The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 31, 1899, Image 4
POSSIBILITIES OF PENSIONS.
Tne Daughter of a Soldier of 1865 May r
be a Pensioner In 2010. c
.death of Miss Eliza Sanford fi
brings us once more to the pleasant t
subject of pensions and their possi- :
bilities. Miss Sanford was the '
daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, i
and by virtue of the fact had enjoy- i
ed a pension during the last five *
years, that is to say, from 113 to 118 <
years after Yorktown. ^
The father from whom she derived i
title was Sergt. William Sanford, of 1
the New Jersey volunteers. He was j
born in 1752, and his services in the j
army seem to have had an invigorat- t
ing effect upon his system. He liv- J
OO veure nM uiid w?R hlpssed
.... .. ( ,
with two wives and oighteetw-^gpis*
ren. Little Eliza was^0B^^ring *
of the second wife and came to glad- ^
den the household in 1S15. The Ser- '
geant was then 63. i
We do not know whether this old '
hero survived his second wife or '
not, but an examination of the pension
rolls proves that he would have
been in fashion if he had subsequent- ]
]y married a woman no other than ]
Eliza. Last year the following .
widows of Revolutionary soldiers
were on the list: Mary Snead, aged ,
82j Esther S. Damon, 84; Nancy
Jones, 84; Rebecca Mayo, 85; Nancy ,
Weatherman, 88. It will be seen
that Mary Snead was actually young- ,
er than Eliza, and, so far as years
go, she might easily have been the r
granddaughter of the New Jersey |
sergeant when she was led to the <
altar by Bowdoin Snead, of the
Virginia troops. Crabbed age and j
youth cannot dwell together, but ap- <
parently there is an affinity between
youth and heroic age which pensions ^
may De expected to stimulate.
The cases so far considered do not
exhaust the possibilities. Though <
90 is a ripe old age, Elijah Glenn aud ]
Eleazer Smith are drawing pensions I
or were a year ago, at the superior
age of 102. They are veterans of the
war of 1812, while they must have j
entered as youngest drummer boys, j
If we suppose that the venerable
Glenn had a daughter when he was
sixty-three, and that this daughter j
is to live till she is 84, she may be
receiving a pension in 1943, or 128
years after the battle of New Orleans, i
But why limit the child of such a j
father to 84? ^*et her days be num- j
bered like Elijah's own and her pension
will be paid almost a century and
a half after the termination of 1
the war.
So the daughter of a soldier of the
civil war mav be on the rolls in 2010, 1
and it must be rememoered that the
possibilities are now increased
though two causes. Scientists say
that the race is becoming longer
*^ lived, and the number of pensions
from our earlier wars was as nothing
by comparison with those who
trace their claims to the great struggle
between the North and South.
The total is now somewhere near a
million.
Of this total a bout 233,000 are classified
as "widows, etc.," and some
760,000 are getting pay as invalids.
The widows and the etc., of to-day
v may be counted on to equal or break
the old records, but the 760,000 invalids
should be able to furnish out
of their ranks many Elijah Glenns
and Eleazer Smiths, whose girl
relicts will live on into the twentyfirst
century.?Chicago Times Herald.
Sick Headache is the hane of many
lives. Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine cures and prevents this annoying
complaint. For sale by
Hughson-Ligon Co.
Her Simple Request.
"I am going to ask a great favor of
you." she~fcaid hesitating.
-It ie already granted," he answered
devotedly.
"A very great favor." she repeated,
as if doubtful of the propriety of stat- '
ing it. "You're sure you won't think
it presumptuous or forward in me?"
"Never," he answered. "I glory
in this evidence of vour trust and
* ,
confidence. Onlv tell me what I can
I
do for you.
"Well," she replied with evident 1
reluctance, "would you mind getting
up off that rustic bench? Papa
painted it this afternoon and he will 1
" t?rf I, 11T! nrAtrnl-ofJ if lia hue tn Hn '
U" a TT I Ml IJ V ? Vi\VU I I ?4V MMO vv uv
it over again."?Chicago Evening
'Post.
Probably when the Lord made
woman Satan resolved to invent a
lot of foolish things for her to do, hut
after watching her a while he decided
to let ner take care of that part
of ft herself.
St. Louis, Aug. 23.?A special from <
Dallas. Texas, to the Post-Dispatch ;
says: "The hot winds which have
prevailed for the past month have des !
troyed all chance of a large cotton
crop in Texas. Reports from all
over the northern and central sections
of the State are that the crops
will not average more than a quarter
of a bale to the acre. This indi- '
cates not t^axceed 2.0(H),0<)0 bales
for the entr^State. ,
Keeping Up Appearance*.
A "licensed pawnbroker" who doe? a i
great deal of work in the west end of
London lately gave to the writer particnlars
of a strange sort of pledging i
that has become common of late and
that often defeats men of his kind.
Backing up his statement with actual j
names and dates, be said:
"A bailiff and I enter a showy flat,
ay, and my accustomed eye at once
falls on a handsome or at least a pre- (
tentious piano. I say to myself that
this piano will sell for what I require.
I go to it. but find th*4 it is locked. I j
ask for the key, and when this is reluc- (
tantly produced I find that there is in ,
reality nothing but a case. All the inside
of the instrument is gone. The fact
is that people in difficulties who still *
want to keep up appearances can borrow
money, while still apparently re- !
taining their piano, by allowing the !
lenders to take away the main part, or
inside, of the instrument. One man in (
the west end in particular does a con- "
siderable business by lending money on j
pianos in this way.
"I suppose that when visitors want
to play o^^in instrument of this kind '
the bost/^Jeads that the key is lost j
Anyhow 1 have in my own business had t
quite 50 examples of gutted pianos during
the last two years, and I never (
mark a piano down in an inventory t
now till I have closely examined it"? t
London Answers. 1
A Mother's Argument.
"The most to be regretted act of
ny life," says a lieutenant com mauler
of the navy, "was a letter I wrote
o my mother when about 17 years of
ige. She always addressed her leters
to me as 'my dear boy.' I felt
it that time I?was a man, or very
lear it, and wrote saying that her
ronsiant addressing me as a "boy"
nade me feel displeased. I received
n reply a letter full of reproaches
tnd tears. Among other things he
iaid: 'You might grow to be as big as
jroliath, as strong as Sampson, and as
vise as Solomon; you might become
uler of a nation, or emperor of many
lations, and the world might revere
,'ou and fear you, but to your devoid
mother you would always appear,
n memory, in your innocent, unpreentious,
unselfish conceited, unpam
>ered babyhood, in those days wnen
[ washed and dressed and kissed and
worshipped you, you were my idol,
ST) wad ays you are becoming j)art of
i gross world by contact with it, and
[ cannot bow down to you and worship
you, but if there ar6 manhood
uid maternal love transmitted to
i'ou, you will understand that the
lighest compliment that mother can
>ay you is to tall you my dear boy."
The Spirit and the Flesh.
hito this glorious world I came,
The free-born of the wind and flame.
[ bound to me for good or ill
\ body-self to do my will.
Though he was frail and prone to
rest,
[ snatched him ?from his mother's
breast
^nd bade him serve me. What
would you ?
r had a great King's work to do:
Wrong to make right; comfort to
bring .
To those in trouble sorrowing.
r needed one both sqyft and strong:
jreat was the load, the journey long,
i'et this my slave was weak and
lame;
" * * l>n ooma
r altering at my ubucbi ho .
So, when his strength was almost
gone,
[ took the scourge and urged him on.
i'et hurry as I might to keep
The minutes' pace, both food and
sleep
Vfy slave must have, impatiently
[ saw the glorious hours pass by.
[I could not leave him, for we must
Have hands of dust to work with
dust.)
.\t last he fell and would not rise.
He called me with imperious eyes,
\nd bade me pause.
This small white room, this cot of
snow,
Vf inistering forms that come and go
[ crouch here listening for his breath,
\nd with my hands I hold back
Death,
Vly work neglected and undone,
[f he but beckon, swift I run
This worthless serf of mine to save.
How hard they toil who serve a
slave!
?L. B. Bridgman in September Century.
Women as Army Nurses.
At the present time there are 320
women nurses in the service, and
these are scattered from Puerto Rico
to Manila. A nurse now receives
under contract forty dollars a month,
ind fifty dollars if serving out of the
States. An army uniform has not
yet been adopted, but is in contemplation.
Steps are being taken to
place the woman nursing corps %f
:he army on a permanent and satisfactory
basis. But it is very true, as
Dr. McGee says: "This is a thing
which it is impossible to do empirically,
or at one stroke."
With our increasing responsibilities
in other lands, responsibilities
which entail the keeping of A large
force of our soldiers in countries and
climates generally alien to them, the
them' the continued maintenance of
the corps of women nurses seems
nothing more nor less than a humane
necessity. The woman nurse
luring the recent campaign proved
lierself capable of rising above the
most trying and usual conditions,
%h? has been a success: mare than
that, she has been acknowledged a
necessity. Nursing is distinctively
a woman's vocation. It is a profession
which, under all ordinary and
most extraordinary circumstances,
sliould belong to women. Ask any
>f the soldiers who lay ill or wounded
in the hospitals during the late
w&r what they think of the woman
nurse. There will be but one answer
to every query, and it will be seen
that the moral strengthening, and
support of a good woman's presence
is, in time of war and suffering, as
?reat as that of her professional
<kill.?Anna Northend Benjamin, in
Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for
September.
The most curious street in the
world is the Rue de la Republique,
Lyon. It has recently been paved
with glass. The glass pavements are
laid in the form of blocks eight inchas
square, each block containing sixteen
parts in the form of checkers.
The glass blocks are so closely fitted
together that water cannot pass between
them, and the whole pavement
looks like one gigantic draughtboard.
As a pavement it is said to
have greater resistance than stone.
It is a poor conductor of cold, and ice
will not form on it.
i ? ?
Southern Hospitality.
It is no use to try it; we Northern
folks can never become as genial and
cordial and open-hearted as Southern
folks; it^vould be unnatural.
We might bewh the position of the
good woman who asked the photographer
to hasten, after he told her to
took pleasant, she innocently remarking
that the effort was rather painful.
There may, however, be *a natural
reason for the Southern man's chivalry;
he is never in a great hurry; he
takes time to live; we Northern folks
only expect to live in the next world ;
we are driving an existence here,
with a stop watch to keep the time.?
Chicago Standard.
To eat with appetite. Digest, with
Comfort and Sleep with Tranquility,
take a dose of Dr. M. A. Simmons
Liver Medicine occasionally. For
sale by Hughson-Ligon Co.
"Helava."
The next dictionary published will
contain many new words, among
them the word "helava." When a
man knocks around town until 8
o'clock in the morning and then gets
up with a headache like a molasses
barrel and a breath like a slaughter
house, he always says lie had a
helava time. The word is a good
one and should have a place in the
dictionary.?Arkansas Thomas cat.
ono riau&nV Iihvp fn Iia irrpjit. in
pcler to be misunderstood.
The average man spends less time
in trying to do his duty than he does
in inventing excuses for not doing
it.
There are now 1,015 inmates in the
State Hospital for the Insane in Columbia,
the largest number in the
iistory of the institution.
The girl who wants to get married
ind can't may deserve pity from
jomebody, but the girl who can get
narried and won't deserves the admiration
of the world.
If women weren't so dead set on
loing the things men don't want
;hem to do, probably they'd be just
is contrary doing the things men
vant them to do.
IT HAS 598 STEPS.
The Stairway Iu the Tower of the
Philadelphia City Hall.
A novel diversion Is about to be instituted
at the city hall. Within a fewweeks
this nobie pile, already distinguished
as being the highest municipal
building in the world, will contain the
highest continuous stairway lu the
world, und tourists who have hitherto
boasted of their muscular ability in
climbing the stone steps of the Bunker
Hill monument at Charlestown. the
Washington monument or the monument
to General Brock, near Queenstown,
Ont., will tell their friends of
their feat in ascending the 59S steps
which lead from the seventh floor of
the city hall to the lauding about the
feet of William Teun.
Tower climbing is one of the fads of
tourists. Hitherto the Bunker Ilill
monument, with its four hundred odd
stone steps, and the Washington monument,
which has a few more, have
represented the acme of opportunity
f#r tests of physical endurance. Ascent
or descent of these steps has been
boasted of, and, though both so cramp
the muscles of the leg that the climber
for an hour afterward is hardly able
to walk upright, the distinction has requited
the pain.
The building commission is pushing
forward the work on the tower stairway,
and within two mouths it is expected
that it will be in readiness for
climbers. It will extend from the seventh
to the sixteenth floor and will
contain just 5i18 steps of iron arranged
about a square central shaft, in which
will run an electric elevator. To reach
the tower stairway the climber may
mount the 245 grafflte stairs in th^
hanging stairways at the northern cum
of the gliding, Ihus making a total
climb 0^43 steps.
John Bunker, assistant superintendent
of the city hall, said recently:
''Entrance to the tower has been
temporarily stopped because of the
work being done on the stairway. We
are pushing this work, liowevfp. It is
really surprising how many persons
make application to ascend the tower.
The old elevator now in the tower will
be kept in place for the remainder of
the year at least to accommodate those
who prefer to ride, but early next year
we expect to install an electric elevator
whicl^fvill make the trip in less
than half the time required by the antiquated
lift now in use. The new
stairway will be an easy one to ascend
for the tourist climbers, because it will
be frequently broken by platforms.
There will then exist a continuous
stairway for the 547 feet which the
tower is ftgh."?Philadelphia Press.
A Remarkable Case.
Matthias Steinberger, who is at present
living with his grandnephew,
Percy W. Holcomb, near Fostodia,
is a veteran of the Mexican war.
In one of tiie cliarges or nis regiment
at the battle of Resaca de la Palma,
his horse stumbled and fell, and,
throwing him to the ground, knocked
him senseless and paralyzed his spine.
When he was taken to the hospital,
ho was able to tell everything that
took place up to the time he was hurt,
but after that everything was blank.
He has always maintained that he was
about 21 years old. He has, in fact,
been blind to all progress.
The other day he was struck on the
head and lost consciousness, and when
he came to a peculiar expression was
noticed on his face, as if he had just
awakened from a long sleep. The first
question that he asked was, "What
are all those_^toes up there on the
poles for?" H^^vhs greatly astonished
at the-electric cars and bicycles.
He says, "I guess that the world has
gone so far ahead of me that I will
never catch up with it."?Toledo Cor.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
A
Iron Felt. f e
A new insulating tnaterial known as
iron felt, and made in Germany, is being
extensively used in Europe for a
number of purposes. For the prevention
of vibration It Is said to be quite
successful, and it is placed betweaP
engines and their foundations and also
between rails and sleepers. It consists
of the larger and stouter woolen fibers
treated with a by product of petro?
*1 1*1. mlaftn
leuiii auu UltU UltttlCU ? 11U gctanu
and India rubber and vulcaffized.
After pressure it is used in the form
of plates somewhat over two square
feet in area, and from one-half to
two Inches In thickness. The plates
are said to be extremely elastic and
1 imperishable, and have a surface so
hard as not to be cut by the sharp
edges of bolt heads or iron girders.?
, Public opinion.
Artificial Daylight.
Tesla has succeeded ffc making artificial
daylight In his laboratory he
shows numerous balls of glass of different
sizes which look like miniature
suns. The balls are empty; there/are,
no wires in them nor outside of them.
They do not burn the fingers. The
light does not hurt the eyes as sunlight
and ordinary electric light do. A
1 number of leading New York and
Chicago photographers will have this
artificial daylight supplied to their
studios. Tesla says: ''The reason I
have chosen to introduce the new daylight
to the photographers first is that
I believe them to be the severest critics
in the matter of light If it sucf
ceeds with them a new light will
succeed everywhere."
Indian Trick In Lnion.
The Filipinos wrap their cartridges
to make them fit various barrels. This
crude adaptation of means to ends
must amuse the old Indian fighters in
General Otis' army, to whom the prin'
ciple is by no means a new one. The
same trick has long been used by our
?? * ?? ?1*~
OWU 111U1U.US, ? uu map n iuvucsici
cartridges with rawhide and shoot
' them from their old 50 caliber Martinis
; and Sharp's carbines.
M. B. Peavey, Brumville, Ga.,
writes: Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver
Medicine cured my whole family of
Chills and Fever. It also cures Dyspepsia
and Headache. I believe it
stronger than Zeilin's and Black
Draught. For sale by Hughson-Ligon
Co.
The self-made mat* puts in more
than eight hours a day while working
at the job.
Danpcer* Id Mercnry.
Mercury is a foe tp life Those who
make mirrors, barometers or thermometers.
etc.. scon feel the effect o/ the
nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and
thw of the bodv
In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equala The nation,
which numbers about 70,000 people,
is governed by representatives elected
by men and women together.
A philologist estimates that of every
100 words in the French language 18
are superfluous.
Frequently Protracted Constipation
causes Inflammation of the
Bowels. Kemedy?use Dr. M. A.
Simmons Liver Medicine. For sale
by Hughson-Ligon Co.
V
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SHORT NEWS STORIES.
Rear Admiral WatNon Didn't Swear,
but He Thought It?The Donkey
Wan a Radical.
Unlike the popular conception of
most naval officers. Rear Admiral John
(i. Watson, who has been assigned to
the command of the Asiatic squadron
in succession to Admiral Dewey, is
very religious. He is an ardent Presbyterian.
a deacon in that church and
an enthusiastic worker in the ranks of
the laymen, says the San Francisco
News Letter. When his naval title
was only that of commander, he was
stationed at San Francisco for several
years and was superintendent of the
Sunday school in connection with St.
John's church, founded by the Rev.
Dr. Scott and maintained by the south
era set in memory 01 me iuuuUCi.
Of course, such a religious man is
free from the common nautical vice of
profanity, but sometimes things go
wrong even on the ship of a devout
Christian. Admiral Watson was very
disappointed when the orders for him
to sail for Spain and destroy Camara's
fleet were countermanded.
"Didn't you swear, admiral?" anxiously
inquired a sympathetic friend,
who had been reading Dewey's famous
remarks on the bridge of the Olympia
during the battle of Manila.
"Xo," answered the candid soldier
deacon, "not so that you could hear It.
But 1 thought swear as loud as I could
holler!"
General Fits-Hash Lee's Class Ring.
An interesting relic in the shape of a 1
ring once worn by General Fitz-Hugh
Lee recently came Into the possession
"of W. B. Odbert, a Wheeling jeweler.
Walter Boulde and his family came to
Wheolincr from Huntington, W. Va.,
about two months ago, and a few days
ago the head of the family informed
Mr. Odbert that he had a large ring
1 e desired to sell for its gold value,
says the New York Sun. When the
ring 'was delivered, the Jeweler could
hardly believe his eyes, for it was inscribed
"Fitz-Hugh Lee, 185G." The setting
had been lost fnauy years ago, and
the intrinsic value of the gold was $6.
This sum was paid Boulde, and he gave
the jeweler a fragmentary history of
the ring. He said the relic was the
class ring of the well known Virginian.
On one side it bears in deep cut figures
a Templar's coat of arms and hood and
on the reverse crossed swords and
axes.
Hie Donkey- Was a Radical.
A story?unearthed from nobody
knows where?is being circulated concerning
the last election of Lord Charles
Beresford to the house of commons.
He had just returned from York
City. While the votes were being
polled a co8termonger arrived on
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mm
"IT'S MY DONKEY THAT'S A RADICAL."
the scene to record his vote. His
donkey was decked out in sumptuous
green ribbons, the emblems of Beresford's
op^>neut
The voter, on being asked the customary
question, answered shortly, "I
go for Lord Charley, Lord bless him."
Thereupon the members of the opposI
Ing faction made a dash for the good
man to convince him that, according to
the emblems he carried, he must cast
his vote for their candidate. Thus challenged,
he replied: "Oh, It's all right.
I'm a Tory; it's my donkey that's a
Radical, but he's an ass!"
\
-? The Crnaty Raskin.
Here is & true Ruskin story that has
never been published: A certain person
in this country sent a friend of his in
England an American edition of Ruskin's
works. They were seized by the
customs, of course, and Were in peril
of confiscation, when the consignee
learned that If he could procure a letter
from Mr. Ruskin allowing the
books to pass into England the customs
would release them. Accordingly
a letter' of request was sent to Mr.
Ruskin. who replied promptly and
, with cba^feterlstic verve as follows:
Sir?1 do not see that your friend's desire to
give you a present at my expense is any apology
for your intrusion upon me. Yours, etc.,
John Ruskin.
The books came back to America,
but in spite of the very tempting offers
the recipient of Mr. Ruskin's curt reply
refuses to {JRrt with the autograph.
?Bookman.
A Snoring Premier.
During the recent all night sitting of
the New South Wales legislative assembly
at Sydney ihe premier, Mr.
Reid, spent a large part of the night In
Slumber on the Opposition benches. The
Incident did not escape notice, as the
rotund attitude of the sleepy premier
and his nasal performances compelled
attention from all parts of the house.
Eventually It was satirically demanded
why the leader of the government
should persist in remaining on the Opposition
side of the house. Mr. Barton
promptly and wittily defended his new
colleague by asking: "Why should he
not be there? Is he not now my sleeps
Ing partner?"?Sydney Telegraph.
AGENTS WANTED.?For "The Life and
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Big: commissions. Outfit free. Chance of a
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pany. ilrd Floor ('axton Bldg., Chicago.
"The codfish", said the professor,
"lays considerably more than a million
eggs."
"It is exceedingly lucky for the
codfish that she doesn't have to
cackle over every egg," said the student
who came from the country.?
Pick Me Up.
Beauty la Blood Deep.
Clean blood means a clean skin. No
beauty without it. Cascarets, Candy Cathartic
clean your blood and keep it clean, by
stirring up the lazy liver and driving all im
purities from the bod v. Begin to-day to
banish pimples, boils, blotches, blackheads,
and that sickly bilious complexion by taking
Cascarets,?beauty for ten cents. All druggists,
satisfaction guaranteed, 10c, 25c, 50c.
District Appointments.
The following are the appointments
for quarterly Conferences of the
charges on tlie Sumter District, S. C.
Conference, for Third Quarter of
1899:
Wateree. Salem Sept. 3, 4
| Richland. Browns Church. Sept.4, 5
Sumter Ct Sept. 9, 10
(Sumter Station Sept. 10
Thos. J. Clyde, P. E.
WOMAN AND FASHION.
A. Handnome White SerRe Coitnme.
The Cut at the Xeek?Hut For 1
a YunnR Woman.
The engraving represents a costume c
In white serge, the corsage of which is t
a short bolero ornamented with stitched
tabs. Beneath it is a blouse of t
white ground foulard printed with ?
FROM PARI8.
cashmere patterns, forming a drapery
at the waist. The skirt tunic, which
is open down the front, falls over a
skirt of the same foulard as the corsage.
The latter buttons over the 1
shoulder and down the side seam.?
Paris Herald. <
I
Tli. Pnt nt thp Sprit.
Leaders of fashion elsewhere than In
England seem to be favoring the wear- 1
lng of bodices cut very decollete at '
the neck for day wear in order the
better to display pearl necklaces and I
jeweled pendants of all kinds that are i
Inseparable from a fashionable woman's
toilet on the continent. Gowns at ,
restaurants abroad are studies in them- ,
selves. A pale pink chiffon over pale
yellow silk had incrustations of black j
lace slightly spangled with small pail- j
lettes, the neck cut low and trimmed .
with similar black lace. The decoiletage
was cut diagonally at the neck,
leaving the right shoulder exposed, but
over this a couple of bands of black ]
velvet were held in place back and
front by paste buttons and a bunch of 1
yellow roses on the left side. The long,
transparent sleeves had the same in- I
crustations of lace and the long trained
skirt fastened on the left side with <
small paste buttons and tiny velvet ]
straps. This was accompanied by a j
toque, which turned up at the back
and had a velvet bow in front secured ,
by paste buckles. The transparent !
black lace wings on the cream tulle ,
crown were worked with jet and dia- (
mond paillettes, Intermingled with
chenille. A bow of black velvet and a
paste buckle appeared on the right
and Glolre de Dijon roses on the left :
side.
For a Young: Woman. I
Here Is a hat suitable for a young
woman and will suit any light toilets,
plain or dress. The form is of yellow
sateen or straw; a large rosette of flax
A YELLOW STRAW.
blue tulle prolongs in a drapery on the
passes. Brides of the same tulle are.
knotted in front; a bunch of marguerites
sets on the hair, In one of the crinkles
of the straw.?New York Telegram.
Open Embroidery.
Open embroidery is more worn than
ever. It appears in cotton as well as
other fabrics, and there are ?tremely
attractive decorations in blue, pink,
yellow and linen colored wash materi- 1
als in. this style, with bonierings to
match. There are also checked silks
and cottons in which the large squares
are formed by open bands of Valenciennes
lace, which cross the fabric at
right jangles.
11< C 1 - I __4 j
A curious survival 01 oaruariam is
he fact that men are still Imprisoned
lor debt In New York. By general content
this custom has been generally
ibandoned in other states along with
he flogging, of criminals, but It conInues
in New York In spite of repeated
tnd notorious instances of Its cruelty
tnd injustice. Governor Roosevelt
night earn his highest laurels by adiresslng
himself to the abolition of
his relic of rude times.?Kansas City
Jtar.
'me ir?inu|| ^arii
For women who can teach other women
to manage their trains there is a
good deal of money coming. According
to dressmakers, the long trailed
gowns propose to stay a long while,
and if they are to stay something
ought to be done to teach women to i
manage them better.?New York World.
Intemperance In Drug*.
There is a source of nervous ailments
entirely special to this age and the un- i
expected outcome of our present day 1
chemistry and advertising. Intemper- ;
ance in drugs is becoming more com- i
Dion, and it may possibly outstrip the 5
abuse of alcohol in its evil results. The i
manufacture of new chemical products i
? i-i? iiL ?J1
18 supplying rne puDiic wun euuiesaca*- i
bon derivates of high molecular power <
and of imperfectly known physiological i
action Some are most dangeroas, and 1
their continued indulgence leads to con- <
firmed neurosis or hopeless neurasthe- 1
nia, and it thus comes to pass that a9 1
the therapeutic activity of the profession ]
tends to abolish disease that of the pub- i
lie is manufacturing it.?Medical Journal.
Planter of Pari*.
The setting of plaster of paris may j
be retarded by the addition of 2 to 4
per cent of powdered althea root This
addition not only retards the hardening
of the plaster, but also enables it to be t
cut, filed, sawed and turned. An addition
of 8 per cent retards the complete
setting of the plaster for about an hour,
so that the mass may be used for any ^
purpose where it is to remain plastic .
during at least a portion of that time. g
STAGE GLINTS.
Alfred Klein, the comedian, may star
text season in a three aet farce called
'My Lord the Butler."
One hundred and eighty-one new opiras
were presented in Europe during
he past dramatic year.
Edith Yerrington has been engaged
o play the title role next season In
'Jack and the Beanstalk."
Charles Wyndham. the well known
English actor, is reviving "Rosemary"
it the Criterion theater, London.
Charles Ffohman has bought "The
Cyranny of Tears" and will put John
Drew into the role which Charles
Wyndham is playing in London.
Louis N. Parker is to revive Stuart
*. * ? ,1 ?
jguvies version 01 t.vrauu uc ociterac"
for Charles Wyudhain. to whom
Sir Henry Irving has transferred the
English rights.
Lilli Lehmann has been added to the
ong list of prime donne appearing this
jeason at Covent Garden in London.
She made her entree on June 1 as
Leonora In "Fidelio."
Mine. Sembrich is to return to this
?ouutry in advance of the other members
of the Grau company in order to
dng at the Maine festival. She Will
remain in the Lnited States next year
until June.
American comic opera prima donnas
ire not the only ones who go to the
music halls in the Intervals between
engagements. Letty Lind is to sing
it the Alhambra, in London, and Ilka
Palmay, the Hungarian, is at the Winter
Garden in Berlin. She Is at the
cead of her profession in Vienna.
Close resemblances have already
seen found between Sardou's "Robespierre"
and "Thermidor," which has
aot yet been given in England. So
learly alike are the two plays that the
luthor is said to have used freely
parts of the earlier work, which will
probably never be given in England.
THE TROTTING CIRCUIT.
Scott Ouinton has deserted the sulky
horses for thoroughbreds.
Cresceus is reported to be in fine condition
and has gone an easy mile better
than 2:18. j
Harry Omer is credited with pacing
i mile In 2:09% over the Cleveland
track this season.
Chain Shot, a M. and M. candidate,
by Great Heart, is credited with a mile
it Detroit in 2:15%.
Granite, b. g.. who nosed out Success
in 2:14y4 at Denver, is by Deputy,
dam by Guy Wilkes.
Que Allen. 2:09%, has Injured one of
his feet badly and is probably out of
the game in Europe this season.
The foal of Benzetta, 2:06%, by
Patchen Wilkes, has a very crooked
hind leg, and there are small hopes of
raising it
Dot, 2:25%, the first new 2:30 trotter
of the season, is now said to be by
Alcaid. son of Princeps. dam Althea.
by Aimont.
James Cassidy of California, who
owns and drives Raymond M., 2:08%,
has but one leg and one arm, but he
gets there all the same.
A 3-year-old by Arion, dam Houri,
2:17. has been named San Telmo and
is a natural pacer. Within 30 days
after being taken from grass he showed
a mile better than 2:30 at that gait
Amelia, Dy CiiecilUlieer, la aom W
have foaled twins four times in eight
years. She Is the dam of four in the
list, notwithstanding her loss of time
based on the theory that twin colts
seldom live and never prosper.?Turf.
Field and Farm.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The blood of five race9 flow9 In the
veins of the Boer.
Only one person in every four of the
Inhabitants of London earns more than
a pound a week.
In Sweden good hotels are erected by
the communities in places where it is
thought tourists would like to tarry.
Charcoal Is the great Italian fuel,
Naples alone consuming 40,000 tons of
wood charcoal, at a cost of from $18
to $20 per ton, the national consumption
being 700.000 tons.
A large class of Mexicans, commonly
railed peons, wear a kind of sandal.
These are called "guaroches" and consist
of a simple sole of leather held to
the feet with strings which pass between
the toes and are tied about the
inkle.
The oldest tree on earth with an authentic
history is the great Bhootree of
Burmah. For 20 centuries it has been
held sacred to Buddha and no person
is allowed to touch the trunk. When
the leaves fall they are carried away
as relics by pilgrims.
WOMEN'S WAYS.
What we are looking for is a girl
whose shoes are not a mile too large.
When a child scratches its head, its
mother wants to know whom it has
been playing with of late.
A woman is immensely flattered
when "the girls" ask her to appear at
a party in a low neck gown.
When a woman can't sing at all,
friends excuse her by saying that,
though her voice is not strong, It is
very sweet.
When a woman is entertaining an
out of town guest, she looks very
grateful when some one asks her
"company" how long she is going to
stay.
Every woman when she hands a
piece of pie to a tramp wonders
vaguely if he will ever return the
kindness by coming back some day
and paying the mortgage on her home.
?Atchison Globe.
Hot Weather Diet.
"It Is a mistake," saia a pnysician
[luring the recent period of extreme
heat, "to eat too little in hot weather,
|ust as it is a mistake to eat too much
md the wrong things. Extreme hot
weather is in itself very exhausting,
md plenty of nourishment is needed to
sustain the system. This nourishment
should be of a simple and easily digested
kind. For myself I find that milk
ind vichy taken at regular Intervals of
two hours, sipped rather than gulped
iown In a single draft, gets me
[hrough best on a very hot day, from
breakfast to a G o'clock dinner. Then
[ take care to have a fairly hearty
neal."?New York Post
r
Imprisonment Foj^Debt.
WHIM-WHAMS.
Fantaatic Fanclen Found In a Funny
Journal.
Yeast?Did you ever see anything go !
as fast as a snake when it gets started'/
Crimsonbeak?Yes. A dollar bill.
"Making love," said the bachelor, "is
as dangerous as making faces. You
want to know just whom you've got
to deal with."
sne?u s line pumug ireiu w set .... j
to talk.
He?You mean it's like taking the
gas.
Visitor?And does your town boast of
any poets?
Native?Yes. We've got four out in
the cemetery.
Bacon?They say Rockefeller is a literary
man.
Egbert?Yes. I believe he owns a
lot of the Standard works.
"Judge, 1 ask you to keep this witness
still."
"Does the learned counsel forget that
the witness is a woman?" |
Bill?Gill wouldn't think of fishing
on Sunday.
Jill?No. But he'll sit around and lie
about it, all the same.
Chollie?Do you know, 1 can hardly
keep my head above water.
Dollie?That's funny. I thought anything
very light would float."
Fatience? Don't you think Will has a
musical laugh?
Patrice?Indeed, 1 do! 1 notice he always
laughs when you try to sing.?
Yonkers Statesman.
His Checkered Career.
"Poor Throggins!" exclaimed Rivers.
"What's the matter with him?" asked
Brooks.
"Passed in his checks."
"What! Dead?"
? ? * i... ../>< ? -iiio* nATP In his
"i\0; WL'lil UJ IIC1C juai uu<> ...w
cross barred suit. What are you looking
so disappointed about? Want him
dead, you murderous wretch?"?Chicago
Tribune.
Bat They Have No Taxes.
"What are you doing, Thomas?' asked
the father of a young man who sat
dreamily gazing into space.
"Building air castles, father," replied
the visionary youth.
"Quit it, my boy, quit it," said the
old man. "You can't mortgage structures
of that kind for a cent"?Chicago
News.
What She Wanted.
Mrs. Fadd?Have you any sympathetic
Ink?
Clerk?I think so. What color do
you wish?
Mrs. Fadd?Black. You see poor little
Fldo died last night, and I wish to
send out cards announcing the factCleveland
Leader.
Lack.
"How would you define luck?' was
asked of the man who has made more
money than he knows what to do
with.
"It Is the product of a reasonable
amount of ability backed by tenacity."
?Detroit Free Press.
Natarally.
"Those tree climbing dogs that they
have Just discovered in South America
would never do for a quiet neighborhood."
"Why not?"
"Too much on the bark!"?Cleveland
Plain Dealer.
DCCBUir. ilCAl .
"Why cannot women be taught to
step off a car?" asks a correspondent
of the New York World. They can.
Next questioner!?Boston Globe.
Why will not women be taught how
to step off a car??Cincinnati TimesStar.
Pay In Advance.
"Stop, Bessie! What are you pounding
little brother for?"
"Because, mamma, he's sure to do
something he oughtn't to do in about
two minutes."?Chicago Record.
Social Badlnaare.
"My father says you belong to the
masses."
"An my pap says youse belongs ter
Re asses."?New York Journal.
Jfil Desperandnm.'
I' asked a maid in fair Bordeaux
To marry me. I loved her seaux.
Ah, me! It was a crushing bleaux
YY ben sne repuea, xou uuuuj, ir?M?.
80 then 1 journeyed to Cologne
To wed a girl 1 long had knogne.
When 1 got there, my bird had flogne,
An^I. alaa, am still alogne!
80 now 1 linger in Marseilles,
With cheerfulness that never fellies?
Hoping that soon some favoring geilles 1
* Will put new wind into my aeilles.
?John C. M. Valentine in St Nicholas. I
A Weighing Cock.
Camden says the Thames was once
called the Cockney, and therefore a
cockney means simply one who lives
on the banks of the Thames. Wedgewood
says a cockney, or cockerney, is
one pampered by city indulgence, in
contradistinction to rustics hardened by
outdoor work. There is, however, a
legend, almoet too good to be -true?
namely, that a Londoner who had never
before slept out of sound of Bow Bells
had occasion to go into the country and
was detained all night
He was much disturbed by the lowing
of the cattle, the grunting of the
pigs and other sounds of country life,
which he could pot understand, and in
particular he was frightened by the
crowing of the cock. In the morning,
in response to the farmer's inquiries,
he said the sound of the wild beasts had
kept him awaka Jnst at that moment
the cock crowed again, and the Londoner
said: "That's the one! He's been
neighing like that for hours!" Since
then Londoners have been called cocknflichs.
or cockneys.
A little boy is nine-tenths devil
and one-tenth angel. He would be
bad enough if the proportion were
the other way round.
CURRENT MISCELLANY.
One of the secrets of the success of
Robert P. Porter, editor, tariff expert,
superintendent of the United States
census of 1800 and recently United
States diplomatic agent iu the West
Indies and afterward in Germany, is
hl? wonderful memory for figures. He
fairly revels in statistics. In his home
in New York there are several rooms
filled with volumes upon volumes of
industrial statistics. Many of these
Mr. Porter can readily quote from
memory. An Illustration of this occurred
not long ago, says the Philadel
phia Saturday Post A Chicago man
was boasting of the rapid growth of
his city.
"We have 2,000,000 inhabitants now.
You gave us 1,100,000 iu 1800," he said.
"Not as much as that," replied Mr.
Porter. "The exact ngures were
1,099,850. Your school census of 1892
gave 1,400,000."
The conversation then turned upon
New York city.
"You underestimated that also."
"Y"es, we gave New York 1,515,301,
and the state census of 1892 gave
1,801,739."
"Where do you carry all these figures?"
asked the Chicago man.
"I believe 1 can rej)eat from memory
the best part of the important figures
In my census," returned Mr. Porter.
"Can you tell me how many negroes
there were in this country in 1890?"
asked the westerner with an air of triumph.
"There were 7,470,040," repeated the
statistician without a second's hesitation.
"And there were 107,475 Chinese."
The visitor took down the census report
from the bookshelf and found
that Mr. Porter had not made a single
mistake.
A Rattlesnake Rater.
Moses Henderson is a sable son of
Africa and lives two miles from Amerlcus
in a rocky field where rattlesnakes
are most plentiful, says the Savannah
News. Moses makes a living by capturing
snakes and selling them. Whenever
he cannot sell them he eats them.
This is the truth, strange as it may
seem. He recently killed a large one
with 11 rattles on it. This was a fat
snake, and Moses ate it , The other ,
day he brought a very large snake to'
Sayannah, trying to sell its hide. There
were 23 rattles on it The snake was
very poor, and Moses said it would not
do to eat, and he stuffed its hide and
sold it for a good price. Every year;- /
Moses makes a great deal of money
selling snake oil He says right down
the vertebrae of a rattlesnake is a fatty
streak of flesh that makes an oil,
when fried, that will cure any case of
rheumatism. It is strange to how
many people he sells this rheumatic
snake oil. He has a long list of certificates
from people he has cured. Some
of them are from intelligent whitei,
who declare that the oil has cured
them when all other remedies have
failed. He sells a vial of the oil for
$1 and guarantees a lasting cure.
Moses says his father was an African
hoodoo doctor and taught him how to
cure all aches and pains with snake
oil. The negroes of Sumter county
venerate and fear him as a mysterious
doctor who can cure when aU else
fails and look upon his snake oil as
something enchanted.
A Ring With a History.
A ring witn a uisiory nas jum, w?a?
handed over to the Numismatic museum
of Paris by a Polish gentleman, ^
who purchased it for a small sum recently
in Warsaw. Shortly after he
formed the acquaintance of the lady
who was afterward Marquise de Pompadour,
Louis XV presented her with
an Intaglio ring representing his own
apotheosis. It was pronounced at that
time to be a marvelous work of art,
equaling anything of the sort produced
in ancieqt Greece or Rome, says the
London Chronicle. Round the edge wfis
an elaborate inscription. One day Mme.
de Pompadour, to her distress, lost this
precious ring, which has now reappear- / _
ed after nearly 150 years' peregrination.
- If rings could speak, this one
doubtless could tell a curious tale.
Shooting at a Balloon.
At Meudon, near Paris, a captive balloon
was recently allowed to rise to a
height of 150 meters and then shot at
with a Lebel rifle. Most cf the shots
passed through the lower half of the
balloon, and some pierced the upper
half. The effect on the ballon was
hardly perceptible, as six hours elapsed
before, in a very gentle descent, it
reached the earth. It is evident dhat
the light gas did not escape through
the holes made in the lower part of
the balloon, and to make holes effectively
in the upper half would require
a gun of greater caliber and firing perhaps
shrapnel. It would not, howver,
be an easy matter to hit with shot
from a large gun a balloon traveling at
- t-1 ~
a cousjuentoie uusiauw uuuj uks
grotThd.?London Times.
Klondike Hospitality.
The following extract was taken
from a letter In the Kansas City Journal:
"We were entertained at dinner
one Sunday by a gentleman, and be
had his cabin as cozy as a woman's. He
didn't have a tablecloth, but served
his dinner in courses and washed the
dishes ->etween. He had evaporated
vegetable soup, broiled steak, evaporated
potatoes and macaroni, canned #
raspberries and spice cake which he
made himself, and'coffee. I enjoyed!
it, as it was nicely cooked and served."
'
The Sea's Salt.
At present it is estimated there are
in the world's oceans 7,000,000 cubic
miles of salt, and the most astonishing
thing about It is that if all this salt
could be taken out in a moment the
level of the water would not drop one
Inch.
WILSON & SUMMEKTON R. Ra \ ;
Time Table No. 1, to take effect
Monday, June 13,1898.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Lv Wilsons Mill 910amAr
Jordan 936am
Ar DavisStation 9 45am
Ar Summerton 10 10 a m
Ar Millard 10 16 a m
Ar Millard 10 45 a in
Ar Silver 11 10 a m
Ar Paeksville 11 30 a in
Ar Tindal 11 56 a m
Ar \V. & S. Junction. 12 27 p m
Ar Sumter 12 30 pm
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Lv Sumter 2 00 p in
Lv W. & S. Junction 2 03pm
Ar Tindal 2 20p m
Ar Paeksville 2 38pm
Ar Silver 2 60 p m
Ar Millard 3 05 p m
Ar Millard 3 36p ro
Ar Summerton 3 50pm
Ar Davis 4 2o p m
Ar Jordan 4 45pm
Ar Wilsons Mill. ? 5 15 p m
BETWEEN MILLARD & ST. PAUL.
Ar Millard 1015 am 3 05pm
Ar St Paul .. 10 25 a m 3 15pm
Lv St Paul 10 35 am 3 25pm
Ar Millard 10 45 am 3 35pm
All trains daily except Sunday.
THOMAS WILSON, :
President.