The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, January 01, 1902, Image 4
A Christmas of Lorg Ago
I am tbinking Lonight in sadnes:
Of a Christmas of lor-go.
When the air was filled with Iadn.
And the earth was wrappei in enow.
When thestarslike dismond' glie'seeL
And the nig'at was crier 2d d
As I eagerly watched aud
For the Santa C a:s of '..
The forest was rcbMcJ of its tre-.Sures.
The houze was a mass f gneu,
And I reveled in Christas p'asres,
At the dawn of Aurora's shee:;
Some talked of ihe avier's missi
But lof my pre'y toyT:
Some knelt in devout petio
I romped and played with the boys.
We went to the pond for skating,
To the stable to take a ride,
And we found new joys awa'tirg
To whatever spot be hied;
Bat the climax of my story
Was that evening's firewtort sho".
Went out in ablaze oftgiery
That Christmas o! bLng ago
Bat in sadness I think of that Christmas,
For many then happy and
Have gone to the realm of siletc
And sleet> in their bedi of clay:
Thehands that filled kindly r.y S ccing3
I shall grasp in this world no mrre.
But when at Heaven's portals I'm ' knocking
They'll open the beatiful door.
They will lead me in teaderness clinging,
And place me before the throne,
Where the choirs angeic are singing
And the heavenly gifts are strewn
And there in the realm of glcry,
With my loved ones at my side,
I'll repeat the old Bethlehem story
And join in that Chriztmas tide.
TALMAGE'S S M ON.
In this Bible Econe of Christmas Night
God Honored Childhood.
This discourse of Dr. Talmage is full
of the nativity and ap;cpriate for the
holidays; text, Luke ii 16, "And they
came with haste and found Mary and
Joseph, and the babe lying in a man
ger."
The black window shutters of a Da
cember night were thrown open and
some of the best singers of a world
where they all sing stcod there, and
putting back the drapery of cloud
chanted a peace anthem until all the
echoes of hill and valley applauded and
encored the halleluish chorus, Come,
let us go into that Christmas scene as
though we had never before worshiped
at the manger. Here is a Madonna
worth looking at. I wonder not that
the most frequent name in all lands
and in all Christian c-nturies is Mary.
And there are Marys in palaces and
Marys in cabins, ani, tbcuth Gorman
and French and Italian and Spanish ana
English pronounce it differently, they
are all namesakes of the one whom we
find on a bed of straw, with her pale
face against the soft cheek of Christ
in the night of the navity. All the
great painters have tried, on canvas, to
present Mary and her child and the in
cidents of that most famous night of
the world's history. Raphael, in three
different masterpieces, celebrated them.
Tintoretto and Ohiriandajo surpassed
themselves in the adoration of the
magi. Oorreggio needed to do rno more
than his Madonna to become immortal.
The "Madonna of the Lily," by Leon
ardo da Vinci, will kindle the admira
tion of all ages. But all the galleries
of Dresden are ft.rgotten when I think
of the small room of that gallery con
taining the "Bistine Madonna."' Yet
all of them were copies of St. Mat
thew's Madonna and Luke's Madonna,
the inspired Madonna of the old book,
which we had put into ou~r hands when
we were infants and that we hope to
have under our heads when we die.
Behold, in the first place, that on the
night of Christ's life God honored the
brute creation. You cannot get into
that Bethelem barn without going past
the camels, the mule3, the dogs, the
oxen. The brutes of that stable heard
the first cry of the infant Lord. Some
of the old painters represent the oxen
and osmels kneeling that night before
the newborn babe. And well might
they kneel! Have you ever thought
that Christ came, among other things,
to allevinate the eufferings of the brute
creation? Was it not appropriate that
he should, during the first few days
and nights of his lite on earth, be sur
rounded by the dumb beasts, whose
moan and plaint and bellowing have
for ages been a prayer to God for the
arresting of their tortures and the
righting of their wrcngs? Not a kennel
in all the centuries, not a bird's nest,
not a wornout horse en towpath, not a
herd frec zing in the poorly built cow
pen, not a freight car in summer time
bringing the breeves to market 'without
water through a thousand miles of
agony, not a surgeon's room witnessing
the struggles of fox or pigeon or fog in
the horrors of vivisection, but has an
interest in the fact that Christ was
born in a stable surrounded by brutes.
Standing then, as I imagine now I
do, in that Bethlehem night with at in
fant Christ on one side and the speech
less creatures of God cn the other, I
cry; Look out how you strike the rowel
into that horse's side; take off that
curbed bit from that bleeding mouth;
remove that saddle from that raw bacd,;
shoot not for fun that bird that is too
Email for food; forget not to put water
into the cage of that canary; throw ou.
some crumbs to those birds caught too
far north in the winter's inclemency:
arrest that man who is making that one
horse draw a load heavy enough for
three: rush in upon that scene where
boys are torturing a cat or transfizingI
butterfly and grasshopper; drive not cff
that old robin, for her nest is a moth
er's cradle and under her wing there
may be three or four musicians of the
sky in training- In your famlies and
in your shools teach the coming gen
eration more mercy than the presentI
geneiation has ever shown and in this
marvelous Bible picture of the nativity,
while you point out to them the angel,j
show them also the camei, and whixle
they hear the celestial chant let theZm
also hear the cow's moan.
Behold also in this Bie scene how
on that Christmas nig~ht God isouo:ed
childhood. Childhood was to be hen
ored by that event. He must have
child's light limbs and a chil d'sd dipl
ed hand and a child's beaming eye a:,d
a child's flaxen hair, ar d babyhood was
to be honored for all time to come, a::d
a cradle was tomean more than a grave.
Mighty God, may the reflect:ou of that
one child's face be seen in all infantile
faces!I
Enough have all those faihers and
mothers on hand if they hore a child in
the house. A throne, -. crown, a sepr
ter, a kingdom, under cha ge. Be are
ful how you strike him acro s te head.
jarring the brain. Wha 'voca sa~y to
him will be centen"al and millenid,
and a hundred years~ and a thusm
years will not stop the ocho and re
echo. Do not ay, It it only a hi
Rather say, "It is only an imor
tal." It is only a materpiece of Jeho
vah. It is only a being that saat cut
live sun and moon and star and ages
quadrionnial. God has irjinite resouir
0s5, and he can give presents of greyt
value, but when he ;;ants to give ito
ri.estpossiea gift to a homsehold he
s~n. ai te wrld an lti
universe and then gives a child. Yoa,
ai Eis d has hcnorcd childhood.
-aes almost every picture a fnil
u~'re e there be a child either plxv
i on the floor or looking through the
vindow or sestecd on the lap gsz:ng itro
the *ace of the mother.
It was a child in Naaman's kitchen
that told the great Syrian wasrior where
he might go and get eurei of the lepro
sy, which at his seventh plunge in the
Jordan wts leit at the bottor of the
riv:r. i was to the ersdlo of leaves in
ca cd wa- laid, reakEd by :Ie
Nie, that V~d caiei the attention of
h:st It was a siak child that evok
ed Christ' curative svmpathies. It
wa a child that Cbrist set in the midst
of the qabbling disciples to teach the
i.. A child decided
Waterloo, showing the army of BIoh
cr h-w th.y could take a short cut
tlrcuzlh the fields when if the o'd road
had ben followed the Prussian general
would have come up too late to save the
destinies of Europe. It was a child
tlat d-eided Gettysburg, he having
overhcard two Confederate generals ia
conversation in which they were to
:rch for Gettysburg instead of Hawris
burg, snd, this reported to Governor
Curtir, the Federa forces started to
mCeE their opponerts at Gettysburg.
.-d today the child is to decide all the
meat hates, make Sl1 the laws, settle
il the destinies and usher in the world's
alvaion or destruction. Men, women,
nations, all earth and all haven, be
-odthe ch-ild!
Natice ;:so that in this Bible night
scene God honored scienee. Who s.re
the three wise mn kneeling before
the Divine In'snt? Not boor, not ig
noramuses, Dut Caspar, Balthasar and
elehoir. men who knew all th3t was
to be known. They were the Isaac
Ne wtons and Hersche!s and Faradays
of their time. Their alchemy was the
forerurnner of our sublime chemistry,
their astrology the mother of our meg
nifiecnt astronomy. And when I see
these scientists bowing befcre the beau
tiful babe Isee the propheoy of tde time
whcn all the telesaopes and microscopes
and all the Liyden jars and all the elec
trie batteries and all the observatories
and all ths universities shall bow to
Jesus. ft is much that way already.
Where is the college that dces not have
mcrninz prayers, thus bowing at the
manger? Who have been the greatest
physians? Omitting the names of the
living lest we should be invidious. have
we not had among them Christian men
liko James Y. Simpson and Rush and
Valentine Mott and Aberorembie and
Abernethy? Who have been our great
est scientists? Joseph Henry, who
lived and died in the faith of the gos
pole, and Aggassiz, who, standizg with
his students among the hills, took off
his hat rnd said, "Young gentlemen,
before we study these roiks let us pray
for wisdom to the God who msde the
rock." All geology will yet bow before
the Rock of Ages. All botany will
yet worship the Rose of Sharon. All
astronomy will yet recognize the Star
of Bethlehem.
Behold also in that f:si Christmas
night that God honored the fields.
Came in, shepherd boys, to Bethleheni
and see the child. "N2," they say;
"we are not dressed good enough to
come'i. "Yes, you are. Come in."
Sure enough the storma and the night
dew and the brambles have made rough
work with their apparel, but none has a
better right to come in. They were the
first to hear the music of that Christmas
night. The first announcement of a
Saviour's birth was made to those men
in the fiald:. Theres were wiseacres
that night in Bethlehem and Jerusalem
soring in drop sleep, and thcrs were
salaried officers of government who,
hearirg of it afterward, may have
thought that they onght to have had the
frst ners of such a great event, some
one dismounting from a swift camel at
their door and kneeling till at some
sentinels qnestion, "Who comes
there?'' the great ones of the palace
might have been told of the celestial
arrival. No; the shepherds heard the
drt two bars of the music, the first in
the major key and the last in the sub
dued minor, "Glory to God in the high
est and on earth peace, good will to
men." Ah, yes, the fislds were hon
ored.
The od shepherds, with plaid and
rook, have for the most part vanished,
cut we have gazing on our U sited States
pasture field! and prairie about 42,000,
200 stieep, and all their keepers ought
o ioiow the shepherds of my text ar.d
all Liose who toil in the fields-all vine
iressers, all orchardiwts, all husband
men. aNot only that Christmas night,
but all up and down the world's histors,
Sed has been honoring the fielda.
arly all the messiahs of reform and
iterature and elcg ience and law and
bet~evolence hrove come from the fields.
Washington from the fields. Jeff erson
from he fieds. The presidential mar
tyrs, Garfield, Lincoln and MicKinley,
from the fields. Henry Clay from the
felds. DJaniel Webster from the fields.
Before this world is right the overflow
ing populations of our crowded cities
will have to take to the fields. Instead
of ten merchants in rivalry as to who
shall soil that one apple we want at
least eight of them to go out and raise
ples. Instead of t.e merchants de
sir'ing to sell that one bushel of wheat
we want at least eight of them to go out
and raise wheat. The world wants now
more hard hands, more bror zad cheeks,
more musculrar arms. To the field!
Gd honored them when he woke up
the shepherds by the midnight anthem,
and he will while the world lasts con
tinue to honor the fields. When the
shepher's creeh was that famous night
stood gainst the wall of the Bethlehem
khan, it was a prophecy of the time
wen thrssher's flail and farmer's pieow
and woodman's ax and ox's yoke and
sheaf binder's rake shall surrender to
the God who mode the country as m:.n
mae the town.
Behoid a' o that on that Christmas
night God honored motherhood. Tivo
angels on thei:r wings might haveI
brouht :.2 inet Saviour to Bethle
hem without alary's beiag there at all.I
Wnen the villagers on the morning of
Dee. 26 awake, by divine arrangement
and in someunciplained way the child
Jesus might have been found in somei
comfortable cradle of the village. But
no, no! Moerhood for all time was
to'o conceorated, and one of the ten
derest relations was to be the maternal
relation and one of the sweetest words
"mother." In all ages G ad has honored
good motherhood. John Wesley had
a good mother. St. Bernard had a
good mother. Samuel Badgett a good
mother, Doddridge~ a good mocther, Wal
ter Scott agood nso her, Benjamin
West a good mother. In a great audi
ence, s of whom were Christians, I
asked ti~at all those who had been
ble.:edcof Christian mothers arise, and
lmost the erntire assembly stood u:p
D. you not see how important it is
thsat all otherhood bo constecrated?
Why did Titian, the It211an artitt,
when he sketched the Madonna mk
it an Italian facJ? Why did Rubens,
th Geo sr;is:, in his Maldona
mke it a German face? Why did
Joshua Reynolds, the Eeglish artist, in
bis Madonna make it an English face.?
nis Msdonna mpa'c i a Spanush ?aca
I tver heard, 'c I think 'hey took I
their ow~n motheri as "be 7Pe of K-.ry,
tho 'Othe-r of i4 Vt Wh:n u hear
some, ene 5n svn o . e ak in
the aberset ofa .elf ithu. hou
est rcothrr, ou-r eyes dl' up tears,
while you ry to yourslf, "Tnat waq
mv mother."
The tr2n wrd a childuttra : e pt to
be "Mother! a-d :he old m in his
dying dream calls, "Mother, mother!"
It matter2 not whether she was brouzht
up ii the surroundings of a citT and in
di4;nt home and was dr sicd appre
p:iately with reference to the demands
Cf mcdern life or whether she wore the
old time cap and great round sp:c
tacles and anron of her owr m:ke and
knit your soeks with her own needles
sestd. by the broad firepl eZ, with erzat
backlog ,b!z2, on a winiLr's night; it I
matters nt how many w'i&_khs orossed
and recroses-d her fae or how mouh her
sho- d-r' strevrd wit' the burd en of a
I - C
arg life, it yu rin a Madonna
hers would '-a te faea3. What a gen
tle hand she had wh en wo nere siek
'
and wha s vice to soothe pA1in and
was there any or.3 who Could s. fill u:.
a room with pe.ee and purity .:d ight
And whast a aid day that was when we
ce hom3 acd bhe ccui'l greEt ut not,
for her lips W-r f e-till. 0 .) M
a
baek, mother, ih itek Chrim 1s times
and take vo-r ILd plaoe and as ten cr
twenty or fifty Y;enrs ago coxe and cpan
the old Bible as you used to, -%ad and
kneel in the sa'n: plaae where .-o. used
to pray and look up)- us as of old when
you wished us a merry Christmas or a
happy New Year. Bat no! That would
not 1e fair to call you back. You had
troubles enough and aches enou;b and t
bereav.ents enough while you were
here. Tarry by the throne, mother,
till we join you there, your prayers all
answered. and in the eternal homestead t
of our God we shall again keep Christ
mas jnbilee togedher. But speak from
your thrones, all you girified mothers,
and say to all the:-, your eons and
daughters, words of love, w-xrds of
warning. words of cheer. Toey need
your voioe, for they have traveled far
and t mary a heartbreak since you
left them, sad you do well to ca.ll from
the heights of heaven to the valleys o
earth. Hail, euthrored ancestri! We
are comir.g. Keep a placo rig eside
you at the barquet.
Slow footed years: More swiftly run
Into the gold of that unsetting sun.
Homesick we are for thee,
Calm land beyond the tea.
Pointed Paragrarhs.
If a woman has a min to love she
has no use for a ct.
Faith in your own ability is to
thirds of the battle.
When a zman is beaton he aimits it
but it's diderent with a won-2.
If you Eau it imp'ssible to tell twins
apart, tell them togethor.
When a clock is wound up it goes;
when a business is wound up it stops.
Every spinster knows at least a doz
en men who might have married her
LI
ii- t
A man always feels contemptible
when he lets a girl kiss hima against
her will.
As soon as a girl gets married she be
gins to acquire a supplementary educa
tion.
It is human nature to desire to be
equal to your superiors and superior to
your equals.
The man who wants to p-rove every
thing he sa:.s adverties the hec tas:
his word isn't to be credi:e d.
Some men e.ho have hlire lack
gense. What they neel is ca..
immense room e imreet
Love may net 1e b'i"d :uesar,
but it is never abl t s,:e its finia.
Few men h'ave enog~h sel. coeence
takes.
When two women ar bim~eren .uie a
there is always Nfi Lm'-, a. theO bottom
f it.
Lots of woer sad tr eau s b'r.,u'hi
n by advie-s ha is supose W re
ent it.
Sometimes it is a man's dine er that
disagres with him and sometimes it's
his wife. I
Lts of people are about half-way
between what yuua think they are and
what they pretene. to be.
The clam has a larger month in pr>
portion to his siza than a man, yet
the clam never talks about his neigh
bors.
After Many Years.
With a enowstorm fiercely reging on
hristmas Eve, 1857, Pait took his I
sweetheart to a p:rty. Seeo had ec
ated a plzdge from him before consent
ing to become his wife that he would f
not touch liquor. The bitter cold was ~
oo maeh for him, however, and t
houghtlessig~ he took a drink to warnm
imself. His sweerheart instantly de
tcted it, the two qarreied, and as a f
esult the, engagemmt was broken. Af- r
er tho quarrel the girl married. So E
id Petit, who moved to Syracuse, ~
ngaged in the coal businees and be- ~
ame wealthy. A laundress who was
smployed by Mrs. Eill one day men- ~
ioned having worked for the Petit
family and told the death of Mrs. Petit C
ast January. Mrs. Hill had become a e
widow five years before. L-ast Jane ~
Mr. Polit went to Brageport, Conn.
and oslied on his early swe-theart.
Talking over old times he declared he
had never e:.ased to love he.r.H sad
that he had never tomaecd adrap of
iquo: eince the fsteful Chrima Ev-2
and vptn this declarat aen Ms. iti t
gave he?r promise to marr him. Bh .~
ride and gro:-m hsve several gron V
e'idren ar~d all rr hese for th wed.
ing ccremory.
A Tall Building. I
A Boston ian propse, it is sad, to
rect. a o- st.ory buidirg on Broadway, d~
Ne York. T ha ,wll 1ean dine'00
eetiuhhh. wr"en is eq"si 'o the co-a- s,
aie tiht or the Mahnst Life In- e
urance .:;2 Park R~ow buidigs now
:e highes.: in h world. Ie plan l b
o erest 35 sto--c se na huilding anda
ou top of is another ~ stories. 2h -
cheme has been ;'roueuneed~ feaile
by the eogineers and there appcra toc
be no reason why it shonid not be c-a- c.
:ed cut loe~ the promocter issidt
ave the neesssaory flnaaeixi hacking.I
That suchn a plnan shoul& eni:n be seri
usly co1sieredO dmoastrates e
rowth of New York and the great
value oZ ground spa::e incident to th-e -
rowdir.g of the. ..ty.E
Charleston ExpositioL.
The ezhibit of liv:: stock the ei f
position in Char: -on will be u-o !ar- a
est held in the touh. ht vil es on I
an. 6 and will cystions utii Jsan. 2G.
Aread-; 1,0 enreshv be "iae I:
adin the'c".p. -on man. of.he
cil b r"r'sent- i Tn entries so a.
ar made e ime from 17 '.13 a k
s now on depsi at the Be of Char
est'n. will be pa. t -o th scesul p.
ntsants. G,:orge F. Weston of tI
Vanderbilt's Bsmor stock farm is in ti
PRTTY ROMA NCE,
. Sr -har ard S'ser Me-t Af er
a Lorg Seprail n
;r THE CHARLESTON SHON.
Thy *Wtr Stok-n in Ch!idhood
by A-ab Slay Tradfrs anI
Sold to Different
PecpM.
No one vould imsSine to look at the
aces of All M-sont Ben Mohommed
ad his -iter, Baefa Madon., that their
rers hd. been merked by opisodes
tho most thrilling oature. Thcv
ae still y oug, Baefs having jort passed
er 30th milestene, -while IMosont will
e 27 in Septembrr.
Tragdies, rominCo .Ld dCed3 of hO
oim are ever oczurring in the Orient,
u the wcrld rarely hears of them A
ao cof myrtery hang: over the followers
I Mnhormmd aud -vhen an castional
rtce appesra touching on the religion,
araiics or home life of these
opyle it i- retd with intercst by the
rihrtian world.
Moson Ben Moh:mmed and Baefa
Iadon were the only children of an
trabian Nomad. Being nearly of the
sme age they played together and be
%mo inseparable; where Btea was
here you would find Mosont also, and
s Baefa was the older her motherly in
tincts promoted her to restrain the
oy's natural desire to wander far from
he tent of their parents. Slave deal
re were constantly passing over the
esert withia sight of their door an-d
e mos. unscrupulous among them
omctimes pieked Up children who bad
rayed too far from home and sold
Lem in a distant rlave market. Thus
aeis e-refully wiltobhed over her broth
r, and so faithful was she that her par
nt intrusted her with the full care of
he boy.
When Mosont was 5 year3 old his
ther decided to move his family to
liro, where the children could obtain
uch instructions as the town afforded.
t was a long journey, but he
ad csmets, and they were as
co6 for the purpose as a freight
-in. Now it is not much of an under
.king for an Arab to move; he ha. no
rio-a-brac to worry with, no piano or
Irlor lamp to handlo with care or
.ichon stove t.. drive him insane.
iis household goods are few ard sim
il-a tent, scme skins and rugs and a
mill assortment of cooking utensils
re the sum of an Arab's domestic pos
essions. Of course his indirpansable
un ana. othor wespons are not slUpposed
o belong to the housekeeping category.
So when Monsont's father broke up
is camp two camels easily carried all
he freight,'while the children rode the
hird and the parents head3d the asra
an on the fourth camel. Everything
ent well on the janrney until the
hird day, when the little party en
ountered a eevere sand storm just as
ight was coming on. The childroni
ere terrified and their camel became
umanageable and soon broke away
rom the others. How they ever sur
ivd the storm they are unsble io teil,
ut it ms ms as the storm increa'sed the
emel got down on its haunches and,
ortictively, the children slid off and
roched behind the animal. All
ha the long and terrible night they
ing to each other and a~s the day was
-einiing to break in the east they fell
sieep from exhaustion.
Tee next thing they remember was
..ring strange voices speaking in an
ono en tongue and Baefa, who awoke
rt, saw several ferocious looking men
aking excitedly together not ten feet
way. Then she cried from fright and
re her brother. Thn atrangers, hear
og her c-y, looked tewar d the children
adosc of them advanced and addres
d Baefa in her native ianguage. He
poke roughly and tell her that she and
er brother must go with them on a
ang journey. Then the man called to
is companions and withou; further oer
mny, the children were taken to a long
aravan which had been hidden from
iew on the other side of thoir camel.
here they were s~psri:d and Baefa
as loaded on a camne ncar the front of
he- lineO and Moscai was thrust on a
orse behind a savage locking Turk.
For days and days they travelled and
t last arrived at a great city, where
hey were taken to the slave market and
old. Basfa was bought by a wealthy
urk and Mosont by a Syrian merchant
rcm whom he escaped twelve years
iter and fournd his way back to his na
ive land, where be searched in vain for
tis parents and sister. Fin:.lly. having
tesprnired of ever finding- any of his
amily again, he joined a troupe of ac
bat. He has followed his profession
ver ince z~nd came to Americi last
pril with a company Jof Arabs to fill
n engazemont for the scason with the
rets of Cairo Company at the Mid
Baefa was tsaken to Turkey by her
wner, who died five years ltater and his
strte sold to an Arab S hick, who took
r back to her native land, and EC-en
fer freed her from bondage. L.. 15
he was married to a silversmith, with
-horn she has lived ever since, comning
> America in May with her husband,
-o alSO ha-i been engaged by the
reets of Cairo Company. I- wss
aree weeks af ter B iefa arrived in this
,entry before the inother and sister
new of each other's existence and the
~cogition happtned in this wise: Mn
ont was relating his inistory one morn
g to aparty of Arabs, amedg whom
'as Besa and her husband. As he
:cceeded with his tale Biefa manifest
i an ever izcreasiog interest andI
rak in every word v~ih a rapture that
"ll-righ setL her hush'~nd beside him
f it j'alosy. Taen, whe~n she was
rea tha er.3 was no mistke an-i that
e' had rer-l~y ionned Ta long lost
othcr, she naarly precipted a eng
her, ~ u nd bat Bonea izin ?.x
laned the situatica as well asi ene
:guld etween becr zobs of j :y -News
ed ourier.
A Great Invention.
Marconi's marvelous experimomts,
gs the N. Y. Evening P:.s:, naturailb
i doubters for it not ol szraina
2:Gih hu: almosi' beff nii the ima~gi
ston f layman to beli.::ve that from a
a pelo in England tc a kite in N sw
"'diud recognisaie sigeals pssed
no' 1. 30- miles of coan. That eu~b
tas fart, however, there sees
1L & ite oad for doubt
. 'l factMr. Msaro:ni's pablishedt
eVwson the sabj :ot erly height
the ec idne whica is felt in him
a man of science. TUhe frank ae
oisaemcnt that a signal rather
3 a vzrb eimessage was ehosen b3
use the insuu~monte are still too imn
rfet for the more di:5:ult tes..shows
le temper of the scientist ra:her than
: headlong enthnuai of the mere
~vno .
THE UIH2RY TREE SCNDAL.
Rev. T Bright After Pocketing $4,500
Said Echeme Was Wrong.
J 0 B1ll, writing in the Charlotte
Observer, says:
I notice in The Observer of the 15th
inst., a card from Rev. T. Bright, in
which ha states that all employes were
promuptly paid as soon as their w::es
came due, while he controlled the busi
ness of the Amos Owven Cherry Tree
company. This statement, to sy
least, is m'sleading and I can prove it,
as I have in my possession several let
ters from ladies, most of them poor
girls, who can ill affErd to lose their
hard-earned money, which will prove
that he receipted fcr their money and
yet made no returns 'o them. Their
appeals for help in getting back their
morey are indeed pitiful.
These ladies, anxious to obtainwork,
Eet in the req-ired $12 and beg-n
wosking for the company from one to
two weeks before R v. Bright disposed
of his interest, and they assert that
they have nevar received a cent for
their service, and in a large number of
CaseE, actually borrowed the money in
order to secur3 employment immedi
ately. Most of their letters seem to
have been ignored.and returned un
answered, except the ones enclosing
the cash. Now, while the full mouth's
salary might not have been due and
payable when Rev. Bright sold out to
his successors, still anyone can readily
see that he was due them for the
fractional part of the month for which
hc soems to have made no provision
whatever. The order of the day was
to control the buiness for a few weeks,
pocket all the cast that came in and
then turn it loose on some other fel
low like it was a red-hot stove.
I am reliably informed and can sub
stantiate it that he withdrew $4,500 be
fore disposing of hi.s interesa. He gave
as his reason for selling out that he
had been in the goiipei ministery for a
number of years and after praying over
the matter felt that he could not af
ord to allow the world to come be
tween him and and his duty. Dr.
Frank Bright, hiii son, the found
er of this scheme to swindle the unsus
pecting, tried to sell out to the writer
He stated that he had made $4,500 in
less than thirty dayis and at the incep
ton of his enterprise did not have a
dollar. His reason for selling out was
that he had to seek a warmer climate.
With not a dollar's investment, does
it not seem queer that he was willing
to sell out A casiness which he claims
is pe.fectly honest and legitimate for
a small consideration when it was pay
ing such enormous profits?
In concluzion will say that I do not
believe Rev. T. Bright can persuade an
intelligent, reading public into believ
ing that he and his son could with
draw $9,000 from the business in s>
sLort & time and leave its finances in
such shape as to meet its honest obli
gations, as recent events will prove.
The ends of justice will not be met
until these men are arrested and com
pelled to give up every cent they have
wrongfully taken from these unfortu
nates throughout the land who in many
ases have staked their all to secure
what they considered honest, home
wo~k, and have lost. Let the odium
rest where it belongs.
For Good Roads.
The good roads convert'on which
was recently held in Greenville resoved
itself into a permanent organization by
the election of the following officers:
F. H. Hyatt, Columbia, president;
Earle Sloan, of Charleston, secretary;
Q. F. Tolley, of Anderson, treasurer.
Rsoutions were adopted to rtq-aest
the lt gislature at its approachina ses
sion to grant to each-county the privi
lege to d atermine by election the right
of such county to levy a tax not to ex
eed two and one half mills on the tax
able property of the county for the can
struction and maintenance of the pub
lie highways. A resolution was also
adopted to request the legislature to
grant to the counties the right to issue
bonds to construct and maintain their
public highways if any of the counties
should so desire, this question to be de
ided by a county election. They also
asked that the county supervisors ask
that the legislhture require that all
convicts who shall be or who have been
sertenced by the courts to penal ser
visde for a periud of ten years or less
to be sentenced to the chain gang to be
used in the construction and mainten
anee of the public highways. Also that
the legislature be requested to enact
such laws as will encourage the use of
arcad t:ros on the public highways.
We agree with the Spartanburg Herald
that "this action is sensible and is get
ting down to business. The only way
we can ever expect to build and have
good reads in this State is by contract
and by taxation and we have advocated
his course for some time. In fact we
feel sure that even those of our citizens
who are most afraid of taxstion and
hcid up their hands in holy horror at
the suggestion of an increase in taxa
tion would cease all opposition after
ing some good roads and would be
ome the most ardent a:.d enthusiastic
dvocates for road building. We are
ertainly much gratuhed to see the in
terest which is now being manifest in
this subject.
Eight-Year-Old Heroinh.
Eight year-old Maud Peterson Tues
iy night, at the risk of her o-vn lhfe,
saved her sister's house from being de
stroycd by fire at Sc. Paul, Minn., and
probably saved thae lives of her three lit
tle niece, aged 6, 4 and 2 years. Mande
;as left at the home of her sister, Mrs.
narle3 Hanley, to care for the house
wha:o Mra. Hanley went to do her
Christmas ohopping. T io slender lines
ung with clothing auspended over a
ao on tae table caught fire. The
fimes mounted to the ening. Maude,
with rare p:esence of Emnd, climbed on
the tbble, grabbed the burning mars
ad ran to tue dear, Fortunately the
flmes did not communicate to the lit
l h,.rai.'s ciothing. When thc f: -
men arrived the lial~e girl had ex:in
uished the flames and uas tryirLg to
ipel the fears of the little ones.
A Good Example.
A disp itch from Washington says
ighty- seven big turkeys were distribut
e to the White House policemen,
nesengers, usheis, servants, gasten
rs and stab.lemen today with the com
lments of the presiden;. Each tur
key had on it a card, bearing the sea
on's compliments. The distribution
was the largest ever made at the White
ouse. President McKinley always
p5vo tuneCys to the married employee,
at the list of recip'ients was nevar so
large as that of today. The turkeys
rerc distributed by Henry Pinckney,
h White House stewaid. Express
agens, rmaii carriers and mesrengers
cre numerous pac-kagea to the White
ouse tod sy, presents to the Roesevdlt
amiy from friends and admirers
hroughout the country. Many of the
acges were lor the children, who
il not be allo wed, however, to have
hem ntil tomorro.
GOOD NEWS FOR FARMER
The.r Cotton Eeed Rendered Vastly
More Valuable.
Mr. H I. T. Heard, a bond and in
vestment cxprt and actuary of Wash
ington, D. 0., arrived in Charleston one
day last week for the puipose c' ac
quainting the Southern people with -
aiscvcry or invention, just perfected
at the National Capital, which, he
thinks, pZaiSCs to compl-tely r-volu
tion-z 3 the cotton seed oil icdastry. It
is unaerstood thst the present process
for the turning out of cotton seed oil
requires the use of six diff-rent ma
chines. The McFarl.ne.Reinohl in
vention relating to treating cottou seed,
and for which a pstent was applied for
ten days ago, according to a statemert
made Friday by Mr. Heard to a repor
ter for The News and Courier, will do
away with these six pieces of macbin
ery altogether. The eceds are pl:.ced
in a large vat containing a certsin
chemical solution, and after a laipse c"
twenty minutes the hulls pop open and
float on the surface, while the aenuded
kernels 0ail to the bottom of the vat.
United States Chemist Wriie, of the
department of agriculture, h 3 pro
nounced this diheovery as among the
most wondeful of modern times. He
has studied the matter carefully and
he sees in it a rpsedy change from the
old time metho's of producing cotton
seed oil. Cougressman Living3ton, of
Grorgia, is interested in the soneme.
He has always had the welfare of the
Southern farmer at heart and he be.
lievea that this invention will result in
great benefit to them in more ways than
one. By the use of the machine for
separating the cotton seed kernels from
the hulls and link the small percentage
of kernels which adhere to the hulls af
ter they have been opened, and the
kernels which become entangled in the
lint or fibre, are recovered, and the
lint partialiy dried and rendered fluffy.
The fuliowing machines now required
are discarded: Machine for clesning
seed of sand, machino for removing
bolls, pieces of wood, 6W, magnetic
machine for removing iron, nails, etc,
delinting machine, huiling machine
and a reel for seperating meats from the
hulls. In addition to the vat already
mentioned a machine is utilized for
drying the kernels who they are to be
transported a distance to an oil mill, or
when the oil is to be extracted imme
diately. The seed are taken directly
from the qat to the crushing rolls, the
mash is heated and the oil extracted in
the usual way. It may then be refined
or shippea as crude oil. The crushing
rolls now in use are ad'apted fcr crush
iog the seed.
"The prcduct of these processea,"
said Mr Reard, "namely, dued cotton
seed keracle, redaces te weight orie-.
half and the bulk two thirde for trans
portation tw oil milig, while the cost of
denuding the kernels is reduced nearly,
if not fully, 50 per cent as compared
to the present prevailing practice of
treating seed by deiintir-g and hulling
the seed by mechanical means. It aiso
leaves the hulls an the lint in condition
for paper stock of a very high quality.
This stock is worth from one to two
cents per pound, while the kernels are
in condition for reduction to meal for
extracting oil. In both these procsses
the chemical solution may be used re
peatedly by mnaintaining its strength.
"Now in regard to extracting oil
front totten -eeed, the frst t.coess of
treating cotton seed by the ehemical
ontion is carried on two steps further,
and the oil ( xtracted therefrom in three
steps or operations, as aginst ten steps
under the present most approved meth
ods known to the art, as adticed by D.'
A. Tompkins in'Uotton and Cotton Oil,
page 206. The oil extracted nxom the
kcrnei is impregnated with the chemi
cal need for denuding the seed and
serves as a factor -a the first step of re
inining the oil, thus serviog a twofold
function. In extracting the oil .from~
the cake it is freed from the chemioal
and is adapted for use as a food product
for cattle or as a fertilizer.
"T'he cost of produang crade o'l by
these methiods is reeucetr 50 per coe.
And the oil refine d is equal to ay olive
oil on the- market, which seills at 80
cents per quart in sealed cans. The cost
of refining is no greater than the pre
sent cost of refining cotton seed oil.
"Another important point is that in
the transportation of co~ton seed treated
by the foregoing procrsses only the ker
nel or msat of the seed is shiped from
the ginnery, thus recucing the weight
one half, the hulk to be carried more
than t wo-thirds. The hails and the lint
(1,000 pr~unas frcm a ton of Eeed) are
worth a3 paper m'.tcrial from $20
to $40, at the rate respectively of one
anu two cents per pouind, .ini3 mns
a net gain oi $9 to $13 cover the pren
practices of treati::g oaicon seed wo the
step of cocking the mai~ for extracting
the oil. Besides this ine ie an ad
ditional gain in the savig of the chem
icals for refining oii."
Messrs McFarlite and Reinohl work
ed and studied over chis question for a
long time. Only a selv asys ago the v
completed all their experiments and
made application ca the Government
for a patent on their discovery. The
fact that they have enlisted the support
of many of the !e.adog citizens of
Washngton is evicence or tue wr th of
the invention.
The saving under the prof ess will, it
is claimed, permit the payent of about
SS a ton more for cotfn seed. .It is
aso claimed tha it mn..a a revolu..ic
in the business age?'? mann of delrn
to the cotton fars or tie Suctl. It
is preposed t',c 'iaOiz: an inpcidezt
cm cany ant. -o .he farmers azun.
iven..i .. te aet lIt te di
every w : r hird is tprs.:tieg
does ain. etaiicis ,.0 do, a d :-he op
pears so oler view to taic-e o the mr.~
tea i haled with j~ sy og.:ou
an c-f tiders Ot the soa rntughan
Jh deard is one o-f the'/5.o0 r11:
s enof Washington ad t
eni *a very pleas!2g sdr'Ls.
Horse Sense.
The PiAsburg Pos t ks ha: if the
o rule the souh '" in rectrcting
mes, these ststs -o'ld "drift to be
arism, barkratc -y an.d 1e.udiition
he white people would largely leay
h:in, and li :.hat event they would
sink s:i!! Icaer .zThc south would be
waste. The north woeld foed the
iatr, Ti~e whceox 'oinr wotxci
ofi:.r. What irnjures a prt' -if cs th
nol." T::ere are a -vm~el
he north who bave a 31i tm
hen discussing the negro a 'esvon i
c
Ose of the cartoone, idelic-i Es I
ints Miles, Schicy and Dewe~y sitli~g
at a table and saviog damsz, witth Se~n; c
ion, Benthan and PRssay drin king tea s
ad asking each other "how do yout
The Eutto Fratricide.
The recent unfortunate afisir at Nor
way has been generally discusasd, %ud
there Eeems to be coasiderable differ
once in two versions of the ki'litg. We
stated last week that th shootirg oC.
murred ia the house of Mr. P. W. Hatto,
the man whc fired the fatai ehot. This
is denied by the frienda of th- dead
ran, Mr E. Worth Hutto. They claim
that he was shot in his own house by
his brother. From what we can learn
it seems that the two brothers had becn
working together in a blacksmith shop
at Norway, E Worth Hutto working
fir his brother, P..W. Huit, ar"d liv
ing in a house belonging to P. W. Hutto
as part of the consideration bet*eeu
them. Or the evening of the kiling.
the two men had a fallirg ouc, the na
ture of which we have not lerned. Tbe
roort is that E. W. Hutto went home
and P. W. HEatto went to the town
marshal and rEqaestcd him to arrest his
brother, for wtat cause has not been
made public. Tcgether P. W. Hutto
and Enry S. Young, the town msz
shal, went to the house of E. W. Hutto.
The decased met them at the door and,
it is said, invited them in. Here the
reports seem to conflict and Mr. Young's
statement is not available. Some say
thAt the marshal refused ;o arrest E. W.
Hutto, alleging that he had no grounds
for so doing; again it is said that he re
fused to be arrested, and that Iie
brother and nephew were to assist tre
msrshal in his duty. The brothers haa
some words and the result was that E.
W. Hutte was shot through the staa
ach and died from the wound 02 F:i
day night. Both of the Hutto brothors
were nrmed. E. W. had a double-bar
rel shotgan and P. W. had a pistol.
Stonewall Hutto, the son of P. W.
Hutto, bad a Winchester rifle. Ali
parties fired, more or less, while the
shooting was in progress. It has been
said by sympathiz3s of both sides thrc
the other party was in liquor. Both
parties mty have been driuking, while
the reverso may be the truth. From
the conficting reports it ie impossible
to state a corciusion on this score. The
affair is one of the saddest that ever
hsppened in Orangeburg county.
neavy ha 1nans. -
Exceptionally heavy rainfalls often
occur, geraetimes with disastrous ef
fects. For periods of Are minutes rain
falls hay* occurred at Bismarok, N. D.,
at the rati of nine Inches per hour, at
Jacksonville, Fla., at the rate of seven
inches, and at alveston, Tex., at the
rate of 6% inche. In periods 'of 60
minutes rain has fallen at these three
stations at the rate of over two inches
per hour; st Galveston at the rate of
e1% inches. One Inch pf rainfzllis equiv
alent to 27,154 gallons of 226,000 pounds
on tach and every ecre of the wetted
area. Rainfall eA the rate of nine
inches per hour represents a fall of 33,
9o pounds, or 4,073 gallons, per min
ute per acre. In Ave minutes, such a
rainfall would cover each area of fotir
square mflea with 51,000,000 gallons-a
quantity much in excess of the daily
consumption of the city of Washing
ton.-Washington Star.
An Unexpected Result.
An amusing episode occurred at a
political meeting at Lavendon dur
ing the general election. After hear
ing the speeches of the candidate and
his supporters an aged conservative
from Wolverton mounted the plat
form and caused some mystery by dra
matically holding aloft a walnut,
when he proceeded to say:
"This is a political walnut. Tho
rough shell represents the radicatls;
the next, the thin, bitter skin, Is the
liberals, and the kernel represents
the good conservative."
A man in the audience cried out:
"Now crack it."
The Wolverton tory did so, when,
lo and behold! the kernel was rot
ten! The admixture of laughter and
chagrin that followed may be imag
ined.-London Spare Momenta.
Chinese Fun.
A men asked a friend to stay and
have tea. Unfortunately, there was
no tea in the house, so a servant
was sent to borrow some. Before the
latter had returned the water was
already boiling, and It became neces
sary to pour in more cold water.
This happened several times, and at
length the boiler was overnowing, but
no tea had come. Then the man's
wife said to her husband: "As we
don't seem likely to get any tea, you
had better oft'er your friend a bath!"
-Eistory of Chinese Literature.
Two Ladies Robbed.
A spnecial to The Augusta (Chronice
fro Washington, Gs, says: The
Mes Battle, two elderly maiden
iadies living at Barnett Jarctio~n, on
the Georgia railroad, were robbed at sa
trly hour Satu:-day morning of $6 000G
in gold. When the robbers entered
the nouse the women, hearing a noise,
investigated, lighting a lamp. The
robbers dashed a bucket of cold water
-n the one holding the lamp a':d over
m'e'd them. An as'arln w-.s raised and
wen hel p arrived the robbers had fi:d
dCr rifhung a tr'unk containitg tie
abve named amount. T.'e womeu
Lved alone in the hcuse. Seversi prov
~na attempts have been made to rob
haim during the lart fe mor ths. A
ew weeks ago au-entrance was m-.dci4 I
.n- acu-e and the trunk carrie-d cutin1
he~ yard and rified, the would be thic.
ettirg to mone y. T o indies believe
ze robr acro white men, having
~ecognized oe of th.em hn say.
The Court Was Packed.
T!ie Unic <o Uhrootoie, no;.iug the
sat th~a 'o cei f Adia Ramsay isI
gdinthei pay dep'rtmen of the
'avy, and a son of: Admir~al B~nham is
his atacn. osch of thie efiiers "be
am- a m~ebe ofteD o court
ia bin in & und aoid co:ra'ctd
pt a~s tO A.dr:ial D)~e"," the ppr
'a, the cours was nacked
easi 4 r N> one wsho has
let en 'a can rez w-hat hss been.
Q etak enard suesSi-iy Carr.edT
u yheP:uck andi erozd~se "f
carae i'a eea ur door. It
idl deeV3 the zcrco:g.mo: a~
upport of the poop Ia of:h naian at
rg; brit more espeelally of th.e pao
)de of :he S~ud and more esp.'eisli
tai of the people of South GrQ.iun
We believo and ho'3e it will 1-:th
pport of all the p'-ople, anrd that it
ill prove a great mu~ees lChs:ler
en would aitis ihe eam-e plle and
nterpilse in other li-:es tra:. O
a making a sueo~s of this Espt 'sition.
he woulH soon be oue of the largesi
nd :nyt prosperous cities in the
.ETomp"e, of Abbe'ille, La.
'v. t followingrem~dy for weav I
a pe Sd ornan To keep.w:vil ou'm
ay. The pess are not fir for table
.e, a3 they taste of the ::ii. Thcus
As of bushels are kept here Lvery
DAZZLING LIGHT.
liumination of a Car That Has Beer
Short-Circuited.
Electricity played a queer prank on 2
gorthern Central car the other nigh:
ro lookers-on at a safe distance It was
erely a remarkable display ,the lilo
)f which as never before seen in t.
Louis. To those on the car it had man
elements of tragedy.
One man narrowly escaped death by
Ire and others of the passengers ma
have been Injured in the panic that foi -
owed. Even the officials of the UniteA
Railways Compaay have not yet ar
rived at he exact extent of the damage
done.
The cars on the Northern Central line
are the oldest in the tervice. Their fus
es burn out freuently, but that night's'
occurrence was the most serious acci
dent of the kind that has yet occurred.
At 9:'0 o'clock a car was rounding the
Bharp down-grade curve at Thomas
street and Leffingwell avenue. It was
half filled with passengers.
Suddenly there was a grinding noise,
which deafened' those in the car anJ
awakened residents in the neighbor
hood. The car came to a sudden stop.
WThat followed is told by an eye-wit
ess. who was attracted to his window
by the unusual sound.
"When I looked out," he said, "the
street was lit up for several blocks as
If a powerful searchlight had been
turnea nto it. The brilliancy all radIa
ted from the car, which I at first
thought. was on fire. I could see the
car distinctly. It seemed a shadowy
form, seen through a halo of light. The
outer edge of this light was a brilliant,
dazzling white, but the inner portion,
the nucleus, as it were, nearest the car.
was the deep red of a consuming blaze.
"With the first play of the names I
heard passengers in the car cry out
in alarm. Two young men jumped
through a window and the other pas
sengers rushed for the back door. 7
saw a man leap from the rear platform
with his coat smoking. He pulled the
garment off as he left the car.
"The Illumination could be seen at a.
great distance, apparently for people;
come flocking from bloeks around to'
see the illumiinated car. Most of them
walked home. Another car pushed the
disabled one .to the sheds."
InvestigatLon Saturday mornln
showed that the accident was one of a
number of electrical freaks caused by
the recent damp weather. At the poier
house of the Northern Central line it
was said that the current had become
short-circuited. This meant that the
current on coming from the wires, in
stead of going through the controller
on the front platform operated by the
motorman, went through the one on
the rear platform. Unable to get. into
the motors by that route it passed out
again and sought the nearest route to
the rails. This was by way of the met
al work about the sides and roof of
the car.
On Its journey around the car a por
tion of the current escaped Into the
moist aitmosphere, causing the appear
ance of a halo. Enough of the current
went through the controller and the
motors to burn them out, which caused
the red light of consuming flames. It
was the burning out of the controller
that ignited the coat of the man who
stood near It on the rear platform.
Street railway men agreed that the ac
cident was a most unusual. one.-St.
Lcuis Post Dispatch.
THREE JOINTS.
Removed From a Man's Backbone and
He Still Lives.
Milnus three joints of his backbone,
John Kaller, of No. 50 Willoughby
street, Brooklyn, N. Y., lies on a 'co
in St. John's Hospital, Long Islana
City, making a brave fight against
death. The missing pieces of his spinal
column were removed on Thursday
last by five surgeons. It was an opera
tion almost unparalleled in surgery,
but It was his only chance for life.
Kaller has been a' telephone lineman.
Recently he was sent to repair wires
along the Shore Road, in Astoria.
About noon he was working at the. top:
of a pole near the Woolsey estate. Just
ow it happened neither Kaller nor any
one else knows, but suddenly the Hune
man found himself in the clutches of
an electric current He had grasped a '
live wire, his body was twisted in tor
ture and puf!'s of smoke arose from his
burning hands.'
The man kept his senses. Hanging
here, burning and in terrible pain, he
alized that to remain in contact with
th wire for but a few seconds more
meant death to him.
Wi th strength born of that -know!
edge Ka.Her tore himself free from the
live wire on which he had fallen and
delibera tely threw himself to the read
way. He fell 35 feet and struck upon
his head and back. He was taken to
t. John's Hospital. and doctors worked
over him for eight hours before the
dangers from the electric shock were
removed. Then they performed the
operation.
In fallmng Kaller had broken his back.
The seventh, elghth and ninth verte
brae were badly fractured, and splin
ters of the broken bone pressed on the
spinal cord. The pressure had produced
paralysis, and would have caused death
f not removed.
Dr. John Francis -Burns was La
charge of the operation. Asaisting him
were Dr. H. A. MicGronen, Dr. J. JL
ulcahey, Dr. Thomas Cassidy and Dr.
Yohn F. Farwell. Technically, the doe
tors took cut the spinous prosesses and
transverse sections of the seventh,
eighth and ninth vertebrae. The oper
tion was successfuL.
"I do not know of an exactly similar
ease," said Dr. Burns, last night.
"Three vertebrae were badly fractured,
nd had to be removed, leaving arches
to protect the spinal cord. But Kal
er's other injuries make his recovery
ioubtful, and at my suggestion his rel
Atives have telegraphed to his mother,
sking her to come to his bedside. She
ives in Illnois."
Kaller's condition is very grave. H.
as remained conscious from the firste
nd has taken a keen Interest in the
remarkable operation performed upoan
tim.
Following closely upon the rumor os
:he retirement of John Burns, of Eng
and, from all ac..ve participation in
:he great movement of organized labor.
n Great Britain is the loss of another
~amous leader in the person of Joseph
rch, the well-known agricultural la
>orer and member of Parliament Mr.
Arch confirms the rumor that he wiDl
etire from all active work in the la
sor field at the nexrt general election.
Ducheis' Trouble.
The duchess cf Fife is one of thes
ost quiet and retiring of all the
a~g of Fugzland's daughters. She
akes the greatest interest in the
>ri::ging up of her little daughters.
ime~ yeanrs since society was very
nuch disturbed by the case of a lit
Ie child of high birth, who was ac
idetaly found to be covered with
>ruises inflicted by a brutal nurse.
r'> duchess of Fife said to a lady
> ~a visitin~g her: "No nurse
vould be able to systematically
ruise my children's bodies, for not,
on c.a ,s go by that I d o not bathe
hemn myself." -The lady misunder
tod arnd remarke:d: "Do you trou
!e to stay in the nursery to watch
er toileis?" "I did not say I
ch, said the duchess, emphatic
" I said I bathe them myself."
eogo Tims-Herald.
(e.adrefn-iaI State Elections.
Kassthisyear will try for alaw
Ssate elections come every
Enler- 'cs has been ordered
broad to take the mud baths.
Bcer-Why do.esn't he stay at