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There aro now well^qulnped caoning /aetories in almost erery State in the Union whose products of land and sea are preserved in air tight cans. In Canada they eat! this country "The States." Then why, asks the New York '*he Courier-Journal leirus that Fro lessor Wiggins lays tbo blame for tha cold weather, the chilora and the rest of the ills with which tho earth has recently been afflicto l on tho conjunction be* tween Jupiter and Mars., The latest legislatire break in Missouri, recordod by the Detroit Freo Press, is a bill req siring all the buttcrine sold in ^ that markot to be colore ! pink, this mark being eridence to tho purchaser that he is not buying the genuine articlo. No special provision seems to hare bee \ - made for the protection of those who are color blind. Bays tbe~3ltuneapolis Times:" Defataa* I tion is altogether too comtnou. A long established good name and unblemished character, a lifetime of fair dealing, all the reputation which business raou would once hare spent years of salf-deuial to obtain, begins to loso its commercial #alue. Wc look askauco nt everybody. ITe go about asking whom wc can trust. The St. Louis Star-Sayings is convinced that a littlo learning is not so dangerous a thing after all. English insurance statistics show that fifty per cent, of the authors and statesmon, forty-two per cent, of the clergymen, thirty per frpfifpat. of the lawyers, twenty-sovon per htent. of the teachers and twenty-four per ^ cent, of the doctors roach tho age of seventy. Flying foxes are distressing tho agrl- I Ml local paper sayslhat at the prosont ( ^Kte of increase it is greatly feare i they \ will soon become almost as gro.at a men- i aoe as the rabbit post. A cinp of the J foxes, about four miles from Eriua, Now South Wales, contains fully 100,000 of , the pests, "and whon disturbed they rise 1 like a cloud obscuring the sun." _ I The Chicago Herald alleges that a French syndicate is buying up all the , worn out ponies on the frontier for export to Paris, the intention being to con* < ert them into food for the people of the gey metropolis. Hippophagy in France has evidently become a disease, for a .^immmfcoinach would hardly crave tho toirs. ^ A mathematician, who evidently has abundant leisure, has been tiguriug, relates the New York News, on the size of the mortgage we should now be carrying if Columbus had pledged this oountry for the cost of his outfit. Starting with the assumption that tho expenditure cost Isabeilo $10,000, he adds interest compounded every six months. At tho present time the . amount foots up nearly 271 quadrillion ^dollars. Taking tho population of the Jjh^ted States at 65,000,000, the little AM)krMU<o**i?*Cf)01' nearly 417 million dollar* for each inhabitant. It is consequently a great relief to know that Columbus never set foot on North America. It would be very embarrassing to have a musty mortgage for that dtasy figure presented, with tho customary notice of foreclosure. J The New York Advertiser says: "Beginning with Grant's sue Mi l inauguration in 1873, a period of twenty years, . during which eix Presidents have been Inaugurated, the 4th of March fell 03 pleasant days only twice. The 4th of 1873, was a bitter cold and bluitering day. There was neither snow nor rain, the temperature was ao low that ^BReath raapei a large barreit arang those who participated iu tlio parade. The 4th of Maroh, 1877, when Hayes was inaugurated, was a miserably damp, pneumonia-breeding day. The 4th of March, 1881, when Garfield was inaugurated, and the 4th of March, 1885, when Cleveland was first inaugurated, a. . were both pleasant days. Mr. Harrison'* jnaugural address was delivered In the midst of a pouring rain, and Mr. Cleveland's second oath of oflloe was taken while the sno* beat upon his bared bead. There is no sort of justlfi1: cation for the retention of this date for this important ceremony. It will always be mad# a spectacle. Surely it is not ) ijitoflninsrf to slay the people to celebrate *^be change in the administration of a Bepubltean Government. Let the date b# changed in the into*?eUf ( huuuAi^j." EASTER. East sr. smile o' the yeart Britiger of music aud flowers! Easter, whoso skies are clear With spring days' lengthened hoars* What shall we say that is new? What shall wa sing that Is old? Sermon or sonnet or chant Gildingrefinded gold. Yet, Oh Brightness returned, "Well may I glorify thee I Merer the world again | Sunless and chill shall I see. Quickened from clay, the reed Springs from the glow nbov Up from my heart has leapoj The shining lily of 16v?. .. EfcgLm.sami-r >? ??- ?* ftoeiy Mttge fo bo hear l! Sing in the chapel, choir! Trill in your meadow, bir.ll Thou who kneelest in church (Thy thought from earth apart) My Easter offering, love,? To the altar of thy heart! ?E. Irenceus Stevenson. mnn /.? *? - inii UL<U YVISLL SWEEP. BT HELEN FORREST GRAVES. tf ^4 OU ain't goin' lo t?;ke that well sweep, away, I j J o t h a in?t h e well C, - sweep that wes there Jfjfej when I was' a bahv? ^t Don't do it, Jotbam? Squire 8odgick beckoned to his son to I * ^ ^?wn the uplifted < axe. i Mrs. Sedgick stood in the doorway, i with n fat, old-fashionod tu.ublcr and a < glass-towel in her baud. Ellen, the daughter, paused in tho act of tying up an obstreperous young honey- ( ruckle shoot; and old Qrandiir Sedgick, leaning on his staff, with his gray hairs blowiug in the fre3li spring wind, look- i ing not unliko one of tho ancient Druids. ( 'Why, father, we didn't know you'd care,'' said tho squire. "It's a rickety t old thing, anyhow?" "Well, so'iu I a rickety old thing 1"' ( nnavnrorl ! ',r* ^...v.vu >uu uv-iuyuuniiuu. **11UC you j wouldn't go at mo with an nxo and a j mallet, wr.uld you? I u?ed to draw water with that well sweep afore I stood as f high as the curb." fl "Well, well," soothingly uttered the quire, "if you've auy feelin' nbout it, it ihau't bo touched 1 Only, sence the pipes have been laid from the spring up on f SajuaJIUI, E? ' **1 don't kcer what Eunice thinks!" , aid Qrandsir Scdgick. "Tho pipes from 1 3aviu Spring ain't nothin' to rae. I'd 0 rutlicr hev a glass o' clear water from the 6 Did well than all the springs in crca- v lion 1" . "So you abnll, father?so you shall!" laid Mrs. Scdgick, pickiug up tho knotted cane which tho old man had dropped, and tenderly guiding his foot- r iteps back to the cushioned cliair on tho ^ porch, which ho had just left. j But Ellen tossed her much be-crimpcd bead. "It's the only well sweep left In Kendal,"muttered she. "Horrid old fashioned J thing'.. Everybody calls our homo ?the j placo w.'Ch the well sweep.' It's toa , bad 1" . "Hush, dearl" said Mrs. Scdgick. . "Qrandsir's a very old maD, aud he's Deaf tboush Tie was. tno oiu man s t ear caught a word hero aud there, when It was least expected that ho would, lio * looked quickly around. 1 Dora," he repeated?"littlo Dora! 1 My son Adam's daughter, with the black 1 eyes aud the real Sedgick features! There nin't but a few things that I caro i for left in this world, aud Dora was one t of 'em. What bavo you done with j Adam's orphen gal?eh, Buuice? Tho j gal that hadn't uo one but mo to look after her?" j A distressed look crept over Mrs. t Scdgick's kindly face. Sho hesitated I visibly. I ' It wasn't our fault, lather," said she. "Dora was always a restless child, and she somehow couldn't seem to bo contented '.n this quiet place." Tho old man shook his Iconino whito head. "1 dunno nothin' about that," said he. "All I know is I miss little Dora, and I want her. Jothara," turning abruptly to his stalwart son, "whore's Dora!" "I don't know any more than you do, father," said the squire, leauing up against the porch pillar, and saying to wifo in a lower tone: "What has set him oil thinkin' of Dora just now?" Thinkin'1 Ain't I always thinkin' of her?" piped up the old man. "Adam's gal, that was left to us to take caro of; and Adam was always tho best of the family 1 You nagged her, and you wor? ritcd of her, and she was too highsperited to stand it, and now she's goue, an' you say you don't know nothiu' about it. Eh"?and his voice grew thriller?"that was what Cain said, mind you, when the Lord asked him where his brother was t That's why I sot here on the porch, where I can see half a mile down toe road, to get a eight of Adam's gal, Dora, coinin' baok where she belongs!" ' The three lookers-on glanced uneasily at each other. Martin Sedgick, the son, flung his axe emphatically on the ground. 4,Grandsir speaks the truth," said he. "The house ain't itself suico Dora went away." And he stalked gloomily down the hill, to whero his handsotno four-yearold colt was tied tj the fence rail, awaiting its daily exercise around the square. "Eunice," said Squire Sedgick to his wife that afternoon, "Martin is getting restless again. Ho wants to go West." Mrs. Sedgick clasped her hands nervously. "Martin-?our only eon!" she oried. "He was just begioQiog to be yeqoq . i A* , cited to life on the farm, when Dora went away," said the squire, dejectedly. "And it was she that reconciled him. Eunice?if we could get Dora bactc again? It's as my old fath<& says?she was the luck of the house." Mrs. Sedgick burst into tears. "It wasn't my fault, Jothaoyi' she said. "I always liked the child^Lough she wasn't no more like our folks than a corn flower is like a squash blossom. But she and Ellen couldn't somehow agree. Ellen always wanted Martin to mnrry Miss Brownlee, and she up one day and accused Dora of settln' her cap for Mnrtin, and Dora couldu't stand that; ; and when they appealed to me, I'ts afraid Ldidn't. talra p?u s?in *g\ AllanM I might h?^onc.." 1 % "1 knowod a woman's tongue was at the bottom of it all," said the aquirc, with some bitterness. "Poor Dora!" 1 a'l_* ' ~ iimi nignt tuo whole Sedgick family were aroused by a light blase in the dooryard?the old-fashioned well sweeo ourning up. Uranclslr, In hts flannel dressing gown and knotted stick, his leonine head well outlined in the scarlet glow, looking more Druid-like than ever. You done it o' purpose," said he, feebly shaking the stick at the assemblod family, who y^ere trembling in list doorway. You know you did. First Dora, and then tho old well sweep. The only things I kcercd for in this world?and now they're both gone, an1 I may as well lie down and diel" "l dido't mean any harml" hysterically 8obbod poor Ellon. 4,I was -lighting a taper to seal a letter?Marian Brownleo always uses the new-fashioned colored wax to seal her letters?and it burned up too quick, and I flung it oA of tho window, but I never drevned, it would fall among the dead learos around the old well curb and set it on fire i I iidn't mean any harml" ' Don't frot, father," said the squire. We'll build it up ag'in?*ni and Mtf-' :in?jnst exactly like it was before.*-' The old man shook his head. It won't bo the same," moanot he ? i'lf ?PAn*f "vr ** * 1 "?u ?- u? bim aniiic i nniQia i Uio iamo in this world 1" Auil bo took to his be I from that Inr. % I'oor Ellon hung down her head like a Irooping lily. In neither case had she 11 tended nuy actual hatni, but in both nstnnces sho felt acu'cly responsible. Martin was making preparations to go >ut West. Grandsir teemed to have lost til interest in the surrounding world. ller mother went about with swollen tyea and a pale face, and Squire So 1;ick sat by the hour on the front porc'i, ? tn'oVroiot-?<^ntiii""A.prIl ' mUmrami, lowover, Martin canso home from the ;ity, whither he had been to purchase ouio nbsoluto necessity for his travels, ritb a flat parcel under his arm. "Look, mother 1" he said. "It's somolung for grandsir. I don't know but vbat I've been extravagant, but I declare o goodness I couldn't help it. Tao ninute I set eyes on it, I thought of the Icar old man lyin' up stairs iu his bed. t's a picture," ho addol, as Eiloa came I lurrying to his side?"an oil painting vith a fine gilt frame. Exictly like our >1(1 well swesp that was burml down, vitli the rod barn in the distance, and he sun settin' behind the woods, just as 'to seen it go down times without end, fou don't know how queer I felt when ! saw it in the store window, and 1' went n and paid twenty dollars for it. I'd aliMn.nsii\nln' blankets. and. . They hung it up on the wall opposite he head of his bead, and when the old nan waked from a nap, just as the sunet beans shone over the mute canvas, he ooked at it with a amtle. It's our old well," aaid he, not evinong the least surprise. "Just like I was i-lnokin' out of the window at it. I've jot the well sweep back ag'in now, and l'raps Dora'll come next. Who knowa?" And for the first time in a week, he ;ot up and dressed himself, and deigned to give a sort of conditional approval to Lho repairs going on in the burned district. "It looks too new now," said he, adjusting his "far-away" spectacles. "But p'raps in a year or two it'll be more weather-beaten sa' nat'ral-llke. I can allays look at the picter, though, when I want to. see the old welt sweep." Ellen pulled her brother's sleeve as he stood intently regarding the bright little oil painting on grandsir's wall. "Martin," said she, "nobody ever rrtnld have nainted that nlcture bv truesa. It is oar old well sweep, and there's the cry butternut tree and the broken shingles on the barn roof. Aid don't you remembor, Martin, how fond she used to be of paintingI*' He turned suddenly around with an irradiated face. 4'Why didn't I think of it beforet" he cried. ****** Mr. Solomon Feldmao, sitting behind His desk rail in the darkest corner of the dark little art store, was startled from an abstruse financial calculation by the questioning gleam of a pair of dark eyes close beside him. 4,Is it soldi" a solt roles timidly asked ?44my 'Old Well Sweep!' I see it is gone from the window. Oh, U It possible that I can be so lucky as to have sold that picture?" Dora Sedgick was very plainly dressed. Her shoes snd glores were nnmistably shabby; there was a certain pallor la her skin and sharpness in her features which told of a battlo with the world, in which she had not as yet gained the advantage. But at that moment her face seemed transfigured with exultant joy. Mr. Feidman referred to his books. Twenty dollars," said he, with lead pencil between his teeth. "Not a bad price for a beginner, and twenty-five per cent, commission. Price of frame, five dollars, and?and here is your ten dollars. You might as well send something else." shadow from without made the little gas lighted cubby hole look a degree dingier than before at this moment. "Could you gire me the name and address of the person who painted the picture I purchase I yesterday?tho *01*1 Well SwecpF " asked the voice of Mirtin Sedgick. j The vcUel and shawl wrapped figure turned suddenly around, so that the flickering gaslight shone full on the dark eyes and rnobilo lips.. "Martial" she criwl out, with an hivoluntary step forward. Dora?my Dora I No, you shall not draw away your band I" be crlei. 4Tvo got you now, aud I moan to keep you ? yes, always, Dora?" , > * * * * *'EhPeri, rous- j I knowcd she would own back boforo 1 the Lord scut out a call tor mo. So uc- ! thin' told rao she would. They've flxod ! up the old well sweep, D >r?, and you'ro ' back n.gaini I hain't lothin' left to wish for now." 'And she's promised to be my wife," * declared Martin, with hij arm passed ' carelessly around the girl'Jsliin waist. "And Martin's given u pi the Western c plan," ecstatically cried -trs. So Igick, "and he's going to be cortont to settlj ? down bore for good nad all?' . "And oh, I'm so glad!" rasped Ellon, r while the squire slapped lis son's back in an encouraging fas lion. ' c Old Orandsir Sedgick ln>kel from ono ,, to the other with a serene 4iilc. "I hain't nothin' left to siish for," he c, repeated.?Saturday Night g TT1SS WOtt?& ^ 81 ^Prejudice is Jala* ^ $ He who cares no* to r^furn may go ti anywhere. The fop finds his beaatifed tlsloo la a ii looking-glass. ai The body may be clem but the soul ^ alone can be pure. i The concensus of the science in a ceu-11 tral and superior whole is philosophy. ? Inspiration is the supplementation o( the original act which Created the man. The apt uso of symbols Is the great j, art for ruliug the operations of human c brains. p Symbolism is tho translation of the b language of ono kingdom of being into n that of another. F In tho recoil of our awn spirit and the returns of our own deeds, Nemesis is t perpetually born. Ti The merely surprising surprises but a 8 erer Inore ittai mono *(Trmifiidf=??^?r * Be not pliant wax for outward oircum {, stances to seal. Make your own thought c the mold, your own will the stamp of h our life. e Would you make conquests of a man! u Win his heart au 1 you will win his t mind. Would you make a conquest of * a woman? Take her mind and you will 11 win her heart. n P Human life is a play, consisting o many different scenes; and those who are iu the world as spectators often ? understand the plot and the characters better than those who are there ai nntnm i Philosophy enriched by history and j animated by poetry and Applied by hu- ' inanity to the inner li/<*i*jMligious. Tne 1 cold form? of sclent!***^ 'philosophy, 111 n rr-. i i^r> | ^ ^1 j i ^ f jfflMiMf.r T - ?*> - i "Hero In SouthercfUhia^ or in autay I other parts of tho country, poor hillsides r could be utilized for trc3-growth," Israel I A. Putaam says. "As a rule, few j farmers who have lived in a timber > country think about planting auy trees ' except applo, peach, pear, etc. But many of our nut-bearing trees ought t > ' be grown that are fast disappearing by 1 tho woodman's axe, such as tho bcoch, which produces a large amount of feed fcr hogs, sheep and poultry, and is one of the handsomest of trees on the lawn, with its denss foliage and spreading tops where not too thickly planted. Then we have the shell-bark hickories, large aud small; in my boyhood days we had of the large but few trees that bore nuts, but at this time I havj quite a number of young trees, the seed of which was probably planted by chip munks, or othorwiso droppoJ, and whenever I found one I carei for it by protecting, and now wo havo tho pleasure cf gathering almost annually quantities of nuts. Then we havo tho black walnut, not only valuable for fruit, but as ti;n ber for manufacturing purposes; it ia of quick growth and attains majestic size. I could enumerate othors."?Nov York Tribune. An Interesting l!.? ol l'liot igrapfcy A French photographer lately invented a process by which a bit of ordinary paper?the leaf of a book, for example ? can be made sensitive to light without affecting tho rest of the page. Acting on this hint the French War Minister has begun to take the portraits of conscripts and recruits on the paper, which gives their height,complexion, age, etc., and the cheapness and swiftness of the operation, which is already in use in the French army, is something remarkable. It costs only one cent to get two copies of a portrait ol JacqnesBonbomme?one for his individual register and the otber for his master roll; and MiMMsiri is the iftncM* that in a few hour iWt regi- I merit can be so photo J ^ i. The soldiers file along, one bjrfne, and each iti for three seconds in thAhotographic ohair and the thing is done! Thej even mark the nun's regimental number on his breast with chalk, and thus get a complete identification of him in oaae of desertion or dekth, or when a discharged soldier presents his Claim for paj or a pension. ^-Boston Advertiser. BufTslo, N. Y., has an "agencj of direction," a sort of philanthropic intelligence office, which nuket no ol^rge for its service*, _ PALMETTO CHIPS. New* and Notes From Here, There A Everywhere in South Carolina. Street cars will be running nt Florence on May 1st. Commissioner Kirk land tl -ures out the interekt on the direct tax refund to be 85,000. The Columbia city council refuses- to bid for the State Qirls' College. The bids now stand Spartanburg $48,000, Rock Hill $00,000, ChiBtor, $35,000. T..4 nl . vuuuv oimouDn uism-ssc.J the cross bill which had been filed bj the Georgia Construction Coinpiny against tlio bond- , hotderaofthe .Carolina, Knox v die and. I WS^a AImUoIT Compaby: One of the signs of increased pro pcrty of the Columbia, Newberry an 1 Lau ens Railroad, is that tin t.lls on the Jnitcd States mail h .ve grown frou 0'iO la?t year t> nearly f(3,00t) this jcir. Gen. Elias Earlc, a native of Greenille, but more recently a resident of Morlda, a veteran of the Mexican and vst civil wars, died on Tncsd ?y. D. H. Traxler, the Sta'c dispensary ommissioncr, is in Columbia preparing a commence business, and, as the Sta e xprcsses it, "the government hat mom > to I ?'located in the agricultural hall uilding.'* On the 12th of May?unless executive Icmency or natural death interposesJfred Crosby, Isiac Crosby, fsiac onguc, Martha Yongue and E'ishi ongue, nil found guilty of tho murder f Anderson McAlly, together with .Too rnnnon, already under sen'cncc of death, ad all colored, will bt hung at Chester. The farmers in the Etta SsIVi)8^,,"'l'hbugh tlaey" "say th- y have I ill;h of the oil crop of molaasoa over, aey expect to keep a jc it's mi.'ply ahead The Italians who have been working i the South Carolina phosphate mines re returning to sunny Ituly. Governor Tillman has wri ten to Si uator ir.jthe authorizing the use for the phoa*.*Vi1?5Hnn nl O.Utfnnn .if f the ^ou'h Carolina exhibit tint is now t tho Augusta Exposition. E. L. Rochi had a cons iltatiou ritti the phosphat; men of (. h irlcston ist week in iclation t> the phosphate xlibit to be made at the Columbian Exosition at Chicago. Great pr.-gress is teioc made in collecting specimens and inking other flnnl arrangements for the irop.aed exhibit. The Kershaw Manufacturing Co.'* new 1250,000 cotton factoiy at Camden is acidly ncuiiug completion, and tbn ptadlcs will sooi be in operation. Iluoarthe clear hundred million mark. Virile she feUoff some in the year 1892, i common with the trade of the whole oun'ry, due to depressing causes unrcrsaliy prevalent, her legitimate rate of xpansion is exemplified ia the remarkbio increase of exports and imports from 13,807,073 in 1890 to $21,857,470 in 891, or $8,049,797, or tin amazing tigre of 00 per cent, ia t single twelve lonths. THE ATLANTA SENSATION. lome Gate City Bank Directors in Very Ugly Position. Washington, D. C.?It is < uthorita ive'y 1 urncd at tin department of u?ti c that special counsel Henry W 'nekton, employed in tho Gato Ci y Na ional Bank case of Atlanta, Ga., has not ?c*.n r moved, but any further action on us i art in the ense has been suspended The <JaTc"Zntt? National IMrtf 1*WjLtt?V ar a? imWmntioD reaches here goes, bav isjmiicd a very peculiar phase. The link Thursdiy, in the opinion of thTcaaury officials, is in a position to open ts doors and pay off every dollar of its ndebtrdness caused by the defalcation of Red wine. its cashier, but there is said to l> (umc d'sagrcemen4. ns to who shall i:on?titu'c the board of directors, and for that r- a on principally the bank has not b en reopened. On the otherlnnd, it intimated tha< cvcral of the old directors are open to the charge of having wrongfully taken money fiom the lmnk. Tliis view is s <id to be held by Special Coun'el Jack son, who was formerly attorney for the bank. G<n. Jackson's son, it will be recti led, commiited suicide shortly aftei lied wine's defalcation, and in some way not clearly ind:c?ted the suicide of young Jacks n was connected with lted wine's defalca'in. Gen. Jackson, special counsel in thi9 case, was naturally very much grieved at the suicide of his son, and tl.e intimation unofficially thrown out here is that G^n. Jackson has become overwhelmed with grief and has made very wild statements and insinuations against some of the old board of directors, so gave iu character that, the Government has been callei upon to stop further action on bis psrt in the case, until a most thorough and searching investigation of ths bar.k's coudition can Ic made. Whole Town Destroyed. Wilmington, Del ?The chief of thr fire department of this city received wore that the town of Galena, with about eight hundred inhabitants, near Chestertown, Md., was oa tire and re?ju sting assistance A 1st. r dispitc'i was lecetve l saying th<j town had been wiped out. About two hundred houses were totally dcstioycd and several persons severely burne I while fighting the tire. No lives were lost. As no ra Irotd nor telegraph ofll e is iu the town, it is impossible to get further details. Tho houses, which were frame were neat and substintial, and Ml t close together. The town contained several agricultural implement shops and had a large school-house. The larg< s* retail sto o in Kent county wai located at Qetera | BIG BLAZE IN*"GLOUCESTER. Nearly All the Town Destroyed b] Fire. West Poirt, Va.?A big flro in th> night destroyed the town of Glouccstc Courthouse. Two Urge stores, the tele f>hone office, the po tofli :e and all thti contents were consumed. The buildin] were pattiul covered by insurance, Ori gin of the flro is unl^otfo, Walking Loaves, Hll'-fca, F.tc. Imitative form* in nature are to> well known and have been written on too N often to require an/ tneclal notice here. Nature** law, being almost universal as far aa the. protection of the weak ' creature is concerned, it is not at all 8 wonderful, perhaps, that *ho has forme 1 insects into portdetcluntorpirts of 11 >w- oi era, leaves,- ticks, etc. Bonne of the *1 * walking leaves," ihoie which are natives of In lii, C.ilui a.i I Jihi in particular, are targe, grotesque looking ft croaturos, their reaemblanco being strik- ol Ingly liko a bundlti of yellow twigs hi joined together w Uh.fi 1o I, mieoi.ited laa'wiS. Thi XniVi'ilCWili iqnxtes of dm soct are long, sleader'and very twiglike, Pi the coloring being suited to that pat tic an uiar specie* of vegetation upon which c? the deceptive iniuaioker subsists. {? Tho "walking stiok," like the walk- ?l lag leaf, is also very deceptivo, as far as looks go. The males have s-nill, slender &r< bodies, the logs or arms starting from it just as smaller liiubs of a trea or wood t?i start from larger onos. ^ - Toe ".valkiu g thorn" of Javi belongs im to this curious order of insects, us do hii also the devil's horse" and the miuti*. us The walking thorn" looks exactly like the large compound spine of our coin- 1 nion honey locust tiee, even in c ilorau 1 dci general contour.?^t. L >uis Uepublic. 8Ct up A Kemirkable ( * c. Un The sentiment cxprosscl in the lines. "When we begin to liv?. We all be^in to die.'' was almost literally verified in tho casj of Simon M. Elder, who dio 1 a<^ tr.irf-MrifsvTunrtn xreTTrfiir~TTMr HTncss 1 ^ of only a few months, and yet a surgical 1 tll# examination showed that death was nB caused by a kick from a horse sixty years prn ago, when Mr, Elder was a small boy. crg The animal's hoof crushed tho skull two | pr< inches above his right eye, and tho oper- J dir ntion abovo roferred to dbc'.oscd a large orifice in tho skull, through which it was seen Hint tho right frontal lobe of the brain was entirely gone. llow life and -pi reason were sustained for years under such conditions is a subject of interest to medical scieucc. "That he should hive nj survived the accident was in itself a marvel," said his attending physician: "but that he retained his faculties and ^; led a lifo of useful iudustry, makes it a truly wonderful case."?Boston JournalThe Xoaud City's Name. N Tho city having boon named in honor Jic of St. Louis many rupposo that tho pro- ' nnnciation should be "St.^ of the name of tho saiut. Louis is not an English name, and Hume, in nnglL ( 0 cizing it in his history, always writes it "Lewis." All the French kings of the *name "Louis" are "Lewis" in Hume's c; writings. Those who say "St. Looio" in speaking of the city may think it is U more honor to the sainted King of ? France, for whom it was named, to use V the French pronunciation. On thcothci ^ hand, our lancuaTO ia Enrrliah nnrl It i? perfectly natural that there should be n those who hold that the name of our ^ cities should be as nearly English ?9 v possible. The "St. Loom" pronuueia- ^ tion will never cause any one to forget v why the city was na ned St. Louis, and J if it is the most popular it should be generally accepted. Doubtless the ear- '' liest settlers never said "St. Loois," but 8< it is a long time siuce they were here.? [j St. Louis Post-Dispatc'-. ^ I * I bed is now almosLas well known ua if it ^ were dry lend. The chart* represent it as a huge trough of varying depths, extending from pole to pole. Here and ' ' there are rocky peaks, like that of Tener- ^ ilTe, or huge mountains of saud, like the Banks of Newfoundland, which reach up to or above the surface. Between Ireland and Newfoundland there is a re- 4 markablc submarine plain. This great level stretch of ocean bottom is always referred to as the "telegraph or cable P' plateau,bccnusc of the fact of the main J1 submarine cables being stretched across it. This plateau is believed to be a continuation of the great water shed which, ^ between tbo latitudes of forty and fifty u degrees north, surrounds the earth, and " divides the waters which flow south from those which flow towurd the north.? New York Dispatch. o w A Wnr Ship's Onus DisabloU by Fro t d Up to the present wo have not tell able to advocate the general use of oloo- fl trie motors in place of hydraulic gear oi tl auxiliary steam engines on hoard ship; it but the effect of tho recent frost on Her tl Majesty's ship Bonbow discloses a weak point in hydraulic machinery which has G no parallel in electrical work. Tho gear J of tho heavy guns has been not only dis- f nblcd, but has suffered such serious in- c jury that It has been found necessary tc take tho greater portion of it to pieces and to forward it to tho manufacturers for reconstruction and repair.?London Electrician. End of the Nashville Bank Panic. . Nashvili.r, Tbnn. -The financial situ- < ation in this city was perfectly <juiet i Friday. The Banks did lit tie business < beyond the receipt of deposit*, there < 1 seeming to be no desira t-> check out. < But little demand from country d&iiks < ' for currency was made, though when made it was promptly supplied. The Mechanics' Savings Banks and Trust Company is receiving depos ts and in a day 1 or two will resume payments. i 1 Hard Times in Atlanta. The chief drj goods dculers of Atlanta, Ga , w ill reduce the wages of all cleik? 33 percent. on April 1st, and ths reduction will continue throughout the ' summer, and longer if trade docs not imrrovc. r Tom Watson Given Up His Contest. Auocnta, Ga. Reports come ts tho r press from Thomsou, Ga , Thomaa f? E Watson's home, saying that Wa'son 1 lias abandoned his contest for the teat of pi?jorJ. C. C, Black in Congress. JNUM13EK 14. NORTH CAROLINA SQUIBS. Feway Oleaningi from Cherokee to Currituck. New Hanover's new court house, whict i said to be by far the handsomest iu the tide, will soon be ready for occupaucy. A lodge of Odd Fellows which was rgnni/.ed in Sta'esville more than a year go, with a good incmhfr<>hip, has gone ut of business. Governor Carr has offered $200 reward >r the at rest of J. M. Benson, treasurer r Harnett county, oflicial information iving been received that Benson hns ken $2,400 of the county fund aud fled. It is reported :hat Captain C'barlas rice, who is attorney for the Richmond id Danville raiiroid, has succeeded in mprcmising nearly all the suits brought ainst the couipauy on account of the >s inn Bridge wreck. A bank, an opera-house, and a railroad b three things that will probably he ded to the improvements of Lumber- ' it during the year 1893. Mayor Fishblatc, of Wilmington, hns itruclpri iho - ?. jiuiicc l> notify 1 officers to arrest all persons thev hear iug profane and xulgar language on e street*. rhere are twelve North Carolina stunts at Hnivnrd University, Mussachuts, and several of them "itnnd way " Of these eight are graduates of the iversity of North Carolina. Hie North Carolina committee on colo1 exhibits for the Columbian Exposin has exiled upon nil citizens in that ite to lend their aid in furoisliing por[t^iTrio,r^i y1 im iitfar-? rcn students of the medical clnsi in Le -nard medical school of Shaw ivers'ty, colored, at Haleigh, bavo dusted. Some of them are foreign, one or two being from the Congo re State, and having been sent at the cction of the King of the Bclg'ans. VIRGINIA HAPPENINGS. tie Latest News Items in the Old Dominion. The growing wheat crop in the Valley ' Virginia doei not present a promising ipenrancc. A new town, to be named Dawson ity, is being laid ofT on the Baltimore id Ohio railroad, near Cherry Run. A new bank has been organized at orfolk wi h f 250,000 capital. It will i call d the Norfolk Bank for Saving* rust. Xhfl?-Clui?JLnrako and Ohio .? -f'-yt "ir% ^ * 1.'^"?~~ r, .- x M ivannntfo. river in order to rcich sonir >al dcp sita Robert Stevens, a venerable citizen of ouisa county, was killed by being '.ught under a f dling tree. A millionaire Colorado miner and e. e'gim repr sent live of a company arc a their way to Virginia with a view to I vesting iu gold properties in Fluvanna, ioochland and Fauquier counties.* The fruit trees and strawberry patches round Nor "oik arc blooming on the true* srin-, and the green stuff, under tho rarm rains, is looking very promising, "he season will be late owing to the se ore freezes of January, but the truckers II believe the outlook is very favorable or a large vi< Id of ev. rything and a rofltab'c season ahead unless the cholera ?nre cu'fl off tho markets. The green ens never looked prettier at this time of jc year and only a heavy breezo wilt soil a fine crop. iiu JJiuiuu Miip^issni BiaMitaaMBasac^: and Printed Hers. Joe Bond, colored, wna eonvi ted Fri*y nt Appling, On., of the murder of ci. ..I. -1 I J 1 ? . n.? "ilia cu iiiiv, ui.Mi tui'MtUj iu*i> :r. Dr. II. C. Hornnd.y, n well-known aptist preacher of Atlanta, died at Slimzumn, G v., Thursday, lie hud been ill long time. Thi Campbell (Glass and Paint Commy'8 cstub ishmcnt, in Kansas City, [o , was completely destroyed by tire, osa |120,000; i surance $ 100,000. Mike Chambers, in jail at Sacramento, nl., has coufevsed that he is the man ho murdered Fred Fetterman some louths ago at Hun'sville, Tenn. 1 lie Pennsylvania hoard of pardons as recommended pardons for "Abo1' luzzard, the notorious Welch Mountain utlaw, and James 8. Dungaii, the rcckcr of the Bank of Ameiici, Philaelphia. Tue Philadelphia, Admiral Ghenrrdi'? agship, the Baltimore, the Yorktowo, le Visuv'.us and the torpedo boat Cushig sailed from New York Frirday for le naval reqdezvous at Hampton Bonds. The Chattanooga Bar have seut to lovcrnor Turney their endorsement of udge W. K. McAllister, of Nashville, or appointment as Judge Lorton's sue essor on the State Supreme Bench. General Smith Buried. Pewanrr, Trnn ?The funeiAl o! Seneral Kdmund Ivirliy jsmitli took place Friday morning at 12 o'clock. A special train of six cari arrived from Nashville with marly 500 veterans and two companies of State troops. The funcrAl was jf a sui I it try character. A beautiful ioral tribute was presented by the studjuts of the University, of which the late Qencral was a professor. Telegrams of condolence have poured in from all parts [>f the United States, showing the esteem in which he wss held. Chicago Eats Texas Strawberries. Chicago, Ii.i,.?Four hundred cases of strawberries picked ripe in Texas nnd ihipped in a new refrigerator arrived here Wednesday in quite good condition. This shipment was an experiment, and consignees arc so will satistied that they w.U continue to receive small fruits from Texas throughout the season. xnvu ui oiJL imoruieu. Pkovincetown, Mass.?The fishing schooner Ada K. Damon lost six men on Tuesday. They were setting trawls from dories when a snow storm shut them from view, and they were not seen again. Three dories and one dead body olew ashore between Xaqsot and Welfleet.