Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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?MM? A DAY II ?f you chance to be out driving some November Saturday When the roads are stifT and frosty, and the pastures rough and gray. And the corn-iields all are stubble, and the crows are gene at last, And the squirrel's nutty provender is garnered snug and fast? You may meet a creaking carriage, full of smiles without a frown. For the farmer's little people all are jogging into town. Big brother does the driving?his hands are very strong? For father cannot snare the time to be . away so long. On a rearward scat is mother, and beside her in the nest Cuddled close the younger children in their jaunty Sunday best. Though the girl who sits to windward is mv.a.'Hru iiurn &vic In a "bafT'ier robe" resplendent, for the chilly drive to town. But the state of little brother who shall " venture to repeat ? So charged with glad expectancy he scarce can keep his seat! Els cap pulled dovn about his ears to meet his muffler, twined: His pockets fat with treasures that he couldn't leave behind, ?Jeannie Pen V WWfW W?H4?WH?kH 4 P <=^>?* <=^0: :<=^?: 4. a h a wwhwwnh p 11 THE NIGHT !' By ROGER S 1!" ************************ :<=(>*? <=&* WH 1' I HHIHI1IIIIIH t HI The night lowered dark and stormy ? around the lonely island of Sarbroo, In the South Pacific Ocean. The tall cocoanuts lining the beach tossed their heads wildly to and fro, and the great seas came thundering upon the sand, sending showers of spray far Inland. About two hundred yards from the beach, in a little log house, sat an old missionary?the Rev. John Sturgis, with his only daughter, Leila, who had accompanied her father to this distant shore, that she might be near to com fort him and administer to his wants. I . A lovelier girl than Leila seldom greeted mortal vision. The light of the lamp upon the coarse table, in one corner of the rough but neatly-swept floor, fell upon her chestnut hair, seeming to encircle it with a halo, while the pure, innocent expression of the young face .might have moved a heart of stone. The eyes of this girl were of deep . - hazel, her skin was transparently fair, Jier form perfect in its graceful proportions. At the moment of which we write, she sat upon a little stool at her father's feet, her bright head resting upon his knee, and a satisfied smile hovering about her pretty mouth, as she felt the caressing touch of her parent's hand, p'?: "Leila," said he after a while, "do you never feel tired of living away out here with me in the Pacific Ocean?" "Tired!?oh, no, papa?no, indeed." "Alas! I feel that it is selfish of me to keep you here. Tell me, darling, do you not sometimes think of Charles Graham?" A vivid blush came upon Leila's cheek, her bosom heaved. "Oh, never mind, papa," she said, * softlv. "That means that you do think of . him?" "I will not deny it," she answered, gently, burying her face upon his bosom. "But Charles, you know, has promised to wait for me; so I am satH . isfied." Mr. Sturgis smiled. "It is most time that his ship arrived off this place. You know he said he would touch here on his way home V- from Australia." fj , "Yes?he said so when we parted from him," she answered, her bright eyes gleaming with joy. "I hope he will come soon," said Mr. Sturgis, a shadow crossing his brow. Leila looked! at him earnestly. "Papa," she said at length," do you not think that fears of a rising among the savages are groundless?" "No, dearest, 1 do not. That fellow, Henry Seedcn, I am afraid is doing great mischief here." The person to whom he alluded was a dark-browed man?a boatswain's mate, who had deserted a vessel, . which several months previously, had touched here for a supply of water. The fellow had called frequently on Mr. Sturgis, and had been particularly attentive to L.eila, who, however, by every means in her power, had shown him that such attentions were to her tar from agreeable. The boatswain's mate, however, who v was a coarse, conceited fellow, had continued his unwelcome visits, and finally had even had the audacity to propose to Mr. Sturgis for Leila's nauu. in the presence of the young girl. .tioth father and daughter had then given him to understand that his company was no longer desired, and he then gone away with an aspect cf countenance waich had made the young woman fairly shudder?it was so demoniacal?so full of bitter hatred. Since then he had not again intruded?had shunned both whenever they chanced to meet him in their walks. The behavior of the natives, v'ho had hitherto been friendly to them, also seemed to change. Dark, sullen glances often directed toward them by the island people, convinced the former that Henry Seedon was at work, endeavoring to turn the natives against them. Vainly Mr. Sturges had endeavored to counteract this influence. Seedon was a man whc^had' great power for ?vil?a wily, cunning villain, who knew just how to deal with the ignorant islaaders. M TOWN. 1 And the dimes he earned at harvest !n his mittened fist of brown. To be spent in reckless joyance when they tether in the town! And now the heart's desire is reached, and in the busy street Small, cramping muscles stretch again with tramp of sturdy feet. The careful barter over, and the good things tucked away In the box that brought the butter and the eggs that went for pay. There is shopping, there are bonnets; and a shade of wo comes down To cloud the perfect sunshine of the children's day in town. But ah, when that's accomplished, comes a space of perfect .ioy? The iewel-moment of the week to a little country boy! , The spiral stripe of peppermint, the lemon s acid note, . , ... The brittle, bulky parcel that he huddles in his coat! . . , . Do you think he ever fancies, as at last with yearning sigh He climbs the mud-stained axle and bids the street good-by. That one dnv?a day of manhood?though success his life may crown. He mav hunger for the farmhouse, dearer far than any town? dleton Ewing, In Youth's Companion. i"I I H I til 1' 11 o ?>:?:O >:?:?$=>:?:o^=> | VPHRSDIT. || ITARBUCK. HI I FUm 1!u" !! o^=>: :o^=>: :cx^=>: :cx^|=>! "M-W MM' "If so," said Leila, in answer to her father's last remark?"if the islanders are really turning against us, had we not better quit the island?" "That is what I have been thinking of. I feel that delay is dangerous in this case." "Yes, papa. These people have fearful passions, when once they are aroused, in spite of all your teachings, and I shudder to think of what might be the result of our staying here. Good Heaven!" she suddenly added, drawing back. "Oh, papa, somebody's at the window-" Mr. Sturges glanced toward the window just in time to see the hideous face of a savage, which had been pressed against the pane, hastily withdrawn. He z;ose and moved to the door, which he quickly opened, peering out into the gloom. At first he could see nothing, but he finally made out a number of dark forms gathered on the beach, apparently holding council. Through the gloom he could faintly distinguish, in the phosphor light from the white waves, a number of long spears and heavy war clubs carried by the party. "Leila," he whispered, quickly returning, "we must fly!" The young girl turned as pale as death. "Keep up a brave heart, Leila. Heaven will help us!" She caught the gleam of his benignan eye and her spirit seemed nerved with almost superhuman resolution. In a moment she had thrown .on her bonnet and shawl, and was at the side of her father, who had donned Ms cap and coat He cast a wistful eye at his books in a rude bookcase in the corner; but there was no chance or time to take them with him. Even as he moved toward the back doer with his child, a savage yelb broke forth, and the tramp of approaching feet was heard. He rushed out with his daughter; at LUC same moment suiiieLiniig wmacling past his head, proclaimed that he bed been seen. It was a spear, which just grazing the side of his cay, lodged in the trunk of a broad frifit tree beyond. The, missionajy hurried along until he reached a thick clump of shrubbery growing by the side of the path, when, with his child, he ensconced himself therein. The tramp of feet drew nearer, but, thanks to the darkness, the fugitives had not been seen to hide themselves, and scon the natives, believing that they had kept on, rushed past them. "Heaven is helping us," whispered Mr. Sturges.to his child. "We will remain quiet a few moments longer? then we will endeavor to get to the beach unobserved." They remained motionless, hardly daring to breathe, until they felt sure the savages hau gone some distance, when they emerged and made for the beach at a spot where, in a small cove, Mr. Sturges kept his own little canoe. Just as they launched the frail vessel another yell proclaimed that they were again seen, and through the darkness they could dimly see the forms of the natives as they came on. "Quick, my child!" cried Mr. Sturges, as he helped his daughter into the canoe; "we must paddle cut to sea, and may Heaven keep our canoe from swamping in this storm!" A shower of spears whistled round the fugitives; but, fortunately, not one touched them. In a moment they were in their canoe, paddling far out upon tne dark waters. The wind roared and shrieked around them?ine great seas tossec> their little boat as if it were an eggshell, and it seemed at times as if the little craft must Certainly roll over. Leila resolutely assisted her father; but she felt as if escape from their nresent peril were impossible?felt that they must eventually be swallowed b ythe m^d waves. The fury of the storm seemed on the increase. The seas rose higher, and the spray and water at times engulfed the canoe, filling it. Mr. Sturges, however, by rapid and expert bailing, still contrived to keep the little vessel afloat. "What is that?" Lelia suddenly incurred. Doint.ine toward something dark astern of them, and apparency gaining. "A canoe!" exclaimed her father; "a large canoe; the savages -are in pursuit!" "It is all over with us, then!" gasped Leila. At that moment, from a sudden opening in the dark clouds, the moon burst forth, throwing a broad glare of silver light athwart the waters. Mr. Sturges then discovered that the large canoe, which was full of natives, was indeed rapidly gaining. Vainly he strained himself at the paddle; vainly his lovely daughter alV? f nof IVfiQ ^ row 0\J CAC1 ICU U^iaca, ULlt uuu U.v> nearer every moment, shouting exultantly as they came on. The fugitives were now paddling on a course diagonal with the shore, and which carried them toward a high rocky promontory, jutting out into the sea from the southern extremity of the island. j As they drew near this promontory the face of the missionary lighted up with hope; for he had, not long sine, i discovered there an under-sea cavern, of the existence of which he believed the savages knew nothing?the opening to this retreat being concealed by a rock, overgrown with thick masses of seaweed. Soon, however, he perceived that he must be overtaken ere he couM reach the place. All further exertion was useless. There was the natives' canooe, less then ten fathoms distant, speeding along toward the smaller one like an arrow. In this extremity Mr. Sturges resolved to resort to prayer. He threw himslef upon his knees in the canoe and prayed God, if it so pleased Him to take the petitioner, to spare his lovely child. Meanwhile poor Leila, who had also stopped paddliner was Dravins: that her father might be saved, even though she were destroyed. Beautiful sight it was to see the young girl with upturned face, the moonlight upon her features and shining hair, as she sat there in the rocking canoe. Mr. Sturges concluded his prayer. Now he stood upright in the little craft, gazing toward his enemies as they came on. Thus gazing he did not observe a stately ship, which suddenly came looming round the promontory mentioned, under reefed topsails. The suddenness of this vision, hitherto concealed by the high land, was not without its effect upon the natives, all of whom now stopped paddling, gazing toward the strange vessel. "Go ahead," screamed the evil voice of Seedon, who was among them. "Never mind the ship, but first get these runaways in your clutches." The natives again took to their paddles. On came the canoe, and in a few minutes it must reach the fugitives. Mr. Sturges and his daughter now beheld the strange ship, * which, not distant further than a quarter of a mile, was booming along straight toward them. "If we can only reach that vessel," he said to his daughter. "Quick, Leila paddles again." With superhuman _ strength they paddled toward the ship, Mr. Sturges now and then shouting and pausing to wave an arm to her. Finally, overpowered by their exertions,- father and daughter were obliged to pause. Their pursuers were close upon them ?so was the ship. "Help, Help!" screamed the missionary, springing up. "We are pursued by savages." His shrill voice was evidently heard, for the ship was now directed straight toward the savages' canoe, which it soon struck, dashing it to pieces and passing over it, killing Henry Seedon outwright and leaving the other occupants striking out for shore. Mr. Sturge3 and his daughter were then picked up, to meet with an agreeable surprise, to discover in the cap tain of the vessel Leila's lover? Charles Graham. "My prayer has been answered," said Sturges, solemnly, as he embraced his weeping, blushing daughter. We have to add that they had a safe and speedy passage home, and that Leila, soon after, was united to Captain Graham. Mr. Sturges found a comfortable home with them d/uring the remainder of his life.?New York News. Not to Be Caught. A certain London corn chandler had just engaged an assistant, who hailed from a small village near Leeds. He was not remarkable for his intelligence. His friends, realizing this deficiency, had evidently warned him against being caught by the sharp London people who would be certain to take a rise out of him. Full of this resolve not to be caught, he began his duties. A customer entered the shop. "I want some bird seed, please," he said. The assistant grinned.. The customer repeated his request, and the knowing villager spluttered with suppressed merriment. The customer not quite knowing what to make of . this extraordinary display, asked him in somewhat forcible language what was the matter. "It's no use," answered the verdant one, "tha knows ta can not catch me. I know, I do." "Know what?" asked the customer. "Birds groas from eggs, not seed!"? Birmingham (Eng.) Weekly Post. Just a Hint. "Darling," whispered the lovesick : youth, "I have been sparking with I you all the evening." "And don't you know what goes with sparking?" asked the beautiful maiden who wanted a ring. "What, dear?" "Why. a sparkler."?Chicago News. Liquid Measure. Sixteen large ta.blespoonfuls are halt a pint; eight large tablespoonfuls are onp eill: four larae tablesDOonfuls are half a gill; two gills are a pint; two pints are one quart; four quarts are one gallon; a common-sized tumbler holds half a pint; a common-sized wine glass holds half a gill; four tea* spoonfuls are one tablespoonful. Light Effects. For drawing rooms and reception parlors done in the delicate colors now fashionable, there is just one curtain, and that is the fine old stand-by, Brussels lace. Of course, there may be overhangings of richest brocade or velours, but for the lace part of the drapery both for sash and full length, his ever-dainty lace holds its own. Hardwood Floors. Hardwood floors as a background for rugs are of course the most desirable, but even a cheap softwood may be stained a rich dark blue, green or o/-, that tho at-f-antirm will be UiUUUy OV MAV distracted from the scarcity of the rugs. There is no rug to compare with the oriental rug in beauty and durability; but for upstairs rooms, where the wear is not very heavy,there is nothing more charming than the rag rug, particularly if woven in colors harmonizing with its surroundings. Cedar Oil. A bottle of oil of cede?r may serve many uses. The oil gives a delightful fragrance to a room and will do much toward freshening a house that has been closed during the summer months. Every one has not the luxury of a cedar closet or chest. To such a person the little bottle of fragrant oil will prove a grateful substitute. By carefully painting the woodwork of a closet with cedar oil $ad laying blotting *paper saturated with the oil on the shelves one would readily believe that the closet was lined with cedar wood. Appetizing Desserts. Medium-sized apples cooked whole until transparent are an extremely tempting dish. Core and pare one-half J ? 1 ~~ e)iro nrnn uuzeu l?i ucutuui owv. these into a syrup made from a cup of water and half a cup of sugar, to which are added a few slivers of lemon peel. Drop the apples into this, and directly they come to a boil shove th% pan to the back of the stove and allow them to cook without a cover until clear and tender. If a cover is placed over them they will break into the mushiest of apple sauce. Try them at intervals with a clean straw or wooden toothpick, and be careful not to cook them too long. Serve ice cold with plain or whipped cream, and sponge 'cake is a delicate accompani* ment. Recipes. Caramel to Color Soup?Take half a teaspoonful of sugar, add a little water, put on the fire until it becomes. a deep brown. Add this to the soup, but be careful not to make it too sweet. Riced Potatoes?Boil white potatoes until tender, then mash, adding a little butter as you do so. When very smooth rub through a colander or strainer upon a heated dish, mounding them high upon this. Set jn the open until the apex of the mound begins to brown lightly, then serve. Stuffed Potato Boats?Bake potatoes and cut them wifh a sharp knife in halves, lengthwise. Scoop out the insides, and mash with a little cream, melted butter and sajf and white pepper to taste. Pack this mixture back inn the halved cases, laying them in rows on a platter. On the top of each potato "boat" thus made put a great spoonful of meringue made by beating the whites of two eggs very light. Set at once in the oven and leave a An/Mirrli fr\y vrt^rin- i mere jut> i mug cuuugu iu> vuv gtfc to color at the edges. Ragout de Valaille (Foyot)?Take one large fine stewing chicken, cut it in large pieces and place it in an earthen crock, add one cup of bouillon, pepper and salt, half a dozen tiny onions, a box of mushrooms; half of these hash fine, the other half put in whole, three carrots, some whole tomatoes; if fresh, remove the skins. Take a potato scoop (which comes for the purpose) and put in half a dozen of these; add a cup of water, cover tightly and cook slowly for three hours. Serve in a hot dish. Fillet of Sole aux Fines Herbes? As sole is not generally brought to this ^juntry, a flounder will answer the purpose equally well. Take fillets of four to six flounders, according to the number of persons. Wipe the fillets well after cleaning them. Take a long or oval dish, and butter thickly. Put on one layer of the fish, then add parsley, mushrooms, a little piece of onion previously chopped very fine, pepper, salt and a squeeze of lemon juice; put tnis over the first layer, cover again with a second layer of fish, cover as before with the mixture, kep it well moistened with butter. Have slices of bread toasted a deep brown, roll very fine and cover the fish completely with it Place in the oven until cooked. To try if it is done pierce with a skewer. A WAR IN MOSCOW i Desperate and Deadly Battle Between Troops and Rebels. THOUSANDS ARE SLAIN One Report Places Number of r AAA 4Ua ,vivu;ns uw anu ui& Wounded at 14.000? Ssenes of Horror. The correspondent of The London Daily Telegraph at St Petersburg, In a dispatch dated at 6:45 p. m., December 25, says: "At an early hour this morning the casualties at Moscow were estimated at 5,000 killed and 14,000 wounded, with the lighting still proceeding. 'The inhabitaLis of Moscow have been forbidden to leave their dwellings after seven o'clock in the evening. "It is impossible to move about the city on account of the frequency >f stray bullets. Many innocent persons have been accidentally killed. The same correspondent, telegraphing at 10:38 p. m., says: > 'The Moscow Correspondents' telegrams have net been accepted because ali private messages were refused this afternoon. It is learned, however, that cannon firing is now proceeding in various parts of the city tonight very near the railroad stations. The barricados erected by the revolutionists are being desperately defended. "From fragmentary, accounts received from Moscow, I gather that the civil war has brought no decisive action, but only a thickening of the blood cloud, an intensifying of the horrors and increasing of prevailing bitterness. "The driving forces behind both the troops and the rebels is no longer that of enthusiasm or of any human impulse. It is the force of superhuman hate, and hence the deeds reported are not the acts of patriots, soldiers or otherwise, but the enormities of madmen. "It is impossible to understand how any emotion, even of the extremes ei despair or hate, can impart such foolhardy courage as seme of the rebels display. "For every barricade destroyed Sunday, two or three appeared in other places. Orders were given by the revolutionists to shoot only when there was good hope of bringing a man down, but otherwise to tire out the troops until they lost patience. "In the meantime in their houses, the bulk of the population cowers in the inmost recesses of kitchens and cellars, stricken with fear and trembling at every boom of the cannon or the explosion of a bomb. "The most surprising thing of all is | the loyalty of the troops, which nobody here anticipated. "Talking with an intelligent group of St Petersburg revolutionists I was informed that while they believed the strike would be victorious, tiiey fully realized that they were staking everything upon' the issue and that failure would set back their cause for several years." A St Petersburg special says: Direct telegraphic communication with i Moscow was severed Sunday night, | but the government succeeded in restoring communication by a round-about route Monday morning. All reports agree that the fighting assumed the nature of a butchery by the machine guns of the artillery, grape and canister being employed mercilessly against the ill-armed insurgents. MONUMENT TO OGLETHORPE. Unveiled at Brunswick, Georgia, With Impressive Ceremonies. One of the most interesting events in the history of Brunswick, Ga., occurred Friday at noon, when the monument erected to the memory of General James Oglethorpe was unveiled. An unusually large crowd of people attended the exercises, which were simple but imposing. MISS ROOSEVELT PAYS BILL. Will Turn Loose $1,206 for Duty on Presents From the Far East. Mis3 Alice Roosevelt has paid $1,206 duty on the presents given to her on her recent trip to the Orient The payment was made by Miss Roosevelt by means or a check drawn on her personal account The actual appraisement by the experts at the port of Georgetown show-s the total value of the gifts to be less t\f\A TJnr?<3PV#?1t is more I wan ^u,uuv. jiuoo . than able to meet the laWs demands from the income of her own property, left her by her mother. LEOPOLD TAKES SPOUSE. King of Belgium Contracts a Morgan, atic Marriage. According to reports in Paris, there can be no longer any doubt about King Leopold's morganatic marriage. It took place twelve months ago, it is said, in the private chapel of the chateau of Laeken, near Brussels, in the presence of two aides de camp and the court chaplain. OPEN DOOR IS ASSURED. ?? Most Impo-tant Feature of Treaty A Between Japan and China 1 in Relation to Manchuria. A Washington special S3ys some important details of the treaty between Japan and China signed a few" days ago at Pekin have reached the state department by cable. China consents to lease to Japan the Liao Tung peninsula at the southern extremity of which is Port Arthur and Dalny. Thta t^rritnrv was fnrmerlv held bv ^ Russia uiider lease from China. China . concedes to Japan the control of the -') railway of the peninsula northward as , -; far as Chang Chin. This is one of the* spurs which connects with the Rhs sian Siberian railway system. China also concedes to Japan the It right to build a railway from An-Tung ^on the Yalu river to Mukden, the an-cieiit capital of Manchuria, probably ' cj along the route of the famous old mil- :''M itary or caravan road. & Most important of all the provisions *;V of the treaty is an article whereby China agrees to open to world's" com merce and trade all principle porta . > and cities, including Harbin, the modera Russian capital of the province, ' '.'A and its important railroad centers thus increasing, in the opinion of the. ?| state department officials, the financial success of the long struggle by the United States for the open door. , '% NEGROES IN BLOODY FRACAS. D.,flw U/ltk D*uaIum wmi/> ft nwwwi*v? p w. 4x7^ Break Up a Christmas Party. The latest reports received in dosta, Ga., from the fight between ' ' negroes at Bwing are that one negro was Instantly killed, five or six seriously wounded, and one, at.least, mortally wounded. The latter arawjlfjS| was almost disembowelled by a load of buckshot and was carried to Ja&v J 8onville, Fla., in a dying condition. f This negro, whose name is given as \fill Johnson, is said to be the man. > who began the row. He is reported : to have entered a house where a party of negroes were having a festival and, whipping out a big pistol with the declaration that he proposed to kill the crowd, began shooting. \ All of the negroes belonged to a turpentine camp near Bwing. It is said that four men were unaccounted : for after the melee, and it Is believed they were shot and fled to the woods, SHOES TOO GOOD FOR HIM. Farmer Resents Insult by Murdering Merchant in His 8tore. Because John Schalz, a prominent merchant of Wathen, Kas., told Edward Morris, a farmer, when the latter Inquired the price of a p^ir of shoes and then complained that it . was exorbitant that "those shoes are much too good for you to wear," Schalz was stabbed to the heart with a pocket knife. A hundred horrified , P.lirtstmas shonners witnessed the murder. SchaJz leaves a wife and J eight small children. Morris, who is ~ ? in jail, has a family of six. NEW COAST LINE OFFICIALS Horace Emerson Remains at Head of Traffic Department. Following a meeting of the directors of the company in New York, a re- organization of the traffic department ^ of the Atlantic Coast Line, with Hotace M. Emerson at its head, has been announced. At the meeting of the di- -r6 rectors the office of traffic manager was abolished and^the office of gen-: ^ eral traffic manager created, Mr. Emerson being elected to the position. COULD CLEAR CALEB POWERS* Such Is Declaration of Wounded Man <;;Jb in California Hospital. Charles E. Ehler, on a cot in the :-gj county hospital at Bakersfield, California, suffering from a wound presumably self-inflicted, has admitted that he has information as to the killing* r^p of Governor William Goebel of Kentucky, which, he alleges, would clear ' : Caleb Powers, former secretary oi state of Kentucky, now under sen- x/ig||E tence of death for complicity in the murder of Goebel. ELEVEN CENTS THEIR MINIMUM* W President Calvin of Farmers' Union , Gives Out interview. President E. A. Calvin of the Farm- ' ers' Union of America, in an inter- -~T > view at Dallas, Texas, Friday, said: "We have made no change in our minimum for cotton. It has not seemed to depart from 11 cents, though President Harvie Jordon of ' k the Southern Cotton Association has. 'pa asked repeatedly that we join him for I 15 cents. We did not think It best / Our fanners know when to sell" ' :- ^ ' MORE CASH FOR YALE COLLEGE* ? Secretary 8tokes Adds $800,000 to the " ^ Endowment Fund. It is stated in New Haven on excellent authority that before he started for his vacation in Europe last month, Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., secretary of Yale University, added $800,000 more to the endowment fund he is collecting for Yale. By this addition Secre- ^ tary Stokes has secured for the endowment to date $2,800,000 of the $5,000,000 he plans to seqwre. IP