Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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~ iw DED T POLITI0, XORALIT, DUATION AND ER T ULNESAL INTRT OFTit3 COOM. fly D. F. BMtDLEY & 00. PICKENS S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 85 O IN 0 ~pplation of Virgisia is 2, abaMaeultivated 2,179 agres of to basP1 state Ue ssissippI 8te lunatic asylum a inates. The. value of productlons in Missia Sippi in 1870 was $8,154,708; in 1880, *1l,2,36.T t few days ago Oolumbus, Miss., in eVtOd $800,00 in a cotton factory, and Io'r the capital amounts to $1,250,000. A Van Buren, Ark., man has a con 9,% t to dig000 persimmon roots to be hbipped to Ls Angelos, Cal. A four story hotel, with all modern Improvements, and to cost $75,000, is a Probability at Birmingham, Ala. Atlanta's rst grain elevator is com plated. It cost $88,000, and has a stor Sg capacity of 200,0.0 bushels. Georgia -raised less than 2,000 000 bushels of oats in 1870, and in 188W the production was over 5,000,000 bushels. Pensac a l.as votagainst re pudiatins her ante-bellum debt, and re cently paid $800,000 of it. *ix hundred and one convicts in the Arkansas penitentiary. Over 100 of the number are murderers. The individual deposits in the four national banks at Nashville amount to $8,702,831.62. Shad are becoming numerous in the Alabama, aid are sold in the M ery markets. Birmingham, Ala., taxes retail whisky dealers $350, while Moulton charges only Grandison Harris, Jr., was convicted of body-snatching at Augusta, Ga., a-nd sentenced to pay a fine of $1,000 or work in the chain-gang for twelve months. A stick of yellow pine timber at Way cross railroad, Fla., measures fourteen incbes at the small end, and is 94 feet long. A company will cnmmence work at Atlanta on the 1st of March on a facto ry for the manufacture of stationary engines. A large portion of Arkansas has been varried by the late three-mile local op * tion law, and hundreds of saloone were closed with the close of the year. A factory will be established at New Orleans to prepare cotton-seed oil for cooking, illuminating and lubricating - purposes. In the Green county, Tenn., poor5 h use the daily expense of each pauperi * verages four and a half cents. Trhe bill; * of fako ought to be printed for the sake of curiosity. Alabama has 51,640 square miles, is divided into sixty-six counties, eleven o[ ~them being 1,0003 square miles or more in dimiension--the largest, Baldwin, being 1,620 Pqure miles. The smallest are -Green and Etowahi, being each 520 square miles. Twelve tramps visited Columbus, Ga., a few days ago, and a few hours after wards they were beginning a thirty days sentence on the rock pile. This treat ment generally and'vigorously applied will reach the very marrow of the tramp nuisance. The Little Rock Democrat says that a great many people in that country do not understand that it is a greater crime to kill a human being than It is to steal a Choctaw pony, with flax mane and tail, worth $14.7-. The Florida Southorn railroad projects an extension to Pe'ry, Ga., which wvill pass through one of the richest undevel oped sections of the State. The comn pany is composed of Boston capitalihts said to represent $40,000,000. A heavy force is at work on the Georgia line. Atlanta Constitution: If one of the products~of the cotton plant is to run hog's fat out of the South, this remark able weed will hereafter be regarded as the author of a new and higher civii ration. We are all the victims of dis eased hog's fat and a too frequent use of the frying pan. Fort Smith ( Ark.) Independent : It is no lon~ger Old Arkansas, but. New A r kanpsae. The flint lock rifle, the coon skin cap,4he yello w dog, the belied spurs and the quirt are only remembered as the past, and good stock, good farms, good schools, education and retinernent 4 have taken their place. * Macon (Ga.) Telegraph: With the in - crease of our industries comes also the demand for skilled laboirr. The South has not got them. All1 our boys have been trained to be lawyers and doctors. Georgia has not an institution for train ing young men as skilled mechanics. She has several so-called military httach mnents, but not an institution devoted to practical krowled ge in mechanism and manufacturing, which is now her greats. est need. * She Fetched lHln. . Women sometimes have great pres ence of mind. A 'ailor's 'wife saw that a prisoner had got btween her husband and the unlocked door and was going * for it like a Scotch terrier for a rat hole. She knew she hadn't the strength to seize and hold him, and besides he had a knife, so she didn't try. But she 4' stepped into a side corridor near the head of a fight of stairs the prisoner had got to descend, yanked. of? her hoopskirt, and, as lhe passed, flung it before him. The way he turned handsprings anid somersaults down those stairs was a can - tion to cats, and hle frantic struggles af te lie teached the.. .>tokn would have attracted folks fromp dog fight. When p the jallor came up, the fellow had got himself so entangled that he was abso lutply helpless, was doubled up in ter-i. 4. bly uncomfortable ways and was ohok lug to death, and so completely womid nu that the jalr had to ont him out *with a hatohe~I. .und it took half a yard of court plaoter aid n int of arnica to inake him at alt omuortable.-oeton TOPICS OF THE DA Y. -SBoovmu haa one faculty. He can falk. PATT's baggage consists of twenty. ahree trunks. -Tha long-haired Wilde's Arst Ieature netted him $1,400. OoNMAET to report, Annie Louise Cary Is not to be mtarried. ONz hndred newspapers in this coun try are edited by colored men. A RusD)iN of Belfast, Ohio, has been put under bonds for opening his wife's letters. Tim project for the World's Fair in Boston l. been abandoned for want of money. -_____._ IT waL be a great relief when we shall be able to announce the close of the Guiteau trial. Tan Boston University hai come into possession of $2,000,000 bequeathed to it by Mr. Rich. A SALT LAIE Gentile states that it would require an army of 80,000 men to put the l\ormons down. A coNToMPonAnY suggests that Guitou will have an opportunity to deliver his speech from the gallows. TiE Boston oo-operative store, after seVeral years' trial, has proved a failure, and will wind up its affairs. Bo=a the new Senators eledted from Iowa are natives of Ohio. Men born in Ohio get into offlee everywhere. A sAnooN-EEiepa, at Blanchester, Ohio, has been required to pay a woman $1,200 for selling her husband liquor. EXPIMNTS made with sugar beets in Whitman County, Oregon, result in a yield of 5,000 pounds to the acre. WHAT a remarkable contrast the pres ent winter is with that of one year ago. Everything seems to go to extremes. Thu Garfield monument fund now amounts to about $90,000, of which the oity of Cleveland contributed 668,000. A GInL at Wentworth, Ont., was sent to jail for forty-eight hours for contempt of court because she refused to take an oath. MAssCausfTis' entire representation in Congresstwo Senators and eleven Representatives-.are in favor of woman suffrage. __________ Mtss ANNA DIcnIsoN has scored a success in male character, as " Hamlet." Her determination to wear tights has prevailed,_________ Tm Boston Globe believes the aethetic wriggle, which fashionable women have adebpted as a manner of locomotion, will cure rheumatism. IT is said that of 72,000,000 bushels of grain sent from America to Europe last year, n'ot a single bushel was carried by an American ship. A NEw YOBK paper advertised for original short stories, and received over 500 responses. The world has an abund ance of literary talent. Tionz is one thing the Land Act has done in Ireland; it has filled the prisons, but what other benefit has been derived from it would be hard to say. THAT Indinitesimal specimen of human ity, Tonm Thumb, has become a convert to spiritualism, and believes in almost everything of a ghostly nature. IT IS in order to announce that Secre tary Folger nas no one to do the honors of his palatial home but a grown daugh ter. In other words, ho is a solitaire. THS asthetio knee-breeches have, one great advantage -- they do not bag at~ the knee, and they have this great disad vantage-they betray an unshapely call. RussIA goes steadily nearer bank. ruptoy each year, and last December raised with difflculty the gold to pay the semi-annual interest due foreign debtors. OscAni WILDE says that in all England there is not an actress so "powerfully intense" as Clara Morris. This remark is supposed to be a compliment to Miss Morris. IN BAxTrmonu teachers are required to report twice a week the number of 'whip pings administered, and those who re port the fewest whippingu have the smoothest sailing. IT is claimed that org account of the beans they est Boston women look younger at forty than Chicago women do at thirty years of age. Still, It is pretty hard to believe. SAYS the Detroit Free Press: "The -war of 1812 ended sixty-seven years ago, and yet over 20,000 widows are drawing pensions granted on account of it. That's oIIoldhghi. Ir aQUlnno 1,000 cars to carry ex. hibits to the Atlanta ition, but so many were sold that were suflolent to take away those which remained, they being nearlyall of them machinery. KNTUcmy d6es ' not naturally take to holidays and believes there are too many of them on the calendar. In the House, a few days ago, a bill was passod to ibosh Ne* Year's day as aholida. Oswzao, New York, is decidedly a healthly town. Rev. Simon Parmalee, on the 15th of January, celebrated his centennial birthday. Anotker Oswegoan died recently aged 108 years and a Mr. Clark, of the same town, claims to have passed his 110th year. IT Is gratifying to know that a tiuo bill for murder in the first degree has been found against the mtderr of Jennie Cramer, at New Haven, Conn., thofth of August last. Walter E. Mal ley, James Malley and Blanche Douglasa are the persons indicted. Tam National Board of Health is con sidering the pressing demand for better quarantine regulations at New York and other ports, in order to prevent emi grants infected with smallpox landing and proceeding on their journey inland, spreading the foul disease aQ over the country. A nAnmoAD disaster is a pretty serious thing for the company which owns the road. It is said that the Ashtabula dis aster five years age has cost the Lake Shore $2,000,000, and some of the suits for damages are not ended yet. The Spuyten Duyvil disaater will cost the Central a tremendous sum. A WEST VinaNIA-railroad company has agreed to stop at least one of its traine each way-on being flagged-for passen gers and freight at every farm where right of way is given. The good times hoped for when every farmer should have a railroad in his own door yard, Poems to have come, in West Virginia. A iiEMARKABLE use in being made of potatoes. The- clear peeled tuber is macerated in a solution of sulphuric acid. The result is dried between sheets of blotting paper, and then pressed. Of this all manner of small articles are made, from combs to collars, and even billiard balls, for which the hard, bril liantly white material is well fitted. A FOREIGN letter says all Vienna thea ters are well nigh bankrupt. Nobody frequents them. The largest amount of money received by an one of them is 8200; others take in about $50 a night. The police have forbidden all day perform ances, and have lessened the num ber of seats in each. For instance, the the Ander Wien Theater, which held 2, 540 seats, has now only 1,270. MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, has just had a streak of luck. A few days ago he received a letter from a lady in Boston, who said that she lived bn Shawv mut avenue, was cultivated, had a taste for the masthetic literature and art, had a cool $100,000 in bank, wvas but thirty eight years old, and anxious to be made a Mayor's lgride. rThe M~ayor perhaps understands the drift of her argument. THE annual product of the precious metals in the $tates and Territories west of the Missouri River, including British Columbia, are as follows : Receipts at San Francisco from the west coast of Mexico and reported to Wells-Fargo : Gold, $31,869,686 ; silver, $45,077,829. Cafifornia shows an increase in silver and a decrease in gold. Nevada shows a falling off, and Utah, Colorado, and Ari zona, an increase. ACOORDING to all acconts Mrs. Lin coln is in a pretty bad condition, physi cally and mentally. She is attending Miller's Water Cure, New York, and is barely able to walk about lier room. Cataracts are forming on both eyes. She is troubled with spinal troubles and has Bright's disease. When told that the Pension Committee had decided to give her $15,000, which amount was duo her under arrears of pension, she mianifested great satisfaction. She will remain iun Ne1w York for the winter. Mua.roxa of haird1s of crude oil, onongh to supply the world for years. are said to be stored away in the oil re gions. The discovery of oil in Europe and the sinking of wells there threaten to affect the foreign market, though sta tistics as yet show no decrease of the amount of oil expected from this country. .Our oil men have turned their attention to South America as a market, but in some parts of that section of the world there are large deposits of petroleum ol good quality, which can be procured in abundance without boring for it. A coOMUNICATION in the Charleston New* and Courier calls attention to the statute which makes the non-payment of a poll tax of $1 a misdemeanor. it says : "What prompts me to write to you at this time is that arrests are now being made and prisoners are confined in our I ai1 charged with no other crime than neglect to pay their p4l1 tax, and a til~e egislatute is .now in *ssion Lepe the eor QaWb so05 preseted to the peo'pl ve naothing to do In s hasomook I swing, Aad my thouhts hey think-think of anything. S, a hen I think the waste made of paper and iak; riee and proe of no earthly use T e scribbling mania's my only excuse 0 the number of times I have been in love; exactly how often I've lost a glove; Uthe people I've met and the people I've anisid; Of how many girls in my life I have kissed Of how many wnere I couldn't get - Of how many times I've been in debt. And then to Ight my Pile I Pau"e, And think of tIng w moki for cause. I think of what I've done and seen; Of the man I would be and the man I have been; Of an aimless man inking into life's shade. I think of all I have studied and read,' And I think of a blind man, a cripple in bed; I think of an idle and purposeless youth, And I think " Have I found out the meaning of truth P~ How oft I was angry, Ill-humored and swore; Of how many lebbles are waslhed on tile shore; Of how niany ctions I've done that are good; Of how many herriigs you'll find In a wood; Of things that bore ine; of things that I hate Of an afternoon dance which breaks upat eigfat; Of how many times I have wasted my cash, And spout lots of money on nothing but trush I Of how many times I have wished you wero here. Of how many wishes I've wished in a year. I was smoking a pipe, unless I mistake; How long have I slept and wheu did I wake? -London Socety. The Commands of the Empress. A Sto'y of Ruasla Despotism. BY MARY KYLE DALLAS. To believe the following story, which is recouuted by a French historian 0ile must remumber that the word of a Rub siau Emperor or Emprees has always been a vory different thing from the word of an English King or Queen ; and that where-as in this case-the British cabinet would decide that her majesty was temporarily insane, the Russian lady would be considered only a little more severe than her predecessors. in the time of Catherine tho Second, there dwelt in Russia a gentleman uamed Sonderland, who, though English uy birth, had become a Russian sttbject, and also a great favorite with the Em press. She loaded him with favors ; made him immensely wealthy; gave him a palace to live in, and embraced him publiclv. What more could a sovereign do to show her affection for a sijbjeot ? - Her partiality was so well-known that the greatest people at Court sought his favor and feared his frown ; bat he was a very pleasant and good-hearted per son, who thought more of his dress ap pearance, and the effect he produced on tho fair sex, than anything else ; and it was rather a benefit to the oommunity than otherwise that he should have the eai of the Empress. He, himself, was perfectly happy, and spent a great deal of his time in writing verses expressive of the charms of the Empress, her good ness, and the amiability of her disposi tion. Ono morning he had just finished a most fiattering poem in several cantoes setting forth the story of her condescen sion to a poor old soldier to whom she had really been kind, and was reading it to a select audience, when a servant entering the room, annoned to him that the Chief of the Police, whose name was Reliew, desired to speak with him, having a .message from the Em press. The poet instantly threw down his paper, and. delighted with this proof of confidence on the part of the sovereign, excused Elmself to his friends, and hur ried to the room where Reliew was wait ing for him. The Chief of Police sat leaning back in his chair, with a very grave face, and saluted thme Englishman as a jailer might salute a prisoner whom he was about to load to execution. " What can T do for you, Reliew ?" asked Sonderland, with a condescending twist of his mustache. "I see you are in trouble, and it was well to come to me tonce. The Empress was kinder than usual yesterday, and expressed herself more anxious to take my advice than she has ever done before; so haveno fears. I esteem you, Feliew. I considel you my best friend." "Al" said the Chief of Police, doubt. fully. "And I am very sure I have a true friendship for you; but I regret to say I have terrible news for you. You have utterly lost the favor which has been yours so long. Indeed, though I may not question the royal manda te, I suffer terribly in bringing you the news. See how pale I am. Look how I tremble. Oh, how can I tell you ?' "But how have I offended ?" asked Sonderland. "Assuredly you are mis. I alken. The Empress kissed me on my forehead last evening before the whole Courit." "So one loses the favor of royalty," sighed Reliew. " Perhaps you have ad umiredl a pretty woman." " No, no," replied Sonderland. " The Empress told me nothing," said Reliew; "nothing whatever. She gave 'ne her commands, anti bade me accom p &ish them at once. But they are too horrible! too horrible I"' " Am I to be sent away ?" askedj.Son lerland. " You .could be very happy in some ')ther country. I should not dread giv ng you that news," replied Rehiew. "Am I to be exiled to Siberia ?" asked ionderland. "TIn that case there might be some hope of your coming back," replied Re how. " Then, good heavens ! I am to be whlipp)ed with the knout," sighed Son ''You might get over that ; it seldom dil," answeored the Ruhssan, moodily. " Thou she wvants gy life," said Son lorland. " Bnt I know her better than) von do. I will fling myself at her feet und implore her pardon. And, at all ~wantR, one can die but once." " Oh, my poor friend !" moaned Re. !iew, bura.ting into tears, "it is worse than anything you can Imagine. The Empress has ordere1 me to have you stoiffod." ' What?" oried Sonderland. ' To have you stuffed," replied the arxiL ted Reliew. " Listen, my poor friend. This morning ele sent for me. derstand-and plaoed upon a stand in my private apartment. Let thb stand be elegant and bear his name with these words: "The Favorite of the Em. press. "'Your maesty is good enough to test.' I said humb y. "She f1ashLed a fieroe glance at me. "'I Am in no jesting humor. I valued him,'shasaid. 'Look, I have even shed tears; but go. 1 do not wish to see him again. Talse him to the taxidermist this morning. I will write my orders for him ;' and she gave me this paper ;" and he haided to poor Sonderland a paper on which were written these wor 1s : "Stuff Sonderland very carefully and set him upon moss in the attitude of begging. Begin your work within the hour. Great as was my affection for poor Sonderland, .his beauty was his greatest charm. There are others as faithful and as affectionate, and I shall now always have him to look at: he is certainly a splendid creature. Go and make all speed possible. Have the words 'The Favorite of the Empress,' in letters of gold on a black pdestal three feet iii height." "'There, my poor Sonderland, you see," said the Chief of Police, "it is not I who have gone mad." " Then it is the Empress," said Sonder land. " Unhappy sovereign, she has lost her mind." 'All the worse for us," sighed the v retehed Itussian. "As soon as I felt sure of her real meaning, I fell on my knees and begged her not to intrut4 the terrible news to me; to reconsider her intent ion. I hardly knew what I said. For answer sho pointed to the door. "'If Sonderland is not taken to the taxidermist within an hour, you shall he knonited and sent to Siheria,' she said. " Wretch that I am, I am here with the news." "ILet me see the Empress; let me know what I have done. Let me write. Take % note to her from me." "I dare not," said the Chief of Police. "I have a wife and seven children. You are dear, but they are dearer to me." Sonderland began to hope that the Empress on'y wished to play a practical joke upon them, and pitying his friend for his terror and the grief he suffered, after a few moments more, arose and offered to go with him at once. Wrap ping themselves in their fur-, both men umped into the sleigh at the door. Mdeanwhile he had written a letter to the timpress, and calling a servant, dis patched it by him. As 'et no one guessed at the reason of this visit from the Chief of Police, and the servant had no fears concerning the safety of his er rand. Meanwhile the two getlemen pro ceeded together to the house of the tax idermist. Gottschekof. Sonderlaud yet hopeful-for an Englishman could not believe that such a command could be given in earnest-the Russian half mad with horror. In fact, in delivering the command of the Empress he lost cum mand of his voice and fainted away. The taxidermist himself grew pale. " This is my sentence of death, as well as yours," he said to Sonderland, " for I do not know how to stuff a man, and I know what Enmpresses are. I shall have to try, of comise, but I don't think it can be (done," "I am tsure it is only a jest of our sovereign's," said Sonderlandl. The Russians shook their heads. But at this instant a loud tramp~ing was heard, and armed men entered, seized upon the Chief of Police, Sonderland and the taxidermist, forced them into a sleigh and drove madly away to the Roy al Palace. Bonderland still kept his courage. A man knows well enough when a woman really likes him, but the Russians knewv that if the Empress had lost her senses, her maddest mandate must be obeyed. Perhaps they would now be all stuffed. Led into the royal presence, they found Catherine furiously pacing the floor. " Wretched madman," she shrieked to the poor Chief of Police, " what have you heen about? " The poor follow fell upon his knees. "My Empress," he cried, "endeavor ing to obey you, though it broke my heart." " And you, beast ?" she cried, to the taxidermist. The taxidermist also prostrated him. self with his teeth chattering in his head. " My Empress," said Sonderland, of fering her the paper she hatd written, "here is your royal mandate. There were some difficulties (purely profes sional) in the way of stuffing me. Otherwise I should have been already in an attitude of supplication on a b~lack marble pedestal, I make nio doubt." "Great Heaven I" cried Catherine. " My friend--my most faithful and most earnest friend--how dared you believe me capable of such a thing ? And you idiots, get up." And she spurned the crouching men with her royal foot. " It was my dog, my favorite spaniel-whonm I had named after this dear Sonderluad because he was so handsome-that I ordered you to stuff. Hie died la't nigh t. The whole palace knew that. Good hieavens I" The absurdity of the mistake forced itself upon the royal mind at this inst ant. Catherine, in the midst of her rage, be gan to laugh, and ended by growing good-natured. " Amusing idiots," she said, " go, and always obey me as well as you have done to-day. I see, at least, that you meant wall.'* And thereupon the Chief of Police and the taxidermist crept away, thankful for their lives, to convey the dead dog to its destination. And Bonderland went to lunch with the Empress, who leant upon his shoulder as they walked together through the Palace. , .Remember, Yonng Men. Young men who are intending to be farmers should remember that agricult ure is both' a science and an art, to be oarefully stude'd, and then practically carried out. Tha e han lnna go~b he kn Ingersoll on WbfIkey. We publish this week a beautiful ex tract from a late volume of Ingersoll' Wit, Wisdom and Eloquence by Me Lure, on the subject of Alcohol and its horrors. Mr. Ingersoll is an avowed in fidel, but what Christian priest has done so much as lie for the cause of temper aince? I am aware there is a prejudice igainst any man engaged in the manu facture of alcohol, I believe that from the time it issues from the coiled and poisonous. worm into the distillery until it empties into the hell of death, did. honor and crime, that it demoralizes everybody that touches it from it's source to where it ends. I do not be lieve anybody can contemplate the sub ject without becoming prejudiced against the liquor crime. A11 we have to do gentleman is to think of the wrecks on either bank of the stream of death; of the suicides, of the insanity, of the poverty, of the ig norance, of the destitution, of the littfe children tugging at the faded and weary breasts of weeping and desairing wives, asking for bread, of the tulnted men ot geiias it has wrecked, the men strug aing with imaginary serpents, produced y this devilish thing; and when you think of the jails, the alinshouses, of the asylums, of the prisons, of the scaf folds, upon either bank I do not wonder that every thoughtful man is prejudiced against this stuff called alcohol. Intemperance cuts down youth in its vigor, manhood in its strength and : ge in its weakness. It breaks the fathers heart, bereaves the darling mother, ex tinguishes natural affiction, erases con jugal love, blots out filial attachments, blights parental hope and brings down mourning age in sorrow to the grave. ft produces weakness, not strength, sick ness. not heaith, death, not life. It makes wives widows, children orphans; fathers fiends and all of them paupers and beggars. Feeds rheuma tism, urses gout, welcomes epidemics, invites chole ra, imports pestilence and embraces con suniption, It covers the land with idle ness, misery and crime. It fills your jails, supplies your alinshouses and sup ples your asylums. It engenders contro verses, fosters quarrels and cherishes riots. IR crowds your penitentiaries and furnislhes victims to your scaffolds. It is the life blood of the gambler, the element of the burglar, the prop of the highwavman and the support of the midnight incendiary. It countenances the liar, respects the thief, esteems the blasphemer. It violates obligations, reverences fraud and honors infamy. It defanes benevolence, hates love, scorns virtue and slanders innocence. It in cites the father to butcher his helpless offspring, helps the itiuiband massacre his wife and the child to grind the par icidal axe. It buns up) lmen, it con sumes women, detests life, curses Goed and despises hleaven. It stuborns wit nessefl, curses perjury, defiles the jury box, and stains the judicial ermine. It dhegrades tile citizen, dhebases the legisla tor, dishonors statesmen, and disarms the patriot. Is brings shame not honor; terror, not safety; desp air, happiness; andir with the mnalovence of a fiend,' it calmly surveys its frightful desolatiqp and~ unsatisfied with its havoc, it pois ons felicity, kills peace, ruins mnorale, blights confidenices, slays reputation and wvipes out national honors. It curs es tihe world and~ laughs at its ruin, It does all that and more-it murders tile soul. It is the son of villainies, the father of all crimes, the mother of aboinations; the devils best friend, anid Gods worst enemy, A Punishment Worse Than Death. An execution to which more than pass inig interest attachles will take place in Windsor, Vermont. The condemned personi is Emelie M. Meaker, of Water bury, who was convicted of the murder of ani orphan girl thirteen years old, Alice Meaker by name, April 22, 1880. TIhe wretched woman protested her in-~ nlooceC on the occasion to set aside the ver'iet, as she has always done, but was sentenicedl to be hanged in the prison at 'Windsor on the last F'riday of May, 1883. The crinu. for which a son of ,Mrs. Meaker, Almon Meaker, is already )Inder sentence of death, was one of the mnost horrible in even the criminal his tory of Vermont. The child was a half sister to E. (). Meaker, husb)and of Emelinme, and wvas an inmate of their hous~ehold, wvhere she was severly abused and mltreated, being treated, inideed, as a slave by Mrs. Mleaker and Almon. Almon wats a half- witted(, p~lant tool in thle hiands of his mother. Mr. Meaker is b~elieved to be innocent of all complicity in either theo abuse or the murder of the child. The child was taken from bed andl~ (ressed, a Hack was tied over her head, and she was taken in a wagon to a lonely spot in theo woods, where a dose of strychnn 1110whas giveni her, and she was left to die int a siwampl. Thle crime was -*vely fixed up~on the two wretched p~rison1ers, "'ud nothing can now save them from .'he terrible consequences. Thev time allows i the condemned to pro pare for death is %o long that the execu tion will undoubte~dly be welcomed as a termination of the feeling of terror that wvill possess5 them, Hlow (can Yon Tell a (hood Cigar I They use'd to say that a good cigar could be known by the light brown specks on it. These were made by worms, tie story was, and the worms were epicures in tobacco and would touchm oly the best. But the chemiste soonf found a way of simulating thesu worm specks. So that spoiled the test 'ihen there was no other guide but thn asl.as. It these burned white the ciga was godA ; if not, bad. But the enter prising tobacconists soon found a way t~ miake the vilest cabbagenia burn as spot lessly white as the best Havana. An other test gone. Finally the makers c W they a YOU and read ite the stans The yaOuI) surprisied$ read as follows I send thee back Does it wake6 me Didst thou thipk a That I could wear That to another 1M Nay-'twould "That'll do. self?" " Yes, sir," was " It's tough," man. "I oan pitches around Im not a connoose she doesn't rhyme' For instanoe, take That to another was Nay-twodld wrong " Now, ' troth' rhyme. We'll have would this do: That t, another was Thy love's more th "That kind of doesn't it?" and smiled affably in tb4 the grl. ")o you thiuk Sunda asked bewitchingly Y: "oOh, you into a bang up you grind out some to me, and 1-" At this int the U in, and he you doing so much girl by a series of new arrival was the,, to see. Explainin handed him her poetedif it careiully, and When A* "I readily peroeifrote gem of poetto fire In your it noeds only time a dar forth into a flower of The effort which you: he crude. It lacks the and expericnee alone reconstruct the first stpaumi k with the ideas just emhliA After writing for a ioJ literary editor read'at Take back, 0 perjuired hea No loniger shall it shine on b To dlepths so low I naevercol This astonlishing heart.lr~ I Another has your love, Be not afraid ;for scora you.a~to o "You see thatgse it i and somewhat imifro s e rsaid the literary edtpr, 'And will you prinNl Ba "Certainly, and in a promIr tion, too. Now, whengrer poetry just bring lttO~ne, " Never mind these. Ank the trotting-horse e~sr the room at this n2otr W boy that takes a oeta61 Why, neither of those flleW!j three-em dash frontb o schooner. Whenever'theV~ you just bring your verses tok But the girl was' gone.-.. bune. A Better The wasteful' rsetM*& otherwise destroyin% been brought into dis -i b lady in Iowa, who ha. Met in the form of an alb . s turns out for the 'po~n~~o tainment of her visitors Wo wearied of praising her sin the family photographs. The device, economical ~ ? that aspect praiseworthy4.o backs. To visitors who - the phrase i.-"withaaiap~ the sight of such a otq w harrowing in the extxm would be the adtiosplM some guest would find a sives one from someb4 blvieved she had a p~ sight, in such a case, ofw addressed to another might t tive of unpleasantneas--parlu of tears r, worse still, 4f sora hbair-puT mg. These po:ssibfiles are tOb Fortunately they can'be ~~e recurring to the old-fhi4aa~ iul method of burning *to~s missives contain-or to contain-a good Slome of them hnaie bee~ds the glowing imagetyof " just too sweet for at is undoubtedly hyper)*dl&' however, to be sweet nub if teeis any sembla~' about them. Let th 4w abandoned thenl and let *b. love letters of the on atfy-b glucose factories. T~ neighborhood of aud Ia object. But they do Rt .o0.~ An Outlaw's Svt The rol~ers used '0 at targets in oomps~*l hearts, in the shoo theC sometimes almost ago men, anld the yells b~ air as one's favoritI# bullet on the half waird to the grou4o justice to a border / young ladies bhn~~ itnm, Miss Ryan, boasting that she I as often in the r 3i4 It may be pro modue operaznd o A niekel or other the forks of atnee fromi the ground wonld be while -~ party has one sho4 hshorse at full a - their regular tun been kmnown to bi5q offlve )indedat bO~ - strad * - from jerf i oha1e,