The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, March 12, 1889, Image 1
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AIKEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, TUESDAY, MARCH 12, 1889.
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Hotels and Boarding Houses.
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«
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Rooms and table supplied with the
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I'm a wicked water meter. Pharisaic water meter,
with a face of white enamel, hard enamel,
trimmed with braae:
But I wear the aoft expression of a painted Simon
, » Peter, looking out into the future like a gold
fish through a glass.
When it happens that the carcass of an Infant
alligator plays the mischief with mj vitals
In Its efforts to get through,
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Indicator, by the fraudulent addition of a
hundred feet or two.
O, the miasmatic matter and the poison which 1
scatter, with the simple same of water, un
adulterated, pure!
While my friend the undertaker waxes richer,
slicker, fatter, and the druggist's wife and
daughter take a European tour!
O, I often pause and wonder as I ponder o'er my
plunder, pause and wonder why In thunder
honset people let me lie.
Why they do not rise in anger, tear me limb from
limb asunder, and adopt a water meter more
Ingenuous than 11 —The Wasp.
BABY BALLOON
£
“How did she come by such a queer
name?” said Col. Jack We luted, re-
peatiug the question that had been put
to him by one of our party. “Well,
you may be sure that she wasn’t
christened so. During the first three
years of her career I wasn’t very well
acquainted with her—in fact, never
laid eyes on her. But until the end
of that period she was known as Bir
die; so I’m informed. Birdie Tredloe
was her real name. I’ll tell you how
she came to be called ‘Baby Bal
loon.’ ”
The young person to whom he re
ferred was a lovely girl of 18, with
dark hair, serious eyes, fresh healthy
color in her cheeks, ana a lithe figure,
so graceful and bouyant that you
might easily have expected her to
float away if a particularly strong
breeze should happen to blow across
the seaward looking veranda of the
hotel at Reefer’s Pomt, where we sat
talking. The idea that she might be
waftea off by a breeze would he es
pecially apt to occur to you when you
saw her aancing in the great parlor,
as she frequently did of evenings.
And I rather thought that handsome
Joe Terrill (one of our younger
friends), who danced with her a great
deal, would not have obiected to her
floating away if he could have been
allowed to float with her. To be
lain, Joe was in love with Miss Tred-
oe, or, as the colonel called her.
“Baby Balloon.” Joe Terrill haa
plenty of money, but he was not satis
fied with that; he wanted Miss Tred-
loo as well. When he did me the
honor to confide this to me one day, I
said to him, “Why in the world, then,
don’t you ask her to marry you ?”
“Well,” he replied, “I don’t feel at
all sure that she cares enough for me
to take me just for myself. I don’t im
agine she would want me just for my
money either. The long and the short
of it is, I don’t amount to enough.
My money came to mo by inheritance,
so that’s nothing to my credit. And
I haven’t done anything of importance
in the world except just to be born and
to inherit this wealth. Now if I liad
only done some great action or made
a name for myself, I might possibly
' Ty uotionis-sfae
wants a hero. Oh, by Jove I—that’s a
good idea. If I could rescue her from
a mad dog or an angry bull, or save
her from drowning, then she’d be
sure to have me.”
Infuriated bulls and mad dogs do
turn up every day; and when they do
make their appearance it is likely
enough to be just at a moment when
we are not prepared to cope with them.
So, not being able to impress these
animals into his service, Terrill per
sistently took Miss Tredloe out sailing,
as if with a view to some opportune
marine disaster. It was positively
amusing to notice how he dogged her
footsteps with a design on her life—
not the design of destroying it, but of
preserving it, so that she might share
it with him.
But to return to Col. Welsted. His
declaration that he had not known the
ypung lady for the first three years of
her existence seemed rather strange,
considering that she looked upon him
as a father, and that we all considered
him in that light, notwithstanding the
difference in their names. He ex
plained this, however, in the course
of the story which he proceeded to
narrate. That story is the one I am
going to tell here.
i Col. Jack Welsted was a tall, sinewy
man with gaunt cheeks, and had a
long red mustache that drooped and
slanted over the corners of his mouth
like a pennant hanging idly from the
staff on windless day. He was also cele
brated as a crack rifle shot. He could
bring down almost anything on the
wing, and could hit all sorts of marks,
at all ranges. But his certainty of aim
with the rifle did not seem to help him
when he came to love matters. He
failed to come anywhere near touching
the heart of the lady whom he loved.
Evelyn Carter rejected him, and mar
ried another man, who was a great
deal handsomer than the colonel, but,
I regret to say, not nearly so good.
Then Col. Jack went off on his
trave’s, carrying his Arc arms with
him. He made innumerable hunting
trips, and shot endless numbers of
deer, rabbits, Rocky Mountain goats,
wild cats, ducks, prairie hens and even
alligators. For a long time it seemed
as if he was trying to wreak on these
unfortunate creatures the disappoint
ment of his affections. But all to no
purpose. Ho could not forget Evelyn;
and so far as he could see he was as
much in love with her as ever. Tims
it was that about four years after her
marriage he came wandering down to
this popular sea shore resort of
Reefer's Point, where we were now
staying, and where he now told us
the story. Lots of other people came
there /or their health or for amuse
ment. The colonel came because he
did not know what else to do; and al
though there was not much shooting
to bo had at Reefer's, he was con
stantly seen carrying his rifle about
with nim, in the crowds about the
hotel, or along the lonely beaches, or
in the boat which he hired Ben Piver
to sail for him up and down and
across the inlet, or sometimes well out
to sea. People laughed at him a little,
good naturedly, for lugging the gun
with him on all occasions. But he
attached to it He was a
and the rifle was his prin-
brown haired child of 3, was a great
favorite among the visitors at the
Reefer’s Point hotel, whither she had
been brought by her widowed mother
to recover from the effects of a severe
illness that had lasted several weeks.
All the old ladies and old gentlemen
about the place, and even some of the
young ones, were fond of talking with
aer and petting her. But CoL Jack
Welsted, if he had seen her at all, did
not appear to have noticed her. He
was much given to solitude, and did
not spend much of his time on the
hotel piazza. Moreover, although fond
of children, he could not help remem
bering his disappointment in not be
ing able to marry Evelyn Carter, and
the sight of a pretty child frequently
made nim melancholy by reminding
him that he had none of his own.
Besides, he had been at the hotel only
two or three days when the important
event connected with Birdie took
place. It is certain that he had not
once seen her with her mother, and
did not even know her name.
One afternoon when a brisk wind
blowing off shore, the colonel
sail
was _
had gone out in his boat with Ben
Piver, taking his gun as usual, and
promising himself a shot at some
sea gull if he could find no better
game. Some of the visitors were bath
ing on the beach, others were sitting
on the steamboat wharf, and some
were promenading in front of the
hotel; while a group of children at the
Indian tent, not far away, were buy
ing bead moccasins and birch bark
baskets. The veranda was crowded,
and Mrs. Tredloe was sitting there
with little Birdie, when benevolent
old Dr. Haygood happened along, and
asked the widow if ne might take the
child down to the tent to buy some
thing for her. Mrs. Tredloe consented,
and the old gentleman and his little
companion descended the steps to
gether. Before they had reached the
tent, and as they were walking along
the high ground close above the
water, they met an Italian peddler
who liad a couple of dozen toy bal
loons for sale, all fastened by long
strings to a stick, and bobbing merrily
in the air above his head.
“Oh, beautiful big apples 1” ex
claimed Birdie, rapturously, her
sparkling eyes fixed on the large elas
tic crimson globes, which she seemed
to mistake for fruit. “Give Birdie
one?”
Dr. Haygood began to bargain with
the Italian, and took the stick from
him to select a balloon from the bunch.
His small friend was delighted, imag
ining sho was to have the entire
bunSi.
“All—all for me!” she cried, and
clapping her hands, she stretched
them out toward the coveted treasure
of the dancing air globes.
This so amused the kind hearted
doctor that he resolved to humor her,
for a moment at any rate. So gather
ing the long strings together, he tied
them around Birdie’s waist, then let
go, and the balloons all floated up
around and above her head and shoul
ders, making a gay spectacle of her.
The doctor and the Italian both stood
by, smiling at her satisfaction, when
suddenly to their amazement, a strong
gust of wind caused all the balloons to
sway to one side, sweeping Birdie off
j^er feet and grace£uR-Y pp into
y very close to a long
r^t that jutted out into the inlet just
t>!gond the harbor’s mouth.
One more shot finished off a third
balloon, an there were not enough left
if the bunch now to hold Birdie up.
Sfowly steadily, softly, she began to
, and qjscena, precisely as if she were being
strays Tc!. downward by a pair of arms mov-
icg gently, and in a few minutes CoL
J^ck had tne satisfaction of seeing her
It happened so
they coi
greatly
ly man.
was
lone \ .
| cipal companion. When he was in a
| romantic mood he would pat the stock
or the fine “twist” barrel of the gun
affectionately with his hand, remark
ing, “This rifle, sir, is my bride, and
she never talks except when I want
her to. ’’ At that remark his friends
would privately laugh more than ever.
But they soon discovered, as I shall
speedily demonstrate, that his roman
tic attachment to the gun was a very
lucky thing, which rendered him and
certain other persons an unexpected
and importance service.
little Birdie Tredloe, then a bright.
unexpectedly that,
before they could do anything to pre
vent, the light little creature was
borne away by the cluster of fantastic
looking crimson balls, up and off over
the water. And as the wind was off
shore, it seemed inevitable that she
would be carried by it across the
mouth of the inlet straight out to sea.
“Great heavens!” shouted the doc
tor in helpless horror.
The Italian, smitten with despair at
the loss of his balloons, began a fren
zied dance, at the same time exclaim
ing to the unhappy old gentleman,
“You payee me-a for all-athose-a! you
payee alf-a I”
The bathers in the water observed
the extraordinary sight of a little girl
cheerfully sailing through the air
with her improvised flying machine,
and stood gaping upward in amaze
ment. Everybody on shore became
aware of the catastrophe in an instant,
and began running to and fro in a
hubbub. Mrs. Tredloe, on the ve
randa, fainted, and Dr. Haygood
was called up to restore her, while
the Italian vainly tried to keep one
eye on him for security of payment,
and to follow with his other eye the
flight of the balloons in the opposite
direction.
A dozen men hurried to the water’s
edge, launching row boats and sail
boats, with which they tried to chase
the shadow of Birdie and the balloons,
so as to be on hand at the right spot
whenever she should drop into the
water. But it was a hopeless pursuit.
“Sho don’t show any sign of drop
ping," shouted Mr. Middleuy, who was
steering the foremost boat. “She
moves through the air faster than wc
can get over the water; and unless
those air bags explode or fall off she
will be swept so far from land that we
never shall get her."
All ot once help came from an un
foreseen quarter, and one at least of
the balloons did explode. It happened
in this way: Col. Welsted's big cat-
boat was seen rounding the point,
with the wind on her beam, preparing
to tack into the harbor. Ben Piver at
the helm uttered a startled cry.
“That’s the queerest game bird that
I ever see,” ho declared, pointing up
in the air with a big yellow thumb.
“It's got shoes and a skirt and about
twenty-five beads, I should judge, but
no wings.”
The colonel was on the alert, but
the strange object in the air was some
distance away, and so unlike any fly
ing thing they had ever seen before
that it took both men two or three
minutes to comprehend what it was.
Even then they could not account for
it. They did’ not fully understand
what had happened. But Col. Jack
made up his mind that, whoever the
S 'rl was or however she had got into
at situation, she was not in the right
place for a child of her age. And there
was only one way to get her out of it.
He raised his rifle and let fly. But
the motion of his catboat and the
progress of the balloons through the
air made it very difficult for him to
take a sure aim. The first shot had
no effect Ben Piver gave a short dis
gusted laugh. Then the colonel grew
“mad.” He perceived now that the
harbor was full of boats coming out
toward him, and that there was a big
crowd on the shore watching the pro
ceedings. a
“If I don’t hit this time,” said he to
Ben, as he put a fresh cartridge into
the breech, “my reputation’s gone,
and I leave Reefer’s Point to-night.”
Crack 1 went the second shot. The
crowd and Ben heard its mournful
“wboo” as it sped through the bright
air: and almost instantly one of the
balloons collapsed and shriveled up.
An audible cheer came blowing out
from the people on shore and in the
boats, ana Col. Jack loaded again. .
flow away beyond
>very than do thaft,” she gasped in
“Wb
stop
by, it is murder 1
that man from
Can’t
shoot-
ui just imagine how Mrs.'Tredloe
fiut when she saw that puff of gun
oke from the catboat, and realized
some one was firing at Birdie 1 She
, barely recovered from her fainting
when this happened. “Better to
her drown or blc
r f ov .
aiguish.
aay one
iq??”
Dr. Haygood and her friends tried
explain the matter to her, but she
ntea again before they could do so,
it was lucky for her that she be
came unconscious, because the gal
lant colonel was blazing away again
with his rifle at closer range. An
other of the balloons was punctured,
ar.d seemed to vanish. CoL Jack’s
ci tboat all the time drew nearer to a
syot on the' water just below the hov-
eijmg baby, who now hung suspended
fortunate!}
‘d
so many huge bubbles of gor
geous color.
His boat was the first to reach the
paint of sand. Ben Piver leaped out.
rtn to the child, and turning, wavea
h s hat os he shouted to the assembled
11 et, ‘ ‘Gentlemen, she’s alive and kick-
irigf’ whereat another cheer arose,
Icxig and loud.
'CoL Jack all but wept over the
ild as he caught her up and kissed
But Birdie, ou landing amid the
had calmly and unconcernedly
' ' jj with it Her hanas
full of nttle shells. “Dese for
tnjamma,” she remarked, cheerfully.
He hurried her into his boat, and
sailed back to the wharf, accompanied
bt the rest of the fleet There was a
tremendous press of men and women
oA the wharf. Mr. Middleby, who re
ceived Birdie as she was handed up,
(irted to rush with her to her mother,
it, strangely enough, in the crush
id confusion of the crowd, he missed
vay, and stepping accidentally over
side, fell with a plunge into the
liter, carrying Birdie along with him.
'e colonel and Ben Piver were over-
:ard in a moment, and soon had
her safe ashore; so that before they
br >ught her to Mrs. Tredloe she
ha l been rescued f .vice. Some
on 9 had run ahead to tell
th> poor mother th .t Birdie was
all ngbt With Dr. Haygood’s help
sin rose up on her couch to welcome
thj little maiden back; and as the col-
ocil entered with Birdie in his arms
th>re was a cry of recognition on both
sufcs.
‘Jack Welsted 1” exclaimed the
wjfow, in astonishment.
- ls tor CoL Jack, ho stood gazing
frun Birdie to her mother, in whom
hf beheld his lost love, formerly Eve-
Carter. Her husband, Mr. Tred-
t$e, had died not long after Birdie was
known noth-
ixyn:
but Col. Jack h
t this, having heard no news
em tor three'years or more.
V ine end of it was that CoL Jack
elsted and Mrs Tredloe were married
before the season at Reefer’s Roint
was over, and that was how he came
to be the stepfather of “Baby Bal
loon.”
All this happened some fifteen years
before our conversation with the col
onel that evening on the piazza. The
day after he haa recited the circum
stances to us, Joe Terrill came to him
and said : “Colonel, 1 was very much
interested in the story you told us last
night, but it spoiled a little plan of
I have oeen intending to
p
mine.
save
Miss Bii*die’s life myself as soon as I
could get a good chance to do so, pre
paratory to asking her to marry me.
But as 1 found you had already saved
her life twice, fifteen years ago, the
wind seemed to have been taken clean
out of my sails. It occured to rao that
if 1 were to attempt saving her again I
might be overdoing matters. So I
have spoken to her today, and she
agrees with me. She says it’s no use
my waiting around to rescue her, be
cause the opportunity might not occur
in a long wnile, and she has consented
to marry me if you’ll give your ap
proval. Will you ?”
jCoL Jack gave it ‘Tm glad I
saved you the trouble, Joe,” said .he.
“It’s hard enough to win a good wo
man’s love anyway, and if you’ve
done that much, you’ve done enough
to suit me.”—George Parsons Latbrop
in Harper’s Bazar.
Wise, of Virginia.
John S. Wise is a noted dog man—
nofft “Russian dog faced man,” but a
lover of and authority upon dogs.
Nobody owning high bred dogs is
quite satisfied with his possessions
untif'they have the approval of Wise.
A favorable decision at a bench show
is not more satisfactory to dog owners
than such a decision from Mr. Wise,
and his work on dogs is a recognized
authority. He lias been president of
the American Bench association and
conducted the greatest dog tests, trials
ami shows in the country.
One day in Broadway, New York,
when he was strolling with a friend.
Col. Gordon, a young man stepped
up to him and greeted him as “Judge
Wise.” He talked glibly, and John
smelt Jmmco and wondered whether
there was any havseed in his hair.
Finally he said: “See here, 1 think
I have seen you before, but I am not a
judge and 1 never occupied an}’ judi
cial jiosition.”
“Oh-, I don't mean judge of law,”
was the repiy. “Of course I know
you are no judge of that. 1 mean
judge of dogs.”—Washington Post
A NOVEL SIGNAL ROCKET.
Ilabj 'Wit and Wisdom.
Reading the smart sayings of the
smart children in yourpaper, of which
I am jx regular reader, 1 thought 1
might contribute a few of the smart
sayings of our “Buckeye” youngsters
of which 1 have personal knowledge.
One of my friends teaches in one of
Uie infant rooms. She asked the defi
nition of the word “tiger.” They all
yclledJiu chorus: “A wild beast.” She
then fl&fced: “What is a tigress?” But
one boy ventured to hold up his hand.
His answer was: “He looks like a
tiger, but he’s his wife.” A few Sun
days ago the word “mother-in-law"
was iu>he Sunday school lesson. The
infautclass teacher asked if any one
knew what the word meant. Little
Frank at once answered: “Yes. A
cross ohl woman." One of our neigh
bors was 71 years old Christmas day.
He liad sixty gentlemen friends to din
ner. One of the party was speaking
of it to a party of friends in my pres
ence, when Little NelL aged 7, said:
“Pap?, he might have asked you; he
wsiatpur funeral,” her little brother
having >$ecently been buried.—Buck
eye Gn*3n Chicago Herald.
It Docrt Not Neod a Stick, and Its Explo
sion Can Be Heard Twelve Miles.
A new signal has recently been
brought out bv the Cotton Powder
company, of Oueen Victoria street,
London. The distinguishing features
of this invention are that no stick is
required and there is no back fire. The
rocket takes the form of a metal cylin
der. in the base of which is the pro
pelling charge. Above this is a charge
of tomte } and above this again a star
composition. The rocket is placed in
E hosphor bronze socket, which may
e screwed or let into the rail of the
ship. When it is required to fire it a
firing tube is placed in the center of
the rockeL and to the top of this a
lanyard is hooked. The propelling
charge is fired by simply pulling the
lanyard, and the signal is propelled
upward at one impulse. The wire
fuse by which the detonating charge
is exploded is at the same time ignited
and this burns until the rocket has
reached the maximum height, which
is COO feeL
The stars are thrown out, giving a
brilliant illumination, and the touite
charge then explodes. The noise of
the explosion is equal to the firing of
a six pound gun; but being high, is
heard at a great distance; indeed in
one instance a disabled vessel brought
another to her assistance from a dis
tance of twelve miles. These rockets
are so portable and easy to fire—no
match or port fire being required—
that they are very suitable for boats,
and doubtless many lives would have
been saved had tney been in use in
cases where shipwrecked crews have
had to take to the boats. The board
of trade has authorized its surveyors
to pass these rockets distress signals in
lieu of both guns and rockets, so that
many lines of steamships have landed
their guns and use these signals in
stead.
The National Lifeboat institution is
also introducing them with red stars,
which is the distinctive signal to sum
mon a lifeboat crew. A further ad
vantage in this form of rocket is that
a combination of colors and number
of stars can be so arranged as to
form a code on the principle of the
Morse alphabet, a feature which may
prove or groat importance in naval
maneuver and for torpedo boat opera
tions. The full sized rockets are seven
inches long and two inches in diam
eter. A smaller size, which is called
the “rocket light signal,” isalsomade.
This has no explosive charge. An
other modification of the idea consists
of a sound signal, which has no stars.
This takes the place of a gun.—En
gineering.
Gamblers* Homage to Joss.
The rites of pagan worship were
celebrated in Chinatown until a late
hour last evening, and formed an in
teresting spectacle. The Celestial
gamblers were paying homage to their
Joss to secure luck in the games.
Small paper bonfires were started at
intervals all up and down both sides
of Second '♦’•eet, each of which was
tended by twe Mongolians.
The bonfires were made of a certain
kind of prepared paper, which is sup
posed to possess a peculiar quality of
saaredness. Before each-fire a bundle
of'-joss sticks and several red and white
wax caudles were lighted. A large
salver of edibles was brought out and
placed beside each fire for the supply
rod.
r stronomic wants of the g<
vers contained dishes of nu
of the
Hie
plates* of prepared meats, bowls
cooked rice, apples, and several empty
cups. One of the attendants poured
tea from a not into each of the cups,
and then lifted each plate and dish
separately, (giving them all reveren
tial swings in the direction of the bon
fires.
The food was then taken back into
the houses to complete the feasts al
ready begun. These rites are gone
through with on two nights of each
month, and are supposed to bo ex
tremely efficacious in the procuring of
luck for the manipulators of cards,
dice, and fan-tan paraphernalia.—
Portland Oregonian.
Engines In the Lamp Posts.
M. G. A. Tabourin proposes to the
Paris municipal council to fit each
lamp post witn arc light dynamo and
§ as engine. He has contrived a
ynamo of minute parts and a gas
engine ten inches in diameter Tor
coupling up with it, and would put a
dynamo and gas engine iu the post
under each of the gas lamps, as used
at present in that city, utilizing the
S is supply for feeding the gas engine.
e shows by tables of cost and quan
tity, which he says are correct, that
far more light, in the form of elec
tricity, canljo had by the use of this
product of coal applied to the dynamo
than when the gas is directly used for
light Then he sets out to show that
the cost of apparatus would not be as
large as, at the first blush, it would
seem, and, considering the price paid
per arc light per year, not costly: far
less so than tlio Jablochkoff candle in
stallation in 1’Avenue de 1'Opera some
years ago. Should his scheme prove
practicable, we might be enabled to
give up tne discussion of burying
wires, so far as high tension currents
are concerned, for it would not require
any.—Scientific American.
An Old Man’s Wooing.
Perry J. Chace, a retired Providence
merchant, the owner of many houses
and various other buildings, a widower
and a man of 82 winters, recently de
cided that be wanted a wife, and so lie
asked a lady friend of his if she knew
of any good woman about his age
whom he might marry. She said that
Mrs. Sarah Ann Tilton, of Boston, was
certainly good, was 83 years old, and
might possibly wish to marry. “I’ll
see if sne’ll let you call on her.” said
the friend, “and if bo will take you
there and introduce you." When she
saw Mrs. Tilton the widow laughed at
the idea, but said Mr. Chace might
call. At his second call he proposed,
at the third arrangements for the wed
ding were made, and within three
weeks from the first call the venerable
couple were married, and are now
living happily in Providence.—Boston
Globe.
Prophetic Vision*.
One day in the spring of 1861 I sat
with a laay friend conversing pleas
antly, when I saw on my left knee a
pile of bank notes; the top one was a
93 bilL I saw it distinctly, and
so told my friend; she could not
see it It quickly disappeared, and we
speculated over the matter a little and
soon forgot iL This happened in the
forenoon. In the afternoon of the
same day a man came in unexpectedly
and paid me rent money. He was not
in the habit of paying at stated times.
After he had gone I took a bank
note detector to examine the bills to
see if they were all good. I laid them
in a pile on the left of my lap, and,
with tne detector in the right hand,
proceeded. A 93 bill lay on the to]
and I instantly 'recalledThe vision of
the forenoon, and drew my friend’s
attention to tne situation.
At another time I saw two 920 bills
in the air. I was sure some one would
pay me money. I could think of no
one unless it was my mother, who
owed me that much or more, and was
to pay it when she pleased. 1 thought
she would send it in a letter, but days
passed and no tetter or money came.
I felt puzzled, for I could not remem
ber any mistakes in these experiences.
It might have been a week after the
vision when my two children qame in
ou the stage. They had been staying
at my mother's and I had not expectea
them home. The girl was 11 years
old and somewhat careless. She had
been home three days, and we had
seemingly talked over everything
about grandma’s affairs, when she
spoke up loudly and quickly, saying:
“Ohl ma, I forgot to tell you;
grandma sent you some money, and
it is sewed up in the bosom of my
dress.” We got her traveling dress
and found the money, just two notes
of the amount I had seen.—Religio-
Philosophicai JournaL
Forty-nine Tear* in Prison.
The Franklin County almshouse at
present affords shelter to a man who
has a remarkable record in the crim
inal annals of this part of the state.
His name is William Pierce, and he
was released from Auburn prison a
few days ago. after serving a term of
imprisonment amounting to forty-
nine years, four months and six days.
The crime for which Pierce suffered
this terrible punishment was for the
murder of his own father on Jan. 10,
1839. Pierce, who was then about 16
years old, was working in the woods
with his parent, when a dispute arose
over the use of a horse winch he de
sired to drive in the evening to attend
a party or spelling school in the neigh
borhood.
The father, unable to stand the abu
sive language of his son, attempted to
chastise him. In return, William
seized his ax and with two or three
blows killed him. The parricide was
arrested and tried in this village in
July, and sentenced to be hanged
on Sept 2 of the same year. On
account of his youth Governor Sew
ard commuted the sentence to impris
onment for life.
Pierce became hopelessly insane a
few years ago, and a second commu
tation was granted, which allowed his
release. Every one of his relatives in
this county has been dead many
years, and the story of his crime was
almost completely forgotten—Malone
(N. Y.) Special to New York Sun.
The Mountain Goat.
While engaged in a hunt I tried to
learn something from the half breed
about these strange animals, but, al
though he had killed scores of theja,
he was so uncommunicative that 1
was given precious little information.
However, 1 learned enough to know
that the race is nearly extinct, having
been hunted with great vigor on ac
count of the hides by those who didn’t
care for the sport, and also having
been pursued so hard by genuine
sportsmen, who were carried away
with the delights of the chase. 1 had
-formerly thought that they had these
. big curving horns you have seen in
pictures, on which they alighted un
harmed after springing from some
lofty height; but that’s all nonsense,
for their horns are small and sharp
pointed.
They are fearless, however, in rac
ing over the mountains, and make
some astonishing leaps and climb up
to seemingly inaccessible heights,
taking a sure foothold where it woula
seem almost au impossibility for them
to stick. Altogether, I don't wonder
that there is so muen of an effort to
capture them.
By the way, I learned that in the
Sawtooth Range another animal could
be found which is unknown except in
Europe—the ibex. At least there is a
tradition to that effect, but I saw
none, and couldn’t ascertain that any
had been killed; so after all it may lie
a fable. —Chicago Tribune.
Johann Mozart.
Johann Chrysostom Wolfgang Ama
deus Mozart, one of the greatest of
musical composers, was born at
Salzburg on the 27th of Jan
uary, 1756. When but 6 years
old he composed short pieces,
which he performed with great ap
plause before the court at Munich.
The next year he astonished Paris by
his performances on the organ and his
powers of improvisation. Mozart com
posed numerous operas which still
nold their place on the stage, and ex
celled in all departments of composi
tion and in tne universality of his
genius. He died at the age of 85.—
Philadelphia Times.
“Spike Team*.”
“Spike teams” are an institution
peculiar to the south. The Georgia
team consists of a mule ora jenny and
an ox; these are geared to an old
rickety wagon to haul guano and
watermelons in. The Florida team is
less complicated and moreecon’jmicaL
An ox is harnessed to a pair of shafts
fitting to a yoke on the animal's neck
and connecting with a pair of wheels
in which a box is placed, a rope at
tached to the creature's horns an
swering for reins. The box generally
contains a man and a woman of a typo
that can be found nowhere but in
Dixie.—Chicago Times.
A Hugo Glass Furnace.
The tank glass furnace plant of the
Chambers-McKee company in Pitts
burg is the first of its kind in this
country, the idea coming from Europe.
Hie tanks, however, are bigger than
anything attempted in European glass
houses, there being four of thi
ig I
taclcs for molten glass, each capable of
containing 250 to 800 tons of metal
and supplying seventy-two blowers.
The fire clay of which these furnaces
were constructed had to be brought
from Germany.—New York World.
icse recep-
The Enterprising New York Woi-lil.
Sweet* from Coal Tar.
The French government has become
alarmed at the cheapness with which
saccharine may he produced from coal
tar. It considers tliat the composition
of that substance with cane and beet
sugar is dangerous to the health of the
community, and it is said that it is al
ready being extensively used os an
adulterant. To remedy this evil a
measure has been passed absolutely
prohibiting the importation of sac
charine or saccharmed substances.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
A Stradivarius violin is said to liave
been found in a Norwich, Conn., loan
office. It is a big round model of per
fectly symmetrical lines, and a rich,
dark retl color. The instrument is
somewhat the worse for wear, but the
e is rich.
As a piece of information, we will
nit ntion that the New York World
haa been sending correspondents
around to the Southern winter resorts
to get frdm their people money for
publishing something about them.
Ocala. Florida, has just been entrap
ped, and so has Asheville, N. C.; and
here is what the Asheville Citizen
says about it:
“How a metropolitan newspaper,
like the New York World, and pre
tending I o respectability as it does,
and claiming to have a half million
of readers, as it does, could conde
scend to such little means of adding
to its income as to send around the
country an ordinary—very ordinary—
correspondent, alady, and*to make it
her duty to csjole or bulldoze, to get
from impecunious Southern towns
money which they might find many
better places to invest, is suprising;
but it is still more surprising that the
inhabitants of many of the Southern
towns should be so absolutely devoid
of sense, common or otherwise, as to
be cajoled -or humbugged, or bull
dozed, or whatever it may tie, into
fooling away their hard-earned mon
ey iu any such manner. We say it
is absolutely idiotic to spend money
in any such way, and we feel at lib
erty to say so the more freely because
this time we are one of the idiots
ourselves—that is to say, we allowed
our business manager to invest a V
of his own in the schemes of this fair
advertiser, and we note that he, as
well as some other of Asheville’s best
business men, were slightly disgrun
tled to see Sunday the result of the
five hundred dollar investment, as
displayed on the 20th page of the
World of that date, in a column im
mediately subsequent to one of stiff-
tailed 'logs, for which this eminent
paper is eminently renowned.
The Bench Show in New York—1,900
Dogs on Exhibition.
New York, Feb. 28,1889.
Editors Aiken Recorder:
The thirteenth annual Bench Show
of the Westminister Keunell Club
closed this evening. It has been the
leading social as well as sporting
event of the week, as many of our
fashionable ladies entered their pets
for competition. The registration for
this exhibition of valuable dogs has
been the largest ever known iu the
history of bench shows in this coun
try ; and of the fifteen hundred ani
mals entered, more than thirteen
hundred have actually been shown.
It would be difficult to imagine a
more animated scene thau Madison
Square Garden presented Ibis even
ing. The immense, brilliantly illu
minated structure was thronged with
the owners and friends of this noble
type ot the brute creation, while the
air was filled with the barks and yelps
ot the aristocratic canines.
The judging began on Tuesday at
10 o’clock, almost Immediately after
the opening of the show, and was
completed the day following. The
keen anxiety of the owners of the
high-born pets was amusingly palpa
ble, and all that heroic rubbing and
brushing could do was done without
stint, during which performance one
is forcibly impressed with the stolid
indifference of the olooded canines to
tiie attentfens_j>f their enthush
masters. .* *
The array of large dogs is enormous,
St. Bernard’s alone numbering 152;
Blood Hounds, 68; Mastiffs, 75; Gray
Hounds, 25; Setters, Pointers, New
Fouudlands, Deer Hoynds, and so on
without number, through the various
species of the dog creation.
Mrs. Sarah Leggett Emory’s beau
tiful couple of English Grey Hounds,
“Dora” and “Lancashire Witch,”
were first prize winners.
J. C. E.
The Washington correspondent of
the New York Tribune, writing on
March 3d, says: “Here isau interest
ing incident which concerns the Presi
dent-elect. He was driving along
Pennsylvania avenue yesterday eve
ning, when he saw over a shop a cam
paign banner which cast some reflec
tion ou President Cleveland, while
eulogizing himself. He at once asked
his s»n, Russell, who was driving
with him, to go to the owner of the
shop and arrange to have tiie offen
sive banner taken down. Russell
made inquiries this morning about
the owner of the place, hunted him
up and got hirr to promise to remove
the inscription whieli the General had
noticed. ‘The campaign is over,’said
the President-elect, ‘and nothing
should be said or done now to offend
former opponents.’ ”
The Keowee Courier contains an
interesting article on tiie minutes of
the sixty-eighth session of the State
convention of tiie Baptist denomina
tion: There are nearly tliree million
Baptists in the United States and
about seventy-five thousand of these
are South Carolina Baptists. The
value of the church property owned
by the Baptist denomination is be
tween eight and nine millions of dol
lars. About one-twentieth of the in
habitants of the United States of
America belong to this denomination
and about one-fifteenth of the inhabi
tants of this State. The Baptists are
probably the most numerously repre
sented denomination in this State.
The Boston Globe says President
Harrison’s legs are said to be abnor
mally short, but that has not preven
ted him from walking around Wash
ington more in one week than Presi
dent Glevelad lias in four years. It
is a great thing to be a good walker.
It quickens tiie pulse, brightens the
eve, sweetens the temper, and takes
a" head-weary President where the
office-seeker ceases from troubling.
We are glad Mr. Harrison isa walker,
and tor his sake we hope the walking
will he good on the 4th of March 1893.
A Washington dispatch says that
the caterer for the inaugural ball pro
vided 2,000 quarts of.ice cream, 1,000
quarts of water ices, 400 roast turkeys.
1,000 toiled turkeys, 200 hams, 300
tongues, 30 rounds of roast beef, 4
barrels of chickens for salad, 10,000
rolls, 1,500 pounds of butter, 2,000
loaves of bread, a wagon load of pate
de foie gras, consomme, salmon,
shrimp and bass, 300 barrels of oys
ters, 200 terrapin, and wine in abun
dance.
March April Mar
Are the months in w’hich to purify
the blood, as the system is now most
suscentible to benefit from medidoe.
Hence now is the time to take Hood’s
Sarsaparilla, a medicine peculiarly
adapted for the purpose, possessing
peculiar curative powers. It expels
every impurity from the blood, and
also gives it vitality and richness. It
creates an appetite, tones the diges
tion, invigorates the liver, and gives
new life and energy to every function
of the body. The testimony of thou
sands, as to the great benefit derived
from Hood’s Sarsaparilla, should con
vince everybody that It Is peculiarly
the best blood purifier and spring
medicine.