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PATTERSON,
ir-AX-LiAVP^J;
BAHVWELL O. M„ S. C.
, Will Jfive pronifvt attention to all bu»-
iiiAM entru^ied U* bU care.
January 9th, 1890.
FRANCIS F. CARROLL, Jn,
Attorney-at-Law,
BAMBKBG,S.C.
Offlee over E. C. Folk A Co.’a store*
mar.20-t . rr' ;: ..
Gao W. Croft,
Aiken, 8. C.
J. B. BuaCKUALTF.R.
Barnwell, 8. C.
A.TXOWNI^.YH ATL.AW
BABNWELL C. H., S. C.
Will practice In all the Courts of Hits
State and in the United States Courts.
Mr. Croft will attend the Courts of
THE GLIMPSE
FAMINE OF THE FUTURE.
JhM tor • day jroc Crowed tny Uri‘'ti dnh tnvk.
Pot my ijO^hier irmwiu. lu *mktan ahame,
W«Dt V«ur britfbt way, and loft tu» to (sli
back \ l ’: )r '
On my own world of poorer dsed and «fm.
TO fait hnrk ort my meawr world, and feel
dimmed town,
it a brief pati.-o of labor•» sullen
from
both of you," was the answer of Boyer,
TheEnglishmaa wm MB-, ^ R aven rteln, a member of the:
^ Brttieh aeaociation for the adYaooement j
vheo ehe^iMo womanhood, den,iu of • cionoe - h “ be<m «““r a « n « ^
Treatment of in* Eton KIM.
It has been seriously proposed that
American boys shall wear Eton suits—
suits tlidt make any hUtttan boy look
like an Ostrich. T’be Anglomaniacs will
Cntln*«r PreMullment. ^
Charley Jenkins was as engineer cm
ths Baltimore and for many ywrt,
and he had many hairbreadth escapee.
Hi* run was between Garrett, ind., and
science,
probable increase of
the human race on •
on
wr> ■ i r\iT» u. ^
In sudnkws dnyttshf w»w the par* mm roil.
Saw mountain* pillsrtn* th* perfef } *k
Then Journeyed home to carry In his *oul
The tomiordof the tUflPereoceUH bed*®.
—WUUam Wataoo la I.»tndon Sp«< ui.tur;
adopt these absurd costumes for their Chicago Junction, O., and nearly emy-
children, if they have excuse enough, -j body along the routs hatte to knoflldm
LT.' ^Toftaatortoof h« friend., du took, imt (OU of A»erto.oi,fta jm^perioallr. ffi.-frtoa» co-aid toll M.
-- the Edwards for Africa. , rfi ii fTi r drnrUT not Anglomaniacs, nwent to school j eturine eyerv time bv the peculiar 4 ♦toot/
derote her life to .. 1 with some. One day a lad came to and whenever^ the engine was in sight
at pogaladoD upon thC|l^Ml.be^ W ^ ^ hat . Murmur, thbre would b. « w.vo of the b.nd u .
Monrovia when sbe-did, the U-1 I and whispers of snrprUe and ,Us»pprovnl i recognition of friendship. 1XU engine,
^ ^woridL^Z ^ 'were heard when no entered, and bmks the 750, wae the beet on thedivWon, and
the population of the world of ^.pme-1 of ^ trom boy to boy. | if , fast rnn was to bemads Jenkinsand
t* inr>rt»,ic W v P rv ver- u At 11 o’clock cams recess, and precise- j the "CO were sure to be uu the call board
° ' 1 'y •» *«• «* on<1 » P“» 11 »h«" wa, a ! fer it. ' , ><T f ,
aoouxe pe cen . -j-* nru-o —» fi, a «,rs«,or.f «Ti>«n fh« One day the. old engineer was takes
lory'll frown.
.Africa,
missionary work among the Bassaa Air*
berian anthori ties refused her permission
»reo- 1 ^ ■“
barked in a frail canoe and stole away.
I After four days and nights on the ocean
mmmjm -t
Whreabo, bipg ot nil the BitiHSH. died ^rthe ebunfry—a cioth around the loins } b 1 *'"** # "" kl “
AN AFRICAN KING.
The section of the country still open to
riot. That was the moment when the
ladappeared with bis Httle '‘plug" hat, ill, and for Weeks he lingered on his bed,
at his head town in the interior of Grand
Corah, a trading station of Liberia The
Bassaa are a very numerous and intelli
gent people, inhabiting a large district
on the west coast of Africa, and WUre-
abo was one of the moat interesting oh r-
actera on the coast His father was
Boyer, who reieiatedly w«**d war to
Barnwell County and all mattera uf lin* prevent the Amertco-Li'neiiaua from set
portance wiH-receive the personal at " ~
tentlon of each member *f the tirm.
may 29-tf
T B. ELLIS, Jr.
Surveyor and Civil Engineer.
Special attention (rtreti to the eompotation
•f water-powrr*. Irvt linR and drainage.
A postal card addressed to me at Martina,
8. C,, will receive prompt attention.
octOl KO-lvr
thug ht Grand Bassa. Boyer, however.
?c!2 z victim to the vengeance of the Li-
Oerian laws, and died a bloody death,
bnt not before he had instilled hatrrd of
the civilized blacks in the mind of his
•on ami heir. ^
After Boyer’s death Whreabo attempt
ed to take control of the government of
his tribe, bnt he was prevented from do-
^■fjjraw.t^ssn
cloth
—began her journey for the chief town
of the Bnnsas.
Arriving at VVhreabo’s town, Jacinto
found him busily preparing for his war
like expeditien against his enemies, but
when she in tier beauty presented her
self before him and told him who she
wia; hi* purple changed. Instead oi
proceeding to war he gave orders for
feasting and general rejoicing to cele
i brate the return of his long lost bride.
! Jacinto accepted this position, and used
her influence in such a way that WhreaK'
; forgot his warlike intentions. By do
: green she so influenced him that he dia-
| missed his other wives. She Induced
l him to look upon the Liberian* without
hatred, and so changed him that eventu-
W tho bottom of my •
dtoerto. The total »re a of *U tho habit- heurt - for n lm ■
able lands in the world is over 40,00(1,000 j ““"f- ^ . tht }* ,
of wjuare miles. Of this area the fertile £*« h.wa..*a*l..l» ? IM„tto wny and (
or cooperatively fertile tamls are over - . , mm ?ni.f A T. i«,.» ««,
oqcnonnft— r — That arttcla went Immediately Into use
lands or stewi 14 000 000 and thebare ! 08 a footb,Ll1 ’ and in leM tbnUjymnntefamily sanrouadeii the bed ftwl watched Lbumla’ loth* plswas
theban , had become n shred of black t^fliS with Ureatkit^cagorncsa for any sign of liui Ui»'t teU why.
deserts 4,000,18®w|ti*re miles. ^ [ iwatobuiilC^firBMTrsWM^.gover
him on to life. He urns sadly missed
along the route, and the peculiar “toot"
of the whistle wae heard no more, for,
although did 720 was kept running, there
were other hands at the throttle.
The crisis of his illness came. The
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.P™i®W'£P st
outen lutsHn’ o*
'■ ' klvar
Cy ihe Mltletm
KJchUt
Be la ^ -
daisies ]
Ba itowU*l in*
' ' oaoetaP ;
Bui I’d ewmehow
bobbrn* »«* i
Hui l 1
Wanderin' In the ftower t
Watch in* little ^nuw
*tora*
groeia* yelter,
Tho hr^riM a-*ilight* I
n.i ,r.
Catchfn up fcflecttfMia e*1
a-brewin’, |
KliwU r irawkut' ai '«*ii
au*
Or a hirin’ henr t
pr, E- L. Harley,
DENTAL SURGEON
BARNWELL, 8. C.
Offera hi* profe**lonal nerviers to the
cUUertl of Baruwell aud the amtemtHd.
country Will devote Mondays.
Tuesdays and Wednesday* to ofllce
practice and Thursdays, Fridays and
Haturtlays to calls in neighboring towns
and the country.
Re fere newsThe F»‘* l| U r nf the
Dental Department of the University
•f Msryland. "
OFFICE OX M AIX STREET,
East of the Dost Office.
docJ-1 y
DO YOU WISH TO BE BOSS
—or vov*—
QWH G!N HOUSE?
. TUL> BUY THE
Thomas Steam Press
j A bno*t all ex|mrt aru< '.**». euch as ml.
— AN!>— | skins earn woo 1. ivory and ric.* are g.ah
_ -j ___ L-ivd in th* Ltv**a district, and Ibis fl Id
Seed Cotton Elevator, i ^ »<•"-' h-m-t., uu-a
^ meant that nil citmni'Tce io thi.« aireo
(It 1* the m«»st perfect system In ti«e. j
Unloading cotton from wagons, clean-
lag and delivering it Into gin* nr stall*,
t otton doe* not pass through Kan and
Treas, requires no pulley* uur belt* It j
aavee time and money.)
1
ing no by bis brother Taipu, who will be i ally, from Udng that colony * enemy, he
remembered by many old trader* a*
Tom Will. For month* the Bxi.^a aav
ago*, in factions supporting respectively
WbreaUi and Taipu, engagwl in a gue
rilla war Neither aide gained any de
cided advantage. Taipu, however, had
always been more or i«
Americo-Liberia ns, no
became a bulwark to protect it from its
foes Finally she won him to Christi
anity
For many years tbia woman exerted
an influence for gtx»d over the savage
chief, bnt some ten years ago she died
friendly to the i Since then Whreabo l.aa never left his
when the mer | town hut aged, blind and feeble, (>*-
chants of Monrovia dem mded that the tie:•riv wailed for the final summuua.—
troubles which interrupted trade should , Now York Sun
end the Liberian government exerted its j *
power for his benefit, wuh the xj»iiil.t i „ l»*e m*u*t^. «■
.i * wtoi mm~c-.-zxartrzz'-^' *:rZ„ < hissirg under t‘:e tuiatletoe is a relic
! of Scandinavian my fhobigy L<>ki huted
L.Jder the Apollo of the North
• and ns 'everything that spring: from
ten air. earth and venter,*’ had l*e*-ti
To the rteppea he altbcatos a popula
tion of ten to the square mile, and to the
desert regions one to the squanj mile.
The brlk of the population would, there
fore. have to subsist on the. 23,000,000
square miles of fertile lands. Compar
ing tne density of population—in India
f75 to the square mile, in China 295 to
MtMi ',H
square mile—be arrives sF the concla
si on that a world population of 207 to I
the square mile in the cultivable regions
would be a fair estimate.
This 207 persons to tho square mile I
will be reached in 153 years at the pres
ent rate of increase, when the total pop- •
illation of the cultivable area would be
GjMO.TOO.QOO, and the total number the
earth would feed 5.991,000,000.
Any farther Increase of population
must either be provide*! for by ft dimiau- *
tion of Kubei.-Oenee to each individual or ,
tho fence with a yell of triumph aud the
boy went home bareheaded and in tears.
American honor was main tained and
the injurious influence of British custom
effectually defied. That is what is go
ing to happen here every time a boy tries
to wear Eaton clothes. Spare him, j*e
— v..v ... parents Consider his Wmes, if you don't
the eqaare mUe aa^in J»pa^to the bi3 ^n.^ .nrookljn
SIi* WualdM’l DrlHl® Him.
At a famous and charming salon a cer
tain western woman, just now making a
little stir in literarydom, was the hon
ored recipient of marked attention on
the part of the gracious hostess. Quito
late in the evening there waa a
-that'TTUregTio"vrnsHnr*h to an neylnm
in tbebtndi. while Taipa took tats father'*
town, his wive* and all the Bhumm conn
UT
Taipu was not long (mrmittedXo enjoy
the dignity which h* had usurtM-d
TronWe aross from ernehie* inflicted on
LibHria’a cUUr-u* by the Vie people, a
warlike trila* fntuter north, and diverted
the attention of the Li Isrian government
from the affair* of Ba**a This was
Whrrabo’a cpilortnntty. aud he took ad
vantngn of it lie endeav*4fd to oust
but brother from power, and sneers* fol
lowed hi* arm*. It was not many weeks
before the deed body nf Taipn. swathxd
la many bandage*, suiod mnromylikc in
a corner in hi* chief widow * lint aw.tit
ing imrial. aixl Wnmibo began to rule
over the country
L The fact that Whrcatm ha-1 eecursd
; fiowcr in BaasaUud gave th* Lihcrum
mendiauta exuelient r*-*wetn for ai.ura
'•worn not to hurt thewdcatial favorite, \
the wicketl t.jsrit made an arrow of |
miathtoe. which he gaveto idind Ilovofy j
to teat The (kid of Darkness ahot the j
arrow and kille*l B.UJ-*r. Ikuug restored |
to life at the nrgmt reqoeat of th# god* '
and goM in* mistletoe was given
to tnc g<slde«* of Love to keep, and >
•very one who psskmd under it received
a ktaa. to s!h>w that th# branch was th* ,
emblem of love and nnt of death Toe >
hnbbub at th# door, on<l in atrod# on# of
New York’s moat prominent journalists
and^liplomotiats. Tall, military, whit#
haired, ruddy cheekad, distingue, in
Ij/ome tmprered m,.lo cf ..redariW tif” 111 ”
~ hr (rrYfin* doVn OX fuTureSTn, rat. f" ,‘*±^1“* ‘^LA*
below the ,teeth rate Mr. Baveaitoin', | ja ’ t ,to1 ™ * wa3r ,rocl * n 1,, ‘ IK rt, ‘" *"■
staUatica do not concern us of the pres
ent generation very vitally. We can 1
leave the solution to our great-grand* j
children. We have increased and mol- |
tiplied very comfortably iu apit# of the |
a change.
The stillness of the room was oppress
ive. Nothing could be hoard aavo the
regular, heavy breathing of the sick en
gineer.
Suddenly he arose on bin elbow. He
rftared wildly around, and his eye* looked
tike a madman's. Then he sat np in bed.
clutched au imaginary sheet of paper,
and gasped:
“Tiffin; train five; engine seven-twen
ty; prepare to meet thy God.”
He sank back exhausted and fell into
a quiet, easy sleep. When he awoke be
was on a fair way to recovery, but by
that time the news had reached the place I
that a terrible accident bad happened;
small 1 that No. 5 had collided with a freight;
that engine 790 was a wreck, and that i
the engineer and fireman were dead.
Charley Jenkins inu*ta that he had a ;
presentiment from heaveu.—Cleveland '
WorlCT^WT •
Sneak!*’ np an* down the creek, i
tkeftshea.
ilsor.ia In my hand i
Sol bin’ t»u' h to talk <
rummer,
ir* every i.krw*er et I’d
rUltfH 4triHU!a#*r—
Then Jc^' a-ln|i 0 ’ d4«ra A^ain,
In ibe riite, M~ •;
Oaten iK'nrln* o’ th*
to Uir glrcf
O* ibo earth aa* i
Contenled Kite an* happy,
water »iulv*>r,
but I cauX lull why.
-Waller VI. Iltuvltiuo lalOmd :
•trw is a parastrical plant 1
»b»s*>i» the braiubrsof uinny
r* In nmtltern Fnrnpe It
Ta/bott & Sons'
Engines and Boiler, Stationary
and Portable. Old Do- -
minion Com Mills $\2^ to
$$(X>. Talbott’s Saw A\flls,.
Improved Friction and Hope Feed f20*»
in $ooo. Lummus and Van Wiukl# cot
ton -
fDottonTTesses'.
Weoff**r8aw Mill men and (Jinner*
the most complete oiitflts in the 8tate,
and at bottom prices.
V.C.BADHAM,
CilCNTSUAL AOTCNX,
COLUMBIA, 8. C.
Th« Talbott Engine is the best.
apr 1C tf .
SPECIAL
SUMMER SALE.
One Thousand Superb New Pianos
nnd Organs, from best makers only, to
be sold during August, September and
October, 1891, at Spot Cash Prices, with
payment November 15th next. No in
terest. . *
Linn jrmilJ be brought to di vaster
Events soon made it plain that Wnreabo
intended to hold no p»* > icefu) rtlations
with his civilised tartwneni II# l«»i»t**.l
the facton#* of Libenon merrhonts,
drove the trader* from their rfUtiAusfan J
uemed an edict that no prodne* o( any
kind waa to t* sold to Liberians by any
of his people nndcr pain of iustunt
death.
The “palaver’ ground in Whreabo'a
town became a theater when-m w»*re
perfonned m.iry bbMNly acts, fTnclmla
of the follower* of the dead Taipu daily
lost th-dr heads, and for week* the sav
age chieftain held high carnival wan
death, until, foeliug aHPUro. hr* gathered
hi* hordes around bin: nr l prepared to
deeoend on Grand^ljgfty.fnr f e*.)ibi|*i*e— :
oT ^rTvrngtne’Liberian acttlors Into th#
often «»n the on
it with pe< niur reterenc*. from it.; cun
nectom with the oak, the Cawnt* tie#
ot ib«*ir divinity, Tntanna. nlta sevui#-
tolian* twaXi iikntical with th# t’uwai
cttoti f' -J Piil. or the fcnn The plant ii*
%#r) rarely fm.mi in Bmtland and
noviiwre *n LcLaral If a bounds in aouw
part* of England.- Liuoklyn Esgle
ttli.** >k »«>l;jr 1 hoNtfh Mwirljr AO Tears 014.
J. Mis Euurta Bo^twick, onco known as
, the Amenoin Jenny Lind, hna probably
retained in r ro.c# to a greater eg# than
hary other public ringer She la now
^eveuty-uwvcn year* old. but her voice ia
j t»ti!l pnre *nd fn-eh. and she aiuga lu ad
uurahie tune and tune. She ia the
daughter of au English violiunt. caiurd
(liUin^linm. and D*t*an her career on tlu*
ecn«i*rt staf:# when only twelve year* of
age. By toe time she waa twenty ithe
was widely nod favorably known H^t
roue mid a rang# of three octave*
Theo-l^re Thannw then a Tfrililf T<iit*!Ti
v!,,!(go^t. ii”i n ■ i I lllia»""VlW
lugubrious warnings of Mr. Malthas,
and perhaps they abo will inultiply aud
increase in epitd of Mr. Bavenstein.
If any race most go to the wall, it may 1
be confidently predicted it will not be
the white race. There will be a Dor- ;
wtnian eonriral of the Btteat. The weak- j
j er races will disappear before the,
stronger. Tue Indian will nltlmatelr
1 vanish from this oonunent, and the Afn-
i can lu hie native land Uhls fair to be
[ dec nn .I tod.
The trudoncy of popnlati m to the cities 1
most also be taken into account in any
couipsriaon of people to areas of reason
able subsistence. Concentration in Urge •
; towns always tends to iccreaaod produo |
; tion wilhm a wide dreoit around them, i
especially in the line of frufts and v#g»-
table*. Two bun-lred j-.-at* hcncs the ,
j desMirt lands which Mr. Ilsvenstein re-,
gar Is os incapable of cnlUvatiuo may ■
bej**ow as the r*jee. Already irrigation
! h working wonder* ia the unpromising
j soil in some of oar wee tern statea Mod
ern science will u^nch many ways of io- ;
civ.uung the food snppiy. #
Mr Ravenatoin’s speculations are
; phtnribl* and his statistic* suggestive
j enough, bnt th# figures of today may b#
utterly faMflod by the figure* of 200
years hence. Many things may inter- j
] reuo in the meantime to k#ep down pop-
1 nlalion or increase the food supply. Th#
i extinction cf the race by starvation is s
very remote contingency indeed, and t
Mr. flavenstein’s Irtj year* bid fair to!
stretch out ind«>fiuito!y before that con
tingency occurs. —Baltimore Uua.
gngement a moment to pay hi* devoir*.
“But,** said Mr*. , “now that you
are here, yon mnat meet Miss , of ’
whom 1 was telling you."
He—My dear Mr*. , a thousand !
thanks, bnt some other time l^jdisli be •
delighted. 1 really have not a moment j
to spore. I——
She (fairly dragging him arrma the
room, if so rode a verb may express so
dainty an action)—CoIoikI , this is I
Mho ——% of ——the coming woman.
Mias — twbone keen ears and ready
wit had graqied the situation, gracious- |
ly bnt deprooatlvel) >—Pray, do not let
her detain the going man, Mr*. S ,j
and preaenting hie much in demand
YV>*r« an Kagll*!***** I*
Speaking of Englishmen in New Yprk
suggests the recent plaint of a very w#U
to do Uri Usher of the female sex now in
this city. “Yon know there are now no j
distinctive resorts for English people
abroad." sard she. “W# oned to go to
Scotland, bnt the rich Americans over
ran the country and gobbled op every (
available estate. Then we tried Brigh
ton; but, blees yon. the hotel people
there now won’t look at ms Englishman
where be conflieta with an American
They next drove ns oat of every fashion
able resort pu th* ponthM&t, bully the
Riviera, our apodal stronghold. We
have no longer the exrhuhrs social sway
anywhere ontabie nf England, r
“It na*d to he Uml the Bwtaa and Ger-
liighncev the sitlewise curve of a whsL..
alionMer, she rontiau 1 the labtlriona 1 kMM - watering (Jece hotel* wore mn
snetainment of an Emdlahman lu con-
vereation.—New York Warki
See These Bargains.
sea.
The Vi#** in th# north at this time, en
couraged by the intriguing English of
S4erm Leoue, were offering such stub
born reriatance to the Liberian force*
that the Liberian government found it
impose,b.'e ty do anything for the relief
of its citizens in Bassaland. and it was
decided to issue au order that (Jraud
Bassa be abandoned anti all Liberian cit
izens leave the oonutry. Ou ^the day
when it had l>een determined to make
this order public there arrived in the
port of Monrovia, the Liberian capital,
the bark Edwards This vessel came
from England and brought a beautiful
negress, who called hereelf Jacinto Boyer
From Jacinto's earliest day stirnhg.
Incident* marked hei life. While little
more than nn i-nfant she hud Imhui stolt-u
from her parent*, who wore Mandingoe*
and sold to Portuguese slave traders.
The vessel which was bearing her tc
Brazil was captured by an English gun
Jill, mi
part in l:»r concert*. •
bb# was married iu 1836, bnt did not
retire from the concert atego. For a
nnml»er of yHers she was the soloist of
the New York I^Uharmonic society.
She hoa never sung in o|>era. and the
wonderful preservation of her voice ia
t« be attrihutod partly to that, aud part
ly to the care she has observed iu her
diet and mode of life. —Exchange,
Onr Two Orno-e Stnt«s.
OU from tli* rorpolM.
The porpciws hilled In winter are the
fattest and produce most oil. The largest
size mordure about seven feet in length,
tire, feet In girth and weigh about 500
pounds, liuch A (wrijoiso yields from six
to seven gallons of oil. The blubber of a
big porpoise weighs about 100 pounds
ai:3 is ouo and a half inches thick in
summer and two in winter.
The jaws of the porpoise yield a su
perior qttulifcy of oil. When hung np ia
X* Trlr* m Xfnmnn'n flMdg«Kty
Two m#n stood tu front of th# sbow
window of a Wabash avenae milliner}
concern looking at the styles and guess
ing at the price*. Of oouree neither had
any sort of idea a^xuit tlie articles on ex
hibition. Then they went In ami naked
the floor wakaT bow near they bed come ||
to gneerisig at the prices. After she had
tol l them ou# of the men asked:
“ Why don’t yon pat tho price* on year
food* the sitae a* c’.otbkrs do on what
they exhibit ia their windows?”
“You betray an ignorance that 1* par
donable under the circumstances. Here
ia a hat that we sell for $1.53. Do not j
faint—there are hats for women that can f
l>e bought fur that figure. Suppose we
put that (Tice on the hat and dtepinyed
it. No woman would ever purchase M
because sb# would be afraid if she did ]
that her neighbor might have Aeon it and
mr ii.'Tr?^
of the pririlcges of a woman is to de
ceive her sex about the cost of her hats
and bocnets.’’—Chicago Tribune.
ohiefly is the jut#rests of the English
traveler. Now the American has it all
his own way. There are now more
American* living In rillae about Flor
ence, Ootno, ftJtns, Breeden. Lucerne
and the German spaa than Eogliahmun.
Even Paris is gt-tUng to be dominated
by your conntryuieb. Now, 1 put it to
yon, what are we going to doT*
“Come to America," said L
“Her#, at leaU, tho American Is 'small
potatoes and fear tn a hill.’ Here An
glomania rage* worse than the pi cur o-
pueumonia. Come to America, an hap
pj, outlawed, dethroned people of an
effete civilization, and come with c-mfl
dene# and cash -especially cash. Here
Ton’ll find a newer growth in New York
to fall down and worship you",—New
York Herald.
the sua it readily drips away into cana
In the United Statea oranges and lom- provided for the purpose, the quantity of
is r.re produced only in California and oil thus procured, however, boins not
The
ons r.re produced only
■ Florida. The orange crop of the latter
! is practically out of the way before that
of the former is ready for the market
The California orange is of slower
growth than the Florida product and
docs not decay so soon. The orange sea-
' son in California lusts five months, be
ginning Jan. 1, and it will be prolonged ]
in future, as the people are planting 1
Valencia oranges, which do not ripen i
till July. The lemon is more sensitive
oil thus procured, however, being
more than half a pint to the jaw.
oil from the blubber gives an exaeTent
light and is in demand along tho co'vu
for lighihoiuo tuio. it has no offensive
odor.
Porpoise shooting is followed at all . , _ , „
seasons and in all kinds of weather. Ot,. ^ " n J 1>™ women
a calm summer’s day the porpoise may ■ ’X^er 06 ’! in tliein. Mr. Yonn^ had lost
MarrleU th« Fwinilf.
A etory cf a Florida man who married
three wivea from on# family is going the
rounds ns something remarkable, but
there was a family in Maine consisting
of six girls/and of the six three married
men named Bjckwell, three married to
the name of Young, one married a Liver
more and one never was Yh/uried. An
other paradoxical feature ia that there
were only five husbands in all.
Tho explanation is that two of the
Bickwells died, leaving widows, und
Mr. Young, who had two of the sir,t* rs
before, took one of the widows. Then
Mr. Livermore took the-other. 8o that
there were seven weddings in tho fam-
Bcautiful Upright Piano only $223.
Superb Cabinet Grand Piano only $250.
Fine Parlor Organ only $50.
Rich Parlor Organ only $«5.
'' '
Superb Mirror Top Organ only $75.
N. W. TRUMP,
!
COLUMBIA, S. C.
ROBT. C. MIXSON,
SURVEYOR AND ENGINEER.
BLJCE 1LLE, 8. C.
! nttfntfnfl drpn to l and »mr
tattentiou to oil bnei*
mjr care, v
fore she reached her destination, and of
all on board tho only ones saved were
the officer in charge of the vessel and
Jacinto.
Shortly after the Englishman and Ja
cinto were cast on the beach they we.r#
discovered by the savages, and by them
were taken to Boyer, at his chief town
in the interior. Boyer was then tn the
midst of his struggle with the Liberians,
and the civilized man who fell into his
power was fortunate if he waa killed
without torture. _ . -
Whenr the Englishman was brought
into Boyer'H presence he raised his plion
to strike him, but Jacinto sprang for
ward and threw her little arms around
the intended victim.
“No! No! King," she said, “give me
the white man." The sudden action of
the little captive arrested Boyer's arin
Ail the Ba*sa women are extremely ugly,
and the beauty of the Vie girl so pleased
the chi*-f that he hesitated. Whreabo
then a lad of ten years, was an inter
ested spectator, and when th# young
girl made her plea his precociona eye*
discovered that she was fair, and struck
by a sudden fancy to earn favor fq her
sight lit joined her in petitioning his
■lailief to spare lL« tTMTlTiSTuallfe.
“T'W strtmgw maiden Hiall be thy
> wifs, and the white man he • olave io
be heard blowing a mile or two away.
If you wound a porpoise, and there a re
any sharks around, the shark is very apt . .
Man’s Two Reputation*.
I am always interested in what may
be called the two reputations which each
man has; one is his public name, the
other his iiersonal or private Eminence;
the one is the distinction which be has
among people, the other the regard pkht r^'
The region in the vicinity of the north- P nt down as carrying a cheap, unreliable ; to him by his own immediate sot or fol-r5
combination of works.and case some uu- lowing. Archdeacon Farrar has a great
boat, and the prow was turned toward ! to froiil than tlie oran ^ e - and il is l >ro * : to sharo your booty with yon even if he
Sierra Leone, where the human cargn (luced with more diiru ’u]ty in Florida , doetn’t devour it in toto.—New York
was to be turned over to the English ai than in California, for the rea- | Recorder. — j
lb critics. This slaver was wrecked be- 9011 lhat U i e f ? ra * er 8tHte is moro ™bject
to frost.—L. A. Sheldon lu Forum.
Tli* “ItluneMter of Hie Gulf. ,,
A Sweeping Charge.
Niue men out of every ten one meets,
if the possessor of a watch, can safely be
ern extremity of the Gulf of California
is inhabited by a rare and terrible crea
ture—a member of the lizard tribd—
called the “Maneater of the Gnlf.” He
is hardly large enough to warrant bis
awe inspiring name, being only about
fifteen inches long, but is one of the moot
poisonous creatures known to natural-.
ists. He is a member of the lizard fam
ily, some akin to the famed Gila ^ou
ster, .and his body is almost os brittle oa j
glass.—Bt. Louis Republic.
principled tradesman has palmed off on' reputation among the ordinary people of
him as a good watch and timekeeper. , America and Great Britain, but scholars
Tho tenth man, if he has purchased a i look upon him with much of stfkpicion
really good watch and timekeeper from as an accurate and profound exegete.
some reliable jeweler, has paid about 500 1 Bishop Westcott, however, has. a small
Ito«r Dog* Arm fttals* I* Paris.
Dog stealer# In Paris have two prin
cipal means ot getting bold of the nni-
i# liberty Lo U al
lowed, the hours that he takes an airing
either alone or with a servant, and make
their arrangementa accordingly. They
sometimes prowl around a honso for a
week before obtaining nil the informa
tion they need. When they learn where
they can meet the animal, they attract
him by some sort of bait, or make him
follow a bitch, which they lead with a
string.
In a narrow street it iaeaay to approach
th# dog aud pat him. if he i* not very
savage, the offer of eometUi.ag to eat ren
ders him confiding; tho thief, who ho* a
slipooose ready, passes it around the
dog’s neck, and the game ia bagged. On
th# boulevards and in the public parks,
where dogs usually follow their mastep
or mistresses without being held by, a
cord, the thieves always use a second
animal, and as soon as the dog comes
near enough to the decoy brute the lasso
is thrown and the gallant captured.—
Cor. New York Epoch.
TW# R*rlte*l ClitM’s
As might be supposed, I
Hint is aligned to the I
Kra inmar. * Boy*'
*>c*Vi*rul centurie* a
coun^lcil fn<*n the larger’
tus and Priscian, and they
in'Hily known by th# na
or Doaet*. a' term which
-Plowman." The* word
the contrary, was as
tion with I^stin stndie#
H*i«ne#. »• wi ll «* #veu
wuh sometime# spokyn of ee j
A very commonly need schoo
monaster 4 .#* seems to hare
“Consolatiob of Philoenphy"^
inal, of conrerk bf B*#*thins, of
leajd; a frsguwnt “woahl
b# for’.d even ia the ma
vent library.*’
Tht i sihcst besdr in
exprewlr for hoys b I
Aidlwlm’s “D*
Ahii;r-uailb«»,
which
i*f th#
of it consist* of i
cr and pupil, in the i
popular in th*
ci-otnry, and n
work* as Mr*.
Venerable Bed# ts
wrlUr for the yeoaf,
Review.
“We<
mother
sides the other
a patient, “but
fid*
thrieas, and
prog7V**ed
w# are much het
than were our _
great many of the
notice that yon are
draff, and 111
many dollars on
aiid you are worse. .
yon couimenoed. Let me
•grnndmotbtV
faiU. Go to a <
one wife before he began on this family
—Manchester Union. HH| .
Ull'.' Not Afraid to Umpire.
“They tell me, parson, that you’ve
consented to mnpiro the ball game this
afternoon between th# Squash Hollow
Baptiste and the Zion Brotherhood. U
that so?”
“Dat’a de Gospel trufe. sahl”
“It strikes me that's rather a inrecari
ous position for one bf your calling.
lip
‘Now, looker yer, Mister Man l I
hain’t no prize fighter, ter be sho’, nceder
I hain’t nnvver v.uikked in no quarry an
got mix’ up wid a bins’; but a genter-
man er my periession dat’srumpired fo’-
per cent, more for it than he should have reputation among the people. Probably t . een ’lections, wliar de a r was
not one in twenty of those who read this ' ( * Ht
paragraph ever heard his name, but the
fiih ■! HitF
half <>f it in warm a
h#a 1 thot onfhly. B
vnla of three months fie" *’j
won't be annoyed with
more."—New York
done, and this is the very reason why the
other nine men carry such remarkably
bod timepieces. They cannot afford to respect in which he is held by scholars is
pay the extra 500 per cent, heretofore nee- 0 f the highest.—Chicago Advance,
essary to secure good works and a war-
l There is a curious Instance of an echo
at Tatenhill, Staffordshire. The tower
^ of the church there has nn echo that re
peats five times the syllables uttered at
the centrum phoniemn, which is about
; seventy yards distance. Whispering
galleries can scarcely be considered any
thing bnt odd items in onr sacred edi
fices. Of these there are examples in
Gloucester cathedral and St. Paul's.—
, -Gentleman's Magazine. _
. . ■ - ...I. —- - .. -
The republic of Houduru is very rich
£m ' ^
A survey of thee# fur*-«te estitnates the
'▼alaeof the treoof thla variety which
*• 11 for Market at $800,000, .OOF-
ranted cane, aud are therefore swind’ed.
—New York Truth.
If Tour Shoes Arm Wmk.
. When you come home with wet feet,
don’t throw aside your boots to get hard
and moldy. Stand them up, put tlteui
in shape, and then fill them with oats,
such as they feed to horses. This will,
io a few hours, draw all the moistur#
out of the leather, keeping the boot ia
: shape meanwhile, and leaving it soft
i and pliable. The oats can be used again
and again. This is a relic of the
tone aader AflBcul tie* lad la wm0>
er the ITeesnt generation has no coacep-
turn uf. —Ladies' Hotue Jounul
Queen Victoria’s Spider Dress.
In February, 1877, tho queen received
from the empress of Brazil a dress woven
lers’ u
u’liu^wid razors dat do ve’y
dat yo’ dofre ep *9sorfy got chop np ini
silly bubs fo* dey git half out de motif,
leimno tell yo’ dat akin# o’ chap liain't
gwint* tremble ’bout rumpirin’ ober dose
yer ebbyday baseball erfa’rs, ’deed he
hain’t, sah!"—Boston Courier.
entirely of spiders’ webs, which for fine
ness aud beauty is said to surpass the
most splendid tilk.—Notes and (Queries.
Taking Lemtons frwm Papa.
A ^few York father, who in common
with moat of the men of today .settles a
J great many of the trifling affairs of life
it Can't nm Helped. j by tocsing up a cent, received n rather
Twyrn—What makes the wealthy sharp rebuke w '
people ia the boxes chatter so noisily? I woe inc
Triplett—Money talks, yon know.— daughter of the
New York Epoch. undecided on
•Oh," said Mim Edith, after U»e <
Ilr.minify Ran# In
Peculiar humanity ransl
certain daj* you will notice a i
number of tall people. .
cr.ios eyed people. On other
the noticeably *hort p<
itml n*rs. Then one day i
observant will say, “What a i
tiirsy of the crippled, the
maimed, the dwarfed, tho
formed there are out tedayr
you are coinmentiug on it a*
along and then another and
the idea makes you thirsty.-
Herald.. • - -
’ Dislikes Vk-vatops.
It is a peculiarity of Mr. Clarence 4
Seward, president of the Unkte
that lie will never rido oa tho <
road. He prefers the conservative 1
car, and whon th# street <
rmuiiug he waiks. Mr. Sews
an avv^r4ou to passenger elevat
buildings. It is said by
ckw t friend*that theonly 1
he will trust himself iii ia th# ooei
U nion club. His office In
is on the third floor, aud thensh
up aud down stairs.—New
W*" 1 * ; 1 “ r
A new method of am t ,
pieces of steel is to heat them a* 1
as pcsoihle^ and when at a red
them between two pieces
and screw them up in a vise,
burns info the boards, wl
gether, form an air light
m cool the steel ia fc
oughlj annealed.
Some have so charming a 1
to l«ad you toTihink tl^^
them, tno only
Observation
may moke you
ion the mahttsr which
charming.
tender age of eigi
the matter of eh archgoing.
s, •
Ikwfoinl burglar!
“tel break tat
Vwnnit*.
I *aat
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