The Florence daily times. [volume] (Florence, S.C.) 1894-1925, March 04, 1898, Image 2
THE LAST Sl/MMONS.
I woald not die in ftpringtlme,
When nature (Iret awaken—
When men get out their wheelbarrow*,
And npadae, and hoea, and rakes.
And twist their hacks, and plant their
seeds,
And wait to hear them sprout,
While yet they stone their neighbors’ bens
That come to scratch them out.
I would not die In summer,
When everything is ripe.
And fallen man Is writhing
In raw cucumber’s gripe;
When baseball cranks are talking.
And all the landscape o’er
Is sprinkled thick with flowers
And "garden anas” galore.
I would not die in autumn.
When football bos the eall.
And long-haired youths are trainin'*
Home other youths to maul;
When politics Is booming—
Thanksgiving close at band.
And cider mills are running
Throughout the happy land.
I would not die In winter.
E’en though it be so drear,
. For then, you see, there’s Christmas.
With all its goodly eheor.
I Ho, I’d not die in winter.
Nor summer, spring, nor fall-*
And come to think it over,
I would not die at all.
—Boston Post.
A Romance of New York.
oto
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HE habitues
of a small
French re
staurant on
the West
Hide were
, recently the
iy, krt? guests at a
^TU rwfluB® humble wed-
recep
tion, which was the npshot of one of
tho most pathetic chance meetings
that ever were brought about by the
surging ocean of cosmopolitan life in
this greatest of cosmopolitan cities.
The customers of the restaurant con
stitute one of tho thousands of settle
worlds of which the American metro
polis is made up, and for two or three
months a Russian artist and a Polish
piano teacher formed a separate micro
cosm in that world. The other
frequenters of the place are French
men, French Canadians, Hwiss and
Belgians, but Aleksey Alekseevitoh
Hmirnoff and Panna (Polish for Mrs.)
Ronshetzka are natives of Russia. It
was not until they had taken their
supper at the same table every even
ing for several weeks that each of
them became aware of the other’s
knowledge of Russian, and the fact
thrilled them both like the sudden
discovery of a close blood relationship.
But there was a far more interesting
and, as it has since proved, a far more
important revelation in store for them.
Panna Ronshetzka was a woman of
thirty-five, a well- preserved brnnette,
slender and stately, and with features
somewhat irregular, but full of typical
Polish grace. She had been educated
partly in Russia and partly in Paris.
She had com® v York, after
ier before her ambitions were on the
road to realization, and, heartbroken
and penniless, she was driven to take
np piano lessons as a means of liveli
hood.
Smirnoff was a bachelor, some twen
ty-three years her senior, though he
looked fully ten years younger than
his age. Tall and wide awake, with a
brisk military carriage, a military
steel-gray mustache and blond hair,
unstreaked with silver save at the
temples, he appeared in the prime of
health and activity, while bis never-
failing good humor and hearty, sonor
ous, ; genuinely Muscovite laughter
made one feel in the presence of a
young man of twenty-five. That had
been his actual age when he left his
native country, and after some three
decades of peregrination in Western
F.urope he had at last settled down in
New York. He is a jack of all trades
and master of quite a few, and al
though free-hand drawing is one of his
strongest points he is clever enough
with his pencil to meet the require
ments of a small electro-engraving es
tablishment, where he has steady em
ployment at a modest salary.
The language of the restaurant is
French, spoken with a dozen different
accents. One day, however, when the
soup was exceptionally satisfactory,
and Smirnoff, who is something of an
epicure, was going off in ecstasies over
it, a word of his native tongue es
caped his lips. “Slavny (capital)
houd!” he murmured to himself, as he
was bringing the second spoonful un
der his mustache.
The piano teacher started.
“What is that yon said just now—
‘slavny soup?’ she inquired, with a
flush of agreeable surprise.
This was the way they came to speak
Russian to each other, and from that
evening on it was the language of their
conversations at the restaurant table.
Although there are many thousands of
Russian-speaking immigrants in New
York, the artist and the music teacher
felt in the French restaurant like the
only two Russians thrown together in
a foreign country, and the little place
which had hitherto drawn them to the
quality of its sappers and its genial
company now acquired a new charm
for them.
They delighted to converse ill Rus
sian, and the privacy which it lent to
their chats, in the midst of people who
could not understand a word of what
they were saying to each other, be
came the bond of a more intimate ac
quaintance between the two. They
were reticent on the subject of their
antecedents, but both were well read
and traveled, and there was no lack of
topics in things bearing upon Russia,
Paris, current American life, the stage,
art, literature and the like. The gal
lant old Russian was full of the most
interesting information and anecdotes,
and, their friendship growing apace,
he gradually came to introduce into
his talks bits of autobiography, though
they were all of the most modest
nature, and he seemed to steer clear
of a certain event which formed a
memorable epoch in the story of his
life.
Panna Ronshetzka neither asked
him questions nor saw lit to initiate
him into some of the more intimate de
tails of her own life, though by this
time it was becoming clearer to her
every day that her Russian friend was
in love with her and about to approach
her with a proposal which she was by
no means inclined to accept. And
yet, like many another woman under
similar circumstances, she was flat
tered by his passion, and, being
drawn to him by the magnetism of
sincere friendship, she had not the
heart to cut their agreeable acquaint
ance short.
He procured some lessons for her,
escorting her home after sapper and
took her to theatres and public lec
tures. All of which attention she
would accept with secret self-condem
nation, each time vowing in her heart
that on the following evening she
would change her restaurant. Never
theless, and perhaps unbeknown to
herself, she even grew exacting, and
on one occasion, when she had ex
pressed a desire to see Dnse in Mag
da, and he remarked thereupon, with
a profusion of impulsive apologies,that
he was kept from the pleasure of tak
ing her to the performance by a previ-
. after oqs engagement, her face fell, and for
» J^wgfliiug^iiiiuijMr 1
^ - well for hrim, he thought. He did not
Roushet
to restore
yon, and
more wretcl
ever felt bef<
happiness
own, and si
be distnrbe
am resigned
The pam
thanked hi;
ship, and yi
ease with w
ciled to her
However,
hearted as h
the peroeptii
mixed exnl
to her. He
and sentimei
bidding her
launched out,
listening to
with heart-
“I know it
trade my pen
you. Why s
the humdrum!
man who is a
Yet I cannot
this minute,
schoolboy, bm
overburdened
me. "
She was bu:
of encourage]
, gravely, ‘ W
nr mind. I love
leaves me
desolate than I
believe me your
to me than my
d that it would
ir marrying me I
te." .
overjoyed and
y for this friend
y surrender, the
as getting recon-
ettled her.
ot seem as light'
ecting to be, ant
was a source o
.d commiseration
ommonly effusive
d ns if by way of
holy farewell he
Lbing his past, she
solate accents
interest.
sh for me to ob-
miniscences upon
iu be bored with
■ of tho Hfo of a
it stranger to you.
speaking of it at
il sheepish, like a
mehow relieves my
Yon will excuse
held tbt |
OS'
child, and “^^.ake as well
portrait dear for 7 never occnrrct
papa’s. Of course i bat noW the
jo me that it day tome,
identity of it 18^ cl ^ her lodging*,
ghe invited him bim ^ her latt<i
where she introd d o{ her 'lead
lady as the best trie ^ hearty
father. They about the
talk over the portr ht to the
persons and thing d t he follow-
old man’s mind. Ana ^ ^ the
evening,
South Carolina and Georgia
Railroad Company
ing evening, wh f Q . ^u^pper, he
French restaurant f read a9 { 0 i-
found there a letter wnicu
lows; *inT<u»evitch—Rwas
.‘Dear Aleksey A ntter stranger,
not yourself, but an j have
that I refused the oth J. J; tknoW .
loved yon my officer who
ing yon-. Tl\ e £ or father has
ruined himself f 7 ^ jj n8 band,
.•The
wist nau-T.
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WEST DA1I.T,
lv Charleston
It Columbia
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ar Aiken
ar Augusta
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SOUTH.
It Charleston
ar KingviUe
lv Camden
ar KingviUe
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it Augusta 6 20
ar Aiken ’fo a
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ar Columbia ‘
ar Charleston _
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lv Augusta J20P
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10 45 p
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been my
always neen l never ga ve
be mine. Your lovlDg <,jf xB r9U.”]
r —New York Post.
SCIENWC30JN^ RIAL ‘
A drawing of tb. Moon ba.
discovered in the
rocks of the La
to offer some word
to assure him of
her profound r ct and friendship,
and of her ii it in everything he
had to say, Iker tongno seemed
grown fast to h alate and she could
not utter a syll
“It was man ars ago that I was
torn from my ir native soil and
from a splendii eer,” he proceeded,
egged on by 1 very taciturnity of
his interlocutoi ‘I was a young fel*
low and an off in the army then,
with a most plisiug future before
me. It was du|; tho Polish insur
rection of tho 4y sixties. My regi
ment was statiSd at the Government
city of N.” 1
The panna gala start, and a volley
ed on the tip of her
omehow could not
icrrupt him.
recently graduated
Mouthe cave in Dordogne
In a recent work on
France,
the birds o!
the
n , V w W Cooke brings up tne
Colorado, W. w. 6U b-species
number of species
ft r Cbsrlesto3_
cImdk}Tb kaNcH ’
KOETH
W KingviUe l0g a
ar Camden l*..
IvKingvUlo 6 00 a
‘-^^ENrCCOMMODAWON.
lv Augusta 6jjP“ ar Augusta 5^7_pm
Thxougtl
North from New Yorl^
sleeperstojm—— York 9 30 pm
lv Augusta... .3 P“ lv Wasting’n 3 10 pm
ttr Rlchm°nd. 8 ^ ^ iv Richm nd 7 31 am
£ Washington 7 Mam ^ 8 10 am
ar New \ork^. -^^vUtTNew York
Connections at e baj^t^ ^ Jacksonville^
steamers, a 1 * 0 wit '’ J a nd at Augusta with
via on sailing dates. ^ points West
and South; «d£ a *f'“ to and from Barnwell,
linn Midland Itailway at Go-
Oonnectious^witL^u ^ upper 8oU th and
found in that State to 363.
At tbs
of questions trei
tongne, but sh
bring herself to
T had bee]
yield, but at the next walk they took
together he “popped the question” in
a rather original way.
They stood in front of the house in
which she had her room. He had bid
her good-night and was about to doff
his hat with that dashing sweep of his
which makes him ten years younger,
when he checked himself, and said, as
though in jest:
“Is it not foolish, Panna Roush-
etzka?”
“What is foolish?” she queried,
without a shadow of presentiment as to
what was coming.
“Why, the way we go on living
separately, each without what could
justly be called a home. I am madly
in love with you, Panna Ronshetzka,
and I feel like devoting my life to
your happiness.”
She stood eyeing the door of a
house across the street and made no
response.
“Panna Ronshetzka!” he implored
her tremulously.
“I’ll give you my answer to-mor
row,” she whispered. .
“Mme. Ronshetzka has not come
yet, has she? Any letters for me?
Smirnoff asked the next evening, as he
entered the little restaurant with his
usual blitheness. Like some others
of the customers he received his mail
at the restaurateur’s address.
The Frenchman handed him a letter.
When ho opened it he read, in Rus
sian, the foHowiug:
“Much respected Aleksey Alekse-
evitch—I am the unhappiest woman
in the world to-day. I confess I was
not blind to the nature of yonr feel
ings toward me, but was too much of
a woman and an egoist to forego the
pleasure of yonr very flattering kind
ness to me. Forgive me, I pray you
dear Aleksey Alekseevitoh; bat my
answer must be of a negative charac
ter. I have been crying like a baby
since last night for having led yon
into a false position. Do forgive me.
Your sincere friend,
“Maria Roushbtzxa.”
“Do you forgive me? I beg you
rfgain and again."
Smirnoff had had too many sno 1
cesses and failures in life to let this
defeat hurt his pride deeply. Bat he
was overcome with a* poignant sense
of loneliness, coupled with a cruel
consciousness of his old age. At the
same time he sincerely regretted the
pain he had caused the widow, and
out of sympathy for her as well as for
the opportunity of seeing her, he
secured another interview with her,
which took place in one of the remote
nooks of Tompkins Square.
“I wish to reassure yon, Panna
you arq
now*
self, and paid
His heart was
and I knew it au
guarded, bat he
patriot to allow
preservation to
revolutionaay * i
when the Gossd
house of a Polisf
the owner and
my friend gave
from the militarvehool, ami that was
my first commisi»n,”he wenton. 1
had many frieze in the regiment
and among then{< young Polish offi
cer named Stan^.vitch.”
Panna Roushftzka remained petri
fied. After a whle she made out to
inquire: “Slaukmtcb, did yon say?
“Why, haye yftn heard of him or
some of his family?" Bmirnoff asked,
eagerly. ■g|
“No, I am simply interested in
what you area relating. Proceed
’fflnrfftflrlfST
s life foi it, poor boy.
with the insurgents,
begged him to bo
as too much of a
;he instinct of self-
t the better of his
mpathies. One day
oks had looted the
nobleman and taken
is family prisoners,
oud utterances to his
overbrimming feelings in the Officer’s
Club, cursing t|ie Government and
vowing vengeance.
“You must have heard how strict
things were in those days. The city
of N was in a state of siege, mar
tial law prevailed, and the most peace
ful citizens were afraid of their own
shadows. Well.poordear Stoukevitch
was court-martiaUed and sentenced to
be shot within ti enty-four hours by a
line of soldiers fi )m the very company
of which he had been in command.
And who was to take charge of the
shooting and utt r the fatal word to
tho soldiers bnt his best friend, who
was ready to die or him.” r„-
Smirnoff saidi with a grim sort of
composure, and t en broke off abruptly
and fell into a m se.
‘Well?” the w low demanded, in
strange voice, wl ch he mistook for
mere mark of ii crest in a thrilling
story.
“Woll,” herei med, “I did not, of
course, ntter th< errible word, but at
the very momen 1 was to do so I fell
on the ground ii i feigned swoon. My
place was instan y taken by another
officer and I was »ince then branded
os a coward, anc lad no choice but to
resign my comm sion and to become
the rolling stone hat I have been ever
since.”
He went on i rrating some of his
subsequent exf iences in foreign
Srar. e nd »Uo« ed to gorge
selves at pleasuie. , bh . ds mcn ’s
With the exception of ba . r
egs arc longer in P r °P ort ;°“ r an ^ a l.
body than those of any stronger
that man alone can
foot. . .
relation or
fever b
Kelsch and Simouin
have reported to the
fever in a small barracks.
The tint of birds’ eggs, especially
the light colors, are apt to fade, o
exposure iu museums to too greet
This is tho case with the
sunlight. This is tbofle o{ the
stand upon one
Inmbia to aU
North Carolina,
r 8. Bowes.
Oenerai Manager.
L A. Emerson,
'Truffle Manager.
LIMITED
Drains-
DOUBLE DAILY
SERVICE
Vo Atlanta. Charlotte,
New Orleans, Chattanooga
Philadelphia,
Richmond.
Scnedule in effect May
Washington,
Athens, Wllmingtoo,
and New Voik,
Norfolk and
as
1897.
murre By extent the darker
colored eggs 7 of olive brown or choco-
Ute bue SLe been tound to undergo
Sorb., bit upon, method
An inventor nas uiv .
of putting stone soles on boots and
oi.JL He mixes a waterproof glue
shoes,
with a
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give
practically irulestructibj^e,
the loot a warm hold ev^n on the most
slippery surface.
There are fully 12,000 hides tanned
weekly in Newark, N. J. About half
of these become shoe tipping and vamp
leather, the remainder carriage, dash,
furniture and fancy leather. More
horse hides are tanned than in any
other place in this country. Cor
dovan vamps are the product. Chrome
tanned sole for bicycle shoes is made
and the manufacture of kangaroo and
kangaroo kid is an important interest.
All kinds of bag and book leather are
produced.
The great vitality of dragon-flies is
shown by McLachland, who having
struck at a large iEschna at rest on a
twig, the head was seen to tumble
down, while the rest of the insect flew
away in an “undecided manner” for a
considerable distance. Upon picking
up the head he noticed that the insect
had been eating a fly at the time.
“The mandibles continued working as
if nothing had happened, and the
masticated portions of the fly passed
out at the back of the head.”
countries, bnt
him. All at
bim.
Don’t tell'
Better tell me
of yours—Stank]
ing to an overf
burst out, sobbi
I have yonr phJ
was mjr father!’]
“Ma-ma-man
the old man shi
feet and seizing
“Dear little
you were a moi
play with yon.’I
“I know,” el
that you say U
face by the fade
in my albnm.
together with
Mamma left
not remember
the story froi
widow did not hear
she interrupted
about that, pray,
abont that friend
itch,” and, saccamb-
of emotions, she
;ly: “I know you.
igraph, Staukevitch
Is that yon?”
:ed, jumping to his
ier by both hands,
sia! Why, when
of a thing I used to
World’s Largest Orchard.
The largest fruit plantations in tho
world are in Jamaica. They are owned
and operated by an American com
pany, the area of whose fruit farm is
44,000 acres. They own 28,000 acres,
and tho other 16,000 acres are held by
them under lease. Their principal
crops are bananas and cocoannts, and
last year they shipped 3,000,000
bunches ot bananas and 6,000,000
cocoannts, besides other fruits to
America aqd elsewhere, employing
twelve steamers belonging to the com
pany. Near Olden, on the Ozark
mountains, in southern Missouri, there
is one of the largest and finest fruit
fame in the world. It consist o:!
2200 acres of land, owned by a syndi
cate formed of the members of the
Missonri Horticultural Society, anc
on which are planted 61,000 peach
23,000 apple and 2000 pear trees,
with forty acres in small fruits. There
is an orchard at Barbara, in California,
belonging to Elwood Cooper, which
has an area of 1700 acres, and con
tains 10,000 olive trees, 3000 English
walnut trees, 4500 Japanese persim
mon trees, 10,000 almond trees and
abont 4000 other nut and various
fruit trees.—Buffalo Times.
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rejoined, “and now
can recognize yonr
dd portrait I have
were photographec
fy unhappy papa.
~ie picture. I die
name, bnt I heart
>ther when I was
*Dal)r. tDally, except Sunday.
Both ‘rains make immediate connection
at Atlanta for Montgomery, Mobile. New Or
leans, Texas, California, Mexioo, Chattanoo
ga, Nashville, Memphis, Maoon and F'orlda.
For Tickets, Bleepers, etc., apply to B. A.
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ball House, Atlanta, Qa.
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A Remarkable Mena.
After partaking of ginger beer, ap
ples, nuts, chocolate, three bottl* of
ginger ale, end some sherbet and
water at a picnic, and then putting
away his regular tea,at home, a nine-
year-old London boy complained of a
pain in his inside. The Coroner next
day called it gastro-enteritis.
The contrast between the old frigate
Constitution and the big modern ar-
morclads Iowa, Massachusetts. Brook
lyn, New York and Texas, that visited
Boston harbor to honor her hundredth
anniversary, must have been moat Im
pressive. But though even in her best
days she could have been sunk with
a single shot from one of the big guns
they carry, she has a record of glory
which they have yet to earn. What
we may hope and believe Is that, In our
navy of to-day there are worthy suc
cessors of Hull, B&lnbridge, Stewart,
and the sailors that gave to the Con-
stltufm her •Immortal renown. Now
that this famous centenarian has pass
ed the anniversary of her launching,
we trust that she will continue to be
cared for, with the slugle purpose of
preserving her as long as possible to
posterity as a monument of heroic days.
That Paris-announced artificial oys
ter is said to be made of rubber. This
certainly should be taken with a grain
or salt, if not pepper,or vinegar.