The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, July 24, 1891, Image 6
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A plan lias just been formed for
laying a cable between England and
Germany. In spite of the close inter
ests of the two countries, there has
hitherto been no direct means of com
munication between them, bul two
officials of a German port were in
London recently, consulting for the
carrying out of the project which is
now considered as having been defi
nitely settled.
From statistics recently gathered, it
•eem that while American women
may be more advanced in their ideas
than their European sisters, the num
ber who have to work for a living is
comparatively small. In the United
States it is estimated that there are
2,700 000 working women; in Eng
land, 4,000,000; in Franco, 3,750,000;
in Germany, 5,500,000; in Austro-
Hungury, 3,750,000.
English newspaper correspondents
who have attempted to penetrate into
the interior of Russia to feel the senti*
ment of the people have in every in
stance met overly polite officers who
turned them back and accompanied
them to seaport towns to see that they
didn’t stub their toes and fall down on
the way. ‘‘No other Kennans will
ever got into Russia,” predicts the
Detroit Free Press.
A preliminary summary of the
population of the Hawaiian kingdom
has bee t made, giving a total of 90,-
046. The net increase is seen to be
9478, or almost exactly 11 3-4 per
cent. It is learned that for the first
time in the history of the kingdom the
native Hawaiians, including all of
either pure or mixed blood, are an ab
solute minority of the whole popula
tion. This is due partly to the de
crease of natives, who have fallen oil
about eight per cent., but still more to
the increase of Hawaiian born for-
einers and foreign born, who have
gained over 13,000, or about thirty-six
per cent.
Says a correspondent of the Seattle
(Washington) Post-Intelligencer: “la
the matter of the sale of poisons by
druggists, the method adopted by a
friend of mine many years ago, and
which I had the pleasure to recom
mend to the Legislature of Georgia,
when considering a bill of this charac"
ter, will make the law absolutely per
fect. The law as to colored paper 9
and labels and the word ‘Poison’ is all
very well for persons who can read,
and in daylight, but if the present law
were amended to make it obligatory
that every druggist should put poison
in a three-cornered bottle (the cost is
no greater), bi
If We Could Know.
■Whither do our footsteps tend?
More and more we yearn to know
As life's shadows longer grow.
And the evening hours descend,
And before us lies the end.
When the door shall open wide,
And behind us softly close,
What to our expectant eyes
■Will the future life disc’ose?
Shall we see a morning Break,
Fair and fragrant and serene,
Seeming like the blessed dream
Of some unforgotten eve?
Shall we walk in gladness on,
Under smiling skies of blue
Through an ever deepening dawn,
Into wide fields fresh and new?
Meeting those who came before,
Knowing each familiar look
And each well remembered tone,
Though so ma'iy years had flown,
Since each other's hand we took.
Saying farwells o’er and o’er?
Shah we talk of earthly day ,
Speaking low, with bated breath.
Of the awful mystery
Of our human life and death;
Shall we wonder to recall
How our hearts were prone to fear,
How we scarce y dared to hope
In any heaven, so fair, so near?
Ah! if we could only know,
As the shadows deeper grow.
Whither our swift footsteps tend,
As they surely near the end!
FEE NUT-BROWN MAID.
BY MAKY C. PRESTOX.
Never had the world looked so love
ly to Inez Kent—never had life
teemed so well worth the having, as
when, turning her pretty pony’s head,
the rode homeward with Vane Carrol,
tier distant kinsman, whose mother's
jucst she had been fora whole mouth.
He was so tall and princely; so
graceful, courtly, polished; and then
die only son of one of (he richest wo
men in the state; and Inez, with all
ier beauty and her grace, was not over
burdened with worldly gear, nor had
so eligible a party ever shown such
pleasure in her society; and Inez
Kent was very worldly and practical*
lespite of a piuk-and-whitc daintiness,
a delicate ethereal softness of
’ace and manner, which made her
:hief charm.
“Of what are you (hinkirg, little
unisin?” Vane questioned, with a
unile, as they cantered side by side.
“Your face is full of sunlight. Is
•.here some lover who is responsible for
those dimples?’’
“No,” she answered, with a blush
ind a shy, swift glance into his laugh
ing eyes. “I have no lover,Vane, and
[ was thinking only of how happy I
am here.”
He smiled very kindly—almost, she
thought, tenderly—at her.
“You have brightened our house,”
All around him. were wan, white
faces, weeping women, wailing chil
dren, and more than one man's eyes
were dim, as he watched a little home,
reared so slowly and with such toil
swept away by the flood.
“My friends,” Vane called out, as
he sat like a young prince on his horse,
his face showing pale and grave in the
gray light, “I am truly sorry for your
misfortunes; but if no life is in dan
ger, all else can be borne. Now, let
tbe women and children all go (o my
mother. She will shelter them gladly,
and we men will save what we
can.”
A few broken voices breathed bless
ings on him as, dismounting, he went
among them, saying cheering words
here and there and sending all the wet
shivering women with their frightened
little ones to the great house on the
hill.
Suddenly he saw that a couple of
men were about to venture ou the
swollen waters iu a small boat.
“If all are safe, why risk your
lives?” he asked them.
“All are not safe, sir,” one replied,
hurriedly. We never thought of old
Mr. Glaviu and his niece, and their
house is surrounded by the water—
has been so for hours. The old man
is a paralytic, the niece only a slip of
a girl. They’re in danger, sir, and
we’re going to try to get them.”
“I’ll go wilh you,” said Vane, stop
ping into the boat.
And in a moment they were out in
the rush and swell of the current, un
able, for nil their six strong arms, to
guide the boat. Several times they
were caught among floating debris;
they were swung round and round;
the boat was dashed forcibly against
some building which the water sur
rounded.
At last, with infinite trouble, they
secured the boat at an open window in
the second story of a cottage, of which
only that floor and the roof were
visible above the surface.
With a ringing cheer one of them
leaped over the sill, and Vane looked
after them.
In a great chair, with shawls
wrapped about him, and a shrinking
terror in his large eyes, sat the paraly
tic; beside the chair, slight, pale, but
firm as steel, stood a girl, with eyes
like stars and lips that began to quiver
as she saw the help that had come;
while at her feet, with his low whines
changing to joyful barking, crouched
a great black dog.
The chair was wheeled to the win -
dow, the helpless man lifted into the
boat; then the girl put out her hands
to Vane, and, as his closed on (hem,
lie drew her over Uic sill, s
love she felt]
chagrin arej
and they wi
From herl
Vane and
the gr<
grave, hers
about the vij
“1 will gt
said to hersi
And on tlj
And wh(
placed licfl
and vowed
knew that it
not bis bro:
Night.
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physician
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crowd of
spectators
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>t pleasant companions, ri VII I UF I .piVi 1 L.CO.
with her. |
Such is Benares, India’s Refuge
for Idolatrous Pilgrims.
I
Besides the Temples There are
' Sacred Bulls and Monkeys.
riudow she could see
^trice walking slowly iu
his face earnest and
lyly beut, wilh ainiles
I d lips.
nome to-morrow,” she
morrow she went,
the “nut-brown maid”
I .le olive hand in Vane’s,
im love and honor, he
was himself she valued,
osscssious. — [Saturday
of Rare Poison.
^spectacle of a well-known
jf this city extracting poi-
Irt of the deadly rattlesnakes
l’r was witnessed by a large
ivisito.s yesterday. The
tood at a respectable dis-
|ie hideous reptile hissed
I d showed every evidence
age.
the doctors do with the
they r get it is a profes-
Tiat has never leaked out.
a medicine in some kind
diseases, so it is said, and
{nsreial product the poison is
cal times its weight iu first
ijonds.
aod of obtaining the poison
|iing and exciting. The doc-
Jiy assisted in the operation
Keeper Byrne,who thorough-
[t.uids the habits of all the
It the “Zoo.”
is iutenj
tor is us\
by Head
ly under!
reptiles
The do ctor approaches the rattle'
snake ca«'e with a stick about a yard
long, on one end of which is a stout
leather loop that tightens when the
stick is raised. This is inserted at the
top of the cage, and instantly every
snake coils himself for a spring, and
warning rattle,
is deftly slipped over the
iptile before it has had a
to spring, and the stick is
quid# - withdrawn with the snake
dangj'g from one end of it. No time :
is losfia pulling the snake out of the
cage^ 9 the other enraged snakes are
sink their poisonous fangs
body of their dangling com
ic assistant then holds a large
of glass in front of the snake,
doctor dashes his hand against
Ur side of the glass until the
rdpile is beside himself with rage.
The snake, after sending forth the
vvfniiig rattle, dashes his head against
tlb protecting pane, and invariably
V re is left a tiny d^M^^^son ou
glass. This a
he
Although the temples in Benares are
numerous, they are, with scarcely an
exception, modern. Many of them
are believed to bo on the sites of
ancient temples that have long since
passed away. Probably not one of
them dates earlier than the Moham
medan invasion of India. The temples
of Benares and nearly all of them in
Northern India are small and uuira-
posing when compared with the grand
and stately temples of Southern India.
The temple of Bisheshmar, Lord of
the Universe, known also as Mahadcy,
is probably the largest, and certainly
tbe most popular of all the sacred
city’s temples. It occupies one corner
of a large square, the greater portiou
of which is an elevated platform. On
one side of it stands the principal
mosque of the city. It is built on the
site and partly with the materials of
the ancient temple of Bisheshmar,
which was destroyed by the order of
Arungzeb. A high and massive wall
surrounds the temple, and in the midst
of the quadrangle is a raised platform
with a roof, above which arc images
in sandstone, marble, and brass of va-
I rions gods and goddesses, who form,
as it were, the court of Bisheshmar.
The India metal workers and those
of their craft have their shops near
the gate of the temple. There idols
can be bought according to weight, or
workmanship, and not a little wrang
ling may be heard as the seller praises
and the buyer disparages, the image
. of the god that both of them worship.
At all hours of the day, but specially
i from 5 a. ra. to 12, crowds of wor
shippers pass iu and out of the temple.
Each one comes at the hour most cou-
| venient for himself, as there is r.o
appointed time, and worships any or
all of the gods as ho may please. Each
worshipper in this temple must of
necessiiy pay homage to Bisheshmar,
the presiding deity.
Many women of middle life or aged
are to be seen in the temple. Bands
of pilgrims who speak strange tongues
arc conducted through the temple by a
paid guide, who directs them in the
ceremonies that must be performed,
and insists upon the offerings that
must bo made to insure the full spirit
ual benefit of a visit to the sacred
' £Oi ; Men and women move around
Plwscdly, noisily, muttering pray-
icrs, proclaiming the^j;
^ jnversini
tween them. The natives of Muttra
are not able to distinguish the monkeya
of one colony from those of the other
when they meet any of their simian
fellow-citizens- Not so with the mon
keys, however, for if any member of
one colony ventures to invade the ter
ritory of the others, a desperate battle
begins, in which all the monkeys of
the two colonies engage. — [New York
Times.
Training Elephants.
“The training or elephants,” says
“Elephant” Bill Newman, the veteran
trainer in charge of Barnum’s herd,
“requires a vast deal of patience and
much care. For instance, to teach one
of them to stand on his hind feet re
quires a heavy block and tackle. Just
back of the fore legs is the rope which
runs over a block and to which is at
tached another elephant. Elephant
number two walks away, elephant
number one lifts his fore legs from
the floor. Sometimes this has to be
done for days before the beast real
izes what is required of him. Then
he is quite willing to try it himself.
At first lifting his feet a few inches
from the floor, l.e is finally persuaded
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to stand erect on his hind legs. This
simply illnstrates the ponderous diffi
culty and the great amount of patience
required for training the animal. But
once taught he generally remembers
it. I spent several months once,
though, trying to teach “Don”
to write his name. He learned to
hold the chalk correctly, and after
tracing a capital **D” for several
score of thousand times lie be
came an adept in writing “D's,”
but when he had mastered the
small “o” we found that the construc
tion of the letter “D” had entirely
faded from Don’s mind ; so I gave it
up. We have to be fertile and imagina
tive in devising tricks and schemes.
The entry of the keeper ou a chair
placed on the tusks of an elephant is
an idea which Hashed across me some
few weeks ago. I tried it and feund
that it worked, and it has been one of
the most sensational features of our
act this year. Very often tricks on
which we have set great store do not
“go” at all. It is exasperating, but j
then if we trainers are not gifted with |
patience we have no excuse for being j
trainers.
“Yes, I have trained all sorts of
birds and beasts, but I never found
any animal so docile, patient or obe
dient us an elephant. They are the
only animals that will answer to their
names promptly and without mistake.
But it is a long, tedious piece of work.
Only a natural love for the au^
could persuade any npu 1
Our Choir.
There’s Jane Sophia,
And Ann Maria,
With Obediab,
And Jedekiab,
In our choir.
And Jane Sophia, soparno, sings
So high you’d think her voice had wingl
To soar above all earthly things,
When she leads off on Sunday;
While Ann Maria’s alto choice
Rings out in such harmonious voice
That sinners in the church rejoice,
And wish she’d sing till Monday.
Then Obediah’s tenor high
Is unsurpassed beneath the sky;
Just hear him sing ’ Sweet by and By,’'
And you will sit and wonder;
While Jedekiah’s bass profound
Goes down so low i. jars the ground.
And wakes the echoes miles around,
Like distant rolling thunder.
Talk not to ns of Patti's fame,
Of Nicolini’s tenor tame.
Of Cary's alto—but a name—
Of Whitney’s ponderous bassol
They sing no more like Jaoe Sophia,
And Ann Maria, Obediab.
And Jedekiab in our choir.
Than cats sing like Tonnnnao I
— [Musical Record
HUMOROUS.
Full measure—Ten dollars or t«
days.
Natural philosophy—Taking care <
number one.
Welcome converts stale bread int
hot biscuits buttered.
The detective’s business should bo
successful following.
Now a tack combine is forming
Who will be brave enough to “si
down” on it?
The office may seek the man; bu
the boy looking for a job comes dowr
on it like a mob.
Customer—Are you sure this bread
is fresh, baker? Fresh baker—Well,
I should say so, it’s tomorrow’s.
There is no solitude so miserable as
that of the man alone iu a . oisy city,
unless it be that of a man mo with a
noisy baby.
Soberly—Do you believe, Sprat by,
that there is luck iu hor- . Y>cs?
Sprathy—If there is it stays 'em.
I never knew of any cornin’ out of
I ’em.
Painter: Doctor, I should like to
: present this painting to some public
institution; now which would you
recommend? Doctor: The Blind Asy
lum.
Caruthers—It takes a good deal of
urging to get Miss Pruyn to sing.
Waite—Yes, but it can bo done. What
I want to learn is how to stop her om~»
she gets/ 1