The Bamberg herald. (Bamberg, S.C.) 1891-1972, March 23, 1905, Image 2
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.
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I "WILLIAMSON'S j
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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
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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
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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
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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 !
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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- >
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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.
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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.
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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.
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j County Medical Society Formed.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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."
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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. ,
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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
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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.
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"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.
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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
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