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VOL, XLIV. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 1888. " NO. 47. ji STATESMAN AND SCHOLAR. gather-eaten G. Thurman,' ; is a one-story A PKETTY PICTURE OF JUDGE THUE- *or ^ MAN AT HIS OHIO HOME. 7^? ago he 1 joining, but crowded hi The Red Bandanna and the Snui? Box? a mj2e rj "Allen" and "Mary," and How they Live gjet of the oh Together?Poor Little Foraker and the office 1 Noble Old Roman?A Kind Word About office jg E0W 0 Blaine. . old house, anc tZrom the Boston Herald) my occuuieu Columbus, Ohio, June 10.?Judge shelved ail art Thurman's quiet home was again jfte juche?s? 3 thronged with visitors to-day. There is dent couldn't evidence that the red-hued bandanna tackle, but if and the Democrat will now be as in- ^?r . separable as the red-headed girl and the ^ ^omQ to Mtehit? hoise. All the Judge's friends early success^ jP^Seclare that the snuff box and the bandannawill be the unique emblems of the campaign, and will doubtless arouse ^ a. a gnat deal of enthua^m, and put a The fonaer ] spirit into the canvass that has not to crat>s fondll^J experienced for many a year. It is hi* service as i eunous to note the remarks of some of nT> of. the fair visitors to the Thurman home. a Pftyi-OT-ftT> The men admirers oi tlie Judge say that ^ a ^(' his name is as sacred in the litiny of ^ 0{ ^ fn-Tn, Democracy as his record is above re- Senate and wa proaeh. The pictures of the Demo- committee on] cratic candidates are seen everywhere. v_ Thefao^ofsomeofthe lading lights <of the St. Louis Convention are also rniuJLfhA jtoewn about When chatting in his tot library, Judge Thurman is very enter- ^0^ of - taming. A happy smile, kindly eves, Msacquamtan frank ways and hearty laughter are then nnftRt; the Judge's ohief pecoliarities, com- SK bined, of course, with his brilliant con- ' versation. His silvery ehin beard and 1frflrr);rir ] mowy locks emtmi wj^ his rich soil c^^Sp of black broadcloth, dark bfo* home- ni a _JI spun socks and highly polished low fS^tAifonsc shoes. ?.13 linen is of immaculate white- Hnnsp-a fi SE5. "f? ^0Et ft"! 'T3? isto theThun black siik stock and blaek silk watch fnr Cnnfa chain that is the sole indication of jew- chase a few ehy about 1dm He ? ? shilling exam- daTmg she TO ' ph?' activated gentleman, mth manj i^jSLrted u of the little courteous ways that once w"as simply an were so pronounced in statesmen but Ue of k which, m the man and crush of the ^ a gjUQ v,reeent generation, are sometimes old ?rienda *f vkrtf O I^ArrcfhOV ATr^*lAr? tn/1 I , , OU^UMU) 44 vfVMWMvvi* Rflft AOTT}^ TA He has been visited by a throng of re- ^ o{ ^ minitcence hunters since his nomination. aM He refers them to his old friends and scIlocl^atea> ' % ^oalUrald man to-dav he said he *?? ????* thonghtthathe would tave got along- fe^tes!^ fairly well in newspaper life if late and TIniml 'm: ' : irregular hours were the only requisites oh. _ for that vocation. He referred to his . i , , ,.7, iio, "*? motherly hearl habit of reading and studying half the time when tha : night and having breakfast when other, ?, folks were eating luncheon. He looks t yArriQ1 and acts like a born debater and a par- >> A liamentai7 fighter. His voice is strong jeeriigl reter *nd musically deep, and between the fart t jjufle of his cigar he mentioned that, of fr. t thft nr all the speeches he had made in the '**enalo and out of it, and of all the gaver HL records pertaining to his pubHo-life, not mv * T ^ %^jibiaWiFany ^ d f | ^were-m orsienea. He said that he had ^ :% jfr never kept a scrapbook because his Oninm^nft_ qt another, when he was a lad of 10 and ^ one, had told him that a scrap- EgSaier book was one of the greatest agents to Irill the memory. His mother, he added, h d was more responsible for ins education aa :* | than college o/instifcusioa of learn- ^ _ ing. He, however,bought a axapbook hehada ^ when he entered the Senate.- He culled * f_ it from shelves ,containing hundreds of baxd asna books, and showed it to t?e reporter. It was as barren as the day he bought it. The Large storHe spoke of the days when he, Boscoe Conkiing, Bill Eaton, of Connecticut, (Sew 1 and Don Cameron had pleasant late The red iu dinners together in Washington. All furled. The * could "cut to the red," he said, referring aud iioats pror to the rhetorical slashings in the^enate, a boom in 1: but after the day's session they were They are seliix cordial and hospitable. Boscoe Conk- old circus men ling, he thinks, was one of the greatest Yesterday, h actors of his time. infection of The Old Roman has been beset by goods establisl 1-A- ?1 ? ??? Ho nnminafinn jeaa chlo tn ftW UUUUUU njrffiiliyo o>hw uib mnu ?tmw hw*v ?v . He spoke of the regiments who hare with peculiar i t visited his kitchen door beggingthe red- pacts of the pa headed maid to convey their compli- paign. .Said t ments to the Judge, and at tie same ent at Penning : time mention that a few dollars wisely Thnrman's noi , distributed through them would reap bandannas ha , untold results. He packed thefn all off and, as a pecu ? empty handed. He says he never be-* that the ladies itieved in money campaigns. . He 'is in ,the new 1 ? ; spoken of by his neighbors as generous I Thurman has ;and liberal, but it is' mighty evident six days. W :from the Judge's manner that no politi-jdannasin stoc .cal strikers are to be tolerated. between then i The-Judga was a great walker in his sale and retai eearly days. When, as an Ohio lawyer, The demand is die attended circuit, and even down to and, fromaU ] 3he last attack of rheumatism, he was be preesed for tfond of the exercise. He does not keep paign fairly sti a .carriage, although he worth in the At Macy's tl k^^^^aejghborhood of ?400,000, and the Strauss, a part fcUfctja^e. who was a charming tliat since the for bandannas Hlys^o snppl^^^^ MMpgarman young isdy en mggPMSESim "Mike" department lai ^ the streets of tionedby-the .Columbus, but with the death of "Mike" bandanna boo: -and tae more retired life of the Thur- it all means," ynftiirt the carriage was given up. The hard for me 1 Mrs. Thurm&n now come tween & Repnl EtagU^he horse cars. The con- one thing I dc psign is over 1 HP 'bandannas suf H and Thnrman SmgHu posing each bi MMBfr, and, of com IfgPlpffg'wae old gal- present demai |pe marked the days scarcely anytt l^rorting. The touching handkerchiefs Bbcple for each other I think we ] tKftnoar Ifi OYWJ VTUCXU AW Dvuto VfvnuiTu n, the -Judge's oldest ladies' man?" HH^H^HBBB9|flfljj|md saaii in managing the reporter HHHBHH which is largely in should thinfc 1 SB ten bandanna Boa, too determined ^__Cfc.&cfcj?^ JSraHHa^Rk8 Democratsw^i* v?Jtlscot cki w^^^SteSigScntSW^Si^Moag^aSd uuij- street mendic wSr frauds. The Judge defers with known, while jfcEesa, on the ground that a Democrat out of employ gfywld have such exalted ideas of his It is not chari party ?6 to be even above the suspicion seamstress to of wrongdoing, and when any derelict sit in her wet ^ ones are caug&t they should be punish- deduct from 1 S&fet ^d 30th swifter ana greater seventy, ue- wo owm u<? B <caa8e of the shock they have given to is not charity L the JJemocratic temple. TheJndgeisa your family a: K mathmnalirbtrt. He is a surveyor your whims, j W9 of jeenowe throughout the State. He with her depe f justly jokes at the comments of his Be- charity to tun ,publican adversaries on his age. He into the streel refers to Bismarck at 77 and Gladstone he cannot paj exact the i mB It is amusing to many Colombians to widow and or HP remark the wide berth that Governor give wiihasnj mMTTf Pbiatir gives the Old Boman. The as is G-ni bait Hf declaration is freely made that, if the of different b] Mas? two should meet on the stump in this cipient, whosi Hp campaign, and it is not unlikq&y that poor. It is n they will, House-a-hre Foraker will have tioner?not Haft convincing evidence that he is a pigmy alms by the t BH beside the logical and determined old! -a/tmar. The Judge thinks Mr. Blaine j It i3 "touch BM one of the brainiest men of thecentmy, lncauuo'isiy a bat he cannot understand the wide- The Empei spuead popularity of the Plumed Knight, Iiis last at 11 |? He spoke in high terms of the Maine The end was M statesman, but up to date has not been A Vienna di 9H able to fanthoin the furor with which operatives at'] HI Mr. Blaine's name is greeted. ?ood ( HB TheJudge's old law office is one of stalks away I B the interesting spots is the town. A *oup. mm metal sign, reading "I. Carolina at the ii ' TnarVs the entrance. It cottage, 20 by 30, and was The *?cor,d of South ca rudge in 1851. Up to three at the Charlotte Female 1 ived in a frame house ad- The commencement .exerc business buildings have Charlotte Female Institute cj into a modest stone bouse Tuesday and Wednesday nig Che Judge speaks with re- ^d 6th of June. ange. The old home and The graduating class numb sire treasures to him. "FTig among whom were Misses Mi n one of the floors of his derson, of Greenville, Mi 1 his old office is tempora- -keitb, of DarlingtOD, ana jk by an old friend. It is ?* Marion counties. Upon >und with law books, and first distinction were Misses. powder horns are hung in Moore, of Spartanburg count file Judge says the Presi- Allen, of Florence, Lois E ; interest him in fishing Richbourg, and Pauline Moo he wants to talk about caster. ind game hunting gener- South Carolina always co: L Thurman is the man her full share of thj prizes; ? The Judge told of his representatives won then is as a hunter in Ohio, aud did not receive them tb rases were few and far favor or partiality, is shown ] noble picture of Sunset ^at in the case of all the 5r the Judge's old d&k. judges were chosen outside td "* * * 1 J? ' nAf panisn dooss are pienty. nviw ^aII the sturday old Demo- ^b? contestants poirsonally, b s for French literatue, and 6ven know their names, as th i member of the commis- petitors had fictitious name: ilism. He reads French to essays and works of art , and one of his recreations 9?ce Allen bore away the pri >vaL The Spanish books best essay on the English lai a when he first entered the literature, and Miss Mary ? made a member of the prize for the best exhibit of c Vfp-riran filftimg, At recess The art exhibit this yes his home and said he had largest and finest ever made, ae of the "measliest" com- over three hundred works, Senate. How was he to be paintings in oil and water col he committee when his china deooratioD, &c. The i Spanish was as meagre as oil paintings by the Misses M ce with Choctaw? That Keith, one of the gradua on which confronted him. Straynorn, of Chesterfield, JM jars old at the time. He *er? Timmonsville, Mary blem by buckling in and another graduate, and Janie C language, and to-day he Mars' Bluff, were much adr finish with^the ease and sides the exhibit of Miss St< -bjown nobleman of the took the prize in drawing, A) >'s kingdom. garet Cannon, Etta Davis, N Foraker having pitched Seown and Mamie Agurs des< mans for providing delica- mention, though there were ierate prisoners at Camp exhibitors an<Hhree hundred miles ont of Columbus, and drawings. Miss Thou r, an old friend of the fain- teacher, has shown, by the )-day the charity extended progress of her pupils, a infinitesimal drop in the faculty for imparting instruct Mrs Thurman's goodness, department of art. The e 38 beauty, she left many pnpils make cannot be ex( hind in Kentucky when where. Judge Thurman's home. .The music department, risoners were sons of her director. Prof. Carl S. Gae and some had been her quitted itself at both eommeh For auld lang syne's sake concert more brilliantly 1 2d them in their trouble. Here, as usual, the young *li tended to stranger Con- Sooth Carolina distinguish , and to the regiments of selves. Mis3 Florence Allei s quartered outside the attention in both instromenta is a Union woman with a music; her piano playing wa t for all. Manv recall the cent Miss Annie Strayhorn Republicans of the State sweet soprano voice sang a i 'Union sliders," because as fair as poet's dreaming," rk was: "Let the Union much, admired. -Prof. Gaerti t time the Democrats were iog on the violoncello was c red to as "Union savers," most attractive features in t hat it was their one cry Wednesday night. He has h lion intact. Judge Thur- to the institute. For ten yea ler the ban as a Union been teaching in the National tory of Music, Philadelphia i fond of athletic sports graduated from the Royal Hi ring bouts. He remem- of Music, Berlin; afterwari ad the stir he created in Conservatorium, LeipsiCj a he Judge saw the big man Conservatoire, Paris. a local notables, and. m filed and frilled ones Of Dress of Men and Worn in's association may hold It is singular to contrast ti i and shift their eyes until splendor and prodigality of t they are cat cm the bia? one sex in this nineteenth cez atimenfc, the Judge thinks the sobriety of the dress of j good time that night. gex, which has shrunk withiE n*> m> ?? : recollection, says an English i s in tjkeat pkma.\d. ! a grfm uniformity of black k ??Boil The laws of nature are reverst ? Report the Sale of Many ^ ^ D&rwin teaches ,?"?an male bird owes the hues of hi torK siar, jijne n.) radkerchief is fairly an- ^d the beaot f hia form to acred bandanna is aloft to please the hens aad obtam idly in the breeze. Such of aataral Belecbon. In mod lailannas never known. J-a the hens who carry the ga ig like "hot cakes," as the we ** wlth ?e ^ m wonJd'say mth e*nal success? l the conrae of a cnrsory 'rhere |a t 6 thl some of the large dry men wm alike waetefn^eitraY iments, the Star reporta fSolent; when they w. ertain facts Which "speak "J?* emtooidery, lac significance of the ^ at the Court of JFrance r?- in the coming iam- of Backingham shook off dial he assistant superintend- *he P" J of honor went on t ?*8, on Broadway: "Since to pick them up and appropr m'nsJion the demand for the f?Ms of a crayat *?" s been redly enormous, Droiaef7?i 8were liar fact, I can tell you ^raest attention to the masct are fairly taking the lead Those days are over. Men political crusade. Mr. simple, suitable, inexpensive. "been nominated exactly 1814 to? much *? ^ S ell, "we had 12,000 ban- her authority in ti k on nomination day, and women's dress, as she has dor ind now have sold, whole- and t^t wlnle slovenliness is 1, nearly lour thousand, and the nighest.standard of i increasing day by day, attained, there may be neithe: [ can see, we are likely to extravagance, but that all a supply when the cam- sense of propriety of which utsT? son was the advocate? "Le ie Star reporter saw Mr. ^e? "that there is propriety ner in the firm. He said pnety in everything how shg nomination day, demand &et at the genial pr had greatly strained the drf*??d behavior.'' When IV O'Neill's a very pretty aaked his opmionof the dress gaged in the handkerchief T ^ei' 0W^I(^ y?u ifhed merrily when ques- J*3 ,ne eno?? reporter concerning the fh?fi^J?f a beggar," a*d - - - - ^ . frirvtrAn hfrA a TiatnVA nf Bow Ld m. "L don't ?now wnat she said. "It would be UP be carried to Bartholon ? tell the difference be- ^ews which the philosophe Jlican and Democrat, but economist advocate may w< ? know?before this cam- hearing, though only now urg re shall have sold enough wbo kas no other claim to ai Bcient to ekct Cleveland t^an ^e desire to help in won twice over; that is sup- * . indanna counts as a vote, Crooked Paths, se, presuming that the From a description furni continues. I have done Scotch missionary, it is ev tiug else but sell bandanna native roads in After are hard for nearly a week past. |ng with Yankee nineteer lave already disposed of ideas, They are never straig ds. Is Mr. Thurman a they glide aloDg by an easy asked the yonng lady, as of curves. Sometimes the was about leaving. "I curvation ia very annoying. ie must be, for nine out of The path is little more tl t -i m. _i. j_ _ buyers are-ladies." oroau. xjuull cuuo ie uuruct mm - grass, which reaches over the MtfTfiot Selfishness. head. You can see only f< aity to givd% penny to the paces in front, and can nei ant of whom nothing is what curve the path will take we haggle with a poor taan The causes of curvature are ment for a miserable dime. Here a tree fell down long ag ty to beat down a poor across the path. Every trai starvation price; to let hei round the end of it, and tl clothes sewing all day; to path grew up to grass that ter pitiful remuneration if traveller will care to interfer tys her prompt arrival. It another place the path turned to take a poorreletave into through a little village, but ad make her a slaye of all disappeared years ago. At a and taunt w continually some one had hoed a field, ai ndent situation. It is not road go round its border, x a man who is out of work On many roads we lose o ts with his family because every fiye. After the grass i? * *" * ** TTA*W lif HA / 'Msrent. It 13notciianty <->? wu &U?L WUU1U YC4J UW itmost farthing from the one may have the pleasure ol phan. It is not charity to straight line; but where the g H-reflions air and patronage, flourishing no one can pass made you, tli6 rich mar, without tie greatest exertion 00a from the shivering re- If a person leaves the nati; b only crime is that he is the idea of taking a short cut ofc charity to be an extor- into a tangle of long grass a though you bestow your where his progress will be no housand. one mile in four hours. 1 and go" with people who At Chancellorsvllle, Va., y< andle electric light wires. monument that marks the ror of Germany breathed Stonewall Jackson received o'clock on Friday morning. ^rom which he died was dedia oosins: ceremonies. The Fri 4, . , rAA 44_ Grey? the Maury Camp of ispatch says that 1,500 cotton Veterans, delegations from th Bontz have gone on a stake. of Richmond and the Lee O ?ok ever throws asparagus dria were in attendance. Gene ecause they make a delicious Lee presided. A number of c Confederates were present. EAD. AT THE TYGER'S YAWNING MOU rolina Girls A Narrow Escape on the Burning Tr< nstitute. ?The Engineer's Courage Saves a T: ises of the ofPe?Pleline off on (From the Charlotte Chronicle.) hts, the 5th The Charlotte bound passenger t on the Air-Line road, due here yestei ered twelve, morning at 5 o'clock, had a narrow iry E. An- cape from total destruction at South iry Louise ger River, where it ran upon a bridg Lary Steed, portion of which had-been burned a* the roll of The bridge over South Tyger is a ^ A.nna Mary high structure, the track which is W " ? 1 AA o Vi/\rrA A /WAT >Yj Florence upon n uumg iw icc^auuvo uio rennan, of It is approached by a high trestle re, of Lan- either side; and sparks from a pasi engine set fire to the northern end of mes in for bridge sometime Monday night. The md that her had been burning for perhaps a cot i by merit of hours, and had destroyed thirty trough any of the bridge on the Charlotte side w by the fact the morning passenger train from Atlf prizes the came thundering up. Coming tow tie institute Charlotte the bridge is approac only with around a sharp curve, which prev< ut ciid not the engineer, in his seat on the rij e fair com- hand side of the cab, from seeing i appended bridge until-ie is almost upon it. Miss Flor- this occasion Capt. Ed. Koseboro: ze for the was.condnctor, and engineer John Pel iguage and was in the ( Steed the The train approached the bridge i-vioririflra thfVTTKnal fmeed?ihirtv mile3 an hon 7 , ir "was the and when within a few hundreds ya comprising of it engineer Pettus noticed a he drawings, smoke ahead, which he concluded ors, pastUs, from a burning brush-pile such & exhibits of seen almost every day along the rc [ary Louise When' his engine forged round the cn tes, Annie he lost sight of the smoke, but just a? [amie Trax- emerged and the pilot threw a shac Anderson, over the timbers of the trestle he i Jregg, from that what he had thought a burn aired. Be- brush-pile was something far more s jed, which ous. lisses Mai*- The bridge was burning away and annie Mc- engine was upon it! erve spccial There was but little time for thoug forty-three A few more strokes of the driving-: [ paintiDgs w^uld carry the whole train, with am apson, the ot D lazing iimoers, aown a sneer aesc wonderful of 120 feet to the ground below. It marvellous quifed nerve to leap from the engi ion in her but it required greater nerve to rem xhibit her on it. Pettus remained at his post. :elldd any- reversed his engine and brought ev brake to bear upon the wheels with under the the foroe that was possible. The 1 rtner, ac- drivers of the engine ftew backward v, cement and lightning-like revolution, streams of ] than ever, shot from every brake wheel under idies from train, there was a succession of rot ed them- jerks that threw the passengers St i attracted their seats, and the train came to a d< 1 and vocal halt?with the pilot of the engine wit .<3 maffnifi. a car's-lensrth of the fiery gap. Ther with a very spiration stood in cold drops on the" solo, "Oh.! gineer's forehead as he looked from which was cab down into the chasm to the brink ler's play- which his train and the people upon >ne of the had drawn so closely. he concert The train was backed from the burn: itely come structure and Capt. Rod*borough and rs he had crew organized a bucket brigade a L Conserva- after half-an-hour's work extinguisl . He was the fire aqd saved the main portion gh School the bridge. The watchman whose di 3s of the it is to patrol the bridge was not prese nd of the it is said, but came upon the scene wl the people were fighting the fire, i ? seeing the state of afiairs disappear en. The midnight train from Charlotte . e crowing Proaohed the north side of the bri< he dress of short1^ afterwards,, and a transfer tturr with .passengers and baggage wttSTnaagp the other tra*n retan"ng h018 at 11 o'clock yesl day morning. A large force of workn UTfAr irTt^ was put to work at once reconstruct fiNPvmAM th? trestle, and trains erossed the brie xLiTitte in the afternoon. that the passengers speak in the high is plumaee P1*^6 of engi*^1 Pettus; and so app /?p?ro ciative were they of his nerve and br i,ftT,or ery that one of their number, the B ern societv ^enteoosi started a subscript _ and the passengers liberally respond otives, and ?hc? "P a P o? whi?>>j Pentecost presented to engineer Pett b dress of a8suring him that it was "but- a slij ficranf ?n^ token of their appreciation of his acti c'ostly for they felt that he had saved them fr ?, jewels; ? horrible death." the Duke (l" - ? a A BATTLE IN THE MOUNTAINS. aouas, ana heir knees Acker's Biggest Bear Fight on iat . them; TYahsatch. Kangf. i the em (From the Idaho Enquirer.) subjects of A few days ago Gabe Luoker went iline mind. jn Wahsateh range of mountains s dress is ^ som6 game. After bringing dow; large ejk he dressed it, cut off some aat reason the choicest piece3 and covered the le case of render So that it would not be distort le for men, b_ animate, intending to return a unknown, the balance. neatness is ge then shouldered the steak, and \ r waste nor waikjDg along the side of the mount -pervading on his way homeward, and was onh Dr. John- few ro<jg distant from where the elk 1 u\ been slain, when suddenly out maii6c or impro- grizzly from a thicket near by, 8 ;ht soever, ma^o toward Gabe in a twinkling. It was not the first time Gabe 1 f vnjf '306<^ a grizziy. for*he had killed m? ?/ a .?2 a bear and knew no such term ascowi UtUemiss. their presence. So he threw do i??3 ids load quickly, but cooley, and hau : He; sue u_ "Winchester and fired. Gabe 1 me dressed ^tended to break the bear's neck, 1 *Mr* the closeness of the animal and the nec sr and tne taste in shooting caused the bu 5 j a to go wide of its aim, but it tore out 1 jed by one dear's right eye and deprived the br l audience Qf 0f its powers of vision; The a lan s work, gcarcely checked the mad beast; for rose on its feet, and before Gabe co fire a second time the bear struck shed by a gtin from his hands and it was sent sp ident that ning rods away, while the force of ilyinkeep- blow made Gabe whirl around foi ith-century moment as if he was a top in the hai ht; at best 0f a schoolboy, fie fell some dista: succession from the bear, yet he was on his feet amount of a twinkling and braced himself fo: grapple. lan a foot Uttering a horrid grown that fai 1 with tall froze the blood of his antagonist, traveller's bear followed up his stroke, and, v >ur or five outstreatched arms, both hunted i rer predict bear clinched in a hand to paw con1 after that, and fell to the ground, rolling and tui numerous, ling over and over down the steep, craj jo, and lay gjdea of the mountains, the bear bell* rnlln* -?*? nain rorro to! il/uwi 1UJ{ ttliU iU?lUA^ TTAIU-L ^fWU UUU ni ie original the hunter, who had drawn his sh no future knife from its sheath in his hunting b e with. At vras viciously plunging it the hilt at ev I aside to go stroke into the sides of the anin the village Blood quickly followed, besmearing b nother spot combatants. The embraces of the to id made the though at a disadvantage, were terri and Gabe nearly lost his breath dui ne mile in the frightf ai hugs, but it only made 1 } burned, or the more desperate as he began to th ^rass grows, his time had about come and he n: : going in a get in his work quickly. n*QCOiC of.ftll "D? ? on.l olooli fKn ti ? * {I 1UU&J ouau auu omoii v* vwv ?m thoragh it on the beards bead Gabe cut the left t bail cf the animal in two and oorapl 'e path with ]y destroyed the brute's vision. As ; ho may get eyeball streamed from its socket nd bush6P, bear became doubly enraged, and cal t more than ing the left side of (Jabe's head in mouth, he instantly tore off an ear ? , , part ortii?"irrmte^ev3calp. In a mon "sterday^the more both Gabe and"S? bear, tighl the wound 66011 other'8 embrace- and tigw ited with im- desPerateiy? had reached a fifty-: jdericksburg praipice. Down they went, whir: Confederate ^ tumbling among the brash e Lee Camp rocts below. The bear, being heavi imp Alexaa- struck first, and Gabe was thus ss ralFitzhugii from instant death. The hard st listinguished caused both to loccon their holds bound- seyerai ajfert from < r v r/ . . . _ th. other. WHY NOT The bear was evidently stunned by wtle the concussion, and Gabe was on his ? n feet first and out of the former's reach, dii. talm\ge The grizzly's wrath ki endeavoring to * PKO find,Ms enemy was terrible. He ran in rain varioaslirjsctioDsi tore the ground and _ t?i v >?- - *11 rnl?l. , > 1 Ha KoftwR-Vrrr ^ wreasea ms vengeance onTfi^asoes uy r _ ? v es- pulling and tearing into nTmA?~ K?*rtvT>' V"* Ty- ingout of reach of the infuriated mon- KiUetl r^m 01 e, a* ster, Gabe endeavored to find the knife . Rev. Dr. Tali ray. which he had dropped from his grasp in morning to an a rery the fall. At last he discovered the miss- TQK__Tia_i? artj laid ing weapon, and, grasping the handle LaDernac md. tirnd^ne approached the grizzly and walk. ^is on plunged the blade into the latter's body Prolong life?" \ sing with all the strength he could summon. 9^ verse i6; ? the The bear whirled in a twinkling, and QQLof_ w fire Gabe made a narrow escape, leaving the { ' lple knife still sticking in the animal's body. "Through the t i_ rm 1 . y . 1 ,1 eioiW twrvnlor it*3L .me Dear now pincgea aoora among tne hen roeks and brush in the maddest agony. "eei1 chiefly asso lata Bememberine his Winchester and re- yards. Th ard volver.GabemLe a long detour to get People is odorc hed above the top of the precipice to secure: carbolic ac1"* * mta thenw On neaxing the.place he fainted chaDged an ?ht- S?ASfieies9 with exhaust on. being repress, the - HW&mg he remained in that condi- ?^t dead, sh On tion he .does not knew, but thinks it chanot nr whic ugh must have been atlf&et an hour. On ^pP,r*. ttus coming to he was so weak from loss of "Behgion, far blood that he could only crawl to his one? J1 ^'16' 1 at gun and revolver on nis hands and 8??d for the eyes ir?. knees. The bear's stroke had broken *or splesD, g( irds' the gun *0 that iit was useless. Besting 8??d for tne ner avyi awhile, and recovering his strength he women die was returned below the precipice and found time that rehgic i is' theTbear sitting up and rubbing his medicalsciencei ad. eye# in a vain effort to see. Gabe opened; k?11^ rve fire^ ftTifl at each shot the bear would ^?thuselah liyec i he change in the direction of the sound, but ^7 that religion Low, beisg sightless and the ground uneven to^nb-ailuvian J saw he would fall and tumble around in the that the length < ing moat reckless manner. Ten shots greatly improvec eri- fini&ed him, and Gabe went home and * a v __ a i i i_ n nro a hnnnron t7< secured neip, ana wnen ne was namea , -t r. ,t > his to tie hunter's cabin he was fonnd to child is to live to weiih 1,200 pounds. not the men reac] ;ht. TfceloBS of an ear and part of his The factisweare rod scalp, besides being lacerated in various compared to son: ass other places, did not affect Gabe's eour- com?' ^1<?n ent age? and when seen by your correspond- world. Give it re- ent Jie declared that he is still a match centuries, anc wJ ne, for any grizzly tlia'i ever walked. "*e strength of n ain , woman, and iihe He 1' m "My design is ery t. The Condition of the Crops. religion is the fri all The State Department of Agriculture ^ &rst from the i kig furnishes the following statements, ^are of 7~r llil showing the condition of the crops, &c., dnt?:14 ^ &re Jojje 1, based on the report of 251 coun- Problem of healt the tymd township correspondents. divme. He lgh Jjfce crop prospect3 ir. South Carolina P&S?_,a^' om are not generally so favorable as at this xcal* ite , mm_-? * ? Tin i iv . THT7 TIATVAS. if I ^ case last year, xne seasons anting roe -~j > ? - in .month of May were unfavorable for cot- ^ m7 phys >er" to'2r, cool nights, high winds and exces- ftn<^ for siwe rains retarded the growth of the mean^ *"? ^1 as i plant and caused the crop to become ??0r Sim our ?* grassy. It is the general opinion of ^ man who, tl " correspondents that it is fully two weeks irregular eating, later in development than on the first offering to God e of June, 1887. In some favored locali- "An intelligen ties the plant is reported healthy, well consider it an ab ^ cultivated and vigorous. The area has and pray and a&k led been slightly increased over last year. at the same time Corn lands have been well prepared] of his bedroom t aty and the crop well cultivated, while more air. H: would fertilizers per acre have been used than going out on the ?f formerly. The growth was slow in the lyn and New Yoi early part of the month owing to lack praying to God t ed' of rain, but more favorable seasons later hurt. Take car* ?P" benefitted it greatly. About three- forces?nervous, fourths of the crop is planted on up- cellular tissue?1 lands aad the condition of this part of brought to jadgn tbe crop closely^pproxlmates an aver- fiSmofc:ing~yop ier" age. Lowland have been flooded and fidgets, burning < ien some damage has resulted fromjfrom the your stomach wil freshets. Insects have injured the crop strvchnyned, waJ x2e on bottom lands, and at present the make your feet 1< prospect for the uiiual yieldis promising, the waist until y< esfc Wheat was injured bylate frosts and and neither part re" rust, ripened prematurely, and the yield ing about heada* av" was reduced below last year. Unfavora- the heart, which .ev* ble seasons somewhat reduced Ihe yield God, when they ion 0f oatg. Harvesting began the latter folly. ! part of May. "What right h The other crops, including peas, rice, to deface the tern sweet and Irish potatoes, sugar cane and What is the ear? jht sorghum, peanuts,, &c., are fully up to ing gallery of th< DD? an average. Berries of all kinds are theeye?-Itis th om abundant. The melon crop is backward structed, its tel In some sections jreaches and apples will heavens. Again * " 1 "1 " - ? j.:?i 1^-. produce inn crops wirna m otner paruj utxu. incuu w ?? of the State they almost failures. it is a prrtest ag The consumption of commercial fer- snjure and dest ? tilizers is estimated at about 120,000 men and women tons, classified as follows: Ammoniated Their sins kill th 46,600 tons: acid phosphate 45,600 tons; of good old men, Kainit 19,200 tons, and chemicals 8,400 a dozen bad old i 10 tons. not get old. L Q The large crop of cotton produced last years of age, him 01 year, the fair prices obtained for the his embridled p r?! same and the bountiful corn crop greatly dashed him into ^ improved the financial condition of land Poe died at 38 jt owners, tenants and laborers in every that alighted or oounfcy. The amount of farm supplies chamber door wa f?8 purchased was much less than last year. 0nl this ? 4111 A majority of the progressive farmers of r a ,, ???u "Bnt von sav. " tne Diaie raisea last year writ euuugu . , for plantation use and bacon sufficient have fallen, prof< ? for family consumption. misappropriated cattle fat, work they threw awa3 , stock in splendi* 1 c?nditioir\ad_th6 ^ey j6W awf^ m farmers energetic ? aid hopeful. Wg,aged people uy r dead ird ?) ^ defenses and th< ** The Pastor. You have no n led pu but j r\ ^ , than hundreds o iad The Portiand Advertiser has a good ^tenes to-da but story, which it creiits to Bishop Simp- ^ doc| :es- son. A Methodist* congregation, who ^ and pleasai llet regretted, the departure of a minister wafl the whose tame had expired, phed the pas- g^thing else, ute tor with questions kbout the man ap- blue flies that ?ie bofc pointed to succeed! him. TCie pastor pilu0win1iies^] ifc gravely answered th(3m: "He is a good ^owed whatwa old man ana an able prefer, but-there, I y the ^ c his don t suppose I oug%t to say anything, b ^ ,in- and I think on reflection that I won't." th? goldenDillar Z OI ???.? wU* everybody. r a curiosity, and they insisted that he ex- That ^ ^ ads Plam*. AiterdisaLiinW any intention Si QCe to prejudice the new xioan, be informed -fJbecause it \ in them that the com jgTlncjmbent parted 012temporalitifc< c a his hair in the middle,, Jfee congrega- ^ ^it ? tion were indigniint, but decided to cenuil irly suspend final judgment until they had over to tod not the seen the new. man. Tjhe next Sunday, family, his b .;*v, when he walked up thfe aisle, everv eve u: v<? ivu. 5 I . ' ,, ? him mum, 11 in wv md ^ npon him, and as Jhe faced the peo- ^ i^iistri seat Pie there waa abroad smile on every w0 ? ing, becau n]j. lace in the chnrch. de was bald. affaire. Jgy *"*"7 - "Suppose yo 5W- A RE.MARK ABLE ?HCtai.\G FOB B. B. B. neighbor T7ho d aile against other! remedies. yon to call on m PtouhCoJ April 29,1887. ?"> I have been snffirini for almost thirty on $20,000,000 a ^ years with an itching j and bnrning au ea<^* - j^61^ JJHi over my face and todyj, I took eighteen on 1 wlL bottles of one blood m&dicine and it did would you.worr ^r? me no good. I corimeitced last January would say: ^c' to use B. B. B., andjSer using five and depend on j bottles I felt better and} stouter than I ^~~e res^* have for thirty years, Bky health is bet- 'Now more t k ter and I weigh more iLa I ever did. Christian ?rior ? . . - * r _ fA nim *? Aom. The itching Has nearly leased, and i am r . confident that a few moU, bottles of B. St.-Feterslnu^ s a"e B. B. will core me eotixLiy. I am sixty- and California. . *6- two ^ caid old iiii J. ia*u iu>w do a good ^P11 day's work in my field.\ I consider it Sow much wo^l ;r? the best medicine I have *Ver seen, for _ nf ."J6 it certainly did me more {good than all . Ph ~r the medicine I havo ever t taken. I had asked God s ble< s ssssi a,* 1 p? - ' ra.ra'a ia?t * JAMES^ PINKEETO^. gQodtotiiemth ; in | not reat in that? Francis A. Hoffman, %T oi Chicago, [?? who was nominated by the Democratic that broker who ? State central committee for jState Treasurer street, after he in place of Chas. Wacker.fwho declined, down and wrote ^est, ^as consented to run. Hp>ffman was ap- y 6 before he ived pointed appraiser of the port; of Chicago in instead of taku tock 1886 by President Cleveland*, but resigned pistol had taker and last fall, and has sinee devoted himself to Testament there his law nractice. unimdp Oh. n< 1 i .. 'y' | [ 11J - ~ LIVE FOREVER pie Of the -world try this sedative. Yon will live twenty-five years longer. It is not chloral that yon want, or morphine. tells how religion ^ i? the Gospel of Jesus Christ." I T TI'P ??? ' TORTURED FOR HIS MONEY. Iany Good Old Men, bat A fcuppoied Murr Routed by Robber*. -??o. h-9 Saya, Has Pittsburg, June 11.? A.n atrocious outer. ? _ rage is reported from Fairchance, about. , , two miles from Uniontown. Samuel Humnage preached Suiufc^ ri^-?nold resident of Fairchance, was udience that filled the assauitedT^s^asked men at his residence overflowed to the side- at midnight baruxda^ and subjected to t*^i; ^reat tortures to make hiartssclose where ict W88, "Does Religion Hs money was At a ve find his text in Psalm Humbert, who lives alone, was aroused by 'With long* life will I a snocK ai nis aoor. in response to nis inquiries as to who was there the men out side asked for a drink of water. When the mistake of ite friend;" old man opened the door to comply with divine, "religion has their request he was seized and gagged, dated with sicl; beds and Two ruffians then searched the house, but e whole subject to many failed to find anything of value, where >us with cnlorine and upon they commanded their captive to surt is high time that this render his money and valuables. He inid religion, instead sisted that he had no money. The two Eged as a hearse to carry Sends then built a fire in the grate, and Omd be represented as a drawing the old maa up to it, roasted his h the lmng are to f* i?eya!???sbU315red ^ rngly burned. Still the old man protested . , that he had no money ana implored.them i * ^ g H? to release him. They threatened to ?t the glorious aabition. It IS h,-inae nn fir& if Vio vinfoca good-for the care, good After turning everything in the house >?d for the digestion and upside down and ripping up the carpet in ves. 1 he fact if, men their search for money, they bound the old too soon. It is high man hand and foot and departed. Hum>n joined the hand of bert, after a desperate struggle, freed himn attempting to improve self and gave the alarm. His neighbors . Adam lived 900 years; quickly gathered and organized a search I 969-years. I do not party to hunt the rascals down. Thefugiwill taka the Eice baak tives were tracked a considerable distance .ongevity, but I do say and have, it is said, been located, of human life will hie [. Had Worked Against Him. Isaiah: 'The child shall A gaunt man, with yellowish beaid sars old.' Now if the and hair that looked like hackled flax, i be 100 years old, may stood throwing stones at a log meetingh. to 390 an 1400 and 500. house, says the Arkansaw Traveller. Me i mere dwarfs, skeletons, seemed to be aiming his missiles at a te of the generations to small window, the only one that lighted has just touched our the house, had just thrown, with encourfull power for a few aging directness a fragment of flint, ho can tell what will be when a man, riding a horse, drew rein lan and the beauty of and demanded the cause of the bombardlongevity of alL ment. to show that' practical "You jest jog along, now, an' let me end of long life. I prove 'tend to this, will you?" he replied. tact that it makes the I "-But why are you throwing stones at h a positive Christian that church?" stian man lifts the whole "Go on now, I tell you. This here is h into the accountable a fam'ly erfair." sees God's caligjaph in "A family affair?" tomical and pliysolog- "That's whut I'lowed," attempting to idan man says, if I hurt dislodge a stone with the heel of his boot, hurt my brain, if I hurt "I must say that it is a peculiar family ieal faculties, I insult affair that leads a man into such a sensedire retribution. God less performance as throwing stones at a in all ages that we are to ohurch." best physical condition. "I don't kere whut you must say." irough gluttonous or He swayed his long arm drew in his hand ruins his health, is not with a jerk, squatted, stamped the ground, uch a sacrifice. ana exclaimed, "i gad, i come in one iv b Christian man would pnttin' her th&r that time!" He began surdity to kneel Jit night to poke around in a sort of nodding ; God's protection while saunter, looking for another stone, he kept the windows "Look here, if you don't explain youright shut against fresh self Til swear out a warrant for your just as soon think of arrest." , bridge between Brook- "Go ahead. You'll have a mighty up k, leaping off and then Mil work arrestin' a feller fur 'tendin' to 10 keep him from getting a sam'ly erfair. Bet a dollar I drap one i of all your physical- uv 'em when they come out," he added, muscular, bone, brain, as he found a stone. for all vou mast be "When who comes out?" ier? " "Myfolks?wife, Puss, the Fulgum*, ruuireg3 ayotoTom ha out the the coating of preacher." ~~ fch wine loffwooded and "What are they doing?" Iking with thin shoes to "W'y, Tom?never seed rocks so >ok delicate, pinched at scarce?Tom he has tack my daughter >u are nigh cut in too, Pu^sintharto marry her, and the others worth anything, groan- have gone in to help, 'specially that 3he and palpitation of preacher whut I'm goin' to whup the fust you think came from time I ketch him out I skeered the old came from your own cuss so he wouldn't come over to mv ' house, so he 'suaded 'em to come out as any man or woman here." pie of the Holly Ghost? "Why do you object to your daughter Why, it is the whisper- marrying?" ^ ) human soul. What is "Wouldn't object ef she wuster marry e observatory G<>a con- the right sorter man." lescope sweeping the "Isn't Tom the right sort of man?" I remarked that prac- "Not by a blamed sight." lgevity in the fast that "Won't he provide well for your ainst dissipations which daughter?" * J roy the health. Bad "Yas, mout do that." live a very short life. "Dosen't he seem to care enough for em. I know hundreds j her?" w. T An not know half I "O yas; he has putty nigh broke his men? Why? They do neck arrfcer her." 3rd Byron died at 36 "Why, then, do yon object to him?" iself his own Mazeppa, "On account uv hiscassed meanness." iassion the horse that "In what ww is he mean?" the desert. Edgar A. "W'y, dad blast him, he's the man that jars. The black raven driv whiskey from Oak Grove?tuck 1 the bust above the around a paper an' had it signed so the s delirium treme:as. county jedge wouldn't let no mo' license ind nothing more. be isOTred,ftat,8whiit,8 he's done. Took K . away from the citizens uv this here comprofeesors of religion munity the right uvgoin'out to the grove jssors of religion have uv a Saturday evenin' an' havin' a h'frtte trust funds. See, but fun, that's what's he's done. Robbed " LlibiT XttLiglUU UCiUiO tlio 1U1AB UV Q ^UVUCgO glVO u 9 ClU Uj their morality. There Washington an' ole Andy .Jackson an' who would have been aich men, when, cadfoundhin\ he knows .years ago but tor the 1 that I've got two barrels of wild cat that 3 eqiiipisfi^ff^flsft^ionrTlm^ J?yoff & lore natural resistance mortgage on my place with it ^Tfi&s'r { people who lie in the what he's done, an'now, cadfondyou, do iy, slain by their own you recon I want my daughter to marry x>rs made their cases as a man that has wojked agin me thater it as they could and it way?" nation of the brain or "Well, but instead of throwing stones but the snakes and the at the church, why don't you go to emed to crawl over the him?" lit of the delirious patient ' 'Look here, do you reckon I wanter go s the matter with him. to a man that ha; done whupped me Shristian, walked along three timee, an' stove in all my front t man until you came to teeth? Ride on, how, and don't try to of a Christian life You give me advice about my fam'ly matters." ? > . . . II ^ Hi m? /? T i 11 1 . T I t, he went to tne ien, men, nnaing a scone mat suited ms ifference between yon fancy, he added, "Bet a ca'f I pnt this on is a friend of lohge- right down in the weddin' cifrcle." takes the worry out of . m m 3. It ifl not WOrji that The Newspaper in the Schoolroom. rorTXi -^P1632 * man J*5" The use of the newspaper in school is te Christian, he makes now getting to be quite common, and only his affections, but the results are so gratifying as to prove usmess, his reputation, ^jgdom of the plan. The country dy, his soul, his every- fooohar. who cannot cret a dailv. can n&a ions he will ce, but never wee^iy) either giving only an exercise se God la managing his a vee^ or '0y dividing the news, give a * . short exercise each day. The village or a had a supernatural teacher can of course have fresh ime in and said: '1 want notarial each day. The manner ' of ie in every exigency. .. using ^y be greatly varied ard rendered and. 1 could fall bacs qUite attractive. I look my daily over md see a^ panic tea years each evening, make a memorandum of tot you in ^ trouble, call ^he items most instructive and interesting L help you. How roucn ^ my dagges, ana Li^n next dayr usually 7 about business ? Why, ^ ^be morning before scLrul, L write the 111 do the -est I can. bead lines on the board, leaving4he pu y\TT rror.AWfliflAfl I -i i a x.n_ :i_i_ pus to copy ana taut over, or possiDiy . , read the articles, until the time appointed han that is promised ior for our exercise, when each item is taken bn sin ess man. God says RTI^ discussed thoroughly. I find New York, London, and t^ese exercises quite as valuable to me as ind Pekin and Australia ^ pnpila Questions are asked about I am your friend. When men, nations, and events that put us all nble I will help you. ^ thinking and searching our books of Id that man worry? itot reference; thus the use of books is learned. Another day we will read articles by. 'Here is a man who newspapers instead of our readers 3sing in a certain enter- an(j again some pupil will prepare k $5,000. Explain that/ the list to be written on the board, ings work together for Every pupil in my school reads as many at love God,' Is there oo ha ?n nor linM nf ar>r? all arc I 1 Is there not truth in learning to sift out the good and skip not longevity in that? If the spurious padding -with a celerity and some years ago in Wall judgment that are surprising.?Carolina sad lost his money, sat teacher. i a farewell letter to his ^ a blew his brains out?if James Foster, colored, was taken from ig out of hia pocket a the Henderson, Ky., jail by a mob at 1 l out a well lead New o'clock yesterday morning and hanged to would have been one less a tree. His offense was outraging an eightsryous and feverish peo- year-old child. A TRIP ACROSS THE ATLANTIC. Its Comforts and Discomforts?The Won- oHH derful Gulf Stream?Albion's Cliffs anp London City. Messrs. Editors: Pursuant to my *HH promise, I beg to give beiow some impressions of a trip abroad, and as JM many of your readers have traveled -JK over the same ground, I trust, therefore, they will not feel any obligation ? HK| to read these reflections. A great many persons fear tige sea and its [ dangers, and allpw their; .anticipations losfrsS^t their nerve:?,-that long ere they get out to sea, they have s?csumbed to liameless.terrors and more likely that dreXded and awfcl calamity sea sickness. A'host nrobahlv thev will consult their physicians for a preventive against this feSK&l evil; bnt alas, > no remedy has yetbe^ft-dig^veredto prevent it, and if it r-mrr; tt^ITTTI ii! wnmm A bravely bear up. . sea. uje. V"* I H We Jeft Cape^Hf nry not long ago on July 4, 10 p. ra., antf after signaling up a pilot boat and leliving or. r Bay pilot, we started onr engine?, bound i tor London, and as oar steamer was heavily laden were tofd it nothing happened in two weeks we would land at London dock. 'This seeded a long time, and bow to pass if and \ n what to do wece questions which were W* likely to disqniet oar souls. After three days oat we gained, out "3ea legs," and so were relieved of all possibility of sea sickness, and found ourselves" with appetites growing each" ^ day, and all dull care driven away. We managed to eat five times a day, and felt no dyspepsia or other ill, bat other matters on board now engaged oar attention. THE GULF STREAM. This stream is well known to all students . and ocean voyagers. Wa were una! ale to distinguish its change -> * of water ixom the general ocean, but upon patting a thermometer in the water we found it 85 degrees, and the speed of c nr vessel was increased by its velocity alone some sixty miles a day. After a few days the captain changed tils coarse a little .North, ?o finally we sailed away from its waters. We were much engaged in watching and trying to learn the nantical way in which longitude and latitudes were ?a taken. The latitude is taken when the ship is dus east by means of a quad- m rant. Ths longitude, of course, when the sun stops going up. Having these data the exact position of the ship is determined with great accuracy. A matter 01 interest, each day is the question of bow many utiles have we made, the carrents, the winds and the otber things causing a difference each day. Tbe passengers (who can) eat breakfast 8d a. m., lunch 1 p. m., dinner (in courses) 6 p. m., and tea, if desired at 10 p. m. There is generally a fair library aboard filled with novels, and cards and smoking, not to merniou . ?N that most frequently indexed iu, drinking, fill ap one's days. The sea, with :fs never ceasing swell, its porpoises, whafes,^sharks and occasional lougest day! Here we are safe" from telegrams and basiness letters, and they say many warm friendships are formed" aboard ship, and I know of some cases where matches were made. The great benefit is derived from entire cessation of all business environments, the salt air, change of food, and sea baths. Some of the captains are very sociahlo nthoi^a rt"Alb <Vio- Mnfrdrif ' 'Ph'o UiVj \SWJVxK? V^UtlV iUV V'VKtk&t** J &UU most celebrated line/'nd'w Is the Norttf German Lloyd; others are the renown Uunarders, Inman, White-StarNational and French. . -A Exactly on Che day named oar first 0 sight of land was Scilly Island light, nji off the coast of Cornwall, England; aud glad we were to see' it, though SH our passage was calm and free from storms. We enjoyed the steam np the English channel, where the navigation is generally considered dau: gerous, and saw Eddistone light and had a fine view of Isle of Wight, where Her Majesty was then staying. We passed the White Cliffs of Albion, anci o r\i Irtf of ^IwAAnRTinh flivpj'cu ivi a puuv at uiccuvriv^j where the Castom officers boarded as. The tiip op the Thames is very slow and dangerous, and we were quite M delighted to land on English soil?in London, of which we will speak in ?j our next. r. b. b. THE KXIGBLTS OF HONOB. 18 Will this Organization. live ? The old line life insurance compa- n nies and their agents in their war -?g?ftst the assessment associations frequently ~as?&rr^i&Lj^i.e9? fraternal societies wm not iasi more wan twenty ?s*# years. Tliey venture this assertion because this simple form of insurance was inaugurated less than tweflty years ago. We admit that the past is strewed with the wrecks, of fraternal societies. From the early days when the Christians, in the catacombs, by signs, words, tokens, and secret meetings kept alive the fires of religion, many such have sprang np and gone down again, but some still remain. The Masons, theDruids, the Foresters, ? the Odd Fellows and Red Men are ~ . hoary with age. The sarvival of these % proves that a correct system with beneficial designs, made popular with the people and founded apon principles of equity and humanity can and will endured We believe tbe institui* __ _ / 11. _ rr - * tt * tion oi toe i\mgnts 01 aouor to oe one of these. First, because it is a benevolent association, and all its benefits go to its individual members, and none to an outside corporation to amass wealth, and each member, from the highest to the lowest, has an eqaal ib- -> ?I^j terest in its welfare. Second, because select representatives of its members mcftt together annnailv to consider its interests, thereby keeping alive an enthusiasm in the order, and from these bodies the very best mem are chosen to manage its affairs." Third, because it famishes the cheapest iusnrance of life that can possibly be obtained; as cheap as any for the young and cheaper* by far for the middle aged, and none are required to pay premiums for more than one month in auranee; so that a member cannot possibly lose more than the premium for one month. Fourth, because: it has attained such a vast numerical strength, located v throughout the entire continent, that it J9 will keep its average death rate at a moderate figure, thus insuring the ability of its members to keep them- H selves within its folds. c. One of the leap year eccentricities adopted by a few fashionable girls is to cany a good-sized cane. In c'ties where they are ogled and insulted by dudish young men a good-sized club would prove of mo:e service. u