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rue CHASE OF THE GINGERBREAD ht MAN. .. , wl?*n a baiter in Fairy ville V. - : .liking cake?, os bakers will, isde ?nd Put ky Itself in a pan ?d?.ar little, queer little, gingerbread man. _ ,1 hr. when the cakes were brown, a' , ?rt-nml the oven, when nimbly down aliud tliu <lueor littl? lunn and, blinking bis , V?'!?, r. ut to Abe baker, who stared in our jirint": D rmi, taut as yon canl . -ateh iue, little gingerbread mani" ry. laker run, bia wife ran, too, sturtt'd up with a bravo ' "Meow .;.,o\v!" r i , vor ran \Hth a gruff ..Bowwow!" "... ,1 by Brindle, the staid old cow. L j, r.r broke out of tbo barn with a neigh. Lt i-, beard tho ecbo from for away: Jj run, fast as you canl ? catch me, little gingerbread man!" ?rj ?nd woman, horse and cow, rw: sud cat, were after him now, n! j .;, ne could run as foot as he, Lil over bis shoulder ho called In glee: '.'??[?" run, inst ns yon canl ,-?3 t'oatch me, llttlo gingerbread maul" c . o wolf crept out of the woods at last, igj volves, he knew, could run so rant, rt| hurried on and bravely cried, I?t* os die wolf bounded up by his side: I-HCSI run, fast as you cant t:;'? -atch me, little gingerbread mani" fte great gray wolf took a bite, just one rh? gingerbread mon waa one-fourth gone. I., bite took him up to the watet et half was gone and 'twasjonly a taste. tiJ another bite took him up to the throat, pl :iow tbree-fourtb8 was gone, you'll note, ben he swallowed the head, as away he ran, ul ihat wad tliu last of the gingerbread man. -?'ila M. Wliito in Ladies' Home Journal. TM FOI! 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" .Whatever yon wish, signor-red or ^i!e wine, Falernian, Caprian, Lacry Cbriati ? My cellar is noted for ita res. and might compete with the De cellars of the ancients. " J Bahl Why don't yon say at once |t you even have some of the old upeiian wine?" / 'And why not?" ['Doubtless it dates from the times t'icero or Pliny the yonnger. " [Wines, like books, have their ca Per Bacco, ' padrone, yon aro enr ingly familiar with yonr authors, you know how to apply your knowl Perhaps yon will next offer me an bora, like those used by Pliny the r on bis fleet nt the time of the ter Vesuvins emption, in which be bis life." he landlord, a large man, with the of a Roman emperor, short, corly and triple chin in heavy fold?, ed in a knowing way nt his guest's b. He left him, with a gesture im g patience, and his wide shoulders peared down the dark stairway, ft alone, the traveler, Louis B., a g architect about 80 years of age, himself into a seat, depositing be table the long botanist's case b be had worn suspended from bia der. Taking ont of it very care one of those little gray, ashy liz bich swarm among the Pompeiian , be placed it nnder a glass, e little animal, at first benumbed confinement, gradually revived, having made the circuit of its prison several times it stopped and fixd its brilliant and piercing pon its captor. young architect, in ?he semi ht of the room, locked at it ab ed ly. His thoughts had traveled ay from the inn. Once more he aversing the avenue of sepnl tbe fashionable promenade of an Pompeii. A sudden whim while had impelled him to grasp the izard, just as it waa gliding h one of the openings in the side tomb of Novoleia Ty che, when ack shadows of the tombe lay on the burning atones, landlord returned, carefully hold mall amphora of classic outline, eek waa wrapped around with ad parchment, tied with a pur d and stamped with a larga seal, hermetically close it J3e slyly as lie placed it before ?ho trav ying: at do yon think of thia, signor?' s took the amphora to examin? it original red hue of the clay bav wn paler with age, bore some ace to the color of Vesuvian rt retained, aa it were, the pal? e 88pulcher. In some place? ita ce had slightly crumbled, aa if the friction of centariea a sort of admiring respect the an gazed at this resuscitated the past, which had risen from e in the ages. A half effaced ion ran in relief across the mid e jar. Although some lettera pletely disappeared and there e abbreviations, ho succeeded sir neting and deciphering it, so tead: Mt SPVRIO CONS. N. DOCCXXXL A. V. C. C^OVBVM. doubtless meant being tatar bat nnder the consulate of Mar ring, the eight hundred and 8t year of the Roman era and ?Oof the Christian era-that year of tho dread eruption ntombed Pompeii, wino of a wondrous product, sung by t. had been inclosed in thia) INS. 16,18fc. ad Col a, North E. ra EAST To. 53? "s0Of*B 820 pta 518 psi ,400ps 2 47 pcs asa ps 288 pm 149 pa ll 48 ?a? 3? ? am 88$ aaa 914am 82881 Charta? 8 nwa*. ' fanagtr* I of Cacona, co eval with the itna! [waa perhaps most noticeable liar waa the ssa!,,in the |m Pf which on tho crashed wax [traced, Meath two outspread graceful design, the Greek (life). Perhaps a tribute JO'S revivifying qualities, per a superstitions emblem. bhovA *?peired tc bs ????lue, 'waa intact does thia come from ?" the wine cellar of the eodile onnoiseeur." "It id really a very curious discov ery." "Rarer yet in thia. It ia still fall." "Would yon bave me believe in a wine of Cecuba 1,800 years old?" asked Louis, laughing. "Wby nott" "Absnrd!" "Listen!" Tbe landlord eliook tbe atnpbora, and they beard tbe gargling of the liquid within. "Is this a trick? How is it that Veaavius itself did not dry it up?" "Pompeii was engnlfed and buried, but not burned. " "That does not snfticiently explain it." " 'Chi lo sa?' I don't try to explain it. I hear the wine murmur in its pris on. Will you try it? It was too tart, too crude for the aedile Pansas, but for you it is just at tho right stage." "No. indeed. I should not care for its flavor o? pitch, its resinous aroma, picatum, as said the Pompeiians, and I would mnch prefer the growth of your own vineyard, the black, sweet wine, warmed by the heat of the sun and the volcano. It is rather heavy, but palata ble I don't feel much confidence in this fossil Cecnbn." "You ore wrong. " "Come, my host, if I were inclined to be superstitious- I should distrust you and your wine. No sooner do I ask for such an impossible wine than you bring it, and in an amphora, over which at this very moment, I have no doubt, is hovering the spirit of the elder Pliny." "At least, signor, you might taste it." Irreverently breaking the inviolate seal, the landlord removed the wrapping around the amphora's mouth, skimmed off the drop of oil, which protected the liquor from contact with the air, then, handing an antique goblet to his guest, he rilled it with half tbs contents of the amphora, the famous Cecnbn wine, and smilingly withdrew.. Louis matched bim without remon strance. He held the cop up before bis eyes, and, in spite of his incredulity ad mired the ruby red color of the wine, with a burned topaz sparkle, as the sun shone through it. But no sooner bad the wine po^ed his lips than a sudden heat, as of liquid fire, ran through his veins, a subtle exalation rose to his brain. The goblet, falling from his hand, struck and broke the glass in which the lizard was confined. Instead of escap ing, it glided with the swiftness of lightening along the neck of the am phora and disappeared within it with out being perceived by Louis, entranced in reverie. "Zoe!" suddenly exclaimed a clear and melodious voice. Louis started, woke, drew his hand across his eyes and stared at the spot from which the voice seemed to come. The room was now in darkness, save for a fading glimmer of the sun's last ray, and cut cf this vague twilight there glided toward him the elender form of a young and marvelously beau tiful woman. "'How came you here?" he asked in jewildermeiit. "DreamerI" murmured the young girl, laying her white, jeweled hand npon his and gazing softly into his eyes. Through the silken waves of her jet black bair, smooth aa satin, perfumed with rar&sk essences, was drawn a white fillet, like the line of a silver stream in the darkness of the night. Tho net which enfolded them sparkled with pearls and brilliant shells. Her rounded chin, touched with a soft dimple, the straight classic nose, the voluptuous curve of the lips, were modeled on the lines of an antique carnea The long gray cloak in which the fair unknown was enveloped half concealed a white garment, the long tunic or ?tola, which gave her the appearance of some ancient Pompeiian beauty, spared by the centuries, rescued from the lava of Vesuvius. But vhat perplexed him more thap her strange costume was to recognize in the gleaming eyes of the young wom an a familiar glance whose sparkle had once before shone into his, but yet he could not recall where he had ever seen her. "I nm called Novoleia Tycho," said she in clear, musical accents. The architect started in astonish ment. "Novoleia Tyche, the freed woman of Julia?" "Yee." "The beloved of Caius Mnnatiua Faustus T" "I am she." "Today I looked at and admired your tomb. Tel) me, are yon dead or living?" "Listenl" And her voice was touched with a tender melancholy. "That tomb ?I built while living for myself and for Cains Faustus, to whom tho d?corions ? bad awarded the honors of the bi s el tham, and I hoped some day to find there eternal rest The gods willed lt otherwise. Often, returning from my evening drives, before entering the, town I passed and looked with pride at my superb mausoleum, on which were carved my own features and form. But who remembers now the beautiful -and adored Novoleia Tyche, who now would know her In her new shape, who nev/ could distinguish her from her countless companions?" Dazzled by the beauty of the Pom peiian. bewitched by ber entrancing voice and unable in his bewildered mind to distinguish clearly between the bor.rdariea of past and present, be tried in vain to comprehend the mys tery of her strange words. "Either I am dreaming or else this wine bss intoxicated me and I have lost my senses," he murmured. "Wretch, this ia not n dream!" "Why do yon reproach met" "In vain did I try to flee. In vain did I struggle. ,. Tour cruel hand seized me just as I ventured one moment from the cold and gloomy refuge of my tomb into the bright sunshine and was run ning across the stones, still warm with the kisses of Phobne." "The lizard I" And the young man, aghast? now recognised the eyes which had pierced his through' the glass of their prison. ; "I see, like many others, yon do not know tho secret of our metempsychosis, and yon are ignorant of the mysterious revelations of Pythagoras. Not all of ns perished at tba time of. tho catas trophe. Venus protected her children from tho . anger of the infernal deities and changed ns Into lizards. I was . with many others, but. mv dwelling being destroyed, i tsuugnt fri nge in tho tomb I bad built." '.Forgive me. Novoleia!" "Nay, I would not punish you for this ignorance, since, unwittingly through it, you have learned of our ex istence. " "Your generosity overwhelms me." "And now to our reconciliation, drink once more of the life giving wine." said she, smiling in her seduc tive way and filling the architect's cup. "I drink." he euid, "to the Poui peiian Venus, to beauty and to grace! I drink to the divine, the lovely Naivole'*? Tyche!" He quaffed his cup, and on bis brow he felt tho soft touch of the fair one's lips. . . . . . . . ?t daybreak the first rays of thc? sim fell upon Louis asleep with his head on the table. Beside bim un tim floor lay the remains of a broken amphora of an tique shape. Waking from his stupor, he pussed his hand across his brow ?nd looked around him anxiously, as if seeking the presence of another person. But he was alone with a broken jur. of which at that moment he remembered nothing. The cool breeze roused him further us the landlord opened the dour. He looked questioningly at his guest. "Have I been asleep herat" said Louis in confusion. "It was your wish to sleep here, signor. " "What wine was that you gave me, padrone?" "A famous one and rare." "Say rather a magic philtre. My brain is still confused." "I did not know that it was so heady, signor." "Why. it was like drinking liquid fire." "Well, just think, signor! Wino of 79. the year of the emption!"-From the French For Short Stories. Tho Conscience Fand. "God knows the donor and his sin," was tho line accompanying a noto ad dressed tu the treasurer of the United States at Washington and containing three crisp $1,000 bills. The money was turned into the "conscience fund." It is not generally known that such a fond exista; yet, although it is not very important, it in a regular source for the government. It is supplied by a certain class of people abnormally hon est. A man whose ideas of the niceties of conscience amount to insanity de cides that in some manner or other ho bas defrauded Uncle Sam. He imme diately incloses the amount in an envel ope and eends it to the treasury. The excuses given and the manners of sign ing are humorous in the extreme. Yet it is evident that the contributors are in sober earnest. It has been calculated that if this disease should become epidemic the amount on hand in the treasury would exceed the output by some $2,000,000, 000 per annum. A man who will do the government full and exact justice is so exceedingly scarce that the above mem bers of the conscience fund are looked upon as little less tlion lun?tica-Cin cinnati Enquirer. Piling; Wood Willie Governor. "Uncle Dick" Ogleaby waa honest himself and he believed in making oth er people be sc, just so far aa it lay within his power. The principle of the thing appealed to him, and a false mle be despised. In 1865, when he was gov ernor for the first time, he ordered 10 cords of firewood from a farmer, who was to cord the wood up in the govern or's yard. The governor watched until three cords had been piled. Then he could stand it no longer, and, walking ap to the farmer, he said: "You are piling that wood too loose ly. By the time yon get it piled you'll be giving me eight cords for 10. Now. mind you, I won't pay for it." The farmer, evidently disgusted at being told bow to do his own work, an swered that ho guessed be knew how to cord wood as well as anybody, and chal lenged the governor to do it better if he could. That "Uncle Dick" would take bim at his word evidently never occur red to him, but it wasn't the first time tho good old gentleman bad corded wood, and, governor or no governor, out he went. When the farmer had brought the wood ell in "Uncle Dick" corded every stick of it over again and got it into eight cords. Then he made the farmer bring in two corda more. Chicago Chronicle Following? Advice. Father-Don't yon think it ?bout time, Fred, to be doing something for yourself? Son-Tell you how it-is, dad. You -ave always told me not to follow the crowd, yon know, and, na every profes i?n seems to be overcrowded, of coarse [ have kept ont of all of them.-Boston Transcript. Worse Than Dynamite. "One of the strangest accidents in my experience, " said a boiler expert, "occurred a few years ago at a small lawmill town over in Texas. They had i narrow gauge road on which logs (vere hauled by a pony locomotive. One lay the two forward wheels of the little machine jumped the track, and the crew 3f seven men went out to jack it into place. As the engine stood it had a cant forward, which threw all the water in the boiler to the front end, and as there waa a lively fire in the box it soon got the other end redhot. This trifling cir cumstance was overlooked by the crow, fvho proceeded calmly with the jacking, lix of them working at the aides and one lying flat on bia stomach nnder the rear tracks. "As the engine alowly assumed a horizontal position the water ran back to the redhot portion, and, bang, the whole thing disappeared in space. The lix men also disappeared. They were liatribnted in small sections over at least ten acres, and there wasn't enough left of either engine or crew to make a respectable souvenir. While this disin tegration was in progress the man who bad been lying flat on his stomach was experiencing the) snrprise of his life. He bad beard n hideous clap of thunder, ind when he looked np? lo and behold, be.waa ai: by his lonely. His comrades md the pony locomotive, which was bnt jost then standing over his back, bad vanished like a dream. He was ?moll* unhurt "-New Orleans Tim ea r- 8on-Papa, whet do you call your mee ? Editor-The sanctum sancto um. Son-Then I suppose mamma's a aspankum spanktohim, isn't it. AN OLD SOCIAL FEUD. A QUARREL THAT PLAYED A BIG PART IN NATIONAL POLITICS. It Started Soon After Jackton Wan Elected President and Saniciinrnt ly Indirectly Hcanlted In th?-> For mation of the Wliltr I'arl t . Au exciting quarrel bot ween a presi dent and chieftains of Iiis party l>o;;an soon after Jackson wont to the White House. In thia fond Calhoun waa tho principal figure on tin? onti-.lackson side. The quarrel was incited by two causes-Jackson's discovery that Cal houn, who waa secretary nf war i:i M< II roe's cabinet, was hostile l?i ?'. ?? ..- II during the Florida wai ? . M : i - day6, and tho refusal i.f .. ; : ; ' I hoon and those of the merni.:' .! son's cnibnet in 1 S*2i> tu recot?n.'. . "I:* Eaton, wife of Jackson's secretary ni war, socially. The origin of the social war which changed factors in politics and indirect ly resulted in tho formation of thH Whig party was thia: John H Eaton, a personal friend of Jackson, was appointed by Jackson secretary of war and took his seat in the cabinet in March, 1820, on Jackaon'a entrance into the White House. Eaton a few months earlier married Mrs. Tim berlake. whoso maiden name was Mar garet L. O'Neill (come nly called Peg gy 'ONeill), a woman . great beauty, of some accomplishments and of un bounded ambition. She was the daughter of a Washing ton tavern keeper. Gossip had been j with her name during her wedded lifo with Timberlake, and when, after Eaton's marriage to her and the intelli gence that he was to be n member of the cabinet reached the public, somo of Jackson's friends told him that Eaton's entrance into tho cabinet would causo some embarrassment to the administra tion. Jackson, who was creditably slow to believe anything ill of a woman, re pponded that Mrs. Eaton was not to be in the cabinet. He made it known to Impersonal friends immediately after the administration began that he de sired that Mrs. Eaton should bo accord ed all tho courtesies to which her sta tion entitled her. The wife of Vice President Calhoun and thu wives of all the members of tho cabinet who had any wives .refused to recognize Mrs. Eaton. Jackson took up her cause with his usual energy, and tho question entered politics. Van Bu ren, the secretary of state, had no wife (he was a widower). He had no daugh ters. He was thus free to extend to Mrs. Eaton the conventional courtesies, which be did with the dignity and graco for which ho was noted. This made Van Buren's political for tune. There had been keen rivalry be tween Calhoun and Van Buren previous ly for the succession to Jackson in the presidency. The Democratic party was invincible, and the man who got the presidential candidacy was certain of election. Jackson was the party's dic tator. Calhoun, by bis position as vice president and by his prominence in the party, was popularly believed to stand next in line to Jackson. In the first year or two of Jackson's first term Jackson's feeble health was thought to be a barrier in the way of bis acceptance of a nomination for a second term, and Calhoun was popular ly supposed to be bis political heir* The discovery, through the Crawford dis closures, of the unfriendliness of Cal houn for Jackson in 1818, in the Mon roe cabinet, and the quarrel which the Mrs. Eaton incident brought, destroyed this hope. Vnn Buren's championship of Mrs. Eaton's cause endeared bim to Jackson. Van Buren's call upon Mrs. Eaton nt her residence had mighty political con s?quences. Like the shot of tho ' 'embat tled farmers" at Concord bridge, the sound of the silver knocker touched at Mrs. Eaton's door by Martin Van Buren was beard round the world, or at least round that part of the world comprised in the United States. As a result of the Peggy O'Neill war (supplemented in Calhoun's case by the Crawford disclosures) Calhoun was shut out from the presidency, was dwarfed from a national into a sectional figure, and his brooding over bis effacement probably assisted in inciting that sys tem of political philosophy ont of which resulted secession and civil war. Eaton' and Van Buren resigned in April, 1881, in order to facilitate a general reconstruction of tho cabinet which would free Jackson from the husbands of the wives who' had disre garded his Eaton ukase-especially of Ingham, secretary of the treasury; Branch, secretary of the navy, and Berrien, attorney general. The country was convulsed, a large fragment of the Democratic party was cast off and united with the elements which founded the Whig party, three years later, and th t party received a strength which it would not otherwise have gained at the outset.-St. Louis Qlobe-Dem ocrat. How AVeljBter Evaded the Qneatlon. G. F. Seward, formerly United States consul general at Shanghai and minis ter at Peking, tells the following amus ing story of Shanghai in the good old days: "A predecessor of mine at Shanghai, having on his hands 100 or more re fractory sailors and no prison, sent the I whole lot to the native governor to be confined. They staid there a little while and then marched out of the pris on and down the river road in front of the consul's office, each one bearing on his shoulder a pole which he had taken ont of the prison stockade. The consul wrote about the case to the secretary of state, giving the facts and urging upon j his attention the disgrace attending the situation. He got his answer: "I haro received TOOT dispatch of--date. In writing to thia department hereafter please nae cap naper, leaving a margin one Inch wide all \ around;' Toora reapectfally, "DANnci. WKBSTSB." CASTOR IA POT Infants and Children. The Rind Yeo Hm Always Bought Beare the y-*7^^???7^T Si2?=?=rs ot covaryr, *<c?0**9e - -, m m> m - - There *Ss an establishment in Paris, France, for. the sale of water from the River Jordan for baptism. The Muet Notable I. un din ur St? The greatest extent of tho earth's SOT' face which can be seen from ono spot depends on two circumstances-first, tho elevation above tho sea level, and, secondly, the absence of intervening ob stacles such us may obstruct tho lino of sight. The point that best satisfies these con ditions is the Nevada of Cuyambe, a peak on the line of the equator in tho north of th? Andes, rising 10,035 feet above the sea. This has been described by travelers as the most notahlo landmark in tho world. It commands from its position tue whole valley of tho Amazon, and the view in this direction, over low lying country, is absolutely unlimited except by the horizon. It hus an equal range toward the northwest, and its line nf view stretches right across the gulf of Panama. Though tho country toward the south is mountainous, it encounters no higher peak. It is only toward the southwest that ita view crosses Chimborazo, which is higher, but is surrounded on all sides by high peaks, and consequently does not embrace so wide an extent of coun I try. -Kansas City Times. The Right Kind. Everybody has heard of President Lincoln's reply when asked the ques tion, "How long ought a man's legs to be?" that he had "always thought a man's legs ought to be long enough to reach from his body to the ground." Somewhat similar was the answer given by a fanner who went to town one windy day in March. Seeing several men chasing their hats along tho street at a considerable sacrifice of dignity, he remarked : "If them fellers had tho right kind of heads, they wouldn't bavenosuch trou ble ns that." "Do you have tim right kind of head, undo?" inquired a bystander. "Yes." "Don't your hat never blow off?'.' "Never." "Well, what is tho right kind?" he was asked by several. "Why," rejoined the old farmer, "the right kind of a head is ono yon kin push up into a hat fur enough to hold it on tight. " There was mere in his answer than appeared on the surface. Tho right kind of head is one of tho great needs of many of us.-Detroit Free Press. Sarprlned by Filipino Gentility. "Speaking of the oft repeated state ment that tho Filipinos are a very de graded, ignorant and uncivilized people, reminds me of u night I spent at a Fili pino club," enid Charles L. Jowett of New Albany. "I was invited to attend the opening of the club. I had not been in Manila long and everything was new to me. Ont of curiosity I accepted the invitation and went to the function in my everyday duds, not dreaming but that it would be a very rude and coarse; if not comical, affair. "Well, I want to tell you that I was completely surprised. The guests drove up in carriages and tho men were all attired in black clothes with white ties, and a good many were in full dress at tire. Arid, by George, if it isn't a fact that several of them carried crush opera bats. I was the poorest dressed man in the lot, but they all treated me with the greatest consideration, and I fennd them a polite and cultivated set of peo ple. Ot course they were the cream of the Filipinos, but the fact that the race cen evolve such creditable exponents shows that as a people they are capable of development."-Indianapolis Jour nal. . Birds' Effara. "Birds' eggs differ in shape as well as they do in color," said a well known ornithologist to a reporter recently. "For instance, the eggs of the owl fam ily aro almost spherical and are thus easily moved by the parent bird in her desire to secure an equal amount of warmth to each during the time of hatching. As she nests in a hole there is no fear whatever of any of her clutch rolling away and being smashed. "On the other hand, the guillemot, which neats, or=rather lays her eggs on fiat, bare rocks in high, exposed lati tudes, lays a single egg so elongated and curiously shaped that when stirred by a violent gust of wind or the bird's sudden flight it does not roll away, bnt simply spins around on its axis like a top. ."In the case of plovers, snipes and other birds that lay four largo eggs, the eggs narrow so rapidly toward the smaller end that four of them in a nest practically form a square, thus enabling the bird to cover them the more effec tually. "-Washington Star. Falling Star and a Popular Rhyme. It is a well known fact that Indian women often make the finest artists' models. A very interesting one is Fall ing Star, who in summer lives on the shores of Rainbow lake in the Adiron dacks and in winter spends her time in New York posing for artists, teaching basket work to children in kindergar tens and selling Indian merchandise. Falling Star says that when sho was a papoose they strapped her on to a little carved board that was made soft by a rabbit's skin, lt is doubtless this cus tom of the Indians that inspired tho oft used rhyme: "By-lo Baby Bunting! Papa's gono a-hunting to get a little rabbit's skin to wrap his Baby Bunting in." A Powerful Speaker. The Birmingham (Ala.) Daily News speaks thns of Booker T. Washington's recent address before an exclusive white men's club of that city: "For \% hours the speaker held the audience and held it welL His wit was at times, superbly brilliant He received more applause than any speaker who has been in Birmingham in years. Thai force of truth was in bim, and that is the secret of his power." J. Sheer, Sedalia, Mo., conductor on electric street oar line, writes that his little daughter was very low with croup, and. her life saved after all physicians had failed, only by using One Minute Cough Cure. Evana Pharmacy. - Th** invalid realizes that he io uu the high road to recovery when he sees the doctor's bill. - Occasionally a man knows a good thing when he sees it, but most men are too dignified to recognize it. ? - - ."_. Thoughts. If I were to pray for a taste which should staud nie under every variety of circumstances, and be a source of happiness and cheerfulness to me through life, and a shield against its ills, however things might to amiss and the world frown upon me, it would bea taste for reading. ?Jive a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, and you can hardly fail ol' making him happy. You make him a denizen of all nations, a contemporary of all ages.-Sir ./. Herschel. A Durwaish in his prayer said: "() God. show kiudness toward the wicked, for on the good thou hast already be stowed kindness enough by having created them virtuous !"-Sandi. Women are always wild fora change. In the face of danger the heart is roused, and in the exaltation of deter mination forgets its pain. It is tho loog monotony of daogerlcss days that tries the spirit hardest.-Constance Fenn i marr Woohou. in '...lune." No summer eVer caine back, and no two summers ever were alike. Times change and people chauge ; and if our hearts do not change as readily, so much the worse for us.-Xatltaniel Hawthorne. Ijike a piece of tireless machinery moved about the house at the never ending succession of petty drudgeries which wear the heart and soul out of so many wives and mothers, making life to them a pilgrimage from stove to pantry, from pantry to cellar and from cellar to garret-a life that dead ens and destroys, coarsens aud nar rows, till the flesh and bones are warped to the expression of the wrong ed and cheated soul.-Sffeetrd. The contaminating effect of deeds often lies less in the commission than in the consequent adjustment of our desires-the enlistment of our self in terest on the sides of falsity.- (horne Eliot, in "Romola." - "Pa, what's a liberal education?'' "I guess it's one of them kind your brother Tom's gittin' now. lie's so blame liberal with my money that I dunno whether there will be any left or not. when you git ready to go to college". - She-"A doctor in Berlin, after a great deal of study, has discovered that married men live longer than bachelors." He (imploringly)-"Save my life!" She (joyously)-"Ob. Clar ence, how did you guess that I loved you?" - The French statistician. Dr. Livrier, says that half of all human beings die before 17 ; that only one person in 10,000 lives to be 100 years old, and that only one person out of every 1,000 lives to be 60. "What's in a name?" Thc word "batters" does not always indicate soniethiug I:?ireh and disagreeable. Prickly Ash Bitters is proof of this. It cleanses, strengthens and regulates the system thor mghly, yet it is so pleasant the most delicate stomach will not object to it. Sold by Evans Pharmacy. - Each day of the week has served as a day of rest somewhere-Sunday among Christians, Monday with the Greeks, Tuesday with the Persians,, Wednesday with thc Assyrians, Thurs day with the Egyptians, Friday with the Turks, and Saturday with the Hebrews. - In Japan most of the horses are shod with straw. Ev*en the clumsiest of cart horses wear straw shoes, which, in their oases, are tied around the ankle with straw rope, and are made of the ordinary rice straw, braided so as to form A sole for the foot about half an inch thick. For frost bites, burns, indolent sores, eczema, skin diseases, and es Serially Piles, DeWitt's Witch Hazel alve stands first and beat. Look out for dishonest people who try to imi tate and counterfeit it. It's their en dorsement of a good article. Worth less goods are not imitated. Get De Witt s Witch Hazel Salve. Evans Pharmacy. - A great proportion of the cu cumber pickles used in the east are grown in one Maine county. Over 160 acres are given up to pickle growing in the vicinity of the town of Camden. The crop is a profitable one, usually yielding an income of $100 to $150 an acre. - "Hove you ever experienced the excitement of being aror.3ed from sleep in a house at night when it was on fire?" "No, but I have several times gone through the excitement upon my wife's announcement of her belief that the baby had swallowed her thimble." I have been a sufferer from chronic diarrhoea ever since tbe war and have used all kinds of medicines for it. At last I found one remedy that has been a success as a cure, ana that is Cham berlain's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy.-P. E. GRJSHAM, Gaars Mills, La. For sale by Hill-On Drug Co. - An Indiana youth of 19 has lost his third wife by divorce. At 14 he married a giri ox 12 by parental con sent and treated her so badly that, the marriage was annulled. His treat ment of the next two was no better, and for the third time he is a grass widower. 4 - "1 am afraid, Hobby," 9aid hin mother, ' that when I tell your papa what a naughty boy you've been to day, that he will punish you." "Have you got to tell him ?" asked Bobby anxiously. "Oh, yes; 1 shall tell him immediately after dinner." Tho look of concern upon Bobby's face deepen ed, until a bright thought struck him. "Well, ma," lie said, "give him a bet ter dinner than usual. You might do that much for me." As the season of the year wheu pneumonia, la grippe, sore throat, coughs, colds, catarrh, bronchitis and lung troubles are to be guarded against, nothing "is afine substitute," will "answer the purpose," or is "just an 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. Evana Pharmacy. - It is stated that the merchandise carried by rail in the Knited States is double the amount of land carriage of all the other nations of the earth com bined. Thi9 means that the 70,000, 000 people of the Knited States trans port twice as much merchandise an the remaining 1,-100,000,000 of man kind. F?very j Month I f thex^e arc thousands of wo- f ? men who nearly suffer death f A from irregular menses. Some- A \ times the " period " comes too \ 9 often - sometimes not . often f ? enough-sometimes the flow is ? A too scant, and again it is too A J profuse. Each symptom shows A ? that Nature needs help, and T f that there is trouble in the or- ? A gans concerned. Be careful A \ when in any of the above con? J f ditions. Don't take any and r ? every nostrum advertised to ? A cure female troubles. A i BRADFIELD'S \ i FEMALE REGULATOR } 0 is the' one sate and sure ? Imedicine for irregular or pain- j ful menstruation. It cures all \ the ailments that are caused by f irregularity, such as leucor- ? rhcea, falling of tho womb, A nervousness ; pains in the head. \ back, breasts, shoulders, sides, 0 hips and limbs. By regulating @ the menses so that they occur A every twenty-eighth day, all \ those aches disappear together. # Just before your time comes, ? get a bottle and see how much ? good it will do you. Druggists \ sell it at $i. f t Send for our free book, " Perfect Health for Woman." 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