The Beaufort Tribune and Port Royal Commercial, 1877-01-04

that the Communists were wholly in the J wrong, surely they have been punished . effougli. The number that were killed by the Yersaillist troops after their entry j into Paris is variously estimated at from thirty to fifty thousand, including many women and little children. The executions that have since taken place amount^ ed to from fifteen to eighteen thousand. . When I first arrived here three years , ago?that is to say, two years after tho ' suppression of the Commune?I was told that they were still shooting prisoners by 1 squads on the plains of Satory. Recently a fresh victim waa condemned to death, not one of the leaders of the rebellion, be it understood, but onto of the rank and file. And it must be remembered that many, nay the greater part, of these poor creatures entered the ranks of the Communist forces not to rob or murder, but in good faith, and to earn bread for tneir wives and little children. It is easy to see how a workingman, a republican by principle, who had starved and suffered all through the siege, and who was offered thirty cents a day to serve in the republican forces, could easily be induced to accept such an offer. And the heroism of some of these unhappy beings was beyond all praise. Not long ago I was told the story of a young Swiss doctor who had charge of one of the Communist hospitals, and who was greatly aided in his labors by a woman of the people, who, young, strong armed and vigorous, assisted him to the best of her ability, and who was at once the most untiring And faithful of nurses to the sick and wounded. After the entry of the Yersaillists the physician was arrested. As lie was being conducted before the tribunal be met his former aid j

V"V ? X >r I ? liis proposition to the proof by having one-eighth of an acre carefully menaced ; : in the presence of witnesses. It was subdivided into spaces about nineteen by j thirty-seven inches apart, and two ounces of seed were planted, the seed having been carefully weighed, the grains counted, and the ground spaced so as to j take but one seed in each place. It was j j then irrigated and cultivated like Indian j I com.; Now for the result as harvested in the | latter part of September. The number ; of heads per stool was from sixty to 118 i j well developed heads. I send yeu a j sample stool, one of many from the plat, i which contained 135 heads, 118 of which i [ were fully developed. The number of i [ grains per head in this stool was eighty, i ; Over one-half yielded 100 grains each. Owing to an accident Mr. Bissell failed I ; to get the accurate weight or measure- j i ment, but making all due allowance for j i that wasted the yield was ten bushels, or ! at the rate of eighty bushels per acre, J forty more than the proposition called j for. Now compare the above result with an ' average crop sown broadcast. I am as- i sured that the average number of heads I i per stool in an average field of wheat, J 1 sown broadcast, is not over five of forty : 1 gniin8 each, which would be less than ! tliirty-three bushels per acre, if all the seed grew. What becomes of the seed ? Tn the field where this plant grew, there was sown broadcast at alx>nt the same time 100 acres. It was irrigated, as was ; the other, and harvested at the. same

? ^ J The Chicago Times recalls a successful effort of General Caster to prevent a die- | astrous panic. The oecasiou was a reunion in the Springfield (IlL) opera & house in 1874, after the dedication ol the* Lincoln monument. The Times says: r The programme was about half exhausted, General McDowell was in the act <i talking, when a loud snap echoed through the suditorium?the balcony appeared to be sinking, and several persons c^pd ou :: * u The gallery is coming down 1" Grant n ever moved from his chair, apd appear* d ^ .. not fca notice the exciterneat which ibvmediately spread xmougthfepeople. Mto yelled and women screamed?-eve*ybo<^ or nearlyjeveiybody, rushing toward-tie * main entrance, or exit Hherman to Lis feet, waved his hand, and implurftT A the audience to resume their seats, but I nil in vain. Tlie confusion grew J confounded, and men's faces paled as fits ' imminence of a terrible tragedy dawned ^ upon their understandings. Anoth er moment and tlie panic would have betf i uncontrollable. The band in the balcon y, obedient to the band master, kept thor seats in tlie midst of the-turmoil. The.a, till at once, a blaze of inspiration seemed * to rise in Caster's face. He rushed to the very edge of the footlights, swung his hat around his head, and, in a voice which seemed to conquer the stampeding uproar, shouted to the musiqanaj teution there! strike up that music ! ' In half a second /'Yankee Doodle," tfie nearest and choicest melody tliat suggest suggest- - - suggest- ? n

production which has beeu maintained ot ; late years?with the exception of the i temporary improvement eflfected a year j and a half or two years ago, when the oil wells wore generally stimulated to mi- j wonted activity by the exploding of j dynamite torpedoes in them?it will take , the world only a short time to work a point when oil will lie scarce. It is i hardly to be expected that the wells will , all absolutely dry up and yield nothing j in that time?although they may do so. Vigorous pumping, lucky finds of new wells, and judicious doctoring of old i ones, will doubtless afford some oil for almost all time, but it will be scarce, and J consequently dear. Up to thirty cents per gallon, kerosene is the cheapest illuminator of equal effectiveness that the world knows. Up to sixty cents it j will still be cheaper than candles at j eighteen cents per pound. But beyond that figure it must bear a fancy price. ! i Necessity of Coolness in Danger. Panic is, of course, one of the things against which it is most easy to preach . but which it is most difficult to preach 1 down. Still, if it could be got into the heads of all people in their cooler hours th.it, in case of an alarm of fire in a 1 theater, the principal danger to the an- j ilience comes from themselves and is in their own control, it is probable that, even under the influence of sudden ex- : citement and fear, manv who now would 7 show a bad example might then show a good one. Not very long ago a sadden \ alarm took place in one of the best of the

and companion coming forth, escorted I by a detachment of soldiers. " Ah, my poor Adele," he said to her, " are you ' here? We have both fallen on evil days, it seems." She looked him full in the face. " Moifsieur, je ne vous connais i pas," she said ("I do not know you, sir "), and was hurried away. The doctor shrugged his shoulders. "Evidently I am a doomed man," he said to himself, "-siure that woman will not recognize *ne ! for fear of compromising herself." He was brought before the tribunal, but by the intervention of ^ wounded Versaillist whom he had attended he was released, j He learned later the true story of Adele's failure to recognize him. She was being led forth to instant execution when they had met. Even in that terrible hour the brave girl had turned away from the last < visage that would ever be bent upon her in sympathy or kindness, the last hand ' that would ever l>e proffered to her in , friendly greeting, lest such recognition might involve her former comrade in her h own doom! i ?-?-? !: Analyzing Life. Dr. Beard states that from an analysis j of the lives of a thousand representative men in all the -great branches of the human family, he made the discovery 1 that the golden decade was between I forty and fifty; the brazen between twen- i ty and thirty; the iron between fifty and < sixty. The superiority of youth and 1 middle Hf#> over old acre in original work '

evil. We kept our places by the window, looking <?ut into the deep velvety darkness, with the far-away solitary light from the lighthouse gleaming like a red spark. Suddenly, while we sat, the sound of a voice rose up again from the louely sands, a moaning, pit-eons voice wailing and imploring as if in unutterable distress. It seemed to mingle with the boom of the distant sea, now rising, nowfalling, a lonely desolate wail, thrilling through the darkness like a soul in mortal agony. It was dying away in the distance, in a low, faint sob, when Nellie suddenly sprung back into the room. " Oh, Jean, look !*' she cried. "Look, the phantom light!" I leaned out of the window and gazed out along the promenade. Flashing through the somber darkness like a great star was a brilliant beautiful light. It came rapidly toward us frem the right, apparently floating in the air, and illuminating the space l>efore it for several yards. It advanced very swiftly, with a steady, forward motion, floating along about a yard from the ground. As it came nearer we perceived, looming dimly behind it, a" giant shadow, weird and grotesque, with outspread wings and misty, undefined form, while a sharp rustliug, whirring sound accompanied its progress. As the phantom approached the desolate moaning rose again from the sands and swept along in low, shuddering cries, dying away sad and piteous as before. | "?* ' ? 4* l 1 > < 1 1 11 1 ' Vl 1 |

appearance the clerk took irom ine packei a letter bearing her name and presented it to her. She commenced an eager speech of thanks, which was cut short by the simple announcement: "The person to whom a letter is addressed has alone the right to receive it." The poste-restaute often serves as a trap to catch the smaller class of malefactors, such as ruuhway wives or 'defaulting bank clerks. Such gentry usually come to Paris as a secure hiding place. Their names are communicated ; to the police, and through them are placed upon a list, called the yellow list, of the post-office. If one of these i persons ventures to the post-restante to i claim a letter, the nanje given is repeated by the cleyk in a loud tone?a very simple and natural proceeding, and one thut awakens no suspicious. But its object is to give warning to a detective concealed in a back room, by whom the culprit is immediately followed, and soon after he is in the hands of "the law. - - ? The Rise In Siker. Dr. Linderman, in the course of an interview, fully reported in the San Francisco Chronicle, attributed the rise of pilver to the heavy purchases of coin which the United States government has been makieg in Loudon and on the Pacific slope, and the enormous demand for silver in China. The future of the silver market would depend, he said, mainly upon the legislation of the United ; State and Germany. "There is now," he continued, "about SI,000,000 worth

it she made a touching appeal to Hanta Clans not to forget her or her folks, x Her little brother wants a new pair of shoes; father would like a new hat; mother would be pleased with a new Jress, and the little writer adds: "Now, dear Santa Clans, if you have just pne j little doll left please bring it aratoqd to J me, and I'll promise to be a?good Kttto y girl all next year.'' Tlie touching pathos of ti?8fmf6siie 1 Anil the simple faith of the little gin^K says a Chicago paper, made a deep im- V pression upon the officials, and after a brief consultation it was decided that the little one should have a satisfactory Cliristmas. Postmaster McArthur and one of his clerks drove to the residence ' and found that the statements of the lit* I tie girl were correct On their return l they. drove around to several business acquaintances, and it is needless to say that they in a very short time collected enough to more than satisfy the longings of the little petitioner. A pair of shoes j was got for the little brother, and two or three pairs more far other members of the family; the father's and mother's J wants were supplied and a handsome doll was secipred tor Amy. A purse of $25 was made up and sent along with* the * other gifts; and in no howebpld in Cftieugd was there a happier Christinas tlian that in the little cottage on the obscure street, whose guardian angel is Argy MeKeuzie. ? ; ' -4 Dm>ahS?0 Panli* \ n