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m 4 HEKALD. VOLuIII. “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE faORLD AVE CAN DO ANYTHING.” ■u DAKL1NGTON, SOUTH CAHOLIXA, WEDN ESDAY^ J AN L A 11Y 11, 1893. ' ^ NO. 19. COLDS, COUGHS, CROUP Sore Throat, and Bronchitis are liable to invade the household at any hour of the day or night. They often come when least expected. Before the doctor can reach you, the consequences may be serious os even fatal; but, wR4» Aylk’s Cherry Pectoral in the house, you are assured of speedy relief. It soothes the Inflamed membrane, loosens the phlegm, stops coughing, and induces repfce. Every household, in which there are young children, should be supplied with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral H In raisingstami-”1 have used ly, I have had occa sion to use remedies for eolds, coughs, Bronchitis croup, etc., and am familiar with most of s preparations recommended lor those Cljerry Pectoral her •y. ^S'..... Ayer's Cherry Pec toral with happy re- suits, and consider it a necessity in my household, recom mending it os a remedy for colds and coughs.”—F. M. Acevedo, San Domingo. " “One of our customers, a lady, was time trith chronic remedy for colds, coughs, and the va rious disorders of the throat and lungs. It effects a cure When ordinary medicines fail.”—A. W. £«tUoR, Pittsfield, K. H. "I u^* Ayet'S Cherry* Pectoral in pref- oreueo to a2y other CoUgh medicine;”— Poet Muter, dS8W> tiriugo, Wi Voi Cured by lime, after without fbo tried Ayer's Cherry Fee* toral, and almost Immediately nho was relieved, and In a short time com pletely cured.”—It. S. Webster & Co., Cdora, Out. "Hind that where nil other cough med icines fall, Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral proves successful.”—J. H. White, Gilead, Ind. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral frtpartd by Dr< J> 0, Aytr A Co., Lomll, Mis, Sold by DruggitU EcerywKtri, Prompt to act, sure to euro BOOK, -BOOKS. Stationary Novelties.. SCHOOL SUPPLIES A SPECIALU All School Books have been reduced iu price since last season Toys, Wagons &c. Full line smalt Musical Instrument*, PIANOS, ORGANS «&c. DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. E. C- ROTHOLZ, later teals la fash Us. Persian Mulls in V«fy fleal design. BP'dt Sheer Stripe and Plaid Lawns, Glysco stripes, block ground and haiidsomo figures. Linen chambrays. Immense Hue of Parasols with pretty handles. Ladles’ summer undervests. 10 cents and upward. eilki milts in all lengths^ CORSETS! \Ve have sis gfttdM of the IL & 8. cofietes best value for the mony. The largest assortment of cream add black laces in all widths. We hivi Open up some Very deilrable Point Do Jenos, Point Do Gui pure and Point De Irlamte in white and ecru. Our MILLINERY Is Still ddlhiiidied by Miss Maggie Jones, who hat proven to the ladies that Up slid cati and tries to please; THE CABIN ON THE CLAIM. Lonely.you say, with inluhly arch Of rky so grandly bcnJIuii? By bright lull'd clonUs nml glhlerinK stars A Icmler message somlla^V Joyless? WLsn ont of crimson cloud TLo suarlSe foors its trlory. Morn after morn rviwfttlng well Aurora's cheerful story? Fenceless? When ulcht with noiseless feet, Fro.a fields of herbs and flowers. Sweet odors in her mantle dark Bears to this tot of ours? Uke faintest sounds of distant sons Pounding some castle hoary, We hear the groat world's roar and frit And trace her changeful story. As far away white glooming sail, Turnlug a bend of river, A noble deed with radiant flash Makes every heurtstrtug quiver. So, thankful, where the kindly stars ‘ Spangle thu blue with beauty, We look and breathe tbs fen-sot wish That all may do their duty, -Boston Transcript. CARING FOR THE GOOD BOOK. fFLOWERS AND LOVE. 4 WHITE WOODCHUCK BRIEF BIOGRAPHY OF AN EXTREME LY INTERESTING PET. Your call is requested. E. C ROTHOLZ, MAIL ORDERS promptly attended to, John C. White, Darlington, South Carolina. Stoves, Tinware, Pumps, Piping, House Furnishing Goods, Bolts, Tobacco Flues, &c. Gall ant Bniiiio Our M, and vo coo Plei you. ft#» j| till be OtittU tor V«u, A PROFESSIONAL ‘weeper.” BEHIND P1USON DAKS. Uow tho Scvlptupco Were I’reservctl Pre vious to Their Translation. The books of tho law were the first books of the Bible to be collected by tho prieststind leaders of the Israelites; after the law came the written history of tho Baskets of Rare Blossoms That Cost the people, in the Fifth century B. £„ Iho Ardent Youth Hundreds of Dollars. HUGE SUMS ARE OFTEN SPENT BY SENTIMENTAL FELLOWS. collection of the prophets by Nehetniuh^ and from his time onward the collection of hagiogrupha, the Psalms, Proverbs, Job, Canticles. All of these had been preserved by tho prietts, copied and re- copied as occasion required, and circa- Florists In New York City Do a Thriv ing Business in All Seasons. "I want to be hung up.’’ When a dap per young ‘‘blood” or an old Gotlium dandy comes into a iioral ostabli-hment luted in tuaunscripta, as of odarso all ]a Fifth avenue some bright fall after- writings were circulated iu thpse days. ■ noon and uses the above expression, ut The dispersion of the ^Hebrews and. the same time winking tho other eye, , .. . > anA tho tradesman knows that the customer their acquisition of atbmUl__ loss of the Hebrew language, nWossitat- J i P i„ Jove, and tbnt this is perhaps the ed tho translation of the Scriptures Ur'* other than tho Hebrew, and previous tho Second century D. 0. what wo km as the Septuagint ttunslaiion—the LXX [beginning of a long campaign in which tho principal scene is to bo Cupid dully dug amid the iiowors. Maybe she's au actress. A Wild Little Creature That llecams Do- mesliraled by Kindness—ill. Long I'e- rinds lit Sleep ab.l flow Ho Looked Dur litg Them—His Awakening. Some years ago In the spring, whilt traveling on the Belfast Dranch railroad, just before arriving at Brook Station, 1 chanced to be looking oat of the cat window and saw a curious looking ani mal run under a pile of brush In a grave) pit near the track. 1 concluded at once that It mast be an albino woodchuck, ai my husband had told me one had been seen In that vicinity, At the etatlon i hastily procured u basket, and securing the assistance of two boys 1 proceeded Without loss of time to tho gravel pit, and overhauling some bf tho brush soon found the prize. As 1 had conjectured, ft tvns un albino Woodchuck about two- thirds grown, pure white, with pink ift eSj and as saucy u little fellow as one Would care to handle. Without much difficulty l dropped my basket over him, afad securing him returned to the sta tion, boted aim up and expressed him homo to my husband, with instructions to keep him on a milk diet until my re turn it Week Inter. Un returning home 1 found my pot en sconced In ft hest of cotton, purring away like a contented kitten. He seemed quite reconciled to the resti'aluts of captivity, had already become so tame as to allow his beautiful snow White coat to be stroked, and seemed especially to enjoy gentle stroking about tho face, Which 1 think is u characteristic of most wild nlilnmls, and one of the ways of estab lishing confidential relations with them. For tint first year his food consisted prin cipally of bread and milk, with an oc casional handful of plantain leaves. A must Interesting sight Was to watch him Wlille being fed. He would sit up like a squirrel, holding his food In his paws. He soon learned to take his milk from a spooti. Grasping It near the bowl, lie Would hold it very gracefully until the mrtli was all lapped out; then, with a lit tle assistance, would return it to the cup to ts? tilled, and repeat tho operation until his iipiwtite whs satisfied. Then he would go Into his nest, roll himself up like a kitten and take a Rtip of several hours. With one exception he never showed his wild, savage nature during the two years jf tils life In confinement. Early In the fall the disposition to hi henmte begun to show itself by bis lack of activity, and he remained in his nest must of the time, his sleep becoming so profound that bo could be taken from the nest without awaking. About Nov. 1 his sleep for the winter began. He wiis placed in the cellar, where the teni peraturo was very even—just above the freezing point—and here he remained without being disturbed until the mid die of March. * During all this time his body remained cold,and toall outward appearances life less. Als.nt the time of his awakening in March, upon visiting him and placing my liati-l on his liody, I found it to he quite Wiinn. and after rubbing him for a few moments he began to yawn ami stretch, but did not get upon Ills feet. The next day I took him into a warm room in order to watch the process of awakening, rubbing ids body and legs for an Inmr or more. Hu seemed quite indifferent to my solicitude on his be half, but gradually awakened, opened his eyes, chattered Ills teeth, and gave that pecnlliir whicker so characterlxtlc I iif a disturbed woodchuck. | His efforts to stand upon his feet were for some hours ineffectual. He seemed to hate lost the use of them. Toward night, hoWever, he seemed to regain full control of all his faculties and partook of a little milk. I was surprised to no tice but little loss of fat during the long jieriod of sleep. He had become ex cessively fut before going into his win ter sleep, and I expected that would be absorbed during that period. His for had become long and of u beautiful sil very gloss—so white and silky that it was ft pleasure to stroke and pet him. Upon his first awakening and forn day or two he seemed to have forgotten Ills friends and manifested his wild na ture so much iia to make himself very disagreeable. He ate with a voracious tippetlte utid began to grow thin. In a few .lays lie became a mere skeleton of his former self, and for several weeks— nutll .Imie 1—did not begin to take on fiesh Ho now displayed more activity than at r.uy other lime during the year The following winter Ills sleep was In terrupted nu'-e in two weeks. This was done by wrapping him In warm flannels ami placing bfu iu a warm room. He partook of hut little food, and during the jieriod of two days of broken rest he seemed very uneasy. About tbo last of March, when he should have awakened tu activity, lie was taken sick and died In convulsions after ft sickness of two days. I now have him nicely mounted iu my collection, among which are several albinos, but none so perfect os iny beautiful pet.— Cor, Forest tod fltream. Indian Blood Is Prominenti People of Indian blood predominate lil Paffti BrnSil, and are found in all classes; from servants ttnd peddlers to capital* ists nod high government officials. There ei’C very few Portuguese or Africans/ ' nbd the descendants of both these races ’■ show a large admixture of Indian blood/ i •*i’UUjuleli>Ui4 Ledgct, -was completed iu Greek, designed .es-f In that ease there will bo no limit to tlfn bunging Up matter. Every swell Gotham florist knows that his oUstomers teldtrtn pay Cush for tho iioral decoration to their lovo uff./irr. There is p'onty of ri; k in the business, but the profits avi so large that the tradesmen take the risks. You would bo surprised at tho number of men in swell circles who play "broke" to their florist. ''Cfiiasn me, chase me." This is what they say when the trades man juTsents a bill. Thousands and thousands of d dlars are spent yearly by Iho young dudojam! (he old chappies of Gotham on their fa vorite actresses, Maybe Cholly goa / to the "Clack Crook" some night, and there on sight falla under tho fascination of the chcfas girl's fair beauty, If you are cynical or dyspepsia yon will have your doubts about her age and her hair! bn: Cholly lain raptures all evening. 1 hat night lie hangs around the stage entrance. Next day Ije goes to his florist, takes that worthy aside mid tells him all about it, "1 think n $1C0 basket will do, eh?" Cholly nods. "1 will make yon a basket four feet high. It will bo delivered over the foot- jjghtts promptly at 0 o'clock. It will ]» decorated with very wide pink nml blue satin ribbon it yard long. For n him- dml oxtra f will put a couple ,,f doves in tho basket, cpncculed amid tho roses. The doves tviil have satin ribbons tied ' to their feel, Aa the basket Is h.imled over the lights the littcndunt shakes t-.e souvenir, and out fly the doves. Ah. old fallow, what do you say to (hat, eh?" “Vcr-ry well; hang me up for-r two Uun'ned, dontchcrknow." It is a common Ihing for a swell Now York florist to j iepnre a flflil baske t i aonio actress, To order a$100 basket : ■ a commonplace. A $100 basket usually consists of culled roses, generally American Ceuuties, of rave eizo and xweetness. Tho flowers arc cut with the stalks, and when placed in the gold tinted basket utaml four feel high. The offering Is tricked out wuh great widiha of blue, gold, J;i:ik or ye l low ribbon, in thocenterof 1 ho bouquet space is left for n satin or bico box. The usual jirotcstaticna of regard are written on scented note paper. This is the open ing of the romance. jjGcially for tho Hebrews living in Alex andria and other jiarts of Egypt. Tho Septuugint comes from a tradition that seventy scholars*-*-seventy-ttoo actually —made the translation. Trauelationa and recensions into tho Aramaic were also made, and these translations were copied from time to time, go that the oldcet manuscript of (be Old Testament now extant is only about 1,400 years old. Tho case is the same with tho Now Testament. It v.-oa written again and again, until now there ore Upward of 1,000 manuscripts for the Gospels and as many more for tho Vest of iho New Tes tament. Tho oldest manuscripts tiro tho Codex Wtutiticus r.nd the CodeX Vatica- uus, which date from the Fourth century A. D. So tho books of the Bible were banded down, tho old copies always be ing renewed before they wore out, the language being Hebrew, Greek and after A. 5. GOO, Latin. The latter, In the tvans- latioti adopted by tho Roman church, end known as the Vulgato, because com- inouly Used in tho Christian churches, Was tho iirst book printed, in 1430-fi. As far back i:r, the Seventh century portions of the Vulgate were translated into English, and the early Versions by Wyclif and his predecessors, by Pur vey and others, were translations from the Vulgate. Tyndulu used Luther’s German translation of the Greek Bible. Thu authorized version of Ring James was made by forty-seven scholars and finished in ICIIi the manuscripts/ co far as accessible, were consulted, tho tram- lators not restricting themselves to the Vulgate, but going to the Hebrew ami t-rot k whenever they could.—Pittsburg Uirjiateh. _________ A "C’liuructor" hi t’rarce. Recently a French gentleman, reply- ng to an inquiry by a lady cone rnii.g iho character and qualifications of a woman who had applied to her for the noMticu of cook, and who had lately oeeu iu thegi-utletuau's service, said that no could not recommend the applicant! that she was "extravagant, Impertinent and somewhat given to drink.” The lady gave the latter to tho applicant for the cook’s position, who immediately brought! .-,uit for damages against the writer, Tho ease was decided against tho Writ- j er of tho letter. Who was fined and ad monished that lie hud co right to give 1 circulation to Injurious statements coa-; corning another person —" • l — '-barges were true. if the kittle Miss Million receives roses it J January. In order to evade the responsibility '“i 0 ™ r< ? American Boamies. .. . p„ -.. il... l / ! They cost in I uih uveimo Cl 30 jh-v rose. That is eighteen dollars a dozen, Maybe she gets two dozen it day in u big blue thus Introduced in French law house keepers have taken to issuing such *‘rec- j ommendatious" as this; "This certifies that Mine. Hortonse, lato nurse to my son. aged one year, did not leave him on a bench at the Jardi a dt-s Plantes and go away and forget him on the 20ih of August last.” The certificate is intended to bo taken ’ in a contrary sense, and serves its pur pose without laying the writer open to a suit for damages.—Youth s Companion. A Problem. Once there were two tramps who were actually looking for work. In the course of their wanderings they came upon a pile of coal iu front of u palatial resi dence. Said the tramp with the inferior intel lect, “Let us engage ourselves to stow away this fuel at a price of twenty-five cents." "Nay, nay,” said the tramp of superior intellect; "let me go within and negotiate." And be did negotiate and secured the job at a rate of fifty cents, of which sum ho gave cne-half to hie companion to perform the necessary manual labor, re serving one-half unto himself for super intending operations, Whereat ho of the inferior business ability, tuough he bad received twice the amount cl work he expected and a bis own rate of compensation, lifted up his voice in wroth and swore by various deities that he had been bunkoed. Was he right?—Indianapolis Journal. VYbat Men and Women Tell. There is one radical difference between men ami women that “it may be said generally of novelists, that men know tnorc than they tell, and women tell more than they know." It may bo true of novelists. In real life neither tells all bo or tho knows, and tho difference shows In what they keep. A woman tells tho thing that is not vital. She will tell somo one almost every detail of her daily life, but let her have n heart story, un-l sho not only keepsit locked in, bat sltelives as though it had no existence. A man seorna to relieve his mind of little worries by asking for sympathy. But let a great teeret come into his life —he dies unless ho tells it to some ouc. He will do it even when tt brings him in the shadow of death or bitterest dis grace.—Charles Dudley Warner in Har per's. How Greeley Learned to Itead. By otingulor adaptation to the changes of motion on his mother's part while spinning Horace Greeley whet a young ster acquired tho unwonted quaiit’ - of reading with the book In almost an po sition, sidewise or uprido down, e" ■ -a- llyasin tho usual fashion, wit' .at at that time thinking it anything unusual. —St. Louis Post-Dispatch. lil'i'l 11 r >'V ■ »■ ^ - iYA A Btartlltty, Tutrjrum. and gold box. Cholly pays for those. “There arc hundreds of high rollers in Gotham,” says tho exclusive Const, “who spend enough each season to keep a family—sjicnd it on flowers for the giddy queen of the footlights and upon their lady loves. "It is not uncommon to receive an or der from come young dude to deliver to his lady friend a bouquet each morning, say for a mouth. lie will plank down 5130 with the order. For this cum we .are to semi little Miss Million a bunch of selected roses for thirty mornings. There is to bo an air of romance over the gift. It is to bo sent to the house promptly at 0 o'clock each morning. No note or name is to accompany it. Little Miss Million is not to know, you know. Of course lie will call each night and sec his liowers on the piano. Maybe one night ho will bo rewarded by seeing her wear one beautiful rose in her yellow hair. 1 am sure that is worth ijlM to any young chappie.” There is no limit to tho money that may bo paid for floral decorations for a swell Gotham funeral. The late Iu mentod Patricks Gilmore's funeral was made .memorable with oaeringa whose value ran up into the thousands, but it is sweet to know, however, that many of these flowers came from tho common jwople, who loved him co well lit life. General Grant'a funeral whs graced, swell florists say, with tnoro flowers than New York ever saw before or since. In Gothutu tho "floral emblem” holds full sway in the matter of appropriate tributes to death. In Gotham, if you are mi nthlcte, your friends will pio’eably remetnbet you with n pair of "floral boxing gloves" at yonr demise, In Gotham, if yon die at liulf post 8, your friends will probably remember you with a grand "fa ral hall clock," the hands stopped at halt’ past 8. In Gothutu, if you die a letter carrier, your friends will jirobably remember yon with a "floral lamjtpost nml mail box,” with a letter to yourself on top of the box, addressed with your name and the legend, "At rest in heaven.” In Gotham, if yon die a railroad man, your friends will probably remember you with a "floral train of cars,” engine and all. In Gotham, if yon uro connected with the Brooklyn bridge and should chance to die, your friends will probably ro- member you with a “floral Brooklyn bridge," maybe nine feet long. In Gotham,if you are to die a duds o? a chappie, your friends will probably retnemoer you with a "floral s.vi-gir- otto case" boaring the words on tho cover; CUoLuY-aoitS UP IllGHEa. i —New York iierald. A Young S'rai't,, W ho Bogging More rrolitulito Thun Working. "Jack the Weeper’’ is well known about tho lower pert of the town. He has been exploited in tho newspapers in connection with arrest and incarcera tion, lias been interviewed and had his pictuio taken, and on various occcasious lias sworn off from professional weep ing. “Jack the Weeper” is a diminu tive looking specimen of a seven-year- old boy with a twenty-year-old face and a stock of experience and cunning rarely accumulated by mankind this sido of fi y. Ho is ostensibly a newsboy, but the fraternity hold him in great con- icmpt or know him only to thump him. Lis "racket" has been to get a bundle of pi pent together Into in tho evening.end weep at tV.o foot of the elevated stairs down town. Sympathetic people cast him pennies and nickels and dimes, and sometimes an occasional quarter or half dollar found mi abiding placo in tho weeper’s ittside pocket—all on the supposition that he was an honest la 1 who had been "stock,” Thus tho weeper found that tears could bo coined into cm'U more easily and profitably than by the ordi nary coarse of tho news trade. But just aa Jack hud worked uji a fairly regular trade in camo a policeman, a cold and calculating man of the world, with n club, mid broke Up business by arrest, examination and consequent publicity. At the foot of a down town stairway of a Sixth tivenue elevated station in the most fashionable part of Now York ro- etnily occurred u setno which demon strated that "Jack tho Weeper” had not only not gone out of business, but had vastly Improved upon former methods. It wao about tho fashionable shopping hour and tho swell women and dilettan^ young men were' flocking to tbo down town trains. A delicate lad, with a con sumptive corgii and u bundle of castoff looming nev.cpapers, cl cod shivering at tile foot of the stairs, two groat big homemade tears plowing their way through tho dirt on his cheeks ns the muddy waters cf tho Missouri reek the sea. Several of u:t stopped out of sym pathy and began to question tho boy. At the same lime nearly every hand In the crowd instinctively sought for change. An exceedingly sharj) eyed lady impulsively pulled out u bill and pushed it into his trcmbltegfingers, accompany ing the act with an appealing look around upon the rest of us, It worked. Everybody iu eight gave silver, and an old lady who cnr.e in later on Iho scene pressed a t wo dollar note upon tho child. I utisaed two trains to note tho goodly sight, and 1 felt proud cf my fellow creatures r.nd tho beautiful cymjtathycf my kind. TIki boy never erdd a word. Ho merely coughed and wept and scooped in tho coiu. in tho excitement of the moment 1 forgot tin errand 1 had at the next station mid went past it. Then I got out, wont up tho other side and rode back. There was a little mob gathered on the down town tido at tho foot of the stairs. So nearly liko tho other mob wan it that r.t (ir.-t I thought 1 had made another mistake and gone back to my starting point. But not it was the next station. Weil, "shiver my timbers!” as the old salt says, If there wasn't tho sums boy with the same graveyard cough, the sumo weep, the sarao old papers, and, what was more astonishing, here was the same sharp eyed, benevolent lady in the midst of n group of sympathetic women, just, starting a liberni subscription. My first impulse was to jump in and grab iter and yell for the police, but 1 conquered it and walked away, wonder ing how much money there was in this new snap of the woman and tbo weeper. —New York Herald. WHAT MAY BE SEEN IN ANY GREAT HOME OF CRIMINALS. A Visit to Sins Sing, New York State's i'nmoua Ucrcptaclo for Convicts—The I'riaou 0<Ior — Tito Apimrcnt Lack of Strength In Visible Government. A prison interior bus n. strange, mor bid fascination for the average freeman. There is such a general atmosphere of weird unreality about it ail, accentuated by the sternest realities of au iron disci pline. From tbo burly, hard faced guard, who leans ujtou his shining Win chester in tho sentry box on tho walls, to the jtale consumptive murderer, whose hacking cough is the only sound that breaks tho stillness of the prison hos pital, everybody and thing is strnngch different from tho outer world. Hun dreds of silent, striped suited convict bending over thoir workbenches, walk ing about tbo yard witj^urms folded ci marching In lockstep wnh eyes averted surround the visiter on every side. There is ft peculiar odor born both l);. the prison aparnsicnts and by the pri>o inmates Which is ns marked and di. tinctive as tho odor of the hospital or >. the steerage. It tells of a life of torpb. Ity, barren of sunshine and of chan . It tells of utensils and cells made sta and foul with constant usage iu spite < endless scrubbing and rinsing. Tli, prison is one groat hive of yellow, cio cropped, hangdog looking humanity, speaking to their keepers or to the; companion laborers ntrarc Intervals at. in subdued tones, but possessed of son;' secret freemasonry and means of com municatiou with one another and wi. the outside world that baffics the mo: rigid discipline and searching inqui.-i tion. Tho thing that strikes the visitor fren tho outer World most is tho npr.ren weakness Of the governing power. A hundred Convicts armed with knives tv, c feet long mid sharp as razors are cutti;;; out great piles of clothing in a root: guarded by half a dozen apparently un armed keepers. Another company surly malefactors are plying tho hammci and chisel in a stone yard, mingling with a handful of guards whose skulls couh he split in five seconds after the giving ol a preconcerted signal. It is the vast but unseen slumbering power of tho state that holds them; tho knowledge of the keen sighted, iron nerved marksmen on the outer walls,' whose repeating rifle,- carry seventeen lives apiece, and the hopelessness) of flight to n world where every man’s hand would be against them, and even temporary success could only end in death or lengthened jninishin -nt. Principal Keeper Conuanghton, of Hi; ■ Sing prison, has spent seventeen years of his Hfo among convicts and never car ried a pistol. Dozens of times he has been assaulted by desperate convicts, but his brawny arm and heavy stick have carried him through safely. "What was the narrowest escape you ever had?” a wondering visitor asked him ouco. “When u follow jumped on me with a knife us I was sitting iu my office," said tho keeper. "What did you do?" "Sent him to the hosj-.ltul when 1 fin ished," was the laconic but exjiresstve answer. "They have no heart,” continued this steely eyed convict driver with the square, massive jaw. “Iu the days When wo worked them in the quarries i hare seen three hundrud-of them iir.nk away iu n body and go running down through the yard to the railway track. Only two guards with Winchesters Stood between this rushing mob and freedom. The first three shuts dropped the first three convicts, and the rest turned and ran for their lives back to quarters." Among the curiosities of every prison arc the famous convicts, notorious mn,- derers, fallen bank jtresidetits, clever swindlers and romantic desperadoes of every type. The oldest prisoner is also trotted out for inspection by the spe cially favored; route old, white haired, jialo faced man, who for twoseore years perhaps has not looked beyond the jirison walls, stands blinking before the visitors. When he left the world the civil' war was unfought, France was an empire, Germany u mass of disorgan ized states. Outside the shining river still draws Us water from the jiurjile all Is Distilling Huso I’crfumcs. We stojiped before a halm to look at a distillery and rose field and were wel comed by the proprietor, who was also landlord of the inn. Seats were pnt for us behind the brazier, where it was not a little warm, and soon miniature cups of coffee were presented to us by his rosy cheeked wife. In front of a long shed six large chal drons stood over the brazier, and into these vessels about a £100 worth of roses wore put with warm water. The iron tubes through which the vapor es- Mpes passed through a long tin recep tacle shaped like a trough, which was filled with cold water, and below which large glass bottles stood to receive the first distillation. Three distillations are necessary before the oil of tho rose ap pears. We were shown a small bottle Into which thoessence just distilled had been poured. The eglor is a rich, deep gold, and the smell is strong, subtle and pene trating-pleasant for the first instant, but soon producing^ tt sense of giddiness and oppression in *the head. It affects everything near if, and the jjerfuuie clings tenaciously even in the open air. Tho proprietors arc secured from be ing cheated, as tho peasants cannot en dure the perfume they themselves tnami- facture and make no use of it what ever. It is sealed up iu leaden botth and sent to tho great perfume empori ums in London and Paris, and a thou sand different scents each have us their essence a few drops of this rich, thick oil.—Blackwood's Magazine. Rata In nil i:ugtl»li Mmol, In the summer holidays of IBM tl'0 fioor of Long chamber in Eton school Was removed, and two large cartloads of bones, chiefly of necks of mutton, were token from between the floor and the ceiling of tho rooms below, How they came there was explained by Mr, Gut ter, then vice provost, He told the pres ent writer Hint when tho sixth form boys took their supper In "chamber" tho rats were Wont to come out cf holes lit the floor and wainscot to feed on the bones Which were flung to theta. When these animals from time to time became u nuisance by their numbers, a fag was sent round while the rats were feeding to Insert long stockings in their holes, with tho upertuveu carefully opened. The modern sock was then unknown, When this was done nn alarm was given. The rats on rushing to their holes were trapped iu tho stockings, which were then drawn out, mid tho rats werO banged to death against the beds. "And you went into schoi. next morning in the same stockings, sir?” "Of course, of course," was the reply; "we could not get clean clockings when we pleased."— Nineteenth Century. Arc Scott ttml Dickens Obsolete? Who reads Scott and Dickens now? To that question what is tho true au swer? The implied answer of course is Unit no one reads them or that their readers are getting yearly fewer. It may bo said at once, and it may be said flatly, that it is not tho case. They are not only still read by many peojile, but they «re read by more penjilo today than they ever were before. This fact is sub stantiated by tho copies of their works that are sold; indeed it stares us in the fnco at cvciy railway book store, Scott and Dickens, if measured by tho unmber of their readers, ore growing in popularity, not declining. I should cer- __ tainly say that, so far as my_ own ob- hjn, cud busy life flows’on, but lervutiou can inform me, no two writers; t 0 hjm, arc more universally familiar at thisrao-: As the visitor stands In the little ment tlutn Bcott and Dickens, The old j gj-gen courtyard at sundown and sees have read them; tho young arc reading j company niter company of sickly look- them, nor heed any one doubt tho fact j | n g orisooers issue from shops and etore- becuuee they arc not discussed like nor- j ro0 m 8 un d wind mound the walks like Cities.—W, H. Mullock in Forum. j go many huge centipede, with tho un* ~ ~ 1 delations of tho lockstep, each man A I amous Lxprcsftlon. 1 - The First War Correspondents. In a sense Julius Ctcsar was u war env- respondent, only he did not send his "commentaries" piecemeal from tho "theater of war,” but Indited them at his leisure in tho subsequent peace lime. The old Swedish Intelligencer of the Gustavus Adolphus period was genuine war correspondence, published 1 nUed tardily compared with our news of to day, but nevertheless fresh from tho scene of action, full of distinctiveness, quaint and racy beyond compare. The first modern war correspondent professionally commissioned and paid by a newspaper was Mr. G. L. Grime- is’en, a well known literary man, only re cently dead, who was sent to Spain by The Morning Post with the "Spanish Legion," which Sir de Lacy Evans com- tnanded in 1887 in tho service of the queen of Spain. But. this new departure was not followed up, mid no English paper tvaa rejircasiited in the great bat 4 tics of the iirst and second Pnnjaub Wars.—Archibald Forbes in Century. | with a slop pail on Ida arm and a loaf of ! bread in his hand; as he views them dis appearing into the cryptiiko dining room, whoso floor is wet with the slojis from a thousand tin coffee cups, or watches them filing into the tier after tivuted it so badly that onoTthem told 1 tT ^ ^ ct ”? 1 ' tn t .'sto th,, ton, stunt little cells where the ingot mon phrases this expression has an old is passed under lock and key; as he j comes through the low arched entrance ! on his way to freedom and catches a "There's many a slip Twist tho cup ami the lip" is a very old saying, and was first uttered to tho king of Samos, | an island in tho Grecian archipelago. This king, Ancceus by name, planted a vineyard and treated the slaves who cul- Wns Converted mid Bald Hie Old Hct. Ten years ago Allen Talmudge was staying in Indianapolis. He got into au argument with a man and made a l>et of five dollars on the point in dispute. Mr. Tuhuadgo proved to be wrong and paid the five dollars. Aftcrfi-ard they got to arguing which was the longest river in the world, and Mr. Talmudge found out that his river was the longest and went to the man for his money, but ho re fused to pay it. Mr. Talmadge abused him for taking hie money and refusing to pay when ho hud honestly lost it. Mr. Talmadge moved back to Georgia, and about a week or twoagogut it letter from tbo man asking for his address, as he had a little mutter of business with him, The address was sent, and Friday a letter camo inclosing ft check on New York for live dollars, and saying that ! he had boon converted and iHOOght it - tight to send the amount of; Ite tjcf made ; ten years ago.—Athens; - .J B u.iitr. From tho ttOI'ISlir, ! ‘‘Put yonr right foot forStiUist 1 ' is a ' piece of advice that has bekti offered to , most folk, young chit old, in tho course - of their lives. It is generally equiva lent to saying, "Now’s your chance; do your very best and show what you ore him ho would never live to taste the wine uta ’j from it. When tho wine was ready and a cup of it poured out for the king ho sent for the slave who had mug tie sent ro l ie stave ' no : llmp3e of t h e waiting room, where a prophesied ins death, and asked him ,« Btan - 8 with ,» what ho thought cf his prophecy r jv The tlave replied, "There's many a Slip'twixt tho cup and tbo lip,” and just as ho had spoken tho words Ancams re ceived warning that a wild boar had broken into his vineyard and was ruin ing it. Put' mg don u tho wine untasted, “ ho lu ho r J aHM# tt9 h u never did be- I 1 . 0 r , U M, 1C, 1 1 * t ^.. t ^' aUd fore that the way of the transgressor is hard.—f?ew Vori; Trilmpc phrases origin. In tho days of ancient Rome, when people were usually the slaves of some superstition or other, it wns thought to bo unlucky to cross the threshold of n house with the left foot first. Consequently a boy was placed at the door of the mansion to remind vis* hears the great iron gate shut with a itors that they were to put their right prisoner stun js with a look of agony in I.is dull face beside tho sob shaken form Of a visiting sister or mother; as he harsh, jangling sound behind him and slowly shakes off tho horror and dis grace that steep the very atmosphere of was killed.—Harper’s Young Pocule. Aunt Sclndu’s Four Hundred. ‘An old negro woman has established a rttir «*i Hi nt»’»■». Mr. and Mis? Dancer are reputed tho misers of tho Eighteenth century. The manner in which this name is Scinda, and her followers ate couple were found after death to have . - disposed of their wealth was even more about 400. Scinda is their queen, and than could have been their rules her flock with an iron rod. They method of acquiring it. The total value uso no Bibles at their meetings, for each wa8 jgjq ooo, which was thus disposed of member is supposed to know it by heart. _£2.500 were found under a dunghill; If Bclnda asks them n Diclical question j u Bn 0 u nulled to the manger ; thoy are supposed to have un answer at a new theocracy at Grenada, Miss., said most notorious i J. H. D. Miller, cf Coffcyville. "Her C(J p tary . Tll0 name is Scinda, ami her followers are culled 'Scinda Bund,’ They number e supposed to have un answer at. j n the stable: £600 in notes were hidden C ook nn she’ll div 0nt0 ‘ a ' v !‘y a “ olJ the chimney when he turns,-Hi Tho Area of the Moon. Recent astronomical calculations have Ten girls In a composition class were told to write ft telegram such us would caused the "star gazers" to announce be suitable to send home iu case of a that thu sut face of the mcou is about us railway accident while traveling. One great as that of Africa and Australia of the girls wrotsi "Dear Pupa—Mamma combined, or about equal to the tinea of is kilted. 1 am Ut the refnwhmout North and Bouth America withuut the rvoi&,"-‘£icU«jjge.. |Wauaii,~L*¥hu»*e, yielded £2,000, stowed in nineteen sejv arate crevices. Several jugs lilted with j coin wero secreted iu the stable loft,— Cassell’# Journal, Sunday evening and they are interest- tug to observe. Tho congregation—men and women—are decked ont in costly ribbons and beads. Their chants are as Weird ns the sobs and sighs of graveyard trees. They dance to the music of the' banjo and tambourine until they arc An apple grown near Portcrsville, 1 nearly exhausted, aud thett they go Cal., Is reported to v. .di almost two I home,"—St, Louli Republip, pounds and metumc kmwi tuchc# in ! jClKlUflfli'CUW, p.ot foremost. The use of Iho phrase iu tho Wider sense soon became obvious.— Lewiston Journal. Dancers of llatUing itt a tils til vers Few people are aware of the danger of bathing in tho Missi'- ippi. Aside from tho perils of tho treacherous currents and eddies, which will draw a man un der before he knows lie is lit any danger, there are fish in the river big enough to bite off a man’s leg at one snap.—St, Louis Globe-Democrat. Tho flight Man. Papa—Dear mo! My watch has run down, and I can’t make it co again. Willie—Div it to mo, fU uiv it to It to the watchman Harper’s Baiar, A FrofoMlon for lllltt, Fond Mother (of delicate dude)—1 think it is time Clarence selected a pro* fession. What would yon advise? Did itnt (reflectively)—He might do fiicfcly at a typewriter girl,—New Yort WmU/,