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UNCOMFORTED. Maker of men! shotdd we not joy to Bee Thy splendid world before our eyes out roUed, With all its stores of jewels and gold. And lovely gifts of fruit and flowering tree!' Fair is our home, and happy should we be, For unto us 'tis given to behold Beauty enwheeled by mysteries untold, While time's great tide sweeps to eternity. Yea, Lord! Thy world is fair. What wild delight Of young boughs tossed by winds that leap and soar, And laugh to drive the lazy clouds be fore L What golden dawns upspringing from the night! What stately rivers marching to the sea! Yet?Oh, my lost one! come again to me! ?Julie K. Wetherill in Times-Democrat. The Man Mflliner In New York. The English man-milliner is not so lofty as the man-dressmaker. His scope is smaller, being limited to the head-piece. As a modified form of phrenologist, he is more tolerant of the weaknesses of the human race and doesn't freeze up their little founts of childish vivacity every time they approach him. There is a man milliner now in New York who enjoys an Immense vogue, quite as much for his rabid Anglicisms and joUy manner as for his he.ts and bonnets. He is quite an original type, ^.e is not of the deadly upas-tree style, but has a lively and cheer ful disposition?a sort of masculine airy, fairy Lilian, "so inuoceut-arch, so cunning simple,"' with a keen appreciation of femi nine charms and a knack of enthusing discreetly. When a pretty woman comes into his shop on Fifth avenue and tries on several hats he stands by looking on, writhing in transports like the pythoness on the tri pod. She puts on a great coaching hat and, being human, peeps at him expect antly from under the brim. He clasps his hands, thrown into an ecstatic frenzy of admiration, and cries: ''Oh, exquisite, beautiful, superb:" The assistant now brings out something very dashing, and mannish, shooting out wings trom every angle?the sort of hat that wants squared elbows and a throaty voice. At this the little man grows quite gamey himself, and says, with a sporting air: " 'Pon me soul, now, that's awjully jolly." There is, too, just adding a piquant flavor of his univer sal bonhomie, a faint aristocratic aroma about him. It suggests all kinds of mad dening possibilities?a clientele of titled women on the other side, a family connec tion with a live lord, a personal acquaint ance with a genuine professional beauty? to what heights will not the unchained imagination soar??New York Cor. San Francisco Chronicle. Frank K. Stockton and His Wire. The wife of Frank R. Stockton, the au thor of that tantalizing story, "The Lady or the Tiger!''' is one of those women of whom the world hears little but who does not an inconsiderable share of those ab surd and delightful tales. She was a Miss Marian Tuttle, of Amelia county, Vir ginia, and has long held the position of literary critic of her husband's work, A youthful admirer of his quaint fairy tales and children's stories once wrote to ask If it were not true that Mr. Stockton had a large family of children who heard the stories beforo they were written out, and gave the "inventor" points as to the things children In general would or would not like. But Mr. Stock ton has no children, and his wife Is the person who holds the place c! juvenile oracle. She writes every one of them down, too, at his dictation. Their sum mers are spent in the Virginia mountains, at "Lego," once a part of Jefferson's es tate, and not many miles from Monti ceUo. Around a great cherry tree are three stakes; one end of a hammock is tied to a tree and the other end moved from stake to stake according to the position of the sun. In that hammock lies the author of "The Late Mrs. Mill" and dictates to his wife, who foUows him patiently from one stake to another, with her writing table, pencils and papers, and scribbles ener getlcaUy, only looking up once in awhile to discuss a sentence that she does not en tirely approve.?New York World. Prearranged Conversation in English. Some thirty years ago I was an attache at our legation at Munich. Old King Louis was then alive, although he had been deposed for making a fool of himself about Lola Montes. I used frequency to meet him in the streets, when he always stopped me to ask how Queen Victoria was. I had at last respoctf uUy to teU him that her majesty was not in the habit of writing to me every day respecting her health. His son was then the reigning king. At court receptions he liked to show off his knowledge of languages. In order to be quite correct in his English, he was accustomed to submit the observations that he contemplated mak ing in that language to a professor of Eng lish. The professor once or twice got into difficulty owing to our unswers not being precisely what he had anticipated in the prepared conversations. So he came to us and explained the system. After this the conversations never encountered a hitch, for we knew what the king was to say, and arranged our answers so as to givo him the cues.?Cor. London Truth. One of the "Mind Core" Principles. There are fifty-five people in Minneapo lis and St. Paul who were cut oil from one great resource of conversation, namely, discussion of the weather. They were the members of the recently active "mind cure" class. Their teacher forbade them talking about their ailments in conversa tion, and also prohibited finding fault with the weather. Should mind cure prin ciples spread, some new source of ideas would have to be discovered for the great army of commonplace people with limited conversational powers ?Pioneer Press "Voices." Comment or Little Pour-Years-Old. Little Four-years-old was in a state of nervous excitement during a violent thun derstorm a few days ago. Running to her mother she laid her head in her lap and sobbed, "Oh, mamma, I'se so 'fraid of thunder." Seeking to quiet her, her mother responded: "Yon should not be afraid, my child. Thunder is God's voice." This soothed the child, and she went away about her piny. In a few moments another tremendous thunderbolt was heard. She dropped her playthings, and in an awe-struck voice inquired: '-Mamma, what did God say then? Someiln' awful?" ?Hartfowl Post. A person with more sense than religion *is generally a rascal, and a person with more religion than sense is generally a fool.?Rev. Sam Jones. My dear boy, if you must part your hair in the middle, get it even, if you have to split a hair to do it?Uncle Ezek. CHEiP JEWELRY. NINE-TENTHS OF THE WARE WORN SAID TO BE NOT SOLID. ! Brooklyn as a Center for the Trade? J What Is Claimed for the Triple-Plated The Class Who Buy the Boyus?Mourn Ing Gocds. Cheap jewelry is widely worn. Brook ! lyn contains a dozen or more stores iu ! which a large trade is done iir all classes : of plated ware, from the 50-cent diamond ? (?) pin to the elegantly engraved triple plated bracelet. Some years ago bogus jewelry was only affected by the lower classes of colored people, but if a dealer i with whom a reporter tnlked recently is j to be believed nine-tenths of the jewelry I worn is not solid. The reporter's inform i ant desired to impress hiin with the fact j that a vast difference existed between I plated and "snide" jewelry. "Snide jew ' elry is sometimes called electro-plated \ ware, and is what is generally supposed i to have been dipped in gold. The dipping process is no longer in use. j To the inexperienced eye no difference is to be found betweeu an electro-plated chain worth 75 cents and a solid gold I chain valued at ?10. Both look alike, and i if the plated chain turns black iu a few ' days its nppearan'- ? when purchased is j quite ns good, if not (tetter, than that of the real article. This city is becoming a [ center for the cheap jewelry trade. East ern manufacturers have for weeks been examining sites for the purpose of erect ing a mammoth factory in Brooklyn on ] the river front. The industry is a large one and employ s thousauds of hands. In case the manufacturers mentioned above can And a favorable location, ground will be broken for the factory the coming fall. WILL OUTWEAIt SOLID JEWELKY. It Ls claimed that cheap or triple plated ' jew&lry will wear longer and give better J satisfaction than solid, and that it makes ' a better appearance, and if lost or stolen : the loss is comparatively a small one. Quartz stones, cut diamond shape, or with thirty-five faces, are of recent date. They : are of a yellow color and unbacked. At ; night the effect of a dozen or more of these 1 stones is dazzling. Quartz is found in Brazil in large quantities and shipped to Holland for cutting, and from there trans ; ported to this country. Diamonds have i often passed from the custom house ofli ? clals in New York and elsewhere billed ns ' quartz. Continued the reporter's informant: "The fraud is now something of a 'chestnut,' i but has been practiced with entire huc 1 cess. R .ine stones, backed with tin foil, ! are much worn by young girls in their j hair, and by members of the theatrical ! profession. Rhine stones are made of ! glass and contain a small per centage of I red lead. Formerly the manufacture of I Rhine stones was exclusively a French 1 industry, but of late years many have ? been made in New York. I sell a good 1 quality Rhine stone, nicely mounted in a 'stud, for thirty-five cents. Quartz dia | uioud rings and pins in solid gold settings can be bought from ?4 to $10 each. Brace lets of rolled gold warranted to wear ten years, bring $1 to 83 each. Watch chains are worth from 50 cents to >=2. A large trade Is done in gold plated, nickel and silver ore watches. It Is said that silver ore will wear longer and not scratch so easily as watch cases made of coin siver. They arc one-fifth cheaper. A watch with a silver ore case can be bought for $4. THE CLASS WHO BUY THE BOGUS. _ "What class buy plated wedding rings?" was asked. "You would be surprised to see the men who purchase bogus engagement and wedding rings. They do not appear as though for $4 or $5 would make any mate rial difference to them. We sell plated rings from 35 to 90 cents each. It is amus ing to see the manner in which many well-dressed and respectable people buy cheap jewelry. Before they ask to bo shown goods they make the clerk under stand that the jewelry which it is their intention to purchase is not desired for them. It is usually bought for servants or children, thay say. Children can not wear large plated bracelets or brooches, neither do they were heavily plated watch I chains. Many people's pride will not al I low them to acknowledge that they ' purchase bogus jewelry for their own wear." Ch?ap jewelry Is rarely worn by women in mourning. An entire set of cheap mourning goods composed of imitation jet I can be purchased for $L Of fate years i the dry goods houses have added cheap jewelry departments, and the business done in this line is large. The lirst-class jewelry stores, too, have been coiupeRed to acknowledge the importance of the chenp trade, and sell plated ware. One dealer .informed the reporter that the profit on cheap jewelry was small?only 75 per cent, being realized.?Brooklyn Eagle. Language Is r Slippery Thing. Language is a slippery thing to deal I with, as some may find when selecting I their similes. Says a writer: "Speak of a j man's marble brow, aad he will glow with I conscious pride; but allude to his wooden I head, and he's mad in a minute." The young lecturer's ''similes were gathered in a heap" when he expressed the whole body of his argument on deceit in the follow ! lug: "Oh, my brethren, the snowiest [ shirt front may conceal an aching bosom, j and the stiffest of all collars encircle a : throat that has many a bitter pill to swal i low."?Chambers' Journal. Way t" (io Shuil to the Sea Sands. i Canvas shoes for seaside wear seem to I have familiar forms, but are in new and desirable colors. The moccasin-shaped bathing shoe has also suffered 'a sea ? change," and can now be obtained of can vas, llannel or duck, in all colors, to match bathing suits. A thin and light j but firm sole of cork is stitched securely i to a thin layer of leather, and thus affords ' perfect protection to the feet from sharp rocks and other "dangers of the deep" sea bathing.?Boston Globe. Itcsults of a Druggist's Mistake. , As corn will soon be large enough for the coons to bother it, and as you fre quently give information gratis, I writo : this for the benefit of my brother farmers. Last year I went to a drug store to buy strychnine for use to kill coons in the ; field, but the druggist made n mistake j and put tip morphine, all of which I did not know until I got ready to use; so I used it, and the next morning the Held wus full of coons, all fast asleep ?Arkan sas Cor. (tlobe-Democrat. A Gooii Percentage Lived Through. "Are y.?in afruid of scarlet fever among your children, Mrs. W..k" "Oh, uo." replied Mrs. W., "not very. It ran through my sister's family of six chil dren and she only lost two."?New York Sun. A RAILROAD TIE OF PAPER, ItB Claims Set Forth by the Inventor? Durability and Klastiolty. "That is a railroad tie.'' It was of the regular sfze and polished aa smoothly as a ! piece of Italian marble. The grain was so ! line and the whole appearance so artistic , that it might easily have been taken for a i chip from a pillar of u Grecian temple hv ? stead of such a practical tbing as a rail i road tie. The speaker wis a short, stout, i sod-faced man with a large head and over ! hanging brows, and was the inventor of i this aesthetic sleeper, and in his little ! office there were ninny models of cars and i railroad trucks scat tered about. "Thls,"said he, as he patted the railroad tie lovingly, ! 'is tiie result of years of labor, and I be ? lievc now that it is perfect. It is mode of i paper, which I believe is to enter to a : large extent in nil building operations ?t ! no distant day. The great enemy to the use of paper is moisture, and in my invention, I of course, a means had to be discovered to I prevent dampness from having the. slight est effect, as a railroad tie being in the ! ground is subjected constantly to it, and a I rotten tie might cause the loss of many lives and much property. "The process of manufacture is secret to a certain extent, butthc tie is absolutely Are and water proof. There; I will throw a piece of the prepared paper into the flre. You see it will not burn. I have sub merged it for weeks and months in both j hot and cold water and the moisture has ! never been found inside the suface. Con i bequently it can not rot. Though oppor I ently as hard as iron, an ordinary spike I can be driven into without difficulty, and when the spike is in position the material is of such a nature that it closes arouud the iron and holds it so firmly that it can never be shaken loose. There is also a cer tain amount of spring in the tie, and when there L a load on it it operates as a sort of cushion and takes away a certain amount I of jar from running cars. Under certain . conditions, by slightly altering th-3 combl : nation of materials, the paper can be made ! so hard that it will turn the edge of the j hardest tool without being more than I scratched. The ordinary wooden tie will ; last about live years under the most favor able conditions, while the paper tie will j last any kind of weather for at least thirty ! years. j "The paper used is generally made of ! straw, although almost any kind of fibre will do as well. Straw is preferred be cause it can be easily obtained and the ? supply is unlimited. There are mills in J the west where the straw Is made up into boards. It is a large industry and was first started to utilize the waste straw in the yaste west for fuel, instead of wood. This is a paying business, and fortunes are being made out of wdfat oidy a few years ago was thrown away or burned upas useless. These boards are put together in layers, and after being treated to a liberal dose of cement are put under a tremend ous pressore in a hydraulic machine. This forces the atoms together in a solid mass. Under pressure a dozen boards will take the place of one. Heat is also an agent in the manufacture qtpaper ties, and they are thoroughly baked in a own at a high temperature. Under the pres ent imperfect conditions and appliances it takes considerable time to make a tie, but with everything built in accordance with my plans they can be turned out quicker^ than they can be cut from trees, and at a much less cost."?New York. Tribune. ! Servants of the Knglluh Aristocracy. The children of the farmers are proud to be token as servants of the hall; the gamekeepers|and bailiffs and head garden ers are the grandees o? the inferior world. All tins class of dependents, by far the most comfortable of the laboring people in England, live only to serve their bet ters, to coutribote to their comfort and grandeur. Their very numbers are a part of the pomp of the aristocracy. They come to look upon themselves as the ap purtenances of rank, while the humbler sort, those who live in the gardens and stables and kennels of the lords, or the house servants who pass their existence cleaning their siver, preparing their viands, whitening their hunting breeches, and dressing their hair, have no concep tion of a state of things in which man is equal to man. They do their work, not as self-respecting people do in other countries?for hire, as a matter of business exchanging labor for pay?but for the honor of It; for love sometimes, and always because it Is proper, because it is their duty add their place to wait on the lords.?Adam Badeau's Letter. Printer* Ink and Photography. For the benefit of those persons not familiar with processes by which photography is used in connection with printer's ink, It may be well to describe it briefly. A sheet of gloss is covered with a lilm of sensitized gelatine, upon which the light coming through a photographic negative is al lowed to fall. Whenever the light conies through unobstructed the gelatine is made insoluble: elsewhere it will absorb water ' like a sponge. After being washed in j water an ink roller is passed over the j gelatine surface, and it is found that ; where the gelatine is hard and dry the ! ink "takes," but where it is spongy and ! full of water itdoes not take. From such a j plate pictures in printer's ink can-be made j with an ordinary press. The same plate i suffices for thousands of copies sometimes, ! and gives a delic.-icy of tone which prom ises to drive wood and steel cuts oiit of all line books. Carefully made pictures by this process are unquestionably finer than photographs.?New York Post. The Germ Theory In 1731. It has tieen found that Pasteur's germ theory wns anticipated more than a cen tury and a half ago by a physician of Lyons named Goifton, who, in writing about the origin of the great plague, in 17LM, made the following statement: ".Minute insects or worms alone con ex plain these diseases. It is true they are not visible; but it does not therefore fol low that they are non-existent. It is only that our microscopes are not at present powerful enough to show them. "Wc can easily imagine the" existence of creatures which bear the same propoitlon to mites that mites benr to elephants. No other hypothesis con explain the facts. Neither the malign influence of the stars, nor ter restrial exhalations, nor miasmata, nor atoms, whether biting or burning, acid or bitter, could regain theii vitality once they had lost It. If on the other hand, we admit the existence of minute living crea ture, we understand how infection can be conveyed in a latent condition from one place to break out afresh in another."? The Current. Philadelphia hack drivers and grave diggers ore moving to do away with Sun day burials. The mortality among the children ol New Orleans has been remarkable this snnuow. ! Potash Victim. Cured by S. S. S. CAUTION. Contumtri iliuuld not confute our Specl?c wil/i ths numeruu? imitation*, substitute*, potash an<l mercury mixtures which are got ten up to tell, not on their own merit, but r.n the merit of our remedy. An imitation Is always a fraud and a cheat, and they thrive only as they can stealfrom Vu article lmllat< d. Trcatircon Wood and Skin Oltease* uialird free. For sale by all druggist*. TUE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO., Drawer 3, Atlanta, On. S. S. S. vs. POTA I h.ivc had blood poison for ton years. I know I have taken one bnndrcd bottle of iodide of potash in that time, but It did mc no good. Last summer my face, neck, body and limbs were- covered with sores, and I conld ecarccly use my arms on account of rheu matism in my shoulders. I took S. S. S., and it has done me more good than all oilier medi cines I have taken. My face, body and neck arc perfectly clear and clean, and my rheu matism is entirely cone. I weighed 116 pounds when 1 begun the medicine, and I now weigh 152 pounds. My first bottle helped mc greatly, and gave mc an appetite like a strong man. I would not be without S. S. S. for several times its weight in gold. C. E. MITCHELL, W. 23d St. Ferry, New York. JOHN C. WHETSTONE, ROWESVILLE. S. C, Practical Machinist and Millwright, AGENT FOB THE SMITH IMPROVED GIN, FEEDER AND CONDESSER. ALSO AGENT FOR THE TAYLOR AND DAY STATE ENGINES, GRIST -MILLS. At'.. ^*9"\Vill (inter Machinery of any kind when requested to do so. 23TRepairin.g of all kinds (if -Machinery a specialty. All orders promptly attended to. Address as above. July 1-3111 STONO 'Phosphate Company, CHARLESTON, S. C. ESTABLISHED 1870. HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS! SOLUBLE GUANO (highly amnmniated.) DISSOLVED LONE. ACID PHOSPHATE. ASH ELEMENT. PHOSPHATE FLOATS. GERMAN KAMT. HIGH GRADE KILL FEKT1LIZ1 James Van Tassel B>i: VB.I'SC I> CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Wines, Liquors and Segars, 4 T MY ESTAHLISILMENT (AN LIE L'UUXD ALI. THE STAND Alt 1 i'l arriclcs of GROCERIES at Keck Hotteln Prices, as well as purest and bes WINES, LIQUORS, &c, sold anywhere. Also the clinic.-; SEGARS AND TODACCC to be found in the market. JAMES VAN TASSEL. To the Public. rorSale. kpiioituuitfiHU 1: i> .1 Eiisin TAKE PEE ASCII E IN AN- I Calves. One yearling registered; J er nouncing that I will run the lee liusi ness from May 1st, isso. Customers pleas* reserve your orders and ohlige. Yours tndv, ja 11 i? CHARLES P. BRUN50N. sey Hull. Kugistered Ayre?hirc heifer: Several gcade heifers as also several Mile' Cows hi milk. Apply to E. N. CH1S0LM, Rowesvillc, s. C. JOHN A. HAMILTON, DEALER IN COTTON GINS, lies, Olis, k, ORANGEBURG. S. C, OFFERS The GULLET! STEEL BRUSH, COT TON BLOOM, and Improved TAYLOR GINS. Prices as. low as in the State, Work 'guar anteed, Terms accommodating. Also, fur nishes Saws, Ribs, and parts of Gins for repairs, Bristles, &c. IN STOCK, Brass CHECK VALVES, Piping, Coup lings, Round and Sheet Gum Packing, Babbitt Metal, &c!, &e. SUGAR MILLS, and SYRUP KET TLES furnished at factory prices. Jolin A. Hamilton. JOHN C. PIKE, ORANGEB?RG, S 15. DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY AND Heavy Groceries. ALSO Willow Ware, Glass Ware, Crockery, &c, Call and examine, my Goods before purchasing. They aretirstclass and my prices are as low as the lowest. JOHN C. PIKE. ESTABLISHED 1S77. Twenty-five Years Experience. Kr'ftlC^ Ml 4fe ' T, DeChiavette, Watch Makki: AND Jewelek, A ltd dealer In Watches, Clocks, .Jewelry xx Spectacles, Silver and Plated Ware and Musical Instruments. All work warranted fun... vcar. Orangeburg. . C. ?Barles A. Calvo, Jr.. BOOK AND JOB PRINTER ?AND? BOOKBINDER 69 RICHARDSON STREET, COLUMBIA, S. C. ;.' * ''INDSOP PIMXTIV. UTTi .nid Church Assoeja . specialty. Lawyers' Briefs 51 per printed page for 25 copies. Old Rooks Re lmund and Repaired. Cash Rooks, Ledg ers, Day Rooks, Journals, &c, made to onler at short notice. < Inters solicited and satisfaction guaranteed. J35T Subscribe for TiiECor.UMWAWeek ly llEfllSTEK?eight pages of fresh reading matter?the latest telegraphic- news?clear large print. Only our dollar a year. Police. X Roads Bei.lyim.e a>d State Road. I [AYING BOUGHT THE RIGHT I 1 to sell the AMMON's PATENT FLOW GUAGE AND GUIDE in Orange burg County I am prepared to furnish them and solicit the patronage of all the farmers n thceountv. ' M. M. METTS, April Rr-amo si. Matthews, S. C. _ I'or Stile. ONE TEN HOUSE POWER EN gine and Boiler complete. Al>o one Circular Saw Mill. The above can be iKtught on vcrv reasonable terms. Feh r HARPIN RIGGS Kofi?*?*. \ LI. PERSONS HAVING C LAIMS i\ against the Estate m Thomas H. Zimmerman, dec ased, will present the same duly attested to the undersigned, and all persons indebted to .said Estate will make payment to Moss & Dantzlor, Attor neys at Law. Orangeburg. S. C. IRVLNH. ZIMMERMAN, Qualified Eecutor of Estate of Thomas 11. Zimmerman, deceased. July ?-3t