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VotrXVI.
Alliance Department.
Adopted as the County Or^an by the Coun
ty Alltnnce July5th, I8*y.
M. J. PATE, Associate Editor,
To whom all Communications on Alliance
Kattera shouki be addressed.
J _ ^ ^
^ Mima af tke Comlrty Alliance.
tV; Duncan, President.
L. B. Toole, Vice President
W. 8. Bamberg, Secretary.
A. F. Free, Treasurer.
W, Q Britton, t;bapUin.
T. 8. Weeks, County Lectnw.
W. A. All. Steward or Assistant Lecturer.
W. E. Sadler, Door Keeper.
R. Ki Harley, Assistant Door Keeper.
D W. Bodilord, SerKcant-at Arms.
t. H. Creech, Business Agent.
Executive Committee—C. b. Free, W. W.
Patrick, W. A. Faust.
Trade Committee—O. M. Hunter, E. U.
Dowling, J. M. Ulmer, W. A. All.
Committee on Good of the Order—J. C. Mc
Millan, C. M. Edenfleld, W. T. Cave, J. K
8ne1ling, E. B. Guess.
LEGAL MEDITATIONS.
BARNWELL COURT HOUSE, S. C., DECEMBER 1,
What use to me la “Byles on Bill^P*
For “Jannan on the Law of \V JU’’ w
* 1 wouldn't giro a Jarkstono
Nor wothd 1 give another for
“Jurlee and July Trials," nor more
For “Ook<» on Littleton"—j es. or *
For Chitty, Kent, or Blschstona
Will By low help me to pay the btU
I owe for lluwt rst Can Aer will
Be ebunpad by reading Jarm.iu?
What use are “Jury Trials" to me?—
Or Ucnt. or tTiitty? Rlackstonef—ba
Is dryer than theosophy.
Y es, worse than any Brnhnmn.
lie tvua told
A bale of cotton brings now $20 more
than last spring, f 14 more than at the
beginning Of this season and 19 more
than at the beginning of the last
inonth.
With pencil and paper every cotton
growing reader of The People cab ea-
sily calculate how much he has lost by
selling early. We estimate the amount
that Barnwell county farmers have lost
to be at least a quarter of a million dol
lars. How much comfort and happi
ness that sum would give if distributed
in the homes where hard times sits an
' unwelcome guest in kitchen, parlor
and bed chamber!
From this lesson the people of the
South ohght to learn wisdom.
It is easy, you say, for an editor to
look backward and jti ve advice. Every
wTTadV knows that in nine years out of
ten It pays best to sell as fast as cotton
la gathered and, hesldis, the farmers
were in debt and obliged to sell to pay
bank notes, satisfy Heiis and discharge
bills of sale and mortgages
Admitting all that to he true we hold
that our people ought to quit attendm g
the costly school which has brought so
many to the rigged edge of care and
Want.
Because things have been running In
* deep rut is no reasbti that they should
continue so doing, especially when the
lessons «*f years teach that it la all a
down bill business? going faster as It
g<»ea further. There never was a better
time for the people to turn over new
leaves and do a good deal of record
breaking than the present.
If the farmers of Barnwell county
will act the pace their brclHr* n of the
8outh will follow, for gooifleadert al
ways win devoted disciple*. If they
w ill get together, beginning In the sub-
Alliancesaud aggregating if oi k in their
county organization, they will build
well and w isely, and put In operation
agencies that will bring good to them-
selves and to every other interest in the
land of their love.
In the first place the Order, so well
and widely organized, can prepare and
publish frequent re(>ortsof cotton acre
age, fertilization and condition that will
command the confidence of,the business
world far better than the speculative
g uess work of cotton factors and New
r.cansand New Tone exchanges. If
the farmers of Barnwell county want
to give a black eye to Ui« speculators
Uie jtbpoTts gnd flfBgC
And "Kneeland on Attachments," too,
Has nothing la It that will <k><- ’
The title is misleading.
And tho’igb through dusty hooks 1 r wtd,
Alas, I ne'er can loarn to plead
In Cupid's court so she will heed.
From “Stephen's Rules of Plcadl ig.**
**Co!lyer on Partnership” I're read
(An ancient work); “Contracts to Wed,**
By some one usmed Fitzsimmons.
Nor docs It seem to help me on.
Thai '•Marriage Settlements" I con.
Or Schouler’s learned book upon
“The Laws of Msrried Women.“
There Is no statute 1 can And
W ill make a maiden change her mind;
Nor know 1 where the place Is
To Und a law will help me win
A suit like mint—or I'd begin
To search It out It isn't In
J/y set of “Leodli.g Cases."
But—"Baylirs on Appenlsl” Ah. then
Is just the answer to my prayer*
I know now how to do It
From her ded:di>n—hy the seal #
Of sU the courts'—1 will appeal:
And that will make the verdict sit.
Until 1 eoa-rwTlew It
—James Q Burnett, In N. E. Magazine,
QCEEiT PASSENGERS.
exuxnruationV** ha naked,
that the}' wero. - ,
“Whitt amount is allowed duty free*/*'
he immured, and his question was an-
awe red courteously.
Forty-eight hours later we had ar
rived at Sandy Hook, and were fast ap
proaching quarantine when something,
called me from the bridge, and 1 went
on deck.
There, staining by the railing, look
ing off toward Staton Island, Were the
members of this strange family. But
i what a change! I thought of (‘iudereila
I und Per magical transformation.
. The day was one of the hottest--of j
i September, yet the old lady was |
j wrapped in an elegant aealakin g:ir- (
*1 ment that reached nearly to her feet. ;
j Under this I,,saw tho folds of a hand- j
some black satin dress. A rich bonnet j
on her head and light kid gloves com- ,
Beside the rocky rood ho lav, - '
Beneath the Mazing noOhday sun, w
With uj*) »n ( .| toil grown thin and gray,
A weary Loras whose w ork was dona •
' %
Upon bis rides so gaunt ami thin
Were murk* of muny a cruel blow—
TTscy M. apace Ab,’ shame and bin,
. ‘That day/tit) had so far to go.
His breath was gone, his strength was spool
Tho ikry si u wusoverhead—'
As far as nature couid he went.
Then dropped upon the roadside—dead.
®hc cruel whip had lost Its powpr, »
No more a loriured si ivc waa hs;
The groat Al! good that very hour - • — —
Hud cdv'ohfmi his liberty.
The lifeless feet so wide apart, »
The spre td:ng toil, and low-la'. 1 head
Were siill at last, no tn. rc to start
With tenor at the.r awncr’s tread.
tl?ht. “TheT brutes are getting on
thelrTwtutcrrfitt and are too lazy for
anything.” sgild Ella. “Let us climb up
the cliffs a piece and see if we can
fammar with the history of judicial
proccetlings to regard them with any
superstitious gavoneaeoi says Charles
The Men of the B« .cJ» Are (f ily Ordinary
Mortals After All.
Let me say here that I hold judges,
and especially the suprgjne court of the
And thus he lay frem hour to hour,
The deadest thing beneath the sua;
A king that never kucw hi* power.
A nameless hero—overdone.
pitted her' costume. ,
The old m o .u looked ns if ho had Just
corn*' from the hands of ooo of the wo*t
fashiouable London ta'lors. Fie was
dressed in a complete new suit of
clothes, a costly overcoat and a bi»k
hat. •
But tho greatest dhangc in appear-
nnce was In the four daughters. Hith
erto they h:*.d been long, slim girls;
now they wore quite rouud and plump. )
Their dresses were plain but .rich; and |
handsome hats hlvadeT* their faces, j
which were, however, thin and, if any
thing, still paler than before,
, As soon us the ship was in her berth
and everyth ng mndc Secure. 1 came j
down from tho bridge, and, sbinding I ^
neor the gangway, watched tho bag- i A Euatlns Advontoro la tho YvTlda
.1. 1* ^ TT
At night, two brother heroes came
And. faltering, UragyiM his form sway-»
A loathsome thing of evil; fame—
A&d ocly dcau on« little day.
And yet, in life, he labored well
I:t apt to of hunger, blows and paUh
And did his duty, who cau tell
That ho shall never live'again?
He was not hurtan, no, bat more—
A mao v. lib all hi* vlrPKS givst
We'd canonizo; trat evenn- ro
A horse must work, endure and wait
—Miss E. M Colson, in later Ooeaa
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in aTdear’s CAVE,
A Sea Captain's Story of a Fam-
* ily of Cnugglora.
Many passengers returning Irony
England or the continent to U*4» United -
1 Atati*s appear to imagine that they
hare done a brilliant thing when they |
succeed in- smuggling dutiable goods
through tho custom boose. If they
, escape detection, * they congratulate
j themselves on their cleverness In ont* I
| witting tho government officials; bnt
. when they are not soccensful. and are
j exposed, tbs case assumes a different)
i asjiect
The position of the smuggling trnv-
; eler U indeed one of tho most aw kward
Imaginable.
I have been a witness of many amus
ing scenes that have ocoarred on the
White star Hhlpe and at their landing
place. One of these left a lasting Im
pression on my memory, owing, per-
hapa, to the extraordinary conduct of
all the members of an ent re family
during the voyage from Liverpool to
New York.
In the early part of September. 187-*
I stood at tbe gangway on the main
deck of tike Baltic, of which I was then
in command, at Llveiqionl, watching
the paaocugers come on board from the
tender The ship was .anchored in lIk?
river, about Ihree-quorW ra of a mile
from t!»e landing stage.
Among the last to leave the tender
was a family which consisted of father,
mother and four daughteta The
father was an old man—abort, stout
and thick art. His wife wae round,
plump, very red id tbe faoe.^nd panted
with the exertion she was making.
The daughters, on the contrary, weyt?
long, lank, and thin, both in face ar.d
figure.
The whole appearance of the group
was so poor, and their dress so shabby
and worn, that as they went aft among
the saloon passengers it seemed aa if a
mistake had been made, and that their
proper tdacc was in thestecrage. Many
> un;
of tbe
ATrtrFYrSrvwTr r
rirwu mom'T'TO ikTflg Fusuncta
gud intereeU Ut titum insugunae thbe
work,'” The details w ill be easy of ar
rangement.
What sub-Alliance will begin, by as
certaining how much cotton ita luein-
bera will plant next Year as compared
with this, the quantity of home made
and commercial fertilizers they w ill use
and other facts that g? to show that
they will continue to make home sup
plies?
• Human selfishness is too strong for
the hope that the Alliance cab control
cotton acreage, but every member of
the order and every farmer outside
ought to furnish reports that tall the
truth, the whole truth and nothing but
the truth concerning his farming ope
rations.
If that were done and it can be done,
p fair estimate of the crop could be made
at the opening of every season and
there would be an end to the lluctua-i
tlons in price that impoverish the cot
ton maker and enrich the speculators-
And this is a good time for another
thing. We venture that evecy fanner
who will study his store account these
long i'inter evenings will find that he
bought many things during? the spring
and summer that he could hav^a done
without, or mi they have cost him twice
as much as they should, for they were
charged at credit-pylces and paid for
with sacrificed cO'-tou.
ou we
gage as it was carried on the dock. It
so happened that it w:*s piled up not |
far from tho foot of the gangway, oo :
that I had a good opportunity to see
the result of the ixaminaltoD.
The Trrrgte noii* fftmi ad,, ol re ad? ^
grmV agfcrc-rcfTT’ihc diner passengers,
and now stood near a collection of
trunks, bag* and l^indtes of rugs,
waiting tur an officer to examine their
luggage.
1 was well acquainted with the senior .
inspector, who was stationed but a few
q$ep* fr»*ni the gangway. Ocaaiionully
he looked up und smiled aa the me a
came to him and reported the result of <
their work.
A faw minutes later ait official ap-
proa^ied tho strnsgo family and asked
for the keys of their trtbikv which the?
old man had not pmdnced. Ho thrust
his hand into his pocket and drew out
hie kvyn The officer took them, fitted ,
titrm to the trunks, threw oj»en tho lid
of one after another, lifted tho eon-
ten 1a, ran bis hand through Utctn; in
abort, made the usual examination.
In the meanvime the attention of the
senior officer hot! l*een drawn in that
i direction, lie turned and faced tho
group, carefully scrutinising its mem
bers while the examination was in prr*g^
* W f 6
rru*
When all had been opened, the Uda
were closed and marked by tbe iurpec
tor, who then reported that potbiug
• contraband or dutiable had been found.
1 smiled as I heard tho report At that
moment tl»e eyes of the sesilor officer
met mine. I noticed a peculiar cx-
1 pressioa on hb face.
Adraucing toward the party, the In
spector t«»ld the old man to go to the
j office occupied by the custom-house oQ-
' dais. My curiosity was excited. I
left the ship, went down the gangway,
sod stood a few steps distant, watching
' the proceedings.
The old man's countenance turned a
greenish-white as i.c looked in the di
rection indicated. 1 be old lady trem
bled and seemed scarcely ab o to stand;
while tbe four .girls were white and
tfr rUU.kHnns)
two or tbpee days door closed l^c.iind t.io whole pa*fy. (
The old man was requested- to step
into one of the exaedniug rooms, wldle
the mother and daughter*' wore taken
(n charge by a female searcher and
conducted into another.
After about half an hour the trem
bling woman and'her *dtiughlcrs re
turned to the main office. Ihe female
searcher followed, and, going up to the
table in the center of the room, placed
a small valUe upon it in front of the
appraiser.
At almost the same moment the old
man appeared, accompanied by un offi
cer. Tho officer placed on the table a
small package inclosed in brotyn paper,
of Hungary.
The Russian maneuvers were over
and the army was thankful, for the sea
son had boe a_oo$j>f the worst theold-
o-i. »>J us Ths-earsl-
ry had had tho hardest time. Sta
tioned as outposts we had bivouacked
in mud and water inches deep, ml a and
haPstorxcs had soaked and stiffened us
for days at a time, some of oar best
horses had gouo lame, and tbs. cook
ing had liecn atroeloua I don't Uno#
wbva we had all t een to glad to get
kn«‘k to oar depots and to the comforts
of homo.
Bnt when 1 reached my rooms one of
the fir> t letters 1 picked up was from
my old hunting companion. Count Cits,
and cor.tainud sn invitation to join him
for a two weeks* hunt in his favorite
haunt, tbe Carpathian mountains.
“Come down os soon as you get this,**
tbe loiter ran. “1 have seen the tracks
of one of the biggest bears thst ever
walked and shall wait for you to join
me in giving it the Reoup de grace’
Deer and boars were never more plenti
ful nor In better condit on. Come down
and be thawed out by our glorious Hun
garian sun." i
I could uot resist; balls and theaters
a d go, and I astonished mj servant,
fst oil Augu.t, who was polishing
up my parade clothes, by tailing him
to drop everything and pack my bant
ing Iran*. A visit to the colonel was
next lu orde* and without much trouble
I got three weeks’ leave.
1 left tow n in a rainstorm, bat when
the ascent and id an hour had left tho
deciduous trees behind — the region
grew wilder^and made progress more
difficult We Kcramblcd through brush
and'thicket, sometimes crawling paiTr-,
fully up bare rocks, still vret and slip
pery with dew, sometimes having to
descend abrupt places in a sitting posi
tion. Onco I missed my fooling and
rolled and slid twenty feet down a steep
incliue, clutching vainly at stones and
roots only to pitch headlong into a
thorny bramble that held me a prisoner
until Cl& hacked me out with his knife.
While 1 was pulling the thorns oat of
my flesh and clothe* Eltz went forward
to roconnoitcr a great fissure a few hun
dred feet up the moimtain side. When
ready to follow him I noticed a kestrel
hanging in the air, its shadow vlbrmt- ;
ing at my feet Suddenly it swooped
dowuwards and then 1 spied its clear
cut figure outlined against the sky at
the top of a dead pine, and one fool
elutchod some small animal its keen
eye hud marked for its prey. Right at
the foot of the pine I saw a great dark j
moving mass which I know was a bear. !
It re are * 1* up and tore the bark of the |
tree with iU groat clawt Just like a |
cat, then came slowly up the slopes
evidently beading In our direction. It
had not yet seen me, and dodging be
hind bowlaer* and stumps 1 hastened
to join Eltx. Ilo was on Bis hands and
knees peering Into a dark, low caveita
when 1 reached him and his ayes
sparkled at the news I brought.
“Let’s go into tlie cave and snrprise-
the old follow if he trl^A Wxrt lajrlzq-.
“Supposing-his mate is in thereI
ventarvd to remonstrate, but he de
clared that all signs showed that, the
occupants were ool at home, and be
fore I could find another objection he
hod seised mj arm and dragged me in
with him., The entrance was too low
to stand upright, so we crawled for
ward on oar hand* and knees. Ells
leading the way. We had hardly gone
seven yards when Eltz drew bock. He
had nearly goes headforemost into a
hole. The rock dropped abruptly here,
and I passed him my rifle. Lowering
it by the shonllrr straps he c6ald joet
touch bottom. There was no time to
stop, so we lowered outlives careful
ly and then passed oroacd to see how
much of a footing we had down there.
Just then we heard tlie bear enter the
cava It came with a rush, and aa we
flattened ourselvce against tbe steep
wall it dropped at our feet with a
hoarse grunt and went thcffllng off
Into the dark. It came so much Sooner
than we had expected that we had no
time to explore the save and determine
oo oar plan of attack. We cock] hoar
It thrashing about and grunting some
where In the depthe of the cavern, but
of coarse we ooald see nothing.
“L^t's get oat of here,” I whispered.
“AB right,** said Elis, and be gave
me a hoist up As I straggled upward
Sumner, quoted iu an exchange. Judges
arc but men and in all ages have shown
a full share of frailty.
Alas! alas! the worst crimcaof history
have been committed under their sanc
tion. The blood of martyrs and of
patriots, crying from the ground, sum- i
mens them to judgment.'
It was u judicial tribunal which con
demned Socrates to drink the fatal
hemlock and which pushed the Saviour
barefoot over the pavements of Jerusa
lem, be nding beneath 11 in cross. It was
a Judicial tribunal which, against Tho
testimony ami entreaties of her father,
surrendered the fair Virginia as a slave;
which arrested the teachings of the
great npostle to the Gentiles and sent
himin bonds from Jerusalem to Romo;
which, in the name of the old religion,
adjudged tho saints and fathers of the
Christian church to death, in all ita
most dreadful forms, and which after
ward, in the name of the now religion,
enforced the tortures of the inquisition,
amid the shrieks and agonies of ita vic
tims, while It compelled Gallileo to de
clare in solemn denial of the great
truth that he had disclosed that the
earth did not move around the son.
It woe a judicial tribunal whizh, in
France, during the reign of her mon
arc hs, lent itself to be the Instrument of
every tyranny, as daring the brief reign
pf terror it did not hesitate to stand
forth tbe OMflEjing linn—gy of On*.
we * Warned into Vienna next morning 1 saw the great bear I bad seen coming
the sky was clear and the air balmy up the mountain not two yards from
and exhilarating. Thirty-fonr hours ; tin month of tho cave, and I dropped
later, by mean.-) of roil, boot and slaoc,
I was eating supper with my genial
friend Ettz, under the shadows of the
Carpathians.
Favored Wy the fine fall weather, we
had splendid sport, bringing seven deer
and three wild boars and quantities of
smaller g;:tae during the first week.
Sunday we rested and Eltx proceed
we should start out next day for the
down again, stammering oat:
“Hera's the other one! Lie olose to
the rock for your life!’*
The great brute, came shading In
slowly and stopped when it reached the
edge of the rook. Peering upwards I
could scs ita huge head swinging slowly
from aide to side. It was snnffiag
deadly and suspiciously.' Would it de
tect ns?
On the passage.
later,' happening tfi go aft one morning,
I agaki Remarked this carious family.
They were silting entirely apart from
the other paasen^rern, on the long
wooden seat that ran along the side of
the railing. Steamer chairs were a
luxury In which, evidently, they had
not indulged. . ,
The father, mother and fonr daugh
ters—tue daughters resembling a (light
of steps of even gradationa—sat
solemnly side by aideTvYllhc.ut uttering
a word, and appearing as if they were
assembled at a funeral.
The ship was full of passengers, who
were mostly Americans, returning
from their summer outing. They had
not much to occupy lhc»r attention, 1 many of whom were passengers from
and soon all who were well enough to ; tho ship* They had perceived that tho
enjoy any little novelty or excitement .queer family were suspected, und had
were attracted towird this strange and
•very eccentric family group.
They responded so briefly and coldly
to kind inquiries made of them by sev
eral of the ladies that even the most
Inquisitive were obliged to give up try
ing to solve the problem which they/,
seemed to suggest. They were soon
left entirely to themselves.
Not one member of the family was
evei^een alone, either on deck or in f 1 brown paper packjige, upon
the saloon. J If one of 4,lio party rose np opened, disclosed about six tl
r?trvat,” he snid, “bnt we need make
no preparations, as we can spend ths
night at my forester’s.”
During our tramp next day we saw
many of tbe forest inhabitants, start
ling Ivre nnd thera a doer or lynx, an l
once nearly stumbling over a wild sow
with a litter of little brtatlcra. The
little fellows tore headlong through
the undergrowth, but the sow showed
fight, and not wishing to kill her we
had to retreat. In the afternoon we
spied a fine young vixen, sitting be
fore a hollow oak stump and watching
with evident pride the gamlxds of four
young cubs. They were playing with
a *youug leveret their mother had
The office was nowfillcd'Wit^ipeqple t home alive. We had hardly
time to admire the antic* of the grace
ful little creatures when the mother
gave a short, sharp bark, snapped up
the leveret and in a wiok tho whole
Aye, Sir, it was a judicial tribunal hi
England, surrounded by all ths forms
of law, which sanctioned every despotic
coprice of Henry VIII., from the unjust
divorce of his queen to the beheading of
Sir Thomas Moore; which lighted the
fires of persecution, that glowed at Ox
ford and Hmithflold. over the cinders of
Latimer. Ridley and John Rodgers;
which after elaborate argument upheld
the fatal tyranny of ship money against
the patriotic resistance of Hampden;
which, in defiance of justice and hu
manity, sent Sydney and Russell to the
block; which persistently enforced tbe
laws of conformity that our Puritan
fathers persistently refused to obey,
and which afterward, with Jeffries on
the bench, crimsoned site pages of Eng
lish history with mssrsr re and murder,
even with the blood of innocent women.
. Aye, sir. It wee a judicial tribunal in
our country, surrounded by all the
forma of law,. which hung witches at
flalem, which affirmed tbe constitution
ality of the stomp act* while K admon
ished jurors and ths people to obey,
and which now in our day has lent Its
sanction to tbe unutterable atrocity of
the fugitive slave law.
SAHARA THE VAST. ,
TUs Gvsetsr Fart of IS Almost Eattrotj
Dootllsts of Any Kind of LJfo.
Tbe Sahara begins ou ths shores ol
the Atlantic ocean, between the Cn
nance and Cape Verd, and traverses the
whole of north Africa, Arabia and
IVtsIo, as far ou central Asia The
Mediterranean portion of It may be said
roughly to extend between the fifteenth
and thirtieth degree of north latitude.
This was properly supposed to hare
been a vast Inland sea. but tbe Now
York Ledger sots this theory was sup
ported by geographical facts wrongly
9peculations to Regard to the ]
of Comiuu;.icati«ig
We know that the tribes upon
earth which live under the
Yavcrable conditions as regards
pio Esquimaux, for Instance, a
Fbtagoniana—are far behind the !
itant* of tho temperate regions la
iliratkgCainMIS^lu&d*?, snyi
tator, if wo may draw j
all as to the Martials frora our
dition. the more probable
that, if they cnist under circut
at all like our own, they, arc,
ing their great distance from tbe
centuries behind us rather than St 1
same stage of evolution, or, still less,
centuries before ns. " '
Ami if wo have no right to draw
an inference, then we have stUl lei
reason with the smallest
from our own circumntanecs to
They may, of course, have sense
ss we hare not even dream of}
may be perfectly well acquainted
all that happens not only on onr
but on all the other planets, and
quite unable to let us know thpt
arc familiar with our oanditiotta of Ilfs,
and how they have acquired thoi
knowledge. But if that were so, ft
would be only too obvious thst oaf*
conditions of’life furnish ns with M
basis for forming any conjecture,at
aa to theirs; and in that suss It
not only be sanguine, but quits
tiousL to attempt to open
lions at alL The only shadow of
fication for making such
rests on the SAmimpcion that we
reason from the analogy of otr
condition to theirs, and
sumptjpn we U\ink It
prudent to assume t^rat,
tics as ours ore already
tbe surface of Mare at all, they ore 1
ly to be far behind instnod of
PUTTING
fat LUltemUM mi -Mervw**
Youth in Its springtime oftsi
•How shall 1 succeed in lifeT* m
•ocnentoue question
many time* and
me cry comes from
hood, and an aching void
hare bean tiled. To
ucklate the pro hies
tail would require
after aU, u4
jeot is
A rw«f
met first possess hi—slf of a
‘‘front,’* soys an
not be much of i
front; Indeed, one has
self but little about Imbibing
throws merit Into the shade i
In the year, and is sooner
A ‘'front'* son si— of a
swagger, s pretends
erythlng under tho sun sad i
sir. To this must bo adds
Idiocy might disclose itself,
lug a swift diisnlsssl of si)
with a brief end emphatic oph
cannot be said to commit ths a
gather with s decidedly cynical i
toward everything in gouara
It is Just possible that a;
with such an equipment a
long, but, during the period of hisl
bustle triumph, he can easily i
treasure op enough
which to nurture ;<
vrery prop has faT.cn apty.
.
remained behind to see the “fun.” The
appraiser rose from his chair, went up
to the table and opened the valise.
Every eye was upou him es ho drew
forth its glittering contents and spread
them out before It
Swiss, French und English watches,
chains, both long and short, bracelets,
rings and jewelry of every description
}«y sparkling iu the sunlight The
being
thousand
The Memphis Meeting.
Secretary of StatcTimlall, one of the
South Carolina de’egate* to the meet
ing of the Supreme Council of'the Na'
tionnl Alliance at Memphis, says:
“1 hope that the election of the offi
cers will result all right. The public
seems to have somewhat of an errone
ous impression of the results of the
meeting. All I care to say is that when
the Alliance first met it was soon ascer
tained that a party of outsiders con
nected with theThlid party werework-
ing to try to make the Alliahce a kind
of annex to the Third party. This was
Very strongly opposed, and 1 think that
when the Alliance adiourned i| was
thoroughly agreed by all parties, that
the Alliance must best be kept entirely
a non-partizan organization.
There was no objection from the first
to tbe officers proposed, but only to the
use of ths Alliance fbr any political
party. The friction was all reused
there. V think that after all that, has
transpired, ths Third party officers will
not attempt to use the Alliance for their
political party aada. —
T think also that tbs attacks upon Dr.
i orlgtuatofi wUh ~
all
to walk, all formed in solemn proces
sion. JSilcntly and sadly they prom
enaded np and down the deck, until, at
a signal from the father or mother, all
stopped and resumed their scats.
• One of jLhe ladies who sat at my table
asked me what I thought of these peo
ple. I had had no time up to that mo
ment to think about them at all. and
toid her so; but I added that, if
weather continued fine, I should cast
«n*yc on them occasionally, and tell
her what conclusion I arrived at
The weather proved favorable, and I
began to be somewhat interested in the
family. Certainly their movements
were very peculiar. Whether they
were caused by timidity, eccentricity j
or a desire to be let severely alone, I |
could not quite decide.
Ax the end of the passage approached, !
rnmutakable signs of anxiety and
nervousness were visible In tbe faces
uuset' diamonds.
concealed in the
-t
dollars’ worth of
These were found
clothing of the old m&n.
The total value of tho goods was es
timated to-be nearly eleven thousand
dollars.
A loud laujh rang through tho room
at the expression of dismay on the old
man's face. There wa* little sympathy
the ! for him, but tbe position of the poor
old lady and her daughters was indeed
pitiable. .
In the excitement of tbe
did not think of remarking the appear
ance of the girls until an exclamation
from one of the passengers drew my
attention to them. They were no
longer round and plump, as Just before
leaving the ship, but had resumed their
former lank appearance.
I ascertained later that the greater
part of tl»« jewelry hsd been concealed
in the clothing of the daughters, as |
of all the members ol the family. One the father hod stupidly imagined that.
afternoon juft before dinner, near the
wheel bouse, the old man suddenly be
gan a conversation with a gentleman
who stood fear- I heppeped to over
hear the talk *
The weaihax—a the firat topic; hot
soon the subject-drifted to
the old man's heart. He begaa to
family was safe underground.
We reached the forester’s house, or
rather, hut, before sunset. Two
great boavkounds sprang up at our ap
proach and came barking and bound
ing toward us. They were old friends
of Eltz’s and nearly threw him down
by their clumsy welcome. Their
master was not at home, but we made
ourselves comfortable, lighting a fire
and filling our pipes with some good
uutural leaf that hangover the mantcL
Erhardt came in before dark, lie had
some news for us, for he had seen
tho big bear wo were after that
very morning. ' He hod crept, up
to within a faw yards of it
as it was feasting in a whortleberry
patch about three miles north of us.
lie declared it was a stranger to those
parts, having probably been driven
, away from the lower plains.*- Erhardt
] never voluntarily took part in any
moment 1 j hunting expeditibo, and Eltz, respect
ing his feelings, never asked him to.
He had an observing mind and bis
stories of annual trails were extremely
interesting.
On a heap of deer and bear skins
Eltz and 1 slept like topa Early next
morning Erhardt awakened me to give
me a word of caution. “'There never
waa a better huntsman than the ^Uerr
Graf,”* he aaid, “bat his success has
made him foolhardy. Don’t hesitate to
owing to their youth, they would not use your rifle if be geta into cloee qud"r
be suspected.
On my return voyage I learned that
the old man had been compelled to pay
double duty an his gpmU.— Whelkerwr
not he ever made ft second attempt at
I cannot say. It was the
At
■nder my
•4^ , , .
•wei U? my thought, and I saw its fferoo
red eyes glow as it glared upon u*.
The loug-Htrctched neck tempted Ella
and he sprang up, knife in hand, but
before he oould strike I had*pusked my
rifle against ills shaggy neck and fired
three shots that tore its throat out. A
deluge of warm blood streamed down
upon us, the walls of the cavern rang
again and again with the cracking re
ports and the horrible roars of the mor
tally wounded brute. In the dim light
and through the smoke I saw It half
fall, half spring over the ledge. We
Jumped out of tbe way, but the cave
was s<5 narrow that one great paw
struck my foot before 1 could get away
and threw me headlong. The long
claws tore through my boot and lac
erated me badly. The other boar was
uttering frightful roars,* and as I lay
half stunned and helpless ou the ground
I never expected to get out of the
place alive, for’I believe Eltz would
want to knife the other bear and
in the dark he would have little chance
of snccesa. It waa with a sigh of re
lief that I heard him mutter as he
picked up my rifle, “I suppose I must
s^oot, but 1 hate to do It ** Then ke
sent shot after shot in the direction of
tho growls. We could n ot have re
treated from her attack, but she died
tamely without showing^fight Eltz
helped’ me up, and we got out of a#
tight a place as I ever care to get into.
The smoke of tbe rifle and the musty
smell of tbe cavern bad half suffocated
ua, and the din of the reports and the
roars of the bears rang in our heads for
days afterward. a
By the aid of a s tout stick and Elis’
arm I got back to Erhardt's cabin to
be laid up for the rest of the week with
a pretty sore foot Eltz and the for
ester seL. off the next morning, and
lighting up the cave with torches they,
skinned the bears and brought back
tpe furs and a fine ham before night.
The great bear was large a male
brown bear as either hod ever seen and
his fur was exceptionally fine and
glossy, but the female, was a small
specimen, and her hide but of ordinary
quality. Erhardt declared tbe big fel
low was a stranger to those parts, and
had either killed or driven off the
former mate ol the smoUfemala. Moat
of the members of tke bear family
mate for life, but in hie long sequaio^-
+\ii*mhrrrtig- rrSForeHre ~of travelers
and geologists that such a sea was,
neither tho cause nor the origin of the
Libyan desert. Rainless* and sterile
regions of this nature are not peculiar
to north Africa, but occur in two bolts
which go round the world la cither
hemisphere, at about similar distances
north and south of the equator. These
correspond in locality to the great in
land drainage areas from which no
water can be discharged into fhe ocean
and which occupy about one-fifth of the
total land surface of the globe. Tho
African Sahara is by no means a uni
form plain, but fogxns several distinct
basins containing Tconsklorablcrextent
of what may almost be called mannt:an
land. TheThgxrar mountains, in the
center of thrnBahara, are seven thou
sand feet high, and are covered during
three months with snow. The physical
character of the region is very varied.
In some places, such osTiout and other
coces in or bordering on Morocco,
there are well-watcrod valleys, with
fine scenery and almost European vege
tation, where the fruits of the north
flourish side by side with the palmtrce.
In others, there are rivers like the Uicd
Guir, an affluent©! tho Niger, which the
French soldiers, who saw' it in 1870, com
pared to the Loire. Again, as in the
bed of tho Tried Rir, there is a subter
ranean river Which gives a sufficient
supply of water to make a chain of
rich and we 11-peopled oases equal in
fertility to some of the finest portions
of Algeria. The greater part of Sahara,
however, is hard and undulating, cut
up by dry water courses and almost en-
Urely without animal or vegetable life.
with their ways
foi
ten with that big bear. 1 had rather
see my right hand cut off than a hair Pf
his bead injured * 1 promised UjL. CLUlliikMi xfi i—esmi-aneh nrrurKTOftL
n -?hat his moslerThoaftT not run too ftod no doubt he was right - Eltz la-
great risks if I could prevent it, and s*sted that tbe big akin belonged to me,
the honest fellow gpre me his hand - *°d when Ijretorned 1 brought it uith
the time we were dreeeed he had a me. and it
it !e <
r *
Deterioration of Rubber.
A rubboinexpert, who has been mak
ing investigations into the caurx* ©I the
deterioration of rubber, has thrown a
new BgUfc on the short service derived
from rubber hose In railway work. It
Is found that the copper salts which are
used In various stages of the manufac
ture of certain kinds of rubber goodq
frequently tend to decompose or harden
the material. Metallic copper in con
tact with rubber causes the oxidation or
hardening of the gum, although no'ap
preciable amount of the metal may en
ter into it: but zinc does not in any way
affect IL Oil containing even the small
est quantity of copper Is highly injuri
ous to rubber goods, anttTiH oils, cxerpT period of
rt 1 - nr* 4 r 4 - 1 -^i-r
Tfnsecd oil wring also on arid which
WORTH-
A L—os That Bvory Boy CM Well MU
lord So Loot ot
There were tVro boys tumbling on thw
soft gross of a little lawn; and toon or
dinary observer they did not seem to be
doing anything bat wrestling, turning *
handsprings, and acting ns If they were '
trying to dislocate their joints generally*
says the Chicago Lodger. Finally on#
sprang up laughing. ,
“Well, I’m going now. Gome on#
Dick.”
“Why, I told mother I’d wait here till 1
fonr o’clock,” answered Dick.
“Well, you have—almost. It’s only
ten minutes to four now.. What differ
ence will ton minutes make?”
“The difference between a fc
keeps his word and a fellow who
not,” said Dick, gay ly turning another
somersault. J
After All they were busied with some
thing tnorc important than athletiet
feats that day; they were slowly build
ing character. Did yon ever think hoWi
long it takes to maker a man what be iv,
as the world knows him? How meaty*
words, deeds, decisions, omissions—
many of them seemingly unimportant
in themselves—have slowly formed the
iter, capital which makes him
L. ;
t poor: Character is capital, even
in the mere mercantile sense of having d
stock on which to trade.
unexpectedly her
a great dinner
A Story of TagltoaL
An interesting little incident of the
private life of Taglioni is told by
friends of her meeting i
divorced husband at
after twenty years* separation, lid
was not aware of the presence of hie
wife, for after a few minutes he
his neighbor: “Who is
looking old maid?” Tha
swcrtxl: “TagUonL** “Is it?
be, after all.** he replied, and
eating his dinner. When the
was ended he sought on inf
his wife, moat formally and <
saluting her. But she, less dii
It
made him a stately bow and aakl, I
“I am umW the impression tfift I
hod the honor of meeting yon
some twenty yean ago,” and
/away.
rota tWlotk
r.aad
> of the evidences of
of rubber Is its
It ia related that ia
swiuunkg in
dyke and