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“IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE VAN DO ANYTHING.”
VOL.III.
DAHLINGTON, SOUTH
CAHOLINA,
WEDNESDAY JANUAll^ 4, 18‘JJ.
NO.
FOR SKIN DISEASES
Boils, carbuncle?, pimples, and sores—liaving their origin in impure
blood—the most prompt and thorough remedy is AYER’S Sarsaparilla.
It expels from the vital current every atom of poison, and under its
health-giving influence, the flesh takes on new life, sores heal, and the
skin becomes soft and fair. He sure you get AYER’S Sarsaparilla.
"I was for years subject to erysipelas, I “More than thirty years ago the rim
being unable to find a remedy. At of one of my ears began to trouble me',
Erysipelas
length, our family
physician recom
mended me to try
Ayer's Sarsaparilla,
and after taking two bottles, I was en
tirely cured, the disease having never
•hown itself since.” —E. B. Simpson,
Loudon, Tcnn.
"Two years nen I was. troubled with prescriptions »!i»l me no good. Pre-
sslt.ibrum. It was all over my body, . sinning the tr. iible to 1,.; rearms, I hr.
commencing with a
stinging, painful
sensation and a dis
charge of almost im
perceptible matter, which would form
into a sort of scab, increase In size, loos
en, and fall off, leaving the parts
raw and sore. Snivel and the doctors’
THE NEW YEAR.
and Nothing the
doctors dill (or lur
was of any avail.
At last t took four
Salf-Rheum
gun to lake Ayer's
Sarsaparilla. Iliad
hardly commenced
on tbo fifth bottle,
hot I tea nf Ayor'a Baranparilla, and was ■ when tho car entirely honied and has
romiilclely cured: I can sincerely rcc- mtmlttcd so since."—Isaac Clements,
ommoibt this medicine te others, and (Wi years of age), Fort Ann, If. Y.
MSlUlef It it splendid blood-purlficr,"— "Two bottles of Ayer's Bn rsn par! 11 ft
JtuUn H. Durt, t'pper KostVlck, X. B. cured my baby of nil eruption which
"Ayer's Sarsaparilla cured mo of covered ids body In one solid scab."-,
scrofula."-.!. 0. Berry, Deerfield, Mo, Mrs. Kate Lanib, Orton, Utah,
AYER’S Sarsaparilla
by Dr, J. C, Aytr <fc Go., Lmrcll, Muss. Sold by nil DrwjgitU,
Has cured others, will cure you
BOOK. -BOORS.
Stationary Novelties.
mHlKIl SUPPLIES A SPEC
ALU
t
All School Hooks have been reduced
iu price since last season
Toys, Wagons &c.
Full line Small Musical Instruments,
PIANOS, ORGANS &c.
DARLINGTON BOOK STORE.
p*
E. C. ROTHOLZ.
' Lilii Atrinls a lull U.
Persian Mulls In very neat design.
Blsck Sheer Stripe and Plnld Lawns.
Ely see stripes, black ground and handsome figures.
Linen chamhrays.
immense line of Parasols with pretty handles.
Ladies' summer undervests. 10 cents and upward.
A flower unknown: a book unread;
A tree with fruit unharvested;
A path uutrod; a house whoso rooms
Lark yet tho heart’s divine perfumes;
A landscape whoso wide border lies
In silent shade ’ncath silent skies;
A wondrous fountain yet unsealed;
A casket with its gifts concealed;
This Is the year that for you waits
Beyond tomorrow’s mystic gates.
Oh, may this flower unfold to you
Visions of beaut y sweet and new;
This book on golden pages trace
Your sacred Joys and deeds of gracel
May nil tho fruit of this strange tree
Luscious and rosy tinted be;
This path through fields of knowledge go;
This house with love’s content overflow;
Tiii liin»i.«rnpe glitter wit It thf dew
Ol Mf-f d hopes jiml fi’irjMUhips iruc;
This feiuiiMih' livlnc » r\smi <>heei',
As Isil ilie spring- that onro were desr;
This e.i-hf t with sueh gems bo stored
As shine in lives that love the Lord!
-Lewistem Journal,
Silk* milt* la all length*.
CORSETS!
Wc have *lx grade* of the It, & 8, corset*; best value for tho mony.
The largest assortment of cream and black laces In all widths.
We hdve dpefl up some very deilrahlo Point De Jones, Point De Gul pure and
✓ point Delrlandc In white and ecru. Our *
MILLINERY
is still eftmdiicted by iii** MAoolB Joses, Who has proven to the iddies that
jy sUb can and trie* to please: JEJ
tour oall is requested!
E. C ROTHOLZ,
MAIL 0IIDEH8 promptly attended to.
one wno acunoWieugea ner own ocairry,
whoso pulses lcaix!(l, whose brain teemed
with chaotic, dazzling visions of an ex
istence as jet unknown, but where
women wore gowns like this and were—
happy!
“ 'Tuin’t no usel I might wish my
heart out, and it wouldn't make a bit o’
dilf’rencc! I'll only be Deborah Tomp
kins nil my life, and not in no ways like
bountiful Miss Vane.”
The abrupt opening of the door broke
in upon her suppressed, tempestuous
sobbing, nfld a horrified scream, with
the sharp fall of a broom handle across
tho threshold, had the effect of a fTiun-
dcrclnp. _
"Lo' me set down!” shrieked Armt
Ann. her gaunt and gretindierlike pro-
poi li".is looming in li t-doorway, iron
'ray mil bobbin;; like wire springs.
ry< lids fluiiering. upraised hands ipiiv-
* ling in in.nor. ••Lc' me set down or
I'll faint! Lo' me cct down, I say!” and
although no one prevented she continued
to flutter on tho threshold, emitting weals
screams.
Deh, absolutely colorless, leaned
against Itio nimitel, her thick soled, ug’ •
shoes protruding with pathetic inco-
grnity from beneath tho shimmering,
silken skirt. But she began to tremble,
j /1 , while defiance and pride grew iu her
eyoo, as a footstep so heavy that only a
■EVELYN MALCOlM.^
^ _COPV H'CHT IOTQ '
N THK chill of the Oc-
tober twilight the fire of
twigs in tlio huge front
fireplace nt Holly farm
was us welcome ns tv rosy fnce.
Del) snt lioforo It mid impatiently
kicked liel 1 small, rough hoots against
the clnwfooted andiron. Her delicate
black brows above Intense violet eye*
met in n frown, ns if she meditated mu
tiny. Her tirms, wrapped in a gray
woolen shawl, were defiantly folded
upon her bosom. Napoleon surveying
his nnny did not give a better idea of
sublime, slumbering strength than little
Drh us she snt there.
Poor, passionate, motherless little
Dob! She was so unhappy—or she
thought she was, which as far as suffer
ing counts Is quite the same thing.
"1 hate myself—jest! I hate most
everything! Aunt Ann sez there'* nnth- .
in wnth a cuaa on Ibis nirth, but Miss Ami, holding her skirt back, us if even
Mirabel Vane has showed mo it ain't sol | * lt u / 0 '' r distance Deb might eon-
She's goin hack to the city tomorrow— tamfmite her. ‘‘Look at that exposure
hack to the place she calls athonyter, |u f l mss(,u i at that ungodly disclosure—
whore she nukes believe she'* somebody 0 ' 1 ’ vanity—vanity! Heaven forbid that
ehind a row of lights. Bite'll for- }»>• dead sister should look down on this
ere sad sight—her own offspring gone
over to the waslmp of Baal. Deborah,
Deborah—you air a lost soull Worm of
1
"LOOK AT UEtl, HIIUJl."
cowhide boot could make it sovtnded on
tho stairs,
"What in thunder’s the row?” cried a
hearty nasal voice, mid Deb was con
fronted by ber lover.
"Look at her, Hiram!” yelled Aunt
else, behind a row of lights,
git tills old farm where her doctor sent
her to drink tbo milk; she'll forgit me
fur all sho sez I'm so putty, nn I guess
she'll bo plaguy glad to forgit Aunt
Ami, with her nagging and Scripture
mixed together so it's hard to tell one
from t'other. 1 '
The ticlio of longing darkened Deb's
eyes ns she leaned closer, as if the blaz
ing twigs could furnish an answer to
the questions tormenting her.
"Tho cityl How 1 wish I could go
jest onct! Hiram sez he'll take mo there
ou our weddin journey—but," and .the
pretty nose gave a scornful tilt upward,
"1 don't know ns I'd care to see It
when I'm inanied to Hiram! I don't
know as 1 want to marry Hiram at all—
therel Hu ain't like city folks no rnor'u
me."
As If this imdncioU* statement even
shocked tho twigs! They crackled the
louder and sent up fiercer orange and
purple flames that transfigured the love
ly, rebellious face watching them,
the dnst, whar will that vain heart of
yourn land you?”
"LordyP was all Hiram could sny ns
ho stood dazed, but full to the lips with
admiration, suffering from a sudden con
sciousness of her loveliness and his own
Uncouth ugliness.
allow, and 1 told Miss Vane to git out;
that I might 'a' known a curse would
tome'from reutin my room to a play
acting, godless critter who could wear
such clo’cs, but”
“But Debi” interrupted Hiram fierce
ly. "What about her?” and he fairly
shook Aunt Ann until her false teeth
rattled.
"She’s gone with thatVano woman:
Deb’s gone!”
“Deb!” came in a heart broken, qttiv-
ering#ery from Hiram's white lips, and
lie clusiied his great, strong arms hard
across his breast, as if longing to shut
her dose within that shelter.
Echoes of tho strife and sin of great
cities had stolen to tho green solitude
wbciv his lifr had Loci, >p,.'i,i. and i.
was l.yN'. w Vol k, lii.it far.ih place of
AiltiT iin.l pain, llnit little j>l, Imd
'I"'. Suddenly hweve-j t,hit.,wed and
flashed.
"I'm goin to git Deh mid bring her
back!" lie said.
"Ef you can, Hiram—oh, ef it ain't
too late. And tell her I won't never
MEANING OF t^E MONTHS.
iv They Clinic to Ate Na
tion of tho I'rcseVt Cal
anuary begins tho Vyeai
K 1 xl.
* «.
“I’M THE HIRAM WHOSE HEART WOULD
DREAK."
preach again," walled tho old woman
ns sho clung to his band; “wo air all
worms of the dust, but I’ll never call
ber thet. Deb never usetor like to be
called a worm!”
"I’ll git her—or die myself!" and
Hiram was gono.
Half past 11 o'clock. Tho bell that
gave tbo one beat had a mournful sound.
Tho old year was dying, snowflakes
pattering in ley kisses upon its old,
scarred face.
Tho great noisy pantomimo at tho
Crystal opera house had been played for
the last time, and at tho narrow, dark
stage door a group of discharged chorus
girls stood shivering.
They disappeared in twos and throes
until only one was left. It was Deb—
but how changed 1 Something hard and
reckless had come to her young face, tho
lips and eyes still smirched with tho
grease paint, her brows bent.
. As she waited there a coupe drew up
John C. White,
Darlington, South Carolina.
^ „ . * *
Stoves, Tinware, Pumps, Piping, House
Furnishing Goods, Bolts, Tobacco
'r\ I
Flues, &c.
U ail taiia On Ste, mill i n Plm M
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Deb”— he commenced, but the girl, * atdho curb, and a man much older than
gtnng to open revolt, threw up her little
head and stamped her foot.
"Don’t you commence preachin, Hiram
Pond, I won’t stand It from you. What
ef I did put oa one of Miss Vane’s dresses 1
Guess it's no affair of yourn 1 I love ’eml
I love Miss Vane. 1 wish I was her—I
wish 1 never seen you—nor Aunt Ann—
nor this old, stupid place!”
Sho broke into wild sobbing and flung
herself on her knees beside tho bed.'
"Ob, how I wish I was dead!” she
cried in heartfelt bitterness.
There is a look that death brings to
tho human face—there is a look that
love brings—-and neither can bo counter-
foited. It was ibis look of love that
flashed over Hiram's rugged face, giving
it for a moment a pathetic beauty abso
lutely real while it lasted.
Deb's words went through him like u
knife. Unable to speak ho wont slowly
from the room to shut out tho sight of
that sobbing, kneeling figure, ty forget
her words, if possible.
Bnt ho could not forget. As he strode
blindly along llio road ho saw the truth
so plainly—Deb was growing cold to him
—sho was changed.
“Dob—Deb—that look on your face to
night stabbed me! Taiu't liko us ef I
wnz alivo quite. I'd rather you'd killed
me, Deb—killed mo with those dear lit
tle hands—than look at mo ag’in as you
did tonight!"
A sob broke in his throat. He stopped
at a familiar stile ou the edge of the
"AIN'T SUE LOVELY?"
The outside door dosed sharply and
brought Deh to her feet with a btmuco
In time to sec a natty, feminine figure iu
blue serge pass the window,
"Ain't sho lovely—jest?" sighed Deb,
not dreaming that her own face was so
much lovelier than Miss Vnlie's, whoso
coloring on cheeks, eyelashes and hair
was *o distinctly manufactured.
For a moment Deh stood in thought)
tjieli obeying a sudden impulse sho
slippctl from the room, jnst dodging
Aunt Ami lit the foot Of the stairs,
Stealthily, ns if she Were Committing a
crime, she dropped to her knees before
Miss Vane's door and took the key from
beneath the mat. When she stood within
the room iter eyes were excited as a
cat's; the pulsations of her heart ached
her throat.
Oh, how sweetly tho place smelled of
vloletsl How pretty tho toilet table was
draped with luce and ribbonsl
Deb crept to tbo Wardrobe and cau
tiously opened tho doors. A shimmer
of silks of delicate colors met her en
raptured gaze. With almost religious
aWe she leaned her flushed cheek against
them and gave a great sigh. In oil her
life sho had never had more than two
gowns—one to Work in mid one for Sun
days, There were fully twenty—and
such gowns!
With trembling fingers Deb took one
from its hook, mastered its Intricacies
and stood arrayed In it before the mir
ror, regarding her reflection with rap
ture, almost with veneration. It was
the first time sho had worn 4 low necked
gown, and tho effect of her wi^jbroat
and shoulders iu contrast tfl ner little
sttiibnrned face was positively dazzling,
A smile rippled over her lips as sho
recalled grandiloquent phrases which
sho had often overheard Miss Vane ro-
j citing. Sho struck an attitude of hau
teur and iu a sepulchral whisper kissed l
"Knther wonld I lie dead at your feet,
Sir Algcrnou, than desoycrate my fath-
I w‘s secret inem'ry by Ueotuin your bridsl
Hcatest tliotif
Aunt Ann's shrill, voice rnso in a shriek.
"Debl Detfisfl Dtoh!"
But sho paiH mHfCfd. 8kfl grew lerl*
9UI warn as M. W? Pflr
K
herself and very fashionably attired
wont toward hor.
“Dear little girl, have I kept you
long?” he asked in a drawling tone.
"Tell me—are you discharged?"
“Yes,” canto iu a bard, bitter sigh
from Deb's lips. "Yes—there's nothin
but starvation now or goin homo to ho
—pitied," and tho last word came with
Indescribabln bitterness.
Her companion drew her close to him
and looked into her face.
"There's something else—there's my
lovel Buy tho word I’m longing to hear
and I’ll take yon fur away. Say it!”
“No, no!” sho whispered, her face pal
ing under the rouge. "Oh, I couldn't!”
"It would kill Aunt Ann! And—and
—Hiram—it would break his heart.”
“Nonsense, dear, Ton'll just disap
pear and they need never know”— :
Then something heavenly jxnired in a
misty ray from little Dob's eyes.
And even if they never knew I
wonld know—I, myself,” she whispered.
The snow mtifiled the footsteps of
passersbv, and she.did not hear the man
who bad approached and who stood
very quiet in tho shadowy angle of a
poach. Ho only waited to hear her last
words; then ho sprang forward and
caught her to him, looking the fashion
able stranger in tho face.
I’m the Hiram whoso heart would
break—got anything lo say to mo?” he
asked in a voice of fury.
No, there was nothing to say. Re
treat war, best. In a moment Deh was
alone with Hiram,' tho snow falling
around them liko a veil.
Oli, Deb, I bo'n lookin for you every-
wlmr!" ho whispered, framing the
shamed little foco in his big, tender
hands and hungrily kissing tho pleading
mouth. "At last tonight, when I’d most
given up, I reckernized you us you
marched around in that yuller jacket.
Oh, Deb, I love you yet! Do you love
mei Will you como home this very
night?”
Deb nestled closer, bnt shook herhead.
"I'm not Worth your love, Hiram! 1
be’n so bad—to run away liko that.”
You're worth my love—ef I love
you I” said Hiram conclusively, and that
seemed to settle tho matter.
Over the wind swept, snowy street the
music of tho New Year chimes came
stealing so sweet they made Deb cry.
But they were happy tears, and she
drew Hiram's face down and kissed it.
"I'll alius love bells,” said Hiram,
'Hark! Bounds 's ef they war sayin,
SWb yourn—yourn—yourn—forever 1* ”
“WHAT 18 IT?" HE GASPED,
red October woods, and covering his
face with his old soft hat prayed that it
might not be true—this awful thing—
that Deb no longer loved him.
It was the cold gray and blue twilight
of the next day when Hiram again went
Hotter Hi's 0 i'e a tt&x fa S“i
argued out Deb’s cause, and bo bad for
given her absolutely.
1 'Twos jest a longing for fine clo'es
and things liko that sech as makes gals
fruckious at times that made ber say
what she did to me. P'raps tonight,
arter she'* bed bar cry out, she'll sny
tg'in she love* m*—dear, sweet, littl
Debl"
Aunt Ami met klm in tbo doorway.
She woe its pale as u piece of bleached
linen, and sho looked at Hiram with
eyes that chilled him to tho eore of his
heart,
"AUht Ann! What lo it?" hd gasped
"Ob, lliram,don't Uamemel I waru’t
to blamel" she groaned, holding out shiv-
tiring, Ubueallug hand*, "J WM Uiftdi l
The Persian llntlics on New Year’s.
On the 21st of March, according to
our chronology, tho Persians arouse
from their usual apathy and roam about
in glee. Tho men full upon each other’s
necks, kiss and caress each other and
vow eternal brotherly love. The Per
sian laborer and peddler, who ordinari
ly does not mind if his hands and feet
are of tho hno of night, takes a bath and
has his hair cut, mid if*the sun is hot he
has his head shorn clear of hirsute
adornment. Balancing himself on the
ground by bolding 011 to bis toes, he de
livers himself over to the hair butcher,
who is usually a tousorial artist of no
mean development, Indeed it is said
that several of these public barbers have
become aulte rich, notwithstanding thi:‘
they perform their hardest labor ou tku
great holiday. _
First Wheat Ih Atnorlea.
The first Wheat raised in the New
World Was sown on the Island of Isa
bella in January, 1404, and on March DO
the ears were gathered,—St. Louis Re-
ouldit;.
Named—Kvolu*
Calendar.
January begins tho \year and looks
both ways—toward the\year just past
and that just coming. If was therefore
named by tho Romans for; their god of
war, Janus. Ho hr. I tw > faces, npd
was therefore called Jan Bifrons,
which may bo freely transit,ted'"Holy
Two-front.” Originally thisV was only
the eleventh month, and tIie\foiift pre
ceding were named from Septoim, <V'to,
Novem and Decern, ns they tlUn Were
tho seventh, eighth, ninth an® tenth
mouths, ft wonld take a small Volume
jlo e-plnin l-.'iv.-. ns a quaint f U ii'Vvinno
-ay-, Mieii sixes and s„eli nA tin
III.,mils wer,- knocked to licit 1. ,fy lie.
Caine Iran.dated into < let,,. SuHc-e it* ti
lay. January begins the year now, .'ud
tho other mouths a ro to lie c.xplainedyu
tlmir turn. \
February was ntt unfortunate immtlr,
from the start, Tho Romans did not at
first Intend to liavo any such mouth, but
finding the year all askew they added
some days at tho last of it, and dosig-f
uated them as tho days "to purify"
("februaro" iu old Latin). Finding they
had set tho time too early they put the
new month after January and measured
It by tho moon. When they begun to
"purify” for tho coming summer they
ate beans instead of meat, and therefore
named tho season Lent (•‘lentcs”—
beans). By miscounting the days, how
ever, their year soon got two mouths bo-
hiud, and Julius Cteaar overhauled it
again.
March iu a namo of war. Tho Romans
named it for Mara, their war god, per-
Imps because winter mi l spring contend
for the month.' Wo owo tho Romans one
’or making this the third month, for
Ibis laid tho basis for some of our finest
old crusted jokes, such us "March
furlli!" addressed to tho retiring presi
dent, and tho ehestimtty minstrel com-
utand to tho stago soldiers, "January,
February, March!" Let us remember
the Romans, oven for this little. On
second thought, let us remember them
all tho more us they were not iu a gen
eral way a humorous people.
April is supposed to bo so called be
cause things open about that time
(Latin “uperire”). It is tbo aperient
month, so tospeak. Having no mythology
tbo month is In this latltudo sacred to
catarrh. When tho new humanity does
away with all old superstition and re
establishes a puro Kaxon language, as it
promh os to do. this will probably bo
called Springchickeumouth or Kuch-
leinmouath or BueeSereezer or some
tender little name of that instructive
sort.
May is by common consent the syno
nym for flowers and poetry, women and
children, music and moonlight—every
thing sweet' and soft. As a matter of
fact the popular poetry for the mouth
would suit tho last half of it and the
first half of Juno much liettpi-. The
Romans unnied it from Main, daughter
of Atlas and mother of Mercury. Tho
Romans seldom got married in May, as
the festival of the dead was celebrated
early in tho mouth. It is a bad omen to
bo taken sick in this month—especially
for farmers and gardeners.
Juno was tho wife of Jupiter in clas
sic mythology and made it hot for him
—hence Juno. Some say, however, that
it was so called because it was the
month for young men (juniores). Juno
was the great goddess of motherhood
and growing nature, and so the Romans
honored this mouth with her mime. She
was also subject to sudden storms of
wrath and jealousy and was very vin
dictive, which led Virgil to ask-
la heavenly miacL cau suck resentments
dw*m
August, with its thirty-one days, is a
perpetual reminder of how Augustas
Ctesar (Octavius) slipped up on his uncle
Julius. Ho insisted on having a big
mouth named for himself also, and so
pulled tho whole calendar around so as
to bring two thirty-ono day mouths to
gether in midsummer, as in midwinter,
at the same time changing the name
from Bextilis, or the Sixth (which it then
was), to Augustus. “Dog days” prevail
in this monlh, because the snn is iuC'anis
Major, and Sirius rises about the same
time as tho sun—at least so the ancients
thought—but it is now known that the
heliacal rising of Sirius is peculiarly in
determinate, and therefore etery dog
now has his day.
September is tho month, and the 14th
the particular day, on which the creation
of the world was completed, according
to the old rabbins. Tho Russian priests
added that man was created in this
mouth, because more fruit ripens in it
than in any other. That was when they
had no ideas of south latitude laid hud
never heard of tho equator. In tho
Roman calendar it was the seventh
month, and so they named it from sop-
tern—"seven."
October was tho Romans'eighth month
originally, mid therefore named from
octo—“eight." In llio old legends it
was set down as tho month in which
Adam and Eve were expelled from para
dise.
This was ninth (novem) month to the
Romans. It has long been a notable
month for signs itnd omens, us well as
religious dates, though no one can show
why. Tho Saxons called it “blood
month,” because they slaughtered cattle
and salted away all their winter's beef
iu this month. The old Romans had
many important religious observances
in tins mouth, and the Christians have
adopted some of them. It closes most
appropriately with u general thanks
giving for the fruits of the season past.
The tenth (decern) month iu the old
Roman calendar, but now the twelfth,
is the month of holy memories in all
Christian lauds. The yule log and the
Christmas tree, Kris Kringle and Santa
Claus, tho vacation, the home coming,
the gifts and the holidays—these are of
December. Christmas has conquered all
classes. Tho old Puritans fought against
it in vain. So by the triumph of faith
and civilization combined the season of
cold and often of sleet and rain, the
timo of shortest days and longest nights,
Is turned into tho season of greatest
cheer and hilarity. J. H. Beadle.
THE NEW YEAR.
Wumlcrfu! Insect Illuminations.
The secretary of the Smithsonian in
stitution, Professor Langley, has been ; O’er the mountains wild comes a little child,
expeiuneullllg with Cuban iilctiles With Are blooming l.riaht'neath his steps of light,
a view to discovering the iiianiier in j And ihe valleys ring with his praise,
which the illumination thev omit, is And the mornlugglints on his brow and tints
llis cheek with its rosy rays.
generated. lie says that the light they
give is the “cheapest” in tho world-
produced, that is to say, with tho least
heat and the smallest expenditure of
energy—and ho believes that a success
ful imitation of it would prove a most
profitable substitute for gas or electrici
ty. Tho insects are beetles two inches
long and belong to tho family of "snap
ping bugs,” so called because when one
of them is laid ou its hack it snaps itself
into the ;:ir with a clicking sound. The
secret of the light this firefly gives is as
yet undiscovered.
Apparently it is connected in some
way with the mysterious phenomena of
life, and chemists and physicists have
sought in vain to explain its origin. On
each side of the* uuiinurs thorax is a
luminous membraneous spot, and these
lash at intervals, so that the Cubans put
dozen of the insects in a cage together
aRid obtain a continuous illumination
bright enough to read by. This light is
accompanied by no perceptible heat, and
produced with no expendi-
IIow great nn improve
ment, it represents upon all known nrti-
fieialylights cau be imagined when it is
stated', that iu caudle light, lamp light
or gas .light tho waste is more than 1)9
per ceut\—American Analyst.
\ A Chronic Cu e.
Known, Ichiefly by correspondence, to
many persiAna is a curtain invalid who
spends her t'ay8 in studying her "case"
mid writing about it, Her letters are
long, full of vnpleasnnt details and so
burdened witlii inquiries and requests
I ,1
v /,
til v. > 1
is siVemingly pro
lure’of energy.
that they have
equal length, mil
dressed to men
time is precious.
Sometimes tho
use of u typewriter
vorablo symptoms,
questions about tho
Again, sho finds it m
her mind, and turns t
lug ou uu author to
how to write. Then alio
an experiment iu tronti!
vasses by letter for tv wort!
tion book that sho muy g
to do so.
But always her "case
indirectly tho tbemo of the n
I written pages. All things pi
and to como are relattyl to h
afflictions, In the words of
proverb, “Tho t un shines that
answered at almost
ost of them are ad-
womeu to whom
may see
panion.
id asserts that the
uld relieve r.ufa-
uska a hundred
erent machines,
isary to divert
literature, rely-
lier what and
wives to make
ut, ami cau-
sulscrip-
the money
ircctly or
liy closely
present
iri, uis
ersian
world
her wounds.”—YoUtU's\Com
On Colled In;; Autographs.
His hrlu-lit eyes beam ami his tresses elcnm—
Shot with the sunshine's darts
That mark ids way through the ge.tes of day—
As Ibo dying year departs,
And tho vacant throne U now his own.
And his kingdom is human hearts.
Tho songs ho sings and the joy ho brings
Are wonderful, sweet and rare.
Ami the future glows like a fragrant rnso
’Neath the wand that ho waves In air.
And with kit es sweet, and with smiles, \v«
greet
Tho beautiful, glad New Your,
And rover the liiv.d ot tho 01,1 Year, dead,
With a cold, cold shroud of snow.
Life la sweet, hut time Is Hoot,
And tho years must come and 'D—
The beautiful years, with their smiles tint!
tears,
The years that wo all love so,
VljvJ
/W!
( / “ A, d-Vf
■ ■
J :hp eVi'dlvy
y, j (sy
Kisses find (cars for ils joys and its cares—
Tho year whose steps have par-sed
Into silence sweet, where no fall of feet
is heard in the Dim niaJ Vast.
love the New—
The most elementary form "f the \
tninger s letter i.-kof course the appltca- I Fr;mk y,, summit in Ladies’ II
iou for au autograpli. sjrbis application —
- - • » Put log /bind.
str
tion for au autogrtp'ii. -^Tltisappl
is now reduced to such a Sjt|5tym,tliat it
causes little inconvenience nml
not bo refused. There is usually scut
with tho request a blank card on which
the name is to bo written, with an en
velope stamped and addressed for its re
turn. Nothing can be more unobtrusive
or mechanical, though the lino of pro
priety is at once passed, wo may say,
where two cards are tent, the second
one being obviously for exchange pur
poses or perhaps for sale.
Tho wary author never, 1 suspect,
writes on both cards, since he does not
aim to help cut a mere business trans
action. Where any applicant goes far
ther and asks tin original letter or copied
passage,The affair becomes more serious,
and some authors and public men ignore
such requests altogether, as being much
more serious consumers of time.—T. W.
Higgiuson in Harper's Bazar.
A Zfiirtyr to tlio Cause.
. 1
rs*
(9
Lady of the House—Aren’t yon aware
that the custom of paying calls on New
Year's day has entirely gone out?
Tramp—1 am, madam, but that does
not deter me. As long as there is u drop
of blood in my veins I am going to leave
no stone unturned to bring it buck again.
Closo Quarter^*
n ' <■ *
J S'
S-f-ziJ’
nh
Ll ^
-My tailor has a delicate
what has ho done
il
;
Clara—I hung up my stocking Christ-
aas eve, and what do you think I got
iu it? A beautiful umbrella.
Maude—It must have been a pretty
t.iaihf.
in a street car tno outer ctay two ■from-
en were talking of a sick friend when a
little girl sitting at the side of one of
them interrupted With! "Mamma, what
is tho point of death? Will It hurt Mrs.
Locke?” Bo many such expressions arc
widely misleading to the groping! literal
«Wd Vwk Tlweii
The glowworm lays eggs which, it Is
said, are themselves luminous. How
ever, the young hatched from them are
not possessed of those peculiar proper
ties until after the first transformation.
Elk hunters in western Washington
are so Insatiate in their greed for antlers
and skins that the extermination of the
elk in tho forests of that section of the
state is greatly feared,
A number of the houses la Berlin are
numbered with luminous figures, which
Otm be eanlly obeerved at tiiglRj.
Featherstone-
scitso of humor.
Ringway—Why,
now?
Featlierskme - Ho has scut me a calen
dar for 1884.
Win n (in; Nrw Year ftegins.
Among uiosl i rk'iitul peopl- s the year
is lunar and-'begins with lli" fir. i full
moon of December. In England, from
the Fourteenth century totho change of
calendar in 17the legal year began
on March 2'i. and after the change was
made much confusion in dates resulted
before the matter was fully understood
Even yet it historical issue is soiuetinn a
clouded by the ciifierenco in modes of •
reckoning, and it is thus made 'incer-
tain whether ttn event took place iu tno
year named or in Hint following.
The present beginning of Ut > year on
Jan. 1, in tho middle of lot a
natural but tin entire’ art*
ing point. The Grcc ,Uy
began with tho win • did
the year of most ii" e.us.
Among tho Latin Chtisrimt couatrifis
there Were seven different dates for be
ginning the new yetti. March 1, Jan. 1,
Dec. 2.1, March 25, used in two ways—
firsti by beginning the year nine months
sooner than at present; second, by be
ginning it three months later—at Easter
and on the feast of ascension.
Tho usage of tho same country has
also varied at different times.
In France under the Merovingians the
year began on March 1; the Cerloviu-
giaiis began their year on Dec. 25,
and tho Capetiuns i.t Easter. The Ro
mans, till Caesar's time, began tho year
on March 1, and an illustration of the
reluctance to change names is seen in
tho fact that, although tho names Sep
tember, October, November and De
cember originally denoted the number
the month, -hey are now grossly in-
(Vplic&hle.
Tbo Egyptians, Chaldeans, Per.-ians,
hyriauH, Phoenicians andjCartlinginians
begin their year in the autumn, a.-i did
tho Jews their civil 57 ay,
No Ncp-1 of Rules.
It was one Of tlio faculty in St. Law-
renco college who many years agi^tri''^
swered the question of a horrified Eng
lish lady as to what form of discipline
tho school adopted when men aM
women were allowed to study together: "
"The college has no rules, madam.
Tho young women don’t require any,
and they discipline the'young men with
their very presence. We really Imvs
notluug to do about It ”
Six brothers of the Frost family at
Kansu*' City own the following odd lot
of names: Jack Frost, Winter Frost,
White Frost, Cold Ftoit, Early Fr«\
a&4 ttuow Fmh. . . J
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