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The nest is finished now and some little eggs are in it, I reckon, and pretty soon some little birds will be there, bnt they will tarry bnt a short time before they will be after flying away to the woods, never thinking and never knowing, as I know, how patiently that mother bird lagged the straw for the little nest, bow she watched for intruders and with what skill ahe lay and twined each straw in its place and ronnded it off so nicely juat to I hold her little ones. This is nothing, I guess; it is only nature, the most of folks wonld say, bat it is so near akin to what I have seen in human actions that it J strikes me. I have watched many a good woman with all the instincts of a mother, with all the sensibilities of a refined soul, devoted and loving, who has had to bear the flying away of her little ones and received almost as little consideration as this mother bird will receive. A moth? er's devotion crops out in everything, bnt a mocking bird goes farther than any? thing. They will kill their young, poi? son them, if they can get to their cage after bad folks have stole them away. I have given all the praise to the mother in this mocking bird business. It is right, bnt it's a little strange from me, for mostly I am in for the daddy having his share and more. This daddy mocking bird don't deserve any praise. He was mighty upity when he came about the tree, and was as indolent as he was grand. Not a thing wonld he do in the way of bringing straw and helping to round off the nest. He didn't have time, he* was too full of songs and the apple tree has been too low for him. The tallest trees, big oaks and poplars, was his place, and from one to the other he wonld fly, all the time singing and lend? ing cbeer to everything in his hearing. Over to the woods that skirt the fields he wonld fly and sing sweetly for the plow? man, then to the tallest oaks on the road? side he would sail and sing for passers by. All praised him who heard him, all but me, I did not nor I don't, for I know how the mother bird was working?I know how negligent he was of home and bow forgetful of bis mate while singing for the praise of others. This is noth? ing either?only nature?but it, too, im? presses me as being as near akin to hu? man actions that I will bash before I say something harsh. I should have not mentioned this grand Binger, but he has provoked it. His little borne is close to my window and I could not help but see. I had mach rather speak well of all birds, for when I am tired physically and troubled in mind I like to go down by the little branch and lay down on the green grass there under tne'TxeeB. The birds down there are my frieads. They skit from limb to limb and chirp happily. Down in the little branch at my feet they hop among the pebbles throwing water over their pretty feathers?taking a bath. They put on no airs and are not afraid of j me; they chirp for me just as they would for a king and this makes me feel good. Birds and children are mach the same with me and the ones who take me in their rambles and look to me for protec? tion, doses me with a species of flatery that cuts my very heart. How can I protect anything ? I never did anything right in my life, but there are children who believe what I say, they treat me with confidence and makes me feel proud, but sad, mighty Bad, sometimes. I am not so old nor bo mean that I would forget pretty girls in their fresh spring dresses. Tbey are sweet to look upon wherever you see them, but they are prettiest to me among the wild flow? ers. Oat picknicking is the place to see them at their best, and last week a crowd of them made me wish I could call back twenty-five or thirty years. Brown swears that the older be gets the prettier the girls grow. A crowd of Georgia girls in white aprons and sunboonets, with a fresh spring dress thrown in, all scram blecTDrrwitb the wild flowers from these old Georgia woods wouh^hejft_jaighty fine thing to place at tbe World's These girls out picknicking are them? selves. Tbey bend tbe saplings and ride up and down; grab a limb and swing away up; tumble over the logs and light over ditches as active as cats and as graceful as fawns. I like to see it. It makes me mad to see our girls treated as if they couldn't do anything. Up at Atlanta tbey lift them over the doorsteps, on the cars and off tbe cars, and if one was to drop a pocket handkerchief or glove there would be a dozeu young men to jump and give it to her. This gal? lantry is all right, but if a girl expects to go through life receiving this kind of treatment she wiil be disappointed. These very name young gallants may some day lay in bed and wait for his wife to make the fire in tbe mornings. I have eeeo just such turns, and if you live long enough you will see it, too, or things to that effect. But anyhow pretty girls, happy birds and wild flowers are good enough for m??, and enough to make any one cheerful when you meet them all together in the spring time. Now, let us not forget Memorial Day. Let tbe pretty girls carry flowers there and scatter them over tbe graves of our soldier heroes. In a little while there will be no more of tbem living. Tbey are getting old and feeble, what is left, and I know it does tbem good to watch this occasion. I believe that General Long street is the last one of the origioal gen? erals. After a short while we will be figuring on the last old Con'ederate. Who will it be? No one can tell, but Growing less they grow the more sub? lime, 'Till for the "last" a world of hearts will chime. am o-^t? ? Some species of seaweed grow to tbe length of 000 yards. STRANGE BACKS AT THE FAIR, Curions Visitors From Foreign Lands Some Early Arrivals. Chicago, April 19.?It is estimated that there are already 100,000 people in Chicago In connection with, or because of, the World's Fair. Some of them are visitors from the surrounding country, simply come to see how the buildings are progressing, a large number are the workmen in the grounds, and a good many are the various people attached to the exhibits. How many there are of the last named class can be realized when it is known that the German commissioners alone hive applied for 3,000 passes. Passes, it may be remarked, are given only to persons having a legitimate con? nection with the Fair, so that there will he connected with the various exhibits of the German Empire 3,000 people. But there is ?. conspicuous group of the new population of the city which has awak? ened more interest than any other. It is composed of strange barbarians and peo? ple from out-of the-way countries. These hare been pouring in during the last week, and ene of the first things they do is to take a walk abont the streets of the city, followed by a joyons crowd of Chi? cago boys. The latter are as dirty as most street boys, and probably a little more impndent, but the distinguished strangers only understand the dirt, to which they are accustomed at home, and which they consequently like, and mis? take the juvenile gibes for compliments uttered in an unknown tongue. Early in the week there arrived 151 men and eleven women, followed later by a few others, who will together with twenty camels, twelve donkeys, and a lot of monkeys and snakes, make up the population of a "street in Cairo" which will be one of the attractions of the "midway plaisance." The people belong to the three principal races that one meets in the land of the Nile-Egyp? tians, Arabs and Nubians. Among tbem are a number of dancing girls, not very attractive in appearance in the light of day, it must be admitted, but it iB said their dancing is far more electrifying than anything skirt-dancers or serpen? tine movement dancers can do. These girls have not had the liberty that the men enjoy, bat were hurried from the train to their quarters in the exposition grounds, where they have been kept in strict seclusion ever Bince. There is an old conjurer in the party, Malil Nsda by name, who is said to do any of the wonderful tricks of the East He will be only one of several of these wonderful wizards. Their tricks of ulight of hand are said to be not dissimilar to those of American and European prestidigitators, bnt in mysterious disappearances, optical delusions, and suspension of bodies in midair they are able to produce such startling effects as Western wizards have thus far endeavored in vain to emulate. Indeed, many of these tricks remain complete mysteries. Of course no "Street of Cairo" would be a correct reproduc? tion without children, and the party just arrived includes a number of them. The boys will - rive donkeys, bat the donkeys that have been brought over are repre? sented to be less lazy than Egyptian don? keys, or donkeys anywhere else for that matter, usually are. The party bronght with them an immense quantity of lug? gage, all of which contains merchandise and bric-a-brac which will be sold as things are sold in Cairo. Of the snakes there are reported to be forty seven all warranted to be charmed by the Egyp? tians whoso property they are. Some are little serpents of six inches in length, which resists the charmer's influence at first, being; of a frivolous and fractions disposition, and others are big old fel? lows which take life as they find it, in eluding' the bore of being charmed for the benefit of a crowd of people. There is one tremendous hooded cobra in the party which, it is to be hoped, will not forge; to be charmed at the right time. Another band of strange people is found near the Sooth Park Gate, where it has been domesticated for some time. The "Esquimaux Village" is a complete piece of the far North transplanted in Jackson Park. The Esquimaux sit in Btolid satisfaction and smoke and loaf all day long. They are a lazy race at home, and they are particularly lazy here. They have a pea of their native dogs, and a pretty lively pen it becomes at times, too, for the dogs fight constantly. There are native canoes on their little lake, and into these the Eeouimau boys insert themselves, andpeifdle about whenever a visitor auka/tnem to do so. The chil? dren acd^tfeoys are rather bright faced, Istt thejhen and women look stupid to say the least. All of them wear native costumes of sealskin, and this has proved a hardship already on account of the heat. Fancy what it will be in the tor rid days of July 1 It will be unpleasant to the spectator, too, for his interest in the Esquimau will be marred by the con? sciousness that he is melting away. The workmen in the park were startled a few days ago by the apparition of two black giants suddenly walking among tbem. They are new arrivals and are Zulu giants from Zululand. They come simply as guards to look out for the dis? play of diamonds from Cape Colony. One or the other will always be on duty night and day. They are magnificent speciments of savage manhood, but they seem themselves thoroughly civilized. As for Turks, the "midway plaisance" has already a village of them. The pop? ulation consists of 450 Turks, 60 horses, 40 camels, and dromedaries and various small fry which bear relations towards , the larger number of the Turks very much as trimmings are ranked with pro portion to a dif>h. They also have danc ing girls, besides actors and actresses, a native band and orchestra, and Moham? medan priests. It is said that the value of their exhibi: will exceed $1,500,000. Only a portion of it is here as yet, but it is all promised by May 1, and^the work of erecting the booths is well in progress. To jump from Turkey down to Bolivia is somewhat of a step, yet this is what the visitor can do, for there have arrived a band of Bolivian Indians, a prodigious Bolivian giant, and more dancers and monkeys. Vancouver Indians, too, are here. All this is in the "Midway PlaiBance," a long strip of land especially get apart for peculiar diversions. It is 600 feet wide and seven- eights of a mile long, and contains eighty acres of ground. Here will be also the Austrian village, Bohe? mian glass factory, a Dahomey village, Dutch settlement, East Indian settle? ment, German village, Irish cottage in? dustries, a Moorish palace, a Pompeiian house, besides a thousand other smaller affairs. Some of these things are entirely complete, bnt others are not. One very interesting feature of tbe Flaisance has just come in the shape of Professor Carl Hagenbeck's Hamburg menagerie. Tbe long and hard stud j that men have made almost since tbe world began to train wild beasts has been mastered by him quite successfully. His assistant, Mehr mann, collected the beasts and trained them, so that he is entitled to as much credit as Hagenbeck. The performance promises to be of a moat exciting descrip? tion. The animals come into the ring at the same time. Tbey consist of six lions, two tigers, two leopards, two black bears, one polar bear, and six large fox hounds, making nineteen in all, except that the fox hounds must be ranked as assistants in the training. The professor is armed with no other weapon than a light switch. Tbe animals go through a great variety of tricks. Besides these., be has also a number of less fierce animals, each as elephants, monkeys, etc., which are also trained. These last hardly come under the head of strange people at the fair, yet they are found in the same lo? cality, and will doubtless be seen by tbe same visitors. The truth is that there is hardly a peo? ple on earth that one will not find repre* sented in his native life at the fair. As for Japanese, tbey will appear in all their phrases. There are Japanese ba? zars, Japanese tea-houses, and bits of genuine Japanese scenery. A miniature Ohina will be here, too, including a com? pany of Chinese actors who will act one play all summer, The red man of the plains will pitch his tent or wigwam; the cliff-dwellers have erected a hnge artifi? cial mountain, where tbey will show all their peculiarities. According to for? eign appropriations, the largest is that of France, which allows $733,000 for par? ticipation; Germany comes next with $690,200; Japan next with $630,765; and Brazil follows with $600,000. There are hardly any governments which have not appropriated, aud even those who have not will be represented throngh private subscription. Tbe British Par? liament appropriated only $291,900 for participation but all the various British colonies have made separate appropria? tions bringing the total for the British Empire far above a million dollars. If all the foreign exhibits turn out as they promise to do, it may be truthfully said that one can learn more of foreign ways and peoples at Jackson Park than be could learn in considerable travel abroad. An Undesirable Place. Mr. Clough Wallace, of Union, who, by tbe way, is no relative of Jndge Wal? lace, wants a five thousand dollar con? sulate that nobody else in America would have as a gift. He wants to go to tbe Congo Free States and doesn't know how to get there. Tbis is no reflection, however, on Mr. Wallace, for even officials in the State Department have been unable to give him the desired information. Of tbe twelve consuls who have been Bent from this country to Congo twelve embalmed corpses have been returned at government expense. So if Wallace gets his commission he will start on his jour? ney with the pleasant knowledge that his twelve predecessors died on duty and that he is the thirteenth to go to the same poBt; and thirteen is generally considered an unlucky number anyhow. Only one consular report has ever been received at tbe State Department from Congo and that was sent by tbe late James K Jackson of Arkansas a few weeks before he died. The following is quoted from tbe re? port : "I cordially recommended to tbe United States Government as a substi? tute for capital punishment that all criminals convicted of murder in the first degree be sent to Congo. Tbe system of execution suggested will be found more satisfactory than tbe hemp rope or elec? trical method. Soon after my arrival here a delegation of high priests called at the consulate and requested me to Obow my devotion to their little mud god by permitting myself to be made into a barbecued stew at tbe next religious cel? ebration. Had I consented to this I would have been considered a very rare dish which only tbe priests could feast upon. The honor of being cooked at these celebrations is considered a conse? cration of the soul, bat I did not care to be consecrated. Tbe proposition is always made to tbe United States consul as a token of esteem. Of course, I am proud of the recognition my government is in the habit of receiving, but such compliments as the one just mentioned are a source of some annoyance to tbe present consul. So far only three of my toes and one finger have been eaten off by insecls peculiar to tbis country. The Seretary of State here tells me I have been very fortunate. About the only visitors I have at tbe consulate quarters are tarantulas and boa-constrictors, and tbey invariably drop in to pay their re? spects after dark when I am in bed. In closing tbis report I respectfully ask that I be transferred to some o :her govern? ment." The poor fellow's request was allowed, but before be received snch a notice from tbe State Department he died of Cbagres fever. Mr. Wallace's nerve is deserviDg of highest commendation, bnt his judgment is deemed rather poor.? Columbia Even? ing Journal. Bncklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil blains, Corns,.aud all Skin Eruptions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded Price 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros, SUNDAY IN HELL, The Origin of the Belief In a Day of Res? pite for Lost Souls. From the Revue des Etudes Juives. Every Jew who has received any in? structions in his religion knows that at the end of the Sabbath it is customary to prolong the recitation of certain prayers, in order to lengthen the respited granted on that day to the damned, for as long as the faithful have not terminated the evening service the wicked are not ob? liged to return to Gehenna, in order to take np again the course of their punish ments. The first casuist who mentions the rite is Bab Amram in the ninth century, who speaks of it as a popular usage. The cas? uists themselves have never taken as se? riously as might be believed the motives alleged for this religious usage, for they have never tried to abolished the rule which prescribes the suppression of these prayers in certain cases, as, for instance, when a festival occurs in the week which begins at the end of the Sabbath, thus running the great risk of con? demning sinners to return sooner to Ge? henna. It can be shown, however, that the be? lief in the Sabbath repose of the damned is much older than the rite which ex? presses it, and this belief, it is nearly cer? tain, was widely spread in the third cen? tury, at least, of our era. What were the objects of establishing this rite? From a desire to soften the dogma of endless punishment ? Dogma is a word unknown in the Talmndic the? ology, especially in eschatological qoes tions. The Mischna does declare that those who deny the resurrection of the dead will be excluded from the future world, but it takes good care not to be precise in regard jo what it means by the "future world." The collection of Talmndic doctrines in regard to life be? yond the tomb Is a veritable chaoB, the most dissimilar conceptions being admit? ted. The belief in the immortality of the soul does not exclude faith in an ex? istence half terrestrial, half spiritual, for those who are no more. The Talmud, or to speak more precisely, the editors of that collection record, without hesitation, anecdotes which takes us back to nearly prehistoric times, when the corpse, at the moment of being consigned to the grave, received objects of value which were car? ried by the dead to the subterranean world for the use of themselves or their companions. The only possible hypothesis of the ori? gin of the rite I am discussing is that it flows naturally from the Sanctity with which the institution of the Sabbath was invested. If God allotted to mortals one day of repose every week, He could not refuse that to the damned, whosoever they might be. The Sabbath is too holy to be restricted to the terrestrial world; the whole universe, visible and invisible, shares therein. Our rabbis of the middle ages would have been not a little astonished that a like belief exists among Christians, with this difference, naturally, that Sunday is substituted for Saturday. Not that the Church has ever officially sanctioned this belief?the theologians have always treat? ed it as heresy?but all the efforts of the fathers have not prevented uuch a belief becoming popular. Long would be a list of the writings in which this belief is rnentiorif d without objection. The most ancient witnesses of ltd existence are St. Augustine and Pruden tius, that is. in the fourth century of our era. It is admitted, without contradiction, that the notion of a Sunday respite for damned entered Christian literature by the circulation of a little work entitled "Apocalypse, or Vision of St. Paul." This writing has come down to us under different forms, in Greek, in Syriac, and in Latin. Neither of these visions rep? resents the original, which seems to have been composed in Aramiac. However, by collating them and supplementing one by another, it is easy to reconstruct the first edition of the work, which has been done with great success by Mr. Herman Brandes, in a book published at Halle, in 1885. According to this "Vision," St. Paul accompained by the Archangel Michael, visits first the abode of the blessed and contemplates their felicity, and then re? pairs to hell to witness the torments in? flicted on the damned. He hears the la? mentations of those unfortunate crea? tures, whose sufferings never stop, and, moved by pity, he supplicates his Lord to grant them at least one day of respite in memory of his resurrection. The prayer of St. Paul was granted, and ever since the sinners in hell cau rest from their tor? ment from Saturday evening to the begin? ning of Monday. The question arises whether the belief indicated in the "Vision" came to the Christians from the Jews. My own opin? ion, after a careful study of all the au? thorities and sources, is that the belief did come from the Jews in the second half of the fourth century. The "Vision," I believe, was invented by a monk, who was either born a Jew or else thoroughly instructed in the ideas and rites of the Jews in regard to death. In this way, thanks to a gentile romancer, the Jewish idea has made its way into the world. It has seduced the imagination of poets and writers of fiction in the middle ages while quieting those who were terrified by the dogma of endless punishment. How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. ~F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be lieve him perfectly honorable in all busi ness transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by their firm. Weot & Truax, Wholesale Durggists, Toledo, 0. Walding, Rinnan k Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internal? ly, acting, directly upon the blood and mucuoiifl purfflces of theRystem. Testi? monial sent free. Price 75c. per bottle. Sold by Druggisti. - -m m ? ? The peach trees in thu United States oover over 507,000 ?cr?R, Reunited by Death. Tbe baby waj dead, and its poor young mother, worn out by her long watch, lay in the dead sleep of exhaustion. Every one else bad expected the child's death long before, but tbe desolate mother heart hoped up te the very last gaop ing breath that God would work a mira? cle in answer to her agonized prayers and it seemed to ber that tbe end of all things had come.. Only a few nquares away tbe baby's father sat in his cheerless boarding house chamber, holding in his trembling band the newspaper containing tbe only notice he bad received of bis child's death. His own little daughter, and yet he had never seen her. Manly Pratt a nd bis wife (of a month only, bad been laversever since their first term at kindergarten, and nntil tbey married had always been the best of friends. Bat il seemed as if the wedding ceremony had tbe key to unlock all the bad temper tbey both possessed; tbey had quarrelled on their wedding night differed as to t ie location of tbe new home, and separated because of a disa? greement concerning tbe banging of her great uncle's portrait. She bad gone back to her mother and be to his bachelor ways, and after much trying had persuaded himself tbat he no longer missed her. And now this II .tie obituary notice bad suddenly shown him how mistaken he was. Presently he went out and ordered some flowers sen ; to tbe house. "What kind ?" asked the florist, and after a mo? ment's hesitation he answered, "white crysaDthQ nums," with a sad recollection of how many times he had taken similar blossoms to Jenny in those happy days before tbay bad married and?parted. "Poor little girl," be muttered, "how lonely she will be," and then, resolving to forget her, he went to bed. All night be dreamed much of tbe baby, but more of Jennie, and when, next morning, he remembered tbat tbe funeral services would take place at noon be decided to attend them. He went to the Church (tbe one to which tbey bad so often gone together, and in which tbe unlucky wedding bad been performed) early, and, seating him? self in a dark corner, watched her follow the' little white casket in. He could not see her face through tbe heavy crepe veil which covered it, bnt he remembered bow he had once seen her look over the death of a pet kitten, and he knew how the sweet Mps would quiver and the soft eyes fill. He wondered sadly why they could not have lived happily together. When the service was over he hastily left tbe Church and stood on the pave? ment close to tbe hearse, determined to see tbe last of his unknown child. Sud? denly be started, for there close to bis elbow, stood Jennie. As the carriage door closed she saw him, and with a heart broken look turned away. There were tears in bis eyes as be looked after ber and not all of tbem wer? for the baby. He seemed to pass the next few days in a mournful dream, from which he waked to find himself riding down town in the same street car with Jennie. In a mo? ment his mind was made up: he would speak to her, tell her how sorry be was, and ask her to make up again. He for? got how many times he bad sworn never to make tbe first advances, he forgot his pride and bis anger, be only remembered that the slender, sad looking girl across the car was bis wife. But bow to get a chance to address her ? If he took a seat beside her, she might refuse to listen to him, even if he could induce either of the fat old ladies who overflowed upon her to change places with him. But while he considered this question the blessed (?) cable broke, and very soon tbe car was deserted by every one save Jennie and himself. He had decided that if she left the car he would follow her, and she had somehow divined his purpose, and resolved to stay where Bhe was. For a while be gazed Badly at her and she looked down at the pocketbook so firmly ?asped in her nervous fingers. Then he crossed the car and seated him? self by her side. "Jennie," he whispered trying to take her hand; and, though she drew hastily away, and turned ber head from him, he saw that a tear gathered and clang to tbe long eyelashes nearest him, and he took courage. "Jennie," be said again softly. There was no answer, but tbe tear fell with a little splash onto the big pearl button on ber coat and this time she did not resist his hand. Then be boldly pat his arm around ber, and drawing her to him murmured: "Jennie, dear, let's be friends again." "I'm will? ing," she answered with a great sob. A little later tae condnctor entered, and seeing their affectionate attitude started out of tbe opposite window, while he remarked loudly: "Cable's joined again sir." "All right," was the cheer? ful answer; "so are we," and Jennie blushed wbile tbe good-natured conduc? tor smiled broadly. He bad seen several such scenes in bis nine years on the street railway. Now, all this happened some time ago, aud. tbe first baby which followed and was named after tbe little dead peacemaker has also taken its de? parture, bat the bereaved parents are a happy couple in npite of their natural sorrow, and perhaps sometime, another may take its place.?Ethel Maude Colton, in Chicago Inter-Ocean. ? The Sadler family, living near White Plains, Ala., consisting of one brother and four unmarried sisters, is a remarkable one indeed. Each one of them is over eighty years of age, and they have lived in a little one room log hut all of their lives. They all chew home made tobacco, and drink atrong coffee at each meal. ? A new use has been found for tbe Columbian postage stamp. Tbis last geuius sends out circulars to all parts of the country and agrees to send a steel engraving of the "Landing of Columbus" ou receipt of one dollar. The man who sends the dollar receives by return mail a two-cent Columbian postage stamp which contains the engraving. As these are steel engravings they answer tbe purpose as well as larger ones would, and the proprietors of the scheme are ?2i'J 10 be roapiujj a hary^, Little Things. Young people in beginning life ore apt to be impatient of the first little steps that apparently make no advance, for? getting that seeming "trifles make up the sum of life," ja at as in building, the lit? tle bricks laid carefully, one at a time, side by side, and securely cemented to? gether, make at last the great, strong structure. A young man, having exhausted his patrimony in obtaining a professional education, settled himself in a town already filled with successful lawyers, to practice law. One day one of these older lawyers asked him, how, ander each cir? cumstances, he expected to make a liv? ing. "1 hope I may get a little practice," was the modest reply. "It will be very little," said the law? yer. "Then I will do that little well," an? swered the young man decidedly. He carried oat his determination. The little things well done brought larger ones, and in time he became one of the most distinguished jurista of his State. Again, a certain old Bishop, who was fond of finding odd characters in out-of the-way places, was visiting in a quiet neighborhood. One day, in a walk with a friend, be came across a crossroads set? tlement of a few houses. Among them was a snog little shoe shop, kept by an old negro man, which showed signs of prosperity.. Interested iu the old cobbler, the Bish? op stopped for a chat "My friend," he aaid, "I would not think so small a basinets as mending shoes would pay so well." "Ah," said the gentleman with him, "old Oato has the monopoly of shoe mending in this region. No one else gets a job." "How is that, Cato?" asked the Bishop. "Jost so, marster," replied Cato. "It is only little patches pat on with little stitches or tiny pegs. Bat when I takes a stitch, it is a ttiich, and when I drive a peg it holds." Little things well done 1 The good Bishop used that reply as a a text for many a sermon afterwards. A bright young girl living in a moun? tain region, by accidental contact with some visitors at a near watering place, became co^cions of her lack of educa? tion and consequent mental inferiority to them, She was intensely anxious to obtain this education, and at once set about gaining the money to secure it. There was absolutely only one way within her reach. Near her home was a stream filled with mountain trout, which she knew_..to be greatly in demand by the proprietor of the watering; place hotel. She made an arrangement; with him to supply fish for his table. Every day found her with her rod fish? ing diligently, and every morning found her at the same early hoar at the hotel with her fish. A benevolent old gentle? man chanced to see her one morning, and was greatly interested when told her story and the object she had In view in selling the fish. Particularly when the hotel proprietor added: "You will scarcely believe it, bat this yoang girl is actually the only one? though I have tried many?who has kept scrupulously to her bargain. She never fails me, be the number of her fish large or small." Thinking that such dilligeoce in small matters deserved large reward, the old gentleman obtained the consent of the girl's parents, and out of the abundance of his means placed her at u school to be fitted for a teacher. With painstaking care she mastered each difficulty in her new life, and be? came an educated, cultured woman and a skilled teacher.?M. E. Stafford, in Christian Union. Jeff Davis' Besting Place; Richmond, Va., April 23.?After the remains of Jefferson Davis are placed in Hollywood Cemetery here the sod of that city of the dead will have furnished the final resting place for three Presidents. These are Monroe, Tyler and the only chief magistrate of the Confederacy. Besides these there many other distin? guished men whose graves are in those grounds, notably the Confederate calvary commander, J. E. B. Stuart, Gen. Pickett ex-Governor Henry A. Wise, John Thompson, the poet; John Bandolph of Boanoke, whose body was removed here several years ago, and J. A. Seddon, the Confederate Secretary of War. With these and with the 10,000 Confederate soldiers who lost their lives at Gettys? burg, Cold Harber, in the seven days' . fights around Richmond and scores of other hard fought conflicts the President of the Confederacy will rest The Davis circle, the section in which Mr. Davis will be bnried, is in the north? western part of Hollywood, on a high plateau about 75 feet square, and is neatly laid off and sodded, ready for the grave which is soon to be made. The grave of the Confederate chieftain will be almost in a direct line with, and about 300 yards south of, the somewhat odd looking but handsome tomb of President Monroe. Between these two points and but a few wards from the tomb of Monroe is the tiny mound which tells the spot where little Joe Davis' body lies. This was the son of President Davis who was killed by falling from the rear balcony of the Confederate White House daring the war. It is expected that the parade which will follow the remains to the cemetery number many thousands. ? The most curious animal in the world is the ornithorynchns paradoxuB of Aub t ra 1 ia. It is shaped like an otter, has fur like a beaver, is web footed like a swan, has a bill like a dock, a tail like a fox, is amphibious and lays eggs. ? Elmer Perrine, of Long Branch, N. J., died Friday from the effects a peculiar malady. Several months ago Perrine ate red peppers for his dinner. The seeds lodged in his stomach, germinated, and made him ill. To remove the pep? pers be was compelled to take strong emetics. It is said this brought on the disease that terminated in nils death Upon several occasions he coughed up jjgyef?! paxljajly grown peppers. I All Sorts or Paragraphs. ? When tbe harness-maker gets strap? ped be naturally buckles down to busi? ness. ? Tbe most wonderful vegetable iu the world is the truffle; it has neither roots, stem, leaves, flowers, nor seeds. ? Dr. Opel, the great German geo? grapher, says tbat 1,700,000 square miles of earth are still, uninb?b!ted or owner? less. ? "Ten dollars for stealin' dat chick? en?" cried Eastus. "Whyjedge, honis' now, I could 'a' bought dat hen for fifty cents." ? Mervin Page, a colored man of How? ard County, Missouri, wears a shoe four? teen inches long and five inches across the sole. ? A fourteen-year-old boy who has been attending school at Alliance, Ohio, for the last seven years cannot even learn bis letters. ? The man who knew "just how it was going to be" is always a little late getting around, but that is all the better for his prophecy. ? London devours every year 400,000 oxen, 1,600,000 sheep, 500,000 calves, 700,000 hogs, fowls innumerable and 9, 800,000 gallons of milk. ? A New York merchant the other day bought fifteen dollars worth of vio? lets at one dollar a bunch to give to bis customers as presents. ? "I hear that your next door neigh? bors have a new organ. Do you know how many stops It has?" "Only about three a day, and those are only for meals." ? Husband?"Well, my dear, there's one advantage in being poor." Wife? "I'd like to know what it is ?" Husband ?" We don't have to pay $10,000 a year" for house rent" ? A man at Oil City, Pa., is the owner of a suit of clothes made entirely of the hides of rattlesnakes that have been caught, killed and tanned by him during the past four years. ? The oyster has no head, and there? fore no brain. It can neither see or hear. Its nerves originate near its mouth, which has four flat triangular lips. The oyster's heart is beneath its liver. ? The State of Michigan comes to the front with women farmers. There are said to be 9,707 of tbem who till 670,489 acres, which are valued at $43,500,000, while the earnings of the women aggre? gate $4,353,500. ? Old Gentleman: What wonld you like to be when you grow up ? Boy: I'd like to be ft bricklayer. "That'll a com' mendable ambition. Why would yon like to be a bricklayer?" "'Cause there's bo many days when bricklayers can't work." ? San Francisco is the banner city for - saloons. It has one Bach institution to every 93 persons. Albany cornea nest one to every 110 persons, and New Orleans one to every 121 persons. ? Fishes are without eyelids, properly - so-called, and as the eye is at all times washed by the surrounding water that gland which supplies moisture to the eye is not required, and therefore does not exist. 5>> ? Tbe region between the first and second cataracts of the Nile is the hottest on the globe. It never rains there, and the natives do not believe foreigners who tell tbem that water can descend from, the sky. ? The cocoanut tree is the most valu? able of plants. Its wood furnishes beams, rafters and planks, it leaves um? brellas and clothing, its fruit food, oil, intoxicants and sugar, its shells domestic utensils, its fibers ropes, sails and mat? ting. ? Mr. and Mrs. Grover Cleveland ' ? have written to Mr. and Mrs. Benken of Sheldon, Iowa: "Inclosed find draft for fifty dollars, which please place in bank to the credit of your new born Democrat, Both Cleveland Benken, and may she live to ripe old age." ? The twin brothers, Darius and Cyras Cobb,.ojE Boston, who are fifty-nine years old, look so much alike that their own children often mistake them. They married sisters. Darius is a sculptor and Cyrus is a painter. William Hunt, the artist, once styled them "Serious" and "Delirious." ? The man who called Sarsaparille ft fraud had good reason; for he got hold of a worthless mixture at "reduced rates." He changed his opinion, however, when he began to take Ayer's Sarsaparills, It pays to be careful, when buying medi? cines. ? Guest?I'm glad that there is a rope h ere, in tbe case of a fire: but what's the idea of putting a Bible in the room in such a prominent position ? Bell-boy? Dat am intended for use, sab, in case of de fire am too far advanced foh you to make you' escape, sab. ? "Are there any more jurymen who have a prejudice against yon ?" whisper? ed the young lawyer. "No, boss, de jury am all right, but I wants you to challenge the jedge. I has been 'victed twice before under him, and maybe he's 'gin? ning to hab a prejudice 'gainst me." ? A revivifying of nature's latent for? ces occurs every spring. At tbis time, better than at any other, tbe blood may be cleansed from tbe humors which infest it. The best and most popular remedy to use for this purpose is Ayer's Com? pound Extract of Sarsaparilla. ? Tbe onmarried young people of McDonougb, Ga., intend forming a "matrimonial alliance." Tbe object of the club is to secure suitable husbands and wives for its members. Each person joining tbis organization will be required to pay an initiation fee of $10, which amount will be presented to tbe first member who secures a mate. ? A remarkable exhibition of instinct was exhibited by a horse at Oil City, Pa., one day last week. Sunday night the horse was brought into tbe stable lame, and the stablemen thought it was from a sprain. They were rubbiog the leg with liniment Monday morning, when tbe horse broke away from them and ran into a blacksmith shop in the neighborhood.. Here he wheeled up to tbe horseshoer and lifted up bis lame leg. The man examined the leg and foot and found that an improperly driven nail had pene? trated into tbe quick of the foot. The shoe was reset and the horse returned to i tie barn.