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VOL. II. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WED)NESDAY, SEPTEM8LiR 22 1886. NO.41 \lLAT iS i ll: S'.A-.LilI . I,. A INEIt 13Y OF INTE 'ET T; !.i )aE T. OF NA .1 lAL I W.o.. A Selentine '.t-nwn- 1o '.01 --' Pon't Koow Abotit (Fiom tha %ke u - Twice within a few days parties of ob servers whose trustworthiness is beyond question, and in one case includig a gentleman of such epiable and cev tive mind as a Boston sehoolias- %ay be presumed to phssess, have re prte the appearance near Cape Ann of what in deference to an established phra. they are pleased to call e the se sr pent." The account they give is sub stantially the same as annuaily fi.1 its way to public notice, and is likely to 1b received in the same spirit of scel.tical levity which these narri lives have al ways encountered. An attitude of I:nl: unbelief toward all sto'res that smil ck o the sa't water seeis t be an inrraiUca ble peculiarity of tle humn .hid. A "fish story" is a synonym iora f1.kehood the world over; and i1eed ix the court of public opinion every iman wh'o tells a tale of sights at sean is presum to be a liar until he is proved inuocent. The person, therefore, who has the termerity to state that he has seen the sea serpent quite regains his old position in public esteem; to have chanced to ob.t-rve an unfaniliar marine animal "swiftly un dulating along a quarter of a mile to leeward" is a violation of the proprieties i which one can hardly hope to live down. This state of things may be oly one phase of the generalindisposition of man to acknowledge that others have seen what circumstances have concealed from his own sight, but at all events the so called sea serpent, whose persistcnt re appearance may be regarded as a pathetic attempt on its part to prove its own ex istence to a skeptical world, is either jeered by the paragraphist or silently relegated to that region of mytus over which Munchausen and Sinb d hold sway. But even Sinbad's tales, when rcad in the light of modern science, are readily interpretable in many cases as istorted .Ad magnified versions oi actuA facts. And, in much the same way, beneath the exaggerations and absurdities with whnich different observers have deseried the so-called sea serpent, there is u.ndu.bted ly a basis of truth. Indeed, what reson is there to doubt that such an animal exists? The only considerable arment against its existence is that advanced y frofessor Owen, who objects thiI it existed we should be able to find either its separate bones or its coniilete skele ton. Such objection, however, .as nio validity, because we never find the bones of whales or seals save on beache.s where men have killed them; nor do ve ever discover the skeletons of the countless thousands of birds that die in the ?orests. Nature is her own scavenger; we never come upon her burying 1laces. We imay not, therefore, deny the existence of a sea monster simply because its sk leton is not obtainable for the museums. On the contrary, the fact of the exist ence of some snake-like marine animal unknown to the present zoologist is - tested by a throng of witnesses. Wc may not rehearse here the long list of cireum-I stantial and detailed narratives of thoe t more or less eminent men, from Diodo ruas.Sieulus to the president of the Glou cester Common Council, who profess to have s-.en the monster in question. Any librarian can furnish the ingumug. read er with a sufficient number of thes a- e counts to keep him in interesting read ing for two days at h as!. Then nrrators include clergymen of all nationales and creeds, physicinis, expenienced travelers, hard-headed business men, naval oflicers of such repute as our own Commander Preble, and a host of others equ~ally dis interested. Many of these accoun.ts must be set arside as obviously colored up for effect. But even then there remains an accumulation of evidence too w eighty to be withstood. There is, of cours, mueia exaggeration; but after setting a lide theI "personal error" for which tniedI ob servers always allow, the general cone rence of the details given in thes~e vani ons accounts is indeed remarkable .Al the observers have found the animal only in northern latitudes; all agree tha its color is blackish brown above and white beneath; that its prominent eyes are on the top of its flattened head; that it moves at the rate of five or six knots an I hour; that it is harmless and even timid, I and that its undulatory movement is caterpillar-like, that is, vertical and not lateraL. There is, too, substantial agree ment in placing its size at seventy feet in length and twelve in circumie~rence. This concurrent testimony from hun dreds of witnesses, strangers to each other-and often separitted by cenaturies of time, sulliciently proves the existence' of such an aninmal as they describe . A line of porpoises, a school of hors~e mackerel, a mass of sea weed, an old mast covered with barnacles and tossing1 on the waves, have each been mistaken for a sea serpent many times. Never theless, unless all the laws of ev idence are at fault, there is in actual existence precisely such a marine monster as reported near Cape Ann. The so-called sea serpent is not a myth. What, however, as a matter of fact, is the animal which bears in popular phraseology this alliterative name? We may boldly assert that it is not a epet All observers agree that it undulates ver tically, like a caterpillar. But any one who takes the trouble to examine the, structure of the vertebrac of serpents wil see at once that they are cpabhle aofnoj other undulatory movement than a Liater al one. There are plenty of sea ser pents, but none over live feet in length, and all have their tails 11ptrtne de ways so that they move thrnu;;L te water like eels. We have, then, as de scribed by its observers, an animal utter ly nknown to the zoologist, at least as a contemporary form. 'The only infer ence therefore is that it is a survival froma some group of animnslls now on the verge of extinction. When, however, we ask what this group is, there are t wo edually go -d answers. It may be a sumvor of the saurians-probably the enioesaurin --to whose form, as known to the paleontologist, it corresponds with suf ficient exactness. Or it may be a sur vivor of some snake-like cetacean, such as the zeuglodon, to whose habits it largely conforms. Most scientists notably Professors Proctor and Agassiz -* -inelin to the former supposition. There is, hows ver, eonsideIrable ground for the latter. All its motions are ertaceanl; it is uniformly described as thru.ting his head out of water-a cus toma to wihich sperm whales are much ad dieted: its undulatory movement may he seen illustrated by every school of porpoises: it rises suddenly to the sur face, or sinks like lead to the bottom, as e-very wh-dlnman knows his victim can froni the peculiar structure of its lungs; and its harmlessness is also cetacean, as Whales seldom attack save under excep ional cireainstimnees. lut u hether the so-called sea serpent is a zeuglodon er an enaliosaurian, we shall never know for surety till we secure its skeleton for the zoologist to classify. Aid very p)ossibly this may yet be done. The existence of the devilish was long lenied, but finally a specimen was ob tained that silenced all cavillers. Hereto ore observers of the sea serpent have ither stared in childish wonder, run twayV- in abject fear or peppered the nionster with harmless shot. Soine day i old whader with a harpoon may make capture that will bring him fame. In le' meantime we may as well admit that wbe man who announces the reappear nee of the so-called sea serueit is not ] accessarily a deluded ignoramus or a raisitir. Douttless many of the mon ztcrs reported by summer excursionists : Liave no more real existence than the I ;c-mblanee of a whale which Polonius I aw in the clouds, but nevertheless there I s in actual life and presumable vigor a I uirious, but harmless, marine animal -rroneously called the sea serpent. Tk 3 dieve all the stories that are told of it ,s credulity, but to deny the possibility >f its existence is presumption. TIE GREAT FRAUD. ina Ohio Prper Tel i Why It I Not Forgiven or Forgotten. (F--n the Cincinnst' Sun.) A Democratic contemporary, 'which is lisposed to take an extreme view of the attter, says it is to be hoped that the :rustees of the Tilden library, when it is ,stablished, will make some provision to %clude BRutherford B. Hayes from the rivileges of the munificent establish nent. It even declares that "Haves VOuld be likelv to steal the books which I he late President Tilden provided for he benefit of the people." We quote: his matter-a specimen of much that is t :urrent in print-to show that the in lignation over the fraud of 1876 has not lied out. General Haves is a most re .pcctable citizen of tlis State, against vhom, personally, we are not disposed I o rail. Le was an excellent soldier, and tequitted himself well in the civil offices Qhich he held in Ohio. As a Republi an, he felt himself better than his par y, but the force of circumstances car -ied him along with his party into the C reatest wrong that has ever been per etrated under a republican form of gov rument. General Hayes is, unfortu iately for himself, the personal repre entative of the most rascally fraud nown to a hundred years of politics. t ven his soldier record, his unassailable I )rivate character, and his dignified be- C savior in Ohio politics cannot save him t rom the disgrace of 1876. 1 Many of our Lepublican contempora -ies seemed to think that the death of ffr. Tilden would stop the cry of 'fraud." There was a degree of Repub ican self-congratulation on this point hat bespoke a consciousness of guilt. L'e demise of the Democratic candidate >f 1876 seems only to have intensified 0 he Democratic feeling. Mr. Tilden, hough a man of splendid attainments tud especial value as a leader, was a see-I )dary consideration. It was the Dem >cratic party that was defrauded. More han that, it was the voice of the people hat was stinled. The Democratic re nembrance of the rascality of 1876-77 is 1 iot buried with the mortal remains ofC he Democratic standard-bearer. The 1 nonimental theft which postponed the ~scendnacy of the Democratic party in he government for eight years--wlich, i n other words, drowned popular acclaim or two administrations-will be particu-'e arly preserved in the minds of D~emo, ~rats as long as one oi the principal po- 1 itical thieves still undertakes party bur- I ~lary in Ohio, and as long as another of he unscrupulous "visiting statesmen" is ;lorified as a Senator of the United -states from the third State in the U'nion. I WVe need scarcely specify personally for 1 >tur intelligent readers. The man who reads as he runs must -ecognize Edward F. Noyes as the origi mil of the first picture and John Sher nan as the man who sat for the second. Che Republicans complain about con tant Democratic reference to the fraud >t 1876, but keep the feeling of distrust live by persisting in debauching the >allot box. Since the work of 76, in I vhich they were so eminently success ul, they have won a Presidency by cor -upting the State of Indiana, and in 1884 :hey flooded every voting precinct in Jhio with a corruption fund. They even indertook to smirch the record of the -ural districts of the Buckeye State for osty in elections, and in Cincinnati :vcarried the day by organizing a mob icriminals to intimidate peaceable citi tens and murder the regularly consti -ated officers of the law. The Demo-; yrats have ground for complaint. A liiurnal acclaim for a generation of mcnj yannot wipe out the awful record. i .in Idea for FaIrs. A new idea for fsiirs has been success Eully worked out at Islington,' England, md might be adopted at bazars in this :oantry, when gypsy tents, ChristmasI :rees, iebecas at the Well and other I w~el-known attrmetions become undesira ble. At the Islington bazar interesting!. iistorieal builings were reproduced,i cad their interiors embellished with lib rall ad tastcfully supplied tables, ,residea over by ladies in characteristic 3 -tumes. The homes of Wvclifre, Tyn ale, Shakespeate, Cowper, John Bun va, Wii a P ni, MIilton and Words a or t were rep)roduced. A military ea v. with tenits and other Iittings, oc raie t of the hall, and a crowning cf the Mlay Queen and old English sports* formed the entertainment of the fair. Adapted for this country, different bazars :night represent Priscilla's Kitchen, the homes of some of the poets and other1 lisorical buildings, while an Indian vil lage would doubtless be a great attrac tion to any bazar. Going to learn to dance, Claudef" AN A.1131011 ELTED CRUI.El. Orlando, the Latest Add!i[ons to the lBriti Naiy. .unt Launched. (LoIon Correspnn!erce of Cincinnati'Enquirej Orlando, the first ,f the "armor belt( cruisers" building for the British nav; was launched on the Tyne a few da, ago by Palmer's Shipbuilding Compai (limited.) She is 300 feet long, 56 fe< wide and 37 feet deep, with a norm: draft of 21 feet and a total displacemei of 5,000 tons. She is built of mild stce ith a belt of "compound" or "stee Faced" armor 5 feet deep and 10 inch< thick on a 6-inch teak planting, whic extends for 200 feet on each side. On evel with the top of the "belt"-that 11 feet above the water line-and rui nling for the same length, there is a ste< leek 2 inches thick, which at a distanc f 50 feet from cach end slopes dowr wrard at an angle of 30 degrees, wit leek and plates 3 inches thick. Th >penings of the decks are protected b irmor shutters or shell-proof gratingi rhe engines, boilers, magazines, etc. ire placed beneath this protective decl md the navigation of the ship and th [iring of the guns will be directed froi i "conning tower" covered with arim plates twelve inches thick, placed at th Eore end of the ship, and communic ;ion to the various parts of the ship wi )ass through steel tubes eight inchc ,hick. The ship is divided into or iundred water-tight compartments, th aulkheads in some parts being excel ionally strong. The engines and boiler occupying four water tight compari nents) are placed in the middle of th ;hip, with coal bunkers on each side fiv eet wide. Beneath the engines an, >oilers there is a double bottom, divide, uto compartments, to be filled with bal ast water. There is an open space bc ween the bunkers and the ship's sidc rhe magazines are placed in the middl inc of the ship, fore and aft of the el ines, with store-rooms, shaft tunneh tc., on either side. She will have tw, ets of engines, one for each screw, c he "triple-expansion type," with forty wo-inch steam cylinders, indicating iorse power of 8,500, and will stear iineteen knots per hour. She has fou >oilers, with six corrugated flues caeb ,pable of working to a pressure of 13 >ounds per square inch. Her steerin! ear is placed aft, below the water line aid she has eight tubes for dischargina orpedoes. Her armament will consis f two twenty-two-ton guns, ten five-toi uns and sixteen Hfotchkiss quick-firin! nns for throwing six and three-poun< hot. The twenty-two-ton guns will b laceed on the upper deck, mounted o: utomatic carriages placed on revolvin, )atforms and protected by steel shields he six-ton guns will also be placed 0: he upper deck, five on each side. ( he small guns fourteen will 1-c placet >n the main deck and one at the top o :ach mast. Her ship's company wil onsist of 420 officers and men, fo vhom accommodation is provided oi he main deck. The builders have mad< apid progress with this ship, as the con met was only given them in April o st year. They have another ship 0 xactly the same plan now building fo: he British government. The contrac >rice for the hull and engines, each ship s ?224,000. Talking of armaments, one is remindei hat the Victory, Nelson's old flagship a he battle of Trafalgar, was one of th< hips inspected by the "colonial and In ian visitors" who were the guests of th< Laval officers at Portsmouth ten day: .go, and a comparison between he: rmament and that of one of the moderi hips illustrates very strongly the revo ution that has taken place in navai .rhitecture and ordinance since the be inning of the century. While the Vic ory carried 104 guns at the battle c: rafalgar' the entire weight of he: roadside was only 1,160 pounds, whil< nc gun of the Intlexible will throw >rojectile of 1,700 pounds. In othe: vords, one of the modern eighty-toi uns 'will throw nearly five hundrei >ounds more metal than the whole arma ent of the largest British ship engagei ,t Trafalgar. The gross tonnage of th< ictory was 2,200 tons, while the Inflexi le has a displacement of 11,400 tons The former is a wooden sailing ship o. he old "three-decked line of battle ype; the latter is a twin-screw iro: xmor-plated turret ship, carrying fou: uns. The Inflexible took a pronminen >art in the bombardment of Alexandria flow Somec of U's Are Talked To. It is a foregone conclusion that thi hief end of woman is to marry. Andi f no less true that the question of mar iage is one in which the women of th< 'orld are more nearly interested than i: .ny other. This being the ease, the won er grows that there are so many il .ssorted marriages and unhappy homes A little common sense in matri nonial affairs, although it may despo: he courting days of something of thei -omance, is a very good thing. * 3Man, of all animals, is the most sus reptible to creature comfort. A lovin; meart and a caressing hand are very al uring, but they lose some of their en ~hantment if thcy forget to season th oup and show an utter disregard fc hirt buttons and sock heels.* * A man has an eye for beauty in hi ife. He notices the soft wave of he air and the fit of her gown with a sor >f pleasurable pride, even after time an< rials have dimmed the glamor of firs ove. The successful wife must represen o her husband all the virtues; must bj mvmpathetic, and at the same time sens ;le. She must be bright, entertainin; Lind agreeable at home as vwell asard Ld she must know how to preserve s. enee when it is desirable to hold he ongue, even though she is ready to burs ith indignation. If she does not po: ess these qualities, let her cultivate them nost assian~oudy . A woman's natural imuses lead her to ~hoose a ruler and gaiide in her husb and ery few women desire to ndle the nua :o whom they link their destiny. Th :rue wife gives to her husband her heart est gift; she rejoices in him, is proud o. im, and wishes the whole world to be ii smpathy with her. But let her not er A thinki'ng that her love can hold his The love which promp~ts unselfishnes ;houghtfulness and consideration i., ver; good, so far as it goes; bunt it must bi mempered with common sense, so that i its absorption it does net neglect th :omfort of the house and forget to bi igreable and dainty.-Philadelphia Ik TIHE IqAiIESEi T 'S 1E1N. lIE -i EXPECTEI :-00' TO OC(TPY I1?S )COT.AE. d - , Vacation of Cabbie: OtlIcers-Secretary Man s inq- Intenton to Retire from Public Lire V Other 31ntters. At (cr:po::dence of the Bal:imore Sun.) it WASImNNOrOs, September 17. - The 1 out-of-town season is about over, and 1- Washington society is returning to its city home. The President has probably a grown weary of fishing and gunning in s the Adirondacks, and no doubt is look in- forward with pleasant anticipation to occupying his remodled cottage on Georgetown Heights. Int)rmation re h ceived here yesterday indicates that he e will start homeward this week. During his aosence the repairs on the cottage have been pushed forward to completion, and the interior thoroughly cleaned and a burnished, so that all is in readiness r for the reception of the President and his wife should they arrive here to-mor row. It is the intention of the President s to occupy his cottage until cold weather C sets in, and even then he will probably c spend his winter Sundays there. The return of the President will, of course, S be the signal for the home-coming of the cabinet and other prominent officials, c who feel that they are not entitled to a e longer vacation than the head of the Government. Postmaster-General Vilas will return from his home in Wisconsin the later part of the present week, al though his wife and family may delay their return to Washington several weeks c longer. Nothing definite is known about the intentions of Attorney-General ' Garland, but at the Department of Jus a tice he is expected here before the first f of October. Secretary Whitney has no tified his steward to' have the I street a residence ready for occupancy by the 2 latter part of next week, and also to r straighten up things at the summer house, near the President's cottage. See 0 retary Lamar will be in Washington when the first cabinet meeting is called. He enjoys taking his vacation in driblets whenever the spirit moves him. Secre t tary Bayard has remained at his post all 2 summer, and it is probable that i.e will take a brief but much-need vacation dur 1 ing the month of October. He will seek a secluded spot, where he can have abso lute rest and an opportunity to recuper ate. sEcRiETAly IANNI'S inETIRiEMtNT. There are but few persons who expect I Secretary 3anning to resume his seat at f the cabinet table. His personal friends and those -who are in frequent communi cation with the m mbers of the Manning family assert positively that his decision ajto retire from the Treasury Department is final, and has been unchanged since f he forwarde-I his resignation to the Pres ident. The lai'er was and is now averse to losing Mr. Manning from his olicial t family, but he realizes the true condition of fr. Manning's headth, and therefore cannot conscientiously insist upon his re i maining. Had Mr. Manning's resigna t tion been promptly accepted when first tendered', there are hundre 's of anti . administration people who, it is claimed, would have seized upon the opportunity 5 to charge that there was a political dis agreement bctwteen the President and his best friend and most valued political - adviser. As soon as Mr. Manning's fam iily physician diagnosed the case, he an . nounced that it would be almost as much . las the patient's life was worth for him to f ttempt to tax his br-ain with the cares and responsibilities, to say nothing of the physical duties, of Secretary of the Treasury. As much as the President re ~gietted to make a change in his Cabinet, he was obliged to bow to the inevitable. jit was determined, however, that there -was no necessity for hasty action, as jActing Secretary Fairchild .vwas fully competent to manage the financial branch -of the government. In the meantime, -the extent of Secretary 3Manning's phy fsical infirmities has become apparent to all reasonable persons, and he will reluc Stantly retire from public life. F EXTnA WORK FOR THlE CLERKS. One night last week, Chief Clerk You mans went down to the Treasury Depart ment about 10 o'clock, and found a large force of clerks at work in the olices of the First Comptroller and Treasurer. As Ssuch an occurrence was somewhat un t usual, MIr. Youmans asked a chief of - division why the clerks were working at such a late hour. The chief frankly in formed MIr. Youmans that the settlement - of the Alabama claims had imposed a large amount of additional work upon . the bureaus interested in adjusting the claims referred to. Besides the extra 1 work imposed, much annoyance and de r lay in the work have been occasioned by the frequent visits of claimants and their - attorneys, urging that the cases in which Sthey were directly interested should be madec "special." The rules of the de partment r'squire that all persons seeking einformation relative to public business r shall be granted a respectful and patient *hear-ing. Many of the Alabama clain sants, it is said, presume upon this rule toj r occupy the time of the clerical force in t endeav oring to p)ush the settlement of 1 their respective Cases ahead of others. t This class of claimants resort to the most t adroit of methods to get into the Treas c ury Depar-ttuent after the regular visiting ihour, which is 2 1P. 31. Every hour or hlf hoir which they consume in apkpeal , ng to clerks to make their eases "sp)e -~ Ial delayi~s the work on other cases that r much longer-. To avoid any further t troub le and delay~ by visiting claimants, -3r. Youmans has issued a special order hawhch will precvent such persons from enatering' the~ Treasury' buidinig after -) o 'lock. Uless authiorized to do so by . h Secrtar, no cases of this character 2a1 i made - special," but all of them Swill be settlea in the order in which they s were passd upon 'v Lhe auditing olli'cers. f For the past week t1ae clerks in Treasurer a Jordan's oilliee have worked extra hours r drawin.; dr-afts for the payment of these .claims, which arc pIromp)tly signed and , registered and mailed to the re-spective. ehclimants. eThe principal clerks of the Navy lDe a partmenit are said to lbe dissatisfied with e the present rules governing the purchase~ e of supp~lies. .Secretary Whitney discov -ered some time ago that the chief clerks [o bureane were in the habit of ignoring contractors who are under agreement t furnish supplies to the dopartnnt. am procuring any articles they wished fh open market. lie issued an order a once directing that all supplies slIoia come from the department contraet)rs The order at first was not obeyed, hui after several of the clerks were forced t( pay for the articles purchased in viola tion of it, they came to thie conclisIor that Secretary Whitney was determined. S E.NATORIA L FbI!EHRIIEN Their Faiorite Resort at ;I* ne1 o;oe3- IIIh Maryland 31ountairns. (c'orrespnderce of thc F.iadc9'. :!.) POINT OF RoCKs, Md., September 16. -Along the Potomac near this little mountain station is onc of the fint-st fishing places in the South. It is only thirty miles from Washington and has long been the favorite resort of legisla tors who have a penchant for the rod. Three rocks jutting up from the stream are known as the "Senatorial Rocks" and one further down as the 'Presiden tial Rock." The people of the village are ever eager to tell of the famous fish ing excursion here three years ago. when President Arthur and Scuators famp ton and Vest sat on those rocks through four long hot days and caught nearly four hundred fish. Nearly every week during this summer one or more Sena tors have been seen perched on the rocks angling for the sportive swiiumners. Ac cording to the testimony of the villagers, Senators Wade Ilampton, Vest and Kenra are the most persistent and suc cessful anglers, with Eamunds, Frye and Gorman as good seconds. Hampton was here four times during the spring and early sunmer, and stopped over for two days after Con gress adjourned. He is the most silent of all the Senatorial fisliermen. While his negro body servant keeps the hooks baited and a mysterious dark flask ever at his master's hand, the Senator is con stantly bent forward, with evesintent on the sparkling, except when the passing fish bites. Then, unlike most Senatoria fishermen, he does not get excited and give the line a tremendous jerk which throws the fish high into the air and back again into the water. As if afraid of hurting the swimmer, he elevates the pole gently until it is above the surface, draws it in slowly, lets the negro detach it; then in a moment the line is once more sinking in the water an(l the Sena tor is bending forward as if his life de pended on catching every motion of the string. It is said that he has never lost a fish in getting it out of the water, and that no man who has ever a.ppeared on these fishing grounds has been mole sue ssful than he. A catch of sixty fish in one morning is credited to him. From those caught, he selects a dozen or so for dinner and gives the rest to any one who will take them. There are some queer stories afloat [ere about his servant going into the village three times a day to replenish the aysterious dark flask, but no eye-witness >f the occurrence could be found. Be ides it was a time when Senators Vest md Blackburn, of Kentucky, occupied Lhe adjoining rocks, so if there be guilt Elampton should not bear it all. Vest is hardly inferior to the South arolina Senator in handling the rod. Dcasionally he gives way to a little ex :itement when there is a particularly harp nagging at his line, but, genunall speaking, he is a calm and scientitic fish rman. He was the teacher of President rthur in the science and this account, or the warm friendship which exi.ts Le ween the two. Just before Congres djourned Mr. Arthur wrote to the Sen tor, saying that as soon as his health )ermitted he would like to have another leek at Point of Rocks. Senator Vest s not so silent. HeI intersperses his atchaes with stories ab out his fish sue esses in Missouri ad out at Yellow stone Park, but all the time keeps a close vatch on his line. He has, perhaps, the inest fishing tackle that has been seen ni these parts. The rods arc of a pCcu-I iar cherry-colored reed and his reels are silver. T.he set cost, it is said, about 3150. Kenna, of West Virginia, who was out >n the river yesterday, has the repruta bion of being the champion angler of West Virginia. Unlike every other fish rman, Senatorial or otherwise, he car cies a real bait bottle. This may be ac younted for by the fact that lhe is a ten perance man an private life. The West Virginia Senator goes about flshing i regular backwoods style. D~rcssed in lean trousers tucked in boots, a bhte shirt and a short rusty alpaca coat, he ooks like the typical dweller on the banks of the Potomac. He digs his own biait, attenrls to his own hooks and ~aanipulates his catches with his own liands. In fact he believes in carrying >ut the role to the letter rather than playing the gentleman angler. lie loves to tell stories about his great doings on he Kanawh'a, and the truth of his tales re corroborated by his home people. [Ie ranks next to Vest as a fii-story ehler and is infinitely morc truthful. Senator Edmnands, who is now up i Maine handling the rod, is known t very villager about here. What i srange to Washingtonians, they speak >f him as the "jolly old bald-Leaded fel ow." He is certainly ball, and is ooks justify his being called oh!, but jst hew the people got the ipe-ssion hat he is jolly it is hard to gue s Ier Laps he thaws out away from the dignrity >f the Senate chamber. Perhaps the aountains and the river and the simple ~ountry people recall the day of lid -hildhood and stir the sluggish blood i als veins to its youthfuli vgor. Perh-ap :he Senate restaurant-keeper~ kid-'ly i good suly of cold tea in hi vai aor use on the Potomac, or p'erhaap-buta litr all it isall only gir eework. T? \ ermiont Senator is like HaI nz sient contempIlation of the wa ve a lik him, too, in scientille managaneihCt >f his rod. In the hltte iat of - last lhe c aughlt fifty-six ish freo:. Eiis attire while on the river is t.esm is he w'ears in the Senate ehmber 1 i exception of0 a big, broad'-brimed -in Erye andx G-ran ~ave .aie faU : oint of Rotcks alsO, bu Ly ar' to bus wit their homeC'1 cam in ti m'umear to give un i'ime to 'nlig irve never carries any rAd with i. With a comimon line wenn aromi a bi)tj >f wood lie starts for the ive and (utI a pleh on the way down. In fat.' goes about the matter much after' the manner of a schoolboy and seems~ to en-' iov it all with a thorouwhly , outhful ap prtoiation. lie was one of President Arthur's favorite companions, under the pree(ling administration. Senator Gor man lives only a few miles from Point of Ilocks, and frequently brings his guests up here for a days' fishing. He is exceedingly fond of the sport. When le 'mLkes an unusually large catch he is as gleefui as a child. While on his way from Hagerstown to Baltimore, a few days ao, he had to stop over here for hali an hour to await his train. He spent his whule nime down at the river bank !1ing longingly at the "Senatorial 1ocks." lie said that as soon as the political conventions in Maryland were over le -would come here for a week and bring the President with him, if the lat ter had not got enough of the sport up iin the Adirondacks. ML. It. THLE SOUL OF GOOD IN EVIL. Som Timely and Beautiful Extracts frona an Old Lecture by Paul I. Ilayne. Beyond the orbit of Longfellow's "red planet Mars," wheeling in circles which sometimes interest each other, astrono mers discovered between 1800 and 1807 four siall planetary bodies, to which Sir John Herschel has given the name oF asteroids. Deviating so much from the Path in the heavens described by the other tenants of our solar system that the zodiac must be expanded five times its breadth in order to include their orbits, bearing with them traces of atmospheric phenomena and gigantic scale; and what is most remarkable, pre senting to the observer's eye not the form of an oblate spurid, but edges ruggcd and uneven. It has been con jectured by Prof. Olbers, of Berlin, that these bodies originally united in one great planet, must by some strange ex plosion have been scattered into space, whenever they gleam upon us now with the light dimmed and mournful of a fragmentary existence. A doom akin to this may be resting latent in the bowels of our own earth. Sometimes we hear the demon muttering his mysterious language and rolling his thunders underground, and then, un chained for a season, he riots in earth quakes or soars upon the fumes of vol canic exhalations. Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in a night. Lisbon, with her thousands, vanished like one of those dissolving "carth bubbles" to which Banquo com pares the wind sisters in Macbeth. Itivers that have flowed for ages with in their appointed bounds are precipi tated into new channels, or swallowed up in the vortices of fire and smoke; fcrtile plains shiver like glass beneath the heel of some malign enchanter, and the whole globe trembles as with throes of dissolItion. And yet, in the economy of nature what are these convulsions but the nor mal vents where through the earth's overcharged heart relieves itself of the pestilent humors-the consuming heats which seethe and boil about the core of her vitality? A few days, months, or years and her scarred visage assume again the lovliness of old; from the site of her lava burials and the chasms which show n here her sick agony was all but mortal, a richer verdure courts the airs of heaven and waters more brightly beautiful .la.h back the splendor of sun igh anid t a rs. Th'e earthquake, the tempest, the pas sion of voleanic eruptions, are therefore but visitors of mercy. Were it not for tleir strong agencies, we too might have been rolling through the "voids im 'mieue. s'orn of our birth-right of life a glorv! Desolation for an hour; stabi lity for centuries; the urheaval of ancientlandmarks to-day, and to-mor row the beginning of a new order of harmonious law, which progresses from epoch to epoch, along pathways of :kxeicence and love; sudden deaths to hundreds of thousands, and the fullness of life to myriad~s, perhaps of genera tions! Such are the sublime compensa tions of P'rovidence. Who, then, can doubt that our wonderful physical sys temn, baleauced and controlled by the omnipotent arm, is but a type in its per fect advancement of that moral, spiritual and political world within whose orbit humanity is called upon to act the drama of its destiny. In the conceit of theoretic reason we "may ask: " Wherefore, 0 Giod! hast thou done thus and thus?" Or with the Spanish sceptic's audacious hardihood we may attirm that "if God had only consultemd us at the creation, we could have favored him with hints to his advantage;" but, despite man's blasphemy and foll;-, the kind "All- I F'ather" is leading him through proces ses he cannot comprehend to the noblest fruition of his hopes. "It suits not," says the archangel in "Festus," It suit~s not the eternal laws of God That evil be immortal! Yet on this temporary, partial stage of human action it is often through evil alone that the highest possible good is evolved, and in proportion to the magni tude of the evil may be the vital grandemns of the benetit. The~se are truths that we should all Lce ~mpt2tion to utter skepticism to "curse God"' in our hearts and "die" rises upon too many with a terrible force. Yet from the depths of sorrow and pain, if we listen aright, comes the voice of a beautiful consolation which seems to say: "From the ashes of corruption spring the flowers of verdure, the rich blooms of earth, and so in the loathe semenuess of sin and error and all "things evil," lies hidden away, but slowly gath erin its power's fo'r resurrection, the im .orta 1 eul of god." 1r ul~ak, a Sw edish surgeon, . e vs uabl to etet th slightet pa~h~ied e':wgs intheright eye, on ;13,wasyetcoimpletely blind on - : sie. o.,evmig eonsidenable de-{ e lth teth sn hr to 3I. Skogs a . enal rgon who found thatc - :oer nd ower molars were em~uta dee iI, 'md thx't in many of~i the o..ts were inllam"ed. He .me.. the rems of the molar on S i ht~ eide. :ui in four days' time the sigh f th right.eye began to return, Cio ~ eleventhl day after the cx trci o tehit hd become quite - norma!. Th vie me fns on the other i .,id wer chsequent~mly removed, lest ther; 'io~d cause a return of the otahai arct" ion.-London Lancet. i u 5 e is dreaming will she tell theo APACHES IN CAPTIVITY. THE CHIAIIAUTERISTICS OF GERONIMO'S BAND OF MU'RDERER. The Women or the Tribe and How They Look and Dremi-Other Chirtcahuas on Their Way to Florida. SA- Amro.ro, TEx., September 15. Geronimo and his band of savages have attracted great attention here. The cap tive chief wore a white straw hat, a gray alpaca coat, white trousers and army boots, brand new. He was evidently much tickled with them. His black eyes frequently wandered to them with a glance of proprietary approval. He moved around the tents given him, quietly conversing with and directing his men. He was not impressive, but he was interesting. Flowing from under his coat was a piece of white cloth, alarmingly like a shirt tail, of table cloth proportions. It flapped wildly in the warm breeze and beat against the legs of the great chief in emphasis of the few things he had to say. George Wratten. the interpreter, acted as the medium of communication be tween prisoners and captors. It was a curious scene when Geronimo was as sured of his safety. He and Natchez had been suffering with the idea that they were to be instantly executed. They looked miserably at the shining weapons of the sentries, and ever and ' glanced at their couchant braves vi a kind of see-that-my-grave-is-kept-green gaze. General Stanl e stood squarely in front of the wholesae and retail mur derer. A little apart was a crowd listen ing to the queer language and its trans lations. The interpreter, a cartridge belt crossing his broad breast, waited for the general to speak. "Tell him," said the commander, "that when the white man makes peace he makes peace. Tell him that I am now his best friend. Let him go to his tent and rest. Tell him that I will be near during -the day. He and his friends shall not be harmed." The speech was slowly put into the tongue of coughs and grunts. As its meanng came to the bronzedband which had gatLered around, they broke into a chorus of grateful "ughs" and their white teeth flashed. Taken by and large, the hostiles are a queer gang. Their not intricate but unique raiment, handkerchief head gear, tawdy decorations, small figures and long coarse hair looked strangely, juxta posed to the white tents and trimfigures of the soldiery. A noticeable peculiarity was the great development of their legs and their slender arms. It is a manifes tation to see them walk. They move with the lightness and springy grace of the panther. One of the women had no nose. Another had a very handsome face and was dressed with more taste and cleanli ness than her companions. She sat in front of Chief Nachez' tent. Some said she was a princess, but if so her domain has gone from her. The females were very small. They wore their hair parted in e middle and the long elf locks fell into their eyes. Chief Nachez' boy, a sturdy youngster of fourteen, was espe aially noticeable. He moved freely ibout and laughed gaily at the cunosi ies of the whites. Around one of his Limbs was tightly bound a leathern bhong, so tightly, in fact, as to bury in the flesh. It was probably an effort to relieve a strained tendon. He was scarred in several places, and when asked what 3aused it, picked up a small stick and ntimated that he had been hurt in riding thirough undergrowth. On the very day of Geronimo's surren Ier he became a grandfather, and next lay the mother of the papoose was :rudging along the rough valley with the >ther captives, her infant strapped upon aer back. This hardiness is character stic of the squaws of the Apaches per iaps to a greater de~'ree than of any oth :r Indian women. The whirlwind of an ipache flight carries with it the women tud children of the tribe as long as the pursuing foe is imminent. When the nountain fastnesses are reached the non ~ombatants are secreted and the braves egin their murderous retreat from the venging troops. The wife whom Geronimo rescued ~rom Fort Apache at the risk of his own iberty and life is one of the many who ~ontribute to make his wigwam happy or >therwise, as the case may be. She is aid to be a woman of rare intelligence, ;reat courage and entire devotion to her savage lord, accepting with thankfulness 2er fraction of his affections and giving a return an absolute allegiance. Captain Lawton gives it as his opinion hat Geronimo is 50 years of age, though he old reprobate will confess to but 45. Ele is purely a self-made man. That is, ae is an accomplished murderer and a srafty cut-throat, and is not a hereditary :b'ef. The Captain says he is bright, in elligent, a good talker, crafty, cruel md treacherous to a wonderful degree. D~uring the past eighteen months )eroninmo and his followers are credited vith having murdered no less than 400 ersons, a majority of whom were Mexi ~ans, on the Mexican side of the Rio 3rande. Captain Lawton has himself een fourteen of the victims after death. Nachez is a son of Cochise and heredi ary chieftain of the Chiricahaus. He is leseribed by officers who know him as a rery remarkable man. He is by long >dds the finest looking of the band. He s six feet in height, sparsely built, nuscled like a race horse, and straight as an arrow. He has an open and ex >ressive countenance, which says as >lainlv as it could be said that the man s a dauntless, desperate and competent carrior. He wore a kind of bizarre Iress made up apparently from odds and nds pulled from dead men. There is a p-eat difference between him and his aedicine man, Geronimo. In the first >lace he is much younger; secondly, he s a man of his word, while his ruler is a aost wonderful and ornate liar. On Sunday niht last, the wine storc )Ooml of Messrs. Elliott & Armield, near radesville, Lancaster, was consumed by re togzether with about 50)0 gallons of flue omestic wines. The wine house had just een finished and con< about $5~00. While was burning a tenant house on Mr. El ott's plhmtation was also discovered to be n fire. Both fires were of incendiary