Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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■ HUH LEFT UNDONE. It Isn't the thlnj; you do, dear; It's the thing you've left undone Whleh gives you a bit of _ heartache At the siting of the sun. The tender word forgotten, • The letter you did not write, The flower you might have sent, dear, Are your haunting ghosts tonight. The stone yon might have lifted Out of a brother’a way, The bit of heartsome counsel Yon 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 all too short, dear, And sorrow Is all too great To suffer our slow com;>asslon That tarries until too Into; And it's not the thing you do, dear. It’s the thing you leave undone Which gives you a bit of a hearfaeh# At the sotting of the sun. } The Brakeman and the Squaw. »Y Ct. WAKMAN. r. rmsly to .A... they h u gone within Indians^ *ho had not ing upon the mnffl stopped to discuss th befotethem. The 4 hand on the sherif the ground aud sh 0 yards of the lard them walk- I earth, they work that was ian. putting her rifle pushed it to her h6ad,meau- Here’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 Engineer Weatcott in charge of the engine. N. C. Creede, afterwards famoue as the founder of Creede camp, had located the Madonna mine at Monarch camp, and created a necessity for the branch road. They had rushed the work, but the first snow caught them still three miles from the booming •ilver camp. A wandering baud of Indians, hearing of the excitement, aud not understanding it, had strayed into Ihe Monarch county, and down the gulch as far us Maysville, then a wild aud thriving village at the edge of the Arkansas valley. One day, ■when it was Storming, an old squaw came to McGuire, and wanted a ride up the hill. It was a cruel day, and the kind-hearted conductor carried the Indian to tho end of the track. It was a month later when one of McGuire’s brukemeu, named Bowen, who hud been hunting in the hills, rushed into the caboose with the start ling anuounccmentthat his partner,the head brakeman, had been captured by the Indians, "Look here, Jack,” said McGuire, "are you lying?” "Honest Injun," said Jack, "if there’s one there’s a million; and they’ve got Mickey tied to a stake. We had become separated. I was standiug on a precipice, looking for Mickey, whrm i saw the Indians sur round him. Now, Jack Bo^ Wand Inmiui—.. —— _:i-)’~irnir < v«MM*^fnrWTt9b» e ranaded KeturniJTto M.ys- ville with engine,, he gave the alarm, and the sheriff of Chaffee county made up a poese and sot out in search of the brakeman. The sun was going down behind the range when tho engine and the caboose full of amateur Indiau fighters returned to the end of the track. Tak ing Bowen as guide, the sheriff scoured the hills, bat 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 useless to put out agaiu in the face of such a storm, anil the sheriff was about to return to Mays ville, when tha 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 stai ted as though she would lead h m iuto the hills. As 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 he saw the signals of the squaw he guessed that she would lead them to the captive, ami when McGuire had told how he had helped this Indian on her way up the hill iu a storm, he knew that the Indian was trying to repay the con ductor for hia kindness. The unfor tunate brakeman, McGuire explained, had given# the Indiau tobacco and whiskey; therefore, she would not sea him die without making an effort to save him. The sheriff called his deputies, and taking a half-doaen volunteers from Garfield camp, made sigu to the In dian aud followed her away into the wilderness of snow-hung pine and cedar. Now and then the sqnaw would pause to get her bearings. The snow had ceased falling and the stars were out. After tramping for an hour or more, the Indiau signed to the sheriff' to stay, aud then disappeared into a cedar grove. Presently she returned and led them to the edge of a preci pice. Just below them, in a little basin, they could see a pine Are burn ing aud ludians dancing iu the light of it Sitting upon the snow hard by, they saw the brakeman with his fet tered hands over his knees and his head bent forward like a manmodding in a pew. The sheriff asked the In diau to lead them on and she made sign that they must go far aronnd for the blaff 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 auew now they must bo near. When ing that she wouldinot have them kill the Indians, whon/ they outnumbered two to one. The aheriff was at a loss to understand how he was to capture this band without firing, for be had no doubt the Indians would fireupon him the moment they caught sight of him. But the squaw was equal to the emer gency. She began to form the men in two lines. Taking hold of their coats she would place a man on the right Hank and another on the left, until she had divided tho sheriff’s posse. Bhe then placed the sheriff at the head of one column and the con ductor, whom she regarded as a sort pf captain, at the other, and then made sign to thenwto 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 upon 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 aquaw stole into the camp and squatted near the fire. As the sheriff’s men closed in upon the Indians the squaw leaped to her feet and put out a hand as a signal for the hand to bo still. The Indians listened, but ihe sheriffs men seeing it all, stood still in the snow. Now the sqnaw spoke to the Indians, say ing that she had seen a great many soldiers coming down the hill that evening and giving it as her opinion that the camp would be surrounded and that if the Indians resisted they would all be killed. When she had succeeded in persuading them that it would be best to surrender in case the soldiers should come, she sat clown again. This, the sheriff concluded, was a signal for the men to advance, and the posse moved forward. When they were quite near,the ludians were made aware of their presence by the snapping of a dry cedar bough, and the sheriff, knowing that delay would be dangerous, shouted to his posse to advance. At the sound of his voice the Indians sprang for their rifles, but when they had got them aud got to their feet again, the sheriff’s posse, of the woods from every Ihe gUttering steel ielr are™ 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 they would take him back to his peo ple 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 take their guns and kill them while they slept, and if they left his feet unfettered he would 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 ho wonld 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. SHE TURNED THE TABLES. The Huiband’* lin|>rf»»ivf» Lcmoii for HI* Wife VVa» It seemed to him au excellent time to impress the lesson upou her, so as he started for his hat he said to her; “Suppose von had wanted me to spend the evening with you before we wer© married and I had planned to do something else.” “Suppose I had,” she returned. "What of it?” "¥ou wouldn’t have sulked, would you?" he asked. "No-o, I suppose not,” she replied hesitatingly. “You wouldn’t have got cross and been disagreeable about it, would you?” "Probably not.” "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 ami wonld have tried to coax me to gi ve up mv 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 unjust. Now, you admit that before marriage” "Before marriage,” she broke in, "if you had spoken of going any where and I had pouted just the least little bit what would you have aone?” "Urn—ah—well, I suppose” "If you had noticed what seemed to be even the merest trace of a tear what would have happened?” "Why, my dear, I” "If I had merely looked at yon pleadingly what wonld have happened to that other engagement?” "Really, you don’t give me time to answer. I must confess that in all probability I would have” “Given 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:s 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. Adulterations of th* Prodncta of Plonr. nth the products of flour, such as ad, buns, cake, macaroni, vermi- etc., the adulteration, while mo«p frequent, is likewise not very lounced. Bread ia said to be adul- |ted with alum, sulphate of copper, ise adulterations are iticed to any extent in the United In England and on the Conti- neujt a number of cases are on record in which the above adulterations were found, and the offenders prosecuted. Where coloring principles are a de sideratum, the adulteration of bread, cake, etc., while not frequent has been very* marked. Possibly all of my hearers may remember the 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 L’effuiaun at that time found eight grains of lead chromate in a pound of a sample of soup noodles, placed there to give an 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 vjere reported by Dr. Stewart from eating chrome yellow pound buns,' sixty-four of which were directly traced to the use of chrome yellow by two bakers, iu the family of one of whom six deaths occurred, aud he Women in the Preebytertan 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 nudieuces, and that it be considered improper to give notices of such meet ings from tlie pulpit. Women, how ever, are still to be permitted to give public testimony for the benefit and m the presence of the privileged sex. Feathers in Women’s Hats. What a comment on woman is this item! Prank M. Chapman, of the American Museum of Natural History, New York, has compiled a list of the birds which he saw oa the hats of women in this city during two after noons. Forty species were represent ed, including thrushes, warblers, shrikes, fly-catchers, tanagers, swal lows, waxwings, grosbeaks, sparrows, orioles, woodpeckers, jays, owls, grouse, doves, quails, shore birds, herons, gulls, terns, ami 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. Improved Sowing Machines. Anything that is in the nature of au improvement, especially from a hy gienic point of view, upon the exist ing sewing machines will be 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, and wearying, cramping strain directly upon the muscles of the calf and front of the thigh, and indirectly upon the lumbar region, is to be abolished, aud its place taken by hanging platform, swinging pendulum fashion. Upon this the foot rests easily and is swung backward and for ward, the momentum being furnished by the weight of the foot Alone, in- — •* * i&L enta€ limb as ifiomy'Doth oT .!..<! 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. 4 The Busy Bee. • Dr. Watts was right. The tee i* really a very busy insect in spite of recent attacks made upon its character. A plodding statistician Las found oat 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 than it earns is proved by the fact that 164,000,000 pounds of honey are an nually sold throughout the world for the enjoyment of th« human race. The United States stands at the head of the list of honey producers with 61,* O00,000 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 ita way to the London market. It was long supposed that bees col lected the wax direct from the flowers. Now it is known that if they are kept from plants and fed on sugar only they will form wax.—Atlanta Journal. Would Ton Grow Ptninp, Madame? Eat for breakfast oatmeal swimming in cream. Drink not tea or coffee, bat 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 thS tart grape and the tarter grape fruit. Eat baked apples with plenty of sugar and cream, aud all sortft of stewed fruits, which require swcetca- ing. Eat meats with fat on them. Eat fish with white sauces. Eat potatoes, cornstarch, simple puddings aud ice creams. Drink milk and cream whenever you happeu to want them. If you don’t care for these nourishing drinks, culti vate a taste for them. Avoid - lemon- thread carefully and drawing the edges 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 brush it down again. Lay a damp cotton cloth on the wrong side of the cloth, over the darn, and press it down once, then remove the cotton cloth aud press next the woolen surface, being careful that you 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 the right side. A piece of cloth is usually darned with vertical and diagonal stitchts, running with the threads of the cloth. The "up- and-down” thread is usually the strong est way of mending a bias darn. Use no piece of cloth under the darning unless the material darned is thin. Iu that case a piece of silk of the same color is less clumsy as a backing to dam the wool, unless the wool ia sheer.—New York Commercial Adver tiser. Gossip. The Woman’s Law Class at the 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 Queen was thirsty. Mme. Diaz, wife of the Mexican President, has f<Juiuled a homo where girls can always find employment, a nursery where children of working women are cared for, and a Magdalen home for repentaut sinners. The venerable English actress, Mrs. Keeley, whose ninetieth birthday was publicly celebrated at the Lyceum Theatre on November 22, 1895, still enjoys general good health. She resides in Pelham Crescent, Bromp- ton, where she has lived for over half a century. The amateur photographer who haa not a ruby lamp for use in the develop ing room or closet may envelop the bulb of an electric light with a red- bag shade, with the same result as to workmanship, an entire freedom from smoke and also a much stronger and ^SA^i^cSpcCiaT cost nines tor al-' most every sort of amusement nowa days, but bowling has apparently been neglected. That is a fault easily remedied, however. A pretty girPwho belongs to a suburban boiling club attends its meetings whenever the weather will permit on her bicycle. "And it is so much easier to play in short skirts,” she says. California has added many to the list of renowned women, bat 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 the Paris Observatory; Anna, a portrait painter in Boston; Augusta, a physi cian in Paris, and Julia, one of tho most brilliant pupils of Ysaye, tha violinist. himself was made seriously ill. Be- j ndo, limo juice and the like. HI* Helpmate. Neighbor—What’a the matter. Where yer going? Jiuks—Burglars! Going for a po liceman. Neighbor—Did yer have your wife clone? Jinks—No, she’s holding the ’bur glar.—Harper’s Wei sides this cojoring, macaroni has been | found to contain .saffron, turmenic (which is considered injurious to health,) aud Martin’s pipe day and kaolin have been found as adulterat ing oonstituents. —The Sanitarian. Longest 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 acroes the border and falling easy prey to the Mexican cow punchers. Al though it cost a great deal of money, it is 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 a crow flies. British Warship. The new British warship Canopus, ia so armed that in five minutes’ con secutive fire she is able to ponr forth nine tons’ weight of projectiles ahead or astern, without exposing her broad side. But the great feature of the vessel is her rum bow, which is placed much higher th.vi in any other ship, being only seven or eight feet below the surface of the water. It is Fashion Notcj. For older women there aro soma, very stunning combinations in net and lace. Belts of fancy ribbon arc passed ouca or twice about tho waist-line and tied in short loops aud ends at the left side, using two and one-fourth to three yards of plain or fancy striped ribbon, two to four inches wide. Miroir velvet, gay ribbons, flower* Do not let it bo too ' and foliage are manipulated skillfully the decoration Wear warm, luxurious clothing, but bo careful not to hare it so warqi as to induce perspiration, for that will prove thinning, heavy, either. Do not take more exercise than is absolutely essential to health. Take Ihe air—yes. But let it be in a car riage whenever you can, or on a sunny bench in the ps-k. Violent exercise is the worst pi ’sible thing for the woman who would fain grow plump. ^ Don’t worry. Don’t Ho awake at night to think of your shortcomings aud other ^ iple’s sins. Don’t care -iolently for any one. Hearts and co^. Mencas are foes to roundel contours au l shapely necks. —New York Journal. Tlio Art of Darnlnc* The proper darning of a real in cloth is an art that can not be eaai'- picked up and should be taught to as an essential part of their p- deal homo training. The expert d ler of woolen cloth will make a rent practically in- visible by weaving together torn edges, matching them as carefully 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 be strong enough unless the thread or raveling was too coarse. Where the cloth is thick enough, endeavor to conceal the silk thread between the free and back of the cloth. Begin about half an inch sheathed with a two-inch thickness of nickel-steel armor over the ordinary I from the edge of one side of the tear, VYinrlad skin. j and run the needle the same distance from the other edge, concealing (be m tfie decoration of both velvet ami felt hats. Jet and steel ornament* follow in size and device the rhine< stone aud gilt novelties so highly fa vored. Gloves in cherry red, salmou, pink and bright blue are out—in the shops They are not to be seen in prodigiom numbers. There are not many womez who care to have such an air of bnsi ness about them as to be taken fa dyers’ apprentices. . . Polished copper for large pieces a bric-a-brac, such as lamp standard* candelabra, urns and ao on, is xnor satisfactory for general use in th homo than much wrought iron, whio is rather funereal in appearance, un less it is very discreetly disposed. A half-worn light silk waist may l very satisfactorily refurbished t striping it crosswise with black velvi ribbon, putting velvet ribbon oroun the plain collar band as previously di scribed, and adding a new chciniset' neck of lace and, a velvet belt. In Paris fur is being slightly gat] ered into deep frills and flounces ai placed on the hems of heavy winb gowns, cloth capes and wraps. T1 effect is novel and pleasing. 0 ter, beaver and gray astrakhan a are among the fashionable furs, an grebe is also being much use though it has been out of furor f< several years.