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VOL. XLIII. WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1887. ' N0- 28* . _ m11w . ? |M| r| , , , ?Tii i, >i M ME AMONG THE;M00XSmERS. THE LIVELY E> ''EKIENCE OF AN INOl'IKEK AFTER TlIl'TH. BB He Finds an Humble Cabin in Western North Carolina and Tastes the Chemicals, (li'll Nye in the N<w York World.) Asheyille. X. C., January 13.?Last week I -went out into the mountains for fto r>nmncp nf spfnrin.o- a holiv tree with CUV, 0 v red berries on it for Yuletide. I had noticed in ail my pictures of Christmas festivities in England that the hoKv, ^ * r -with cranberries on it, constituted the back groxind of Yuletide. A Yuletide in England without a holly bough and a little mistletoe in it wouldn't be worth half price. Here these vegetables gi ow in great profusion, owing to the equable ^ - climate, and so the holly tree is within the reach of all. I resolved to secure one personally, so I sped away into the mountains, where, in less than the time it takes to tell it, I had succeeded in finding a holly tree and losing myself. It is a very solemn sensation to feel that you are lost, and that before you can be found something is W liable to happen to the universe. [ I wandered aimlessly about for half an ft iionr, nopirig mat jl woujlu. ue imsbt-u. m society and some one sent in seaich of trie. I was just about to give up in L despair and sink down on a bed of moss Hk "with the idea of shuilling oil six or seven feet of mortal coil when, a few rous Bps away, I saw a blue smoke issuing from , * the side of the mountain and rising toward the sky. I went rapidly toward it and found it to be: a plain dug-out with a diit floor. . I entered and cast myself upon a rude nail keg, allowing my feet to remain suspended at the lower end of my legs, an attitude which I frequently affect when fatigued. The place was not occupied at tlxe time j I entered, though there was a fire and { things looked as though the owner had j not been long absent. It seemed to be j a kind of laboratory, for I couiii see nere | and there the eai marks of the chemist. | I feared at first tbat it was a bomb fac-1 tory, but as I could not see any of these j implements in a perfected state I decided j that it was safe and waited for the owner ! to arrive. ^ * After some time I heard a low, gutter- j al footstep approaching up the hill. I; went to the door and exclaimed to the : propiietor as he came, "Merry Christ- j mas, Colonel." "Merry Christmas be 1" said he in i the same bantering tore. "What in i ^ three dashes, two hyphens acd an aston-1 isher do you want here, yoa double i IJr dashed and double blanketed biuiik to j f dash and retuia!" - The wording here is my o?r, but it | gives you an idea of how the con versa-! tion was drifting. You can see by his ; manner that ht--rary people are not alone j in being surly, irritable and unreason- j able. So I humored him and spoke kindly i frv him and smoothed down his rali'eu plumage with, my gay badinage, for he i "WOrc a eJsarri "Sird tob Oah lt*ii ; T whether a man wearirg a shawl is armed ; Y or n?k I noticed that he was a man about i medium height, with clear en features I and retreating brisket. H.'s hair was j dark and j.ung in great w^ves, which J seemed to have caught the suniight and j retained it together with a great mrny J other atmospheric phenomena. .tie wore; a straw hat, such as I once saw Horace I k- Greeley catch grasshoppers in, on the ! banks of the Kinnickinnick, just before j ^ he caught a small trout. I spent some time with him watching j }r V>im as he made nis various experiments. j p- Finally he showed me a new beverage that he had been engaged in perfecting, j It was inclosed in a el-ark brown stone j ^receptacle, and was held in place by a j "Common corn cob stopper. I took some ! of it in order to show that I confided in J him. I do not remember anything else | distinctly. Ti-e fumes of this uiink went J at ODce to my brain, where it had what j might be termed a complete walkover. 1 now have no hesitation in saying i that the fiuid must have been alcoholic in its nature, for whun I regained my consciousness I was extremely elsewhere. I found myself on a road which seemed r to lead in two opposite directions, and my mind was very much confused. I hardly know now I got home, but I finally did get there, accompanied by a strong leaning toward prohibition. A few days later I received the following letter: Sir?I at first thought when I saw you w*- at my laboratory the other day that you was a low, inquisitive cuss, and so I spoke to you in harsh tones and regk proached you and upbraided you by calling you everything I could lay my tongue 'to, but since then I have conIfr pluded that vou didn't know any better. You said to ine that you ioxpd my ^kplace by seeing the smoke coming out mv r>himnpv: that has civen me an riaea that yon might kno.? something aBPut what's called a smoke consumer, of Vhich I have heard. I Vn doing a fair business, but am a gor tVleal pestered, as yon might say, by people who come in on me when I do not Taztf to mingle in society. A man in the cl^p^ist business cannot succeed if he is all the time interrupted ~o. ium. pick and Harry coming in on him when he is hi the Eiiddle of an experiment. I am engaged in making a remedy for r-chich there js a'g?cat demand, but its manufacture is resided with suspicion by United States o^iiais who want to be considered zealousk leather than be drawn into any difheulr,vri7h these people, 1 have always courted retirement and avoided the brsy haunts of lic-i. Still, some struliing idiot or other wiii occasionally see the smoke frvm my little k home and droy in ov>. me. ^ trOidd you iind ont about smoke consumer and'see what the price wouid anil let me know as soon as\<fc.M>l.-' vou could do so I can be vf - i-oat sprvice to you. Lt^ivo the letter under ?hp big stc'ne where yon found jc?*irstli the other day when, you cuiao out of you? trance. I call it a trance, because letter might fall into the hands of yem . family. If you will hnd oat about tir s.aoke consumer and leave the in forma f tion where 1 told you, you will find on; the following day a large jug of meun tain dew in the same place, that will your hair grow-and give a roseate Hue to your others"so gioo'iRv life. i T\^ * J ' ' _ x/W uvt vxj to come uere again. it might compromise me. A man in your _ nosition mav not have anything to risk, B- b at with me it is different. My unsullied W reputation is all I have to bequeath tc jnV children. It you come often there will not be enough of it left to go around, as I have a large family. If you hear of anybody that wants fo trade a good double barrel shot gun for a small portable worm and retort that ii> too small for my business, I can give him a good trade on it if he -will let vou fcaqw. This is a good machine for experimental purposes, and being no iargci tJian a Babcock nre extinguisher it can be readily conveyed to a place of safety at a very rapid rate. You might say to your friends that we shall try in the future as we liave im the past to keep up the standard of our goods, so as to merit a continued patronage. Citizens of the United States, or those who Lave declared their intention to become such, will always be welcomed at our works, provided they are not oiiicehoMers in any capacity. We Lave no use for those who are in any way cont-? rwl tnfli f ho f VfAliJ. tuv I^US/iAV VVMV* I. B. Moonshine. Dictated letter. T hope that any one will feel perfectly Tree to addrees me in relation to anything referred to in the above letter. All communications containing remittances will be regarded at strictly confidential. A SHU* IN A TYPHOON". How Some Te??pest-Tossed Mariners Got uj> a Christmas Putlding. (Frcm th" Gi'vestoa, Tex , n"-'.vs.) The steamer Victoria was not the only unfortunate vessel that encountered the severe storm in the Western Ocean and I had to put back for repairs before reachI ing this port. la conversation with a gentleman who has had considerable of life on the ocean waves, he gave a harrowing description of the experience of j the steamer Carrington in the same vio| lent storm that disabled the Yictoriaand | crippled three of her crew. On the day \ of the typhoon high waves rolled the ! ship as if it were but a cork on the surj fac<\ j.; was impossible for the men to I keep their feet, and all who could took I refuge in their bunks. The s?ils were ! blown away. All the dishes and cooking | utensils were broken and destroyed, j There were three feet of water in the ( cabins and the stores and provision were mostly injured or washed out. The wheel gear, the chocks and lower bridge deck were washed away and the starboard light smashed in. The forecastle was carried away and the men had to slay in the sail lockers. It was simply risking one's to go forward" or to be on deck. Several oi the firemen and sailors were disabled, but none seriously injured. In tlie judgment of the officers on board the Carrington would never have weathered the storm if she had been heavily laden. The relief men bid each other good-bye in separating, and the staunchest and oldest seamen wore blanched faces and resigned themselves to the mercies of Providence. The serious and fright! ill pail of the voyage was over. The wind had subsided and the waves were leveled, but other disagreeable conditions prevailed on board. It was on Cixristmas day thac al i desired a rniddirj? in oommemoi-ation ui the an niversary. Dishes and utensils had been broken and mashed, and while there were considerable provisions in condition'to use there were no facilities for cooking them.- The condition of affairs called into requisition the genius of Captain William Smith, the chief engineer, and the first mute,, who set to work to improvise a vessel in which to prepare a Christmas pudding. They. Secured two pieces of broken. pans and bound them closely with copper wire and closed the seams with flour paste so that it would hold water tolerably well. By this means all hands were treated to a very good dinner. Word of Warning. The Home (Ga.) Courier, commenting . upon the "glowing repoits of great speculations in j eal estate in several of the cities ox Alabama and--Tennessee," takes occasion to tay: 4iIt should be borne :n m'nd that tve 'booms' in the other cities to which we allude a:e based solely npen -reir prospects ox getting terse: -on industries and that Ibe ores ent buoyancy of t-be ire a Lrada is due to an extraordinaiy demand ard slvrp advance in prices, canted clnfly by great activity in railroad building. It is kardiy necessary to ren?icd our people of the precarioui. ternre oi' this :boom.' They iiave fresh ir their memories the vic'ssitudes of ue iron . usiaess during the last fifteen or twenty years. They have seen the Cornwall and Bound Mountain Works, once fourishiog and prosperous, closed oecause of a slack in the demand for iron aod a gxeai fall in ii.s price, and they know tuat many other plants of the same kind, both in tl e Louth arid tbe North, have had either to close or greatly to curtail operations for the same cause. Cities dependent upon Ibis one business for their prosperity and growth * "U-vlS JLLLLLSb JLLCVUd JJLUJLU. tliCi-L V Yi Li. Ui ViWi-LLLVi according to the fortunes of this business,-a-jcl their own lots and neighboring real estate must fall or lise in pripe with the business that gives them their value. If the great lard companies that lire selling (or perhaps we ought to say arc offering to sell) their lots ao such ex: travagant prices really mean to establish the furnaces and other iron works - that' are talked about, this will maintain the price of property as long as the 'boom' m iron continues. But if they are only working up an inflation so as to sell oil their real estate at euoiinous profits and intend then to leave the purchasers to shift for themselves, the drop wi'l anticipate the dtci:ne in the iron trade." An Open LeH.tr to Vunt-JIukors. Gentlesiex: Believing that you are not insensible to the best interests of mankind, and recognizing the great and j growing wine interests oi tnis fctate, and also the great temperance army, who need some pleasant uualcohoi'c drink its a beverage and for i lie table, I seek to bring tlas want and supply together. Anu for this purpose I ask you to put up some unfonnented vine?that is the putt; juice of tiie grape?having no deleterious substance in it. You are the 1 "X-pcT ocrsons to expt'rinient in this directior. I presume to ask this of you on the ground of your common humanity, and also as a financial venture. The thing sought will certainly be found?demand ana supply always keep company. Suppose you try some of Lhe methods already in use by private families until some better ways are found to preserve the juice i'rom ftrmeriiation. - One of tiiese methods is by pasteuring; that is, heating to d-slroy the germs, vvhioh cause ic-rmentaiion, and filtering or btraining. First "h> at to ICQ degrees, keeping it at this temperature for some time, then carefully filtering or straining, and again. i heating to ItiO degrees, bei'or-e bottling. 4t must "uu put in the "bottles hot. The ! pottles mav w^hed out with a sghoylic v/:u;ien to make sure of kitting ::il tie gc fmST The coiiis must be carej fully disinfected, as it is they that commonly start the trouble inside. When putting then; in the bottle take tlie corks I out oi' a hot. salicylic solution.'' .No salicylic acid or other injurious substance must be put iu the wine, as this would defeat the object of this enterprise?a pleasant, healthy drink. The reward offered to him who shall discover the i>est method of preserving unfermented wine is a fortune to himself and the everlasting blessing of mankind. ** Ordinary astronomy teaches us the theory of spots on the sun, but Boston astronomy tcacnes the theory of spccs on the daughter. /s-\ A STKANGE DOCUMENT. A Letter from General Grasit to His Chief of Stall', Afterwards His .Secretary of "War. The New York Sun publishes the following letter, written by the late General John A. Kawlins, and addressed to the lute General U. S. Grant, dated "Before Vicksburg, Miss., June 6th, 18Go, one o'clock, a. in.:" "Dear General: The great solicitude I feel for the safety of the army leads me to mention that which I had hoped never again to do?the subject of vour drink iug. This may surprise you, for I may be, (and I trust I am), doing you an injustice by an unfounded suspicion, but if an error it better be 0*1 the side of Lis country's safety than in fear of oHeixling a friend. I Lave Leard tLat Dr. McMillan, at General Sherman's a few days ago, induced you, notwithstanding your pledge to me, to take a glass of wine, and to-day, when I found a box of wine in front of your tent and proposed to move it, which I did, I was told you had forbid its being taken away, for you had intended to keep it until you had entered Vicksburg, that you might have it for your friends; and to-night, wLen you sLould because of the condition of yonr health, if nothing else, have been in bed, I find you just where the wine bottle had been emptied, in company with those who drink and urge you to do 1*1 _ J _ 1 "1_ _ i? _ 1 likewise, una ine jacii tu your usual promptness of decision and clearness in expressing yourself in writing tended to coniirm my suspicions. "You can have full control of your appetite and let di inking alone. Had you not pledged me the sincerity of your honor early last March that' you would drink no more during the war, and kept that pledge during your ^recent campaign, you would not to-day have stood lirst in the world's history as a succjssful military leader. "Your only salvation depends upon your strict adherence to that pledge. You cannot succeed in any other way. As I have before stated, I may be wrong in my suspicions, but if one sees that which leads him to suppose a sentinel is tailing asleep on his post it is h:s duty to arouse him; and if one sees that that which leads him to fear the general commanding a great array is being seduced to that step which he knows will br.ug disgrace upon that general and defeat to his command it fails to sound the proper note of warning, the friends, wives and children of those brave men whose lives he permits to remain thus imperiled will accuse him while he lives, and stand swift witnesses of wrath against him in the day when all shall be judged. "If my suspicions are unfoonded, let my friendship for you and my zeal for my country be my excuse for this L-tter; and if they are correctly founded, aru you determine not to heed the atlmonitinric or?/l tno rvrovova r\t f l>ncfr t?a+a by immediately ceasing to touch a single drop of any kind of liquor, no matter by whom asked or under what circumstances, let my immediate relief from duty in this department be the result. I am, General, your friend, John" A. Eay.xixs." The ref'ined copy of this letter was endorsed by General Rawlins as follows: -"This is an exact copy of a letter given to cae person to whom it is addressed at its date, aboutiour miles from our headquarters in the rear- of Vicksburg. Its admonitions were heeded, and ell went well. John A. Kawlixs." Tea a.s a Iiev?T-jje. Use a china or porcela'n pot. If you do use metal,* let it be tin, new, bright and clean; never use it when the tin is worn out and iron expocsd. If you do, vou are ulavina- chemist and forming a tanaate or tea-ate of iron. Use black tea. Green tea "when good is kept at home. What goes abroad is bad, very bad and horrible. Besides containing the 203 adulterations the Cbi- ; nese philanthropist puts up for the out- 1 side barbarian, it is always pervaded by copper dust from the dirty curing pans i of tiie growers. Infuse your tea. Don't boil it. PI? 3e one teaspoonfid of tea in the pot and pour on it H cups of boiling, water, that is, water really boiliDg. If your tea is poor, use more. It is cheaper, though, tc buy good tea at the outset. Put your pot on the back part of the stove, carefully covered, so that it shall ' not lose its heat, and the tea its bouquet. . Let it remain there five minutes, then . drink it. Drink your tea plain. Don't add milk . or sugar. iea-Dro?e;s ana tea-tasters never do; epicures never do; the Chinese never do. Milk contains fibrin, albumen, or some other staff, and the tea a ; deVcate amount of tanjein. This tur- . bidity, if I remember the cyclopaedia aright, is tannate of fibiln, or leather. People who put milk in tea are therefore driDkin^ boots arid sboes m mild disguise.?Wong Chin Foo, in the Cook. Attacking She Civil Coitnii'^'ion. Something like a sensation tvas caused in the District Supreme Court in the geoeial term in "Washington by the piesentation of a petition attacking tli3 Civil Seivice Comu?its*on, and asserting the uncoas'icuti ;ca]:Ly of the law by : virtue of which it exis's. The paper is headed, "a petition of rights by Meiis S. Miller, of ^ 'der Creek, Oneida coun. v, New York, for redress in a ca e where j A.. P, Ed series, J. li. Oberly and Charles Lymac', commissioners, ami 1 Oltiers are trespassers upon Los civil and political rgurs and piivlieges by exercising unlawful au.lior.ty and powers." Xiie petition asks for an order or judgment, restraining, CDjoiniag and ^ kibitmg the commission- aIlu.;iJV all_per&o^> Viai exercising the illegal ana unconstitutional powers set i'on.ii. j and such other and Cn.i"he_- redress us! the court s^ult doc in meet to indicate, the liboilies of the petitioner, and which will adjudge, determine and declare, tint ihe people oi' the United State- arc: not subjects, bat sovereign citizens; that the Government is in substance as well as in form, republican. The petition forms a printed volume of niaoty-four pages. most o: v/nicn ase devoted to the declaration tkut the Civil Service law is unconstitutional because it confers on the board created, by the legislative biarch of the government powers ci selcctioa ana appointment to oiiice expressjy re- J served vo tlie President by the Coastitution. Various other reasons are also set oat in the paper. It is believed that this proceeding is first taken with, a \iew to testing the legality of the rcrami-:sion's existence,' Arc^ the petition bad been piMiont^d the court stated tint jhe matter came up in such shape that it would be necessary to consider whether it should be taken up directly upon the basis of a petition or be allowed to come up on certification from the lower court. "The play 's the thing, Wherein I'll reach the conscience of the And equally true is it that Dr. Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets" (the original Little Liver Pills) are the most effectual means that can be used to reach the seat of disease, cleansing the bowels and sys tern, and assisting nature in her recuperative work. By druggists, RltlGHAM YOUNG SAID TO KEA I.IVE. A Story Tli;if He K:ts IJeen Se?-a Alive Near Lincoln, Xe5>r::>kaCiucago, January 31.? A special from Lincoln, Xeb., says: Two miles south of ibis city stands a palatial resi k-nce owned by an English gentleman long identified with the Moimon Cb arch. The residence has been untenanted for the last two years, save by an old servant named White, who at one tim-j was connected with the Jezrels, of London, a sect similar to tne Mormons. ^ i'liite claims he was de lauded by them c ut of his property and latterly became convprtwl tn flip "MVirmrvn fnit.V TTf Tens considered a trustworthy man, and was partially taken into the confidence of the leaders of the Mormon Church of Zion, while, according to hi? statements, is about to perpetrate a fraud to v hicli he is unwilling to become a party. He says: "Two months ago there arrived at the mansion an old gentleman be: .ring letters from my master in London, the purport of which was to obey his every wish and to keep his presence a secret to an except tnose to wuom ue saw ct to reveal himself. "Within a week persons began to arrive at the house in squads. They were i'rom Salt Lake City, and held long whispered consultations with my mystt rious guest. At first I die": not care who or what he was until little by little I gathered from stray remarks that be is a person of note, and soon afte/the truth burst upon me that he is none other than Brigham Young, the ?reat prophet of the church, who is to apparently be resurrected from tbe dead and tvr??a/?1i tr\ of S^i/vn oa r\n iug returned from the grave to tell iriiat lies beyond. Tliat his death and burial were a deception will soon be. seen by the whole world, while thousands of his ignorant believers bow at his feet and he dictates to them their ways of life. My guest's visitors are men of high standing. as their appearance indicates, ar d it was in conversation with one of tbem, who supposed from the way I talked hat I knew ail. that my suspicions vere verified, oolv my informant said Brigbam Young hud ri.cn from his grava in Salt Lake City and was instructing his disciples here in order to prepare the people for the great event of his com:ng. .My only reason for telling these facts is that 1 am an old 1.1.1:1, with but little gain in this world, and "do not wanl to see the people uciuaeu as J nave Dt en. The Jezrels absorbed my competence, : and now the ^Mormons have broken my faith." The old man told the story with a isincerity that -warranted fiirtijer investgatiox?, and a merchant who formerly did biis:Dess in Suit Lake City drove oat to the mansion yesterday and rapped at tb^ door, deceiving no response, he stai ted around the hou?e to apply at the iear : when through n, bay window he 'saw the 1 form snd features of an old man vho J was sitting inside. Ashe was unaware of his presence the merchant approached ; to within a few feet of the window, scan- j niug the old man's face closely, aid, < stepping back, immediately prononnoed i the man to be Srigharu Young, whoso ' marked features he had often studied in Salt Lake City, and which once seen, he. J says, can never be forgotten. For a Jew ' moments the man sat silently, then ? raised his hand to his brow, revealing a' ? scar about the wrist that still further es- \ tablishos his identity. 3 It is a well known fact that the eld jrs ( of the Mormon Church throughout Utah and Arizona have of late b< en j preaching the return of the prophet. ' This, together with the fact that it vas < claimed by a St. Louis man some mon hs 1 ago that Young was seen and recognised t in -l.onaou, id at a numuer ox prominent j Mormons from Salt Lake City liave late- | iy been seen upon tlie streets of Lin- coin, tliat important legislation is abvut 2 to be enacted to the detriment of the * Mormon Church, and the veil of mysce- t ry with which the prophet's death liao t always been shrouded, makfs it aJmiisl t certaiu that the Mormon banners s throughout Utah will soon be unfurled, * announcing that "he is risen." 1 DILEM.HA OF A POLICEMAN. 1 IJc Tries to Handcusr :i Hurglar Who Bias j >o Hands. ^ (From rr.e 3?ew York Star.) s At ten o'clock on Thursday evening Johanna Brower, domestic in the family of JDr. Eoiil Truening, 2no. 13 eastEi^lty third street, heard a suspicious noise iu " the diniDg room, and entering, saw in the dim light that came from a.gas lanp in the street, the figure of a man crouching behind the table. Johanna was alone T in the house, so he ran into the street \ making an outcry that attracted Wo A colored men who were passing at tae ( time. The men ran into the house, ne- V cured the intruder in a chair, and one of them stood guard over him while tie ] other went in search of a policeman. ^ That worthy arrived full of impoitaD ce ( at being called to arrest a burglar, a:id : produced his handcuffs to shackle tae } prisoner, when he discovered that t>e \ had do hands, both having been ampu- { tated close to the wiists. ( At the Eighty-eighth street police s station the man gave his name as John , Murphy, a^d said that beiog homeless * and hungry, lie hud found the basement ( door of the hou?= open and huu. gone in j to usk for t-hvlter a.ud food. In the iiariem Courc Jb'riday, Justice ^ \Yelde sent the unfortunate man to t ie t care of the Commissioners of Charities L u.ud Correction, refusing to entertair. a . charge of burglary against- c. rami with- ; out hands. XJ-- ? j -xic! Keeping. , Some coricas sl-itLties bave reeeaily ] appeared rcspe'^ijg tbe re-subs ol bo.-el ' ketpiog ia SvfitzeiUDti. lucre i? pxbao'y r.-o dlstcfct iu tJc vrodd vvh'ck is so ' iaucli Qf a pleasure resoii; as tills 1'i k ' rcpab'c, and tiie araoaut ol moaey ia \ ves.ed In p.rc riding living accoaimot a.- , tions for pie :su ce seekeis, i.i probal >y much la-'gec tiiere taai aaywhcre eli.e. ibeie are b-iid to be nearly 1,000 bo Lets, as oisth'guisbed frota iors i xl iavett.s. these giviDg employment to 16,000 scr- , vanls. T lie vahie of these hoteis is abo at 5$30,OOQ,GuO, Wiiile the iuiiiiUire is vale id atSi..j.U!.'J,O00. Tlic gro-.j a.'Jual ia- , came, bu ed upon tbe average o: tde bsi fesv years, i.s $10,000,01,0, the cz- , pease* 87,200,000, icuviug a ir of > 4AA xi i\ i. _. ... _ i ~ _ ojwiiit'Li ! > wj-j a la-.ge gujii, coi^klencg toe sen o-liio.'ev ?u vested. ' It would l?e intere-Jog ;i sia- oi' a s; tailor character could be cji^^rAi of wcioos distdots in this coir-jt-y, thon.jli we imagine these reiuras wy.--.! >;iv?r smaller i a vestments and i-vrir- r ? , Boston Herald. ?-Eight thousand womeu v.-ro!;e Clinton B. Fisk after his nomination ior Governor of New Jersey, bidding k m Cod-speed in his fight for temperance* ?The money which is woise than wasted every year in this land would pay the salary of our Presidents for a peri >d r\f 1.1 Q(\i\ vnoro v/i ? veto.*?* ?The law o? England which requires all marriages to take place before twelve o'clock (noon), was enacted because after tiiat time of day the bridegroom would be apt to be too much intoxicated to enter any contract. 1 THE PROGRESSIVE SOUTH. Facts Showing a Fine Prospect for the People of this Section. (From the Baltimore San.) Long before the movement from the Northern and "Middle States set in, the Sun repeatedly called attention to the new Held that since the war was opened at the South for industrial emigration from tbe States and from abroad. It pointed ou'j its vast underlying wealth of coal and iron ore, of limestone and manganese, its great deposits of kaolin and of copper and gold, to its variety of wor ds for tne constructive and decorative purposes, and its thousands of acres of fertile soil. At that tJmo only a few I uuuoi! luciojucs were xu uj^iuuuu, sumtkaolin deposits worked, and here and there south of Virginia, where coal mining had long been going on, so'.ue feeble attempts made at mining? principally in Tennessee and Alabama?where a few furnaces had been built for the smelting of iron ore. It had been demonstrated even then that cotton fabrics ox the plainer kind cotPd be produced at considerably less cost than at the North, atid pig iron laid on the bank ready for delivery at 811 per ton. The great drawback was the want of adequate facilities for transportation to a market, but not long afterwards some enterprising and clear-sighted men, looking forward to the future development of this mineral wealth, took up considerable bodies of land rich in coal and iron ore, anci waited until the time should come to utilize them. The rapio. extension 01 raitroacis tnrougnout the South, supplied the opportunity, and l.ile the Southern people of the cotton belt \ver3 increasing the number of their factories in the vicinity of the plantations that produced the raw material, Northern and English capitalists were descending upon West Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama, and putting up furnaces, to be followed by roiling mills, in the inidst of the iron and coal deposits. Slow as the movement was at fist, it has increased with such rapidity that great coke and iron furnaces now line the Cnes&peake and Ohio Railroad. Chattanooga and Knoxviile have now become hives of busy industry, and new towns, destined to rival cities like Pittsburg, have been founded in Alabama, which have been christened Birmingham and Sheffield?names famous in England for the excellence of thwir manufactures of iron and steel. Birmingham is now the seat of an active iron industry. It has already a number of large furnaces, and mills for rolling iron and steel are about to be erected. It contains at this time some 8,000 inhabitants. At Sheffield, niso, furnaces have been built, streets laid out, houses erected, stores opered, ' ii'd population is flocking in. What is oiore important still, cheap iron is at tracung oilier industries. One ot the jreat stove works a: Troy, doing the largest business of its kind in the United State?, is to be removed, or nay already iiave been removed, either to Alabama 3r Tennessee. Other trades and manufactures are following, notably Clark's >vorks, which supplies a large part of tne United States with cotton thread, ?he narbies o." Tannessee, for which Knoxiriiie is the principal market, are getting :o be hi request, ar>d so many manufacturing enterprises have been established fuere that the population has increased rom 15,000 in lbi>2 to over 30,000. Jhattanooga shows a similar increase md with it has come a speculation in juilding lots on which large prolits have jeen rapidly made, but which may be carried too far unless kept within healthy imits. Other Southern cities are feeling he impulse, :ough in a lesser degree. Lands are br'nging better prices. The jardwcod forests of Tennessee and N'crLii Carolina, which leso than two rears ago could have been bought at :-om sixty certs to a dollar ami a quai;er, an acre have been purchased by capi- i :<a.'i&?s, who are getting ready to send tlie j imber to the Eastern markets. Great t .tretchcs of pine land farther couth, 1 vlthin easy distance of rail or waier car- : iage. have also been brought up. AU hese facts go to show that the Son+ii ( )?s entered upon a new era of industrial J LCtivity never known before, and tiiat in 1 he course of a few years, she is cestined i o bccome one of the most prosperous c sections of the Union. i A FAMOUS LION SLAYlill. [ "lie lied Kibbon of Trance Given to an Arab Hunter. (Pdtis Letter in London Telegraph.) - f .^inong the notabilities on whom tbe ] ed ribbon of the Legion of Honor has _>een coDferrcd this new year is a hero " vhose one ambition for more than a "J quarter of a century has been to wia it >y JLjjs valor and process. Atimea-L>en Uirnar, the famous s^ver of Hons in the \ Province of Consiantine. in Algeria, bus :\en surpassed the celebrated Ju'c; : Gerard in his fclr'evements. So great 1 s the number of tie kiag of beasts that . le has caused to bite the dusi tiiat the oca1, authorities to save themselves from : he impending ruin have had lo cat lown the reward offered icr every Hons \ .kin to one-half in his case. It will give , our readers an idea of the services \ vhieh this brave Arab rendered co the * solony when I say that it is estimated 1 hat his skiJi and pluck have Lorn ti^t ; o luoi saved it from losses in the shape * )f the cattle killed and devoured by toe j \ ierce animals with wircu i?c ?us waged i tu ine.-^ouni. s?iauiiuiu?" *" ?1,000,000 oiori'"~ " o 'V neuiiy j - _0. i'h-s calculation is ; ... uii the fact thai the butcher's biii ,J j[ each separate lion reaches the respectable sum of ?100 peraanom. It would ' be interesting to learn how many liunion lives which m:ght otherwise have been ' aciiiieed Lave also been pioiongecl through thy timely intervention oi Ahmed-ben-Ahmar. He li:t3 at length sbtalocd tbe recompense which he covet- , id :'ar mure thau the gold meted out to . aim for ever;; fresh skiu which, he brought to the* station. Instilled a.1; JL:ist. "Did you see fl at notice o? your mar- , risge in tbe papab, "We&irald? ' "Xaw, old chappie. What did it say?" "S.;'d you acted d;sonowably in war aiog away with tbe girl!" "JSaw! We", these?aw?newspapahs .lon't know aojtbing anyway." "R sa=d the girl was too good fo_' 70U." "Aw?I don't mind." "It said you was a dude and didn't bave artv b^a'os, y* knav?." "Aw?did ii? Well, I don't m "It said ycu dida't kuovv anything outside of h'gh col labs aod dwess." i.r J .. >i . j > ?j *- uou k, cure, oxu cuapp e. "Aud it n:d youc coikh was so Ligh ic was out of siyic." "Xaw, old felkh, you?aw?don't mean that?" ''That's what it ?aid." "By Gawge, it's insulting. What papah was it, Oseah? I'll clernme, I'll sue it fah hbel. I won't ?aw?stand it." ?At the last meeting of the Cumberland Presbyterian Assembly, the use of tobacco was condemned by a vote of five to one, and the Reform Presbyterian Synod refuses to allow the licensure of candidates who use it. THE FARMERS IX COUNCIL. m THE STATIC CHANGE AND THE AGlilCTLTl'IiAL SOCIETY. Report the ri'oceedii!;s of their lleceat Meeting in Colaxnbia?Sevcml Matters of Interest Duly Co:iii?lered. (JVcni the News and Conner.) Coli jibia, February 2.?The State GraDge of South Carolina met 211 the bui!ding of the Agricultural Department this morning at 11 o'clock. The following officers were present: Jas. X. Lipscomb, W. M.; A. P. Butler, W. 0.; S. R. Adams, W. L.: A. M. Aiken, treas! urer; Tlios. W. Holloxvav, secretary; J. j W. Sti-ibbling, A. S.; 31. D. C. Colvin, G. K. The attendance compares favorably -with that of late years, twenty-six delegates being present, including several ladies. _Upon tlie orga' ration of the meeting the Worthy Master made his annual address, and thereafter announced the appointment of the following committees: On Worthy Masters Address?J. W. Wofibrcl, S. ii. Adams, W. B. McMill-. wee. On Report of Executive Committee? X. F. Walker, Alex. Johnson. M. Wi'ite. On HesolutioDs?J. -W. Sfcribbling, esse H. Hardin, I. F. Holland. On Business?G. W. Moseley, S. M. Green. M. J. Jenkins. On Suggestions for Good of the Order ?.T K (rjirflnpr. .f ,T_ Fit. ~\f. T). C. Colvin. On Auditing and Finance?J. H. Stone, B. P. Closes, J. J. JBell. Worthy Lecturer Auanio made liis report and after reading several unimportant communications, the Grange, at 1.30 p. m., touic a recess until i, p. m. The Grange reassembled at 4 p. m. The secretary read a lette- from Captain F. W. Dawson, of the Xews and Courier, offering tobacco seed for gratuitous distribution. Ths ofi'-.r, on motion, was accepted with thanks. Tho reports of officers and committees were made aod adopted. A memoir was read and resolutions touching the death of Mrs. Lipscomb, wife of the Worthy blaster, r> ere adopted. The Grange then went into an election for officers with the following result: J. X. Lipscomb, Worthy Master. J. W. Wofford, Worthy Observer. S. K. Auams, Worthy Lecturer. J. W. Stribbling, Worthy Steward. J.' H. Stone, Worthv Assistant Steward. llev. J. G. Richards, Chaplain. A. ?u. Aiken, Treasurer. Thos. W. Holloway, Secretary. , M. I). C. Colvin, Gatekeeper." Mrs. A. C. Adams, Ceres, X'irs. ii. -i. juove, j. oiiiomi. Mrs. K. C. Gardiner, Flora. Mrs. Julia Parrot, Lady Assistant steward. B. A. Love was elected a member of :lie executive committee. Various amendments to the constitution were ratified. II. A. Love was appointed on bebuit' o* ilie Grange to confer with, the fcjtute Agricultural Society tvitli regard to the Intei-brate Grange Encampment to be held at Spaitmburg. Adjourned tit G.30 to meet at night, after :he meeting oi the State Agricultural Society. The'Grange met again at 9, p. m. \Yorthy Ivlasier Liptcomb, Colonel A, P. Butler and J. W. Woffbrd were appoint >d a committee to manage the Grange Encampment. After con side-log varloi s :ommittee lepoits the Grange took a r< 1 A \ + ?!! O O r>"> 'ATP I .CV^CO au JLV.UU l.Al O Cfc. iuJ.. i/U lUUiiU ?T t.ie agi:iclltceal socistx. Ti e State Agricultural and Mcchanical ; society held its spring meeting ru the ] agricultural building to-night. The ; reasurer made a repoit showing the 1 blowing: Receipts, from the last State fair ^.G,Oil.52; balance on hand, $390.60 fhe society wa-. invited by the State Grange to co-operate with the Grange Lnter-Slate Encampment. E. L. Roche, vv. G. Hinson and J. C. F. Sims were "j ippointed to confer with ;"ie committee 1 ii the Grange in regard S < the encampnenc. After revising the premium Hot or the next fair adjourned fall t^-morrow norning. .... _ sct>oud iJity. I CoLViiBU, Febcuaiy 3.?The State 1 jrvange met again th;s morning asco/d- 1 ng to adjournment last m'ght. Several * :ommittees reported. A committee; con- 1 lisliug of D. P. Dun can; A. P. Ratler, ' fames X. Lipscomb and E. L. Roche, , vasappoiated to visit Spirbaburg to ocate and make all necczcvy ariaeoe- i ^ nents for the later-State Giauge .En- ;1 sampment to be lie J J there this summer. c L'iie committee will probably \Iisii, Spav- f anborg nest week. . c Tiie following preamble and resolu- j iocs were unanioionsly adopted by a i isiag vote: i Wnereas, we have heard with the d?$p ' iot coDCiin and regret tb:.t oar Paso 1 irYortby ilas'c-r. I}. Yvyait A.cUeo, is row ' y'ng in a low aod criJcal conditio!), the c esuIt of a stubborn and h'o^e-.og <r:s- ( >ase; ant1, wliecess, p?',r eittjeiued and list' guisho.; bvo het * as "aiw^.y.j hua*?jeart and ioal. :iie i 0* * * . . f ^^ctmkas*- . )V? -it iiesolvcd, That this G-:aoge. reeog~'"z- i?g h:s'jtaiaeUv services, wjicL have a . aationairepula'.iou, aud;ce',,Jgtba<;v.h',e ? what we may say may not ivi ese m:s 1 suifeiiiJg or improve his coud'.t'oii, st- ' . wish. to leader him our ht.uc'e"< ; ?\ mpji by aud exp-tss iUe hope 1*oat be may be restored to hea'lh spee<3:iy, aud Lb at bemuy be spared to his couuky .or mauv years to come. - ' " t* ' * ilcoOivcJ, iiiut a copy oi x '6so r<.-*s.utu-1 Lioias be 2'oi: warded to Ijijt.ier AiKe?. J auder tue seal oi' ti-Ls Gv;*age. Tiie Grange at lO.Si) a. m. a Jjon .jiea sine d :c. TJt: AGHICoiilVICA1".. .S0C7 Z'CY. Tbe Slate Ai ."cjlfu-ala^il Mecbao.'ea1 Society met a.^a'u tb's zDoro;no\ fiVsbed iis ]OViSi-jj. of t-je premium and adjo ariicd io meet on. the first Wedoe^oay i i T'j. o. 'y procecdv??s oi' drs mo'ji sc-ssiou. was tbe alopllou o'.' rules by wb^cb tL-e eocciuct oi' tbe Fal-o or tbe soi.-'eiy v.-' i be s'iC[j:;ued acd toe work by 1 Oe depa'.uieuts :aj-r t-ited. Tbrj proportion to ii?a(ie vve spd-jg ruceuog tue p- 'oc pal mee;:*u3'; viz., toe occas'oo for tbe clesiioii oi' tbe oiScevs of tbe society, v.-as passed to ibe re0j>ar moiing uunng the Pair next fal). The crstooi heretofore has been to e]c-cl ofl'Cc cs an.i conduct ol'ocr important busbec-s at the Pair rnceticgs of the society, b it the lush incident ro ilie Pair, it :s urged, renders it inconvenient and impractical to transact at that time businers not immediate'y concerning the exhibition. ?The board of trustees of Princeton College meets on Thursday, February 10, when the university question and also that of an advisory board of alutani will ccrne up for action. The trustees' /.nn-lnnlrm ic mfl't * 11" nil 11,.*-:^ Vii tu- vuuivu'uiu ?v this week to take into preliminary consideration the transformation of the college into a university. SOME OF THE OLD SOUTH I EFT. 'What a Northern Paper Says of tl?e Kiv'lit of Men to JJefviul t'leir Home*. (F.om the XeT York Stay) Last November Dr. Ford, a highly respectable physician of Shreveporc, La., shot and killed in Xew Orleans a drug clerk named Ivirkpatrick. Ford had the best of e\ idence that the other had trifled "Kith the honor of Mrs. Ford, his wife, who was a woman of weak intellect. TT "ITT P . J.1. - -.1 ^1* ne "was new lor triai 011 me cnu lyc ui murder and entered tlie plea of "not ga:lty." Tlie case came up for trial in Xew Orleans on Tuesday, when the'prisoner's counsel addressed the court as iollows: ' The accused, a gentleman by nature and education, slew the deceasc :i for interference in his domestic relations. He attempts nc- denial of the facts, but decline-: to protect h.'mie1! by a defense L-ich would expose to pub'ic censure the mother of his clrldre Therefore, through his counsel, he ..low asks leave of the Court to withdraw Irs plea of not gailty, heretofore made, and pleads guilty of manslaughter." The Crescent City at this time of year is en iete, crowded witn me Desc people of the South, and with sightseers and tourists from all parts of the country. The case drew to the court room an mliuential ai?d deeply interested assembly. The plea of justification, implied rather than expressed by the learned ccuuscl, .-poke for the old spirit of Southern chivalry. It was a square issue of sentiment forced upon law, a fetich set ap against a fact. Had public opinion, regenerate in so many wise and useful directions, degenerated on the subject of a wife's honor? It was the old South against the new. "WeU, the District Attorney denounced the crime and?accepted the plea. So fi?r as woman's virtue and the sanctity of home are concerned, the old order of things will obtain in the South. We are in the habit, up North, of condemning when we do not ridicule such lax and sentimental perversion of lav* at the South; but do we keep our homes any cleaner and our women any purer than thev do south of the Ivlason and Dixon line? We ape the English, "who ape the French, in our matrimonial amenities? but is the mari complaisant a l-.-ss degraded figure than the husband with the shot gun? Is the divorce coa.it to be the only limit to human endurance and shame? It cost Lord Colin Campbe] 1 $130,000 to prove himself a liar, and 3Irs. Diuse is to be hanged for killing a brute of a husband. We confess we would rather be the blood-stained "widow than the lov,--lived nobleman. No wonder our Southern friends were anxious as to the decision of that Distiict Attorney 111 Orleans, bo long as the sentiment prevails that doles out death for dishonor the South will never be overrun with cads and harlots. Advertising. A shrewd business man would just as much think of goiug without ui> break'fcst > ivery mornirg, and hobbling- to business ; v. itli but one uoot on for economy's sal*q, as to try and run his business without adver- j iMng: yet there are many men who never , ldvertise, but who wou'ier why thci" neigh- : bois, 3ir. Go-Ahead and Messrs. Up-To$r>u!l; <te Co., who do seveial hundred r ;r ; " / of. mf!*"? business than they. do. get rich uid retii , and that on a capital far less :i:an that with which the non-adve^tiier ' opened store. The contrast between the :wo is equally ?rreat iu other tilings. The jsiyertiser doesn't ramble into Lis office in : ;i:e morning as if he had just ?Ot oil ; cratches and but a minute before drunk a i iuart of sour vinegar. Neither does he reappear at no:>nti?ro from a cheap June';. , icok'ng tbe picture of u hal.'-fed street c.tr , ::u!e. So, no. The advertiser sweeps ; v'mbly in with a smile ou his face as big is a circus bill paver, fee's at peace with :'i men, chirrups a good moroiog to a1! juads, picks up the papers that contain I is * tdvertiscments, strokes his beard wiin <aJ- ' * faction, and plunges icto the du.ies of lie day with confidence in success.iu clos ng scenes at nighttaj:. The non-advertiier 1 oe&n't smile only when lie saves a few ' :ents by reading the store porter's paper, tad the smile is so thin that it would take i evera! skeins of them to make a s:jgle ; lair thread of facial sunlight. ~ 3 G'uaiiglsg h-oiu Colored to White Hands. Seve..ul months ago there was conside"- [ tble stir over the tepoit that the Central 1 ailroad Lad changed its r>oH;-v in ?e?:ird o iliO employ meat of white lu-.-oiers. "The ' numgement decided to give colored appli- ) :anls pj^tcieooe for all sub.:<rcl:ruie posi- i ions m tlie s'jops and on tbo road. The .-.. mpany's reasons for the move wore ur- ; lei stood to be economy of management. ' Jolored woikmec we'e chcaper, ?nd it was < c'ieved would not be so apt to sirike as vlii;e workmen. The Knigbts of Labor md Fireman's Biotbei liood were much ex- [ icised at the: move. When Alc-xonder's . '[ ends got control a month ago. be h^rd 1 >f :i good deal o! complaint a^air^i the ;>Iicy inaugurated by fuelecesfor, and ; lie eoloied t'aya bunds appealed to be ( uosi objectionable. The Ai-'.\':tr.dor ni::a- < .gement has decided to go b-;ck to the eld ? )!an and give the prefe:ence to tliC wV'les 1 :or all pos'lions. It i* vepored that the s haDge of ppiivy wilt extend to the other ; Icpurtmeiii.^ Faying for Condolence. If is ssv?I th.it iL>. Lo^an Lad to p. y >)0 for jiu-s-ages o: cor>?olerce sent i when the Geueral die J. Tii's is an experience which has come to many persons uirler similar eircumsLances. It <c'.in.s so strongly the ca-is that good taste would dictate the prepayment of ! such dispatches to tbe renders, but the most considerate and generous people are oftentime thoughtless. .As for prepayment of telegraphic dispatches on ofiier subjects it is probable that more I'oins to Washington making inquV^s = - .1-^1. e .. a nous manors wji'o are ux iuuru cvr.ceni to the senders than to any other city in the country, and perhaps in the majority of instances the man who is ;:s ked to give the information is told the d'spateh was sent "collect"'.?Washington Correspondence Baltimore Sun. A I'fomcti&ditt;!: Mi-. rVauk Crisfendea, :i yourg mac V\ :ng r.earheiwas 011 Thursday cogagcd, with several oihers. in raising a house on L?*s mother's faiin, which is ubout one nrle i'ioni his p*x-.-:5Qt borne. Du-iog the ri _:j! he get ;:p acd dressed and wa ked up io the p'ace where ih? buidiog wa.; being erecied. Ore of the wo i kmc a had put the too's away, and 1 e, being . or id asleep. rrxid nol find lhem. He says i'-ai he c::iiv io t!te conclusion?SiiU a*'cep? 11 s:?i uio had been em led hotne. ::='(! that he v.oaiii go back for l hero. On !::reitirn, he walked against a t'.ee, s.ii i'>g his head v.;Li suffie:c-ct force lo avvakeu him. ii.cs;?vs that he was very much : toiished to ilnd himself alone in the woods and ia the darkness of night: but, u?te? collccting his thoughts and locating iii.? whe'eabouts, iie lc-.t no time in making hi> way Lome and to bed again.?Richmond DixMtch. "Love my' neighbor as myself?" exclaimed the portly citizen: '"why, I love iii:n much better than myself. They were laying out a route for an elevated railway, and I had the plans changed so that the road should go past his door instead of mine." BRIC-A-BRAC. I 3iy deadest friend and must we part, And bid farc.vell, in ngaished tone? 'Tis 1: ve a di^ge upon tiie heart, Wiien every jo\-on earth hath flown; I But memory's voice will tenderly Aspire our grief, if ere you go I You'il just fork over now that V Wc loaned you, Charlie, long ago. ( A dissolving view?Growing blind. There are a great many Orange men in Florida. "That's a fame of mine!" as the bellows said to the Arc. Even;ng shoes are again becoming quite iaacifi.' ia c^lor and design. It costs over $3,000 to bury a dead Con- .. g-x'sman. Irish wr*:es are cheaper. No woman of fashion can have too much. JK'on tbe waist and skirt of her dress nowa dovs. Repuiaiion ;s what men and womcifthia^ of us: character is what God and the angels i know of us. Never take a crooked path while you see ~? a s. might one. "Pa," said a little fellow to his unshaven father, "your chin looks like the wheel in. tie musical bo:;.'" Never growl at the weather. Noah did not, and he witnessed 40 days of the wettest u cither that man ever saw. "I Say No' is the title of a new story. It sounds 'ike a husband answering a wife's request for a sealskin cloak. "What ails this heart of mine?" is the melodious way in which some vocalists refer to an affection of the liver. An exchange speoks of a man who "lies in a critical condition." Most everybody wiii lie when they get in a tight fix. P,v rnKhinfr n lmrlr in flip rlnrl- -cniT can see the electricty fly, and when thereat (yaws your hand you can feel the shock. Although pugilists S3em to be willing to appear in the ring they are generally roped ir .0 it. Inquiier?No. It was not Sir "Wm. Penn, but plaiu Wm. Penn; there was no handle Jo that Penn. The man who thinks he can communicate fieely by telephone, is laboring under a hallucination. Some one wants to know if a bee is angry when it s ings. We are not sure about the bee, but the victim is. It is sa?d there is a bitter feeling among the malsiers. Perhaps somebody lias been putting hops in the beer! Pythagoras believed that man ascended from the bean. He probably would have iegarded Bostonir.ns as cannibals. j,acucs' iiats now-a-days are somewhat loo aspiring for the convenience of the folks w ho sit behind them in the theatre. 31**. Onion has just failed out in Nebraska; but it cannot be said that he has not a ?.02nt to his name. 1 A Burlington mother has miraculously curcd her youngest hopeful of smoking by the laying on of hands. Wnea 31 r. Carpenter married Miss Barber lost week, not a rewspaper in the land said L'nyt'uiag about the future race of shavers. Two brothers in Xew York have not spoken to each other for 30 years. They are deaf mutes. A Frenchman has conceived the idea of having lady advertisers who will show his joods on the promenade. Pernicious egotism is another man's desire to tell you about himself when you tvL?h to teil him about yourself. VYn.en an idler enters the sanctum of a """ !jus}' editor and the editor says, "Glad to see you're back," what does he mean? The singer who understands the managecaeat of his breath is considered a great iriis.. It ought to be the same way with abarber. "But," said the serenaded man, "I must zo out and make a speech. Something must be done to stop the playing of that bi'nd." A newly-married Texas man shot his bride while she was mixing her first batch :>[ biscuits. -His plea in court was self' Jefen<"e. "Yes," said the Terre Haute man; "ha rather glad, on the whole, that there's a av.- against gambling on Sunday. It gives is one day to saw wood." A maiden lady says that if single life is >.cl it slands to reason that double life is . a Ice as bad. But ladies rarely understand natbeiuatics. "There is' nothing new under the sun, >ayeth the psalmist." This seems to bear >ut the theory that negro minstrelsy originated in the ark. Why is it that t, woman with a costly 'an liads the atmosphere in the theatre so r??vrv> TThilft 4-ss. >veil*TIXI*a^ cxic xxxciu i\j ixci tmaa." lg c2 putting oa iii-5 overcoat? Chicago clergymen sincerely hope the jailet is* on its lasi, legs.?Albany Argus. iiie clc.'gymcn have evidently given careId attention to the support of the ballet. An Oakland, Gal., paper in referring to .he death of a citizen lecently, said that he had gone to a happier home," And now, t is said, the widow threatens a libel suit. As a protection agi?nst cold, a newspaper vorn across the chest is recommended. SeDtletaes who had a newspaper warming an testify to its tho roughness. The wife of a Wisconsin editor brings icr baby's cradle into the office while she :e'.s type for ber husband's paper. She is \ good type of woman for an editor's wife. It is a mean servant-girl who, to gratify i petty malice, will put codfish on the iangc to 1k)-I when she knows that her mis ircss is entertaining company m the purior. A a oysicr tea i icbcs long was found on the Long Island, coast the other day. When :>\>t:.T.s get up to these dimensions the cncslnut church fair stew will lose. A professor of palmistry in 2?ew York says it is impossible to tell a lie with the uauiis closed.?Ex. Yes, and it is rather dangerous to tell a m-m he lies who has his bauds ''closed." A young lad}* writes to inquire how long a young gentleman should be acquainted with her before she allowed him to kiss her. Long enough for her father and big brother to have gone to bed. A man who li:id been drinking went home the other night and growled so at hi3 wire tl":tt she called him her our mash. He fcvdd that if she called him that again he'd liquor. Tea'jh yourself to count a hundred both ways before making an impertinent answer and when you write an angry letter keep it * for a ueet before you send it, and then b:rn it up. "Yes," said Bass, "tobacco is bad for me. I kiow it, I feel it. It is killing me by inches. But I can't swear off at this lime of year, you know. I don't want to advertise myself as an inveterate iiar." An American claims that the North Pole is the '-'e of the old gaiden of Eden. Then K\v's reference for fig leaves over seal :;:,i is explained; they cost more and had c > :,<j importV. Widow Van Cott says, "Xo Christian r afford to u.^c tobacco/' Tobacco is awfully high that's a fact. We hope 3Irs. Van Cott wi'l use her Influence to have the tax reduced. "What will you think of your beautiful wife 30 years from now??that is the question." .says 3Igr. Cape'. Oh, bless you, ironsignor, she'il be a'l right. The conundrum is, What will she tl 'nk of us? There is a ladies' out door club in Xew York. This is a step in the ri ^ht direction; it :uc -women v.m oniy Keep roeir ciuds out (, doors, there will be ;i bitter chance for married men to crawl safely up to bed on lodge nights.