Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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sp?. ' . the mower He wont with the sunlight leaping Over the hillside's rim, And his curls were like meadow lilies Under his wide straw brim; His eyes like the ohioory blossoms, Blue, with their skyey look. His glad cheeks redder than clover And brown as a sunny brook All day in the upland meadow He swings my heart with his scythe* Ab, slow sweet wind from the hilltop. Hurry thy heavy wing! Bring scent of his ferns and daisies, And his whetstone's silver ring. And lift the curls on bis forehead With thy Angers coy and free. And whisper so low he bears not, Whisper oue though of me! All day in the upland meadow He swings my heart with his scythe. Docs tho meadow lark cease her crooning To trouble an 1 watch him pass? Dees be startle the bobolincoln From her nest in tho dewy grass? 'Tis only so, with his coming He flutters my hf art in her nest. Ah, gentle and cruel, he stays not. An?l fain would he not molestl All day In the upland meadow He swings my heart with his scythe. The lilies bow down before him. The long gruss shudders and starts, The daisies faint with their fortunes And secrets around their hearts. With his stroke so swerveless an i steady, His forehead tranquil and sweet, How little he cares what, blossoms Are sinking uncfas fiis feet! All daj^p( the upland meadow my heart with his scythe. ?The Independent A BAD MAN. BY R. L. KETCHUM. _ F he's in that pari rv I \^\ of State, or in y ^>-4 x?11 any jart of it, foi II that matter (mind ' ?~ H you, I don't believ;? Z~- / n 8 f?0'- enough to ?l Jjj\ H linger in this counD try, when he's had - I'llnJ II plenty of chance to \ rill III get to Canada or iilni K) Mexico), he's our I/Im I meat. I've got ii deputy down there "*i.who's onto his job, an(f 'f J?ur friend Mr. de Vries is in that neck of the woods, Stiles can produce liiui in twenty-four hours." That is what the United States mar Mini saiu 10 me special agent ot the Treasury Department, who had come West in teach of Mr. Hamilton de Vries, absconding bank president. The latter, unwittingly, had got himself into trouble with Uncle Sam, a3 well as with the authorities of his State, and was, theretore, in a surer way to get into the hands of justice than if he had been careful not to tamper with the patience of the long sullering uncle aforesaid. The marshal was so certain of his deputy's ability to lay hands of Mr. de Vriis ? if, us the special agent believed, the ex lmnk president was sojourning in said deputy's neighborhood?that the aceut, w.:o was only human, and, besides, had no persenal interest in the i l/SlfiVIS ftflh proceeded tc take life as easily as possible while he might?it was much better than going, partly by stage or Jicimeback, into a wVmT ^ " and woolly region after a man who might not be there, after all. While the special agent, who had been up inte the night previous, yawned und stretched, preparatory to leaving to return to his hotel, the marshal wrote a telegram to be sent to the deputy who looked after the ibrcc "tough" counties in the southeast nnnmr <-?f ?l>n a>-< ?- v? ?uo ownc. "Here, Hall take this to the office, will you?" Auil to Uucle Saua's emissary he remarked: "Now, thea, that's settled. Stiles'll have him by Saturday, if he's there." When the marshal appointed Bob Stiles a deputy, and assigned t jhim the duty of attending to the three southeast counties, he knew what he was about. He had always been a tirin believer in the truth of the old saying that 'it takes a thief to catch a thief." On the same principle, he hold that it required a bad man to handle bad men; ami in making his appointment for Jones, Elkhorn and Antelope Counties, i.? .c nun iiu nesuaucy in selecting Mr. Stilus, whose application for the position wus indorsed by many leading citizens? not because they were keen to seo Bob get the place, but became he asked them to indoise him, and a refusal to do so involved possible, indeed, probable, unpleasant consequences. Yes, Bub Slile3 was, undeniably a bad mail. Not that he had ever made himself amendable to the law?at least, not that anybody knew of?but he had a blood-stained obituary list of persons who hud disagreed with him, and a beautiful disregard for the consequences of anything he chose to do; and he chose to do some very peculiar things, especially when he had over-indulged in Ins favorite intoxicant, which was quite lrequently. When Mr. Stiles was not engaged in his official duties, his avocation was that of gambler, aud he was not an over-scrupulous one, either; in fact, I am obliged to confess, albeit with much reluctance, that Mr. Stiles enjoyed 'skinning a sucker" as well as did any member of the traternity. It happened, however, that. nn? night?the very night before the day the marshal sent him the telegram concerning the missing bank president?Mr. Stiles and u confrere had sal in a game with a supposed "sucker" from the mines, who turned out to be very much of a player himself, and that Mr. Stiles aud his friend rose from the game "busted," and each owing the house for icveral stacks of chips, and Mr. Stiles stood on a corner, this bright afternoon, looking verv down-hearted and sad!v out of his usual spirits, when the boy came along with his telegram. "Hm! 'Tall man?black whiskers? dark complected ? gray eyes.' Uml Crcct. I'll look after ye t'morrnh, Mister d'Vriesl" lie had been walking as he read, and had reached tho postofflce by this time. In response to his inquiry, the clerk handed him an otHoial lookiugenvelope. lie retired t>? a corner to read it. and the contents made his eyes dance. "Sta buenol Hyar's luck fer ye, Bobby, ol' boy! Five hundred dollars r'ward! Thanks, Bobby, we don't care ef we do; oh, no, not any!" And as Mr. Robert Stiles walked uo the street to bis usual 1 "liang-out," he felt quite cheerful, and whistled &3 though the fire hundred dollars were already in bis possession, for he knew righ' where ho could find a certain Thomas Rudey, ex-moonshiner, urgently wanted for the murder, several months previously, of a revenue officer who had raided Mr. Iiudey's still, in a neighboring State. /Text raoraing, bright and eailf, the eputy-marshal rode gayly forth. He had made a small "borrow," and won a hundred or so, the night before; he would make five hundred dollars and some fees to-day; and these facts, together with the brightness of the morning, the beauties of nature and the excellent breakfast ho had just eaten, conspired to make him, if anything, more cheerful than usual, and that was very cheerful, indeed. There was only one thing that troubled him, and thnt was the fact that no reward was offered for the arrest of do Vries, whose history ho had read iu the papers. "Th' idee!" the deputy-marshal said to himself. "Ilyar's this high toned cus3 fr'm Ohio?busts a bank, robs 'is fr'en's, an' takes th' bread away fr'm orph'nsan' widdcrs, an' gits away; no r'ward f'r him! ilyar's a poor moonshiner, got nothin' but a still t' keep 'is family on, on fkinb n kn'o IMIloU f IMtf f* nmko whisky as anybody else; shoots a revenoo offuser th't mos' Itkely shot at him first, an' Uncle Sam offers five hun' dred fer 'im! It's tough, no use talkin'." And Mr. Stiles chirped to his horse, which was nibbling at the branches of the trees by the roadside. Four hours later Bob Stiles, deputymarshal, rode into a little valley into which the by-road had led him from the main trail. Ho looked to his revolvers carefully, to see that they were all right for the emergency which was quito probable, and decided on a plan of action. Ho dismounted, and proceeded on foot toward the shabby, tumble-down logcabin that stood in a little clearing on the hillside above him. As he reached the edge of the clearing, ho halted, aud took note of the cabin and its surroundings, observing, with some surprise, the neat appearance of the garden and yard and the unavailing ropairs that bad been attempted on the old cabin. "Kind o' decent, 'pears like," thought tho deputy-marshal, as he Bneaked around to advance on tho house from tho rear. "Wonder where all th' folks is?" As ho emerged from the thicket at tho rear of tho house and started toward it, two or three scrawny curs rushed at him, barking fiercely, but no one appeared to silence them. H< jpokc to them quietly, and presently thoy drew off, somewhat mollified, but still growling suspiciously. Then the deputy-marshal tip-toed quietly tn tlia nnnn winrlnw find lonkpd in_ -r ? ? ~r? Od a tumbled, forlom-lookiug bed, at the other end of the long room, lay, propped up with the bed-clothing, a young woman, evidently in the la9t stages of consumption. She was bicathlng in short, quick gasps?lighting brnvely lor a few minutes' respite from the end that, Bob could see, was so near. Her wasted hands rested on the heads of two little children who were crying softly, in their uncomprehending way, in sympathy with the broad-shouldered man who, with his arm9 about the dying one, as if to hold her back from the awful shadows, was sobbing his heart out. "Oh, Sue, I cain't let ye got Don't , Moll?they?they?" "Don't, Tom," came in a weak voice from the form on tho bed. "It'sdretful hard t' go an' leave you all, but it had t' be. I'd. glad ye think I've b'en a good wife to ye?an'?Ton?promise mo ye'll alius bo good t' our children? won't ye, Tom, dear?" The man only sobbed and nodded his head. Tho slight form his arms elapsed was shaken by a tit of coughing that was awful to hear, and tho deputy-marshal, whose cheeks were wet with unwonted tears, murmured: "Poor thiug; oh, poor thing!" Then the weak voice continued! "I know ye will, Tom. I'm only afeared o' one thing; what'll th' babies do ef?ef they sh'd ketch ye an' put ye in jail? Be keerful, Torn, oh, be keerful, f r their sakes, won't ye? My pore babies?my pore babhw!" There came another fit of coughing, more terrible than the other, during which Bob Stiles wiped his eyes on hu sleeve, with nervous fiugers pulled the money bad won the night before from his pocket, rolled it up and threw it on the floor of the cabin. Then he turned, without another look at the man he had come to arrest, and hurried to the spot where ho had left his horse, sobbing all the way?for Bob Stiles, ga bier, still bad a heart, though lie had thought it buried in the grave of the wife whose young U'e had gone from her just as this woman's was going. It was late in the afternoon when the deputy-marshal rode up to the house where Hnmilton de Vries, ex-banker, was staying. Mr. de Vries was seutcd on the front-steps, smoking a cigar, and looked cool and comfortable, and as much at peaco with himself and the world as if he were the honest, upright, Christian gentleman his friends and acquaintances, up to three weeks ago, had believed him. He was, as the officer rode up, trying to arrange with himself for a trip to Mexico by tho shortest possible route. Unavoidable circumstances, unnecessary to state, had brought him hore, ami unavoidable circumstances made it desirable for him to got away as soon as possible. He was thinking how easily he could have got to Canada, if he had not been obliged to comi hero first, when a voice addressed him: "Ah, Mr. d' Vries, I see ye'vo cut oil v'r whiskers." Mr. de Vries spiang to his feet, pale as death, and faced the smiling horseman, who sac looking at him from a point near the corner of the house, around which he had quietly come. Mr. de Vries would have drawn his revolver, hul If nraa nnt an mnvnninnl in Ml hand as were tbe weapons of his visitor, so he tried other tactics. "I guess you're mistaken, my friend. My narno is White?James White." "Ob, no, it ain't," said the deputymarshal, easily. "I've got good reasons for caUin' ye d ' Vrios, an' I reckon ye hadn't better kick none. I'll have t' ask ye, moreover, t' pack up an' ride over t' Coluinbus with mo." But Mr. de Vries did not want to go. He called on Jem Whatcom, proprietor of the house?which was a sort of boarding-house used by sportsmen during the fishing and hunting seasons?to witness that he was what he claimed to be; but Jem knew the deputy-marshal, and immediately told the bare truth, which war that his guest was a stranger; had come nNBMMMMMHMflMMnaMHaaa A two weeks before, and Ma, a flay or twe after his arrival, held a secret coaferenoe with two other strangers, who come one evening aud stayed only until the next morning. So, despite Mr. do Vries's protests, he was disarmed and put in charge of tin landlord, while Stiles searched his room A little later, he was riding toward Columbus besido the deputy-marshal; while ahead of them, with Mr. de Vries's pos sessions, drove Jem, in the buck board. It was not a pleasant ride for Mr. d Vries. He shifted in his saddle and eyed the officer nervously, hoping tb< latter would give him an opportunity to break away?but none was preseqted. Then Mr. de Vries bethought himseli of a scheme. He tapped his companior on tho shoulder. "Say, marshal, I've got something be sides what's in the grip" (and he pointed to the satchel in the buckboard, which, Bob had found, contained a goodly por tion of Mr. do Vries's final haul). Ths officer did not respond. Mr. de Vries cleared his throat ant tried again. "Suppose," ho suggested, "that should get away, and you should find couple of thousand in your coat-pocket? No answer from liis captor. The came to the top of a hill, and, only n fe miles away, could see the little towr 1 LiviI UUMiuauuu, iw niuuuno ivuuv-uu the glow of the red sunset. De Vri< was desperate. He looked down tl road; Jem wan far ahead of them. "Say, for God's sake, man, will yo tuke three thousand?" he cried. No answer. "Four thousand, then." The officer begau whistling softly, an his prisoner took this as a favorable sign He halted. "Marshal, look here. I've got si thousand dollars, and no more, in in pockets. I need a thousand to get ou of the gpuntry with?you underatan that?but if you'll let mo go, I'll giv you the rest. Isn't that fair?" The officer spoke: "Jest ride up a leetle ahead o' mc will ye?" he said. "I novor liko t'hav a man laggin'; I want t' keep an eye o 'im." Later, ufter lie udu oueu his p[?Oiii safely lodged in the county jail for tl night, the deputy-marshal, with son difficulty, managed to borrow a tweni to go and "sit in" a game with.?3c Francisco Argonaut. The Chocolate Nnt or Dean. The chocolate nut or bean is the see of a small tree native of tropical Amer ca, and now cultivated most extonsivel in Brazil, Venezuela, New Granada an Trinidad, but as the trees will thrive i almost all tropical countries their cult vatiou may be extended almost withoi limit. The plants are easily raised froi seed, which should be sown in nursei rows on moist soils and then transplant when two or three years old. In tran planting the young treos they are place about fifteen feet apart and shaded wit bananas or some other equally rapi growiug broad-leaved plants. Ri< bottom lands are preierrea lor caocola plantations, in order to secure plenty c moisture at the roots. The tree cotm into bearing when Ave or six years olc aas1 wjlwte Jha ^taifo? There are, however, several varieties c this qf^jUift Cacao, soafit bein bettCT ntTen for dry grounds and hill situations than others. The fruit some what resembles a cucumber when grow ing, and are from six to ten inches long each containing from fifty to one hue dred seeds. When the seeds are fin removed from the fruit they are covere< with mucilage, which causes a sligli fermentation when the seeds aro place in heaps, as they generally are for th purpose, in order to destroy this stick substance; after which they aro sprea out and dried in the sun, acquiring th brown color of the beans of commerce No 'evaporator" is needed to prepai the beans for market. The beans ar shipped to various countries in their di and natural state and sold to the manu facturers of chocolate. Great Britai takes about 10,000,000 pouuds annuall I r I - a. : . Jd!i! a _ lur iiomu cuusiuupuou iu auumou 10 VHSt quantity for export. ?New Yor Sun. K<>vprsti>ie sua(i63 in main. A snake not often heard of, at least i America, is the liver-colored snake wit two heads, or perhaps they should fc called mouths, though it does not hav two mouths at the same time. They ai reversible mouthf, occupying the opposii end every six mouths. It lies with tl two ends crossed in each other, as wit folded hands. Every six months tl change of the seasons reverses the fun< ions of the two ends, the head beco.nin the tail and the tail becoming the heat The mouth at one end heals or closes u all but a small opening, while the oppt site end becomes the mouth for the nej six months. A .'riend of mine in India who tol me about this remarkable snako said li refused for a long time to believe tut the functions of the two ends were ri versed every six months, but one day li found one of these snakes in the jungl and carried it home, whero ho had physician examine it. Tho result wi the physician conti.onel tho stories t the creature, and my frieud was skepticr no longer. I learned no other name fc this singular reptile than that of "tl; liver-colored snake."?Hartford (Conu Times. Conking With Ice for Fnel. The generally accepted theory of th cooking of meat relates to the applicatioi of heat; but Dr. Sawicrevosky has cello niimiuuu u> iiiu inut umi uiuiuit ^reuisoM the same chemical and physical change can be accomplished by the exposure o animal flesh to extreme cold. Indeed, thi sensation experience ! by touching freer ing mercury is very much that of a sever bum. Then the experimenter referred to ap plied his method to tho preservation o meats, first by subjecting them to a ten] peraturo of thirty-three below icrc Fahrenheit, and thou sealing thorn uj hermetically in tin vessols. Animals ant substances wbic'i had been so treated an< for so-nc timo kept in those boxes, or examination proved to bo oxtromcly pala table, and, being partially coo'.ce I, re quired very little heat to prepare then for tho table. An establishment in Hungary is no* en^a-^e I in the preparation of meat bj this method on an extensive scale.?Ne/ York World. .. ) o'l Women druggists are Inoreaaing. I * Leghorn hats are now holding sway. s Arrangements of the hair are nctably i simple. The wearing of green veils is said to ' be injurious. 1 In Harlem, New York City, Mary Evans, is licensed captain of a ship. [} In New York City, Mrs. Elisabeth Gill, pursues the craft of a cobbler. _ ( Women of every rank go bareheaded \ in Mexico and the fashions never change. * There liavo been patents granted to I 646 women from New Y Jrk State since ; 1809. I Fashion dictates how to hang lace u curtains straight, so as to show their full i design. ;y In China small, round eyes are liked, w But tho great beauty of a Chinese lady i, is in her feet. g Six of the most successful busiuess 33 stores iu JtoMts, Me., are owned and ie run by womenT* Iu Brooklyn, Miss Cornelia K. HooJ, II President of the Kornpin Club, is lawyer, lecturer and writer. Mrs. J. G. Safley, of Traer, Iona, la., owns 1040 acres of fine prairie land and ( does her own farming. The modern Persians hare a strong jx aversiou to red hair. The Turks, on the ,y contrary, are warm admirers of it. it "Cricketing teams" of ladies are the d fashion in England now. Lady Brassey e is responsible for introducing them. Tho Province of Bhopal, India, is celcbrated for the unusually great admtnis>< trative powers of its female sovereigns. Tho fashion in bridesmaids' bouquets Q lately has been the horseshoe, with tho nails worked out in contrasting blossoms. Last year's gowns may be lengthened ,e by a band o^ cloth about the skirt, *e while the waist is enlarged with vest and y falling collar. A college for girls is to be opened next autumn at Buda Pesth, Hungary, which is to be chiefly for the study of medicine and philosophy, ki.ai. ..J ?... ,fj X nunio VI Vioui* uuu miuio u^uv wiu^ ]. may be inserted in street frocks, together y with a jaunty addition in the way of a d stimulated jacket. u Nothing so rejuvenates a gown that is i- beginning to bear evidences of wear as a ut pointed belt of ribbon from which deal peud jet pendants. y Tea cloths that imitate not only the >d Drosden china pottery, but also Royal 3- Worcester, Coalport and other wares are d used with services to match. ^ Mr. Jollivet declares that American women are welcome in Parisian society because ho man? of them are pretty, clever and ex^l^^^dreased. The loug^^^^Hftkhich is now in an|j|^^^^^^^B^&iid to An ^oicolor y which a fouud in the hair, the eyes^^^HHpmplexion." The late Mrs.^^^^T. Sherman, and , Miss Mary OwraHolen Caldwell havo i- given more money to the Catholic Church it than any other women in America. * Miss Florence Nightingale is seventylt two years of age. Her health is very ' poor, but she still coutinues to do a lot '9 of writing for the nursing journals. ^ Rice flour wafers, which are slightly 1 swot, are the correct thing to serve ,e with 5 o'clock tea. They are to be had at the Japanese shops in pound tins. e The first International club for women Itou lionn f Aiinrl o/1 ? ,,* vuuvtvv* k uo IUUUI |n;iAVU!9 y are a group of American, French and n German women in residence in Nice, y The Prussian MiijJstor of Education a has decided that from now on she con* k tracts with all women teachers shall be cancelled bj their marriage at the end ot the school year. There has just died in Poland a once " celebrated beauty, who refused the hand 11 of Napoleon III. She was the Princess ,e Ileleuu Sagonsko, and died unmarried 0 at the ago of tlfty-seveu. ^ Mr. Peter Marie, of New York, Is said to have the finest collection ia existence ^ of the miniatures of pietty worn in, uu)e less there is excepted the collection of the lute King Lud wig of Bavaria, j. The ladies of Arabia stain their fingers I. and toes red and their lipa blue. In p Persia they paint u black struak around their oyes aud ornament their faces with representations of various figures. Eliztbeth Ilobina Penuoll advocates (1 that a perfect cycling dress should be a 10 skirt of gray tweed, made without it foundation, with a deep hem turned up o* on the outside and secured by rows of stitching. e Though the Duko and Duchess of a Edinburgh are not particularly wealthy is in a monetary way, the Duchess pos* ?f sesses jewels worth $4,000,000. They tl are heirlooms, however, and by the late >r Czar's will they cannot be sold. 10 Princess Marfaret. of Prussia, is one of the most indefatigable equestriennes in Europe. Horseback riding was recommended to her as a palliative of obesity, and the prescription pleased her 0 so well that she has taken it to excess. , In making clover pillows onlv the ' blossoms should l>e used, and they must g bo packed first id slips of stout muslin, f An overslip of clever-blossomed cretonne 9 is pretty nod suitable if one had neither time, skill nor inclination to e nbroider e on some art cloth sprays of pink and white clover, tliAn which few needlework designs are prettier, y Mrs. Mackay, Wife of the Bonanza i. King, never wears any jewelry at her >t own entertainments* At her last party fin London, which was a tfbnoort for the young Italian royalty, the Djc d'Aoita, 1 she wore pale pink, without ornament, i Her guests were jeweled to the point of barburity. One wtmsn wore diamond ivy leaves and a diamond sun in her t hair, three rows of diamonds and pearls around her neck and a colossal i rivcre. r 'A' * " Time destroys the speculation of man, , but it confirms the judgement of nature How Doit Goto la. When tho air around us becomes coo dcnsed?shrinks into a smaller volum ?it becomes heavier, puts greater prw sure on the surface of the mercury aa< makes it ascend in the tube; then th mercury is said to rise. When the m expands?swells into a larger volume it becomes lighter, the pressure on th mercury is less, the mercury kinks in th tube and the barometer is said to fall Therefore every ohange of height of th quicksilver which we observe is a slg and measure of a change in the volum of air around us. Further, this change in volume teli no less upon the air inside our cases an cupboards. When the barometer falls the air around expands into a large volume, and the air inside the cupboar also expands and forces itself out at ever minute crevice. When the baromete rises again, the air inside the cupboard as well as outside, condensos and shrink and air is forced back into the cupboar to equalize the pressure, and along wit the air in goes the dust. The smalle the crevico the stronger the jet of ah the farther goes the dirt. Witness th dirt tracks so often seen in imperfectl framed engravings or photographs. R< member, ladies and gentlemen, whenevt you see the barometer rising, that an ac ditional charge of dust is entering you cupboards and dxaweca.?Detroit Frt Press. Lightning's Queer Pranks. "Lightning plays some queer pranks, said William Oathcart, at the Lindell "I was traveling through Coles Countj Illinois, some years ago, and sougl shelter from n thunder storm m a farm house. Thn farmer undertook to buil a Are in the kitchen store to dry m damp garments. He was down on h knees blowing the coals rigorously whe there was a terrific clap of thunder, an a bolt of blue fire shot out of the stos into his face. He fell back as limp as wet newspaper. The lightning tore a bis clothing oil with the exception < oue boot and trousers leg. There was streak down through his beard, aero: his breast and down one leg as thoug made by a red-hot poker. I suppose he was dead as a door nail. His wi: picked up a large crock of milk tbi stood on the table and dashed it on him, and in less than three minutes 1 sat up, surreyed himself and mourafull remarked: 'Marier, you oughten to trei me that erway atore stranger*.'"?S Louis Qlobe-Demor.rnt. Figs. The flower of the fig is extreme small and numbers of them line the li side of the fruit we call a fig. The on! access to this flower is by the smal needle-sized hole at the apex of the fl( These flowers are almost always fema flowers and the flowers which bear tl pollen are usually on separate trees, is supposed that the pollen is carric inside of these flowers by a very smi insect which abounds ou the male flos era; hence it is the practice of fig rai era in some parts of the world to t branches of the pollen bearing flowe on the treos which bear the figs, as thi believe the insects travel from the. pp lea-bearing flowers to those which be. the fruit, and in this way fertilize tl Sftion?" ffnOouCtedly, however, rth pulpy portion of the fig comes to perfe< tion without any such bringing of polle from other flowers, although the see may possibly be imperfect.?\T??K?|n Monthly. Squeaking Sands. Singing sands are found in many pari of the United States, but tqueakii sends are not so common. There iscn ono place in this country where tl squeaking sand is found, and that is small plain in Houth Colorado. T! singing sand emits a musical sound on when dry and looses this property on b ing dampened. Tbe squeaking sand, i the other hand, is silent when dry ai squeaks best and loudest when moistenc The sound it gives forth is by no raea loud,but somewhat resembles the squea ing of an armcbuir. It sounds wh rubbed between the Angers or wh< placed in a small bag and violent struck but the cause of the sound is mystery.?St. Louis Globe-Domocrat Discipline of Chinese Troops. An English journal describes the ma cenvering of Chinese troops at a revie that was held at Nanking last month the presence of the Viceroy and a gre throng of spectators. The drill was e tirely on European lines, except that certain points during the movement tl bearers of flags leaped out before t main body of troops, uttering terri yells and brandishing long flagstaffs lil spears, concluding by refolding th< flags around the staffs by a dextero movement and leaping backward in tbe ranks. The drilling was conduct* first by companies and tboo by reg ments, the various bodies being afte ward reformed and put through varioi movements together. In the opinion one observer, the men did not keep ve evenly in line, but he saw no soldi losing his place either in quick marcbli or tbe rapid forming of squares and co umns. The bayonet exercise was al gone through smartly, and the firing wi well up to the average. The men ns< their old rauzxle-loading muskets.?Ne Orleans Picayune. A Novel Bird Trap. A r.sident of Sangerville, Me., 1 caught eleven hawks and two o* within a few months in a novel trap bis own invention. A pole fifteen twenty feet high was placed on t ground, the top sawed off square, and common rat trap was placed on top ?Ka rs/vU TKa k-_l.- ?IX ?I- * ?1 "HWIV8 nil^QlO | II |H)I) to watch for prej with disastrous r suits.?San Francisco Chronicle. My Wife PWB W? mlssrab^s a V EH the time with ktdn< dgM ?Oja| complaint hot Im? I Improving when shah A Sw'jtjr taken Hood's Partapi \ Ala one week, and af taking three bottles e perfectly cured. Mrs. Rlokardean. Heart Failure, C Complaint. Conld*noU$?ip, bloate<flwl bad peine in my back, ringing noieee In i ears. iiood'e Harsaparllla ?are Imjpedu benefit, nound eleep and good health. H. Rjicn A r n?ON,Klloam,N._Y. ' Hood's Pilla care Nnnera. Rick Headac IndJgeetion, Blfiousneae and aii Liver troubl Sample Package Mailed Free* Addreee Small Bile Beang, New York. 0 Platform scalea were the invention of Thaddeus Fairbanka, in 1831^ 1 Will do good In almost every esse of sickness 0 ?Small Bile Beans. lr. President Harrison receives his salary ?< in monthly installments. ** 3. F. Smith A Co.. New York City : Gentleto men?I And Bile Beans Small to be perfection, and cannot get along without them in tho house. Please And enclosed 60c., for which e kindly scad ? bottles. Mrs. A. a. Toe:.*-, Caverdale, CaL Q " e There are over 15,000 Masonic lodges in existence. * Complexion cleared with Small Bile Beans. d _________ , Th? labor cost in a ton of wire-rod is r $105. d The Only Oae Ever Printed. j can too find tub word? i_ These Is a 8 Inch display adverilsemeot In this paper, this week, which has no two words I, alike except one word. The same is true of a each new one appearing each week, from The Dr. Harter Medicine Co. This house places a (1 'Crescent" on everything they inake and nubk? llsh. Look for it. send them the name or the u word and they will return you book, bbautiir vol litbouuapus or samples NtBB. " oiHVANT girls are organizing in Chicago 0 and intend to strike for more wages during ly the World's Fair, 3" M ant persons are broken down from overSf work or household cares. Brown's Iron Bit1 ters rebuilds the system, aids digestion, removes excess of bile, and cures malaria. ir opendtd tonic for women and children. Th* telegraph operators on the Loulsvilh and Nashville Railroad seoured an advanc* of five dollars per month. Thb principal causes of sick headache, biliousness and cold chills are found In the ? stomach and liver. Cured Uy Beccham's Pills. I. Thb boot and shoe manufacturers of New , England are hurrying work as fast as posil '? ble. it .. We will give $100 reward for any caae of catarrh that cannot be cured with Hall's Cad tarrh Cure. Taken internally. j F. J. Cheney & Co., Proprs., Toledo, O. Thb lowest prioed laborers employed in o mills under the Amalgamated scale receive d $1.50 a day. 0 Ladies needing a ionic, or children who a want building up, should take Brown's Iron >, Bitters. It Is pleasant to take, curee Malaria, 11 Indigestion, Biliousness au-t Llvor Com>f plaints, makes the Blood rich and pure. L An English syndacate has purchased for ? H,sx;,vmu an ezuniive iraoo near Ltiramie, h Wyoming, upon wbioh a Scottish colony will Bottle. fe - " $ J ON0 ENJOYS r Both the method and results whoi Syrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant ie and refreshing to the taste, and acts ? gently yet promptly on the Kidneys, 9y Liver and Bowels, cleaq?e? tho eys>1. tern effectually, dispels colds, header aches and fevers and cures habitual lie constipation. Syrup of Figs is the ?i; jwmcuj vi its cum ever projo duced, pleasing to the taste and ac'* ccptsble to the stomach, prompt in a. its action and truly beneficial in its , effects, prepared only from the most 8 healthy ana agreeable substances, its many excellent qualities commend it to all and have mad<t it ilia moat popular remedy known. oyrup of Figs is for sale in 60s )g ?pd $1 bottles by all leading drug1y gists. Any reliable druggist who he may not bare it on hand will proa cure it promptly for any one who be wishes to try it. Do not accept any ly substitute. !? CALIFORNIA FIO STROP CO. ^ 8AM FRANCISCO. CAL. , ioumilu, nr. new roRK. ?,r. d. on I Every Month I Bn I many women Buffer from Excessive or I i- I Scant Menstruation; thsy don't know ~ * I who to confide In to (at proper advice. R I Don't confide la tnjfiodr bat try I Bradfleld's Female Regeleter n- Spec Iff o tor PAINFUL. PNOFUSE. W tCANTY. SUPPRESSED and IRRESULAR in MENSTRUATION. at I Book to "WOMAN" mailed free. n I BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. (. ^ I field ky all Ur?nUU. I "German I Syrup" us Mr. Albert Hartley of Hudson, of N. C., was taken with Pneumonia, ry His brother had just died from it. er When he found his doctor could not ig rally him he took one bottle of Ger'1 man Syrup and came out sound and ? well. Mr. S. B. Gardiner, Clerk " with Druggist J. E. Barr, Aurora, Texas, prevented a bad attack of w; pneumonia by taking German Syrup in time. He was in the business and knew the danger. He used the great remedy?Boschee's German yrup?for lung diseases. <S> 1(U 9 rli IT IS A DUTY yog own yeor. |f| rlf?nd hmilvioiirr ihfhcM MAI of nlitbr rorMiir. K< onn ... la r*ar fMtwMrki par. Vf or cbaolng W. t. Ikoegloo Kfe.oi., W W ha wbleb i-npraoent ik? feral jig a . for orlc.no aikel, (P M ' 1 Ihmtali will inotify. A of VTAKI NO MITBHTITUTK, ^ miES z w ? f? v -* ?ML I Tk?r or* mot 'Soy? _ ASK FOR W. L. DOUGLAS' SHOES. Sft he, l*r *! -! F*"r olacn enoA Air Id, wooioA. Postage Art*. Will giro nxclaal wlioro I fear# u agent*. Write for EEEBBStqI WVWatt,fcmu?.o*; I I less, Durable, and the consumer pay* for DO US I | or giaaa package w?D every purchase. | BiIeBea.ns Smalt Positively cure Sick-headnclie. 40 to the bottle. Price 25c. Rclinble, Econoraicoi. Sold by dmgglata. PATENTS JjiiSiYXSZ ^?tJ Fine Blooded Cattle, Sheep, Hoes, Poultry, Sporting Dogs for hale. Catalogues wlUi ISOrngrnvlngs. free. N. l?. Boyer & Co.,Coatc*vUle,Pa. YOUR^FT?jfS2rg * cured with a few appOoattoos el "FOOT1NZ." BOo. br druggist* or malL Rend for tee* timonlal*. B. V. LUDLUM * CO.. BwaitTOS, Q*?h 3EESBS3SEQMHII I Consumptives and people H who have weak lunga or Astbma, should uso l'lso'a Cure for Consumption. It bos cared ^B thousands. It has not Injured one. It la not bad to take, ltls the best oougb syrup. ^B Bold ererrwhere. SSc. eHSMSMs*sMs?s?s..s.s?sss^eM J the stomach. Ircr and bow sis, Z z purify the blood are safe and ef-Z ! III li 11 ii ii I Tbu liea general family* 1 me<llclue known for biliousness. J i/^2_??l..,saf Constipation, Dyspepsia. Fouli S^^KSUV' Breath, Headache, Heartburn. Lossh or Appetite, Mental Depressfca.f e Painful ingestion, navies, Sallow* Complexion, Tired reeling, and* every symptom or dfaenso resulting from "npurej f blood, or a falluro by tho stomach, liver or Intestines x 1 to perform their proper functions. IVrsoijajtrren tog X overrating are benefited by tiiklngaTAllDEEafww^ a each meal. Price, by mail. 1 gross (2 j 1 bottle l#c. Ad-Z 2 dress TUB BI I'Alfe CHF.M ICAT. CO.,10Sju-uoe St.Jl.T.Z Z Agents Wanted! EIGHTY per cent prsRt. * ttSHHSSStMHtHS'*"!*"******* Ilnlilrn thfl niltr.h PlOCBSS Vimnv iiiv viiivm " | Qa No Alkalies" Other Chemicals nVr^> aro used in tho \Sfm^?sQ l>reparation of W. BAKER & CO.'S | M#reakfastCocoa In ^ Jt-W which fa absolutely / RH ' I"1 f>t\( pure and soluble' MB | I f K li 11 ban more than three timet MS ; t [I the strength of Cocoa mixed ffliLl r-'M-'raii with ytarcli, Arrowroot or Sugar, aod la far more oconoinical, coitlnff less than one cent a eup. It la delicious, nourishing, aud easily digested. Sold by G-orers txrjnhirt, W BAKER & CO., Dorchester, Man. Sgl RELIEVES all Stomach Distress. REMOVES Nausea, Heoso of Pullnea^ Congestion, I'ain. REVIVES Failing ENERGY. RESTORES Normal Circulation, and * Warms to Tou Tips, M. HASTES medicine co.. tL Louis. N* IF YOU OWN CHICKENS YOU WANTED A AT' THEIR THEM TOX X WAY aren If you merely keep them as a divert ton. In Order to handle Fowls judiciously, you mutt know something about tbem. To meet this want waarr selling a book (riving the exj-erlence t flnlw 4Ra of a practical poultry raleer for \ Will J tVVs twenty-lire year*. It was written by a man who pat all hla mind, and t'joe. and money to making a suoceaa of Chicken raising?not as a paatlmo, but aa n business?and If you will profit by his twenty-flra years' work, you ^an tare man/ Ctteks annually. "Ratting Chlckent." mmA make your Fowls earn dollars for yon. The point la. tbat you roust Ire able to detect trouble In (be Poultry Yard as soon as It ap|>e<>r*, and know bow to remedy It. *1 Ills t ook will trach you. It tells bow to detect and cure (Urease; to feed for Oegs and also for fattening; wlilcli fowls to sot* for brooding pwriiosee; and every tiling, ludeed. you should know on tbla MbjMl to make It profitable, ML ant postpaid for twenty live centa in 1c. or tu M Book Publishing House, I 135 l.nossnp Br.. N. T. H. N. V. fft. . L. DOUGLAS SHOE ENTLEMEN, T SHOE III THE WORLD FOR THE MOREY. sewed shoe, that iriM not rip, fine calf, seamless, ?, flexible, more comforteble,styllsb and durable than >e ever aold at the price. Equals custom made shoes *4 to |6. IS llssd'sewed, flue calf shoes. The most stylish, ad durable shoes ever sold at tbsse prtoea. They equal I shoes ooeting from $8 to *ollee flbts, worn by fanners and all others who I a good heavy calf, three soled, extension edge ahoe, la, sad win keep the feed dry and warm, ria* Calf, 14.96 and #9 Workliigmea'w flboee jit? more wear ror the money than any other make. m for aerrfce. The Inrreaalng Mile* nhow that workfound thl* out. kf and Yeathe' tt.9.1 School Hhaea are * worn by the boy a erery where. The moat aer rice- m hi at theee price*. M Eft' P HnntMJhwed, 9*4.3%*. ?'i and 91.?* ^ * * shoe* for Mlaaea ore made of the beat Don>r flne Calf, aa dealred. They are very atyliah, comble and durable. The $S ahoe equal* eu*tom mad* i coating from $4 to $?. ladle* ? ho wlxli to econola their footwear are finding thl* out. JIJTIOM.?Beware of dealer* *uh*tltutlngahoe* wl?h. 7. U Douglaa* nam* and the price ntamredou bottom aubetttotion* are fraudulent and ?uhjrct toprortcu>y law for obtaining money under falw prcteueia act I* Factory, aiming kind, alze and width lyn aale to ahee dealer* and general ttierlatalegae. W. L. Doc:!:r, Ms**.