The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, August 17, 1898, Page 7, Image 7
WtT^ THE WAIF.
jB? loD^r little maiden from the city's
HS*' io*" ^'J?n.Ty 'littlo waif, with blue eyes
M ^?*tS?itb thoughtful caro the Ut
HHv ;?'?.': ;,.;[ uu?*ed,
H* ll*1 . "MI, h of love had o'er tho tangled
?MS,- -otb? 31 ?
. , heard ?in*? bb-sphemies, hos
Mr - ?^./, .-i felt its Mows,
HT rhgJV,d>. wide city ?he had lived, just
SB' b0%utto the country-kind hearts had
?BT ' ;t^fcreatli?"the Hummer breath u fort
rf an that journey, and sweeter joy tc
UH ctjoi?'. ,,b{n8 took ber to his pleasant
Mr.,, I"arm .'nc'
? ?H'an?id fashioned wagon was a ohariol
BB' L '''"V.',,use rn the hillside looked
Hf'-i j?ader than ? king'*'
H v < mrriK bliss of sunshine, all th?
BJ Jlland'a song and stir,
l . of rural beauty was paradise t<
BB) > j}".!' ' *
EST !;?, r')-in "f 0003 that wandered in th?
BBt-' V", I field* all day
BH ' f another world thnt ctolo hei
EHr^ ]'-"'\.
snreading maple that tho robini
?^fc?fc?,w ??. liest,
rtiidtlj? clump of graises whero th?
SB* ,,1-n.l l?ir-l Ina its nest,
HB *? :"" t|". wind at evening whiapere?
?BF'1 .?rouah the orchard l>oughs
j|&: i: F;irju,'r Ht(,ijbina to htjiPdriv<
HS , j - ?! au??-'* bedtime with touch o
St ,'Mother Stebbins' gent?o hand brusht*
?B^', '!-"<..', tamded hair,
HB i't'l.- heart with happiness waa full un?
HL( S-ul?as Ulled with love till it coule
?r c soon the visit ended, tho parting tim
Bvttld kind Mother Stebbins, bid tho bird
H"' md be?* (joodby,
OH, clubed into tho wagon, with its wide
?8? old fushirnod seat.
Bref more a homeless little waif, with blu
H ey,* sad and sweet.
Sn when they reached tho station and hean
fin the whistle's blast
BSrotind the fanner's sunbrownod neck tw
??little arms clung fast.
Hftpon't send nie back) Don't send mol" th
BB ebbing creature said,
BBL,; Farmer Htebbins swallowed hard, thc:
jj] bent his bushy head.
fi-d ?ft unloosed tho clinging arma and pn
??SS the grieved child down.
B?i 6tooped and kissed tho tear stained fae
Bf ?nd smoothed tho hair of brown,
Hcd then the long train sped away around
MT distant hill,
BB,-, a happv brown haired maiden stays wit
IB Farmer Stebbins still.
H-^eldon c- 8todtlard ln Youth's Companion.
?STORY OF A VIOLIN.
H It was a mad, a shameful, thing
Hs I realized just a moment too late
KhoPgh I did my utmost to aton
KOT the part I played in that tragedy
Hie white agony on Chris Carew1
Boyish face that night haunts me a
Hividly now as if I had eeen it thor
H^terday, an(J ^ is years since h
Hst bent his head over his preciou
HI suppose that two friends fire
Brita the same burning ambitio
mere never more genuinely attache
Beach other than he and I, perhar.
Because, if I searched the world,
Hiebt never find a more lovablt
Bore unselfish and thorough fello1
Ban Chris Carew. To become grei
Bolinists-that was the life dreai
Be shared. Living together, we ha
Bracticed together for years an
Breamed of triumphs to come. Trui
Bore than once I recollect having
Burna of envy because, as time wei
B, Chris unconsciously develop?
B delicacy of touch and purity <
Bne that I could not seem to reac
Ku was more often given the sol
rta when we played together i
blic, but nothing inore. Chr
Invariably turned its edge in h
B?et, convincing way :
? "Will, it's nonsense. My instr
Bent happens to be an older ai
Better one than yours; that's al
Bnt any other fiddle into my hand
Bd I could never get half the effec
Boa know it; we have proved it.'
B And so in those dear days we f
gays placed it down to the subt
Bpipathy that had grown betwe<
Bm and his exquisite old violi
Barty black with age. As I sa
He had struggled and dreamed i
Bther for years, and then-th?
Bat shadow of a woman came t
Been us. Then
H They say that every W?W?? li
B>me kind of beauty in some nmi
Bes, hut Lottie Arnold-wf a
gemed to be one of the women wi
Boonsciously set longing the hes
? every man they meet. She h
9F joined as pianiste the orc-hesa
?ety to which Chris and I bolos
. and I know that I experiencec
e6r thrill the very first momo
?w her-on a concert night, wh
e floated across the platfoi
give the overture-and ag?
wm she stood bowing to the i
?ose, a slight, indescribably 1
itching figure in soft, white ev?
8 dress, with a mass of dc
?wn hair and clear, calm ej
at shone even at that distan
M Chris, when I happened
?ice at him-his lips were part?
?a he etood as if lost in an eos tai
t the moment, though, I eet
?*n to his deep appreciation of 1
M it had ended there I But pr
* nights came twice a week c
'Jjtbein opportunities of tarni
ettie's ?TlHflin nf \y%n'n*r\r* h ST
IJI?ifiment7 evenof whisper
JJ nothings, until I undersb
*t she had too intense a natur?
??Predate them. In a month I i
B*% in love with her and co
Bj* realise a future without 1
?hen-vrhen I graspod ot a sud<
?? same thrill had commi
BJed itself to Chris, and that
BJje secretly running a race
I"?? for Lottie's heart; the i
W*t began. Beforo I knew^it i
^ne, unreasoning jealousy of 1
jw ms ohances had sprung tr]
BJ6 ^as handsome. Hore?
Stotly seemed to me that
r^Qght more of his playing tha
Kf?. a galling danger in itt
on practioe nights I wats
as he stood bowing away areamuy
beside her until I grew so sick with
the jealousy that I left the place and
went home alone, and yet he never
seamed to understand. Truth to
toll,'as the weeks went by uo one
could have said that either of us had
come within winning distance of
her. Sometimes it was I who would
go home in a state of mental intoxi
cation, while Chris would seem
paler and quieter than usual ; then,
next time, Chris would como in with
the telltale flush to lind me sitting
moody and savage. Never once did
wo speak directly of it, but the
shadow was there, thickening every
day, and somehow from tho first
it seemed to mo that Chris, taken
on his merits alone, would ho the
winner in this silent, desperate
struggle.
Desperate? Yes. One night in o
fit of pique I had absented myeeli
from tho practice and for hours sal
planning how I could make him sel
a match to tho powder. About ll
o'clock he burst in, his face al!
aglow.
"Will, I've just heard the sweet
est bit of music ever written-hei
own composition-Lottie's, I mean
lean hear it now! I caught bei
playing it unawares, and what d<
you think? I've made bur promisi
to omhody it in a violin duet to bi
played by you and me at tho nox
concert. She oan do it. She ha?
written more than one pretty song
Will! Will! What is tho matter
What have I done?"
I I had tried to sneer, but it was n?
! use. When he put his hand on nr
shoulder and softly asked that,
could only get up and walk iron
the room. The lump in my throa
was too great for words. I knew
loved him, but I did not know tha
I hated him too.
Then for a month of suspens
we saw nothing of Lottie Arnolc
She was as much au enthusiast a
Chris himself. Having set horse]
to the work, her one fear was,
suppose, that the duo would not h
finished in time. But at last cam
a letter. It had nearly driven he
mad, she said, but we could judg
of her success if we called at he
house to try our parts on tho f o
lowing Wednesday evening.
The note was addressed to Chrii
For a moment my jealousy flame
up so that I had almost snatched
out of his hands as he read it.
mastered that impulse, but I kne
that the crisis was at hand nov
My brain was in a whirl all thi
week. Scarcely a word paseed b
tween us. And Chris, an he walkt
beside me that Wednesday eveni??
seemed to have grown haggard, ai
he shifted his violin case from hai
to hand constantly. I think he ht
begun to understand.
Beaching the house, we we:
shown at once into the sitting roor
and there Bat Lottie at a piano, su
rounded by a litter of papers. Fe
haps she, too, realized something
that moment, for she rose with
start and a heightened color.
"Is it really 7 o'clock? I seem
be left behind the world lately. Tl
staccato finale has kept me in
nervous tremble for days. Oh, a;
-and"- She hesitated, pluoki
at the velvet band at her throi
quite childishly for her. "I-I'
dreadfully sorry, but it isn't to Ix
uuet at all. I found I hadn't poe
bly time to arrange the second p*
as well as the accompaniment,
I-I abandoned it, and I really thi:
it goes better as a solo." A s tr a:
ed, never forgotten pause. Then, 1
coming herself again, she ran fi
ward and touched my arm appe
ingly. "You don't mind very mut
do you?" she asked in her sw<
voice.
All over in a breath 1 I knov
stood stupidly still for a time, t
able to get a syllable past the sw<
ing in my throat, while the flt
seemed to be rocking. So she li
written the solo-for Chris-a
with it ended all my dreams,
wanted air. I murmured sot
thing, caught up my violin s
went mechanically out and do
the stairs. At the door I stopp
Some one had called me. Itv
Chris, his face white and implor
as a frightened woman's.
""Willi" That was all he s
huskily nahe gripped my arm.
knew vaguely that it meant1 'Soo:
than that, you can have the sol
But that only maddened me
more. I shook off his hand <
walked away home.
Three hours later he walked
[ think ho had been wandering
streets, fighting a battle with h
ae;2. He came straight across
where I sat, with a palpable attei
to speak and act as if nothing !
happened.
"Why didn't you stay, old m
It's grand-she's a genius-it'
bannt yon when you hear it.
and I've persuaded her to mk
rc3t and then write the second fit
part. That'll be all right, won'1
Will," be whispered, "why di?
y Ma tali uiOi
"Keep her," I said icily, "and
solo too. There I"
Bte drew a deep breath. Ano*
soft word from him and I sh<
have given way, but he had tin
away, and picked np a letter
had arrived- for bim by the
post. Absolute silence for a t
T/hen I glanced np to see Chris f
lng at me, his face a study in
credulous wonder.
"Heavens! Willi" he breat
"My name's madel Here's on
tation from the manager of
Grand hall to play there tomo:
night and name my own fee.
ot their artists ie inUisposed. ]
Sid yon-heart At the Grand
Kensington, tomorrow night 1
met What oan he have heal
mo? Why, it's the chanco of my
lifotime! Will, areu't you going to
grip my hand?"
Ho was so overcome that he hard
ly noticed I sat like a stone. Ho
went on whispering rapturously to
himself :
"Tomorrow night 1 I must write
and tell her this. Why, the Bolo-I
can play it. She must be there!
Will, liston-you must hoar it! It
goes like this!"
He caught up his violin. I see
him now as ho stood that night,
hear that downward svvcex) of his
bow across the strings, full of con
scious triumph-that ono quivering
chord, no more. I was on my feet,
a terrible passion iiassing through
me. Every word of his had been a
stab. Each seemed to carry Lottie 1
farther and fart?:er from me. I
struck out at him-at Chris, tho
man who had made me lovo him
like a brother-and the suvago blow
caught tho rim of his beloved in
strument and sentit spinning across
the room. Near the door it fell
with a sickening crash and lay
there-wrecked !
Yes. Next minute, when I realiz
ed and would have given years of
my life to aparo Chris that blow, I
crept across and picked up the vio
lin. The finger board had snapped
in two, and the body of it WUB stove
in like an eggshell.
"Oh, Chris!" I whimpered, one
shaking hand put out. But he did
not stir. Hie body was stiff. Only his
face worked convulsively. "Take
mine-take everything I'vo got!" I
said in an agony of apprehension
then.
One dry sob came, then a shiver,
then he groped his way past me like
a blind man. Listening as for my
life, I heard him mount slowly up
to our bedroom and lock the door
on the inside. Then one stifled
moan and no more.
All that night I sat in a fever of
shame and suspense, and the door
above had not opened. Several
times I had crept up and implored
him to let me in, but not a sound
had come. What was he doing?
Save myself, no one on earth knew
how he had prized that old violin
what its loss meant for him. What
would happen? When morning
came, I could do nothing but aBk
our landlady not to disturb him and
wait on. Afternoon came, and still
the same silence overhead. And I
then, just about 6 o'clock, I went
hot at the recollection of that con
cert at the Grand hall. The chance
of his lifetime he had called it. If
he failed-no, he should not fail!
The wildest of ideas had flushed
across me. Chris and I were not so
unlike in appearance, and, heaven
helping me, I might
I went up and knocked once again.
No answer. Clearly if it was to be
done there was no time to hesitate.
Seven o'clock, no Chris. Half past
7. I had dressed carefully, chosen
an effective solo that I knew by
heart, taken one of Chris' cards and
stood waiting on the last chance. A
quarter to 8, and that door remained
locked. Five minutes later I had
called a cab and was on my way to
the Grand hall.
I recollect asking for the manager
and handing him that card, but the
rest seemed afterward like a dream.
Scores of times ? had played in pub
lic, but always with a nervousness j
that had marred my performance.
It was gone now. I remember that
when, about half past 9,1 faced that
great, critical audience as Chris Ca- j
rew I was as cool and confident as !
though my success had been assured
for years. To play as I had nover
played before-to carry home news
of a triumph to Chris !
* And, with the vision of him sit
ting at home theie always before
me, I played that night-well, as
Chris himself would have done.
The moment the prelude had ended :
I was sure of myself. Never had j
my fingers seemed so supple. Never
had my bow responded so lovingly
to the emotions that possessed me.
I did not need to wait for the buzz
of applause to know that "Chris
Carew" had justified his engage
ment. I remembered afterward that
the mnn&??r had shaken hands with
me and said something about a good
notice in the morning papers, but
the first thing I recollected dearly
was trying the handle of the door
at home and whispering eagerly,
"Chris, old man ! Chris!"
The handle yielded-the lock was
broken. With an intens? awe and
foreboding creeping over me, I stood
in the doorway and looked. Two
persons were bending over him. He
lay on the bed, his faoe damp with
sweat and his eyes
"Oh, Fm glad you've come!"
whispered our landlady. "I knew
there was something wrong, and I
v.- ,1 _ --a -n:-J.
B.. ww.^.A.g, WMU MUUU&
after you went, so I fetched tho doc
tor at last, and we had to break in.
Dlf Why, Mr. Marsh thinks it
spells brain fever ! Oh, and he has
kept calling ont 'Lottie! Lottie!'
Who ia 'Lottiel' "
I could not, tell her just then.
What I did was to rush down stairs,
Beize pen and paper and, as well as
I could for the mist in my eyes,
write a scrawl to the woman be
loved and deserved, telling her all
and begging her to come. For some
thing seemed to tell me that Chris
would never know of his triumph
by proxy-that he wua going to dio.
God spared me that. In a week
Chris was down stairs again, whiter
and thinner than ever, indeed, but
so much his old self that he could
smile and press my hand whenever
[ held it out:. But it was not until
-more through my scheming per
haps than he will over know-he
led Lottie Arnold from the altar as
his wifo six mouths later that 1
could look him in the face and feel
that I had atoned in part.
Only in part, even at that sacrifico
of my hopes, for Chris, who might
have been one of our greatest vio
linists today, bas never touched a
violin since that night. Often I bavo
pleaded with him, often enough
Showed Mm tho notice of "Mr. Chris
Carew, a now and promising young
performer," that appeared in tho
newspapers that morning, but he
shakes his hoad. The wreck of the
instrument that ho loved lies at tho
bottom of his box, and his old fixed
belief that he could never do him
self justice on any other, even if he
had the heart to try, has never been
shaken.-Tit-Bits.
The Industry of Fall River.
Fall River has more than one
sixth of.all the spindles in tho coun
try, over one-fifth of those in New
England and manufactures over
three-fourths of all tho print cloths
made in tho country. It has more
spindles than any stato in the Unit
ed States except Massachusetts,
nearly as many as all the southern
states combined and more ti an
twice ns many as any other city in
tho country. Every working day
its mills weave moro than 1,400
miles of cloth, or moro than two
miles overy minute. It produces
every variety of cloth from rough
linings for shoes to the finest and
daintiest fabrics for ladies' dresses
and from the coarsest threads to
the gossamer of the spider's web,
a pound of which will make a strip
of lawu 30 inches wide and 60 feet
long.
There are 42 corporations, operat
ing 82 mills, employing 30,000 per
sons, earning $180,000 per week and
producing annually from 350,000
bales of cotton more than 800,000,
000 yards of cloth. Its people are
cosmopolitan, there being in the
city in round numbers 15,000 ot
American parentage, 15,000 of Eng
lish, 25,000 of French Canadian, 25,
000 of Irish and 20,000 of German,
Portuguese, Armenian, Russian and
Italian birth. The recent growth
of the city has been remarkable.
Founded in 1803, it had only 1,000
inhabitants, but from 1870 the in
crease has been marvelous. In that
year it had 27,191 inhabitants; in
1880, 47,883; 1890, 74,918; in 1897,
100,000.-Textile America.
A Discouragement.
"So yon are writing for an Eng
lish publication," she said to the
young man to whom she is engaged.
"Yes. How did you know?"
"A friend of mine sent me a Lon
don periodical in which one of youl
poems was published."
"Yes. That publication seems to
like my work very well. The mat
ter that it took from me last week
amounted to ?7."
"To seven pounds 1" she repeated
wonderingly.
"Yes."
"Albert, do you know how to
keep bookal"
"No, but I suppose I can learn."
"Then I wish you would do so."
"But it's hard work) and I doubt
very much whether I would be a
success at it."
"Well, then, open a store or learn
to run a hotel or something like
that."
"Don't yon like writing as an oc
cupation?"
"Not now. I used to think it
was a noble and beautiful vocation,
but when it comes to selling poetry
by the pound I feel that it is time to
abandon literature forever."-De
troit Free Press.
Cariosity.
Crowds representing innate hu
man curiosity gather easily in large
cities. A fairly good looking wagon
was driven hurriedly up to a place
on Diamond street one day recently,
3ays the St. Louis Globe-Democrat,
[n a moment two boards had been
placed across the top of the vehicle,
rhe six or seven men who stopped
to look on at the unusual proceeding
30on swelled to a throng when four
small pillows wei? brought out and
leposited on the boards. "What's
apt" inquired a tall, thin man, an
sager look in his eye, the remark
being addressed to a boy who had
iwiftly climbed a pole. From his
vantage point the youngster made
iaconio answer, "Dunno unless a
nan's sick or dead in there."
At this point the two men at work
brought out and placed squarely on
;he pillows something whioh looked
/erv much like a stretcher. Every
body craned his or her neck for the
next appearance of the quiet work
men. The latter were not long in
coming. Between them, walking
nirror, which they placed on the
stretcher and then covered with a
vhite cloth. In another instant
hey had turned down toward Wood
street, and the most excited men in
he crowd looked dejectedly at each
>ther. A possible tragedy requiring
;he coroner's presence, or at least a
loctor's, had been converted into a
nrnitnre insurance precaution.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children,
rbe Rind You Have Always Bought
Bears the
Signature of
- The most ancient ooin in Europe,
he ducat, was first struck ir. the mint
f Venice in the year 1284. The
uilding is still ia existence.
VS ? i * I .
ONLY A TOAD.
Bat Ht Proves Mlmnrlf tho Friend of th?
Thrifty Fariner.
Many people view with disgust
and loathing this rough, uncouth,
leathery coated little creature, with
his distended stomach and squat,
ungraceful form, yet their aversion
is totally without reason. Tho toad
is not venomous or harmful, uor
can ho be utterly ugly with his sin
gularly clear and brilliant eyes.
An old superstition says, "Tho toad
has a jewel in his head." If bo bas,
it must bo the gleam of the jewel
that flashes through his eyes and
lights up his otherwise unattractive
countenance.
However this may be, the toad is
a jewol in himself from un economic
point of view. The farmer bas no
better friend or ally in bis warfare
against injurious insects. Tho toad
comes forth mostly at night, when
such iusoctB as tho cutworm are
abroad. When I am working in the
garden and inadvertently disturb a
toad, I always feel like bogging bis
pardon, for, however queer it may
seem to some, I like toads. In tIiis
Dakota land they aro very abun
dant, and I notice that insects aro
proportionately few.
When following tho breaking
plow, I liavo often been a reluctant
spectator of the last sad tragedy in
the lives of some of these beneficent
littlo creatures. They love to bur
row down in tho earth to just about
the depth that tho plowshare takes,
aud thore they are sometimes sliced
in two. On these occasions when
examining the contents of their
stomachs I have been surprised at
the quantity they could hold. I
have also noted the prevalence of
injurious species of in nee tn, such as
leaf beetles, cutworms, grubs and
their larvo.
Once after a victim passed under
the plow I took pains to note the
contents of its stomach, which con
sisted of 4 large cutworms, 2 bean
beetles, 17 small leaf beetles, 8 small
manure beetles, 3 flies, several lar
vo and about a teaspoonful of the
small aromatic yellow ants. This
was only a medium sized toad, and
now just think how many euch
meals he had taken in his life ; then
think of his millions of relatives
and the meals they hud eaten in
their lives. After that remember
that in their polly wog stato toads
clear out myriads of larvo from
stagnant water and do much to
ward lessening the great mosquito
peet, and you may imagino the vost
quantity of injurious insect material
they must have destroyed.
I have domesticated and colonized
toads in my cellar and garden and
always felt amply repaid by the do
crease in the number of the insects.
It makes littlo differonco to the toad
whether his meal bo of cabbage
worms, mosquitoes or bean beetles.
Down they go, and as he rubs his
throat with one "hand" he winks
his off eye and is ready for more.
Our Animal Friends.
The Pope ?nd London Smoke.
Leo y TFT is no stranger to the
English court, but it is by no means
generally known that the pontiff
once paid a personal visit to this
country. Such, however, is the
case, though tho evea*> occurred 50
years ago, when he was simply
Monsignor Fecci, acting as legate at
the Belgian court, and when he was
being consulted recently with re
gard to the building of the new ca
thedral at Westminster he asked
whether any white marble was to
be used, adding laughingly: "When
[ was at St. Paul's cathedral, they
mowed me some black marble and
said it was white. London seems
io be tar too smoky for white mai
ble."-Westminster Gazette.
The New York botanical garden,
planned for Bronx park, will be the
hird largest in the world. It em
braces 250 acres.
- A negro waa killed near Glendale
>y falling into a well. It seems that
he well, which was very deep, had
teen out of use for some time, and he
tad goss down to clean it out. As
here were poisonous gases there he
lecatne dizzy and asked his compan
ona to draw him np. Just before
eaching the top he became so faint as
o release his hold on the rope and
iropped baok to the bottom. The fall
uangled his body terribly, killing him
Dstantly.
Wheo i ou call for DeWitt'it Witch Ho
ol Halve, the groat pile cure, don't accept
nyming eltte. Don't be talked into ao
spltng a subrttilute. Tor pilot?, for ?ores,
or bunin. Evana Pharmacy
- There will be no extra session of
Congress, though the Senate will have
o be called together for the prompt
atification of ihn treaty of peace, if
he present plans of the President pre
ail. It is stated at the White House,
hat unless there should be some ex
raordinary development, thc House
rill not meet until it convenes in reg
lar session next December.
A stubborn cough or tickllog In the
liront y le?da to Ono Minuto Cough Cure,
lunn less in etfect, to ti oh os tho right apot,
sllable and just what la wanted. It acts
tonoe. Evana Pharmacy.
- The Japanese are flocking to the
andwich Islands in large numbers,
'rom a dispatch it is learned tha' no
388 than 1,176 entered Honolulu as
ontract laborers in one day recently,
mother batch is expected shortly, it
rould be seen from this that the con
ract labor law has been quietly pigeon
oled. Plantation managers are under
ontraet to import a certain percent
gc of white labor in proportion to the
lumber of coolies brought in, but the
ontract is violated in almost every in
tance.?
STURGEONS IN COMMERCE."
Bonio of the rointa of Klucularity About
?. tho Fiah.
Tho sturgeon is naturally an in
habitant of tho largo rivers and
brackish water of the north temper
ate zone, moro particularly of Eu
rope and America. The Sacra men
to, tho San Joaquin, Russian river
and the Columbia on tho west and
tho Hudson and Delaware on tho
east aro very favorable to its pro
duction in great quantities.
This interesting and curious fish
has many points of singularity. Its
armed exterior skeleton seems to
point to its being ono of tho few de
scendants of tho ganoid, or armor
plated fishes of the prehistoric ages.
The position of the mouth is much
tho samo as in the shark family, but
its form and function uro rather
that of tho rumora, or sucker fam
ily. Tho flesh, too, is remarkable
as being a reddish and yellow and
part white. English fishmongers
adi it "hoof and veal.'* In that
country it is usually cooked by bak
ing with a stulhng of line herbs.
There are several varieties of tho
sturgeon family, the sturgeon prop
er (Aeei penser sturio), tho beluga
and tho starlet being tho principal,
the two latter kinds belonging to
tho Russian waters.
Some 25 years ago there were mil
lions ol' sturgeons in San Francisco
bay and tributary waters, principal
ly in tho mouths of tho Sacramento
and San Joaquin rivers, where they
lay on the muddy bottom, feeding
on clams and bottom tishes. The
Chinese, who have an inordinate
fondness for gelatinous substances,
such as isinglass, sea swallow nests,
trepang, etc, imported from China
a very deadly hook for capturing
tho sturgeon, which they caught
solely foi the marrow in its poculiar
backbone. They stripped out the
backbone and threw away tho rest.
Some of tho backbones wero sent to
China, where isinglass is made from
them and also a highly tenacious
glue. The principal use, howovor,
is for making gelatinous soup.-San
Francisco Chronicle.
Growth of the South.
Where tho proud city of Birming
ham stands today there were in 1877
only woruout fields. Chattanooga
was n uilnpidatod village. Atlanta
still sat in tho ashes of the war.
Florida was almost as much of a
wilderness ns in tho days of Spanish
rule. Texas had made no impres
sion upon the world's markets as a
cotton producer. The states of
Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas
wero in poverty and despair because
of the miseries of the reconstruction
period. The coal and iron mines of
Tennessee, Alabama and Virginia
were practically undiscovered and
unopened. There was no sorious
competition by any southern port
with New York and Boston for tho
export and import trade. With a
single exception there was not one
great railroad system in the south,
and that did not touch the south
eastern part.
Twenty years ago the manufac
ture of cotton in the south was
wholly an infant industry, and cities
now known as textile working cen
ters were mere trading posts at the
crossroads. The fruit and vegeta
ble business of Florida was so small
ss to attract little attention, while
the fruit and melon business ot
Georgia did not exist at all. South
ern farmers then bought their corn
and meats instead of raising them
as they do now, and the cottor crop
of Georgia, notwithstanding tho
comparatively low prices and not
withstanding the cities have absorb
ed so much of the rural population,
is twice as large as it was then.
Macon Telegraph.
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Wheeler had the pleasure of captur
ing the officer ho is now serving under
in Cuba. In March, 1862, William
ll. Shafter was a Major in thc Nine
teenth Michigan. He was with a
foraging expedition one day when a
body of Wheeler s cavalry surrounded
and captured the whole outfit. Shaf
ter waa sent to Richmond, and spent
six weeks in Libby prison, i Nobody
in the country has a higher opinion of
"Little Joe" as a strategist and fight
er than General Shafter.
- Edward Culver, rough rider, lies
at the Marine Hospital, Staten Island,
with the bullet in his body that killed
Sergt. Hamilton Fish in the memora
ble fight with thc Spaniards at La
Quasina, Santiago. He and Fish lay
flat on the ground, close together,
firing on thc enemy, when a Mauser
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out at tho right and hit Culver in the
left breast just above thc heart. He
~:?? a?v7-yc carry ;:. h ir, breast thc
missile that slew his comrade.
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