Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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SCOUTS OF THE PLAINS. \o"^T?rr raani DKATH. & ; VJ*ilant, Cool, "Nervy" Men Who H Koujcht ??vn?fH Their Lonfly Mfc Hides Perils That Beset Them. Br '"I VROPERLY speaking, s scout is 3F 11 * a person who is sent out in f' J[ the front or on the flank of a Bf 1 <T military command to observe the foroo and moTementa of the enemy. : He should be a keen observer and F* withal fleet of foot or well mounted. There aro a number of unmarked grave* along tho Arkansas lliver and - - .n,1 the tributaries ol tun ynnw ?-~. M Smoky Iliil?where r.crcr !ovp ing hands have strown flowers, routing P places over whioli no prayer has ever been aaid, or memorial slab or atone fence, died "with tlioir boots on." ? Many of theso graves are tenanted by i scouts killed by hostile Indians while ? -. acting as couriers, spies or dispatch j? boarera. In 1867-68 we were at war with the Cheyennes, and during the winter General Alfred Bully made the camv nnicm an offonsivo ono by moving with rliis command into the medicine coun??nSte gjj;:, " ? KS e worn .Mpplomontc(irnt,y''?ot'v',' PhUHh "r,i0r M"rch < .n^oSr'Xrr, "-"r ?" I with thn' :LVZXr/ In consequence Of these losses Gen ertil Mheridan authorized the employment by tho United States of twelve citizen scouts at a compensation of 8100 a month, and ono chief of scouts who was paid 8160 a month. Theao men were sworn into service at Fort s-" Dodgfl, In addition to the pay mentioned, each scout waa furnished with a good horse, with all the arma, ammunition, etc.. ho wanted, with rationa name an iaaiied to enlisted men, free K .V'.ith JllvL.jUvJl I limita of any Government post. Each acout waa told that if ho chose he could, in confidence, give to the post adjutant his true name, ami that the officer would make it his duty, in ease tho scout waa killed in the discharge of liis duty, to communicate the fact to the postoffieo address of any person or persons whom ho might wish to bo notified. Without exception the thirteen men wero American born. All had histories. Every scout had one address or moro to communicate, coupled with some message to givo. None of these men were of the Texas ranger or cowboy type in dress or appearance. Only two wore their hair long. One was discharged for cowardice in falsely reporting the location of a large body of hostiles on Coon Creek, between Fort Lamed and Fort Dodge, investi- j ?Bbi?u uitviiiK proven wio presence only bf a loug lino of high weeds, which, Been nt 11 distance against the horizon, .were mistaken for men, and no reported by the scout, too imaginative or too timid to make thorough reoonnoissance. This man's name was William Seymour, enlisted under the name of Apache if ill. He whh afterwards killed in an affray at Junction City, Jvan. Another scout named Webster, was discharged for shooting his horse in the neck while carelessly and unnecessarily discharging his firearms within the limits of a military post. Two of the scouts, Fanshaw and Davis, were killed by the Chcycnncs while in the act. of watering their horses at Mulberry Creek, out1 of the small tributaries of the Arkansas, on the south side of the river. Their remains were interred in the l'Vrt Dodge cemetery. Another of the scouts was a man named Kansomc, alias Ijedford. He ;was an apparently frank, cheery, handsome fellow, of splendid physical proportions, and a magnificent shot. Ho owned a black horse, docile to liim, but a tiend incarnate to others. The man was a great favorite with army I i o.... ? ? ' V ?I', IIIU'III mi will II i >11 II I <1 I'M IIT I friendly shooting matches mul wiw J rarely beaten in contests of skill i?> that hue. He took more clnmees nntl more often volunteered for dangerous service than any other Heout; was never derelict, hut wan killed in 1^72 at .Wichita, Kan., hy Lieutenant llargoits, an ollieer of the Fifth Infantry, ivho was on duty with a poseeo aiding a Deputy United States Sheriff named Bridget* to arrest him on a charge of horse stealing. When arrested hy Lieutenant ilargous, Ledford tired first at the army oflieer, who dropped as if killed. Lieutenant Hargons was not hit, however. Ledford was maddened by liquor and strode over the prostrate body of the oflieer, firing at Jack Bridges as he advanced, and wounding him in the arm. The scout then made a rush at a soldier w ho had accompanied as a member of the posse, when his further shooting was prevented l?y a bullet through the heart. Like Hickok, the original "Wild Bill," Ledford respected the army blue, and the affray in which he was killed was the only occasion Hint lie was ever known to shoot nt niiv person in the permanent inilitnry establish mont. The winter before hindenth Bedford, then in Government serviee, nceoinpanied a detaehinent of the Third Infantry, acting as eseort for Major Hodliey Smith, paymaster I'inted States Army, to Camp Supply, Indian Territory, find return. The route for about 200 milen was over a broken and mi Inlofinii carrion SO COVCTCd \vitll HUOH snow-iiiied, appeared at a distance no different from an elevation, snow covered. There were no treea or bushes above the dead level of the enow. Buffalo were numerous, and were often aeen floundering in n ravine, struggling to get away from the soldiers. The soldiers were intent only on making their way through tlm drifts to their point of destination, nnd could not atl'ord to loan time ir shooting buffalo, but Lodford would urge hia borne up to and into the hord, fire both revolvers in order to further frighten the buffalo, and throw himself astride the nearest bull buffalo and ] ntab him. Tlio otctm f*did the animals, the nnow whir In, the nhoopa of the f acout, the red goiita from that gleam* Vnifo made a strange. melting tableau. r Another m-ncont, known aw Curly Walker, wan killed near Dodge by a ; reaideut of Halina, Kan., in an oncoun* ter reuniting from an effort on the part of Walker to aell a lot of cattlo stolen uul run oil by bint trout their luwlul owner. Thin man WrJker woe rowed onoe when drunk ar-d diaordorly at Fort Dodge in a way that Lieutenant Colonel John It. Brooke ia too modest to tell about. Boh "Wright wan present when lie whn killed. Ho was pierced by aeveral bullets from a Weate heater rifle whilat dismounting from bin horse, ami died with one hand on hia revolver, vainly trying to releaao it * utitehinu of Ul" "rrJ".V.-i. it. "'V'; ? k if,' U-tlly tlirilittitiK * nnod iiK a kn . I iliiu'lmrKHiK ^::3= iv rM."n^i "** : : ronton popithaiH withKiowa, Arnpithon and Choyonno lu<liiuiM, who hiiiIhihIioiI tho watoriiiK planon, tirod tho rivor hottoiiiH, mill whom* koon oyod ahilit ioH nought l?y I'Vi'iv artilloo and skillful tlevioo to intercept, ohitHo down him! kill tint (lovornnioiit mcoiiIh.?(Jill* cinnnti ('oiniiioi-oial (la/otto. ropuliirily of Kitihalniliiir. Tho ith'ft of oai-ning h I i vol ihooil out of t ho iimiUiiik of inii 111111 Ion ih not oiio to ooiiiinoiid itsolf id tirut ?Ihiioo to tho foiiutlo iniinl, himI tin- plnndly asHta-ia* tioiiH of t ho occii|iat ion tiro to many invipornhly ivpollont. Jhit oinlitilinin^ Iiiih for many roiiHoiiH rntuldiHliod itnoll in populiir fiivor. It in tho only Hiiro im*nlis of pr<*void iii;? tho Kproiol ??f eon Intf'ouh ,|imciisos, through <raiiHiniKHioii I>y tho t_?iI,*rt'ikor'ti ioo liox or HSHistniit-h. It. in ii provontivo a^aiii"! prouuitiiro I >ii r i ii I in tin* oiimo of a oatulopi njoot it ii m of tho ?*tii I >ti i in i iif^f tiiini nrl* likoly to iioluoo kikiik of lifo if any ro111iti11. Allot hoi* favoruhlo font tiro ih tho possibility of shipping IioiIioh h Ioiiu llistUtfICO willl VellO'llCO. It' IS Hot KciirruIIv Known that throiighont this nun n1 rv large n n in I icriH of women Iihvu adopted embalming as h | rofi'HHjon, iiikI flic 11 cm I college of ?*m I >ii I in i linn a large pmport ion of women i;rinliiHtrn, Fur from showing ?iiia\ liorror or unlitlicsa for I In- business, women arc said to l*o |ieeiiliurlv <l< ft hicI cllicicnt in I lie duties in vol\ed, w hieh in a general ivay consists only in opening several of the largo arlericH, pumping out the hlood and injecting preaervat i ve llnids. Many of the women graduates have heen trained nurses w ho saw an opportunity to make more money than at their former profession. One advantage of the art is that it is easily acquired. The prospectus of tin- College of Kmhslming acts forth that "past experience has demonstrated that a complete mastery of the science of liodv | pieservatiou in all its hranclioa cannot he obtained in the short space of two or three days, and therefore the length of time required to learn the process may extend from one week upward, ' according to the aptitude of the student." When the student has proved his or her ability to conduct the operation of embalming under different conditions in a satisfactory manner a diploma is granted, and the ordinary length of time required for graduation M Lu.. u-....Lv I 'I. >r.. If.,....-! Tim Story <>l a Hai* Sontr. The story ?>f liow |ho poem "Mnrv* IiiikI, My Maryland," wax ni<I to music mid adopted us u Southern war soiifj forms a romnnt ic and interesting incident of tin* Civil War. The iiiuaio at Itrat chosen was Vrederio Herat's "Ma Nnriimdic," hilt that was nooil 'Wopt away, " to use Mr. Kamhill's own lanKiia^e, when the lovely (iernian lyric, "Taiiiienhauiu, <> Tanneiihanin," was selected as u more spirited air. Shortly alter the hattlc of Manassas, (Senegal l'.eauregard invited several Maryland ladies, who were living in Virginia, to visit his headipiarters, near Fairfax Court tlouse. The ladies and their escorts encamped the tirst ni^ht at Manassas, where they were serenaded by the famous Washington Artillery, o! New Orleans. The boys in j^ray, at tho close of the serenade, called for a son# from the ladies, and Miss Jennie Cary, standing at the door of the t lit. Him# "My Maryland." The refrain lVKvioilliU.lv ,?,ll.,'l,l .... I.V <1... V...I.I 1 -'I' " inn! tin- <'iuii|> raii^ with the words; "Maryland, Mi Maryland.'' As the last uotes died away, the wihl Confederate yell was given, with "three cheers ami a tiger for Maryland." A spectator of the scene relates that there was not a ilrv eye in the ladies' tent, ami not a cap with a rim on it in camp. This is how "My Maryland" came to ho adopted as a National war song o/ the Eolith.?Jllilo and Gray. A furious Timekeeper. The islanders of the South Pacific have no clocks. 'They have a curious timekeeper of their own. Taking the kernels of tlie 11111 of the candle tree they wash them alul string them on the ril> of a palm leaf. This is placed Ill nil II|'II^IU JIUMIKHI IIIHI TIM" U|?|?t't kernel is lighted. Ah nil kernel* nro of tlie same size ninl substance they eiieh hum n eertnin uumher of iniuiitiH, setting tire to the kernel ltelow. l'lie nntives tie hits of hark eloth along the string nt regular intervals to mark the divisions of time.?.New l'ork Mail itiid Express. Extremes In the Plant World. In t us turn from the giants of t)i( forest to t hose plants hit'll enii only * ho seen with the higher powers of th<f ' iniero.seo|>e. I he smnllest <il these and ' at the siiine time the smallest of living * things are the plants known as hue* * teria. They have an average diameter t of 1-2.VKM of an ineh ami a !< one to ten times as great. Many of ^ tlieili have a diameter of less than I I-">0,000 of aii inch, ami it is prohahM that there art; multitudes of them so small that the highest powers of tho tuieroMco]>e do not render them ?ibil?Je. * ?Ecieace. i t HKLLIVS EY1CB. IWMt N?lli#'i eyes u? twilight borm, The eye* I lore to greet, rhev never opened first *t mora, Or mid the noontide beet; But when the sun wee sinking low. Before the stars began to glow, Where southern jeesmlnes sway end blow They caught their shadows sweet. O Nellie's eyes, sweet K?III< 'h eyas Illumined with celestial dyes, They hae-it my dreams With gentle gloam?~ Wistful. Tristful, Twilight eyes. Rweet Nellie's mouth Is siimmer-klssed To grace lioyoiid ?oll|>s?> j One eve rt ruby roso was missed Ami tiiunwiiiwti Oii Im'T And softer than the coo of dove Of southern winds that flit atiove \ro all l??r words, and n:iu?lit l ??t lovo From out tier r?nw mouth slip*. O Nellie" U|.s,MWoot Noillo s >IP". Their duleet tono Uko Uouey drll* Upon the ear H?r?*noly clear ? Hlnrtder, Tender, Hummer III*"' Hweet Nellie'" locks urn sunset crowned flitf Vlfif" lil-- -l.o locks more (tilr in Irnnrln,' luro Were ever clasped l.y llllet puru To srnke the lay of t noil notour Or lire n Imrd of old. O Nellie's tinir. sweet Nellie's Imlr My heart lies In its silken share, Nor I Into nor art The liond shall part * Twining, Hhinlm.', Suns"! Iialr! Samuel M I'eek. in Atlanta Constitution. III'MOK til' TIIK WAV. A .Inch ?>l" all Ii'iiiIch Tho Western hurro. AIhmiI the most trying he?|> hole .>j the law is the House. t'liek. Tlie well 11red mail who works in a link cry is a loafer. Troy Teleprani. Il is tlieihumlor of the man in Unit t?...I. ' II I Wllell II 1IIII11 NOI'S t 11 irl 111) is Ill-ill" driven I nil's)miir l.e oii^lil lo^et mil 11 in 1 walk. VniiKits < In/.i'tli'. Hy nil mills llii> fiin'sl uttrnetion it tin- World's l*'nir will In- tin* Aliirririui frirl. - I tall iiimi'i' Amerieau. Know h-dtfe is |tower, except in I lio ease of the man who knows he i.i whipped. I in I in mi|>i >1 its loiirnai. I'luek will tell. Many a inaii not ahle to write his own name has mailt) his mark mi the world. Now Orleans I'ieax tine. llieks "Itlilsoii, they tell me, i? 11?iit ' nil athlete." Wieks. "Yes; his Inst feat, I lieiir was to run ii|i a lioal'il hill." Huston Transcript. "Thai Smith nivl loia east an awful spell over ('liarlic, lie " "I suppose so; she was a typewriter for several years."? I uter-Oeeivn. It seems easy enough to name a lathy, unless l?y some extraordinary elninee tin- hahy liappmis to Ik- vein own. Sonii-rville .loiirnai. It is impossible that there are as pood lish in I In- sea as ever were rail-- iit, if th e koihiek pietnres that fishermen brinp home are true to life. I'm-k. Oriisilln "I hear you are poor. I think we will have to break our n ::itions. ' Ten Hroke "I have broke'i nil of mine alremly." New York Iter* uhl. Milkman (apolopet ieall v)? "Tin? milk ih a little blue this morning.'' Mrs. Housekeeper "It lulls) be think* iiitf how everlastingly poor it is petting. " Troy I'r-ss. Jinks "bnii't you think that tho intentions of ITeneli duellists are m honorable than is t(i*neraI ly conceded?" Bilk ins "Oh, yes; us s i*>ilo llwy aim hiith."? Brooklyn Bife. "Oil, f'ui no sorry, Air. Dillinfrlmm, your lady lovo lias thrown you nvcr, What was the trouble?" "Why, you ace, I fluttered her no much she |{ot too proud to speak to me!" ? Boston Beacon. dabble "No, my cold doesn't seem to la: ^eltiin; any better. I have not s ; ?,.? thai i can hardly apeak." Stilbuan "Soino people would call that a ureat iuiproveinent." Boston Transcript The tears a jjirl experiences when she sees some other fjirl talking to her lover are nothing eompared to the paii^s that torture a woman when a neighbor calls her hired f^irl to the fence and talks to her. Atchison IS lobe. "Bid you know that Klip-phm found himself ioekeil out when lie wont home at!* o'clock last ni^ht, and his wife wouldn't open tin* door." Whys*'' She didn't recognize his voice, because slit' had always done all the talking." ? Chicago Tnter-t >eeau. Butler "There's a man below to See you, sir." May berry "What did you It'll III ill ? Ilntler "! told him you tohl me it" it was a lady to say you wcri' in. in111 if it wis a mail to say you were out." May lurry "What <lyi ho nay thou?" Butler "lie said to toll you ho was a lady."- Harvard Lampoon. Mr. Sampson (passionately) "I love you devotedly, Miss Chiiinley, luit my pecuniary atVairs liavo provoiitoil my making a declaration until now. lint I liavo put enough away now to foci {ustilioil in asking you to l>ooomo my wife."' Miss ('liiimlny (hesitatingly, hut sweetly) "I foil loss that I ti in not wholly iiulilVoront to you, hut hut " "But what, ihar?" "Would von iiiin.l telling mo how much you have put awuv ?"?Tit-Bi'.a. Clarcnco Smith, private secretary to fJollcctor Hendricks, of the Port of N'l'iv York, proposes to organize a Mieiety to hecomposoil of men who are >r have heen eonspieuoua as private iceretaries to lending otlioiala of the lovernincnt. Among those wlio have lieu asked to join nro Secretary of iVar Liunoiit and General lloraco 'ortcr. The latest record-breaking time T?eween Bombay, India, and London is i hirtecn days. i ...M !?"" / ~ ABOUT THE FUR SEALS. THI 8UBJKOT BKTOtE TBS TBIBU* NAI. OF AajntRATlOV. I how th? I"rrrl<MM AnlMh Are Hlnughlfrrd ?The Patrol Fleet and the Poacher*?A Fa?h Sport. T"TTHOU(ilfi^|i Stat<* j| Government <*111 bote no euch | powerful ibF 'be Yorktown (, and no au?f* officer aa Fight* ing Bob Evana protect the nealM in Bering Hea tb* eummer, the patrol fleet will enough and quick enough to if4'1" * lively for ponrhere. ft in the fjpineaa of our ahipn, under the prerM*4 contention of the United Ktatea, W14*-*" that nobody nave the one anthoriyl company aliall take aeala of Horinv Sea or in n Ocean within three milea of lllir uHSChHioiiH. That given the patrol arena ulmoat half ??h large ijh tho.iulf of Mexico to look i>ft? r If tW.rihnnnl sitting at P?riH slmll decid our claim touching Bering So?th' HU]?a xvill then eonttn their effort* to klping poaohera away from lb-1 Pribybv Inland* of Ht. (IcorKonml Ht Paul, A Bering Boa, ami to guarding the c\st within the three-milo limit. >""'VV expects, however, that the doeisioi\c the ot.urt will he given ? > ?ini.._fnr in' > JJSlJ11-"**!! effect viw?n Hie company to yhieh tlio United I Btatca has aohl th. k xctiaivo right to take aeala may tak< Vl.? 11 only upon tlio l'rihylov Islmdx, aniMiay not tako more than 7.100 iti any 010 year. Furthermore, the company* agents inn/ kill aeala only in the jroHence of art agent of the United Htites, ami mimt not kill either the f* inai'H or the old IuiIIh, hut only the l.acielora, an the young molea are called. The waling of the company is the tiniest kind of sport, lis ilie haehelora are merely driven gently apart from the rent of the herd and are killed with sticks. The agent of tlio company countu the skins in the presence of the Oovernment's agent, ami tho latter Hernia to Han Francisco ? tally of the number aliipped in each cargo. Thin cornea to another United States agent, at Han Franeiaco, who makes sure that there are no more akina than tho Oovornnicnt agent- at the North\v? st I (inimti riiiiKKaD waters l?ej lievo that the Heal must before loin? become extinct iu spite of nil these precautions taken to prcHorve the species. It the hcu shall be open to nil conicrn and sen Is Khali again be taken with nets, the finnl destruction will be hastened. The sealing season propel iy begins about t ho lust of Juno or the fi(st of July, when the seals have become well established in Bering Sea and breeding has begun. At that time the rocky l'ribylovs, amlas well a few islands bolonging to ltussia over near the const of Siberia, are crowded with thousands of seals, and the animals swim tin' sen in search of food. The poachers do not wait ho long, but intercept tin* seals on their way from the ocean into Bering Sea. Our ships cannot interfere with sealing in the Pacific threo miles from our own shores, but we can watch tho passes of the Aleutian, through which seals and sealers enter Bering Hon. Tim patrol licet is on the lookout for poachers during May, June, July. August, September and October, and business is liveliest in midsummer, though the s<vil islands have been raided as late as December. By tho last of September, however, things arc pretty squally in Bering Sea, and before the 1st of November snow storms are frequent, and sealing is no l'un. Captain Mike llealy, of the revenuo cutter Bear, who knows Bering Sea from the Aleutians to tho Aretie, and is known to everybody iu that region as tho embodiment of Uncle Sam's i....... II.. ......... ?? -I 1 !"???* t tmmiiij nvc?j n oi'i'dt lilt.* HCIil Ik later than any one else, and tlm poaeher who fall?. into ^liko llmlx'? hands is likely to ropcutof his temerity. The patrol fleet now anil then sends a ship far to the east, and occasionally, even in mid-summer, iJJRS a landing party stationed on one of the islands commanding an important pass, l>ut mostly the work of tho patrol is confined to the region about the Prihylovs. A disguised poacher might enter the scaling region with a vessel of tlm patrol licet looking on. Nevertheless, if ,i MM^pieiott:; looking erafi siiouid i?o found entering the sea. she would errtainly Im overhauled ami made to explain. The seal poaelier is usually recognized by her having a great many small boats, an unusually large compleinent of men and an abundance of lirearms. ller method when a herd of seals is encountered swimming is to lower many boats with armed men, who shoot the seals as rapidly as possible and then pick them up. Old and young, nude and female, are t litis shot, and many are lost. Home old sailors vi iiikiu (.inn nr>rmj 'inr jttT i'l'Ill. <>I seals killed 111 this wny are iu>t rccovered 1?v tha punchers. dlhtTH nay tluit the Ions does liot CXCOi'd toll pel' Clint. As a small vessel may tnko & 100,000 worth of seals in a single season, tlio tcmptution to tlio poacher is strong. It i>i all Use stronger from the fact that the men who ship on poaehing vessels go under an agreement of "no catch, no pay."' Sealing in May ami through most of thine is a rough profession, for llering S? a lias w inter weather ii?r into tfune, ami the hills ashore are still snow ehnl sometimes as late as July 1. Then comes the heat of tlio northern summer. The air is mild, the sea at ordinary times is calm, and ashore a thousand (lowers are blooming and the new grass is shouting up waist high. Then is the active time of the patrol licet. In all ordinary weather the ships of the patrol licet etui overtake the swiftest of the poaeVrs when onee the offender has boon sightedi but with ?. net captured with bo"*** oonrd ii usually taken b> (Vinalaaku and tlicnco by prize crew to sV^rt or Victoria, according hm the prV'' 's Amcriorn <n Knglish. The poneH*8 ,m>e fully discounted tlit* possibility0^ i dcriBion nt. Paris adverse to the I'd1*'"' States, and * if thai siiaii l?o the outc",,e tlie triluinal I'nele Sum will K'hldenly lind himself beset with/ wiita brought by juMich^rf) r'^cliltlrd from Scriug Sea. - New Yof. Advertiser. I No man can joh^Tyf^/hinr8? army 3 unlosH he can jump 7 six feet ft idu. I f i . " jHi&ai select sifrnrac Dogskin is a wall decoration. A now white colt without eyes or F?r?l#(ni hut Wn horn on the farm of Frank McKeehan, near People*, Ohio. People newer think of whistling in Iceland. It'a a violation of the divine law. At recent wedding in Clarke County, Alabama, the groom was fifteen yearn old and the bride thirtyfive. Before the year 1100 everyone wore mittens or went barehoadea. Olovee with twelve fingers were invented in the Twelfth Century. In a cemetery adjoining a small town in the Htatc of Vermont there is it tombhtono bearing this remarkable legend: "ancritl io the memory of three twins." It is a belief of fisherman that the finny denizens of the deep are hungriest and bite most freely during the four or five days following tho moon's first quarter. When Doorkeeper Isaac Bassett first went to the United States Senate as a page sixty-live years ago, there were forty-six desks in it. Now there are cighty-eiglit. The railroad constructed hy Mtephensou south of Liverpool and opened for in 1H.T2 remained in use almost ? 11- ~ t . _ I ..ft it ??t;i _ fuw weiiks Hgo, when a new line wn* constructed. A citizen of Concord, N. II., is the owner of the first bank note issued by Hie United States Government undci the National banking law. It whh issued to tho First Nutioual Bank ol Washington, D. C., December 31, bsi>:t. Robert Furcy has been awarded f three y? urs' contract for street cleaning in Broi iklyn, N. V. He is to get $190, (too the first two years and $215,00( the third year for removing ashes, am $ 23 a mile for street cleaning, on tin basis of 15,000 miles. Spirit Bake, Iowa, is situated upoi the pinnacle of one of tho most ele vateil regions in tho State?1(>50 fee' above sea level. In Mrs. Yelverton'i book, "A Journey in a Junk," tlier is a description of a Buddhist tompli in (Whin China, but in the form of i uvoi n' noie : * The Blue Grotto, on the Island of Capri iu the Bay of Naples, is abso lutely unrivaled for the vivid splendo: of its colors. Owing to tho peculia nature of the refraction of tho sun light on its waters, wall, roof and hoi are tinged a beautiful ultramarine which shades into a deep violet in tin furthest recesses of tho cavern. I'robably the majority of tho peoph who have sung tho plaintive ballad " I he Mistletoe Bough," have holiovet it i story to bo purely romantic. It iq however, founded on fact, and iti seene is laid at Marwcll Old Hall, noai Winchester, England. Only recently the "old oak chest," which had beei preserved in the family for munj rears, was sold at auction. Origin ol tho Hello!" "Hello" is almost u cewr word, ftfl i (lifTcrx in form, hoiiiuI and usefromtli i?l<l "halloo." It. is merely mentionet by Webster, and the searcher for in formation is referred to "halloo,1 which is defined as an interjection, i loud call or the noise of tho hunt. Tli forms there given?"halloa" and "lial loo" are not well adapted to tli American tongue, neither are they huh ceptilde of tho variety of expressioi that can he given to "hello." Prolmbl; the word "halloo" grew out of thecal "hail, oh!" which was almost univers ally used by wayfarers in olden tinv when halting at a house along the way "Hail, oh! the house," was auotlic: form quite common in this section ii early times. This would quite until rally take tho form of "hnl-loo! tin house." However, this derivation i not given by Webster, but merely aug gests itself.?PittsburgjGazette. Tliree j-eara of fcwotlghing hat killed .Julius Tiord, sixty-three, o Williamstowu, Mass. The attacks wen Ireq tent ami Mrvcr*, and weakenet I .on I so that lie was coiilined to hit bed. Letters w?iv rifeived from al over the United States suggesting rem ??ln a, 'i'iireo tlars before his ilontl t)i.' Wici'imyth It ft tiiio, but lie was toe whU k > i mvivo. To Cleanse Hip System KiTeetnnlly >et gently, when costive or bilious, pr \\ hi'ii t In' Mo.nl is impure or sluggish,to per111111.-1111> cure habit nit 1 consti|>nt ion, to awoken t In* kidneys anil liver to u licntthy activity, without irritating or weakening tli.-m, todispel heada<-lies, colds or fevers, use Syrup of figs. Very linn liame ilrcssos, nui| winTow ,'urtaius ns well arc now made oi tu Austria. IVr Cure It iipliire. No matter of how long standing. Writ, for lire treatise, testimonials, etc., to S. J llollensworth ?V Co., Owego, Tioga Co., N. Y l'rlce $1; by mail, $1.15. The favorite flower of the rriuccbB ot Wales is t jo lily of the valley^ Malaria cured and eradicated from tho system by Brown's Iron Hitters, which enriches tho blood, tones the nerves, aids digestion. Acts like a charm on persons in general 111 health, giving new energy and strength. in,. nigneat volcano i? Popocatapetl, Mexico?17,748 foot, with a crater a mile in diameter and lOOOJect deep. Heechui ?'s Pills with a drink of water morning*. BccchamV?no others. ~5 cents a box. JTcnr Tranquohar, on tho BoutTioaglcrn const of India, tlu-ro is a species of tish which not only is ahlo to walk on level ground but can climb trees. 1 Brown's Iron Bitters our?* Dyspepsia, Malaria, Biliousness and (teneral.y.ety.ly 'iie/ve's'*trengthv aid*., mfc baet tonic for Nursing Mothers, weak women and children. -iinda A. TT-dmrt, nftor having Vcri. '<!<., . intor of the town of I'ramlri e, Vlttss., for twenty-three years, hud dedined a re-election, lie is not yd years old. . S". '.V M*r-.( lario Scott, writes : " I find Hall * ( atarrli Cure a \alual.Ic remedy." Druggists sell it, 75c. Tho Scotch herring fishery in now the greatest in tho world, employing 12,000 boats and 100,000 people. If afflicted with sole eyes use Dr.Isaac Thnuipson's Eye-wator.DruggibU sell at Zflc.yer bottli Mm Migratory Ferer, Naturalists have gent-rally deemed ^ it impossible to keep a truly migratory for British bird through the winter. For tot the laat year or two, however, a bird- riii lover in Mortclk lias succeeded in rear- b?< ing several nightingales during tho tin time of the abseuce of the species from re> England, He confined them in cages, m" but found that when the migration c*: fever came upon them they invariably beat their heads to pieces against the u? tr?r? a! tli,. and died miserably. W ' I - ? D" ??? . | Determined nut to bo vanquished, ho P hit upon a plan of suspending a ceil- * ing, as it were, of linen tightly l stretched under the top of tho cages. Ja" The birds knocked themselves against Zj this innocuously, so that in 1891-92 he succeeded in saving three through- _ out the winter; but this last winter ho ** only I nii>> It, however, J lived through the cold weather, when v" tho rest of its kith and kin were fur 14 absent in Egypt and Arabia. This is an interesting item of bird news, as showing that the longing to migrato in a bird is actually a fever in the jJH blood, which works itself off in a fort- ^ night or so if the bird be unable by stress of circumstances to leave the cr country with itH congeners, ? izt. j Jumes's Gazette. ? Tiie Tiai?-iius ul IvMwis* i Nature gives a curious instance of ? tho traveling of roots. While a conni try house ww Utiug demolished it was ^ noticed that large quantities of vrgetable fiber adhered to parts of some of I the walls. Further scrutiny revealed . - the fact that the root of a wistaria had entered tho dining room by a small jj' chink of the window near the ceiling, . [ and on removing the paper from tho , walls the whole of the plaster around tho room was found to be covered with ^ ( a fine net work of rootlets. Tho most singular part of the discovery was that ^ not a trace of the intruding growth ^ j was visible on the paper inside tho j room, which had been constantly iuhabited.?Chicago lfocord. Cooling Railway Carriages. 1 A contrivance for cooling railway carriages is described by Indian Imi- f I gineering, which consists *?f a small f, H tank nt both cuds of the carriage, which B] ? receive their supply from the main fc] o tank above, which holds water for the h * iwwywr' uwppflV^:Hmugh8,n,,w!iTefi J, work automatically, canting over gent- ), T ly when full of water, and perfectly t, saturating kits-kits tatties that are sits- j, r pended across an open trapdoor, wltich f( r is let down at the fore end of the car- r riwge in whichever direction the truin t t ia traveling. 3 MJ. -k? M.1 v J npHE U. S. Govern " have reported, i r rag. nation of scores of d J pftg that the Royal Bakin mJE solutely pure, of hig capacity, and superf TeftCiL^ ii CAIAL,OGX7Ef^^SS^^?^Sl : "German 1 : Syrup" J My niece, Kmeline Hawley, was, J"; j taken with spitting blood, and she became very much alarmed, fen ring ses , that dreaded disease, Consumption. ,u } She tried nearly all kinds of medi- J cine but nothing did her any good. Finally she took German Syrup and she told me it did her more good than anything she ever tried. It stopped the blood, gave her strength and ease, and a good appetite. I had it from her own lips. Mrs. Mary A. Stacey, Trumbull, Conn. Honor to German Syrup. & $ile$eans Positively euro Bilious Attacks, Constipation, Sic/c-Ueftrtac/te, etc. 9K ' boft.lo. ft' Drug Sforoo. ' Write ft>r samplo dose, frco. J. F. SMITH & CO.F"" Ncto York, nt There is Hope Fur every nno who has hhwnl I rouble. no iu.it- f ^ ter in what shape <>i Imw Imii* niiimlinu', |un- lup \ ideil noiior f tni' i <!;>! nritaii* hato been ? <> ,.X|, far impaired as to 1 a cure impossible. \ i 8. S. S. goes to I lie r>c.i el ilio di-ease, and in n rmiiuiI'D the eatiM* l> expelling the i?"ixiii Dt; from tiie body,and at the same rime fsa tonic to the whole system. Ilowetcr li.'il yottr ease ? * uiay he, thero is l:<>|io . A FOR YOU! I jS SF3|KSSS20 ' rn<* * m tyj?c 'f III < in it i ii> f K5W5Wl|. trial MW i?*i'W if rifli iitf^ rKt'i'rV.vYll Vn ociy ?.iy. I censulef S. b S.tlul I I , i rr iiv d. 1 J. S A WKllillT. Mi l? m.i.i I'f1 IF. Troiii,' ?n nioe.l. Skin and ConUei ui Hie,. I I' matlnl fc-e. L. Swiit SereiFlo Company, Atlanta, Oa. MMBunwaHnHraK^'t r^^BaiKaWgtciBiSMMB wmm&i. with l'a?ten. Knarnols anil faints which atoln the hands, Injure the Iron nnil tuirn red. The Rutin* Sun Stovo follsh la brilliant, Otlor- W teas. Durable, and the consumer pays for no tin or glnm package with every purchaao. I LOST MY HEARING a result of catarrh In head and was deaf over a year. I h?*an ake Hood's Saraai?aa. and found when I ^5P6 g I taken three bottles ir > A my hearing team Yt ^T' I turning. It is now J re than a year and I <L^fcL^f t hear ger/eeitg . /V ell.*' II K R M A A ma, 30 Carter t?treot,?ENN^^^GI^^E* ^L t heater, N. Y. Hrnaaa Hkcka H lood's^Cjjres ^ loud'* Pills cure all Liver UK UUtowasaa, indire, lmll|<?Uoo, Sick Headache. 3ITRE CURED IC MONEY Zt??X.?!!5 Id*. N'u Competition. Kxclimlve Territory. :r!: >:o Capital llr.-jairei. Icrrcil. References Ktrlmnrtil. Addreaa THK IMI.il LKTTKK CO., and I? Ilamnond HI.. Cincinnati, OhK Beep Sea Flrlies. About 190 species of ilccp soa fishef .vo been obtained by the Albntross in o depths of the ocenn on tho conti" * * * ^ ?*- rrn, ntul slope ol uaiiiorma. j.iiewj catures are, as a rule, very soft in xly, almost black in color, and many them covered with phosphorescent li? nl>inl> Kf" ...??? JT"" +U*?TT?j *** J %a*w t Ives in the darkness. They live in ic open sea, from two to live miles bew the surface, and their soft bodies this depth are rendered firm by the ememlous pressure of the surrounding fiterB. In their uativo haunts tho jjlit and heat of tho sun scarcely ever netrate ; the darkness is almost absoite, and the temperature of tho water at tho point of freezing. Tho eaturos living at theso great depths c not, generally speaking, descended orn tho shore species of tho same igion; they constitute groups by gM lemselvcs, and forms very similar are mini iu all parts of the ocean, from le poles to tho equator.?Now York owu. Two Whopping Loads of Logs. In Minnesota, in tho winter of >1-'1)2, a single load, sealing 31,400 set, was hauled 011 a single pair of log Iciglis by two span of horses. During lie present winter in Michigan, a load ^ lore than equal to tho above waa * - 4......,., and will bo laced 011 tho grounds of tho Coluinian J j\position as one of Hie wonders f the world. It will l?c eighteen feet * jug, lifteen feet wide, andthirty-threo f" cct three inehes from the top of tho oadbed, weighing over one hundred ens.?Scribner. ^ ?5? merit Chemists ifter an exami= r*j&) ifferent brands, ig Powder is ab= ^liest leavening or to all others. * LAHLH5Q5 MODERAT?^^ END YOUR OWN HARNESS H THOMSON'S || SLOTTED rLiraOtl mVCTO, To too's remind. Only a hnmrnor needed to drive i c inch Hi. ni easily and quickly, leaving tho clinch oluKly who. .111. It -<|iik Iiik ii > hoc lo in> made In lee'tiwr nor otirr lor tlio Kiwis. Tlio.i arc ilrvuc, ngti and aturiililo. Million, now In use. ill gtr.i, uniform r . .. I. > .> m> in oari, l.li Vlilll' ilinl.i- f.ir lllClll, or r nd 40c. In taps for a .?>x oi Haj, arsiric.l .-uci .Man'fd by IUDSON L. THOMSON MTU. CO., ' WAI.THA*(, MASK. CST Send 6c. in stamp* tor IOO-{Mf* I ate Normal Celiep, a,li < 11II lull1 m*> ft.; i liiuitir III 11.1 nin I l? an I ii lit, rlmlce <illri;i- finirii s Until.;; t..|fu. . ,,f Hailii'lnr, . ... ,-i n'i (r, l l llil^ltv .UHl I'llllO** ami l<> I.Iff ?Vrllll.Mlos or lYofosnloinil l.lfn i<from Mali* Sti|nTliilfiiiriil !> Iml* anil oriohooil toiioliiis mi* laki I'ltlll KSf<IOM? nil Itsr. Inr?:rl\ l> MtM'ATII. Kxsos l.o? Kor Information a-lili i s? K. It. Kl.? IIX.K. 1.1.. IJ.. I'rraliloni. Troy, Aln. hToea l ''"~a mi "ly Taedi"c i ne >r linllgcetlon, illllon?pr??j mnleiiM, llmlk, III a'I disc: !. . s o( liio StOMAcL. ' RTPVNS TALUl.ES. . /*L. t tceutiy yot promptly. F?rfort ^,Mtlon ( IIova th. ?r u/<v H'>id r a i r f I y mull Ho* losca), $3. frr? aJiUlM KII'AN s < lir?Tt)AI^C<>.. rfcT. v..k. ^ s. n. u. - an tK2KaB!EQBEQOei) J (.'oDiumpllvei and iioopla ^B | who hava weak lunga or Aalb- ^fl I ma. should m? I'lso'sCar* for ^B 2 Consumption. It has card ihoiitnniii. It ha* not Injur-^B o.l on". It Is not hail to lata. It la tho best oough syrup. Bold eTorrwhare. tSa. aB B "T"