devour every leaf on it,
and then they march.”— drop down N. and resume
their Eastward Y, Sun.
How Tom Thumb Wooed and Won.
The most famous nuptials of this order
were unquestionably those of Tom
Thumb and Lavinia Warren. “The
General,” as so many of his patrons
must remember, was a remarkably stout Acci¬
specimen of the New Englander,
dent made him smaller than other men,
but he made the most of himself, and
invested the money made out of the
curiosity of taller people in securities of a
singularly conservative description. But
when, iu due time, at the ago of twenty
five, he fell in love with Miss Lavinia
Warren, of Middlesboro’, Mass., he
seems, from Mr. Barnum’s account, to
have acted as foolishly as men of ordi¬
nary cubits do in such circumstances.
He “hung about the show,” intercepted
Miss Lavinia in quiet places, and alto¬
gether behaved so like an ordinary lover
that he roused the jealousy Jeffrey of Hudson, Commo¬
dore Nutt, who, like
was a man of mottle, aud when in the
humor, bragged about his pugilistic talked
prowess, aud sometimes even of
pistols and bowie knives. Finally mamma,” he
avowed his love and “saw
just like ordinary people, aud lived, as a
married man, neither worse nor better
than his neighbors in Bridgeport. Mr.
Barnum, while describing how he pro¬
moted the suit of the General, and
soothed the Commodore in his disap¬
pointments, is careful to point out that
bo determined to make no pecuniary
gain by the wedding itself, and, indeed,
leads us almost to believe that he was
for the moment personally impressed
by the solemnity of the affair aud genu¬
inely self-forgetful.
Home of the,most brilliant charges iu
time of war are made by the sutlers,