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V I GOVERNOR HILL ON THE RESULT. He Expresses His K?-gret for President Cleveland's Defeat. Albany, Nov. 9.?The Buffalo Association serenaded Governor Hill last nigbt. An immense throng followed the procession to the mansion and rapturously applauded the Executive, who was introduced by District Attorney Reilly. The Governor made a very brief and most interesting ad dress. Among other things, he said: "I do not affect to conceal my gratification over the result of the gubernatorial contest in this State. Our opponents unwisely entered upon a campaign of personal detraction, and they now discover their mistake. in common with everv true Democr*;, I greatly regret the defeat of President Cleveland in the State and the nation. He deserved better at the hands of the people 5*.' "of thisi country. Honest, brave and courageous, he gallantly led his party in the great contest for tariff reform, and suffers defeat owing to false clamor, unjust prejudices, unfair representations, and the gigautic and combined efforts of all the monopolists of the country. "He did his duty as he understood it, re / gardless of personal or political considera/ tions, and he should have been sustained mwf '- by the taxpayers, consumers and masses of wK the people, "whose true interests he desired to subserve, and whose rights he unselfishly endeavored to maintain. H, 4Mt is not now necessary or profitable to L. inquire whether the issue which he so boldly made might not more wisely have been earlier presented or postponed to a later period. It is sufficient to say that as a trusted leader of the Democratic parly, after a full consideration of the whole sub ject, be deemed that the best aud truest interests of the country required that the issue should be made at this crisis, and with that patriotic and deliberate conciu sion, when once reached, there should have been prompt acquiescence. "The principle of tariff reform has only met with temporary defeat. Sooner or later it will ultimately triumph in this couufry. President Cleveland and the Democratic party were right, and deserved j to succeed. The argument was with us, and two weeks longer discussion would have given us the victory. "In conclusion, permit me to observe j that our victory upon State issues means that the people of this State are opposed lo illibeitl and unjust sumptuary legislation, and favor a just and equitable excise law, rigorous?y enforced. They want uniform excise legislation, applicable alike in all parts of the State. j *1.-.* :? XLiey ueuiuuu uku. cawsc icvcuuo, ji*wc1 all proper local revenues, should go into local treasuries rather than into the treasury of the State. The people are opposed to hypocritical 'temperance' legislation, not honestly designed subserve the cause of true temperance, but intended only for political effect. "The people have repudiated bogus and sham electoral 'reform' and have declared, in no uncertain voice, in favor of home rule for cities and equal taxation. Upon these questions our opponents were unable to deceive or mislead the people, and we may well rejoice in our victory upon the State issues involved in the campaign." <? ' DOUBLE END PROPELLERS. Theories That Steamers Should be Built With a Screw in the Bow and Stern. Theories have been recently advanced b? naval architects and engineers to the effect that steamers should be built with a pro peller in the bow as well as in the stern of the vessel. A ferry-boat is now being built in New York to demonstrate that these theories are practicable. It took Howe ten years to discover that in order to make a sewing machine a needle must be threaded at the point instead of the other end, and the arguments in favor of tne propeller in the bow of a steamer are parallels with the sewing machine discovery. It has been claimed that the action of two wheels, one in the bow and one in the stern, is this: The forward wheel screws itself into the solid water ahead of the boat i and throws astern the quantity o! water ii / has bit in the revolution, which action, it C- is said, draws the boat ahead. The current flows aft and there comes in contact with the stern screw, which is at the same time pushing the boat "ahead. William Cowles, a New York naval architect, in a paper which he read before the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, said that the screw in the bow of the boat has been proved by use to be more efficient in pro pelting than a screw at the stern. Charles H. Cramp, -whose firm is building several ships of the new navy, said last night, when asked what he thought about the bow propeller theory: "It has not been proved by use that the screw in the bow of the boat is more efficient in propelling than a screw at the stern. So far the propellor in the bow of a steamer is only a theory. There may be a good deal in tbe theory, and it is matter I would have to give careful thought before condemning. If, however, as I think now, two boats were built, one with two propellers ia the stern and the other boat with a propeller in the stern and one in tbe bow, I think I would take the boat with the two propellers in the stern as the quickest, safest and most powerful. I do cot believe that warships, built with propellers in the bow, would be any better than those hnilr. with r>n!v T>rr>r>pllprs in the stpi-n hnt as I said before, there is a a good deal in the theory, and I would have to enter inio the technicalities of ship-building before I would care to express myself emphatically ss to whether the theory admits of practicability. "?o far as the propeller in the bow applies to tugs and boats for use in the Delaware river or in New York harbor I say that the propeller in the bow would be a failure on account of ice, which would break the blades of the screw. No screw could stand coming in contact with bis cakes of ice. By having the propellor located in the bow of the boat the screw as a matter of course would have to plow through the ice, whereas with the screw in the stern it is different. The prow of the Doat Has separated tne ice Deiore tne screw in the stern comes in contact with it. It is all very nice to theorize, but until I saw the practical workiDg of a screw in the bow of the boat and saw that it was an improvement over the screw in the stern I would have to decide in favor of the screw in the stern."?Philadelphia Times Nov. 6. Lord Randolph's JLucky Dream. Lord Randolph Churchill has taken to dreaming winners, and, what is a very great deal more, dreaming them accurately. In a vision a few nights since his Lordship dreamed that No. 22 (Veracity) on the card had won the Cambridgeshire, and being a practical dreamer with a belief in himself, he backed No. 22 to win him some ?1,000. I have told many stories of winners being dreamed, and so far as I know my stories have been true, but there is no doubt about this most recent addition to the list. For one moment he may have doubted whether he was a flyer at dreams after all, for the first number put up by the judge was "2" (Tenebreuse), and we began to wonder how it was we had missed the white jacket and green cap, but "2" was speedily taken down. The judge had told his man to hoist "22," but the chattering round his box made his voice inaudible and so caused the mistake. However, the "22" was soon put up and Lord Randolph awoke to the fact that he had developed a new accomplishment?London Illustrated News. ? ? For Those Who U&e "Thanks.'** There is a nasty little abbreviation going the rounds. It has been caught up and has spread into all classes; I mean "thanks." People used to say, "I thank you." "I am obliged to you." Now, when you pick a young woman out of the ditch she snips but "thanks," and skips off as if the matter were square. You wipe the mud off your shoes and meditate. Or if, going home at night after a hard day's work, you secure a seat in a car and a woman comes in, you rise promptly and tender it to her; she sweeps her ample silk into the gap and a small "thanks" floats through the air to you. Is it compensative? If that woman had only looked you straight in your eye and said: "Sir, you are very kind, and i am greatly obliged to you," you would have felt not only paid, but would have a your chivalry. To stand with an abbreviation--Pemocrat. SAFETY FOR DEPOSITORS. Banks to lie Tv*iirod Against All I/OS5. Kov?:i i-i.i:ii!cial Scheme. Early last winter the Depositors'Guarantee company of America was organ? trr . i XT? J3 ized under tiie iawsoi west Virginia unu i a charter was granted to the corporation, : The capital stock of the company is j $ 5,000,000, divided into shares of $100 each, and its object is to guarantee depositors in national and state banks against loss from any cause whatsoever. The incorporators and officers of the company are among the most prominent financiers of the country, who believe that the new financial institution, while it is an innovation in banking affairs, will ultimately become one of the most powerful and beneficent corporations for the protection of both banks and depositors in the world. Mr. Scriba described in detail the objects of the new concern. "It was," he said, "intended to absolutely insure the solvency of state and national banks by r ?? ? ? ? ? fnr calf lOnill'Jo U WU1UUUUUU VI >v> protection through this corporation. As a measure of the guarantee principle, $1,000,000 of the capital of the company will be deposited with the treasurer of the United States at "Washington, and such amounts in bonds with the proper officers of the various states as the laws of such states may require. Already 1.000 of the most prominent banks in the United States have signified their intention of becoming stockholders and having their deposits guaranteed by the company. These banks have agreed to pay the company one-fifth of 1 per cent, annually upon their gross deposits, which give a yearly income over estimated expenses of about ?500,000. In every banking center of the company there will be a competent bank examiner, who will make a thorough examination of a bank before a policy will be issued to it, and the bank examiners of the company will have the right to examine any bank included in the guarantee at any time during the year without any notification to its officers and directors. U{>on the delivery of a guarantl.A /.Amn^rtT* w?ill Ivjvo OT> 21/]VPI'tJftP wct? uic wui^/auj ?? in a?m>> v v?< v.?. v. .... ment, to mil for a period of six months, inserted in the leading newspapers in the locality of the bank bearing the notification that all depositors in that bank are guaranteed against loss, and that in the event of the bank's insolvency all deposits will be paid in full by the company, with interest. The company will start upon a sound financial basis and with abundant resources, for not a guarantee will be issutJ until the guarantee fund of $5,000,000 has been paid in in cash. No bank will be guaranteed unless holding stock in the combination. The charter calls for a lease of fifty years, with power to extend." In discussing the merits of the scheme Mr. Scriba called attention to the fact that there could be no such thing as a run on a bank or a panic among a circle of banks which are in such a combination, for with the guarantee fund of $5,000,000 behind them all demands could be promptly met. There was no way in which the company could lose anything by guaranteeing a bank's deposit even if it paid its losses. In case a bank were in temporary difficulty, he said, and needed a large sum of money to tide it over a crisis, the Guarantee company would advance the ner-'-d money, taking as security sufficient of the collateral assets of the bank to cover the loan, which should be returned to the bank upon the loan's redemption. A million dollars in cash would be kept available to meet any such emergency that might arise. Mr. Scriba believed ithat the constant supervision over the banks exercised by the company's examiners would almost entirely do away with aeiaicanons, ana oy raising uie sutnuaru of bank employes save the thousands upon thousands of dollars now being annually lost by compromising with dishonest officials.?New York Times. The Dog Show in Paris. Paris dotes on dogs: consequently the dog show that is now held annually in the Tuileries gardens has become one of the most successful of all shows. The ladies have taken it up with their characteristic ardor. The dogs have become formidable rivals of artists, for their show has lately been a more fashionable meeting place tlian the salon. The exhibition has a perfume that does not suggest extract of roses, but any odor may become a la mode. The best animals shown this year are the yard dogs and sporting dogs, but these are not those upon which the ladies expend their admiration. It is only when they are in the presence of a very diminutive beast that could be carried in a mull that they break forth into rapture and use such expressions as "petite amour!" Many of these '-little loves" are provided with soft cushions covered with satin, and their kennels are draped with Oriental stuff. The yard dog that watches them from his straw bed must have some queer thoughts cn the theory of evolution, if he is a canine philosopher.?Cor. Boston Transcript. Beading for Boys and Girls. "Our Young Folks' Reading Circle" is the name of a new organization formed for the purpose of promoting good reading among boys and girls. Among its board of directors are "William H. Rideing, Mrs. Livermore, Miss Frances E. Willard, Professor J. W. Stearns, Dr. Bascom and the Rev. Lyman Abbott. It has also a board of counselors, who, with the board of directors, must pass on all books before they are approved. This is a capital idea, and it is to be hoped that it will succeed. Now let an association be formed to tell grown up people what books to read and what books not to read. Many of them need directions on this point as badly as the boys and girls.?New York Tribune. The Grave of Genghis Knan. The well-known traveler and savant., Abbe Armand David, says that the mortal rpniains of the oreat cnnoueror. Geuphis Khan, or Genghis Bogote, as he is culled in Mongolian, are preserved at a place called Kia-y-sen, in the land of Ordes, a desolate region in a bend of the Yellow River in Mongolia. They are contained in a large silver coffin, which the Mongols will not show to strangers without some good reason. The coffin is wrapped rc-und vvirh rich stuffs, and numerous pilgrims come to ki&s the>e and to pay the sam> respect as they would to a living Emperor. The coffin is not in a lamasery, or lama monastery, but in a special building, which is guarded by a Mongol Prince. It is said th?.T. this massive silver coffin was at first r carried about all over Mongolia in order to save it from eager enemies of Genghis, | and at length was brought here ancT de! posited in Ordos, because the latter was a j country which, ou account of its remote | situation and its poverty, was safe from hostile invasion.?Missions Catholiques. No Breach of Etiquette. Few persous have any idea of the formalities that exist between the colored waiters of our large restaurants in tbeir dealings with each other. They assume an air of lofty politeness that is sometimes extremely amusing, though entirely sincere. Each one has his rights in the matter of securing customers aud will brook no interference on the part of another waiter. For example, the other evening.a gentleman in one of the downtown restaurants, being in a hurrv railed for his check. His own waiter happened to be out of the room, so he asked another to bring him his account, "Sorry, sah, but you'll have to wait a moment. Mistah -fohnsing, that Boston, good-looking, yellow waiter am assigned to you, sah; he'll get your check." Just then Mr. Johnsing came up with the check and smiled his acknowledgement to his companion. There had been no breach of etiquette.?Philadelphia Times. -J. ; jA il I I' 11 III 'II "" i ih'i f V FOREIGN GOSSIP. ?On the spot where Louis II. of BaVmria is supposed to have sat with his physician, Dr. Gudden, just before taking the fatal leap into the Starnberger Lake, a column is erected bearing a perpetual light. ?On public occasions the Governor* of the British provinces in Australia all appear in military uniform; yet not one of them is a professional soldier. This looks funny, even to a practiced eye, and the people of this country think it ridiculous. ?A telephone has been fitted up between the Hospice on the Great St. R^r-na-rrt ?.nd thA vftllev below, and the monks' are now informed when travelers start to ascend the pass. If they do not appear within a proper time servants are sent to meet them. ?The gypsies claim to have descended from the ancient royalty of Egypt. lAn old gypsy named Rafael has asked the Emperor of Austria to invest him with the dignity of King of the gypsies, because he can prove his direct descent I from King Pharaoh. ?A Spanish General of Barcelona has bequeathed a million francs to found a refuge for the orphan daughters of poor officers, a proviso being that each must be beautiful in face and form, "because the more lovely a worn- 1 *? A A in AV?\AQA^ +A ^ Q T1 _ ail IS tut) UlUl'O 3UCT IS CA^UTOU uv uuu ger in this world." ?Bismarck's sleeping room in his country seat at Friederichsruhe is very simply furnished. The bed and chairs are of pine and entirely unadorned, and there is nothing about them beyond their unusual size to distinguish them from the beds and chairs found in the homes of the humblest German peasants. ?The most important source of inoome of the oity of Paris is the ootroi, or dutie3 on comestibles, wine, etc., which amounted during the fisoal year ended to 187,000,000 francs. The city derived nearly 19,000,000 francs from the gas works, 12,000,000 francs from the city water works, 8,000,000 francs from the market halls, and 5,000,000 francs from public conveyances. I ?An extraordinary will was recently | admitted to probate in Pesth, in which the testator, a physician named Gold; berger de Buda, lelt his fortune?about } a quarter of a million of florins?to acj cumulate for the benefit of posterity, I until by the operation of compound inI terest, it shall be sufficient to relieve destitution universally. And according: to a calculation made by the testator his wishes may be carried out when the capital shall amount to the sum of two hundred and nine millions of florins. ?From October 1,1878, to March 31, 1887, 12,500 neglected children were taken charge of by the government in Prussia and placed in houses of refuge or with private families. During the period 1,600 were discharged and 285 died, and the number was further re dueed in various ways by 154, so that at the end of the time the government had under its care 10,461 persons. The total expenses incurred was 7,600,000 marks, nearly one-half being by the National Government, the remainder by the municipalities. ?The Prince of Wales became much enamored of the magnificent mustache worn by the coachmen of Hungary. One man in particular roused the admiration of His Royal Highness by the fierceness and grace of his hirsute adornments. On reaching Marlborough House the jehu saw that the coachmen, footmen, and, in fact, all the servants wore faces devoid of hair. He at once sought a barber and had his face shaved clean. When the Prince saw him again he was horrified. "I engaged you for your mustache and for nothing else," said His Highness. That evening the Hungarian set out for his native land. A SURGICAL MARVEL. The Marvelous Properties of Iodoform When Properly Applied. A startling advance in surgical science has been made by Dr. Maximilian Klein, a German military surgeon. The particulars are given by the professional journal Memorabilien. A man accidentally cut off his left great toe in the middle of the first | joint. The severed piece remained hanging to the foot, but the connecting skin was scarcely thicker than a thread. Dr. Klein sewed cn the fragment, dressed it with iodoform, and had the satisfaction, in twenty-two days, of finding the wound healed and the toe perfectly sound and flexible. Encouraged by the unexpected result in this case, Dr. Klein was induced to * ?1 -- n rrd 1 n ttppi V LLLC actmo (/icabmouv ogcuiu. A recruit, in order to disable himself and so escape from military service, deliberately cut off his fore-finger with an axe at the second joint The finger end was lost, and could not be found until half an hour had elapsed. It was then cold and blue. Nevertheless, Dr. Klein sewed it to the stump and applied a bandage of iodoform gauze. As early as the second day it was evident that circulation had been partially re-established throughout the finger, and in six weeks the man had not only left hospital, but was doing the very rifle drill which he had hoped to shirk. The finger was, in fact, as serviceable as it had ever been. These stories read almost like extracts from the exploits of Baron Munchhausen. That they are chronicled in Memorabilien is, however, evidence of their truth. English surgeons will not be so unwilling to credit them as they would have been in the days before the discovery of the marvelous properties of iodoform.?St. James' Gazette. Statistics of Divorce. The bureau of statistics has been engaged for a considerable time past in the effort to ascertain the number of divorces j that nave been granted in tne uniiea States during the twenty years between 1866 and 1886. The compilation is very nearly completed. The statistics bearing upon the subject have been derived from the records of the twenty thousand courts of law having jurisdiction in the matter. The report, it is said, will contain a vast amount of information of great value from a national point of view, and particularly as a basis of future legislation. There is no country in the civilized world where marriage is so easy aa in the United States, and where divorces are so common. It is a crime for men to prepare and advertise a worthless, inert remedy as a cure for terrible and chronic blood poison in hope that the sufferer will use a hundred bottles before he finds out its WOrthloeemaca,?smr? yp? fhw?~""3C| who do. Botanic Blood Balm (P> J1 is not a remedy of this kinrf y bottle besn"0 I ^ MRS. CLEVELAND'S SUCCESSOR. Several Daughters Will Aid Mrs. Harrison Iu Her Social Duties. Washington. Nov. 9.?Mrs. Harrison has many friends in Washington who will gladly welcome her as the Mistress of the White House. One of her entnustasuc au mirers said yesterday: "You may be sure that she will have a reign of straightforwardness in all mutters, social and domestic, at the White House." The immediate family of the Presidentelect will comprise a group of charming women. Mrs. Harrison herself has held the esteem of her Washington fiiends, alter an absence from them of years; Mrs. McKee, who was pretty Mamie Harrison wheD here, is a universal favorite; Mrs. Scott Lord, who lives here, is an elder sister of Mrs Harrison, and is an affable and attractive woman, and her two daughters arc charming and beautiful young women. Mrs. Park . the wife of Lieutenaut John F. Parker of the navy, is a blonde nf good tiuure, fascinating in manner. Mrs. Dimmick, the other daughter of Mrs. Loid, is 1 a young widow, the opposite of her sister, being a lovely brunette. Mrs. Harrison, in describing to a friend , by letter the condition of her house, which lias been thrown open to tue army 01 excursionists and visitors all summer, said if they should not be sent to the White House their only alternative would be the jx>or house, as their own is not fit to live in until it is thoroughly renovated and refurnished. WILL VICTORIA ABDICATE. It la Hinted that the British Queen Is Mentally Incapacitated. London, Nov. 9.?It is again hinted that the ualion will before long be called upon to decide whether the Queen shall remain at the head of the Government. History furnishes few instances of a greater devotion of a people to their sovereign than that of the British to Queen Victoria, and the press, with a few exceptions, have refrained from the slightest reference to pe culiarities?to use no stronger term?the manifestations of which have extended over many years. The abdication of her Majesty is now strongly talked of again, but there ?re many objections urged against such a decisiyc course by persons influential iu state affairs. The Prince of Wales is personally popular with the higher and middle classes, but the radical 'element, most vio[ lent in political crises, and more numerous I tlioii ic rrpnortillv hnHwVpd would, it is feared, seize the opportunity given by his accession to power to create an emeute, and they would be joined by the mob of roughs nod criminals, at the numory of whose hist incursion the shopkeepers of London 3till tremble. There is auolher consideration, too, which has been the cause of much acrimonious discussion ending in hopeless di'fferences of opinion between the highest, legal authorities of the realm. It is as to whether in the event of the Queen's retirement and her son's succession, the immense private fund of the former could be drawn upon to pay the Prince's debts. His creditors are clamorous now, and, in the event named, the long suffering tradesmen could hardly be restrained from the action that would certainly not increase the dignity of British royalty. BURIAL IN A UNIQUE COFFIN. It !b Covered All Over with Serpents, Owl?, Wilmington, Mass., Nov. 8.?Dr. Henry Hillcr died Monday evening, and will be buried Sunday in a singularly unique and expensive coffin. Mrs. Dr. Hiller conceived the idea some years ago of prepariug burial caskets for herself and her bus baud, which would not only rob the grave of its victory, but would express by their carv< d symbology the thought that life and death aie one and the same in nature's grand economy. Two vines creeping up from the foot of the lid meet about a'human skull carved from nature. Out of the skull's left eyesocket creeps a lizard, giving the death's head a most ghastly appearence. A caterpillar crawls along the rim around the emblem of death, but round about are daisies, and roses and a butterfly, while in the bottom of the vine is a bird. Above the plate and directly over the place where the heart of the deceased wili be are branches of English and American oak intertwined. In place of a glass cover at the head there is a brass plate, cast and engraved representing the river of death and the angel of death leading a maiden down through the reeds and grasses into Lethe's waters. In the horizon the sun is just, sinking from sight. Below the river are engraved the words, "Henry Hiller." In each lower corner is a stanza of poetry composed by Mrs. Dr. Hiller. The paneled sides of the lid are wrought no less beautifully than the top. Iu the centre of one side is a globe of wings, representing time; on the other is a burning urn, a symbol of death. On one of the end panels of the lid an owl?the bird of the night? holds a field mouse tightly in its claws; on the other end panel are a bat and two serpents. All the panels of the lid have foliage and flowers, maple branches entwined with morning-glories and other symbols of nature's beautiful side, but mingled with I - ri_?J Uieui aic suaiis auu oc: puuts auu pers, a marsh fly and horrible dragons with ghastly grinning faces. A FIGHT FOR FORT HILL. The Great-Granddaughter of Calhoun Puts in a Claim for the Clemson Bequest. Within the next ten days?at least before the assembling of the Legislature?papers will be filed and served, on behalf of Miss Isabella Lee, the great-granddaughter of John C. Calhoun and the granddaughter of Thomas G. Clemson, to recover Fort Hill?that bone of contention that proved an issue in the nomination for members of the General Assembly. It will be remembered that the late Mr. Clemson left the property to the State for the purpose of establishing an agricultural college. Miss Lee, however, claims the property, she being the direct lineal descendant of John C. Calboun, and also because Mrs. Clcmson, lier grandmother, iD devising the property to her husband, did not executc the power contained in the will of her mother, Mrs. John C. Calhoun. The proceeding will be in the form of an action to set aside the will, or at least so much of it as devises the Fort Hill place and other property to the State for the purposes of an agricultural college. It is generally presumed that, pending these proceedings, the Legislature will take no action in the premises. A Murderer Arrest?*!. John Hardin, a Beech Island negro, who in June, 1873, killed his cousin, Elbert Hardin, first by shooting him down and afterwards braning him with a club in h most brutal manner, was arrested on the first day of November at Lee&burg, Lake Count}'. Florida, by Sheriff John P. Galloway. Sheriff Holley has known of Har| den's whereabouts for several months, and V>oo ooon in Tjpifh tVtA "Plnri. UOO ' " vuw A ?w?i da Sheriff, but owiDg to the prevalence of ; yellow fever in that country, h" deemed it 1 advisable to wait until it was s?ie to order his arrest. A short while ago he forwarded the necessary papers, and on Thursday last he received a telegram notifying him of Hardin's arrest. Deputy Luther Holley 1 went down last week for the prisoner and 1 returned with him Monday night, and * lodged him in jail at this place. Hardin was going by the name of John Bates.? 1 Aiken Journal. 1 A r? VlAi\f(AT) Tkv VTnvrlar G Ravenna, Spartaxbuko Co., Nov. 7. ?A negro named DajwLinder was shot and . killed in a gambling row at Gaffney City ? yesterday. There/frere some half dozen or ? more negroes engaged in the game, when a dispute arose over a bet, with the above ? result. I have'no information as to who ?r**i-the shot, / Five negroes of the party Qave oeen arrested, and will appear before ne coronp?-'? 4nrv to-dav. P ??-? ri nveth a cheerful lover," c Wilker. "No, that isn't D d; "but yet it has a pleas- g d i A SERENADE. Cqpio out to the sido of the sea, aiy love, Cooic out to the side of the sea; Tfio sun is set, sua toe stars are met. And iho winds and tho waves agree; But the star so bright nor wave so light Brings pleasure or peace to ce. 0 come, for I sit and wait, alone, On the rocks by the side of the sea! 1 amjjolng down in my memory to the blessed long ago, When die rolden ground of the buttercups Was dashed with the daisies' snow. And I'm thinking of all you said to me. And if it were true or no, While I watch the tide as it runs away ' From the beach so black and low. If I should die. my love, my sweet, Die of your smile forlorn, Bury me here by the side of the sea, Where all my joy was bom. Where the waves shall make my lullaby, And the winds from night to morn shun say to W6 roCKS, "ne Juas goce oo sieep Where all liis joy was born." ?Alice Cary. Ashes of the Dead. I have a German friend, an artist, whose father was for many years one of the best known professors of his specialty in this city. He had a shop in a central district and sold pliilosophical instruments of a special class, in whose construction and application he was an expert. He died a couple of years ago. I recently called on my friend and spent the evening with him and his widowed mother. A portion of our conversation turned upon the dead professor, and several times I noticed that the widow or the son in alluding to "papa,1' as they called him, with tender affection, motioned toward a simple terra cotta urn, looked behind the glass door of a handsome cabinet in the corner of the wall. I learned later that the urn held the ashes of the dead man, who had been cremated by his own request, and that it was the intention of the mother to have her own ashes mingled with his when the time should come, and both buried together. ?Alfred Trumble in Pittsburg Bulletin. Millions of Wooden Toothpicks. The American is a great consumer of toothpicks. He not only picks his teeth in private, but he does it in public, and perhaps finishes by chewing up the wooden implement. To supply the millions of toothpicks used every year, ingenious machines of great productive power have been invented. Like all other businesses, the toothpick business has its combination, but a Maine inventor has set out to break it with a machine that makes 6,000,000 picks a day. And he is making a new machine that will produce 72,000,000 a day. Green, clear, straight grained birch and maple wood is used, and after steaming for several hours it is easily cut into veneers, or thin strips of wood with the grain running across. These veneers are pliable and wound up on large spools, 100 feet on each, and from the spools they are fed into the pick machine, which cuts them into picks with wonderful rapidity. ?Good Housekeeping. Mcutal and Bodily Overwork. The London Lancet ears that mental and bodily overwork is the most general Af llloOOQ tuiu Clio JCOOl VAtVA ivyi.A_i_k VI uiuvtAi *** this age. Its treatment requires that due attention be paid to the two great essentials of timely rest and wholesome diet A man, saya The Lancet, may work on a liberal scale, provided he will interrupt its continuity by timely and adequate intervals of rest, and will eat heartily of plain food. So long as appetite and sleep are unimpaired, there is little danger of overwork, but the failure of either is nature's warning signal that the strain must be relieved.?Youth's Companion. Preservation of Meat by Sujrar. It results from a special report made to the French minister of agriculture that sugar is an excellent agent for preserving meat, and possesses some advantage ovei ^ ^ -1 1-- - a.1 -A sail, in iact, sail ausoros a poruon m the nutritive substances and of the flavor of meat. When an analysis is made of a solution of the salt dissolved by water contained in meat, we find albuminoid bodies, extractive substances, potassa and phosphoric acid. Salt deprives meat of these substances so much the more readily in proportion as it enters the tissues more deeply or acts for a longer time. It then results that the meat, when taken from the saline solution, has lost nutritive elements of genuine importance. Powdered sugar, on the contrary, being less soluble, produces less liquid. It forms around the meat a solid crust, which removes very little water from it and does not alter its taste. Thu3 preserved, it suffices to immerse the meat in water before using it. Although this treatment costs a -little more than preservation by salt, account must be taken of the final result and of the loss prevented, which offsets the difference in cost between the two preservative agents. We think that navigators might profit by this.?Revue Generale de la Marin# Marchande. Where Quinine Comes From. The mountains of Peru constitute whal might be appropriately called '-Quinine land." There the cinchona reaches per* fection when it is not disturbed by the axes of the cascariUeros or bark searchers, and there the rich lanceolate loaves of the healing tree reflect the golden beams of a tropical sun. Almost constantly expeditions leave Cuzco and other Peruvian cities in search of the cinchona tree. Tha most of these are conducted witn greai secresy, for the discovery of a good group of cinchonas is sure to make the fortune of the leader of the party. Rival discoverers watch one another like hawks. They try to bribe the sepia colored cascarilleros who have sold their services to others, and very often Peruvian gold brings a whole season's preparations and toil to naught.?Pliiladelpliia Times. The First Volunteer. It la not generallv known, even in South Carolina, that Gen. Bonham was the first South Carolinian who volunteered into the Confederate service, and the second Brigadier'General appointed in the army, Gen. Beauregard being the first. Immediately upon Gen. Bonham resigning his State commission as Major General, Col. James N. Lipscomb resigned his State staff commission as Lieutenant Colonel and entered the Confederate service as first lieutenant of cavalry on staff duty, thus being the second South Carolinian to enlist in the regular army, and went to Virginia with Gen. Bonham. /i 1 i ii... i. i _ r uuveniur riciieus uicicrwi LIJI: I;;U;UH;C <11 the Slate staff to go to Virginia under their Stale commissions for temporary duty under Gen. Bonharn and his entire staff, with six companies under command of Col. Maxoy Gregg, were the first to arrive at Manassas Junction, where they met the Virginia State troops retiring from Alexandria. In this almost accidental way was the first camp at Manassas formed.? Hampton Guardian. A Democratic Horse, The Enterprise Railway Company has a aorte running in its cars that has been used :or several years, and has always been conlidered a most exemplary animal. On j Wednesday, however, when the bulletins j ndicated defeat for the Democracy, the i lorse began to grow a little fractious, and ] ra Thursday when the election of Harri- < :nn w?q nneil iu^lv annnnnfw! fh<* Imrco rent out ou a strike, and Las since refused o pull the cars despite the alternate coaxag and blows of which he has been the re- i ipient. He absolutely refuses to work i inder the new government, and the com- s any will have to sell him if they can find , buyer.?Charleston World. 3 A reporter, in an article on the destitute oor, spoke of the great number of persons t educed to poverty by the "mysterious de- 4 rees of Providence." His astonishment i lay be imagined when he saw the intelli- c ent printer baa altered it to "mysterious t screaae of provisions." ' y THE RAZOR CLAM. A Peculiar Bivalve Which Looks Like > snaving implement. Catching the razor clam is furnishing an abundance of novel and exciting sport to those who still linger in (roosellocks, the secluded resort a few miles below BiddLeford which Mme. Rhea blessed with her presence a couple of seasons ago, and thereby became a worshiped divinity in the eyes of the rough and warm-hearted people of this section who go down to the sea in ships. Do you know what the razor is? No? Well, it is nothing like an ordinary clam that finds its way into our stews and boils and bakes; on the contrary, it is as different as black is Irom wmte. ine razor ciam cioseiy resembles the handle of a razor in shape and general appearance, and from that fact it got its name. It is found in but few places on the Maine coast, Goose Rocks being the only spot in the vicinity, and at only certain seasons. The razor clam is black in color and is cunning as a iox, ana ij> tattee patience and a quick hand to catch one. This peculiar species of the bivalve la a good deal like the Irishman's flea, and many a man who has gone out to capture the sagacious little fellow has made the disappointing discovery that when he thought he had him he was not there. The razor clam, in its season, is to be found with about half an inch of his shell showing above the sand, and at such time a stretch of beach looks much like a cornfield in the fall of the year after the harvesters have gone j over it. A footfall upon the sand in their vicinity will occasion a sudden disappearance of the whole army, and sometimes a whole hour will elapse before there will be a reappearance. First one little bit of black shell will pop up through the sand, then another and another, and so on until the beach again bristles with them. In catching the razor clam one has to exercise the utmost caution. It is necessary to creep on the beach on hands and * 1 * i.t Knees, ana wnen near enuug^a w uie little black object to seize it with a firm grip and hold on for dear life. The razor clam is muscular, and if the hunter relaxes his hold an iota he is sure to lose his game, which slips from his band and goes into the sand like a flash of lightning, never to be recovered by any amount of digging. In this respect the razor clam differs from his sluggish relative, for he is an adept at digging himself, and when pursued with the aid of a shovel or clam-rake he works his way through the sand with surprising rapidity and is soon beyond reach. It is these characteristics that renders the sport of catching the razor clam intensely exciting and much sought after. It is a laughable sight of a warm afternoon, when the razor clam is abroad, to see t>. beach at the dnr\aa nlivA with mfill snlemnlv and cautiously creeping: along on their hands and knees, suddenly making a dive at a bit of black shell showing above the sand and holding it and tuging away for dear life, and then, after an earnest exertion and the exercise of no little strength, pulling a six-inoh black object out of the mud.?Lewiston (Me.) Journal. M E MORY 3F INSECTS. * A Well-Authenticated Case Reported by a Noted Naturalist. A valuable contribution to natural science has been made by Prof. Edward Hoffer, in the discovery of a remarkable power of memory in the bumblebee. The little creature has evidently a strong sense of locality, comparable to that of the carrier-pigeon. The professor removed a nest con taining numerous bumblebees (Bombus terrestris) from its original location, and carried it to his residence, about three miles distant He further carefully watched the place for some time, after having captured all the bees who had flown to the defense of the nest, and secured, it was believed, the entire colony. These he imprisoned for several hours in a wide-mouthed bottle, and safely reunited them in their new home. At his house he placed J the nest, with its inhabitants, near a window, and after the latter had been quieted, made a small entrance. Immediately the bees began to fly out, and in doing so must have observed their surroundings, for in a short time they one by one returned. The following night, however, there was a severe storm; aud while the in habitants of other colonies of bees near it, that had become accustomed to their surroundings, were not in the least troubled, these bees escaped and hid themselves somewhere without during the storm. Upon searching for them early the next morning, the queen was found dead upon the ground, while fifty or sixty of the workers were seen flying about the house. From time to time one or another? probably those which had flown out of the entrance the day before?found the opening and returned into the nests; while the remainder, after flying about for several hours, gradually disappeared till not one was left. As it was supposed that they had in all probability returned to their previous nest, ine piace was vjsixea in tne aiiernoon, where at least fifty of them were found. They had thus, it will be seen, distinctly remembered it, and after they had sought in vain to find entrance to their new home, they had depended on their wonderful sense of locality and returned thither.?Chicago Advance. -? 4. m ?If we could all see ourselves as others see us most of us would hardly see ourselves at all.?Journal of Education. ^ The guests of a hotel at Astoria, Oregon, can fish from their bedroom windows and haul in their rations from the surging waters about the hotel's foundation. Tom?Do you know, Jack, that a woodpecker reminds me of my tailor? JackWhy? "Because he bores so with his bill." Says an exchange: "Venus rose from the sea to allow the hired girl to make the bed of the ocean." 0 no. She rose from the sea to meet the swell of the ocean. A cooking school lecturer has bravely attacked the custom of the multiplying of Little dishes upon the table. She says that the greatest need of the American table is not variety, but variation; variety in food loes not necessarily preclude a certain imount of routine. Let no lady make tne mistake ot giving , iway one bit of jet ripping up a jet orna: | \ nent. Jet is high style?never was more ' 10?and will sparkle all over the finest , ivening dresses of black net and gauze, it will also be worn in classic bands in ihe ] lair, particularly by blondes. J "Did you ever meet Miss Ruggles's fa her?" said one travelling man to another r 'Yes, once or twice." "Pretty old mac, ' sn't he?" "Not so very; at any rate, he is [uite young enough to trip the light fantas- 8 ic toe." ''The light fantastic toe?"-" Yes, rith me on the end of it." DISPLACING NEGRO L\BOR. Germans WorkiDg on the Lonalana Plantations. Some remarkable changes in the labor system of Loasiana are tasing piace. Agent Becker, of the German Society, states that he had, during October, sent over a thousand German laborers to the sugar plantations. All these have been sent to the upper coast, the work at Lafourche and the Teche being on the lower coast, on what is called the Orange Belt, begins iully a month later. Mr. Kernochan, has, however, already received twenty-five and Governor Warmoth forty, who are asked for to plant cane. In about a week the for warding of laborers will begin for that section, where several hundred more will be required, which Mr Becker expects to be able to supply. Governor Warmoth alone will hire more than one hundred. The agents, observations show that German labor is steadily growing in favor, as well as in importance, both in the cultivation and manufacture of sugar, and will soon prove a formidable eom LZJ~ ? ^ """" loK/vi. QC <rrr?*l+.iT7 firir>f?rior ^euwr WJliCgluiaiA/i, t.u ?r in efficiency and rd "ability. Tfce decay of the negro plantation labor is marked. In 1863 nine tenths of the plantation bands were colored; in 1878 eight-tenths, and this year the figure is reduced to seven-tenths, with a prospect of a much more rapid redaction in the next few few years. The secret of success in sugar raising is shown to be in small farms and white labor. As a rule the few settlers coming here from New England and the West, of which several hundred families have come in the past two years, will not employ negroes as field hands at all. One white man in the field is worth two negroes. Meantime the negroes have almost monopolized the freight hand business of the cities and landings. As steamboat roustabouts they are always in demand at from $50 to 875 per month and sauce on their ort +ll OM io T>rt thflV will starve. There is more to be made in the long run by taking ploughshares In the open field than by taking chances in a lottery. HELP I FOR THE SUFFERING. How often a home is made sad by the suffering of some member of the family. How keenly the gcod wife sympathizes with her invalid husband, how greatly the kind husband hopes for his sick wife's recovery. Blessed be the men that furnish sick and aching humanity with a remedy that brings sure relief. Isaac H. Otlaw, Mt. Olive, X. C. writes: " I was troubled with skin disease and was broken out in running sores. I had been afflicted for ten years 9KTN DTSFA^F^ ^ usualIy got worse OiUtt LUOilAOro in hot months. Eight months ago I got a bottle B. B. B. at John R. Smith's drug store at Mt. Olive, and it has entirely cured mc, and I have had no symptoms of the disease since." Kennesaw, Ga^ Sept. 11,1SS7. Blood Balm Company. My Dear Sirs: 1 take great pleasure in acknowledging the great benefit my wife has derived from your great and wonderful medicine, B. B. B. For two years she was a great suffer from Scrofula or some blood disease which had lain dormant all her life; we had attenQP D ni?TT r . tion from some of the most skiliuLKUr U LA fuj physicians in the country but ail 10 no eneci ?iiui we uau ?ui u?(mucu w ua recovering Her mouth was a solid ulcer and for two months or more her body was broken out with sores until she lost a beautiful head of hair, also her eye-lashes and eye-brows. In fact she seemed to be a complete wreck. Now comes the great secret which I want all the world to know, and that is that three bottles of Blood Balm medicine has done the work,which would^SPSLd incredible to any one ~hcdid not know it to be so. To day my wife is perfectly healthy and clear from any scrofulous taint, and she now has a three months old babe also perfectly healthly. Very Respectfully, H. L. Cassidv. Ey If the reader will fend to the Blood Balm Co' Atlanta, Ga., for their illustrated "Book of Wonrlers." it will Drove of further interest (1) PRIVATE BOARD, Permanent and Transient j H. E. Corner Wworth ? glebe Sis,, . CHARLESTON, S. C. Honae recently furnished throughout Location especially convenient?street stova r?oooin/* orrAvtr miTintnc in frnrj of the door. Terns moderate. Mrs. E. E. HASELL, Miss S. S. EDWARDS. THE SALE OF Barrett's Tonic. Decided by United States and State Courts to be no violation of the law. BARRETT'S TONIC, BEST MEDICINE, BEST SELLER, LARGEST PROFITS. Write G. BARRETT & CO., Augusta, Ga., for prices and merits. Over 20,000 bottles of BARRETT'S TONIC sold last year on its merits. SHI Dazwer of life fc Mother SeCJiilaT , Z=ZZZIZ=ZZZI= 1 CHARLOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. \ "N>\ TnofitnfA frtr Ynnnu T.?^iao in tin* South has advantages superior to those offered here in every department?Collegiate, Art and Music. Only experienced and accomplished Teachers engaged. The building is lighted -with Gas, warmed with the best wrought-iron Furnaces, and a Hot Water Heater, has Hot and Cola t Water Baths, and first-class appointments ao a Boarding School in every respect?no School in the South has mperior. 1 FALL SESSION BEGINS SEP- c CEMBER 5,1888. For Catalogue, with full particulars, I ddresa Bev. Wm. E. ATKINSON, 81 Charlotte, N. 0. ' L-^L -Xj I OPPORTUNITY! KOHU", FUECHGOTT & CO., of Charleston, s. u? win, during the Gala Week, offer the Greatest Inducements in their line o goods, such as CARPETS, DRY GOODS, SHOES, MILLINERY, &c. An Invitation is extended to all. YOITB VISIT TO CHAELESTOH rmRTva GALA WEEK, Or any other time, will be incomplete without a visit to Welch & Eason's Mon m jsawm, 185 & 187 Meeting and 117 Market Streets r 31 I It is literally full to overflowing with ( the good things of life, and yon will have < i \ % lived to no purpose if you fail to call j and see the immense variety of j "jlf Fine Groceries for Family Usej^Jj kept by this Firm. Being Headquarters for everything in their line, they can certainly save you mon^v on vonr Durchases. No charge for packing or drayage. Country orders are our specialty. Send for Monthly Price List. C. BART & CO., H J % ^ : 1 CHARLESTON, S. C., I Ihe largest Importer of Foreign Fruits % I in the South, offer for sale a well lected stock of j APPLES, I ORANGES, . BANANAS, nonnANnm LEMONS, NUTS, DBIED FIGS, RAISINS, POTATOES, CABBAGES, ONIONS, : j And everything else that a first olaas \ " Wholesale Fruit House should have. Country orders filled with dispatch. ; 1SSS-SJSAS0JN? 1SS9. j m wtLcoi im mm to, j No. 138 East Bay St., No. 148 Bay Htreel, H Cbarlriton, 8. C. Sarannab, Ga. , S V'lH Jbufattare the Following High Grade Ifrifes Track Farmers' Special Guano. Doubly Ammoniated Truck Farm- JM ' era' Special Guano. fl Wilcox, Gribbs & Co.'a Manipulated Guano. 9 Excellent Georgia Standard Guano. Wilcox, Gibbs & Co.'s Sanerpho3^ phate. Orange Growers' Special Guano. Orange Growers' Own Guano. Pure Animal Bone Meal. Pare Animal Bone Meal and Potash. Bone Phosphate of Lime and Potash. Ammoniated Bone Phosphate and! Potash. Ash Element nr;?A J.fcUJO JIUIUIC. And are importers and dealers in the following Materials and Chemicals: Pare Acid Phosphate. Nova Scotia Land Plaster. Pare Dissolved Animal Bone. Pare Pernviai Gaano. Nitrate of Soda. ^ Muriate Potasfc. Sulphate of Ammonia. Dried Blood. German Kainit Fish Scrap, Cotton Seed Meal, &c. 4 11 -C ?T-I-T- --- * - - - .tiaj 01 wuicu are sold, at low prices for cash. ORDERS PROMPTLY ATTENDED TO. Address The Wilcox & Gibbs Guano Co CHARLESTON. fe. C. ' PITTS CARMINATIVE J r FOK WFAKTS AND / / TEETHING CHIL DRTCW An instant relief for colic of infanta. ' Cures Dysentery, Diarrhoea, Cholera Infantum or any diseases of the stomach ind bowels. Makes the critical period }f Teething safe and easy. Is a safe and pleasant tonic. For sale by all druggists, md for wholesale by Howard, Wnaas k Co., Augusta, Ga PRIVATE BOARD. Visitors to Columbia will find it to heir advantage to stop at the "WILLIAMS HOUSE," forth west Corner Plain and Sumter streets. Transient board a specialty. louse open all hours day and night to --zi nit incoming trains. MBS. WINTJSEOP WILLIAMS.