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IN THE 8W1N6T Bock and forth in the swing, with rfcy & tnicad flow and motion, They sweep in the evening breeze, swift as a Rrrallow'a vying, Soft, as in moonlight dreams, smooth aa tho roll of ocean, Back or d forth in the swing. This is tho festal strain they breathe on zeph yrs ambrosian: "We have drunken of Lethe's stream, lost in a wandering dream, *We have saten of lotus, love hath smote us \rlt~k. shafts of .a golden gleam, And our souls vibrate between." INDIANS SLIDING DOWN HILL. A StreaOr of Copper Lightning? Squaw 31 others and Pappooscs?Fan. Twenty-five years ago, in Minnesota, I used to watch the Sioux boys and girls * fn their winter village up the Minnesota river. Their arrangements were simple. First, a strip of bark from four ito six feet long, and not over twelve inches wide, was peeled from a living tree. One enc; was cut to a point, a' small hole bored' through, and a string tied in. Then the little Indian, taking his piece of bark to the top of a hill, placed it on the, crusted show smooth side down, bent up the pointed front by. pulling at the string, as*d,pbtoingone foot about'in the mid dle c? this crude sled, gave a hard .push with the other, and .went securing like a streak of copper lightning. He stood erect, and sometimes'with both feet on the1 bark?one behind the other, but usu ally the hind leg was sruck out as a sort of balance and'rudder combined. The dash dawn the hill was all right,* and so was the arrival at the foot if the crust of the snow, wasn't broken; but the fun for the spectators began when use wore out the hard surface, and the striking of a toboggan into a soft spot sent the bark's nose into the snow and the Indian flying in somersets. His proboscis might plow the snow too, but usually not until he* had taken a header of about fifteen feet; and he didn't stop at that, but usually did two or three flip flaps before coming to a rest. Hurt 'em? Bless your heart, no. Why, I have seen squaWs of ' sixteen to eighteen?lithe, graceful young things-r-take the ride and the tumble shrieking with glee; and, if one happened to have her papoose along, didn't bother about the baby a bit. You know, they carry them on their backs, held in place by a blanket, which is belted around the waist. .To see a girlish squaw-mother shoot through tho air head foremost, while her babe went rolling end over end, would have stirred a Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to children; but the pappoose seemed always to come out all right, being so swaddled in rabbit-fur, thistle down, and blanket that it hadn't the remotest idea of the mercury dropping to 20 degrees below. Now, for real, solid fun that kind of sliding down hill beats the luxurious toboganuing that has come into New York fashion, out and out? Cor. Chicago Tribune. Prot. Henry's Big Bfagaet and Battery. Among the many valuable and historic pieces of apparatus about the college are , ?flveral hwtni.manfiB, which ycreJhreepted and used by the late. Professor Henry in his experiments on electricity. In , one of tho laboratories of the school of ^science may be found his "big magnet," ?as it is called, mounted on a large frame, ^?phich, when charged with electricity nby means of his "big battery" of one cell, was capable of lifting 8,800 pounds. He afterward made one of nearly the same size and capacity for Yale, which has been in constant use there until within a few years, when it was laid aside, and is now preserved among other rehc3 of the college. Professor Henry's large magnetic globe, made partly of wood, constructed so as to show the electnc current of the earth and the dipping of the needle, together with his galvanometers, coils, electro-magnets, and recorders, are of special interest and Of peculiar historical value.?Prince tonian. A Soul Absorbing Occupation. Yes, my son, it is possible for you to live to the end of your days, performing successfully every day the rare feat of keeping your mouth shut at the right time, of never*uttering a sentenc e until you "aave first weighed it carefully in your mind, revised it, and adjusted it accurately to existing conditions of things. Yes, you can do that But then, you won't do anything else. No, my boy, if you do that always,'you won't do one other lingering, solitary, lone some thing in all your life. You will have time to do nothing except to think what you are going to say and how you are going to say it, and then by the time you are all ready, and open your mouth, tiie man you were going to sey it to will have grown weary of waiting and gone away.?Burdette in Brooklyn Eagle. One of M, de Lesscps' Strong Points. "One of M. de Dessep's strong points," says the London Times' Paris correspond ent, "is never deferring for a minute what he thinks it necessary to do. I have several times been present at con versations with friends or advisers who would recommend him to see a particular minister to ask for something. The ex pee i; y of the step would be discussed, am! no ?ooner had this boen settled than M. de Lesseps would ring for a cab to be f etched, and would start at once to make the application. At the end of the day nothing of what had to be done is left undone. He is unique in this respect end ne\er violates his rule."?Exchange. Didn't Core to Go Abroad. lady visitor?I suppose, Mr. Swipe, you will soon go abroad to study the old masters ? Mr. Swipe?Well, really, I am afraid that in the study of the old masters I should forget my own individuality, and come to paint like one of them.?Harper's Ba^ar. "Lean beefsteak and hot water for sev enteen weeks" is the lab * diet that such of the world's fat peo^ie who wish to get thin are trying. The Biel rebellion cost Canada over IR-WO.OOO. THE SOOTH OF THE 60UTW?ttiB?8. The Obliging Conductor ? A Entitle Fascination?Nature's Loveliness. But there is another south, the south of the southern people, not go easily reached, but well worth reaching. Ono needs to have plenty of time and plenty of patience to travel in this Bouth. And he will bo happier if he carry with him certain simple stores besides the articles I have mentioned?such as tea, coffee, lump sugar, potted meats and preserves. A portable bath-tub and his own soap and towels will make a vast'difference in his comfort. Certain things he must not expect to find here either. Southern trains have little regard for their time tables, and he had better carry a supply of paper novels for odd hours at stations in what are most appropriately named waking-rooms. But, as a compensation, southern railway officials on local roads are the most affable and obliging of men. They return for you if you are too late; they wait for you to ?at your dinnersj they stop anywhwintbe.\roo& to let a man get off. "Never you- mind, ma'am," saya the obliging conductor, "you take your time with the dinner; the train ain't going off without you." ? One' time I remember, a, tafun ^which waited a half-hourlor. the-passengers to get dhiner before they started. We were altogether three hours behind i time. I asked the man at the station if this train did not meet another. "Yes,' ma'am," said he; "but, you' see, we meet at-, and whichever" train gets there first waits for the other, so there, ain't a bit of ' trouble." Somewhere at the ?nd. Of the line a boat waited for the train with the same engaging politeness. The south ern conductors are always' kind to women and children, and hospitably polite to strangers, and-the station-masters seem rather to like answering questions. One has to expect a certain absence of the virtue next to godliness south, and he can not look for honest}' among the blacks; but what are trunks made with locks for? At first the untidy ways will jar on his sense of order; he will -aery likely be an noyed by the languid fashion in which life moves on; it will irritate and dismay him to see the absolute lack of compre hension of the meaning of comfort. But very soon he will feel a subtle, reluctant fascination; he will be soothed by the ab sence of hurry and bustle; he will appre ciate the gentle courtesy which seems to bo the southerners' birthright; he will be touched by their pathefic hospitality; he will learn to admire their bravery, gayety, and that energy which often lurks beneath their indolence. And nature will have her word. Those weird cypress forests, those solemn pine woods among the red clay hills, those tropical splendors of plant and flower and sky, that softer loveliness of the southern homes?stately old mansions which ruin makes bat the more picturesque, set amid their gardens on shady streets or overlooking fields of cotton, or rice, or cane?all these and a hundred sights as fair come to capture his heart and haunt his memory. If the traveler have a friend with a planta tion^ in that case he:,wi&haye:alL_the 'poetry without the discomfort. In any case, the real south (which, by-tbe-way, is by far the cheaper south) is the one which is sure to repay the traveler for his outlay of time and money. My friends who are going to the real south, you who are about to enjoy?I congratu late you.?Cor. Harper's Bazar. A Collection of Arabian Manuscripts. The collection of manuscripts which the sultan of Morocco has turned over to the medresseh", or liigh school, of Fez, proves to comprise copies of numer ous west Arabian works which in Spain were destroyed by the holy inquisition. In scientific attainments the scholars of the Moorish universities ware several hundred j'ears ahead of their Trinitarian rivals, and by ignoring their." existence Christian historians of (^riU^ation liave been obliged to assume 1,000 years inter regnum of science. In the giiastly night of-the middle ages Bagdad and Cordova were the intellectual Go?hens, still en joying the fight of a sun which in tho land of their neighbors seemed to have set forever at the downfall of the Roman empire.?Dr. Felix L. Oswald in Chicago Times. For Anything Needing Head-Work. "How do you like the English ?" asked a British squire of ids Scotch gardener. "Wed, sir," was the" answer, "bein' frao hame, and among the English, I find nae great faut in them; but I maun mak' this remark, that for mee-nisters or gardeners, or anything needing hede wark, ye maun come to us i' the north!" ?Youth's Companion. Fuel for the Transcaspian Railway. A telegram from Askabal announces that the yield of the Transcaspian naphtha springs having been found I amply sufficient to supply fuel for the I locomotives used on the Transcaspian ! railway, work at the springs has now been commenced by order of Gen. Annenkoff.?Foreign Letter. The Egyptian chariots had linch-pins of bronze, and were put together with pins and nails. Screws, so far as known, were not invented. Individuals luive been cured of stam mering by always filling the lungs with air by a strong inhalatk. ? before begin ning to speak. Only 320,411 immigrants entered the United States last year, a decrease of 10 per cent, since the previous year. The Roman schoolmasters used a whip made of eel 6kin to punish their scholars on the naked back. If a man don't say much, he em soon get the name of knowing a heap.? Chicago Ledger. One firm in Germany has made and Bold 3,000,000 thermometers during the last five years. Hardly will you find any one so bad but he deeiree the credit of losing good.? South. THE BRIEF LIFE OF A SONG. Whistling a Tune Into Notice and Then Barring It in Oblivion. A song, a flower, an actor becomes popular. Everybody sings and whistles that song because it has a tune? Not exactly; other eongs have tunes and do not achieve this universal sequence. The girls who sells a paper of pins hums a certain tune as she wraps up the little package; the grimy little boy who blacks "yer boots" whistles it as he puts on the shine; it is in the air, in the streets, in the parlor; it is played by German street bands and ground by the street organs; babies murmur it before they can talk; jokes are made at its expense; it resounds from Maine to Mexico; but how did it begin? and when and where does it end? There is even now a generation which has never heard "Pinafore;" in ten years from now no one will care for the "Pinafore" that drove this generation half distracted, and the chances are, should that opera be then revived, it would fall flat; its fun would not touch the humor of the day, and the young folks would say: "Dear me, tliis is decidedly antiquated; Why can't you give us something amusing?" Once upon a time, about a thousand years ago, there was written a song known as "Villikins and His Dinah." It traveled far and wide, from cottage to palace, by rail and by sea; it was sung in .the theatres between the acts; as encores ,at concerts; somebody even wrote a play on the touching story; it was whistled uni versally, and every undeveloped musical genius in the land sung nothing but "Vil likins."- Who knows now where that popular ditty first impressed itself on the sensitive public ear? Who knows, in deed, who wrote it, or by what inspira tion he hit on a melody that bewitched millions as it did. Nobody sings it now, any more than he sings "Life on the Ocean Wave." "Ben Bolt," and a dozen other sentimental ballads that bad such vogue; yet they are unchanged, and quite as fetcluhg in substance as the hour they were written. A song or a tune has its day, and can never be resus citated. The first person who whistled it into notice is lost in obscurity, and more singular yet, ho who was the last to whistle it can never be discovered. Who is the man that finally buries the popular tune? This view of the life of a song is dis tracting. Yesterday the classic "See Saw" permeated society, to-day it is "Tit Willow," to-morrow?well, to-morrow'B tune is unborn, but, as sure as the sun rises over Park street steeple, it will be here when it is wanted. Probably at this moment some poor devil in a back street in London is covering music paper with the notes of a tune for the music hall favorite to beguile a rough, unorjtical crowd. It is wretched stuff, but it has "go," and go sends most any trash headlong into dangerous popu larity. It catches on like a leech to the public's tympanum, and, after one or two nights, it will be carried away bodily. What is sung with success in the London music hall ascends with ease to the pale of good society. , The higher type-rrCtilbert. and S.ullivanr songs?have bewitched nations, but if the readers of to-day live twenty years, their children wiil ask them who were this Gilbert and Sullivan, and nothing ?will induce them to believe those old fashioned things were ever thought droll and amusing. "That ever considered fascinating! Why, my dear sir, you must be mistaken. How uninteresting it is. Don't you see we have outgrown all such rusty twaddle." In its day, "The Beggar's Opera" took London town by storm. London society lost its head in admiration of this new departure; its music, its singers; but let any reckless theatrical manager of to-day place on his stage that once popular "musical innova tion," in all the glory of modern dress, and he woidd be beggared as well as Polly. "I can not sing the old song" warb1- the tired world. No, you can't; that L che unblemished truth.?Bor. Bos ton Herald. A Photograph from tho Kctina. A physician friend of mine called my attention to an account of a recent at tempt to observe in the retina of a mur dered gUTs eye the image of her un known skayer. He laughed and said: "It is all nonsense to expect that this thing can be done. I liave known of a dozen experiments, all of which failed from the very nature of the thing.. All there is to it is this: The brilliant coat of tho retina has a color due to what is known as visual purple, and tliis color is to some extent visibly impressed by light. When in college we tried a care ful experiment on a horse. We gave the animal atropine and placed a negative of my own photograph over its eye. It was then kept in a dark room for six hours. This was followed by exposing the retina to the picture in broad day light for a few moments. The result consisted of three dark patches repre senting my chin, no3e, and forehead. It was an absolute failure as far as produc ing a recognizable hkeness is concerned." ?Chicago News "Rambler." Good Manners of EngUsh Servant*. In the presence of their masters tho English sen-ants maintain a manner that may almost be said to be refined. It is quiet and subdued; too obsequious per haps to suit the democratic idea, but otherwise unobjectionable. This man ner, however, I suspect is something like the livery,- put on for their superiors, and laid aside as soon as they alone. In many old famine? there still lingers among the retainers an attachment for those they serve, a fidelity and devotion that recall the feudal feeling, and which are returned by a protection and interest that make the tie a not unlovely one. I knew instances of friendship on both sides as sincere and loyal, if not as famil ir, as ever exists among equals.?Adam Badeau's Letter. Fossil of the Oldest Knovrci Bird. The fossil remains of an archo.'opteryx, the oldest known bird, which seems to form the connecting liny between birds and reptiles, has just been sold to the Berlin museum for $5,000. Sayings of Bob Burdette. ACCURATE INFORMATION. '.'Doctor, stop a minuto. What do you do Jar a coldT "Sit In a draught or got my bet wet. What do you want to get a cold or! Get up, Bolusf' WITH HAU AN ETZ. Shakespeare? didn't know ovory thing, after llL He said, "But love is blind, and lovors jannot see." Can't oh? Two young, inex perienced lovers can get along Sunday night frith less gas and less room to movo around n than the oldest man with the biggest spectacles iu America. NO PLACE IS SACRED OR SAFE. "That's a nice looking horse to bring around for a gentleman to drive," roared Old Hyson. "Take him back; I'll rldo down in tho cars. Ho hasn't been groomed for a weekl What ire you doing with him? Letting him run in the corn field?" "Well, Mistah Hyson," add tho man, "ho ain't lookin' fust rate, for ifnc'; but'deed I can'fc help it no how. I lone de best I kin wid nothin' to do onythin' '"id. Miss Hyson she done come to de born in' tuck away do curry comb, sweat scraper, mane brush, quarter boots, clippers, safety bit an' collar pad, 'cause she gwine decorate em for de ohutch fair, she say." AN EAST TRANSITION. One of the finest qualities "Bed-handed Bate," or any other wild western hero has who whacks bulls, scalps In?ians, writes poetry and goes play actin' on the stage, is his ability to drop slang and adopt fine talk when he shifts from the commonplace to the''pathetic." ''Waughp says the scout, patting old Ki Ikoro as he cnt another notch Iii tho stock, "thar's another blank blanked Ereasor wiped out, on' thar's anuthorun agoin'- to toiler him right soon. Dod rot my eternal feel ins ef I ain't coin' to folio r this byar trail till ItendB in a pool o' blood. Pur I wasn'trallus jest this way, stranger; but when the dog blamed skunks run away weth the gal I cottoned to, tho purest, loveliest being that over robed her womanhood with tho beauty of the angels, I wrote her namo across mo hoarfc and with a pen of iron burned R-r-revongo above it! And the sighing night winds wandering with com plaining cadences through tho swaying pines, tho murmuring stroaras that go sing ing down in tho sunless shadows of tho mighty canons, and tho storms that shriek and roar through forest and ravine evor and alway sing to mo the ono unchanging theme, Ainita and revenge. Waughl"?Brooklyn Eagle. _ The Old, Old Story. We borrowed a mule and buggy last week and started out to stir up our delinquents. We rode twenty-five miles tho first day, had our new hot smashed by coming in contact with an overhanging limb, woro out a buggy whip that cost sixty cents, aud collected 8L50 in cash and a bushel and a half of corn. Tho second day we rode twenty-two miles, missed our.dinnor, dunned seventeen of our beloved patrons, and didn't collect a cent. The third day wo oroso at 4 o'clock a. m., misled our breakfast, lost twenty minutes trying to wake up Jim Alexander as wo passed his houso, rode twenty-four miles and collected $4.50. The fourth day we traversed the whole country, lost a goose one of our friends had given us for a Chrlatmas din ner, and collected $3.50. We then came home, turned the mule out to dio, and went to bed. If anybody wants to buy a good printing office, with ample assets and small liabilities, and large latitude for famo, otc, we are prepared to offer a bargain. ?Don ough (Ga) Weeldy. . She Floored Him by Wire. Young city gent engage1 to a Santa Rosa belle; happy day, 31st ult Somebody fickle. "All is over between us." Tho 31st arrives and ho.sends her a telegram: "Please ao i'Wflftitty * "imgi atolntiony- on our mutual escape." She replies: "ilany thanks. Had forgotten all about it 2.5c. coL" He vows to bo even with this levy on his purse If ho be obliged to wear one collar a week during tho rest of his life.?California Maverick. _ A Pardonable Mistake. Old Smithklns is so absorbed in art that he mistakes a group of young ladio3 for one of the cushioned seats In tho gallery. Didn't Wait to Wrestle. Reuben Doolittlo was well known as the strongest man in Connecticut and a remark able wrestler. Man carao from distances to throw him, but all failed. Once a stronger arrived at Reuben's on this errand. Reu ben asked him to stay all night, promising to wrestle in tho' morning. Both were up betimes, and the stranger was invited to go oat to the barn and have a drink of cider. At tho barn Reuben seized a largo barrel of cider, and, with apparent easo, lifted it and drank from the bung hole. "Now," said ho, as ho put the barrel down and wiped his mouth, "wo'll have some breakfast, and then wo'U wrestle." The stranger decided ho had other business that would provent the match ?Detroit Free Press. Tho Woods Aro Full of It. Amateur Sportsman (to old settler)?Any game about this neighborhood, stranger? Old Settlor?Plenty of it, stranger. Amateur Sportsman?Big ga?ne? Old Settlor?Some oll-flred big game, stronger. Amateur Sportsman (excited)?Con you put mo on it? Old Settlor?You bet. Sportsman?What kind of ammunition will wo want? Old Settler?Poker chips, stranger.?Now York Sun. _ An "Experience" Vouched For. "Brothron," said the Rev. Sam Jones in his closing sermon at Cincinnati, "you'd better do liko Chicago?brag ou yoursolf and stand by yourself;" and ho intimated that Chicago was cn hand to bear testimony like tho yellow brother at tho meeting: Well, at this experience meeting an old colored brother got up and said: "Broddorn, I aro the meanest nigger iu all this country. Til steal, aud I'll toll lies, and I'll get drunk, and there ain't a mean thing in God's world I won't do." Well, that was considered a good "experi ence," and he took hin seat, and then a great big yellow brother jumped up and said: "Br'ern, I have heord Br er Stovo's confes sion, and it's true, 'fore God."?Chicago Tribune. Information. "Father, is a blind man always heavy P "Don't ask such foolish questions; you know very well he is not" "Well, pop, you know he is genally led." At this juncture the juvenile offender podged ?? flying book?Boston Sadfet CLEARING OUT SALE! AS THE SEASON IS NEAR AT HAND FOR PUTTING IN SPRING GOODCJ PJRING GOODkJ And wishing to make rooK, we will make it to the interests of all to eall and get * Great Bargains As we are determined not to cany over any Fall Stock. We still lead in low ~ZZm prices and are Headquarters for GENT'S, YOUTH'S AND BOY'S CLOTHING. Our trade In : Zeigler's Fine Shoes For Ladies was never better. Every pair guaranteed. Wo cany the largest and best Stock of Gent's HAND-SEWED SHOES In the market. All warranted. Grrooeries At CHARLESTON QUOTATIONS. come and/Sel:for;yourself. GEO. I COMELSON. Special Bargains! AT ? ^pilEODO?E TT'OHNS J-HEODOKE IVOHN'S FASHIONABLE DRY GOODS EMPORIUM. We arc now closing out the balance of our Winter Stock of DRESS GOODS, CLOTHING, CLOAKS. HATS, Ac., at less than cost of raw material. Now is the time to procure Great Bargains. Everything selling off at unheard of low prices. This is a golden opportunity for all to SAVE MONEY. THEODORE K0jl ESTABLISHED lSSSL^ C. & E, L. Kerrison, 88 BffASEE STREET, CHARLESTON. S. C. DRY GOODS, IIlack a ud Colored Dress Goods, LINENS, HOSIERY, &c, &c, IN LARGE V ARI ETV. [ggrAll Orders will receive prompt and careful attention. JSTCash orders amounting to 910 or over will he delivered in any county free of charge. V. Ac E. E. Kerrison, aug201y Charleston. _S. C. ' MORE LIGHT ON TUE Subject. I will now devote my entire at tention to LAMPS! LAMPS! With an experience of ten years 1 am in a posltiou to know what variety of Lamps to keep on hand that will suit any purpose and give entire satisfaction. When in need of a Lanier that will give you a large brilliant hfiht call for "SORENTRUE'S GUARANTEE". I Rive full directions how to use it and a guarantee for a year with each Burner. Kenieniher that "FAIU DEALINGS, LOU' PRICES and LEST QUALITY is my Motto, and don't folget that whatever you may need In the way of or for a Lamp you will he sure to get it at SORENTRUE'S ISABCUAB.t STOKE, Headquarters for Lamps. I Jan 'Jl-lyr ! B. H. MOSS. C. 0. DAMZLEK I 'jyj OSS & DAXTZLEU, ATT01!NEYS ATLAW, i OitANGEnuno, .s. c. ; J W. BOWMAN. ATTORNEY AT LAW j 0iU3G?Buna, S. C.