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VOL. 11. MANNING, CLARENiDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBE 88N .1ACK, TIlE 1BUSI! a N( i A THRILLINI STOR OF 1iM The Stranac Eperiecua of.I an i man Who Went GoIJ 1h:li'i in a Where No Man Could Ca! ll l irt- Siffe. (From The Atant c I Reading in your journal an - i headed "A Bushranger Iuterviewca, savs a writer in Chambers', recalls to v'y memory a str -incident which co curred some y ago to my own broth er, when on his way from svd3V to the; gold fiels, and for the acur which I can vouch. At the time of his arrival in *n alia the country was in a state of I a reign of terror existed, caused by the daring outrages committed on parties on the journey to and from the djggings. Robbery with violence, ezscorts shot down, and large consignments of gold carried off, were of daily occurrence. The bush was infested by a gang of des perate bushrangers. mhose leader, under the cognomen of "Jack," seLut to bear a charmed life. For years he h ' evaded all the efforts made to capture him, though the military had scoured the bush. No sooner was an outrage perpc trated than all trace of the perpetrators was lost, as if the ground had swallowed them. He had a perfect knowledge of the most secret movements of the par ties he attacked. 'He seemed ubiquitous, outrages occurring in such rapid suc cession and so far apart. Such an air of mystery hung about him that a super stitious feeling mingled with the mortal terror he inspired. He was represented by some persons who had seen him as a! fine, powerful-looking man, with nothing forbidding in his appeamnce. Even the mad thirst for gold could not induce the bravest person to undertake the journey alone. The gold-seekers traveled in large cavalcades, well armed, and determined to fight for their lives and property; one of these parties my brother joined. He was a hantdseme young fellow, all fun and love of adven ture, and he soon became a general favorite. The "track"-for there were no roads at that time--ran for the great er distance through the brush, some parts or which were so dense as Searcely to admit daylight. Every man was weil armed. My brother had brought with him a first class revolver, purchased in London. This he kept with other valu ables carefully hidden on his person, his other belongings being stowe Lway in one of the wagons. When they bivouacked for the night, care was taken that it was an open space, where a good lookout could be kept, to make sure against a sudden surprise. The wagons were placed in the middle, sentries posted, and scouts placed so that the flight of a bird or the fall of a leaf could not pass unnoticed. All were on the qui vive. For some days all went well, - nothing unusual or alarming occurring. They were-then well into the builsh, and consequent!y, if possible, more vigilant, believing that even a mouse could not i:trude itself among them. One morning it was found that during the night they had been, spite of all their vigilance, mysteriously and unaccounta bly joined by a stranger, who stood in their midst as if one of themselves. No one couldimaginehow orwhencehe came, and utter astonishment prevailed. He was a fine, portly man, from thirty-five to .forty years of age, with an open, pre posseing countenance and good ad dress-one who, under other circemn stances, would have been an acquisition to the party. Not in the least taken aback or abashed by the scant welcome he received or the undisguised surprise hi resence created, he came forward boldly and told a most plausible story to the etfrect that he was a stranger making his way to the gold nields; that, notwith standing the stories he had heard in Sydney of "Jack" and his comrades, he had ventured so far alone, but as he got farther into the bush he lost heart and determined to join the first party he met. It looked strange that he had no lug gage of any kind, not even provisions or anything to indicate that he was bound for a long journey. He made no attempt to account for Iiis mysterious appear anc~e, entered into. the arrangements of the cavalcade, and made himself quite at home. iEvery man among them, with the exception of my brother, believed that no one but "Jack" himself could have taken them by surprise, the gener al belief being thtit could only be from personal experience the terrible bush ranger derived the perfect knowledge he dislayed when making his raids. The party agreed that the wisest course would be to await the progress of events, watch his every movement, and let him see that they were prepared to sell their lives dearly, if driven to do so. The stranger seemed to have an un limited supply of money, and to be gen erous about it, pavPa bis way freely. He took atc o-'' - brother, and the liking was maig in diggers' parlance, they bcae.... .es, chummed, walked and smoked t .:her. My brother found him a well-intrmed, agreeable compan ion, a vast improvement on their rough associates; and he seemed thoroughly to, enjoy the society of the jovial young~ Irish gentleman. A sincere fniendship sprung up between them, notwithstand .ing the disparity in years. i'he other members of the party be came very anxious, fearing the man would tate advantage of my brother's unsuspicious, trusting nature to obtain information that would be useful to hin when forming his plans for the attack which was hourly .erpeeted-i~n fact looked upon as imminient. Nor were their fears allayed when, after a little, he would leave th'e beaten track and wlk. into the bush, remaining away for hours, and returning at the most unexpected times and phaces, showing a thorough knowledge of the bush and all its intrica cies and short cuts qite inconsistent with the story he had told on joining. One thing struck my; brother as strange, but without exciting any sus picion on his part. 'When walking' to gether he would suddenly stand, become quite excited, and say: '-Oh, it was here such an outrage occurred-" "It was on the spot on which we arc standing that the escort was shot down and a large consignment of gold carried off. They did fgM like demons." He seemed to t te ratest picnsure m givi :im:: details of the dilferent outrage h ad occurred, aid always Spok .S I i 1,;ha been an eye-witness. u gh was my brother's belief i 'eW frieLd that eVen1 this did no si::W hi1" faith V ewit hi a lew days of the jour . n, the stranger suddenly an< (cipectedlv declared his inten tiol of parluig comlpany. He offered n< c na'ati as to his reason for doing so 11-i4h ;.i through he had seemed anxi aus to unpress it on them that he in tk::ded to go the entire way to the dig ,ings wi them. No questions wert :ik;er a general and hearty leave tk:g, which, however, did not inspir 'ehl cn.idence, as they were still withi: ran.e of au pssible attack. He asked ml brohLer to take a last walk with him, am the way into the bush further tha ie had ever brought him before, and lo itance from the beaten track The first words the stranger said were ;Mate, don't you cariy a revolver?" The answer was: "Yes, and a first class one. Not such as are got out here I brought it from home." "Show it to me," said the stranger, love a real good weapon;" and withou the siightest hesitation my brother hand ed him the revolver, which he examinei carefully, and saw that the chamber were loaded. He remarked that it wa the "prettiest weapon" he had handle for a long time. IIe walked a few steps in advance and, turning round suddenly, he pre sented the revolver at my brother's head calling out in a commanding tone "Stind!" his countenance so changed a scarcelv to be recognized. At last my brother felt that he stoo face to face with the terrible bushranger but did not lose his presence of mind. For a moment there was a profount silence, first broken by the stranger say ing: "Is there anything on earth to pre vent my blowing out your brains witl your own weapon, placed in my hand of your own free will? The wild busl round us, I know its every twist ani turn. The man is not living who couk track my footsteps through its deptis where I alone am lord and master Speak, man! What is there to preven me?" With a throbbing heart and a quick ened pulse my brother answered: "Noth ing but your sense of honor." The man's face brightened, and hi! voice resumed its friendly tone, an( handing back the revolver, he said: "W< stand now on an equal footing. Yoi hold my life in your hands, as I hek yours a moment ago. Yes, boy, an our own fortune too, but I trust you s you trusted me. I would not hurt i hair of your head, and I have spare( others for your sake. How, you wil never know; but they owe you a deel debt of gratitude. You are a noble hearted fellow; and through the rest o my stormy life I will look back witl uleasure on the time we have passed to gether. But mate, you are the greates fool I ever met. 1 brought you her to-day to give you a lesson which I hopt vou will bear in mind. You are goin amongst a rough, lawless crew; never. ai long as you live, trust any man as yol have trusted me to-day. Where you ar bound for, your revolver will be you only true friend; never let it out of you: own keeping to friend or foe. You at far too trusting. There was not a mar but yourself among those from whom I have just parted who did not believ< from the moment I joined them that : was Jack, the bushranger. Well, mate I am not going to tell you who or wha I am, or how or why I came among you but of this rest assured, that you hav< no truer friend. You will never knov what I have done for your sake. Nowi mate, good-bvye forever. We will neve: meet again inthis world, and it is bes for you it should be so." Then leadin, him back to the track by which he couk' rejoin his party, he wrung my brother' hand, turned and walked qui'skly int< the bush, leaving no doubt upon m; brother's mind that the friend he had s loved and trusted was indeed the dreadc< bushranger. Tihey never did meet again.. M, brother came home to die; and unles my memory deceives me, Jack was she dead in a skirmish with the military. Boys a Preng of War. The good old ladies are now beginnin, to tell us that war is an inevitable fact c the near future. How do you know Simply because all, or mostly all, of th babies born this year are boys. Thisi an unfailing presage of war, as ever sensible thinking man ought to know It is, of course, a very good thing tha we are advised of this fact in ample tim< to trim our sails. Everything will g< up-that is, everything eatable and sale able, and we must begin to store awan and garner up at once. The shodd: clothing manufacturers, and the ingeni ous persons who make coffee out of pea: and hard-tack out of pine blocks car now go to work at getting ready supplier for the army. Perhaps there may be eneral exodus to Canada when this mali surplus in the baby line becomes known but we have lost so many prominen citizens to the unfortunate DLominio. that we arc grief hardened. I hope tha the boy-baby sign doesn't mean a cim war; we have had enough of that. Bu when the girl babies outnumber th< bos it will be plainly understood tha another sort of war is surely foretold the domestic war. This life is one un ending strife.-Cleveland Sun. Perfectiy S'atidled. A widow in a town in the interior o this Staite made her appearance at the otlice of the gas company the other da: and asked if it were true that electrie lights were to supersede Las in all th< public lamps. When answered in the aira tive she continued: "I own ga stck, and I want to know if this movi won't reduce dividends?" "Most assur edly not, madam," replied the Secretary "But there will be much less gas con sumed." "Exactly; but what has th< quantity of gas consumed to do with thi gas uill?" She went away without an swering the query, but perfectly satis tied.-Wall Street News. "You atre a regular dude," rudely o1 * rved a on mnt an expenisivel; reestran ger in the theatre lobby, th oter nig~ht. "Wronig, my friend," replie< ine stranger, politely; "I make dudes rm a taior." y A TALKAi'oT CIl IMEN', Ti*TH. s iRv Dr. Thsonns .1. Vnhe C, of snrtnnburz. )-outh ( arolina. a Gradatte in Utw.itry and t Medicin. It is a ad fact that in spite of the numberess dentists and doct o-s, tooth ace is very largely on the increase. 1 Thousands o1 teeth are extracted annual - ly, which by a tinmely care might have y beev preserved. Not one man in ten has perfect teeth; rot one woman in twenty but suffers fron the many bad effects - arising from this evil. Unfortunately the . strong white teeth of our grandfathers cannot be handed down to us as a gooa ly heritage. The strength and durabili tv of each iudividual's teeth depend in a la ge measure o., the faithful, persistent en'orts of the in thers towards that end. eelig as.Ulred that no appeals made in i behalf of the little ones will be made in vain, I wish now in as -dmple a manner US possible to call the attention of inter ebted mothers to a few facts concerning their children's teeth. A small amount of knowledge and a vast amount of per severance on the mother's part will save the little ones much suffering. In the first place, I will speak of the time of formation. As early as the sev t enth week of fotal life, the formation of - the temporary teeth begins. The growth is carried on through various stages, un s til at birth the twenty decidous or baby s teeth are all in an advanced condition, I and the germs of twenty-five of the per manent set are in a state of development. It is therefore very necessary that all cx pectant mothers live on such diet as will furnish a sufficient quantity of tooth and '.bone forming material. As lime is one ' principal element of tooth structure, it is highly important that it be furnished I in abundance. Nature, always ready to supply her children's needs, is very gen erous in her supply of this element, it i appearing in milk, eggs, vegetables and - fruits, and more especially in the various . grains. In the fine white flour, in sugar and butter, which form the diet of so s many delicate women, not one particle of lime appears. Graham flour, oat 1 meal, cracked wheat and honey, abound I in tooth food. A mother should there fore diet herself according to practical common sense rule, and not according t to a capricious appetite, remembering always that the health and comfort of - another helpless human being is depend - ent solely on her faith.Nlness in per forming nature's simple requirements. A diet of milk, eggs, fish, oysters, meat, with Graham flour prepared'in the many delicious ways, should satisfy any moth er, while such food will double her own I strength, and prove of incalculable bene fit to the unborn child. Lime water is very beneticial at such periods; as it ' often relieves the indigestion and heart i burn from which so many suffer, at the I same time refurnishing the much needed lime-salts directly to the system. It can be easily and cheaply made by putting a f teacup full of uns;acked lime in a half gallon of water, stir thoroughly, and -allow it to settle. When this second t water has become clear, pour it off into bottles, and it is ready for use. A table spoonful in a glass of milk or water cannot be detected by the taste, and it is very beneficial to prospective mothers. Mothers should protect themselves from all skin diseases, such as smallpox, scar r let fever and measles. During this r poriod they invariably render the teeth of the child grooved or pitted, thus making them more liable to decay. For the same reason children should be pro tected from such diseases until after the eruption of their teeth. When about five months old the child t begins to cut its teeth, as the phrase .goes. There is no absolute rule as to Sthe time. Usually the lower teeth pre .cede the upper of the same class, and generally come in pairs. The order and e time of eruption may be seen from the t following table: ,Two central incisors, No. 1, between 3 i and 8 months. Two lateral incisors, No. 2, between 7 y and 10 months. ,Two canines, No. 3, between 12 and S16 months. i First molars, No. 4, between 14 and 20 months. ,. Second molars, No. 5, between 20 and s 3 months. t The child is in possession of all of its temporary or baby teeth, twenty in numnber, by the time it is three years old. I wish just here to impress upon mothers the importance of preserving Sthese baby teeth until the permanent. f teeth appear. A child should never be o allowed to suffer with toothache. Such suffering, in almost every instance, may s be directly traced to the ignorance or - neglect of the mother. In the first place, strict cleanliness should be observed. t As soon as the little teeth appear they should be washed daily, by wrapping a i soft rag around the finger, and rubbing - them very gently up and down. As soon! as praticable, use a soft camel's hair - tooth brush. Immediately on the ap pearance of any decay or spots, a dentist should be consulted and the child's teeth should be placed in his care. Should he be competent and faithful, not one of .the baby teeth would be lost until they fall out, whole and sound, according to nature's method, to make room for the larger permanent teeth. It is not a dentist's whim nor mere theory that t many evils are the direct result of pre I maturely extracting a child's teeth. t Without them a child cannot properly amasticate its food, and thus inctigestion, t with its train of discomfiting evils, is the result. If the nerve is killed, the ab - sorption of the root is arrested, and in tlammnation and guimboils cause the con tinual annoyance to the child. Often this dlead tooth becomes an obstacle in the way of a new tooth, causing it to come out where it can best find room, thus spoiling the beauty of the child's - teeth and face for life. As before stated the permanent teeth are already formued and are quietly waiting in different stages of development, at the root of the baby teeth, nature's time for their ap. e yerne TIhus it is that the permna .nent teeth are very dependent on the care of the first teeth. After a child is . two and a half years old he should be etaken to the dentist twice a year, so tha any incipient decay may be checked by - having thie teeth filled with some of the many soft materials now so widely used. If the dentist is careful and competent, and the mother firm and watchful, little trouble need be feared from toothache, -net only during childhood, but even in e after years. .The cactus is at present the fahionaible corative plant. 'L.hat Is said of the Laing ad of the Dead of ote Party. (Frm the Wa.'rbury A.erican) What remarkably good, patriotic men, are a number of distinguished Demo crats now that they are dead, and can never again be candidates for the suf trages of the American people. There was Seymour-in life a copperhead who truckled to mobs; and in death one of the kindest-hearted of gentlemen, with a ci-aracter above reproach. whose fame is heritage New York should ever cher ish. There was Hancock-in life "a good man weighing 20 pounds," the tool of designing politicians; in death a brave, gallant soldier, without fear and without reproach, honored and respected by all who knew him. And there above all was Tilden-in life "old usufruct," the "sage of Cypher alley," whose name was a synonym for low, disreputable cunning in orthodox Republican politi cal circles, "who stole the livery of the court of Heaven to serve the devil in;" in death a patriot who, in whatever he did, acted only and purely from an in tense love of country, never a self seeker, and whose final deed in leaving the bulk of his great fortune for the beinefit of the people was but the crown ing act of a career of disinterested pa triotism. We can see the historian of the future, as he compares what was said of the great leader, living, by his political opponents, with what they said of him dead, moralizing for the benefit of generations yet unborn on the short sighted habit of lying, so soon to be con demned out of his own mouth. We can even see the future historian sitting down to review the first year and a half of Grover Cleveland's administra tion. Beside him will be a great mass of clippings from Republican papers, con taining editorials on him while he was yet in power. They will discant on the size of his neck and any little personal habit that may be turned into ridicule. Ti.ey will speak of his hypocritical de sire to appear to carry out his pledges to the civil service reformers, while in real ity he was prostituting the public service to carry out the designs of a Cxsar's ambitio'n for a second term. Th"- will show the imbecility which has cha- -- ized his State papers, and the blunders he has been guilty of in trying to pass himself off as a party leader, etc., etc. Then the historian will turn to these same papers-we hope many years in the undiscovered future-for editorial com ments on Cleveland's death. He will ind this same period of his administra tion characterized as one in which an earnest effort was made to serve the pub lic faithfully. All through it will be noted the conduct of affairs was treated with unestentatious business common sense. Honest money was upheld and national credit strengthened; our rights abroad were maintained without bluster; the spoilsmen were kept at bay by strong efforts and the tone of the pnbhe service raised; appointments to oflice were on the -hole exceptionally good. All that has thus far been hinted at was well said the other day by the poet lau reate of the Republican party-John Greenleaf Whittier. Coming foith from his retirement to lay a tribute on the rave of Samuel J. Tilden, who was of ll the Democratic leaders of our day the most bitterly and unjustly maligned by the Republican press, Mr. Whittier closes with these words: "Then let us vow above his bier To set our feet on party lies, And wound no more a living ear With words that death denies." Will not those words of one who has never faltered in devotion to any great cause or in support of the Repachican party with which he has been identifled from his birth, strike a responsive chord in many hearts? There is little gained by indiscriminate abuse of the living. The public discounts it and makes up its own mind about its truth or falsity. It accomlishes no good party end except to keep alive feelings of intense partisan ship in breasts where in any case they would never die out. Why not, then, be fair in criticising the living? When must our criticism be followed by eulogy at the bier? In a~ Ennk. A gentleman greatly interested in col eting statistics of crimes and crrnnmals, once visited a penitentiary for the pur pose of questioning the convicts with re gard to their ocupations before entering upon a career of crime. This was rather iicult to effect, owing to the rigid en forcement of the rule forbidding conver ation with the prisoners. He (lid, how ver, manage to put a qluestion or two to one low browed convict. "What was your occupation before yon came here?" whispered the statistics "I wvas in a bank," was the reply. "Did vou take a clerkship?" "No, I took a jimmy."-Texas Sift ings. A Chinese Prodni~on. It is a curious fact, unknown to the vast majority of people, that the first silk hat was made about fifity years ago; that like so many other articles which are common and of every day use, it was of Chinese origin. The story runs that a French sea captain on the coast of China, desiring to have his shabby beav er hat rep~hiced by a new one, -took it ashore, and as they had not the materi al, they made nun a silk one instead. This, it appears, happened in 1832, and he cried. the hat to Paris the samte year. Here it was immediately copied, md in a few years became a regular style. P'ued:,ient, in old Tue.. The following brief record is reprinted from the 11artford, Conn., Coiunt, un der date of Septeiaber 7,l17l: ILAumtou:, September 7. Last week Davi.id Canmpbell and Alex ander Pettigrew were indicted before the Smuirior Court, sitting in this town, for breaking op~en and robbing the house of Mr. Abiel Abbot, of Windsor, of two watches, to which indictment they bo:h plead guilty, and were sentenced each ~o thenm to receive fifteen stripes, to have their right ears cut off, and to be branded with a capital letter B on their foreheads; which p)unishment was in flicted on them last Friday. Pettigrew bled so much from the amiputation of his VIEWS OF SOUTHERN MEN. EXPRESSIONS OF OP!X N HW$ *. rI.fl' TIE ADMiNiTn.ATION. iow the Ne;:roes Have Been Daird by the i c publicnn Poiiticians-Dihenant he E vents al the Day at a Famous Re-ort. (Letter to the Ncw York S:tar.) WHITE SUnrrrn SPI s, W. VA. August 27.-In ante-bellum days the ne gro in the South bore the same relation to financial questions of the planter as do to-day the bonds and stocks of the Northern man. In those days the plant er hvoothecated his slaves with the banker or cotton factor, as the case might be, for ready money advanced. It is true that the crop returns usualy paid the loan, and the collateral was rarely sold. WhLen peace was declared, that system was forever dead; but the uned ucated blacks were slow to realize the fact, and the memories of those old days lingered fresh and painfl for many years. The carpet-baggers who overran the South with all the destructiveness of seven-year locusts, were quick to note the negroes' fears, and equally quick to impose upon them. Mahone and his ilk did not hesitate to have the colored preachers threaten the members of their respective churches with excommunica tion if they dared vote the Democratic ticket. During the last Presidential cam paign the ne oes were told, and actual ly believed, t t the election of a Demo cratic President meant their immediate return to bondage, the separation of families, confiscation of their property and deprivation and destruction of all that a man, be he black or white, holds dear. By this rank imposition on their credulity the Republicans were enaled to poll nearly the full negro vote. President Cleveland, by his manly course, has done much to kill sectional ism, engender kin31y feelings between the Southern Democrats and the negroes and weaken the power of the Republican party. The Southern negro is a close and shrewd observer. To quote the lan guage of Mr. Valentine, the Virginia sculptor, "he is constantly watching the white man as though to learn his thoughts." To-night the Star correspondent had an interesting conversation with Walker Lewis, the head waiter at the Springs. He came to the Springs in June, 1830, with Governor Floyd. He was a slave then, owned by Judge Nicolls, of -ir ginia. Since that time he has sp.ent every summer here, and his winters have been passed in Washington and Dalti more. Lewis is a shrewd, keen obrerver and an unusually intelligent negro. In speaking of President Cleveland, he said: "Mr. Cleveland is greatly admired by the Southern negroes, and by his methods has done much to turn them from the Republicans. His appoint ment of Matthews in place of Fred Douglass and his refusal to withdraw the nomination, although he has not been confirmed, has especially pleased us. Then, too, he has acted liberally, and given men offices when they had nu right to expect them, and has not disturb ed capable men in oftice simply because they were Republicans. The appoint ment of Postmaster Pearson. of New York, is an instance. It is undoubtedly true that at the time of his election many of the colored people believed they would be returned to slavery, but they now recognize that the statement was simply a Riepublican lie, and it has dis gusted them. MIr. Cleveland is almost unversally liked, and his course since taking his seat has been such as to win many colored voters to him. My race does not say very much, but we have frequent secret meetings and discuss the otical question, and .i know he is pop. lar with the colored people. With the increase of education we are becoming more independent, and the time is not far distant when we will vote as we think best, independent of party. We are waking up to the fact that the Demo crats are not mortal enemies, but that it is as much to their interests as ours that we should receive education and vote in telligently. In Rtichmnond the Democrats pay as much attention to our schools as to the white schools, and eual advan tages are being afforded our children to obtain education." "How is General Lee regarded by the colored people?" "He is very popuiu-, and if he should receive the Democratic nomination for Vice-President in 1888 he would greatly strengthen the ticket. In fact, Cleve land and Lee would sweep the South, and I have no doubt that Mr. Leo would run well in the North and West. He-i is a thorough gentleman and finished scholar, and a man of immense personal magnetism. I know the colored p)eople would be glad to have him nominatedt." In speaking of the feeling of the Mis sissippi negro toward President Cleve land, State Senator J. B. IDoothe, of Jackson, said to the Star correspon~denit: "It is undoubtedly true that in nmy state President Cleveland will receive many negro votes if renominated without any persuasion thereto. He is very popul and the administration is most heartily endorsed. Of course there are some few who believe in the doctrine that to the victor belong the spoils, but they are mostly disappointed oil ice-seekers. Tfhe intelligent Democrats approve of his p)oliev as to Federal oliees, and his re fusal" to turn competent lieptulicaui oiicials out merely because they :are e publicans has been the mer us of wmng over many colored votes." "How is the tariff question viewed i Mississippi?" "The free trade feeling is rapidly growing, and many of our we:dltident merchants favor the aboltiou u1 th tariff for revecnue only, andt the substa tion of direct taxation. The. vie tX L. is best expressed in the ! angua ge of gentleman with whom I was convecrs' a short time ago. lie said he hm~a ~oght a silk dress for his vif at - a yard, and the duty on it w~t over.a p yard. A direct income tax wou'ld meet our views." 'Have you heard any expression of opinion as to the second place on the ticket in 1888?" -"The South would undoubtedly like to .kave either Secretary Lamar or General 'Lee nominated. The latter gentleman is mpoba the ore popular, and would earry more weight with the negroes. WhiWe should like representation on the ticket, however, the South has a rCater interest in obliterating every feeling of sectionalism, and to that end wouId probably not urge representation ou the ticket ats strongly as it otherwise t would. The one great desire of the South. colleeivelv and individually, is to I have Xorthezn nen recognize that we I are American citizens, and have as great -an interest in the preservation of the s Union as they have. For many years we T irae been most unjustly represented as c barbarians. ready to stab the Northern V man in the back. For the feeling thereby engendered in the North we have not and do not blame Northern people, for we recognized that they formulated their I ideas from the maliciously false state- d ments made with a purpose by Northern 1 i Republican papers. We have remained quiet, believing that with the increase of a commercial relations and the mingling of a Northern and Southern men this would b be corrected. This has, in a large mea- P sure, come to pass, and the presentation J of Southern questions in a fair, unbiased t manner by the Star will materially aid t us. Heretefore we have not had a'New I York paper that we could place faith i 1 and look to for just treatment. All that i we ask is that when we are right we be t defended, and when wrong rebuked. 3 iThe World, while read in the South, is 0 not generally liked, because of its sensa tional and unclean style and the charac- 3 ter of its editor. The Herald is regarded i as a weather vane, ready to point in any direction. The Star is liked for its clean- e liness and bright, fearless discussion of vital public questions." TilE NATIONAL GRIDIRON. C f Points of interest Regarding the American T Flag. (From the Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise.) In response to a communication of in- I quiry we give the following, compiled I from the most authoritative and reliable t sources. In the beginning of the Revo- S lution a variety of flags were displayed r in the revoted colonies. After the bat- I tle of Lexington the Connecticut troops s displayed on their standards the arms of 0 the colony with the motto: Qui transtulit s sustinet; and later, by act of the Pro- s vincial Congress, the regiments were dis- C tinguished by the various colors of their w flags. It is uncertain what flag, if any, A was used by the Americans at the battle s of Bunker Hill. The first armed vessels s commissioned by Washington sailed un- ii der the fiag adopted by the Provincial I Congress of Massachusetts as the one to t be borne on the fiag of the cruisers of 1 that colony-"a white flag with a green 1 Pine tree." The first Republican'flag t unfarled in the Southern States-blue, 1 with a white crescent in the upper cor- e ner next to the staff-was designed by f Col. William Moultrie, of Charleston, t S. C., at the request of the committee of a safety, and was hoisted on the fortifica- f tions of that city in September, 1775. h The official origin of the "grand i Union" flag is involved in obscurity. At 0 the time of its adoption at Cambridge t the colonies still acknowledged the legal s rights of the mother country, and there fore retained the blended crosses of St. Georg- and St. Andrew, changing only the fieId of the old ensign for te tir-b teen stripes emblematic of their union. The color of the stripes may have been suggested by the red flag of the army, it and the white flag of the navy, previous ly in use. Congress resolved, on June ' , 1777 "that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constel lation." This is the first recorded legis- 0 lative action for the adoption of a nation- f al flag. The thirteen stars were arrang- c ed in a circle, although no form was pie- , scribed otlicially. The flag thus adopted g remained unchanged till 1794, when, on g motion of Senator Bradley, of New r York, it was resolved that from and after $ Mlay 1, 1795, "the flag of the United d States be fifteen stripes, alternate red u and white, that the union be fifteen a stars, white in a blue field." This was the flag used in the war of 1812-14. The act made no provisions for future altera-g tions, and none were made until 1818, although several new States had mean while been admitted into the Union. In 18163, on the admission of Indiana, a committee was appointed "to inquire ti into the expediency of altering the flag." fi A bill was reported on January 2, 1818, a but was not acted on, which embodied b the suggestions of Captain Samuel C. b Reid, a distinguished naval officer, who e recommended the reduction of the d stripes to the original thirteen, and the e adoption of stars cequal to the number of a States, formied into one large star, and a n new star to be added on the Fourth of f, July next succeeding the admission of c& each new State. On April 4, 1818, a bill b enmbodying these suggestions, with the 1 exception of that designating the man- p ner of arranging the stars, was approved li by the President, and on the 13th of the n same month the flag thus established n was hoisted over the hall of Representa- e tives at Washington, although its legal t) existence did not begin until the follow- '[ ing Fourth of July. iz Il 185, when Congress passed a vote tI of thauks to Captain Reid, the designer t< of the fiag, it was suggested that the c4 mode of arrangement of the stars should a be prescribed by law, but the matter was w overlooked. The stars in the unions of n fags used in the war department of the u government arc generally arranged in a: one large star; in the navy flags they are w invariably set in parallel tines. The blue IL union of stars, when used separately, is b called the union jack. The United States ir revenue flag, adopted in 1799, consists n I M epniua stripes, alternately w rd and white, the union white, with the r; national arms in dark blue. The union cs ued wart.ely constitutes the revenue b nitn. ~ he imericainyacht flag is like b he national 'ig wi ~th the exception of e: th n 1"'en, wie is a1 white foul anchor a in cicleof1, stars, in a blue field. tl -.t 'ular iicience. si ailii geto:.t mc yesterday: "I ^ yrw ngon Tenth street, near the il e1o iuling, this afternoon when I i m ': ' riht aed' colored man. His tI ..w11 -eaakbly clear, and some.-t in ntheir sloe-black depths made me P. tin ha t a singular thing a blue eyed U dake3 vould be. Then 1 wondered if T uchi a comenon could exist, and, g strange to v, whbile I thinking about it, ~ I passed anro. er negro, one of whosev ey es, through some trouble or other, had f become a genuine blue. It certainly was U . mo+ snar. coindence. +-ke it all di MAKING OLEOMARGARINE. low the Stuff is Concocted and What Some of the Profits Are. (From the Philadelphia Times.) A Times reporter yesterday penetrated he mysteries of a margery factory and rhat he learned of the process is told tere. The principal incredient used in he manufacture of the oi is beef's fat, If the best quality, the manufacturers ay. The fat is bought by the load, rheeled into the wash-house in a hand. ar, dumped into tanks of ice-water,. rhere it is allowed to soak. It is then tred into a trough, through which it is hot into a hasner, which grinds it into marrow or pulp, which is forced into a ettle containing a steam jacket and ouble bottom, through which hot water continually run. After the pulp has een melted and boiled in the kee for number of hours it is run oft into nother large kettle, in which it is again oiled, after which it is run off into a umber of small kettles, where it is sub acted to another boiling and mixed with he chemicals used in the production of he oil. After it has been thoroughly 3ixed and boiled in the small kettles it Srun off into a large square tub, where is allowed to cool. It is then run brough a cleaning machine, during rhich process the sterine is pressed out f the oil. The sterine comes out in iin cakes and closely resembles tallow. t is sold by the oleomargarine manu wturers to lard manufacturers, who use to brace up their lard in warm weath r. After the sterine has been extracted de oil is in proper shape for salting. It then placed in a heating room, in ,hich the temperature is from 90 to 100 egrees, where it is allowed to stand for ve days. ( MA IT LOOK LIE GRASS BuTE. Chemicals are used to heighten the right golden color of the oil, annatto emg the principal chemical used for sat purpose. After the oil has been abjected to the heating process it is ady for the churn. The churn is run y steam and is a large tank with a pigot at one end, through which the leomargarine runs after it has been ifficiently churned. One hundred and sty quarts of milk are used in each urn, which, when mixed with the oil, ill produce 1,500 pounds of butterine. Iter the oil and milk have been afficiently churned it is run through the igot into a large square tub, where it es in a liquid state until it is congealed y being mixed with cracked ice. It is; ien shoveled out of the tub on to a mg table, against the wall, where it is berally salted and allowed to lie until ie salt is absorbed. It is then made up ito pounds and stamped, wrapped in overs and boxed up for sale. The Letory is kept quite clean, considering 1c character of the work performed,. ad the process of manufacturing the ncr grades of butterine is not particu 6rly offensive, as comparatively good iaterial is used. But the manufacture f tallow from the commoner fat is at nded by a disagreeable odor, which is ekening. A MistFACTUREB's CLAM. The proprietor of the establishment Lys that oleomargarine is a great deal etter and healthier than common but r and that he uses it on his table alto ether. Before it is thoroughly salted; has an oily, greasy taste, and the sight it piled upon the tables, absorbing hatever particles of dust may be float ig around, is not inspiring and im resses one strongly in favor of the com ton butter. According to the new law,. eomargarine manufacturers ivill in the iture be compelled to pay a tax of two,. mnts on each pound manufactured,; ;amp their goods oleomargarine or but ~rine and discontinue the use of annatto r coloring purposes. They think it ither hard that the law should treat temn so harshly, merely to please the airymen. They claim that the farmers: se snnatto to color their best butter ad that they frequently purchase the Leo oil to mix with their commoner rades. CrematIons at Pere La Chaise. Next month the Parisians will be abre >burn their dead in four .crematoiy irnaces, which have just been finished Pere La Chaise. These furnaces were egun last November, and have been arried on to completion, so that by the ad of August at latest those who in ying express the wish to be cremated. mn be there reduced to ashes. There. ill be first, second and third class cre ations. Poor and rich will be on a, >oting of absolute equality. The price 2arged to those who can afford for the urnmng of a corpse will be 15f.-or, say,. 2s. The furnaces were constructed on. lans by MM. Barrett and Formice. A. rge portico is in front of a dome, be eath which are placed the crematory fur ices. They have the appearance of very egant ovens. Three hundred and fifty tousand francs was the price they cost. hey are, according to the Corini system, tuse in Rorne and Milan. It was found; tat the heat of the Siemens furnace was >o intense. Instead of reducing the >rpse to ashes it subjected it to, kind of vitrification. The cost, too,. ould be 200f., instead 15f., to cre ate with a Siemens furnace. The aclaimed bodies at the hospitals which. e not used for anatomical purposes. ill be taken to the crematory at Pere. a Chaise. Sculptors, goldsmiths and :-onze casters are already busy design .g urns, of which an assortment in arble, bronze, gold, silver, zinc or lead ill be kept at an office of the cremato r.The relatives of the cremated dead .n buy these vessels, and cause them to Sremoved to funily vaults, or to as 1ilding which the city of Paris is to -ect. There could be no greater boon to large city with overcrowded cemeteries an the furnaces of Pere La Chaise. I .not conceive anything more disre 'etful to the dead than the way their 'mains are treated here, even when a -st-class burial can be provided, if th'ere not a family vault in which to place em. Buying a grave is no simple mat r. The delays are endless, and the ap ication for one must go through many u-eaus before official consent is given. Lien there are other formalities to be >ne through. Meanwhile the corpse is a, charnel house, called a provisional. .ult, at a cost of 1f. a day. The re oval thence to the grave, which must ~in masonry at the sides, is acause of mnger to the public heahth.-Paris Di. itch to the London Daily News.