The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, June 17, 1886, Image 1
BY E. B MTJEEAY & CO.
ANDERSON, S. O, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 17, 1886.
VOLUME XXL?NO. 49.
J. G. CLINKSCALES; Editor.
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Control your children at borne, and
you may expect the teacher to.have very
little trouble witojbem^
. The ISouth Carolina Collegian to May
Comes filled with good reading matter.
"Mr. W. C. Whitneris one of the scien?
tific editors.
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Miss Dora Norris has just closed a
very successful school term. She repjr ts
considerable progress among her pupils
fand is devoted to her work.
Many of the schools that have intend
ed all along to have public closing exer?
cises have been compelled to forego that
. pleasure on account of the rapid decrease
in the number of pupils as the busy sea
, son with the farmers approaches.
/* .
It is unfortunate when u parent is con?
stantly on the watch for partiality on the
part of the teacher. Jiist suggest the
idea to your children, and they will soon
b'a as watchful as you are; and will soon
be able to report its unmistakable exist?
ence;- ...
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Cadet A. C. Ford is jmc home from
the Bingham School, with a good share
of medals.?Naiad. The Anderson Mil?
itary School is glad to claim Mr. Ford as
one of her former pupils. -VI ex us was a
ufine boy,, and has^Tefor3ed'.'nto a capi?
tal young man.
We want a male teacher for a perma?
nent school in one of the beft communi?
ties in the County. If you ure the man'
for tb.6 position and are willing to identify
yourself with the interests of the neigh?
borhood and give it first-class work as a
teacher, apply at this office. None but
men making teaching a profession need
apply.
Don't forget the-Teachers' Institute.
Think about it, talk f.bout it, and pre?
pare for it. Every teacher mutt be pree
entj tf attendance lies within the range of j
possibility. ' You may perhaps neglect
some other duties of m.'nor importance,
but yon can not stay awa/ from the In?
stitute without serious damage to your?
self and still more serious injury to your |
pupils and patrons.
Eev. B. H. Blalock, who tanght very.
Buccessfully at Williams ton last year, is
just finishing up a remarkably successful
session at Fountain Inn, Greenville Co.,
S. C. We hope it may be possible for us
to accept his invitation tc witness the
closing exercices and address the school
on July i&d. Fountain Inn is a J nice
place. Beside the pleasure derived from
meeti?g Mr. Blalock and his wife, our
former pupil,, a trip to Fountain Inn
would-be to us especially enjoyable.
The white Normal Institute will be
opened in Greenville July 3, and con
tiouefor -four weeks. The faculty for
this Institute has not been fully organ?
ized. \Cpl. Afibury Coward, Superinten?
dent of Education, will be the immediate
. director. Mr. A. J. BickofF,. of New
York, will have the general subjects,
. "School teaching and methods;" Mrs. A.
J. Bickoif, "English grammar and com?
position ;? L. E. Klemm;of Ohio, "His*
tory and geographyCapL L. C.Lymea,
? of Yorkville, S. C, ?'Natural sciences in
'8onoolsj."^Mis3-.Callie Haynes, of Spar?
enburg, "PhysiologyAnd hygiene."
- How can I hold the attention of every
zaember of my class ? is a question that
frequently; presents itself to. every anx
I ions,:earnest teacher. Let the lesson you
are about to teach permeate, your entire
being, warming your mind, and your
body, tob; if you please. Become your?
self enthused, if . you would enthuse your
pupils. Let; the spirit that .moves you
sparkle iu your oyes> The fire that burns |
in you will warm the inind aud heart of
Ljourpupil. J "\
- - We-were delighted to notice the close
-attention given by the children in Eich
mond to their teachers and to the re?
sponses of their fellow-students to the
questions asked. There is no "lost mo?
tion" there! Every word spoken by tbe
teacher is spoken for-a purpose, and the
children very soon appreciate the fact
that it is their loss when a single point is
allowed to pass unnoticed. It is as easy
to be attentive as inattentive when once
the habit of observing every thing closely
is formed. Bat, on the other hand, when
the habit of inattention is formed, one
goes through life in a listless, negative
way, in reality not living, but simply
hanging on the outer edge of a positive
existence. There, every student is re?
quired to note and correct the errors of.
his neighbor. For instance, a reading
class ia before the teacher. The first
child stands and reads a paragraph.
Upon its conclusion, perhaps a half
dozen hands will go up. Errors have
been detected. Something is wrong, as
the simple raising of the hand is under?
stood to indicate. . The teacher calls
upon A to mention mistake and correct
it. She points out what she conceives to
be an error, but is perhaps herself mis?
taken.- B notes and corrects iu a clear,
^distinct voice the error she observed. C
fcdoes the same, and so it goes on until all
the hands are lowered. Thus the exer
i eise is made quite interesting and very
instructive. Perhaps the mistake con?
sists in the mispronunciation of a word,
the want of emphasis, or the emphasis of
the wrong word. Much attention is
given to emphasis. A student may be
able to call every word in his lesson, and
yet be a very poor reader after all. It is
well known that there are very good
readers. Some men eat their words,
others chew them, and still others spit
them. You had better keep a boy on
one sentence until he reads it correctly
than hurry him loosely over tbe whole of
Appleton's Fourth Eeader, or every
selection in Cathcart's Liteiary .Bender.
DEVICES IN GEOGRAPHY.
BY M. J.' MOORE..
1. After the study of one of the grand
divisions lias beon completed,' frequent
review* are necessary to keep the proper
names from being forgotten. The fol?
lowing exercise has all the pleasures of a
game, and the advantage of fixing the
facts more firmly in the mind.
On small slips of paper, write all the
proper names that have been used in the
study .of the map?mountains, rivers,
lakes, capes, peninsulas, gulfs, bays,
islands, countries and cities. Put these
slips into a box, and the class is ready to
begin the game.
John, coming before the class, and,
drawing a slip of paper, says, "I
have here a name in Europe begin?
ning with D." Up come the hands.
May aBks, "Is it a river in the north
-ern part of Buasia ?" John says,
- "No, it is not the Dwina."
Katie, feeling sure that she knows,
asks, "Is it the second river of Eu?
rope V* John has forgotten which is
the second largest river, and some?
body must tell him that she means
the Danube, to which he answers,
"No."
Maud asks if it is a strait connecting
the English Channel with the North
Sea. Again John replies, "No, it is
not Dover."
Eddie, who has been patiently waiting
to be called upon, asks, "Is it the
? mountains in the Scandinavian pen
. inSula?" This time John says,
.''Yes, it is the Dovrefield Moun?
tains." Now Eddie has his turn at
the box.
Do not use the same letter twice in one
game. . .
The spelling can also be reviewed at
the same time by requiring the pnpil to
write the word on the blackboard, as a
condition of having a turn at the box.
Commend those pupils who can answer
every question without being prompted.
2. They also enjoy this exercise:
. Send one pupil out of the room ; and,
while he is gone, let the others decide oh
some name on the continent that is re?
viewed. ^
When he returns, tell him the first
letter of the word. Then he must ques?
tion the class, or point to what he thinks
it is on a large map, the answers being
given in concert.
8. Their knowledge of the location and
also the spelling may be brought out in
this way: Having placed the points for
a large map on the blackboard, send a
pupil to put on it any thing he chooses,
while the others write the names on their
slates.
This keeps eyes and bauds busy.
Map-drawing and locating often be?
come dry and uninteresting; and most
pupils will put a little more vim into
their work, if, once in a while, they can
recite their lessons in any of these ways.
?Popular Educator.
A Temperance Barroom.
' A writer in the Atlanta Constitution
tells of a temperance barroom in Boston
that is a great success in every way. It
is on Washington. street, and advertised
in big letters, "Temperance Drinks."
Mr. Eaton, who started this establish?
ment three years ago, says that he lost
several thousand dollars the first eix
months of his experiment. But be is
willing and able to wait. He let his
saloon advertise itself by its refreshing
drinks and attractive furnishing.
No prettier barroom can be found in
Boston. Behind the marble counter
stands six young men in white coals.and
caps. Each man wears a flower in his
buttonhole and a pleasing look-on his
face, being in a business which maketh
not ashamed. Over the counter is a long
list of the beverages on sale. Besides
icecold soda in all its agreeable com?
pounds, there are lactarts, egg phos?
phates, Moxie's nerve food, hot beef tea,
chicken tea, and other refreshing and
invigorating fluids, all of the kind that
cheers without inebriating. In the rear
of the saloon there is a lunch counter,
where the very best chicken and ham
sandwiches, pies, rolls, and delicious
coffee may be had at moderate rotes.
' On any day at lunch time the room
will be found crowded, men waiting their
turn to take their lunch. The custom at
this counter is only limited by the room.
Meantime at the drinking counter there
is no intermission in the stream of cus?
tomers. During the hour Bpent there
talking with the proprietor there were
more applicants than could be immedi?
ately attended to by the large and active
force of attendants. Mr. Eaton said they
had consumed a hundred dozen eggs in
one day during the season for egg phos?
phates alone. That means that 1,200
people took a glass of this one fascinat?
ing drink on that day. What the sales
of other drinks were he did not say; but
he does Bay that the profits of the trade
are, in his opinion, larger as well as
cleaner than are made in the barrooms
of the old kind.
He has refused large offers to go else?
where and repeat bis establishment in
other large cities. The success he has
made in Boston is due to the personal
care he gives to each detail of the busi?
ness. Only the very nicest material is
used in the preparation of bis refresh?
ments'. ? The eggs are furnished by one
collector, who is paid nearly double the
market priGffW&arrant their freshness.
So particular is the proprietor that he
gave up the use of grape milk, a profita?
ble and popular unfermented drink,
because he found it to contain H per
cent, of alcohol. There is no fuss of
philanthropy about this barroom; no
pretence that it is carried on for any
other purpose than to make money.
And the interesting and encouraging
feature about it is just here: it really
pays better than a liquor saloon of its
size would pay. What the gains are to
the people who accept it, in place of tbe
old tap, nobody can tell. But Mr. Eaton
would be less than human if those gains
did not add something to the satisfaction
which he gets from the others. Only he
does n"t wish his business advertised for
what \ is not. It is business strictly
with him, not charity, mercy or reforma?
tion. He entered upon it as a specula?
tion, and finds it a paying one.
? The first penitentiary in Indiana
was built of logs, and the first inmate
was a farmer, sent in for counterfeiting
money. This prisoner was allowed
to go home to do his spring plant?
ing and also to put iu his crop yearly
during his stay.
An Cltl Soldier Talks About the Virgin
ia Battle Fields.
Fron the Spartanburg Spartan.
On May 14th I left Spartanburg on the
3.45 p. m. train, accompanied by a most
agreeable traveling companion. On our
tour we have visited some interesting
scenery.
Bichmond, tbe Confederate Capitol.
We had known her only in her war dress
and under martial law. What a variety
of scenes of the past are recalled as we
revisit the city?the amusing, the mourn?
ful, and the terrible. What living Con?
federate does not remember "Sockets"
loaf bread and beef sausage? The
mournful scenes at the hospitals, Camp,
Winder and Chimborazo? The sur?
rounding battlefields with their awful
thunder aud death ? Yet, after all her
misfortunes, Bichmond has grown great.
The grounds occupied by the hospital
barracks of Winder and Chimborazo are
now laid off in beautiful parks, contain?
ing elegant residences. Not far distant
from Winder is Hollywood cemetery, a
lovely spot, whose very atmosphere seems
to remind us that we are treading on sa?
cred ground. In a section of this beau?
tiful cemetery with its trees, shrubbery,
and flowers lie the remains of fifteen
thousand Confederate soldiers. Marble
tomb utones mark a few of the soldiers'
graves, but with a few exceptions, a piece
of wood, capped with metal on which a
number is stamped,, marks their graves.
A few paces Southwest of the great
granite pyramid erected in memory of
the Confederate dead is the S. C. division.
What ?, volume of history is suggested to
the mind while reviewing Capitol Park,
with its statutes and monuments. The
statue of Stonewall Jackson is added to
tbe many erections in memory of disiin
guished Virginians. Procuring a buggy
and a beautiful animal, which we called
"Dollie," we drove down the nine mile
road to the famous Seven Pines Battle
Field. Approaching this field, I invol?
untarily gazed in the distance for the
Federal balloons which hovered over tbe
dreadful carnage below. But on ap?
proaching, there is a feeling of relief at
j seeing the busy plowman turning the
soil that once trembled beneath the
shock olf contending armies.
Mr* Lyons, a Virginian, once a member
of the 7th S. C. Cavalry, resides here in
a house built on the battle field, and has
collected numerous relics of the battle,
?guns, swords, bayonets, bombs, frag?
ments of bombs, minie balls, &c. He
told me they frequently plowed them up
now in cultivating the soil, and sad to
ielate, also human skeletons. In a large
brick enclosure on this field, set with
trees and shrubbery over which floats the
TJ. S. flag, lie buried the remains of many
thousand Federals. After selecting some
relics of this famous battle field, we
returned to Richmond and fookthe York
Biver and Chesapeake Line for Baltimore.
Going abroad the beautiful steamer,,
Louise, a; West Point, we had fine sailing
on York river, Chesapeake Bay and
Patapsco Biver. There is much interest?
ing scenery on this line, and to lovers of
fine oyster*, we say keep mum, until you
try some of the full grown York river or
Norfolk, where two make a moss.; After
visiting City Park and some of the inter?
esting places in Baltimore we took the
train and came to Washington. This is
the place for sight seeing. The Capi?
tal building with its great marble rooms,
i its statuary and its paintings, ia indeed
magnificent and should be thus, to reflect
the greatness of this nation.
The Botanical Gardens are splendid
and exhibit tbe flora of the world,
Smithsonian Institution, with the annex,
the National Museum, seem inexhausti?
ble in their store of curiosities. Here
are deposited the collections of all tbe
Arctic expeditions and all other curiosi?
ties and they would require weeks to
examine carefully. The exhibit embraces
the fowls, fishes, and animals that inhabit
land or water on the globe. On Satu rday,
May 21, at 10 a. -m. we went aboard the
fine steamer W. W. Corcoran, Capt.
Blake in command, and sailed down the
Potomac sixteen miles to Mount Vernon,
the Home of Washington. The Mansion
and contiguous grounds are owned by
the Ladies' Association of Mount Vernon
which keeps everything as near as possi?
ble in the same state of preservation as
when owned aud used by Washington.
Landing at Mount Vernon wharf, a
pleasant walk of a few hundred yards
carries us to the tomb and mansion of
Washington. The front of the vault is
guarded by an open gateway through
which is plainly seen the marble sarcoph?
agus which contains the remains of
Washington. By his side is another
marble sarcophagus which contains the
remains of Mrs. Washington. On the
back of the vault is an inscription taken
from the XI chapter of St. John, 25 and
26 verses.
The mansion is made of wood, cut in
imitation of stone and painted white, so
are the servants houses, butler's pantry
and gardener's house. The mansion has
two stories besides attic rooms. The
rooms are small compared with modern
style. The piazza seventy or eighty feet
long fronts the river. The room in
which Washington died is on the second
floor. The bedstead on which he died
has round, rather slender, high posts
with plain slats around the top. The
counterpains on the bed are white, so are
the counterpanes on all the beds in the
house. The furniture in the room seems
to be walnut and consists of a secretary,
three chain, one of them an arm chair,
one small bureau and three small tables.
The andirons are brass and polished.
His surveyor's ^..mpass is in this room,
and his holsters which he used in camp
lie on the secretary. The room in which
Mrs. Washington died is a small attic
room. The little spinning wheel is seen
in one of the rooms. The garden is still
preserved with its shrubbery and flowers.
The beautiful rows of box wood arc said
to be over one hundred years old. In
the afternoon we returned to Washington
and thence to Frederick.sburg, Va.
Reviewing the heights around this
town recalls vividly the scenes that tran?
spired in December, 1RC2. Maryc's
Height*! where Tiftiig^jreet's corps fought
are in plain view of Fredericksburg.
The position occupied by Jackaon's corps
is further to the right near the railroad.
A bit of romance occurred here a few
days ago. A Federal soldier, who had
fought in front' of Marye's Heights on
that memorable 13th of December, 1862,
brought his intended to Fredericksburg,
procured vehicles for the party, went out
in front of the Heights and were married
in the open field.
To-day we got a horse and buggy and
drove to Chancellorsvill?, twelve miles
from this place. As we drove up to the
memorable Chancellor house we were
met by a most agreeable gentleman, Mr.
T. F. Jenkins, of the. 9th Virginia Caval?
ry, who showed us around with true
Virginia courtesy. The house is brick,
was burned out in the time of. the battle.
A good many Federal soldiers were
burned in the conflagration. The house
was afterward repaired. In the Western
end of the house five bombs passed
through the wall. The shells have been
replaced projecting so as to be plainly
seen. Gen. Hooker was wounded in this
house. Facing towards Orange C. H,
and going about half a mile along the
plank road is seen on the right side of
this road a great stone which marks the
spot where Stonewall Jackson was wound?
ed May 2, 1863. A little further along
this road on the opposite side just in front
of a marshy flat, nearly at right angles
with this road is the line of breast works
first encountered by McGowan!s brigade
! on Sunday morning, May 3d. This place
I will be vividly remembered by many
I surviving Confederates. Signs of this
I line of breast work and the trench are
plainly visible. A few hundred yards in
front of this position and in the direction
j of the Chancellor house is plainly seen
the position of the one hundred and fifty
Federal cannon bearing on the Confed?
erate advance.
In all this skirt of woods I noticed
carefully hundreds of trees, and I did
not see a tree of any considerable size
that had not been torn by a cannon shot
or shell. Most of the trees were topped
j by shells. The survivors of the brigade
j remember how the whole Heavens seem
lit up by ihe flashes of cannon and the
j exploding of shells the night on which
Jackson was wounded, and again the aw
| ful thunder and death on that memorable
I Sunday the 3d of May. Old canteens,
plates, cups fragments of shells, grape
shot and minie balls lie scattered over the
ground. Selecting some relics of the
battle, we returned to Fredericksburg
satisfied to return home,?having enjoyed
our tour very much indeed.
"Calm -be the resting place of the brave
and true. Gentle be the summer rains
on famous fields where armies met in bat?
tle. Forgotten be the animosities and
heart-burnings of the strife."
B. B. C.
[The writer, Mr. Chapman, is too
modest to tell how he fell, fearfully
wounded, close up to that famous 80 gun
battery, with the other 120 thundering on
the right and left, in front of the Chan?
cellorsvill? house, and about 150 to 200
yards from the interminable line of blue
that was stretched along the road. He
and Lieutenant Copeland, of Captain
Bowden's company, were wounded about
the same time and a few minutes before
the enemy was driven back.]
A Twenty-Five Years' Silence.
One of the queer cases of domestic
infelicity which will soon be tried on a
divorce libel in the court of this County
is the outgrowth of a difficulty which
arose op an evening twenty five years ago
between a husband and wife, then of
middle age. During all of these weari.
some years the husband and wife have
lived together, but have not spoken.
Communication was by interpretation?
never direct. No tete-a-tetes, no confi?
dences, no discussion of things of mutual
interest to husband and wife, no plans
for the future, no common thought for
the welfare of their children. This farce
was kept up until about a month ago.
If ever a man or woman forgets anything
it is when the household is enjoying its
spring moving. It was so in this case.
The wife spoke to her husband on this
occasion for the first time in 25 years.
She said: "Where's the nails?" He
looked at her and said nothing. The
conversation, it is reported, has never
progressed beyond this point. We will
bet a nickel that after it happened the
woman would rather have bitten her
tongue ofT than have broken the eloquent
silence of a quarter of a century with
that momentous, soul-thrilling sentence,
"Where's the nails?" It is said that
now that the nails, instead of closing the
breach, have only widened it, the unhap?
py pair are to seek bliss apart, through
the medium of the courts. We can
almost imagine the wearisome sigh of a
hundred husbands for just about a week
of evenings of that man's married life.
"Some folks," says Smith and Jones,
"don't know when they are well off."
Prohibition in North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. 0., June 7.?Local op?
tion elections were held to-day at many
points in the State. There was much
excitement, but the elections passed off
quietly. The prohibitionists carried the
day at Raleigh by sixty majority, and
also at the following places: Oxford,
Kinston, Henderson, Warrenton, Louis
burg, Winston, Salem, Apex, Beaufort
Township and Seaboard.
The anti-prohibitionists carried the
elections at Charlotte, Durham, Frank
linton, Reidsville, Holly Springs, More
head City, Asheville, Goldsboro and
Littleton. The elections were upon the
question of "license" or "no license" for
the sale of spirituous liquors, and goes
into effect at once where prohibition was
carried.
? The Rev. Dr. Sunderland received
a fee of $100 for performing the Presi?
dent's marriage ceremo. y. It was a
brand-new bill which had never appar?
ently been in circulation. It was handed
to the Doctor by Colonel Lamont, imme?
diately after the President's departure.
The Doctor made his wife a present of
the bill, and she will keep it as a me?
mento of the occasion.
? "Ah," sighed Brown, "this lifo is
full id' disappointments." "Yen," re?
plied Fogg, glancing significan tly at Mrs.
F., "and some disappointments are full
of life."
FAITHFUL EYEN UNTO DEATH.
A Story of Love anil Bloodshed in Anto
Bellum Days.
Winxsbobo', S. C. May 28.?In a
beautiful grove just off the road, six miles
from here, stand the fine old mansion
so celebrated in ante-bellum days as the
"Auclare Place." A large white house,
with double windows and green blinds, it
has all the characteristics that are pos?
sessed by the ideal Southern home. The
enormous portico is supported by heavy
Corinthian columns that reach full two
stories, with wide verandas on either side.
From the roadside the view is partially
hid by the dense foliage in the front
yard. Flowers, evergreens, rare plants
aud shrubs all grow in profusion and
serve to add much to the charms of tbe
erstwhile magnificent property.
Forty-five years ago or thereabout,
when the fortunes of the Auclare family
were at their zenith, the old gentleman
had retired from the active management
of his large plantations and placed them
in charge of his only son Henry, who
was just home from Yale. Henry was
petted and spoiled by indulgent parents,
but aside from a haughty manner, was
voted a good fellow by all his acquaint*
ances. It ecems that soon after attaining
bis majority he had invited, among many
other guests, a college chum to spend
several weeks with him. A continued
round of gayety followed, which led to
unplesant results. Tbe young New
Yorker fell in love with tbe girl Henry
had chosen for himself.
She was the daughter of a neighboring
planter, who had long before planned
with old man Auclare that their children
should be married when of suitable age,
and while Henry had never openly
avowed his love it was understood that
the matter was settled. So it was with
some anxiety that young Auclare saw
John Redwood so deeply smitten. His
own guest endeavoring to displace him
in Annies affections! 'Twas enough to
cause jealously to creep between him and
his college friend. For a time he bore it
patiently, but his manner toward bis
guest lost much of its former warmth.
Matters came a crisis when, without a
word of explanation, Redwood moved
his trunk to the village inn and began
driving out to tbe young lady's home
every evening. The now thoroughly
enraged Auclare wrote a note asking for
an explanation of his conduct. Redwood
made no reply. A friend of Auclare
then sought an interview with a view to
an amicable adjustment and mutual ex?
planations. Miss Annie was meanwhile
unconscious of being the cause of any
trouble.
Redwood only smiled superciliously at
the mediating party and told him that
Auclare might go to h-, as he
would wed the girl or die, despite any
interference of Auclare. A challenge
followed.
They met, accompanied by seconds.
The word was giv<:n?"ready, aim"?
when an unearthly shriek broke the still?
ness of the morning air, and Annie, pale
and exhausted, threw herself between
them and fell fainting in Henry Auclare's
arms, moaning as she did so : "Save my
Henry." The fury of Redwood knew no
bounds. Jumping forward, he levelled
his revolver at the pair, hissing "To h?1
with you both," and fired. A low moan
from Annie and a crimson flood flowed
from a wound in her arm.
The seconds seemed paralyzed and tbe
villian was about to fire again when from
out the bushes sprang old Hero, the
watch-dog and constant companion of
tbe swooning girl. Clearing the open
space at a bound he fastened on the
throat of the cowardly Redwood and
bore him to the ground.
, Here the seconds discovered that the
ball which had drawn the blood from the
fair Annie's arm had penetrated a vital
part-of poor Auclare, and he lay appar?
ently in the throes of death with his
armB around the fainting girl. Before
they could act for excitement Hero bad
finished his work, and Redwood lay
before them a corpse.
Henry got well, however, and lived to
enjoy a long life with Annie as his wife.
?Nashville American.
Fish.
There is nc class of creatures who have
done less harm to mankind than fish.
Yet it would seem ih&t there is none
which have been so much the victime of
the human imagination. It seems to
have come to the point that people have
got to think that there is some unac?
countable incongruity between fish stories
and truth. Yet some Btrange things,
which are told about fish, are true for all
that. Prof. Band, of the Smithsonian
Institute, one of tho very highest author?
ities on that subject, has assured a Herald
correspondent that there is authentic
evidence to show that carp have attained
an age of 200 years. Prof. Baird also
says that there .is a tradition that within
fifty years a pike was living in Russia
whose age dated back to the 15th centu?
ry. "There is nothing," he says, "to
prevent a fish from living almost indefi?
nitely, as it has no period of maturity,
but grows with each year of life." There
are gold fish in this city that have
belonged to one family for over fifty
years. They do not appear to be much
larger than when they were originally
placed in the aquarium, and are every
bit as lively as they were when young.
The Russian Minister eays that in the
royal aquariumns in St. Petersburg there
are fish that are known by tlie records to
have been in them 140 years. Some of
them arc, he says, over five times a3 large
as they were when first captured, while
others have not grown an inch in length.
An attache of the Chinese Legation cor?
roborates this statement. He says there
are sacred fish kept in some of the
palaces in China that are even older than
any of those in Russia.
? "I'd hate to be in your shoes," said
a woman as she was quarrelling with a
neighbor. "You could nut got into
them," sarcastically replied the neighbor.
? "Oh, where shall rest be found?"
asks Mio pool. In tho dictionary. Look
aiming (.lie
? Does death end all V il soortv- not.
Evory millionaire nowadays has to havo
a guard posted over his tomb,
HOW TO MAKE WINE.
Interesting Statistics About an Important
Subject.
Washington, May 22.?The Hon. H.
L. Lyman, of Virginia, told the National
Viticultural Convention yesterday that
the soil, climate and rainfall of Virginia
corresponded to that of France. He
spoke of his State, Tennessee, and the
.Carolinas as naturally adapted to the
grape, and by carefully collected infor?
mation on the subject of the national
conditions of this belt of country showed
that it has great possibilities in wine
growing. He suggested the' planting of
grape colonies, and wondered that capi?
talists of the East did not open their
eyes to the opportunities presented to
them to utilize the idle labor of the
country in this industry. An examina?
tion of the records of Castle Garden, he
said, showed that very few of the immi?
grants who come to this country were
from the wine-growing districts of Eu?
rope. The latter statement is significant
and is in line with the argument and
information of Mr. Westmore, of Califor?
nia, who points to the fact that the peo?
ple of the wine-growing countries are
contented and happy, and show but little
desire to era migrate. Why is this so ?
It has been proved by the accurate sta?
tistics, gleaned by Mr. Westmore as the
official representative of his State, as
given in my letter yesterday, that the
wine growers are a thrifty, cheerful and
contented people. In their esteem their
own district or department (with the
French) is not equalled by any country
in the world. Ask a Frechman where he
is from, and he will with pride tell you
thathe is from such or such a department,
without stopping to thiuk that you are
inquiring into his nationality?that is,
whether from Germany, France, or else?
where. It would be unreasonable to as?
sume that these French people are satis?
fied and contented at home simply
because they have plenty of cheap wine
to drink. If they did not live easy, and
their abundance of wine was a mere
unprofitable luxury that required great
exertion in other fields of labor to supply
it, then it is not likely they would stick
to the wine business, and take such a
pride in it as a profitable industry.
Wine-growing in France is falling far
short of what it used to be, but this is
owing to the attacks of fungi upon their
vines and not to any decrease of the
demand for their products or to the
unpopularity of the consumption of wine
by the people. This falling off of their
wine trade is owing merely to the
unhealthiness of their pampered and pet?
ted vines which have been cultivated for
age?, and the circumstance is one that
gives tbe American States a chance to
improve?for America to catch the Ssh
while France is putttng a fresh bait on
her hook. Let tbe reader then stick a
pin at this point, and, if he has not
already done so, dispose of the question
of the evil or beneficial effects of the use
of. wine. Does the average American,
or say the Carolinian, for it is he for
whom I am writing, know what wine is?
"Doubtless the masses of the Southern
people think of wine as a sort of luxury,
or the means of hilarious indulgence
that only the man of leisure and wealth
is at liberty to enjoy. Three or four out
of five of our Southern people know wine
as a highly colored, doctored modification
of alcoholic spirits that is merely dressed
up or toned down in a skillful way to
make it sell, and believe that its use is
prop rtioned according to the religion
and moral 1 ong- faced ? ess of the individ?
ual who drinks it. This is due, to some
extent, to the fact that but few, very few,
of the liquor dealers and barrooms of
the South offer to their customers any?
thing but the adulterated stuff, made of
chemical ingredients that have in them
nothing that has been extracted from the
grade, and that are made largely from
compounds that are positively poisonous
to the human system. There may be
exceptions, of course, but it can be stated
truthfully that the Southern people, and
a large proportion of the people1 of the
North and East, have never had the
chance to indulge in tbe use of pure
wine. The few people of South Carolina
who make tbe home supply have, as a
rule, never learned to make wine without
the plenteous use of sugar by which alco?
hol is increased and drunkenness produc.
ed with those who use it regularly. They
have not found out that tbe natural
grape juice of South Carolina, as taken
directly from the most common varietie3
of the grape, contains more sugar than
is desired in a good and wholesome wine.
When Carpin, in Greenville, commenced
to make wine without the use of sugar
some people said he was crazy.
According to Husmann, the renowned
Californian, something less than twenty
five per cent, of saccharine matter (sugar)
is all that is needed to produce sufficient
alcohol in wine. I have leaned here
that even twenty per cent, of sugar is all
that is considered necessary in a good
mild wine. Now, on the other hand
what does the pure juice of say the Con?
cord grape contain ? Our Greenville
Frenchman's test by the use of the must
scale shows over thirty per cent, of sugar.
Why, then, use sugar to make wine,
when you have already too much sugar
in your must (grape juice unfermented.)
Here comes in the question of gallizing,
which means nothing more nor less than
the addition of such proportions of sugar
and water as will make what is termed
by Husmann a normal must.
It needs no nico or scientific details to
explain that the proportion of alcohol in
wine is exactly in proportion to tbe
amount of sugar contained in the pure
unfermented juice of the grape used to
make the wine, and the percentage of
sugar so contained in the juice enn be
accurately ascertained by the use of the
Balling must scale, directions for the use
of which accompany each instrument.
Very few of the best wines of Carolina
or Franco contain more than eight or ten
per cent, of alcoholic stimulant. Ninety
lu nine two per cent, of their constituent
elements arc, therefore, tho acidH and
nutritious parts of the fruit itself iu a
perfect state of preservation.?Corretpon
dence News and Gauricr.
? If a man is profane and blasphem?
ous, look to his children to be the same.
?Moody.
Some Chemical Cariosities.
The Washington correspondent of
the Charleston News and Courier gives
the following account of two important
discoveries which parties claim to have
made. If the drunkless whiskey should
prove a success it will greatly help the
pre bibition cause, but it will be terrible
on poor men's pockets, for there is no
telling how much a man would drink if
there were no danger of getting drunk:
' Finding myself in the company of a
chemist of national reputation one day
this week, I took occasion to ask him
some questions which I had noted down
for his especial benefit. First, as to the
reality of the discovery hefealded some
time ago of a sweetening agency 232
times more powerful than sugar.
" 'There is no humbug about it,' said
this gentleman. 'We have not made any
of the new substance in our laboratory,
simply because we have not had the time
to do so. But the reports in German and
French scientific periodicals as to what
this new product of coal tar will do and
directions as to its manufacture are very
explicit and minute. There is no doubt
whatever as to its wonderful power.
One ounce of the substance has exactly
the same sweetening effect upon a barrel
of water as fifteen pounds of sugar, and,
although the price is about two hundred
times more than that of sugar, weight for
weight, there is reason to suppose that it
will be made very much cheaper as soon
as there is a regular commercial demand
for it. Probably it will be most largely
used in making some kind of substitute
for imgar, as in its present highly con?
centrated form it could not be used for
ordinary purposes without great waste, as
the quantity sufficient to sweeten a cup
of coffee would be scarcely visible to the
naked eye. The notion of a man being
able to take home with him the equiva?
lent of a barrel of sugar in his vest
pocket seems so extravagant that it is
not surprising the public suspected a
hoax.'
"Another chemical curiosity about
which the world may hear more hereafter
is non-intoxicating whiskey. Some of
my readers may know that the French
Government recently offered a prize of
ten thousand francs to any one who
should discover a method of removing
from brandy or wine the principle which
intoxicates, without at the same time re?
moving the principle which strengthens
and exhilarates. An American, and a
New Yorker, believes that he has dis?
covered what is wanted, and although he
keepn the process secret for the present,
he is very liberal in distributing samples
of what he calls his harmless whiskey to
serious inquirers. A few days ago he
gave a little reception at which the guests
were requested to test the new kind of
whiskey. The tame whiskey, from which
all danger had been eliminated, was
placed in a decanter side by side with
another decanter of ordinary stuff, and
the guests took first a glass of one and
then a glass of tbe other in order to de?
termine if possible whether the liquor
which had had its fangs removed, so to
speak, had lost any of its qualities so far
as tas'.e and pleasantness to the palate
we concerned. Strange to say there was
so much indecision shown by the guests
' upon -his point, and so many little glass?
es of whiskey were consumed, that tbe
whole disappeared before any settled ver?
dict was reached. Another strange fact
was that the more tests the visitors made
the le<is decided they seemed as to any
difference between the two, and finally it
was resolved that another reception, con?
ducted, upon a somewhat different plan,
must be hold before a conclusion was
arrived at. Next week the inventor in?
tends ;o invite all his friends one after?
noon, and allow them to drink as much
of the harmless whiskey as they can
hold. When they are full, using the
word i a its physical sense, they will be
asked :o walk a chalk line and to pro?
nounce many words found to be by ex?
perience of peculiar difficulty towards
the small hours of the morning. The
slightest sign of unsteadiness, or of men?
tal cloudines, will count against the in?
ventors claim. Those who survive this
experiment will be invited to come again
next day hid repeat the operation'with
pure and unadulterated Kentucky fire?
water, and tbe condition of the company
at the close of the session will be care?
fully examined and noted by experts.
Invitations to these receptions are at a
premium, and I hope next week to be
able to tell what happened. Scoffers
may remark that whiskey which does not
intoxicate cannot be whiskey at all, in?
asmuch as it fails of its chief purpose,
but science has nothing to say to scoffers.
The Methodists for Prohibition.
The General Conference of the Metho?
dist Church, held at Bichmond, Va., has
adjourned. A correspondent of the News
and Courier says:
"Much time was consumed Monday in
debating an amendment to the report on
temperance, offered by the Rev. Mr.
Gandler, of Augusta, Ga., offering so to
amend :he law of the Church that pastors
shall bs required to deal with persons
engaged in the liquor traffic as they would
with persons guilty of any other 'immor?
ality.' This brought out some of the best
speaker? in tbe house pro and con. Those
opposed to this amendment held that tbe
'Discipline, as it now stands, gave the
preacher all the authority he needs to
deal wilh tbe case.
"But prohibition gained the day. Lo?
cal option had to take a back seat. The
-yeas and nays were called for, and the
amendment was adopted by a handsome
majority. It is not necessary, I presume,
to state here that both sides are ardent
advocates of temperance, the difference
in their views as regards this present leg?
islation being largely a question of expe?
diency. Some of the strongest and most
zealous friends of the cause voted against
the amendment; men who have beeu
lecturing on temperance and working for
it for many years, and who havo been,
and are now in great demand as speakers
on the temperance platform. The more
timid reformers were pushed aside, and
the Methodist Episcopal Church South
has now placed herself in the forefront
in the line of battle for prohibition?not
as a question of politics, but purely and
solely as a question of morals,"
A Consolation 1o the South,
General D. H. Hill contributes to the
May Century a paper on "Tbe Battle of
South Mountain, or Boonsboro'." From
it we quote the closing paragraph : "If
we bad to be beaten it was better to be
beaten by former friends. Every true
soldier loves to have 'a foeman worthy
of bis steel.' Every true man likes to at?
tribute high qualities to those who were
once friend?, though now alienated for a
time. The temporary estrangement can
not obliterate the recollection of noble
traits of character. Some one attempted
to condole with Tom Yearwood, a famous
old South Carolina bully, upon tbe beat?
ing given him by his own son. 'Hush
up,' said old Tom. 'I am glad that no
one but my own flesh and blood had a
hand in my drubbing.
"The sons of the ?o?lb struck her
many heavy blows. Farragut of Tennes?
see rose, as a reward of merit, to the
highest rank in the Federal navy. A
large number of his associates were from
the South. In the Federal army there
were of Southern blood and lineage Gen?
erals Thomas, Sykes, Reno, Newton, J.
J. Reynolds, Canby, Ord, Brannan, Wil?
liam Nelson, Crittenden, Blair, B. W.
Johnson. T. J. Wood, N. B. Buford, Ter
rill, Graham, Davidson, Cooke, Alexan?
der, Getty, French, Fremont, Pope,
Hunter. Some of these doubtless served
the Sooth better by the side they took,
bnt most of them were fine officers, and
some of them were superb.
"Thon tbe South had three hundred
thousand pf her sons in the Federal army
in more subordinate capacities. Her
armies surrendered when a Southern-born
President and a Southern-born Vice pres?
ident were at the head of the United
States Government. Surely we have the
comfort of old Tom Yearwood, and it it
a 'comfort. That the wounds of defeat
and humiliation have been so soon healed
has been owing largely to this balm to
mortified pride. The sting of shame to
proud and sensitive Frenchmen is that
their magnificent capital was captured
by, and their splendid armies surrendered
to, soldiers of an alien race and religion,
speaking different language, and unlike
themselves in manners and customs and
in all those characteristics which consti?
tute their pride and their glory. On the
other hand, the civil wars'in England
have left no bitter memories bebind them.
Who now knows or cares whether his
ancestors fought on the side of the While
Rose or the Red Rose ? Who how knows
or cares whether they were for King or
Parliament; for James II. or for Wil?
liam of Orange? Compare this forget
fulness of civil strife in England with the
bitterness which Ireland still feels over
her subjugation; compare it with the
fact that the Roman occupation of En?
gland for five hundred years made no
impression upon the language of the na?
tives, so little intercourse was therebe?
tween them and their conquerors; com?
pare it with the fact that for four hundred
years after the Norman conquest there
was no fusion between the Norman and
Saxon tongues. In truth, all history
teaches that the humiliation of defeat
by a foieiga foe is felt for ages, while
that of defeat by the same race is tempo?
rary and soon forgotten. The late Civil
War was relieved of very much of its
sectional character by the presence of so
many Southerners in the Union armies.
Therefore, it will be in the United States
as in all the unsectional civil wars of the
world's history in which race and religion
were not involved?tbe waves of oblivion
will roll over tbe bitter recollections of
tbe strife. But we trust that fragrant
forever will be the deeds of heroism, pa
tinee, fortitude, self-denial, and constancy
to principle; whether those deeds were
performed by the wearers of the blue or
the gray from their respective stand?
points of duty."
New use for JL'Inc Straw*
"Got any news, Captain?" asked an
Enquirer Sun reporter of Gaptain G. M.
Williams, of the Swift Manufacturing
Company, yesterday evening.
"Well, yes," replied the Captain.
"I've .got something out at the mill that
is new to me. It was sent to me by tbe
Acme Manufacturing Company, whose
mills are situated near Wilmington, N.
C."
"What is it?" queried the reporter.
"It is a yarn made of long leaf pine
straw. I never saw anything like it be?
fore and it is an entirely new use for pine
straw. The . yarn is somewhat of the
character of jute, and seems to be equal?
ly etroog. It is said to be fine for bag?
ging, and is also recommended for pil?
lows and mattresses, as it is claimed to
be a remedy for catarrh."
Whoever thought of pine straw being
made into yarn or being put to other use
than covering Irish potatoes or the stable
floor ? Indeed, this is an age of progress,
and the question is, "What next?"
I Who knows but what pine straw will yet
be made into the bagging that covers
every bale of cotton produced in this
! country?
Effecte of Prohibition.
When the high license bill was up, re*
cently, before the New York Legislature,
Professor Cook, of Potsdam, in opposi?
tion to it, and to those who repeated the
State slander that prohibition has failed
in the State of Maine, had this story to
say:
"I want to say to him that I can take
him to Maine, and show him whole
counties that have not a farm with a
mortgage on. I can show him towns
where they put their poor farm at auc?
tion fifteen years ago and have never had
a pauper since. I can show him a gen?
eration of boys and girls, grown to be
men and women, with families of their
own, who never saw a drunkeu man, or
drank a, drop of liquor." Turning to
Dr. Crosby ho delivered this stinging ro
b?ke: "I waut to say, that in my judg?
ment, such opinions as were expressed
here to night, that drinking is not wrong,
and encouraging the drinking of beer,
coming from such men, of influence and
character, are doing incalculably more
harm than wo can repair in long years of
labor."
-?The most ungoulleiuanly thing a
man can do is to swear.
EaiLroad CnrveiKare Use\^, JBH
"You may live till tbe yellow dogfl B
from history," said a conductor the o^Bfl
night as the train hummed along. <:buW|
you'll never see a straight railroad down
a steep bill."
The curious passenger with the wart
on bis nose rolled up his eyes in astonish*
ment. "jly dear fellow," he exclaimed,
staring at the conductor, "I do not under?
stand what is to prevent a train from
running straight down bill."
"Just this," contiuued the conductor,
"curves are necessary on a very heavy
grade. Passengers are sometimes struck
with the great number of curves on the
road while it is up among the hills.
They imagine the curves are merely nec?
essary because tbe road winds around the
hills. This is only partly true. If the
railroad were to cross directly at heavy %
grade it would still be necessary to have
the curves. No train can go at a higb
rate of speed down a heavy grade on a
straight. The explanation is simple.
The tendency of any heavy body like a
train is to move in a straight line, and
tbe attraction of gravitation is not suffi?
cient to overcome the tendency to shoot
off where great speed or momentum has'
been obtained. Hence, a train flying;
down a straight track on the hillside,
instead of keeping the track would *>boot
off on a tangent into space.
"The curve," continued the wise man
in the blue uniform, "is one of tbe great
eat safeguards in mountain engineering.
This is particularly noticeable in tbe case
of a freight track. It very* frequently
happens that an engine, d. awing a heavy
freight train cannot stick close enough to ?
the track when going uown a heavy
grade, to control her speed. An engine
going dawn hill is really more helpless
than the same engine going up hill.
That is, she can pull a greater weight up
the hill than she can hold back in going
down the hill. It is a very common
experience with engineering-of freight
engines to have their trains literally pu7:?i?
! them down heavy grades at a high rate
of speed. In snch instances every curve '
is so much salvation at the right time.
The curve retards the speed and enables
the wheels of the flying train to get a
firmer "purchase" on the track. L rail
road in the hills would be very dangerous
were it not for tbe curves sprinkled along \
at frequent intervals.
"On some railroads it is the custom to.,
disconnect the lever from the driving,
rods when a passenger train is descending
a heavy grade that extends for many!
miles. The train is managed altogether,
by her air brakes. Every curve acts as
a brake on the speed, and in this way the
train can swing alone for hours without
attaining a too reckless speed, with tbe
aid of the air brakes."
Just then, the train went around a
curve and tbe curious passenger was
thrown to one side of the seat.
"It's a wondej; to me," he gasped, "that,
these measly express trains don't fly off
the track in going around these heavy...
curves."
. "Well, sir," said the conductor "I've
been railroading for twenty-five years and'
I never yet knew, or heard of a train
jumping the track on a curve. There is't
tbe slightest danger on a graded curve,
I and hardly any on a flat curve.
Horrible Work of Flame:.
Chicago, Jane 7.?Eight persons were
smothered and burned to death in the
frame house at 731 and 733 South Canal
street at 4 o'clock this morning. The
names of the dead are Michael Murphy,
aged 40, employed by' the South Divi?
sion Railway Company; Mrs. Murphy,
aged 35; Annie Murphy, aged 9 ; Nellie
Murphy, aged eleven; Mrs. Mary Dur? -
kin, aged 30; Patsy Lavin, aged 4, a son
of Mrs. Durkin by a former husband *
John Durkin, three weeks old, and
William Hand, a batcher, aged 68.
The fire broke out in the cellar of 733
Canal street. The flames shot upward,
quickly burned through the first floor,
which is on a level with the ground, and,
shooting upward the next floor was soon
consumed. The fire spread through the
wooden walls of the basement, and No.
733 was soon wrapped iu flames which
enveloped the adjoining number. Both
houses were filled with smoke before any
of the occupants were aroused. Many
of the- sleepers were doubtless smoth?
ered in their beds, probably never
awaked and tried to escape from the
stifling smoke and scorching flames. The
flames following rapidly after tbe smoke,
I burned the bodies until they were unre
' cognizable masses of black and charred
bones and flesh. The lower floor of 733
was occupied by John Raleigh, Jr. His
wife was awaked by a sense of suffoca?
tion. ? She aroused her husband, who
hastily donned a few articles of clothing ~
and threw up a window. The raging
flames rushing in scorched bis face and
singed his hair and moustache. He
caught his wife in his arms and with a
terrible effort threw her bodily through
the flames out of the window. Her eight
dress caught fire, but with great presence
of mind she extinguished the flames
with her hands and lent assistance to her
husband in saving the lives of their tu o
small children.
The fire had gained additional head
way, and he was unable to put the chil?
dren out of the same window. He then
kicked on the wall to arouse the people
on the second floor. Catching the babies
in his arme he ran upstairs and jumped
with them from the second story window.
The second floor of No. 733 was occu?
pied by the Durkin and Mutphy fami?
lies. No member of either of these fam?
ilies escaped. The firemen in searching
the ruirjs of the house came upon the
most harrowing scenes. Some were lying
in their half burned beds. Others, who
were awaked before death came upon
them were clutching each other in groups
on the floor. All the victims bad evi?
dently been overcome by smoke before
any effort could be made to escape.
The fire was undoubtedly incendiary.
Two previous attempts to burn these
buildings were frustrated. A tub filled
with clothing saturated with kerosene
and partially burned from, the top. was
found in the cellar after tbe fire, was ex?
tinguished.
mm ??
'?Nature is frank, and will nllow no
man to abuse himself without giving
him a hint of it. -