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arlittgtat VOL. XXI, NO. 47. DAELINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 1894. WHOLE NUMBER 1,033. A GREAT OOON DOG. AS Indiana Pop That Found a Sli-Vaar. Old Cold Trail. Several enthusiastic coon hunters the ether day were discussing the “ring- tailed" chose, says the Wabash Times, when “Hime" Wellman, ol Urbane, came In and In a few minutes was do ing more coon talk than all the balance of the crowd put together. “I’ll tell you,” said “Hime,” ‘Tve got the best cold trailer on a coon track that ever anybody owned, and he Is only eight months old, tool I took the pup out the other day Just to see If he could run a track and to give him a little exer cise, and he hadn’t been In the woods ten minutes until I heard him bark, and he kept barking In such a way as to make me believe he had ’treed* his game, and then I came to the conclu sion that he was a ‘still hunter.* I found him at the mouth of a six-inch tile ditch and he had pulled out one of the tiles with his teeth and was chew ing the end of It to piecea As he was a young dog I did not want to ruin his teeth and I pulled him away from the tile, but as soon as I let go of him he would jump back and tackle the thing again with renewed vigor. I led him to the mouth of the ditch and stuck his nose in the end of the tile, but he paid no attention to that but ran bock to the other one. "That sort of canylng on bothered me and I at last led the dog away, re marking that he was no good on earth. After awhile 1 turned him loose once more and in less than three minutes ho was back at that tile biting pieces out of it and barking like an old-timer. As I saw the pup was bound to ruin him self by breaking off his teeth I picked up the tile, determined to carry it to the house, so as to keep it out of his reach. As I walked along looking at the marks of the pup’s teeth I made a startling discovery, and what do you think it was?” The spell-bound listeners of the strange story held their breath for a moment and in a chorus asked: “What?” “Well, right on the inside of that tile I saw plainly the imprint of a ’coon’s foot, which had been made there when the tile had been first molded and the clay was soft and yielding. The tile had evidently been made late In the evening and set away to dry and the 'coon had run through it the very same night and made the track. The tile, of course, was after ward dried and burned in the kiln, and it has been in that ditch for more than six years, and I say an eight-months- old pup that can smell as cold a trail as that is certainly the champion 'coon dog of the world." WHAT THE CHINESE EAT. Their BreadstufTs Serin Sad, Solemn, Sod den and Blllone. A member of the English parliament, Florence O'Driscoll, in a lively paper In Century, describes life and street scenes in Canton. Mr. O'Drlsooll says: The food purveyors made a most striking display; the fruiterers exposed on flat trays bananas, pineapples, mel ons, figs, pears (the latter beautiful to the sight but hard and tasteless), to gether with many Chinese fruits whose shapes and tastes were familiar to me, but whose names I knew not. Some of these fruits were most artistically peeled, pineapple-peeling being quite an art. A great variety of vegetables was offered for sale. Among them were the white shoots of the bamboo, which seemed to bo a favorite article of diet. Bnt to what use, Indeed, may not this wonderful grass be put? From it Chinamen make almost everything con ceivable—hats, cloaks, sheets, oarpets, roofs, buildings, baskets, chairs, carry ing-poles, fishing-tools—the list might be prolonged ad infinitum. And then they eat it as well. Preserving ginger in many forma was a noticeable trade. The roots were washed and left in water, as an English cook treats potatoes before boiling them. A number of men and) women holding a two-pronged fork in each hand sat around a table with the tubs of peeled ginger beside them; they picked ginger roots out of the water, and, laying them on the table, pierced them all over very rapidly with both forks until quite soft. The pierced roots were then put into another tub, where they were boiled In sirup. The ginger went through various other mi nor processes, until eventually it was packed in the earthenware Jars in which It is told In European shops. The whole process was certainly a clean one, and the smell of the aromatic root in preparation was both grateful and pleasant In the bakers’ shops I saw nothing corresponding to our European loaf; solid-looaing little yellow patties, slabs of flabby brown cakes, emblematic of concentrated dyspepsia; scones, or an equivalent apparently of fried batter) and great flakes of milk-white, slip- pery-looking paste not above an eighth of an inch thick—to be rolled up and deftly sliced with a cleaver-shaped tool Into long strings like macaroni. These foods were to be seen everywhere in the city, but nothing light and open. To my eyes the breadstuffs seemed ■ad, solemn, sodden, and bilioua The Jeweler's Csrat. The carat la a standard used by the Jewelers to express both weight and fineness. When It is used as a weight it is equal to four grains, or the one hundred and twentieth part of an ounce troy. In determining the fine ness of precious metals, twenty-four carats is considered the highest stan dard of purity. According to this stan dard an eighteen-carat gold ring con tains three parts o# gold and one of soma bass me tal ...A- ■ ■ ■■■■—— The Failures Few aoS Smi Hsw Yobk, November 10.—The fall- wee during the past week as reported by &. G. Dun have been 2*1 in the United statee against US last ‘ nd 42 in Canada against ST last year. There have been a few failures of aonseqn* during the week, but none ai ’ atva taflneoee CHANGED HIS ELECTRIC PIANO. S Saloon keeper Finds That Wagner la Hot Salted for a Barroom. A certain saloon, wishing to please Its patrons without the expense of hir ing a long-haired pianist, bought an eli'ctric piano, says the Indianapolis Sentinel. These pianos are very funny to watch, for they start up a tune and go straight ahead and play <t to the bitter end without anyone near them. To a person who does not understand the motive power, the thing appears uncanny; and the boys prepared to have lots of fun. The saloon was full of patrons when somebody slyly turned on the currant and the piano started. Out came the solemn, majestic strains of “Tannhauaer.” A man who was drinking at the bar set down his glass and shivered. Three men playing cards began to get nervous and, finally, with a cuss word or two, gave up the game. Still the piano thundered out the heavy chords of "Tannhauaer,” and the audience, not being familiar with Wagner, got bluer and bluer. The owner saw that the piano had made a mistake and hastened to assure his patrons that he hod other pieces and would put a new one in. This he did, and the men brightened up a little while waiting to hear the new piece. Many expressions of disgust at hearing a funeral dirge on such an occasion were hurled at the owner. Everyone had about resumed his original atti tude when the piano was given another trial. This time It was "Lohengrin,” and while the piece was a little bright er, it was not festive. One man de clared it had been played at his grand father’s funeral or sister's wedding, he forgot which. This piece was taken out and a third tried, but It was an ar rangement of the national hymns with variations, and was just as solemn. The piano was closed for the night and In the morning the proprietor rushed to find some more suitable pieces. Now the piano plays “The Bogie Man,” "With Danny by My Side” and the "Washington Post March." and the crowd is delighted. But the piano came near wrecking the saloon the first night. If It had been Meyerbeer instead of Wagner perhaps the name would have carried the music through. A WELL AS A BAROMETER. It Is on a Cattaraoxus Coonty Farm, sad Infallibly Foretells Weather. There is a curious well on the Flint farm. In the town of Great Valley, Cat taraugus county, N. Y. It Is a natural barometer. Nobody ever passes that farm, winter or summer, If the weather Is settled, without asking something like this: “Does the well threaten a change?" For everyone knows that If there Is bad weather coming the well will let them know it, sure as sure can be, says the New York Sun. They call the well up there the “whistling well,” although It doesn't whistle now Hut that Isn't any fault of the well. This well was dug about fifty years ago by the father of Col. Flint, who now occupies the farm. He put it down forty-five feet, but found no water, and dug no further. Instead of water, a strong current of air cause from the well at times The opening was covered with a big flat stone, snd for amusement a hols was drilled In the stone and a big tin whistle fitted Into it This whistle had two tones— one when the sir rushed up from the well, snd s different one when the counter current sucked the air back into the mysterious depths. It wasn’t long before the discovery was made that within forty-eight heurs after the outmshing current from the well started the whistle to shrieking a storm Invariably followed. When the tone of the whistle was changed by the reversing of the Surrent, it w*s discovered that the change meant a change and the coming of fair weather. These weather signals aever failed. When the weather was settled- the whistle was siUnL The whistle got out of order some yearn ago, and. for some reason, was never repaired, but the coming and going currents of air still prophesy the coming «f their re spective “spells of weather” with un varying infallibility. Our Early Diplomata. Congress had some difficulty In regu lating the expenses of its foreign min isters so as to give them an opportuni ty to appear with dignity in foreign courts and at the same time conform to the economical ideas that prevailed in the matter of public expenditure. At the time Franklin was writing home that he could not make a respectable appearance at the court of France, the president of congress wes receiving letters alleging a wasteful expenditure of money by Franklin and his nephew, Jonathan Williams. Some of these strictures may have been warranted, for John Adams wss found including a charge for the education of his son in sn account of his expenses abroad. The item was disallowed on the ground that the investigating committee did not And “any book or proceeding of congress, nor are they Informed of any general or received custom, on which the charge of moneys for the education of the aceomptant’s son atm be ad- [tted, and, though the same is in- sidcrable, they are of the opinion that a precedent be not established.” THE FIRST DRUMMER. Kasllsh Quakers Hrem to Have Booa the Progenitors of the Rooe. The rapid development of the com mercial traveler system specifically be longs to our own days, but as to the origin there is some difference of opin ion. One authority lays it down that the bagman of to-day—the "drummer,” in American phraseology—is the im mediate descendant of the old chap man, or peddler, or hawker. As these personages were known even in the time of Chaucer in this case the mod ern oommercial can boast a very re spectable ancestry. Another antiquarian, however, in the Bookseller, has another theory to pro pose. For this he brings the poet Southey as a witness. It is that the commercial travelers of to-day really date back to the Quakers of one hun dred or one hundred and fifty years since. These persons. It is well kne i.. were toreed to wander tbroughe* the country by persecution and ill tr, .,i- menL They were then, as they are to day, mostly good, houest men of busi ness, and with the true commercial In stinct they seem to have made a virtue of necessity, and during their wander ings to have made acquaintances as far as possible with the country trades men, to whom they often sold goods, watches, "camblets,” and other ar ticles. They seemed to have pushed their trade so vigorously that ttiey ob tained heavy orders, so much so that “the tradesmen in London stood idle,” as one of the Quakers said, “while we filled our coffers.” One Thomas Greene, a Quaker preacher and only a laboring man, died worth some thousands of pounds made in this fashion. The speculation is both curious and interesting, however the matter may be decided. BANK OF ENGLAND FORGERIES. Thar Are Almost I'oknown Now, Bat Were Formerly Frequent. There are. very few forgeries now, but one hundred years agb they were rife. The first recorded Instance of the forgery of a Bank of England note has a singular touch of romancs about It, says the Strand Magazine. The forger was a linen draper at Stafford, named Vaughan, who, in the year 17*8, employed several workmen to engrave different parts of a twenty pound ster ling note, and when a dozen had lieen printed off he deposited them with a young lady to whom he was engaged to be married as a proof of his wealth; but the imposition was discovered, and Vaughan was hanged. One of the cleverest imitations of a bank note was the work of a poor schoolmaster, who forged an entire note with pen and ink, and, sad to say, was hanged. John Mathieson, who was convicted for forging the water mark, offered to shew the directors how it was done if he were pardoned, but they would not withdraw the pros ecution. Singularly enough, forgeries first began to be frequent soon after the introduction of the one pound sterling note, and in April, 1802, Mr. Addington told the house of commons that the forgeries had increased so alarmingly that seventy extra clerks were required at the link merely to detect them. ’ TRADITION OF THE HORSESHOE.' How It Came to Bo a Protection Agatnat Kvil Spirits. In Moroceo iron Is considered a great protection against demons, who are the lineal representatives, after oU, of the hostile spirits. Hence it is usual to place a knife or dagger under a sick man's pillow, his illness, of course, being attributed to demoniacal pos session. In India, records a writer In Cornhlll Magazine, the mourner who performs the necessary but somewhat dangerous duty of putting fire into the dead man's mouth carries a key or a knife in his hand, to keep off the evil spirits. In short, a bit of iron Is a very useful thing to have about you at any time If you desire to escape the un favorable attention of the ghosts, the trolls, the fhiries and the demons gen erally. This Is a good reason for buy- >ng a pocketknife. It Is also a reason | for nailing up a horseshoe. “But why horseshoe in particular?” you ask, "more than any other odd piece of iroh?" Well, primarily, the good luck depends more upon the Iron as Iron than on the special shape or function of the horseshoe as a horseshoe. But there are also many reasons why the superstition should happen to fix itself more particularly upon horse shoes. \\’e must remember that In Eu rope, at least. It isthecattle, the horses and the domestic beasts In general that are specially liable to the hostHe at tacks of "the little people." There fore the elves and trolls are most likely to be dreaded on farms or In the coun try, where horses and cattle most do congregate. Now, if you want to nail up a bit of iron as a protection against the fiery darts of the evil ones on your stables or cowhouses (which Is the place where one oftenest sees them), nothing is more likely to come handy to your purpose than a cast horseshoe. Besides, it has obvious eongrulty for the place and object, and it can bo readily picked up in the roads almost anywhere. Furthermore, it is pro vided beforehand with convenient holes, by means of which you ean readily hang it up, either over your own house floor or over your sheds and stables. The various advantages of cheapness, ease and readiness for fix ing would have given the horseshoe a fair start in life, it is believed, as a charm against fairies, trolls and evil spirits generally, even without any other more special advantages. THE GRAVE ON PIKE'S PEAK One of the Humorous Fanrloa of the Blg- oal-S«rrloo Men There. A few rods from the signal observers' hut s lot of small stones had been piled up to resemble a grave, and a wooden headboard throws a shadow upon them when the western sun is low. Theaver- age visitor, says the Chicago Record, approaches it with a solemn air, and when he reads the inscription he turns a glance of surprised Inquiry upon whoever may be standing by. The in scription represents the grave to b« that of a lady who wss eaten by rata on the summit of IMke's Peak one night in 1876, which, of course. Is something that never happened. Along about that time some newspaper fakir pub lished a yarn in the east shout the hor rible death of s woman who was spend ing the night on the top of this moun tain, and it was generally copied by the press of the country. There was no foundation for It, and it created a great deal of indignation here. When the railroad wan first opened the in fluence of the press was demonstrated by the number of inquiries that were made of the weather observers con cerning this unfortunate woman, and the signal service officers, who have very little to occupy them, displayed their humor and spent their spare time in fixing up this grave and painting the inscription on the headstone. * It is a fact, however, that there are lots of rats on the top of Pike’s Peak, and where they come from and how they live nobody can explain. The man In charge of the restaurant told me they had to set traps every night, and generally caught two oi three, but this did not seem to diminish the number. Down on the mountain woodchucks, squirrels, chipmunks and other bur rowing game can be found bnt the rats that haunt the signal sta tion are a mystery. DUELING IN THE ARMY. STORED HIS GAME. THE RULING ‘PASSION Sh« Wm Determined to Inspect the Tojrt^ of the Other Woman. The ruling passion gets away with woman every time, says the Boston Globe. At s theater the other night a lady appeared suddenly at the box of fice and asked the manager for an kd- mission ticket “Don’t you wish a seat?” the ‘ticket seller asked. '‘We have a few good ■eats In the balcony. A Main* Hilnter Who Hurt > Firat-CIsM Cold-Btorae* Vanlt. A gentleman who was at work at the Howard slate quarry In Willimantic, or “No. 8” as It was then called, twenty-five years ago. says deer were as plenty then In the woods north of Nebec lake as anyone could ask for. The slate company had a large number of men employed and boarded them In camps, the same as lumbermen board their crews in the woods To keep the camp supplied with fish and meat they kept a hunter employed every day. The supply never ran short, but some of his methods were peculiar. He evidently kept fish on Will in the winter season. On several occasions, the gentleman says, com pany came in from Bangor unexpected ly la|e in the evening. Hut they only 4ad to say trout fu Stone, the hunter, and he would start off In the wodds to return in fifteen minutes with a hand some string of fish, apparently just taken from the water. He would bring In deer in winter in much the same way. His manner of doing this, says the Chfcafo, Timts, the gent’^'an ex plains, ft>r he went with %ini once and learned the secret, lie took the deer sled out to bring in the game, and the “1 havtnT time to sit dewn^ said the workman went along to help haul 1L /l to • * * u* Vi cr Vva 1 m «d 1 l. ... .wavs fWSl , 11 * _ . v • . . , Starj of a SehaUr. Theodor Mommsen, the famous his torian of Rome, had not only the ap pearance but the manner of a scholar. Once during the half hour’s drive from Berlin to CharlotUnburg the car In which the professor rode went badly off the track. The rest of the passenger* alighted, the horses were removed, and the stranded car was left until help could be found. Mommsen remained, reading his book. An hour passed, snd the sound of levels and jaekaand the plunging of horses’ hoofs aroused him from his reverie. With no sign of dis composure he rose from his,’ scat and want to\he door- “Ah,” said ho, “wo to have come to a standstill." lady. “My husband la waiting for me outside, and besides I have seen the play aligddy.” Tito ticket seller didn’t know wl..itto ■MMIlli j jM ’ "1 only Whutod to go In for a few otio- utos;” the fair visitor cvfclhued. “1 saw a lady passln a moment ago, and she was so elegantly dressed that I want a good look at her and sqeexaatly what she has on. That’s all.’” The manager, to whom this explana tion was made, escorted the dress-fas cinated woman into the auditorium,and she went around to a side aisle and mode a thorough observation of what the ultra-fashionable dame “had on.” “Oh, it was perfectly lovely!” she ex plained as she joined her husband at the door. A Groat Pise, for Hooter*. Judging from late statistics, India still remains a magnificent country for sportsmen. In 1893 21,988 human be ings and 81,668 brad of cattle were killed by snakes and wild beasts, the chief human mortality—19,02*—having been due to snake bite. Tigers claimed 947 human victims, leopards 260, wolves 162, bears 14&, snd elephants 72. On the other hand, whereas only 4,498 cat tle were killed by snake bite, no fewer than 20,969 wdre devoured by tigers, *0,013 by leopards, and 6,758 by wolves A boat the Dollar Mark. There are several theories to ac count for the origin of our dol lar mark (8). First—Some say It la a combination or monogram composed of the letters U iand 8, the Initials of the United States. Sec ond—It may have been derived from “H. S.,” the mark of the Roman money unit Third—It is probably a combina tion of P. and 8., from Pesoduro, a Spanish term signifying “hard dollar." A fourth reason assigned is that It is a “piece of eight,” and designated by the symbol 8. Th* Beby Castl* Ilia. Here Is an instance of a fire that has been burning for centuries According to the testimony of the duchess of Cleveland, the great hearth fire in the hall of Baby castle has never been suf fered to expire. This castle la perhaps toe noblest and moat perfect specimen *9 England. They did not go ' very .'far Into the torest when they came to a lot of ever- grf'u boughs heaped upon the snow. J Ape Stone stopped. Lifting the boughs he tipped the pile over, and the looker- oni who wondered what he was up to, was scbfdd nearly out of his senses when a big buck bounded up out of the hole and toll flat on his side. His fpej were^tethered so he could not stand. Stone had caught him, tethered him and burled him alive under the brush and snow against future emer gencies. This was his system of cold storage. EXPERT DRIVING. Skillful flan rtllna of n Fire Engln* In RapJtl Motion. “Among other exhibitions of their skill given by the detachment of British soldiers that visited this coun try last year,” said an uptown resident to a New York Sun man, “was the driving of a piece of light artillery with the horses going at a gallop be- tweei^obstructions that were Scarcely farther apart than the wheel tracks without touching them, and very beautifully they did it, too. I am liv ing now In the nelgborhood of a fire engine that lies in a cross street Just off an avenue in which the elevated railroad runs. Well, you ought to see the engine turn Into the avenue from the street between the pillars going to a fire. Of course the pillars are very much farther apart than the artillery obstructions were, but they are taken on a curve instead of going straight, and then, too. they are rigid and im movable; to hit one with the horses on the jump would mean to wreck the engine, or at least to disable it, and there must not be any mistake, aod there isn’t They go down the avenue on the gallop and they turn out be tween the pillars with the same swift certainty. Good driving? Why, it makes you laugh to look at it, and just the same kink of driving is done by all the men In the department every time they go to a fire.” The albatross has been known to fol low a ship for two months without ever being seen to alight in the water or £ a moment's rest It Is believed to .) on the wing. M*«IIdx* od th* Field of Honor of Which the l-nhllc Novor H**r*. Good United States people roll their eyes In holy horror when they read about the free and easy manner In which dueling is practiced abroad, says the Washington Star. Just now they are In a tremor of ludiguatlon over the recent ukase of the emperor of Russia, which was addressed to his army and navy officers, and In formed them that they must recog nize the necessity of fighting duels under certain circumstances. If these pious people were aware of how much real dueling occurs in the regular army which protects the dignity of the American flag they would begin to hold mass meetings. While our army Is not as large as those of other countries. Its young of ficers are as quick and ready to resent an insult In the manner recognized by the code as any continental wearer of epaulettes In existence. And they do it, too. Affairs like the Maney-Ued- berg tragedy are, of course, uncom mon, but any man well informed In the personnel of the army and the life at the various posts knows that there are many occasions when differences arise between officers which are not settled until the approved number of paces are measured off and the two principals in the difficulty take a shot or two at each other. There is never any fatal result, but there are many army offi cers in the service now who bear scars of wounds that were never in flicted in regular battle. Hospital re ports of western army posts sometimes make an old-timer smile when they read how Lieut This has a sprained leg or Capt. That had hurt hU arm by a fall. Characteristic* of Earop*an Cities. An observer, says a correspondent of the Leeds Mercury, has just drawn up a little table In which he arranges the principal cities and towns of the world according to a classification which has at least the merit of novelty. Each town Is considered from the point of view of the trades which are carried on in it. According to these statistics in Paris there reside the most tailors, up holsterers, bonnet makers, barbers, ad vocates and men of letters, men or women. In London we find the most cab and carriage proprietors, engineers, printers, booksellers and—though most people would scarcely credit it—cooks. In Amsterdam we find the most are dealers and money-lenders; Brussels Is celebrated as the place where the larg est number df boys smoke; It is In Naples that we find tliq most street porters; we see the largest number of beer-drinkers in Berlin; Forenoe pos sesses the most flower-sellers, and Lis bon is celebrated as containing the most bailiffs. ■ i ■ — ■ ,i ■ ■ •- Sm* Why Boll* Hat* a K*u Itog. In the first place, says an English writer, red Is a color to which cattle are unaccustomed, so that they may naturally be s-ippoeed to be startled by Its very novelty. Scientists show the sensation of red to be the complement of that of green, being Induced by ex actly opposite affections of the retina. If the eyes of cattle are constructed on a similar principle to our own the con tinual contemplation of green, as In trees and herbage, must produce a state of retinal fatigue, predisposing to vio lent excitement of the retina immedi ately a red substance la presented to view. . Odd Nam** far Bird*. There are some odd names for game birds far down the Chesapeake. A small shy snipe that flies with a twit tering noise is called the horsefoot snipe, because of Its fondness for the horse-foot or horse-shoe crab. It Is called also the turns tone, from Its habit of overturning pebble# in search of food. The telltale snipe bean that name because It always sounds a note of alarm at the sight of a gunner. Chesapeake gunners believe that a sin gle teUtsle can clear a whole region of game birds. The widgeon is locally called the bald pate, and the wlllet U so celled because of Ue cry: "Wlll-wlU- wlUet!" BOW AND ARROW. Th* All*s*d F*»t* of th* Ancient Archote - Mahmoud Effondl'u 8hot* From their perishable nature the bow and arrow shaft have utterly dis appeared, but the arrow-head has come down to us by thousands In the river drift and cave deposits which experts place at a hundred thousand years ago, says the London News With this our very remote anceaton used to slay the mammoth, the woolly rhtnoceroe, and the reindeer—animals whose like our sportsmen of to-day pursue with ex press rifles and explosive bullets. In due time the bow became s finished weapon, snd savage men grew to use It with great skill, both In hunting snd Id war. The bowman's prowess, however, was not so great as it has been represented by writers of fiction, snd there is little doubt that just as the runner or the boxer of to-day could best the athlete of antiquity, so the bowman even of these days, when shooting is but a pastime, could easily beat the redskin or the African in feats of skill. It Is at the target, however, that he would excel, not lu the forest, for his woodcraft would not enable him to get the opportunity of drawing his bow. Neither savage nor modern tox- ophllite, however, can hope to come up to the record of Mahmoud Effendi, sec retary to the Turkish ambassador In England in 1795, who, with a Turkish bow, shot an arrow four hundred and eighty-two yards in the presence of three members of the Toxophilite so clety. Before such a range as this it Is not so surprising to be told of an arrow that pierced two Inches of brass, or of another that, being shot by a Welsh archer at an armed man on horseback, struck him on the thigh, pierced hla armor, his leg, his leather saddle, and killed his horse. The bow and arrow was at Its height at the battle of Flodden In 1*13, when the Scots yielded before the shower of shafts which the bowmen poured upon them, but already the knell of the fine old arms had sounded. In 1311 Lord Hubert, of Cherbury, In discussing a war with France, speaks of the change of weapons, and when once the “hand- gunners” and “gunpowder" came Into use the craft of bowyerand the valor of bowmen became obsolete. When Roby wo* lick, we xar* her Coatoria When ah* w*a a Child, ah* cried (or Oaatoria. When she liecom* Mlaa, ahe clung to Caatort*. When ahe had Children, ah* gar* them Caatorla. rrrrrm'vryT-m 1 rm ttttttf Furniture, Wagons, Em, TOpi, EiMlu, Buggy and Wagon material, for sale, and repairing of same at JOHN SISKROH'S SHOPS; WraS, CASKETS and Undertakers’ supplies al ways on hand at low prices. T. C. Jeffords, Jr. Nov. 15—3m. **♦.AA IlA +. *. >- A ♦. I. ♦-A ♦ A A «. A ft HOLT, Hi GUARD AND CONDUCTOR. Th* Dlff*reno* Between the Itoeeee of Kng- lleh and American Railroad Train* The guard Is found on the station platforms, where he looks at your ticket, opens and closes the door of the compartment, will try to see you well placed according to your class, then hops into his van and goes with the train on your journey. He is by no means the Important person that the conductor is in the United States, says Col. H. U. Front In Scribner's Maga zine, for he has no opportunity to sit with the passengers, to talk politics, or horses, or railroads. He never rises to the rank of captain, as all conductors do in our southern states. He may be come a Knight Templar for all I know, but I never saw him with his waistcoat ablaze with the symbols of that order which so often decorate our own con ductors. Doubtless In private life he is a man of Influence In his neighborhood, bnt on duty he Is a quiet servant, and his relations with the public are purely those of business. He is a tidy man in blue cloth uni form with white metal buttons, and often wears a broad patent-leather strap over one shoulder with white buckle and ornaments Hr sometimes carries a small bag, presumably for such papers as he needs to have, and Is provided with a green flag to wave to the englneman as a signal to start the train. Altogether he la a simple, efficient and civil official, and just here is a striking contrast between the men of the two countries On the English railroads one never sees the oonductor or ticket-eeller who scorns you If you ask a question, and gives the minimum of information with the maximum of brusqueness: and one never sees the usher who stands in the gateway and bellows In inarticulate pride, then tnrns a qnld In his cheek, and squirts tobacco juice Into a corner. Aa Alleged Miracle. At Radicena, in Calabria, a statue of the virgin which hod stood quietly for one hundred years in the village church, suddenly began to move its eyes on the 9th of September last The miracle was seen by all the inhabitants, who took the statue out that night and car ried it about In procession, when a strange halo In the shape of the cross was seen around the moon. From that day the Church of the Madonna of the Mountain has been crowded day and ulght, pilgrimages to her are being or ganized, gifts are pouring in, snd at ready fifty thousand franca In money have been received. The syndic of the town asserts that the miracle really happened, and a deputation has a ter ted for Rome to lay the facts before the pope- omusaeaair Burglar* la ear**. Even the most gentlemanly of our burglars have much to learn from Jnpan in the way of poUteneaa, if one may judge by a description of the man ners of robbers in that country given in the Atlantic. Three men broke Into a dyer’s house while he was away and gently asked his wife how mush money there wss In ths house. She answered that there were Just twenty-seven yen and eighty-four sen. The robber laughed and said: “You are a good old woman and we believe yon. If you were poor we would not rob yon at all. Now we only want a couple of kimono and this," laying his hand on n fine silk overdress The old women re plied: “All ’my son's kimono I ean give you, bat I beg you will not take that, tor it doee not belong to nay eon and waa confided to us only for dyeing. What is oars I can give, trat I cannot give who* belongs to another.” “That la quite right,” approved the rubber, “aod we shall not take K." -THE- +++++++++4444444444444444^ ran am . -DEALER,- is offering some very low prices on cocoa-nuts, large size, 5 cts.; raisins at 15 cts. a pound; 15 cts. a dozen for apples that you haye been paying 20 cts. for; bananas, 20 cts. a dozen; fresh nuts, 18 cts. a pound; onions, 25 cts. a peck; Irish potatoes, 25 cts. a peck; fine candies and plain at reduced prices. I want the trade, and must have it. Come and see me. Respectfully, J. R. HOLT. (Between Joye’s and N.X.Harrell Nov. 1—8m. efl.] No Need of A Cotton Trust! M ONEY can be had on cotton! 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