The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, August 17, 1899, Image 4
The Man With the Hoe.
Bowed by the weight of centuries he
leans I
Upon his hoe and gazes in the
ground,
The emptiness of ages on his face.
And on his hack the burden of the
world, i
Who made him dead to rapture and ^
despair,
A thing that grieves not and that 1
never hopes, *
Stolid and stunned, a brother to the ;
ox?
Who loosened and let down his
brutal jaw? !
Whose was the hand that slanted !
back his brow? I
Whose breath blew out the light ,
within this brain?
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JS tins lilt; CIIIIIJ4 lilts IjUIU u?u maur
and gave
To have dominion oversea and land;
To trace the stars ami search the
heavens for power;
To feel the passion of eternity?
Is this the dream He dreamed who
shaped the suns
And pillared the blue fiimament
with light?
Down all the stretch of hell to its
last gulf
There is no shape more terrible than
this?
More tougued with censure of the
world's blind greed?
More filled with signs and portents
for the soul?
More fraught with menace to the
universe.
What gulfs between him and the
seraphim!
love of the wheel of labor, what to
him
Are Plato and the swing of Pleaides?
What the long reaches of the peaks
of song,
The rift of dawn, the redding 01 me
rose?
Through this dread shape the suffering
ages look;
Time's tragedy is in that aching
stoop;
Through this dread shape humanity
betrayed,
Plundered, profaned and disinherited,
Cries protest to the judges of the
world,
A protest that is also prophecy.
O masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
Is this the handiwork you gave to
God,
This monstrous thing distorted and
soul-quenched?
How will you ever straighten up this
shape;
Give back the upward looking and
the light;
Rebuild in it the music and the
dream;
Touch it again with immortality;
Make right the immemorial infamies,
Perfidious wrongs, irremediable
woes?
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O masters, lords and rulers in all
lands,
How will the future reckon with this
man?
How answer his brute question in
_ that hour
When whirlwinds of rebellion shake
the world?
How will it be with kingdoms and
with Kings?
With those who shaped him to the
thing he is?
When this dumb terror shall reply to
God
After the silence of the centuries?
?Edwin Markham.
TRUUiSLk t-UK tnt kaksvu.
Likely to be in Dark Company Wherever
he Went.
A Connecticut family being much
troubled about good servants and on
a visit to some friends in 'lennessee,
noticed one of those negro cooks
(who are to be found here and there,)
whose demeanor was as quiet as her
work and person was cleanly. They
persuaded her to enter their service,
and in due time she arrived in Connecticut.
On the following Sabbath,
armed with her church letter recommending
her to the kindly consideration
of any sister church with
whom she might affiliate, she, after
much surprise at finding herself the
"only darkey in sight for miles," to
* say nothing of an African M. E.
Church, asked for permission to
worship with the "white folks" and
put her letter of good standing in
with them. She was told to come
around 011 the following evening to
the business meeting of the official
board.
Arrived, she was given a seat
while her case was discussed, with
the result that the whole board, exiZ
- cept the pastor, was in favor of receiving
her into fellowship, hers
being an exceptional case and she
herself so evidently respectable that
there was no reason at all for saying
otherwise.
The pastor, however, as president,
vetoed it, saying: "No brethren. 1
do not believe these people are human,
or will ever go to Heaven.
More than that, I should be unwilling
to go there myself it they
also will be admitted."
Here the woman * interposed:
"Well, honey, if you doan't want to
go to Hebbin' wid niggers and you
go to hell, you'll find plenty of niggers
dar, too!"
Capt. W7illiam Astor Chandler,
Congressman from New York,
is the president of The New York
Stab, which is givingaway a Forty
Dollar Bicycle daily, as offered
by their advertisement in another
column. Hon. Amos J. Cummings.
>1. C., Col. Asa Bird Gardner, Dis^
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triUt Aiiwi ur%v wi iuiA? CA"V?
etnor Hogg, of Texas, and Col. Fred.
Feigl, of New York, are among the
well known names in their Board of
Directors.
Keep the Stomach and Bowels in
good condition, the waste avenues
open and free by an occasional dose
of Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine.
For sale by Hughson-Ligon Co.
Every time a man tells what he
considers a good story in a crowd, he
is compelled to listen to a lot of others
that bore him.
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Political Union of North America.
The area of public lands lietween
the Red river and Rocky mountains
in Canada upon which the best hard
wheat can be successfully grown,
stated by Professor McCoun at 200,000,000
acres, is one half as large as
that of all the rebellious states. If
one fifth part of it was under eulti
vation, yielding 12$ bushels per acre
?the average yield of wheat in Man
itoba in 1S91 was 25 3-10 bushels per
acre?the total yield would be 500,
000,000 bushels, or in value greater
than our entire cotton crop. This is
only one of many sources of wealth
to be gained by the peaceful consum
mation of continental union.
The political union of the United
States and British North America can
d? peaceruny consummated oy me
wise expenditure of less than one
tenth of 1 j>er cent, or one-thousandth
part of the cost of the civil war to date,
leaving out of the calculation the
value of the property destroyed and
the destruction of human life. All
parties agree that the preservation of
the territorial integrity of the Union
was a necessity, and that its cost
has been justified by events since the
close of the war.?Francis Wayland
Glen in New York Sun.
CROKER SAYS HE WAS WRONG.
declares We Have No Right to Conquer
the Philippines-Thinks Bryan a Great
Man.
New York, August 13.?The Herild
to-morrow will say: Richard
broker, at the Democratic Club last
night, said: "I was wrong in the
statement I made before I went
tway concerning the Philippine
Islands. I based my belief that we
should not give up a foot of soil our
soldiers have won on information
that wan not complete. I would not
give two cents for a man who, when
he found that -he had been wrong,
would not at the very first chance
set himself right. Such a man
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would not ue nt ior euuei puimto
private life.
"Publicly I made the statement
that I did not belieye we should give
up the Philippines, which had cost
us so many lives. Iam not ashamed
now to say to the public that I
was wrong.
"I am not playing a political game
through that intervinw. No man was
responsible for my change of mind.
While I was in Europe I talked with
some of the best informed men there
or anywhere else on the subject
of colonial conquest. 1 made investigation
for myself. I reached
the conclusion that we have no right
at all to keep the Philippines. We
were wrong in the first place to pay
$20,000,000 for them.
' On a question like this there
should be no dividing line between
Democrats and Republicans. Humanity,
not politics, is involved, and
I am convinced that humanity as
represented by the votes of American
citizens at the next Presidential
election will record its horror and
execration of the men and the party
who are for private gain, putting
bloody pages into history. Believing
those things now, I go straight
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to the public anu imu&ijr onj - ..?
wrong.
"I said I believed W. J. Bryan
was one of the greatest men America
has produced. I believe that very
thing now. But that does not mean
that I shall work for the nomination
of Mr. Bryan or that I think he is
the only man fitted for the nomination.
He is as good a man and leader
as could be found. But I have uo
candidate."
SAYS SHE SAW HEAVEN.
Woman Declared Dead Suddenly Comes
to Life.
Wheeling, W. Va., August 10.?
Mrs. Alexander Taylor, a widow 36
years old, of Toronto, near here, has
been slowly dying of consumption
for a week. Yesterday morning she
became unconscious. A doctor was
called and pronounced her dead,
and funeral preparations were begun.
About midnight her friends
were astounded to see Mrs. Taylor
move, open her eyes and ask for
water.
She asked, it is said, that a favorite
niece, who lives in Iowa, be summoned
at once to receive a message
from her mother, who has been dead
several years. Mis. Taylor says her
spirit was disembodied and soared
through space till a brilliant and
u?ns rp?nnhed. Here
uoauuiui ftiviw ? mw -
angels were flying about, guarding
what seemed the entrance to
Heaven. She was refused admittance,
but was allowed to converse
at a short distance with her husband,
who died last winter, and with her
sister, the mother of the favorite
niece.
The message sent for the niece she
refuses to 'disclose, except to the
young woman. Mrs. Taylor says
she was promised that she should
come to Paradise very soon. Mrs.
Taylor is an educated, sincere,
Christian woman and is in ecstacy
over the belief that she will soon
join her friends gone before.
The niece ha6 been telegraphed
for. Mrs. Taylor cannot live more
than a few days.
Close at Hand.
The day is long and the day is hard.
We are tired of the march and of
keeping guard,
Tired of the sense of a fight to be
won,
Of days to live through, and of work
to be done,
Tired of ourselves and of being
alone.
And all the while, did we only see,
We walk in the Lord's own company;
We fight, 'tis He who nerves our
arm,
He turns the arrows which else
might harm.
And out of the storm He brings a
calm.
The work which we count so hard
to do,
He makes it easy, for He Works, too;
The duvs that are long to live are
His,
A bit of His brighter eternities.
And close to our need His helping is.
Oh, eyes that were holden and blindpH
nuifp.
And caught no glimpse of the guiding
light!
Oh, deaf, deaf ears, which did not
hear!
The heavenly garment trailing near!
Oh, faithless heart, which dared to
fear!
?Susan Coolidge.
A Change All Around.
| ' There goes a party who will be
heard from." said Smith, pointing to
a young man who was going down
the street. "He has managed to
keep his head in love and financial
matters, and they are the two tests.
"Two months ago he was a young
man with all the world before him
and with no prospects ahead of him
except a determination to fight life's
battle.
"He was in love with a young lady
living in this city, but his financial
condition prevented him from declaring
his passion, besides he was
not sure that the young lady in question
cared for him.
"But by one of those curious turns
of the wheel of fortune an old aunt,
that he had never seen, died and
It? 11/ mill CL 1CVI 9UUI ?/| Ultriirj I
Without delay he called upon the j
young lady and asked her to marry
him, saying nothing about the fortune
that had been left him. He
met with a point blank refusal.
kkTwo days later the girl heard of
his unexpected windfall, and wrote
him a note saying, 'I have changed
my mind.'
"His answer was just as short. It
read:
"So have I."?Detroit Free Press.
Educate Your Bowela With Cascareta.
Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever.
10c, 25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money.
THE PASSING OF KING COTTON.
South Carolina Will Have 20.000.000
Pounds of Tobaeco this Year.
Coi.l'MBIA, S. August 10.?The South
Carolina farmer Ih slow to give up his allegiance
to King Cotton, but the returns in
late years have shaken his faith.ami achauge
is steadily being made. There has been
nothing revolutionary in the supplanting of
cotton iu half a dozen counties iu the rich
Pee-Dee section by tobacco. The tirst experiments
were made by one or two men in
Darlington county Ave or six years ago.
They were successful. The farmers in each
county have experimented, and only when
certain of success have they Rone into tobacco
as their money crop. Thisyearit is planted
extensively in six large counties, while in
others experimental farms were cultivated.
There are thousands of tobacco barns dotting
the country, while in eight or ten towns
large warehouses have been built. At these
warehouses sales have been in progress fur
weeks, but the big "breaks" took place this
week, when several million pounds of the
weed was sold to buyers from all over the
country.
Since the industry was begun in this State
each year's product has more than doubled
the last and the grade of leaf has improved.
This season from 15,000.000 to 20.000.000
pounds will be soi l in these warehouses.
The prices so far have ruled from 4- cents to
26 cents, and the tobacco planter is the happiest
farmer in the State.
The impetus to wheat growing has beeu
more sudden and marked than that of tobacco
culture. Last fall a large acreage was
planted in wheat, and while the oat crop
failed, the yield of wheat was excellent. The
former difficulty of getting wheat to the mills
has been obviated by the building of about
twenty roller mills this spr!ng. They have
Improved machinery, and have been grinding
on full time. Because of a prejudice against
the flour shipjMHi into the State, occasioned
| by reports of its adulteration, the homeI
made article sells 20 cents a barrel above the
market quotations, and there is demand for
all the output.
To further stimulate wheat growing a
State convention of wheatgrowers will meet
iu Greeuwood August 15 and 16. Senator
Tillumn will be one of the speakers.
Ah an experiment a farm that produced
fifteen bushels of wheat to the acre four yeart
ago wan made to yield sixty bushels this
year. No fertilizers were used, but after the
wheat was harvested each year cow peas
were sown and the viues ploughed in. It is
j likely that this fall the wheat acreage of last
year will be doubled.?Philadelphia Times.
Owner and Editor.
j A brief story; a story that more
eoncisely than a book of many pages
could tell the tale, reveals the history
of the publishing of "The Philadelphia
Times" from its beginning
to the present time, and yet one that
can only be clearly understood in the
light of an understanding of the man
to whom it applies!
The man who had the largest
amount of money invested in the
Times at its beginning was Philip
Collins. He had made a consider
able amount of money in the building
of railroads, and had come to
Philadelphia to live with his wife in
ease and not extravagance. He had
no children. He it was who brought
together Mr. McLaughlin and Mr.
McClure prior to their joint starting
of the Times newspaper.
The day before the newly organized
journal was to make its appearance
Phil Collins came into the
editorial room, that had its eutrance
from a very dirty alley in 7th street,
below Market. He was a man of
stalwart build, over six feet in
height, broad shouldered, strong
faced. The editor was writing an
article that subsequently led to the
destruction of the Pilgrim Club, the
downfall of the then existing highway
ring, that had the municipal
life of Philadelphia in its clutch.
Collins walked up and down the
dingy, dirty room for a while, with
his inevitable cane hanging upon the
hook of his arm, and suddenly said :
"McClure, excuse me one moment.
This is a great enterprise that we've
gone into. I have put more money
into ittnanany other man, and whatever
the outcome may be I will not
squeal. I think we will win; lam
sure we will win; but in conducting
this newspaper I would simply like
to address to you one suggestion."
The editor looked up inquiringly
and poised his pen?he dictates now
?and: "What's that?"
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please."
Evening Song.
The sun's last beam has faded in the
west;
The day is done;
Done, for a little while the mad unrest.
The feverish, ceaseless struggle to
attain
So much.that after all, we found was
vain.
Day, with all its weight of joyful
hearts,
Of hearts that waken but to weep;
Of souls that win success and fame;
Of other souls that strive in vain;
Like a tired child that drops its
head
Upon its mother's breast and falls
asleep,
Lies hushed in night.
O'er hill and dale, with noiseless
tread
The holy calm of evening steals,
Pausing beside earth's weary ones,
who'er they be,
Soothes and comforts until each
feels
All care dispelled, all grief assuaged.
When striving and suffering are
ended, and
Life'6 day is done,
Shall my soul bid as welcome death's
night?
That brief dark ere eternity's dawn?
Ah! yes, if indeed hath that unknown
realm,
E'en earth's power to soothe and
heal,
Which she wields when the day has
gone,
With a grateful heart will I bid it
come.
A $40.00 Bicycle Given Away Daily.
The publishers of The New York
Star, the handsomely Mlustrated
Sunday newspaper, are giving a
High Grade Bicycle each day for
the largest list of words made by using
the letters contained in
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no more times in any one word than
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SHORT NEWS STORIES.
Pleture the Kaiiter Missed ? Story
About Senator Clark ? Jnst
the Man For the Place.
Professor veil Kaulbuch of Munich
was recently summoned to Berlin to
paint a .portrait of the kalserin. This
Is a somewhat difficult task, for, unlike
the kaiser, who Is not at all averse
to giving time as a model, the kaiserin
has a rooted dislike to sitting for the
Dainter. He is asked to tea and is glv
en a chair in the vicinity of the kaiserIn.
There he is expected to take studies
from memory and not even to let it appear
that he is taking observations,
i Before he enters the imperial presence
lie is warned by one of the gentlemen
of the court not to repeat any conversation
he may hear in the imperial
presence, says the Paris Herald.
One of the ladies of the court is told
off to give the details of the toilet in
which the kalserin wishes to be painted,
and the following day the toilet
finds its way to his atelier and is returned
when he has finished the picture.
The empress likes to be painted
by a number of different artists, but
as far as this court goes the artist is
not handsomely remunerated, it being
thought, j>erhaps not without reason,
that the advertisement given is sufficient
and that, therefore, the pay may
be honorary. The price is only about
$100.
The advertisement side of the matter
is very much appreciated by the artists.
and thus there is no difficulty in
obtaining their services in spite of the
reduction in price, but yet there are exceptions,
because those who have a
good clientele are accustomed to ask
and obtain $1,000 or more for a portrait.
A case in point was one of a well
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trait of the kaiser for an exhibition
and invited his majesty to see it. The
kaiser was so pleased with it that he
Immediately called out, "I buy that
picture!" The artist was staggered and
explained that he had painted it for
exhibition. But the kaiser would not
hear him, and as he reached the door
turned round and s^Ad, "That picture
is mine!"
But scarcely had the imperial presence
vanished than the artist, with all
possible rapidity, packed up the picture
and sent it away. He well knew what
haste was needed, for an hour later a
lackey of the court appeared to claim
it, but he had to leave with empty
hands.
For this the kaiser did not forgive
the painter for a long while after. For
two years, although he had been his
majesty's favorite artist, he received
no further order.
Story About Senator Clark.
In the fierce rivalry for the United
States senatorship in Montana between
the Clark and Marcus Daly factions
many amusing stories, true and
false, were told by heated partisans.
The point in most cases consisted of
the contrast afforded by the early careers
of the two men, says the Philadelphia
Post Marcus Daly rose from a
poor miner to be one of the copper
kings of the west, while Clark began
his western career as a college bred
man. The speeches and letters of the
TOOK HIM AT HIS WORD.
latter were models of good English,
but on one occasion his fastidiousness
in expression worked unexpected results.
He had laid out a handsome
lawn in front of his house, and to prevent
the townspeople from walking on
the grass he built a board walk over 11
and put up the following sign, "Take
the boardwalk."
This sight Instantly caught the public
eye, and the next morning the slgc
and board walk had both vanished, and
in place of the former was a rudelj
lettered placard bearing this inscription,
"We have."
J oat the Man For the Plaee.
WBen George C. Perkins was sent tc
- the senate upon the death of Senatoi
Stanford, his friends said that at the
meeting of the legislature, two years
later, Governor Perkins would make
way for somebody else. But when thai
time came the senator thought he
would like to serve out the balance oi
Senator Stanford's term, and so he was
elected for two years more, says the
San Francisco News Letter. And wher
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ator for the full term of six years Mr
Perkins again leaped Into the breach
His friends considered that he was en
titled to one full term?only one?as ar
indorsement of his congressional record.
He secured the indorsement an<3
also the term, which will expire in foui
years more.
Ambition now being fully satisfied
his friends felt free to consult Senatoi
Perkins upon the selection of a worthj
citizen to succeed him.
"Well," admitted Senator Perkins
when spoken to on the subject "I havs
in mind a gentleman whom I have
' known for a long time. I believe he is
Just the man for the place. His name!
They call him Perkins.
TRY TO BE COMFORTABLE.
Devote your energies to beinf
comfortable. Nothing will aid you
so much as simplicity. Don't try tc
follow all the fads invented by fools
' In the first place get a coinfortahh
place to live. Get a good cellar. Gel
a good cistern. Fix your watei
pipes so they won't freeze. Fix yourself
so that you can be warm in winter
and reasonably cool in summer,
Have things "handy" around tht
house. Give up your membership
in literary and card clubs, and devote
your attention to your own
affairs; if you can't find enougn tci
keep you busy, it is a sign you don't
look very closely.
Time probably never tells more
perceptibly on a man than when he
tries to steal upstairs about 4 a. m.,
and the alarm clock goes off and
wakens his bette.' half.
An old bachelor says woman wear
shoes too small because the right
size are too large.
Too many of the kind words we
think are left unsaid.
It's hard for the new minister to
square the sewing-circle.
A horse-shoe nailed on the front
of your house will not oyercotne
I laziness.
STAGE GLINTS.
3
Alfred Klein, the comedian, may star e
next season In a three act farce called
"My Lord the Butler."
One hundred and eighty-one new operas
were presented in Europe during the
past dramatic year.
Edith Yerrlngtou has been engaged
to play the title role next season In
"Jack and the Beanstalk." a
Charles Wyndham, the well known
English actor, is reviving "Rosemary" s
at the Criterion theater, Loudon.
Charles Frohman has bought "The p
Tyranny of Tears" and will put John t
Drew into the role which Charles
Wyndham is playing in Loudon. t
Louis N. Parker is to revive Stuart a
Ogilvie's version of "Cyrano de uer- f
gerac" for Charles Wyndham, to whom
Sir Henry Irving has transferred the e
English rights.
Lilli Lehniann has been added to the I
long list of prime donne appearing this
season at Covent Garden in London.
She made her entree on June 1 as t
Leonora in "Fidelio." t
Mine. Sembrich is to return to this
country in advance of the other mem- i
bers of the Grau company in order to s
sing at the Maine festival. She will ^
remain Ln the Lnlted States next year
until June. j
American comic opera prima donnas (
are not the only ones who go to the t
music halls in the intervals between j
engagements. Letty LInd is to sing
at the Alhambra, in London, and Ilka j
Palmay, the Hungarian, is at the Winter
Garden in Berlin. She is at the J
bead of her profession in Vienna. 1
Close resemblances have already
been found between Sardou's "Robes- |
plerre" and "Thermidor," which has
not yet been given in England. So (
nearly alike are the two plays that the ^
author is said to have used freely
parts of the earlier work, which will j
probably never be given in England.
THE TROTTING CIRCUIT. !
Scott Quinton has deserted the sulky ,
horses for thoroughbreds.
Cresceus is reported to be in fine con- j
dition and has gone an easy mile better
than 2:18. ^
Harry Omer is credited with pacing j
a mile in 2:09% over the Cleveland ,
track this season. ,
Chain Shot, a M. and M. candidate, !
by Great Heart, is credited with a mile i
at Detroit In 2:15%.
Granite, b. g.. who nosed out Success
in 2:14% at Denver, is by Deputy, i
darn by Guy Wilkes. I
Que Allen, 2:09%, has injured one of 1
his feet badly and is probably out of
the game in Europe this season.
The foal of Bonzetta, 2:06%, by
Patchen Wilkes, has a very crooked
hind leg. and there are small hopes of
raising it.
Dot, 2:25%, the first new 2:30 trotter
of the season, is now said to be by
Alcaid. son of Prlnceps. dam Althea,
by Annont.
James Cassidy of California, who
owns and drives Raymond M., 2:08%.
has but one leg and one arm, but he
gets there all the same.
A 3-year-old by Arlon, dam Hourl,
2:17, has been named San Telmo and
is a natural pacer. Within 30 days
after being taken from grass he showed
a mile better than 2:30 at that gait
Amelia, by Electioneer, Is said to
have foaled twins four times in eight
years. She is the dam of four In the
list notwithstanding her loss of time
based on the theory that twin colts
seldom live and never prosper.?Turf,
Field and Farm.
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
The blood of five race9 flow9 In the
veins of the Boer.
Only one person In every four of the
Inhabitautg of London earng more than
a pound a week.
In Sweden good hotels are erected by
the communities in places where it Is
thought tourists would like to tarry.
Charcoal is the great Italian fuel,
1 Naples alone consuming 40,000 tons of
wood charcoal, at a cost of from $16
; to $20 per ton, the national consump
tlon being 700,000 tons.
J A large class of Mexicans, commonly
' called peons, wear a kind of sandal.
These are called "guaroches" and consist
of a simple sole of leather held to
the feet with strings which pass be1
tween the toes and are tied about the
ankle.
The oldest tree on earth with an authentic
history is the great Bhootree of
Burmah. For 20 centuries it has been
held sacred to Buddha and no person ,
f is allowed to touch the trunk. When.
, the leaves fall they are carried away^,
as relics by pilgrims.
! WOMEN'S WAYS.
!j
, What we are looking for Is a girl
? whose shoes are not a mile too large/
i When a child scratches its head, its
> mother wants to know whom it fatts
t been playing with of late. 1
A woman is immensely flattered
when "the girls" ask her to appear/at
a party in a low neck gown. 41
When a woman can't sing at! all,
' friends excuse her by saying ithat,
though her voice is not strong, {it Is
' very sweet.
When a woman is entertaining an
out of town guest, she looks^ very
1 grateful when some one asks her
r "company" how long she Is g^ng to
stay.
;I'
} Every woman when she hands a
piece of pie to a tramp bonders
) vaguely If he will ever, retiirn the
i kindness by comiug back soine day
? and paying the mortgage on her home.
?Atchison Globe. r.
$100 REWARD. $100:
The readers of this paper will be pleased to
r learn that there is ut least one dreaded dis- j
. case that science has )>eeii able to cure in all
its stages and that is Catarrl)y Hall's Ca)
tarrh Cure is the only positive cure now
known to tne medical fraternity. Catarrh ,
Wing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional
treatment. Hall's Caterrh Cur?* !
is taken internally, acting direotly upon ehe
blood and mucous surfaces of t he system,
thereby destroying the foundation of the disease.
and giving the patient strength by :
building up the constitution dnd assisting
nature in doing its work. Thy 'proprietors
' have so much faith in its curative powers, ;
that they offer One Hundred D(dlars for any j
? case that it falls to cure. Send for list of tes- |
timonialn. Addrenn. i
F. J. CHENEY & C<X? Toledo, O. j
Sold by DrUKgiHtH, 7oc. , 1
Hall'H Family Villa arc the b?nt. j
m 1
The best excuse for matrimony is 1
youth. t
The time has come when a woman's
footprints on the sands of
time do not cause scandal any more.
Always treat a woman as though
she were a perfect lady; even though
she is your own wife or sister.
Green apples are said to be an excellent
cholera preventive. We feel
safe in saying that persons who die
from eating green apples will never
be troubled with cholera.
tin
To Cure Coiintl|mClon Forever.
Take Cascarets Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
If C. C. C. fall to cure, druggists refund money.
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PERSONALITIES. f
William C. Whitney pays dues to i
bout 30 clubs and societies. \
Ernest Van Dyck, the grand opera a
inorur htxrnn lif^> ns a nowsuaoer man. ^
? -? *
M. Waldeck-Rousseau, France's new 8
>remier, is the most famous orator of r
he French bar.
Senator William A. Clark of Mouana
is a great admirer of Montaigne a
ind has read the famous essays daily (
or 20 years.
Mr. Kipling now has 23 suits in proc- t
ss, against as many different publish- c
;rs and booksellers throughout the s
Jnited States. I
John Burroughs, the critic, is quite t
l hermit and lives by himself In a litle
cabin on the Hudson halfway be- i
ween New York and Albany. t
Verdi wears a long, loose, double ^
>reasted sack coat and baggy trousers,
to that at first sight it seems as if the v
jreat maestro were clad in pyjamas. 1
Professor George Harris, who has
ust been elected president of Amherst
. ollege, Is a graduate of that institu- t
ion and a native of East Machias, Me. <
3e is 55 years old. j
ou-utn/. ?Ka Hnt/iti nlonict rrh A WAS r
C31t* \ MUg, me 1/uiv.u v
mprisoned for a while In Austria last j
lummer for disrespect to a religious f
jrocession, has eloped with the daugh- t
;er of a Vienna hotel keeper. t
Russell Sage works hard during six
lays of the week and is constantly re- *
;eiving a steady stream of business <
wallers. On Sunday, however, he re- <
fuses to think of his work and rarely *
sees any one but his family and most
intimate friends. '
John D. Rockefeller when a very j
poor and very small boy was asked
what he intended to do when "grown
up." Here is his answer: "Some day,
when 1 am a man, 1 want to be worth
i hundred thousand dollars. And I'm
going to be, too?some day."
Thomas F. Pendel, a White House e
guard, has been on duty for 34 years. 1
He let President Lincoln out of the ex- [
scutlve mansion the last night he went j
put alive and was the last to bid Pres- ]
Ident Gariield goodby when the latter (
started for the railroad depot where he t
was assassinated. i
The Rothschilds in every country as- <
sume the typical appearance of its 1
people. Lord Rothschild of England T
much resembles Lord Salisbury. Baron i
Alphonse de Rothschild is a perfect 1
Frenchman in appearance. Wilhelm J
Karl Rothschild of the Frankfort house 1
is a typical German.
Sir Henry Dryden, Bart., who Is 80 1
years of age and has held his title for 1
G1 years, recently climbed outside the !
high spire of King's Sutton church in
Northamptonshire without help, using *
the steeplejacks' ladders, In order to 1
measure and draw the tracery on the i
spire. There was a strong wind. J
THE GLASS OF FASHION.
The special novelty in French mil- '
linery Is the directoire shaped hat In
biscuit colored straw.
Petticoats, whether of silk or lawn,
have to be very carefully fitted to wear ,
with the close fitting skirts.
Gray kid shoes, with stockings to
match, are worn with light gowns in
place of the white ones so long popu- I
lar. i
Mourning hats for young girls are of
dead black chip, with wide brims and '
trimmed with plain white tulle or 1
white tulle dotted with black. 1
The prettiest petticoat to wear with
the thin gown is made of white taffeta,
silk trimmed, with detachable
lace trimmed ruffles of lawn, which
can be nicely laundered, or of India
silk, trimmed with lace that will wash.
White kid belts, plain or variously
trimmed with beads or metal of some
sort are worn with the white shirt
waists, but prettier than these are the
belts of soft, white satin ribbon, wide
enough to wrinkle a little, fastened
with a silver gilt buckle.
The smart bandanna silk handkerchief
arranged in a four iu hand necktie
stands at the head of the list, but a
Hainc nnveltv Is the automobile of
black satin powdered with crimson
sparks and drawn at the neck in a
four in hand knot and at the bust in a
sailor's knot Then Its two long ends
are secured in the wearer's belt?New
York Sun.
I ' "APHORISMS.
The man who pardons easily courts
injury.?Corneille.
Good order is the foundation of all
good things.?Burke.
Nothing dies so hard or rallies so
often as intolerance.?H. W. Beecher.
Good manners and good morals are
sworn friends and fast allies.?Bartol.
The jest loses its point when he who
makes it is the first to laugh.?Schiller.
To tremble before anticipated evils is
to bemoan what thou hast never lost
?Goethe.
Toil and pleasure, in their nature opposites,
are yet linked together in a
kind of necessary connection.?Livy.
Fate never wounds more deeply the
generous heart, than when a blockhead's
insult points the dart?Johnson.
The best portion of a good man's life
Is his Httle, nameless, unremembered
acts of kindness and of love.? Wordsworth.
It is only an error in judgment to
make a mistake, but It shows Infirmity
of character to adhere to it when discovered.?
Bovee.
It is announced that the Duchess
of Firestone lus twins. There it
goes again; rich people have! any
*
LIJIU^ 11 I r-j >v ail i/.
A woman's idea of bravery is
crossing a field in which a cow is
grazing.
Woman's earthly influence over
man begins at the cradle and ends
at the grave.
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A SHOOTING STAR.
Vhat It Really In and Where It
Cuiaett From.
Sir Robert Ball, who is the world's
Teatest living astronomer, told a Lon011
audience recently some interesting
acts about meteorites and shooting
tars. In describing the origin of meteorte9
lie said that millions of years ago,
chen the earth was an infant at play
nd volcanoes were giants, the meteors
vere thrown upward in infant convulions.
Some of the earth's discarded
ocks returned at once, but those which
vere flung upward at a rate greater
han seven miles a second passed beond
the earth's gravitating influence
nd sought paths of their own. no one
:ould tell whither.
And then, after millions of years,
hey once more came within the reach
,f fbo wnrld nnd old Mother Earth re
umed her sway, took hack the rocks tc |
ter bosom and the astronomers said a
neteoiite had fallen.
Sir Robert asked his hearers to imagne
a wrapping of some hundreds of
niles of air round the earth's surface
tfow just in the same way that a giinet.
boring its way into wood, becomes
varm. so a bullet going 20 miles a
uinute would become extremely warm
n boring its way through 20 miles of
tir.
And in the same way that a bullet
>ecame warm, so a meteorite traveling
.0,000 times as fast as a bullet, travelng
stt this speed perhaps for hundreds
>f years through realms of space whose
)araly&ing cold was indescribable and
inding itself at last plunging through
he warm bath of the air. became hoter
and hotter and hotter.
It glowed, it became white hot, it
nelted. it dissolved in a burst of gassous
splendor, and observers on the
;arth cried, "Why, there's a shooting
star!"
\N ARCHITECTURAL PUZZLE.
Monasteries Built In a Wildly Inaccessible
Locality.
The famous monasteries of Meter?*
nrown the summits of vast rock pinna:les
rising from the plain of Thessaly.
By what strange means the first cunling
architects of these airy perches
ineceeded in reaching the scene of their
abors is a matter wreathed in mystery.
The cliffs are far too smooth and perpendicular
for any man to climb by
land and foot, and history guards jealmsly
the secret of the monasteries. All
;hat is known about them is that the
iionks and wandering friars of the midlie
ages found sanctuary here when
irst the crescent and aciiniter ran red
ivith Christian blood. Visitors to the
nonks' abode announce their presence,
jy shooting until some one far above
ooks out and lets the net, which ia
worked by a windlass, come down.
The sensation of the ascent is distinctly
novel. Seated on the ground in
the center of the net. the meshes are
me by one looped on to a large iron
bood. As the fope becomes tant the
:ords press uncomfortably hard upon
various points of one's body, and with
i strong wind blowing it swings to
1X1(1 irU ttliU UUlii^/O AUO uuuiau <vu\?
against the cliff. The rope, as it slowly
winds on the drum up in the monastery,
kinks occasionally, and the jerk gives
Dnethe impression that the rickety concern
is giving way.
The journey, however, ends safely
170 feet above the ground, where the
monks promptly extricate the visitor
and give him a pleaeant welcome
The Caroline Islanders.
As a rule the Caroline islander is
fairly honest. Once lay his suspicions
to rest and win his confidence, and he
will prove himself a faithful friend and
an excellent host, courteous and just in
all his dealings, as I have very good
cause to know. On the other hand,
when dealing with his enemies, he calls
into play a talent for intrigue, lying
and chicanery that would delight a
Machiavelli.
In his private life be is unselfish,
frugal and economical, a man of careful.
small habita Like all folk of Melanesian
admixture, he is liable to fits
of dangerous sullenness when he considers
himself slighted in any way. He
is inclined to be revengeful and will
bide bis time patiently until bis opportunity
cornea Yet he is not implacable
and counts reconciliation a noble and
princely thing. There is a form of etiquette
to be observed on these occasions
?a present (katom) is made, an apology
offered, a piece of sugar cane accepted
by the aggrieved party, honor is satisfied,
and the matter enda
The Ponapean is a stout warrior, a
hardy and skillful navigator, fisherman,
carpenter and boatbuilder, somewhat of
an astronomer and herbalist, but a very
second class planter and gardener.?
Geographical Review
He Did.
"Whatever station in life yon may
be called to occupy, my boy," said the
father, in sending his son out into the
great world, "always do yonr best"
"I will," replied the young man,
with emotion
He never forgot his promise. Years
afterward, when a prosperous man of
business, be did his best friend out of a
large sum of money
In spite of everything it turns out
that way once in awhile. ?Chicago
Tribune -
Dangen In Mercury.
Mercury is a foe to life. Those wfio
make mirrors, barometers or thermometers.
etc.. scon feel the effect of the^
nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and
the tissues of the body
In Iceland men and women are in
every respect political equals. The nation.
which numbers about 70,000 people,
is governed by representatives elected
by men and women together.
A philologist estimates that of every
100 words in the French language 18
are superfluous.
The Wrong Home.
A weather beaten member of the
tired fraternity, who had lost a leg and
had it replaced by a wooden substitute,
stumped his way up the main street of
a Lanarkshire village the other day
and paused at the door of the first likely
looting dwelling. Knocking at the
floor, wlncn was opened dj a orisa,
businesslike housewife, the man began
bis stereotyped whine:
"If ye please, mum, I lost my leg"?
And before he could unfold another
word of his tale the sharp retort came:
"Aweel, ye didna lose it here!"
And bang went the door in his face.
?Liverpool Mercury.
Satisfied.
Opulent Father-in-law?What ails
rou, George? Since you have married
rou seem to have lost all yoar ambition.
George?Well, you see, sir, I reached
;he height of my ambition when I be?me
your son-in-law.?Harlem Life
Poetic* Squelched.
Weary Watkins?Oh, that I had the
vings of a bird!
Hungry Higgins?They's less meat
n the wings than they is on any other
tiece.?Indianapolis Journal.
1
~~CRAZED BY THE COMETi
rhe Prospective Arrival of Hiela't Orb
Left Its Influence Behind.
There are wise j>eople to-day who believe
that the proximity of a comet to
the earth brings with it various diseases,
mental as well as physical disturbances.
"I never took any stock in this comet
business," said a practical friend of
mine. "I've seen several comets in my
time and read all sorts of rot about
them, very little of which 1 believed.
But this comet"
He paused and drew me away from
the crowd. Having glanced about him
uneasily, he continued:
"This comet nearly drove my wife
crazy! Yes, sir; fact! And she's nearly
driven me crazy. Do you?have you
seen anything queer about me lately?"
1 told him 1 had not?that he looked
as sane as his average fellow monai.
"Well," he resumed, "I've run a
mighty narrow chance, 1 tell you. But
6he's cured now. If this infernal comet
hadn't gone away just when it did 1
should have been locked up by this time.
"My wife is ordinarily a quiet little
woman and takes no particular interest
in the newspapers except when there is
a mysterious murder case like the great '
Maybrick poisoning case or the CarlyleHarris
case, or something like that?
something mysterious, you know. Then
she grabs the newspapers and reads up
on it, and thinks about it, and talks about
it, and advances theories about it, and
thoroughly masters it, hanging the defendant
every day. She can find more
clews than the whole metropolitan police
force. She pounces down upon me
at breakfast with her theories and clews
and suspicions, and as these are changed
after reading the evening papers 1 get
another dose at night.
"But this comet! She ha* been
stricken?yes, sir, stricken?by the mys:
terious influence the comet is said to
have upon the human mind! it wa*
! manifest in her the very day she read
| the dispatches and the differences of
[ learned opinion as to whose comet it
| was and its probable orbit, its distance,
I the number of sparks in its tail, etc. If
' it had been a straightforward comet
<md come right out where everybody
conld see it and where everybody expected
it, she would have been all serene.
But the mystery ef the thing, the
uncertainty, the disagreement of astron
omers?that settled her. She began
reading np on the comet from the newspapers.
As every newspaper differed,
and every authority in every newspaper
differed with every other authority in
that or any other newspaper, she found
herself suddenly plunged into a whirl
of excitement
"She sprang comet on me every hoar
in the day and swept the heavens with a
2-inch opera glass every night She
had a sort of idea that redhot chunks of
iron were liable to drop into our fiat
She went up on the roof to see the me
teoric shower and got locked oat ap
there by the janitor. If 1 hadn't missed
her she'd have been frozen to death. She
got up ten times a night to look out and
once she said she smelled sulphur. She.
slipped out of bed the first thing in the
morning and read what the papers said
about the comet, then went back to bed
again. When I sat down to breakfast
with my paper she was loaded few me.
You could see a hazy red light hanging
over the Jersey horizon from oar windows,
and she had those windows open
so much at night we all got polds and.
snuffles. On Sunday night the sky over
there was bright red at intervals. Well,
she was just wild. Then she smelled
the solphur in the air. 1 never saw a
woman get so excited. She scarcely
slept a wink.
"The next morning, when she found *
that it was the Jersey meadows on fire
and that she hadn't seen the comet at
all, she was the moet disgusted woman
you ever fcaw. She won't touch a newspaper
now. She says the newspapers
are the biggest liars?next to the astron- _
omers?on earth. If 1 say 'comef at
her now she is as mad as a hornet
"In my opinion, if s been a confound
ed fraud all along. This man Biela, or
Beely, ought to get six months on the
island."?New York Herald.
' .
r>S
Bare Belles Unearthed.
E'??" 4-V.q mnct MfnarfrfthU MIIM
discovered have just been found in the
western Egyptian oasis of Theba and
sent to the Louvre in Paris for exhibition.
They are plaster oasts busts. , ,
These busts originated during the brief
era of prosperity at the close of the Sec- . J
ond and the beginning of the Third cen- ' *
tury of our time. They are not, as it /!
would seem, detached-pieces of statues,
but are complete in themselves. They i
are masks used for a special class of
mummies, and like most of the Egyp-#
tian curiosities come from the grave. The
departed members of wealthy families
were provided not only with sepolchera,
but with a sort of armor composed of '
several pieces, which completely incased
the dead body. The feet were
into a pocket shaped affair like a carriage
foot warmer, and separate pieces
were made for chest and neck, as well
as the hair, with a mask for the face,
which often resembled the features of
the dead.?St Louis Poet-Dispatch.
A Tarn from Bod Bluff.
A few days ago James E. Holt went
for a quail hunt along the banks of the
Sacramento river. Under a cover of
brush he discovered a nice flock of birds. - J
but when he raised his gun to have a 5?
shot they disappeared. He felt satisfied.
that there were quite a number under a
particular bush and he biased away. 4
The noisy fluttering which followed told
him the result and he ran for his prise,
, rand just as he was reaching out his hand
to catch a wounded quail he was suddenly
shocked to discover an enormous
rattlesnake in the line of the bird. * v*
He approached the birds again with ??
his gun cocked and ready for a sudden
shot, and learned that the snake was
dead. When he fired at the birds he
killed the snake and six quail, although
none of the birds or the serpent were in
view. Tn9 snake had eight rattles and
a button and was 3;.? feet in length.?
Bed Bluff (Cal.) News.
WILSON ISUMMERTON ft. R. x.
Time Table No. 1, to take effect
Monday, June 13,1898.
TRAINS GOING NORTH.
Lv Wilsons Mill 910am
Ar Jordan 9 35am
Ar Davis Station 9 45am Ar
Summerton 10 10 a m
Ar Millard 10 15 a m
Ar Millard 10 45 a ra
Ar Silver 11 10 a in
Ar Pack8ville 1130 am .
Ar Tindal 11 56 a m
Ar W. & S. Junction 12 27 p m
Ar Sumter 12 30 p m
TRAINS GOING SOUTH.
Lv Sumter 2 00pm
Lv W. & S. Junction * 2 03pm
Ar Tindal 2 20pm
Ar Packsviiie 2 38pm
Ar Silver 2 60pm
Ar Millard 3 06pm
Ar Millard 3 36pm
Ar Summertou 3 60pm
Ar Davis 4 20 p m
Ar Jordan ^4 46 pm
Ar Wilsons Mill 6 16pm
BETWEEN MI.L.L.AKJJ ft bT.
Ar Millard 10 15 a
Ar St Paul 10 25 a m
Lv St Paul .10 35 a b?|B|Hh|
Ar M i 1 lard 10 45 a
All traius^Uyexcept^^^^^^^^HH
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