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A FIELD FLOWER’S COMPLAINT. If I had beon a raowdrop.the first one of the year, Would you bare thought me beautifuLbeing thn first, my dear? If 1 had been a royal rose gfowu higher than your heart, Would you hare bent your face to mine and drawn my leaves' apart, Until they dropped about you feet, and all my heart lay bare ? A broken heart, a golden heart, for you to leave or wear— Would you bare gathered In your hand each fallen rosy leaf, And said a gentle word tor life so beautiful and brief? But I that fain would be a rose and wear her royal red, A field flower among field flowers, I lift my loveless head : Among the tall dead nettles, white campion who will heed ? White campion shrinking faintly mid dock and sllverweed ? —Nora Hopper, in Black and White. A A A A A A A JA Jfa ju A A A A A A A ^ JW -Wtti it W V The Business Way. V 1 V VW W W V V W V 1 Jark wanted to, but Lady Mary didn’t, and that’s the way it all came about. Jack swore she was the very daintiest, sweetest, loveliest girl on earth, added a great deal more of love’s hyperbole, and—eutre nous- even soared into poetry occasionally, wheu he read to Christopher Colum bus, her pet bull terrier. But as Christopher wrinkled his nose decidedly and his tail did not show the least intimation of a wag, Jack tore it up—the poetry, I mean, Jack came to me disconsolately. “I wish I was dead,” he said. I told him how auuoyiug it would be to me to have him lying around dead. He said I talked like a fool. “Jack.my dear boy,” I said,patron izingly (I am two months older than he% ‘‘the next time yon try to pop the question be like a bottle of ginger ale. Oo off with a bang and let all the tizzle come atterward.” “I never thought of that,” he an swered thoughtfully. ‘‘I w onder how The trouble w as Jack wanted to pro- it would work? By George,H.,you’re pose and couldn’t. For never did be a trump. I'll try it. bring up tho eventful subject but Lady Mary w ould go off at a tangent, possi bly because Jack was using round about ways. As Jack confided to his chum (who shall be nameless for various reasons): ‘’Do you know, H., if I speak of sun sets, she will immediately have a wild desire to discuss ethnology or irreg ular Greek verbs, and if I should ever mention love—not that I ever have, you know—but if I ever should, hang me if I don’t believe she’d ask me how my liver was.” By which it can readily be seen that Lady Mary and Jack were ou the best of terms,and the very intimacy seemed to preclude the possibility of anything more. One afternoon I was lying on the fiver bank industriously fishing, while .Tack sprawled upon the grass alter nately readiug and scribbling. Then he looked up and observed compla cently: ‘‘Now, I flatter myself that’s rather good. Listen, H.: “The weary sun hits sunk to rest. Ami with him fades the dying day. Come night, come hour 1 love the best, Fit time love’s winning words to say. ‘‘Pretty good, ch?” ‘‘Good? Oh, Lord! You want to change those last two lines. You should say: , “Alas! still lives a love-struelr crank. Who can’t say what he wan)/ to say. 1 “Besides, ‘best’ isn’t/good gram mar, if you’re comparihg day with night.” . “Hang it all, H., Teanyaon himself toould not please you.”\ Then a long •/silence which he at lastj broke with: “Say, do you think shh would have •me?” . / “Ob, tafce a run artmnd the block! How do I know? These she comes now, and I give you f^ir warning if here and scare all I’ll te!l about the That evening they were both down by the spring, anil I hid behind a tree. I didn’t hear the first part of it, but I got there just in time to hear Jack say: “Lady Mary, I love you. Will you be my wife?” “With pleasure,” she answered, gayly. “You silly boy, why didn’t you say so before?” “Just what I told him," said I,com ing from behind the tree. “Did you? You dear boy,yon may kiss me for that. Keep still,Jack.” And I did. SENATOR MILLS’ STORY. stay away you two my fish poetry.” \ Divinely tall and mosV diviuely fair was Lady Mary. She came trip ping sedately over the tender grass, the mountain winds kissing a delicate peach blossom into her cheeks. Jack, with his customary facility,rose to his feet and the occasion to play the gal lant. Neither of ’em paid the slight est attention to me. I was supposed to be dead. “Jack,” she said, sweetly, “I want you to row me up to the store. Will you?” Of course Jack acquiesced, and the two of them got into the boat and started. Jack is a finished oarsman, at least he generally finishes it in about ten minutes. I knew it was to be inter esting, so 1 gave up the fishing and watched them. (Mem. later: They have drifted down tife river, botn behind Lady Mary’s parasol.) Now, 7ack being one of thoee fel lows who believe in never losing an opportunity calmly rowed the boat out in the middle of the river and then, as I predicted, shipped the oars aad opened the conversation. “How well we get along together a boat,” he remarked, gazing senti mentally at the cliffs. •*Yes,” abstractedly, “but I wish jvB’d row up to the store. I don’t want to waste the whole afternoon drifting like this.” “No, of course not,” waking up suddenly. Two strokes. Then, “I wish wa could always—” “There are a lot of new people com ing tonight,” she broke in. “Mr. Eg gleston told me so.” “Did he? H’m!” Then with a brilliant idea, “Are yon ever inter ested in other people?” he asked in his most beguiling tone. “Ob, yes—now, there’s Christopher Columbus. I’m interested in him. I wish I had him here this very minute. J’d kiss his dear little nose.” “if I were only Christopher Colum- Tms,” insinuated Jack “I wish you were sometimes,” she cried, wickedly. “Then f could shut you up occasionally, couldn’t I?” Now, what could anybody do with a ^.irl like this? The end of it was that Lady Mary took tho oars and rowed to the store hersell Abraham Lincoln’* Sweeping Tardon to ’ .lohn L. Helm. Senator Mills has a new story about Lincoln. It was told to him by a son of John L.Helm of Kentucky,who lives iu Corsicana: “Old John L. Helm,” said the sen ator, “was a famous character in Ken tucky. He w as, if I remember right ly, a governor of the state, but at any rate bis position was a most prominent one. Wheu the civil war came ou Helm was a rabid secessionist. He could not praise the South too highly and could not heap enough abuse upon the North. He w a,s too old to go into the war with his sons and re mained at home, doing all he could to help the confederate cause and harass the Yankees who invaded the state. Finally he became so obstreperous that the federal general who was in com mand near Helm’s home put him in prison. The old man’s age, the high position which he occupied in the\ state, his wide connection and espe cially his inability tp do any harm, were all pleaded iu his extenuation and he was released. Instead of profit iug by the warning, the old man be came more persistent than ever in his course. Once more he was clapped into jail. This bappened two or three times, and finally, while he wras still locked up, the matter was brought to the attention of the federal authori ties. Even President Lincoln was ap pealed to aud asked to commit the ar dent southerner to an indefinite con finement in order that he might be curbed. ' “Lincoln listened to the statement of the case with more than usual in terest. Then he leaned back and be gan to speak with a smile upon his face. ‘You are talking about old man John Helm? Well,did you know that I used to live when I was a hoy iu Helm’s town. He was kind to me. He seemed to like me as a boy, and he never lost an opportunity to help me. He seemed to thiuk,’ said Lin coln, with another of his almost pa thetic smiles, ‘that I would probably make something of a man. Why, when Iwentontto Illinois, poor and un- ktiown, that man gave me the money to pay my way and keep me Until I got a start. John Helm? O, yes, 1 know him, and I know what I owe to him. I think I can fix his case.’ “And then,” said Senator Mills, “Lincoln went to his desk and wrote a few words. The bit of writing is treasured in the Helm household to this day. This is what the president wrote: “‘I hereby pardon John L. Helm of Kentucky for all that he has ever done against the United States and all that he ever will do. “ ‘Abbahah Lincoln.’ ” —Washington Post. ELECTRIC LIGHT AND EYESIGHT. Gray aad Blue Eye* Are Meet Succeptl- ble to Injnrion* Effect. One effect of the advent of the X ray has been to direct closer attention to the influence of the electric light ou the eyesight It has recently been stated, says the Pittsbnrg Dispatch, that sailors suffer much in their eye sight from the brilliant electric lights used on shipboard. Gray aud blue eyes are the most subject to injury, not being heavily charged with pig ments. The men who work the search lights already wear dark blue glasses, but it is found that these only miti gate the intensity of the light, aud do not absorb tbe source of the trouble, the ultra-violet rays. These rays, however, can be intercepted by gog gles or screens of uranium or yellow glass, aud vyith these,it is understood, the sailors of the French navy are soon to be provided. Another interesting case bearing ou this subject is reported from a British I warship. It seems that two stokers on the ship, having a little spare time, became engrossed iu the operation of au electric drill, which was burning out holes in a hardened steel plate. Both men declared they only watched the arc for about three minutes,aud at the time felt no ill efiects, except that all objects appeared to be of a deep gold color. At night, however, both meu were aroused by intense pain aud par tial blindness for the time being, but both recovered quickly after treatment. Tbe electric drill acts by fusing a hole through the steel, and the intensity of the light is greatly increased by the rays of light thrown off by the molten metal. The fact, too, that the work is carried on chiefly in the daylight is apt to deceive the casual onlooker as to the degree of brilliancy of the light, and it is not until the after effects be gin to assert themselves that he is aware of anything out of the common. Dark glasses are now used by all the men on the electric drilling shifts. A singular feature of this affection is that it is analagous to snow or desert blind ness, and, as in them, tbe pernicious effects of the electric light are proba bly due to the ultra violet rays of the spectrum. Candle FUli-Food, Medicine and Light Iu Alaskii. With the discovery of the Klondike, with all its winter privations, comes also the practical discovery of a fish found along the Alaskan shores which it is said will furnish food, light, heat and medicine to the prospectors who have gone into the new El Dorado. This fish is of the smelt variety, but larger aud fatter. They are caught in nets easily, and on being caught, are found to be of/ a rich greeu color ou the back varKgated with blue, and with golden inflections ou the belly. On being caught these fish are dried and stored. When, the Alaskan is. anowed in and jwithoAt a light.he sim ply inserts thutail dToneof these fish in a crack in tAe talJle and touches a match to its nKse. It gives out a clear threc-oandle power light. The back bone is largely formed of phosphorus, which not ofily causes it to ignite easily, but also accounts for the strength of the flame and beat 'devel- opel. Tho substance of the fish, largely fat, retards the rapid burning as the tallow acts in an ordinary candle. The fish is also valuable as food. Still another use to which it may be put is as a substitute for cod-liver oil,which, aiding the natural hjeat of the body, serves to protect against the severe cold. It is to be hoped that scientists will discover a way by which the skin of this fish may be made into clothing, aud its backbone sharpened into min er's picks. THE CZAR’S CURIOSITY. He DmtroypU UU DaugHter’* noli to How the MechanUin Worked. The heavy burden of autocracy has not destroyed all tho boyish iustiucts in Nicholas II.’s disposition,as the fol lowing anecdote, heard at a dinner party given iu honor of a gentleman of M. Faure’s escort in his lato jour ney, proves. The President, after having searched all of the best Paris ian shops to find some toys worthy of the two little Grand-dnchesses’ accept ance. aud, having bought tho ever lasting golden rattle for Miss Tatiana, was iu despair for something out of the common to give Miss Olga. Ho at last chose two wonderful dolls, one got up as uu elegant lady, the other as an overdressed little girl; and, after much difficulty, a most complicated piece of machinery was inserted,thanks to which, when wound up, the lady »ud her daughter begin a ludicrous bit of conversation, which is finished by tbe little girl crying because she is not allowed to ride a donkey on account of her gauze dress. The baby Grand-duchess was de lighted, but not more to than her father, who, it appears, spent an hour on the floor with tho child, listening to the squeaky dialogue between the dolls. But the time came when the Princess bad to go to bed, which she did very reluctantly. As for the Em peror, he remained an instant in the boudoir after her departure with the two clever artificial ladies who bad t iken bis fancy, while tbe Empress, M. Faure and some ladies and gentle men of tho Court were talking in tho next room. Suddenly a strange noise like that of an infernal machine j^as hoard, followed by a loud cry of dis may, and everybody rushed to see what it was. There was tho F.mpcror, safe and sound, but with a dismal face, looking at the dolls, which he had partly un dressed to find out tho secret hidden in their bosoms, while the dolls were chattering away as if they would never step. The Empress, unable to re strain her temper, snatched up the carpeted board on which wore stand ing and shaking the two precious ladies, aud, after having crushed her husband with a withering eye, she said to a gentleman near her: “Please send this away; it is too bad, indeed. The Emperor spoils everything he touches." But Nicholas looked so peuitent and tho mishap was so funny that she could not help laughing.—Philadel phia Times. South Carolina and Georgia Railroad Company “Ta« Charleston Link." WEST DAU.r. )v ('harlustou 7 10 a Iv Columbia 7 00 a is KifiRvIlle 7 40 a ar Aiken 1109a ar Augu ta 11 SI a f WEST DAILY. I\ Cbarlestou 5 30 p Iv Columbia 4 00 p Iv KlnKVille 4 44 p ur Aiken 9 57 ji nr Augusta lossp dully except .Sunday. HOC Til. Iv Charleston 3 45 a ar KiiiKville 10 05 a Iv Camden 3 25 p ar Kingville 4 35 p AIKEN ACCOM MO I)ATLON. Daily except Sunday. Augusta (i 40 p in Iv Aiken .. .4 15 p tu Aiken 7 30 ;> m nr Augusta 6 07 p m North and South via Denmark. Through sleepers to and from New York. VAST DA1I.T. It Augusta C 20 n ar Aiken 7 OH a ar Kingville 10 10 a ar Columbia 10 55 a ar Charleston li 00 a EAST DAILY. Iv Augusta 3 20 p ar Aiken 4 07 p ar Kingville 9 20 p ar Columbia 10 10 p ar Charleston 8 00 p CAMDEN BHANt 11,' Korin Iv Klugville 10 25 a nr Camden 1155 a Iv Kingvillo «> oo a ar Camdou 8 25 a Iv ar Iv Augusta ...3 05 pm nr Itiohmond. 3 40 pm a' Washington 7 00 um ur New York .. t 28 pm Iv Now Y'ork 9 30 pm Iv Wasting’n 3 10 pm Iv Itie.'im'nd 7 31 am nr Augusta.. 8 10 am Connections nt i harleston with New York steamers, also with steamers for Jacksonville Fin , on sailiug dates, and at Augusta witlx Georgia Bond to and from all points West and South; also at Blaeksvlllo with the Caro lina Midtund Hnilroad to aud from Burn well. Connections with Southern hallway at Co lumbia to nil points in upper South aud North Carolina. F. S. Bowen. L. A. Emkhnok, General Manager. Traffic Mtmnger. .LIMITED "TKAlMV DOUBLE DAILY SERVICE Dangerous to Wear. Men exposed to the rigors of the Alaska winter never wear mustaches. They wear full beards to protect the throat and face, but keep the upper lip clean shaven. The moiatnre from the breath congeals so quickly that a moustache becomes imbedded in a solid cake of ice and the face is frozen before a man knows it. Klchly Deserved. “My wife got even with that bur glar who set tbe burglar alarm going and woke tbe baby.” “What did she do?” “She pulled him in by the collar and made him rock the baby to sleep again.”—Detroit Free Press. The Habit of Saving. New that the good times are march ing upon us, filliug the farm and the factory, and making the people cheer ful aud tho country glad, it might be well for all to remember that the best way to profit by the depression is to save something out of the new pros- To Atlanta, Chnrlottr. Athens, Wilmington, New Orleans, 4 hnUaucoga and New Yotk. rtitlud-lphis, Washington, Norfolk uud Kichmond. idleness am abwidance kniwn, the con\ slow! With the country economy 4}a««r Milkmen. Every one remembers how Trilby need to call “milk below!” in the Paris studio building, according to Da Maurier. But every one does not know jaat what nmnuer of delivering milk is nsual in Raris, that such a call should announce the presence of the milkman. He is very frequently a goat-man. He drives his flock to his customer’s door. He blows shrilly on his raed pipe—so Arcadian is he— and then, that there may be no sus picion as to the genuineness of his wares, he milks the goats into the pails bis patrons bring. . In Mexico the method is equally in teresting. There the gentle cow is driven from door to door, and is milked before tbe suspicions eyes of tbe cus tomers. In Brussels the honesty of the milk man seems to be assumed. Tbs cow is not driven from door to door, but the method is equally picturesque There are milkwomen instead of milk men, and they drive curious little dog wagons through the streets.—New York Journal. Steak for BerakfaU. Our ancestors ate much more meat than we do. In Queen Elizabeth’s time her maids of honor were allowed three rump steaks for breakfast Mutton was not so much used as beef, being looked upon as diet rather for a fastidious appetite than for a woman iu good health. * r Mountain climbers frequently find butterflies frozen on the snow, and so brittle that they break unless care fully haudled. When thawed the butterflies recover aud fly aw ay. idleness and distress. , that this the habit of slowly. Mgny have seen wisdqzn of it, and they ore onr rich people and the owners of our lauds aud industries and banks and various profitable properties. But the great majority of the people have lived up to their incomes, and when the wages stopped or the salary ceased, grim want stalked in. And so good meu and well-bred women had to go to charity to keep from starvation; had to sacrifice their pride aud accept of the public bounty, because in the days of prosperity they had forgotten the future. Saving comes easily when it is once begun. Do not spend more than you earn. When Peter Cooper earned $1 te lived on fifty cents of it, and the other successful meu will testify how hard the struggle was to save the first money and how easy it was after- the habit had been formed. We are go ing to have some of the greatest years the world has ever known, but no one should let that prospect delude him into spending all he gets. There is safety only iu saving.- Leslie’s Weekly. A Flea For. the FaUeat. A now famous physician relates that sarly in bis career in the city where he was located there resided an elder ly physician, who was always ready to give him wholesome advice. One morning the young praetitioner was •ailed to visit a man who was very tick. On his way he fortunately hap pened to meet his old friond, the doc- tor, aud, as nsual, he had£something of importance to say. He drew it out so long, however, that the younger man grew impatient and finally said: “Doctor, you will have to excuse me,I am on my way to visit a gentlemen, who is said to be dangerously ill.” “Hang it man,” was the unexpected reply, “give the man a chance,” and the old fellow resumed the subject he was discussing. Kcnedule in effect May 80, 1897. WMIWASD. P. M. A. M. No. 41. No. 403 Lv. Wilmington.. .... Lv. LunberVon... • • • . Lv. Maxton • 1 • • Lv. Luunnburg.. 6 28 • • • • Ar. llamlei . . . • Lv.liHnilet •5 10 Lv. ItocklnglAm. 730 5 23 Lv. Wa<le*borC,., .... Lv. Mnrahvllle ., 8 48 6 25 Ar. Monroe 9 12 6 43 Lv. Monroe 7 90 Ar. l harlotte.... 10 25 830 Ar. Ml. Holly.... 9 10 Ar. Lincolnton.. 10 35 Ar. tberryvMe., 10 48 Ar. Hhelby 11 30 Ar. Ellenboro... 12 24 | Ar. Ituthtir ford too 12 54 * P. M. P. M. f8 40 a. in. Lv. 1000 a. m. Ar. . Haslet Ar. 6 20 p.'ia. Chemw Lv. ^6 00 p. m. EAtTwhaS, No. S& No. 402 hq>».... .. X. . f A. M. P. M. npBMKTfvWi im v l !!*>'>f •4 5 15 Lr. 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Dept., 0 Kim ball House, Atlanta O*. » OK& Mql P. BATTLE, Trav. Pasa.Agt, Charlotte, N. 0. 1. St. John, Yloe-Pren aad Gem. Manages. H. W. B. Glover, Traffic Manager. V. K. MoBee. General SupL T. J. Anderson, O. P. Agent. General Office*, Portsmouth, Ya Hone Hair For Upholeterlng. Three hundred bales of horses’ manes aud tails to be used for up holstering furniture have been landed in Philadelphia by the British steam- ahips Maine, and Michigan from Lon don. They come from far-away Siberia and are taken from horses used by the Cossackr, after the animals have out lived their usefulness. Horses are cheap in Bussia, and, after having seen better days, their manes and tails are the only thing left of a com mercial value. The Musical ’’Bike.** The threatened harmonious bicycle hoe come to pass, but, unfortunately. It is at present confined to Germany. The musical monstrosity la fixed to the handle-bar, and by an Ingenious ar rangement Is worked by the froat wheel It will play for an hour at a speed of ten miles an hour, and if tke rider has not been driven mad by that time he has only to touch a spring aad the machine starts off again as gaily on ever. If it should find a heme in this country, which the fates forfend, we shall expect non-musical cyclists to agitate for a license to shoot at sight— London Chronicle. • Two New York burglars obtained ad mission to a residence In that city by representing themselves to ho plumb ers. and when they left too it with them $2,800 worth of booty. The•offner la solacing himself with reflections on what it might have coat him if they bad been real plumbers. . ^mmam MMMffiffiPVMI