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BU 55. He was n little negro And sat upon the fence. He hadn't any fattier Nor any mother, hence He was a little orphan And hadn't any sense. He thought the earth a circle, But flat as any floor; Was suro it scarce extended Beyond the river shore, And thought the stream the Jordan Which Israe. passed o'er. He knew the sun at twilight Just put himself to bed Underneath a coverlet Of purple, blue and red, Except on stormy evenings. When he used black instead. He b'lieved the stars in heaven Were blessed angels' eyes .'A-peeping froo de openin's . Ter see who steals ac pies" At least so said his auntie. And she was very wise. And then he thought his conscience The throbbing 'neath his ribs That beat so fast and loudly Whenever he told fibs. Which was often, each one prefaced Ey "True as eber yer libsl" And be was sure Elijah Would come for him some night And take him in a chariot All glorious with light, To a sweet and happy country. Where every one was white. He was a little negro And sunned him on the f?nce: He hadn't any knowledge Nor any money, hence He was supremely happy Each has his recompense 1 -C Leach in Independent. THE NEW BKOOM. In the good old days of. the French war. when England was so occupied ripon the seas that she had little time to guard her coasts rninntely. the peo ple of Trewarne were smugglers to a man and throve exceedingly. There were indeed riding officers stationed hard by. bot they were not numerous enough to interfere effectually-ncr. "tis said, were they notably eager to have their hands strengthened. But this season of prosperity and un troubled quiet came to an end. Peace to England meant the very reverse to Trewarne. It was with the utmost dis gust that ita people saw their old friends being replaced or so surrounded with new colleagues altogether unused to the ways of the district that they could not remain harmless if they would. It was soon beyond a doubt that the rev enue men were really in earnest in their endeavors to suppress the free trade. Among the men of Trewarne the whole blame in this matter was laid j upon the shoulders of John Coffin, a new man. whose energy was such that in mere self defense his comrades were compelled to emulate his detestable activity He waa a little man, black bearded and exceeding neat in his attire. He spoke outlandishly, mincing his words after the manner of people inhabiting the regions which lie up the country And he interfered shamelessly with the business of his neighbors. For example, at the edge of the cliff, some two miles to the west of Tre warne, there tfas a copper mine. Just above the sea level a tunnel had been driven from the shaft to the face of the ' cliff. The water pumped up from the bottom of the mine was not taken to tho surface, but simply raised to the level of this "adit" and so allowed to gain the sea. And the recording angel alone can tell how many a keg of good liquor, landed on the beach, has gone into that adit! been carried to the shaft and conveyed to the surface in the great iron "kibble," a bucket which was used for haul;ng the ore to "grass." Once the stuff had gained the surface it was stowed away in the engine house, to be sent to its ulti- ! mate desination at a convenient oppor- ;' tnnity Now, one night a very decent little cargo had been run. A goodly number j of kegs were buried in the sand of the beach. Some twoscore were carried up into the adit and later cn drawn to the surface in the kibble. They had been carefully disposed in the engine house, and all seemed well, when suddenly the place was invaded by a gang of revenue men. The engineer did not lose his presence of mind. He sprang to the safety valve. In a moment the room was filled with steam, and customs offi cers and miners were tumbling one over the other in wild confusion. But j presently John Coffin got to the safety | valve and stopped the escape of steam. The miners melted away liko summer clouds (being unarmed) and a little later saw the good liquor going off in casks to the stronghold of the revenue men. Mr. Coffin was a proud man, but there were ominous murmurs as he re tired, and his name suggested many a( grim pleasantry. This bort of thing happened continu ally, but as the bruugglers were still se cure from loss if they saved one cargo in three-and as they had behind them many years of uninterrupted success it made no great difference. Indeed the j ?nen engaged in the troffic saw the hu- ? morons aspect in the tiiumphant mien I of John Coffin, and for a little while j thought the spectacle well worth the I loss of a few kegs from time to time. It was at this time that they construct ed a "cavie, " or store," in a big field not 200 yards away from the custom house, j But John Coffin was not content with . these successes, and his ambition soon became intolerable. Of all the young men in those parts j .Jim Penlerrick was the most promis- j ing. There were none but knew the ? traditions of the smuggling and could ! help if help were needed. But Jim was ! one of those rare spirits who make tra- j ditions. He was hardly more than four i and twenty, tall, fair and boyish, but ; he had already made himself a name ? by the cleverness of the dodges he in- j vented and the magnificent coolness j with which he carried them into execu tion. It waa no wonder that Maggie . Opie, the prettiest girl in Trewarne. | was proud to have him known as her j sweetheart. I She was a little, dark haired creature, I with cheeks tinted like wild roses and big gray eyes that would have made conversation an easy thing to her if she had chanced to be born dnmb. There was a childish innocence in them some times, and sometimes* a reckless mis chief, whick Jim himself could only envy and admire. It was said that some of his cleverest inventions lind brion in spired by he;1. And there was only one thing in her which Jim deemed unrea sonable. She appeared to detest John Coffin with all the strength of her soul. It' seein ed' tb Ji'u?' t??t to do'tnis m a case waa to go beyond what wa; essary or appropriate. He had on ted the man so frequently that h almost kindly toward him. But one day his view of the n was changed. Maggie reported t< certain events which had befalle while he was away upon his latest age to Roscoff. Once or twice lately, she expia it had been borne in upon her that Cofliu was much more polite tc than he had any reason to be. Shi forborne to speak of the matter be< there were a multitude of smug histories which proved beyond a r that it was oftentimes convenien such a one as she to-have somethi: I hold over such as he. But no^ could not ignore the matter any lo: "What you'll say," she said, sure I can't think. But I hope won't do anything rash.." lt appeared, then, that Maggie coming back to the village from a to Breach, a little church town miles distant from Trewarne. She hardly started when she met John Ci "Good afternoon, Misa Opie!' said. " ,rx'is pleasant weather foi time of the year. " . And he stoppe that Maggie could hardly pasa on mediately. "Iss." she said. " 'tis pretty wc er. " 1 'May I keep you company along road?" said the man. " 'Tia a lonely old road." Maggie raised her eyes to his. 1 they fluttered and fell. " 'Tis very ] of you. " They discussed a multitude of ii ferent subjects. Then. "I didn't see Penlerrick when I was down in ' warne just now, " said Coffin. "Nb?" said Maggie. "I didn't see the Dream eithei suppose she's gone to sea again ?" "How should I know?" said Mai innocently. "Is Jim Penlerrick man to tell a girl what are his plan "Well." said Coffin, "I suppose 1 be back for Sunday, being Feasten S day. I shouldn't think he'd be li than Thursday, for the fair'a on '. day. " "Are you going to the fair. '. Coffin?" said Maggie. The man smiled. "If I could see ; there" "Aw. " said Maggie. "You can that any time. Why, the waxwork coming that haven't been here tl four years. " "Waxworks is no attraction," s Coffin contemptuously. "Give me fl and blood. " "Well." said Maggie, "if waxwo ia no attraction. I suppose you won'1 there " . In a minute or two the subject T changed. " 'Tis a lonely life down here for < that's been used to bigger places," s Coffin. "If a man had a wife, perhj 'twould be all he'd want. He'd h; some interest in his work then, but it is" "I won't bring ee no further, ? Coffin, " said Maggie interrupting hi "Many thanks for your company. " And the little man lcoked at 1 meltingly. "No need of thanks!" ejaculated. " 'Tis yours whenever y like to take it and for so long a time you choose " He raised hia hat witl flourish, and Maggie walked on hon ward, having now reached the outski: of the village. She knew not whet! to laugh or to be indignant Fina she did both. Jim Penlerrick and the men of t Dream landed their cargo that ve night and got it into a place of securi without untimely interruption. T next morning Maggie came to her wi dow early and inspected tho barb which it overlooked. The Dream w there. Even while she looked at it s heard a whistle and, glancing up t road, she saw Jim Penlerrick corni] to call on her. So she descended quic ly, heard the tale of his adventures dn ing the. time of this last absence and conclusion told her own tale. "It looked to me, " she added, "li. as if the man wanted me to tell all know, and offered to make me Ali Coffin in reward. Now, Jim, don't yt go and do anything foolish. Perhaps ] never meant it, after all. " Jim laughed grimly. "Perhaps not, he said. "All the same, I fancy a b of a lesson would do him no hann. I can't have thought yon was bad hearte So he must have fancied you could I ?ooled easy. And he must be cured i dil such fancies as that. " Maggie flushed. "I never thought i that, " she said. "Jim, you can do ju what you like with him. " And Ji: went off to his breakfast, full < thoughts as to how the end he had i view was to be obtained. That afternoon he went through tl village with a friend carrying a stox post some 10 or 12 feet in length. Thc made oil in the direction of a small an secluded cove, about a mile to the we? of Trewarne. Later in the day John Coffin chance upon a litt?e girl who was idly wandei ing by the roadside. He was about t pass on. when the child spoke. "Do yon know the lane leading t Pentrize cove?" said the child. "Yes. " said Coffin. "Well. " said the child, "I got a mci sage for you. You must be at the top c the lane by half past 7 to meet friend. " Coffin inspected the messenger sus piciously. "Who sent yon?" he asked "Aw," said the child, "she said . mustn't mention no name. " Coffin laughed. "Well. " he said, *?*'. don't know that yon need. Here, thi: will buy yo i some lollipops. " He gav? the child some coppers and passed on. And he was perfectly right in the im pression he carried with him, for tin little girl waited until he was out ol sight and then went off as speedily a: might be to Maggie Opie's home, when she reported progress and showed Cof fin's gift. "Well done," said Maggie. "Spoil the Egyptians where and when you can. There's good examples for that. " Bul at half past ? she was talking at thc cottage gate with the daughter of n neighbor, nor did she quit her home until more than an hour later, when Jim Penlerrick turned up and suggest ed a brief stroll. Ho bad manifestly some jest to share with ber. Now, John Coffin had never doubted as to tito identity of the snider of thc message. At half past 7 precisely in1 be gan to mount the hilly lan?, and when he had reached tile appointed place kc lit a pipe and waited. For a long time : no one came. He began to grow more I aim mure impatient. IV?JU>VIIJ.^ um girl could have nothing on earth to her at this hour. And slowly dawned upon him a dreadful d< Could it be that she had fooled and was not coming at all? He pu thought from him, but only for a 1 In the end he swore vehement!} would have turned away had not a of laughter suddenly arrested him. fore he could recover from Ins sur he was struggling in the midst of a dozen men. and a moment later had overpowered and hound him. ting a gag between his teeth, j All this time they had not spot word, and it was still in utter si] that he was compelled to march, a at either arm. in thc direction of cove. Coffin did not doubt that he fallen into the hands of smuggler: solved to revenge on him the recen juries to the traffic they carried on. remembered a hundred horrid tal violence, and his heart quailed wi him. They led him onward until the sc of the sea broke on his ears, and he was being led by a wild and dan ons path down to the little ye beach. His captors dealt none too ? tly with him when they came to c the space of tumbled bowlders at foot of the cliff, and when they gained the beach they led him to w! a tall, wooden post had been fix?e an upright position in the sand. On the men advanced and kicked it;, quivered, but otherwise was firm, bi deeply sunk and having big st( buried about its base. And John G would have cried aloud for mercy he been able. For he realized what they were gc to do with him. They raised him bound him against the wooden p and lie looked desperately out to se gagged, so that he still could not sp -and wondered how long it wonk! before the advancing tide would re him. The men moved about in silei testing ali the knots with tremend vigilance before they moved away i band and vanished in the blacknes the cliff's shadow. And John Co was left alone to watch the slow, lentless advance of doom. There was no moon. The clear si light quivered in lines of silver on dark plain of the sea. He could dist guish through the gloom the glimi of the breakers. There was a he; ground swell on, and he knew ti even if he had been able to shout, c if any human being had chanced to proach this lonely region of the co after the fall of darkness, it would s be in vain to hope for rescue, since voice would not be heard above the < of the tide. He did not lack courage-as ind? he had proved beyond dispute by ' conduct which had brought him ii his present predicament, for to int fere seriously with the smuggling v to take up arms against a united coi tryside-even, he had sometimes din suspected, against the local magna who should have been glad to co-op ? ate with him in tho work. And in tl work he had never been afraid, knew that he risked his life, but went armed, and the risk would ne^ have troubled him had he been a fi man and at liberty to fight for his li He would almost have enjoyed the ? citement. But to be bound to a post a lonely beach and to wait in the dai ness for death, whose thundering foi steps already deafened him, was an < deal beyond what a man is made bear. A cold fear froze his heart. Th might have taken away the gag, and would still have lacked the power speech. He realized that this vengeance of t smugglers was not so much a rctu fer his interferences with their actn trade as for the few words he h; spoken with Maggie Opie, and he kne that her treachery had betrayed hil I And he ;iad stopped to talk with Ma gie, in the first place, not because ! knew that she possessed valuable infc mation. but merely because lie liad sei no girl in all his life who was half ! pretty, no girl whom he would mo unwillingly have vexed. And he lu endeavored to learn the secrets wi' which she was acquainted involuntari and out of habit. j He had been ten minutes alon j though the tipie liad seemed longer tim ! the longest night\ to the mau who I tired and cannot sleep. Suddenly 1 j beard footsteps close at hand. ? The men iiad returned. They lu: : gained the top of the path, and then, mode of deepening thc horror of h situation occurring to them, they ha returned. They did not speak a wore One of them took a big red handlea chief from his pocket, folded it an bound it tightly over Coffin's eye; j Then they once more left him alone. The thunder of the sea grew loud? and more near. The very minuit seemed interminable and so filled wit intolerable fear that he constantly fat cied he muet lose his reason immediate ly. And suddenly a shock of term threw the blood back upon his hoare A wave had broken close at hand. Th cold water had reached his feet. He waited for the next-waited, a it seemed to him, for many minutes Possibly, ho thought, the wave whicl had reached his feet had been ono o those tremendous ninth waves wi tl which the sea kills men. when, witl the other eight, it has played with then as a cat plays with a wretched mouse. Ho waited and wailed. Suddenly ho awoke, as from a dru? ged sleep, and found that day wa: breaking. The waves were far away and Maggie stood near, tho red band kerchief in her hand. She looked at him strangely, and lu endeavored to recall tho events of tin night. Maggie saw bis difficulty ant spoke. "Are you better now?" she said. " 'Twas me that put you there. I told, and tho men swore they would puriisl you, for a joke, so they fastened yoi there, taking care to put you just when the tido would stop when it carno up. And I laughed over it when they cann bael: and told mc what they had dunn. But soon as I was abed I began to tlrinli what fear you would have. 1 could sec you standing there and waiting foi death. 'Twasas if J. stn.nl there myself I know 'twas but a joke. and. Lord knows, I've no love i\>v revenue men. So 1 fought against: it at first. Hut at last I couldn't stand against it, longer L came out i<> set yon free. '?' Site cnt the iiands. ami li" tunk the gagfroni his mouth. "Look!" sh" said. "Yon won't ma!:<* :t row ;i in.iiit ! Twas only a join.'. The fide never wetted inure than your feet. " iron ir ero mn uiriiecrana loosea ar, ner in silence. "No. " he said at last, "I will say nothing. But yon are hard on a man whose sin was that he thought you the prettiest maid he had ever seen. " He turned away from her and moved stiffly and slowly toward the path which led up the face of the cliff. Maggio watched him as he went. "I have no love for revenue men," she had said, which is curious, for when she was married six months later she took tho name of Coffin.-H. J. Lowry in Strand. 3! it rr ia fie a Serious Vocation, j "A woman who is blessed with good j sense docs not consider at the start that marriage is a role to bc skillfully and I successfully enacted, or a grand frolic of which she is to be the admired and indulged center, or amere incident in a life crowded with other activities," writes Helen Watterson Moody in The Ladies' Home Journal. "She knows that marriage is a serious and steady vocation and that the true wife is one who enters marriage not thinking how much she can get out ol' it. but how much she can put into it. It is this larger conception of marriage which makes women dwell by their own fire sides in sweet content with what is ! commonly called the 'narrow limits of home. ' knowing well that no true home is narrow since it must give cover to 'the whole primal mysteries of life food, raiment and work to earn them withal: love and marriage, birth and death, right doing and wrongdoing all these commonplaces of humanity which are most divine because they are most commonplace. ' "The way to make home a wide place to dwell in is to bring a wide personal ity to dwell in it. Any home is just as wide as the maker, and can be no wider. When a woman understands this she is able to keep her head steady and her heart . undisturbed over newspaper sketches about other women, in which each one of them is made to do the most remarkable and unnecessary things." A Chinaman's Memory. "The intellectual capacity of the Chi nese may rank with the best in western countries. Their own literary studies, in which memory plays the important part, prove the nation to be capable of prodigious achievements in that direc tion. It is stated in 'Macaulay's Life' that had 'Paradise Lest' been destroyed he could have reproduced it from mem ory. But even such a' power of memory as he possessed is small compared with that of manj' Chinese, who can repeat by heart all the 13 classics, and it is as nothing to that of some Chinese, who, in addition to being able to repeat the classics, can memorize a large part of the general literature of their country. . "A Chinese acquaintance of mine was able at the age of Go to reproduce verbatim letters r?ceived by him in his youth from some of his literary friends famous as stylists. When pitted against European students in school or college, the Chinaman is in no respect inferior to his western contemporaries, and, whether in mathematics and applied science or in metaphysics and specula tive thought, he is capable of holding his own against all competitors." China in Transformation, by A. R. Colquhoun. Clever Repartee. Theodore Hallam, a Kentucky attor ney, is generally reputed to possess about the nimblest wit in the bluegrass commonwealth. A story of his repartee at the expense of the late Deacon Rich ard Smith, the widely known editor of I the old Cincinnati Gazette, runs thus j Smith was chatting in the cafe of the St Nicholas with a friend about politi cal affairs. It so happened that just then the police superintendents of Covington, Ky., and Cincinnati were having a row over a fugitive, which ended in the I charge that the Covington officials were affording "protection" to criminals. As Hallam entered the cafe Deacon Smith said. ! "Hello, Theodore! I see by the papers ! that yon're accused of harboring thieves ' over in }'onr town. " ! "Yes. Mr. Smith." Hallam drawled. ! "Come over I'' lr. - . I I . "Without H or ii M. i One of the neatest examples nf the ; tables being turned upon a bullying ' cou i.x'l was afforded by. a clergyman ? who gave evidence in a horse dealing ; case. He gave a somewhat confused ac . count of the transaction in dispute, and tho cross examining counsel, after mak ing several blustering but ineffective i attempts to obtain a more satisfactory . statement, said "Pray, sir. do you know the differ ence between a horse and a cow?" "1 acknowledge my ignorance, " rc ? lilied tho reverend gentleman. "I hard: I ly know the difference between a horse I and a cow or between a bull and a bully J -only a hull. 1 am told has horns, and I a bully"-here he made a respectful bow to the advocate-"luckily for mc, has none. " jlallooiiM For the Dead. In his capacity of high priest the Chinese emperor has to offer at least 40 sacrifices to different gods in the course of a year, and as to each sacrifico is dedicated ono or more holidays, which must bc passed by bim in completo soli tude, thc miserable monarch's time must be pretty well taken up. It is also a very strict religious rule that his majesty shall oiler in tho course of ev ery year many hundreds of silk balloons before the tablets of his ancestors, the unbroken linc of whom extends back before thc Christian era. These balloons arc made of tho richest silk obtainable, and several of tho imperial silk manu factories aro occupied the whole year through with thc fabrication of the ma terial.-Pinang Gazette. ? CASTOR SA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears tho Signature of - Thc Charleston, S. C. Cotton .AI?ll was sold at public auction the other day, under an order of thc Uni ted Slates Court. Cur SHH),111)1?. the up-'i price fixed, .lohn ll. Mont gomery, of Sparf?nburg, was thc pur irh:isei\ Slr. Montgomery said ho represented a syndicate, and thc mill would be operated with negro labor. MAN A VEGETARIAN. THAT, IT IS ASStRTED, IS WHAT NA TURE INTENDED. He lins Become mi Omnivorous Ani mal Artificially natl. One Scientist Says, Is Trying; I3nr<I to Recome a Fis:-Some Ala rilling; Theories. Looking at vegetarianism in the light nf comparative anatomy it is self e vi cient that man was designed to be a vegetarian and nothing else. Quadru peds are divided into classes according to their foods, and with the single ex ception of man. no animal as a class has ever varied from the design of nature. These classes are the carnivorous or flesh eating, the fruit eating, the grass eating and the omnivorous. Each of these classes has distinctive organs adaptable to the digestion of the kind of food it eats and to no other kinds. Man has artificially become an om nivorous animal in spite cf the fact that anatomically he is a fruit eating animal. It is an amusing and signifi cant fact that the only typical omnivo rous animal is the pig. Man is trying hard to be a pig. says Professor Leo Weiner of Harvard in Home and Gar den. The carnivorous animals all have short intestines, adapted only to the digestion of meat. They have only one stomach and could net digest grass as the cow does. Their teeth are all long and sharp, so that they can tear meat, but they have no flat topped teeth to grind vegetable foods as man has. It has been said that the so called "canine" teeth of man are like those of the carnivorous animal, and that this is an indication that man is an omnivo rous animal. This is not correct. These are not canine teeth, strictly speaking. To be sure, they are somewhat pointed, but they are flat also-fiat and pointed, and not round and pointed, like those of the carnivorous animals. The grass eating animals have several stomachs-from two to five-and long intestines, especially adapted to the di gestion of grass. They have also flat topped teeth for grinding. The fruit eating animals are the only ones that resemble man. They have only one stomach and a medium length alimentary canal, half way between that of the carnivorous and the grass eating classes. The nearest animals to man are the monkey and the ape. They are fruit eaters. Nc meat eating animal in the world has the horizontal movement of the lower jaw in eating as man has. This is proof positive that man is not a meat eater, according to the design of na ture. These arguments on the physical, side of the question prove primarily that man is not physically adapted to the eating of meat. From an economic standpoint it can easily be seen that man must sooner or later become a vegetarian. This is merely a question of time and a matter of room. The increase of civilization and of population gradually must do away with cattle raising because of the absolute demand for land for cultiva tion. In timo the demand for room will kill the industry entirely. When we eat meat, we are eating the product of the earth at second hand. The vegetation has been eaten by the animal, and a large part of it converted into bone and tendon and wasted, and we eat only what is left and made into flesh. To reduce the economic problem to figures, one acre of land which would furnish enough flesh to support one man would furnish enough grain to support ten men. Thus, you see, when the increased population causes an in creased demand for food and for land on which raise foods, it will become necessary to raise that which is the most economic-in other words, that which will produce the most per acre. The hygienic argument you can ob tain from any reputable physician, who will tell you that meat eating is heating to the blood, that it is especially a stim ulant rather than a food and that there is great danger of tho transmission of various serious diseases from animal to man. Meat eating in the ideal stage is bad enough. If tho animals that we eat were in all tho health with which nature en dows them, roaming wild and free over the open fields, with plenty of exercise, and permited to choose of their own free will from the best of the various vegetable growths for their food, that would be one thing. But as civiliza tion lias advanced cattle are raised for the sole purpose of slaughter. The}' get little or no exercise. Any veterinary surgeon will tell you that animals kept without exercise will contract and propagate various diseases which are practically unknown to tb sm in their wild state. They are artificial ly fattened, and this kind of fat is not the sort of material which we should put into our bodies. But it is the appalling character of ! the disease in meat which frightens us. Tuberculosis, one of the most common and fatal of diseases among cattle, causes great destruction of human life by consumption. A spread of leprosy in Norway, Hawaii and the other fish eat ing countries is traced directly by scien tists to the eating of fish. In this case, to be sure, it is thought that tho eating of the fish raw instead of cooked is what brings on leprosy, but the simple fact that tho germs are there at all is sufficient. Strength. "I see that the scientists have proved that a growing squash can lift ?.OQO pounds. " "Whew! What couldn't an onion lift V -Indianapolis Journal. Opportunity ol' it Lifetime. Footelight-They say there is an egg famine in Hopokus. .Sue Brette-It's a wonder tho man agement wouldn't play that town about now.-Yonkers Statesman. Biliousness and constipation are seeds out of which spring many ol' the serious diseases that a fillet thc human body. Sound judgment would du in and the immediate removal ol' this condi t ?on before it, develops something more troublesome ami di Iii cult to cure. Prickly Ash Mitlers isa reliable cure I'nr constipation and disorders of simi lar eli a vac ter. lt nm. only thoroughly emplie* ami purifies the bowels, nut s tre nu th en s the bowel chan nels and regulates the liver and stomach. Iieiice it performs a radical euro. Sold by Kvaus riiarmacy. A WALKING GALLOWS. Lieutenant Hvnenstnll, V?"lio Used lio Hans' rtlcn From Ills Own Neck. Among the examples and records o: British tyranny during the terrible year 1798 there is none more extraordinary, according to a writer in an English magazine, than that of Lieutenant Ed ward Hepenstall, known by the nick name of "the Walking Gallows, " for such he certainly was, literally and practically. This notorious individual, who had been brought up as an apothecary in Dublin, obtained a commission in the Wicklow militia, in which he attained to the rank of lieutenant in 1795. He was a man of splendid physique, about G feet 2 inches in height, and strong and broad in proportion. Referring to this handsome but brutal giant, Sir Jonah Barrington, in his "Memoirs.' states: "I knew him well and from his countenance should never have suspect ed him of cruelty, but so ccld blooded and eccentric an executioner of the hu man race never yet existed." At the outbreak of the sanguinary re bellion, when the common law was sus pended and the stern martial variety flourished in its stead, Lieutenant Hep enstall hit upon the expedient of hang-, ing on his own back persons whose physiognomies he considered character istic of seditious tenets. At the present day the story seems almost incredible, but it is a notorious fact, revealed by the journalism of the period, that when rebels, either suspected or caught red handed, were brought before him, Hep eLstall would order the cord of a drum to be taken off and then, rigging np a running noose, would proceed to hang each in turn across his athletic shoul ders until the victim had been slowly strangled to death, after which he would throw down his load and take up another. The "walking gallows" was clearly both a new and simple plan and a mode of execution not nearly so tedious or painful as a Tyburn or Old Bailey hanging. It answered his majesty's service as well as two posts and a crow bar. When a rope was not at hand, Hepenstall's own silk cravat, being softer than an ordinary halter, became a merciful substitute. In pursuance of these benevolent in tentions the lieutenant would frequent ly administer an anaesthetic to his trembling victim-in other words, he would first knock him silly with a blow. His garters then did the duty as hand cuffs, and the cravat would be slipped over the condemned man's neck. Whenever he had an unusually pow erful victim to do with Hepenstall took a pride in showing his own strength. With a dexterous lunge of his body the lieutenant used to draw up the poor devil's head as high as his own, and then, when both were cheek by jowl, begin to trot about with his burden like a jolting cart horse, until the rebel had no further solicitude about sublunary affairs. It was after one of these trot ting executions, which had taken plac. in the barrack yard adjoining Stephen's green, that Hepenstall acquired the sur name of "the Walking Gallows. ' He was invested with it by the gallery of Crow Street theater. Dnblin At the trial of a rebel in that city the lieutenant, undergoing cross exami nation, admitted all the foremeutioned details of his method of hanging, and Lcrd Norbury, the presiding judge, warmly complimented him on his loy alty and assured him that he had been guilty of no act which was not natural to a zealous, loyal and efficient officer. Lieutenant Hepenstall. however, did not long survive his hideous practice. He died in 1S04 Owing to the .odium in which he was universally held, the authorities arranged that his funeral should take place secretly, while a Dub lin wit suggested that his tombstone would be suitably inscribed by the fol lowing epitaph Here lie the bones ot Hepenstall, Judge, jury, gallows, rope and all. -Baltimore Sun. Pianist?' Finders. A Philadelphia physician performs a minor surgical operation on the fingers of pianists to render them more flexi ble. Certain fibers render the fingers stilt' and more or less affected by each other's movements. 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