Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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' TH. DAY'S WORK. Do the work of the day as well As you h.rue the wit to do; Try for the best-for the cst will tell What was the end in view. Always your best-it is cheap to shirk; The best makes the worker glad; And people remember the better work, For;ctting the weak and bad. They remember the careful tool As well as the perfect ?ong. Scant is the memory for a fool, Or him who is idle long. People remember the honest few Who gave of the best they had They will remember the good you do, And always forget the bad. Do the work of the day as well As though it would close your toil. He who a sermon in stone would tell Must chisel and carve and moil. Weak and lifeless, or firm and true, The wcrk of the day is set. People remember the good we do The bad they will soon forget. Yesterday is a record made, Changeless, for good or ill; Hands to-day must be unafraid, Ready to work your will. Useless, to-morrow, to sadly rue Plans that were far from sure. People remember the good you do, And they forget the poor. -W. D. Nesbit, in Baltimore American. / w o Ralph Masson was a consumptive. You knew it by the bright hopeful eye, the dull pale skin, and the nervous ir ritable cough that accentuated his slightest speech and racked his at tenuated frame. And his tempera mental vivacity was due to the same dgead disease that while consuming life dazzles the senses with golden vis ions of longevity. Masson was night telegraph operator at a small station on the Illinois Cen tral Railroad between Chicago and New Orleans, in a locality where pine forests modified the air with a tonic of balsam for hurt lungs and the dry, sandy soil furnished a chance for open air exercise. Masson owned a good horse and at hours when he was duty free he rode his race for life with zest and satisfaction. Like all consump tives his spirits increased as his nealth declined, and he saw with feverish in tensity a long vista of future pros perity. Something peculiar in the mental make-up of the young operator was .-both interesting and haffling to new -acquaintances, but it was merely the expression of a cult which is not yet one of the exact sciences, but which has Immense undeveloped possibili ties. Ralph Masson was a student of psychic phenomena, a firm believer in telepathy and an ardent investigator Into every new occult theory. He was himself a hypnotist, possessing a na tural gift, cultivated and developed by study and practice. At Harvey Sta tion he had small opportunity to im prove this faculty, but there was one family living a few miles down the line where he found a willing convert to his peculiar views, and what was more Important a valuable subject to carry them out successfully. Margaret' Lansing, a girl of elgh teen, became infatuated with the .strange new power and gave Masson her intelligent co-operation when at an evening entertainment at the little dis trict schoolhouse, before he went on duty, he gave an exhibition of his skill and easily sent her into a profound hypnotic sleep. Her family and friends were present and gave their consent, looking upon it as a part of the evening's entertainment and see ing nothing serious in the perform ance. They were merely amused and incredulous when, laying his hand on her forehead with ;a light touch, he said: - "Go over to the station, go Into the office, and tell me what you see there." He did not know that she could or would' submit to the test; she had doubtless been there at some tinae and might describe it from memory, and the test would be of no value. She did not respond quickly, and he re peated the command. After a moment she began to shiver as with fear. *"What do you see?' "Two men who look like robbers. They are breaking open a desk." "Can you describe the men?" "One Is young and one. is old. They wear caps and have handkecrchiefs tied over the lower part of their faces."~ "Look through the handkerchiefs and tell me what you see." "The one who is young has a red mustache and one eye is gone. The mIs HAiD was ON TH: KEY. other has white hair and a smooth face. They are working in a hurry. Ah-h-h. they are caught:" The girl's breath was indrawn with a sob. The hypnotist made a few passes over her and she came to her self weak and exhausted. "S:nme of you fellows go nom-r to the station and see if she is right," sug gested Masson, who was deadly pale and much excited. The investigating party soon re- l turned, for they had met a posse which had surprised the robbers at their work. The men they had cap tured were two tramps who were ex- ] actly as the girl had described them. No one was more astonished than Masson himself, or more overjoyed, for it demonstrated as a fact the power that he feared might be fiction. When on other occasions Ralph Masson followed up this feat by oth ers quite as wonderful, employing Margaret Lansing as a subject, her family objected. They argued that it would injure her health, possibly wreck her nerves, and that nothing good would result from dabbling in mysteries. Masson was greatly disap pointed, for he felt that the success of a great discovery depended on the girl. What might he not accomplish by her assistance? He might teach 1 her to read the stars, to fathom the se crets of infinitude! And here he found himself unable to cope with the first edict of parental authority. The parents were undoubtedly right. They saw on their daughter's part an other kind of infatuation, a growing fondness for this young man whose days were numbered. Science was nothing when put in the scales with their love for their child. Masson ap- 1 pealed to Margaret Lansing as a sick man always appeals to a healthy, syni pathetic woman. First, pity, then love. He who has brutal health can never know the sweet recompenses of weakness. Your robust man has no charm compared to the pleading love of an invalid. Ralph had said to Mar garet that he could hypnotize her at a distance. "I can bring you to me at any time by calling you and willing you to come. It will be impossible for you not to obey me." She had smiled into his bright, co.- I pelling eyes with a faith and belie_ I that were sublime, and held herself I in readiness to go like a bird of the 1 air when he called her, but nothing I came of it, for he had tried-and l failed. His mind could not control I hers by any distant treatment, and he i had never been able to reach her by I either telepathy or hypnosis. e One night when Masson was on duty at his station he received a telegram from Rawlins, ten miles down the i line. .............................. ~. : WASHOUT AT BRIS- : : COE; WARN 2.20 EX : PRESS. THIS OFFICE i : CANNOT REACH THEM.: t It was signed with the name of the t night operator at Rawlins, and there was hardly a half hour before the x train was due at Briscoe. Margaret's a father was station agent at that point, but the express did not stop there, and i he probably knew .nothing of the r washout, and, no other train arriving until morning, he would be at home a f~t an alep.Itwa fvemie to Brs ~% I alr. n unrdso lepngmn a oeariing oehm,bthard pulle horsel col t methe itanc inserte tfortiv that deh evrCev igl n irt: He was speaking aloud, although alone ~ in his office. "Margaret! Margaret! Margaref: ii Get your father's red lantern; go li down to the Briscoe River and swing a danger signal for the 2.20 express. Go at once, I command you, my dear love! Go, go, go! In God's name rise e from your sleep, Margaret, and go!" t' The night express came rushing 1i on to Briscoe station when Engineer d~ Preston saw far ahead of him a tiny t red spark glowing. Instinct In the 8 man read its 'meaning before It had C grown to proportions that signaled m danger. The train slowed up with c such unwillingness of steam and driv- t ing wheel, such a mighty groaning and I grinding of the whole outfit, that the z stubborn resistance threw passengers~ o out of the berths and brought the t throbbing, shrieking engine to a stand- p still on the very brink of destruction f where a white-robed figure with un- I bound hair swung with persistence n and monotonous repetition the red lan- t: tern that had averted death. I The train men wrapped Margaret d in blankets and carried her bewildered. t distraught, almost lifeless to her home.fn where she fell unconsciouis into ner r mother's arms, while the grateful pas- I sengers filled the hours they must c wait with plaudits of her brave deed and talked of the medal she should ha soenmay.n And Ralph Masson? When his as lStant relieved him at the oftice at any morning his hand was on the :ey, but his head was bowed and te neither moved nor spoke. In that upreme effort he had found release. irs. M. L. Rayne, in the Cbeao 3ecord-Herald. AUSTRALIAN SEA FISHINC. ngling For Schuapper, Nannygal, MIor wong and Shark. Sea fishing is the Alpha and Omega f most fishing in Austraiia. We leave 'ydney harbor about midnight in a mall tug, so as to be on the further ishing grounds at daybreak. Now we .re out between the heads, and at last . chilly dawn creeps over the sea. We re at rest, too, broadside to the rollers, tnd it Is good to go up the narrow ompanion and on deck and find the ines we left neatly coiled in corners ver night. The two deck hands are tusy cutting up the blt, a score or so f mullet, yellowtails and squid. We re ready, and our eight leads go al nost together over the side, all on the ame quarter, so that the lines may tream clear of the tug and of each tner. Down they go, and still down, good forty fathoms, and the moment he lead touches bottom we hold on. A noment or two passes and some one is nto a good fish, which is hauled and )layed on the thin line with great care tnd patience, and proves to be a sil. -ery morwong of six or seven pounds veight-a handsome enough fish to he stranger, yet dubbed, with a sneer, 'Wrong color." by its captor and his tustralian friends. The discontented one seems in luck's ray, for no sooner has he again baited tis hooks-each line, I eught to have aid, carries two and a heavy lead hat he is once more figLFtinig with an ven larger fish, but the line sheers tway ominously near the surface, and here is a general cry of "Shark!" as it s indeed seen that one of these white tellied, shovel-snouted brutes has both tis hooks. But the tackle is strong; here is nothing in reason to part so ong as the shark cannot get the line >etween its teeth, and it Is at last Ifted bodily on the deck, five feet and nore of it, and soon clearing breath. ng space with the great sweeping trokes of its tall. The first fish that I am destined to atch In these strange waters is as cu ious in name as in appearance. Nannygal" it is called, which irresist bly, though doubtless good aboriginal, eminds one of nannygoat, and It is of brilliant scarlet, with huge protend ng black eyes. Very good eating is his same nannygat, but more valuable. n account of its invariably indicating he presence of a big schnapper. No ooner, indeed, have I hauled my nan iygal than one or two of the party in tantly haul in their lines to see that he baits are right, and that a good op ortunity may not be lost. For we are LOt anchored In one spot. The Pacific s too deep, the ground too rough, the wells from the south too sudden and -blent to admit of such a plan. On he contrary, we drive with the tid'e ver the reefs, a kind of schnapper bat nue, and are thus enabled to go to the sh when they will not come to us. bood schnapper are now caught on all ides, and I must say that my first eally heavy schnapper warrants all he hopes that I had based on a some rhat long and intimate acquaintance rith his feebler cousin, the red bream f the English channel-London Tray ler. Men Cheered Florence Nightingale. The late Sir John Steele, sculptor to lueen Victoria, was modeling a bust f Florence Nightingale, when an of cer of one oif the Highland regiments rhich had suffered so cruelly In the 'rimean, heard that the bust had just een completed, and was in Sir John's tudlo. Many of the men in his com any had passed through the hospital t Scutari, and he obtainea permission rom the sculptor to bring some of liem to see it. Accordingly a squad f men one day marched into the big tudio and stood In line. They had no idea why they had been mustered in so strange a place. With Ut a word of warning the bust was ncovered, and then, as by one Im ulse the men broke rank, and with ries of "Miss Nightingale! Miss ightingale'" surrounded the model, nd with hats off cheered the figure of 2eir devoted nurse until the roof ang. So spontaneous and hearty and so ispiring was the whole scene that in fter days Sir John Steele declared to be the greatest compliment of his fe.-Sunday Magazine. Don't Spare All the Trees. There is no slight Ignorance in the ry that is so often raised with regard the removal or cutting down of trees 1 the parks, and it has recently been isplaying itself with certain trees dat have been already, or are to be, ot rid of in the course of carrying rut the Piccadilly widening. As a iatter of fact, most of them were so lose together, that their branches In armingled, and any one acquainted rith the subject khows that this is lost injurious to the proper growth f the individual tree. The truth is aat In the public parks, as In most rivate properties, plantations require, c-om time to time, to be thinned out. Is rumored that it has been found ecessary to remove some. 120 odd 'ees from.the gardens of Buckingham 'alace, and in Lord Rathmore's- time rastic measures had to be taken with 2e overgrowth in the Chestnut aye nue in the Regent's Park with splendid isults that are now abundantly ap arent on Chestnut Sunday.-Pall Mall -azette. Blessed is the peacemaker, for he iways gets the worst of it. OUR, BUDGET oF HUMOR.. lan's Pre-Eminence. As the best of creation our boasting is vain At least it is open to question. Man po.ses.ses a somewhat superior brain, But the goat has a better digestion. -\ ashington Star. His Status. "Puffington is a very egotistical talker, isn't he?" "Oh. yes' He generally expresses an opinion as if it were a trunkful of f stuffed owls."-Puck. t Her Entire Vocallary. "You do not speak English, mad ame?" inquired the Interviewer. "Ver' leetl'," replied the operatic celebrity, smiling sweetly. "Only zis: 'How I lofe America:' "-Puck. t The Little Things. "Bliggins says he believes that suc- L cess depends on paying attention to the little things." "Yes," answered Miss Cayenne, "I f have noticed that he attaches a great I deal of attention to his own opin- t ions."-Washington Star. t "No Idea of the Fitness of Things." 0 . l-. C - t iil(i .. d -Life. B D1 Just What She Needed. t Mdadge-"The o#e thing that seems 6 :o please her most about her marriage s that it enables her to keep a car- C 'iage." Marjorie-9= o wonder she's pleased. '' ii, That girl never could get a seat in a c ei.c ew.sYa sun. d OdRcsy "I dob, yder Ol JRcsty" W now S it is, mdea, mde he et it?"-nw that seems H to plame ghad mosee tabot there marreoa Ixs a you erbesgnation,"e sa car-e riae."t "Ysansri'wedehe'blofeae. D< onthat I nee out to.-asehtino a ti AnTher aTin. Olds Offce By-"De bossbt, l my ear I houl save yo leshlfwat" Seod Rocse y-"ot i, myo derl ti?" h e i?-ewYr Sn First gflic toy-"eTat thre a ne roudr of you esifourtions," sa the n atnfsihtdisntet. v a 'raids. "dm no atthing thattoen-: ughn tha be oughete fom-atingt?" I "Ctainyno.. "Wouldn' youe atr leasto hal whf I riied t ototepol? SeNod forian insant"Wo i utl "Weldlb tewat fou tiewois he al sey ofwatigtovoe"-Wahngonp taiser.nerst e BCaecomdearg saidesyun Mr.o "Gorges "dasu hinnwulkee thawe '. areh tobprevensoed fomh ting" tht readiny nowaay,"sad heap e "Wol.Idn't now,"anere tohto e S ane toho s totponls"I wold' "el tohn,ertake thek wuorlithe vel oforntngt oe"Washington inhsbene 'mariBeomigh appeato me on drveapproved night and tel thng thagt a rehute atr."-ahntnSa. ieyfrWstonchi asne tu * - F -h -d, th li LS - et a She-Just think, Eddie, you've ved me for four whole days!" e He-"Yes, siree! Dere ain't no in '.LMA DEFINES A POLICY m, Plan; of th3 residcnt-Eiec: i Im:rovc Cuba. Ie Wanta Lower Tariff' Rites From the Uiited States-The Industries to Be En(oura;ed. New York City.-Tiie correspondent the Tribune in Cuba telegraphs the rst statements of Pes1ert-elect 'alma regarding the subjects which he rill embody iii his first message to 'ongress and his treatment of them. General Palma has had many con erenees with men who know the coun ry's con-itions thoroughly, and there re , ow few Cubais who know the etds o' the country better than he. Ie said: "I am more conviaced now than ever hat Cuba needs a greater tariff re ucticn from the United States than ongress has allowed. It Is absolutely ecessary to the welfare of the coun y that we should have a reasonable eductic,n, not only on sugar and to. acco, but on all Cuban products." General Palma regrets that the tariff uestion has not been finally settled, r on its disposition, he thinks, de ends the terms for a commercial -eaty between the two countries. He -as anxious that a ratification of this -eaty should be one of the first acts ' the new government, and he is reatly disappointed over the delay. [e added: "First, I wish It understood, as it extremely Important that it should e, that our goveinment will grant lual rights to all. These rights will e gu:iranteed to every resident of uba, regardless of reiigion, race or na onality. This will be one of our car inal principles, and we expect every ae to assist in work of reconstruc on. The agricultural and educational eparments are to receive probably e first and greatest attention." The Presiient-elect has studied the stem in vogue in the Department of griculture at Washington, and as far possible will use it as a pattern. he Government intends to distribute ?eds and in other w:.ys to foster this idustry, far from agriculture must be erived the bulk of the revenues. The raising of cattle will receive at- I ntion. General Palma hopes in four 8 ars this will be restored to the con tion in which It was before the war. c There are to be no War or Navy Min- t ters, as in the United States. The a reasury Department will have charge the revenue cutters and als, of the a aall coast patrol boats. Coast artli ry and the rural guards are to be the ly military forces In Cuba. T:e lat r force, which does police duty, will t Increased. The question of the payment of the aban Army Is to u>e deferred until te country has some surplus in the easury. For the present American irrency and Spanish silver will con nue in circulation, with the American dflar as a standard of value. - Other Industries, such as rubber and aton, are to be encouraged. Economy Is to be the keynote of eneral Palma's policy. There Is an understanding between e President-elect and the United ates Government that no naval or aling station Is to be established at avana. None other than the Cuban tg should fly there, he said, but he tI not object to stations at Guantan-e co, Cienfuegos and Nipe.c -A REBUKE FOR TILLMAN. tmocrat,; Leave the senate Chamber ( While Be is Speaking. i Washington, D. 0.-Senator Tillman is treated to a severe and extraor- F 23ry rebuke by the entire Democratic a le of the Senate, with the single ex ption of Senator Teller. The rebuke a is dellvr.red in a dramatic manner. d in the presence of a Senate crowd the galleries and on the floor. Senator McComas having made ane slaught during the Philippine debate the South's manner of handling thc gro question, Mr. Tillman was pro- 4 ked to answer him in one of his char teristic speeches. Before Mr. Tillman had proceeded d ry far with his speech the Dema- ' atic Senators, almost In a body, left a chamber. Senator Teller was the ly Democrat who remained. Every a, tit in the Republican side was cecu d- E When Mr. Tillman concluded the a mocrats filed in and took their ices. Mr. Burton, who rose to. an- fz er Mr. Tillman, had hardly comn-d ~ted his first two sentences biefore cry Democrat was seated.h [nquiry among the Democratic Senia-F e-s developed the fact tuat their ac- F in was taken to show theidisgust d disapproval at Mr. -TIIman In agging in the negro question in a dis- di ssion of Philippine affairs. VEN YOUNC PERSONS DROWNED n Naphtha Lanch Eun Dowa by a Tug Neat Toledo, Ohio. ['oledo, Ohio. - Seven young people, e embers of a Sunday-school class of a First Baptist Church, wereb owned in the Maumee River, just be- f sv the city. The naphtha launch -olic, on which they were taking a easure ride, was run down by the a g Arthur Woods of the Great Lakes iwing Conpany's fleet. rhe launch Is owned by Joseph W. epburn, who Invited eleven young ople to take an evening ride with m. They started out on a trip to tke Erie early In the evening and are returning when the accident hap- r ned. hr. Hepburn, Miss Clara Marks, Ar ur Marks, and Miss Grace Lowe E a the only survivors. The Peach Outlook,.; The prospect for peaches in the b< dio Valley is not promising, but else here the outlook Is very favorable. aj1 though dropping is reported from tuth Carolina and. Georgia. The re rts respecting other fruits are gen- in ally encouraging. Cleveland Wins Three-Cent Fare. Judge Strimple has decided the three nt fare street railwvay injunction ease favor of Cleveland, Ohio, holding ir ,e franchise to be valid. The plaint s appealed. LIVE ITEMS OF NEWS. 1.any Matters of General Interest It Short Paragraphs. The Sunny Sguth. Dr. B. M. Palmer, the noted Presby ;erian clergyman, was knocked dowa y a trolley car in New Orleans and 3adly injured. Bishops of the Methodist Episcopal 'hurch at Chattanooga, Tenn., appoint d a commission to cons'de consolda ion of the church's benevolent soci ;ties. The battleship Gaulois sailed from 'oulon for Annapolis, bearing the nembers of the Rochambeau mission. Charged with forgery of notes on the ;chool fuud Postmaster George W. >hcemaker, of Albany, Mo., is under trrest. President Roosevelt will dine on the rench war ship Gaulois while that ,ossel lies off Annapolis. Bishop Potter confirmed a number f cadets at West Point. Admiral and Mrs. Schley visited the )attlofeld at Lookout Mountain. William J. Bryan, talking to the BI netalic Club, of iBrmingham, Ala., on. ;aturday night, said he would not run or the Presidency again. Her steering gear being disabled, the owboat B. B. Finley ran amu:k near 'riar's Point, Miss., and sank 1 coal aarges. At The National Capital. In the Senate Mr. Lodge defended the Ldministration's policy lit the Philip )ines, n.nd in replying Mr. Rawlins said 10 (Rawlins) held Mr. Lodge and oth rs responsible for the present condi ions. The House Foreign Affairs Commit ee heard appeals from pro-Boers ask ng this Government to try to have the louth African was stopped. It is rumorel that Senator John L. cLaurin's final break from the Dem ,cratic ranks will be followed by a rederal appointment. The Pre:ident has selected H. G. quires, Secretary of Legation in Chi ta, to be Ministod to Cuba, and Gen. . S. Bragg, of Wisconsin, to be Con ul-General at Havana. President Havemeyer, of the Amerl an Sugar Refineries Company, con inued his testimony before the Sen .te Cuban Committee. The Government is said to have new nd important evidence aginsbe* eef combine. - In deciding two Chinese exelnsloa ases the Supreme Court holds that. hey did not involve a const'rtiona uestion. Jealous of his w4fe, Chare. Thta Vashington, D. bout midnight <J. ; . At~t~ Archbishop Michief A. Corig t 11:20 o'clock Sunday night in ork. Three Wall street firms susdendYe nd there was,a afall In stocks UO og the collapse of the Webb-M r'7 uities, but later the mnarketrfle The Southern contingent won itirst ght to prevent the admission of cot red women's clubs to the General Fed ration, now In session at Los Angeles'. The answer of the companies in the' orthwestern railroad merger to the overment's slut In an effort to break was filed at St. Paul. Mrs. Kate Soffel pleaded guilty i ittsburg to aiding convicts to escape ad will be sentenced later. Union officers have little hope of erting the strike of the 147,000 Penn Irlvana anthracite coal miners. Twenty persons were Injured in am ploson of natural gas at Marion, New York companies In 1901 issued !5,038 life Insurance policies for $895, 3,679 Insurance. Michael Ichnski, of Philadelphia, rank a quart of whiskey In order to in awager and died soon afterward. Burglars blew open the bank safe at raco, Neb., Sunday night, took $4000 id escaped. After fatally shooting his wIfe, Miles .Brown, of Syracuse, N. Y., . killed mself. Three masked men took about $500 om the safe at the Lake Shore freight. pot in Cleveland, 0. While awaiting trial for murdering. s 18-year-old wife, William Rabel of :>rt Wayne, Ind., hanged himself In s cell. The Supreme Court of Indiana has ~eided that four cents Is the legal car re in Indianapolis. The Glucose Trust has decided now >t to close its plant at Peoria, Ill. Six passengers In a Mflwaulkee street *r were seriously Injured in collisions Ith a St. Paul express on a ralroad ossing. The drought in central Kansas was oken late Saturday n'ght by a fear 1 electric storm. The- body of George Coply,.who dis ,peared four weeks ago from Hersey, ich., was found In the lake at Crapo, ich., with evidences of robbery amd urder. From Across The Sea. Queen Wilhelmina's condition is Im oved and It Is now believed she will cover. Sixty-one bodies have been recovered om the scene of the fire at Mt. Gamr.. gypt The Chinese Government Is mak'ng enuous efforts to ,ut down -the re llon. The 'first Cuban Congress assembled Havana. Princess Beatrice, daughter of Don rlos, attempted suicide by dressing rich attire and throwing herself Into e Tiber. Miscellaneous Matters. John D. Rockfeller, Jr., is spend g four days at the University of Chi1 go investigating the institution for