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?- ' V : > * " .. .iva, ? ' I THE 0AMDEN VOUMFIX. J^OAMDKN, S. v., FRIDAY The midnight is passed, Aiul tho Christmas} is hero; 0 solmun bulls, ring Through the night hushed and olear; Ab angollo hosts brought tiie tidings of old, ^et now tho glad news by thy deep tongues botold O Joy to the word, Forget sorrow and fearl The midnight is passed, And the Christmas hero. JACK'S CHRISTMAS ? FAIRIES. lly l'Mith .Sessions l'tip|ier> ,0 ? <5? P to bis cars iu mis '!{ B chief all the time was Jack, yet Jio wi)8 tno uoarest, "round eat, r o s i o h t. littlo lad imaging able. IIo "was 4 picture of happy boyhood th'at after noon, three days boforo Christmas, when, in his Btnart o o a t, trimraod in thomoat delightful | military fashion with bauds of Persian lamb ami black frogs, ami fhis jaunty oap set on bis fair hair, and bis fat bauds protected by fur-trimmed glovos, ho wont into tlio park with his sled for a romp. Ho ran and shouted and prauoed until his oyea glowed liko btmxj and his cheeks shone like apples, and everybody who saw him Baid: "What a houdsomo boyl" .Tack, of course, was looking forward to Christmas, jiist as every boy and girl who reads this is looking forward to that day of all days. He expected to have all sorts of fine things in his stocking, and with very good reason, for Santa Clans had never neglected hiiu. Jack's father was rich. Grand mamma, who was richer, was coming to spend tlio hqlidajs, and Santa Clans biid been teJophoned on tho subject of skates, drums, games, swords, guns and sweetmeats, atid there was every prospect that when he called at Jack's homo his sleigh would bo very full in deed, y Jack \vas like all boys who have no brother^ or sisters, atrille selfisb/^But ho was manly, kind-hearted little chftp for all that, and so, when he was through with his play and was drag ging his sled homeward aud came upon a flceneon a stveet-cornor which roused his sympathy ha^mused to find out what it mojy^kr'^^ A crowd of rough boys were tor menting a poorly-clad litttd girl, whoso wan, hagerard face spoke too plainly of misery and poverty. She was frightened and almost Crying aa Jack came up. "Here, now^t*' %said Jack, with sturdy determination, "you stop that 1 or I'll call a p'liceman." Fortunately at that moment a blue-coated officer came in sight, and tho hoodlums fled with one wild de parting yoll. "Thank you," said the litU? girl, timidly, '*111030 boys alius are piokin' w me." '"What is your naiiA?" said Jaok. "Susie GrAne." "Well, Susie," said Jaok, with an air of business, ''you look cold and sick." "Ian't very strong" "And hungry," continued Jaok* Susie burst into tears. That was entough for Jaok.. "Gel right on misled," said he, de terminedly, "and I'll take yon down to my house and you'll have some thing to eat." Huvio obeyed, and tho officer saw with grim pleasure the young heir to HOW SANTA CLAUS GOES AROUND THE VoRLD IN I TWENTY-FOUR HOURS. His mother looked at him a moment, then anked, quietly: "Jack, would you rather lmve this little girl made coin fortabjo or have a big Christmas your self?" I Jaok hesitated. Ho thought of ?dl those presents ho was expecting; then he thought Of Busio thin dross and bunting shoes".v ??}Tou can take tho raonoy you wero going to spend on my Christmas nnd 11 x ihor up," ho bravely snid. Then his grandmamma, a stately old lady, in black satin and white laco en]), oalled him to her and kissed him, with toar.s in her eyes. Jack sat bolt nj>right in bod and rubbed his eyes very hard. No, he was not wl&ep. There was the open ftro, there hit* clothes on tho ohair, thoro the door into his mother's room. It was Christmas Evo. Jaok had not hung up his stocking, for ho did not oxpeot any presents. Susie hail been warmly clothed and\ ]xor wretched home had boon brightened by tho visit of Jack and his mother, Tho boy was satisfied. Ho had mado his choice and expected to abido by it. But, marvellous to relate/ as lie looked towards tho l'iro, ho saw a crowd of tiny people hurrying and fussing about on tho fur rug bo fore the fire. Throe or four had a miniature ladder which they wero putting up against the sido of tho fire pi no#. Several others had hold of one of Jack's long stockings. When tho ladder was in place, a little tnnu, with elfish eyes and spider-liko logs, climbed tho ladder, draggiug Jack's stocking after him, and hung it on a HE STOPPED TO COMFORT HKH. book And then, coming down, put. "his hands on his hips and surveyed his work with great satisfaction. "That's what I call a goo<l job," be said. ' "Now hurry uj^ you folk, aud get your presents in tnoro before St. Nicholas gets along." Then faity after fairy climbed the ladder and put in his presents. There was a fat brownie, who bronght a basket of nuts from tho woods. "I have worked all day," ho ?aid, "looking under hedges aud dead leaves to gather these nuts for tho boy who was kiqd to Susio. " A quaint littlff' fairy in a curious foreign gown aud cap approached, "I have come clear from tho borders of the Black Forest in Germany," she ?aid, "to bring this music-box for tho boy who was not aohamed to look after a poor little girl." Thar* was quite a stir as a remark abla fainr approached. Ho was cop per-tinted and had a feather stuck in hia black hair, and ha bora on his ?boulder a beautiful bow and arrow. hmds of the setting *an Ihave eome?" said he. "I am a Puck wndje, an Indian fairy, bnt I-wanted to baring an offering to the young pale-, faoe who haa a food heart," A ma>tj littfllll ffiSnefiaBia; the I Mm, haaliafnfTa ***Wal toy with a dmas -Trtr-TTjT ?\So they'vo boon hero ajxeod of mo!" ho obaorvod. "That's u great idea! I never was loft hoforo. Well, no matter 1 Thoro uro a few things thoy'vo forgotten. Hero aro tho skates, tho games, tho box of eara mols, tho hooks," ami as lio talked ho piled tho paokaja(#j up ou a t(V??lo near th co shut-, thorn for an ins-taut, and "wbtiiv ho opened thorn aghiu it was Christ mas morning. Ho sprang from his bod and rushed to tho fireplace. Yos, thoro hung his slocking full and running over, and ho JACK RUBBED HIM EYE 9. tho table near by was loaded with gifts. Aud, if you wore to argue forever,, you coutil no vcr mnko Jack believe thnt tliero is no Santa Clans of- such things as fairies. > "I know bettor," he says, with a " decided shako of hia curly head. "I know hotter, for I've seen them. " ChrUtmn* Fnn. r ZS . Those mothers who wish their chil dren's Christmas fuu to be fun pure and simple, eschewing fashionable dances end other Unsuitable diver sions, will find the following sugges tions .useful : A'' tissue-paper candy bag, hung from the chandelier, to bo struck with a light rod or switch by each child, blindfolded, in turn, till tholuoky one breaks tho bag and the candies may bo scrambled for, is sure to cause jollity and laughter. This- Is an old game, but a never-failing one. Forty years ago it was described and pict ured in juvenile books, yet, once good, always good, is a true proverb. .Another mirth-provoking device is a sawdust pie. Covor an ordinary washtub with bright paper, having a frill around tho edge. Put in a layer of sawdust, then sorno trifling gifts,- . another layer of sawdust, and so on. Smooth the top into a shallow cone shape, to resemblo a pio, lay 6vor it a brown paper cover, with darker spots horo anil there, to imitate tho scorch ing of tbo crust, and fasten some lit tle ornament at the apex, which will lift tho cover off as by o handlo. Have sheet spread undorneath, provide tlio children with wooden spoons, and let them dig for "plums." Of course tho amusements indicated uro for the youngest mombers of the ilock. Older children may enjoy get ting up a Brownie party, a Ja'paneaei party, etc., in appropriate costumes. Or thoy will greatly enter into the spirit of miVkibg a number of poorer1 children hapfc^ by paoking a largo basket or hamper with attractive little parcels, which *^lioy have prepared themselves, t fytfti passing them to tlicf shabby little guests. The finest spir its are those who do not lose sight of tho fact that Christmas is a time for making others happy, not a season for getting all one can and keeping all one gets. _ _ ChflttiUMi Mrs. Buffer-^-" That's a niee shoe bag of yours. X bad a present of one like**--?" Mr?r Moffer ? "Shoe-bag? That's a photograph eut. Mrs. Oreely, who; gave it to me, told me so." Mrs. - Buffer ? "Humuit And I thanked Mrs. ureeiy so* i~iboe*lMgl " Tho approuolilug session of the gon- J aral assembly will very likely l?o no j harmoniously uiitt, for there mo fow i discordant issues at stake, ami the:>o are expected to ho hot 1 1 oil without much wrftiigling. However there will he n great debate on the liquor traffic, J fthil, as there ore no many element* at wuik, it will bu difficult to furotol: the 1 outcome. 1 'roll ibitiou, hiyli liccilfcc, : dianousaiy, nnti-di*ponsury ami heal option, will each have support. '1 ho tight will probably narrow down t,? dispensary ami nnti Aisponsary. I'ol iticiuns are cashing anxious glaucos to ward the sottlekhont of this vexed ques tion, and whijo tho dispensary advo oatos seem to ho extremely confident, ( still the opponents are hopoful Hut, wliatovor the outoomo, one thin*; is certaiu ? tho dispensary law, if con- j tinned iu force will be changed. I hose ? changes may ho radical, or they may j bo morely a? to detail, (lov. l.'lleibe I will iu his message to the general a.t fiembly have something to say in 10 j gard to tho dispensary law. In fact) thin will be one of the most important features of thomessugc, but ho declines | to commit himself before that tune, j Ho saya that his policy i" already map j pod out, lmt that no man other than himself knows tho tenor of his mos sa^o. Ho did say, however, that he was not at all pleased with the present system. The State board conducts an annual business 0/ hundreds of thous ands of dollars, and yet 1.1 rospousiblo to nobody, u!i the members are not roquired to give bend, although in a measure tho board is morally and polit ically responsible (o tho general as sembly. Ah an iustaueo of tho privi leges accorcfod tho board ho oitod Ihu purchaso of tho buihliug now used by the State dispeusnry. While this might provd the butt investment. e\ee made by tho dispensary, still it was ail example of the unlimited power of the hoard; aud to obtain permanoncy such a stato of conducting huMuoss ought to bo romodiod. Along tho same line another thing was distasteful to him i na chief executive of tho State. On certain occasions his admiuiKtrutionJ has beoil hold responsible for, enforcing , the actions <>f tho board, when really } the administration was not in sympa- j thy with those notions, nnd had 110 i power to obviate them. lie thinJks , that the governor of the State ought to ? have Homo voice or voio power in such inat torn, as all blunders are charged to 1 tho administration. ? Coluntbia State, j ('uauL kston. ? Tho report of the , nutnbor of auosta made bv the police department during the mouths of Sop- | tembor, October aud November lias j been submitted to tho M aj'or. '1 holo j are mauv interesting facts connected j with it. Tho recprd (loos not include j , tire 1 ist of convictions, but it. allows how many prisoners hail to go in. I)ur tng September 204 prisoners wore car ried to tho Station House iu tho patrol wagon; 4 "I others were carried in 113' nolicomen, quaking a total of H21 cases. Tho wagons rosponded to 180 alarms, covoring 5172 miles on the trips. Tho wagons woro sent to tho jail with pris oners 80 tiuios, to trial just ices 12 times and to tho hospital 17 times. Other trips made brought tho total to -177, with a distauce travelled of 1,080 inilos. Tho record for October wqs not equal to that of September. The police made 215 arrests. Tho wagons made 444 trips and covered a distance of ?i>2 miles. Six. trips woro mado by the sergeants to firos, against 2 for Soptomber. Ju No ? vember thoro was a smaller record than in October, 188 arrests being mado. Tho wagons mado 417 trips and trav elled H02 inilos. Two trips wero mado with polico squads to fires. The calls Bent iu by tho police wero: Soptombor, 4,000; October, A;422; November, 4, 7tf7. Chaim,kkton.? - J ,ast May a Hock of wild ducks was grbsorvod flying ovor Colonial Lake, and just the other day a gentleman who makes a study of birds was astonished to see just iu the middle of the lake a dark object bob bing About, which, on investigation, proved to bo a black throated diver. Most people mistook this bird for a loon, which it somewhat reaoinblos, and thia is more likely to be the case, as tho bluck-thioated iliver is a rare visitor iu those latitudes, being an in habitant of circuuipoi&r regions. The bird sits almost within a stono's throw of. Jioaufain street, apparently quit? comfortable aud uttorly undisturbed by tho trolloj' or other signs of urban life. It is a singular thing that bo wild a bird of a variety that seldom journeys so far Houth should havecho sou so unsafe a resting place. Proba bly its presonco betokens a wiutor of unusual severity. Columbia. ? 'i her outlook is that tho. Stale will have to borrow money to moot the interest on tho public dobt, which fa) 1 n <1 no January 1. Treasurer Tim merman stated that taxes were coming in ho slowly that ho did not see how it could bo otherwiso than that the Stato would have to borrow. Usually at this season of the year taxos have been paid to Hiioh au extent that enough was in the treasury to meat the interest obli gations of tho State, but not one- tenth of the amount is in eight. The Treas urer states that corporations usually wait until tlio last moment to pay their taxes and that if he had*in eight what they m#st eventually pay ho might . possibly pull through without borrow ing. Ch a M/ESTo?f> ?Tho annual moating of I the Association of Graduate* of thoi South Carolina Military Academy was held at tho Citadel Thursday afternoon. There was a good attendance. OfBcora . were eteoted and much routine work wan eoniMUfed. .Av oology' om tho life I of tho late don. 7ohaaon Hagood was readL - ==* ? A negro named Pet Henry was ISA ever end killed hi a est soar Fair . Promt. Thia nakee tho m?i Thirty-eight ycara ago Saturday there whh |tol?l in the oil v of i '*?! it in I >1 A it convention iiltoiuluil by tho blunts ami culture of South i urolinn aud callod for tho purpose of sovoi mg tlio 1 ohit lonship of this State to the uatiou al government. ( hut convention wus held in tho I- 1 r >s t Ibiptist churoti, which historic. building of colonial design ih Mill standing ou I'liun street. From t 'oliimhiii tho con volition was adjourn oil to Charleston, whoro on I >oe. vf(), tho Ol dlllUHCO of St'COSMOll W*S adopted niiil South ( arolinu took thoinitial stop which I oil to tht< formation cf iho Con federate Stages of Aiucricit. Ou lues Pytf' 20, tho an n i\ ersiiry -.if tho adoption of that script, there was un veiled i?l tlio Slnt? capital with becom ing ceremony a mural tahlot comment elating t lio deeds of tho. secession con volition. Iho erection of that tahlot \uiu cou coi v oil l>y iu?i?lo South Carolina women, who ha\o labored long ami earnestly to soo tho fullillmenl of their hopes. It is niailo ot pure while Ver mont mm hie ami is four feet wnle !>y eight feet in length. ItB odyos aro moo ly beveled, ami tho polish is of a supo i lor quality. Tho top of Mho tablet is mi i mount oil by a representation of tlio old .state Hug, with tho oresoeut auii tho palmetto tree. 1'ndor this ia a copy of the onl inuueo of seeossion ami tho names of tlio signera of tho great writ. The lettering is of tho old fashioned script aud is pretty in design. Tlio inscription is brought into relief by tlio lettering being painted black. '1 hero uro few people in South Carolina who have soon the 'original parchment, which is framed in tho otllcoof tho Sec retary of State. Thoro aro not many more who know tho purport of tho or dinance, which is copied below. 'I lie State of South Carolina At a convention of tho people of South Car olina begun ami holdon iu Columbia, hi tho year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred aud sixty, and thence continued by adjournment to Charles ton, aud there by divt^a adjournments to tho tweutioth day c> f Pecouibor iu tho same year ? AN OUPINANCrV; To dissolve iho union botwoou tlio State of South Car olina ami other States united with her under the compact entitled "Tho con stitution of tlio t inted States of Amer ica;" W e tho people of South Carolina in eon vent ion assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that tho Ordinance adopted by us iu convention, ou the twenty- third day of May in the year of our Lord one thoiisaud seven hun dred and eighty-oiirht, whereby tho constitution of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of tlio general assembly ot Ihis State rat ifying time million fa of tho Haul consti tution, are hereby repealed; and that tho uniou now subsisting between South Carolina aud other States under tho name of "Tho United States of America" is hereby dissolved. Done at Charleston, Iho twentieth day of 'December, in the year of oy* .Lord eighteen hundred ami Hixty. J). F. ?lamison, deiognto from Jiarnwell and President of tho convention. Then follow tho names of the illus trious chancollors, justices, judges, governors, ministers, planters and merchants who brought about the adoption of this ordinance. rognta, Mtrsudeljr constructed ?friBf sttB4od connWfld ftwith Uio door Of bis crib. Hel|flu?ghtfe?<ely opened the place without releasing the attachment, sod, in conseqnebco, re ntrsoUoB of Tb? 2 A joiut mooting of tho committoos of city council, tho chamber of commerce, the merchants' oxchunge urn! tho Young Mods' liuninoHH leaguo of Charleston, was held at tho chamber of commerce to consider tho plan for draining lands between there and Snmmorvillo for oo cupaucy by Bottlers and immigrants, and suggested by Hopresontat ivo.l p.nios Cosgrovo. 13y invitation, some of tlie mombors of tho Charleston delegation in tho loggslaturo woro present and en* gagod to bring the matter to tho at tention of tho general assembly. A subsequent meeting w&b bold by tho committee appointed and after a full explanation of the enterprise it wan approved and a resolution wan adopted requesting tho Charleston delegation in the General Assembly to arrange to levy a tax of one-tenth of a mill on Charleston County property for the purposo of having a preliminary survey, plats and estimates made of the work, n* ?? At a regular mooting of the city coun cil of Sumter scaled bids for tliu con tract to light tho city for a torm of teu years were opened. There were two \>ids; ono by tho Sumter Electric Light Company, which has had the contract for tho past ton years, and ouo hy J. J. llarhy. Tho contract wa? awarded to the Sumter Electric Eight Company, the bid being tho lowest. Joseph Tolbort, 0110 of the younger members of the Tolbort family, has been in Greenwood inquiring into tho status o?tho feeling tboro and whether or not it would bo judicious for linn and other inembera of his family to iu turn homo. Ho is much discouraged I and does not favor returning home. Ho said that he was well treated in Green wood and found that tho better class o I citizens would give him end his protec tion. Still thero woro others who could not be counted upon. Thomas Tolbert is now in Charleston, having cecovercd sufficiently to be ablo to travel, but is not well. The little boy who was shot is still seriously hurt and inay never rocoror: A fetal accident of en unufmafchar-" acter occurred near BlytheWood, and has brought grief to nutubers of the] good people of the! eectiorf. Mr. JoJift Smithcoclt, a young man of j romineoce ckborhood, has been recently lierteh TieiU to hi* corn time. ? To alarm the] Powder Ma^a^ne Explodes* -Squaro ' Mile ot Houses Leveled, TO PENSION CONFEDERATES. I *- ?? One Soldier Shoots and Kills Another Three I ius lost in a lire Qnccn I il. j Pretests \i; .tins I Taking Crown lands. A difeiUltch from Shanghai to a Lon don newspaper. hays a pjnvdor magazine situated in the cantor of tho Chinese! camp at Hang Chow exploded, lovoling | a tiqtini'O mile ?>f Itottbos. It in ostium- I ted tliut :>,mm uoldiors wore killed, in ? oluiling tlio goueial commanding tho forces. 'I ho Amer ieau ami French mia* siotis are both supposed to havo boon : damaged; but it ih .said theio were no j fatalities iuuoiik tho Aiuqi icana. To Pension Confederates. Washington, ( Special )* Senator I Hut lor, of North Carolina, Tuesday i gave notico of an nmoudmoht ho will : introduoo to tho pension appropriation | bill, jioiiHuui i 11 ^ o\- ( 'oufudoi ato aid* diors. Tlio amendment follow#: " That | from liud nftor tlio passage of t li i h bill, j every pension law on tho statute books bIiiiII apply to every invalid soldier, widow, minor child, dependent relit tivo, tho army nurses and nil otltor pensioners w ho may bo ablo to provo j thoir claim under tho present peuaion ' laws, without regard to whothor Maid Kohlior wni enlisted in tlio l''odornl or , ( 'onfodernte service <>f tlio civil wiiv of , I Mii i ? '(!"?, provided t li rt i those enlisted j in tlio j-'ou fodorato service shall not j draw jA \y back pensions prior to tho j pnHHH^o of this hill, tint that thoir | claim. under existing lawa shall but; id and beeomo oporalivo with tho passugo j of this bill. Three. I.ives l.ust. \i w Yonu (Spocial). ? A fierce fire stalled in t lie handsome houao at No. 'Jtio West Seventy third strool. ocou piod by Chiirles II. Kaymoud, general uuent of tho Mutual Lifo Insurance Company, at an early hour Tuosday morning, winch resulted in tho dotitli of thieo i ersona and the injury of aov- j ofal others. .Mrs. Churleu 11. Llay- ? uiond, ;V? years of a^o, died frflj&i a eompouiid fi acini c of tho log and inter nal injurioH. Mra. Victoria Under wood, of ZnnoHvillo, O. , sister of .Mra. liavmond, jumped from a tliird atory j window aud was killed; Harriot Foe, domestic, wan burned to death. The injured aro: ('halloa II. Kaymoud, 00 years old, overcome by smoke; Wil- : liuiu Doorr, 30 years old, conductor, j injured about tho body, seal p wound; j William Ferguson, .'lOyoftrs old, butlor, I face lacerated, ovorcouia by amoke. 1 One Soldier Shoots And Kills Another, I O ekn viiihn, S. C. (Special). ? 1'ri- I vate jMurgridfro, of tlio .Second Wont | Virginia Kegimont, was aliot aud in- | Htmitly killed Tuesday by I'rivato John Mattice, of the Two Huudred and I Third Now York Itouimont, who also shot aud wounded Private Hart of the Second Woat Virginia. Murgridge and Hart were at pistol practice near the rogimeutal cum p. Mattlco, who waa ou guard duty, started to arreat Uie men, who.), it ia cfttlmod, Murgridge lirod twice at him. Mattice returned thu lire, the bull passing through Mur ^ridgo's body and striking Hart in the aide. Hart domes t hut feithor he or Murgridgo fired at tho guurd. (loueral Klino lias ordored Mattico to be turned over to the civil authorities for trial, Kfltrp P?Mr ?<* Q..A, ?$mS2SS&, Queen lil Protests. Kx-Quoen JiilioukfilinH ban Bent to tLo Koualou protest ag?iiiHt tho Appro priation of tlii crown lands of Hawaii by tbu United .Stato?. in it she nays: "I earnontly and respectfully protont acaiiiHt tho asHortion of ownership by the United States of America of tne hoi; called Hawaiian crown lands amount ing to about 1,000, (KM) acre* and wbicb are my property, and I especially pro te?t against such Husertionfl of owner ship ati a taking of property without duo procoBH of law and without just or other Co m|juuBaTTonr" "v ? Six Killed in a Slide in the Cliilkoot Pass. News linn just been recoived of a slide on tho Chilkoot paHH, in which nix peo ple wero killod. In Fator of the Hull Bill. Tho Hotiflo committee on military affairs ban ordered a favorable report on tho Hull bill, increasing the regular army np to 100,000 men. Tbe final vote on reporting tho bill wa? 8 to ft, on party linen, as follows: Xf*a, Hull, Marsh, Griffin, Ketobum, jFfcnton, lielknap, McDonald aud Brownslow, Republicans. Nays, Hulzei**,- Cox, Leftt /, Hay aud Jett, Democrats. Mayor and Commlsxioncrs Indicted. A special from Lexiogton, Ky., says the grand jury ha? returned indiet. meats aga'.ast Mayor SHmrall, Police hComuiissionora George Ladd, W. H. [ B. Rogers and E. II. Ellis for failing t^n force tbe law regarding the Monday c feeing of saloons. Over 100 saloon k?epw?^|f/e indicted. War Afahnt tetwrts. Theie weieabo01300 piiwrt yrWBT' at tbe meeting of tb* Women's Board of Home Missions si tUjVwfcylsriMi ebareb, In New York CJitjr- Tbe object of lbs uctftfn* w4s to isanfnriU Sfln aggrsssive campaign to lbs HAVE DOOS SOI " 3? " '"?? *li?i?y Ortutt Author* llavu Writ* l<<u i?n 'Villi Sut*)?Ot? Willi regard to this immortality of dogs or oihrr animals, many opinions flight bo cited In tin; atllrmat Ivo, says tiit> Went minster Hevlew. As Lamar* ? i n ?* says: "No! (J od will never quench ills spark <11 vine, Whether within some glorloua orb It shine, Or lighten nj> the spaniel's teniler gazo Who lends his poor blind master through tho maze or this dark world." -Translation. I hae never been able to persuade mi> heart and my understanding that (Iowrs hae na immortal sowls." pants (bf Shepherd in 'Noctc.s Ambrosianae, when Mr. North's "great NewOinlun .swims < mi t to tho assistance ofnlmsolt and bis companion, Mr. Tlcklor, in ii lough sea off Ponobello; 'his soul maun ho Immortal." Later on ibis no ble animal was cruelly poisoned and Christopher North il'rof. Wilson), and his friends lament bis many virtues. "Often do I wonder," says the Shep herd again, "whether or no birds and beasts ami inseets have immortal suwls!" To w bleb the Knglish Opium I'Jater, who happens to be present, re plies: "What God makes, why should lie annihilate? Hue, true, Mr, do Quineey," gladly agrees llogg. Somo t>f our readers may remember Luther's win ds to his dog,, "Never mind, little Hans, i bun too shall have a golden tail some day;" or, according to a bet tar translation: "Thou, too. In the res urrection, shall have a little golden tall." Swinburne, In bis sonnet to l)r. John Drown, speaks of: "The night of death's sweet sleep, w herein may be A star to sIioh' your spirit In present sight. Borne happier island In the Elyslan sea. Where Hah may lick, the. band of Mar Jorlo." "My dear lord, there Is n spirit dwelling in good beasts, though Jreamy and unconscious," says tho chaplain l:i Fouijue's weird romance of "Sintram and His Companions." Coleridge, writing long before Darwin, seems inclined to conjecture tho beast lo be an "unripe or degenerated hu Manltv." ' ? fndjnnn'A Pat Man. Longevity Is not the only fenturo of Indiana rural life. Over ncntlVlho vil lage of Argoa, one man nt least has the distinction of weighing nearly a qua i ter of a ton. (Jeorge Washington Walker, a farmer's son, tips the scales at 540 pounds, lie stands 6 feet 10 Inches, measures 27 inches around tho arm. 08 nbout the chest and "78 about the waist. HIh excessive flesh baa made him almost helpless, and he baa been nnalde to perform any farm woffc for years, lie now permits enterprl* lug managers to exhibit him, that be may earn n living for himself and family. Air. Walker's is a peculiar case. H# had attained his majority and bad married before any evidence of ap - prourhlng corpulency became appar ent. He was born In Noble county forty-eight yeiu-s ago, and until 25 years of age Aa was as other men III the matter of weight. N None of Ills ancestors, as fur back "as he can to ! member, was endowed with too mucl) flesh. His parents are both small WK* ple, his ~ father weighing but 143 pounds. His mother Is somewhat lar ger, but she Is far under 200. Shortly after the birth of bis son he began to take on flesh rapidly, until it became Impossible for blm to do even light farm >v?rk. When he had attained a weight of *ovor 400 pounds, ho decided to make ibis fact the' vehicle for a living. For several years he has put In the sum* mer months at county fairs ns?tbe champion fat man, and has earned a comfortable income by his exhibitions. Ills flesh continues to Increase so thai be Is almost helpless, although no can still walk about slowly without ?.!?? assistance of lyiw he. Unlike most fat men, Mr. WalkucJ* ? h?nvy hl? appetite keeping pace with the In crease of ndlpose tlRsiio. -Chicago South Carolina jtiii 6aorgia Railroad Company. "The Charleston Line." 8<<hu<lule in effect Dec. 19, 1897. 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