The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, February 16, 1898, Image 2
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LEFT UNDONE.
It Isn't ths.thlnR yon do,
It’s tho thing you've left unilonn
Wblch gives you a bit of u heartache
- At tlio setting of the aun.
The tender word forgotten,
The letter you did not write,
The flower you might have sent, deaf,
Are y«ur haunting ghosts tonight.
The stone you might hare lifted
Out of a brother's way,
The bit of heartsome counsel
You were hurried too much to say;
The loving touch of the hand, dear,
The gentle and winsome tone
That you had no time or thought for,
With troubles enough of your own.
♦
For life is nil too short, dear,
And sorrow is'ali too great
To suiter our slow compassion
That tarries until too late;
And it’s not the thing you do, dear.
It’s the thing you leave undone
Which gives you a bit of a hoartacht
At the setting of the sun.
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Brakeman and
the Squaw.
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Hero’s the story of the building of
a branch line on u mountain railroad.
Conductor McGuire,being a new man,
was in charge of the construction
train, with Kugiueer Westcott in
charge of the engine.
N. C. Creede, afterwards famous as
the founder of Creede camp, had
located the Madonna mine at Monarch
cam}), and created a necessity for the
branch road. They hud rushed the
work, but the tirst snow caught them
still three miles from the booming
•ilver camp. A wandering band of
Indians, hearing of the excitement,
and not understanding it, had strayed
into the Monarch county, and down
the gulch as fur as Mnysville, then a
wild and thriving village at the edge
of the Arkansas valley. One day,
when it was storming, an old squaw
rame to McGuire, and wanted a ride
up the hill. It was a cruel day, and
the kind-hearted conductor carried the
Indian to the end of the track.
It was a mouth later when one of
McGuire’s brakemen, named Bowen,
who bud been hunting in the hills,
rushed into the caboose with the start
ling aunouncemejittbat his partner,the
d been captured by
said McGuire,
in,” said Jack,
e’s a million;
y tied Jp a s
separated. I
rocipice, lookin
hea l brakeman,
the Indians,
“Look here, J
“are you lyiug?’j|
“Honest Inj^
there’s one th|
they’ve got Mi
We hed beco
standing on a
Mickey, when L
round him. ”
Mow, Jack Bowoli had lied so frequent
ly and luminously to the conductor
that the latter was slow to believe this
wild tale; but dually he was persuaded
that it was true. Keturniug to Maya-
ville with the engine, he gave the
alarm, and the sheriff of Chaffee
county made up a posse and set out
iu search of the brakeman.
The sun was going down behind the
range when the engine and the
they hru gone within 109 yard* of the
Inmans, A ho had not heard them walk
ing ujsm the rauffied earth, they
stopped to disenss the work that was
boforethem. The Indian, putting her
hand on the sheriff’s rifle pushed it to
the ground aud,shook her head, mean
ing that she would not have them kill
the Indians, whom they outnumbered
two to one. The sheriff was at a loss
to understand how he was to capture
this band without tiring, for he had no
doubt the Indians would Are upon him
the moment they caught sight of him.
But the squaw was equal to the emer
gency. Hhe began to form the men
in two lines. Taking hold of their
coats she would place a man on the
right flank and another on the left,
until she had divided the sheriff’s
posse. She then placed the sheriff nt
the head of one column and the con
ductor, whom she regarded as a sort
of captain, at the other, and then
made sign to them to go forward, one
half to the right and the other to the
left. Then she made it plain to them
that she would have them surround
the Indians. She brought her two
bony hands together slowly, with the
fingers spread out, and when they
were quite together she closed her
fists. So the sheriff made out she
would have them steal upou the In
dians and disarm them or awe them
into surrendering at the muzzles of
their guns, and he gave instructions
to the men accordingly. Of course
each individual must now use his
judgment, aud so the little band sur
rounded the Indians.
In the meantime the squaw stole
into the camp and squatted near the
tire. At* the sheriff’s men closed in
upon the Indians the squaw leaped to
her feet and put out a baud as a signal
for the band to 1>o still. The Indians
listened, but the sheriffs men seeing
it all, stood still in the snow. Now
the squaw spoke tp the Indians, say
ing that she had seen a great many
soldiers coming down the hill that
evening and giving it us her opinion
that the camp would be surrounded
and that if the Indians resisted they
would all be killed. When she had
succeeded iu persuading them that it
would be best to surrender in case the
soldiers should come, she sat down
again. This, the sheriff concluded,
was a signal for the men to advance,
and the posse moved forward. When
they were quite near,the Indians were
made aware of their presence by the
snapping of a dry cedar bough, and
the sheriff, knowing that delay would
be dangerous, shouted
advance. , At tha sound
the In^iftns sprang for th
when they had got them and got to
their feet again, the sheriff’s posse,
coming out of the woods from every
direction, held the glittering steel
barrels of tbeir rifles in the glare of
the campfire aud the Indians laid down
their arms.
The brakeman, who had concluded
that he was to be butchered or roasted,
was almost wild with joy. When
asked by the sheriff why they held the
brakeman, the leader said the white
man was lost, they found him and
were only waiting for daylight, when
SHE TURNED THE TABLES.
for
sat oeiay would
to &is posse to
d eff bill voice
1 th Air rifles, bull
The Uanbaiifl'* Iinprenalve I.caaon
HU Wife Was bout.
It eeetned to him au excellent time
to impress the lesson upon her, so as
he started for his hat he said to her:
“Suppose you had wanted me to
spend the evening with you before we
were married and I hod planned to do
something else.”
“Suppose I had,” she returned.
“What of it?”
“You wouldn't have sulked, would
you?” he asked.
“No-o, I suppose not,” she replied
hesitatingly.
“You wonldn’t have got cross and
been disagreeable about it, would
you?”
“Probably ndt.”
’ “You would have been just as nice
and sweet aud clever as you possibly
could be,” he asserted. “You would
have been both lovable and loving and
would have tried to coax me to give up
my other places. Isn’t that so?”
“Perhaps it is,” she faltered, “but”
“Never mind the 'huts’” he inter
rupted, feeling that he was gaining
his point. “What I am trying to im
press upon you is that a woman doesn’t
seem to think it worth while to try the
same arts on a husband that she does
on a lover. That’s where you’re both
foolish and nhjnst. Now, you admit
that before marriage”
“Before marriage,” she broke in,
“if yon had spoken of going any
where and I had pouted just the least
little bit what would yon have done?”
“Um—ah—well, I suppose”
“If you had noticed what seemed to
be even the merest trace of a tear what
wonld have happened?”
“Why, my dear, I”
“If I had merely looked at you
pleadingly what would have happened
to that OTBer engagement?”
“Really, you don’t give me time to
answer. I must confess that in all
probability I would have”
“Oiven it up, of course,” she
prompted. “Isn’t it worth while to
make the same sacrifices for a wife
that you do for a sweetheart?”
Somehow he couldn’t help feeling
that h:1f little lesson was lost on
her, but it is worthy of note that he
told a business associate the next day
that any man who went on the theory
that a woman can’t reason as clearly as
a man was laying up a large store of
trouble for himself.—Chicago Post.
caboose full of amaienr Indian fighters „ would uke him bllok to hiB
returned to the end of the track, iak- | ^ lo J an(1 rnm .. TKa
ing Bowen as guide, the sheriff
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scoured the hills, but found no trace
of the missing man. The storm in
creased with the darkness, and the
sheriff’s posse was forced to return to
camp. It were ustdess to put out ngaiu
iu the face of such a storm, and the
sheriff was about to return to Mays-
ville, when the old squaw, whom Mc
Guire had helped up the hill, put her
head in at the door of the way car and
signaled McGuire to come out. She
could scarcely speak a word of Eng
lish, but, pulling at the conductor's
sleeve,she started as though she would
lead h m into the hills. ^\s often as
McGuire would stop the squaw would
stop. He tried to persuade her into
the car, but she would not. Now the
sheriff came out, and when hA saw the
signals of the squaw he guessed that
she would lead them to the captive,
and when McGuire had told how he
had helped this Judiau o i her way up
the hill iu a storm, he kuew that the
Indian was trying to re]>ay the con
ductor for his kindness. The unfor
tunate brakeman, McGuire explained,
had given the Indian tobacco and
whiskey; therefore, she would not see
him die without making an effort to
save him.
The sheriff railed his deputies, and
fekinga half-dozen volunteers from
Oortield camp, madA sign to the In
dian and followed her away into the
wilderness of snow-hung pine and
cedar. Now and then the squaw wonld
pause to get her bearings. The snow
had ceased falling and the stars were
out. After tramping for an hour or
more, the Indian signed to the sheriff
to stay, and then disappeared into a
cedar grove. Presently she returned
end led them to the edge of a preci
pice. Just below them, in a little
basin, they could see a pine fire burn
ing and Indians dancing in the light
of it. Hitting upou the snow hard by,
they saw the brakeman with his fet
tered hands over his knees and his
head bout forward like a man nodding
in a pew. The sheriff asked the In-
. &.an to lead thorn on and she unade
jeign that they must go far around for
;lbt) bluff was steep, and they followed
her. They had been a half hour out
of sight of the Indian camp, but
always going down and down, so they
knew now the/ an*£t be near. When
pie and get “heap rum." The sheriff
pointed to the white man’s fettered
hands and asked the Indian to explain,
and the Indian said that the man was
“heap mad,” and they were afraid
that if they left his hands loose he
would iake their guns and kill them
while they slept, and if they left his
feet unfettered he wonld wander awsy
in the storm and be lost.
After consulting the conductor’and
the more important members of the
posse, the sheriff concluded, as it was
manifest that the'Indians were only
holding the brakeman for ransom,that
he would allow them to go their way,
after exacting a promise that they
would return at once to their reserva
tion on the other side of the range.
The Buh.v He*.
Dr. Watts was right. The bee is
really a very busy insect in spite of
recent attacks made upon its character.
A plodding statistician has found out
that each pound of honey secreted in
volves the necessity of the bee visiting
218,750 flowers. This in itself is no
mean labor. That the bee is not
gluttonous and does not consume more
thau it earns is prdved by the fact that
164,000,000 pounds of honey are an
nually sold throughout the world for
the enjoyment of the human race. The
United Btatea stands at the head of
the list of honey producers with 61,*
000,000 pounds, and Germany comes
next with 40,000,000 pounds. Eng
land’s production is so small that the
statistician has not taken any notice
of it, but somehow or other the best
from all other countries finds its way
to the London market.
It was long supposed that bees col
lected the wax direct from the dowers.
Now it is known that if they are kept
from plants and fed on sugar only
they will form wax.—Atlanta Journal.
Adulterations of tho Products of Flour.
With4ha products of flour, such as
bread,' liras, cdke? ffjfrfriiiU
celli, ete., tho adulteration, while
more frequent, is likewise not very
pronounced. Bread is said to be adul
terated with alum, sulphate of copper,
ammonia, flours other than wheat, and
inferior grade of flour. It is ques
tionable if these adulterations are
practiced to any extent in the United
States. In England and on the Conti
nent o-aqmber of cases are on record
in which tbe above adulterations were
: found, and the offenders prosecuted.
Where coloring principles are a do-
' sideratum, the adulteration of bread,
i. cake, etc., while not frequent has been
"very marked. Possibly all of my
hearers may remember tjie flagrant
adulteration of buns and noodles with
chrome'yellow, which was brought so
prominently to the notice of the Phil
adelphia community several years ago.
Dr. Henry Leffmaun at that time found
eight grains of lead chromate iu a
pound of a sample of soup noodles,
placed there to give au imitation egg
color, and two grains of the same poi
son iu each of the tea buns tested by
him. Seventy-eight cases of lead poi
soning were reported by Dr. Stewart
from eating chrome yellow pound buns,
sixty-four of which were directly
traced to tho use of chrome yellow by
two bakers, in the family of one of
whom six deaths occurred, and ho
himsdlf was made seriously ill. Be
sides this coloring, macaroni has been
found to contain saffron, turraenic
(which is considered injurious to
health,) and Martin’s i.i[’u clay and
kaolin have been found as adulterat
ing constituents.—The Sanitarian.
XT omen In tho Presbyterian Church.
A recommendation has gone before
the Presbyterian Board to the effect
that women be forbidden the use of
pulpits for public addresses to mixed
audiences, and that it be considered
improper to give notices of such meet
ings from the pulpit. Women, how-
over, are still to bo permitted to give
public testimony for the benefit and
in the presence of the privileged sex.
Feather* Iu Women’* Hat*.
What a comment on woman is this
item! Frank M. Chapman, of the
American Museum of Natural History,
New York, has compiled a list of tho
birds which he saw on tho hats of
women in this city during two after
noons. Forty species were represent
ed, inclnding thrushes, warblers,
shrikes, fly-catchers, tanagers, swal
lows, waxwings, grosbeaks, sparrows,
orioles, woodpeckers, jays, owls,
grouse, doves, qnails, shore birds,
herons, gulls, terns, and grebes. In
all he saw 173 wild birds, or parts of
them on hats. Of these birds at least
thirty-two varieties are protected by
law during all or a major portion of
the year. A Boston court has de
cided that it is unlawful to wear feath
ers of a bird that is protected by law,
and a similar law is proposed in New
York.—Popular Science.
Improveil Sowinu Machine*.
• Anything that4Hin the nature of an
improvement, especially from a hy
gienic point of view, upon tho exist
ing sewing machines will bo welcomed
as a boon to our population, so many
of whom have to labor at these ma
chines many hours each day. Accord
ing to a recent report, such an im
provement is announced. The old
treadle, with its up and down
movement of the entire limb,
aud wearying, cramping strain
directly upon tho muscles of the calf
and front of the thigh, and indirectly
upon tha lumbar region, is to be
aud its place taken by a
tform, swinging pendulum
pon this
swunfe bad:
omentum being
;ht of tbe foot alone, in
stead of by that of the entire limb as
before. Tho thigh remains almost
motionless, and the economy both of
effort and discomfort is most decided.
Either foot can be used alternately, or
both together, thus giving relief from
the monotony of the constant move
ment.—The Ledger.
abolished,
hanging p
vermi- fashion.
—’ ” easily' and
ward, theu j
by the we:
Hi* Helpmate.
Neighbor—-What’a the matter.
Where yer going?
Jinks—BurglarsI Going for a po
liceman.
Neighbor—Did yer leave your wife
alone?
Jinks—No, she’s holding the bur
glar.'—Harper’* Weekly.
Asphalt pavement is slippery only
xrlwa it is not kept clean.
I.ongcit Fence in the World.
The longest fence in the world is
probably that which has just been fin
ished by the Erie Cattle company
along the Mexican border. It is 75
miles in length and separates exactly,
for its entire distance, the two repub
lics of North America. The fence was
built to keep the cattle from running
across the border and falling easy
prey to the Mexican cow punchers. Al
though it*cost a great deal of money,
it it estimated that cattle enough will
be saved in one year to pay for it. It
is a barbed wire fence, with mesquite
and cottonwood poles, and for the en
tire length of it runs as straight as •
crow flies.
IlrttUh Warship.
The new British warship Canopus,
is so armed that iu flve minutes’ con
secutive flrd she is able to pour forth
nine tons’ weight of projectiles ahead
or astern, without exposing her broad
side. But the great feature of the
vessel is her ram bow, which is placed
much higher thaa in any other ship,
being only seven or eight feet below
Would Ton Grow Flump, Madame?
Eat for breakfast oatmeal swimming
in cream. Drink not tea or coffee, but
cocoa, chocolate and milk. Spurn
toast, especially if it be made of
graham or gluten bread. Eat freshly
made wheat bread with butter and
honey.
Eat fruit for your breakfast, but not
the tart grape and the tarter grape
fruit. Eat baked apples with plenty
of sugar and cream, and all sorts of
stewed fruits, which require sweeten-
ing.
Eat meats with fat on them. Eat
fish with white sauces. Eat potatoes,
cornstarch, simple puddings and ice
creams.
Drink milk and cream whenever yon
happen to want them. If you don’t
care for those nourishing drinks, culti
vate a taste for them. Avoid lemon
ade, lime juice and the like.
Wear warm, luxurious clothing, but
bo careful not to have it so warm os
to induce perspiration, for that will
prove thinning. Do not let it bo too
heavy, either.
Do not take more exercise than is
absolutely essential to health. Take
the air—yes. But let it be in a car
riage whenever you can, or on a sunny
bench in the pi dr. Violent exercise
is the worst pi 'sible thing for the
woman who would fain grow plump. ^
Don’t worry. Don’t lie awake at
night to think of your shortcomings
and other ± -tple’s sins.
Don’t care -iolently tor any one.
Hearts and co^ -nances ara fees to
rounded contours au I shapely uecks.
— New York Journal.
The Art of Darnlnr.
The proper darning of a routln cloth
Is au art that can not be eesi 1 ” picked
up and should be taught to , .is as an
essential part of their p- deal home
training. The expert d icr of woolen
cloth will make a rent practically in
visiblebyweaving together torn edges,
matching them as carofully as possi
ble, and afterward pressing the rent.
A fine sewing silk is used to darn
woolen cloth in preference to any
wool, which would not bo strong
enough unless the thread or raveling
was too coarse. Where tho cloth is
thick enough, endeavor to conceal the
thread carefnlly and drawing the edgee
closely together, but not so that they
overlap. If there is any nap on the
cloth, brash it back while you are
darning and then brash it down again.
Lay a damp cotton cloth on tho wrong
side of the cloth, over the darn, and
press it down once, then remove the
cotton cloth and press next the woolen
surface, being careful that yon do not
press it perfectly dry, but that a very
little steam arises after the iron is re
moved. If the cloth is pressed per
fectly dry the work of the iron will be
shown on tho right side. A piece of
cloth is usually darned with vortical
and diagonal stitches, rnnning with
the threads of the cloth. The “np-
aud-down” thread is usually tho strong
est way of mending a bias darn. Use
no piece of cloth under the darning
unless the material darned is thin. In
that case a piece of silk of the same
color is less clumsy as a backing to
darn the wool, unless the wool is
sheer.—New York Commercial Adver
tiser.
Gossip.
The Woman’s Law Class at thfr
University of New York has been
largely increased.
The Queen of Belgium milked a cow
at a farmhouse recently, because tho
old woman in charge was paralyzed,
and the Qneen was thirsty.
Mme. Diaz, wife of the Mexican
President, has founded a home where
girls can always find employment, a
nursery where children of working
women are cared for, and a Magdalen
home for repentant sinners.
Th» venerable English actress, Mrs.
Keeley, whose ninetieth birthday was
publicly celebrated at the Lyceum
Theatre on November 22, 1895, still
enjoys general good health. Sha
resides in Pelham Crescent, Bromp-
ton, where she has lived for over half
a century. ’
The amateur photographer who has
not a ruby lamp for nse in the develop
ing room or closet may envelop the
' ulb of an electric light with a red-
^ shade, with, the *a«na result as to
orkmabship, an entire freedom from
oke and also a much stronger and
ktesdier light.
There are special costumes for al
most every sort of amusement nowa
days, but bowling has apparently been
neglected. That is a fault easily
remedied, however. A pretty girl who
belongs to a suburban bowling dnb
attends its meetings whenever tho
weather will permit on her bicycle.
“And it is so mneb easier to play in
short skirts,” she says.
California has added many to tho
list of renowned w^men, but not al
ways with such wholesomely famous
names as those of the Klumpke sisters.
There are four of them—Dorothea,
who is one cf the chief workers of tho
Paris Observatory; Anna, a portrait
painter in Boston; Augusta, a physi
cian in Paris, and Julia, one of tho
most brilliant pupils of Ysayo, tho
violinist.
th© surface of the water. It is | si l k thn&d between tho free and back
sheathed with a two-inch thickness of | th® cloth. Begin about half an inch
nickePsteel armor over the ordinary f rora th® edge of one side of the tear,
v-£4c!ad skin. • and run the needle the same distance
! fcoa tha other edge, concealing the
Fashion Note*.
For older women there are somo
very stuuniug combinations in net and
lace.
Belts of fancy ribbon are passed
onco or twice about the waist-line aud
tied in short loops and ends at the left
aide, using two aud one-fourth to
three yards of plaiu or fancy striped
ribbon, two to four inches wide.
Miroir velvet, gay ribbons, flowera
and foliage are manipulated skillfully
in the decoration of noth velvet and
felt hats. Jot and steel ornaments
follow in size and device the rhine
stone and gilt novelties so highly fa
vored.
Gloves in cherry red, salmon pink
and bright bine are oat—in th© shops.
They are not to be seen in prodigious
numbers. There are not many woman
who care to have such an air of busi
ness about them as to be taken for
dyers’ apprentices.
Polished copper for large pieces of
bric-a-brac, snch os lamp standards,
candelabra, nrna and so on, is more
satisfactory for general nse in tho
homo than much wrought iron, which
is rather funereal in appearance, un
less it is very discreetly disposed.
A half-worn light silk waist may be
very satisfactorily refurbished by
striping it crosswise with black velvet
ribbon, putting velvet ribbon around
the plain collar band as previously de
scribed, and adding a new chemisette
neck of lace and a velvet belt.
In Paris fur is being slightly gath
ered into deep frills and flounces and
placed on tho hems of heavy winter
gowns, cloth capes and wraps. Tho
effect is novel and pleasing. Ot
ter, beaver and gray astrakhan are
are among the fashionable furs, and
grebe is also being maoh used,
though it has been oat of favor for
several year*.