Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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j adnt'"chilly, j > t: > ? t. ^ By E. C. S. Mabsh. a ] M> first remembrance of our eld i Aunt Chilly was when, as housekeeper J at my grandmother's, she sailed about j through the hall and library in a 1 bright dress and snowy apron, with an j energetic fling to her brilliant turban, ! arranging flowers and dusting china; < or when she stood in the great kitchen ; with one hand raised to her cheek i and "bossed de niggahs." We children j had such wholesome awe of her that if | we were planning mischief the cry, j " Aunt Chilly's coming," was a signal j - for rapid rout. Tho' I feared her twitching mouth j and scornful eyes about as much as 1 j feared sin and Satan, still there was a j strange fascination about her, and i j would oiten stand in the kitchen door- j way for an vour at a time to see her j scold brown Tilly, and cuff black Ran- I dolph, and occasional mutter strange -things about niy grandmother which it j was hard to understand. Sometimes .*t j was: "Mrs. Gray got no business to ' ruin dem cebilish chillen wid cakes," or "Pity 'bout Mrs. Gray. She had better mind how she asks folks to breakfas' 'dout teilin' me." - Only at meal time did she throw off j ?her habitual grimness. Then, seated at the head of a lqng table surrounded by wooly heaas, some turbaned and some bristling with pig-tails, she would brandish a chicken-bone and tell of her adventures in the great world? what she had seen in New York?when visiting my mother, how she had trav- i eled in elevated cars, and had been to the hippodrome, and seen a lion and tiger and cooked in a basement kitchen, and ndden in an elevator. Her motions were so dramatic and her language so vivid that I wondered why I had not heard before what a realm - * J '? j 1? V,. .. I ot wonaers 1 naa uvea m, ?uu u^n - superior we were to the other grandchildren who hau not ridden in elevated cars and dm not have basement kitchens. Sometimes a loud "Haw, haw,' 'would ring around the table, - and rows of white teeth glisten, and 1 sometimes strange queries came from the listeners "Aunt Chilly," said small Margaret -?nn, ner eyes glisten- j ing with eagerness, "is it nicer out der den what it is in yere?" Aunt Chilly eyed the questioner contemptuously, and, not wishing to commit herself, bit a corn muffin in silence. Then the conversation changed to " Punch and 55s* v Judy," and. still she took the lead. | With her head cocked on one side she squeaked "Judy's" song till the laughter woke the echoes. ;Y . When sue had her fill of applause, and the chicken bones were picked, she would commence again to .sail about, and frown and mutter and whack. -On Sunday afternoons, when we children and Aunt cnilly were locked up in the nursery to be kept quiet, she would condescend to tell us tales of j rtf nnr linploc And f?thPT P i iUl JLUCI J , VJL VU4 ? ? ? "reed bird suppers." "Marse George was so fussy; wouldn't hab * nobodv cook his supper but me." "Do you remember Colonel Rombev, who died in the war?" I once asked. "I 'member Colonel Rombey," said Aunt Chilly wrathfully. "Reckon I knows de las' time he was to our house. Had muffins and terrapin for tea. Said I cooked 'em better'n Dclmonico. Mrs. Cornelius Lockton, she said nobody nebbah cooked canvas ducks like me, and she's been to Boston." Then followed a long string of compliments which she had treasured, if, ? . and which were familiar to us all. Sometimes we begged her to " 'spound de scriptures," and she would talk about "bein' clothed wid de sun, and de moon under der feet," and 1:11 how "Satan coquetted wid Job." But her religious moods did not last long and were generally followed by .-i gloomy silence, more ominous than \ threats. Once and only once did I try to conquer "Aunt Chilly. I wished a certain amr) thnuorli T haH Vioarrt irv auu tuvufcu X grandmother say that it would he easier to wriggle a secret from Talleyrand than a direct answer from Chilly, in my boundless conceit I determined to wring it from her. Accordingly I went boidly into the kitchen, pen and < ink in hand. As I sat breezily down I told Aunt Chilly how delicious Mrs. Jones thought her cold-slaw dressing. , * and how she had begged me for the receipt Aunt Chilly sniffed danger ?. . from afar. She gave me one withering glance, and stirred more violently . the batter she was mixing. "Now, Aunt Chilly," I said, as i wrote "Cold Slaw Dressing" at the top of the page. "What do you make it or?" 1 "Miss Betty," said Aunt Chilly sol- j emnlv, "I don't know nuffin' 'bout it." ^ This being a usual form of response. . I answered quite cheerfully, "Oh, yes, Aunt Chilly, we had it yesterday, you know. There is vinegar in it, isn't there?" "I reckon so," was the sullen answer. "Come, Aunt Chilly," I said, getting i , a little excited, "I saw you mixing it on the stove. You must know what was in it." j Aunt Chilly stirrea in gloomy silence ! "Vinegar?"' I persisted sweetly, as I wrote down the "V." "Nebah heard of cold slaw dressin' < widout winegah," was the answer given j ; with a contemptuous sniff. I finished the word triumphantly, and then in the most insinuating ton's i inquired how much. i uorum as now mucu you s : makin'." Aunt Chilly dropped the i batter complacently. "How much did you put in yester- 1 day?" I asked sternly. "I disremembah," was the calm j reply. - ] Tactics had to be changed. "Isn't it ' . about half a cupful?" I suggested in- < nocently. Aunt Chilly looked up in 1 scorn. "Laws a massy! Miss Betty; you's 3 rot a makin' sauer kraut!" ' "What do you measure it in?" " 'Cordin' to what you has by you " ' with a toss of the head. - i "How many teaspoonfuls would you take?" "La, child! Ain't you seed me measure it wid a tablespoon?" She turned i her back. i "Two tablespoonfuls?" ( "If it ain't too sour." \ t Tremblingly I wrote down "two ! t tablespoonfuls" opposite "Vinegar." ! i "Now, Aunt Chilly, tell me the other ( 1 things. There is salt and pepper and i < mustard and sugar." . 1 "Mustard in cold slaw dressin'! My i 1 glory! Who'd eat it." Aunt Chilly ! 4 seldom laughed. i ? "How much sugar did you say, Aunt ; I Chilly?" ; ? "I didn't say." i "Come, Aunt Chilly." I cried, getting ; wrathy; "I have no time to waste this ; ir.crning. How much sugar do you i generally put in?" , j "Miss Betty, you jest bother me to [ deaf," she cried half whimperingly. "I j don't know nuffin' 'bout it. It's 'cord- ! ing as how much eggs and butter I | . puts in." "Eggs and butter." I said, aghast, j "Why didn't you tell me before? Do j you beat the eggs?" "Sometimes I does, and sometimes I > i doesn't," with a self-complacent smile. , "The whites and yolks separately?" "My goody. Miss Betty! You's not makin' cake." I "How many eggs do you use. three"" "You'd ruin it wid three eggs,' said j Chilly, rolling ginger dough in grim satisfaction. "Two eggs, then?" "Ef it ain't too much." j . "One egg?" , "One egg ain't always enough." "Good gracious. Aunt Chilly!" I I . cried in despair; "is it one egg and a J half?" j "Nebah heerd tell of half an egg " j Aunt Chilly looked out the window. I wrote down "One large egg or two small ones." "Now for the butter. How much butter do you use?" "Miss Betty, don't ax me nuffin' 'bout de buttah. I nebah take no count how much buttah I uses." "Well, it is not as much as a cupful?" I suggested, coaxingly. "I reckon not." "About a teaspoonful?" "Nebah heerd of measurin' buttah by de teaspoonful." "About the size of a walnut?" "P'raps so. 'Cordin' as how it looks i when it's melted." "Do you melt the butter?" I asked in surprise. "How could you make de dress in' \ widout meltin' de buttah?" She waved . her bony finger. "You know, of course." 1 answered meekly; "but do you melt the butter, < before you mix the eggs and vinegai. ' : "Ef you wants to." She was rolling j ! dough again. "How long do you cook it, Aunt i Chilly?" "Tell it gets done." Carefully she j cut the finished roll. "And how soon may that be?" v " 'Cordin' as how hot de fire is." ?. "Aunt Chilly!" I said, as 1 tore up the paper, "I don't believe we shall i try this receipt." 1 Chilly did not raise her eyes, Vur i when I reached the door sue said coin.- f posedly, "Bettah come back In half an ! 1 hour. Miss Betty; de ginger cakes will be done." j This was our first and last tussle. f Never since then, though she had confided many things to me, have I attempted to sound her through direct ! questions. C Sometimes she will talk of her child- > hcod, her far-away childhood, so d"in 1 and unreal to me, each year more vivid ( and real to her. As she sits in inv room, after I have gone to bed. and gazes into the fire, I often suggest that she is thinking how she loves me. A faint smile brightens her face, and she a shakes her head. \ "No, I was studyin' 'bout de times I had when I was little." Then she talks of the funny, dreamy slave days ?pathetic in their happiness?and the s wrinkles smooth away and she look-; young again. Then, when she sits in the window and the setting sun flares on her bandanna turban, and I wonder what she c is up to, the answer always come-i, "dtudyinV?New York Independent. 1; PEARLS OF THO'JCHT. 1 * 11 t-J 1 J 1 ? au sunsnme mah.es uie ueseiu? j Arab proverb. j S To be suspicious is to invite treach- I ery.?Voltaire. Mercy turns her back on the unnrer- j ciful.?Quarles. Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.?Burke; The heart of the giver makes the dear and precious.?Luther. j 6 There is not a single moment in g life that we can afford to lose?Goulburn. Experience takes dreadfully high school wages, but he teaches like no other.?Carlyle. The men who are always fortunate cannot easily have a great reverence , for virtue.?Cicero. Most people judge others by the company they keep or by their for- i tune.?Rouchefoucauld. Dost thou love life? Then do not ; squander time, for that is*the stuff j life is made of.?Franklin. To love truth for truth's sake is the ; principal part of human perfection and j the seed-piot of all other virtues.? j John Locke. If you will be sure that the longing j you feel for something better is not * to end in disgrace when your call ? comes, you must now be gathering the s ideas and aptitudes that will insure g the place; keep your whole life open j ind ready.?Robert Collyer. j r i i A Weak Proposition. A T * "N r> -r-? l.yarl ~ A wimrvicu luaiian jciacu a uiuuiw) from his hind legs from the sidewalk E to the top of . his hand organ with a (] scowl. I i "Coma backa," he called. j t The' monkey rapidly removed and re- i: placed a jaunty cap with a feather 1' thereon and blinked his beady eyes j J with rapidity. j ? "Twenty centa to see tna monka j clima de tree," said the Italian to the j assembled children. "Clima way high." j ( Straightway the little ones began : y gathering in the money from parent * and companion. Finally the sum was 0 turned over to the wandering organist. "Jacka getta de tree, vit!" He pointed to a tall limb and shook the cord. M Jacko obeyed, scrambling up the tree g trunk with meekness and dispatch. >| The Italian counted the coins he J tiad received and dropped them into fg tils pocket. "Jacka the monka great E animal; he educate." He ground a sT discordant lay, whole passages of n which were either flat or missing. 1 The children were watching the z monkey when the Italian again ad- ? dressed them. He pointed an unclean | finger up at the animal and said: 'Ten | :enta to see monka come down." He | didn't get it.?Albany Journal. ? Her Life Not a Happy One. 'j The life of the English Channel J stewardess is not a nappy one. sne is ? :orever occupied in damping the hopes r )f those who have been misled as to ;he state of the sea by the alluring ;t( elegrams posted up in the London ter- \' nini or printed in the morning paper. a But. occasionally, she happens upon an < optimist, as she did last Friday morn- ^ ing. "What sort of crossing shall we jc lave?" inquired the lady, cheerfully. ? 'Very windy, mum." returned the p stewardess for the twentieth time. gloomily. "Oh!" smiled the lady, in f i tone of relief, "only windy?not ough? I'm so glad!" : jj The emigration from Germany,which Si 'or some time used to average 220,00^ ~ i year, sank last year to 22,000. | A Pear! Famine Threatened. Wo are threatened by a famine which is already showing itself and beginning its pinching work. The renter of this famine is in Paris and Americans are said to bo responsible for it. and will, with the rest of civilization, have to suffer its dire consequences. Already has its presence been felt in New York. This famine does not moan starvation, though it does moan denial, not in the matter of daily bread, but in the important matter of pear's. Pearls have of late been growing more and more popular, more and more rare, and, therefore, more and more expensive. Pearl necklaces that our grandmothers wore are being resurrected, and the jewellers of Paris and New York are being called on to supply a most unusual demand for those chaste ornaments. Americans are said to be the groat pearl hunters, and so keen is their pursuit that prices are mounting daily. A pearl necklace 1.1 ? C* O i, A A ^1 ^ wiiicii ?uiu iui )wis o-oU will today cost from $G,000 to $8,000. TO BE CONSIDERED. "I see that your town has been considering the idea of imposing a tax 0:1 bachelors." "Yes." answered the young woman. "But we thought it over, and we concluded that the men might be mean enough to take the money to pay It out of what they spend for caramels and theatre tickets."?Washington Star. An Anglo-American Alliance. It has been suggested that tho only successful plan to avoid any further wars will . e the formation of an alliance between Vuterica and England, and many people bcieve that the day is not far distant when a!', uteruationai di iterances will be peacefully settled. This news will be as joyfully received by everybody as the news That Hosettor's stomach Bitters positively cures indigestion, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness and malaria. Don't fail to give it atria!. The author of "An Elegy in a Country rhurchyurd" esteemed it the acme of hapuntrs to lie 0:1 a sofa and read novels. Dyeing is as ?;;nple as washing when yon :se* Putnam Fadeless Dyes. Mold by all Iruggists. The fellows who say that it cost.? no nore for two to live than for one evidently icver had twins: Send to Gar del d Tea Co.. Brooklyn, N. Y., or samples Gar Held Tea and Headache >owders?two invaluable remedies. California has over 157,000 acres in p-apes. >7a7n of Ohio, City of Toledo, [ Lucas County. \ ' Fr.anit J. Chenf.y, make oath that he 'i the enior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney <fc :o., doing business in the City of Toledo, 'ountv and State aforesaid, and that said Irm will pay the sum of one hundred dol,ars for each and every* case of catarrh that annot be cured by the use of Hall's "atakrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before no and subscribed in my ?v? presence, this tlth day of December, seal. A. D., 1S33. A. W. Oleason, ?>? So'ary Public. Kail's Catarrh Cure is taken iuterna'ly. and ets directly on the blood and mucous suraces of the systcm. Send for testimonials, ree. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, 0. Sold by Druggists,75c. Hall's Family Pills are the best. Xo matter where a man was born, he wells up and claims to be proud of it. Garfield Tea, the herb medicine, cures contipntion, sick headache and liver disorders. It's the disagreeable things that we >ugnt to remember to forget. Tyner's Dyspepsia lleuiedy Cures Irreguir Heart: Action. At Druggi-ts, 53 cents. The worst thing about life insurance ia ;hat we never live to enjoy it. m BOliE DELANO I Chicago Society Lady, in a Letter to Mrs. Pinkhain says: "Beau Jilts. Pinkiiam : ? Of all tho jrateful daughters to whom you have r i rrrvrt ItonltVi JllTl d life, none are more [ lad than I. 14 My home and my life was happy KISS BONNIE DELANO. intil illness came upon me three years .50. I first noticed it by being irregtlar and having very painful and canty menstruation; gradually my [enerai health failed ; I could not enoy my meals ; I became languid and tervous, with griping pains frequently n the groins. | 44 I advised with our family phys- ; eian who prescribed without any im rovement. One day he said.?'Try liydia Pinkliam's Remedies.' I lid, thank God ; the next month 1 was ' etter, and it gradually built me up mtil in four mouths I was cured. This s nearly a year ago and I have not iad a pain ov ache since."?Bonnie Delano, [5243 Indiana Ave., Chicago, j 11.?$5000 forfeit if above testimonial is not snuine. ! Trust worthy proof is abundant that hydi i E. Pinklssim's Vegetable j Join pound saves thousands of > c.mg women from dangers resulting \ rora organic irregularity, suppression , t rctont on of the menses, ovarian or j ro;Tibt troubles. Refuse substitutes. ' 0 i "i b i iii i mm mam 1 Hs? Kinds for S6e. ""1 1 It is a fact that Salter's vegetable and flower tJm 6S. s-.-eds ore found in more gardens ytj 9SBS and on more farms than any other SfV'X isi America. There is reason for this. VabpA Wc own and operaie over SttX) acres for gW- ^ the production of otir choice seeds. In ySfil Sris^r order to induce you to try them /Sra 1 we make the following unprec- gLRI ^ *TV> ^*or Gentfs Postpaid ) 1 I/ 20 klniN of rnrrst looelnnt radiihes, rJ|W I l> [ 1- uacnlQcrat car!let melons, L/\>y lit sorts {rlurlnus tomatoes, \ 21 peerless lettuce s arte ties, iwnC J, / 12 splendid beet sorts, HylSv / Ci sorjconslr beautiful flower seeds, <8SE A in all 110 kinds posilively furnishing fci bushels of charming flowers and /yi3 BE lots and lots of clmice vegetables, AjH jB?i together with our great catalogue/t/JW j?| telling all altont Teosinto and l'ea Wg k;' [ E! Oat and t'.ronius and Spelt z, onion i P; J seed at ?V. a pound, etc.. all only *or 1 fit'* 'n s'aniI'S. Write to-day. gw* Tn/V ,0,,M A- SALZER SEED CO.. ??I (III llJJJJ La Crosse, Wis. ^^^SEBSSSBBSS^SEBam DID YOU EVER 'onsidcr th? insult offe-ed the intelligence of hioking peop'e vrheti the claim is made that my <?j<r> rcni?*<!v will cure all dl eases? No, veil, think It. and sen i for our book telling ill rbout Sm-olal Remedies for special dlsase.l condlt ons, and our Family Medicine /?s?s. A postal e.-.nl will secure the book nd a sample of I?r. Johnson's "After D nner 'I']." x Agents wanted. The Home Remedy ;o.. Austci: Iliillding. Atlanta, t?a. - 15 Q V NEW DI?C0VERT: ?iv?8 J 0 tt iS ? quick re'ief and cuieswr.r.st ,se?- Boob of te.'timon u a and 10 clny*" treatment ree. Dr H H. G?.?> N'S SONS. Bex B, At ar.ta. Ga Gold illrt'.jO nt . nda.:. Kxpnaltion. HcILHENNV'S TABASCO ectlcn this fapiv f WTKI) ?Two Traveling Saesnien Itv each 3f state. Permanentposit!ou. $60 and expenses, '1 Write Central Tobacco Works Co.. Penieks.Va. > I f MART FOR BRAINY MEN. I ' NEW YORK A MECCA OF HOPE FOR THE UNFORTUNATE. I ! Hut Their Bright Days Htiive Completely Disappeared, Temporarily lit Least* and 'they're Waiting and Watching for Other Smiles from Home and Fortune. Human nature is franker and honesicr in a low-price hotel in New York than any place else in the metropolis. Even the pretences and subterfuges illuminate temperamental differences. The well-conducted cheap hotel is the refuge of those who have fallen, not those who rise from the gutter. Those who make their homes in lodging houses are oftener than not men of considerable education, who have known better days. They are human derelicts drifting about the Saragossa sea of misfortune. In one hotel in this city there are about 1500 persons cared for every night in the year. The rooms are scrupulously clean, the beds comfortable and the rates are no higher than are charged in second-rate lodginghouses. But the guests are of a decidedly higher order. An air of rement pervades the place. In that respect the hotel is in every way the rqual of the more pretentious hostelries. It is those qualities that make it the temporary home of men who have not altogether given up hope or expectation of better days. As a rule, the/ are not communicative, but once in a while one of them will become remini scent after you have gained his confidence. If you speak of Africa, Asia, South America or any other part of the earth you are almost certain to find in the group of listeners at least one who has been exactly in the place mentioned, and it's ten chances to one that if you ask him how he came to be here you will get the stereotyped answer that he made a failure where he was and came to New York to retrieve his fallen fortunes. In a group of five men in the reading room one night last week one of them commented on the Boer war and some iNot so long ago ne was a proiessor in one of the leading colleges, and his text books are in use in institutions of learning throughout America. More than one familiar book of poetry and romance bears his name on the title page. To use a current phrase, these men, all of them, are "down and out." The decadence of most of them e.an be" traced to drink, but some, the professor, for instance, have beer, overwhelmed for no apparent reason, and they find it hard even now to realize that they no longer are a part of the j prosperous side of the human family. Most of them bear their misfortunes with considerable cheerfulness, and some are really happy in their misery. ! That is somewhat paradoxical, for they are Americans, and that means that they feel quite -sure they will be "on top" again before long and are waiting with patience and resignation for that time when they will once more be in the upper strata of society. They are used to ups and downs. More than one of these lodgers at the cheap hotel has made and lost several fortunes. Others are members of wealthy families that have cast them off for reasons that were, to them, sufficient to justify such a course. There are many college graduates. Once in a while one of them really does get up in the world, but the vast majority pass out of mind and memory, never to be heard from again. They are not missed, for their places are filled almost before they have disappeared.-?New York News. fc of his listeners applaudc-d his criticisms on the conduct cf the Britirh side of the contest. One man remained silent. He carries scars made by throe Boer bullets at Spion Kop, and naturally concluded his views would not strike a popular chord. The hardships of war were discussed until a man nad opportunity to tell of his experien. >s while acting as a timekeeper while the work on the Panama canal was in progress. another man told of horrid torture" endured for 16 days in an op:ri boat, after the ship in which he had been a passenger had been burned at sea. A fourth had been in business in one of the South American republics. The usual revolution came according to the standing schedule arranged for those affairs down there. The American was accused of sympathizing with the revolutionists. His 'property was confiscated and he was cast into prison. After a delay of several months he was released upon demands made by the United States government. But he never recovered any of his proper:/. He returned to this country and is nr.v one of tne vast army of "has beens" to whom New York is the Mecca cf hope. The fifth man was one of the six survivors of an exploring expedition whose iate, if not its achievements. nas Decome nisioncai. it is sun a mooted question whether the members of the expedition were forced to resorc to cannibalism. The narrator was silent on that point, but his hearers inferred that thV charges that have been made were not altogether groundless. A short aistance from this group sat another man with a history, but those around him knew nothing about it. He lounges. around the hotel day afi.er day and week after week, hardly ever going out of doors. He is a large, fine-looking man, always well groom ;d and always reserved, xie talks wi'.h none of the other guests, and so makes no confidants. It is said by a few of those who presume to know what they are talking about that he was. not many years ago, one of the best-known and most dangerous bank robbers in this country? the brains of a most notorious gang whose members, excepting himself are dead or in prison. The s4ory is tnat his I inactivity is purchased by a syndicate of banks who prefer to pay him a substantial yearly income lor life to keep him from collecting a much larger oue himself. It is said he goes to a certain bank 1 every Monday, receives his "salary" and returns to me hotel. He is con! tent to accept his annu.cy and rest in peace, after a most strenuous life, i Another of the guests of this hotel, which is no different from other hoicls 1 of cheaper grade, except that it is very large, is a man whose whole make-up bears the unmistakable stamp of education and refinement. He seems out of place, and he is. He has been at the hotel several years now, but he could count up his acquaintances on the fingers of one hand In appearance he is tall, straight and exceedingly dignified. He is very careful of his personal appearance, and if his clothes were a fit you would say he was well groomed. He appears to feel his position keenly, keeping well to himself and making no friends. POVERTY OF THE TROPiCS. Everything In the Hot Countries is Harm. : fut to Man. That the tropics are really poor in natural resources instead of being rich is the argument of Dr. Semeledcr, of Cordoba, Mexico. His arguments are especially interesting just now, when ; so much attention is being attracted ; to the hot regions of the world cs j places for exploitation. The doctor, ! in a letter to the Medical Record, J l says: ! "All men dream of the marvelous j riches of the tropics, of the birds with j ramuow plumage. or tne extravagant j flowers, of the elegant tree-ferns, of | the banana ami palms, with waving ; leaves, and of the cocoa-palm, which furnishes man with everything neccs- : j sary for life. Indeed we pity him who j ' has never "seen a tropical landscape, j as we pity him who lias never seen the j i sea. Then we think of the enormous ; ! treasures the English, Spanish and Dutch have harvested from their tropical colonies, and, naturally, we think that the tropic5 are the richest regions of the world. All this may be true, yet, nevertheless, in another j sense, instead of being rich, the tropi ics are fatally poor. Unable to se^ j cure the neccessaries of life, the peoI pie of tropical countries are like the | man in whose hand everything turns j to gold, yet who perishes of hunger ' and thirst. "Of all the breadstuffs necessary j for man the tropics furnish only corn j and rice, and these only to a limited j extent. They have no wheat, rye, or potatoes. The banana may be, as ' Humboldt says, 133 times more pro- j ductive than wheat, and 44 times more j so than potatoes, yet it cannot replace either as food. Nor can white men live for any length of time on rice and corn alone, nor on bananas and palm-nuts. Native tropical foods can only hold body and soul together, as they furnish but little vigor, energy, and power. No machine can do good work with poor fuel. A man who has neither bread nor meat cannot get life and strength and push from tea, coffee, sugar, vanilla, and all the precious spices. Tropical products are merely commercial luxuries and i/ the inhabitants of cold climes did not buy them the people of the tropics would lack the necessaries and comforts of life and would yet choke with their own riches. "If we wish to know the effects of the poor diet of the tropics combined with the effects of the heat, we have 1 -- 1 A 1 A A 1 ik. !*?Vi A A? i 1* AO A Ulliy LU lUUtv cLL ms lliuaunauia ui Li.iv.w3c countries. As a general rule they arc thin, poorly built, and unfit for intellectual or physical labor. Occasional exceptions will only confirm the rule. "Even the foods which are produced are insufficient in amount, so that the least interference with the annual crops results in famines, as is the case in India today. Indeed, India has always been the land of fabulous riches of a few and of famines of the millions. Until recently in the cold couutries thore were none of fabulous wealth and but few famines. "Everything in hot countries is harmful to man; the ground, the water, and the air, swarming with miasma and vermin, and with torment and danger. Life is as much a torment as a pleasure, for whatever makes life, worth living is lacking. They depend for indispensable necessaries upon the temperate zones, to which they furnish only the luxuries." Mr. Howells on Now York Society. In the "Easy Chair," in Harper's, Mr. Howells comments on Senator Depew's recent comparison of New York and London society and narrates the following instance of what happened ! when Mr. Curtis attempted to unite intellectual and millionaire society: "It is by no means a new discovery j which Mr. Depew has made in regard J tn aiir nlntocratic societv. though the ! fact does not impugn his originality in j proclaiming it. The present tenant of { the Easy Chair remembers hearing his j famous predecessor, who so' wished ail i mahner of men and women well, and j was always trying to make life more , interesting and edifying, tell of a certain experience of his, apropos of the very situation which Mr. Depew regrets. This presented itself so deplor- J ably to the eminent humanist that he | took counsel with a certain Great Lady, a lady really great enough to imagine his motive and aim, for the amelioration of exclusive society by an infusion of the best company. If the memory of the witness serves him rightly, the humanist provided the Great Lady with a list of delightful as well as distinguished people, whom, as one of the most delightful and distinguished among them, though yet a man of society, he was in the habit of meeting on their own ground, on those lofty levels where they did their high thinking and possibly joking; and the j Great Lady asked them to her house, j They came; but they did not come j again; and she was thereafter shut up I to her fellow-millionaires, and the best { company kept itself to itself, as far as ' she knew." New Phonograph Horn. A single horn is ordinarily used in ... .1 phonographs to discharge rie sennas, the small end of the horn being connected with the short tube of the reproducer either directly or by the interposition of a rubber tube connection. It has been proposed, says the j Scientific American, to use two horns j communicating with opposite sides of j the reproducer diaphragm, with the discharge ends arranged side by side. J Th purpose of this construction is to j improve the tone, quality and power. } Furthermore, it has been proposed for ! a similar purpose to employ a number j of independent horns mounted upon a : part to which a rotary movement is given. The horn in this case consists ' of a large bell or hood embracing a number of small horns communicating at their smaller ends with a transmitter having a mouth. A throat leads from the mouth to the diaphragm frame of the reproducer. It is claimed that music, vocal or instrumental, is reproduced by this new horn with great clearness, and that the power of every sound is materially improved. I-ichts. Among the drawbacks of civilization ; are the people who think they know j us so much better tnan we Know tnem. A philosopher is a man who believes that he receives more spiritual intimations than he needs for his own use. Even"*the woman who boasts that she earns her own bread and butter likes to have a man treat her to ice cream. What seems to be the absence of a sense of humor is often merely the presence of a sense of propriety. Nature has her jesting moods; there are rich, red roses which have no \ odor. Pessimists are permitted to keep optimists from becoming pessimists. I Life is often too much like a l?ng procession with only one band of music?always playing in the distance, j ?Chicago Record-Herald. - Fcpular Sympathy with Crime. We are all interested in the subject of crime and criminals. Some of us may practise crime, but I doubt if j any of these are among my readers; j or, if they are. they will too intel- ! lig"nt to be found out. which works j out at much the same as not being j criminal. Far more, however, will j be the sufferers from the criminal acts of others. And then, in addition to this personal aspect, that large majority which is neither criminal nor victim is profoundly absorbed in criminal doings. Why, even the man who has as little chance of keeping a j banking account as of getting to ' heaven is deeply interested in the j Liverpool Bank forgeries and anxious to know how the trick was done. I | suppose that the element of struggle. J of wits against wits, enters largely ill- j to the question. We lose sight in thh ; of the moral aspects of the case, which ! probably explains why quite a number ; of good people hope that an escaped convict will not be recaptured. We have a sort of sympathy with anything that is hunted, even waen it has little or no claim upon such Sympathy;? London Topical Times. AS REPRESENTED. Mrs. Boaster?Henry and I attended the opera last night. We had a box. Mrs. Blount?Caramels, weren't they? I saw you in the gallery eating something.?Richmond Dispatch. 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Life out of doo J-xk^j ment which they greater part of tha ?-?3?cffj happiness when gr j.f 'j* f given to them to cl / f/ ' on which it acts, sh / if component parts ar | ti every objectionable i ft well-informed, app Uf because of its pleas Syrup of Figs?anc be used by fathers 2 l;; Syrup of Figs '"^SsvL naturally without g system effectually, from the use of the v which the children i grow to manhood a them medicines, w assistance in the w? , ^0^'" gentle?Syrup of F Its quality is d ^ laxative principles also to our original ':jA the little ones, do 11 -lS?r>: ers sometimes offei \ bought anywhere o: v ... c&n, a ?frV?"Kv % ? # ,# * ' "i^ A*, \ i : f -J I fWANfO^AVEMoHEY^^ f StS^^Br '< - < * <?.*. ZT?I SfcZj * removes from the soil ? fP^{ J large quantities of iA Potash. | ^4jrv The fertilizer ap- ! plied, must furnish | J.j enough Potash, or the j |t \ land will lose its pro- I ggdf \ \ ducing power. Read carefully our books f ?o crops?sent frtt. GERMAN KALI WORKS, 93 Nassau St., New York. bb i_1bi_ B CURES WHtRE ALL ELSE FAILS, ' El Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Dae ,r in titae. Sold by druggists. W iga mi ! Passing of Sailing Barks. Not many years ago the East river water front was a "forest of masts." Today a dozen smokestacks take their place. Poetry has given place to the dullest and driest of prose. An illustration of the sorrowful pass to which sailing vessels in the merchant marine have come was related last week by the son of a once wealthy shipowner now dead. "I was present in my youth," said he, "at the christening of one of my father's barks, a quarter of a century ago. The vessel cost about $32,000. In her maiden voyage to Australia she cleared a net profit of more than%$35,000?more than paid for herself, in fact. "Not long since, while settling up my father's estate, $50 was offered to me for an eighth interest in another bark which he had owned. It cost him $4,000. I took the offer. It was a question of taking $50, or paying an assessment of $200, and as I was not empowered to spend money of the estate, and saw no probable profit if I did, I took the cash."?New York Times. "Is Worth Its Weight In Gold." "Had Eczema for three years; tried three doctors and every advertised remedy,without effect, till I tried Tetterine. Ealf a box of Tetterine removed all signs of the disease."?C. H. Adams, Columbia, S. C. 50c. a box by mall from J. T. Shuptrine, Savannah, Ga., if your druggist don't keep it. All rivers of Africa have a marked peculiarity. They seek the ocean farthest (rom 'their source. Free Delivery of Garden. Fi -M and Flo vor -teeds: fresh, cuar <nteed and especially adapted to dim .te, at bottom prices. C-aaloiue free. Orders $1 o- over delivered free in Ga , A11 <>r Fla. Ir. pavs farmer* to secure the best. Asents wanted. Paul To'and <fe Co., B.vtle II1U, Ga mm ^CARTRIDGES IN Hi from .22 to .50 loaded with eitl ESS always give entire satisfaction. ||H modern manner, by exact machi H THEY SHOOT WHERE YOU HOI -- . ' - " - CHILDREN E rs and out of the g'ames which they pis receive and the efforts which they 1 t healthful development which is so rvwri Wh#m a lavative is needed the eansc and sweeten airtl strengthen th< ould be such as phj*sicians would san< e known to be whole.-ome and the rcmed quality. TJie one remedy which physic rove and recommend and which the ant flavor, its gentle action, and its bene I for the same reason it is the only laxal lud mothers. is the only remedy which acts gentlj riping, irritating, or nauseating and w without producing that constipated ha old-time cathartics and modern imitat should be so carefully guarded. If you md womanhood, strong, healthy and hz hen medicines are not needed, and wh ly of a laxative, give them only the sim igs. * ue not only to the excellence of the coi of plants with pleasant aromatic syrup method of manufacture and as you va ot accept any of the substitutes which u * to increase their profits. The genuir f all reliable druggists at fifty cents pe to remember, the full name of CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CC the front of every package. In order to get its ^ beneficial effects it is always necessary to buy the genuine only. A V,r 3 \ 0>% rt i i : : f : : ,J : it > h ; / : % C I rJ 0 (f The great cereal, producing from Bffia*5^of baj, u good m timothj, per i TRIPLE BNGQH ^862How voold ISOba*h?U pfr ?cre unit; Ml iJlfiSfcZ/^ Salxer'seorn torn will produce th |k Fodder Plants, Gras awSBP SwO?! Fyt& hare the largest vnj of fodder j HgSpt Pf frvi-dw In America. We hare the Cttu vario BSwejbJH.( U surest eropper?. Oar Glaat Incornat SBk^l ^STifl high in six week* after seeding. Our] 1BlC> L'.-Ziftv ftfi acre: oar Teosinte is good for 80 ton* JtjSh BwPPJ Headed Kale aad Dwarf Victoria Rape i jflr growing at lc. > pound possible. Wc w &9t/ )ifiy?Sf flf\ furnish a luxuriant crop of hay on ?3gR IT w (Orer 2,000,000 pounds ooid the past fei VEGETABU SQg We are the lorfeit grower*. Choice on I fiBAKjLjMsSK^ ib' W*e hlre E tremendous stock of Su jr* earliest pea*, sweet com, radishes, be f'WrtiWC^ making rcgeiahies. Our seeds are moar; \W?$J&tGlrL \ gardener and former wants. For 10c?Wort I WBjPByiuSfe^ Onr great catalog Tith a large number i h eutpies Is mailed to yoa apon rrcH k stamps. These seeds are poaitireljr wort> ISjffisshw JOHN A. SALZERSE La Crosse, Wh SgdySSyft jt $ g t :A ^ y " s " v ' ?^' ' % 1 it | Lungs 8 " An attack of la grippe left me I with a bad cough. My friends said I had consumption. I then tried Ayer's Cherry Pectoral and it cured me promptly." A. K. 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