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THOUGHT HIM A MEDICINE MAN. Aw* Inspired In the Bed Men by an Individual with a Glass Bye. A source cf constant interest to the spectators at the St. Paul carnifalare the Indians in their tepees at the palace grounds, and the canvas doors are con stantly raised for a look at the smutty inmates as they sit about their fires, the bucks smoking and the squaws making " embroidery or sewing. A rather odd in cident occurred in one of the tepees. A visitor entered who chanced to wear a glass eye. AVhen the canvas door was raised there was the usual cry from the door-tender,"Five cent," and the visitor responded by giving the dirty-looking squaw a dime and telling her to keep the change. This paved the way for a most hospita ble welcome. A young squaw, ap parently about 20, and rather more comely than the average, arose and spread a blanket, to which she motioned the visitor, and a brave who had been I sitting in the corner rose and made some signs of welcome with his hands, which he raised and lowered several times. The seat was accepted and one of the, old squaws, apparently 80 years old, about as large one way as another and with a face that looked good-natured in spite of dirt and wrinkles, filled a long red pipe and handed it to the visitor, who crossed his legs, before the fire and puffed* the smoke iike any of the braves. There were eight or ten ?Indiana in the tepee, scattered about in the usual confusion and in all sorts of postures. One of the old squaws, had been down-town shop ? ping, and she unpacked her purchases and submitted them to the visitor, evidently expecting them to be admired. They consisted of several pieces of calico of bright colors and a cake of Babbitt's soap in red paper. After due admiration on the part of the visitor there was a general conversation Avith such as could talk Engliyh, interrupted frequently by tho jabbering in the Indian dialect as they interpreted for the benefit of others. They said they had not been cold during the severe weather of last week, that they wore having a good timo and getting some money. There was one little squaw about 10 or 12 years old wlro was unusually bright, and she informed the visitor that she could read in "the Second reader." After a time the comely squaw came over ,and sat doAvn beside the visitor and held up a dog, a sleek-looking pup, that was very playful, for his admira tion. She said the dog's name was "Fanny" and was 1 year old and be longed to her. The dog was duly ad mired and allowed to poke its cold nose against the visitor's hands. For nearly half an hour the call was prolonged, aiid at length the conversation lagged. The old squaws were apparently going to sleep, and the braves were talking among themselves. It came over the visitor, that perhaps he had not been furnishing his part of the entertainment, and it occurred to him that Iiis hosts might be interested in inspecting his glass eye. Speaking to the young squaw, he called her attention to the fact that he could place his finger upon it \nth bnt'?ppttreftT pflnr~She~witsr*lnteTesced at once, and with a degree of familiarity that was unexpected, she insisted on poking her own cinamon-colored fingers into it. She called attention to the en tire tent full to the strange circumstance, and they looked with admiration and some degree of astonishment. As they were looking intently the visitor quickly grasped the eye with his thumb and forefinger and, removing it, held it out to the young squaw for inspection. Christopher Columbus when he showed them the eclipse nor Henry Hudson when be gave them the fire-water never saw a more completely paralyzed set of Indians. The squaw looked first at the eye as its owner held it in his hand and then at the place from whioh he had taken it, at the same time, making a sort of half frightened cry. Apparently the entire party thought the visitor some/big medi cine man, or a direct agent of the Great Spirit* and they fairly ;trie4 a sort.of #orphip. . Three of them got. on their knees bafore ths visitor,, and, holding, up both hands/ -the palms. outward, they began passing them up and down and over the, head of the visitor as he sat on the, tent floor, while they made a noise that can not well be described, a sort of long, low sound in which all joined. While this was. going on. the owner of the eye. quickly replaced it. . Thi3 seemed to astonish them even more, and they ceased their noise, but continued on their knees" and kept up their motions with their hands. The old fat squaw evi dently thought it must hurt the strange visitor, for in her wrinkled old face there was a sort of pitying look and she reached out to take hold c * the visitor's hand. Again the eye was emoved and again they began their noise. "Don't get excited," said the visitor, "it's nothing but a glass eye, that cost $10 in Chicago. I'm not a medicine man, and so far as I know the Great Spirit has got nothing in particular against you. I simply thought you might like to look at some of the curious things the white folks make." "Ugh, great!" said two or three at once, and that was all they would say. Ap parently they had never heard of any such things, and no explanation could persuade them that there was not some thing marvelous, and during the visit they kept up their attention?. As the visitor arose to go they all arose. Ono held the canvas door up as he went, and 05 soon as he was out an unusual jabber ing and the beating of drums could be heard coming through the cloth walls of their smoky houses.?St. Paul Globe. In tho Maharajah's Palace. In the summer palace of tho maha rajali of Wiwur, an Indian potentate, is a room called the "hall of mirrors," which cost 8300,000 to decorate. It. con tains a dining-table of solid silver, hav ing curious moving channols of crystal, where colored fish seem to dart about. It would be a great triumph for medi cal science, if it would be in the power of physioians to bring about, by artificial means, a sleep that was restful and re storative. An Arab Horse-Dealer's Warranty. The following is the literal translation of a certificate recently given by an Arab horse-dealer to one of his cus tomers: "In the .name of God, compassionate and merciful, thanks be to God the Lord of the universe. Prayer and health to the most illustrious of the prophets, to his posterity and to all His friends-. Thanks be to God that by his will the firmament moves, that by his mighty power He has created the world, the birds, horses, and every living thing, and to Adam also, whom He commanded Hio angels themselves to honor. To some of these beings living from the cre ation the Lord promised his favor, hap piness and paradise, and for others He decreed scorn and His vengeance, which is the hell announced from eternity. Thus it is, as the Lord hath said, He has omitted nothing from the book which was for the pleasure of man. He has granted to him the passion of love for women, of affection for children, for thoroughbred horses, for birds, and for every living thing, and for gold and sil ver heaped up to hundred-weights. And he has also said, the stable of your horse shall drive away your enemies and those of your God. His shoulders are glory,, his entrails are ludden treasures, and his neigh serves to drive away the devil and his princes. All this that has been said comes from the prophet (Mohama) on the subject of horses, and on hun may the prayer and the peace of God rest. And finally this testifies that tho mare sold to Don Ful ano de Tal, of the illustrious Spanish na tion," is one of the mares of pure blood and of tho race of Koheylan Aguiz, is 5 years old, has a small star on the fore head and another small mark on the riglit foot. The present certificate has been written in the name of the bearer, and on the 5th day of the holy month of Ramazan,and in the year 1302. Ahmed." ?Exchange. Scarlet. Fever in Cows' Milk. The latest theory?by no means a re assuring one?as to the nature and origin of scarlet fever is that it may bo had "direct from the cow." and is, in short, the form assumed in human beings by some originally vaccine dis ease. An epidemic, or rather several epidemics, of scarlet fever in Marylebone, Kampstead and other districts has been traced to certain milk. Every care has been taken to discover whether the milk could have been infected after leaving tho cow, and on full investigation this theory has been excluded. One of the cows, "the appearance of which was least satisfactory," lias now been bought and conveyed to the Brown institution, where experiments are being made with the milk and other secretions. The sanitary officers of the Marylebone dis trict certainly deserve credit for the promptitude with which they seem to have nipped in the bud what might have become a formidable epidemic, and for the care with which they have conducted an investigation which may lead to im portant scientific results.?Pall Mall Gazette. - Invention of a SmoMflif'MiWlHe, M. Prent)', a Frenchman, has invented a "smoking machine." Tobacco manu facturers make their cigars out of quite a largu number of different leaves,whose physical and chemical qualities have to be so combined as to yield an article that gives out an agreeable odor and burns well. Combustibility, then, is a physical quality that must be estimated for each variety of leaf. Such estimate is made by measuring the time during which a certain style of cigar, made solely from the tobacco to be tested, holes its fire without drawing on it a second fsima In this comparative determination the intensity of the lighting is the element that has to be determined and regulated. To accomplish this is the object of the machine, which is so constructed as to imitate all the motions of a smoker, who, at regular intervals, would inhale definite volume of air with, a definite and constant force of suction.-? Boston Transcript. The Old Custom of " Bonnd-Plowing." The village of ?Minussinsk, in Russia, has been troubled by the pe..!" among its cowg, and the conscript fathors of the community held a meeting to decide upon the best means of putting a atop, to the-calamity. It was agreed that re sort -should be had to the old Slavonic custom of round-plowing. A Russian paper gives an account of the process. Seven virgins, two old women, and a young bachelor of good character are elected. At midnight a procession of the peasants is formed, led by the two old women carryisg pictures of saints. In the rear of the procession the seven maidens are harnessed to a plow, which is guided by the young man. A light furrow is plowed around the Tillage; and thereby, according to the belief of tho local agriculturist, a barrier is provided against tho evil spirit. He has no power to pass over the mystical furrow.?Chi cago Tribune. The Pliant Pool of Circuiti?tances. Want of purpose, fixedness of atten tion to some settled employ nent in a young man?or woman?tends to laxity of nervous fiber and instability of intel lectual action. There appears very soon, in such a case, a weakness of will, a loss of individuality, and the youth becomes the subject of his environment, the pliant tool of circumstances. Moral training is the most efficient aid to motive?just as it supplies reasons for useful activity in one's immediate sphere?reasons flowing out of personal responsibility, as a brother, father, husband, friend, citizen, man?so it indicates opportunities occur ing directly in one's sphere for the em ployment of time and talent; and this contributes to peace and satisfaction of mind.?Phrenological Journal Xodc of Divination in Love Affairs. A practice called a "peaseod wedding" was formerly a common mode of divi nation in love affai-? Tho cook, when shelling green peas, would, if sho chanced to find a pod having nine, lay it on the lintel of the kitchen door, and the first man who entered was supposed to be her future huabaad.?Boston Budgot. BILL NYE ON CURRENCY. Tho Unhappy Lot of an Editor Who Tackled This Question. It would seom at this time, that while so littLs is being said on tho currency question, and especially by the mon who really con trol tho currency, that a word from mo would not be out cf place. Too much talking has been done by thoso only who have a theoretical knowledge of money and its eccentric habits. People with a more smattering of knowledge re garding national carroncy have been lo quacious, while those who have mado the matter a study have been kept in the back ground. At this period in the history of oar coun try there seems to bo a general stringency, and many are in tho stringency business who were never that way before. Every thing seems to bo demonetized. The de monetization of groceries is doing as much toward tho genoral wiggly palsy of trade as anything I know of. But I may say, in alluding briefly to tho silver dollar, that there are worse calami ties than the silver dollar. Other things may occur in our lives which, in the way of sadness and i three-cornered gloom, make the large, robust dollar look like an old fashioned half-dime. A worse calamity than the silver dollar is the want of it. I mot a man tho other day who, two years ago, was running a small papor at Larra bio's Slough Ho was thon in his meridian as a journalist. He boldly assailed tho silver dollar, and with his trenchant pon ho wrote such burning words of denunciation that the printer had to set thorn on ice be fore he could use tho copy. Last week I met him on a train. Ho was very thin in flesh, nud tho Uro of dofianco was no longer in his oye, I askod him how ho camo on with the paper at Larrabio's Slough. He said it was no more. "It started out," said ho, "in a fearless way, but it was not sustained." Ho then pausod in a low tone of voice, gulped and proceeded: "Folks tok1 me when I began that I ought to attack most everything. Make tho paper non-partisan but aggressive; that was their idoa. Sail into everything, and the paper would soon be a power in tho land So I eggrossed. Friends camo in very kindly and told mo what to attack. Thoy would neglect thoir own business in ordor to tell mo of corruption in sombody else. I? went on that way for some l imo in a doflant mood, attacking anything tout happenod to suggest itself. "Finally I thought I would attack the sil ver dollar. ? Idldsc." rttttfughtlharTrTelias' would como to mo and praise mo for my manly words, and that I could afford to lose the friendship of the dollar provided I could wiu friends. "In six months I took an unexpired an nual pass over our Larrablo Slough Narrow Gauge, or Orphan road, and with nothing else but the clothe31 wore, I told the plain tiff how to jerk the old Washington press and went away. Tho dear old Washington press that had moro than once squatted my burning word' Into the pure white pago. Tho dear old towtl on which I hod wiped my soiled hands for years till it had almost become a part of myself; the dark blue Gor don press with Its largo fly wheel and inter mittent chattel mortgage, a press to which I had contributed the first joint of my front finger; the editor's chair; the samples of large business cards printed In green with an Inflamed red border, which showed that we could do colored work at Larrabie's Slough just as well as they could in the large cities; the flies of.our paper; the large wilted po tato that Mr.. Alonzo G. Plnkham, of Erin Corners, klndiy laid on the table?all, all had to go. '' >kI fled out'into the great, hollow, mocking world of people who had requested me to aggress, They were pooplo who hod called my attention to various things which I ought to attack. I had attaekod those things. I had also attacked the Larrabie Slough Narrow Gauge railroad, but the manngor did', hot see tho attack, and so my pass .was good. >,,.... , "What .could 1 do! I had attacked every thing;, and more especially the silver dollar, and now J, was homeless. For fourteen weeks I rode up tho narrow gauge road one day and back the next, subsisting solely on the sample nice pooan meat that the news boy puts in each passonger's lap. You look Inr ?dulous, 1 seo, but it is trua I feel dif ferently toward the currency now, and I wish I could undo what I have done. Were I called upon again to jerk the Arcbimodean lover I would not bo so aggressive, especi ally as regards tho currency. Whother it is Inflated or not, silver dollars, paper cer tificates of deposit or silver bullion, it does not matter to me. "Iyoarn for two or three adult dough nuts and ono of thoso thick, dappled slabs of gingerbread or a slat of pio with goose berry in it. I presume that I could write a scathing oditorial on the abuses of our currency yot, but I am not so much iu tho scatho business as I used to bo. "I wish you will state, if you will, through some great metropolitan journal, that ray views in relation to tho silver coin age and tho currency question havo under gone a radical change, and that any plan whatever, by which to make tho American dollar less skittish, will meet with my hearty approval. If I havo dono anything at all through my papor to injuro or repress tho flow of-our currency, and I fear I have, I now take this occasion to cheerfully re gret it" Ho thon wrung my hand and passed from my sight.? Bill Nyo in Boston Globe. _ Too Truthful Bridget. Bridget?There's a couple o' ladies called, Missus DoVon*. Mrs. DeVere?Oh, dear, I can't sco any one now. Excuse me, Biddy. Tell thorn I'm asleep. Bridget?Missus DoVero presents hor com pliments, an' s 'z she's very sorry, but she's aslspe.?Tho Rambler. -1?* "Here, Johnnie, what do you moan by taking Willie's cako away from him? Didn't you have a pioco for yoursolf I" "Yes, but you told mo I always ought to ?ako my little brother's part"?Palmer Journal. GIVEN AWAY. nie balance of Henry Kohn's Immense Stock of WINTER DRY GOODS, CLOTH ING and SHOES will be sold at prices to I astonish you. I have carried over too many , heavy goods, ami as I want to make room for SPRING GOODS, the balance of my AVINTER STOCK .will he given away a I H^_'J-^^. ? in i ... ? - - COST. COME ONE ! COAIE ALL ! HENRY KOHN. r.RnATiins there a man with soul so dead Who never to his wife hath said, " I will a (lower garden make, j Both fur my own and thy dear sake, And sow witli seci'., 10 come up quick, Which you, of course, will buy cf ViCK 1" if such there be, I pray repent, And have an order quickly sent. ! Then sweet thy rest, I'm sure, will he, And thy dear wife will smile on thee. ThcGuiDn is a work of 150 pages. Colored Tlatcs, 100c illustrations, with descriptions of the beit Flowers and : Vegetable;, prices of Seeds and plant!:, and how to grow I them. It tells you what you want for the garden, and j how to get it. Printed in English ami German. Pric" , only 10 cents, which maybe deducted from first order 1 vvy oxlvvines srans, atnnADQCAr.TEns. j JAMES VICK, SEEDSMAN, Rochester, N.Y AT E W ~\7~ 0 It K O TjO 11 E IVEW I ORK ?TORE ALWAYS AHE AB! Upward and Onward, ATI' MOTTO! I Defy Competition Always the Leafler of Low Prices! Having Enlarged My Store it is Now the Largest in the City and Fill ed With Every Desirable Goods Imaginable at the Very Lowest PR-ICES!. To See is to Believe! What We Say. We Do, or Money Kelunded. It would take this entire paper to I enumerate everything we keep to sell, Our Stock embraces $50,000 worth of DRY GOODS, CLOTHING, BOOT AND SHOES HATS AND CAPS.' OIL PAINTINGS, SHIRTS, TRUNKS, DOMESTICS, CARPETS, RUGS, WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, &c, &c, &c. CAUL A*l> SKE US! AND SATIS MONEY! CARPETS, WINDOW SHADES and LACE CURTAINS big specialties. CA L1FORNIA BLANKETS at a great saerilicc. GUNS t" suit any price. Come and See. Don'l Pail to Conic and Sec Us. Oucc dealing will bring you again. ;D. EPSTIN, New York Store. URIC GUANO. TO THE MANY ENQUIRERS I WOULD state that one car has arrived. The de mand for this MANURE will he larger ? than'supposed. ' To CASH BUYERS the price will be re markably low. Ordere filled as rapidly as possible. TO OWNERS OF STEAM MILLS, &C.&C. 1 have just received a lot of WROUGHT IRON JfJ, % and 1 inch, PIPING, COUP LINGS, ELBOWS, B. G. BRASS VALVES, CHECK VALVES and PACKING STUFF. AN INVOICE OF FRESH FLOUR. GOOD at ?3.00. BEST AT SG.00. ALSO, BRICK, CEMENT, PLASTER PARIS, LIME, HAIR. Stock Food and Hay ON HAND. John A. Hamilton. C. MAYHEW. J. M. MAYHEW. 0. Mayliew&Son, COLUMBIA, S. C. MONUMENTAL ARCHITECTS AND BUILDERS, COLUMBIA MABBEL WORKS. Manufacturers of and Dealers in All Kinds Of AMERICAN ? AND ITALIAN MARBLE WORK. Mantels, Monuments and Tablets furnished to any design at Lowest Prices. Polished Granite "Work, either Na tive or Foreign, to order. Building Stone of all kind furnished. Correspondence solicited with those in want of any work tu theab^ireiilic: Jan 7-1 yr. Mrs, L M. SfflOAK Wishes to inform her friends and the public that she has REMOYED her Millinery Establishment next door to B. B. Owen, where will be found constantly in Stock all the Latest Novelties in LADIES' HATS AND BONNETS, NECK WEAR, GLOVES, HOSIERY, LACES, EMBROIDERY &C. Agent far the Genuine fSINGER SEWING MACHINES. NEEDLES, OIL AND ATTACHMENTS. Orangeburg ?. IL, Si C April 16._ FRUIT! FRUIT!!. FRUIT!!! Finest variety of Tropical Fruits in Mar ket. Fresh cargoes every week. MALAGA GRAPES. BANANAS, ORANGES, COCOANUTS. Northern Fruits. APPLES, PEANUTS, NUTS, CITRON. RAISINS, FIGS. EgTOrders filled with dispatch. C. BART & CO., 53, 55 and 57, Market Street, oct gg-gmg CHARLESTON, S. C. YfflOMefl'sPMopbGaHen OVER B. B. OWEN'S, Russell Street, Orangcburg, S. C. To the Public: I have opened a first-' class Photo Gallery. 1 would be pleased to have samples of work examined at Gallery. All work stricklyfirst-class. Photos of Groups ami Babies a speciality by Instant method. All Vewliig Exteriors, Dwellings, Horses, Do^s and Animals taken at short notice by instant method. Old pictures copledjnnd enlarged. Special attention given to this branch of work. Pictures finished in water colors, India Ink and Crayon. Also Photo taken from the size of sinalle.- t pocket to full life 3x5 feet All work done with neatness and dispatch. Vewing any where in the Slate. Special discounts on all orders over810.00. Give mc a call, 1 will assure satisfaction. All work CASH ON DKLIVKRV. Festively no credit. VAN ORSDELL, Artist, July 17 Russell Street, Orangcburg, S. C. T1KMIAS" OSUST.ll'KA.VI' Ts constantly supplied with the very best A Oysters and Fish that the Charleston Market ;ilTonls, which is sold at a reasona ble price. Meals can be bad at the Restau rant at any hour and cooked in a way that will please U>c most fastidious, jiov 5-5m