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IN SHADOW. The world was fair, and very fair; Blue sky end sunshine everywhere ; But 'mid the flowering of the world One little bud kept closely curled. In vain the wooing sunshine smiled. The little bud was not beguiled. But when the night wept wild with raia Upon the desolated plain Night through her shadows saw unclose The petals of the hidden rose; j A rose of love, to scent the years. Ah, turn and take it through vonr tears! -E. Nesbit in Black and White. FEECKLES. He was the most peculiar chap that ever came to Dunston's school, not ex cepting even Mason, who shot the doc tor's wife's parrot with a catapult, and' after he had been flogged offered to stur? it in the face of the whole school and .nearly got expelled. Freckles was so called owing to his skin, which was simply a complicated pattern much like what yon can see in any map of the .Grecian archipelago. This arose, he thought, from his having been bom in Australia. Anyway, it was rum to see, and so were his hands, which had red dish down on the backs. His eyes were also reddish-a sort of mixture of red and gray specks, and they glimmered like a cat's when he was angry, which was often. His real name was Maine ?His father had made a big fortune sell ing wool at Sydney, and his grandfa ther was one of the last people to be transported to Botany Say-through no fault of his own. After he had been on a convict 'ship two years a chap at home confessed on his deathbed that he had done the thing Maine's grandfather was transported for. So they naturally let Maine's grandfather go free, and he was so sick about it that he never came back home again, but married a farm er's daughter near Sydney and settled out there for good. Maine didn't think much of England and was always talking about the Aus tralian, forests of blue gum trees and bush and sneering rather at the size of our forests round Merivale, though they were good ones. He never joined in games, but roamed away alone for miles and miles into the country on half holi days and trespassed with a cheek I never saw equaled. He could run like a hare, .especially about half a mile or so, which, as he explained to me, is just . about a distance to blow a keeper. Cer tainly, though often chased, he was never caught and never recognized, ow ing to things he did which he had learned in Australia and copied from famous bushrangers. His great hope some day was to be a bushranger him self, and he practiced in a quiet way every Saturday afternoon, making it a rule to go out of bounds always. His get np was fine. < Me, being fond of the coun try and not keen on games, he rather took to, and after I had sworn on crossed knives not to say a word to a soul {which I never did tii! Freckles lett) he told me his secrets and showed me his things. If you'd seen Freckles starting for an excursion yon wouldn't have said there was anything remarkable . about him, but really he was armed to the teeth and had everything a bush ranger would be likely to want in a quiet place like Merivale. Down his leg was the barrel of an airgun, strong enough to kill any small thing like a cat at 25 yarda The rest of the gun was arranged inside the lining of his coat, and the slugs yon fired he carried loose in his trousers pockets. Round his waist he had a leather belt he got from a sailor for a pound. Inside the leather was human skin, said to be flayed off a chap by cannibals somewhere, which was a splendid thing to have for your own, if it was true, and in the belt a place had been specially made for a knife. Freckles, of course, had a knife in it-a bowie knife that made yon cold to see. He never nsed it, but kept it ready, and said if a keeper ever caught him he possibly might have to. In ad dition to these things he carried in his coat pockets a little spirit lamp and a collapsible tin pot and a bag of tea Lastly, Freckles had a flat lead mask with holes for the eyes and mouth which he always fitted on when tres passing. Once, as an awful favor-me being much smaller and not fast enough to run away from a man-he let me come and see what he did when bnshranging on a half holiday in winter. "I shan't mn my usual frightful risks with you, ' ' he said, "because I might have to open fire to save yon, and that would be very disagreeable to me, but we'll tres pass a bit, and I'll shoot a few things if I can. I don't shoot much. Only for food." He made me a mask with tinfoil off chocolate, smoothed out and gummed on cardboard, but I had no arms, and he said I had better not try and get any. We started for the usual walk. Chaps were allowed to go through a public pine wood to Merivale, but half through, by a place where was a board which warned ns to keep the path, Freckles branched off into some dead hracken and squatted down and put on his mask. I also put on mine. Then he fastened his airgun together and loaded it and told me to wa'fk six paces behind him and do as he did. His eyes were awfully keen, and now and then he pointed to a feather on the ground or an old nest or a patch of rain fungus or a crab apple still hanging on the tree, though all tho leaves were off. Once he fired at a jay and missed it then fell down in the fern as if he was shot himself and remained quite mo tionless for some tim?. He told me that he always did so after firing that he might hear if anybody had been attract ed by the sound. It was a well known bushman's dodge. Once we saw a keep- j er through a clearing, and Freckles lay flat on his stomach, and so did I. He knew the keeper well and told me he had many times escaped from him. Well, that gives you an idea of Frec kles, and the affair with Frenchy, which I am going to tell you of, showed that he really was cutout for bnshrang ing. Frenchy, as we called him, was M. MicheL He didn't belong entirely to Dunston's, but liv^d in Merivale and came to us three days a week, and went to a girls' school the other three. He wa3 a^rum, oldish chap, whose great peculiarities were to make puns in Eng lish and to appeal to our honor about everything. He would slang, a fellow horribly one day and wave hisarmb and pretty near ly jump out of his skin, and the next day he would bring np a whacking pear for the fellow he'd slanged or a new knife _or somethinir. He pretty nearly r crier! sometimes, ana ne raia ns nerves were frightfully trick}-, ano ten led him to be harsh when he di mean it. He couldn't keep orde make chaps work if they didn't che and Steggles, who had an awfully ning dodge of always rubbing hin the wrong way and then loo! crushed and broken hearted so as tc things, which he did. said that Frer was like damp fireworks, because never knew exactly when he'd go o: how. ; One day. dashing out of class wi frightful yell, Freckles got sent and went back and found mons raving mad. It seemed that Free had yelled too soon-before he was of the classroom, in fact, and Fren had got palpitation from it. He let : Freckles properly then. He said he his "bete noire" and "un sot a vii quatre carats"-which means an carat ass in English, but 24 carats French-and "one of the aborigi who ought to be kept on a chain," many other suchlike things. Fred turned all colors, and then white, w a sort of bluish tint to his lips, didn't say a word, but looked at Fren with such a frightful expression th! felt something would happen later, that happened at the time was t Freckles got the eighth book of Ti machus to write out into French fr English, and then correct by Fenel which was a pretty big job if a cl had been fool enough to try and it, and M. Michel went off to M< vale with a big card fluttering on coattail with 4 'Ici on parle Franca written on it in red pencil. This 11 managed to do myself while Frene was jawing Freckles. I told Freckl but it didn't comfort him much, said there were some things no mor man would stand, and to be called " aborigine" because a man was born Australia seemed to him about the t terest insult even an old frog eati Frenchman could have invented. H: pening to him of all chaps it was es] cialiy a thing which would have to revenged, seeing what his views we He said: "I couldn't bushrange or anythi with a clear conscience in the future I had a thing like this hanging over n It's the frightfulest slur on my chi acter, and I won't sit down under for 50 Frenchmen." Then he said he should take a we io settle what to do. and went into t playground alone. Next time Frenchy came np he w just the same as ever-awfully easyg ing and jolly and let Freckles off t Telemachus, and offered him as clas a knife, with a corkscrew and oth things, including tweezers, as ever y< saw-just the knife for Freckles, co sideling his ways. But it didn't cor off. Freckles got white again when ! saw the knife and said : "Thank you, monsieur. I don't wa your knife, and the imposition is hs done, and will be finished next tin yon come." . Then Frenchy called him a silly b< and tried to make a joke and playful pinch Freckles by the ear. But noboc saw th? joke, and Freckles dodg< away. Then Frenchy sighed and look? round to see who should have the knif and didn't seem to see anybody in pa ticular, and left it on his desk. He o ten sighed in class, and sometimes to! ns he was without friends, unless 1 might call us friends, and we said 1 might. . When he went, Freckles told me 1 considered the knife was another insul Then he explained what be was goii to do. He said : "I shall finish the impo. first, so i not to be obliged to him for anything and then I shall stick him up." "Stick him up? How?" I said. "It's a bushranging expression," h explained. "To 'stickup' a man isl make him stand and deliver what he got. I see my way to do this wit Frenchy. He always goes and cone from Merivale through the woods, a you know, and now he's up here o Friday nights coaching Slade and Bel terton for their army exam. Afterwar he has supper with Mr. Thompson o the doctor. There you are. I wait m time in the wood, which is jolly lon el; by night, though it is such a potty lit tie place hardly worth calling a wood Then he comes along, and I ?tick hir up." "It's highway robbery," I said "You might get years and years of im prisenment. ' ' "I might." he said, "but I shan't You must begin your career some time and I'm going to next Friday night I've often got out of the dormitory an< been in that wood by night, and onb the chaps in the dormitory have knowi it" Well, the night came, and all tba we heard about it till #.cterward wa: that about ll o'clock, c. possibly evei later than that, there was a fearfu pealing at the front door of Dunston's, and looking out we could see a stretchei and something on it. That something was actually Freckles, though the few chaps who knew what was going to b( done felt sure it must be Frenchy. Be> cause Freckles is 3 feet 10 inches anc growing, and Frenchy isn't more thar 5 feet 6 inches at the outside, and a poor thing at that. But it was Freckle.5 all right, and two laboring men had brought him back, and Frenchy had come with them. Not for five weeks afterward, when Freckles could get up and limp about, did I hear the truth, and I'll tell it in his own words, because they must be better than a chap's who wasn't there. He seemed frightfully down in the mouth and said that he could never look fellows in the eyes again, but it cheered him telling me, and when I told him he was thundering well out of it he admitted he was. He said: "I got off all right, and the moon was as clear as day, and everything just ripe for sticking a chap up. Then, like a fool, having a longish time to wait, I didn't just stop in shadow be hind a tree trunk or something in the usual way, but thought I'd do a thing I'd never heard of bushrangers doing, though Indian thugs are pretty good at it. I went and got up a tree which has a branch over the road, and I thought I'd drop down almost on top of Frenchy to start with. And that's just what I did do, only I dropped wrong and came down pretty nearly on my head owing to slipping somehow at the start. What did exactly happen to me as I left tho tree I shall never know. Anyway Frenchy came along sure enough, and I dropped, and he jumped I should think fully a yard into the air, but that was all. because in falling I hit a bier root (it was a beech tree) mid went a broke something in my ankle and son thing in my chest and couldn't stai Consequently, of course, I couldn't sti him np. The pain was pretty thick, t feeling what a fool I was seemed make me forget it. Anyway, finding was useless thinking of sticking h up, I tried to hobble into the fern a get out of sight, and finding I couldi crawl I rolled. But, of course, you cai roll away from a chap, and he cm after me, and my mask fell off whili rolled, and 1>3 recognized me. " 'Mon Dieul It is the boy Main* he said. 'Speak, child! What in t wide world was this?' "I disguised my voice and said wasn't Maine, and that he'd bett leave me alone or it might be the woi for him yet. But he wouldn't go, ai chancing to get queer about the he, somehow I went off, J. suppose, thouj it wasn't for long. When I came to, was gone, but he rushed hack in a mi ute with that rotten old top hat '. wears full of water he'd got from tl puddle in the stone pit. He doused n head and made me sit up with my bai against a tree. Then, feeling the frigh fulness of it, I again begged him to j and let me be. I said: " 'You don't know what you're d ing. I'm no friend to you, but tl deadliest ensmy you've got in the wor very likely, and if I hadn't fallen dov at a critical moment and broken myse I should have stuck you np, M. Miche So now you know. ' "He said to himself: 'The poor JII? boy, the poor mad boy 1 I will run toutes jambes for ciuccor. ' But I to' him not to. I began to get a rum hi pain in my side then, but I felt I won gladly have died there rather than 1 obliged to him. I said: " 'You called me an "aborigine, which is the most terrible thing ye can call an Australian born chap, ai you wanted to pass it off with a knii with a corkscrew and tweezers in i But yon couldn't expect me to take feeling as I did. Now the fortunes ( war have given yon the victory, and, yon please, I wish you'd go. ' "He wouldn't, though. He said I wouldn't have hurt my feelings fe anything. He seemed to overlook alt< gether what I was going to do to hil and asked me where it hurt me. I to! him, and he said it was his fault-fane that-and wished he was big enough t carry me back. I kept on asking hil to go, and at last, after begging m pardon like anything for about a wee it seemed, he went But I heard hil shouting and yelling French yells i the woods, and after a bit he came bac with two men and a hurdle. They pref ently took me back, and what Frenchy' said since to the doctor I don't know In fact, I didn't know anything fo days. Anyway I've had nothing but mild rowing and very good grub, an I'm not to be even flogged, thong! that's probably because I broke a rib o two, not including the bone in my leg But Fm all right now, and I think i was about the most sporting thing chap ever did for Frenchy to treat m like that, eh? I shouldn't have though it was in a Frenchman to do it, espe cially after I told him what I was go , ing to do." "Yes," I said, "that's all right. Bu what about bushranging?" "It's pretty sickening," he said "bujb I feel as if all the keenness wa knocked out of me. If a chap can't si much ae fall out of a tree on a wander er's path at the nick of time withou smashing himself, what's the good o him?" "Besides," I said, "if it hadn't beei Frenchy, but somebody else of a differ ent turn of mind, he might have takei you at a disadvantage and killed you.' "In real bushranging that is whai would have happened," admitted Free kies. "As it is, I feel months, perhap! years, will have to go by before I fee to hanker after it again. And mean time I shan't rest in peace till I've paie Frenchy." "How?" I asked. "Well, I believe it's tobe done. He'f often come to see me while I was on nij back in bed, and he's told me a lol about himself. He's frightfully hard ur and a Roman Catholic, and hopes tc lay his bones in la belle France, with luck, but he doesn't think he'll ever be able to manage it. He told me all this, little knowing my father was extremely rich. Well, you see, the mater wants somebody French for the kids at home, which are girls, and knowing Frenchy bars this climate I think Australia might do him good. He's 53 years old, and it seems to me if the gnv'nor wrote and offered him his passage and a good screw he'd go. I have made it a personal thing to myself, and told the guv'nor what a good little chap he is and what a beautiful accent he's got and the icing that happened in the wood. " The affair dropped then, and abonl six weeks after, when Freckles wa8 get ting fit again, he walked with me ono half holiday to see the place where he was smashed np. The bongil was a frightful high one to drop from even in daylight ; also it was broken. Freckles got awfully excited when he spotted it. "There, there!" he said. "That's the best thing I've seen for 13 weeks!" "I don't see much to squeak about,'" I said, "especially as tho beastly thing nearly did for you. " "But can't you see? It's broken. That's what did it. I thought I slipped, and if I had I shouldn't have been made of the stuff fora bushranger; but its breaking is jolly different. That wasn't my fault. Tho most hardened old hand must have come down then. In fact, yon couldn't have stopped up. Oh, what a lot of misery I'd have been saved through all these weeks if I'd known it broke in a natural sort of way !" He got an extraordinary deal of com fort out of it, and said he should return to his old ways again as soon as ho could run a mile without stopping. And we found his lead mask, li ko Ned Kel ly's, just where it had dropped when ho rolled over in the fern, and he welcomed it like a friend or a dog. That's the end, except that his fatherdid write to Dunston, and Dunston, not being very keen about Frenchy himself, seemed to think he would be just tho chap for the girls of Freckles' father. Anyway ho went, and he cried when he said "Good by" to tho school, and Freckles told me that when he said "Goodby" to him he yelled with crying and blessed him in French, and said that the sunny atmos phere of Australia would very likely prolong his life till he had saved enough to get his bones back to France. -So he went. ?n I Feckles went after A him mu eli sooner than lie over expected to, because tho keepers finally caught him in the game preserves sitting in his hole under the stream bank frizzling the leg of a pheasant which he had shot out of a tree with his airgun, and Duriston wrote to his father, and his father wrote back that Freckles, being now 14 and apparently having less sense than when he left Australia, had better return and begin life as an office boy in his place of business. Freckles told me that office boys in his father's office generally got a fortnight's holi day, but that his mother would prob ably work up his governor to give him three weeks. Then he would get a proper outfit and track away to the boundless scrub and fall in with other chaps who had similar ideas and begin to bushrange seriously. But he never wrote to me, and I don't know if he really succeeded well. I'm sure I hope he did, for he was a tidy chap,'though queer.-Eden Philpotts in Idler. Matrimony and BnninenH In Africa. The sailor who had a wife in every port ho visited has his counterpart in the native trader of west Africa, who has a wife in every village with which he trades. There is one important dif ference-Jack's wives helped to spend his money, whereas the trader's wives help to make it. Miss Kingsley tells us of the custom and also gives the expla nation. It would be useless for the trader to sit at home and wait for his customers to come to him, because each village is usually at feud with all che neighboring villages, and the inhabitants dare not venture beyond their own district on pain of being robbed first and eaten aft erward. On the other hand, it is obvi ously a risky thing for the black trader to travel from village to village with an assortment of the very goods best cal culated to arouse the cupidity of the guileless African. To lessen the danger he resorts to fre quent matrimony. In every village he takes a wife from one of the most im portant families and so secures a fac tion who favor him. The African wife is not subject to jealousy, and so each of the wives is more than content to have a husband who can keep her sup plied with cloth and beads to outshine her neighbors. Her male relatives are proud of the connection with so impor tant a " ian and hope besides to be es pecial!.' favored in matters of business In return they take his part in disputes and help him to collect his debts and treat him generally as a respected mem ber of the family. Flrnt Run on a Bank. Although banking was practiced among the Egyptians GOO years before Christ, and among the Romans almost in its modern form 1,900 years ago, yet, according to Gilbart, the first "run" of which we have any account in history of banking occurred in the year 1667. At that date the bankers of England were the goldsmiths, who had a short time before begun to add banking lo their ordinary business, and had be come very numerous and influential. In 1669 the Dutch fleet sailed up the Thames, blew np the fort at Sheerness, set fire to Chatham and burned some ships of the line. This created the greatest consterna tion in London, especially among those who had intrusted their money to the bankers, for it was known that the lat ter had advanced large sums to the king for public purposes, and it was rumored that now the king would not be able "to pay the money. To quell the panic a royal proclamation was issued to the effect that payments by the exchequer to the bankers wonld be made as usual In 1671 there was another run on the London banks, when Charles II shut up the exchequer and refused to pay the bankers either principal or interest of the money which they had advanced. On this occasion many of the banks and their customers were ruined.-Pitts burg Dispatch. Pert. Sue Brette-Does not applause denote pleasure in an audience V Footlight-Why, certainly. "I notice you always get more ap plause when yen go off the stage than when yon come on. ' '-Yonkers States man. Wood For Canes. Oak and hazel have always held their own. Holly was almost an equal favor ite. The ground ash has constantly been used by country folk of all degrees having any association with horses or cattle. At one time it was fashionable in London simplex munditiis, just the plain supple, elastic stick, but with a gold band around the top to give it a mark of distinction. At present the ha zel seems fashionable. Those who use it are not in the majority of cases, wa surmise, aware of the magic lore always associated with the hazel and its nuts, as to which much might be written. Orange wood and lemon wood find favor with some. Curious sticks there are, too, if this be not a "bull," made of huge cabbage stalks from tho Channel islands. The blackthorn has always found Ireland truo to it us the needle to the pole, while som o part of Scotland likes the rowan. This is a tree of much magical legend. Twigs of it nailed on cowhouse or stable act as does tho horseshoe else where, and the herd boy or girl often carries a rowan stick with a bit of red thread attached to ward off froui the cattle the evil eye. warlocks or witch es.-Gentl?man's Magazine. Robert Lou I? Stevenson'* Humor. June, 187?. after a visit to London. Simply a scratch. Ail right, jolly, well and through with tho difficulty. My fa ther pleased about the Burns. Never travel in tho sanio carriage with three ablebodied seamen and a fruiterer from Kent. The A. B.'s speak all night as though they were hailing vessels ai sea, and the fruiterer as if he were crying fruit in a noisy market place. Such, at least, is my funeste experience. I won der if a fruiterer from some place else say Worcestershire-would offer the same phenomenon? Insoluble doubt. "Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson" in Scribner's CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Signature of THE BITE OT A SNAKE EVERY LAND HAS ITS CHARMS AND CURES FOR IT. A Boer Snake Stone That ls Said to Have the Power of Draging; tho Poison From Bites-A Scotch Snake Stone With a Trapric History. In every land the natives have a cure, or a dozen, to which they trust, besides charms. It is probable that the great majority of these have never been test ed, and persons who have not looked into the matter naturally blame the government and the doctors for neg lecting an inquiry of such profound im portance. But investigation so far Lias not been encouraging. Nearly al ways it proves that the healing herb is chosen tinder the influence of the max im that "like cures like." Our forefa thers held it as strongly as any modern savages a few hundred years ago, and it is not extinct among us to this day. Various plants resemble a snake in flower or mode of growth, and for no better reason they are accounted reme dies for it? bite. A root which curls and twists proclaims its own virtue, as one may say, and if it be mottled there is no further room for doubt Some of these resemblances are so strong, in deed, that the fancy of the savage be comes quite intelligible. Messrs. Sander introduced a new aroid from the Malay countries some years ago, the bloom of which is so strangely like a cobra in the act of striking that the idea of a connection between the plant and the snake sug gests itself to even the unlearned ob server. It is called Arisaema fimbriata. We have not heard that the natives use it as an antidote to the venom of the cobra, but a savant inclined to bet would offer long odds that they do. Upon the same reasoning the Indians of, Peru use the root of Polyanthus tuberosa and a creeper which they call hnaco. Credible persons have borne testimony to the good effect of both, but neither could sustain a trial at the hands of scientific men in Lima. In the successful cases reported, either thG poison had not been imbibed or elsa the snake did not really belong to a poisonous species. The famous markhor of the Himala yas, which young sportsmen dream about-and old ones, too. for that mat ter-is said to eat snakes-in fact, that is the meaning of the word markhor. The statement is not improbable, if it be true, as highland shepherds allege that goats wage war on the adders. But in the entrails of any old markhor that mystic substance bezoar is found some times. It may be suspected indeed that most of the "stones" used as charms, which puzzle European observers by theiv singular formation, would be recognized at sight by a Chinese doctor as bezoar. The latest testimony which we have noticed to the merit of "snake stones" is that of Mr. Selous. He describes one from his own observation and experi ence as light porous, polished on the upper surface, which had blackish and grayish mottlings, rough below. The latter was applied to the wound, and it sucked np the poison like a sponge, giv ing it off "in a thin white thread" when plunged in ammonia. This stone belonged to a Boer, in whose family it had remained for several generations. Mr. Selons gives some examples of its efficacy from his own knowledge. But he did not personally witness any of them. Such stories are innumerable, and many of them rest upon good authori ty. One of the best will be found in Frank Buckland's 'Curiosities of Nat ural History.' In this instance the "stone" was submitted to analysis at the College of Surgeons, and readers who have a healthy love for the marvel ous will be delighted to learn that Mr. Qnekett, the chemist of that institu tion, could make nothing of it. He sat isfied himself that it was a vegetable substance, but the resources of science could not go beyond that It seems curious that so little should be known about these things when a score at least are in the hands of rich and charitable Hindoos, who lend them in case of need. Some of those gentlemen would not ob ject to an examination probably. But doctors are hard worked in India, and they commonly despise all treatment which is not regular. There is no regu lar treatment for snake bite, however, so they might allow themselves an ex cursion into unauthorized realms. Much has been done of late years, indeed, and it may be hoped that a real cure, with no mystery about it, will be discovered soon. That is beyond our theme. But wo need not travel to In dia for a snake stone. There is a speci men in Scotland older probably than any of these foreigners and more re nowned-the Lee penny, now, by latest report, in the hands of Lockhart of Lee. lt must be admitted that this ven erable object is rather too much of a panacea. One might feel more confi dence in its efficacy against snake bite if it did not also profess to cure hydro phobia, burns and the cattle plague. Yet the evidence is equally itrong and equally abundant in its favor for all these cases. And that evidence extends over many centuries. It was Simon Lockhart uf Lee, the same who carried Bruce's heart in the train of Douglas, that brought the precious relic home from paganry ; for proof, it is mounted in a silver coin of Edward I. And from that time until the ages of faith had quito vanished-say, the middle of the last century-the stone was in contin ual request. There are tragic incidents in its story. Isabel Young was bumed >n 1029 for curing her cattle with wa ter in which the Lee penny had been dipped. Under the commonwealth, 30 years later, the synod of Glasgow ven tured to attack Sir James Lee himself for unholy practices. It lost courage, however, and withdrew the indictment, contenting itself with a "serious ad monition to the said laird."-London Standard. - William Dickerson, of Chester, l'a., has been treated by physicians for bronchitis and other ailments; hut with little relief. Last Wednesday night while lying on a lounge, he was seized with a tit of coughing, and ejected a live Hazard from his mouth. He thinks that thc reptile was taken into his stomach when lie drank water from a spring while gunning. - If a man is easily discouraged he , will languish his obscurity. Dickens' Minute Observation. The observation of Dickens was aa peculiar in kind as minute and sleepless in exercise; Every human being, of course, down to the semi-idiotic landlord of the inn in "Barnaby Budge," sees existence at an angle of his own. We look at life each through our personal prism. But the prism of Dickens, if the phrase is permissible, was peculiarly prismatic. It lent eccentricity of color and of form to the object observed. It settled on a feature and exaggerated that. Now, to look at things thus is the . essence of the art of the caricaturist. It has been denied that Dickens' work is caricature, and to say that it is al ways caricature would be vastly un just. Nevertheless, the insistence on Carker's teeth, Panks* snort, Skimpole's man ner, .Tarndyce's east wind, andRigaud's mustache, to take only a few cases, is exactly what we mean by caricature ; and it is caricature in the manner of Mr. Carlyle. The historian, like the novelist, was wont to fix on a single trait or two-in Robespierre, St Just, or whoever it might be-and to ham mer insistently npon that. It was a ready, if inexpensive, method of secur ing a distinct impression. Both Dick ens and Carlyle overworked this meth od, which becomes, in the long run, a stumbling block-to M. Taine, for ex ample.-Andrew Lang in the Fort nightly Review. Prank? of the Types. Experience shows that errors will oc cur in the best regulated typesetting establishments. Kecently, in writing an article on ancient theories with re gard to the universe, I had occasion to refer to the idea ence advanced that the earth was circular, with roots reaching downward without end. As a suitable heading to this paragraph I I wrote "The Earth With Roots. " Imag ine my surprise on reading the title in print as "The Earth With Boots." Not long ago I quoted the following remark made by Professor Barnard with regard to variable stars: - "As many as a hundred of them have been found in a space in the sky that would be covered by a pin's head held at the distance of distinct vision. " The type setter carefully changed the pin's head to a pig's head, and he still survives I When engaged to lecture before the Bridgeport Scientific society on "Our Place Among Infinities," the morning papers in that'eity gave the title of my lecture as "Our Place Among Infirmi ties." However, the climax of errors was reached, not by a typesetter, but by a small boy who was sent to a cir culating library in quest of my father's book, "Other Worlds Than Ours," and overwhelmed the librarian by asking for "Other Worms Than Ours."-Mary Proctor in New York Herald. What'? In the Air? There would, appear to be more than a passing colloquial significance in the expression, "What's in the air?" Thus, acccrd;ng to a writer in Cosmos, a par ticle o: dust floating in the air is made up of a nude as of variable form, solid or liquid, surrounded by an "atmo derm, " or thin gaseous layer, adhering to the nucleus by attraction, this atmo derm diminishing the weight of the dust, but not sufficiently to explain its sus pension in the air. Although denser than the exterior air, it is still composed of gaseous molecules that have preserv ed their essential properties. They yet, like those less closely bound, are repell ed by the moving molecules that circu late freely near them or that form part of "other atmoderms, and thus there re sults a resistance-that is, a friction of the dust particles against the surround ing atmospheric molecules. 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