The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 12, 1899, Page 7, Image 7

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D THE WALLS OF HAMADAN. pr, hards stretch their bloomy span Round tha walla of Hamadnn, Purples deepen on tho grape, j _rjC brooks make blithe escape, V? t are all tho glories gone ^(iHr the lord of Macedon rtavv ere drew the revel on. And tbe Bacchic orgy ran Ri und tho walls of llunnulan. ?un? the great HUH templo where l?,adi i? stair rose over stair; yo,,? tin? gilded galleries. porticoes and palaces, Mid th? plaintive night winda plead j\,r the memory of th?; Medo, <o\, for alien ears to ht od, Pilgrim train and caravan, Kuund tho walls of Hu m adan. KauKht ot fl,l t^10 radiant pant, Vuught of all the vuried. vast Lifo that throbbed and thrilled ro mains, Witl tts pleasures and its pains, gave a couchant lion lone, Mutt- memorial in stono of three empires overthrown permian, Median, Parthian Bound the walls of Humadan. All the splendor vanlshod, still Wheels tho world for good or ilL Vhere'fl tho wisdom hoary cage Shall unriddlo us this page? Temples toppled from their bose, Victor raco o'orrunning race, Wt within tho ancient placo Mirth and love of maid and man Hound thc walls of Hnmadant ^Iiutuii szilard In Frank Leslie's Monthly. A FAVOR RETURNED. A late fall day in the year of 1860. A Mississippi plantation, well kept und ?aiuriotis looking. A picture of life sad activity such aa one will find only ender these conditions. The house, a big, Hnowy white struc ture, with tall porch pillars reaching upward two stories in height, stands at tue intersection of two driveways, sbich curve upward in somewhat irreg ular fashion from their respective gates in tbe long, rambling white board fence that surrounds the grounde. A email darky boy, clad in very non descript garments, is generally to ba ou one or the other of these road way-., grubbing away, not very ener getically, I'm afraid, at the accumula tion of creeping vines and weeds that threaten to obliterate the hard clay roadbed unless speedily dealt with. He ii there this very afternoon, but, alas sad alack, the sun's rays, slanting through the live oaks, with their long beards of southern moss, shine in vain opon his defenseless, woolly head, from which a much torn old straw hat has fallen, and the creeping vines on the roadway get a fresh start in life. Billy is fast asleep. But Billy must not be too severely blamed. It is siesta time all over Re serve, as the plantation is called. The wide, front door of the mansion stands invitingly open, it is true, yet every where about there is quiet, and only an occasional muslin curtain, at some up per window, flutters ont into the soft leathern breeze to tell of some fair clamberer perhaps within. A faint, insistent sound comes across the field to the rear of the house. Here is the small sugar press, and here an old darky, mounted on an equally an cient male, is monarch of all he surveys this afternoon. Round and round he goes, every now and then stooping to gather up the cane from convenient piles and feeding it into the press, which creaks and groans like a rusty well sweep. A long stalk of the cane serves him both as a whip for his steed and refresh ment for himself. He alternately chews at one end and vigorously slashes at the nrale with the other, tossing the stalk 1into the press, when under this doub1 ? dacy its condition becomes somewhat dilapidated. There aro cotton pickers way out in the wide fields which belong to the wealthy mistress of Reserve-many of them-but they are out of the view, and not even their rich toned, monot onous melodies come wafted on the breeze. The whole place is qniet, and th? iran, giving np his struggle with the Weeping darky boy by tho roadway, |takes a dip toward the west. Soddenly Billy sits bolt upright and thrusts ont his bare foot in a vigorous nek. A small yellow dog of the plain dog variety is sniffing and nipping at toa legs, with its owner coming along the road behind it. He is a forlorn looking fellow-the og's master-a young peddler, with iis pack carefully rolled in a piece of ?eking and strapped to his back. His clothes are torn and frayed, his hat is stained and wcrn by time and many ?towers, his face is streaked with per spiration and duBt, and there are dark wcles under his eyes and lines about tos mouth that to the close observer ttoght tell of hunger and inuch fatigne. He comeB wearily up the driveway j"^ balts beside ihe darky boy, who is jQgaged ip brisk argument with the fellow dog. "^bo lives here, boy?" he questions. " ?.'8, y?ar mistress?" I "Mis' Hamilton, she done lib heah. ??bat yuh want tah know foah?" in ^ogates Billy in return, a note of im pudence coming into his voice. Tbe peddler shifts his pack. "I have tome things that maybe she would like to bay-she or somebody about the Place. I3 that the way to the house ?' pointing up the drive. "Is your mis deal at home ?'" But Billy has taken to his bare feet "Dd flown across the grass in the direc tion of the negro quarters. h takes but a few moments fer bim lo rouse two or three men and boys, *bo. shirking work in the field, have sleeping within on this balmy fall "ternej?n. They now emerge from tho anna and. led by the important Billy, "yance to meet the peddler. "Heah, wha* yuh doin heah, now? *? Hamilton, she don* 'low no tramps ton* dis heah plantation. Go 'long, ??*< git out'h heah. quick, now, " says ? burly field hand, advancing toward tee peddler in a threatening manner. "Can't I see your mistress for a mo ment or some of the women folks about ^e place? Maybe they would like to toy something out, of my pack," says Y*6 lad (he is no more), his eye travel "^K about the group of darkies in search of a friendly faca Bot not one does he see. The group bornes re-enforced by two or three IIID(tte, who come running from the boiras, drawn by the unusual excite ^?t. and everywhere he sees hostility. , ?o, yuh caa' stay roun' boah no ggab, '. replies the spokesman. "Yuh ~ make tracks as fas' as yuh kin, or i'U Kit iatnh trnbbil," uroducing a stout duo iront somewhere m tao roar and shaking it in iront of the unlucky peddler. "till iii? latter Hugers. a montent too long. "He ain't a ?wino tub go. boys, till wo make him," called ont a voice in tho group. It upurs the others to action. "At bim, now, boys!" And they go at him with a will. Whack! sounds the club over his shoulders. He winces with pain, but holds on stoutly to his pack. The darkies, incensed at his resistance, surround bim on all sides. They tear off his coat. They beat him with their fists over head and shoulders, the club owner using his weapon freely. They buffet aud kick and shout at him until the poor fellow, outnumbered ten to one, sinks to the ground, with blood stream ing from an ugly eut ou his forehead, and his precious pack scattered about him. "Now, up with him, boys, an we'll throw him oufn de gate. We'll shew tramps what como ronn' heah dut dey better keep cl'ar dis heah plantation." says the leader. Three or four of the stoutest fellows raised the peddler and were about to carry out their instruc tions when suddenly there cAnes a mur mur from the rear of the group. "Heah'? do missus! Hean Mis' Ham ilton! Holeon, now, boys!" They let fall their burden and parted respectfully as a handsome matron in a white muslin gowu, her head held ? proudly erect and her brilliant brown eyes Hashing with auger, steps into the , center of tho group. j "Who is this poor fellow? What j have you been doing to him, Sambo?" I ehe demands. "How dare you treat a man like that on my plantation ! I'll have you all horsewhipped!" Growing more and more angry as the darkies ! slink back without replying, she stoops over tho peddler io see tho extent of bia injuries. "Answer me, Sambo," she reiter ates. "What has this man been doing that you should so misuso him?" The burly Sambo cowers before her scornful, steady gaze. "He war a tramp, Mis' Hamilton, an yuh allua tole ne that no tramp war 'lowed on dis heah plantation, so we war jes' a-gettin him off'n de place, an" j "That will do," sternly interrupts tho mistress of Reserve. "Brutes! Yon would have killed bim if you had had time, I presume. Lift him up, now, you two men, Sambo and Jonas, and carry him carefully to the house. As for the rest of you," looking about the gToup, "I'll attend to you later," and, ! picking up her gown, she leads the way to the house. The peddler is put to bed in a small room in the rear of the mansion. Mrs. Hamilton hereelf brings cold water and soft linen and binds up the ugly cut in his forehead, a pretty little girl, with brown eyes, clinging to her skirts. Lat er he is given food, and that night j slept, for the first time in many weary weeke, without the open sky above bim or a haystack or disused old shed foi his bedchamber. By the next day he is able to sit up and show his wares to his preserver, who bnyB liberally of bis household goods-linens, laces and a few gew gaws-and also distributes calicoes and ginghams among the women. Then, with a generous sum in his pocket and a new pair of shoes on his feet, he bids farewell to Reserve and attain start* forth on his travels with a light heart. "I ehall uever forget you, madam, and your great kindness tome," he say* in parting. "It may be that the time will come when I can serve yon." And the lady cf Reserve graciously bendf ber head and wishes him a successful journey. . ?.... * Five years passed. There were rnanj chunges in Reserve Devastating wai had robbed the household of its stalwarl young master, Percy Hamilton, who, al 21, led his company to victory one sum mer day and fell before the Yankee bullets. The darkies scattered at tin first sound of war, and, without serv ants, the plantation declined and fell So did all the other Hamilton fortunes and in 1805 Mrs. Hamilton, with line: of care in her face and gray hair aboui her temples, found herself obliged ti dispose of the land for a mere song to i shrewd speculator who scented profi from t be rich soil. She took her daughter, now a maidei budding into womanhood, and went t< live with some New Orleans friends, ? broke'n and sorrowful woman. Early ii the seveoties a party of New Orlean merchants took a trip un tho Mississip pi for combined purposes of busines and pleasure. They had large plans fo improving the land and raising cotton Incidentally, they had capital enougl to spare. "Que cf the richest and must produc tive plantations before the war wa along hero somewhere below Natchez, ' ?aid one merchant to another as the; stood on the vessel's deck, looking ol into the country. "My agent secured i for me tho other day, andi propose tba when we land you and I take a cai riage and drive out, so that I can tak a look at my newly acquired property.1 The friend, a tall, black haired, eagl eyed merchant of the southern city readily agreed, and the two carried ou their plan that afternoon. They found the deserted plantatio without much difficulty. Deserted i was indeed and forlorn in the extreme No trace left of the neat, white fences nor semblance of well kept roadways no thick foliaged live oaks hung witl strings of moss-all gone, swept awa; before the relentless scythe of war. ? few tumbledown sheds marked th place where once stood a group of tid, servants' quarters, bnt the mansion once pillared and luxurious looking bad long since gone to ruin, tho.wit dows broken, the walls ern niblin where they stood. The tall, black haired merchar looked in silence for a few moments i they drew rein in front of the house. "Do yon happen to know what wi the name of this place before the wi and who owned it?" he asked his con panion. "Reserve, I believe, they called it, replied ?the other. "A Mrs. Hamiltc originally owned it, but it has change hands four or five times in tho last si years." "I knew it," declared the first spea er. ' 'What will you take for this place 1 turning suddenly to the other man. The second merchant laughed. " Wh don't know as I want to sell. Have ju bought it, in fact" Bat after some discussion bo agre .?'- ' - ? - ?? ? ? io part witn tue properly ror a goou round som, and Inter the necessary pa pers were wade oat, and the transaction ended so far as be was concerned. But not so with the black haired mau. With infinite pains and tito ex penditure of much time and no small amount of money he managed at length to find trace of the Hamiltons who had once lived in luxury and ease upon He serve's broad acres. There were but two of them-mother and daughter the latter a helpless invalid in the last stages of a lingering disease, and he walked in on them one afternoon in the shabby little rooms they occupied in one of the poorer districts of New Or leans. They were living veritably from band to mouth. "I am the peddler lad whom you be friended many years ago, madam," hu said simply to Mrs. Hamilton, who rose to meet him with womothing of her old dignity and graciousness of manner. "You were good to mo that day when I came to you with my pack ou my back. Now it is my turn. I have be come wealthy. Will you go bnckto live at Reserve if I restoro the house and make it comfortable, for you?" But this Mrs. Hamilton would not consent to do. She bad a few old friends in New Orleans with whom she prefer red to spend her days, and going back to Reserve would mean the revival cf too many painful memories. She was ns proud as sile waa poor-this southern lady whose fortunes were at so low an ebb-and it was hard indeed for her to accept bounty at any band. But the merchant insisted, and for the sake of her daughter, whoso days woro numbered, she consented to tho acceptance of a plan. He established them in comfortable . lom? in a pleasant neighborhood. He provided every necessity and many lux uries. He instructed his bankers to send a check for $100 to Mrs. Hamilton once a month, the same to continue un til her death. He visited mother and daughter, cured for them and comforted tho broken hearted lady when ber love ly, fragile child passed from things temporal to things eternal. Ho was and continued to be a firm and con stant, a beneficent and generous friend. Mrs. Hamilton still lives in New Or leans-a:i old, white haired, feeble lady. Leon Godscheau, once peddler, now wealthy wholesale merchant, has one of the largest and best known establish ments on Canal street today.-St. Louis Republic. A DlMh of Tea. Etiquette is a strange affair. It changes so indisputably that what in one century will be called polite in an other will be dubbed the climax of vul garity. Take that simple mattor, for example, the drinking of tea from the saucer. When tea was first used in England, it was drunk from a dish. In old collections of china many of these quaint pieces will be found. They are shallow basins devoid of handles. Then some one introduced cups with handles und saucers. Old fashioned folk did not care for them, and as a protest they poured their tea into the saucer and drank it from there, harking back as far as they could to the old beloved "dish." But, as to be old fashioned is usually an unpardonable social crime, people who were up to dato determined that to drink from the saucer was a vulgar habit just as bad as eating with a knife. In the kitchen and comfortable quar ters of that kind, where those who drank their tea drank it a? they pre ferred, the fashion for pouring it into tho saucer continued. Bul np stairs my lady was far too fastidious. She waited until hers cooled or drunk it scalding. And so matters have gone on. Even if this year a leader of society were to start the old fashion again if would take many a long month to do away with the great prejudice there is for tea drinking out of the saucer.-Chicago Times-Herald. Temi} rifui'o Humility. She poet Tennyson was gifted with I the grace of humility. His letters dis- I close his dissatisfaction with himself and his achievements. He pitched his j ideals high, and ho knew, none more clearly, when he failed to grasp what j he had reached after. An anecdote con- I tributed by the Duke of Argyll and quoted by Miss Cary in her volume, "Tennyson." exhibits the poet's hu mility. "The first words I heard him utter,' says the duke, "remain indelibly im pressed upon my memory. On being in troduced to him at an evening party in the house of Lord John Russell, I said, perhaps with some emotion : " 'I am so glad to know youl' "Not in the tone or voice of a mero conventional reply, but in the accents of sincere humility, he answered: " 'You won't find much in me. after all.'" _ She Ate Ants. A young girl from the East Indian islands, after having traveled many thousands of miles through storm and stress, reached American shores. She was n sickly looking girl, and the phy sicians who took her in charge soon after her arrival decided that sbo was suffering from an aggravated case of stomach trouble. Her symptoms were tho most peculiar they had ever come across in the courso of their wide experience, however, and it required much study and many con sultations to trace the deplorable effects back to their cause. Finally they learned that tho girl's disordered digestion was brought about by eating too freely of white anta These ants are an important article of food in some portions of the East In dies. The natives skim them off the top of the water, where they lio like a coat of thick cream, and parch them in little iron pota After being parched some of them are made into a drink, like coffee. others are ground into flour and mixed into bread, while still others are eaten like popcorn. But too much of an ant diet is bad for the system, and that little girl from the Indies had to swallow a small drug store of American antidotes to bring back her health. If you^have a cough, throat irrita tion, weak lungs, pain in the chest, difficult breathing, croup or hoarse ness, let us suggest One Minute Cough Cure. Always reliable and safe. Evans Pharmacy. j - A man's ears are placed so that he may catch-, the things said to his ! face. It was never intended that he ! should hear the things that arc said behind his baok. HAYES' WAR STORY. A Tlirllllitw liu-M.Mit ot One Ittnok nt Muht. Th? following incident of thc groat civil war was related hy tho lair Presi dent li. 13. Hayes while cu rout?' froui Chicago to Indianapolis in tho fall of 1870: "I have frequently huon asked," ?aid General Hayes, "to tell the wost thrill ing experience that occurred to mu dur ing tho four year? in the volunteer anny. It was in l*t?4 that th?> Army of West Virginia tried to rapture Lynchburg, Va., hut General Lee rap idly sent a heavy force to drive us back, and it was thought best to fall bark to the Kanawha valley, where food and clothing could he had. and then go hy the railways to Winchester again. "G?nerai Jubal Early's many was pressing our for?es at every point, and I was ordered by General George Crook, who commanded tho division, to cheek the enemy until our wagon trains and artillery could get out of the way. A jap was chosen in thu mountains, two or three regiments were ordered to build a barricade across tho road in the gap, one regiment was gent up the mountain on the right and another on the lett of the gap to protect thc Hanks. These regiments selected were as accur ate in tiring as riflemen could 'ne. "lt was dark hy tho timo all these ?reparations could ho made. General Crook was careful to give his instruc tion that the point must ho held until the artillery and long wagon trains were beyond the reach of Early. Dark ness, stillness and the mountains envel oped us. Finally an order came ttl march, to follow tho army. General Russel Hastings, my aid. was Bent up thu mountain on one side to direct the regiment to come down and take the pike in the rear of the brigade and march rapidly after the artillery. "Another of my staff, Major William McKinley wus ordered to go nj? the mountain on the other sido and direct thc regiment to come down carefully and tako the road in the rear of the breastworks. The duty was so perilous and of such great importance that the instructions were repeatedly given with the greatest caro not to como down tho mountain in front of the barricade, an in the darkness our men would fire into them. Colonel Devol, who commanded the men behind tho breastworks, fully understood the situation. It seemed hours while we wero wuiting for tho two regiments to come down the moun tain. "I was walking from my horse to tho line of men lying down with guns rest ing across the pike. All nt once the clear, ringing command of Colonel De vol wa9 heard. 'Reudy! Aim!' A thou sand thoughts rushed upon me! Our men were coming down the mountain, and in the darkness were marching in front of the barricade. I tried to cry out to Colonel Devol : 'They are our men -don't fire!' I rushed toward him and the line, ready to grab him and thc men who were ready to fire My soul was on fire. I wa? too choked to cry out: .Our men! Our men! Don't fire I Don't fire!' but I was too late. Devol gsve the order 'Fire!' and one vast volley of guns roared out in the darkness. Groans and cries and curses followed. "I jumped over the barricade, shout ing to our men, loading their guns: 'Those aro our men; don't fire!' But Colonel Devol and his men tried to seize me, saying: 'They are rebels, colonel; do not go over the breastworks. ' I hurl ed them off and seized the first wound ed or dead mau, yelling: 'To what regi ment do you belong V No answer. I grabbed another by tho neck, turned him over and shouted: 'What regi ment V The road was full of them, and the man was wounded, but faintly an swered, '-th Virginia; Early's army!' Onr men had como down the mountain under tho guidance of Hastings and McKinley and gone on after tho army. "Early's army hnd loft us and gone toward Staunton, hut the straggler? of his army had taken the wrong road and followed ns. Some of them were killed and wounded, but I learned afterward that it was a severe lesson, their men not keeping np with tho column ; it j was valuable to ns, in showing the dan ger of moving soldiers tit night."-Chi cago Tribune. The Flower's Mlnalon. She tripped lightly down the street. At tho corner as she stepped to the curb a rose that she carried in her hand slipped from her fingers and fell to thc mud of thc pavement. For a moment sbobesitacdand looked down. There lay the flower, even then wilted and stained. She made to stoop and pick it np. then changed her mind and went on. , Had yon been passing just then yon would have heard tho rose sigh. Only once ; then it lay there cold, frayed and wilted in the mud of the pavement. It was nearly 6 o'clock when a little fellow with a bundle of papers under his arm happened along. His eyes were close to tho ground, BO hu espied the rose. He stooped and picked it np and tried to wipe away Ihe mud on the sleeve of his tattered ulster. Then he put it in his pocket and that night laid it on a tottering table at the beside of a sick, poor child. The next morning was Sabbath day, and when the eyes of the little girl opened they first fell upen tho flower. It had taken on a new life in the night and now lay fresh as on thc hour 'twas picked. It may have been the surroundings, and. again, it may have only looked so in tho eyes of the sick child-one or the other; it does not matter. 'Twas beau tiful to her.-Detroit Free Presa Why It's All Hight. "They say our embassador's official black swallowtail coat doesn't cnt much of a dash in European courts be side the gorgeous robes of other foreign embaasadors. " "Yes, but there is an American in side of it. "-Chicago Record. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Alway&jMght Signature of ^^^/?ff^?^&?? - An Irish philosopher says his memory is so poor that he frequently forgets one minute what he says thc . next. COWED BY IIIS LOOK. HOW DANIEL WEBSTER ONCE DIS PERSED A MEETING. Some of ?lie I'emuunl Character!?? tlc* of Cold lllooded. Courteous Aaron llurr - I'eeullarltlea of the Keeentrlc John Itnmlulpli. Tho personality timi thu peculiarities of our groat statesmen aro worth study ing, say? a writer in tho Atlanta Con stitution. Tiley throw gide lights upon character ami conduct. Among our early statesmen Aaron 13urr was easily the first when consid ered as an elegant gentleman and man of tho world. When he visited Savan nah, in the height of his popularity, ho I charmed everybody, and the city over whelmed him with social attentions. Huir detested handshaking ami per mitted no familiarities. Ho would mo tion a visitor in his office to a chair and talk to bim quietly, never oinking any gesture beyond tho occasional motion of a long white finger. Despite this rather offish manner. Burr charmed and fascinated. Ho hail wonderful conversational powers, and upon ono occasion his oin tory melted thc whole United States senate to tears. Ho never spoke longer than ?10 min utes oven in his most important law cases. He was cold blooded. After his famous duel, when tin* death of Ham ilton was announced to him. ho showed no emotion. j "Did ho suffer much pain*.'" ho asked. "Yes." was tho reply. "I regret it.*' said Burr; "it was my purpose to sparc him needless pain." Then he turned tho conversation to another sn hjort. He was always courteous, sud it is said that he never passed a countryman on a dusty road without first asking his permission. People who knew them said that An drew Jackson owed much of his polish to bis intercourse with this man. Thc duel with Hamilton ruined him. and thc charge ?if treason when he at tempted to organize rm expedition for the invasion of Mexico killed him as II public man. The charge was not proved, but it linnie him an object (if suspicion. It should 'ne stated that this oleg; nt society man showed at all times excep tional nerve and pluck in war and in his personal difficulties. There wns not a braver officer in the Revolution?r}' urmy. John Randolph had some peculiar wn3's. Ho scorned to court tho favor of the masses when a candidate. He would not bow to any but his friends, nor shake hands with his constituents. Yet he was always elected. He was almost a scarecrow in ap pearance, eccentric and oddly dressed with a disagreeable, high keyed voice. Bnt his keen wit, cutting sarcasm and crushing irony made people crazy to hear him. Such a politician in our day would be regarded as a crank and would stand no chance before tile people. Daniel Webster was always posing. He seemed to know thnt people were looking at him. As a rule he was cold and dignified, but there were convivial moments when ho was very genial and entertaining. Upon one occasion, nt Rochester, he came ont on the balcony of his hotel and made tho following speech to u crowd of hilarious admirers "Men of Rochester. 1 am glad to see you, and I am glad to seo your noble city. Gentlemen, I saw your falls, which I am told are 1."io feet high. This is a very interesting fact. Gentlemen. Rome had her Cu'sar, her Scipio, her Brutus, but Home in her proudest days never had a waterfall 150 feet high Gentlemen, Greece liad her Pericles, lier Demosthenes and her Socrates, but Gieece in her palmist days never had a waterfall 1?0 feet high! " Men of Roch ester, go on. No people ever lost their liberties who had .. waterfall 130 feet high." It is needless tc say that the crowd went wild with delight, atid Webster was. hustled off to bed. His cold manner was offset by bia magnificent personal appearance. An English lord who accidentally saw liim in the house of commons, when the American senator was addressing that body during a recess, exclaimed: "There! That is the first real man I ever saw !" When New England failed to stand hy iiim for the presidential nomination. Webster was called upon to speak while on n tniin which had stopped at a town of some importance. Tho statesman walked to the rear platform of his car, folding his arms across his breast and simply looked into the fares of his falso friends. The effect was marvelous. The crowd dispersed at once, each man going his own way, with his head down, without saying a word to the others. MA Wedding Sunemtltlon. It has been considered unlucky to be married in May ever since tho days of Ovid, ond those people who have spent their time in looking up roots and rea sons have given what they consider to be the origin of the superstition as fol lows : In ancient Romo there was held in Moy a festival colled tho Lemuria, or feast of the L?mures, which was a ceremony in honor of the speeches of departed souls. It became with the Romans what wo shonld call "bad form" to ha 'e matrimonial feasts at the season of IP demn ritual, being no doubt thought to be an insult to the dead to marry at such a time. From this a number of stories grew of tho revenge mnde by tho outraged ghosts upon those who dared to disre gard them, and if anything unfortunate happened to a couple who lind been married in May it would, of course, have been put down to retribution. So tho tradition of ill luck arose, and its influence has lasted ever since, even to our time. As the season of the year when pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles are to be guarded against, nothing "is a fine substitute," will "answer the purpose," or is "just as good" as One Minute Cough Cure. That is the one infallible remedy for all lung, throat or bronchial troubles. Insist vigorously upon having it if "something else" is offered you. Evans Pharmacy. - A good man's light shines day and night. Tupa Then nii?l Sow. '.Tho buys of th?? pr?sent times know j many things the hoya ..t" 40 years ago | lid not know." remarked ?i toy dealer i to a reporter, "hut in tho way of toy- j they are fur behind what their tattlers and grandfathers wen-. The hoy now is satistied with a penny ash or poplar top and with a string for his top toni, and ho gets all the sport mit of it that he seems to want. "Now, such a thing as a painted top would not he used in my boyhood days. In those days nothing but a hard turned dogwood) hickory or mahogany top was considered tho proper tiling. The little cast iron plugs ?if the tops ?if today would he laughed at then, and the lucys Would be ashamed to he seen carrying such a thing or play with it on thu streets. The plug then was a steel ladt, was heavv and waa screwed in. Of course the top then cost from .*> to cent-*, lint it was rigged up to do serv ice .-md did it too. ..Sm h lisps are not to he had now in the toy trade, though now and then 1 have had some turned mit hy tile tdd man who matte tops tor nie when 1 was a boy. hut the hoy? won't touch them, preferring the painted machine matin tops. The le.-.ther top cord is also tine of the things nf the past, ami tho ordinary hoy knows no more uliout it than lui does of tho tither'lost arts. ' "--Wash ington Star. Soi Unnllfled. The Kev. W. E. Harton tells, accord ing to au exchange, tho very pertinent reason why he did m?t enlist in the army. He cunio near having some mili tary experience once, ho says. General Custer and his troops every spring ami fall passed by tbs* western town where he lived. They spent tho winters in Louisiana and their summers in th? Muck Hilly When I was 13 years old, these troops camped about 1U miles from my home, and word went about that General Cus ter wanted a hoy to enlist as a drum mer. I was jnst about the proper age. and 1 longed to go. I knew a little hit about heating a drum, so I asked my father to allow mu to enlist. "Yes," ho Haid dryly, "if you want to." I made sonni little preparations, such as 1 thought necessary, and then went to my father to get him to take me to General Custer. Ho looked at mo a mo ment and then said severely: "When I said you might enlist, I thought you had sensu enough not to. Hut. sinco you havo not so much sense us 1 thought, you an; not tit to enlist.1 So I did not join tho army after all. The Dntch Housewife. The Dutchwoman is before and above all things a housewife. Indeed her love of home comes very near akin to wor ship, and tho greatest compliment that can bo paid to her is to praise the neat ness and sweetness of the house that id her kingdom. 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