Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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F s> ?' I TALES OF PLUCK f I ASH ADYMRi ? A rin?k<r Wa.lloonUt. ^r "V"GfT KITlVJC* of the advontnr\ /\ f ous vtreer of the Imlloou^ ^ 1st. Cleveland Moffett tells in the St. Nicholas ?f a daring deed performed by "Madnine" Carlottn Myers, wife of the noted balloonist "Prof." Carl My era, of Frankfort, N. Y. Some dozen yearn ant Ottawa, she maile an ascension never forgotten by the people of that city. It was a sain occasion In honor of Queen Victoria's Rift of the Crystal Palace *o her loyal subjects, and Canada had nrely seen such a RMtherliiR. Tiventy-five thousand people, as was estimated, were parked inside the Exposition Rfounds to see the famous aeronaut rise to the clouds. And theve at the appointed time stood Carlotta on a raised platform, with the multitude Iwnt 1......LI ' - - . .. ?uv.? >?.inii:v; Mir me nntioou. Flie wore a short skirt over a gymnasium suit ,nn?l made an attractive picture with her line llgure and goldenhronxe linir. Fo thought various city digxitnrics, who chatted with her admiringly while the crowd surged about them. Meantime I*rof. Myers was anxiously watching the mnnoeuvers of some Indians hired by a <"ommlttee to tow the balloon from the gas-works two miles distant, w.iere it had been tilled. This was rather against the professor's Judgment, for tlie Hiilenu Uivcr, flowing hy the grounds. offered an obstacle that could be overcome only by the help of canoes and tow lines; and to paddle a big balloon across a river, a fresh-llllcd, hard-tugging balloon, is not a thing to be undertaken lightly. And in spite of all their skill these Indians found themselves presently lifted into the air, canoes ami all (oh. they were badly frightened Indians!), not quite clear of tin- water, hut h'gli enough to make it doubtful If they would ever reach shore, and highly interesting to the crowd which pressed down to the liver, even into the river, in well-meant efforts to help, and dragged tlie balloon up the bank and along towards the platform with sucli eagerness that they tore great rents In It that let out the gas in volumes. In an instant, ns happens in crowds, the hallonn became the centre of n struggling mass of people, who slowly pressed in from all sides to see what the matter was. Now when twenty-five thousand people are all pressing slowly towards one point, it Is apt to fare ill with those at that point; and then, had not Carlotta acted on n Hash of inspiration, there would surely have been disaster In that merciless crush. She looked over the shouting, swaying multitude, and in a second saw the danger?saw women held helpless and fainting in that jam of bodies; saw one way, and only one way. Stepping off the platform. she rat: lightly and swiftly over heads and shoulders, packed solid, and came to tin* balloon. Sueli was the people's fright that they scarcely felt her pass. "You can't go up," cried her husband, "the bailor n is a wreck." "I must go up," she answered; "ir I don't these people will be crushed to death." "There's a hole in her big enough to drive a team through." he pro icsteu; but airendy she was i:i the basket, ami n cheer arose. "It's better to risk one life than , many," she answered u'ith decision, and turning tu tlie crowd, motioned them to loose the car. In their wonder the wild multitude rorgot their fear, and the struggling quieted. All eyos were now on the balloon; one woman's courage had quelled the l>anic. The danger to the crowd was past, to the woman just beginning. "Walt a moment," shouted Profess* Id or Myers; "you must have more l>al last." But in the din or voices she H misunderstood bim nml cast out n H bag of ballast. And with a great H heave ami a flapping of its i<-rn sides. Hi the balloon wrenched itself free and ER shot upward, a cripple soaring with its last strength. Up and up it went, higher and higher as the small store of gas expanded. That tattered i>aiD loon, with its seams gaping open, ^H raised Itself somehow two miles over HE the city of Ottawa, and tuqt almost ^H Immediately began t<> fail. The gas stayed in just long c lougu to life the broken bag. nml then left it to <lasli ^H downward. Professor Myers, heart* H elck on the ground, turned his eyes HH sway, sure that lie had seen his wife for time Hut Cnrlotta was of no such mind H Fhe imd saved the crowd, now she | EHB would save herself; nml even as the | H bill loon dropped with fiightful speed. HHjgg she put her plan In action. Swinging H herself up on the uetiing, she caught jfigH the Happing* k. k above a long tear, H H and drew it down with all her weight KHK until It reached t 10 ear. Instantly H the air rushed in underneath, and bellied out the fabric Into > ?? ?... ?... .. n>rui umbrella. n parachute Improvised from a ripped balloon. Now l hoy were Blowing up; they had put the brakes 011. and now they were soaring easily, drifting with the wind. Carlotta drew a long breath of l-lief and looked down. Tliey were ?l111 a mile above ground. She had the runaway in hand, but where should she land nlm? Most aeronauts would have been thankful enough to get down nilvc anywhere; she proposed to do a feat of steering as well. No doubt there was Koine gas iu the upper part of the 1*1 to help her. hut In the inaln she was guiding a parachute; and she gnided It ao skillfully l>y tipping the <?tboard forward or back, to left or | y , rl<nt. that slie landed finally In a clump of oversee en trees, some fifteen ml lew from Ottawa, that she had selected ns the very place she proposed to land. And great worn the rejoicing* when It was known that she had come to no harm. Climbing the II Imulnyn*. Tn .Tune. ISfil). the authors of "T..e Himalayas," Mr. and Mrs. Workman, returned to Srlnngnr from Java, where they had been on a cycling tour, and lost uo time In getting together their outfit and engaging coolies for an expedition to the northern regions of Bnltistan. The route followed was over the Dcosnl Plains to Sknrdu, from thence to s'nlgar, and by tlie Askcr Nullah to Askole, and it speaks well for Airs. Workman's strength of nerve that she wan able to cross the rope bridge over the Drilldu Diver, near Askole, which is stated to bo 270 feet long. In this expedition they were accompanied by the wellknown Alpine guide Mattins Zurbriggcn. who iind travelled with Sir Martin Conway when lie visited and surveyed part of ibis region In 1S02. and i nerorore lmd considerable experience, mid from wliat the authors state regarding liiui lie fully uphold Ills, reputation us a thoroughly reliable guide. From Askole the party traversed the Binfo Glacier as far as the Hispar Pass and the Skoro I.a. In the latter region Mrs. and I>r. Workman, under the guidance of Zurlirlggen, made the ascents of peaks respectively lS.OOO feet and 11),4."?0 feet above sea level. On the arrival of Mrs. and Or. Workman at Shigar they determined to attempt the ascent of Koser Gunge. With that object in view they traveled to Yuno. and estaldlshed a camp at tlie elevation of 15,000 feet, from which position the attack on the mountain was commenced, but it was j not until several days afterward that ' the llual attempt was made. The usual diflieultles with the coolies were experienced, and on this occasion the party was only accompanied by two of them, lty noon they had reached an elevation of 20,000 feet; the cold was intense, with a strong wind blow ing, and Mrs. Workman was obliged to get Zurlirlggen to rub her hands and pound her feet, to restore circulation. At this juncture one of the coolies gave in and had to lie unroped and sent hack, after which they struggled on, gaining foot by foot, until at last the summit was reached, at an ( leva Hon of 21.000 feet. The party had been out from camp thirteen hours, and the climbing had been most difficult, certainly a most wonderful performance for n lady, and one of whleli Mrs. Workman may justiy feel proud. In this expedition she had made ascents of 18,000 feet. 10.400 feet and 21.000 feet, lids hciug a world mountaineer record for women.?Loudon Field. Kcltzor l'ut Out Ilcr llutr. A cigar lighter, a seltzer bottle, a girl with a head of bloude hair, and a drug clerk, made matters lively in an Kvnnston drug store the other day. Miss June Whitfield, a "coed" In the Northwestern University, went into Wlcke's tlrug store on Davis street and leaned against the cigar case. Ilcliiud her was a gas-flame cigar lighter. Miss Whitfield wears a long coiffure and this came in contact with the llanie, William Hamilton, the drug clerk, says that he does not remember just what happened during the next sixty seconds, tint a young man who was in the store at the time says that Hamilton is a hero. When Miss Whitfield discovered that ..,ri ii.i11 on un* sue gave a scream, lore lier hat from her head and started to run for the door. Hamilton run from behind the counter, seized her and tried to put out the blaze with his hands, but that was more painful than effective. Soon most of the luxuriant locks were ruined and the clerk saw that something must be done to save the girl from being severely burned, lie jumped upon the counter in front of the soda fountain and reached for a seltzer hotile. Illuming to the girl, he pressed the lever and t urned the stream Into the flames. The young I woman screamed and ran, but Hamilton followed her and played the stream into the locks. The blaze was soon extinguished. but the cleric kept the nozzle of the bottle directed at the young woman's head. She continued screaming and dodging. First the stream would strike her in the eyes and then in the car. When the bottle was drained Hamilton caught his breath and asked Miss WhiUield if she was badly burned. The blonde locks, which have excited the envy of all the young women in the Northwestern, were ruined, but beyond this the young woman was not hurt. She lamented the loss of her hair, however, and left the store cryI lll!? ? ta.i...? ...... luicr-ucean. A rteRulur Little Hero. The Scotsman gives the following account of nn lcc accident and n gnllnnt rescue that t?>ok place recently at Wcllshot Quarry, Cainbuslnng. In the afternoon a group of lnils were sliding on the ice when suddenly it gave way, ami live lads were left struggling in the water. Their erles drew the attention of a hoy named Thomas Martin, lie plucklly throw | off ids hoots and succeeded in dragging i lad after lad to the hank. One youth still remained in the middle of the pool, a lad named William Chalmers. Martin managed to secure several mufflers and cravats, which, tied together, reached the drowning youth. | Hut lie was unable to make use of them. Martin, now much exhausted, again enten d the water, and with much difficulty brought the last hoy ashore, Both were much exhausted, and Martin had to l>c carried home. The brave lad Is only eleven years of age. and not too robust In health. The i quarry at the spot mentioned Is said is be fully twenty feet deep. , *r- jr - > ;i T1IE MERRY SIDE OF LIFE STORIES THAT ARE TCLO PY THE FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. Itetraapnctlon?Xrw* That Trnvt-I* SlowIr?Thxjr Went llalvm?Spunse Calif? Th? Story Teller*? Korua of Habit ? A Doubtful Compliment, Ktr., Mir. Dark in the ilim perspective of the past \Ve see our either, hopeful youth again; It certainly is not what wo are now. And. somehow, not what we thought we were then. ?Puck. M?a? That Travels Slowly. **I see that the egg famine is at aa end." "It will take Vni a month lo find that out at otir hoarding house."?Cleveland Plaiudealer. They Wrnt Halve*. "I got an apple." said the generous Utile ho.v; "d'yrr want some of It?" r<-i)iiiM! nun' r.mcrson IIuhl>. "I shall he delighted ic? go you ?or? hemispheres." ? Philadelphia Press. S]i"liK? C*I(f. Mistress?"Do you roll this sponge cuke? Why it's as hard as can lie'." New Cook?"Yes. muni; Hint's tho way a sponge is before it s wet. Soak it in your tea, mum." ? New York Weekly. The Story Tellers. "Doesn't it jar you when a woman tries to tel*. a funny story?" "Not so much as when some try. A woman never attempts to use the Irish dialect when she doesn't know."? Phil* , ndelpliia I'rcss. Force of llnhit. Mr. Ilaist?"1 want a couple of eggs, boiled three and a half minutes, and hurry up about It. for I've got to catch " Waiter?"All right, sir. They'll bo ready iu a minute." ? Philadelphia Press. A Doubtful t omvllnK-nt. Tom?"Ida told me she had put tny lock of hair in a conspicuous place." Jack?"Did you find it so?" Tom?"Yes. she dropped It In the cage and the canary made a uost of it." ?Chicago News. Not Serines. c'Jrst Doy?"I've got <o take a liekirf wlun I get home t.? nisrht " Second Boy?"Fatlies* or motliei?" First Hoy?".Mother." Second Boy?"Oh. well, that won't Amount to much!"?Seme:ville .lour* nal. T'o- I'nnnl V ?v. "Mamma, can I have that piece of inince pie that was left from dinner?" "No, dear, it's cold." "No, it isn't, mamma: I warmed it." ! "Warmed it? When?" "After 1 ate it, mamma."?-Cleveland riaindealer. Not Complt tnt. Mrs. Darling?"you told me he:" ire we were married that you had an income of a year. What has become of it V" Mr. Darling "Can't toll you niui! I got an Itemized bill from your dressmaker."? Denver New-. A Fatal I'vnn. Mabel?"Why so despondent, Athena Athena?"Algernon told me to night that his love for me is dead." Mabel?"Oh, that's nothing new. Ho has killed everything he has gone into for a dozen years."?Denver News. Cliftngeil Ills 511ml. Friend?"Hut 1 thought you were going to commit suicide in case she rejected you?" I ii?-ji-cu-u fiuiior?"HO I was, but nf? tor 1 made tlit* throat to her anil loft. I came bank and pecked in the* window ami saw her reading a novel."?Ohio State Journal. A Patliollc tIrrrikTrinrnt. Miss Singer ? "I saw in the paper that there is to be an entertainm *nt for a 'Musienl Orphanage!' Pray, what may a musienl orphanage be?" Mr. Kendall?"I can't say positively, you know, But 1 imagine it must he a child deprived of its native air."?Warper's I)a/.nr. lllanir I v??. "They say there is danger," snhi Die poet, "that contagious diseases may he > spread by the circulation of library books." "Oh, well, I wouldn't worry about it," his friend replied. "You will never be to blame for diseases that happen to get spread that way." ? Chicago Times Herald. Ilenrt to llcurt Talk*. I did not decry her judgment, or be* route angry with Bridget when sin- informed me that she thought the uc\T milk man was perfectly heavenly. Simply laid her that it was but natural that he should remind one of tin* milky way, at which we both laughed heartily. . Anil was not litis far better, girls, than if 1 had become angry, thus darkening the day for both of us:?lluliaunpolis Sun. Milo 1.1 clifm on Ifialorr. From beuenth the pile o? shields the Sanities had thrown upon Tarpein as they pasta d through tue sate of the ltoman citadel was heard a faiut bound. One of the soldiers bent down and listened. it was the voice of the treacherous maiden. "Vou think you have killed me," sho said, in hoarse, inutlicd accents. ' Villains and murderers, i shail live in tne i.atin school histories ages after your iiHines have been forgotten." '1 Lieu all was still.?Chicago Tribunes v.'.v aHWBwiUHlfl? SANITARY BARBERINC. The Most Up-to-IIate Notlonn of StrrllU zutloii Are Practiced. There lias been recently opened in Baltimore a new barber shop, in which the most recent practices of Pasteurization anil sterilization are practiced. According to the Baltimore .dinerlean, there are sixteen "aseptic" chairs, which are "the result of yea/a of study by prominent medical uien." The seats are raised aiul perforated, and parts which come into contact with the hands are covered with glass. Thus a subject which lias engaged the attention of many Boards of Health Is treated in a satisfactory scieutitle way. and complete security from contagious disease is attained by means of this elaborate code for a sterilized shave: "Chair Is put in position and gown properly adjusted. "Kazor is strapped and then sterilized before using. Cup. shaving brush, hair-hrush and combs are sterilized each time nfvr being used. 'llamls are washed with enstile soap: all soap is removed by rinsing with plain water: then the hands are immersed in an antiseptic tiuid and wiped on a sterilized towel. "Sterilized towels are taken from sterilized hag. and towel adjusted around customer's neck. "Sterilized cup and brush are used In making the lather, and then the barber proceeds to shave. "The face is washed with a sterilized towel, taken from sterilized bag. "Powder is applied on the face by dipping end < i sterilized towel in powder box and then rubbed on the face and removed with end of sterilized towel. The towel is not to be rcdipped in powder after being once used. "Proceed to dress hair with sterilized bair-brusli and comb. "The barber's sleeves must be tightwrist." WISE WORDS. Half the difficulty of fighting any severe battle or accomplishing any \ hard task vanishes when a man feels j that he has comrades at his side lighting in the same cause, or that the eyes of those he loves are upon him, and their hearts praying for his victory. Whether any particular day shall bring to you more of happiness or of suffering is largely beyond your pow- | 4?r til ilotnvmitio W'lmtlwkw -- of your lift' sli:tll give happiness or suffering rests with yourself. The truest help we can render an atllictcd man is not to take his burden frotu him, hut to call our his best strength. that be may be able to bear the burden. Do not despise any opportunity bemuse it seems small. The way to make an opportunity grow is to take I hohl of it and use it. Patience among the virtues is like the pearl among the gems, and by its quiet railluuce it heightens every hu- j man grace. The art, which is grand and yet simple. Is that which presupposes the greatest elevation both in artist and : in public. Not that which men do worthily, but that which they do successfully Is what history makes haste to record. ' It is strange how often some people prove themselves foolish; and yet I have no knowledge of it. The first thing the shoemaker uses hi bis business is bis last. CIltKiOr SliiKO Sicualx. There are a number of ways of giving the signal which warns the leader of the theatre orchestra that the curtain is about to rise. The most common in American theatres is the illumination by electricity of a common incandescent bulb placed in front of the conductor. Many players, however, follow tho Knglish custom of having the ring of a lx ll as a signal. This has the advantage of giving notice alike to the players behind tho curtain and the orchestra and the audience in front. Sir Ilenry Irving uses a doulde sot of signals, the lirst bell ringing a minnte before the curtain is to rise and the second as it begins to mount. Mr. Mansfield generally uses the same sys- | toin, though the fact that "Ilenry W is a series of pictures, with the curtain falling frequently lias induced liiin to discard it this year. The French players employ the system. hut not the bells. A stout club rapped loudly on the stage lioor does duty instead. Two raps constitute one minute signal and three as the final notice. The reason fm the cumbersome method is that of precedent, for tho 1*1111 is that of tho Theatre ITn ilea is.?Chicago Tribune. S|ic<-intlmii In I'ltrtiiiiii;. Diversified farming should he specialized, writes Professor \V. II. Wiley in the Washington Star. There is scarcely a farm in the United States which is complete without at least 11 low fruit trees. but to prow poaches or apples for the market in localities net suited thereto will only lend to nankruptcy. Where fruits are to he produced for commercial purposes localities must he selected host suited to their production. Tims the peach orchards, apple orchards and pear orchards of the country will gradually he collected into areas wiser.' soil and climate arc most propitious. The same remark may he applied to the production of cereals of till kinds and to small fruits and vegetables. Some "When customers ask for children's shoes they usually want kill shoes. Advertising kit s are best made wiih fly paper. Sad Irons are not necessarily pathetic. Some people can Jump a l>oar?l bill easier than they can a billboard. When a man begins to manufacture scidlltz powder that settles liiru. & tW&iL. -i- A ' x"^ :'I. ARP ASA REVIEWER "A Glance at Current History" Proves Interesting. EE READS IT TO HIS FAMILY. Colonel John Cusson's Book is Free From Revenge or Malice, Says the Bartow Sage. It is only a little book?a very little book?that the author has sen: to nie, but a perusal of its pages has impressed me profoundly aiul has proved a real comfort in my old age. I have read most of it aloud to my wife and daugbtcis and it has comforted tlieiu and established them more tirmly Id the faith, if that were possible. This book la Iinlv CvU .. .. .1 I VAO I JliUllliS lO' pages in large prfnt?very large?so that the veterans might read it without glasses or a strain of the optic nerve. Its modest ti:le is "A Glance at Current History," by Colonel Johu Cussons. of Glen Allen, Va. It Is the work of a retired confederate veteran, who Is known and loved by all \ lrgirdans and who was grand commander of the grand camp of Virginia confederate veterans and the lntlma'.e friend of General Maury, Dr. Hunter Magnire, Fitzhugh Dre and Joseph K. Johnston. This hook was written with no selfish motive, neiher fo. profit or fame, nor with any desire of crimination. but rather to heal the breach and at the same time preserve the truth of hi tory and hand It down to our children. The.ro is not a line of malice or revenge within i.s pages, but a hightoned. dignified, conservative appeal to his comrades to uphold t.he govcrmcut that is now a nation and at the same time defend the south from any taint upon her honor. It Is beautifully written in thoughts that breathe and words that burn and no man, north or south, can question a stit inent contained within it, I wish that I was a millionaire. I would place i copy of this book in the home of every family In the south and in tho hands of every young man, and 1 would make it a little text-book cf , history in every public school. There j are only six chapters, each not mo e than ten minuter long, but there is not a wasted sentence nor a paragraph too much. The la t chapter Is a defense of the American Indian, for the author was long a frontiersman and lived among them and mlng'ax! with them for many years, and as General Maury said of him, "Tie has more thoroughly studied the Indian character than any ..**.11 uun uving. " i ns nrst chapt-rla devoted to a review of a Cnltel) Starts history recently written and published by Professor Goldw n Smith, an English-man, who was for years a profess?r of history In Corne l university and is now a doctor of canon law in Toronto, Canada. This history is published both in L?ondon -and ' Now York, and is amazingly popu'arj both In England and the north. It is Intensely venomous against the south, and especially against Virginia. Now listen lor a fow moments at some of his historical Mtterances taken verbatim from his book. Listen and wonder that such a book could find patrons an.v where: ' South Carolina got her start by combining buccaneering with slave owning and making her ports a shelter for pirates, and eor.-alrs, such as Captain Kidd and Blackboard. "Georgia was the refuge of the paupor and bankrupt. Her fl st set-' tiers were good for nothings who had railed In trade? shiftless and lazy s"?t ?but later on some better elements came in?Highlanders. Moravians and persecuted Protectants of Salzhprg. "The flr3t settlers of Virginia we-8 an unpromising lot?lackeys, beggars, broken down gentlemen and tapsters out of a job. To this crew of vagabonds were afterwards added ja!'birds. Eng.ll 'h convicts were offerol their choice between the gaHnws and Virginia, and some were wise enough to choose the gallows. Even their I place of settlement?Jamestown?has , long been a desolation. They were not such colonists as the Purltan3. They made the Indians work for them, while the Puritans worke I f r themselves. Many of thrun were k.M- . napad from the streo'3 of I> melon ar.?l all were of depraved character. After- | wards came African slavery ,the b in? ' of Virginia and her ultimate ruin As were the people so were the r bade: a. A chief fornontor of the quarrel with England was Patrick Hen"". *> "i n J who had tried many ways of earning a living and had failed In all. A bank- I rupt at twenty-thicc, he lounged In, Idlemeis <tiil he found he could live by his tongue. Jaur.es Madison was a well meaning man, but morally weak. Henry Clay was a dazzling, but artful politician. John Randolph had natural ability, but lacked good se tsa and ; bad no power of self con rol. f.e; would enter the senate with his liun'lng whip In his hmd and behave u:r if j he were in his dog kennel. ' He glv. s ! faint praise to Washington, and much I more to Benedict Arnold, who, he says, "was one of the test of Amentum yen era Is and the most daring of thetn all. He was slighted and wronged by politicians and had despaired v-f the cause," Ben F.anklin and ,-amu 1 Adams were lacking in the ordinary traits of gentlemen and as for Pa'r'.c't Henry, nothing better was to be expected, for the character of an English gentleman is not to bo formed in Jie backwoods." Concerning the civil war he says: '"Hie slaveholders escaped milita y service and thrust the poor peop'.e under fire. Guards tmpres ed men In the stroets and conscrtp.s were rent to Lee's army In chains. At the taking of Fort Pillow the negroes we-e nailed to logs and burned alive. The southern lady was but she hoaj of a harem. ?ha was soft, elegant sad charming, but the civil war disclosed an element in her character of a differ* nt kind.'' , This is enough of the scandaous and slanderous book and it is only popular at the north because of its viliflcation of the south. Ho flatters New England and the Puritans and gives praise to Benedict Arnold, who was born in Connecticut and more to old John Brown than to General Lee. These are the kind of books that northern children read and study and believe. How can that section ever be reconciled? And yet there are people at the south who condemn us for defending the honor of our ancestors and of it ns "ex-confedarato rot." lord Macauley said: "A people who take no piide in the achievements of their ancestors will achieve nothing for their own children to be proud of." Some of our most gifted men are still toadying to please northern appetites. "licking the hand that strikes the blow." Cf all such a patiiotlc northern writer kivs hnwnro #-?f e>? "chronic reconciler," the man who Improves every opportunity to haul out his faded oiTTe branch and waive It in the eyes of the people. When any man, north or south, talks in a mellow way cf his love for his old enemy, watch him. He is getting ready to ask for something. Watch him. There is something pathetic in the pictured the north and south clasped in each others arms and shedding a torrent of hot tears down each others backs, but the aged mothers on either side ha/e not yet learned to lovo .ho foe with much vloltvice. Nor decs the crippled veteran love the adversary who robbed him of his glorious youth and left him a feeble ruin, nor have the patriot soldiers on either side deserted the cauio for which they fought. But think of Virginia?tho glorious Old Dominion?the mother of states and statesmen. Her domain extended from Carolina to Canada and from tho Atlantic to the Pacific oceans. Horn upon her generous bosom was Washington. Jefferson. Madison, Monroe, Lighthorse, Harry. Robert E. 1 e.\ Joe E. Johnston and Stonewall Jackson. Who would not be proud U> be a Virginian? Who can wonder at the patrio.ic pride of those two venerab sisters. Miss Judith and Mlsi Anna Thomas, of Southampton county, now passed their eightieth year, the only sisters of Cieneral Geor~,e H Thomas, and who, ev*r since 1 CI, when he accepted office under Lincoln, have uniformly declared that they once had a brave and noble brother of Hint name and that he won renown in the war with Mexico when he was a major in Colonel Robert E. I regiment- but that he died in 1-61 and now they have no brother. Ever since Virginia seceded they have pathetically declared their ilear hrnthof ill .<1 i.. ?.?? spring of is;i. Kvery Virginia ofll er of the old army, save George 1L Thomas. promptly re l^ned an l vnlunteered to defend their state. Thcss lonely old maidens seem realty to bolieve that their bro'.her did die. The county of Southampton had presented to Major Thomas on his return from Mexico a beautiful sword and after our civil war he wrote to his sisters nnd requested that the sword 1 e sent to him. They replied that they could not pait with It, for it was the only memento of a vory daar brother who died In IfCt. They still live alone and in poverty In the same old mansion in which they were bron, hut n 'ither friend nor neighbor ever presumes to mention General Thc.mas in their presence. These vonerahle and venerated Indies are but a type of the o ct Virginia aristocracy. Well, may they l>e proud of their state and their ancestry.? Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution. P. S.? I do not know Colonel Cuss.ms nor the price of his littJe 1k> >k. nor have I any interest in advertising it. but I do wish that every veteran and every veteran's son had it- His address I3 Glen Allen, Va, and he is the publisher. I suppose Lhat Si wilt buy it postpaid. II. A. LABOR WORLD.' The number of women engaged la the factories of Flulaud is li),o'J5. The hosiery mill strike at Ipswich",1 Mass.. has been settled. . Carpenters, plasterers and stonemasons at Shenandoah, IVnn., struck for blioi ler hours and u wago rate. I AH the miners employed In the gold mines at Waverly, N. 8., have siruck. The tniiics are owned Ly Mrs. Ilcrsch, of New York City. , Three hundred bollermnkcrs in Buffalo, N. Y., went on strike for ruoro wages. i ' In 1801 the number of bituminous coal mint's in operation in Pennsylvania was 7u5, while on January 1, 1001, the number had increased to l> nn increase of LikS, or more than twenty-live per ceuL The two-year coal strike In Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory will bs continued indcliuiiely. I Because their employers would not sign a new wage scale, painters and decorators at Beading, 1'euu., went on a strike. * 1 Anthracite conl mine workers hellevo that a conditions! proposition liy the operators to recognize their tmiou on January 1, 1U0-, will he presented to them. j ICight hundred elgnrmnfcprs, rcpro. sentinj? every factory iu Montreal, l>ue? struck for uniformity of price in the various factories for the sauio kind of work. Berlin papers confirm the report that r.ooo of the workmen of llerr Krupp have been dismissed, including iiuoO who were employed in the cuuuon works. I The mine strike iu the fifth Ohio district has been ended. Granite workers threaten a strike along Cap? Ann in Massachusetts. Striking engineers at Cleveland. Ohio, may make a ucw proposition to the lake carriers. The income tax of India Is levied f 11 Incomes of ?U3 and upwavA.