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| Yours, 1 for those light, ^ o nn/j p U1UWU UJLcaua auu g { pastries, with the ! I | tantalizing o d o r j * 4 and delicious fla-} | vor, J ; | L (Rising Sun y M 0 * 4 flsl|t A I fed I | Self-Rising and | \ Ready Prepared | First aid to tedi4 ous baking and lag^ ging appetites. I Your Grocer | ( Knows a| L THE WHIP IN RIFLE BARRELS P It Is Caused by the Pressure of Mod ern High Power Powder. " The use of high power powder in ri fles has given rise to a phenomenor "which did not exist in black powdei da vs. This is known as "whip'* and is due to the pressure and vibration sel np by the powder. It is constant witt given loads and is always in the same direction. Sights are aliened by the manufacturer to compensate for this whip ir proportion to the powder charge used Jn firing auxiliary cartridges it will of ten be found that the rifle shoots ofl center. As a matter of fact the bullei from the auxiliary is traveling in s true line with the bore, and it is th? sights that are wrong. The lightei charge of the auxiliary does not pro duce the usual whip, with the resuli that the line in prolongation of th? bore of the rifle along which the bullei travels is not the line given by the l alignment of the sights. Two other rifle terms that must noi I be conrused are upsettage ana Keynot 1ng. Keyholing is the tendency of the i bullet to turn over in flight, while up J settage is the slight shortening of the major axis of the bullet due to the force of the charge. It was peculiar tc black powder lired behind lead bullets and does not exist to any appreciable extent in metal jacketed bullets witfc smokeless powder. In the latter case | the charge bums more slowly and the > jacket stiffens the bullet against the sudden blow from behind.?Outing. ( ORIGIN OF THE PERISCOPE The Reflecting Spyglass Used at thf i Siege of Sebactopol. Speaking of the origin of peri ?cope. the following extract from the writings of the well known inventor oi "Pepper's Ghost" gives the credit tc the clerical profession. Pepper wrote soon after the Crimean war: "Daring the siege of Sebastopol num bers of our best artillerymen were con tinually picked off by the enemy's riSe> as well as by cannon shot, and in ordei to put a stop to the foolhardiness ane: incautiousness of the men. a very in jjenious contrivance was invented bj the Itev. William Taylor, the coudju for of Mr. Deuison in constructing th( first *15Ben' bell. It was called th< reflecting spyglass. a:id by its simple construction rendered the exjwsure o! the sailor* and soldiers who nould loo); over the parapet or other parts of tht works to observe the effect of theii shots perfectly unnecessary, while an i n*?i w: fnr thi t'lliUl " UO v. v/1 IO t? UV l-VU iVl iuv purpose of Allowing the gunner to 'lay or aim his gun in safety. "The instruments were shown tc Lord Paiimure. who was so convinced of the importance of the invention thai tie immediately commissioned the Rev WilRam Taylor to have a number 01 these telescopes constructed, and il the siege had not terminated just ai ihe time the invention was to hav< been used no doubt a gr^at saving ol the valuable lives of the skilled artil lerymen would have been effected."? 1 London Express. Pile? Cured !:? 6 to 14 Days Tonr druggist will refund money if PAZC OINTMENT fails to cure any case of Itcl::nr 3?lnd. B'eediuqr or Protruding Piles is? 6to 14 '1 .>?< Tjjrt fr.. ->"olicsc:0'i sri-o- * * 1 TO THE HERALD ANT NEWS. ' T | A General View r (I have given the two prev? Dutch Fork came to be. You a and select the one that suits y The settlement of the Dutch torv was made in tour places an |' est settlement was made abo IDreher's ferry. These settler; * . vniena lownsmp. ui. ljcuuh of the Carolinas, tells of the c munity. It was here the Webt I? Christian Theus. a German Rj with them they turned on him Webber was arrested, tried an dispersed and none whose nantherewith are known in this s garden spot in America having I of Germans came over and mad in the Fork. Among some of tl of Leaphart (Liebhardt), Huf (Xewnamacher), Lorick, Drel always been noted for its prog] citizens, doing their full dut) called on. Another settlement was ma< is now Spring Hill. In this set ers, Eargles, Sikcs, Cumerlandi The third settlement so far Buffalo creek, near the Xewbe as Bush river, where it met t had come down from the uppe It was in this settlement across which neither party punishment visited upon him o until into the 19th century, whe fj to cast longing eyes at one of ! with the result that Matthew I Polly Schumpert. a Dutch lass line was a thing of the past, I unknown to the present \ Americans. i In the Buffalo creek settlerr t Wises, Longs, Shealeys, Dom names are still to be found in t the most steady and progressive T1-, o nnnrin^ 1 Fluf^Vi FVvrlr <; JL IIV-, i^iuai L/uvvit a wperhaps latest, unless it antedat They were made near the same 1 There was no dead line in t little intermingling' with the E ; and west of them. There wi 1 years. Col. Thos. W. Hollow; i scent to win the hand of a fail settlements reached from Cap Rrni^ ond ^alnrfa river? and ; near Hughey's Ferry to the mo ters the Saluda will p&ss within seat, will embrace the territor ? gration settled. There is no r state-today than this section as t It might not be out of place j - nection, when the German-Amc [ Anglophile press in this country fi.o-Atiori ones, and from what I i j "? ? o * c people, there was not a singl ? South Carolina that was a merr I inquire if any one else knows of that dav who was a Torv? i ' > were always found in the ran] 5 of these decriers today say as [ German-Americans can say for There are many interesting j these early German settlers (I of Dutch, as none of these setl which country the Dutch comi conjuring and witchcratt. There are two stone posts 5 settlement, not far from St. Ji represent two marauding Tor j posts at the behest of a master c , There was a gunsmith, Setzl an honest penny by running s the silver and pouring it into ball) with which the shoot ^hc From all accounts, there we l time in that section. With al God fearing, honest people. wl" do a favor for a friend, neighbc several companies for the milit A. Slimmer and Wm. Fred'lc I ? up from this section and just a< ; To show how loyal and Gc thesr nnrfi<;nn^ were, we are sermon preached to one of these (:See page 450, Johnson's Anec Revolution): > Mine Frients: Yen virst yo vou were boor, and dirty, as voi t , faders were before you ; you we F to be so in Shermanv, for there p t all that you could make. But I *1 lorts and when the Englesh ki nopodv shood take avav your Now he want to sheot you tin VUlil JcUHllUi 15 ctJUUllIlt 111 JlR ' red-goat soldiers to shoot vifes und sweethearts un< parns. Tf you submit to it ( und so vill the brettv gals: the_\ ) for you. You desarve it all \ your own. If you are going tc of the Dutch Fork i __ _ 1 I tiling traditions as to how the .re at liberty to take your choice, on best. Fork in its more enlarged terrid at different times. The earlint 1738, near Younginer's or a came from Saxa Gotha and im, in his German Settlement*. :onditions existing in this corner heresy arose, and when Rev. eformed minister, remonstrated and he had to flee for his life, d hanged. His followers were les are mentioned in connection T-* 1 - C i 1 _ * ection now. I ne tame 01 inis ^ one back to Germany, a number e their future home lower down lese are the well known families tman (Hoffman) Xunnamaker hers, etc. This settlement has ressive spirit and sturdy, honest r to church and state when I le on Waterec creek, near what fr1f?rvipnf wprp tVip Whites. RIeaz 2rs, Haltiwangers, ct al. as we can learn was made on y rrv county line, reaching" as far he Scotch-Irish settlement that r section of South Carolina. that the dead line existed ventured for fear of having r them. This dead line existed n a fine-looking Irishman began the rosy-cheeked Dutch gifl>. t r 11 _ r 1 nan, 01 iriMi pcuciuagc, <tuu ;ie, were married and the dead ? and the line of demarkation is generation. They are now all lent we find the names of the inicks, iStockmans, etc. These :his territory and form some of 2 yeomanry of the two counties, ettlement was the fourth and ed the Buffalo creek settlement, year, 1741 or 1742. his section, but there was very nglisn and Scotch to the north is no intermarrying- for many iv was the first of English de: Dutch maiden. The .German melman's Hill to the fork of i line drawn from Broad river >uth of Bush river, where it entwo or three miles of the county / into which the German eminore prosperous section of the outlined above. ust at this time and in this con:rican is decried so much by the to say that so far as my inves:an learn from the oldest of our e German who had settled in rber of a band of Tories. May > of a single German-American They were libert\v-!oving and ks of the patriots. Can many much for their forbears as the theirs ? stories and anecdotes extant of use the name German instead tiers came from Holland, from e) as to their belief in spells >till standing" near the original ;>hn's church', which I am told i ies who were turned to stone ; )f the occult sciences. flirtmonv 1*^1 Xjy liaiuv., yy iiKs ina:n ilver balls, or bullets, (melting ( molds that made it into rifle >sts. re many such visitants at that 1 their superstition, they were 10 never lost an opportunity to >r or stranger. They furnished ia or state troops. Capts. Jno. louseal's companies were made toss the line in Newberrv. >d fearing, if simple, some of giving below extracts from a companies by a German pastor, dotes and Reminiscences of the ?u earned here from Shermarrv, j had a right to be, and as your re porn so. It was no disgrace the lanalorts had a right to take n dis country you are the landng gave you land he bromised monies put your own selves, d take avav your broperty like :rmany. He has sent over his you und take avay your i burn your houses und ley vill despise und kick you, * vill lou^li at you und say goot because you vould not fight for > be a man oe one if vou are no X * RUNNING THE BLOCKADE. It Was Successfully Done Ages Ago at the Siege of Syracuse. Blockading and blockade running is nol a young war measure by any means. One of the earliest authentic instances of the practice dales back two centuries l/pfnre the Christian era. Marcus Cl-iudius Marcellus, command Ul^ <X |,?v?fcnui i.uiium cilllxj UUU <ui * efficient fleet. In id siege to Syracuse, a rich city on the isle of Sicily. Car thage. Rome's great rival on the north shore of A/iica. one ol the great >e?i powers of t'nit rirrm. was not at all pleased wiih the idea of Rome capturing Syracuse, a free city and probably a source of great revenue through trade with Carthage. Syracuse was a well fortified city, and there seemed to be no immediate j prospect of Rome taking it by storm, j so Marcellus decided to starve its in habitants into submission. lie put a cordon of ships across the entrance to the harbor and arrayed his army on the land side so that no succor could come from without. But he had underestimated the boldness of the Carthaginians. There was no question of contraband in those days?conditional or other. In their swift oar driven jrclleys the sailors, of the African city easily elud ed the ships set to watch the port and carried provisions and war material into the beleaguered city. So successful were the Carthaginians in getting suDDlies into the city?running the Mockade?that had it not fallen through treachery it would have been enabled to hold out indefinitely. While blockades probably had been established before on a small scale, the blockade of Syracuse is one of the earliest in stances where the efficiency of a blockade by sea was of vital importance in I determining the success of war on an ! important seaport ? Muneey's Maga j, zine. : ! LEGEND OF THE DONKEY, j Showing Why the Arabs Beat the Brute With Impunity. In bis article on his journey to BabyIon, In Harper's, William Warfield tells a legend prevailing among tbe natives by which they Justify beating of donkeys, but not horses. "We stopped to change our mules. In > the roadway before the khan sat a; group of Arabs. A servant supplied! them with little cups of tea from a rude samovar. We saluted them, and. taking our places in the circle, we were served in turn. Some one in the dark doorway was thumping away on ! a drum. A boy came out of the khan! beating a poor lame donkey with fly j infested sores. I turned to one of my j neighbors: 44 'Is it not cruel for that boy to beat a lame donkey in that way?' '"Effendi. it is tfio will of God!* *\'Brt you do not allow horses or camels to be beaten thus.' " 'Effemii. the donkey is not like, the horse, nor yet is he like^the camel. The reason is this: Upon a certain day j the donkeys went before Allah and! compinmea luhi mey were grievuusij beaten by men. so tbat life was a greater burden than they could bear. Then said Allah: "i cannot make men cease from beating you. It is no sin, neither does it cause them any great loss. But I will help yoa. I will give you so thick a hide that however much you are beaten, yon shall not suffer." " 'So,' said my informant. It is of no consequence if men beat a donkey. So thick a skin did Allah give him that after he dies men use it in the making of drums, and the donkey continues to be beaten after death.'" Effects of Frost. An egg expands when It Is frozen and breaks its shell. Apples contract so much that a full barrel will shrink antil the top layer is a foot below the chine. When the frost is drawn oat the apples assume their normal size and fill up the barrel again. Some va onnpopfohlv fnlnrod hT 11CIIUO ait uvt U|-p? vv*uu.|f being frozen if the frost is drawn out gradually. Apples will carry safely in a refrigerator car while the mercury is registering fully 20 degrees below zero. Potatoes, being so largely composed of water, are easily frozen. Once touched by frost they are ruined.?Northwest Trade. Devilfish. In Japan devilfish weighing 200 pounds are sometimes caught These fish are amphibious; they are often seen wabbling on their tentacles like giant spiders in search of patches of sweet potatoes. The natives kill them with clubs. In the water they are caught in jars lowered to the bottom, which the octopus enters, thinking them a good retreat from which to catch his food. pigger as your thumb. You hav und some of them fits you like a s! tern or deir pig guns. Your gun petter, as you foights for yourselv that dey do not care nothin' apci fought mit Goliah he took only z not a gin sling or a mindt sling, c one also. It vas a sling like a keel a man if, like Tavid, you fig pravely the Lord will strengthen < and you vill take good aim like His help, can keel the British as all the pretty gals vill come and dem und all dat, as dey did for T; 1 ~ * ? A ka , f. \t\11 ir una IT13.Y UC JL.C1 u ut iuil safe home victors in de fight for your sweethearts. Go und do y BYRON'S UNHAPPINESS. lis Icy, Frozen Mannered Wife and His Cruel Parents. Marie Corelli. the English novelist, cays poets do not really love. If they did they could not write about it. | Tbey imagine they lore. And their ImniMfMitiiin umtn-i/'oj mo tit? fail* nit.' i ILUn^luniii'u tuji'iaw." ?^uuj ^un vv ^ je<-ts. "Byron." shw says, "was an unhappy! man. But lie was not as unhappy as he imagined himself to be. Ele found pleasure, even insrHmtion. In dwelling on Uia own troubles- .iiany pools ciu. ' She tells us that Byron's mother had h?>n n Xfts* Gordon before she mnr ried the shiftless and dissolute Captain Byron, the poet's father. and that amid constant quarrelings, thrashings and unjust abuse and the most coarse and intemperate language poor Byron began his career. "With aiir-h n fnfhpr nnrl snrh fl mother," says Miss Corelli, "the wonder is that he managed to store his mind with so many impressions ot beauty and grandeur and that he was able to lift his soul above his surround-J ings to such a height of intellectual power. 1 His mother's fuiious temper and her cruel mockeries stuns niru. not into a reply, but into silent and lonely brooding on his wrongs. "He himself describes the sense of horror and humiliation which came over him when, in a fit of passion, she called him 'a lame brat.' When Sir Walter Scott met him he said he should scarcely have noticed it In facl, the great novelist was as lame as the great poet, only Byron's brilliant, personality made him, more than Scott, an object of comment. His marriage was a failure. It was a fortunate thing for literature that his wife left him after one year of matrimony. "Had she remained with him his <r*vn!n<a mir^hf hnvp nerished under the freezing influence of sach a paraxon of propriety and dullness. William Howitt tells us that Lady Byron bad 'frozen moments.' '*'1 have seen her,' be says, 'come down in the morning as If she had lain all night on a glacier, frozen, as it were, to the very soul, and no efforts on the part of those around her could restore her for the day to any genial social warmth.'" "Tfco wind le In the Palm Trees." Bat the glory of palm trees! No pictures or description in books bad ever made me realize that before. "The wind is In the palm trees" had been for me bnt a haunting phrase in Mr. Kipling's most famous ballad, but when the bellboy threw open the door of my room (in Nassau of the Bahamas) looking into the hotel gardens 1 "tTliof la th-jf- Qnnnri?'' for 111? VTlAKJUf T 1 UUt fcU (UMV WVV*M?*.P ? ears had been instantly filled with a delicious rippling, as though the room was alive with invisible rivers of running water. I ran to the window. It was the wind in the palm trees?the freshest purest, gladdest sound to be heard in the world.?Richard le Gallienne in Harper's Magazine. A Delicate, Tasteful Breakfast. Apropos of monotonous nniniagtoa? tive breakfasts, Thomas Love Peacock once drew up the menu for breakfast "for a man of taste." "Coffee, tea, cream, eggs, ham. tongue, cold fowl," he wrote, "ail these are good and oespeak good knowledge in him who sets them forth. But the touchstone is fish. Anchovy is the first step, prawns and shrimps the second, potted char and lamprey the third, but lobster is, indeed, matter for a May morning and demands a rare combination of virtue and knowledge in hira who sets it forth."?London Standard. Scotch Judges' Frugality. Scotland might safely be backed at least to rival England in the matter of frugality among her judges. There is Dean Ramsay's story of the dinner party given by Lord PolkemmeL When j the covers were removed the guests were surprised to find that the dinner consisted of real broth, a roast fillet of j veal, veal cutlets, a florentine (an old Scottish dish composed of veal), a cairs! head and calfs foot jelly. Observing the sensation. Lord Polkemmet explained: "Ou ay. it's a' cauf. When we kill a beast we just eat up ae side and, down the tit her."?London Chronicle. Mammoth Cave. "To me the Mammoth ca\~e of Ken*| tucky is simply a [x>rtion of the Grand Canyon of Colorado underground," says George Wharton James, the travorwi nnrhor in "Our American I * UUU ?? , Wonderlands.'" "Almost all the phe-1 nomena of the jrreat cave are revealed in the Grand canyon region, and. given1 time enough, ir is uot incoueefvablfl! that the Mammoth cave might develop j into a Grand canyon region of its) own." I -e on your new uniform coats tiirt fits a pole, but never mind is can kill as veil as deirs und es and theiy for their landlorts it. Yen David went oudt to | l sling und a rock, put it was )r you wouldt all vant to dake goodt hickory stick vat can ht pravely. So if you foights your arms, as he didt Tavid's, i Tavid and your pullets, by Tavid's did Goliah, und den sing for you und let you kiss ivid when he kilt Goliah. Go > de end und pring- you pack j your homes, your wives und i our duty like men. Amen. ] TREES IN BOOKS. Probably the Most Curious Collection of Volumes In the World. There is perhaps one of the most ; curious collections of books in the world to be found in a small town oa tbe continent of Europe, sars the London Tit-Bits. It i* rt'allr a botanical ?11 i : pnliiwia AML. i (TUIltX'liUIl. V/Ul v? <11 Ui\ ra* te ? vnuuc I sents the appeai-am e of a block of [ wood, and thnt is what It actnaHy 1?. i But an examination reveals tile fact that it in also a complete history ot I the parti?*nl;ir tn?o vrhirji it represents. I At iii<* ii;t< k <?f i i k' !"? >!; i!u? I'.trie ! has been removed from a ?pace which allows the scientific and the common I name of the tree to be placed as a Ht!8 for the book. One side is formed from ! the split wood of the tree, showing its | grain and natural fracture. The other | side shows the wood when worked j smooth and varnished. One end shows j the grain as left by the saw and the j other the finely polished wood, ?n 1 nruininn. tho hnnk it iq found to COn tain the fruit, seeds, leaves and other ] products of the tree, the moss which usually grows upon its trunk and the insects which feed upon the di?erenfc ' parts of the tree. These are supplei mented by a full description of the | tree In fact, everything which has a bearing upon that particular tree secures a place in the collection. THE RUINS ON THE HILL Where Richard of the Lion Heart Dwelt In France. ? - ? * i. 3 Fernaps tne loveliest spoi m an uuj winding miles of beauty along the river Seine between Rouen and Paris is Petit Andely. Ragged and shattered looking, the stony hills rear proudly up above the placid river and sleepy town, and squarely upon its crest looms the ; ruin of Richard the Lion Heart's Castle j Gallant, a great, burst keep and a i few bits of massive wall. Once the | castle flaunted its menacing leopard standards against the blue and white [ and gold of the Franldsh skies, but that was before Philippe August? stormed and smashed it and smashed | the townsfolk while he was doing it wow, gnosuy ana wan, uie antra. | ruin shimmers upon its hill, with never a single spear to glint from.keep or barbican. The spears are still growing far below?the stout young poplars on the river bank and Island sentineling through golden days when the rirj er is gleaming jade; in the fiery sunsets, when it mirrors back every sturdy limb and feathery frond, and 1 ** ?? ui _ i.. j fill rue suem uiue ui^uub, r? ucu wo I stars bend <*aekling down to whisper | and coquette and the ripples chuckle I softly against the rich brown banks.? | Arthur Stanley Riggs in National Geoj graphic Magazine. The Parson Bird. Among the feathered inhabitants of New Zealand there is a bird called the pars<fn bird, or tut It is about the size and shape of a blackbird, but has a pair of delicate white tufts at its throat and is a glossy dark green otherwise, which looks black hi the sunshine. It can be t&pght to crow, toj ' speak, to whistle tunes, and, besides these trfcks, it has a repertory which is pot often equaled by any other j feathered songster. At vespers it lias / ; a note like the toll of a bell or the | clear, high note of an organ. It can 1 mimic every bird in the bush to perfection. It will break off in the middle of an exquisite melody and indulge in a strange melody of sounds ? ??? llwriAOcJWfl fA Hhnt if | w liiv;a aic v??v M you can imagine "the combination of i a cough, a laugh, a sneeze, with the smashing of a pane of glass," it will be some approach to the idea. From Medicine to the Drama. The earlier part of Victorien Sardou's career was beset with many trials and difficulties. His parents wished him to ~~ " ftornAr on/1 ha hpfffln laive up a uJCuaai VUILVL. u.>u uv. his studies with some zeal. The lore of the drama, however, was far greater than the love of the pill box, and in the interval of the other work Sardon was busy upon a play. Life was a struggle for him. for he had little money, though he managed to set journalistic work to ; supplement his more slender income. | His first play was a failure, and Sari dou rushed from the theater vowing I never to enter one again. Ha?fell serf ously ill, was nursed back to health by Mile, de Brecourt, an actress who lived on a floor below, and from that time his fortune was made. Ship of the Desert. | For safety and endurance in travel- > ing in desert regions the camel has been found unequaled by any other animaL Its foot is a soft cushion, pecui iarly well adapted to the stones and gravel over which it is constantly walk1 ing. During a single journey through the Sahara horses have worn out threesets of shoes, while the feet of the ! camel, traveling over the same course, were not even sore. ,-f i Not Grasping. "What a grasping fellow yew are, Hawkins! You've bothered me about ( this bill fifty times in ten days." "Yon wrong me, Jaiiey. I'm not grasping. I've bothered you a boot the bill, I admit, bat I haven't been able to grasp anything yet" Cholera. Cholera was first recognized by the Portuguese in India as far back as. the middle of the sixteenth century. It has the peculiarity of following & ! well defined route, with progress Just equal to that of an average journey on foot Mean. "It's so hard to buy for a man." "Yes. I've noticed whem you women are doing it you look as though it hurts."?Detroit Free Press. - .*5 I,