The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, December 07, 1888, Image 4
fAN OLD TIME nHOE DOWN" I
A. Country Party In Canada In tlio Days
of Long Ago.
Did you ever get a "bill" to a danco in
the country? I wean a real, home made,
fifth concessions, log house, quarter of a
- - century back country party. A spree, a
1 Jioo down, a neighborhood shaker of tho
' simple, ready, rough, pioneer days. Did,
eh? Then you will remember that on tho
I morning of tho day fixed for the party
| tho board partition that ran across tho
middle of tho house was pulled down, and
tho beds wero piled in ono corner, and
tho bunk was 6lioved up to tho end of tho
house bosido tho stove, and tho stout
legged kitchen table was placed against
* the wall at theotherendof the room, and
n stout logged chair planted on tho table,
and to that chair tho fiddler was elevated,
and tliero ho rolled his gray old head
from side to side, and whiskod lightning
from his elbow and fingered in ecstatic
irenzy and beat timo with his cowhido
boota, and tho throb of his eager musio
touched tho very inner keys of life and
stirred the young blood and softened tho
hardening muscles and loosed tho settled
Joints of ago until tho stovo shook and
tho dishes rattleu on tho shelves and tho
beat of tho feet on tho dancing iloor was
liko tho crashing of a score of mallets,
deadened as by jpho sweep of a mighty
brstftn "bovwetr/. 1
How they danced 1 IIow tho follow i
who had a fow steps shono and capered
and pounded tho iloor with his cowhides 1 1
And how they swung! Round and round, <
and round and round, until tho perspiration
rolled down tho faco and the breath 1
gasped for a renewal of the lease. Tamed >
and degenerate days. They swing no x
more. And they dance no more. Tho r
mighty clatter of tho old Scotch reel i
where old people unlimbered and 6hook ii
off tho steps of youth, and tho young ii
]>eople gasped to keep pace with tho 6
elders; and the opera reel?they called n
it tho upper reel?which tho old folks tl
nkn inrniln/1 *1 lV
(uiu tiii.ii me cutung out si
jig, where tho youths one after the ^
other did their finest steps, and tho girls h
did the same, and you often got on the si
track of a liking or an incipient company
keeping by noting tho time and ^
circumstances under which some particular
girl selected to take the floor, and tc
who thus become tho partner of her
choice, and tho same with tho malo end m
of the performance, where the cut out a
was much rnoro likely to have a significance.
lx
Do you remember that as a boy you ar
felt if you could grow up to call off in
dances, or perhaps call off and play the
fiddle at tho samo time, as you once
knew a man do, and whoso image lived tit
in your memory for weeks, that clerking an
in a store or oven teaching school would tli
bo nowhere; or perhaps you know a clerk gr;
who kept store and could call off also,
and you ached to grow up and bo as Gi
great a man as ho? It is hardly likely
you knew a malo teacher who could thi
danco much. Somehow tho worry in hit
the teacher's head over arithmetical slu
problems and the confusion of dates and wi
the eccentricities of parsing seemed to at
get into tho teacher's feet when ho got '
on the floor, or, as a nativo used to put CO*
it in a placo where I once lived, his left .
foot was Methodist and mixed him y '
and disgraced him every time hhp
aged to get for a partner a strati, J ^ manV
hadn't been told how badly ho-' ',? ger who
' ?;nf?vuar now, wlm "danced.
IllUl uiu uesu in ioji.I1 wr ,, . ,
ore woodehoppA
1n<lVr!11 ' *. ??^rs and farmci-s and
a ~mA^tfnTo tlio Lost among tho
i were Iho daughters of hotel keepers
villages merchants, and very often tho
-jo teacher was a mighty spry littlo
mz on her feet, for tlie reason that eho
^^^^Halmost always 6uch a great favorite
HgViiio dancers of tlio other persuasion
it she couldn't avoid holding tho lloor,
! .d was a dancer In spito of herself.
I no dances were usually kept up until 4
^ r^scn 5 o'clock in tho morning, and
m then closed with a stupendous
, Mkfast, followed by an effort to get a
/ T Section for tho fiddler. And theso ;
v I /oneer fiddlers were shockingly underI
/-iPri't?? Very often they wero not paid at i
If /all. They had the gratitude and iho npl
preciation of the time in which they lived, i
1 Put no more. They fiddled through two
I generations, hut tho second did for them
I littlo better than tho lirst, and they passed
I down to tho gravo miserably poor.?
Toronto GIoIkj.
Tho liieli llfgRars of Thrace.
Perhaps the most curious of all guilds
| in an Oriental town and one which nourishes
exceedingly in Cnvalla is the hog- '
gars' guild. Like other guilds, they have
their own laws, their president and their
council; this council gives a diploma to
those who wish to beg, and without per
mission no one durst book alms at the
*" cllurches, mosques or street doors; all the
legitimate beggars would riso up in arms :
against him and Ids life would not be
worth much. Friday is tho recognized
beggars' day, on which day they go
round from door to door and get their 1
wallets tilled with bread and "beans; these
are divided by tho community; nothing \
is private property; it is against their | 1
creed.
Tito beggars'brotherhood is rich; they 1
possess house property, tho income of
which is spent for the benefit of the com- j
niunity, and once a year?on tho day of
fit. John tho Charitable?they have a
feast. They all go to church on this
day. It would be difficult to recognize
tho tiuily uressed members of this honorable
conununit}'in their best clothes; '
rags and tatters are only de riguour for (
them when they are on their rounds. 1
Beggary pays very well. If a beggar's
daughter marries she is dowered by the
community, tho president sees to tho be- ;
trothal, and liis consent is essential. At 1
f'. ioniea Blind Demetrius is tho president;
he is easily recognized as lie pari.ties
tho streets, singing liis everlasting
wail:
P; v nr.d night, day and Might, I Jivo in tho dark.
\> .\ !cli that I ami I hoar tlio word, hut 1 cuunot I
roo it. i
/.ti l though you know him to be a
si. ', man, that liis wife is well dressed,
a... ! that his daughter will receive a
ha .homo dower, liis plea for alms is j
iii'..iOot irresistible.?Cornlull Magazine. <
- <
Not :i < lii!?l lit All. j
' was a v.co bit of a girl, wiUi ? ?
earnest pair of eves, ami? a very ?
t !.:e\ kitten. Questioned as to the name '
i f ! pet, sho answered simply: "Woso- 1
1 ' " Asked further if she was not "a I
li'tle child," sho drew herself up i
: display of smell hauteur that was *
enchanting, and said, severely:
eot a child at nil. IVo a person, a 1
i. . ; ' i >n."?TilUhiirg liullelin. i
eh .iulia Uayless, of Charleston, lad., j
1 * a wooden wine tray that waa
tit" > red hy llarman Illonnerhassett,
\ < connected with tho Aaron Durr J
? .. y at the beginning of thoceni
.y. i iie light colored wo-.h! is stained
v. iih \.v o that was spilled, ns Mrs. Hay1
.les, tim ing the secret c nelavt.s '
of ;i conspirators.?New Ycrk Evening ,
World.
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WOUNDED UNTO DEATH.
Ail Incident at tlio llnttle of Fair Oaks.
"Horrible AVar."
A battlo is not always a whirl of con- J
fusion and uproar,with mon firing at will |
or at random At Fair Oaks when wo ;
swept down in the gray of morning on
Casey'8 division wo found two-thirds of j
it unprepared for our reception. I was
a sergeant In my company, and as we
began firing I noticed a federal sergeant
of my own rank displaying tlio utmost
energy in rallying the men around him j
to check lis. iSoino of our men noticed i
liim as well and two or three called out j
that ho looked near enough liko me to be
a brother. By bis own individual efforts j
ho rallied enough men to check us temporarily,
but after a few minutes wo j (
drove them again and were in the Federal ,
camps. Then our lines 1 woke and each man \
fought for himself. I had singled out tlio
sergeant and fired twice at him, and it was j
a fact that he had also singled mo out ]
and fired at me alone. Wo kept advancing
slowly, and by and by, as wo <
crowded them from their shelters, I got t
a fair view of the sergeant. For a mo- <
ment I forgot that there was any one t
elso in alt that battle. I had raised my j
gun when lie wheeled and raised his, and - ^
u-? iw^?i. ? .1? T
Him luc.t uiLT. i wont down f
like a log, liaving received his bullet in <j
the right should :r, and for two hours I
liugged the earth beside a log to escape ];
aeing hit again by the missiles of friend v
Dr foe. 0
When the fury of battle had passed on v
[ was lame and stiff, and as the location j<
yas strango to me, and I did not know tl
vliether wo were still advancing or in t,
ctroat, 1 could not make my way off the ?
ield. I could not tell front from rear,
tor was there ono chance in ten of find- rj
ng a field hospital. After pulling my- n
elf up, and holding to a tree for a few jr
linutes, I felt better and advanced to XJ
lie spot where I had last seen the Federal ,r
ergeant. I found him lying on his back.
ly bullet had struck him in tho sido and jr
o was fatally hit. As I knelt down bo- 0i
de him ho recognized me and said:
"You havo given mc my death 6t
ouiul." 0[
"But you sought to kill me," I pro- c?
;sted, in extenuation. In
.H.O, x mtii at you. tsouio of tlio
ien said you looked like lue, and I felt jk
desire to kill you." to
"Ix't us be friends," I said, ns I knelt jji
tsido him. "I can use 0110 hand and i,(
111, and perhaps I can stop the bleed- ci,
G-" . lif
"It 13 too late!" ho whispered. ni)
So it was. He had lost a great' quan- co
y of blood, and it was still pouring out pj|
d sinking awav into the .black soil of },c
e forest. As lov hand touched his ho m<
asped it and said: . i
"\\ e were enemies. L.otus be friejoods?
vo 1110 water." .uas.
I held my canteen to his lips " Co
Irst was satisfied, and the p- ss-v 1,1,111 j113
n and held his ham1, e \n 'f3, 0
ulow of death c, i- " and watcl'?i1 V10
tli his eyes e' i',cudiiiing nearer, lie lay
last whi< - 'he ioseil for a long time, and
"fell, we s1-i?oro*.l:
? " ,Mary and t'.io children I am
ming!"
*' My heart smote me ns I thought of
the wife and children who would never
sec him again?of tlic black pall of sorrow
which would settle down over a
liappy household.
"And tell father and mother!" ho
gaspcttr "Have them u'.l at..; o. live
ohl iioine to meet me."
And there was a father?and a mother
?and brothers and sisters! And my
bullet would bring tears and sobs and
wails and mourning. And the sunshine
of life would go out of many hearts for
riii.ntlii niul voirj?r.
prayed him over and o\ r i t forgive mo, !
and as death canto nearer I dared not !
look away from lad pale faro for foar j (
that I should meet tlu? accusing glances
of widow and orphans through the drift- !
ing smoke of hat lie. As death finally 1
came lie clutched my hand with firmer
grip, looked into my eyes with a last j
effort and faintly whispered:
' It is war, horriblo war! Lot lis lie
friends! God bless Mary and tlio cliil- ;
dren!"? "Ex-Rebel" in Detroit Frco
Press. I
T!?o Value of Vaccination.
Zurich, according to Tlio Lancet, is be- i :
ginning to sutler from tho effects of 1
neglect of vaccination. Until 1S83 a i
compulsory vaccination law was in force, 1 ,
but in that year it was repealed; tlio succcrsof
tho anti-vaccii.ationists depending,
it is said, upon the fact that not a single j
case of smallpox occurred in 1883. lint
in 1883, in every l,OfiO deaths, two were
caused Ijv smallpox; in lf'-l there woro
three in every 1,000; in 18^">, seventeen, !
and in the first quarter of 18S<> there J
woro cighty-fivo deaths. ,
While Europe is exhibiting folly by
showing in some localities opposition to j
vaccination, Japan is deriving benefits
from the recognition of its value. Nagasaki
possesses a governor, named Kusnkn, .
who is bout upon ridding the town of the <
diseases which formerly infested it. By j
means of a system of compulsory vaccination,
rigorously enforced by the governor,
smallpox, long a familiar scourgo
in tho old town, has been practically ,
itntniml mil f.nrin-mv i.n
tho effects < r r< v accinat n, and hitherto
Lhofreedoin *>f German towns from small- .
pox has contrasted it) a marked degreo -i
with a larger prev ah nco <.f this disease -i
in ofl>"r European tow ;v.! to lvvaeeinition
inot enl'ore d. l'rohahly 11 jo out- ^
jomo of the experit nee of t!te present
generation will ho tho entir-uncut of .
revaccination in lho majority <>f civilized ,
countries.- t : siciu . j (
/m Old us (ha Exo&no. .
j\ most interesting experiment culmi- f
-.' h-.1 tho other day in theraisingof some {
wheat grown from seeds as old as tho (
Exodus. 'J'lio experimenter is David t
Drew, who last year received from a i
friend in Alexandria, Egypt, some grains u
i wheat taken from a mummy exhumed
i. t! ?! ruins of Memphis, and belong- ]
i. ii i; helieved, to the period of tho \
N .I'i Dynasty, which would mako it t
:;rowu a Unit 13,000 D. C., or bo nearly (
) years old. lie planted tho 6eod j
arly in the spring, and carefully nursed t
it. It grow rapidly, and at tho timo of {
lining measured from six and a half to l
even feet high. Tho loaves alternato on t
ho stalk liko common wheat, but tlio t
?r? ha t of tho plant is tho most singular
art of it, for, instead of growing hi tho
;.r like modern corn, tiicro is a heavy
lie tor of small twigs in placo of tho
.pindlc which hangs downward from its (
,vi i; lit, and each twig is thickly studded j
iv it U kernels, each of which is In a ncpa- .j
ale husk. From w.K.t is threshed a (
arger crop will be grown next year, as (
he result proves this gfoiuid to exceed
a (|iiality anything that tho luoderu
train can grow.?Plymouth (Mass.) Cor.
Jinciuuati Euijuircr.
Dird fancieis say that tho voices of
Viuet iean hred rauui ios b .como liaislier
a each generation. German birds must
jo constantly, imported tik.orefifiiyo-u i i
THE ETHICS OF SUICIDE. |
(1 Mysterious Inconsistency?Tli?
Kingdom?Moral Cowardice. I
A very mysterious inconsistency to
human naluro lies in the contrast! between
lifo which makes self preservwttoo
its first love, nnd that utter contemjpAHH
intolernnco of it which induces sert^~*4B
struct ion. By all human laws, the man*
who takes another's lifo in defending his
own is held guiltless of murder; his deed
is accounted justifiable in recognition of
tho self saving instinct with which tho
croator has accompanied tho gift of lifo !
to all his creatures. With the earliest
consciousness of young animals this in- i
ntinct appears in timidity and shrinking
from danger, real or imaginary; and
down to tho lowest order of beings, a
wounded thing will exert its last strength
to escapo having its existencmfalottcd out.
As for tho human species, havo it on
Scripturo authority that "all that a man
bath will ho give for hi3 lifo."
In view of this, who that is unaware
<1? r.?J- -
? iiiu iucis wouici expect to so conitantly
hear of men aud womeu, aud
5ven children, finding life unbearable
md ending all? What a surprising vioation
of this innato principlo it seems,
vhen for this or that cause, and often
or 110 causo that is ovident, somo chooso
leath rather than life!
Suicide is not entirely confined to the
lunian species. There are numerous
roll authenticated instances of different? 1
nimals deliberately killing themselves
rhen circumstances rondored lifo no 1
inger desirable, A recent traveler in 1
lie tropics tells of coming at various j
lines upon the skeleton of a species of '
oisonous serpent within a circlo of *
;aves of the prickly cactus, and later tho
iddlo was solved by liis seeing somo 1
lonkcys engaged in surrounding a Bleep- I
lg reptile with tho spinous vegetation. J
Ipon awaking and finding itself im- ''
risoned and all its nttempts to escape T
itile, the serpent presently took refugo
1 stinging its own body und dying at
ice. It is commonly reported that tho *
tme thing happens when a poisonous v
take is hemmed in by lire, in a spasm 0
! desperation at finding 110 chance of es- *
ipe, it turns its means of self dofpnon
to means of self destruction. 4 ^
Tlio animal kingdom is a law unto
;elf. Not so with man. Ho is subject 111
the higher law of dut}' and nccounta- ^
lily , r.ad no environment can bo called Ir
ipoless to one who believes in Ti gra- T'
ana overruling power and tlio better **
o to come. A portion of tlio ulai'^^Qfiig
imbei of current suicid.i^^t "rt^mist bo
nfesscd, nwnl^lr.jriw*t5iily tho sincerest
.y 111 oioiv _ iihscoptible and benevolent
nr^ ll!Y .u probably there aro very many
-Srses of this kind, wero tho secret
causes that havo actuated tho victims
brought to light. Yet wherever human
law is founded on tho divino law, self
destruction must necessarily bo regarded
as a criuio. A man's buildings aro not
bis own in the sense that lie can set them
on lire and burn them down with impunity;
much less is his life?a possession
which cannot ho restored?so exclusively
personal that lio has tho right ?.o end it
by violcnco in an hour of discouragement
or disgust.
Tho yearly list of suicides in some of
tho countries of Europo is appalling to
contemplate. Tho waters of tho Seino
give up their dead daily, and drowning
is but one among tho common methods
?c.r .jbuflrime: r.r? t1u? mortal coil. Passion,
impetuosity and, above all, inndelily,
aro prominent factors in recruiting
tho army of suicides. Statistics of ull
nations show that occasionally there occurs
what lias been called an epidemic
of suicidewhether this is an
illustrati ftcc of example, or
tho resun. general impelling
force, such r temperature during tbo ,
exhausting heat of summer, remains an |
nncntlln.! ii- - * I
uugt,?uu IjUCSUUIl! J.lUlb IIIO U1UUU1 OI I
July has long been noted for tho largo
number of its suicides favors tho latter
conclusion. Of direct causes among ;
young people, affairs of tho heart, lovo
matters that have taken an unfortunato j
turn, must be reckoned tho leading ono.
Very often, 'too, tho circumstances attending
tiieso cases aro unspeakably pathetic.
Next couio losses or monoy and
business, friends and health. Of criminals
who liavo rccourso to dagger, bullet
or rope to evado just penalty, it is
unnecessary to speak.
Thero is a moral cowardico in tleeing
from the battlo of life, which strikingly
contrasts with tho patient, heroic endurauce
of multitudes of men and women
in every land and in all sorts of hard j
conditions. To tlio tempted it might j
serve as a tonic to read history on this |
point, or better, to recall events. Think, i
for example, of tho crow of tho Jeannette
in their frozen fastnesses, and of
Capt. DeLong and his men in tho Lena ;
Delta, dying of blow starvation, yet j
I vavo to the last. But what need to go |
beyond tho streets of a city, with Its
views of pinched tuid haggard faces and
toiling decrepitude, for heroes and heroines
that shall ho forever nameless^?
Lavinia fc>. Goodwin in Boston Globe.
Tlio Pctrolcnm I'roUiicm;; Strata.
Oil producing strata do not always boong
to tho same geological period. In
lYumucKy and Tennessee tiio petroleum
s furnished by tho lower silurinn; that
s, by tho most ancient si rati lied rocks,
[n Upper Canada it i.? found in tlio lower
Devonian, and in Pennsylvania in tho
;ppev Devonian. rpringaof western
Virginia llow from tlio upper curbonifer>us
strata. In Connecticut and North
Carolina coal oil is found in the trias, in
Colorado and Utah in tho lignites of tho
sretneeous formation, while tho oil prolucing
regions of California belong to
lie tertiary period, ll is a remarkable
act that most of tho deposits of tho
mciont world exist in comparatively relent
tertiary formations, as for instance
hose of tho oil impregnated sands of
Vlsace, of tlio south of France, and of
\bruzzia and UmiUn in Italy. Thcro i
no muuerous deposits in Calicin and tho
Danubinn provinces similarly placed,
vhilo tho strata that contain tlioso of
lio Crimea, the Caucasus and tho island
if Tainan aro of nearly tho tamo geologcal
epoch. It is a fact to ho noted that
110 oils coming from tho greatest depth
no of tho host quality, thoso produced
Tom nearer tho surfaco of tho earth
looming to havo lost somo of their vola- 1
ilo elements.?San Francisco Chronicle. '
a i
A Nut for Vegetarians. K?
Here is a lint for vegetarians to crack. x
Indian runner lives almost entirely ^
>n dried meat and ho can stand iuoro r
aliguo than any other man in tho world. .
I'ho Dluckfoot runners do 800 miles over J
lie roughest country in four days and in j
ho r:.co tho liorso st.fiuls no chanco
igainfll them.?Detroit Free I'ress.
A t'liriotis ("nliiciileiicv. | |
Ioiul Mother? JIv dear, aro you feel- t
ng any hotter? ,
Dully- I ilimiii ; j'tn the jeli all gono? :
Foiul Mother Yes, my dear. j
Fai.1v- Well, 1 g.ji'ss 1 am well enough j i
ogel up now.?Frcloriul West,
f i
Uttto D* VTMhsn of Dysp?p?la
Many havaBlsooursctfiearnedly upon
dreams, prc^Hteding vJfo theories and
making piefl^S suggq/ions, yet no one
n>al_ solution of
from our
noisy, busy worla to JtHj vague and va*t
territory where,
Hollow ns a breathing spell,
Dreamland lie* f^ iorn of light?
but no man may set iu, milestones along
that trackless wasto. only know tiiat,
when all things lapse to "u sleep and a
forgetting" tho imagination becomes a
fly-by-night, and tip,, wits speed over
laud and sea like wilol birds set free from
the cage. |
There are fc?v crcjntures exempt from
theso nocturnal jciurneyings, however
brief and circumsci-ibed they muy be.
Tho dog* "hunts ifa dreams," the cat
fights its battles ovar again, and the bird
6ings in its sleep", ivhilo even tho most
commonplace persim can usually give
some crude account; of his experiences in
slumber. Certain J dreams aro common
to all people? fallfhg from a precipice,
down, down, to s|)mo unfathomed gulf
?striving to walk I upon a floor that sinks
horribly beneath tliio feet?endeavoring,
in urgent haste, tc/l put on garments that
drop off,* turn W1"lr>ng side out, and develop
othy impiLjh propensities?riding
in a coacfr wbiclfti suddenly crumbles to
pieces, and lcav&g ouo staring in tho
road. So to 6pcn??l?t it is a marked pecuiarity
of dreams irthat "the bottom drops
Jut of orerythindv"
So rebellious aj i-e dreams, and so erratic
n their course, \ vi,at they cannot be cotn>elled
by any cP ffort of will; wild fire
tould be moro t' asilv cliained. Wo may
ong ardently t(^i see*onco moro, in "the
vilderness of 6Heep," sorno beloved and
'anished face; jJy-et this poor solace may
0 denied, whiljT-) alien images crowd into
ho brain. UiTpon this subject Iiazlltt
rroto, "I neva f.rdreatn of tho face of any
ne I am partic ularly attached to. I have
nought almo6 j& to agony of tho samo per>n
for years, 1 pearly without ceasing, so
3 to liavo herf Jfaco always before me, and
) bo hauntedpT by a i>erpetual consciousess
of disapJAointed passion, yet I never ,
1 all that tiSfmo dreamt of that person
tore than "Loico or twico, and-t-luw. not
vor can tb? last impression
^Fciveoby tho ^nmd beforo slumber
Overwhelms it bo calculated upon; for wo
may read of Mother Blood's execution,
and dream, immediately nlterward, of a
cabbage garder ; or, transversely, we may
lift omrilnH hv tlia onntl.inrr .,1
? ?- v.vr>?.v>? -'J ??.V <uvgv J 'itIV.1V4
meditations, yet the weird magician,
who bears the branch of poppies, will
beokonms to follow through seas of gore.
Experiment has proved that dreams
may do influenced, if not controlled,
through the inlets of the senses; the thunder
of drays upon tho cobblestones suggests
a tempest to the dreamer, and tho
fumes of sulphur or tho pleasant odors of
aromatic water near his nostrils transport
him to strago countries. For this
reason the noises of awakening lifo give
color and movement to tho visions that
' hang upon the edgo of day," rendering
them moro real and vivid than those
which come at dead of night.
It is one of tho peculiarities of dreams
to seem to be tending toward somo stupenduous
climax, and then to turn away
1 with nt*.-- a., i.iiwni.n Tim dreamer remains
imperturbable in tho faco of tho
most astounding transformations; if animals,
and even inanimate objects, become
gifted with speech, ho is not surprised;
yet lie is likely to startled and torrilled
by tho most trifling things. If ho dreams
of being pursued, it is not by a lion or
tiger, but, perhaps, let us say, by an indistinct
yellow blui*, hovering near the
ground like a will-o'-tlio-wisp?unspeakably
sinister to his fancy?darting from
thickets, and gliding in and out among
flirt trr>r><;
It is somewhat disenchanting to realize I
that dyspepsia is one of the prime factors
in dream making. It matters little
whether the conscience l>o clear, if the
digfetion be not in equally good case.
Most people have experienced the excitation,
tho supcrsensitiveness of every
faculty, brought about by a febrile condition
of the blood?tho lightness of head
and limb, extending, as one fancies,
even to the loss of gravity?the strange,
unfamiliar aspect assumed by well known
oyects about tho room; for fever, like
nlcifgestion, is a fertile breeder of phantasms.
?New Orleans Times-Democrat.
llow to fitxvo Clippings.
After trying many ways of preserving
6craps and clippings of transient value,
which are wanted for reference in writing
any article. 1 have adopted this plan:
Instead of putting them away in envelopes
or lx)xes, where it would bo hard
to lind them, I simply put them in order,
with a letter clip at the top to hold theni
together. I can immediately refer to
any one of them, and when I have finished
with them I throw tho worthless
ones in the scrap basket and paste the
others in nty book.?"C. E. E." in The
Writer.
Tlio Turis exhibition Train.
An endless railway train, consisting of
100 platform cars, is to bo one of tho attractions
at tho Paris exhibition. The
lino will be sunk so that the platforms
will l*e on a level with the surface, and
tho UaihA.l'.i run slowly enough U> |<eimit
most peoplo to step on and olf whilo
it i3 in motion; but for the accommodation
of elderly peoplo a stop of fifteen
seconds every minute will be made. The
motive power will bo electrieitv.?New
York Sun.
Blue Lines Ua?l for tho Kjres.
For som j titno past the school ntlioritics
liavo recognized tho injurious effect
on tho vision of the use of writing paper
ruled with blue lines. The grand ducal
school committeo at Mayence is the lirst
in Germany that has taken positive steps
in banishing this paper from the public
schools. From and after the 1st of January
no ruled paper is tol>e allowed with
lines other than black.?Paris American
Tiio Croaker and tho Elcktr.
Tho kicker is a developer; tho croaker
.i nn incubus. Tho kicker incites to improvement;
tho croaker to indigna*1 .1 j
uul resentment. The kicker only is heard
given-ono dollar uccomuiodaIots
at threo dollar rates; the croaker ;
vould bo just as noisy if I10 was getting .
hreo dollar accommodations and paying J
lothing. Tho kicker is a lively, jovial, j
irdgressivo fellow; tho croaker is a dis- !
pal nuisance, who lags superfluous on \
hf stage.?Augusta Ga.) Chronicle. ,
A boy naturally wants to do every- J
hlog, and nothing very long. NonrM- ,
er how enjoyable a now jnh may ?? it ,
;oon grows old with a boy. If>- i :i nut- ,
xrcl experimenter?ncce>. arily .m l ? . (
ilways wantin ; to do 1 ii. j : 1!.ir - |
10can't do.?Hamlin Ga;!au l i i Asnci- j
con Magazine. ,
r *
HOW TO LIVE LONG. |
Facts That Coi:tcnariaus Kapply ?Fating , j
Too Much. I
Dles-md are tit? poverty Btrickon, if }
longevity bo a blessing. Tlio majority r
of the eighty-four centenarians who were
alive in Franco at tho taking of the last
census wero extremely poor. There were i
twenty-ouo of them living on alms ns ;
beggars or in almshouses. Tho open air !
life of a shepherd must bo also conducive
to long life. A beggar named Rives,
?t Tarbes, wns born in 1770, and a
woman who herded goats in the Ceven- i
nes mountains had exceeded 118 years.
Widows survive into a great old age: ]
their husbands more often than widow- i
ers pay such a bad compliment to their j
wives. Tiio proportion of the centenarian
widows as compared to tho same class of J
widowers was as 41 to 23 in 1884. Is
this because tho ungentle Bex are tho '
moro deeply sentimental, or tho gentle '
one^ eat less and havo better regulated J
tempers?
You know?or perhaps you don't i
know?that nothing hastens 6enility like
habitual guzzling. Would it not bo well *
to hang up the above statistics in tho ]
dining rooms of city companies and at ]
the Mansion house? Your elderly guzzler
on tho shaily side of middlo life is, ]
I linilolt Iwi 11 trno in mniiv i'nciuv>ta ilnml
His brain is starved by the clogging of i
tho hair like arteries which used to feed 1
it. Tho sediment that chokes them
comes of too nutritive food and *oo much
of it. His bones aro denso and weighty,
his muscles rigid, his knuckles chalky,
and his lungs and throat ready to catch j
cold. Turkish baths keep oil, in a de- !
grce, tlieso effects, but the best plan is not 1
to bo gourmand. ''
Those centenarian beggars, I dare say,
had not the means of eating heavily, and
few in the south of France, to which '
they belong, drink deep. Meat, too, is j
there dear and trying to bad teeth, and
fruit is plentiful, cheap and good. This
last won't make bone and muscle in a
child?a reason why it docs not clog 1
capillary arteries. 13ut in tho south it i
has a deal of force in it derived straight
from tho sun, which is convertible into '
vivacity. Eggs aro also plentiful, liens
laying in tho south four more months hi
tho year than in the north. Tho egg is
ideal food for any ono who wants u lot of
nutriment in a 6mall volume. I/should
pity tho French mendicant who* could
at villago inns an onie\?uo
or an oeuf sur le plat.
It is a fact worth noting that most of
tho families who were raised to high
positions and profusely gilded by the First
Napoleon are extinct, and that those still
existing are represented chiefly by
women. The First Empire and its wars
did not play havoc with the dukes and
princes who sprang up around its head.
Tho harm was done by the second empire,
whoso ideal was fairo bombance.
Tho higher class Bonapartists ate, drank,
and were nearly all guzzlers, and man- 1
aged to soak any amount of fine wines
at their lunches and dinners. Tho 1
fashion in their time came in of having as j
many wino glasses at each plate as there
are lines in a great stack of chimneys.
When appetito palled, llio sorbet russo
was brought in to act on tlio unfortunato '
stomach as a tonic and enable it to go
through as much moro as it had gone J
through already. Ono of tho reasons '
why tho lato Marshal Bazaino could not
get quickly out of Metz to bar the way
against tho Prussians was that tho emperor
started beforo him, and so the road 1
was diockcu witntne servicwtioic. wioiio 1
and tho wagons carrying tho belongings 1
of his imperial majesty, which were '
truly impedimenta. 1
When tho Israelites woro under a the- 1
ocracy, and tho chief priest's sons ato as '
do city of London aldermen, the Philis- I
tines routed them. Likewise Marshal do 1
Soubiso was immortalized hy his sauco J
for mutton chops and disgraced by his
defeats. Tho old French monarchy was
dotio for when Louis XVT, whether trying
to fly from France or a prisoner of !
tho assembly in ono of its most stormy
sittings, could not do without a heavy
meal at llio usual hour. I never saw 1
anything so prodigious as the scrvico do
la louche at tho Tuileries and Fontaine- '
bleau. The kitchens (hero were vast fac- j
torie$, and wero situated at a great distanco
from tho court dining and banqueting
rooms out of respect for imperial
nostrils. By tho time, therefore, tho
dishes got to table they wero spoiled.?
Paris Cor. London Truth.
About Undo Sam's Musicians. .
On a sign board in front of the regular 1
army recruiting station in Park row 1
every day in tho year can bo seen tho
words, "Musicians wanted." Clarinets,
lifers and snare drummers are always in
demand, because skilled musicians can t
find more lucrative employment outside ^
of tho army and consequently they do i |
not enlist. Tho pay ot an army musician '
is $20 per month, and no distinction is |
made between a pounder of tho bass ^
drum and a skillful clarinetist/ Another
deterring influence is that the army
musicians nro not allowed to play outside
of camp or barracks and thus earn
an extra honest dollar. Cornet players r
nro as plentiful as sparrows in tho park
and applications nro received every day
for positions. Tho clarinet player's t
place in (lie band is the hardest to Jill.? *
Now York Evening Sun.
T) 10 lCcil Clover Crop.
Tho failure of several crops cf red ~
ciovcr in new /A-aiainl was explained by '
the absence of llio fructifying insects ;
which uro requisite and necessary to tho |
perfection of certain plants. A hundred
wild bees were imported from England
and set free, and in that district the I
clovoi has begun to ilourish.?New York
Sun.
While searching through his father's
effects Ticket Agent Moffelt, of Knoxville,
Tenu., found a gourd over 100 ;
years old. It contained many old papers, j
among them a note from Davy Crockett,
payable to William Moffctt, for one shilling
and tbrco ponce for a barrel of
whisky end a k<?g of cider.?Now York
Evening World.
No Scarcity of Salt.
It is said on tho be?t authority that
50,000,000 bushels of salt uro consume!
in this country. Tho average A merle:, i
ajeta away with fifty pounds of salt every
y ear. The quantity taken at a time is <>
anall that a person hardly notices it, but
i year's consumption of salt bv one person
is almost a bushel. An Englishman
;ots along on twenty-two pounus a ye::r,
md in Franco an ordinary man swallows
Ughtcon pounds between New Year's
lay and December. If calculations
unoiint anything there :; no dan;, r of a
scarcity of tho saline article, for a famous
statistician has declared that if r.'l tiie
salt in the ocean were .piicd to;, a!. \ i;
would make a bulk equal to : ?,i ?,< )
uibio miles. lie never saw all tis .:.....
jut ho says it is there, and till that m d
jo done is to get it safely ashore.?Cur- j
rent Literature.
LES MISERABLES.
"or what nro wo thankful? O sagos, declare,
>oui your high, carveu pulpits, to suffering men;
1V0 list to your sermon, your anthem, your prayer,
four soft benediction. No Riawer Is thero
the question we ask you; trio chili autumn air
Slows tho words to our faces again,
ITou'vo talked of tho merchant ships sailing tho
seas.
\tul told of tho treasures the harvest would yield;
)f tho fruit hanging low on tho o'erburdened
trees;
Df tho odorous breath of tho vine on tho breeze;
Jut whenco comes tho mandate, tho law that decrees
rhat wo starve in tho brown stubblefleld?
tV'o battled at noonday with dust and with heat;
IV o snug and wo jested to lighten our toil;
tVo hoped tho drear winter with plenty to greet?
Mi, tho inirago to near fainting hearts was so
sweet?
Hut empty our hands, baro and bloddiDg our feet;
i'ho labor was ours, not tho^poil.
the harvests aro garnered, tho myriad sheaves
Chat piled tho wido fields like gold from tho mino
Fill up tho great barns from tho iloor to the eaves;
rho grapes that grow ripo amidst whispering
leaves
stain red, laughing lips while a starving one
grieves
Dutsido for tho dregs of tbo wine.
For what aro wo thankful f For prisons and pain;
For our babes murd'rtng sleep with their famishing
cries;
For tho snow and tho sleet, tho wind and tho rain
Beating out tho dull life from tho heart and tho
brain:
For tho gravo wo at last in potter's field gain;
For tho stouo with its deeply cut lies.
?Margaret Holmes in New York World.
The Faco of a Scoundrel.
Undoubtedly Cagliostro was tbo most
iblo and successful scoundrel who ever
lived. Thomas Carlyle, ufter carefully
inspecting his portrait, describes his face
us follows: "Fittest of visages were
they to bo worn by the quack of quacks!
A. most portentous faco of scoundrelism;
a llat, snub, abominablo face; llat nosed,
greasy, full of greediness, sensuality, ax
like obstinacy; a forehead impudeut, refusing
to bo ashamed; and then two eyes
turned up serapbically languishing, as if
in divine contemplation and adoration;
a touch of quiz, too; on tho whole, perhaps
tho most perfect quack faco produced
in tho eighteenth century."?Detroit
Free Press.
0 Uotli Sides of tlio Question.
Ethel (entering suddenly)?Jack, dear,
I wish you to lend mo your baseball
mask for?well, for six months at least.
Brother Jack?Gracious! sister mine,
what on earth are you going to do?
Ethel?Well?if I must toll?it is this
way: You know llarry and I arc engaged
now. Ho cornea every evening and
stays?quite a while. Ho is so extremely
demonstrative, and ho has such an?agpressivo
mustache. I believe in free
trade up to a certain point, then I am
for protection.?Pittsburg Bulletin.
III.-* IMaco in Society.
According to a New York correspondent,
tho western man is looming up on
the horizon of tho New York woman in
a most astonishing way. "Ho is .just beginning,"
ho writes, "to take Ins place
hero in social life, and ho taken an awfully
big place. lie lakes away the
breath of tho eastern girl by bis self
confident methods, and by tho time site
recovers it she very often finds that it is
in reality her heart that is gone."?Chicago
Herald.
Urcmen's Statuo of Liberty.
The quaintest tiling in Bremen is its
statuo of liberty, tho "Boland" lis it is
called. It is a colossal figure, eighteen
feet high, and ectea-trrttrar-temwaf
tho town in 1412. In 0110 huge hand
the giant holds a shield marked with an
eagle (that symbol of liberty in all ages),
in iho other a naked sword. It was the
gauntlet thrown down to all tho world
lliat Bremen would bo free.?Chicago
Herald. _
.Silk frcm Wild Worms.
A curious method of sillc mnnufacturq
is said to exist in tho Chinese province of
Ivwnugtung, wlicro arc found wild silk
worms feeding on the camphor tree. The
full grown caterpillar is cut open and the
-ilk is taken out in a form resembling
catgut, subjected to a hardening process,
nul made into fish linos.?Arkausaw
Traveler. ?
Sharks and Convicts.
There (at Cayenne) when a convict
lies tho body is borno to tho 6ea and a
jroat bell is tolled. And then is tho visions,
glaucous sea surface furrowed sudlenly
by fins innumerable, swart, sharp,
riangular?tho legions of tho sharks
-ushiug to tho hideous funeral. They
mow the bell!?Harper's.
Knowlcdgo of Unman Nature.
"And so your nico clergyman is going
o bo married, Mrs. Marigold], I hopfl
rou'll like his wife as well as you like
lim."
"Well, ma'am, I'm suro I liopo so?
>ut wo generally find that when the genleman
is haffable, tho lady's 'aughtyl"
?Loudon Punch.
Chiefs as Top Spiunora.
An independent stalo in tho Malay'Pclinsula
is Paliang. It has just been oximiucd
from tho outskirts by souio Englishmen,
who report it caj>ablo of suptort
ing a largo poulntion if tho rulers
vould caso from spending tlieir time
liietly in top spinning.?Nov York fciun.
The First Symptoms
Of all Lung diseases arc much t ho same:
fevcrishne.ss, loss of appetite, soro
throat, pains in the client and back,
headache, etc. In a few days you may
lie well, or, 011 the other hand, you may
be down with Pneumonia or " galloping
Consumption." itun no risks, hut begin
immediately to take Aycr's Cherry
Pectoral.
Several years ago, James Itirehard, of
Duricii, Conn., was severely ill. Tho
doctors said lie was in Consumption,
and that tin y could do nothing for him,
but advised liim, asa last resort, to try
Aycr's Cherry Pectoral. After taking
this medicine, two or throe months, bo
was pronounced a well man. His health
remains good to the present day.
.T. S. Dradley, Maiden, Mass., writes :
" Three winters ago 1 took a severe cold,
which rapidly developed into P.rouchitis
and Consumption. I was so weak that
I could not sit, up, was much emaciated,
and coughed incessantly. I consulted
several doctors, but they were powerless,
and all agreed that I was in Consumption.
At last, a friend brought mo
a bottle of Aycr's Cherry Pectoral.
From the Hirst, dose, I found relief.
Two I Kittles cured me, and my health
has since been perfect."
Ayer's Cherry Pectoral,
rni'.i'AnKn nv
Dr. J. C. Ayer St Co., Lowell, Mass.
)?<il<l iiy all Druggists. 1 Vice f I ; al* bottles,
' * ?
PIJLil)3IONT AIR LINE
RICHMOND & DANVILLE
RAILROADGKEENVILLE
& COLUMBIA DIVISION
CONDENSED SCHEDULE
la ofTcct August 19, 1888.
(Trains run on 75th Meridian tima.)
NORTHBOUND No. 64. No. 61. 'K
Leave Cha'aton 7 00 a. m.
Leave Columbia... flO 26 a. m.
Arrive Alston 11 22 a. m.
Aeavo Alston 11 26 p. m.
Arrive Union 1 26 p. m. 4 25 p. ra.
Arrive Spartanburg. 2 60 p. m. 0 45 p. m.
l'ryon
" Saluda
? Flat lloek
" llcndersonville...
" Asbeville 7 00 p. m.
" Hot Springs
' Poiuaria 11 60 a. m.
Ir'rive Prosperity... 12 22 p. m.
" Newberry 12 30 p. m.
" Laurens
" Ninety-Six... 1 45 p. ro.
?' Greenwood...., 2 27 p. m.
? Greenville 6 30 p m
" Abbeville 3 65 p.m.
? Anderson 4 25 p. m.
" Seneca 5 45 p.m.
" Wnllialla G 45 p. m.
Atlanta 10 40 p.m. ?
SOUTHBOUND, No 55 No. 60
Leave Walnalla f7 00 a. m.
" Seneca 8 00 a. m.
' Anderson. ... 0 35 a. in.
" Abbeville 10 30 a. m.
' Greenville 8 40 a. m.
' Greenwood... 11 50 p. in.
' Ninety Six.... 12 40 p. m. t
'? Laurens v<
" Newberry 2 15 p. m.
? Prosperity 2 40 p.m.
Arrive Alston 3 25 p. m.
Leave Hot Springs. *0 50 a m
Leavo Asbeville 8 26 a. m .
| " llen<ler80uvillo
rial hock.
" Saluda
" Tryon
" Spartanburg.. J-11 65 a.m.
" Union 1 40 p. m. 9 45 a m
Arrive Alston *3 35 p. m
" Columbia 4 40 p. ni.
" Augusta 9 10 p. m.
" Charleston via S.
Daily.
f Daily except Sunday
HQ),,. Through Car Service.
Main Line Trains Nos. 54 anil 56 daily
between Columbia and Alston, and daily
except Sunday between Alston and Greenville.
Through passenger coach between Cha'ston
and Mort isiown, viaS. C. Railway, Columbia
and Spartanburg.
Tickets on sale at principal stations to all
points.
On train No. 50 and 51 Pullman sleeper between
Charleston and Hot Springs, N. C.,
via A. C. L , Columbia and Spartanburg.
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