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WINNSBORO. S. U. JANUARY IS. 1883.
ESTABLISHED 1847
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Swmi evening* come and go, lor*.
They came and went of yore;
Thla evening of our life, love,
Shall go and come no more.
When we have passed away, love.
All things will keep their name;
Bat yet no life on earth, love,
With ours will be the same.
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The daisies will be there, love,
The stars in heaven will shine;
I shall not feel thy wish, love,
Nor thou my hand In thine.
A better time will come, love.
And hettenaouls be born;
I would opt be the best, love.
To leave thee now forlokn.
SUSPKNED KLOPEMKNT,
I had loved Bella for more than a
year. When I say that 1 was over
'twenty-five, my readers of the sterner
Sex will, I am snre, be impressed by
my constancy.
Bella had money. Not that this had,
of course, anything to do with my extra
ordinary devotion, but it served for a
time to be the barrier to our happiness.
I first met and fell a victim to Bella’s
charms when her mother was alive. Her
father Lad then been dead several years.
The old lady took to me. I have a knack
of getting on with old ladies. This is
a very useful gift when they are well off,
and are the mothers of lovely daugh
ters. 1 advise all young men to culti
vate it .The,main point is always to
be more attentive to the mother than
to the daughter. It is also well to throw
m occasional remarks about the appar
ent degeneracy of the age, and allude to
the superior constitutions and charac
ters of the preceding generation.
All was working smoothly for Bella
and me, when cruel fate, in the shape
of a drunken car-driver, crushed the
mother under its Jugger-nautian wheels.
We prosecuted the driver, and an intelli
gent jury, largely influenced by the
wealth of the car company, decided
that pedestrians have no rights which
car drivers are bound to respect.
It turned out, by her father’s will,
Bella in the event of her motlier’s death,
was, until her twenty-first year, to be
placed under the guardianship of an
uncle, who was a farmer m Vermont.
This same uncle was an admirable
specimen of the typical Vermonter. He
•ould freeze to a chance of making a
dollar harder than a lobster’s claw to a
small boy’s investigating finger. He
had two great hulking sous, and deter
mined that Bella should marry one or
the other. Indeed he believed lie was
acting most kindly in giving her a
choice instead of insistingon her taking
the first-born. When old Green found
out that I had come into the neighbor
hood and was hanging about the premi
see, he sternly warned me off, and even
hinted at the fierceness and number of
the dogs which populated his yard at
night. I took his word for the dogs—
it was about the only thing i would
have taken it for.
Bella was virtually a prisoner. The
old farm house was three stories high—
a very unusual thing in that part of the
country—and she was locked m at night
iu her room on * the top floor. With
great uiffioalty 1 managed to get one
or two letters U> her; but 'so closely
was she watched and guarded during
the day that speech with her was im
possible. I was in despair. There was
yet a year to run before she could claim
release from this guarctianship, Was
there no moans of escape possible ?
While I was pondering over this
question in the little hotel where I had
now been staying for some, weeks, I
heard a strange voice addressed to > the
proprietor in loud tones, and distinctly
neard the words “portable tire escape."
Instantly an inspiration dashed through
my mind. 1 joined the party, and in
doing so, heard these words T
“it’s just the simplest thing in the
world. A two-year-old babe couldn’t
hurt itself. “No, sir, it ’ad like to have
•ue fora plaything, and ’ud amuse itself
all day hauling itself to the top of the
house and Jettiu’ itself down again.
They’re so light and easy, that wren
lolks don’t want escapes I often sells
them as baby-jumpers. Jest try one ;
it’s only $4 50. Make it for you as an
advertisement, seein’ you keeps a-hotel
and you’d ought to have one fur the pro
tection of your guests.”
“Guess not. My place is only two
stories high; and u we have a fire, they
can jump out or burn, just as they may
please.” And the oarelul hotel-keeper
strolled offl
“What nave you there, my friend ?”
1 asked of the stranger,
“A portable fire-escape. Simplest
thing in the world. But I was fooled
to come to this seotion, anyhow. There
isn’t a house high enough for a man to
nort himself nmoh if he rolled off the
roof, and a Vermonter ’ud sooner take
chances on his life ttian spend a dime,
any day.”
•TTl tell you how you can sell one
escape for £20 and no tronble cither,”
“Yon will 1 I’m yonr oyster.”
I uutoided my plot* and found a sym
pathetic listener. He was to go up to
Bella’s uncle’s house and try to sell an
escape. Of course, we knew that would
be perfectly hopeless. So, alter being
rebuffed, he was to insist on leaving one
on trial for a week or two, talihe came
around again. He was also to try to
smuggle a letter to Bella, explaining
she was at night to get possession of
the escape, attach it to her bedstead,
and slide down into my waiting arms,
which would be waiting as near as the
doga would let them. On the night
she was ready, sho was to signal in a
certain way with a candle at tne window.
The peddler started off and soon re
turnee, having b( en successful m get-
. tirg a letter to Bella, ana having given
an exhibition of how to usekhe essape.
For several nights I waited in vain for
the signal, bnt at last It Was shown. I
did not hear the dogs about, and I gent
ly crept nearly under the window. It
was opened.
“Are you there, Bella ?" I whispered.
“Yea."
“You're not afraid, dear 1”
“Net very. I’ve tied the end around
the bedstead, and I don’t think I.
Hip out of the loope. Have you a buggy
waiting?',’ .
“Yes, dear, at the first turn of the
road.”
“Very well. I am going to try now.
Ohr
She had launched herself off from the
side and was descending beantifnlly.
“Don’t come too fast, dear. Use the
check rope if you feel you are coming
too quickly.”
She had got to the second floor, when
there was an nnaocoUiitable stoppage.
“What’s the matter ?” I cried.
“It won’t move.”
“Shake the rope.”
“I have.” A
'JLoosen the check.’ ’
“It is quits loose.”
“Try to pull up a bit.”
“I can’t; I’m stuck fast.”
“Let me shake the rope.”
“Try. Oh ! Oh ! It's no use ; it won't
move.”
“Can’t you slip out of the loop and
slide down the rope? IT1 catch you.”
“No, I cannot. I’m setting in them
and can’t get out.' Oh, what’s to be
done V”
“I’ll try to climb up and see."
Bella sat dangling in t|je air, hke Mo
hammed’s coffin, between heaven and
earth.
I tried to climb, but the rope was
not half an inch thick, aqd I slipped
back. Then came the tragic sequel.
There was a rush of something behind
me, and a bulldog seized me in that
part which had been nearest to him ns
he approached. I have beard of sol
diers riddled with bullets, or almost
cut and thrust to pieces by swords and
bayonets who have still advanced upon
the enemy. I don’t think they could
have done it with 'a bulldog hanging
rearward. If any oqe of my male
readers doubts (his aspersion of man’s
courage, let him get an angry bulldog
and try.
Other dogs began to give tongue.
Bella screamed. Lights were seen
moving in the house.
“Go 1” she cried. “They will kill
you if they find you.
“But I cannot leave you, Bel-'a.” 1
was leaving her in small sectic ns down,
the dog’s throat, and I felt I must run
away.
• Go ; save yourself!”
By a convulsive effort I shook off the
dog, a considerable portion of my
trousers and a couple of good mouth
fuls of my anatomy, and bounded over
a fence and np a tree. From there 1
watched triumphant Vermoneters haul
Bella into a second story window. Then
they came ont, and with much crying
and swearing began to look for me. I
am happy to say they were unsuccess
ful. About two hours afterward I ven
tured to limp home.
Bella never tried to elope again. 8he
remained proof against all the argu
ments oi her uncle and the charms of
the Green Mountain boys, and when
she became really her own unstress she
became mine legally too.
Never saw that fire-escape man again.
Perhaps it was better for him I didn’t.
He never called for his machine. Pos
sibly he heard something oi the story
m bis travels.
I don’t know as there is any moral to
this tale, except never to use a rope
fire-escape for an elopement. There
must have been something prophetic in
the instinct of the author of the old
song, when he wrote :
When a lady elopes
Down a ladder of ropes,
tthe may go to Hong Kong for me.
Qn«en oi ttae Tank.
Eating, sleeping,and sewing beneath the
waters are among the accomplishments of
the New kork aquarian diver who calls
herself “The Water t^ieen,” When asked
if it required much time to acquire her art,
sha said, “about three weeks.”
“How much did you weigh when you'
began first?” she was asked.
“Between 145 and 150 pounds.”
“Did the water reduce your’weight?”
“Very tittle. It simply tightened the
muscles.”
“Did it cause-any change in you*’ relish
for food?’’ , \
“On the contrary, it increased my appe
tite.’’ .
“What was your first experience?”
“The fln>r plunge made me very sick.”
“How long have yon been practicing the
tank act?'’
“I commenced five years ago last Aug
ust”
“What is the longest time you ever re
mained under water?”
“Three minutes, fony-flye seconds, with
150 pounds pressure to the square Inch on
the cbe^t On one occasion it took me
one minute and twenty-five seconds to do
the sewing act as they call it”
“You once troc' the tanbark?”
“Yes, I followed Mine. Anderson. I
did not have one day’s training, but 1 made
up my mind to do it, and I did.. I accom
plished the feat of walking 1,200 half miles
during so many half hours.”
“What effect has lank diving on your
ears and eyes?” {
“Only a little on my eyes. Sometimes
there are specks In the tsnk. When the
water is clear I can see a foot from me,
but I cannot discern faces. I can see per
sons crossing the stage, but there is a sort
of blue mist across my eyes, so that 1 can
not tell who they are.”
“While remaining so the water
dia you not feel a sort of inclination to re
main there?”
“No, I am obliged to come up, for I feel
as though my head would burst. But I
want to tell you a good joke. I went to
Boston once, and afler performing there
we thought it best to change the water in
the lank. My husband got some barrels
somewhere and had them filled with water
As soon as I got into th« tank 1 detected
the smell of whisky, but thinking that I
was mistaken 1 kept in until I got drunk.
1 afterward discovered that the water wac
earned in whisky barrels, which soaked
through the pores of my «kia, so that 1 had
to be rolled out
Tte» Hindoo Suttee.
In the remote village of Gader Dehee,
in the district of Banhurah, there are
to be seen two small tombs on the bank
of a small lake, containing the holy
ashes of a young lady who burnt herself
alive on the funeral pyre of her deceased
husband. The name of the husband of
the lady was Brahamand Gossain, and
he died of fever in the morning. She
wept not, but sat by tbe dead body of
her husband. How we wished that she
could give vent to her feelings, and
relieve herself. Bnt no, she sat and
uttered neither a sigh nor a groan.
At last she rose and proceeded straight
way towards ihe Tkakoor Baree to the
image of the god Krishna. There she
went, followed by many men and wom
en, and prostrated herself before the
the god. Then she stood, and began to
divest herself of the ornaments that she
had on her person. One by one she
took them and placed them at the foot
of the god, for the first time speaking:
“Here, my lord, take them, I need them
no longer,” And then she slowly came
back to where the body of her husband
was lying covered. She then addressed
her brother-in-law, and she said; “Pre
pare for the ceremony of cremation,
and you know I can't live without him.
I must accompany him. ” Though her
relations, friends and neighbois had all
suspected that something serious was
Impending, the first announcement was
received with a shock wiiich could not
bedesenbed. Then followed dissuasions,
and her friends, relations and neighbors
all began to dissuade her to no purpose.
The uucle-in-law, the mother-in-law,
whom a Hindoo lady is bound to revere
next to her God, commanded, and then
earnestly pleaded to her to forbear, bnt
she was not to be moved. Then came
the guroo, the purohit, whom, as her
spiritual guides, she was bound to obey.
They tried their best, but she was de
termined. Time rolled on, and she
wayered not for a moment. Then ihe
last device was resorted to. Her fears
were appealed to; they described to her
the horrible and painlul sufferings of a
living man upon a funeral pile. At
first she disdained to give replies to
their appeals to her fears, but at last
when obliged to say something she said:
“You need not be anxious; my soul
has fled with my lord. As for bodily
sufferings, I shall show you that I need
not apprehend them.”
There was a lamp burning, under the
usual custom, by the corpse, and she
put one of her fingers upon the slow
tire of the lamp and burnt it without
wincing. Crowds had then pullected
from all parte of the country. It was
then about 4 p. m., and the corpse was
carried to the burning ghat on the bank
of the small lake, only about a couple
of hundred yards fioui Ihe house, and
the lady followed, followed by thousands
of men chanting “Haribole.” The
crowd then began to collect dry faggots,
and heaps were gathered in a few mo
ments. When the funeral pile was in
process of being prepared, the corpse
was bathed, and the lady herself per
formed her ablations. She than pnt
vermilion on her forehead and dressed
herself in a new Saree (cloth for ladies)
and then slowly entered the funeral pile.
Her hair was properly adjusted by her
friends, and they adorned bar with
garlands and wreaths of flowers. The
crowd then with tearful eyes begged of
her blessings and some tokens from her
to be kept in remembrance of her self-
sacrifice. She was supplied with cow
ries, plantains, betehmts, etc., and she
began to throw handfuls of them
amongst the crowd. She then laid her
self by the corpse of her husband in the
posture of warm embrace. She gave
the order, and the pile w as lighted in
several places and there was at once a
blazing fire. The Suttee raised her
right hand and began to ntter the name
of Horee, turning her hand round and
round. She was dead before the tire
had reached her sacred person.
Thus a Hindoo widow ended her life
on the funeral pyre of her husband.
Her husband was dead and the world
appeared to her a dreary waste. She
was determined to follow her lord to the
unknown world, undeterred by the sol
icitations of her friends and relations
ami the temptations of worldly pleasures.
Her fears were appealed to, bnt in vain.
She felt she could not live a moment
without her lord; sho must accompany
him, and under the influence of this
overwhelming impulse she entered the
flames without the least display of fear
and with an alacrity which surpasses
all description. We ask, who can com
tempkte this spirit-stisring scene, this
wonderous spectacle, without feeling a
sort of veneration few the lady who thus
offered herself as a sacrifice on the altar
of connubial duty? May her spirit rest
in peace, and from its place in the heav
ens shed light upon her surviving
Mothers and sisters and upon her coun
trymen, inspire them with courage in
the accomplishment of their ends in life.
Bag ttemoiia*.
“When tho old State Savings institu
tion failed in August. 1877,” said Re
ceiver L. B. Otis, “the books of the
bank showed the names of 14,600 de
positors, and of this number 11,212
have drawn dividend. The remaining
2,388 are—no one knows where. The
face of their unclaimed deposits is $26,-
000 or $27,000, and all efforts to find
them have proved unavailing. Many
of these accounts are very small, and
some are only for interest, but in order
to pay a final dividend it is necessary to
know just how many claimants there
are.”
“On July 24, 1882, six different divi
dends, amounting in all to 45 per cent.,
were in process 4>r payment. As no
dividenefs had beem drawn upon many
of the claims against the institution,
and for the purpose of enabling the re
ceiver to pay a final dividend and wind
up the affairs of the institution,.an order
was entered by the court that all credi
tors and holders of deposit-books should
draw their respective dividends on or
before December 1, 1882. This date
was subsequently extended to February
1, 1883, after wbich time all claims
upon wbich dividends are not drawn by
that time are barred and excluded from
auy participation in the funds of the
institution iu the bands of tbe receiver.
There is now, and m all probability
will lie on February 1 next, about $26,-
060 of unclaimed accounts, and the
dividends on these will therefore go to
the other depositors, thus increasing
the amount they will receive.
“Within the last month the receiver
and his clerks have gone through the
books of the institution, and, using the
latest city directory, besides resorting
to other.means, have endeavored to find
out the whereabouts of these unknown
claimants and notify them by circular
that dividends were awaiting their
pleasure. As a result we have made
some interesting discoveries.
“There was an account of $327 75,
for instance, in favor of George P. Lee,
formerly assistant treasurer of the Chi
cago k Northwestern Railway. He
moved from Chicago to Fond du Lac,
Wis., in 1870. He was traced to that
place, and when informed of the fact
could give no explanation of it. He
had at one time done a large business
with the bank, and supposed Ue had
drawn out everything. He was, how
ever, glad to draw his dividend.
There are still 2,388 unknown claim
ants, and very few if any of these will
be found. Tbe fire scattered a large
number of them, aud many of the serv
ants who had small sums in the bank
went back to Europe. I ass still trying
to hunt up the old depositors, but do
not to and many more of them.
The claims against the bonk amounted
to $3,000,000, and when the final divi
dend is paid, sometime after February
1 next, about $1,500,000 will have been
distributed to creditors,”
BrltUh Ignorance of Amelia-.
A Lamprey’s Nest.
A correspondent from Paris, Says
I was lately at a dinner party where the
guests were all Americans, and all of
them had made a sojourn of longer or
shorter duration in London. The con
versation turned on the really comical
ignorance of all things American dis
played by the best educated English
people, and numerous anecdotes iu il
lustration of the top in question were
cited. One of these related to the
son of a former United States Minister
in London, Mr. Edwards Pierrepont
At some public dinner one of the guests
asked Mr. Pierrepont, jr., while his
father was in the ac+ of making a speech,
who the orator was. The young gen-
tlejnan made answer that that was the
American Minister, “Is he of the old
established Church or a Dissenter?” was
the next question. But this does not
quite equal the query of the Archbishop
of Canterbury, wbo lately asked of an
American visitor to explain to him “the
attitude assumed by the United Utales
toward Dissenters. ” A general of our
army next told how he had accompanied
an English officer of high standing to
visit Newburg, and informed him that
Washington had onee had his headquar
ters there. “Which Washington?”
languidly demanded the Briton.
Next came an accomplished yonng
Southern gentleman, the son of a United
States Senator, who described an in
terview that he had recently had with
an English lady, who was introduced
to him as a prodigy of intellect and of
learning. “You came from the South
ern States, sir?” she remarded amiably.
“Which of the two do you come from—
Missouri or Peru?” With great pres
ence of mind, my yonng friend in
formed her that ho was then residing
hi Peru, but intended shortly to re
move to Missouri. But I rather think
that the climax was capped by an
English author, who, ou being told by
an American lady that she came from
Missouri, said, thoughtfully;—“Mis
souri—let me see—what State is that
in?” “Missouri it a State,” responded
the lady, “Ah, yes—yes—to be sure
it is—it is Mississippi that I was thinn
ing of.” Fortunately the lady in ques
tion was well used to the peculiar
ign irance of Englishmen and English
society in general respecting our coun
try, and she did not even smile. I
myself have become thoroughly case-
hardened on the subject; so when a
charming English lady, the wife of a
distinguished Indian officer, asked me
one day if it were not very dangerous
to walk in the environs of Philadelphia
on account ot the rattlesnakes, i was
enabled to answer her without moving
a muscle o* my countenance.
A Florwi Ke.-r,
Among tbe women married recently in
New 1 ork was one who from early girl
hood has been extremely lond of flowers.
She decided to spend her energy and her
father’s money upon floral decorations in
stead of in the direction of fine gowns.
Her floral feat is a matter of remark with
every guest who attended the reception
that followed the marriage ceremony.
Palms and terns made the hall lovely. In
the drawing room the grates were filled
with maiden hair fern and bright cut flow
ers beneath. A medium sized plant rose
from the centre. On the ends of the man
tels were floral fans widespread. The
centres were sn all white daisies; the frin
ging of rosebuds and ferns. The sticRs
were marked with ardesia berries.
Another fan on an easel of smilax was
composed of white pofhpons, edged with
bon silene buds and fringed with yellow
daisies. The sticks were of violets. Both
of the fans were hand paloted with sprays
of the loveliest combinations through the
centre. On the mantel stood the “Old
Oaken Bucket,” a marvelous piece of flor
al work. Upon a bed of licopodiums,
fringed with cissus, crotons and ferns,
with terrestrial orchids springing up in
places and a spray of passiflora rubra near
near the old shaft, stood a square well,
the sides made of different blossoms. One ..
side was of yellow pompon artemesias, one! tlie 01 ^
Vampire Bats In Braatl.
Probably no part of Brazil is more
afflicted than a portion of the province
of Bahia with the scoorge of vampires-
Whole herds of cattle are sometimes
destroyed by this venomous bat.
It was long a matter of conjecture
how the auimal accomplished this in
sidious and deadly work; but scientific
men have now decided that the tongue,
which is capable of considerable exten
sion, is furnished at its extremity with
a number of pipilia, which are so ar
ranged as to form an organ of suction,
the lips having also tubercles sym
metrically arranged. Fastening them
selves upon cattle, these dreadful
animals can draw tbe blood from their
victims. The wound, made probably
from the small needle-like teeth, is a
fine round hole, the bleeding from which
is very difficult to stop.
It is said that the wings of this deadly
bat flying aronnd daring the operation
of wounding and drawing blood, with
great velocity, thus fanning the victim
and lulling while the terrible work is In
progress.
Some of the creatures measure tw«
feet between the tips of the wings, and
they are often found in great numbers
in deserted dwellings in the outskirts o
A writer says: One day late in spring
as I was passing over a bridge I chanced
to see two lampreys, or “lamper-eels,”
as they i“*e usually called, engaged in
building their nest in the creek below
me. It was one of the most curious
spectacles I ever saw in our stream.
They were a few yards below tho bridge
just where the water breaks from the
still pool beneath it, aud flows with a
rapid current over its roughly paved
bottom. They were distinguishable
from the yellowish brown and black
stones and pebbles amid which they
were working only by their motions.
Tney were tagging away at tbe small
movable stones with great persistenoe.
1 went down to the water’s edge where
they were within reach ot my staff, the
better to observe them. They would
run np to the edge of the still water
and seize upon the stones with their
suction mouth and drag them back with
the current and drop them npon their
nest. I understood at once wby their
neats, which I had often observed be
fore, were always placed at the begin
ning of a rift; it is that the fish may
avail themselves of the current in build
ing then. The water sweeps them
back with the pebble in their mouth,
their only effort being iu stemming the
current to seize it. They are thus ena
bled to move stones which they could
not stir in still water.
The etones varied in size from a wal
nut to a goose egg. When one of them
was tugging away at a stone too heavy
for it, I would lend a helping hand
with my staff; I would move the stone
along gently, and the lamprey seemed
entirely unconscious of the fao: that it
was being helped; it would drop the
burden at the proper point, and run up
for another. Indeed my aid and pres
ence did not disturb them at ail, From
time to time, the larger of the two,
which was the female, would thrust her
tail with great violence down among
the pebbles at the bottom of the creek
and loosen them up, and set free the
mud which tbs current quickly carried
away. The new material thus plowed
np was carried to the nest. Twice in
the course of the half-hour that I ob
served them, the act of spawning took
place.
iiMivtini? rr%*\y** tlm larger
stones with my s aff, I several times
plowed up the bottom with its point,
thus relieving the female of that duty.
The fish took it all as a matter of course,
and seized upon the pebbles I had
loosened with great alacrity. When I
thrust my cane beneath them and tnen
to lift them ont of the water, they
would suck fast to the stodes and pre
vent me; bnt they did not manifest any
alarm. The lampreys become much
exhausted with the spawning and nest
building, and large numbers of them
die wheu it is over. In June it is not
unusual to find their dead bodies in the
streams they inhabit.
Oia uoot».
The archeological treasures of Paris
will shortly include a collection of old
boots. It will be tbe most carious
feature of the new talie to be opened
next mohth in Connection with tbe
Musee de Cluny, and promises to be
the most complete history in leather of
the bootmaker’s art that the world has
yet seen. To the specimens already
acquired by the museum have just been
added two fsmods private collections—
namely, those of M. Jaoqpemart and
the Baron Schuter—together with a
number of boots once worn by Venetian
courtiers, purchased on behalf of the
French Govertnent in Italy ajew days
since. In the same room will be shown
the ancient tapestries and articles of
clothing formerly belonging to the
Chateau de Boussac, which but for con
venient French law would have passed
into foreign hands. The Commune of
Boussac, being in want of money, was
actually negotiating with German agents
for the sale of these relics of the past,
when the Government
of while, one of crimson king carnations,
one a la purity carnations. Each one was
sprayed with a knot of roses.
The top of tbe well was mossy; on one
corner perched an owl, wise in expression;
the owl’s back and wings were wrought o(
cbry*»in!lier n, i55; and his breast was of pale
purple artemesias. His eyes were of yel
low daisies. Tbe well bucket was full of
sweet smelling violets, and trailing moss
seemed to have been caught en the pendu
lous stick. The floral screen was effect
ively worked out. There was a clover
leaf on the marble of the pier glass, and
loose baskets of roses were interspersed
throughout the rooms. The portiere of
mes and smilax chains wiiich swept in the
arch between the extension and the draw-
bag room was the most effective work.
This was looped back with rosettes of
white satin. In its centre swung the wed
ding bell, a bed of roses sprayed with pale
buds.
A Doctor’s gafeAtitBte,
The negroes and Indians especially
dread them, and there are numerous
superstitions among the natives regard
ing theqj.
iikm Diwosiiou of on UHtrleli.
How to rronouoi’c clerk.
—Senator Edmundq has endowed a
room in the Mary Fletcher Hospital, in | ing the collection under
Burlington, in memory of hi* daughter^ “
Miss Julha M. Edmunds, who recently
died. The endowment, 15000, provides
stepped in, daim-
der the Historical
Monuments law. The tapestries are
now being restored, and so cleverly will
tbe work be done that only the eye of
for the support and care of one free an experienced arohmologkt will be able
pfctisntan
ready boan
ana its first beneficiary has al
to iHcfcmgnkh the new patch** freon the
ancient fabiie.
He was a young man with a wild,
disordered look. He rushed into the
office of a prominent city physician yes
terday, placed a small cup on the deek,
took off his coat, bared his right arm,
and whispered:
“Stick me!”
“Do you want to be bled?”
“I do! Open a vein, and let me
catch the blood in this cup.”
“Too full in the head?”
“Alas! too full in the heart My
affianced will not believe me when r
tell her that I love her better than my
life. I will write my love—I wijl write
it in my own life-blood! Proceed!”
“la that all you want?”
I'Alll Is not that sufficient?”
“Young man yon area dodo I Put
on your coat I keep a red ink here
for tbe very purpoee you desire, and
will sell you a whole gill for a quarter.”
. And the young man was not stuck.
—The vapor oi tobacco juice will
destroy all kinds of troabiaaome iaawts
that infest hot-house plants.
It has commonly been made to appear
that ostriches are so stupid or so greedy
as to be totally indiscriminate in tlia
matter of food; but this is a mistake.
When two kinds of food are placed be
fore them they will prefer the one, and
are notably fond of certain kinds, such
as mealies and prickly pears. Many of
them even show delicate choice But
a hungry bird will eat almost anything.
His system requires food iu large quan
tity, but he always prefers the suitabU
kinds. It is a fact, however, that the
ostrich often dies a victim to over-in
dulgence. Ob the farm birds also die
by the score from apoplexy, brought ou
by their keepers stuffing them constantly
with all they can eat. An incredible
number of pebbles are sometimes found
In an ostrich’s stomach where they
serve the same purpose, in triturating
the food, as sand in a pigeon’s gizzard.
Mr. Tillbrook, a farmer of the Graaft
Reinet district, once found a carcass,
the giazard of which contained some
nine hundred and thirty stones, of size*
varying from that of a pea to that o
a walnut. Moat of them were bright
and hard, and all more or less reuuded
by constant rubbing. We may see the
reason of that instinct which prompts
an ostrich to stretch his neck ever the
fence and pick off e gold stud or a dia
mond pin from the breast of the unsua
pec ting visitor, or in default of e jewel
iu attractive, to attempt to pull a button
off his coat.
“Clarke." 1 suspect that
a surname, so spelled, is dis-
1876. 1882.
F. W. HABENiCHT,
Proprietor of the
Freeman, tbe historian, in a readable
paper on American speech and pronuncia
tion, published since his return to England
well says:
“Tbe words ‘motropolis’ and ‘provinces’
used in this way, I venture to call slang,
whether the city which is set up above iu
fellows is London or New York. Anyhow
thin use of them is in no way distinctly
American; indeed the misuse of the word
provinces, is, 1 fancy, excessively rare in
Amerisa, and it is certainly borrowed from
England. Each side of the oeean unluck
ily finds it easier to copy the abuses of the
other side than to stick to tbe noble hen-
tago which is common to both.”
What he has to say about the pronunci
ation of the word “clerk” is wirth repro
duction at length:
“The word “clerk” is in Bngland usu-
alb sounded “dark,’' while in America it
is usually sounded “durk.” I say “usu
ally,” because I did once hear “durk” In
England—from a London shopman—and
because 1 was told at Philadelphia that
some old people there still said “dark,”
and—a nrst important fad—that those
who mid “clsrs.” also said “msrciuuii.”
Now it Is quite certain that “dark” is the
older pronunciation—the pronunciation
which the first settlers must have taken
with them. Tins is proved by the fact
that the word is a surname—and it is iz
one of the commonest of surnames—is al
ways sounded and commonly written
“Clark” or
•‘Clerk’’ as
tinctively “bcotch,” In the modern sense
of that word. Also in writers of the six
teenth and early seventeenth century, tbe
word itself is commonly written “dark,”
or “clarke.” But of course “derk” was
at Sll times the moat clerkly spelling, a-
showing the French and Latin origin of
the word. It is plain, therefore, that the
pronunciation “durk” is not traditional,
but has been brought in artificially out of
a notion of making the sound conform to
the spelling. But “durk” is no more the
true sound than “dark;” the true sound is
‘dairk,” like French “clerc,” and a Scots
man would surely sound it so. “Clark”
and “durk” are both mere approximitioa*
to the French sound, and “dark” is tbe
cider and surely the most natural approxi
mation. Tbe truth is that we cannot
sonnd “derk" as it is spelled; that is, we
cannot give the e before the r the same
sound that we give it when it is followid
by any other consonant. Wt cannot sound >
e in “derk” exactly as we sound c in
I bis applies to a crowd of words, some of
Teutonic, some of Latin origin, In which
the spelling is e, but in which ihe sound
has, just as in “derk,” fluctuated between
a and u. The old people at Philadelphia
who add “dark” also said “merchant.”
And quite rightly, for they had on their
side both older English usage and, in this
case, the French spelling itself. The sound
“mwrebani” has oome in, both in England
and America, by exactly fhs asms pfocew
as that by which the sound “dtMt”haa
same in in America, but not in Bnglaad ’
I respectfully call the attention of the
public to my superior fuJUties for sup-
plying everything Lx my line, of superior
quality. Starting business In Wians-
boro in 1876, I have In all this time
given the closet attention to my busi
ness and endeavored to make jny estab
lishment FIRST-CLASS in every par
ticular. I shall in the future, as iu the
past, hold myself ready to serve my
customers with the best artinles thatcau
be procured in any market I shall
stand ready, also, to guarantee every
artide I sell.
I invite an inspection of my stock of
Wines, Liquors, Tobacco, Cigars, etc.
F. W. HABENICHT.
IMPORTED.
Scotch Whiskey (Ramsey’s).
A. Bin Laubert and Marat Cognas
Brandy.
Jamaica Rum.
Rotterdam Fish Gin.
Ross’a Royal Ginger Ale.
Julee Mnmm A Co.’a Champagne.
Cantrd A Cochran’s Ginger Ale.
Apollinaris Mineral Water.
Angustora Bitters.
Old Sherry Wine.
Old Port Wine.
DOMESTIC.
Ginger Ale.
Soda Water.
Sarsaparilla.
Old Cabinet Rye Whiskey.
Old Schuylkill Eve Whiskey .
The Honorable Rye Whiskey.
Old Golden Grain Rye Whiskey.
Renowned Standard Rye Whiskey.
Jesse Moore Yoiimer Rye Whiskey,
Old N. 0. Sweet Mash Com Whiskey.
Old Stone Mountain Com Whiskey.
Western Com Whiskey.
Virginia Mountain Peach Brandy.
New England (French’s) Rom.
North Carolina Apple Brandy.
Pure Blackberry Brandy.
Pure Cherry Brandy.
Pure Ginger Brandy.
Boston Swan Gin.
SUNDRIES.
Rook and Rye.
Osceola Bitters.
Hostetter’s Bitters.
Berguer A Engel’s Lager Beer, in patent
stopper bottles and on draught.
New Jersey Sweet, Sparkling Cider.
Tolu, Rock A Rye, Lawrence A Martin.
Stoughton Bitters.
Rock and Com.
Cigars and Tobacco
Syndicate Cigar, 5 cents.
The Huntress Cigar, 2| cents.
Madeline Cigar—All Havana—10 cents.
Don Carlos (Nub)—all Havana—10 cents
Minerva Cigar—-Havana filler-5 cents.
Cheek Cigar—Havana emto.
Our Boast .CSgar—Havana filler—A cents •
Lucky Hit Cigar—Havana filler—5 cents.
The Unicom Self-Lighting Cigarette,
(Amber mouth-piece to every
ten packages.) •
The Pickwick Club Cigarette,
(Shuck mouth-pieces.)
• «
’• u i.iutimond Gem Cigarette,
(Light smoking.)
ft only Billiiri aii Pool Par
lor in Tom
ICE! ICE! ICE!
An abundance always on hand for the
use of my customers. I wti also keep a
supply of
FISH, OYSTERS, &C.,
for my Restaurant, whiojj in always
open bom the first of September to the
first of April
I shall endeavor to please all who give
me a cell.
Very res yeotfuBy,
¥. W.
(opposite posTonra.
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