Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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rf To TiJK WOIIKINGM KN Oi 1<IL i M- ; TKI> >TATr>. A*,l?lr?."?. of tin* iVoai;!:i'< C!iH>!.ia>i IVmi- ! poraute in ilia I.-ibor Oi-icaniwi-j tioiis. Keseechisj^; Them to Keep Away | I'roai Jiie Saloons. :u:<l !>evolt 'i'i.eir i Karaia^* :<i TIi<-ir Tlic following uililr-- -- ha> been issued by the National Woman's Christian Temperance Linen, in accordance with a resolution adopted :it the recent Minneapolis convention. it is addressed to al! Knights of Labor, trades, unions and other labor organization : Hi-:aijoi.ai:tehs a tisk nationai. t Woman's Christian T;:mi'Ki;an? k j Union, 1G1 LaSallk Street, (jnn a<;0, j November G, I ?To ali Working j Men and Women: Brothers and Sis- J lersofa common hope. We come to | you naturally as our friends and allies. With such of your n-.ethods a= involve ' o-opcraiioii, arbitral! 11 a~ui ti:c imiioi box, wc arc in hearty sympathy. Measure? which involve the compulsion of labor, destruction of property, or harm to life or limb, we profoundly deplore, and we believe the thoughtful and responsible among your ranks must equally deplore litem, as not only base in themselves, but a great hindrance to your'own welfare and success. Wo rejoice i:i your broad platform of mutual help, v.'hrch recognizes neither sex, race nor creed. Kspecially do we appreciate the tendency of your groat movemeiit to elevate women industrially to their rightful place, ov claiming ti:at tney nave equal pay for equal work, rerogmzi !g them as officers and members |of your societies, and advocating ihe bailo, in their hands as their rightful weapon of sell-help in our representative government" As temperance women, we have been especially glad to note your hostile attitude toward the saloon, the worst foe of woman, and of the workingman and of home. We read-with joy of the vow made by the Knights of Labor at the convention in liichmond, when, with hands raised to heaven, they pledged themselves to be total abstainers throughout their term of office. In addressing you at this time we wish to oiler our sincere congratulations upon your achievements a? practical workers in that great temperance reform which er. gages ever steadfast work and prayers, and which, as we believe, involves, over all other move incuts of this age,.your happiness and elevation. Permit us to ask your careful consideration of this statement of our belief. The central question oi' labor reform is not so much how to yet higher wages as how to turn the present wages to better account. For waste harms most those who can least afford it. It is not over-production so much as unuer-consumption that grinds the faces of the workingmen. Fourteen hundred millions annually drawn, chiefiv from the pockets of workiugiiicn, by saloon keepers and cigar dealers, means less ilour in the barrel, less coal in the cellar and less clothing for the laborers family. "We grieve to see them give their money j for that which is not bread and tueir labor for that which satisfieth uoi. Life insurance statistics prove that while the average life of the moderate . drinker is bat '.)o years and a hail', that l> of the total abstainer is Gi years. Ip Successful explorers and soldiers, famous athletes, pedestrians, rowers ||^ and shots, Are men who do not eobBpp web their braius or palsy their nerves Hfc with alcoholic drink. "\Vc believe thai the work of our societies, resulting' in laws by which nearly one-half "the jj^^^^Uiren of the United states are ^^Blfrught in the public schools tlicpK effects ofiatoxicaiinff-iiquors upon ths tisstre^jpr^aif"5otiy and the temper mm of thff mind, merits your earnest cortiini?o*iAii .mil vc'lJ nrAv--> of VOIIV & strongest reinforcements in the elibrt I to elevate your families to nobler levels ' of opportunity. We be'ieve that the L study of hygiene, incladiag a knowlI edge of the raost healthful looris, and the discovery that these are of a cheap" er and noiv-stimulanting class, with a careful consideration of scientiric methods by which, in the preparation of food, a little can be made to go a long way in home economies, are well worthy of your attention. We ask you to" aid us in our endeavors to have taught in|all department.-; of our public schools, taose beneficent laws of health which relate to wholesome living in respect to diet, dress, sleep, exercise and ventilation, so that these teachings shall be given to every child as one of the surest means to its highest happiness. We ask your attention to oar Yvhitc Cross pledge of equal chastity for man una woman: oi pure language ana pare life. We ask your help in our efforts to sccurc adequate protection by law for '.he daughters of the poor and rich alike, from the cruelty of base and brutal men. Wo ask your help in our endeavors to preserve the American Sabbath with its rest and quiet, redeeming it from being, as now, the harvest time of the saloon keeper, when he gathers in the hard earnings of the workingman, and we promise you our co-operation in your efforts to secure a Saturday half-holiday, which we believe will do so much to change the Sabbath from a day of recreation to one of rest at home, and for the worship of God. We call your attention to our department of evangelistic temperance work: work for railroad emnlovt-s. lumbermen, miners, soldiers and toilers; aiso to our ellbrts to organize free kitchens and kindergartens and bands of hope; to supply tree libraries and reading rooms, temperance lodging houses and restaurants, and to reach out a helping- hand to fallen women as well as fallen men.. W-3 have a publishing house at 101 LaSalhi Street, Chicago, which soni out 30,000,000 pages of mission temperance literature in the last year, and which is conducted by women: its t\ pe set by women compositors. We ask you to do all in your power lor the cause or prohibition, which is pre-eminently your cause, and with the dram shop and its riendish temptations overthrown, what might you not attain of that self-mastery which is the first condition of success and hapoiuess in I those homes which arc the- heart's true resting places. Your ballots hold the balance of power in this land of the world's hope. Y>"e ask those of you who arc voters to cast them only for such measures and such men as arc solemnly committed to the prohibition of every brewery, distillery and dramshop iu the nation. And that the women may come to the rescue in this great eiuer- 1 gency, also as an act of justice toward those who have the most sacred claim on your protection, we hope that you may see your way clear to cast your ballots only for such men as are pledged to the enfranchisement of woman. Iii all this we speak to you as tiiosc who fervently believe thai the coming of Christendom in the earth means brotherhood. We urge you, with sisterly earnestness and aliociioii, to I make the New Testatmcnt your text book of political economy and to join its in the daily study of iii< blessed words "Who spake as never man sr>a.ke.'* Ilis pierced hands lifting up tins sorrowl'uI benighted iworld into the light ot lied. in earnest sympathy let us go 1'ol making, til's; ol' :t!l, J11- lav.* :uui life ; our own. Your?, lor <rood and iioni^ and every j land, KuansE. \Vii.lahd, Cauouni; U. iii r.u., President. j ^urre>])Oiiu;ng :>2creiary. B.VM)lFs S.\ \Oai-.. Forty .V-_T'jcr Kvvi-r.r jo Kill any Out- (?a!fkiug ! -l?*alii's OjII?u-A WhiJr L5uy of t2 ; Year* ilu-ir :ir*l Vicsim. Vui:K, Docc-:n!;cr s.?The Xc:r.<ah(7 Co".- : tier has already published i:i :i dispatch j from Cluster the i'act thai a young white! boy was found near his home, in York < county, -o badly beaten and mangted thai lie soon died. Tin- following arc the lacts as far ;;s can be learned: A:k>uI rundown on the evening of the ! :'>0lh u!i. g<-riesof distress were heard in the | field of Wm. V.. Good, who lives near ] liroHu iiivcr. m the western pari 01 mis ] county. A negro hoy in the lot hastened ; i:i the direction of the cry. followed by j Mrs. Good and her little daughter. Pro- ] feeding tiiey found tiie son of Mr. Good, a ' lad 12 years old, named John Lci\ lying in a water furrow in a senseless condition, his skvil i crushed, his mouth knocked in and his body bruised, i Ie was carried to the house and died ato'clock, never recovering consciousness, Trial Justice Ulair. in the neighborhood, was notified and on Wednesday, acting r.s coroner, lie summoned a .jury and proceeded with the inyuest. After examining a large number of witnesses the inquest was adjourned and met :>gain on Friday, when, after taking much testimony, none of a conclusive character, the jury again adjourned till next r rid ay. In the meaulime circumstances pointed ! to Me so Lipscomb, Dan Boberts, Bailey i Dawdle and" Flint Thompson. all colored, i a.s the guilty parties, and they were com-; mitted to jail. The theory of the investigation v, as that some of these negroes had j been detected by the murdered hoy in the ! act of stealing a basket of cotton from his father's field, and to pi event detection they killed him, intending to throw his body into Broad liver, only two hundred yards distant : but they were thwarted in this by the approach of the people from the house. The theory proved correct, for this morning Print and Dan made a confession to the above effect, and also implicated Mose and Bailey as aecc>>orie>. They also say that there is a combination of about forty negroes in that neighborhood pledged that if either one is caught in the act of stealing thev are to kill the oerson so detecting them. This admission may lead to a large number of arrests. There is much excitement in the Broad river section, and now that a confession has been made, your correspondent does not preieud to know what may happen next, though at this time all is quiet. While TIi re i% Life There is Hope. Many of the diseases of this season of the year can be averted by a sraai 1 amount of care and at little cos.% by the timely use oi' Eytbaxk's Topaz cixciioxa couwal. It cures Diarrhoea, Dysentery, Cholera Morbus and like complaints. Xo : traveler should be without a bottle, as it will prevent any disease that would | no doubt arise from the change 01 j water, food and climate, without its 1 use. rue most valuable medicine in ; the world, contains ail the best and j most curative properties of all other' Tonics. Hitters, etc., etc., being the i greatest Ciooci Purifier, Liver Ilegula- j Tor and Life and ilea 1 ih-Rc-storing I Agent in existence. For Ivialaria, I Fever and Ague, C-biiJs and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, sick Jleadacho, Nervous Headache, Chronic i Rheumatism, etc., etc., il is truly a! Herculean Remedy. It gives new life j and vigor to the aged. For ladies Hi delicate health, weak and sickly chil- J dren, narsiug mothers. See circulars j wrapped ;viih bottle. ? CHAiti.r!>xe?fj T. 0., ?c;;c. lc li'go. IJ, ?. ilv.'saxk, Esq., President of, Tlie Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., 1 Spartanburg, i\ C.: Dear Sir?I have 1 used a ease of your Topaz Cordiai in my family, aue as a Tonic and Appetizer I can cheerfully recommend 1: to i all who are sufl'erW from Debility and lack of appetite." My children", ; especially, have been much benefitted ' by its use. iiespectfuiiy, IIUTSON LKE. Ask your druggist for Shank's i Topaz Cinchona Cordial and take J no other. The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., j * Spartanburg, S. C., U. S. A. Jlrgjfiziisz Ibc Railroad*. Waswjxotox, December y.?The conferees on the inter-Slate commerce bill finished their labors tijic morning and will report their bill as soon as it ran iu- printed. On the question of enforcing the act, commission feature of the Senate bill is ac-; ceptcd by the i louse conferees, while the ' Senate ficsferees accepts the system proposed in the Rc^gaa. bill, under which a shipper is entitled to sue for in the United States Court in his gwjT jieuatf. Tlilc o-Ivmv cIiI.wlok 1 ! .-> onlion of :n)iivim? : Gonjphiints to the- commission on instituting suits in the federal courts. Kailroads are j prohibited from edging more for a short than for a longer dULabd: Upon their own lines in the sa.ne direction, the shorter j;eing included within the longer distance and Cha circumstances and conditions being the same; hvt lh*: commission is authorized, upon the appjicatlcs of tjie railroad, and after an investigation of ilxef^. U; relieve i the roads fronTUie operation of the rule in ^spccial eases. The (conferees ' Rgree to the absolute prohibition o' pooling contained in the House These were the main fwarcs of differ-: enee. On the question of the publicity of rates, the provisions of >hc two bills have : been merged so a* 4,u require cadi railroad to make public the rates between points upon its own road, as proposed in the House ; bill, and, in addition, the commission is re quired to secure publicity of through rates j in so far us it may be found necessary. A tturer<<Kdicial The laws of Ohio require ail property <.(, be listed for taxation "at its true value in money." Xatiocal bank stock is. as a rule, worth in the open market more than 10U cents on the dollar. It was assessed last year at G"> cents o.n the dollar, and the: banks, admitting it was worth much more than the assessment, sought to enjoin the : collection on so large a valuation. Tiu-y i founded their right to a -reduction on the ; claim that other property was not valued so highly in proportion to its actual value, j This amounted to a claim that perjury, ; being general, should !.i* stamped with the i approval of the courts and made universal. : To the amazement of honest folk not acquainted with the lore of the law books the court decided in favor of this seemingly j absurd claim. The law as it now stands is < therefore that the banks shall have the legal j right to violate law because others are not; conscientious hi listing properly for tax a-' lion. It is such deep and mysterious "legal! decisions" as the one rendered in Cleveland ! iast week that furnish ammunition 10 jaw-; smiths and wild-eyed reformers.?}'j>tnyxiotcn (Ohio) Teleyraui. A!>ot? f~zuia l lau*. Santa Ciuus was one of tlw oldest ideas, of the Celtic West in Pagan times, as he j was of the Pagan East before. In Christian ; times he was stiii regarded with religious reverence, sitting. a< he had .sat for ages in Egypt and elsewhere, in I lie arms of his! mother. Santa ('las was. in fact, the child Jcsis i.*i the middle ages, and through-' out thai > ':;<>d t!:e festive creed of Get--! many and ail Celtic Europe was that he visited all family dwellings of good Christ-! ians on the eve of his anniversary, and brought with him gifts antf blessings for the children. This Ijsautiful tradition is j still to be found lingering in Germany, ; though Santa Claus does not seem to be 1 specially conncctcJ with it by name. The ; truth of this original belief is plainly ] !n- tlio wnr.l v-lniic " i which in lh" Gothic or ancient German means "'cLUd'' and "son." Santa Ciaus formerly meant the Holy Child. Man proposes, woman disposes, marriage j composes and divorce exposes, w i <;K.M:HAL MEWS ITEMS. The schooner's moored behind the bur i'nlii .-mother year. And topers now take whisky si might In preference to beer. Two heads are better than one. but not . on a carpet tack. Girls who marry coachmen ought to !>e i stable in their affections. The cheap bonnets al! come high enough ; when they are taken to the theatre. Xew York papers are for sale in Canada. . This i- so that "he who runs may read." j Poker is the latest cra/.e. That is if ' > j o'clock in the morning can be called late. | Man i> a paradox. He prays for the mil- f lemmnn and acts to prevent its coming. A lly mxy not like lly-paper. and yet, after ail. lie's apt to get stuck on it. At a fiii- in Baltimore yesterday an old lady <>f !)i) years was burned to death. Municipal elections were held yesterday . in nearly all the cities of Massachusetts. There is a fortune in store for the man who will invent an umbrella with a bur- ! g ar alarm. j ' Steel Pens" heads an article in an exchange. Hut it's a little more common to steal pencils. i It is curious, but true, that a woman's : shoe never tits her unless it is too small for [ her. Nothing is denied well directed labor, and ! nothing is attained without it?except pov i erty. An amorous writer observes that "love ; is an internal transport:" and the same! mi-'ht be said of a canal boat. The Danville. Va., tobacco sales for No-' veinber were 1,010,^S pounds, at an aver-1 age of per hundred. A new Western poet speaks of the "tin-: ; winking eagle." Tliis is uonense. The eagle is always a wing-king. Some men have greatness thrust upon i thee;, as when a fat woman lands in your i lap in a street car. This is the only country in the world , where the men elect all their rulers except j their wives by ballot. Blaine's treatment of Edmunds indicates : ; that he proposes to be his own Burchard j ' hereafter. I Tom Ochiltree says he wishes his chances j j for heaven were as bright as Blaine's for j ; the Presidency. They arc, they are. When a woman can keep her feet as j warm as her temper, her husband will not j need to tremble as he gets into bed. A Kentuckian is feediDg one of his old hens with properly spiced sugar and whis ky to see if she won't lay egg-no<js. If women had the solving of the labor j i question it would be the law for all hus- j ; Danes 10 Keep uie coat scuiue iiiicu. How can you tell a girl from a boy it j the pivicnt day? Tlie huts aud coats of both sexes arc precisely alike. How long it does seem to the little folks j before the Christmas clay comes! When : they get to occupy Santa Claus's place they will liml that it ccmes fast enough. "My new bonnet is a perfect poem," remarked Mrs. Melliggs. "I suppose that is what makes me a-vcrse to paying the bill," replied her husband. A Boston woman, by way of experiment. tied a pedometer to Her chin and found that she talked o'o miles between breakfast and lunch. ' Bah.'' he said, bitterly," "all this that we call love is cant." "Say 'won't,' rather," she answered softly, and he left her forever. Perhaps it might be well to lower Liberty's arm, bend her majestic figure, and renlace her fiery torch with a supolicating hat, 0. A. Lane, the people's candidate, was elected over J. B. Jyuckee, the working j man's candidate, in Birmingham. Ala., ves . terday, for Mayor. The C'heraw and Darlington railroad have declared a dividend of *2 per share on the capital stock of the company. This is the first dividend in over 2o years. Mark this: 'rhe foolish refusal of thai j genteely proffered hand at the Arthur funeral will cost Mr. Biaine all of Xew England except the State of Maine. It is certainh" proper to say nothing when you jjayfi nothing to say; and it costs no more to jocc wise about it tnan to loos sorrowful. Count tie Lesscps thinks a man ougut to live 100 years. This depends altogether on the man." Sometimes he ought not to live more J?*an a minute. The snow storm ia^d atI?aleigh, N. C., for GO hours, and was the greatest storm in that State since 1857 Rc'.jben Kill and his three sous and little daughter while grossing a railroad iu Indiana in' a wagon, was struck by a train ; and ail killed except the little girl, who had j oae 01 her Jp?3 broken. The federation of organized trades and j labor unions of the United States and Can j ad a opened its annual session yesterday at Columbus, Ohio. A Fort Keogh, Montana, dispatch s.iys that the dead bodies of three Indians, who perished in the late storm, have been found Of.af Avhland. "Oat# you usju aiiv'.'" tipiidly inquired the poet na hs laid a bundle "on ii^e ae.?k. "I think I can." ??id the editor, affably; "1 am just about to start a Src in the office stove." 4- New York .spiuster recognizes the fact that on? turn deserves another, but; she doesn't tllink it po-s&Ie that there can | be more than two good turns lu an old silk ' dress. f nips are openiy soia m san rrancu'co' (ivy goods gores." *ome of the lightWftist&i everts ought io im^roi/e the opportunity iii ?CG'jyP a supply at cosi price. Parisian dolls ate c^W constructed after i the model of famous actresses Sara Bern- j hardt, Mary Anderson and other theatrical j i celebrities appear faithfully represented in : jv&k pfythings. 4. cutting a.ffi'oy occurred at Hock Hill i ! Monday evening' h&wcpn 3IcGaskill and | : Means, two mechanics, in 'wiitcJulif.' former j ; slabbed the latter in the breast. A man . named Aldrieh had his hand severely cut in j ' trying to separate them. iji/jileis of trade dollars have the assur-; ^ ancc of s,c*e:al prominent Congressmen j < that an effort will i>e maJe ^his wiuter to . pass a bill providing for the redemption of j this much abused coin. Geo.. Harrison, Nathan Crosby, Hay' Bcrd and Daniel J-wjtherstone. all colored, I ] were at Chester Monday, chargcd I ] with the niurdjef of ?li John, also eolored, J f % ho was beat to death last Wednesday. \ "No man has a ri^jit to own more land j < than he ciia use," ssys CoJ. Ingersoll. I le j < is probably thinking libozjt ;he tract he ! \ owns in New Mexico, DO mi'es long and 00 ' j miles '.vide. It is about all he can use. and 1 the brilliant Robert should print a hook, j entitled, "Three million acres enough." j all, the best ticket for a man lorun i ^ on is a rsiirowl lipket.?Oil City ftlizzard. j This K of course, a joke, but thpre's many ; a true word spoken in jest. The Republican P;ir:y in Pennsylvania w;is sent into j power again cn a railroad ticket. Railroad i discrimination was a potest factor in bring- j ins about the change in the State adminis- i tratjon. ~c First Oiusjba girl?"Have you had a c sleigh ride yet?" fc&'cnd Omaha girl? "Yes; I was out yesterday witj.i your j brother." "Poor dear, how you must have i j suffered." "Suffered?" "Why, yes. He i; took me .out oncc last winter and I nearly ! . froze." j t A genll/'.man received a notice from liis j lawyer which he was unable to decipher, j ] On his v,ty to hjs office he met a friend at j r the door of a drug storo. The friend, after 1 i vainly attempting to read the note suggested : that "they ?t<-p inside and l^and it lo Liu; | druggist, without comment. The druggist, j after "studying it in silence for a few miu-j utes. stepped behind the prescription case,'? arjd in a short time returned with a bottle i a of medicine, duly labeled and bearing dirc-c-; j tions. When the gentleman saw his lawyer : r m "&'is informed that the note wri a notice \ i for him to call at his ofiice between 3 and | a 4 o'clock P. of the following day. It, r is a pretty difficult matter to ' stick7' the , i regulation druggist.?American Analyst. \ \ \ The difference between a matrimonial tie ! t and a necktie is that the latter will wear m out and tlie former won't j :i awci???ao?1 n i i isflvjyarcgg TIEGINLV FOLK I0KE. I _EG?iMD5 OF INTEREST TO ALL STUDENTS OF SUCH SUBJECTS. Ilw Story of the Seven Whistlers?'The Black Horseman, the Eerie Sunsets and the Croat Snake?Legem! of \he Little l)og. Whether, like the folk lore of Georgia, tlie cotton states. that of eastern Virginia is traceable directly back to Africa in nearly every case, is a question. There seerus i<? exist a Caucasian folk lore 1 spiting from long residence in the beautiful spurs of the Blue Kidge and among the .picturesque hills and secluded valleys which radiate and lill all the section of the .-late. That the slaves exerted u per- ' ceptible iniiuence on this cult there can be no doubt. But that it in large part originated in imaginations and superstitions apart from them is equally undoubtahie. .this folk lore embodies several legends which ought to be of interest to students of such subjects all the ! world over. LEG MX D OF T11K SKVKX WHISTLERS. Once in the life of every man he hears the Seven Whistlers' call. They are strange birds on whom mortal eyes have never rested, the whistle of whose wings sometimes falls upon the startled' ear. And there is always a portent of something momentous for good or evil, even though they may not "clee their weid" for weeks after the Seven Whistlers' "call." Like all portents, their coming is mostly in tiie gloaming. For then, after all, is the "witching hour." There is in the quiet of a secluded country side in the twilight hush which comes down i from the mountains and the twilight! shadow which falls from the heavens a mystical significance of another world and of t he flimsy structure of the veil intervening, which is to be found at no other hour of the twenty-four. It is, then, by some lonely wood pond, or in some valley circled by the woods, that this hush is broken by a faint, far beat, distinct note in the air, not on earth or in the sky overhead, taken up anu repeated six limes and ever growing clearer and more distinct, and finally pealing away with a rush of wings and a sound of passing like that which in all the Meditoi.vQiir.in icl/ic ciomnlnrl 15if. /Icntli nf : "the Great Pan" when Christ was born. THE BLACK HORSEMAN. There is a low valley on the Appomat-; tox river, not many miles from the historic field of the surrender, through which flows a gentle stream. Along its banks are groves of oak and ash, and farther away 011 either side stretches the rolling meadow land. On the top of a neighbor-, ing hill is a ruined cabin, said to be the \ site of what was once a famous planta- ! tion mansion. Here, in the first cool twilights of the fall, as the darkness gathers sufficiently to allow the lights of the farm houses a mile or two away to be visible, the traveler or passer by may hear the champing of a bit and the pawing of a powerful steed. In a few moments. just on the bank of the stream, a coal back horse is seen and a strange man | in foreign costume stands by the saddle ' ready to mount. "Whoa, sir: whoa, ! sir," the rider cries, "whoa, sir!'' and j the black steed paws and champs his bit. In an instant on the hill, where stands ; the ruined cabin, a brilliant illumination flare# up and the windows of a stately . mansion are seen all aglow in the rays of j the dying sun which fall last upon that height. Then the strange man raises his i head suddenly and leaps to the saddle j and in a flash the radiant mansion and j the coal black steed disappear, and all is silent and dark. This is known to all the gray heads for leagues around. TIIE EEP.IE SUBSETS. In Madison county, along the base of ; Prospect mountain, the sunsets are said [ always to be of a weird and surpassing . grandeur. No such gorgeous iiiumina:. tiAnc! r\f fit** woctem clrv r?v/a fn Iia c/*<vn anywhere in this country. Whether it he from the peculiar natural conformation of the neighborhood or the way in ! which the hills to the west are shaped, the splendor oi' these sunsets is famous, i As they fade away, anu the streamers of cloud which have been crimson and ' purple melt into the colder gray of dusk, these cloud streamers take on fantastic shapes of living things, and the upper ether, so high as to be indistinct, is twisted and moved by the convolutions of a mighty serpent and the tail-folds undulate down to the horizon and lose themselves in the forests of the mountain, j This is the Great Snake. During the re- I cent earthquake disturbances these atmospheric and serpentine phenomena are declared to h ive been noticed in n marked degree. LEGEND OF TIIE LITTLE DOG. There is never a boy or a girl who was brought up in all that country side who has not heard form nurse or colored com- J Uciniu.il iiiv; yji. .ijuut It is, as the black mammies" always warned their young charges, a small gray dog, not a puppy, but a creature 1 grown old and gray, which suddenly appears at dusk to a truant child. At first it is small and insignificant, even harm-' less looking. As tl;e truant looks over ' hii, shoulder, and fearfully begins to ; speed homeward, the animal grows with the growing darkness, and whitens in the increasing blackness until it looms' closer and closer behind the appalled child in a great, gray shape as hideous i and as terrible as the gigantic white j whale of the South Seas to the belated j islander at sea. I have often imagined T : Kft.w Mi". ''Little White Doer." and whether Lsaw him or not 1 was scared, like many another white child, "half to death."?Tjlin Paul Bocock in Detroit Free Press. Old Universities. Harvard is more venerable than a Bum- ' be<r pf German universities which are famous. The University of Halle was founded in 1094. that of Jhtrslaii in 1702. Df Gottiugen in 1737, Berlin in 1810 and Bonn in 1 SIS, all being younger than Harvard, which was founded in 1036. .The oldest of the German speaking universities js that of Prague, which was founded In 1348: the next is that of Yi- j mna, founded in I860, and Heidelberg, ; founded in 1386, is the third and is the ; eldest university in the German empire. ?Kansas Citv Times. i Mr. William Dean Howells said >vhen ! ie was in Washintgon last winter that ha ' iad it in mind to write a novel vhich : should have neither hem nor liero.ne? : mless a newspaper can be one or the jfcher. J lis idea was to inp.Ke tne growm ; jf a great daily newspaper the main feat- : are of a story, keeping the men and voiucij subordinate to it.?Washington 2or. Phila?Jeli)hia. Record. Baby carriages are being exported to Europe in large numbers. A Sod Tragedy. Lai? .Saturday evening two sons of Mrs. j 3ooth, Asliby and G^crgc, with a 'son of i < *lr. Sam Brown named Ervin, were ptay-. 1 ug with an unloaded pistol, in a room at < ilrs. Booth's. There was a loaded pistol : ' >n the maatlepiece. and in some way Ervin j I jot hold of it, thinking it was unloaded, j < md snapped it at Asliby, sending the builet j < nto his brain. The ball struck Ash by's | I lead just )?ack of the ear, and passing up- 1 vards ajid forwards penetrated the skull j ] iear the top of the head, lie lived, though i . tnconscious, until the next afternoon. An < nvestigalion by the Coroner brought to : ' iglil tiie abovy facts. Mrs. Booth is al-! 1 liost crazed with gript and is in a very crit- j cal condition.?,i?mter Watchman. Killed by Beers. 1 Montukal, December ?A terrible I! itory comes from Lorignal to the effect that j i l naan named Alfred Lavoie and his son i < \.delard, a boy of 12. went hunting on j < don day last.. As they did not return, the : < icighbors started into the woods in search | j iini found their dead bodies in a terribly j ; nangled condition. Bear tracks were found j i n all directions, but it is still uncertain j < vhcllier the men were attacked and killed j 1 virile asleep or if tliey had first tired upon I ' lie savage animals and had been after- j ] vard overpowered. The bodies were found <; ibout three feet apart. i < *" - rri-.r j " ERICSSON AND OLE BULL. How the Note<l Violinist Charmed the Great Mechanician?A Triumph. Iii conversation n few evenings ago 3 distinguished chemist and physician, ; ..k-A .m r.ntonci'icric r-vfripnl lover or music, told an interesting story about Ole Bull and John Ericsson, the great inventor. It seems that they were friends in early lift, but drifted apart and did not meet again until each had become famous. Hull had charmed the ears of admiring thousands all over the civilized world, while the part the great mechanician played in naval warfare during the rebellion roused the north to enthusiasm and startled the world. Bull. happening to be in New York on a concert tour, determined to look up his friend and renew the acquaintance, lie found him in his workshop surrounded by tools, machinery, designs, models, and materials used in mechanical constructions, directing the labors of a corps of assistants. When taking his leave Bull invited 1 ' ' - ? ? ? r.riC>MJii lu iuicnu jus fuuucio mac mgiiu EPicsson. however, declined, saying lie had no time to waste. Their acquaintance being thus renewed, Bull continued to call on liis old friend when visiting New York, and usually when taking his leave would a.sk Ericsson to attend his concert, but Ericsson always tieclincd llie invitation. Upon one occasion Bull pressed him urgently, and said: "If you do not come I shall bring my violin here and play in your shop." Ericsson replied gruffly: "if you bring the thing here I shall smash it." Here were two men the very opposites of each other. Bull an impulsive, romantic dreamer; Ericsson stern, thoughtful, practical, proving every movement with mathematical precision Bull's curiosity was aroused to know what effect music would have upon the grim, matter of fact man of squares and circles. So. taking his violin with him, he went to Ericsson's shop. He had removed the strings, screws and apron, so that the violin would seem to be in bad condition. As he entered the shop, noticing a displeased expression, on Ericsson's face, Bull called his attention to certain defects in the instrument, and, speaking of its construction asked Ericsson about the scienlilic and acoustic properties involved in the grain of certain woods. From this lie passed on to a discussion o? bound waves, tones, semitones, etc. To illustrate his meaning, he replaced the strings, and, improvising a few chords, drifted into a rich melody. The workmen, charmed, dropped their tools, and stood in silent wonder. lie played on and on, and when finally he ceased, Ericsson raised his bowed mid. with moist eves, said: "Do not stop. Goon! Go on! I never knew until now what there was lacking in my life."?Lowell Sun. Press Kidicule of Gen. Uoulanger. General Boulanger'.s too Haltering "Life" having had its days on the Boulevards, the itinerant venders came out the other evening with a new paper entitled , the Boulangiste, which will keep up the , c-xcitcmcnt for a while and amuse the Parisians during the dull season. The especial feature of the new journal (which will probably never get farther than Xo. 1) is the portraits of the notorious minister of war. Thus we have that official in the following positions: "The General without- a Beard," ''The General with a Beard." "The General on i loot," "The General Saluting the Peo- I pie," ;;?he General (near view)," "The i General in Bed," "The General in Pro- j file," "The General on Horseback," "The General in Full Dress," "The General 1 Smoking/'"The General in Civilian At- i < tire." '"The General in the Tribune," "The General Firing in the Air," "The General After the Letter." "The General at Work." "Tlie General After the Expulsion of the Princes," "The General After the Duel." 'The General Bored by the Newspapers." It is said by some that the storm of ridicule with which this patriotic public servant is now being assailed, will in the end increase his popularity; but the latter opinion seems to be that he has been effectually "squelched" by M. de Freycinet.?The Argonaut. Chinese Edibles in Canton. There were edibles in the market that were quite unknown to me, but I could only look at them, and guess at how they would taste. "When we came to the cook shops, we gave them a wide berth. Of all the unsavory looking and malodorous messes ever devised by the ingenuity of man, those concocted by the Chinese* , lor tne regalement or tne lower laboring class arc the most fearful and wonderful. J There is one partielnarly popluar dish, which I encountered a great many times, iind remember with the same feelings rhat ? predominate in one's recollections of a yellow dog. It was a sort of a cross he- j i ween ;i coarse vegetable soup and an , Irish stew in a dirty, sa/Irony yellow gravy, and of all the culinary abomina- } t ions J ever faced, this is the worst and J; most repulsive. But the Chinese dote . on it, and wherever you see it for sale, 11 whether in a market, a ccok shop, or a P perambulator, there you will always see a * semi circle of coolies around it, each with J a pair of chopsticks and a yellow bowl at " his month, shoveling down the great mystery by tiie quart.?W. F. Hornaday in Cosmopolitan, ? iMiil AviiiDnr's Penchant, 11 "Phil Armour has several little hob- e hies," said a friend of the great pork " packer Liie other day, "but the strangest of them all is his penchant for showing ? strangers around his bier office buildincr. " The other clay a granger and his v.ife strolled into Phil's office and told the good natured millionaire that 'begum, that wasn't a stnre nor a meetin' house a in alt lowa that could hold a candlestick ^ to his building.' Armour laughed mer- a; rily, and asked his visitors if they had ei been around the various departments. ^ They replied that they had not. The ^ millionaire then took them in tow and g showed them the option department, the ? busy cashier and the foreign department, jt Then he took them to the place where ^ the wages of the 7,000 men employed at pj the packing house are put into little en- n velvopes every month. Big piles of gold ii and silver coin lay before them: and as 0j for greenbacks?why, the sight of so S] many of them nearly threw the good old 0, farmer into a spasm. But that is just a] like Armour, it amuses him to see the or eve* of liirs viaiCoxJ~0m j- ct as he pilots them around his great estab- tc Lishment.?Chicago Herald, "! ? ? ci One "Way to Get It. cj Some visitors went into a store, in a oj prohibition town, kept by a German woman, and called &>r whisky. She cnirl conld not sell any, and then whispered to one of them: "Ven you c] rants fiskv, you must call for vine, and g. pinch mit one eye.?Eschange. tj * ? ~ Fires or the Montis. The New York Daily Commercial Bui'ctin of this moraine: estimates the November +;re loss in the L'nited States and Canada at SiO.OOO,uOv. an increase of one-third 111 upon the November average "since the Bos- m on fire of 1S72. There were ICO fires re- ^ corded whose reported loss was $10,000 and k< 3ver. 'i'he large fires, of from $100,000 up tc ;c .<000.000. numbered 19, and caused a m loss in the aggregate of $4,000,000, or 40 ^ :)er cent, of"the"eniire loss of the month. ^ According to the Bulletin there lias been a s' lestructinn by fire of $105,000,000 for the n 11 months of 1S*8, with December yet to ff k- heard from. P1 tt, ! ra I A Bad Job ol Regulators. i St Lot is. December S.?A special from j Shepard, Texas, says a negro named John L/'onncrs, who lived on Big Creek, near Jj ijhepard, and who was suspected of being u implicated in a mail robljery, recently, was :u ;alled to his door Monday night by a party al jf eight or ten men. who disembowled L'onners and left liim for dead. He was " found yesterday morning still living and able to give the names of the men who had butchered him and the Sheriff immediately organized a posse and arrested several of Jie accused parties. The others escaped, m The friends of those under arrest are des- tl [>erate and the .Sheriff is a man of nerve. I) wd serious trouble is anticipated. Conncrs ai jannot jive. tr Xne People of Holland. As a people the Dutch are not hand- ! some. There are handsome types, but i they have come in with Flemish iin- i migrations cr by accidental admixture j with some of the blonde tribes of north , Germany. They are evidently not the j old Batavians recognized in history | 100 years before tlie Christian era, and, | by a singular persistence of descent, j perpetnated till the present day. This ! perseverance of ancient types through ! thousands of years of pestilence, of sub- i mergence, of desolating wars, of internecine contests, of successive immigrations, is one of the marvels of history. The Flemish type is characterized by length of nose, breadth of forehead, smallness of chin and shortness of face. \ The true Dutch type has length of nose, narrowness of forehead, thinness of feature. gauntness of body and often considerable length of limb. These details! are subject to modifications. The types more nearly approaching it are those often seen in Denmark. You can wander for days through the streets, museums and public places of | Amsterdam, Harlem, T'le Hague and j Rotterdam and not meet a handsome woman, young or old, unless she is a foreigner. The climate, like that of Eoston, proves more trying to the gentler sex. This absence of personal attractiveness in young women and girls is not without a certain nathos. The faces of old women become thin as a blade, the nose sharp as a needle, the complexion preternaturally clear and white. There is no room for wrinkles on a surface so small and thin. Surmount this queer face with one* of the close fitting, white native caps, and put about it a quantity of the curious gold ornaments of the country, and you have a personal ensemble to be re- ' membered.?Holland Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. ,v Superstitions of the Educated. President Garfield, although a man of much sterling practical ability, whose life liad oeen so full of hard experience, was afflicted with an unconquerable element of superstition. His faith in lucky nnil unlucky numbers was implicit. F or many years certain combinations of figures haunted him. and lie was constantly expecting ominous events to lake place on certain dates, and although invariably disappointed, he never ceased to form fresh prognostications. Such traits of superstition are not so uncommon, even in this positivistie Nineteenth century, as one is naturally inclined to sappose.. There are as many hard headed, practical men of business to-day who would not start a fresh enterprise on a Friday as there are ignorant seamen who declare that the rats desert a ship only when she Is doomed to sink. Thousands of well educated men and women t'nere are who would feel insulted if accused ftf believing in ghosts, but who would frame any excuse for not sitting down at a table with twelve of their friends. As to the uneducated classes, superstition is as rampant among them as in the days when poor old women were set on the ducking stool. Ill a walk thrifagh any country village you will scarcely find a farmbouse without- its lucky horseshoe, its cliarm for corns and warts, its terror of crossed knives niul broken looking glasses. ?Ben: Perjey Pocre. The Craze for Kiches. Henry E. Abbey, the noted theatrical manager, is a slender man, who carries himself well. He has a round, ruddy face and blaek mustache. He is always carefully dressed. Mr. Abbey was originally a jeweler, having learned the trade in his father's shop in a western town. He may be seen riding about the city, his favorite conveyance being a hansom. Abbey has had his ups and downs, but through them lie has preserved an indifference to wealth which is remarkable. Chatting with me the other day he said: ''I cannot understand why men are irazy to be rich. If a man has all he cvants I should think that would be inougij. | would rather be in the place one of' the younger members of the Vanderbilt family than in the place of one >f the elder*. Take Frederick Yander)ilt. for instance, with $8,000,000 or $10,JOO.OOO, which is ample. He lias nothing .0 do but to enjoy himself, but Cornelius md William K., with ^40.000.000 or ?o0,)00,000 apiece, have all the responsibility )f keeping tip the family name and transnitting their wealth unbroken to some)ody who will maintain the family name md fortune. They are in trouble all the :ime, whereas the younger sons have lothing to do but to enjoy themselves." -New York Tribune. Paris and Her Visitors. I heard it estimated to-day that the oreigners in Paris are spending ?200,000 i day. I do not imagine this to be an exravagant calculation.' The city is full of Americans and English, and the hotel vhere I am stopping has little else. Paris teautifies herself as much for the rest of he world as for her own people. She ives off her visitors, and her store winlows nrft nnt iin to ftjitfli 1 br>. nf thp lasser by. Tlicse great boulevards are ined with stores, which at night are iluminated brilliantly, both outside and a. Lines of gas jcis with reflectors are ilaced above t he windows on the outside, p that; they cast a strong blaze down pon the goods displayed. Nearly all be goo<ls of the store, as a rule, are in he windows, and the interior is not to be ntered except for purchase. Small tocks are carried. I judge, and as a genral thing a first class Paris store is not lore than twelve feet sqttare inside. I jeeepr, of course, the grand establish lent of the "Magazine du Louvre," and he "Bon Marche," which are like those f Macy's, in New York, Wannamakers 1 Philadelphia, only larger.?Frank G. Carpenter in Cleveland Leader. Courtesy of English Aristocrats. Every American who has traveled oroau Knows mat- jsmgnsn men ana omen of established position are habitu- j Lly brusque to strangers, inferiors, or j rpial's; while in private houses they are mietinies capable of a cool impertinence rhich astonishes an American. A di^tinuished lady of fortune and position, who nr years had made every properly aecreded English man arid woman welcome to er beautiful home and cultivated circle, assed three months at a well known Engsh water cure with her invalid husband. 1 the house were several English people i rank, friends and relatives of whom le had entertained in this country. Not le of them recognized her existence in jy way. not even by a "good morning" ?rrr^7^^I)efng^at'tTicy (lift not'?b? > a "cure*' to make acquaintances. > In three months," said the lady, "the eaidng oi my own boots was the only ( leerful soitnd I heard, and I was cured : a belief in the courtesy of the English ;erage.'??Harper's Bazar. f Philosophize how we will, the melan,fr.n' ,-oYWlinc til of. lifp 1? ATI .*}frffVA iUijr lav. ? ?? oo-- | r alion of mistakes.?Signor Max in De- ; \ oifc Free Press. Dear Old Santa Claus. One of the pleasantest events of Christ- * tas time is the advent of our dear though ytholo<*ical frhed, Santa Claus. It is ie universal' wonderment of childhood 3W the old gent leman, who iloes not seem ? grow stingy with the passing years, lanages to visit so many homes at about ie same hour, and to crawl down small id sooty Hues with so large a pack on his loulders without soiling his beard. It is ttlier a sad experience when boyhood and irlhood discover that he is an imaginary ersonase. and that?but let the myth re tain, untouched by the stern and grinding \ icts of later life. Rich and poor are un- c er the spell of expedition, and number- j ss stocking will be Lung up in the hope ; tat if Santa C'laus does not come to lili , icra some one else will, liare gifts will * jss from hand to hand among the wealthy, j pd eveu the pinchec. and poor will be t iade glad by some little token of love and ; iendship, ( ! ??? \ V 1 Not for many years; has there been so iuch marrying and giving in marriage as tere has been thus far this winter. "May ecember, 1SS7, see ail the cou;>les who e now stepping into the matrimonial j aces as happy as they are to-day. ] Attempting to .Mnkc Hntr* Liable Jo vuit* l>v Un-!r our. <'!ti'.'.* ? >. K.vLJiioii. X. C.. Dcccmbcrf'.?The case of Temple against the State of Xoitii (' :ro lina au'l Roberts, auditor. invdviiJir she right or holders of spe-ia! t-.x bonds so vnforce IhccoSlerifoa of spc'hd taxes kvied by th'/sani'j A--!.- of mblv ur.dtr which the bonds were authorized, was hf arc' yes terdayin the Ur.ilcd States C'ouii. bei"? re Judges Bond and Seymour. 0:1 a motion < f the State to dismiss t!.e bill A novel ?i*.;estion arises as- to the right of a citizen ol" a State to sue it. when his Federal rights have been invaded by alleged unconstitutional legislation. Edward L. Andrews. of >'e<v York, and Fx-Solicitor General S. L. F. Phillips, in elaborate argument, upheld the jurisdiction of the court, whiV Ih P. I3:ii-. tie and John \V. Graham, for the State, oppose! I it wi h ability and a free citation <>i' authorities. The same .Judges are to-day engaged in hearing the ease of Morton, lilies X- Co. vs. Roheits. auditor, which is a petition f;?r mandamus to compel the auditor to include . in !i;e tax list a requisition for the collet- i tion of special taxes. 'J'lie same counsel ap- J pear in this case. The decision of the Court is awaited with much interest. Sister Louise, the head and founder of *27 houses of the Order of Notre Dame ;u , this country, with their 700 sisters and 20, gin pnpiis, ciicrt i* nOay afternoon in j Cincinu;i'.i. Si:-; houses of Notre Dame on the Pacific :ii<o lose in her one of tiicir principal fouivU-rs The formation o? Mo! her Eve's tomb Oil the outskirts of Pjc.W-h shows her to ha\e been ;i v,'omars over thirty feel high. V c have jilways hail p. suspicion that Fa'h r Adam, v. lieu he ale that quince, vrs a v:< ' :l.? oi domestic coercion. 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