The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 03, 1888, Image 1

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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1888. NO. 19 JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INSURANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING. S. C. prNotary Public with seal. W M. H. INGRAM. ATTORN'EY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING. S. C. M. CLITON GALUCHAT, PRACTICES IN COURTS OF CHARLESTON al CLARENDON. Address Communications in care of Man ning ThIES. J OS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT L AW, Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. prCollections a specialty. W. F. B. HAxNSwoRTH, Sumter S, C. B. S. Dm'szxs. Manning, S. C. 1 AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,I MANNING, S. C. D R G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - OFFICES - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -OFFICE DAs Kingstree, fronm 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -OFFICEHoUS 9 A. M. tol P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. J J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots;on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. ESTABUSHED 1S52. Louis Cohen & Co. 224King Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry and Fancy Goods. o jSamples and prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders entrusted to me will receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friends from Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORYEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., CHARL ESTOY, S. C. Max G. Bryant, Jas. M. T in, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, P~oPRIEToRS. Columbia, South Carolina. -The grand Central is the largest and best kepthotel in Columbia, located in the ET-. ACT BUShi:SS CENT ER OF T HE CITY,' where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and ims MESUis not excelled by any in the :South. Notice of Application for Charter. NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN application will be made to the General Asspmbly of the State of South Carolina, for a 'Charter for a Rail Road, to be known as the Wvilson and Summerton Ral Road, leading from a point at or near Wilson's Mill, on the Central Rail Road of South Carolhna, in Clarendon County, in said State, to or near to Summerton in said County, and thence, if deemed expedient, to a point on the Manchester and Augusta Rail Rad. at or near Antioch, in said CORONER'S NOTICE, N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I have made arrangements with Mr. WV. K. Bell, of Manning, to promptly forward me any telegrams or other o~icial commuml cations. By this means I shall be able, in a tew hours, to attend any inquest. P. C. COCHRAN, Coroner Clarendon County. 7F. VON SANTEN & SON, FANCT GOODS, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, i4uber GOOCc1s HEADQUART~S FOR CRADLES. Children's Carriages Costing from $4.50 to $40 each. 263 King Street,' CRHA.RLESTON, S. C. ~McGahian, Brown & Evans, Jobbers of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and Clothing. Nos. 224, 226 and 228 Meeting St. Charles tonk,S.C. Win. Biurmester & Co. H AY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats, a Spe cialty. Opposite Kerr's Wharf, CHALESTON S. C. MEN CURSED WITH GOLD. TALMAGE SCORES THOSE WHO BEND BENEATH THEIR WEALTH. They Would Take Every Cent with Them, Buy Up Half of Heaven and Rent It Out -Loans at Two Per Cent. a Month and Corners in Harps and Trumpets. The Brooklyn Tabernacle was crowd ed Sunday when the Rev. Dr. Talmage preached on "Superfluities a Hind rance." For his text he took Chroni cles, xx., 6 and 7: "A man of great stature, whose fingers and toes were four and twenty, six on each hand and six on each foot; and ho also was the son of a giant. But when he defied Israel, Jonathan, the son of Shimea, David's brother, slew him." "The race of giants is mostly extinct, I am glad to say," said the reverend preacher. "There is no use for giants now except to enlarge the income of museums. But there were many of them in olden times. Goliath was, according to the Bible, eleven feet four and a half inches high. Or, if you do not believe the Bible, the famous Pliny, a secular writer, declares that at Crete a monu ment was broken open by an earthquake disclosing the remains of a giant forty six cubits long, or sixty-nine feet high. So, whether you prefer sacred or pro fane history, you must come to the con clusion that there were in those olden times cases of human altitude monstrous and appalling. David had smashed the skull of one of these giants, but there were other giants that the Davideauwars had not yet subdued, and .one of them stands in my text. "'Behold how superfluities are a hindranice rather than a help!' In all the battle at Gath that day there was not a man with ordinary hand and ordi nary foot and ordinary stature that was not better off than this physical curiosity of my text. As physical size is apt to run in families, the probability is that this brother of David who did the work was of an abbreviated stature. A dwarf on the right-side is stronger than a giant on the wrong side, and all the body and mind and estate and opportunity that you cannot use for God and the better ment of the world is a sixth finger and a sixth toe, and a terrific hindrance. The most of the good done in the world, and the most of those who win the bat tles for the right, are ordinary people. Count the fingers of their right hand and they have just five, no more and no less." In illustration of his text Dr. Talmage spoke of the "Swamp Angel." It was a big gun, he said, that during the war made a big noise, but muskets of ordi nary calibre and shells of ordinary heft did the execution. "President Tyler," he continued, "and his Cabinet go down the Potomac one day to experiment with the Peacemaker, a great iron gun, that was to a~fright with its thunder foreign navies. e gunner touches it off and it explodes and leaves Cabinet Ministers dead on the deck, while at that time all up and down our coasts were cannon of ordina ry bore, able to be the defense of the nation, and ready at the first touch to waken to duty. The curse of the world is big guns. After the politicians who have made all the noise go home hoarse from angry discussion on the evening of the first Monday in November, the next day the people with the silent ballots will settle everything, and settle it right, a million of the white slips of paper they drop making about as much noise as the fall of an apple blossom. "Clear back in the country to day there are mothers in plain aproD, and shoes fashioned on a rough last by the shoemaker at the end of the lane, rock ing babies that are to be the Martin Luthers, and -the Faradays, and the Edisons, and the Bismareks, and the Gadstones, and the Washingtons, and the George Whitefields of the year 1938, and who will make the twentieth century so bright that this much lauded nineteenth in comparison will seem a part of the Dark Ages. The longer I live the more I like common folks. They do the world's work, bearing the world's burdens, weeping the world's sympa thies, carrying the world's consolation. Among lawyers we see rise up a Baus Choate, or a William Wirt, or a Samuel L. Southard; but society would go to pieces to-morrow if there were not thousands of common lawyers to= see that men and women get their rights. A Valentine Mott or Willard Parker rises up eminent in the medical profes sion, but what an unlimited sweep would pneumonia and diphtheria and scarlet fever have in the world if it were not for for 10,000 common doctors." Dr. Tal1mage then bitterly assailed the principle of grasping for money. To provide for one's family, he said, was commanded by Scripture, but to accu mulate millions, a curse instead of a blessing, a hindrance instead of a help. "It was once said by D'Israeli," he continued, "that a King of Poland ab dicated his throne and joined the people and became a porter to carry burdens. And some one asked him why he did so and he replied: 'Upon my honor, gen tlemen, the lcad which I quit is by far heavier tnan the one you see me carry. The weightiest is but a straw when com pared to that world under which I jabored. I have slept more in four nights than I have during all my reign. I begin tolive and to be aking myself. Eect whom you choose, for me who am so well it would be madness to return to court.' "'Well,' says somebody, 'such over loaded persons ought to be pitied, for their worriments are real and their in somnia and nervous prostration are genuine.' I reply that they could get id of the bothersome surplus by giving it away. If a man has more houses than he can carry without vexation, let him drop afew of them. If his estate is so great he cannot manage it without get tng nervous dyspepsia from having too much, let him divide up with those who have nervous dyspepsia because they cannot get enough. "No! they guard their sixth finger with more care than they did the origi nal five. They go limping with what they call gout, and know not that, like +ho gaint of my tedt they are lamied by a superfluous toe. A few of them by large charities bleed themselves of this financial obesity and monetary plethora, but many of them bang on to the hin dering superfluity till death, and then as they are compelled to give the money up anyhow, in their last will and testa ment they generally give some of it to the Lord, expecting no doubt that He will feel very much obliged to them. "Thank God that once in a while we have a Peter Cooper, who, owning an interest in the iron works at Trenton, said to Mr. Lester: 'I do not feel quite easy about the amount we are making. Working under one of our patents, we have a monopoly which seems to me something wrong. Everybody has to come to us for it, and we are making money too fast.' So they reduced the price, and this while our philanthropist was building Cooper Institute, which mothers a hundred institutes of kindness and mercy all over the land. But the world had to wait 5,800 years for Peter Cooper. "I am glad for the benevolent institu tions that get a legacy from men who, during their life, were as stingy as death, but who, in their last will and testament, bestowed money on hospitals aud mis sionary societies," said Dr. Talmage, warmly; "but for such testators I have no respect. They would have taken every cent of it with them if they could, and bought up half of Heaven and let it out at ruinous rent, or loaned the money to celestial citizens at 2 per cent. a month and got a corner on harps and trumpets. They lived in this world fifty or sixty years in the presence of appalling suffering and want and made no effort for their relief. The charities of such people are, for the most part, in paulo-post future tense, and they are going to do them. The probability is that if such a one in his last will by a donation to benevolent societies tries to atone for his lifetime close-fistedness, the heirs at law will try to break the will by proving that the old man was senile or crazy, and the expense of the litiga tion will about leave in the lawyer's hands what was meant for the American Bible Society. "0, ye overweighted successful busi ness men, whether this sermon reach your ear or your eye, let me say that if you are prostrated with anxieties about keeping or investing these tremendous fortunes, I can tell you how you can do more to get your health back and your spirits raised than by drinking gallons of bad tasting water at Saratoga, Ham burg or Carlsbad-give to God and humanity 10 per cent. of all your in some and it will make a new man of you, and from restless walking of the door at night you shall have eight hours' sleep without the aid of bromide of potassium, and from no appetite you will hardly be able to await your regular meals, and your wan cheek will fill up, end when you die the blessings of those who but for you would have perished will bloom all over your grave with violets, if it be spring, or gladioli, if it be autumn." Continuing in this style for some time, Dr. Talmage spoke of the gifts with which nature endowed man, and how they should be employed. "I was reading of three women," he said, in conclusion, "who were in rival ry about the appearance of the hand. and the one reddened her hand with berries, and said the beautiful tinge made hers the most beautiful. And mother put her hand in the mountain brook, and said, as the waters dripped ff, th1 her hand was the most beauti lul. And another plucked flowers off bhe bank, and under the bloom con tended that her hand was the most at tractive. Then a poor old woman ap peared, and, looking up in her decrepi tude, asked for alms. And a woman who had not taken part in the rivalry ave her alms. And all the women re solved to leave to this beggar the ques tion as to which of all the hands present was the most attractive, and she said: 'The most beautiful of them all is the ne that gave relief to my necessities,' ad as she so said her wrinkles and raga, and her decrepitude and her cody dis appeared, and in place thereof stood the Christ who long ago said: 'Inasmuch as ye did it to o'ne of the least of these, ye. a.id it to Me,' and who, to purchaso the service of our hand and foot here oni earth or in resurrection state, had his' wn hand and foot lacerated." The Shaarpshootera~ of McGowan's Brigade. The following letter has been written by Captain W. S. Dunlop, State Auditor f Arkansas, to Mr. David Moore, of Columbia:I I have been engaged for some time ini writing up the campaigns of the Battal-i ion of sharpshooters of Mc-Gowan'sI Brigade, and have about completed the first draft, which will have to be revised! and re-wrntten before publication. I re ret, at every step, that I cannot recall the names of the gallant corps, and have concluded to write to you and every Sharpshooter that I can hear of in order to supply tis deficiency. 1 want youl to put on your studying-cap and gather~ up every name you can, and send the list to me, with the rank and postoflice address of each, it living; and the date and circumstances of death, if dead, that I may be able to make a roll of the whole command. Every man of the Battalion was a hero, and his name should be embalmed in the history of our struggle. Do this, and let me hear' from you without delay. If you remem ber any incidents connected with our campaigns where any of our men be haed with distinguished gallantry or performed any feat of daring in any of our numerous fights, I would like to have them.. Sergeant B. K. Benson, of Brunson's company, calls to see mec very of:en. He is a drammner, and lives in Dallas, Texas. Dr. L. K. Robertson, another member of the Battalion from Abbeville, is living in Scott county, this State. I spent two nights and a day with him last May. He is a successful physician and has accu mulated a good property in Scott con ty. Tnese are the only Shtarpshooters .1 know of in Arkansas; I would like to have a re-union of the Battalhon, what do you think of it? Any information responsive to the above may 1.e sent to Mr. David Moore, Columbia, S. C., or to Captain W. S. IPanlop, Little Rock, Arkansas. To prevent shoes from creaking, soap the soles well, and rub soft soap into the seams where the sole is inined. THE CLEMSON BEQUEST. A Statement from Col. K. W. Simpson, to correct a Misapprebension. The following card from Col. R. W. Simpson, executor of the Clemson es tate, was published in the Anderson In telligencer: Mr. Editor: In your issue of Septem ber 6th you copied an article written by a correspondent from Columbia to the Augusta Chronicle, under date of Au gust 31st, purporting to give some in teresting facts in regard to the late Mr. Clemson, of South Carolina. One of these interesting facts stated therein I quote: "Years after Mr. Calhoun's <teath, Mrs. Calhoun became financially involved. Mr. Clemson assisted her by lending her money on Fort Hill, taking a mortgage therefor. This was after wards foreclosed, and the property thus came into Mr. Clemson's possession." The writer adding at the close of his ar ticle these words: "This is the property now known as the Clemson bequest." Mr. Clemson died seized and pos sessed of three-fourths of the original Fort Hill tract of land, amounting to 814 acres. Any one interested in know ing how he came into possession of these 814 acres can easily do so by ex amining the records at the Court House at Walhalla. The facts stated briefly are as follows: Some yare after the death of the Hon. John C. Calhoun Mrs. Calhoun sold the Fort Hill tract of land and a number of negroes, she being the legal owner thereof, to her son, Col. Andrew P. Calhoun, and to secure the purchase money Colonel Calhoun executed to his mother a mortgage of all the property so purchased by him. This debt being unpaid, Mrs. Calhoun, in 1865 or 1866, executed a codicil to her will, previously made, in which she devised to Mrs. Thomas G. Clemson, her daughter, three-fourths of the mortgage debt due to her by her son Col. A. P. Calhoun, and the other one-fourth she devised to her grand-daughter, Mrs. Gideon Lee, and directed that if the mortgaged premises (Fort Hill) should be taken for the debt, it should be divided between Mrs. Clemson and Mrs. Lee, in the same proportions. Mrs. Calhoun died July 25th, 1866. An action to foreclose this mortgage was commenced against Col. A. P. Calhoun in the Court at Walhalla, but whether it was commenced by Mrs. Calhoun in her lifetime, or by Mrs. Clemson and Mrs. Lee, after her death, I do not at this moment remember, and eventually reached the Supreme Court. The Court gave judgment against Col. Calhoun for about $40,000, and ordered the land to be sold, and the proceeds to be applied to the payment thereof. In obedience to this foreclosure the land (Fort Hill) was sold at Walhalla, and was purchased by Thomas G. Clemson as trustee for his wife. Mrs. Lee having diedin the mean time, Mrs. Clemson and Mr. Gideon Lee, acting as guardian for Floride, Mrs. Lee's only child, had the land partitioned by commissioners, in accord ance with the terms of Mrs. John C. Calhoun's will above referred to, Mrs. Clemson receiving 814 acres, three fourths of the value of the whole tract, and Miss Lee 300 and odd acres, one fourth of the value of the whole tract, and each immediately went into posses sion of the parts awarded them. Mrs. Clemson died September 22nd, 1875, leaving of force her last .will and testament, in which she willed, be queathed and devised all of her estate, real and personal, to her husband, Thomas G. Clemsom, in fee simple. This is the real estate in the Clemson equest. Mr. Clemson in willing this 14 acres, a part of the original Fort ill tract, to the State for the purposes f erecting an Agricultural College there o, carried into effect not only his own wishes, but also a promise to the end ade to Mrs. Clemson, who also lesired the establishment of an Agri ultural College on Fort Hill. One ther erroneous statement currently re orted I take this occasion to correct, hat is, that Mr. Clemson received his oney also from Mrs. Clemson. It is a act that no part of the money be qeathed by Mr. Clemson to the State ame to him through his wife; it is all his individual propety. Rt. W. SnesoN. Tbe Dowanger German Empreus. Dr. Mackenzie declares she is the leverest woman he has ever met, and er numerous friends in the literary and artistic world are no less prompt in their expressions of admiration for her brill ancy and genius. But with all her brilliancy her case is a sad one. One way or another her life was one of dis ppointment, with, however, the im :ense satisfaction of a leal, loving usband, who was her ideal of a man ad who, even in dying, developed such grand qualities as to render him a source f greater pride and an object of deeper love. The fearful afiuiction which casme upon hem lifted up their hearts, and made her capable of writing that immortal legram in which she announced his eath to the Empress Augusta. She was lways right-minded, but self-willed. The pride of spirit was for years brought out by her drop dowu from England, where, in her youth, every one was loyal to the Queen and her children, to prosaic, arsh, matter-of-fact Berlin, a capital breft of poetry, without antiquity, and having no tradition but that of drill sergeantismn. Women were not held in honor, although the princesses of the house of Hohenzollern had for gener ations shown fine mental qualities. This to Queen Victoria's daughter was unendurable. She respectedher mother, herself and her sex, and she set before her the task of ameliorating the condition of girls, as a way to the future elevation of Prussian women. She is very rich. As Princess Royal of England, Empress Dwanger, Empress Motner, a wife of sorrows, a woman of a right mind and an pright heart, she is perhaps a better instrument for doing good than were she the Empress-Consort, fettered with oficialities, and a butt to the hatred of batedintriguers. With herrank, money, intellect, experience, prestige and mind,i she may win for herself a glorious namel in patronizing arts, and promoting works of charity and social reform.-Cosmo politan. It is reported that John L. Sullivan is bettr and that he has be-gun to eat. The next telegram will probably contain the .mnoncment that he has begun to drink. THOUSANDS OF SPORES DAILY. They Arrive Done Up in Packages in the Baggage of Florida Refugees. (From the hew York Herald ) Dr. Robert T. Morris of 133 West 34th street said yesterday when called upon that he worried very little about the in troduction of yellow fever into the city. But he said that thousands of the spores are coming daily done up neatly in packages with the baggage of Florida refugees. "As a matter of fact," said the doctor, "yellow fever is not at home here in New York, and not being quickly in fectious, as infectious diseases go we feel in the profession that our present effi cient health board will easily prevent any epidemic of importance. There will be a few more cases probably, but there is not enough danger to cause any alarm. Yellow fever is well known nowadays, as a germ disease. The microbes re produce themselves pretty rapidly in a warm, moist atmosphere, but they are quite heavy and settle near the ground, so that the winds do not carry them any great distance. Besides, it is necessary for a person to take into the lungs an enormous number of the microbes in order to become infected, I wouldn't mind taking in a few hundred of them this afternoon, but if I were in a heavily infected neighborhood and coming into hourly contract with millions of the microbes, I should be as badly frightened as any nervous old bachelor who has nothing to live for. THE SYSTEM A MENAGERIE. "Why," said the doctor, "don't you know that your system is daily a perfect menagerie of cifferent disease spores that are entering and passing through it? A person in ordinary health is not apt to be troubled by any of the spores stopped to feed upon him, but if his health is bad they may atack him just as spores of fugisprout in decaying trees. "Yellow fever spores," continued the doctor, "must be concentrated in order to be dangerous. Why is it that they become concentrated in a certain street or a certain yard, it is hard to say; which but they act something like the spores that cause 'rust' on salt codfish. Go into a storehouse in which 'red rust' is grow ing, and you will find it very abundant by a certain box or upon a certain table, and the bales of dried fish in one corner of the room may be all red, while those in the middle of the room are not attack ed. "So, again, you will see in the woods that the spores of a certain species of mushroom are abundant along one path or near one bill, while in similar ground round about there are few toad-stools and the spores of the microbe which produces yellow fever are distributed unequally for some reason best known to themselves. WHAT MEDICINE CAN DO. "These microscopic vegetables that grow in the blood and cause yellow fever are pretty small, but their growth. and propagation are governed by natural laws as definite as those which rule the cabbage and the cucumber. Can I de scribe the symptoms of yellow fever for you? Why, certainly! But I shall not, or every person who read the description would discover that he was a sufferer from the disease in about twenty-four hours." "Con medicine help the yellow fever patient any?" "Of courseit can;inthe way of making him more comfortable and in avoiding angerous complications, but cannot imit the disease. The disease is not as Fatal as most people suppose it to be yway. In the 1878 epidemic in onana only about sixteen per cent. of the cases proved fatal, and in the practice f agoodphysicians the relativemiortality ercentage was much less." The Country Newspaper. It is only a country weekly! Yes, that is all, but do those who allude to it with an intentional sneer ever reflect upon the duties and mission performed y the poor, obscure county weekly which is as much, nay more, to its few undred readers in the country, as is the great metropolitan daily to its thousands f readers in the cityY Oh, no, they never think of placing an estimate upon the worth of a country paper; it has none within the narrow limits of their uperficial and contracted brains. They will not admit the utility of any form of a newspaper save one which is crammed ullof telegraphic dispatches, giving the ninute details of some revolting and nauseating social scandal, or containing n inanuite variety in detail of foreign events. But the financial, agriculturai, :ommrcial, religious and social condi tion of his fellow-citizens residing within the boundaries of such an individual's own county, are to him as a sealed book; he has never opened the pages of his ounty paper to inquire within; put im to the test and you will find that he nows more about the Hottentots of Central Africa than he does about the people of the surrounding country. We turn away from the contemplation of this human superflnity, of which there ire thousands, and view the practical, common-sense man, who wishes to be .nformed as to the pursuits, condition nd prospects of the people of his own mmediate State and county. He finds in the home paper the information he seeks. The country organ is to him the camera lucida which faithfully portrays ll that occurs; it is, in a great measure, the reflex of the character of the people omprising the country wherein it is published. But what is the interest which even the practical, common-sense man derives from it, compared to that which is felt and entertained by the ountry people themselves? It is every thing to them. In it i3 found news which they alone, prob~ibly, can appre ciate and understand; information re garding their friends and neighbors, the -ondiionpof the crops and the market quotations, matters of local considera tion in which they are interested, and a hundred and one different things which affect and interest them, both privately nd publicly. The county newspaper is to a county what-nutritious food is to a convalescent-it helps to build up all that is good in it. The county that is without one is like a waste plain without elevation from which a person desiring to examine the surroundings can make no observation.-Southern Trade Gazette. A lemon cut in haldf and rubbed over th kithen table will remove the grease. BURNING AN INDIAN W: GC. A Young Squaw Suffers Two hotrs of Tor ture Before Released by L-ath. The story comes on good authority a Los Angeles of the burning of a younj squaw by Mojave Indians because sh< was accused of practicing witch era. Th< scene of the torture was near t - .olora do River in the eastern end of &._ Bcr nardino county. For the last two monthi a strange disease has attacked membe.u of the tribe. Its spread at last becaiz. so alarming that the Indians becant panic-stricken and slaughtered their doge and burros as a sacrifice to appea. the anger of the Great Father. This proving of no avail a council was held. Every buck in the tribe was present, The medicine men sat around a hng' pot, which was filled with herbs, wi:.d the bucks were squatted in a semi-circle, some distance away. The medicine mez watched the steaming of the herbs unti the mess had been biled down to a tea cup full of liiid. Then a male pigeon and his mate were taken from a basket and held by the medicine man while the liquid from the herbs were poured down their throats. The male bird, when re leased, flew away. The female bird fluttered a few Yards and fell helpless and dying on the ground. The medicine men now seemed crazed with excitement. They leaped to their feet and danced, while the backs sat in sullen silence. While the medicine men were in the midst of their incantations they declared that there was a witch in the tribe. The female bird had died while the male bird had flown away into the night. This test determined the sex of the evil doer. When the bucks heard the words of the medicine men they became wild with rage. Each brave suspected the other of harboring the witch in his tepee or cabin. But a final test was to be made. With yells and imprecations the frenzied Indians drove their women to the place where the council had been held and where the white pigeon still lay among the herbs and grasses. The squaws were driven in single file, the medicine men watching with nervous excitement the face of each as sh.: passed the bird. Finally, a young squaw, the daughter of Croso, a sub-chief, stepped out of the ranks and was about to pick up the bird, when the medicine men with loud yells seized the girl and pinioned her arms. The unfortunate squaw pleaded piteously for her life, which she seemed to foresee was in peril, but her cries were of no avail, her own relatives assisting in drag ging her to the council place. The death of the female pigeon was conclusive evidence that a squaw was the witch. The first squaw to touch the bird was to be the guilty one. The poor girl, who was but 18 years old, was stripped of her clothes, tied to a stake and a slow fire built under her. For two hours she lingered in awful agony, and while her death screams filled the air the braves danced about and the fire and the medicine men muttered in cantations. When morning came noth ing but the whitened bones of the girl and the black embers of the fire remain ed about the stake. The disease from which so many of the Mojave braves died is believed to be malignant typhoid fever. The details of this strange story were brought to Los Angeles by ranchers who had been at tracted to the camp of the Indians by the noises which attended the tenhile death of the girl. THE NEW COTTON BAGGING. Liverpool is Willing to Accept ?'heeted Bales. (From the N. Y. Daily Commercial Bulletin, Sept 26.) The following dispatch was aceived t the New York Cotton Exchaig from he Livepool Cotton AssociatioL yester ay: "Cotton sheeted bales .re good elivery. Besolution will be moved to ake such actual tare." This was an answer to a disytch sent recently by the Exchange asking the sentiment of Liverpool buyers on the sbstitution of cotton (or other) bagging n place of the regulation jute ' 'epig. While considerable doubt is ' i ressed aong members of the Exchange as to te desirability of changing frum jute to otton, yet nearly all are in favor of do ng something that will place the ma.t etirely independent of the jute comibi ation. No official action has as ,yet een taken by the Exchange in the atter, but now that the Liverpool arket has expressed a willingnee& to end its support to the new moven..nt ests of the three materials that hw~ een offered by different firms to the Exchange will be urged. Still the sub ttuton is a very serious matter, affecting he entire trade, and among the more autious the sentiment is to move slowly ad wisely. Whatever substitute is made will be first subjected to a very severe test, though the leaning is to the new otton fabric, as if adopted it will mate rially increase the domestic consump tion, especially in the line of low grade otton, which would be utilized and which now quite often goes a-begging. he three substitutes offered fur jute agging are cotton, wire cloth, and a abric manufactured from the needles or Leaves of the pine tree. $100,000 Reward For a Cure. Senator Plumb has introduced in the Senate a bill offering a reward of $100, [)00 for the discovery of the cause, remedy nd treatment of yellow fever. The bill equests all persons who recover from yellow fever after treatment by some opyrighted method to notify the Sur geon-General of the recovery, and that all physicians who have under treatment y any copyrighted method any person who may die from yellow fever shall otify the Surgeon-General of the death nd the method of treatment; and when a record shall have been had of some emedy which shall have cured 981 of 1,000 cases treated, then the inventor or iscoverer of that method shall be paid the reward of $100,000. Under the terms of the bill all remedies entered for this cmpetition shall have been copyrighted with the Librarian of Congress. "What is it that makes the rich man richer and the poor man poorer?" shouted Socialist orator, the other evening. The proper answer to this question woul have been "Monopoly," and the Orator waited for some one to give it. IHe was therefore very much disgusted when a newly lledged ember who had not been properly posted ot up and yelled, "Beer!" Dr. R. M. Smith has been nominated for Sentr from Snartanurm, WANTED TO GET OUT. A Voice that Startled an Expressman Who Was Resting on a Coffin. (From the Kansas City Journal.) He was an express messenger <n the Santa Fe a few days ago. It was a night run, and there were two passengers in the car. Just as it began to grow dusk tie trained stopped at a .small station.. and a dead body was taken aboard. Nothing particular was thought of this,' however, and as there was nothing to do, . and the train would not stop again fora long distance, both messengers preparea to go to sleep. One of them decided. that the box containing the body would be a good place to rest on, so he arrangel himself comfortably thereon and went to sleep. . i How long he slept he has no idea; but suddenly, as if in a dream, he heard a voice say: y: .,r. "Let me out." The messenger, startled, half a&KlN for a moment, when in no unoertaintone, came the words, apparently from withina the head of the box on which he slept:. "D-n you, let me out!" It is quite a distance from where the: box lay to the other end of the car, but,, the messenger is positive he cleared it in two jumps. Trembling with fear, & shouted to his companions, but before he had a chance to tell his story the self-., same voice exclaimed: "I want to get out of here." Neither of the men spoke for a mo ment, and then the man who had first heard the voice said: "Jim that corpse wants to get out." Jim thought for a moment and then said: "Well, I reckon it wouldn't be right to keep him in there if he wants to get out." So the two cautiously made their way' to the he head of the box and debated what to do, when the same muffled voice,. was heard to remark: "Polly wants a cracker." Then the mystery was explained. Some one at Denver had expressed. aar parrot to a friend in Kansas City~ . Its, cage had been sent away and forgotten, and the bird had naturally bebouie' hungry and thirsty. So it waited as:: long as it could and then made itself heard in the manner that so horrifieda the express messenger. YELLOW FEVER MICROBES. They Look Like Sugar-Cane Joints and Bilions Inhabit a Drop of Blood. (From the Macon, Ga, Telegraph.) -! Said Dr. Clifton; "A yellow fever.' microbe has the appearance of three joints of sugarcane. I -got them fiom' Washington in a glass tube that some-:. what resembles a gourd. The tiny mi crobes are placed m the big ens;, but by looking at it you. could never 'tell the" - there was anything but air in it. Thar small end is sealed up and the microbe are in there, though apparently dead Some microbes live in such places foa twenty. years. We will suppose. now, that we want to look at some of them under the microscope. Upon the little. glass side we put a drop of gelatine of the consistency that will not run. We take a cambric needle, and after heating it to destroy all microbes that may. be in the air, we quickly break the seal of the glass tube and insert the needle, drawing it out quickly and resealing tlh'? neck of the tube. We insert the needle. in the drop of gelatine on the slide and quickly put on the little cover to shut such gems or microbes that may be. floating about in the air. Then we place. the slide under the microscope. In forty-five minutes the microbes have fully aroused from their Rip Van Wink le sleep, and now you see what curious things they are. As I said before,'they resemble three joints of sugarcane,- but. the joints are not straight, but at oppo site angles. Take this fellow, for instance, and you see a joint drops off, leaving him with two joints. Presently another joint joins on to the dropped joint, and by this time a third joint appears on-No. 1. Now look at .No. 2, and there is a third joint. Now a joint drops from No. 1, and by the time it gains another joint No. 2 drops a joint, and this,- with the joint from No. 2, join together, and there is microbe No. 4. Another joint grows on Nos. 1 and 2, and one drops from No. 3, and, these joining together, make microbe No. 4, and so they go until the little drop of gelatins is a work ing, seething mass of microbes. Now, thesemnicrobesare in the bloodof ayellow fever patient, and there's where they live. They get into a blood corpuscle and eat out all the red part, as a darky eats out the red meat of a watermelon, and the blood is then a drop of clear fluid. To give you an idea of how many can crowd into a corpuscle of blood, let me say that it takes 3,200 -corpuscles strung together to make an inch. Well, you can string just 150,000 microbes across the diameter of one corpuscle, consequently you can guess billions after billions of microbes in a drop of blood. The theory is that these microbes eat up one's blood so rapidly as to take it all away from him in a very short time. Some men can stand the letting of more blood than others, and consequently some men recover from yellow fever." Anna Dickinson as a Boomerang. INDIANAPonIs, September 2.-Anna Dickenson is proving a formidable ele plhant to indiana Republicanism. Her harangues are doubtless injuring her cause. She alludes to the President as "the hangman of Buffalo," and says the bloody shirt is a live issue, with a good deal more such nonsense. She ma-le an address at Richmond, and the Register, the Republican organ, says: "Anna D~ickinson should stick to the lecture platform. She is capable of doing no good in politics, and the best advice we could give to Chairman Qna would be to call her inat once. The Reubli can national committee surprises people by sending such speakers as Miss Dick inson here without knowing what she is going to say." Women on the Stump. Helen M. Gouger a strong minded woman, has challenged Anna Dickinson to a joint political debate. It was assert ed that Miss Dickinson, who has just opened her campaign for Harrison at Richmond, Ind., had refused to accept the gage of battle, but the Republican Joan of Arc, with a strength of expres sion worthy the most experienced stump speaker, nails this report s "a point blank lie." The "blank" can be filled izn to uit the taste oi the individual.