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I} VOL. T. . MINING, CL ARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 28, 1889. NO. 38. VOL. V MUSIC IN HIS WIISTLE. E TALENT OF A MEMBER OF THE CHICAGO BOARD OF TRADE. ow He Did His Share of the Entertain lng-Playing "Dixie" on the Grave of an Old Friend-The Soldier Who Whistled Down a Brigade. "At a little gathering he was called upon to do.his part in entertaining the company and begged off on the plea that he could do nothing but whistle. That was a fatal ad mision, and he was immediately sentenced by a unanimous vote to whistle for the edifd cation of the ladies and gentlemen present. Be went to the piano, touched the keys in a way that indicated that be was no tyro, and then began to whistle, playing his own ac companiment. There are a good. many imi tations of the mocking bird extant, but in this case the notes and trills of the mock ing bird were faithfully and vividly repro duced, and it was not a minute until the roomful of people realized that they were listening to a whistler who outranked all the professionals they bad ever heard. Then he whistled 'Annie Laurie,' and before the end of the performance the ladies and gentlemen voted this quiet business man the most de lightful of entertainers." THE MERCHArT'S REQLST "I know whom you mean," said a commer cial traveler. "This same whistler was on the road a good-many years ago and be was one of the best salesmen that traveled. When he could not sell a man a bill of goods he would sit down and begin to whistle softly or would take out a little harmonica from his pocket and begin to play as though for his own amusement or to kill time. He whistled and played while he waited, while other men would have spent the time grum bling and growling over their disappointment in not making a sale. After the whistling solo he very rarely failed to make a satis factory sale of goods. The stoniest hearted old merchant could not withstand such music. There was one old merchant down in Indiana who was a regular customer of our whistling friend, but he never gave him an order for goods until he had played the harmonica and whistled several tunes for him. This, as I have said, was many years ago. When our whistler made his last trip before leaving the road, this old merchant bought a big bill of goods and then said: 'My young friend, your music has been to me one of the sweetest things in life. For that reason I regret that you are going to leave the road, but I want you to promise me that if ever you come to Evansville again you will come over to the store and play for me. If I am not there my body will probably be in the cemetery, and in that case I want you to go out to my grave and play "Dixie" and "Sweet By and By."' "The promise was given, and a few years later my whistling friend and myself hap to be in Evansville, and we called at of the old merchant who had made We found the proprietor in charge of the establish ment, who stated that his father had been dead some years Among those present was the old bookkeeper, who spoke of the promise made years before, and the son insisted upon Its fufilment. The family carriage was called and we drove out to the cemetery. A large granite monument marked the grave and the whistler of the old time sat down at the base. He remainedsilent for a few min utes, and then taking out his harmonica be gan to play Dixie.' It was a strange tune for a graveyard and the efl was confusing, but a hen he had finished 'Dixie' he began to play 'In the Sweet By and By.' I never heard that tune so played before. The man threw his soul into the music, and if a mes sage ever went from earth to heaven I be lieve that one did. The music was simply wonderful, and every one was very much moved." WISTLING SOLDIER. "A good lrter is, as a rule, the best of fellows," said the coloneL. "We had one fel-' low in our regiment who could whistle any thing, and who was generally moved to whistle his best when the rest of us were feel ing oir worst. The ugliness in soldier nature was pretty sure to come out at the tail end of a long, muddy march and the swearing at such times was very distressing to a man who had faith in human nature. At such- times our gay whistler would strike up some favor ite. tune. The swearing would cease, the boys would catch step, and they would go merrily along to the whistled melody After a batt.'e, when the men were despondent and discouraged, the whistler of the regiment would whistle tender, plaintive tunes by the hour. and I know that he gave great comn fort. "After the battle on Lookout*Mountain he was one of the guards detailed to escort the prisoners taken in the mountain fight down to Bridgeport, where they were to take the train for the north. There were several hun dred of them, and the march down from Chattanooga to Bridgeport was a tedious one, but the slow progress brought about a close acquaintance between the guards and the prisoners, and on several occasions during the march the cheering whistle of the gay hearted mnan in blue cheered the bvavy heared men in gray, and they were wont to call for music when the circumstances of the march were mnore than osually distressing. "As they started across the pontoon bridge at Bridgeport, two lines of gray in the center and a thin line of blue on each outer edge, the whistler, in accordance with a very gen eral call, started a melody suited to the oc casion. The men caught step and went swing lag across the bridge, ignoring the command of the officers to change step. As the column neared the center she marchhdbcma sorsof jollification, and just as the jolity was at its height the bridge parsed in the middle and in an instant scores of men were strug gling in the water. There was, of coursa, great confusion, but in good time all the men except three or four were rescued. Among those lost were one Ohio boy and two of the pnsoners. "The survivors were immediately loaded into the train waiting. Everyvone was greatly dejected. Just before the train started there came from the whistler who, in his wet clothes, was the very image of discomfort, a soft, tender melody. It was like the wail of a child, like the song of a woman with a heart beak, but ended with something that was like a tribute to the dead, like a story of some one gone to rest, and scores of the prisoners stepped out to the whistler and silently shook his hand."-Chicago Inter Ocean. Undecelving the Young. The San Francisco Chronicle tells a 'point. ed story about the danger of undeceiving the extremely young. The gist of It is this: A lttle boy began to go to school and his con gcenetions teacher thought it well to explain o him that Santa Clans is a myth. The little boy was not exactly satisfied and re -ferred the matter to his papa at home. The tather was constrained to admit that what the teacher bad said about Santa Claus was tre The little boy went away sorrowful to be; but he returned, and as he held on to the door knob and peeked in with his night dres on he said, "Well, there's a devil, ain't there, papa; you haven't been filling me up about him, have youl". Xore Boodle for Pension Agents. The fact that there will be a Republi can majority in both branches of Con gress and a President in the Executive chair who would never venture to veto a general pension bill will make any effort to stay the tide of pension extra vagance almost hopeless. Besides sev eral measures for readjusting pensions to a more liberal scale, removing the Ua4anens upon arrears and admitting to the rolls those who were confined in rebel prisons. witbouit regard to disa bility, there is little doubt that a depend ent pensionf bill, such as President Cleveland very justly vetoed, will be :brought forward agam.--Y Y. Times Made His Fortune oa a Single Carge. Many a Maine fortune was made in the West India trade in olden'times, but few in the way told of a Portland captain. Toward the close of the last century this captain sailed from Portland with a cargo of lumber for San Domingo. Arriving at his destina tion, he found Toussaint, the negro leader, in possession of the island and was tfraid to land. As he was about to put to -,. again his ship was boarded by a squad of negro troops under command of the renowned Christophe, and urged to land, as lumber was much needed on the island. Noticing that the ship's papers bearing the autograph of the president of the United States, as was the custom in those days, made a great :m pressin on Christophe, the captain concluded to try theireffect on Toussaint. Accordingly he lauded, and, furnished with an escort by Christophe, marched to the camp of the leader. This personage upon being told that a messenger with a letter from the president of the United States desired an interview with him, readily accorded it, and the result of the interview was that the lumber was ex changed for an equal quantity of cof'ee, sugar and other goods of the captain's selec tion, exchanging bulk for bulk. No ship ever sailed carrying so rich a cargo obtained upon such favorable terms. - The fortune of the captain was made. He retired from the sea and settled down to a prosperous life in Portland.-Lewiston Journal. Honesty Rewarded. An oyster and clam dealer on Vesey street set out a basket of fresh clams in front of his store the other day and tacked up a neat little card announcing the price. A bootbiaek sauntered by swinging his box and brushes and gently transferred one of the luscious bi valves into his pocket. A newsboy standing near observed the act, and in a second he had imitated the bootblack's action with gratify ing succes. The boys both grinned, crossed over to the other side of the street and inno cently strolled up the block. In another nrent they again passed the basket, and again rewarded themselves with another clam. Six times did the gamins pass the basket, and not once did they miss their prize. A policeman lounged on the opposite of the street in full view of the piratical expeditions across the way. Finally one of the boys, probably having come to the conclusion that honesty was the best policy, turned his clams over to his partner and disappeared in a neighboring stall. He reappeared in a few minutes with a small sign reading, "Take one," which he deftly substituted for the price list. He then went in and innocently informed the proprietor that some wicked boy had changed his sign and that he would soon be out a basket of clams. When the proprietor saw the sign and the diminished number of clams he thanked the boy warmly and told him to take a pocketful for himself. -Nsw York World. Witches' Plants. In most countries certain plants are to be found associated with witches and their craft. Shakespeare causes one of his witches to dis course of root of "hemlock digg'd i' the k:" likewise also of "slips of yew silver'd in the . ee rvain was in o den times known as "the enchanter's plant;" rue, again, was regarded as an antidote against their spells and machinations. Their par tiaflty for certain trees is well known. Ac cording to Grimm, the trysting place of the Neapolitan witches was a walnut tree near Benevento. In walnut and elder trees they are also said to be in the habit of lurking at night fall. Witches, too, had their favorite flowers. Among these the foxglove was known as the "witches' bells;" theharebell as the "witches' thimbles." Tradition asserted that on moonlight nights they might be seen lying through the air, mounted on the stems of the ragwort, reeds or bulrushes. Through out Germany it is believed that witches ea reer through the midnight skies on hey. Many plants were pressed into the service of charms and spells for the detection of witches and evil spirits when wandering about on their nefarious errands, particularlytha-St John's wort, still 1'qgoly-worn by the Ger-i mn peasantry as a kind of amulet on St Joha'eve.-Gentleman's Magazine. Superstitions About Plants. It was an old belief that all baptized per sens whose eyes had been steeped in the green juice of the inner bark of the elder tree would be enabled to detect witches any where. The same property, according to German folk lore, is possessed b.the wild radish, ivy and waif rage ori Walpurgis night. Among other plants whfch have had the reputation of averting the crafts and sbtleties of witchcraft the juniper, holly, mistletoe, little pimpernel, herb paris, cycla men, angelica, herb betony, rowan tree, bracken and twigs of tho ash may be men tioned. In the Rhine district the water lily is regarded as antagonistic to sorcery. Lav ender is believed in Tuscuy to possess the power of averting the '2sil eye. Olive oranches are said to keep the witches from the cottage doors in the rur%1 districts of It aly, and the Russian peasantry will lay aspen upon the grave of a witch to prevent her spirit from walking abroad or exercising any. evil influence over her neighbors.-Gentle man's Magazine. Girls Kept in Cages. United States Consul Griffin, stationed at Sydney, N. S. W., tells of a remarkable cus tom of the inhabitants of New Britain, as folows.: "The inhabitants, it is said by Wal lace, have a peculiar custom of confining their girls in cages until they are old enough to be married. This custom is said to be pe culiar to the people of New Britain. The cages are nmade of the palm tree, and the girls are put into them when 2 or 3 years of age. The Rev. George Brown established a Wes leyan mission in New Britain in 1S76, and I learn from him that these cages are built in side of the houses, and that the girls are never allowed to leave the house under any circumstances. The houses arc closely fenced in with a sort of wicker work made of reeds. Ventlation under the circumstances is ren dred dicuk. The girls are said to grow up strong and healthful in spite of these disad vantages.-New York Telegram. Japanese Horticulture. Japanese horticulture shows a wonderful patience and a sort of ill directed skill. The object of the Japanese uyekiya, like that of his Chinese brother, but in a greater degree, is to deform, maim and cripple nature, as we see especially in the dwarfing of trees and shrube-nanization, as Dr. Rein somewhat pedantically terms the process, which consists mainly in starv-ing the plant and crippling the circulation of its juices. Kaempfer is quoted as describing a trio he once saw in a small box one and a half inches broad, four inches long and six inches deep, for which the price of ?100 was asked. The three denizens of the box were a bamboo, a blossoming plum tee and a pine tree, perfectly formed, but in s pccolo-New York News. A Suggestion. Old Richfellow (desperately-If you refuse me, what is there left for me to do? Sweet Girl--Well, I read the other day bout a rich man who made his will in farr t the woman who refused him, and then Wet out and hung himself.-New York High License in Massachusetts. The reports from the experiment of high license in Massachusetts seem to be altogether favorable. Not only have the number of saloons been diminished more than one-half, with an increase in Ithe amount of license fees, but the ac Itual sales of liquor have been considera bly diminished. The law has been thor oughly enforced and no increase in the number of unlicensed lalces or in illegal selling has been noticed. Altogether the friends of temperance have reasoni to congratulate themselv-es on the result of high license in Massachusetts. Pro incne Jonrnat. THE GIRLS OF SPAIN. How the Dark Eyed Beauties Make Them selves Look Fascinating. The traveler through Spain sees the young girls, anywhere, as beautiful as angels. They are tall, straight as an arrow, with the mess perfect figurns, and with faces which for a dark, tender. sad beauty are unexampled. The magniticent hair, always clean, always combed, always marvelously dressed, with the inevitable flower in it, is alike the dis tinguishing mark of the poorest as well as the richest Spanish woman. In this respect the Spanish woman is unlike any other. Even Italy, the sister peninsula, so closely connected with Spain in the past-Italy has no such distinction. The Italian peasant does not take such care of her hair, nor does the Italian lady manifest the pride, the neatness. the coquetry of fresh flowers, as does the Spaniard. That beautiful undulating hair, so blue black, with a rose hidden in its tresses -it is the joy of Spanish travel to look at these heads. In going into small shops and humble quar ters one often sees the business of hair dress ing in progress. One sister is dressing the hair of another, or the mother is arranging the coiffure, etc. They have little heated irons, with which they frizz the one side, and the other is allowed to go smooth. It is al ways becoming to the face beneath it. They wear it much over the face, avoiding the Chinese style. Little curls around the ears or pushing forward on the temples show that the Spanish woman values the purpose of hair, which is to shade the eye and contrast with the complexion. At the back of the heed the nuque is al ways carefully brushed up. This nuque gives that character to the back of the head which is so essentially Spanish. It is a remnant of the high comb days and the mantilla. The high comb is now seldom worn, but the hair is always dressed high on the head-a natural crown which any queen might envy. The Spanish eye, large, humid, tender, grand, languishing, furnished with lashes so long, so curling and so beautiful that the pencil of the artist falls to despair; the black pupil, tho white sea, in which the lustrous orb sails-all is indescribable! Spanish eyes are sad. Spanish women, when they are not coquetting and laughing, have a sad expres sion. Is there a little of .the Orient left in their expression? Is it Moorish, and does it speak of the harem and the inevitable heart break? Next to the beauty of hair and eye comes the beauty of the flashing teeth. These are so universally perfect that the student of dent istry should go to Spain and find out how they manage it. There is very little good eating in Spain. Perhaps these faultless teeth are not spoiled by cakes and pastry and sweets in childhood. But the careless traveler expects to be rewarded when the Spanish woman smiles with a row of pearls, and he is al most never disappointed.-Cor. Philadelphia Times. - Mr. Fitzgerald and Mrs. Browning. It shows some progress in the age when the editor of Mr. Edward Fitzgerald's memoirs feels called upon to apologize for the ungra -, g akaout ,-wt;;.~whic~h he allowed to appear in his volumes. The worst result of the remark was the spleen that it called forth in Mr. Browning, tempting him in his later years to undignified and even coarse utterance. This retaliation was due. it is said, to a somewhat distorted and exag gerated report of the original phraseology, which, as it stands in the book, would call rather for a silent and contemptuous disre gard. The actual statement, made upon an impulse, no doubt, and in the familiarity of private correspondence, was as follows: "irs. Browning's death is rather a relief to me, I must say. No more Aurora Leighs, thank God! A woman of real genius, 1 know; but what is the upshot of it all? She and her sex had better mind the kitshen and their children, adperape theiioor. Except n such hings as little novels, they only de vote themselves to what men do much bet ter, leaving that which men do worse or not t all" The refreshing thing is to notice that Mr. William Aldis Wright, the, editor of Fitz erald's memoirs, now feels bound to apolo ize for almitting a remark which, if print e-l a century or so ago, wotild have been re arded as a piece of unquestioned good iense. he prejudice of sex still survives in n :ades, aad nowhere more than in the ek ated regions ot intellect; indeed it is per 2apgreater there than elsewhere, because ofj [ have known several novelists yet unknown o fame who still hold to the conviction that Ers. Stowe quite unsexed herself in writing U' n"le Tom's Cabin," and Mrs. Jackson in writing "Ramona;" and had the circulation md influence of those books been twvice as reat, the impropriety would, in the eyes of hese critie-s, have been doubled. Why, they ustly ask, should a woman's book be trans atedl into twenty languages, while one ongue is still enough for the masterpieces of John Jones? Writing novels is unquestionably, hey maintain, one of the things which "men o munch better," if the age would only get ver this preposterous inclination to read the -little novels" of George Eliot.-T. W. H. in larper's Bazar. Hew Hair Cloth Is Made. Many people understand, of course, how hair cloth is made, but for the ediecationm of hose who do not we will explain the process. n the first place horse hair cannot be dlyed. t repels coloring matter, so to make black lth'it is necessary to secure natural black aair. The horses, in many cases absolutely wild, unrestrained, are regularly corralled nd shorn. Of course, black hair is prefera be, but sometimes gray stock is utilized. ot only the tails but also &e manes are cut; h hair is bunched. These bunches seldom ontain hairs cf less length than two feet; some are even three and three and one-half feet, and the thickness of the bunches is usu ally two or three inches. The hair cloth looms are provided with what we call a nip per, in pla'ce of shuttle, and the nipper is so finely actuated that it travels across the warp and seizes from th5 bunches one hair only, the jaws of the nipper being too fine to grasp nore than one, and carries it across the wefb hreads, dropping it into its exact place.. The action of the loom mechanically forces the hair next to its predecessor, the warp crosses oon it, snugly holds it in its place, the nip erz travels back and seizes another, and so on nd on. The delicacy and almost human ac curacy with which each separate hair is placed between the warp threads is really ucredible.-Upholsterer. Speed of Tornadoes. Professor J. P. Finlay gives the width of the path of destruction in tornadoes, as de termined from the records of eighty-eight years, at from 10 to 10,500 feet, the average being 1,309 feet. The length of the tornado track varies from 300 yards to about 200 miles, the average being 24.79 miles. The velocity of progression of the tornado cloud varies from 7 to 100 miles an hour, the aver age being 44.11 miles. These extremes may often occur in different portions of the track of a single tornado. The shorte't time occu pied by the tornado cloud in passing a given point 'varies from "an instant" to about 20 nnuites, the average being 74 seconds.-De troit Free Press. The Rice Crops. The latest news in reference to thc disastrous freshet in the Pee Dee Riv-er is that, with tihe exception of Mr. B. W. Cannon's plantation, Enfield, the rice rops as far down as Springfield will be a total loss. The plantations thus far devastated are Holly Grove, Hasty Point, Glenmore, Birdfield, Exchange, Belle Rieve, Pipedown, Chicora, Guendalos, Arndel and Springfield. Mr. Cannon will probably save a part of his crop. Oh the Waccamaw River the loss will be alniost total on all plantattions above w...m.1y umil.....ormlewn Enonirer. HEARKEN TO HAMPTON. THE SENATOR TALKS ABOUT POLI TICS IN THE SOUTH. No Fear of the Tariff Issue Dividing This Section- Local Self-Government the Paramount Desideratum-He is Hear tily in Favor of a General Negro Ex odus, and Would Vote Millions for the Purchase of Some Place in Which to Colonize the Blacks. WASHINGTON, August 21.-Senator Hampton in an interview here to-day said that the Republicans were making efforts to break into the solid South by introducing economic questions, but that it will fail. He said: "As long as local self-government demands our attention, our people can not be divided on this issue. Whether a man is a protectionist or a tariff re former, the safety and welfare of his home is paramount to the tariff." "Do you think that there is a growing protective sentiment in the South ?" "No," the Senator replied. "I think the tendency is more likely to be the other way, especially in the mining and manufacturing districts. The interests of the States of Virginia, Tennessee and Alabama particularly are advanced by low duties. They can produce iron and coal much cheaper than they can be produced in the East. Protection only assists Eastern manufacturers to keep up this rivalry. Without protection the rivalry would be greatly lessened. Less protection, more capital will go to de velop the industries of the South. Seeing this, I do not think our people will be led off by this question. The efforts of the Republicans will be in Virginia. Tennessee, North Carolina and perhaps Alabama. I do not think they will meet with success in either. The exodus of negroes from North Caro lina. if it keeus up, will hurt them there, but they could not carry the State anyhow. Harrison's appointments in the South have been of a character to strengthen us in our resistance of any attempts made upon the Southern States. I know it has been so in South Carolina, and I presume it is the same elsewhere." He thought inconvenience, but no injury, would result from the extensive negro exodus in the South. "We," he s.id, "would gladly see the colored peo ple move elsewhere, and we would be willing to suffer any reduction in the electoral college and Congress that might result from their departure. It would make things a little harder for the present generation, but would be the salvation of the future. I would gladly vote-to appropriate fifty millions for the other place in which they might settle." Come South, Young Man. The San Antonio Express of Texas advocates the sending of boys from orthetn States to be educated in South ern schools with a view partly to the execllent education to be had in the South at a reasonable cost, but pfinei l dly to escape the sectional prejudice w hiih exists in their own eetion. The youth of the $s;,-the Express shows, are being brought up free from the domination of one set of ideas. They vad the Northern papers every day as well as their own Southern papers. They often travel in the North. They have the affairs of the whole country bfore their minds, and they form large, i beral and comprehensive views. Not o the Northern boy. Hie reads no Southern paper, but is restricted to apers, periodicals and associations that ive him not only a very narrow, but lso a very distorted, conception of the euth and West. "These and other ;:es," says the Express, "empha ize the value of the Juggp hht the youth of. titvo secnious iioul be ~brought together rather y bringing those of the North here tan by sending ours there. Another rason is that the South is bigger and roader tban the North and West. There s more out-of-doors here. There is arger opportunity for the development f individuality, less danger from the f ration of habits by contact with the multitude. Men think more largely as hey breathe more freely; their opinions arrow as the circles of routine and :usiness contract about them." There ne other more practical reasons why the future capitalists of t he North should pend some years of their life in the uth. Thre South is the section of this :ountry now that has most development n store for it. It is the section in which o make most money. Otur niines, our :otton, our forests, our soil, our climate, :-tainl the promise of the future. The New Orleans 1wagune commends the advice the .Express giv-es, and adds that te best interests of the country as a whole will be promoted by 'the na tional man," North and South, learning the true state of affairs. "Sectionalism," says the Pic-ayane, "is the curse of our political system. Sectionalism exists hiefly among the people in the North ern States. Abolish it by educating their s outh in Southern schools. They will then become national and patriotic, no longer prejudiced sectional parti sans." Travel, study and residence away from home will serve to broaden and liberalize people capable of growth. -Baltimore Sun. "Elixir" Experiments at Williamston. Dr. B. F. Brown and Dr. HI. I. Ep ting of Williamston have recently cx permented with the Dr. Brown-Sequard socaled "elixir of life," on themselves and two others, with the result that >nly one claimed to be benefited. Dr. Brwn informs us that he has no confi dene in the elixir, and believes that, in the eases of those claiming to be bene fited, it is purely imaginative. He says there is certainly some risk in it. as more than one of the paities referred to have suffered, and arc still suffering, considerable constitutional disturbance. as well as being afflheted with local inflam mation and abscesses. Dr. Brown does not give the elixir his endorsement, and thin Ls that in a short time the craze will d ie out.-Andersorl Journal. Another Trial for a Colored Cadet. NEwBmrGH, N. Y., Aug. 2--Chatrles Young, the Ohio colored cade~t at West Point, who failed last June to graduate with the rest of the first class because ie was deficient in military civil en gineering. will be examined this week, aiid should he be successful, will be ruhated and commissioned an officer in the regular army. This is said to bc an unusual proceeding. Ordinarily, when a cadet fails to obtain sufficient marks at the~une examinations, ht is dropped, but in Ycung's ease it seems to have been thought best, on account of his colo:-, good deportment and ex cellent qualifications in other branches, to give him until Septemiber to make up deficiencies. If Young succeeds, he will make the third colored representa tive in the army, the other twvo being ~haains. The First Parting. "Come, Eva, kiss mamma good night, and go with nurse to bed. What, tears? For shame! a moment since, you would be good, you said. You're quite too big a girlie now to sleep in baby's place; Why, soon you'll be tall enough to go to school with Grace; So kneel beside me, darling, here, and say your prayers, and I Will sing that little hymn you love, of guard ing angels nigh. And when the birdies wake you up, tell Mary you may run To have a romp in mamma's bed; just think, what lots of fun!" The mother in the morning came, in long ing, anxious mood; With throbbing heart and dewy eyes, beside the bed she stood, Where Eva still slept soundly, her arms em bracing tight The gown her mother wore when she had kissed her pet good night. Its ribbons with her silent tears were stained and limp and wet, Around the white and dimple neck an empty sleeve was set; While Mary slept she stole away, ere dawn bad lit the sky, That . omething of her idol near her sinless breast might lie, Unheeded save by him who marks each grief endured alone She sought and found her solace for the first that she had known. -A. X. f., in Philadelphia Times. CHARMING MRS. TURGOOSE. She Got $9,000 for Worthless Mining Stock and Then Got Arrested. ST. Louis, August 21.-The Diamond Point Mining andMilling Company, cap ital stock $15,000,000, divided into 1,500,000 shares of the par value of $10 each, has had a boom here. Six months ago a lady of charming manners burst on St. Louis with all the effulgence of a social star. Nobody knew her, but it wasn't long before a great many were talking about her. She was so nice, so good and so lovely. Sbe was Mrs. Mar garet Turgoose, the wife of Isaac Tur goose, President of the Diamond Point and Silver Point Mining Companies. Mrs. Turgoose succeeded in interesting a number of ladies in the mining scheme. The stock was only fifty cents a share, and its purchase was a sure and quick way to fortune. Her husband assisted her, but spent most of the time in Chi cago, where he was busily engaged in floating the stock of the Silver Point Company. Mrs. Turgoose soon suc ceeded in floating 18,000 shares of the Diamond Point stock and raked in $9,000. She made a number of St. Louis people officers of the company. After a few months of anxious wait ing for riches some of the stockholders became nervous. Ore alleged to have been taken out of Diamond Point was submitted to the stockholders, and, when assayed, it ran $157 silver to the ton. This stayed anxiety. One chunk of ore was good as far as it went, but it did not go farugm Again t tockholders gan to inquire. They employ expert and sent him to Galena, Dakota, where the claims of the Diamond and Silver Point mines were alleged to be situated. He made an examination and found no silver nor gold. Upon receiv ing this report L. F. Mitchell, the presi dent of the company, swore out a war rant to-day for Mrs. Turgoose's arrest on the charge of fraud. The woman was horrified at the turn affairs have taken, and was quite prostrated when arrested. After a short stay at police headquarters she gave bail and was released. "Honesty is the BEast Policy." The retail dealer who advertises in his local paper, or papers, in such a man ner as to make the public believe that the goods which he offers are worth a reat deal more than he asks for them, will find that many of those who call at his store will go away without purchas ing,after having looked at the goods,and most of those who do purchase will not continu ~4~de wvith him. Ott the~ anif the article is a little b'tter than the customer expected to find it, or if it is equally as good as the adveriisemenlt led him to believe, the deler will not onlynmake a sale to him on this particular occasion, but will be quite sure to continue to sell him more or less goods in the future. I am personally acquainted with a gen teman who, for many years, was op posed to the large department stores which are to be found to-day in all our large cities. So bitterly wasbhe4opposed to them that be would not buy the most trivial article in one of them. One morning he chanced to glance at an ad vertisement in his morning paper by one of the large-st department stores in the city. As he did so, his eye re-sted on the notice of a special saie of men's shoes, whicn was being held in the shoe department of the store on that day. Among other lines there were t wo hun drd pairs of men's French kid shoes to. be sold at three dollars and twenty-live cents per pair. The notice went *n to) state that th-c shoes were all custom made, hand-sewed goods, and that no custom shoemaker in the city would make similar goods for one cent less than eight dollars a pair. Now, our friend considers himself something of an expert in the shoe and leather trade, and he instantly decided to go to that store, look at the goods, tell the~ sales men what a rascally set of deceivers they were employed by, and have a tale to tell about the department store for the remainder of his life. He wecnt to the store; the shoe department wvas crowded,but he elbowed his way through to the counter on which the French kid shoes were displayed. His mind was filled with his higli resolve to expose the swindler, but he didn't make the expo sure. One look at the shoes convinced him that no custom shoemaker- would sell a pair like them for a cent less than eight dollars, if for that. lie was con verted instantly, and at once proceeded with the greatest eagerness to find a pair to fit himself. From that day to this he has contin ued to read the advertisements of that hruse, and to say that he knows of one depart ment store which tells the "hon est truth" in its advertisemnts.-J. J. Terry, in The Art of Advertising. South Carolinians Going to Texas. The Atlanta Constitution of Wednes day says: Mr. J. A. Gee, traveling agent of the Georgia Central Road, arrived in Atlanta yesterday from Southb Carolina. He has with him a party of twelve pros pectors, who were on their way to Texas to look over the country with the object of founding a colony of South Carolina families in the Lone Star State. The prospectors left Atlahta at 1:15, under the care of Mr. W. J. Walker of the Texas and Pacific, who will see them as far as New Orleans. They will then go through to Waco, Texas. and from there will radiate all over the State, enmining the farm lands as they move from place to place. Axtell Beats the Record. CmCAGO, August 23.-The three-year old stallion Axtell trotted to beat his own reord of 2:14 late this evening, and overed a mile in 2:14, beating alli re1dia orm three and four year olds. A POINTER FOR COTTON PLANTERS. Good Demand and High Prices for the New Crop Likely to Rule Between Now and October 1st. MONTGOMERY, Ala , August 22.-Ieh man Durr & Co., cotton factors, have issued a circular, in which they say: "The general cotton crop of the coun try for the present year, 1889, promises to be the largest ever produced in the United States; but on account of there being of the stocks now carried by spin ners so much poor cotton, they (the spinners) will be compelled to buy of the first picking this year in order to get a better goods with which to work off their old stock; so that, for a time, at least, there will be a good demand for the new crop and at high prices. It looks reason able to us that cotton will bring higher prices from now until the 1st of October than at any time during the next season, and, if this be true, then it behooves producers to pick and get to market every bale they can between this and the 1st of October, in order to avail themselves of the high prices likely to prevail." Anecdotes of Advertising. A retail dealer in hats was once heard to say, at the time of paying a bill for a single city newspaper for a little more than two hundred dollars for adver tising a special grade of hats: "The en tire invoice of those hats was less than two hundred dollars, and this bill is less than one-fifth of the total amount paid for advertising them; yet, I am satisfied that the advertising has paid." The explanation was that the hate were pe culiar-not such as were often seen, but had a certain reputation with the pub lic. Men who habitually bought hats at other stores dropped .in to look at the novelty offered, and decided, ' after seeing, that it was not anything spe cially desirable for their use, but ob serving that it was a first-class hat store, had the newest styles, and a greater variety than the place they had previously patronized, ended by buying a hat, although not of the sort adver tised. The dealer thus made his two hundred dollars' worth of novelty sell many times their cost in other and more standard goods, and among the custom era who were thus induced to make of him their first purchase, some of them doubtless continued to patronize his shop for years afterwards. A similar experience is recalled of a clothing dealer, who advertised "all wool overcoats for nine dollars." He had the coats and they were as stated, and well worth nine dollars; but as a matter of fact he bad great lines of other goods which were worth more or possibly could be sold for less .money. The promise of "all wool" was what at tracted-the notice of those who wanted overcoats, but when once in the store, the seeker was generally inclined to take Srcoat-a better one, probably, mud pay, doubt, a higher price. Yet, the coat actu-. sold could not have been advertised in~- y way which would seem to specially pro :e a bargain. This dealer. referring-" the adver- 1 isement which had that orning ap peared, said, (it waz many -r ,s-'-goj "I bad Edward Everett in here this morning before half-past nine!" ;S '-Did be want an 'all-wool- overcoat :or nine dollars?' " was asked. "Yes, 1: :hat was what he looked for. It wao n For his coachman. We showed him tit r roods, and he was pleased with them, t but finally selected a better coat, and t paid seventeen dollars for it." s In this case it was "All wool for nine v lollars" in the advertisement that made t he sale, and possibly five hundrad dol- t Lars' worth of such coats would bring so t nch trade as to justify an ~outlay of i ve thousand in extending thxe publica- r :ion of the announcement which had act ally proved t~hd'c tne-powcr of at :racting customers. When the last "all wool" garment s as sold, th~e advertisement must be I withdrawn. for although customers I ~ought soinething else, they would in- a ;ist upon first seeing the exact thing d ivhich had been promised, and were t :his nor forthcoming, and of a quality 5 ~alated to favorably impress the t vould-be purchaser, he would retire dis- a satisfidl, and could never again be in- t used to visit that store. Advertisers t nust keep faith with their patrons, and a e prepared in all cases to give them ) ~xatly what was promised. The Negro in Southern Politics. The New York Tribune quotes with ~videt satisfaction the assertion of Mr. a torge W. Cable. the novelist, that the ~ucstion at the South is not one of th be I'iro\ right to rule, but of his right to hoose rulers. Mr. Cable, who is often trotted out on Northern platforms as a 'representative Southerner," is rnot re a:rded by the great majority of tiue oeuthern 'people as qualified to speak 'for ~ Lem, and the half truth embodied inm his definition of t he negro question ina Southern polities proves that he is but a I hasty and sup~erficial observer. No one would question the negro's right to hoose his own rulers if it were practi able in all cases for him to do so, with- ~ ut, at the same time, choosing rulers or his white neighbors also. The colored cople of the South unfortunately have not yet reached that stage of enlighten ent which prevents them from becom Lug the dupes and tools of unprincipled idventurers, and it is for this reasont hat the intelligence and property of the South are so solidly arrayed against all he attempts to re-establishi negro do uination, the disastrous effects of which Ln the past have scarcely vet passed iway in some portions of that section. Raltimore Sun. An Enemy of Sharks. There is a gentlteman at Cape May this ~ season who spends his life in a peculiar maanner. Several years ago he had the1 misfortune to-lose a much-beloved wife after a very short illness. Immediatelyt fter the funeral, hie, iu company with his only son, a bright lad of thirteent summers, departed for the sunny Southi in the endeavor to forget his grief. While out sailing on the Indian River 1 one beautiful afternoon the boat came I in contact with some unseen object which capsized the boat. The objectt proved to be a man-eating shark, which grabbed the boy and disappeared for ever. This was a great shoek, and one rom which lie never recovered, and nowf le goes from one place to another, ac cording to climate, preyingupon sharks. This man has arrived at Cape May, and will soon rid the waters of these deadly I monsters.-Cape Mai, Ware. Alert Night-Watchers. Dwellers in Florida who arc fortunate j enough to possess pet sand-hill cranes hare discovered that they are alert night-watchers. No tramp or thief can approach the premises without hearing a clear bugle note of alarm. I The cackling of a goose saved Rome, I and the cry of a sand-hill crane per- I forms the same service for the Florida S hen-rostand smokehouse.C MARRIED IN A CEMETERY. Mr. and Mrs Burbank Select a Strange Place for Their Marriage. Mr. and Mrs. Henry B. Burbank were the names of a very happy couple woo passed through Philadelphia Thursday on the Western express which followed the limited. They had just been mar ried in Greenwood Cemetery, Brooklyn, and were on their way to Nebraska, where Mr. Burbank, although a young man, is largely interested in the cattle business. They had never met each other until Wednesday morning last, although they had corresporded for years. At the fire in Brooklyn Theatre, a good many years ago, the father and sister of Mr. Burbank, who was then a young boy, were lost as was also the mother and sister of Miss Sadie King, then of State street Brooklyn. Mr. Burbank, in writing tnrough a relative for the particulars of the death of hi? parents, had his letter answered by Miss King, who, although then but twelve years of age, occasionally wrote for her uncle, an undertaker in Brook lyn. This letter was handed to Mr. Burbank, a mere boy, to read. He wrote back to thank Miss Sadie, and a correspondence ensued. Mr. Burbank's father being dead, he gradually came into the estate, and by frugality and care he made it a very wealthy one, as well as going into the extensive buying of cattle. le never forgot Miss King, who, as she developed into womanhood, had become very dear to him. He wrote to her last October, asking her if she would marry him. She replied in a satisfactory manner, but suggested that, as the Brooklyn fire had been the means of their meeting; they should carry out the marriage ceremony in Greenwood Cemetery, near the meau ent that was erected by the city of Brooklyn to the memory of the unknown lead who perished in that terrible solo 2aust. On Wednesday Mr. Burbank, accom panied by Col. Montgomery Green of St. Louis, an old friend of his father's, Dr. Forster Bishop of Cincinnati, and his sister, arrived in Brooklyn, and he met iss King for the first time at he.r house, >n DeKalb avenue. Carriages were pro mured, and a minister who had been en gaged was taken up on the way, and the party drove out Fifth avenue to the 3emetery. Under the massive and beau :ifully carved gateways the happy couple vent, out through the silent city of the lead, which contains the enormous num yer of 256,125 bodies, cut across by its yeautiful lakes, traversed its shady ave ines until they came face to face with he tall shaft which marks the resting ;pot of 154 unknown dead who perished n that fearful fire. There were eight in the party, and the group were quickly made aware of the olemnity of the spot by the bride, who ;a'd: "Harry, my mother and sister are mnder that stone; we never found them." He took her hand and answered: ,And so are mine." Colonel King, who was an officer in he army during the late civil war, said: 'Yes, and they are in on -rosr dead. Sadie, you have selected this pot to be married; are you ready?" The minister then arranged them in re, facing the monument, and the cere ony pr-ceeded,not a sound marring the ites but the twitter of the birds. After bey had been pronounced man and wife icy walked up the grassy incline to the bade, and the bride and groom knelt hile the clergyman offered up a short ut affecting praye. They all returned the city, the bride and groom going >an aunt's,Mrs. C. Barnum, at Yonkers, rhere they remained until Thursday iorning, when they left for his home in rebraska. To a reporter who rode from New ork with them on the train, the groom rid: "This was no advertising idea of iv wife's. Saie is, I am sorry to say, a t'tl superstitious, and for a long time fter we began corresponding, she ramt I would be her husband, but that > do so we must be married where we ipposed all that remained of our rela yes were burried. It is done, and 1 m not sorry of it, although I am glad one of the illustrated papers got there photograph us; in fact, I do nor think ny newspaperknows i."-Philadelphia aLquirer. .The Field Family. The attack of Terry upon Justice 'ield has recalled attention to and re wakened interest in one of the most elebrated of American families. The rst of the line to attain prominence in his country wvas Timothy Field, a Cap in in th'e Revolutionary army and a ian of much mark in his time. His son, avid Dudley Field, D. D., was a Con regational clergyman1 of Connecticut, orn in 1781, and dying in 1867 at the ine age of eighty six, He was famed sa New England historian, and pub shed many local histories: but his hief claim to renown and his great lory lay in the record of his four sons. he oldest of the four. David Dudley 'ed, has long held rank as one of I be aremost lawyers of New York; Henry fartin Field is one of the leading di ines of the continent: Cyrus W. Field as an everlasting monument. in the tlantic cable, the creature of his genius d his energy, and Stephen Johnson 'ield is one of the ablest and purest of be Judges who have adorned our upreme Bench. You shall search the is tory of our times in vain to find four rothers who have attained to such eserved eminene in such varied walks f life. It 'is, indeed, a famous family. incinnati .Enqu irer. The Appomattox Battle Ground. Mr. Samuel D). Webb, a native of Ap omattox County, now a resident of Vashington, D. C., stopped in the city 'hursday en route from the latter place, here he had just closed a contract for he old Burk property at Appomattox )epot, the price paid being $11-> per crc. Mr. Webb represents the Wash ngton syndicate which has recently eured options on large tracts of lands tween Appomattox Depot and court Louse, with a view of converting the roperty into a place of resort for ourists and visitors from all setioins of he country who may desire to go over na view the scenes surrounding the inal battle ground of the late Con ederacy. Mr. Webb stated that the perations would begin at Apponmattox )epot, at which place the syndicate ould soon erect a handsome hotel, ivery stable, &c. He says they mean usiness, aadl havc amle capital to con ummate in .a satisfactory degree all heir contemplated plans and promises. ~ynchurg (Vaz.) Seu:s. Elixir Night Wake Him Up. About the only place the elixir could e safely used would be upon the ste re :eeper who don't advertise. It might ucceed in keepynr him awake at least, omething the r'ush of trade never MORMON ELDERS IN W. VIRGINIA. Luring Wives and Maidens Away Threats Against the Missionaries. WHEELING, W. Va., August 20.-Mor mon elders have been doing Lome effective missionary. work in this State for some time past, and the. effects are beginning to be felt in a -serioifs way. So critical is. the situation in some sec tions that serious trouble is brewing. In Wheeling there is to be found a con gregation of the "Saints," with a church' building of their own, in which regular services are heud. The converts made here have been mostly women, and some of them have been exported to Utah. It is in the Counties of Ritchie, Cal houn, Grant and Pendleton that the el ders, or "missionaries," as they call themselves, are working in the boldest manner. They have made an astonish ing number of converts, and scores of families have been broken up in conse-, quence. Cases are numerous where en tire families have renounced their former faith and united with the Mormon Church. More numerous, however, are the cases where family ties have been broken, where wives have deserted huis bands and husban'ds wives to east their lot with the Mormons. Many young girls have been induced to leave ther homes and go to Utah. "You need not be surprised," said a gentleman who travels extensively through the State, "to hear of troubles in some of the Counties on account of it. The feeling among the anti-Mormon citizens is very bitter against the mission aries, and they are discussing the mat ter of an organized movement to drive them from the State." The Mormon elders vehemently deny that they are in any way connected with the polygamous branch of the. Mormon Church, even going so far as to denounce polygamy publicly and to assert that the Church in Utah has been thoroughly reformed in that respect. By these denials they are able to deceive the women, who seem to place great confidence in all they say. Among the early converts in Pendle ton County was a woman above the average intelligence, as intelligence goes in the backwoods. She became infatu ated with the beauties of the "Qty of-t Saints" as described by-the missionaries, and consented'to go there. After a six mouths'.-sojourn in Utah she returned and is nowactive in warning her friends. against listening to the. false pro phets. She says the Mormon prac tices she was permitted to witness in Utah completely d'sgusted her. She denounces the Church as a "rotten institution, whose priests are a set of lecherous scoundrels, and the whole system is one of lewdness." That the patience of the best people in the Counties named has been tested almost to its limits is certain, and trouble and bloodshed may occur in one or two Counties before the end comes. The people of Warren County have already organized themseles to get rid of the Mormons. Monday morinr fif teen well-known citizens arranged - dw line of ing the desired persons were seen o leave the house. In a few seconds hey were completely surrounded. They. were marched to a dense swamp, into hich they were escorted and disci )lned with a buggy trace. They were hen ordered to make instant departure. An Indian 15OYears Old. A dispatch from San Francisco says: or several years there has been doma iled at the Monterey County Hospital n old Indian, known by the name-of Old Gabriel."' who is believed to be over 50 years of age. Gabriel was born in alare County, but during childhood emoved to the town of Monterey. ather- Junipero Zerra arrived in Mon erey in 1770, and it is well authenti ~ated that at that time Gabriel was a ~randfather. Father Junipero taught abriel the art of cutting and laying tone, and at the time of the building of he first chapel, in -the years 771 and 1772, Gabriel assisted n the construction of the ws - aberiel still speaks proudly of kill be acquired as a stonecutten~ ~ather Sorrentini, the priest, and Bishop tmat reached Monterey some time in he year 1845. The former says tjiat Old Gabriel" was then living with his xth wife. He was then said to be over 10 years old. An old lady by the name. f Castro, who died five years ago, at he age of 95. in testifying to Old abril's age, said that when a child she aw Old Gabriel, and at that time he hd bhildren several years older than she vas. Uip to within two or three years abriel was a familiar figure on the reets of Salinas City, but now he is rely seen. He has always been fond t striking colors, and for years wore a oat made of cloth representing all the ~olom of the rainbow. The Sha~h Gives Offense. The Russians are indignant because he Shah announces that he will here fter seek the closest possible relations ith England, regardless of intrigues iostile to such a course. Hospitality on ,national scale pays, therefore, it seems, ~specially when the guest is an absolute onarch. Nasr'd-Din was treated with cant ea'rtesy by the Czar, whom he isitd ?.~s. of all, but in England he as made a lion of. Thbe Prince of WVales id the honors, assisted by the first no )ility of the kingdom. By the Queen e was treated with the greatest con ~iderat ion. Naturally he was pleased, .d an impression was made which even he fascinations of Paris seem not to iave erased. Yet it will not do for nglish merchants to think they- have ersia already added to the vast area of heir markets~. The Shah is very artful his use of language. That he says he s going hand and glove with England reafter is not perfectly good ground or believing that he will do so. To be )lain about it, Nasr 'd-Din is a bit given o lying. The Shooting of Convicts. It seems .0 be the rule at the South arolina penitentiary to shoot a convict hen he attempts to escape. It is not ,lear to us that the Superintendent of - he penitentiary has any show oi law, juman or divine, to warrant him in aaving escaping c'onvicts shot. In ease )f insurrection, -yhen arms and force tre used and the hves of the guards in ;reat dlanger, there is no doubt as to . he right to shoot dcwn the insurgents, )rovidd they cannot be other'aise sub' :iued. But 'when p~isoners are sent orth fromi the walls they .should either e manacled or guarded in such a in cr as to prevent even the attemiprt ~scape. When one has the opportuniity :o get away and does start, a guard nuas io sort of ~right to kill-him. - Hiaduties tre similar to those of a constable who ias a prisoner arrested. -Tue kiihmng of , prisoner, or a convict, under such ~irumsaces is nothing but mnurd.er. .raa4ura snartau.