Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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1 the owls of long ago. Oh. the dear old-fashioned girl, that I knew long years ago. 9 When the world, the girl and I were in Kg oar prime; She wai dear as early snowdrops amid tht H springtime snow. B She wan sweet as?the wild ro* of sum ' mertimc, I And she knew just haw to make Q Pound and sponp* and ginger cake! l6he could *pm and weave and knit the I summer through. And the butter, checse and cream! 9 Why I think 1 have a dream Of our driving home the cows through E atar-lit dew! HOIl theae vaunted modern day*! Nothing in them can compare To the husking bees and spelling scnools of old; Nothing ?et? my heart a-dance a* the music on- the air. Iferry jinking of sleighbeils in the cold. Oh. those dava of long ago. When the winter's frost and innw. field in clone embrace the woodland vale and pool; Wrapped in robe* and blanket* warm What carvd we for wind and storm. When we gathered at the weekly singing school! Oh. th? old-time aingin? school, my heart a-thoucht the faster Beats, at the mcm'ry of those days of long ago; it keep* the very time of the dear old MIWWI , Unconarioualy I'm humming some tune I used to know! And in memory once more. At the old red ?choolhou?e door Vm waiting for "ye maid" of olden time*. And T feet her finjrem small Lightly on m.r coataleere fall. While our Hearts are beating to the aicighbclla' chimcs! Oh, the dear old-faahioacd girl* have with time grown calm and utately? For I sometimes meet them in the atreet or atorc. They nod their pretty heada. amiling at me m?t sedately With a flash of er??. or dimple. a? of yore. And the gentle tonea. the while H Of those day* we talk and smile, !Wben we all were happy boys and girls together! And the i'lappine** of our themes? Like the dearest of our dreams? l&re the singing schools we went tc all together! Oh. those days of 'ong ago! Oh. the bors I used to know! Oh. be girla who made life'* sunshine hricht and fair! When we've crossed the "great divide" , Pa?sed on the other sHe. We *hall meet them, know them, greet t their, over there! Leslie Griswold, in the Lo* Angeles Times. A Question of | Proposals, j ^ 1 HAVE something pa my mind I which is perplezlug. rather | than unpleasaut. but which preoccupics me a good d?>al." ' "If you were a woman." remarked Mrs. Eden, the charmiug little widow. *1 shouiu say you had just received a proposal, and didn't know how to answer It." "But, being a mere man. I'm in th?* fur more difficult position of having a propositi to make " "Yet or not being able to make up jour mind to whom. Do you meat, to tell me that you have a vague desiru to propose to woman in general, or to ome indefinite yet-to-be-met-wltb her' "I ought to have said 'to which.* for there are two girls "Ah. two girls." repeated Mrs. Eden. ' "Who are both so charming that I Can't decide between them, and so I come to you. as usual, to help rnc out of my difficulty." *Thl>n I knnw Ihixe fnrtnnito young women, one of whom you Intend thus to distinguish?" "Oh, It's easy to laugh! But you've o often advised me to get married that It's onlf kind to help roe to put you? advice into practice. I think you know Margaret Wheltn?" "Intimately. Did I not nee her for li whole day in the country last summer? And I approve your taste. She Is good to look at." "Tea, Is she not handsome? Such a fine figure, and so talL" "That's her one fault. She's almost loo tall. She's taller than you." "Dear lady. You're qnite mistaken. She is three Inches at least shorter than I am. She is certainly not more Khan five feet eight." "What are Inches?" cried his hostess. "A woman is as tall as she looks, and Miss Whelan looks taller than you." "Do TOU likp hop a? xr#lt a? *nn n/fnra berr' tie wanted to know. *'I adore iter. Women never do leas khan adore each other on ao abort an acquaintanceship. Bat I ahoald have fot on better with her bad I not been ao dreadfully afraid of her." "Why on eartb abould you be afraid Of ber?" "O. she's to clever, ao well Informed?" , "She Is well Informed." ' "While I. yon know, am anch a perfect Uttle Ignoramus." "I know nothing of the sort. In your own way you are Immensely clever, too." "But in what a commonplace wny! I can keep house, certainly, am out of ttebt. and I could make my own clothes And cook my own dinner, if it were necessary; but. then, any woman can ew and cook." MI wish to heaven any woman could! I wish my landlady could!" "But I can't read Greek, as Miss |Wh*lan does. She carries a pocket 'Aristophanes with her tip the river. I lod we could see ber now nnd again | enjoying silent laughter as iihe read. I It's uncommonly clever to enjoy Greek I jokes, isn't It? But. then, of course. you and she could enjoy them toMet ber." F "Ob. as to my Greek." said Holt, nnd with a shake of bis head he flung bis last memories of it nfar. "Margaret. | you see. studied at Glrton." Could I rail to ?* if? Ciirton is ritten all over her In indelible Ink. exudes from ber manner, which is fcn impressive manner, an overwhelming one. A manner which puts me altogether in the shade in spite of the -fact that I'm a widow with gray tain." "Hare yon gray hairs?" asked Holt, mnch Interested. "I don't see any." There was certainly one there yesm. nr.ti *4 tfi?. TifkA).n KroilJ. Trcu, ai ir??i, AIM n uriau seed never fear gray hairs. Her hair 4? too pal* colored to show any." "8be baa curiously colorleas hair. I Idnit," Htit It Fould almost % justify the uae of hair dye. Kitty Red* fern's hair is much prettier." "So the other one Is Kilty? Dear little Kitty! I like Kitty. Every one like* her. It would he impossible not to do no, for she agrees with every one and is of your own opinion evei> before you've expressed it. She's so beautifully feminine." Holt assented. "She's like the finest, the most plastic clay, the whitest unwritten page " "You are too Intelligent. There are many men for whom Kitty Redfern would lie ideal: for the man who merely requires a preventable mistress of his house, a healthy mother for his children. Hut you :ic?l something more than this: you need a coin* pjinion " "With whom I can enjoy Greek inifw U'ltlr-h lirinc* me haek to Mar* garet Whelan, does it not?" "Ob. but a companion who in also a pood comrade. Homo one who can appreciate your own little things as well as those of Aristophanes. Now. I should scarcely venture to try any joke on Miss Whelan which was less than a thousand years old. On the whole. I don't consider her any mor* suitable than Kitty. Less so. in fact. For if one doesn't want too much concession in a woman, neither does he want too forcible opposition. And Miss Whelan can be forcible. I've heard her." "So have I." murmured Holt, reminiscent ly. "But perhaps you will make a suggestion yourself?" "My suggestion would bp such an ereecdingly obvious one?" "Which Is actually tbo reason I can't see It for myselt." "It is merely that /ou should make an effort to obtain the woman you're in love with." "Bin surely I'm more or less In love with Margaret and Kitty, too!" "Believe me, very much less rather than more." "Dear lady! By what signs do you judge me?" "By these signs." Mrs. Eden told him. "When you are really in love with a woman, you don't weigh her in the balance with any one else. She stands above every one. unique and alon?\ You don't ask other women their opinion of ber; you force their opinion ou tbeni. You are in her society ns often as you can manage it, and you are filled with solicitude for hor welfare whenever she Is out of your sight. You joke with her, laugh with her, discuss with her and disasrree with ber. You quarrel with her and make It up a?aia. You lay open to her the subject you have nearest your heart, and in any difficulty your flrst thought is to take her advice." "But there's no woman In the world toward whom I feel like that but you." said HWt. with sincerity. "And?and ?but why?! Wbat a fool you must think mcV* He moved close beside Mrs. Eden ?? ?ti? anf* ?nil tnnt hi>r hand between bis own. "Dear?my dear Mrs. Eden"?he asked lior persuasively, "do .rou think you could ever get to love uic the least bit?" Mrs. Eden turned away to hid? her smiles, and having subdued them, turned back with a histrionic word of surprise upon her tongue tip. but. looking straight into his eyes, she suddenly threw away play acting and gave him the warm and happy truth. "You dear and foolish person!" she murmured, "could you not sec I have loved you for ever so long?" But Holt, who hid some wi?dom beneath much apparent folly, wns wise enough to let this query fall.?New York News. Art aad Anthracite. If what I have written thus far reads like a jeremiade, it Is fair to say that, in tho nnlnion of manr who have to live in It. the soft coal smoke is not so black as painted. Your true Pittsburger glories in bis city's soot, for it means business, prosperity, comfort as one goes along, and opportunity to escape by and by. Great artists from abroad are apt to take sides with him. The soft coal towns have what American landscape' generally lacks?atmosphere and aerial perspective. Our Eastern cities?New York in especial?have always been distinguished by an almost disagreeable clarity and brilliance. Everything looks fresh. One who came recently from a Western city to Boston said that he was impressed much as a miner would be who should be brought straight out of a coal shaft Into a theatre. The glitter was astounding. In Chicago andotber soft coal cities the interplay of smoke and sunlight daily gives color such as has rarely been seen in our untinged air. This is the sort of color that Svend Srensen revels in?over all a haze of burnt sienna hue, and on sidewalk or snow the delicatc purple shadows. The gold and copper of the afternoon light is often tropical in its fullness. We shall see greater glories, even If we pay larger laundry bills.?Boston Transcript. Oa Hta Guard. "Doc," he said, as he hurried into the famous oculist's office, "I've got something in my eye and it's nearly killing me." "Just take a seat in this chair." the doctor answered, "and we'll have it out la a Jiffy." The sufferer sat down ard drew a long breatb. Then be suddenly straightened up, as the doctor was about to proceed, and said: "Hold on. By George, I want some friend here as a witness." "Pshaw! Put your head nack. There Isn't any danger at all. I shan't Injure your eye or you either. It'll be over in Just?" "But bow do I know It mightn't be a piece of bard coal that's in there, and wbat'U prevent you from sett in* ii away from me while I'ui not lookiu'?" ?Chicago Record-Herald. Confaclu*. Confucius had Just received a licking from his father. He sat down to deliberate. but for ecrtaln reasons immediately stood up. Furtively looking at tbe old man be was beard to murmur. "Worship your ancestor*, or your ancestors will bor*ewhip you." Henc? the Confucian philosophy.?Brooklyn Life. Emimt. The question of economy depend! very largely upon the strength si nta'i York N?w*." PICTUR NEW ZI BY SIDNEY DICK IT5! IIENEVEU Nature pre- J W pares a comment ior iuv i abode of man. she puts beside It some conspicuous island. Europe ha* Its Great Britain; America, its Cuba; Africa, its Madagascar; and Asia, its Japan; and we | shall find, in evprjr instance, that either 1 In natural beauty or in developed j strength of national character, these Islauds exercise a strong iutiucnce up-' on the mind of tin* uyiupatinilc trav-j eler. The great islaud continent of j | Australia Is do exception to tats jjen-; J eral rule. If we compare 1i?t with j Europe, tbou shall we find is New ' Zealand the Lesser Itritaiu of the i , I Kl?!w3iE!-? t i 1KEUST0N or "?OA," AN EXTINCT NEW J ZEALAND BIRD. j southern seas. It Is a very strung' | nd Interesting country which lies al- j j most beneath our feet?a country com-1 I paratlvely little known as yet. but . j coming yearly into better knowledge j | because of Its unexampled l>eautles j I nod as a resort for the Invalid, the j tourist and the pleasure seeker. It has a stern, rugged coast, of vol- j canlc origin: the whole stretch of tills j coast Is cut out into deep und narrow J channels, hollowed out in caves.! wrought In shape of pinnacles and j spires; no coast Is rnotv fantastic, none Is more dreaded by mariners. The great attraction of the North1 Island of New Zealand, and oue of | the world's most remarkable wonders. Is found in the hot lakes?certainly ! one of the strangest and weirdest < regions on the face of the earth. The i entrance into this country Is throush J A land of broad and rolling fields, liu-! ferlng riven and Jaggvd mountains. | A SPECIMEN OF 3 The soil is used chiefly for grazing, ? ? -1 ? * ?? fm-?iil.i?lnn ic nmvlnff ill UU a lit I ?C |/vjjui.i?.wm ? ? ready into this beautiful region and doing extremely well with dairy farms and fruit orchard*. ESQUE ;ALAND. :iNSON, F.R.G.S. Scattered about through the country are native village*. and upon the hillsides may Htill be seen the palisades by which the ancient fortified forts wore defended. In the native villages trpunorr ltarwl Ui IUM441J ?i|'|n inn IUC ? ??- ? la common by all the member* of the tribe and raised upon posts in order MAORI CHIEF AND HIT. to preserve the ptoro of maize and sweet potatoes from r 1:?? ravages of rots. upon whi?-h auit>.:i!< tin.' Maoris take revenge l?.v nerving theui up in a nutritious frlm As fur I be na-1 11 vow themselves twlio are called the Maoriwi. lot us intrude for a moment unt?n the nrivary of this ehiof whom we here see enjoying a virtuous repose at the door of hi* hut. This chief attained considerable fame a number of years ago as companion of that notorious Chief Tekouti in his hlstodc raid against the undefended inhabitants of Poverty Ilaj, where more than two-score men. women and children were massacred. It is not a great many years ago that a worthy chief, having conquered a numbi-r o;' his enemies in battle, had his prisoners ranged in a row ou the ground hefotv him. and. with his greenstone war club, dashed out the bralus of two hundred and fifty of them with his own hand, then threw aside his blood-stained weapon and said, "I am tired: let the rest live," ai:d ordered the carcasses dragged to the ovens. The Maoris have lost very much of their former skill in architecture and in artistic decoration. To observe of what the former race was capable, let us look for a moment upon this carved front of one of the Maori meeting bouses still found here and there about the North Island. It is very curious, interesting and artistic, too. in a rude decorative sort of way. The figures h^re are quaint, pot-bellied monstrosities ami goggling eyes of mother-of-pearl and hands wo imposed ns to hUggest the pangs of stomach ac!h\ These figures are not ideal, but are. In point of fact, the portraits of deceased ancestors of the tribe, and appear in tbe Maori eye as authentic likenesses. Maori tattooing is something remarkable and still further illustrates the very curious Ideas of beauty prevalent nmong these people iu the ancient tin*1. As the Maoris gave over fighting the causes for these hideous disfigurations (whose purpose was to strike terror into the heart of an enemy) passed away. In order to appreciate the full extent of a tattooed warrior's countenance, however, you must Imagine the owner of It over six feet high and nearly naked; bis features distorted with rage and bis tongue hanging out; loud yells Issuing from his throat; arms flourishing battle-ax and war-club, and the whole _ 1AOKI TATTOOlNli. ! stupendous aggregation coming down | in your Immediate neighborhood at tlie uigu rate or iweive goou bogmo miles ao hour. The ancestors of these Maori* were an Interesting and Intel-i V-.- , llgent race; and the present degrada- S tion cannot be too much deplored. 1 This gentleman was a king, and his ^ name was as elaborate as hla facial i adornment, namely: Tawbaio Matu* } tlere te Puke-Puke te Pawa te Korate * te rt'Potatau te Whereo-Whereo. Fkinlly we came to Oxford, the termination of the railway line: and after a night spent in a very comfortable hotel, we took our seats on the top of one of Carter's line of American-built I coaches to undertake the thirty-four i miles' drive lying between us and < Idike Rotorun. About the third of this distance lies through the "Eleven j Mile Bush." where we catch glimpses ?? ( ^ t t I t I I 1 s 1 of pleasant scenery. As we approach 1 the town of OHinemul.. which lies up- 1 on the shore of Lake Kotorua, we be- 5 _ula Lii tliii nf aulnlmr f Our road Into the town lie* between 1 two streams of nearly boiling water: ( ami In the fleids upon either side in- 1 numerable steam boles blow great I j^ynil MMaSwHKp^wtaty ^BWMMHBMB. | DAUGHTER OF CHIEF. SHO i masses of v&;;or Into tbe air. De- i spending to tbe shores of this curious 1 lake, we find ourselves walking about i in a vapor batb. All arouud us and [ close at our feet, as we step gingerly ] along tbe narrow pathway, tbe sbal- < low water of innumerable springs t boils and bubbles and tbe air Is filled ] with tbe sound of Its simmering. If you have any curiosity to know bow It feels to have yonr leg boiled, step but one foot off the narrow pathway and you may make that addition to your store of useful knowledge with surprising suddenness. A place like this is. of course, a perfect godsend to the Maoris. Tbey can soak themselves nil day in tbe warm weather: cook their meat and potatoes simply by banging them in their nets in the corner of a boiling spriug. and j live as happily, lazily and uselessly j a* tbe pigs that share their houses and fortunes. All you have to do to launder clothes is to soak a garment In a hot soda spring and then-wash it out In warm, clear water in another spring, and there you are. Even If a Maori has but one garment, be Is not abashed. He washes it and hangs It on tbe fence ami sits down In the cos- 1 turne of the Greek Slave until It dries. s Each of these floating black beads j you see in tbe warm baths will have ( a black pipe In Its mouth: and if the weather in foul, you uiay nee Individual* holding umbrellas over Seir beads. ' Near by is the great geyser of Wba- 1 karewarewa, rising from a cone like tbe most exquisite coral, by which you ran cliuth to the mouth of the crater. There is a dull, thumping Bound far down below. You look over to see what Is going on; a spurt of bot steam close to your uose suggests caution; you draw back, and a bushel of diamonds are thrown into the air aud rattle down the shies of the cone. It is nothing but drops of pure bot water; but It looks like diamonds iu tbe sunlight. Then there, is a sudden roar; the air scintillates: and it seems as if all the Jewelers' shops bad been exploded at once. I have seen many manifestations of Nsture in my time; but few where she displays at once her power and her beauty so completely as In this great geyser. A good many naturalists are of the opinion that the glaat bird of New ! ? Zealand, the mot (generally believed :o be extinct), may still be foand tome where among the faatnesaea of the nountains. such as we bare now seen. Well developed specimens of this fowl, 'BOUT OF TUBAL ABSMCBLT HOCCT. Ike the one whose skeleton is here deleted. are about thirteen feet In lelght. At sight of sach, no doubt, he hunter's Jaw would drop, his arm* all down; while as for the moa, ha vould undoubtedly gallop off as rapdly in the opposite direction, for according to the local tradition these >irds were very timid. It is supposed -In fact, it is known?that within the ant hundred years these birds bare >een alive and walking about In New Zealand. During my visit there I waa iresented with a tblgb bone of one of bese birds, which thigh bone was lalf as tall aa myself.?Scientific American. Fungi, Thai Look Llko Bird*' N?rti. The Bev. A. S Wilson contributes o Knowledge an article on "Vegetable iimicry," in which he says: "Odd resemblances to various objects, which an only be regarded as accidental ooncidences, are presented by a num>cr of fungi. There is the Jew's-ear ungus, which grows on stumps of the Ider, and is so named from its unntatakable likeness to a human ear. rhe Gcasters arc curiously like starish; Aseroe has an extraordinary re I'luuiauit, ijuiu iu iuiuj auu tvivi, iu i sen anemone; equally remarkable I* be likeness to a bird's nest seen In ipecies of Cruolbulnm, Cyathus and tidularia. Though most of these are :oo small to Impose on one, tbe resemblance is singularly exact, and arse specimen might almost pass for be nest of some small bird, the eggs jeing admirably represented by tbe litle oval fruits of tbe fungus. Eren in tuch cases we must not too rashly conclude that tbe fesemblance confers no idvantage. Tbe existence of attractive haracters in so many fungi points o tbe conclusion that the same principles are In operation among them as 1 SVINO FEMALE TATTOOING. imong flowering plants. Numerous acts Indicate a tendency In fungi to issume a guise which helps either to protect the plant or to promote the ertiliiatlon, germination or dispersion >f its spores. If, as some mycologists relieve, spores benefit by being swalowed by animals, it Is easy to undergfe> T W DIBDs' V*8T rraoi. . Cnicifcilum; 2, Nidul*m; 3 and 4. Oyathm. itand how a fungus might profit, by >eing mistakeu even fur a bird'* xu.fl rontaining eggs." The "Und#nrroand" Is Mne Sin*. I was particularly interested in tiw L'ndergruuud Tunnel, for I immediatey perceived its great u?efultic*s. This xaa the secret system by which conraband articles, such as whisicy. >pium und morphine were brought Into :he prison. Wben u rogue is perniasive with the coin of the reiilm be an always tind a keeper or two to uriug bitn what be deems the necessaries of life, anions which are opium, vhisky and tobacco. If you have a teeper right you cau be well supplied R-itb these little things. To get him Igbt It Is necessary to give up a eeraln recognized percentage?about oneIftb?of the money sent you from lome. This system is worked in all be State prisons in New York, and I luring my tirst term, nine months of a*hicli wvr?? npfui at oiug o'"B ?"u me est at Auburn. I hud no difficulty in lupplylug my growing need for opium. -Autobiography of a Thief, in Leslie's Monthly f ' t.i j^m ii|i^, ^ ? sin mmiiBir ' The British Government Chareed With Jury Packing. DISORDERLY SCENES IN HOUSE 4 ' 1 Th? AttwMT-Oitwl Wmr Intend Cms tha Ward 44 Canrdly " Is Reply to Mr. O'BrUa'a Aecsiitloa tad la Hlaaad Derliiv* CriH Por Iccrttarj Wy?dbtm-Land ParebaM Bill Wltkdrmwa. London ?"The greater the scoundrel Id the Irish constnbulary, the surer Is of being shielded and promoted," exclaimed William O'Brien In the House of Commons. He was speaking on his motion to take up tbc case of former Police Sergeant Sullivan, now in America, who is accus**d by the Irish of getting innocent persons convicted through per Jury and forgery. The motion *? made after the Irlah Nationalists had bombarded Irlab Secretary Wyndbam with queries, interruptiona and contradictiona of hi* statement* about the imprisoning of Irish member*, had met hia replies with storms of derisive cries, mingled with hisses, and had kept the Speaker busy suppressing demonstrations which threatened to develop into disorder. Mr. O'Brien said he regarded the 8ulliran caae of greater gravity than that of Sergeant 8heridan. because Sullivan's plot agalnat the Irish League was of the same sort aa the Pigott forgeries against Parnell. Mr. O'Brien said the Government packed the Jury ? Snlllran and then SDent a> enormous amount to shield him from Justice. Mr. Atkins. Attorney-General for Ire* land, taunted Mr. O'Brien with being too cowardly to take this esse into th? low courts. This brought shouts of "Withdraw!" from the Irish benches. Mr. O'Brien asked whether Mr. AS* kins's remark was disorderly or not. Speaker Gully did not take the remark as calling Mr. O'Brien s cowan!, but as applying to his course. The Attorney-General withdrew his expression and scored Mr. O'Brien for making infamous charges against the Crown without proof. Wrnithnm ntiartwl that ifr O'Brien's charge had been completely disponed of. T. P. O'Connor Mid tbe debate filled him with more despair than any be bad ever before beard In tbe Hoase. He reiterated the charge that tbe Got* ernment packed the 8ulllvan J Cry with Protestants and Unionists. Mr. O'Brien's motion was rejected by 215 rotes to 117. Mr. Wyndbam then explained that It would be impossible to pass the Irish Land Purchase bill this session, bnt be hoped to Introduce next session a new bill for voluntary arrangements between the parties concerned. He moved that the Land Purchase bill be withdrawn, which was agreed to. SLAIN BY A HUNTER. Ou Xu Shot D?ad ud Another Iajarad Slightly at North Walpole, Tt. Bellows Fall#. Vt.?One man la dead and another Is suffering from wounds at North Walpole caused by a shot from a rifle fired by an unidentified hunter near tbe base of Mount KII burn. The dead man wag Fred McKalnne. of Plattsbunr, N. Y., and the wounded one is E. O. Young. There 1a no doubt that the fatality was the result of an accident, and that the man who fired the shot had no idea of Its serious re* cult. McKalune and Young had been up the mountain nnd bad nearly reached the base on tbeir return wben they beard sounds of a gun below. The i next instant McKalune fell with a shot In bis breast He was killed outright. Flying shot at the same time struck Young on the fingers and In the leg. besides grazing his forehead. Young was able to make his way to a bouse and girt the affirm, and McKalune's , }ody was carried to North Walpole. Just before the shot was heard M man had been seen going down the mountain side, but he disappeared, and It is thought he must hare fired at game, not expecting that Lis charge would hit human beings. THREE KILLED IN A FEUD. Pitched Battle Pmffht la Texas B?la?? ram II7 faettoaa. O roes beck. Texas.?A pitched battle was fought In the country, four mile* from here, between the Thomason and Rutherford factions. The trouble grew ont of rent and bad been pending for tome time. The men. two representatives of each family, met and the shooting followed,, the flrbt being at close range. D. Tbomsson. Robert Rutherford and William Rutherford were killed. WaJlace Tbomnaon escaped without a scratch. He has surrendered, but refuses to talk about the affair. AN INSURANCE MERCER. fidelity Tract of Newark to Ceatrel fr? deatlel Comptir et J merles. New York City.?At a meeting of the Fidelity Trunt Company, of Newark, It was announced that the company will purcbaxe a controlling Interest In the Prudential Insurance Company of America. The Fidelity Trust Com* pany suceeded the Fidelity Title and Deposit Company and la practically an annex of the Prudential Insurance "??? i?? tin.inciiii aienr. vuni|mii,f ?u?. no ? ? An offer of #875 was made for Fidelity stock and the last quotation on Pro. dentlal was $$00 asked and $773 bid. Eight M?? *??U*d, Thraa FttallT. By the parting of a steam pipe at the Riverside plant of the National Tube Works In Benwood. W. Va.. eight men were scalded. William Anderson. Henry Westenhaver and W. II. Jones were fatally injured. Callfarnlt'i Vtiai Naril*r#(i. Marian Nolan, a young woman who became famous on the Pacific coast in 1SS3 as the "California Venus." was shot and killed at San Francisco. Cal., by Edward Marscbutz. a stenographer, who then killed himself. Want Ml?? Stone's llinion lt?paU. Missionary societies bare formally requested the State Pepartment. at Washington, to make a demand on Turkey for repayment of the amount of ransom paid on account of the release of Miss Ellen Stone. The State Department. however, has not assured It self thnt the responsibility rests upon Turkey. >( Xtbmk* Bank* PrHjwroM. The total deposits of thp 4ti4> State banks in Nebraska are ?fti.t;Sti.OOO. which is an Increase of $l.Mti.tf9y, a* compared with the last statement, _ '