Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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THE WISE MAN'S ALMANAC. They nin't no aense, [ kin op~ nu mortals. secit es you tn' te. A-fnulting Nui' tt"nls," An' ocklin' hto OVlti(Ee. it ain't nn (84c o auus ' -tt/ i It's jest tNs Isy to rejoice; %When God or 'atiel"tin' sds rain Why, rain's' a .-,luns Whi' In 'l'echttir.1I World ti ttag:l: ~Haai uiad His Garden n . 0 By ELIZABETH WI( r. 1-IHs name was Hadji a d his fate was brown and withered like an old apple. He cane from .Java, where all k'buns. came from. lit that was lon,g ago-longer, in fact, than he could re member. lie appeared one morning at the doer with a handful of letters, so soiled and tattered that it was difileult to read them. They were from people in Perak and Selangor, and one was from Malacca. They all said that the bearer, Hadji, had a great. knowledge of gardening and was a faithful work er. The letter from Malacca added that he had a most cheerful disposi tion. if We engaged him on the spot and you might say he melted into his sur roundings. He had a curious way of seeming to belong to the outdoor world. He wore an old sarong that. was any color originally, but the sun and rain had faded it to a sort of earth color. His hat was wide and sun bleached, and looked like a hute mush.room. Altogether he made one think of a great toad or some slow moving earth creature drowsing about the garden. He had little to say, but was always ready with a smile-the kindliest, gentlest sort of smile, that made his face wonderfully sweet. It had a curious way, too, of deepening all the lines in his face. And one feil that he must have smiled all his life, for these lines were very deep. You always found yourself smiling back quite unConsciously--but somehow you could not help it. He was true to hi and proved a tireless wo . of course is most unusut Lvan ese or for any of th rlii pelago people. lut h . love the hot sun and the et that came out of it. He had a way, to( iging At things out of the eartl mar velous. His seeds se. rout almost before they were in the ground, and in an incredibly short time were cutting their teeth in rows of tiny green points. Every day be watered them, and while they were young kept them shaded with a thatching of palm leaves. Otherwise the sun would have scorched them in no time. The first thing you knew these tiny shoots were inches high, with leaves ,unfolding as you looked. They grewv so fast that. the earth about them seemedl breaking, andI any (lay you ex pectedi to see them leap otut of the groundl with their roots after them. Soon they would ipress with their heads against the thatching. a,nd some would ptush th1rough thue cracks. Trhen Hji knew they were strong enough tface the sun and took away thle p)alm It{ as the samne story with every thing lhe touchled. He p)ressed andi pat ted a slip into the ground-and it was a bush with birds nesting in its branch Cs. He planted a r'ow of barren stumps-andI with the speedt of Aaron's Srod they put forth leaves and became trees. His vines reachued out a hun11 dIred hands anad pul1led after t hem great t rains of green. lie grafted a bough of alamanduns, and it seemed no time before the great, limp, yellow v'el vet blossoms were tailing in the drive way. Our gardetn wats nev.er' ety wile 2. lHdji was there. When other gardens drew breath for a fresh blossomuing ours flamed suddenly with ma rigolds glorious, orange-healdedl ilowers, drunk( with sunshine and color1 andt giving a punlgent whiff of health to the heavy overscented air; or else a ring of sun floersblazed rounid abed of blossom Many pants cmefr m e jungom Poba the manaanienhar camero tilhej ' origilly.l Butan eea tigons and(1fu leg tintit en a diffeirenbt pwant af them. atz ere ast'l hultndres. antls aon the eanda and i r ed oncHadji bamook geat pansw thger and thlerad the d vean hs t re se fnat Tere swre e plants as usl t ph er Hdadj, togt painso waith and1 distinct as the ferns. In one cor - ner of t he verandla is a little group ofl tea roses. These Hamdji is wvarned not tonegleet. Int they do not floutrish. 7 o temperat Ic lower's seem to. Vie lets, of course, are out of the question. Once we . had some nasturtlum seeds sent from home, and some sweet peas. With fear and treomilina they were nlanted on the shady side of the bun galow, and were covered on all sides with a thatching of dead palh leaves. The seeds eame up in no time-the sweet peas first. They simply tore in to existence. They seemed to grow yards every day. It was a desperate race that they were in a hurry to bx' over with. They climbed over their sticks and grabbed at strings tied to the veranda. They grew long and thin and stringy and with a final ef fort reached the veranda railing and ended in thread-like tendrils. Then all together they turned yellow and lHadji had to take them up. The nast.trtinms did better. They, too, were not slow to leave the soil, and they grew amazingly. But they took time to put out numberless tiny round leaves, intuch smaller than nor nal nasturtiums. Sone of them even tlwossmed--pale, puny flowers that withered up Immediately. ''his seem ed to take their final vitality. And in a short time they had followed the sweet peas. There were many things on the verandas and in the garden whose names none of us knew-c"uriously tan gled vines with small, brilliant flow ers, and plants with vivid, odd-shape'd leaves, and shrubs unlike anything we had ever seen. Strangely enough, Hadji was igno rant, not only of the names of these plants, but of nearly everything that grew in the garden. Yet he knew the habits of all these plants, what soil was best for them. how much or how little sun they would stand. There was little system about onr garden. Things grew any way and anywhere, and doubtless seened to l:assers-by a sort. of wilderness. But liad.ii had a great respect for life, and we had a great respect for Hadji, so things grew as they pleased. Before we came someone had plant ed In the four corners of the garden four filames-of-the-forest. They were huge trees with great red flowers gleaming through them. These flow ers had little scent and looked ilk? bits of tissue-paper. It was the same with many of our plants and flowers. They grew because they could not help themselves. and they ended in a blast of color that was not fragrant. or deliente, or very nice to look at--a sort of extra btirst of energy on na ture's part. There were palms scattered every where--sago-palms, cocoanuts and one ugly traveller's-palm that flared out like a fan. Some of the sticks of this were always getting rusty and hanging down, and making its corner look un tidy. Behind the house were some areca-palms, the betelnut sort, tall, thin-bodied trees with a top-knot of leaves and a noisy habit of dropping ntts at. night. There was another palm, too. We could never find out what kind it was. It was almost hidden under a vine that draped it like a sort of petti coat( below and tight about the top like an old-fashioned basque. There was another palm close beside it, growing out of the mass of green, shaped like a parasol. At a dlistance this looked for' all the wvorld like a woman trailing across the lawn. We wer'e shut off fromi the r'oadl, and the herds goinhg to graz/e, and( the rest of the world, by a high batmboo hedge. It w;as very old and v'ery thick, and h1dt been I ritnmed a nd cut yesars before we l ivedt behind it. Once a monthl H adjli brought two other' k 'buns to help1 ('liIp it. Thiey' hacked away at. the loo.se spr'ays withi murdi'(er'ous-lOOkling kn ives wvi t 'uved blades and heavy handIes. Tihese men kept thle grass sho rut, anmd brtotught downi t heirt si'k 's so slowvly anud c'ar'efuilly I hft it was always a surpr)iise to see tihe grass fail. One miorninig HIadji didm not comn'' 'This had never' happened before, and we sent to thle village, Ha dji was het'e amnd, as we had e'at'ed, very Ill. li wvotuld not let. us get a doctor; lhe ~ n 1ud10 no tuch med icinae of any sort. IHI was er'y quiet. about it, ver'y gen Ie. Iit lie refused absolutely to (d0 anything rot' himself, lie knew he was (lying-lhe said so,-bt. lhe wast meadiy to dije. IHe was atn 01(1 man, he s:t hi, antd hiis wor'k was finished. Two da3 s after I heard'( a strange I'mrmlmig and1( hei'i ng (if gongs ('Oml Iing~ dlown the r'oad., I could see a stragglIng crowd of peoplel-somel Ma lay, thle k'btuns, ourt house 1)eon and a hiandIful of Chinese, They wer'e sing tng a shrill sort of chant and scatter ing papers along the road. Fouri great fellows sti'ode ahead with a butrdeni on heiri shoulders. Behind themn came two Malaya with a gong, Tlhen I got a whilT or incense--and they passed on down the r'oadl. For a long time' I catught broken sniat('hes of sound and tihe booming of the gong. Then it all died away andt the garden stret('hing about mae seemled suddenly grown empty and dles olate. --Yoth's Companion., The Weatherwise Brother, ''iHow (does you lIke d1i. warmii wveat,her ini November?'' "H it's a dispenlsary' er Providence," rep)led Br'r Williams. "Arn' what's a 'dispensar'y'?" "'Dat's what you ain't ter' know. YOU mustt iniiqtire too cui'ious into milsereants you dlon't onidorstan!' ".. Atlanta Cotnstittution. Ur Dreams. ! uel 'I:: ar(" r1t:tmi of r' stu nehss; Thoi t ng Qest 1., a 'l :1 al e:, . I S 'S l'act. I l :Imil tI, way I go ' ." P . stil) or litay. I go t'ntil n y slci-ls t ckcl. Ionly w vishl f',r pe'acefulnes. A littlle Ltth of cresefulness I' loin this eterna grind; Ilut n1'venvwhore Is (Inieitnetss; here's always such a riotnt'es It Wc:trie's flesh and imind. Why isn't it that pOvierty Can haind nie beakers of lier tea As good as money seems, So in a cup of restfulness 1'd (frown this killing zestfulness And actualize mny dreams? -W. J. I.tmpton. A "Cate" Contest. The following contest was used re cently at an evening party and seemet to fill in the time in a most enjoya ble manner. For the benefit of those to whom it may be new it is printed in full. The hostess said she had a guest hearing a familiar name whom she would like to introduce, although she felt sure "she" was known to every one in one or more forms that. she was accustomed to assume. Then pro grams were passed hearing these sen tences. Squirrel Risks His Life. I have often wondered what passes through the minds of small creatures when they find themselves in strange places. This occurred to me very forcibly one day when I stood for half ai hour watching the antics of a gray squirrel that had tried to cross a road oil a two-inch cable, aid whose progress was not only blocked by the huge traveling steel bucket used to carry carth from an excava tion t0 Wagens, but whose life was threatened r('peatecdly when it. got in the buck(t's way. It was compelled to run at top speed every time the bucket caine toward it, but the mo ment. the latter began to ascend the cable, the squirrel, as cocky as ever, scrambled along behind.-Forest and Stream. How the Mink Hunts. If you follow a mink's track in the snow any winter day it will usually lead you before long to the mute story of a tragedy-just some trampled snow and a red stain, says Country Life in America. The whole method of the mink's hunting is told by the snow. We see how it follows a rabbit. taking every precaution not to betray its pres ence while the wretched creature feeds for then it is alert; how it follows bunny to where it sleeps beneath a log, an upturned root or the snow-covereil top of a fallen tree, and then stealth ily creeps on the unsuspecting prey. Sometimes the rustling of a dleadl leaf warns the rabbit, who leatps forward perhaps just in time to avoid a furious onslaught of the mink, though more ofteui too late, and the red stain tells its that the rabbit has been eaten where it expected to sleep. A Teacher Instructed. 1-Cate never tells the exact truth. P revarient e. 2-Cate Is frail and gentle. Delicate. 3-Cate kIdndly p)oints Out the way. IIndicate. 41-Cate has a twIn. Duplicnte. 5-Cate seizcs the property of others. Con fisca te. 6-Cate leads a cou nt ry life. Rlusti cate. 7--Ca'te binlgs t hiers' inlto trouble. 8-Cat e adds to thle di fliculty of many a cast'. Compliente. 9-Cat e takes leave. Vaa'at e. 10i--Cate makes things run smioolthly. Luhbrient ('. 11--Cate on occasion denies ('huar-h i )1vileges. ICxcommuinientec. 1 2-Cate settleIs on a lart icular u spot. I otate. I13-C-at e is an elou ent 1)leader'. .\A 14-Cate imparts miuchi Informaliton. Commiuniente. 15-C'ate offers a perplexing prIobl+-m. intricate. I16-Cate dleveloips mental andl phyvsi cal powers. 1(dulcate. 17-Cate has an influence for t Intoxicate. 18-Cate0 belIeves In home life. Ho I19-Cate will (lie if dleprive(d of . Suffocate. -Philadelphia Record. I Massasoft, Tihatt t here hanve been great town among the American IndIians noom Iwho has carefully readl their staor will (Iciy. Among the children of the to. there were' some mighty spir great in native intelligence, great in courage, great in exeutivo abi lit v. and, better still, great In all the el' mentIs of moral integrity. ''The first Indians that the New i:n land settlers came in conina ,.j h were the Wampanoags, whose hunt ing grounds lay between Narragansett and Cape Cod bays. The head sachem of the Wampano ags in 1620 was Massasoit, a mhan whose heart was as white and sont as noble as those of any white manl. The Piligrim:s had been upon the New England coast but at few mont its when t.he Wampanoag chief, attended by an eacort of his painted warrior, iade i visit to the white people, v%itih overtures of kindness and good will. Forttnately for all concerned Govern or Bradford treated the "savaee" as a "man and brolher," rather than as a wild beast, and it took them but a little while to draw up and ratify an offensive and defensive alliance he tween "King" AItlssasoit and King James. After smoking the pipe of peace and exchanging the heartiest of congrattt lattions upon the friendly compact made between them, the white men re sumed their digging and building, and the red men, in single file, marched away again into the wilderness. For half a cenltury that compact was sacredly kept on both sides. The white men were faithful to their prom ises, and, fully appreciating honesty and fair dealing. Massasoit remained true to his solemn agreement. This "savage' chief u1111st have been as diplomatic as he was staunch, as wise as he was good and true, to have eld his wild barbarians fast to that treaty for fifty years: It was a tre mendols task, but he did it. Not once did the forest king swerve from the path he had protnisel his pale face brother to walk in; and when the hour came in which he heard the "Great Spirit" calling hint to the happy hunt ing ground" lhe could depart knowing that no white m.an was able to say that he had broken his word. "'There is no good Indian but the dead Indian," we used to say--and some of us are saying It yet. But, the story of Massasoit gives the lie to the miserable saying. The grand old chief was t saatige only in name. Iiis heart was t(nider and true; his muau hood was a heart of oak.--3y the Rev. Thomas B. (lregory in the New York American. The Bird Was a Prisoner. Robert was ill. lie had foun that. wet feet solet:iles bring uneXpected consequences. This time he had walked through t gutters on his way to school, and then sat all the afternoon in wet shoes, and so instead of going to grandmta's for a visit he went to bed. The day had been quite tedious, and when he began to sit up there was not. much that amused him. Mamula drew his couch up by the window that he might look out and see the boys going by to school. As lie sat there he saw a bird fluttering about the gutter that ran by the bay window. The )ird had begun some time ago to make the journey South, and so ie was surlprised that this nest was not vacant. lie watched the bird, and saw that he carri(d something in his miouthi each timer. It was first a worm, thn a bit of bread-crumb from .the dooryard(. Robert ('nlled hiis mlothler to comie andc see the litt le feilowv, wVorkling away So) happily3 and1( brisk;ly. M amm 111was a1s surp'rised ts. ltobet, anld a fter studying the bird's coinugs and go inigs for a wilIe she co deidd Io callI tile gardener and havye him11 Invest igat e [lie matter'. The man put. a ladder against51 the window and went up to the nest. Mammna had wvrap)pedl ai laneti about Robert, andc now she openled thle win dow that lie might see' what theo "ar dener' had1( found. In someC strage way tile b)ird's maoti had become enltangledl in a strllig lilal had unIwoundl( from tile nest and wii:l had been p)art of its foundatIon, anc was so tied by3 thie leg that. it wa: Impossible to get away. She had pick ed at the string and made iior lei sore, bult thle knot was too strong for her'. The gardener gently took nuj thle nest ini hIs hand and b)roughlt ii downi Onl a level with Robert, and then bleganl to unwlind [lie threads that, hld t he b)ird( a1 lrisonier. Her' mate flash (e1 back and forth, but did( not act dhismlayedl. iIe even seemned to know~ that11. he01)lp ad comle. It took but a few mlinutes to free thle tanigle, and then the man car'ried t he niest biack. Hardly had lie done so when away flew the bird, andl tile first pla1ce she touched was tile little pond in the garden, for she had been wvith out wvator so long. She circled about thle water', tatking a dip now and then, Presontly the mate sailed by, and together, like t wo chiildreon they set off Over the hills aiid alway towvard the SouIth. "*I ami sor'ry I dlisobeyed mamInma about the gutters," said RObert, as hie wvatched tIle paIr nall awvay, "but if I had not been sick wVo should( not have'( known aiboult the b)ird, no there was somel good come outo f it.I wond(e(r if they will conic back again In t he spiring ?"' 1l neve knew whiethler' Ihey did( or not, buit hle tIed to make hirmself tink that thle b)irdsi which came to tohenst ini lie gutter' were the same. Perhapsl)) they were, for as lie wvatchedi them11 111ey seemied to be hlappy in the ohA nest.- -Y~othsi Comnanton ODD THINGS SENT BY EXPRESS. First and Last the Companies Get About Everything Imaginable. "Dogs by express," said th' tray Pi(r, "are no!) un1COm shi mlllettS. There are dog crates tinth't nowadays especially lesignledt for suect uses. wN ithi places in theml for food and drinl; tn route. "ECxpress co:lllanlits o0ccslonally g-t 511al(( tS ()Carry, and b)Iid . F'irst. and1t last tihey get, besides tihe in1uttter :lblt. i1)'re familiar pa:ckcatges and b)tx E'. al}t manner of things. including live' silo: of wh!ilh I knew as well as ai)ho(ly E !se, and still it did sur' me a i! t.le wlhen I saw going i aio i au t ;)res. wagon liere in oNew Yok a whic ago a calf in :a crate. "'TIhe rx11tts t:mu had eotaiderate!v put this (rate wit.h the calf in it at onte Side of the wagon and at the rear, wlere air wouid come to it on two sides. hut there was the usual niscellaneous assoitment of stuff packed around the cral(' and covering tho top of it. The wagon was packed full and the calf in the crate was to the expressman evidently just one Item In the load, thotgh the load did look strange to me going down the street with that calf looking out through the slats of Its crate at the back. And I didn't think I was likely very soon to see another live calf car ried by expreSs. "But I did see another one, similarly crated tp, one day last week in the Albany railroad station, standing there in its crate on a plat form truck. just cotie off a car, or waiting to go aboard of one; and somebody, the express folks I suppose. :ad provided for it a bunch of hay laid down on the Itck, from which the calf, with its head oul through the slats of the crate, was feeding. "So now I feel that I am beginning to get somewhat familiar with the sight of calves in -rates ship)ped h express, and I ila'e say Ithey dot't sietu strange at all to exprossmen. I intagine that, at any big ofilc', if a man should walk in any day leading a camel, sa, or a gira f, to go to Kal auazoo CIr Kankaikev or aily other 111ace On the mtap the mau on the desk woutl write a rcei pt for it (uit(, as ia fliatter 'of course, and then cnsually look lip and say: 'Value? and putl. that down, and thien just have S0111e body lead the beast to the car. "Vor i fatic ; t here couid be non shipmcnt offer(...1 that would faze tih' expressman.''-New York Sun. Automobile Comments. Derivation; from the Anglo-Saxon words, ought and to: combined with the Latin, mobills; meaning to be mob bed. 1. An automobille assumes the func tion of a horse and wagon--withoutO the horse. Like a wagon, it runs on four wheels -sonetimes on two;. when running onl on two it is not so safe as a wagon. Like a wagon, you can put anything in it., from a cabbage head to a inl lionaire. It is used for both purposes --judging from Its speed. IA wagoni runts over' peIople, an autO mtobile rutns over more, and hits themi hatrder'. A mann nmay be r'dn over sev eral timues in his life by a wagon, bhtt. nevri but once by an automobile. Like a wagon it has a eranik; a crank in a waigon is uisedI to die cr'ease Its sp)eed; a cranik in an .atuto miltlte Iicr'eases it. 2. 1 .i ke ai horse, it.n auttomlobile .oatsa but ntot Oiats. It costs to feed eilthe~r. A hotrse amells horse, but atn auto.-. mitiile smells worse5t. 1. kw a horse, it ittutst hav e a- dri v'er. An auttonmobile divet- is icalled a "Chaf- - ior"' t chafe-er: 61ne whIo (-hatres). A ebtatf'or runus as close to eierything as" het entnl wvithout hiin g It, ttedestrdin not ex-ep)ted. A hairtfe runis a way' Ia fteor he hats chatffed too close: th pedestraint tnev'r. L.ike a htorse, an aiitutoobile blk. Wheti a htorset tbalks It chang,t's It s m tindi s'omfetimtes; wheni an atlotmobile b)aiks, If you wanlt t) getI home,t gt' out1 antd walk. 3. An auttomtoble is like1 a iintal it that it. tuns away when -iil has dtone somethintg it ought noit to. "tie sure~ your' sins wvill find you out," does not. app)ily to auitomtob)iles,. 4. Like saloons, automtobites are licensed. Salooins pay for thre priilellge of takiug humtnan life: so do auttomo btiles, b)ut t mu tch. Hoth are Often fitted for' exceedinlg thle spteed limit, but they do the somte ihtii over again. Indiana F~armer0. A Tribute to Temperance. The gravedtiggeru of a lit tie town in Scot lattd was i nd uced to givte utg hi s habilt of hard dinin tg anrd sign lie .\t a putblic' meeting he gave hi-i "epe ieue." ", tive t hoI tttght Ito tell ye," lie sid, "' tat for' a whle month Ihaveita't ouichedl ai tdrap o' 'nythinag. l' saved enough to buty me a braw t oak coffint wi' b)rass hanUdies anid br'ass nails~ and if t'tm a teototalletr for antilther mth i I shllt be wanitin' it 7 . t 4oo (Chiroticole. ivie womflen were chOoen ats county. treaurer-Os in idahto at the recent ec tion1 and seve'nteen womfen 'as county unneruitendtehts of schoons.. .