University of South Carolina Libraries
i BEAUTY. JO. you who gaze on fading sunset skies iWlth dream enkindled eyes 'Aglow with ecstasy. !Do not those crystal deeps reveal to you The secret of eternity? IThat in their perishing. frail glory lies The one truth wholly true? Though all things jierish.Beauty never dies? For Beauty fad 's r->r ?i]i0 fading hour, Nor withers with the flower, Nor passes with ti c d.-n.u . Though death should take the whole earth in his net. He may not snare the starry gleam Nor hold the sou! of lleauty in his power. \ Yea. though time's sun should set. And ail things perish. Beauty never dies. Imperishabie Beauty trembles through The frailness of t lie dew: In flickering, white foam. And in the iris of the stormy bow Awhile she dwells: and hath her home Beneath our earthly skies of mortal blue. They fade: yet this we know? Though all things perish, lleauty never dies. For ever fugitive, before our eyes From form to form she flies: We deem her d-ad: when she Doth flash again upon our mazed sight In some new living ecstasy Of bloom, or love-lit face, or sunset skies. Or star enchanted night. Though all things perish. Deauty never dies. With her alone is immortality; For yet men reverently Adore within her shrine. 3he sole immortal time hath not cast down. She wields a power yet more divine Than when of old she rose from out the sea. ] Of night, with starry crown. Though all things perish. Iteauty never dies. jjjp' I "WILLIAMSON'S j ! I [INSOMNIA." 1 > Williamson always complained that lie was a bad sleeper. In his babyhood the tendency exhibited itself in the shape of a fondness for exercise between the hours of 1 and 4 o'clock in the morning. As he grew older the somnolent characteristics of the normal boy were noticeable by their ab?. sence. The sound of rain on the roof, a creaking door, the thought of tomorrow's examinations, could banish from him all possibility of sleep. Mrs. Williamson's first important lesson in her married life concerned the sacredness of Williamson's slumbers. A mother-in-law, three sistersin-law and a maiden aunt of her husband's all united to impress on her mind that if Charlie once fell asleep nothing short of a domestic tragedy was an excuse for awakening him. His oversleeping in the morning was to be hailed with thankfulness, as a partial atonement for the sufferings of a wakeful night. All of which Mrs. Williamson took to heart as in duty bound. Williamson, junior, however, did not' prove as tractable a pupil as his mother. Considering his inches, he had an extraordinary amount of self-assurrance, and his bump of reverence seemed totally undeveloped. If he felt in the mood for roaring he roared re ? gardless of the hour or whose slumbers he disturbed. The room chosen ? v.. for the nursery was as remote as pcsBible from Williamson's sleeping room, and here Mrs. Williamson spent many an hour of the night in an effort to render the outcries of his son and heir inaudible to her husband. ' But one time when Williamson junior was cutting his first teeth his mother had been up with him for three successive nights. Then Williamson made a proposition that would have astonished his mother and sisEa ters and the maiden aunt. Looking across the table at his wife's pretty, tired face, the dark lines of weariness giving a new luster to her eyes, he said, firmly: "Kitty, you look fworn out. Tonight you must get a good sleep. I will look after the baby." Mrs. Williamson gasped. "Why, Charlie, you won't sleep at all. The time you usually go to sleep is just his hour for starting in." "I can stand it for one night," said "JVilliarason. Then he added with a martyr-like air, "I sleep so little anyway that I might as well turn my wakefulness to some account." The prospect of one night of undis -* ? ? j- ~ i 4 turbed sleep was too tempting to ue resisted. Mrs. Williamson yielded with ecstatic gratitude. She retired early that evening, having first inducted her husband into the chief mysteries connected with the care of an infant. It seemed to her that she had hardly fallen asleep when she was aroused by the vigorous lamentation of her offspring. Her first impulse was to go to her husband's assistance, but she heroically suppressed it. She would not spoil his sacrifice. She fell asleep again, her mind full of images of Williamson heating milk and walking the floor and crooning lullabies under his breath to the red, wriggling piece of humanity who seemed on such occasions a prey to the most bitter cynicism. Occasionally through the night she was awakened by the baby's cries, but each time she sunk to sleep, with the delicious consciousness that Charlie was doing everything necessary. 'nv.o. oi,n tea? hie-h next morning 1UC OUU ?!b*v ?0 when Williamson bolted into his wife's room, watch in hancU "What time have you, Kitty? My watch seems to be off." "Why, it's 9 o'clock," gasped Mrs. Williamson. "You've overslept." Then with commiserating tenderness, "I suppose you were so worn out, poor boy, that when he gave you a chance you just slept regardless of everything." Williamson looked sheepish. "To tell the truth, I never remember having had a better sleep," he said. "I was in tranquil mood and the little fellow seemed to feel it. He never made a sound all night." "Charlie Williamson!" shrieked his wife. "Do you mean to say that you never heard that poor child? Didn't you even feed him?" She was answered by Williamson's *uilty silence. Then, as she realized the astonishing truth she gave herself 1 up to helpless laughter. The cure was two-fold. Williamson, j junior was a baby of discrimination, and that long night in which his ap- J peals had been ignored was enough to j teach him a lessen. Williamson senior. after his episode, found it em bar- i rassing to say much about his insom- i nia. Singular to say, his insomnia re- j taliated by leaving him to his own re sources. At last accounts w linamsou was sleeping very much like other people. But since the night he took care of the baby Mrs. Williamson has never trusted him with the care of that precious infant.?Chicago News. WHEN! A REINDEER'S ANGRY. He Will Try to Paw a Man to Death Without Mercy or Reason. We were forced to wait three days after it had stepped snowing for a crust to form so that we could travel again. It was with many misgivings that we began the last half of the journey, since the snow was now very deep and the danger of our sinking into drifts was great. To add to our j general feeling of fear, the reindeer behaved very badly and were exceed: ingly unruly. The wind had moderated somewhat, but it was still intensely ! cold. We had traveled half the day with- ! cut any serious mishap and were be- j ginning to forget our fears at start! ing out, when we sped merrily down a i I mountain side, singing and halloaing ; at tba ton of our voices, and ran into | a gulch and stuck there. The songs j stopped in our throats, and we sprang , to our feet to sink waist deep in the I drifts that had entrapped us. Every movement of our bodies sank j us deeper in the snow drifts, and the infuriated reindeer, finding themselves caught in the banked-up snow almost to their haunches, turned upon us and would have pawed us to death but for the forethought of Oosilik, who, seeing our danger, sprang forward and, i hoisting the overturned pulks in his j strong arms, brought them down over our heads and shoulders and pinned j us out of sight in the snow. We heard the hoofs of Uncle Ben I beating on the pulk's side as he pawed j up the snow in his efforts to get at I us, and if we had not held to the ' straps and had not kept the pulk over j us he would have tossed it into the j air with one sweep of his horns and j would still have had his bout with us, ; in which case we should have been helpless and completely at his mercy, j For the first time we had occasion j ' -e ?1 to set; now uerce ttn <tugi_v icmucci can be. When he was convinced that . he could not reach us Uncle Ben turned upon Oosilik, and we heard the i Eskimo shouting and clubbing the J deer as he ran in an-d out of the pulks ! in a swift circuit, pursued by the bel- ; lowing reindeer. We spent an exciting half hour un- j der the pulks, with the hoofs of the j deer rattling like hail on the frozen j boards, and then the unusual commo- j tion ceased all at once, for the rein- j deer had found a lichen bed. In a j jiffy they were pawing up the snow ; in their hurry to get at the succulent j moss, and we were forgotten. Amalik and Oosilik lifted the pulks j from our heads and dug us up out of ; the snow and set us on our feet. By : the time the reindeer had eaten them- \ selves into a passable humor Amalik ' and Oosilik led them back to the i pulks. We had four hours of traveling be- ; fore we came in sight of the corral j that had sent us the reindeer from i Eaton Station. As soon as the deer ! scented the well-known corral they ' quickened their strides so that we ! 1 3 Al. ~ 54. ^,,54-^ ! rettcueu iuc si.ct.uuj..: uciuie n, was ^uuc j dark, and crawled from the sleds with j a deep feeling of relief, glad beyond ; measure to be at home after the per- j ils of our protracted journeys.?From ! Cornelia Fickman's "An Alaskan Jour- ; ney with Reindeer" in St Nicholas. j The Absent-Minded Member. Representative Byrd of Mississippi ! has established what one of his coh I leagues has termed the "long-distance record for absent-mindedness." The j other day, when the house adjourned, i and members were fiocking to their ! committee rooms or for the Capitol ; exits, Mr. Byrd hurried from the Dem- j ocratic door with his overcoat button- j ed up about his chin, but with no hat j on his hea<5. He was evidently in a ; hurry, and was making tracks for the j doer nearest the avenue car line. A doorkeeper spied the rushing barehead statesman, and gasped with j astonishment. Then he sent a page ! flvincr ir> nnrsnit. Mr. Bvrd was OV- > +* *?> X' ? ? ? ertaken before he left the building. j "Mr. Byrd, you've forgotten your ; hat," panted the page. "Mercy sakes, so I have." said the ] Mississippian, placing his hand to his head quickly. "Run back to the cloak- I room, son, and tote it to me."?Washington Post. What the Boston Symphony Is. The Boston Symphony Orchestra is Mr. Henry L. Higginson's yacht, his racing stable, his library, and his art gallery, or it takes the place of what j these things are to other men of wealth with other tastes. It is a re- j mark that he himself once made in j disavowing any philanthropic ends I when he set up in the city of Boston a J musical organization that has few j peers in the world of music ar ywhere. And though few will be persuaded to | accept his disavowal as a complete expression of his case, it is true that Mr. Higginson has found in the establish ment, the upbuilding, ana uae mamicuance of a consummate artistic institution the keen personal delight that other men take in perfecting a collection or pursuing supremacy in a sport.?Century. | rsj?MCNjrsicsjrsJCMrs>? I I SOUTH CAROLINA ? j STATE NEWS ITEMS. J Watchman Killed by Train. ; James Burgess, watchman at the Carolina mills, at Greenville, was run over and instantly killed on the Reedy I rivpr rre?tlc bv Train No. 36 arriving from Atlanta. * * * Hotel Changes Hands. A. H. Green & Son. proprietors of the Carolina hotel at Rock Hill and l the Nicholson hotel at Chester, have j bought out the lease on the Hotel Chester at Chester and will take charge at once. After making various improvements they will open t!*e hotel and run it on the European plan. R. J. Oliver, who has had charge for some time, will devote his entire time j to the brokerage business in tne fuI ture. * ! * 41 j County Medical Society Formed. rr^ ~ pAHTltV SO | i lit: .> c>? i.ti i ^ ? I eiety. composed of the physicians of | 'Xewberrv county has just been organi ized. The object of the association ! is to promote the best interests of the j medical fraternity in the county. The following officer,s were elected: President, J. K. Gilder of Newberry; vice president, G. Y. Hunter of i Prosperity; secretary and treasurer. J. G. McMaster of Newberry. Delegare i tc the state association, W. G. HouI seal of Newberry. j : * Burglar Found Asleep in Bed. Not content with burglarizing the residence of J. D. Kelly at Charleston, Lee Singleton, a colored boy.went tc sleep in Mr. Kelly's bed and was found, fast asleep, when Mr. Kelly entered his room. He paddled the boy with a razor strap and when he had him thoroughly awake, he turned Viiin nvpr tn nolice officers and the boy has been sent to jail to await trial. Another singular case before the magistrates was that of a negro who threw another over a piazza rail and then repaired to the yard below, where he beat him with a wash tub. * Charleston Societies Celebrate. The Irish societies in Charleston observed St. Patrick's day in the usual way. The St. Patrick's Benevolent society, two divisions of the Ancient Order of Hibernians, Irish Volunteers and band paraded, attending mass at the cathedral previously. The panegyric on Ireland's saint was delivered by Rev. Father Mahoney of Greenville. The annual meeting and election of officers of the Hibernian society was held at noon and at night the usual big dinner of the society tool: place, at its hall, being attended by a number of prominent people. Among the out-of-the-city guests were Governor Heyward, who responded to "South Carolina," and Congressman D. P. Foster of Vermont, who spoke to "The United States." * * * Words Held Libellous. In a case brought before the supreme court of South Carolina on a demurrer, a decision was handed down a few days ago, declaring that it is libellous to publish a white man as a negro. Two newspapers referred to a white man as "colored." He entered suit against each for $10,000. One paper demurred, claiming that under the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments "tc the constitution the application of the word "negro" or "colored" to any one is not defamatory nor libellous. The court cites a number of cases and says: "It must be apparent from consulting the texts of these amendments that there is not the siigmesi reierence to the social conditions of the two races, and nothing can be imported into those amendments to give any such effect. We take pleasure in bowing to the authority of the United States in regard to these three amendments, but we would be very far from admitting that the social distinction subsisting between the two races has been in any way affected. We, therefore, hold that these three amendments to the federal constitution have not destroyed the law of this state, which makes the publication of a white man as a negro libel." * * Educators to Meet in Columbia. Preparations are well under way at Columbia for the eighth session of the conference for education in the south. This body meets in that city on the evening of April 26, and continues its session through the evening of April 28. The conference went to Columbia by invitation of the governor of the I state, the legislature of South Caro | Una, the state department of edue*I nJuMtinna 1 institutions Of CO- I UOI1, LUC CUUcauuuui lumbia, the mayor, the city council and the Columbia chamber of commerce. Attendants upon the conference will come frogi all over the country, representing men and women interested in the general cause of education, people of affairs as well as people professionally associated with the schools. The address of welcome will be delivered by Governor Heyward. | The chairman of the local commit. tee of arrangements is E. S. Dreher, superintendent of srhcols of the city of Columbia. These intending to attend the conference should give early notice to Superintendent Dreher. Details as to railroad rates will be announced through the press at an early date. This is the first meeting that the conference has held in South Carolina. It met last year at Birmingham, Ala., and th^ year before at Richmond, Va. The local committee of arrangements include many of the leading citizens of Columbia, and the social reception to ue tendered the guests of the conference in the capitol building will be without doubt an occasion of memorable interest and im- j portnnce. Eo:ii houses c? the legisla- i ture have offered their assembly rooms J for the use of the reception com- , mittee. The program, together with other details in connection with the meeting. will be announced within the next few days. An interesting feature is to take place on the morning of i the 27th, when that session of the j conference will be assigned to the superintendents of education who will ' be present from the south. They will ! be invited tn select their own chair- ! 'man and discuss such questions as are j cf immediate intsrest in their several J fields. | 2?r. Robert C. Cgden, president of i the conference, will bring a distin- j guished party of visitors by special ! train, rne greater numuer 01 muse j in attendance will be from the south- i ern states. about 1.000 being expected ! from south of Mason and Dixon's line, j FRANCE AFTER CASTRO. High-Handed Acts of the Venezuelan Government Arouses Frenchmen to a Belligerent Attitude. France has officially informed the United States of the action of the Venezuelan government against the French Cable company, in bringing suit and cutting the company's cables, which she regards as high-handed and unwarranted. While insisting that diplomatic means will be exhausted in the effort to relieve the situation, it is declared that President Castro is rapidly exhausting French patience and thereby forcing France toward the limit of diplomacy. France has invited the attention of the American government to the Venezuelan situation because of its interests in Pan-American affairs, and in order that it may ascertain the probable course of action which this government will take against Venezuela. It is the wish of the French government to act along parallel lines as far as practicable. These developments in the Venezuelan situation are regarded as the preliminary steps toward the relief of a situation in Caracas, which Europe as well as the United States has for some time regarded with dissatisfaction. Early Friday M. Jusserana, tne French ambassador, sent his first secretary, M. Des Portes de la Fosse, to the state department to inform officials there of the suit of the Venezuelan government against the French Cable company, and of the concern which this action has caused the French government. ' It is pointed out that it is the wish of the French government to settle as quickly as possible its differences with Venezuela and in case a French ultimatum is followed by no relief In the situation France will have well nigh reached the limit of diplomacy. In view of the unfavorable conditions in Venezuela, at this moment, the French armored cruiser Duplex and the protected cruiser Bulien de Gravierre of 23 knots speed, which are now in the Caribbean sea, will be retained in that vicinity indefinitely. Although the greater .part of the ! North Atlantic fleet is soon to come I i^orth as far as Pensacola for target practice, an adequate contingent will remain in Dominican waters to guar.* American interests there and in case of an emergency in Venezuela the fleet at Pensacola will be in easy cruising distance. It is possible that the French cruisers may touch at Pensacola, during the stay there of the American fleet, to obtain supplies or merely to pay a friendly visit WHAT IS COMING TO US. Castro is Advised by Henchman to Invade the United States. According to trustworthy advices, the situation in Venezuela is unchanged. Castro's attitude is reflected in a pamphlet issued through one of his advisers, in which plans for sending 30,000 Venezuelans against New -Orleans are disclosed. The pamphlet urges the public to avenge the idsuits offered to Venezuela by the Americans and declares the invasion of the Mississippi valley would be the x moanc of curbing the most eucu? w power of the UnKed States. LAND FRAUDS IN UTAH. Thousands of Acres of Valuable Public Tracts Illegally Seized. Special agents of the government are reported to have been engaged for some time past in investigating, public land frauds in Utah. It is stated that hundreds of thousands or acres of valuable coal land have been acquired by corporations by questionable methods. , - ! IN THE PI GERMANY'S FUTURE RUL She is Princess Cec-ilie, o SELF-PROPELLED SLED. Device of Two "Sew Yorkers Which Anybody Would Be Able to Adapt to the Ordinary Sled. We give herewith the description of an invention applicable- to the winter months, when the snow reaches us. It is the invention of two New Yorkers, which they term a self-propelled sled. Anybody could build one, or, for that matter, construct one out of an ordinarv sled, usinir the tOD and runners. with a cross-bar or footrest connecting the runners at the front, the latter beSLED PROPELLED BY HAND LEVERS. ing 011 a plane slightly below the seat. ' Two actuating levers are pivoted upon a bracket or support upon the front ! posts. Propelling rods are connected to the levers and the rear posts, the extreme forward end being threaded and bent inwardly at right angles, so as to provide a pivot pin which enters one of a series of openings in the lever and is retained in position by a nut i A bracket, provided with a vertical I slot, is attached to the rear post, in which loosely slides a stud through I which the propelling rod passes and is guided in its actuating movements. Wound around the propelling rods is a i ci-kirni fmipti ?nrin?r_ which rests asrainst ' L'' ?J' ' "? ?m a lug secured to the rod. To prevent DEAN OF AMERICA] ^ ^HM^Rsfifl9S3S^BVH& *- /+. v.-.'''. *'&. gnnf -i Jf' -|?i?3 BD^n,'\w -A- |||H ^ 18^. ft .;^TW^^Ek JB MARK TWAIN (Sai .Dickens' Abiding Popnlarlty. ^ ^ The Dickens Feilowsinp ot Fonaon is about to issue a monthly magazine, 1 The Dickensian, devoted solely to the < novelist and his works. More than 1 200,000 copies of Dickens' works were 1 sold in England during December. ] "I can't imagine what made the j bridegroom so nervous." "I cari." "What?" "He didn't have time to get his prospective father-in-laws t rheck certified before the ceremony.''-^- 1 Washington Times. Il JBLIC EYE. Eli AND HIS FIANCEE. f Meck 1 en burg-Sell werin. . Jj undue jarring or bouncing of the sled fl caused by the rapid striking of the end of the propelling rod against the ground, a cushioned device is provided, which is formed of a vertical spring secured to the bracket. The rear end of the propelling rod is shaped into a slight point to readily penetrate the ice or snow. In operation the person seated upon the sled places his feet against the front rest and manipulates * the pivoted levers, which operate the propelling rods, the resistance to the j ground pushing the sled forward, the ? strokes being regulated by the hole* in the levers. Child Pensions in France. At all times it has been an object ^ with French parents to teach a child to be provident and economical. A child of three can become a member ''j of the Mutualite by giving only two cents a week; one cent will entitle it to getting ten cents a day when it is , j ill, and the other goes toward getting, a pension when it is at a certain age. \'3 No one knows how long a child canlive, but what does the contribution vSj amount to?v There is hardly a child ;.a in the world who does not spend that < for candy. Now, a boy at eighteen. /'MI giving tliirty-four cents a month to" the society, will when he :s sixty have a pension of seventy-two dollars a ' | year.?Brooklyn Eagle. A Giant Steam-Shovel at Work. ^ 1 at once, and can load a car in j three minutes.) '--s3a | . ~V'j' .Sss> | ' r;;. ^ 9 ;4jH I KaMHHHH^^^H e.-^t a - v:;'^| -S - r*n^B /v'4'^b nuel L. Clemens). The Reminder. 2 ' "Blank is one of the slipperiest fel-" Jijl lows I've ever known, and yet there's >ne peculiarly good quality about him? lie always keeps his word. I wonder; M| "Because he had a severe lesson. | He broke his promise once, and it cost * a aim $50,000."?Detroit Free Pr^ss. <Jj Scotland lias Kansas beaten. Alex- til mder Wilkie, of Upper Craigle, Perth, a coasts a beard more than eight feet 9 ong. It is still growing. . 1 . m