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V'^> 1*^ \ rv. va l “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” voTjiM. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1892. NO. 50 Ab Ex-TiHraan Man's (oniplalnl, [From the Lexiugton Dispatch.] I voted and worked for Governor Tillman two years ago. I did it be cause I thought he was a friend to the poor, but I can’t \ote for any man to pay $3 poll tax or eight day’s work on the public road if he can’t pay $1.50. That is putting the poor man’s labor too cheap for me. I pay my poll tax and I work the public road and every poor man ought to raise his voice against them both. I don’t believn it is doing tk« l>oor man right G&-giv5»tfic poor man but little means and he must woik four days and take the bread from his children’s mouths and $1 [toll tax and now they want to make it $3. He has no horse or waggon, but a poor wife and children depending on him for bread, whether they' are white or black. God made us all and we are compelled by law- to pay as much road duty as the richest man in the State, and the rich man will make his $1 in five minutes. No equality there. I urge you to work the road, pay your poll tax just as long as it is a law, but you can’t make anything equal but so much out of the dollar, and if the poor man has but one dollar and he re turns it and pays his part out of it for his taxes he has done his part and should not be made to do any more. Run the free schools all the year, but take so much out of the dollar and the poor man will pay as much out of the dollar as the rich. God bless the poor of our land and open the eyes of our law makers to take the poll tax and the road tax off our men, and defeat every man that wants to heap a three dollar poll tax on them, or eight days’ work for $1.50. Some one said that a man was a trai tor that left the reform party. I sa\ as far as my judgment goes every one that is a friend to the poor man will leave, for the reform party can’t show one place where they hare given the poor man any better wages or done anything for them. On the other hand they have cut the wages and laid the burden on the poor. Cheap labor don’t help the poor man or low prices don’t help the farmer. It will take a third more of what you raise to bring you the same it did two years ago. My farmer friend, I ask you to open your eyes and think for your self. You can’t live on promises, and that is all you have got from the reform party and you will ever get from them outside of low wages, hard times and low prices for what you have to sell. Yours, P. J. Ri'cker. P. S.—The poor man don’t pay any poll tax in Columbia to send his children to school all the year. He don’t work the streets and our streets can’t be beat. The same plan ought to be in the whole .State. * P. J. R. k True Story. ■ i I Saloon Keeper’s Advertisement. A saloon keeper of Lima, Ohio, not desiring to deceive any body as to the quality of the goods he handles, put out the following card as an adver tisement of his business: “Fribndb and neighbors: “Greatful for your past patronage, and having a new stock of choice wines, spirits and lager beer. I con tinue to make drunkards and beggars out of sober, industrious people. My liquors excite riot, robbery and blood shed, diminish comforts, increase ex penses, shorten lives, are to multiply fatal accidents and distressing dis eases, and liable to render these lat ter incurable. “They will cost some of you life, some of you reason, many of you character aud'all of your peace; will make fathers and mothers, friends, wives, widows, children, orphans and all jxjor. I train the young to igno rance, infidelity, dissipation, lewdness and every vice; corrupt the ministers of the religiou and members of the church, hinder the gospel and send hundreds to temporal and spiritual dea f h. I will accommodate the pub lie even at the cost of my soul, for I have a family to support, and the trade pays, for the public encourages it ‘T have a license; mv traffic is therefore lawful and Christians even countenance it, and if I do not sell drink somebody else will. I know the Bible says,‘Thou shalt not kill.’ •Woe unto him thatgiveth his neigh bor drink,’ and ‘not to put a stumb ling block in a brother’s way.’ I al so read that ‘no drunkard shall enter the Kingdom of God,’ and 1 suppose a drunkard maker will not share any better fate; but I want a la/.y living, tod have made up my mind that my iniquity pays very good wages. 1 shall therefore carry on my trade and do my best to decrease the wealth, im pair the health and endanger the safe ty of the people. “As my traffic flourishes in proper to your ignorance and indul-Uhan his adl erence to principle, for gence, I must do all I can to prevent your mental culture, moral purity, social happiness and eternal welfare. “For proof of my ability I refer you to the pawnshops, the police of fice, the hospital, lunatic asylum, jail and the gallows, whither many of my customers have gone. “I teach young and old to drink and charge only for the materials. “A very few lessons are enough. “Yours till dead.” t’ommonplace Happiness. “Papa, will you please give me 50 cents for my spring hat? Most all the academy girls have theirs.” “No May, I can’t spare the money.” The above request was persuasively made by a 10-year-old maiden as she was preparing for school, one tine spring morning. The refusal came from the parent in a curt, indifferent tone. The disappointed girl went to school. The father started for his place of business. On his way thith er he met a friend, and being a hail fellow well met, he invited him into Moc’s for a drink. As us"*!, there were others there, and the man who could not spare his daughter 50 cents for a hat treated the crowd. When about to leave he laid 50 cents on the counter which just paid fnr the drinks* Just then the saloonkeeper’s daughter entered, and going behind the bar, said: * “Pa pa, I wa it 50 cents for my new spring hat” “All right,” said the dealer, and taking up the half-dollar from the counter, he handed it over to the girl, who departed smilingly. May’s fath er seemed dazed, walked out alone, and said to himself: “I had to bring my 50 cents here for the rumseller’s daughter to buy a hat with, after re fusing it to my own. I’ll never drink another drop.” And he kept his pledge. The exact geographical center of the United States is marked by a grave—the last resting place of one Major Ogden, who is buried on a lit tle knoll a short distance nortbheast of Fort Riley, Kas. Mrs. Margaret E. Sangstor deliver ed a lecture at Monona I^tke, Wis., recently, on ■‘Commonplace Hap piuess.” Among other things she said: “Many and many a man will tell his wife that he loves her and con siders that sufficient, making little practical demonstration of the fact. This only occurs in case of a crisis, such as sickness. A good old deacon died not long since in Massachusetts It was anticipated that he would die —not because he was sick or ailing, not because he was old or feeble, but because he had been seen kissing his wife. People spend altogether too much time in attending to the ma chinery of life and leave but little for actual enjoyment. This is especi ally true of the American people, who scarcely know how to enjoy life.” Things 1 «u Can Do. Speaking the Truth in Love. Truthfulness certainly is a noble virtue, but it is not the noblest. When the deepest, fullest signifi cance of truthfulness‘s comprehend ed, when we have learned that it means genuineness, then its admira- bleness is more than ever conspicu ous. Yet there is a higher, holier virtue than mere truthfulness, even iu its best sense, and that is this same truthfulness enfused with and char acterized by love. You may be scru pulously truthful in s{ieecli and be shunued for your coldblooded and cruel bluutness. You may be as sin cere and straightforward in conduct as a human being can be, and also you may have a more dangerous influence than some who possess nu^di less loy alty to duty than your own, simply because you are coldly correct, hard and stern in demeainor, winning no one to yourself or to the views of life which you cherish and illustrate. Speaking the truth iu love, wheth er by lips or life, never means belit tling theauthority or dignity of truth. It never seeks to evade the conse quences of the most simple, absolute truthfulness. But it means being filled to overflowing with Christ-like tenderness, in loving truth, because He was the truth and lived the truth and made Himself one with it for evermore, so that, the effort to be true is the same thing as to be Christ- like. Speaking it so as to make it.- trueness not only apparent, but con • incing, and e'en winning, no mattei bow inher. ntly unpalatable it may be. We once read a story about a man who uniformly endeavored to tell the pure, simple truth about everything L'he author certainly gave an atinis ing account of his collisions with tin unintended but real exaggerations oi household life, the polite evasions ol society, and the customs of trade. The hero gradually became a social failure, for everybody found him an uncomfortable companion; yet thic was more because of his want of tact all respected his fertle spirit, even i they could not approve bis choice o! times and seasons. When lie died the community mourned him deeply. Ht had the truth-loving spirit and also the disjiosition to speak the truth in love. He did not realize sufficient ly that the truth need not always am.; necessarily be uttered in the form of direct assertion, but may be even ir I hat of inquiry, jest, or even irony l’he point of the story was this, tha* he who makes his loyalty to truth unmistakabh plain, and who doct this in the spirit of gentleness and tenderness, never fails to win confi dence and resjiect.— Selected. Rothschild’s Maxims. The elder Baron Rothschild had (he walls of his bank placarded with the following maxims: Shun liquor. Dare to go forward. Never be discouraged. Never tell business lies. Be polite to everybody. Employ your time w< 11. Be prompt in everything. Pay your debts promptly. Bear all troubles patiently. Do not reckon upon chance. Be brave in the struggle of life. Make no useless acquaintances. Maintain your integrity a sacred thing. Never appear something more than you are. Take time to ccusider, oml then decide positively. Carefully examine into every detail of your business. Then work hard, and you will lie certain to succeed in life. An Accommodating Undertaker. For Diflerent Fancies. Forturue has rarclv condescended to be the companion of genius. A man has his clothes made to fit him. A woman makes herself tit her clothes. A man is a cat, aud the people too often shut him up in the same room with the canary. A girl of sixteen seems to know of A JEALOUS COW. Sh* Cures Her Master Uccause He Nursm. no other use for her nose than to turn gutter by the side of the road to the it iin ut ruuivitw it up at people. Pleasure may he had, hut it comes fearful! high. Nothing iu the worl costs so much. Don’t say you would amount to more if you had tbu opportunity; if you have the ability you will make the opportunity. Man never pretends to tell a woman the truth. Men learn to lie l.o women when they are courting them, and never get over it. We should miss a great deal that is valuable iu human nature if we confined our attention exclusively to important personages A woman is good because it comes natural, men are never really good un til they have tried being bad and found that it didn’t pjiy. The trouble with getting a boy hoe iu a garden is that he digs up so many grub worms that tempt him ‘.o run off ind go fishing. A gentleman is one who understands and shows every mark of deference to the claims of self love iu others, and exacts it iu return from them. When they are engaged they act ashamed to show how much they think of each other; and after they re married they are ashamed to show how much they don’t. Parting with a dear friend at the grave is a great deal like parting with me when you start on a journey and leave him behind. You cry the first mile or two, aud believe you will cry forever; but soon you become inter ested in new scenes, new people, and new experiences, and forget him. You imagine when von leave the o-em- etery you will never forget the friend you left there, but you do. Kucklcu’M Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for cuts oruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains, :orns, ami all skin eruptions, and posi tively cures piles, or no pay required. It s guarantee eltogive perfect satisfaction, or money retumled. Price 2o cents per box. For sale at VVilcox’sdrug store. a fiili. A few years ago, says a writer in the London Spectator, i had a quiet milch cow. Rose, which was fond of Thomas, the stableman, and also showed an aver- ston to dogs. One morning I had just bfegun to dress when I heard my puppy barking in the cowshed. The nextmin- ufta I heard a roar of unmistakable &ar and anguish—a human roar. 1 dashed downstairs, and - at the same moment arrived my son pitchfork in 'hand. There lay Thomas o*-. his face in a dry -house and the cow hutting angrily Mm. We drove off the cow and poor scuffled across the road, slipped ;h a vyire fence, stood up and drew “Well, Thomas,” said I, “what’s tho matter with Rose?’’ "Well, sir,” said Thomas, “I heard the pup hark and untied him, ami I was just coming out of the cow-house with the pup in my arms when Rose came round the corner. She knocked me down and would have killed me.” Thomas had, indeed, had a narrov.' escape, his trousers were ripped up from end to end, and red marks all along his legs showed where Rose’s horns had grazed along them. “VVell,” said 1, “you’d better not milk her this morning, since she’s in such a fury.” “Oh, I’ll milk her right enough, sir, by-and-hy; just give her a little time to settle down,” said Thomas. "It’s only jealousy of that 'ere pup, sir. She couldp’t atide seeing me a fondling of it.” In about twenty minutes Thomas called me down to see the milk. The cow had stood quiet enough to be milked. Hut the milk was deeply tinged with blood, and in half an hour a copious red precipitate had settled to the bottom of the pail. Till then I had doubted the jealousy theory. After that I believed. WIPES KNEW THEIP VALUE. The thimble was first called the •‘thumb bell,” because : t was used on the thumb instead of tlu finger, us at present The word soon evoluted into tliumble. The word thimbls is coniparai i vely modern. A Newsboy Who Would Only Accept Five Coots for Saving Six Lives. Human life is dull aud in small de mand—spot cash, five-sixths of a cent each person—at Holden I’oint, on City island. These figures are the result of the sad experience of Kd ward Gallagher, of New Vork. Edward is a newsboy, sometimes called “Swipes the News boy,” as a complilnent to. his ability. He is not the original “Swipes.” Ed ward is sixteen years old, black-eyed, brown-haired and small. What Ids muscular development lacks in quantity it more than makes up in quality. He sold a big armful of newspapers be tween this pity aud City island Monday afternoon and then went rowing near Belden Point Four men and two wom en who had sailed up from Greenpoint in the small sloop Agnes went in bath- ing.at half-past six o’clock, so “Swipes'* says. Three of tho men and the women presently got into the skiff and paddled out into the sound, followed leisurely by the fourth man, who swam. Two hundred yards from the shore he grew tired, tried to climb into the skiff over the side instead of the stern and upset it. “Swipes” said he rowed fiercely to the rescue and saved them all. “They made me weary,” he confided to a New York Herald man.' “When I began taking them in all the men could say was: ‘We’re all lost!’ Soon’s I got ’em ashore one says: ‘Johnny, that was great work you done. I’m going to take up a cTection.’ “He passed the hat and raised thirty cents out of all their clothes. When he give It to me he says: ‘You’re only a hoy, you know,’ an’ I gave him back his quarter an’ says: ‘Yes, an’ I ain’t goin’ to overcharge you. The hull gang of yer ain’t wort’ more'n fi'pence.’ Then I skipped.” Hut will not some society or some kind individual give "Swipes” a medal” You can never lie lost unless you are willing to be. Yon can do as much for God as the angle Gabriel. All be cun do is his best, and you can that well. You can find a way to serve accept able, if you want to. You can deny yonrself aud take up your cross daily and follow him. You can sec the hand of God in everything, if yon will look for it. You can be saved in an instant, whenever you are willing to be. The greatest curse in the World is jealousy. Nine out of ton domestic troubles originate in it. More than half the murders in the world are committed though its influence. It is a guest that no man or woman who ever entertained, could afterward get rid of, Iustitntos shoud lie open ed to cure those afflicted with it, for it ruins more homes than drinks. It is the shadow that follows love, and the happier and more blessed love makes you, the darker and m curs ed the cloud of jei lousy wi.l leave you.—Exchange. All men are alike when it comes to i ' iut b' does nothing, and everybody death and dollars. I goes telling of it everywhere.” This is a cheerful old world. An Owensboro undertaker anvertises that “he will be glad to embalm some corpse free of charge to convince the people that he can give satisfaction.” There are people dow n there who won! I be improved by embalming, and it is hoped that the undertaker iu (jiistion may not be long deterred from exhibiting a specimen of his “before and after taking” work.— Frankfort (Ky.) (.’apitul. Scandal Well Defined. 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If "La Grippe” has left you weak and weary, use Electric Bitters. This remedy nets diie dly on the Liver, Stomach and Kidneys, gently aiding those organs lo perform their functions. If you are afflicted with Sick Headache, you will lind speedy and per manent relief hy taking Electric Bitters. One trial will convince you that tliis is the remedy you need. Large bottles only 50c. at willco.x’ i Drug Store. (It) The Perfect Man. There are no perfect men. We have been men uad understand the whole tribe. On a clear morning when they are well dressed and the road is clear they look admirably, but none of them enjoy having a passing vehicle splash mud on their newly-blackened hoots. None of them look placid when some one treads on their sore corns. If you want to find out that no man is per fect just marry him. Hut I think that the two sexes are about equal. If you secure for life the companionship of some one about as good as yourself you are to be congratulated. Better have the two blades of a pair of scissors as nearly as possible alike.—Philadelphia T<=«. —Asomewhafsuriousand noteworthy collection has come into the market, and has lately been offered for sale to, among others, the authorities of the British National Museum. A Canadian gentleman has expended a vast amount of patience and shown considerable perseverance in gathering a collection of buttons of officers of every regiment and department of the British army. The collection, which comprises 148 buttons, has taken nine years for its formation, and the owner wrote 584 let ters to all parts of the globe in pursuit of his hobby. STILL A MYSTERY. Nobody Him Tot Kxplslned the Secret of Oulja's Strauss Power. Ouija still flourishes in Boston, ac cording to the Transcript, as a draw ing-room amusement. Now and then it accomplishes something quite remark able, as, for instance, the other night, when a story-writer asked the question of Ouija—the story-writer not being at the board, hut sitting near by—“What is to he' the name of the hero of my next story?" No one but the asker of the question knew what the name was, but Ouija proceeded to spell out the first four letters of a very unusual name— and then stuck. After awhile, with a lit tle faltering and a wrong letter once, the entire name was spelled out. It must have been hit upon either hy acci dent—which would he very remarkable —or else must have somehow got from tho mind of the only person who knew the name to the fingers of the persons who were at the board—which perhaps would be still more remarkable. One young lady was told by Ouija that a friend had a gift of lilies for her at the office. To test the matter she went to the office, and found him about to send her an offering of lilies. Perhaps this was simply a clever guess. It is a singular thing that Ouija is generally inclined to blackguardism and had words, and has been known to swear violently in households where no oath was ever heard. The spiritualists explain it on the ground that the board is manipu lated by an idle, impertinent sort of spirits. Inventors of the Photograph. A French dealer in “Notes and Queries" has discovered that Fenelon, in ItS'JO, foreshadowed the photograph, and that a less knowu author, Tiphalgne, in 1700, In his old book called “Giphautie," described the photo graph process very closely. He said: “The rays of light reflected from ob jects made a picture on all polished surfaces—the retina of the eye, glass, etc. Now we have sought to fix this fugitive image, we have invented a sub stance very delicate, viscous and qui U to dry and harden. By means of this a picture is made In an instant, we then back this up with a piece of cloth and present it to the objects we wish to point" DEATH IN THE BATH. fspors of Monnt Itmlox Pure the Gout or Kill the Hat her. When Charles Boner was in Transyl vania he visited Mount Kudos, a volcano which is never in actual eruption, hut Is all the time sending out sulphuretted 1 hydrogen gas. In particular there are ' two caves or clefts in the whitish-gray rock, out of which this gas, mixed with carbonic acid, is emitted with special freedom. The principal one of these ‘ caves is about twenty paces in depth, and, as will he seen from Mr. Boner's description, is much frequented as a heal til resort. “To enter the cave in safety care must be taken not to draw the breath. A long respiration is made before rushing , in, the nostrils are closed, and then with hasty steps the farther extremity is 1 reached. _ J "A pricking feeling in the eyes is J caused hy the warm atmosphere. From - the feet upwards the whole body has : the agreeable sensation of a gentle heat playing around every limb. Hut your stock of breath is exhausted, and you i run hack to the open air. “The day before I was there a man had committed suicide hy entering a step or two. He dropped at once; and ' when a shepherd, who was tending Ilia flocks on the opposite hillside, and who saw him enter, came across to look for him, he was dead. “The vapors of the cave are highly ; valued as a cure for the gout, and for diseases of the eye. At the end of the cavern a tasteless, slightly warm liquid, | clear as crystal, falls slowly, drop hy drop, from the rock—the result, prob ably, of tho condensed vapors rising from below. “A loose dress is worn hy those who take this vapor hath. They go in, re main as long as they can hold their breath, then run out, breathe, and go iu again. “The second cave is not far away, and is called the Murderer. In flying past the opening, birds drop dead upon the ground. Close to the entrance I found a jay that had just met its death. ; I thought of the upas tree and its vic tims.” QUEER SOUTHERN PHRASES. ProrlnctallauM Abound There, and Are Always Picturesque. In Dr. Pierson's description of life in the southwest as he saw it many years ago—“before the war”—lie speaks often ' of the peculiar turns of speecli there ; prevalent. He was once present at an ecclesiastical meeting where motions i Were piled upon each other until mat ters were in a frightful muddle. Fi nally the moderator was appealed to for a decision. He rose from his seat, as became a presiding officer thus appealed to, and lifting his lank form till his head was among the rafters of the low school- house, he hesitated a moment, and then 1 | said: "Brethren, my decision is that you are dill ahead of the hounds.” Dr. Pierson confesses that he did not fully comprehend the meaning of the words, but he could not help seeing that the decision was perfectly clear and satisfactory to the assembly. As Dr. Pierson traveled about—he was an agent of the Bible society—he often put up'for the night at very hum- ! hie cabins, and commonly, before the family went to bed, he was invited to conduct family worship. The form of the invitation was peculiar and invari able. | The Bible and hymn-hook were brought forward and laid upon the ta ble, and then the host turned to the preacher and said: “Will you take the books, sir?” At table he was expected to ask a blessing, and bore, again, the phrase ology employed was peculiar. When all were seated, the man of the house would say: “Will you make a begin ning, sir? ’’Then all heads were bowed, and the blessing was invoked. WONDERS IN FIGURES. Some of the Recent Illscoverles of the Figure Fiend. Some person of a mathematical turn of mind lias discovered that the multi plication of 987054821 (which, you will observe, are simply the figures 1 to 9, inclusive, reversed) by 45 give 44,444,- 444,445. Reversing the order of the digits and multiplying 123450789 hy 45 we get a result equally as curious, viz., 5,555,555,505. If we take the 123450789 as the multiplicand and, interchanging the figures in 45 so as to make them read 54, use the last numbers us the 1 multiplier, the result will be 00,- 00(8006,000. Returning to the multipli cand 9S7054321 and taking 54 as the multiplier again, the result will he 53,- 383,333,334—all 3s except the first and last figures, which together read 54— the multiplier. Taking the same mul tiplicand and 27, the half of 54, as the multiplier, the product is 20,000,000,007, all 0s, excepting the first and hist fig ures, which together read 27—the mul tiplier. Now, interchanging the order ; of the figures 27, and using 72 instead ; as a multiplier and 987054321 as the mul tiplicand, we get as a product 71,111,-i 111,112, all Is except the first and lust figures, which together read 72—the multipl ier. Ships Thai Never Return. Sea captains were yarning about ships which never returned and various dangers of the deep, when a Thomesvon ] mariner related an experience which, : he declared, made his hair rise every time he thought of it. lie said: "One trip 1 made from New York to San Francisco is very distinctly impressed upon my mind. We had in n general cargo, including seventy tons of gun powder ind some railroad iron. We had a very rough passage around the Horn a id were tossed about pretty i roughly 'or a week or so. 1 could hear the vesstl straining and the cargo groaning and grinding and it made me pretty nervous, I can tell you. When we reached San Francisco and dis charged, I found that thirty tons of the powder had been stowed on the rail- | road iron. Some of the packages hud tiecn broken open hy the working of the cargo and the iron was covered with powder. We swept up aeveral barrels of it and—well, I felt tick to think what might have happcnaL” He Wititeri Two Hours, Then Started to Leave l:i a Rage. The London News gives this interest ing version of Henrik Ibsen's courtship: When he fell in love with the beautiful daughter of Pastor Thorcsen, how to make known the fact to her troubled him for weeks. At last he resolved to write to her. He would come and fetch his answer the same afternoon at five. Did the lady accept him she would be “at home.” otherwise not. At five o’clock he presented himself, and the maid asked him to go into the best room, lie was very hopeful and was ghul to have time' to collect him self before he met the lady. But when he had waited half an hour awful doubts began to assail him. After an hour had passed he imagined the letter hex) not reached the young lady. Some fatal mistake was milking a fool of him. Still lie waited on. After two hours he began to he ashamed of himself. She would learn that he had sat two hours in that deserted house and would laugh at him. At last he jumped up in a rage and ran to the door. He was opening it when a loud peal of laughter ar rested him. He turned and saw the fair head of ids adored emerge from under the sofa. Her mouth was laugh ing but her eyes were filled with tears. “Oh, you dear, good fellow, to wait all this while!” she said. “I wanted to see how many minutes a lover’s pa tience lasts. How hard the floor is! Now help me to get out, and then we will talk.” In less than a week the marriage was arranged. AN HONEST JERSEY GIRL. TRIED HER LOVER’S PATIENCE. WHY THE MONEY WAS NOT SENT, The PofttinaHter General Was Merely Waiting to Ascertain the Addreas. There are two capital anecdotes of the strange Irishman, Sheridan Knowles, a dramatist of singular capacity and knowledge of stage effect, combined with mastery of blank verse of a rather peculiar kind, which gives him his own niche in stage literature. He was an actor also, and afterwards turned preacher; hut he was distinguished for hulls. He sent two hundred pounds sterling in Bank of England notes to his wife in London, which failed to reach her. He angrily demanded of the postmaster general an explanation and an apology, as he happened to be un usually certain of the day and hour when he had posted them, and de nounced the authorities with energy. The answer was pleasant apd courteous, with the assurance that the minister knew him as a friend by bis works, and was only keeping the money at the post olliee till the address was known, as it had been sent in an envelope with out any address whatever, and only “I send you the money,” written inside. My dear sir, you are right and I am wrong. God bless you!" was Knowles’ answer. On another occasion he rushed across the Strand to shake hands with “O. Smith,” an actor well known by his initial, and ask after his health. Smith, who knew him only by sight, thanked him, but told him who he was. “I beg your pardon,” said Knowles, “I took you for your namesake, T. P. Cooke.” As for the postal story, it has a quaint counterpart in that of one of Toole’s many city friends, who never would put any address on his envelope hut “J. L. Toole, Esq.,” on the ground that the post office al ways knew where he was traveling. “You get it,” he said, “you get it, my boy.” It was Toole's sugges tion that he might send him one hun dred pounds sterling to test it. WATERWAYS OF THE FUTURE. She Refuset! to Take a Purao That Was Til rust Fpon Her. She was from the country, and the country in her case was New Jersey. 5’ou would learn the first from the tan on her nose and the second from tlie mud on her gown. If there had been any room for doubt on either point it would have been removed by her bag. The woman from Jersey, according to the New York World, always carries a hag when she comes to town. She was on a Broadway ear and had ridden all the way fmm Grand street up to Twen ty-first. There she signaled the con ductor to stop the ear. She let it come to a dead standstill before she rose from her seat. Then she made a leisurely progress to the door and stepped from the platform—still deliberately. The ear was well under way in obedience to the impatient jerk of the conductor's bell before he espied a purse lying where the woman had been seated. He gave the hell a second yank, seized the purse, and, with “Just like a woman,” he made a break for the platform and hailed the woman. “Here’s your purse!” he yelled. “You’ve gone off aud left it.” She turned, walked unhurriedly back to the ear, looked hard at the purse and said in a gentle drawl: "I can take it, if you wish, but It isn't mine!” The car, with a mad conductor and a load of amused passengers, was started on its way by a tingle that almost wrecked the bell rope. The woman smiled and returned to the sidewalk. MACHINE-MADE MUSIC. An luReiiious Piece of Mechanism Played liy Pneumatics. An interesting arrangement of pneu matic mechanism for the production of high class music has recently been ex hibited. The instrument has two and one-fifth sets of reeds, tho regular ac tion of the air grooves being located above, and on top of the board contain ing these is a row of small pneumatics corresponding in number to the keys of the instrument; underneath this hoard are four rows of large pneumatics, one beneath the other, and from an arm on each of these pneumatics hangs a wire at tached to a lever operating on the coupler buttons on the pitmans or wooden rods connecting the keys of the instrument with the reed.board valves. By means of tiiese levers, operated hy pneumatics, the movement of the valves becomes automatic, subject to the passage ever of the airhoard of perforated paper. A peculiar characteristic of the motor which operates the music roll, which distinguishes it from all other appli ances of the kind, is its adaptability for running to the right to wind music and tlie left to rewind, or vice versa. When the instrument is in operation tlie key board becomes a tiling of life, keys dropping with the exact rapidity re quired hy tlie selection rendered. Navigation from t'hlcago to the Atlantic Only a question of Time. Tlie groat waterways of this country are eapahle of a wonderful growth and improvement. The recent disasters upon the Mississippi should be guarded agaiust as much as circumstances will allow. And, speaking of the Missis sippi, the day is not distant when its northern arm will bo connected with our inland oceans and a ship may sail from New Orleans to Chicago. Then will come the Nicaragua canal, by which that same vessel may proceed directly into the Pacific and down the western coast of South America. There is no doubt that a ship canal will he cut from the lakes to tlie Atlantic. Con gress has already been asked to pro vide for surveys and make estimates, and when Brother Jonathan gets so far the end is assured. Canada is enlarging those waterways which would admit British war vessels from the Sb Law rence river to these lakes, and at pres ent we have no avenue of approach. Under these conditions, in a few years from date, the grayhounds of the ocean will traverse lakes Erie, Huron, Michigan and Superior, anchoring in Chicago and Duluth. A direct connec tion via the enlarged Erie canal and the Hudson river will open up another stream for traffic to New York. Talk of ship building and revived maritime interests! What will people behold who live another fifty years? asks the New York Ledger. That not only rail way hut naval supremacy belongs to this repuhlie, and that supremacy will entail a commercial importance which to-dny is only feebly shadowed. Norse Ambition. TWO STRANGE ISLANDS. A Murderer’s Sad Fate. First Thug—Bill Blugeon has been convicted o’ murder. Second Thug — Poor fellow! How; they’ll lock ’im up, an’ his lawyan willj apply for a new trial, an’ poor — MTI ' They Are In the Gulf of California, Re tween GuayinnR and La Far. An employe of the state department has given an interesting description of twoislundssituated in the gulf of Califor nia, which were recently visited by him. About au equal distance between Guay- mas and La Paz lies the island of Car men, where there is an immense salt lake surrounded hy hills forming a sort of crater; tlie sal* deposits mixed with muriate of soda lie in strata, which be gin with the thickness of six inches and increase to about fourteen inches at fourteen feet below the surface. Tlie (■lima*_■ is exceedingly hot, and only a few people live on the island, which is r’.most devoid of vegetation except for the luxuriant eaetus growth. The island of Tihuron, situated an equal distance north of Guaymas, is said to tie a resort of the Ceres Indians. They are exceedingly hostile and op pose the landing of strangers on what they consider their domain. Their weapons arc poisoned arrows. The canoes made use of by these Indians are of peculiar construction, consisting of long roods hound together with strings. Wticrc Cannot Live. There is not a lizard or snake north of the southern extremity of Hudson’s hay Tlie summers there are so short that these reptiles have no time to en joy themselves even if the ground at a deptli of two or three feet below the surface were not frozen all the year round, thus depriving them of a place to hibernate. Snakes and lizards can not endure a cold climate, and a latitude of 53 degrees north is altogether too frigid for them. Norway is an ambitious country, and its people are given to original modes of thought. A scientist of Christiania proposes to immortalize himself by proving the feasibility of reclaiming | the gold and silver in sea water hy electrolytic action. He suggests that a channel about sixty meters wide should be selected for experiment. Tlie place should be well sheltered from sea and wind, and there should he a current of about four meters per minute. Across this channel sixty plates of galvanized iron, each two meters by three meters, should tic fixed at an angle of thirty de grees with the stream, and an electric current be sent through the series to precipitate the precious metals. Herr Munster, to whom the credit of this conception is due, lias hit on a very fas cinating idea, a veritable electrical philosopher’s stone, and if he could only succeed in demonstrating its prac ticability he would deserve to the full the fabulous reward that would fall to him. Old Maryland Churches. An interesting landmark of the past is All Hallows’ church at Snow Hill, Worcester comity, Md., which has just passed through a perilous process of im provement. The parish is nearly two hundred years old, and the church edi fice was reared in 1734. The earliest church was built of logs, hut the pres ent building is of brick imported from England and paid for with tobacco raised by a general levy upon the par ish. Sixteen miles from Snow Hill is old St. Martin's church, now disused, a brick structure of nearly the same age as All Hallows’. St. Martin's parish is older than the church, as the baptismal service still in use was presented hy Queen Anne. Quite as old as either of these church organizations are several Presbyterian churches in tlie same re gion, founded hy MacKennie, the father of American Presbyterianism, while some of tlie earliest Methodist congre gations in the United States were founded upon the same peninsula. ' Henson for Gratefulness. A little girl hut four years old was observed to be very devout in church and to be very eager not to miss attend ing the services. “What do you do when you are (here, Rosie?" asked a lady friend. “You cannot rend and you must get very tired of such long serv ices.” The little one shook her head gravely. “I am never tired,” she said; “I have so much to say to God." “What do you say? Do tell me," persisted the lady. The child climbed ou her knee and whispered, with all her soul in her eye*; “I cannot go to church too often to than’: God—I was not horn a boy.” —If n man hasn't friends, M U be cause he does nothing to dea«r>« thcxA —Atchison Globe. —Doubtful, But He Had 14—"WM Gi n. Jones ever in the war?” “Bayer ‘ “Where did hs gel Ills titleT" ‘■OWMil six lots near a military eucuiupsaa^b*— Atlanta Constitution. , PfcP —TIM •roeotnr of the Breslau Ophthal mia yjMvwty alleges that iu three J huntoMt esuoa which have come under Us owm nosMa, the affection of the eye sight T •--f nfWT 1 of has been caused hy wearing ttglt collars. The pressure oq the vein* of (be neck, he says, disturb* the ctroulottat eL blood to the head. 1 —Two companies of the famous “Buektail" regiment in the Union army dime from tho lumber regions along the west branch of the Susquehanna river. They built two large, long rafts, lioii ted a flag at both ends and sailed d »vn to Harrisburg upon those primitive crafts. A small portion of one raft is still at| Harrisburg, aud It may he exhibited at the world’s (a[r. j THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM. A • sr*V