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VOL. III.
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,* 1892
NO. 14.
AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL
In use for fifty years, is still the most popular and successful of all pul
monary medicines. Taken in the early stages of Consumption, it checks
further progress of the disease, and even at a later period, it eases the
distressing cough, and enables the patient to procure much-needed rest.
In emergencies arising from Croup, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Sore Throat,
and Whooping Cough, it proves a veritable household blessing, affording
prompt relief, followed by certain cure.
“Having used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral I "I believe Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral
in my family for many years, I can con- saved my life as well as that of one of
fldently recommend
it for all the com
plaints it is claimed
to cure. Its sale is
increasing yearly with me, and my cus
tomers think this preparation has no
equal as a cough-cure.”—Solomon W.
Parent, Upper Queensbnry, N. B.
“ I have repeatedly prescrllied Ayer’s
Cherry Pectoral, in cases of acute bron-.
chitis and tuberculosis, and have ob
served that, by its
Has No Equal
As a Cough-Cure
my sons, in the win
ter of 1890, when we
were down with la
— grippe. It has also
cured Charles Morrison, Of this place,
of asthma.”—Mrs. II. L. Raymond,
Millstield, N. H.
“ Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cured a
cough of four years’ standing for my
wife,nftcr all other remedies had failed.
She took less than a bottle, and has
been free from a
cough ever since.”
—J. N. Hard, Drugs,
Manchester, Vt.
use, expectoration
bccamo easier,
coughing ceased,
and the patient was able to procure . “ Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is one of the
much-needed repose.”—Nicholas Homs, best remedies for colds, coughs, and
Prof. Medical Clinics of the Faculty of Mugg troubles I ever sold.”—James A.
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War Telegraphing.
The Union army in 1862 lay
camped on the north bank of the
Rappahannock, opposite what was to
he to the Union soldiers the disas
trous field of Fredericksburg. On
the bank of the river in the extreme
front of the Union line, stood the
house of Mrs. Gray, a long, rambling
stone building, whose front of three
stories faced the river. The roof
sloped steeply towards the rear, while
the stone side was but one story high.
Mrs. Gray, herself, an elderly widow,
received the Union advance with
every demonstration of welcome, and
in the course of tiiac it became a
favorite rendezvous for young officers.
A prime cause for this, aside from
Mrs. Gray’s cheerful hearth and
good fare, was the beauty of her
daughter Sal lie, a brunetts of per
haps twenty years. A young lieuten
ant was badly wounded by these bat
teries, and spent all his spare time
at the feet of the fair Southerner,
who professed much sympathy with
the Union cause.
Late one rainy night a sentinel,
pacing back and forth before the
stone front of the Gray House, heard
a faint but sharp noise cutting the
air. It sounded like the click of a
telegraph instrument, and it seemed
to come from beneath his feet. Great
ly perplexed he called to the sergeant
of the guard. They listened care
fully and were presently joined by
the gallant lover of Bailie Gray. Con
viction of treachery smote his heart,
and with thrsorgeant he unceremoni
ously entered thd Gray dwelling.
Sallie and her mother, despite the
late hour, were busily sowing.by a
taLle in the sitting-room. The ladies
rose in apparent surprise and indig
nation at the intrusion.
“Step aside If you please,” said the
sergeant
“What does this mean!-” asked Mrs.
Gray sharply.
“Ffank, I appeal to you for pro
tection,” cried the young lady to the
lieutenant. That officer could only
shake his head and sternly ware her
aside. “You are false.. Yon have
deceived me,” he said hoarsely, as
the girl who had promised to be his
bride sank sobbing upon a sofa.
The soldiers could hear the tick
ing more plainly now. They moved
the table, lifted the carpet, and dis
covered a trap door leading to a cellar
of whose existence they had no sus
picion. A light below was instantly
quenched, but they fearlessly des
cended and discovered a telegraph
instrument, with an insulated wire
running through the cellar wall, and
evidently passing uuder the river, to
the enemy on the opposite side.
Crouching in the corner was the
operator, a young and handsome
man, who had never befoie been seen
about that house, having lived for
days in the cellat. “You are my
prisoner,” from the sergeant, brought
the distressed wail from poor Sallie
of “My husband, oh, my husband.”
The heart of the Union lieutenant
went back once more to the girl he
left behind him.
But notwithstanding the detection
of this line of communication, the
enemy seemed to know every move
ment of the Union troops. It was a
mystery to the officers how they gain
ed their knowledge. There were no
more telegraph wires, and there was
no passing across the river. At last
the mystery was solved. Within the
Union lines, but in sight of the ene
my, there stood a low frame house
occupied by a negro who did wash
ing for the soldiers. He hung his
clothes to dry in the front yard; but
it was noticed that in the porch there
hung three flannel shirts; one red,
one white and one blue. The negro
said they were his Union colors. But
the shirts were not always in the
same position, and a suspicious ser
geant finally became convinced that
the negro used them to signal across
the Rappahannock. The arrest of
the negro and the effectual use of the
shirt to deceive instead of to inform
the enemy, followed.
At another time the army of the
Potomac was nearing Berlin, Vir
ginia. To receive orders in the rear,
the troops had laid ten miles of in
sulated wire running through the
woods, now beneath the leaves and
again among the tree-tops. It was
impossible to picket the entire line,
and a large part of it was exposed;
but it was thought to be effectually
concealed. A scout lying in ambush
one day heard a sound like the tick-
1 1 ig of a clock. Creeping forward
he was astonished to see a “Johnny”
in his gray uniform, sitting on the
i ground and chuckling to himself and
busily writing. The scout sprang to
his f?et and levelling his revolver,
said to the laughing rebel: “What
are you doing there?” “I surrender
was the chagrined reply, the smiles
suddenly disappearing. The scout
discovered that the rebel had cut the
wire and had connected the ends with
a loop running into a clock, the elec
tricity securing the escapement so
that the messages ticked themselvees
plainly into the rebel’s ear. The in
genious machine was captured with
the rebel.—Philadelphia Press.
Tkc First Tbanksgiving Proclama-
iMk 41
Following is the first Thanksgiv
ing-Day proclamation ever issued by
a President. The original is in the
possession of the Rev. J. W. Well
man, and came down to him as an
heirloom from his great-grandfather,
William Ripley, of Cornish, N. H.
We have never seen this proclamation
before, nor even heard of it.—The
Locomotive.
BY THE
PRESIDENT
OF THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
A PROCLAMATION.
Whereas it is the Duty of all Na
tions to acknowledge the Providence
of Almighty God, to obey his Will,
to be grateful for his Benefits, and
humbly to implore his Protection and
Favour And whereas both houses of
Congress have, by their joint Com
mittee, requested me “To recommend
t > the People of the United States a
Dav of Public Thanksgiving and
Prayer, to be observed by acknowl
edging with grateful Hearts the
many Signal Favours of Almighty
God, especially by affording them an
opportunity peaceably to Form a
Government for their. Safety ^and
Happiness.
Now Therefore. I do recommend
and assign THURSDAY the Twenty-
Sixth Day of November next, to be
devoted by the People of these States
to the service of that great and glori
ous Being who is the beneficent Au
thor of all the good that was, that is,
or that will be: That we may then
all unite in rendering unto him our
sincere and humble thanks for his
kind Care and Protection of the Peo
ple of this Country previous to their
becoming a Nation;—for the signal
and manifold Mercies, and the fa
vourable Interpositions of his Provi
dence in the Course & Conclusion of
the late War;—for the great Degree
of Tranquility, Union and Plenty
which we have since enjoyed;—for
the peaceable and rational Man
ner in which we hare been enabled
to establish Constitutions of Govern
ment for our Safety .and Happiness,
and particularly the national one
now lately instituted;-—for the civil
and religious Liberty with which we
are blessed, and the mi a is we have
of acquiring and diffusing useful
knowledge;—and in’general, for all
the great and various Favours which
he hath been pleased to confer upon
us.
And Also, that we may then unite
in mod humbly offering our Prayers
and Supplications to the great Lord
and Ruler of Nations, and beseech
him to pardon our National and other
Transgressions;—to enable us all,
w hether in public oi private Stations,
to perform our several and relative
Duties properly and punctually;—to
render our national Government a
Blessing to all the people by constant
ly being a Government of wise, just
and Constitutional Laws, directly
and faithfully executed and obeyed;
—to protect and guide all Sovereigns
and nations, (especially such as have
shown kindness unto us) and to bless
them with good Government, Peace
and Concord;—to promote the Knowl-
edge and Practice of true Religion
and Virtue, and thci increase of Sci
ence among them and us;—and gen
erally to grant unto all mankind such
a Degree of temporal Prosperity as he
alone knows to be best.
Given under Hand, at the City of
New York, the third Day of October,
n the year of our Lord One Thou
sand Seven hundred and eighty-
nine.
G. WASHINGTON.
A caso of “peanut” politics is re
ported from Philadetyhiu. A devout
Harrison worshipper, who must be
considerable of a goose in other re
spects, paid an election wager by
pushing a peanut along the sidewalk
on Chestnut street from Broad to 7th
with a toothpick. By the time the
man reached the end of his journey
his back ached so that he thought
the whole Democratic party had
jumped on him.
Tke Embarkatiwi of Columbus.
On August 2,1402, everything was
ready, and the crew were n >.i »u .
await the uncertain moment when a
favorable wind shonld permit the
little fleet to set sail. Nothing so
befitted that solemn hour as a votive
procession from the caravels to the
monastery, to which the eyes of the
mariners turned as to a spiritual
beacon, brighter than any that flared
along the headlands. This pious
duty i>erformed, the crew returned
on board the caravels, where they
patiently awaited the order to sail,
whjlqfQolaflibus retired to the mon
astery eagerly to watch for a favor
ing wind.
Columbus kept all sail on his
caravels during the night of August
2. The old salts of the crew looki-
for a favoring wind at starting, and
Columbus, eager watchfulness was
not to pass unrewarded. From the
height on which La Rabida stood,
he scanned sea and sky with stead
fast gaze, like one of those seabirds,
presagers of changes of wind and
weather, clinging to the scarred and
storm-beaten cliff. About three in
the morning, while the stars yet
twinkled in the skies and all earth
slumbered, the awaited breeze sprang
up, bringing new life to the dis
coverer’s veins and quickening the
throbbing of his heart. The pines
murmured as though hymning the
dawn, and the waters rippled as
though heaving with the breath of
love and hope. Columbus awakened
I’ad re Juan, and he in turn the
child Diego, and the three repaired
to the chapel in quest of heavenly
aid and religious solace for the ap
proaching pangs of separation and
for the fateful voyage. As in the
boundless ether shine the stars, so
the lamps flickered in the little
church, lighting with their rays alike
the courses of the ocean and the
pathways of the soul. The monk
put on his priestly vestments, and
celebrated the holy sacrament at the
high altar, before the taper-lighted
Virgin. The hour was come, and
Columbus resolutely descended to the
shore, plucking himself away from
embraces that held him to the land
like some deep-rooted oak, for the
sail-wings were ready to bear him to
the realm of sea and sky. He soon
reached tne wharf, and as the dawn
broke in the east the flag-ship ma
jestically ran m shore to take the
new Argonaut on board. The flut
tering sails, the hurried manoevers
of the crew, the boatswain’s whistle,
and the cries of the sailors as the
ships got under way, announced a
speedy departure, and attracted the
early risen villagers to the shore in
their natural desire to witness the
scene, and to bid farewell to depart
ing friends and loved ones. When
Columbus sprang from the skiff on
hoard the caravel, and the anchors
were weighed, a shudder ran alike
through thedeparting sailors and the
leave-takers on the stand. Where
they weie going they knew, but as
their westward course after leaving
Cadiz and the Canaries was to take
them far beyond those lately won
islands, none knew whither they
were bound or the duration of the
voyage. The cross floated above the
flag-ship, which bore seaward toward
the unknown, seeking mysteries per
chance impenetrable and inaccessi
ble to the human mind and uncon
querable by human will.
DEATH’S SENSATIONS.
MAN WHO PRACTICALLY DIED
THREE TIMES IN ONE YEAR.
THE DEATH OF TOMMY.
Professional Women.
Women are forging to the front m
professions followed, hitherto, exclu
sively ,ly men. Montana has a wo
man Attorney General in the person
of Miss Ella L. Knowhs. They say
she is pretty, witty, and twenty-
eight. Kansas is threatened with
the affliction of having Mrs. Lease
for a senator. It is unwomanly in
any woman to make herself so con
spicuous, and we are surprised at the
actions of the men who helped to
place these women out of their places.
Women politicians must not be tole
rated. If the .admission of women
into the arena of public and profes
sional life would make the men bet
ter we would be willing to admit
them. But it won’t have that effect.
To be respected a person must
respect himself or herself. A wo
man who aspires to a position which
removes her fro n her recognized
sphere forfeits her right to be respect
ed. She, moreover, challenges criti
cism and comment. She lacks those
distinguishing virtues—modesty and
gentleness—w hich have always com-
ni duled the bight st admiration and
regard for her sex. The women’s
movement should, therefore, be nip
ped in the bud.—Colleton Stan
dard.
Personal Experiences with Death Go to
Show That the Moment of Final Dlsao-
lutlon la Absolutely Painless and With
out Fear of Future Life.
Although neither a physician nor a
clergyman 1 wish to corroborate the
views of tlie physicii ns contradicting
Rev. Dr. Epworth under the heading.
“What Is Death?” in your Sunday issue.
As a Federal soldier, May 81, 1882, I
was one of those who fought against
the snrprise of General Johnston, at
the time commander of the Confed
erate army, at Fair Oaks. The snr-
.prise was made at noontime, while
onr boys were eating lunch. I remem-
ber one soldier being struck in a vital
part and killed while leaning upright
against a tree in the ret of carrying a
flapjack to his mouth, remaining after
death in precisely the same position.
When I saw him standing there I mis
took him for a live i lan, especially as
he seemed to me intent only on eating
his flapjack, but the illusion was dis
pelled when touching him, because as
an officer I wanted hil l to join his com
rades.
My own personal experience in the
matter confirms the physicians’ also.
The 80th of April, 18‘S6, a fire was rag
ing in my factory in Sr n Francisco. By
some means I was about ISO feet from
the main entrance in the burning build
ing when, to my dismay, I beheld the
five story wall topple over me through a
skylight. Passively 1 lowered my head,
thinking only of my c< ming death and
wishing it would be swift. In less than
» second thousands of oricks fell on me
sounding like a big drumstick beating
on a big bass drum. 1 remember a
crash, then nothing, hi t when I came to
my senses 1 was weeged in between
heavy timbers, the upper part of un-
body only being free.
About a dozen steps lack of me was a
stranger to me who ha 1 not received a
scratch, but ascertain ng that my leg
was broken, and also n ;y utter inability
to save myself, he era-vied over to me
md attempted to pnll i ae ont of my ter
rible situation. But all his efforts only
increased my suffering and as 1 saw the
flames come up I entreated him to leave
me to my fate and trj to save himself.
Finally he crawled i way, promising
however, to return wit i help and axes.
1 must have been bewildered, for no act
of my past life came to my memory, bui
suddenly thinking of my small, mother
less children 1 shouteu for help, whis
tling at intervals through uy fingers.
Some firemen must have heard, for
presently there were « veral streams of
water ponred on me. 1 then realized
my danger, yet I, who had never gone
into a battle without a pang, felt none
whatever while in that deathtrap. The
water and smoke combined must have
asphyxiated me, for wl en my stranger
returned leading a brave party of tire
men and policemen I laid as one dead.
Believing me dead, anc being in a very
dangerous position, they ent away pari
of the timbers and ndely bnt safely-
passed me over the debris in the street.
A deafening shonf from an immense
throng which had witnessed the gallant
rescue, streams of cold water and fresh
air revived me, and I begged of them to
he careful with iny li nbe, which were
dangling from my body.
After many weeks of suffering the
physicians decided to break my leg
again, but being unable to do it well
while I had my senses they decided to
chloroform me. Being subject to heart
disease 1 objected, but the matter being
urgent I finally consei ted to take the
anaesthetic. Fully convinced, however,
that I should die undei its influence, bnt
knowing that either way I would have
to die, I agreed to take the only chance
of life 1 had and laid myself resignedly
on my back; yet, alt.lough convinced
that my last hour had come, 1 had not
the slightest recollecticn of my former
deeds. As 1 heard the physicians’ whis
pers gradually lost in t le distance I was
only wondering what vouhl come next.
1 recovered, howeve-; but, breaking
my leg a third time on account of some
adhesions in my kne<, it was decided
that 1 shonld undergo snother operation,
which necessitated the use of anrestliet-
ics again. This tim) the physicians
thought 1 was a goner sure, for it took
them nearly two hours to revive me;
yet, although certain of my last hour, 1
could not recall my uast life, and in
neither case did I fear death when I had
sqnarely to face it.
In each instance the passing away was
painless, while in the fire suffocation
came almost nneonse onsly, while al
most the same seusat on came in the
other cases. In the cs se of the soldier
at Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) a certain time
mnst have elapsed bel ween his decease
and my notice of him, yet heaven or
hades did not seem h bother him; his
flapjack seemed to be what he wanted—
his eyes were on it and his month was
open ready to receive it. In my own
case I could claim to have died three
times within a year, yet 1 do not think 1
had any other but a sensation of rest.
Dr. Epworth, in his a-isertion also that
either a look of horror or beatitude
overspreads a deceased person's face,
seems to forget that the Scriptures teacl
ns that the soul lean s our terrestrial
envelope at once on dissolution; henci
the body cannot show what reception
the soul had on the other side of the
Styx.—An Interested Reader in New
York Press.-
Caste Broken Down by Street Can.
Street cars in Bombay are mostly of
American manufacture, and ths pro
moters of the street ca- lines are Ameri
cans. When it was proposed, not many
years ago, to start such lines Europeans
prophesied their failure upon the ground
that snch common public conveyances
could not be profitable in a caste ruled
community. It was believed that the
high caste man, who will not eat or
drink from the vesstl used by a low
caste man, would refuse to ride in a
public conveyance beside his humble
brother.
In spite of these dolefnl prophecies the
railways were bnilt and equipped, and
lot the high caste man complacently pays
his fare and rides untroubled by the
side of any sort of mail. The cheapness
and convenience of the street cars were
too mnch for even tiie hard and fast
roles of cute,—Chicago Trihuns*
Virginia Hospitality Could Not Bo DU-
regarded Too Lightly.
The south has always been known for
its hospitality, and nowhere has this
quality been more religiously main
tained than in Virginia. Unfortunately
tlie war made sad havoc with the Vir
ginian's resources, but his old time open
heartedness has never altered.
Some years ago a friend of mine trav
eling in the lower portion of that state
stopped for a few hours with old ac
quaintances and remained for tea. An
occasion of this kind in Viiginia calls
invariably for the favorite dish of the
south—fried chicken.
Alas! there was but one young chicken
on the place, and that one a pet. It had
been left an orphan by its mother at a
very early age, and, like Pip in Charles
Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” had been
brought up by hand. The children
called it Tommy, and were very fond of
it, while Tommy in turn was attached
to the children.
The matter was a very serious one,
and a family consultation was held.
Virginia hospitality could not be lightly
disregarded, and it was decided that
poor Tommy must become the sacrifice.
My friend of course knew nothing of
the tragedy that was being enacted for
his comfort, and when tea was served
regarded the plate of nicely browned
chicken with contemplative joy.
Soon, however, he became aware that
something was amiss. An air of silent
sorrow pervaded the little family group
nsnally so gay, and the children took
nothing on their plates. The chicken
was passed, but with the exception of
my friend no one partook. Selecting a
juicy looking drumstick, lie fixed it
with his fork, and cutting off a choice
bit conveyed it to his mouth.
At this there was a sudden and heart
breaking howl from one of the little
boys, “Oh, mamma, mamma, he's eating
np our Tommy!”
Thereupon the other children mingled
their voices in a wild wailing, and the
aider members burst into uncontrollable
laughter in which, as the truth dawned
upon him, my friend joined.
Then there came explanations, more
langhter and tears, and adjustments all
around.
Pool Tommy could not be restored to
life, bnt he was buried under a big apple
tree with appropriate ceremonies.—Al
bert B. Paine in Harper’s Young People.
A Ball of Fire Make, a Vl.it.
A very singular story is told concern
ing the vagaries of one mass of globe
lightning. A tailor in the Pne St.
Jacques, in the neighborhood of the Vai
de Grace, was getting his dinner one
day daring a thunderstorm when he
heard a load clap, and soon the chimney
board fell down, and a globe of fire as
big as a child's head came out quietly
and moved slowly about the room at a
small height above the floor. The spec
tator, in conversation afterward with
M. Bahbinet, of the Academic des
Sciences, said it looked like a good sized
kitten rolled up into a ball and moving
without showing its paws. It was bright
and shining, yet he felt no sensation of
heat. The globe came near his feet, hut
by moving them gently aside he avoided
the contact.
After trying several excursions in dif
ferent directions it rose vertically to the
height of his head—which he thre---
back to prevent it touching him—
steered toward a hole in the chiinne-
above the mantelpiece, and made its
way into the fine. Shortly afterward—
“when lie supposed it had had time to
reach the top,” the tailor said—there
was a dreadfnl explosion, which de
stroyed the upper part of the chimney
and threw the fragments on to the roofs
of some adjoining buildings, which they
broke through.”—Chambers’ Journal.
A Theory About Man’s Beard.
There is a theory favored by the disci
ples of Darwin that the beard is merely
tlie survival of a primitive decoration.
Man, according to this view, was orig
inally as hairy as the opossum itself, hut
as he rolled down the ages he wore the
hair off in patches by sleeping on his
sides and sitting against a tree. Of
course the hair of the dog is not worn off
in this way, bnt a great theory is not to
be set aside by an objection so trifling.
By and by our ancestors “awoke to the
conscionsness that they were patchy and
spotty,” and resolving to “live down”
all hair that was not ornamental they
with remarkable unanimity seem to
have fixed on the eyebrows, the mus
tache and—unfortunately, as the self
scrapers mostly tliink—the beard as be
ing all that was worth preserving of the
primitive covering.—English Illustrated
Magazine.
Snap Shot* at Royalty.
King George is to Aix what the Prince
of Wales is to Homberg. He is remur’.a-
blo for extreme assurance, tempered
with reserve, and wears his hat slightly
on the side of his head as he strides
along the streets, looking straight at
people as if to invite them to get out of
his way. He is an habitue of the casino
and the cardrooms. On alighting from
his carriage yesterday a number of pho
tographers ran up to take snap shots at
him.
Seeing this the king good naturedly
stopped and "stood fire,” turning ills
face toward them. On returning to his
carriage when the visit was over he did
the same, saying aloud when he thought
they ought to have done, “Ca y est"(It’s
all right, is it not?)—a remark that elic
ited great laughter.—London News.
Three Views of Mars.
M. Flammarion, the French astrono
mer, regards it as very probable that tlie
dark areas of Mars are water and the
bright ones land. Professor Schaeherle's
observations with tlie greatest tele
scope in the world (the Lick) under the
best possible conditions, lead him to pre
cisely opposite conclusions. Mr. Brett
(the English artist astronomer) doubts if
land and water exist on Mars at all, and
gives good reasons for deciding that tlie
planet is in a heated state—as we sup
pose Jupiter to lie, for example.—Pro
fessor E. S. Holden in Forum.
Th. Formation of Hoot.
M. Lagrange has communicated to the
Belgian academy a paper on the forma
tion of bodies in the universe. In this
paper he expresses the opinion that, be
fore any expenditure of work, the quan
tity of heat of the universe was nil, that
ti e temperature was gradually raised
a’jove absolute zero at the expense of
work done by attraction, and hence the
formation of solid bodies mnst have pre
ceded that of liquide and gases; that,
throngh the gradual condensation of
matter and consequent enormous devel
opment of heat, the earth would attain,
at least in the parts near the surface, the
st ate of fluidity necessary to its form and
geological characters; then, as the tem
perature gradually rose with gradual
agglomeration of matter, a very dense
a .moephere would form, with pressure
diminishing ont ward, and in a more ad-
v ;nced phase, the temperature of this,
a ’ter reaching a maximum, would gradu
ally diminish, causing liquefaction or so
lidification of certain matters at first
vaporous, while other solid bodies m-ght
remain suspended in the atmosphere.
Briefly, M. Lagrange, in elucidation
of the basis of his original and rema -i:a-
h e theory, as thus set forth, deci .’■ e s
tl at space is occupied by two substai
n unely: One, attractive, which is viat-
tt r properly so called, or material at. ins;
the other, repulsive, which occnpie iho
ii teratomic space, and from which re
sults between any two atoms a van .hie
n pulsion exercised at the surface of the
It tier.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Yawning Witnesses.
A few evenings ago half a dozen .nen
w ere sitting out in front of the Capital
hotel discussing various topics, wl.m
J idge Yost, of the supreme coir - ,. in
telling an anecdote of a trial, rema: .ted
that the witness yawned and he knew
h j was lying.
“How did you know?” was asked.
“Well, sir, I have seen witnesse:- lie
and not yawn, but I never knew one to
yawn that he was not telling a lie.”
Judge Sims, the member of tlie legis
lature from Trigg, remarked, “Y< I
a,ways know a witness is lying when he
yawns.”
Senator Dave Smith said, “It is al-
uost invariably the case.”
Judge Wall, the senator from M..-a,n,
c .me up and corroborated ’the si ite-
n.ents of the others, and just then Judge
Brent, of the superior court, joined tlie
group. “When a witness yawns lie is
ti lling a lie, and lie knows it.”
Several other lawyers were appealed
t<, and all bore out the statements made.
N one, however, could explain the phe
nomenon. Judge Yost was the only one
wlio had a theory, and that was hat
when a fellow was swearing to a lie ho
could not face the music, and his em
barrassment found expression in yawns.
— Louisville Courier-Journal.
Centralization of Government.
The history of the federal govern
ment is one of growing strength and in
fluence. The difference lietween the
intention of the founders of the system
and of the existing fact is nearly as
great as that between the opinions of
Jefferson and moderate Federalists.
From the first organization of the gov
ernment to the present time there has
l ’on almost a steady advance toward
centralization. This advance has been
both aided and retarded by the supreme
c ourt; but in the legislative branch of
the government and in the popular mind
fie proportions of the federal govern
ment have constantly grown larger. It
has not been the tendency of the people
of the republic to strengthen the local
government at the expense of the general
government. On tlie contrary, the gen
eral government has grown at the cost
of the states.—Henry L. Nelson in Har-
rw»rV
It has been mentioned as a proof of Al
exander Pope's love of economy that lie
wrote most of his verses on scraps of
paper, and particularly on the hacks of
let
otters.
One hundred and two kernels of grain,
it is said, have been counted in one head
wheat grown near Cheney, Wash.
The Death of Jumbo.
The story told by Scott, the keeper
who went to America with Jumbo, of
the elephant’s deatli is sad. The animals
were being loaded while the circus was
performing, and Scott was walking
J jnibo along the railroad between two
rows of trucks.
There was another elephant with them
—a dwarf elephant bought in Singapore
in 1883 to be “clown elephant.” Jumbo
w ould not go anywhere without iiim.
On this occasion the small elephant was
going in front, and when the train came
round the curve Jumbo caught hold of
his chum and pushed him between two
freight tracks. This saved tlie small
o’ie, who only got ins leg broken, but
Jumbo was badly cut up by the heavy
1ccomotive and died about an hour alter.
—St. Jame; Budget.
A Young Child Wife.
The conversation had drifted to early
marriages, and Allan Thompson. o e
Dubuque, said: “The youngest wife 1
e ’er knew lived at Fairview, la. Her
n.aiden name was Ella Hotchkiss, and
at the age of eleven she was niarnM to
a youth of eighteen, whose name I can
not now recall. I frequently saw her
a ter her marriage playing witli other
children about tlie village, making mud
p eg, etc. About a year after the inar-
r age a little daughter—a tiny thing
weighing bnt three pounds—was bora
to the youthful couple. The ladies of
tlie neighborhood then persuaded the
c did wife to don long dresses ami quit
jumping the rope in the street.”—St.
Louis Globe-Democrat.
A Military Doubt.
“Did you see a boy about my size
round the corner?” a hoy inquired of an
elderly gentleman who was passing.
“Yes, I believe I did,” said the man.
“Did he look ugly?”
“I didn’t notice.”
“Did he look scared?”
“I don’t know. Why?"
“Why, I heard ho was round there,
and I don’t know whether he wants to
lick me, or whether he’s afraid I’m go
ing to lick him. Wish 1 did!”—Ex
change.
Familiarity Breeds Contempt.
Judge Duffy—How dare you come
it to court so? Take your hat off I
Tramp—But, judge, you know I'm
not a stranger here.—Texas Siftings.
Telescopic observations show that the
planet Venus appears to a distant ob
server far moie nearly like the earth
than does Mars.
The guests at a hotel in Ohio presented
one of the waitresses with a pair of roller
spates in hopes of being waited on more