Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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MEMORIES OF THE Once more in fancy I hoar the me of ".Anna virumque cano.*' O shade of lor.;: Homer's sonorous lines: the Ten Tnousii Gutteral German, narrating how Tel! or Stammering accents in French, concern Sines and cosines and roots, and words Then, best remembered of all. the day c Parents and friends are all there, each Committeemen, solemn and grave, and Ag:ain J behold .ne proud youth the ros A\ ith a voice 'twixt a squeak and a croa ''The Commons of France have resolved, Jsow a soft rustling I hear, as the girls. Fluttering forth, like white doves, read "A Vision,' or "Shells of the tcea.'' or "\ Seen through the vista of years, how cl< How fair snines each face, even now, v Though the sweet eyelids of some are 3i Ah. never more will the skies seem as b Though the full noontide is fair, and be Fairest of all is the glow that shines on HH^ ^ -SSA l Bv FISHER AOK T was a soft yet brilliant % <Y K Southern night. The far O I O stars seemed to hang clear y of the heavens like a penetrable veil of radiant dust. The swell of the great, orange-colored moon could be plainly seen, with some of those hazy veins which scientists say are frost-cracks in her cold surface. Every dune and bit of wreckage on the broad bar stood out distinctly in her light, and a clump of frowzy-headed palms cast sharpedged shadows on the sand. Those of two boys walking along % the hardpacked beach below high-water mark hobnobbed in front of them wnn a friendliness which the youths themselves were not feeling at that moment. "Pick up your feet, Bud!" exclaimed the elder, in a long-suffering voice. "You squitter like a girl in her first long dress. Think we can catch anything with you making that squitsqueak. squit-squeak!" He imitated with gross exaggeration the scuffing of his brother's "sneakers." "I reckon I walk as well as you do!" spluttered "Bud," deeply irritated by the other's choice of similes. John sighed in a patient, virtuous manner very difficult, to bear. "It doesn't look like you'd ever make a hunter, Bud," he observed, with a certain meek unction. Bud halted instantly, straight and defiant. "I'll go by myself, then," he said, "and bring back as many eggs as you do!" "Oh, come on!" said his brother, relenting. But Bud stood his ground obstinately. "No. You're bossing, bossing all the time. I pity Grace Aline if you get her, that's all." Grace Aline of the romantic name was a most particular friend of John's. Twice a week he sailed his bluff-bowed lugger across the three-mile stretch between the bar and the mainland, bringing an atmosphere of salt j nd shyness to the little house among the orangetrees. The imputation stung him to the quick. He turned on his heel and strode off, his chin very high. "Huh!" grunted Bud, with the air of one superior to the soft passion. / "Huh!" He watched his brother until the tall figure could no longer be seen. Then he picked up his pail and stake and started toward the shelf of the beach. t His lean, shrewd face was no longer smiling. There was a terrier-like concentration in its expression and in the forward thrust of his head, and as he zigzagged swiftly over the stretch of loose sand his movements had much of the nervous deftness of that gamy little animal. As he trotted back and forth his stick tapped the sand like a blind man's staff. It had made perhaps a hundred little pecks, when presently Bud checked, and lowering the stick as delicately as if pricking a blister, drew it up and inspected the tip. It was gummy and glistening, and would have offended most people's noses. "O-ho!" chuckled Bud. "Teach a pelican to fish! Huh!" With deft, hollowed hands he uncovered the leathery eggs. In the moonlight they looked like fat milk pearls; 125 of them in two layers, with a wadding of sand between. The clutch just filled Bud's pail, and he set it well above high-water mark, and resumed his quartering. When he came to the point where John had turned up from The slope of the beach, he hesitated, considering the chances of his brother having overlooked a nest. To get ahead of him he would have to walk at least half a mile. The night was warm and windless. and he was sweating profusely under his loose shirt. With a sigh of resignation he threw himself down on pond >,Tc tnvrf?r<l flip spn. There had been no wind for several days, and the sea hardly stirred in its sleep. Xow and then its bosom lifted in a slow breath that sent a swell rolling in, to die upon the beach with a drawn-out sigh. A film of stale, iridescent oil seemed to blanket the water thinly, flickering and passing from green to saffron and from saffron to rose as the tranquil heaving presented new surfaces to the moonlight. Right in the midst of this subdued glitter and close in shore something black and wedge-shaped presently appeared. It came without a ripple, like the sodden rise of a water-logged timber. Then Bud saw it sink in the same stealthy fashion, as if it had withdraw!' to weigh its estimate of the prospeci in secret. Only a few moments elapsed however, before it reappeared nearei ihore. Bud lay as motionless as the sand it self, and the turtle, after a long am wary inspection of the beach. swishe< through the shallow water and begai to ascend the slope OLD SCHOOLHOUSE J ihe long recitation: :-suffering Virgil! tnd's "Thalatta: Thalatta!" ide tiie tyrant defiance, ing tlie coat of my uncle; ot unknown derivation. if the Class Graduation, watching the face of some loved one: teachers, important, yet anxious. trum slowly ascending: k.pouring forth the high-down declamation. " or "The Union now and forever!" decked with ribbons and laces, faintly their sweet compositions: Vhat is the True Sphere of Woman?" ?arly beheld is the picture! n memory's sight ever youthful! fted now only in heaven. right as were those of our school days! ?auteous the glories of sunset, the wings of the morning. ?Eugene Barry, in tne Albany Press. STeep.jg|| r AMES. JR. ^ It was laborious work for the huge turtle, but at last it gained the shelf of the beach and looked round with blear and weary eyes for a suitable resting place. Then it saw Bud rising from the sand, and shrank inward into its shell in quivering apprehension. A long, dismal hiss escaped from its horny blow-holes. "Hello, old camel!" mocked Bud. "I'm right glad I was in when you called." Then he rapped the shaking head smartly with his stick, and his high voice broke to a threatening soprano. "You squat still now till I stake you down. I don't want to lose you. I'm mighty fond of you?well done." He uncoiled the braided rawhide wound round his waist, and began to knot it about one of the big, musky hind flippers. The loggerhead's baggy throat pulsed. Its round, hard eyes gleamed with an indignation it could not express vocally, for the great turtles are mute. It spun suddenly on its broad breastplate, almost knocking Bud off his feet, and with a powerful forward hunch started for the sea. Bud dropped sitting upon the beach, his heels jammed into the sand, and both hands clutching the rawhide, one end of which was still tied about his body. His weight crippled the flipper to which he was fast, but the loggerhead seemed quite satisfied with what remained. Without any apparent increase of effort she dragged the boy steadily down the slope. "John! 0 John!" bawled Bud. "Come quick! I've got one!" "Pshaw!" he muttered, letting go with one hand and groping in his pocket. "John can't hear anything but what Grace Aline said to him last night, I reckon." He took out his knife and opened it. The turtle was already at the lip of the sea, but'Bud hated to cut. Economy is inborn among the inhabitants of the bar. and it hurt him to lose so I much good meat. It was not yet too late for John to be of service if he should arrive upon the scene. No John came, however, and the loprgerliead *plunged into the water with a joyous splashing. Bud drew the knife quickly across the line. The next instant he dropped it with h cry of pain as the brine struck bitterly into a gash in his finger. Clutching and tearing uselessly at the sand, he was jerked into the water, down, down, down, a crisp singing in his ears and cold fingers prying at his lips. By one of fate's malicious pranks the knife had somehow turned in his hand, and when he struck, it was the back of the blade that met the line! At this part of the coast the sea lies warm and shoal above a great apron of submerged land fully a mile wide. The loggerhead had hardly begun its dive when it reached bottom. Its flippers struck violently, and sent up a boiling cloud of sand. Confused and winded by the violence of its fright, it turned and slanted upward to the surface, where it lay puffing like a naphtha launch, Its limp flippers swinging with the sway of the water. A few seconds later Bud's streaming yellow head bobbed up close behind it. The boy had the line tightly clutched in his hands, and hardly waiting to take the necessary breath, he pulled himself forward with a strong quick pull. The fore part of the loggerhead sank instantly, but before she had gathered her trailing = flippers under her. Bud was on her back, all ten fingers hooked about the thick front edge of the shell. The loggerhead, for obvious reasons, has no enemy but man, and this particular loggerhead had led a long and pottering existence of unbroken peace. ? - i i i f -i To say tnat it "was irigmeneu wuuiu do scant justice to its state of mind. Down it went with a rush that tore white streaks through the water, but this time it did not strike the sand. It turned as it neared the bottom and skimmed along just above it. Its powerful flipper;?, working with a propellerlike motion, drove it along like the wind. As it went it turned on its side, glancing this way and that like a scaling , stone; but Bud clung to the broad carapace with the tenacity of a barnacle. He knew that if he were trailed again [ at the end of the rawhide, he would soon drown. Three generations of . gaunt "reefers" had left him a legacy . of pluck and coolness that made a man . of him. and a strong one. in times of > danger. Young as he was. Bud had i been in peril before, but nevet had l thinks looked so bad. Something cold and tense seemed to knot within his - head. He must, if it were possible, j draw up his knees to the centre of the . J shell and fashion his body into a sort of 1 i drag or breakwater. It was a trick 1: which some of the "reefers'' declared J i would invariably force a turtle to come ' \ to the surface- J It had sounded easy; but in the pens, j 1 if one failed, one had oniy to let go j and come up with no -worse penalty j than a derisive laugh from one's com- j panions. It is different when one tries j it out at sea, when life itself may be | the price of a slip. {( Something, however, must be done, j Although in reality Bud had been below the surface but a few seconds, the force with which he was swept ! through the water and the efforts of the loggerhead to unseat him made it < extremely difficult to hold his breath. ; ^ A pair of iron hands seemed to press I : with tprrible force aeainst his lower ; , ribs. His lungs shook like foul and j ' shodden sponges within him. Ilis legs, 1 , always hitching forward, were straightened again and again by the pressure i ' of the water. But Bud was as much at home in the 1 sea as a South Sea Islander, and at ) : last, favored by a momentary slack- ! ening of the loggerhead's speed, his j knee caught under him, and he straightened his body as much as the length of his arms permitted.Either the trick succeeded or the j < turtle was almost winded, for almost j immediately it began a slowing and j grudging rise. Bud had enough spirit j ' left in him to grin a tight-lipped, dimpled grin. Owing to the backward I tilt of his body, he could see the cheer- j ful shimmer of moonlight on the sur- | ; face. It danced like mercury, grew brighter and more dispersed. Then his head shattered the silver ; ' film, and he shot the stale air from his j lungs in a gulp that almost seemed to , i pull them into his threat. "Um-ml" he panted. "I reckon we j were right close to being late for that j appointment. The loggerhead, its dome just awash, moved seaward with a sudden acces- ( sion of dignity. It was apparent that it did not intend to exert itself in any fancy diving until it was sure of deep water. Bud glanced back over his shoulder, and the cabbage-palms seemed to him ! to have dwindled to the dimensions of hat pins stuck in a sand cushion. A 1 lively and picturesque little wake of phosphorescence suggested that they might look even smaller in time. , Clinging to the shell with one hand, j Bud picked at the knot with the other, i . but the swollen rawhide resisted his ( wet fingers. A sudden boyish out break of rage at his impotence swept over him, and he struck the loggerhead savagely on the head. The blows, aimed without intention, did more than skin Bud's knuckles, for the creature swerved confusedly until its course lay parallel to the beach. J Bud's temper passed as quickly as it had come. Another blow might undo i the good he had gained. As long as j they held their present course he was i within swimming distance of the i \ shore. His face, pale from fatigue and the j cold moonlight, set precociously. He I ( had nothing with which he could cut the line, nor could he use both hands at the knot and keep his seat. He turned his hot gaze downward. What if he gouged out those blear eyes with his thumb, or tore open the baggy throat! J Something desperate Bud was pre- 1 pared to do. He leaned forward, his ' face drawn like a weasel's, when sud- < denly the inspiration 'came. He caught up the line, and thrusting it under the < sullen beak, rasped it viciously back ( and forth. "Bite, you mossback!" he snarled, reckless of the danger his fingers ran. The loggerhead did bite, with a quick venomousness that was uncanny. A gush of fat bubbles gurgled up, and the keen, horny jaws sliced through the rope as if it were kelp. The next ' moment the turtle dived, and Bud, un- 1 prepared, found himself gasping, but alone in the water. i He fell into the stroke, the long sidestroke he could maintain for an hour at a time, laying his course by the prim palms. He heard a faint "Halloo!" : from John, returning down the beach, and grinned abstractedly. ( It never occurred to him to ask for assistance. Such a swim was mere play in his two-piece costume. He was busy with the lessons of the recent incident?Youth's Companion. Professional Foresight. "Ethelinda, darling," murmured the enraptured young man, "this is the happiest moment of my life. I came here this evening hoping, yet fearing. I could not put it off any longer. I felt that I must know my fate. The suspense was killing me. But now?I swear it by this lovely head resting so confidingly on my shoulder, by the kiss on your sweet lips. I?but what was that clicking noise I heard just then?" i ' Nothing, Walter: nothing but papa. He's a lawyer, you know, but he amuses himself with all sorts of queer fads. He's practicing on us with his TCndnk-. Go on. Walter, dear. What were you about to swear?"?London Tit-Bits. Romance of a Scientific A~e. Mr. Robert Bridges, in an article on "Is Poetry to Have a Chance''" in Collier's, says: "To sail under the sea or through the air, to talk through space, to see through flesh and bone, to make light out of darkness, to harness Niagaras, to make wax speak and pictures move ?these have been the deeds of the poets of our generation. The things that were dreamed of in the 'Arabian Nights' have become realities?and yet they say this is a prosaic age! It is seething with romance; young men talk the impossible on street corners and across little tables?and then make , it come true. The spirit of achievement is the spirit of imagination and hope. These men delight to live, delight to plan, and dream, and hammer ! out results. Nothing staggers them? 1 and failure or success is greeted with a 1 smiling face."' cxirjcxiCNicxiixicxirNii! 2 SOUTH CAROLINA 2j \ STATE NEWS ITEMS. I Rains Injured Crops. Reports from middle and upper J South Carolina are to the effect that heavy and continuous rains and the scarcity of labor have retarded all farm work. Cotton fields are overrun with grass. Never before have reports of scarcity of labor been so general. . The recent heavy rains ; nnnnfir tL'OcheH fVav Ill faiilUgLUU V.UUUVJ ? ?J most of the mill dams and bridges iu the county. Public roads were made almost impassible and much farm land flooded. * * Bad Blaze at Heath Springe. A destructive fire at Heath Springs destroyed property worth $20,000. The buildings burned were: Drug store ana two buildings of the late Dr. S. J. Hinson, valued at $2,500; two stores and warehouses of J. C. Creed, $15,000; drug store and office of Dr. J. A. Rutledge, $1,000; J. D. Dye, groceries, $1,000; L. >. Mackey's meat market, $500; Spring Banking and Mercantile company and the Enterprise Mercantile company were badly damaged, but are fully insured. Several other stores and buildings were slightly damaged. * * * Admits Crew at Fault. Before the railroad commission, it session at Columbia, employees and officials of the Southern railway test!* fied as to the circumstances surrounding the wreck of the special train bearing the party of Robert C. Ogden at Greenville, April 29. As a result of the investigation into the cause of the wreck, the Southern railway officials announce the discharge ' of Engineer J. E. Huntei and Conductor Acker. These employees are charged with tne responsiomty 01 tae acciaem, uc cause they entered the yard wTThout having their train under control. * * Carolina And Virginia Railroad. Definite anouncement of a railroad from Charleston to Monroe, N. giving Charleston, Sumter and intermediate points a seaboard connection at or near McBee and -again at Moijroe was made a few days ago, in the shape of a petition for a commission to incorporate the "Carolina and Virginia railroad." The commission was granted with William H. Ingram, Neil O'Donnell and Marion Moise of Su*mter and State Senator Thomas G. McLeod of Lee county as corporators. The initial capital stock is $40,000 and ultimate $2,50.0,000. The "purposes" state that it is the intention of the corporation "to acquire rigbi#. of way and build and maintain cot ton warehouses" in the counties of Charleston, Berkeley, Clarendon, Sumter, Lee, Kershaw and Chesterfield counties. The distance is one hundred and eighty-five miles. The gauge Is to be standard and the motive power is to be steam or electricity. * * State Seeking Immigrants. A New York dispatch says: C. J. C. Wyngaarden ,a commissioner, sent abroad by the -government, and prominent citizens of South Carolina to secure immigrants to people a proposed new settlement for which a million acres have been set apart in that state, has sailed for Europe on the steamer Potsdam. He will visit Germany, Holland and Belgium and will distribute literature explaining the enclosure. Mr. Wyngaarden said before sailing that the land had been purchased in Columbia county by the governor ana his associates, that it was very fertile, and that good cotton and other crops could be raised upon it. It was pioposed also, he said, to establish factories there. Negroes, 2e added, seemed unable to achieve satisfactory results as agriculturists, and this pormpted the invitation to the foreigners. An effort will be made to secure immigrants suitable for farming or factory work. As they arrive they will be taken in charge by David Van "Wfyck, a member of the Hoboken board or health, and will be shipped to South Carolina by steamer. * * * Many Military Companies Disbanded. The adjutant general has published his general order disbanding ineffi cient companies and reducing tne military strength of the state below twenty-five hundred officers and men. All of the cavalry goes out except that six companies are retained as reserve mounted infantry for coast defense. These will be given uniforms, carbines and will get half the usual annual pay. In addition to six cavalry troops wiped out, ten infantry companies are disbanded. This action is based on the inspection reports of Colonel Patrick. If the new law were strictly applied even more companies would have to go. The cavalry troops actually disbanded are: Troop B, Edgefield; troop C, Panola; troop D, Paxville; troop H, Eutawville; troop K. Sampit; troop I, Levy. The infantry companies disbanded are: Company D, Greenwood; I Limestone Guards, Gaffney; Mullins , Guards, Mullins: Morgan Ri.TeS, Clif- i ton; company H. Fort Motte; com- j pany E, Charleston; company L, St. j Stevens; company M, Bishopville ; I company A, colored, Charleston; com- ! pany B, colored, Beaufort. No Negro companies are retained. * * * Policy Holders Get Together. The South Carolina pol>:y holders j of the Equitable Life Assurance so- ! ciety met in Columbia recently, and j ! formed a nermanent state organiza- i tion to be known as "The Carolina Protective Association of the Equitable Policy Holders." j Governor D. C. Hey ward was elected president, J. L. Coker of Harts! ville vice president and August Hckn | of Coluinb.a secretary. The object of the organization is stated as loiiows: "The object of this organization is for the purpose of protecting muru- ! ally the interests of the policy hold- | ers in the Equitable Life Assurance j society of the United States, foster:-."? | co-operation and thereby enablirg :ts rueml ers Co unite .n one conrtntn j ortanizat.on for the furthering of the I interests of such policy holders, res- j ide.its in this state, and co-opera: ing j with similar organizations in othe: j states, to benefit equally and without j preference all policy holders of tin? ! i society, wherever residing." A resolution was passed authorizing ; the president to apply officially to j : the head offices of the society for a | ' list of the policy holders in this state, j ; with their postoffice addresses and | j amount of insurance. Resolutions i * -i"" r\n *c-n/l oynrccoinc <>nnfi. ! Were ttl&U paoocu VA VtJwiug vv? - dence in the stability and solvency of the Equitable, urging policy hoidesr to continue the payment of premiums as they come due. INDUSTRIAL PARLIAMENT I Opens at Washington With Many j Southern States Represented. Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Flor; Ida, Mississippi, North Carolina, i South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, j West Virginia, Virginia, Louisiana ana i Kentucky were represented by dele| gates to the Southern Industrial Par; liament, which began its sessions in | Washington Thursday. There were | also present representatives from New York, Philadelphia and Baltimore,who i are interested in the objects for j which the parliament was called,which ; includes the exchange of ideas rei garding matters of importance to the development of the south. A discussion o? immigration and au address by Gustav H. Schwab of NeW York on foreign commerce and ocean transportation were the features ol Wednesday's sessions. The immigration question was discussed by Senator Simmons of North Carolina and Frank P. Sargeant of the immigration bureau. Permanent organization w?u? effected by the election of Governor j Robert Glenn of North Carolina, a* | president. Dr. W. C. Murphy, Wash; ington, secretary. E. P. Thaxton, Co| lumbia, S. C., treasurer/ Vice presi1 dents for each state were also named. Gustav Schwab, on the subject of j "Foreign Commerce and Ocean Trans! portation," spoke, in part, as follows: "It is therefore, necessary that the ! southern states, if desirous of ini ducing a productive flow of willing j immigrants and industrious settlers, should create such conditions as will I render the opportunity f8r employ! ment and production remunerative ' and Ufe attractive. To that end it I would, .in my opinion, be desirable tu 1 provide for the enactment of uniform | labor laws, and fixing hours of employment for such labor. Some of the southern states, I believe, have adopt; ed laws of this character sufficiently protecting the immigrant whose unfamiliarity with our language, laws , and customs easily render him a vic| time of designing and unscrupulous I employers. J "Keeping in mind the lack of knowl| edge of our conditions whfch the ! alien immigrant displays, it would be | necessary to furnish him with the | information on the subject of the 1 characteristics of the southern country, its inducements, its toil and climate and other features. It would ' be a good thing not only to say to I the alien, 'you may land,' but also ' furnish him information regarding the j opportunities in various sections of j the country. He urged the delegates ; to use their influence with congress I to enact a law establishing at Ellis j Island a bureau of information for im; migrants. There are thousands, he i said, who would be glad to be directed j to the open country where there is j sunshine and plenty of room, and , where it would be an advantage to | the country to have them locate. The way to get immigration started wa3 i to get people located.' He expressed I his desire to see some arrangement ' made whereby aliens coming to America would steer clear of New York. I WEAVER WINS VICTORY. i Mayor of Philadelphia Forces Abrogation cf Gas Plant Lease. At Philadelphia Saturday, after a contest lasting five days, the republi can "organization," led by Insurance i Commissioner Burham, was forced by public opposition and clamor to 1 abandon its efforts to extend the lease j of the city gas works to the United j Gas Improvement company for seveni ty-five years, i SCIENTIFIC SUNSHINE IN THE HOME (A London physician claims that radium has cured a man of the wife-beating habit.} Jim Smith he used to beat his wife? ^ He didn't like to do it, .' But since he'd done it all his life He got accustomed to it. So Dr. Brown remarked to him, "You're in a dreadful way. Sefore the case grows chronic, Jim, Please take this radium ray." Jim Smith he took the doctor's dose, > Indifferent of danger, At^onee beginning to disclose ^traits that grew strange and stranger. .N^ more his timid wne ne ucai, In his old, rakish way; His air waxed gentle, soft and sweet Through that one radium ray. That little dose of radio-goo So harmless made poor Jim That he discovered, first he knew, His wife was beating him. Then Smith limped humbly to complain To Dr. Brown one day. "Oh, doctor, please give Mary Jane One kindly radium ray." The doctor treated Mrs. Smith; The influence was calming, _ 'Sfj For soon her soul seemed brimming with Thoughts ladylike and charming. Then arm in arm, demure and nice. The Smiths went home to stay In one fair radio-Paradise Lit by a radium ray. ?Wallace Irwin, in Collier's Week I j ! ?"I gave him to understand that no 3|| chicken had been anywhere near that soup."?Boston Transcript, j "Horace, dear, is there really such a I thing as a fool-killer?" "Now, if that's > i not like a silly woman! How should I j know? I never saw one." "Ob, that's i . euucm. ?viciuauu Office Boy?"Kin I have a week's va- 5|jj ; cation?" His Employer?"Why, you've J only been here two days." Office Boy ?"Yes; but after I gits used ter de J job, maybe I kin stand it longer."? -Ja Puck. _ ||| How many people think they're good be- ; ^ cause they've done no crime; How many think they've won success / *!0 who merely didn't fail; How many who re untempted think their , virtue is sublime, ; And that they'll go to Heaven because V x| they haven't gone to jail! ?Cleveland Leader. J "People who live in glass houses : should not throw stones," quoted the Is ; man witty the proverb habit. "Neither should people who dwell in stone houses ''-;M i throw glasses," rejoined the fussy per- * 'J son, "and I suppose that's why tincups : are given to the sheriff's boarders."? y?j?| I Chicago Daily News. ! "Yes, he used to be in the newspaper business, but he's studying for the mill- J| ! istry now. He says he decided that he ' couldn't be a reporter and save his soul." "Indeed? I believe his old city , editor put it differently. He says he couldn't be a reporter to save his soul." fl| , ?Philadelphia Press. Of all the fond delusions that beset the ..>t^ minds of men There is none so all-absorbing as the cut 39 1 ture of the hen; Its devotees will tell you in the most con vincing tone ! Of the relative advantages of grit and green ' ? cut-bone, :;3jS , Of incubators, brooders, the praises they . will sing, i -?*?? , Each one has got the finest, the oply .?^J proper thing; I They do a lot of talking, and figuring, but when ' ? i -V.'.l MV ! They reaiiy wane some im&cus wcj and set a hen. j ?S. I. Litchfield, in Life. | "Do you keep silkoline?" asked Mrs. "i ; Youngwife of the dry goods clerk. "I ' am sorry, madam, but we are all out of . ?>: it to-day." "Oh, what a pity! 1 did ! want it awfully. But if you haven't it V%s' I will have to make something else an: swer. Please give me two yards of x ^ i cottolene."?Washington Life. M Unenthusiastic Auditor ? "Yes,- l *?8 know we sort o' handed ye a frost; j but they was just one reason why we j didn't give ye any encores." Discour- *| j aged Entertainer (eagerly)?"And what M I was that reason?" Unenthusiastic ^ j Auditor?"We was afraid ye'd re: spond."?Baltimore American. When the Gas i? Public. i Mr. Newbigging, chief engineer of ! the Manchester municipally owned gas '4 i works, in a paper read recently said t | that the introduction of the incandes, cent gas-burner had given a new lease 4| | of life to gas undertakings, and had '."J j placed gas in the front position as the i cheapest illuminant j Having made the statement that elec- v3jj I tricity, light for light at Manchester '.*3 ! prices, is eight times dearer man gas, : he said an incandescent gas-burner de- . ! velops, per cubic foot of gas consumed, . 5 from fifteen to forty candles, accord ; ing to the system. With gas fifty-six ^ | cents per 1000 cubic feet and electricty at 7.72 cents per unit, average prices i in Manchester, the cost would be 3.72 .j* . cents for 1000 candles, while one unit ^ | of electricity developed in an incan- ! descent burner a light equal to 256 / j : candles each at 7.72 cents per unit, or I B0.10 cents per 1000 candles. I The Manchester gas works intends J to establish a new department to deal i not only with the maintenance of conI sumers' incandescent burners, United ! States Consul Halstead reports, but to . ' assist in developing the greatest amount of light from the gas con- ; ! sumed.?New York World. Birthdays in a California Family. I Sam White, of Riverside, on the Kla- . j math River, in this county, has a boy ;| j born on February 29, and in addition i has one who was born on Wasbingf ton's Birthday, one on inauguration 1 lay, two on all fools' day, April 1; one , i on Thanksgiving Day, and one on Feb| ruary 2, ground hog day. Also three ! more boys born on other dates.?Yreka % : Journal. ?M v