9
INGTON
HERALD.
VOL. II.
IF FOR THK LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.”
DARLINGTON. SOUTH CAROLINA,
WEDNESDAY, MAY IS, 1892
NO. 37
MORE ABOUT MOIIV 1)8.
A ('•rrfspondfiit Writes About
Three in Darlington anil
Sumter Counties.
Akkiston, Ala., May 2.—To the
Editor of The State: I have been
reading with interest the accounts in
The State of the mound below Col
umbia, and the one on an island in
the Catawba river, and I write to
give your readers the location of thr :e
mounds that I know of in Darlington
and Sumter counties.
In the eastern part of Darlington
county on the farm of Mr. W. E.
Dargaa there arc two Indian mounds
—one of them is in the lower part of
Mr. Dargan’s field, and has been plow
ed over for many years. Quantities
of Indian relics covered the ground,
pieces of pottery, arrowheads,
hatchets, etc., and if my memory
serves me right, human bones were
sometimes plowed up.
Not far from this mound was the
grave of Maj. Standard of Revolu
tionary War fame and twat part of
the plantation was known as the
“Standard old field.’’ About a
third of a mile east of this mound in
the fork of Black Swamp and Alli
gator creeks was the other mound
surrounded on all sides by swamp.
It was from five to eight feet high
and covered between an eight and a
(piarter of an acre.
It do not.know that it was ever
opened; but I remember, as a boy,
hearidg it discussed; and the conclu
sion was that it was a burial place.
It was not built vii account of fresh
ets, for neither of the streams ever
rise high enough to do any damage.
In the fork of these streame was evi
dently a camping place, and probably
the workshop of an Indian tribe,
judging by the many pieces of pot
tery, arrowheads, etc, that were
serttered around, many of them in an
unfiinished state, while some were
perfect specimens of their art and
skill.,
In this cjnnection I will stato
that I often neard an old negro,
long ■since dead, tell my father about
their umarthing a gigantic earthen
ware coffin containing the bones of
a man about eight feet tall while
building the dam around Wither
spoon’s island in the Fee Dee river
almut two miles east of the place
where the two mounds above men
tioned are located.
— Perhaps Lot, .lobn Witherspoon of
.Society Hill can verify this state
ment, and, if it is true, can tell what
ever became of the coffin. The
island belonged to his father, I
think. He may remember the old
negro—Solomon—who made the
statement.
The other mound is on Mrs. N. R.
Witherspoon’s plantation in Sumter
county, on the western side of Black
river. 'This mound is known as the
“High Hill.” It is surrounded by
swamps, and one of the streams of
Black river washes its eastern base.
Its base covers about three acres, and
it rises to twenty or twenty-five feet
in height, with about one-half acre
of nearly level land on top. Several
big hickory and white oak trees, from
three to four feet in diameter, are
growing upon it—one of the biggest
on the highest point.
The soil, as far as I could examine
it without making an excavation, and
the growth upon it are identical with
the soil and gmwth of the highland
t\Vo or time hundred yards east on
the opjaisite side of Black River—
eonsiderabli different from the near
est highland soil and growth on the
Western or “High Hill”' side of the
river. This lead me to suppose that
the river once flowed west of the
“High Hill,” and had cut its way
across a depression in the high land
—but it was ages ago, unless a con-
\ ulsion of nature aiddd it very ma
terially.
If bp jit there it was not for pro
tection against freshets, for the sev
eral hundred, I might say thousand,
a :res of low land west of the “High
Hill” are never inundated more than
two or three feet deep.
Perhaps valuable prehistoric in
formation niigljt be gained by in
vestigating these mounds. And in
the case of the “High Hill,” if no
relics are fouifri, light might be
throw n on the geological formation,
and subsequent changes, of that sec
tion, that would fully repay the
trouble and cost of a careful ex
amination. E. W. Raimis.
The FarmmOnl) Hope for Relief.
('.in Pastors
No Longer
Souls!
BY THK KKV. T. K. (TYI.KIt, I). I».
This is a rather startlin':
Evcsy dollar placed as a tax on the
article or commodity necessary to the
farmer’s comfort and use costs him
just that much, robbing him of his
hard earnings to till the coffers of the
Carnegics, the Goulds and their asso
ciates. And yet we hear the hypo-1 ^“"eernent ’ uJt'meral of the
critical appealjnade by the Reeds and 1 1)rullljncilt yi ut i 10( ii, t minivers (in
McKinleys, the Trays, Blanches and j 0BC . of om . 1 . l| . ge , t c iUesj have em-
Swecthearts of the Republican party,, 1(loycd latoly Iiro f c , ss i olm i « t .vange- !
to the former ami the people tlnitj^,;,, to colKluct revivil i n , c dings in !
party is the friend of the people. tlleil . d^-hes. This strikes me asa
(onvrrt IA Ramble Along Familiar Ways.
A far less persuasive voice than
that of either Rev. J. A. Rice or Rev.
| II. B. Browne would have been sufli-
. . |"t.'.tion , dent to induce me to desert pencil,
to raise; but it is suggested bv the • . . . r i
! seir-zors and paste pot for a few days
Taimagc Endorses Keeiej.
What fools they imagine the people
arc.
But to the farmers
we would say a word.
of the high tariff enacted
of the South
Let us get rid
by Repub
lican class legislation and relieve the
farmer of the burdens it imposes,
and let the farmers of the South in
augurate a new system of first raising
an abundance of everything on thej
jar in that is needed, and next, limit
crops to what cun be thoroughly cul
tivated. This advice followed and!
the cry of hard times will no longer j
be heard, and there will be no neces-;
sity for listening to the appeals of I
“new departure”—and from the
t time-honored custom in that noble
denomination. It used to be the
most joyful part of the Methodist
preacher’s work to conduct these| , • , c r.
1 . . . such importunities. So, alter seoi
special services; and after sowing the ,i , . ■ . , , ,•
1 ° the last issue I he Advocate m
Gospel-seed for several months to
bring in his sheaves with shouting.
Into such revival harvestings the
Hatfields, the Whitfields and the
Wesleys of the past, and the J. 0.
Fecks and Farkcrsof the present,
have thrown their whole souls, and!.,
have counted it the “iov and crow n r
I ■
; in order to renew old friendships in
j and about Darlington and Florence.
! There were also other and special
attractions on this occasion w hich
the brethren urged with an earnest
ness and skill that would have been!
creditable to the well known person-1
sive powers of Roy. R. N. Wells in
his palmiest days. There was noth- !
ing to do therefore but to yield to |
in
om
Ring the hopper us !
this issue .as possi-
joy
of their ministrv to lead awakened
. sinners to Jesus Christ.
disappointed and kicked out political | Jiut nmv u wonld
hacks and blatant demagogues w ho
are urging the folly of a third party j
now
1: intel.cctual
seem that the
demands upon the
as the means of relief. There is no,
j pastors of the prominent city church-
the |
Let
relief for the farmer outside of
Democratic party and himself,
him first put his shoulder to the
wheel and do his duty and the Demo
cratic party, which has always been
es are such that thev are sending off
for “evangelists” to come and draw
j the Gospel net and reap the Gospel
harvest! Can it be that these dear
brethren feel it to be their chief duty
, to discuss the “questions of the day”
the party of the people, will give him for tlu . ( . uUl|R . (l )lc , l(ls in tk , ir con .
the relief he seeks.—Sentinel Shelby-
villcKv.
Tillman and the Cotton Mills.
souls?
! misjiid
gregations, and therefore must leave
to some humbler and warm-hearted
! brother the work of saving precious
God forbid that 1 should
any minister of our Lord
But whatever may be
the motive for this course, it seems
to some of us old-fashioned Gospcl-
ers to be a lamentable mistake. The
same mistake has often been commit
ted by Fresbyterian and Congrega-
lioualist and Baptist pastors; but it
Carolina .Spartan: If there ever was
a .period when truth utterly fails it, and Master!
is during a partisan campaign. There
is no use in correcting or appealing
to those who make misrepresentations,
for they believe that success is better
attained in that why. in his Green
ville sjiecch Governor Tillman at
tacked the cotton factories and all
connected with or dependent on them ;lt(| . J(L .| s more attention when eonimit-
because the mills bought a bale of . , , ,, ,, .
.. f , ..^.i r led by our .Methodist brethren, lit-
cottou for ,>3o and sold the manufac- J
tured products for x?(l. He |„,|,| cau.-.e I hey have generally been adepts
that up as a great injustice to the in the conducting of revival ser-
pcople who make t ie cotton -and view.
How any pastorjof any denomina
tion; should deliberately surrounder
the highest of all his spiritual de
lights and delegate to another the
most momentous of all his duties, is
beyond my comprehension. What is j Qie pastorate
the chief duly of every minister of |,out. The r
Hie press, and li
full of copy for
blc, 1 took up my friendly grip,'
which is now kept loaded ready for
immediate action, and boarded the
train for Florence. On reaching |
rowing town I made a bee line
for the court house, where Dr. Laffer-j
ty, the inimitable, was holding forth i
on things new and old. The hearty j
applause ai d merry peals of laughter
that saluted my ears, as I approach-;
ed, was a sufficient assurance that
Lafferty was there, and that the lec
turer was putting in some of his
best licks.
From the court house we adjourn
ed to the parsonage—Lafferty,
Brow ne, Wilson, Beaty, Murray and |
I—where the distinguished guest of
the evening continued to entertain us
until a late hour. It was after 2 A.
M. when we retired, and as I was
booked for the early train for Dar
lington I could only doze with one
eye while I watched the clock with
the other. Brother Rice met meat
the depot at Darlington and took me
to the parsonage to breakfast. Have
you seen that Darlington parsonage?
If you have, you arc prepared to en
dorse my statement Unit wo have no
better in the Conference. There are
doubtless larger ones,’ but a better
planned, better built and better kept
VI:
find: ‘ This eiilerpn.ro was inaugura
ted during the pastorate of Rev. J.
K. Beard; the house was completed I
during the pastorate of his successor, j
Rev. II. G. Ncndday; and the parson-j
age debt has been throttled during
of the present incum-;
tin credit for this de- j
operate the mills, for they got none
of the benefits.
Consider how false and mslca-ling I
such teaching is. A few years ago
the price of cotton in Spartanburg
was regulated by the New York price,
being about 75 cents below that mar-1
ket. Since the (stahlishmenl of
factories here the price received by
farmers for cotton is sometimes up'
to the price paid in New York. It
safe to state that our farmers, the
year round, receive about s^.Od a bale
more for theircotton than thev would
do if there were no mills here. . : Tl,i * ft 1 ™ 1 sllo "W dominate
In this county there are about their whole ministry. ’To instruct
11,000 people or more living alxmt; the ignorant, to comfoct the afflicted, ] zca | „„d devotion of Darlington
and handsome
and will come
(lie Gospel? What is his sweetest and liohtful preachers’ home, however,:
sublimest satisfaction? AssuredlyRJ bc|.,ngs (so we are informed) to;
is to awaken impenitent sinners and Brother J. Gregg McCall, one of the
to guide them to the cross of Christ. Stewards, under w hose personal su
pervision the work was done. May
it long stand as a monument to the!
these mills who buy the surplus pro- i . im j
visions from the farmers, thus paying
out thousands of dollars every year. |
believers in godly
living,
to be
to “edify
ire indeed vital duties, never
neglected or belittled. But
even these are siiborninate to the
greater work of winning souls.
Yet it would seem to be an in
creasingly prevalent idea that the
msuiess of a pastor is to pre-
If there were no cotton mills here
country province would full off about
50 per cent, in price. When Gov
ernor Tillman, or any one else, asserts
that the farmer and the truck farmer
gets no lienefit from the factories he
makes a mistiitement knowingly and chief
intentionally' I pare elaborate sermons, (“for the
But ti e great crime the factories j j , , k lllteml f „_
commit is to buy a bale of cotton for ' ’
$35.00 and sell it for X70.00. See | nenil s ««>d weddings and serve on all
how that works. A cotton mill spin-! manner of ecclesiastical committees,
ning 10,000 bales of cotton would | Then when a season of quickening is
have to invest almut $350,000. The! songht f OT) ulu i Boll i, are to be con-
interest cn the ori^unl stock ana the • ”, , , . , 4 f
price paid for cotton and the in-1 u ‘ rtwl > 80, . ,M;bod y l,mst bo fm
surance on the building have to be " hose business it is to convert peo-
paid. Then, to nin a factory of [pie! Ts not that every godly-mind-
that size, a population of about l.WlOjcd pastor’s business? Ought not his
isneccssan. 1 hey do not all work | w ], 0 i e work both in the pulpit and
in the factory, but they have to live! , , 7 ■
from it. When these 1,500 jiersons j out of thc ,K ' ,l,,wU ' (l U>w ' ml8
pay their bills for food, clothing, i I'M sup-erne object, thc salvation of
doctors’ bills; and all other extienses, j souls ? Of course we do not mean
it makes a big hole in the $350,000
of value added to the raw material
by manufacturing it. These cotton
mills have proved a blessing to those
who raise the cotton, to the operatives
and their families, to the shopkeepers
w ho congregate around the mill, to
every one who has surplus vegetables,
milk, butter,-fowls or farm producei, , . r
to sell. It would be better for the ^ mcu fronl S1M aml 1k11 to 11 fu,th
people if we had mills that would ‘a Christ, and a follow ing of Christ,
make finer material, so that the $35 ! When a minister keeps this great pur-
bale of cotton could be sold for $100. jhjsc in his eye and on his heart, he
that his sermons should be a stero-
typed series of exhortations to the
impenitent; but we do mean that the
grand truths and revealed doctrines,
and sublime invitations and Ihreaten-
ings of God’s Word should lie so
habitually presented as to turn guil-
Methodism. A new
church is now needed
in near the future.
After a pleasant day spent at thej
parsonage and in renewingold friend
ships among the Darlingtonians, I,
took a seat with my old friend, Dr.
R. B. Wallace, and was soon a
welcomed and happy guest in his;
hospitable home at Lydia. This was
my first visit to this section in ten
years, and many pleasant recollec-j
lions were recalled by the sight of !
familiar house, field and stream. Of!
course I called on the popular and j
useful pastor, Rev. S. J. Bethea, and |
my bachelor friend,
elements. The large
residence of the latter,
completion, must mean
When this
place may J be there
lion. J. C.l
and elegant i
now nearing
something.:
interesting event takes i
to congratulate I
The farmers of the South in some
localities arc . g, and just
ly, of hard times. But they arc in
no such deplorable condition as the
farmers of New England, where
farms are deserted, thus exploding
one of thc chief arguments of the
McKinlerites as to the lienefit the
faemer derives from the home market
in close approximation to thc niunu-
facturer. At the South thc causeof
depression arises from the low price
of furm products the high price paid
for supplied and the enormous tax
iijhiii him for the benefit of thc
favored few.
What is thc cause of this depres
sion in thciigriculturul interests of
the farmers North and South?
Nicions Republican class legislation
at the dictation of the monopolists,
by w inch the farmer is roblied and
plundered, is at the bottom of it all.
Ncaaly all the cost above the price of w jjj
raw material would lie distribuldd 1
amongst the operatives who inanu-l
1 facturc it and the farmers who feed
; them.
I,ct not the mill operatives or the
i farmers of Spartanburg listen to the
| fallacies of those who would teach
them that cotton mills are grinding
monopolies that oppress the people.
When a man talks that way he is
1 grossly ignerunt or maliciously false.
Just start the stamjadc against
Tillman and then you will sec all
those fellow t who always want to be
on the big side hustling over as fast
become a winner of souls, and
! will not need to ask any man—of
whatever name—to come and guide
his hearers or his neigh laws to the
Saviour. That prince of preachers,
Charles 11. Spurgeon, never sent for
and “evangelist” to do what he could
do so much better himself, llcsow-
ed his own < losjtel seed, and reaped
his own harvests. 1 never heard him
preach a single ieruiou that did not
contain somewlure in it a presenta
tion of Jesus Christ and a loving in
vitation to his hearers to accept that
Saviour, lie preached doctrines clear-
as they can. No one knows this bet- logically—but always so sim-
j ter than Tillman and his organs and Pi*-’ ulld putigcntly that they became
[all their efforts arc now being put the most jtowerful instruments both
I forth to stop thisstamjiedc.—Cheraw
Reporter.
8cr4 #s ai onler far M Wtrlt.
to awaken and to guide immortal
souls into the way of life. Spurgeon
| was the model minister of oui mod
ern times.—Southern Christian Ad-
YOO-de.
the happy couple!
Saturday morning my good friend
and host, Dr. Wallace, carried me
back to Darlington, w here 1 was the
guest of other Lydia friends of the
vears gone by. Dr. Gallow av and
wife, formerly of Lydia, now reside
in town and kindly claimed me as
their guest at the hotel where they
now make their home. Here I also
found Dr. I .alter tv, who had lectured
the night before to a large audience, |
and who was booked for a sermon on.
Sunday.
Sunday was a perfect day, and a
large congregation assembled at. thej
Methodist church to hear the visit-!
ing Yirgiuian. The Doctoa gave us
an excellent discourse, after which;
the Sacrament of the Lord’s Supper!
was administered to a large number;
of commuuicauts. Amass meeting!
of the children was held in the after
noon, w hich I had the pleasure of ad
dressing. The church was crowed
w ith the little folks and their friends,
and the occasion was a pleasant j
one.
At Darlington Rev. J. A. Rice is
finishing his fourth year, and by I
every token it is to lie the best year
of his pastorate. His congregations!
arc larger now than ever before, and
his prayer meetings were never so
well attended. The Epworth League
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage has
joined the vast army of Keeley cure
enthusiasts. While on his recent
visit to Chicago, from which he re
turned yesterday, he was taken by
Dr. Leslie Keeley to his gold cure
establishment at Dwight, 111., which
is the parent institution of the fifty
branches that are scattered through
out this country, Europe and Aus
tralia. Dr. Talmage had faith in
the gold cure before he went there;
now he is as loud in its praises as the
most enthusiastic of the 00,000 peo
ple whom he says has been rescued
from the thraldom of alcohol, opium
and tobacco by its iuiluciicc. In
speaking of bis visit to Dwight to a
Fress reporter yesterday, he said:
“I am firmly convinced from
what 1 saw and heard at Dwight
that Dr. Keeley is one of the greatest
benefactors to mankind that ever
lived. His institution is a wonder
ful place, his cure a marvellous one.
Dr. Keeley*s finger is on the world,
and I shall do all in my power to tell
the world so. I shall have him in
Brooklyn before long, and will guar
antee him an audience of 7,000 peo
ple. I am satisfied now, for I have
seen Keeley, Dwight and the gold
cure.”
■Dr. Talmage’s face was red with
enthusiasm as he spoke. When
asked if he had seen the operation of
administering the cure, he said:
“Yes; 1 was in the ‘shot tower,’as
t hey call it. There I saw one of the
most wonderful sights in my experi
ence. I saw 500 men standing in
line, with slits in their sleeves, wait-
ink their turns to have the gold cure
infccted or ‘shot’ into their arms.
TUc expression on the faces of these
men was e lough to show the good
wifrk Dr. Kceiey is doing. The poor
broken down wrecks who had just
coAie in awaited their turns with a
loijk of hopeful expectancy on their
fairs that was touching, while on the
r hand those who had been
e for some lime, and had already
ritneed thffgood effects of this
looked proudly conscious that
were being freed from slavery,
you the confident way in which
men sjipke and the happy tri-
1 sions oil HieLr . ~*
led tne
enemiys.'of the cure.”
“Did you come across any persons
who were skeptical regarding the
cure?”
“At Dwight, not one. Elsewhere
I have met hundreds of them; but
the-best answ er to the objections they
make that the cure is only a tem
porary one is the 12,000 people who
have boon cured there and at the
various 1 ranches, and who have re
mained cured for six and seven years.
Why, 05 per cent, of the cures are
permanent. What better result
could be looked for?”
“Do you believe the theory that
the gold cure tends to produce in
sanity, doctor?”
“1 do not. There are -10,000 peo
ple in the lunatic asylums of this
country who were driven insane from
drink. Is it any wonder if a few of
them should find their way to the"
Keeley institutes? They don’t un
dertake to cure insanity there; they
only remove the causes that lead to
it. There are many men who are
saved from drunkards’ graves by the
grace of God, but there are others
who need something more. Dr.
Keeley struck the keynote w hen he
said, “This evil is a disease.’ When
people are sick of typhoid they don’t
ask for the grace of God; they send
for a physician. lie represents
God’s grace. And why should it
lie different with the disease of
drunkenness, of w hich I am firmly
convinced Dr. Keeley has found a
sovereign remedy.”
Dr. Talmage says he met with an
enthusiastic reception at the hands
of the Dwight patients and delivered
an address to them, after which he
was besieged by hundreds of appli
cations for his autograph.—New
York Fress, April 23.
Some World’s Fair Suggestions,
is flourishing, as is also the Sunday
school under the supcriiilendcncy of
JLh'V. J. U. McCall,—S. C. Advocate.
Now that the World’s Fair direc
tors have agreed to let rum power
make an exhibit of its methods of
making and handling its goods, I
suggest that they allow Spain to make
an exhibition of bull-lighting; that
some one of the petty kingdoms of
Africa be allowed toeshibit canni
balism, showing bow the victim is
fattened and killed, how the meat is
pre iarcd and eaten; that one of the
kings of Africa exhibit the building
of his house by mixing the mortar
w ith the blood of young women slain
for the purpose, as is sometimes done
there; that the Arabs be allowed to
exhibit the slave trade, showing the
capture of their victims, the burning
of their villages and gome of the
heartrending scenes on the march
and in their new homes; that Russia
be given a chance to show her con
vict, system to Siberia with minute
details; lliat China show us how to
cut off the heads of convicts by an
actual exhibit of an exccutlone
taking off the heads of about 25 in
rapid succession; also that she show
up the opium curse (that Great
Britain has forced upon her) by hav
ing some of the worst dens running
in full blast.
In a word, let all nations show up
their worst things if wst um showe
ours.—Voice.
AUSTRALASIAN FORESTS.
Thu Vitmlala of New Zealand Are Cnt-
tlng Dmvn the Gigantic Trees.
The kauri pine is mutisputisl sovereign
of (lie Australasian forest. No other
tree can approach it in grandeur of pro
portion or in impressiveness when, as
one of uclan, it holds as its own stretches
of country hundreds of mils in extent.
Perhaps the sight which thc kauri grove
presents to the eye Is nnequak-d in the
'whole realm of nature. As the traveler
gazes around him in tho recesses of the
forest ho is impressed even against Ins
will. To walk between those mighty
pillars, smooth and dark as eliony, uni
form in ago and size, and buried in a
perennial twilight and silence that tho
wildest storm only disturbs by the
merest ripple of sound, awakens a feel
ing of awe.
Milo n]H>n milo they stretch into dis
tance, in a majestic procession that fol
lows every irregularity of the land, like
some colossal temple dedicated to night
or melancholy, thosomlicr aisles full of
an awful monotony mid a solemn still
ness. Like the Egyptian Sphinx, they
ignore the lapse of time, preserving the
same majestic calm and unvarying ex
pression ts-foro (lie cataclysms winch
have altered tho whole aspects of the
gluts', and Isdoro tho social upheavals
which have swept, away civilizations us
if they had never l>oen.
Tlie youth of tho oldest kauri groves
is shrouded in tho mists <>} tho past. But
that they arc very ancient is lioyond
doubt. They were mere saplings when
the Pharaohs adorned tho land of Egypt
with imperishable memorials of their
power, and were still slight and grace
ful when Solomon filled tho east with
the fame of his glory; they stood in all
tho pride of maturity when Hannibal
crossed tho Alps, and Romo entered on
her vfetorions career. They have seen
tho splendid dawn of all tho great em-
piren of tho world, and seen them set in
gloom, when tho canker of decay had
sapped their very foundations.
But tho kauri has now fallen niton
evil days; its closing years are full of
danger. It has survived to see the forms
of life, long dead in the great masses of
land, fade away lieforo tho vigorous
fannannd flora of another order of things.
At no distant date it also, like tho na
tives, tho birds, tho grasses, will have
passed into tho measureless oblivion
from whence it came. In tho presence
of this venerable giant pino of Maori-
land, tho grandest representative of a
primitivo.age, tho colonial, a creature of
yesterday, feds liko a pigmy ns ho gazes
on the solemn tiles on every side. As
though ashamed of his own littleness
and painful newness, ho is isjssessed
only with tho passion of destruction.
The weirdness inseparable from tho
very nature of a kauri forest is intensi
fied by tlto total absenco of animal life.
1)0 contented droning of insects.
birdk, so distinctive of tho mixed hush,
ore never heard lieneath tho nmbrngeous
canopy which excludes thc radiant south
ern sun. Tho kauri reigns supremo in
its own domain. Nor is there the en
chanting diversity of ordinary bush-
tho palms and tho tree ferns, tho r.hruU;
and tho prodigal wealth of licnutiful
parasites whoso bewildering variety is
unrivaled even in tho torrid zone.
Witli the exception of a fixing carpet
of delicate inaidciiliair, which attains n
height of from live to six feet, and of
ropes of creeper ferns which swing from
tree to tree liko fairies in tho castle of a
giant, tho forest is altogether hare of
undergrowth. In tho woods of recent
growth, however, vegetation is moro
luxuriant. Thc long tendrils of the
clematis and rata connect trunk with
trunk in garlands of white and scarlet
bloom, ami at their base flourishes an
infinite variety of ferns, while hero and
there n graceful tree fern rears its silvery
lined crown.
It is a curious sight to English eyes to
see a group of young kauris standing
dark, tall and erect against tho palo
bine and gold of the sky and tho lighter
greens of the background of the forest.
Like all tho species, tho dome is out of
all proportion to tho height. But their
doom has lieen spoken. The nx of the
lumberman and tho xx-hirr of the saw
mill resound in 4ho land and the earth
quivers xvitli tho shock of falling jki
triarchs. With tho recklessness of the
Kjiendthrift tho Now Zealander is spend
ing his heritage, and before another
fifty years hax-o passed away this noble
tree xvill ho as extinct as tho moa.—
London Uloltp.
\ Detroit Mait*n Cunc.
A Detroit man 1ms a novel xvulking
cano that represents tho xvork of odd
hours every day for six xx-oeks. It is
made of old postage stamps of various
denominations and six nationalities—
United States, Canadian, English,
French, German and Italian. It took
5,014 stamps to make a cane. Tho face
value of tho stumps was $100. The sur
face of (lie cane, xvhen tho stamps were
all on, xx’ns filed smooth and finished un
til it glazed. A heavy gold knob com
pletes one of tho handsomest and most
unique canes ex-cr seen in Detroit.—
Philadelphia Ledger.
Telling I lie Iteea.
The curious custom of “telling tho
bees” is observed in some parts of nearly
ex-ery country in tho xvorld. Those xvho
ol>serx-o the rustom alxx-ays gototho bec-
hix’es and tap gently on each one, then
stoop and xvhisper under the cap or lid
that Mary, Jane, Thomas or William is
dead. This is done to keep tho little
honcymakers from forsaking their place
of aliode should they hax-o to xx-ait and
find out tho news of tho calamity them
selves. Tho custom is alluded to in
Whittier’s ]>oom, '‘Telling the Bees.”—
St. Louis Republic.
Kast and West.
The failure of tlie people of the Atlan
tic states to understand tlie area, condi
tions, product* and needs of (lie xvest is
not infrequently illustrated in national
legislation. Tlie late Editor Bundy, of
tho Nexv York Mail and Express, said a
short time before his death;
“Tho jieoplo of tho east knoxv little
ulsmt tho west, but I have always found
that tho people of tho xvest xx’ero xvell in
formed about tho east.”—San Francisco
Examiner.
About l.lgliU
Light travels at tho rate of nearly
SOU,ooo miles in a second, but it is a
small consolation to think of it when
you fall over a whcclbarroxv in tho dark.
—Ram's Horn.
Not Even the Commonest Civility.
Women who think it so strange that
Nexv York men occupy seats in crowded
cars, elevated and othcrxx-i.sc, while femi
nine passengers clutch for straps, should
draxv tho moral from an incident that
happened in a Fifth avenno stage a few
days ago. Ono of those clumsy vehicles
was lumbering up tho avenue xx-ith two
passengers, one a middle aged man sit
ting by tlie door. At Nineteenth street
tlie stage slopped, and an old lady, after
bidding an affectionate farewell to a
friend at tho step, climbed in and sat
doxvii opposite tlie middle aged passen
ger. Tho latter xx-as gazing idly into
the street, when lie felt a touch, and
suddenly found himself in possession of
a nickel. Evidently it came from the
newly entered passenger, though sin-
favored him with neither word nor
glance. It xvus equally plain that it
X\as tier fare, and that she expected the
middle aged man to deposit it in tlie
box.
After a moment's hesitation he arose,
groped his xvay to tho forxvnrd end of
the stage, dropped the nickle into its
proper resting place, and returned,
glancing inx-oluntarily at tlie old lady
for some xvord or look of thanks. None
came. She adjusted her fur wrap and
seemed oblivious of his presence. The
’bus rumbled on up Fifth avenue for
some minutes xvithout incident, when
the old lady suddenly leaned over and
said, “Stop (lie stage at Thirty-fourth
street.” Tho iniddlo aged man flushed
slightly xx-ith evident annoyance, and
said decisively: “Madam, you compelled
mo to deposit your faro a few moments
ago, and omitted tho commonest civili
ties in doing so. 1 am neither the driver
nor conductor of this stage, and though
i should instantly respond to a courteous
request, you may stop this stage xvher
ever you please- for yourself!” and she
did.—Nexv York Tribune.
WEIGHING AN ELEPHANT.
All lucflablo Cruelty L«» Children.
Mrs. Fenxvick Muller, a London
xx-riter of note, comes out strongly on
tlie subject of Lady Montague's methods
of discipline, and incidentally lias some
plain xx-ords to say about punishments
for children in general, and spccially
is she moved by that ineffable brutal
ity, the shutting up of young children
in tlie dark. “Darkness is full of ter
rors to a child. Out of thc gloom
come all sorts of horrible imaginings,
and many a child has lieen half ruined
for fife by the terror of darkness, xvill-
fully inflicted by somo xvoman either
too brutal to care or too ignorant to un
derstand the infernal cruelty of leaving
children, whoso imaginations are often
far more vivid than those of adults, in
all tho horror of blackness, out of which
they, in their combined fancy and ig
norance, ring Inerth all kinds of terrible
anil thrcatening-things. No young chil
dren should over U> left xvithout a glim-
faweefo the - W cr °f UsUL.li* » Ix-druom all pigUt
lufT singing of tong, as a touch of indigestion, a trou
blesome dream, a sudden awakciiing,
afraid and into darkness, may work
nerx-o mischief that may last a lifetime.
“There is no crime that a child can
commit that would entitle ns fo expose
him or her tio thonuental agonies of roli-
tnde in darkness, many peopled as it is
with phantoms and terrors. We know
that even in our prisons this terrible
punishment isionly resorted to to subdue
the most violent and refractory prison
ers, and that even then it is hedged
round xx-ith many restrictions, and only
permitted to be used for a limited space
of time. If there is a woman living
whoso heart does not respond to these
strong xvords there is something very
radically wrong xvitli her.”
Hgypthin Architecture.
Egyptian 'architecture, the oldest of
knoxvu styles, pbxeed the weight firmly
on tho ground, la tho first stages of |
building tho strength of materials and j
the art of construction xxsere but imper
fectly understood, and to obtain security
masses of imeterial xxtero placed ou a
broad base, narrowing! upward in the
form of n pyramid. If suggested secu
rity and pennsuicnco. Tlie earliest extant j
monument of tho xvork of man—thej
pyramids by the Nile—still rest on the;
sand of tho desert in their majestic ]
massiveness. Tho. Egyptian buildings j
xx-ero constructed-on the model of tho!
pyramid. Tninc:rikd at various heights, i
details and ornamentation, however
x-aried, left; the same impression of se
curity-and 'permanence.
Tliomhulxang base, from xvliicli springs
tho propylon or porch, tlie multiplica
tion 16 short, istuntcd shafts, the shallow
reliefs, uro :dl subservient to tho ono
idea. Tho building rests on tbo ground,
andiyou know it. The slender obelisk
placed in fzont as a foil brought into
prUmiMcnco tho massivo solidity of the
building., Tho accousory sphinx, xvitli
its frotiypaws placed flat on tlie pedes
tab the body fimily;recumbcnt and the
head staidly drain'd' was a tyjio of im
mobility and:rest.—Loudon Tablet.
LcaruJn^ito l*op.
It isfquocr boxy small an occurrence
servostto attract, a crowd. The other
evening utpopcomi kiosk at the corner of
D stroetanid tho ;avenue was surrounded
by a gaping crowd, ranging in character
from gamins to (gentlemen, all breath
lessly xvatdiing tin,, proprietor its ho
shook n, popper over ttho gas flamer. A
couple iof young laifies liaiqiened to bo
passing), andiono offtlaem inquired:
“Wlrit arotthosoMnen staring at?”
“Tiny aro t learning howto jiop,” re
plied berfcompazikm.
“Oh," sighed the speaker, “koxv 1
wish Ohorlio xvould.talko a few lessoncl”
1'act nml Virtion.
Tommie —Pupa, mamma xvauts five
cents for tho milkman.
Kittio—Papa, the butcher says ho must
have that fifty cents or ho xvon’t leave
no soup bone.
Wife—Henry, really I must pay the
washwoman or she won’t come again.
Tho Editor (dcsjicratoly)—Confound
those trilling tntcmiptions! I haven’t
any ready money, and I’m busy. Leave
mo iu perteo until 1 finish this important
editorial on “Tho Disadvantages of
Wealth.’^—Pittsburg Bulletin.
Ail Authentic iron ting Story.
When h Georgian relates a hunting
story ho believes in doing it thoroughly
and Icavts his auditor to believe or not,
as lux pleases. Tho following is an ex
ample: Wltflo out limiting Lamar Per-
kiiiSfc of Perkin’s Junotion, Ga., shot txvo
xvilfl turkoys. One of them fell at his
feot, but the other flexv a Way. What
xvrishis surptisu on returning homo to
lind the missing turkey dead in his front
yard, where it hod fallen iu its flight.
How an Ingenious Prince Solved a Dif
ficult Problem of State.
About 2U0 years ago there lived a
Prince of Malirnttas, in Hindustan,
xvhoeo name xx-as Shahjee. Princes are
uuiimrous iu India, but this particular
prince xvas long remembered on account
of ids beneficence and great wisdom.
Ho Rooms to have boon the most learned
prince of tho time, and his advice and
help were always sought in critical mat
ters. Many stories are told of his in
genious settlement of difficulties, and
some of them are certainly curious.
Once a very high official iu the court
of Princo Shahjeo made a vow that if he
succeeded ia a certain enterprise, he
xvould distribute to tho poor of his dis
trict “tho weight of his own elephant in
silver.” Elephants xx-ero highly prized
by th"se princes, and each kept the larg
est and finest for his own use. The of
ficial's vow, if hasty, was generous, and
perhaps the success of his undertaking
xvas worth the price.
Tho undertaking succeeded; hut tho
official, x-.-i!li:ig to keep his oath, was
met by an unexpected difficulty. There
was no possible way of finding the ele
phant's correct xvoight. No scales in
the country wore constructed of spin
ci'-nt power to weigh such enorin ;-.
boasts. Elephants xx-ero not sold by t ho
pound, mid no need had lieforo arisen
for scales to weigh them. All the learned
and clever men of tho court tried in vain
to construct a machine of sufficient
power to weigh the enormous beast. It
did seem probable that tho poor of Hin-
.dostan xvotihl have to get along xvithout
that silver. It is possible that the offi
cial had thought of this objection when
he made the vow. Indians are crafty,
and this one might have been cunning
eiiopgh to leave himself a loophole of
escape to prevent parting xvitli Ids
money.
But if any such notion had occurred to
him. lie xvas doomed to disappointment
in the matter. Thu question was re
ferred to Shahjee, as all such x-e:: .nous
questions x- tre. And it did not take
him long to find a very simple solution.
That is always the xva'y xvitli trueg-mins,
you know. Tho solution it finds is so
simple that every one cries out iu
xx-oiuler:
“Why, of course! Why didn't some
body speu!: of that before?"
Shahjeo commanded the elephant to
ho conducted along a piatform into a
fiat bottomed boat which lay by the
water side. When the animal xvas
safely i-.hoard, lie desired the attendants
to mark upon tho boat's side the exact
height to xvhich the water reached xvher.
the elephant xvoighed it doxvn. Then
the elephant xvas taken out and stones
substituted, until enough were loaded
into the boat to bring it to the same
wain lino as xyhen tho elephant xx-as the
passenger.
Theft the stoneaLvero xyeiglied. 4f the
scales could not hold all at once, pari
could he taken at a time, you see, and
Wfthe elephant’s weight xx-as correctly
ascertained. It is safe to coiu-ltide that
tlie poor of Hindustan fiuallv got the
silver. A princo so xviso must have also
Ikcii just. Whether the official who
paid the money xvas quite satisfied, his
tory does not t< 11 us; hut xx-o will hope,
for his charity's sake, ho xx-as, and as a
full grown elephant weigh:; several tons,
the amount distributed among the poor
of the district must have been very
large.—Harper's Young People.
Thu Crescent as an Umblcin.
The crescent lias been known since
time out of memory. In ancient mythol
ogy it decorated tho foreheads of Diana
and of Astarte, the Syrian Venice. In
thc days of Rome’s greatest glory the
ladies wore it as an ornament in their
hair. Since tho foundation of Constau-
tiuople (the ancient Byzantium) it has
been tho emblem of the city, and as such
adorns its xvalls and public buildings,
besides being stamped on its coins and
postage. The legend xvhich accounts
b>r its universal adoption in Turkey, and
Constantinople in particular, is as fol-
loxvs:
Philip of Macedon laid siege to tho
city in the year 310 B. C. Ho chose a
night of unusual darkness for the pro
posed assault, but was foiled by tlie
moon suddenly breaking from behind a
cloud. In commemoration of this prov
idential deliverance tlie crescent xvas
adopted as tho symbol of tho city. The
Mohammedan sultans xx-ero slow to as
sume (his emblem until some one men
tioned that it xvas tho symbol of increas
ing greatness, power changing as rapid
ly as the phases of the moon.—St. Louis
Republic.
Iinpiii taiit to Kich Men.
A rich man holds his xx-calth simply as
a trustee between his Maker and human
ity. Unless ho xvauts to become the
slave of his money ho must give it free
ly until ho feels that there is some sacri
fice in the giving. My observation for a
great many years has led me to hax-e a
strong opinion on that subject. It is for
the good of the man himself that he
should look at the subject from this
point of view. 1 do not believe there is
much philanthropy or charity in provid
ing that your money shall he given after
death, when you are tillable to hold it.
Better give of your means as you go
along through life, leaving of your
xx-ealtb to others xvho after you xvill, in
the exercise of their stewardship, folloxv
the same course.—D. Willis James in
New York Independent.
Women's I.unchcons.
It is noticeable that at tho luncheon
rooms of tho several xvoman’s ex
changes, as xvell as at several of the res
taurants in tlie shopping districts, broken
orders are possible. This is especially
true of the menus of the exchanges,
xvliicli are managed by women solely
for xx-omen. It is a concession to an ac
cepted fact that xx-omen ordering and
eating alone greatly dislike to pay for a
mouthful moro than can bo consumed.
One croquette, a half serving of salad,
chocolate xx-ithout bread—these are some
of tho ways a xvoman adjusts her bill to
her appetite.—Nexv York Times.
How Man and Nuturo Uses Carbon.
Man uses carbon for the same pur
poses ns nature uses it. Ho employs it
as fuel; so does she, but ho in tho crude
form of coal, from xvliicli, also, ho pro
duces for other purposes different useful
products artistically applicable as color
ing substances, in which art, as he may
one day find out, lie is folloxving somo
undiscovered natural design.—Long
man's Magazine.