The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, February 22, 1894, Image 4
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MARJORIE'S MISTAKE.
BY MRS. GEORGE A. PAULE.
A very pretty picture Marjorle
Ixtomis made as she stood upon the top
step of the vine wreathed porch drawing
on her driving gloves, while she
waited for Dan to bring tho phioton
round.
It was Mariorle's birthday; and the
pluvton had neon one of her birthday
gifts, so it was no wonder that her face ;
was bright with happiness and that
her whole air was one of contentment.
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ferencc in her lifo, and it added not a
little to her happiness to remember
what different prospects were before
her a year ago. Then her father had
hard work to make both ends moot,
and Mariorio was studying with the
hope of being uble soon to help by
teachiug. Their home was a plain one
in one of the city streets which was
not at all fashionable, and there was
very little in the external circumstances
of the family to suggest prosperity.
If a fairy hud moved her wand
everything could not have been more
entirely aitored.
Marjorie's father had a very lucrative
position offered him as superintendent
of a large manufacturing industry
; that had necessitated a homo
in this pretty county town, and while
Mr. Loomls was not extravagant in his
tastes; nor inclined to make a lavish
display, still he felt ho could provide
many comforts, and not a few luxuries
for his dear ones, who had been so
brave and contented when they had
been obliged to go without many things
that muke life pleasant. It is not
every one who can bear an increase in
prosperity without becoming spoiled
Dy it; and Marjorie's mother had
noticed regretfully that her daughter
was inclined to hold hoad very high,
and was sometimes rather haughty in
I her manner to those who had not as
nice a home, nor as dainty a wardrobe j
as her own.
In choosing her friends in this new
homo she was influenced rather more
by the social position of those whom
she met than she was by their attractive
qualities : and she passed by
unnoticed some of her schoolmates,
simply bocause they were poor, while
she made much of some others whose
greatest attraction was that they
moved in the highest social eirclcs.
It. was a very delightful sensation
when she took up the reigns and started
olT down t he street in her now equipage.
She could not suppress the hope
that some of hor friends would see her,
and she glanced about as she drove
along, looking for familiar facoH.
"An, there comes Mrs. Judge Tanner,"
she said to herself, as she saw a
carriage approaching and recognized
the occupant as the lady who took the
lead in all social matters in Asheville,
and of whoso notice Murjorio felt very
proud. Mrs. Tanner was deservedly
beloved by all who knew her, and
many another besides Marjorio who
would have been proud of the kind attention
the young girl had received
from that lady. Sirs. Tanner directed
her coachman to stop, and greeting
Marjorie kindly she said :
" Hessio came home last evening,
and 1 hope you will soon )>o ahlo to call
upon her. 1 have spoken of you to her,
and 1 am sure you will iind each other
congenial, you are interested in so
many of the same pursuits."
" 1 shall bo very glad to eall this afternoon,"
Marjorio answered, Hushing
with pleasure. She had heard a great
deal al>out this daughter who had been
away at college, and she hoped that
they would be great friend. Nothing
could be more delightful than to bo
chosen friend of Mrs. Judge Tanner's
daughter.
Marjorio had some errands to do at
the dry-goods store, and then she drove
to her dressmakers to see whether a
dress which she was having made
there, was ready for her to try on.
The girl who cume to the door asked
her to walk into the parlor and said
Muduino would he at liberty in a few
minutes. Very frequently one of Madaino's
girls would sit in the parlor with
somo work, that she might bo in attendance
upon any lady who should
need her. A young girl, in a simple
gown, which a more experienced eye
than Marjorie's, would have known
was carefully chosen and daintily made,
plain though it might appear, was sitting
by the window, stitching away on
u tiny square of delicate linen. Her
hat was upon the table; hidden by
some fashion magazines, and Marjorio
not unnaturally took her to be one of
Madame's seamstresses.
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ouu tmuv> uurwuii nitu tv uiiun wiin
little exclamation of impatience. Sometimes
Madame's five minutes were long
ones, and Marjorie did not feel like
waitiug.
The room was warm and she thought
regretfully of the cool breeze that
p'ayed outside.
A large palm leaf fan lay upon the
young girl's lap, and Marjorie wanted
it.
" The airs of having to stop and fan
herself," she thought scornfully, as
the girl laid down her work, and used
the fan. "She'd put it down fast
enough if she heard Mamame coming.
I want it, and I am just going to ask
hor for it, so J"
Feeling quite convineod that she had
a perfect right to the fan, as one of
Madame's patrons, while the girl was
only one of her seamstresses, Marjorie
saul imperiously :
"I will take that fan. It is very
warm in hero."
A faint shadow of surprise crossed
the girl's face, but she arose and handed
it gracefully to Marjorie, without a
word of remonstrance.
" You may get me a glass of water,"
Marjorie went on, without a word of
thanks, and with an inclination of the
head, and with a courteous "Certainly,"
the young girl brought a glass of
ico water.
" Now you may let me soo the last
number of the Bazar," and once more
the orders wore obeyed, with a grace
and courtesy that Marjorie could not
help noticing, even while she had an
unconfessed feeling that such perfect
manners were quite out of place in a
seamstress. She knew better? Of
course she did. She had been carefully
trained to show courtesy to every one
with whom she came in contact, but it
was an unfortunate fact that the atton
uon nau neon snowed to the daughter
of a man occupying such an important
position as her father did, had turned
her head, and she foolishly fancied that
it enhanced her own importance when
she aped the imperious maimer* of
those wealthy people who had never
been taught the duty of courtesy to
those whom they considered boncuth
them.
Presently Madame came bustling
Into the room, arid quite overlooking
Marjorlo. she went forward to the
young girl by the window, and exclaimed
in plpaeed tone.
" Wall, we are all eo glad to have
you baok again. Mlas Tanner. 1 am
very sorry to have kept vou waiting,
but I could not get at liberty before,
for oue of my girls is sick this morning,
and so 1 am short handed with the
cutting and basting. 1 hope you are
quite well. When did you get home?"
44 Last evening Madame," the young
girl answered cordially shaking hands,
44 and as usual one of my first visits is
to you. I believe mamma left my
white dress here to l>o let out."
44 Yes, and it is ready to try on," Madame
answered. 4 4 Good morning, Miss
I?omis," she said turning to Marjorie.
441 must ask vou to wait for a little
time, for Miss Tanner had an engagement
at this hour, and i did nut expert
you until later."
The young girl tucked her dainty bit
or needlework into her bag unci followed
Maduino into the next room.
Mnrjorio arose and went out into the
hull.
"Tell Madutno I will call to-morrow,"
who said to the little girl who
opened the door for her, and then she
went out into the sunshine, feeling us
if the sky was overeust. Her mortification
was overwhelming and her
thoughts were anything hut pleasant
ones.
" How could 1 over have made such
a mistake V" she thought bitterly. " 1
never can make up for being so rude to
her. To think that 1 ordered Miss
Tanner around as if she had boon a
seamstress, and had nothing better to
do than to wait upon mo. And I never
oven said thank you, to her. Oh, what
an idiot I havo been 1" and she fairly
groaned as she romoinbored her imperious
manners. If it had boon anyone
else, but Miss Tanner whom she had
treated so badly, for now that would
end all her hopes of the friendship
which she had hoped to form! Iler
mother found her in her room, a little
later, shedding hitter tears over the
irreparable mistake.
"Why, what'is the mutter, dear V"
she asked in alarm, as she saw the
tear-stained face.
| Marjorie was too wretched to try to
| shield herself in any way, and sobbed I
I out the story of her mistake.
" I urn very sorry for you, Marjorie,"
hor mother answered, "but I think
| you aro fooling bad over tho wrong
part of it all."
" Why, mothor ?" and Murjorie looked
up in surprise.
" It is not that you bavotreated Miss
Tanner so rudely that troubles ino,"
her mother answered. "This is comparatively
a small matter. She is used
to attention and courtesy from every
one, and can exact it when people know
who she is. Your rudeness of this
morning will not make her unhappy
nor add a burden to her life. If it had
been really one of Madame's girls who
had had to hear your rudeness because
she couldn't resent it, and who would
have been hurt by a lack of courtesy,
thou I should feel as if you had much
more to be sorry for. Miss Tanner
could have resented your conduct if
she had chosen to do so, it was probably
only a source of amusement to her
that a double mistake was made, that
you were undeceived as to her being
one of Madame's girls, and she was undeceived
in any impression that she
might have gained from your appearance
that you were a lady."
" Oh, mother," exclaimed Marjorio,
indignantly. " 1 am a lady."
" You seem to sadly lack the first instincts
of true refinement," her mother
answered. "That courtesy which is
only rendered because it can be exacted
by wealth or social position is worth
very little. The real courtesy is that
which is gracious to all. which will
show the same consideration, or if anything
even more, of tho feelings of inferiors
than for those who are recog
mzou hh superiors. wnno i um sorry
tliut the brightness of your birthduy
should bo overclouded, yet 1 cannot
but feel that you deserved all the mortification
that you have brought upon
yourself, and 1 am deeply grieved that
you could forgot to show courtesy to
any one, whether you consider her
worthy of it or not."
It hud been indoed a mistake that
could not ho atoned for, and jus Marjorio
hud foreseen till hopes of becoming
a special friend of Judge Tanner's
daughter had to be abandoned. Although
Miss Tanner did not bear any
rcseutmentconcerning a mistake which
hud simply amused her, yet she could
not feel that she desired any acquaintance
with a girl who could show such
rudeness to any one whom she had supposed
to he an inferior.
Murjorie remembered and profited
by the bitter lesson, but she could never
forget the mortification she had
brought upon herself, nor the fact that
no regret could alter the impression
she lu?d made. The rcnicmborunco of
her mistake had ji salutary efl'oct upon
her in the future, and she strove to
prove herself courteous to all, whether
or not they could exjict consideration,
but she never forgot nor outgrew the
rememboranco which had cost her a
coveted friendship.
STATU HANK CURRENCY.
Representative Tracer Introduces a
liill tor a New Flexible System.
RepresentativeTnu-ey, of New York,
has introduced a bill drawn up by 11.
Osterberg, of Now York, to provide
a flexible system of bunk circulation.
This bill proposes to allow State banks
to issue circulating notes under tbe
supervision of the Comptroller of tbe
Currency up to one-third of their paid
up capital, provided that no one bank
shall issue more than $1,000,000.
Each batik is required to keep on
hand at all times not less than 26 per
cent of the amount of its notes outstanding
in coin or its equivalent in
lawful money of the United States.
Provision is made for the levying of a
tax on the circulation of these banks
for the payment of the expenses of administrating
the law, and for the creation
of a reserve fund to bo invested in
the bonds of the United States, or such
State bonds as may be approved by
Congress, to be held as an additional
security for the payment of the notes.
The element, of elasticity is given to
this proposed banking currency by authorizing
the Comptroller of the Currency
whenever, in his opinion, the exigencies
of the occasion demand it, or
upon the demand of not less than onethird
of the banks having circulation
under the act, to permit hunks to issue
an additional amount of circulation not
to exceed 20 per cent, of their paid up
capital.
J'ho retirement of theso additional
notes whenever the occasion for their
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double the tux upon them that is imposed
on their ordinary circulation It
la proposed to fix the limit of tho circulation
under thin act to $1 per capitn,
baaed on tho last preceding: census,
unless all tho circulating notes of the
United States other than bank notes
shall be rotired, and in that event it is
proposed to make the limit $lo per
capita.
Johnson's Oriental Soap is far sup< rior
to ull the other so-called medicinal
soaps for beautifying the complexion.
Sold by Carpenter Bros., Groonvillo,
8. C.
HISTORY OF THE REARSARGE.
A Northern niul a Southern View of
the Fhiiiouh Veasel.
[The famous corvette Kcarsuge was
wrocked on the reef KI Roncador, two
hundred miles from the coast of Central
America, on the 2nd of February,
lh04. The steamer City of 1'uru was
sent from Colon. Isthmus of Panama,
to rescue the oliicers and crew of the
Kcarsarge and take them to New York.]
The Kcarsarge was one of the oldest
vessels in the Navy with u splendid
history. The event with which the
vossel is most closely associated in the
public mind was its gallunt light with
the Alabama, the Confederate privateer,
near Cherbourg, France, June JO,
lHiit. As the Mcrrimuc, which was destroyed
by the Monitor, had inllictod
untold damage on the commerce of the
inland waters and ulong tho coast of
the United Slates, so the Alabama had
preyed upon the commerce of the UnU?n
on tlio high sous. Even after the
Confederate Navy had been practically
annihilated the Alabama's commander.
Captain Soimncs, continued his depredatory
work, und the destruction of
the vessel was greatly desired. After
the Naval Department had been thoroughly
aroused against the vessel the
Alabama's commander managed for a
time to keep out of the way of Uncle
Sam's war ships. Ultimately, however,
Captain Seinmes entered the port of
Cherbourg for repairs, and Captain
Winslow, of the Kearsarge, who had
been looking for the Alabama was notified
of the fact. The Kearsarge was
hurried to the French port with all
possible speed und every preparation
made for a big naval battle. The Kearsarge
did not go into the harbor, but
sailed across the opening of tho bay,
practically daring Scmincs to combat.
Tho French Government objected to
having the fight take place within a
league of the shore, and when Captain
Winslow found that tho enemy was
about to accent hischnllcnco ImKtimm
oil out to sou. The Alabama started |
in pursuit, frequently firing hor bow- I
chasers at the fugitive, but the latter
did not deign to reply. When within
a mile of the Koarsurgo the Alabama
sent a broadside after 1 ho Union manof-war,
but Captain Winslow still hided
his time, lie nwinneuvrered to got
the two vessels within a few hundred
yards when he opened up a raking (ire
that created grout havoc on the Ala- 1
bama. Captain YVinslow's orders were
to lire the heavy guns under the water
line of the Alahanui, and to save the
lighter guns for deck work at closo
quarters. The vessels, however, never
grappled, and the Alabama was defeated
before the vessels could get to
close quarters.
A peculiar thing about the light was
that the two vessels kept circling about
ouch other, and that they both described
sovon distinct circles hi'fore
the Alabama finally ran up the white
(lag. At that time all but two of the
heavy guns on the port side of the'
Confederate cruiser had been silenced.
After the white (lag went up, Captain
Winslow ordered the firing to cease,
but almost immediately afterward the
: Alubanui again opened up with her
two port guns. Winslow reopened
with his heavy guns, but finding the
white tlag still (lying, once more drew
olT his gunners. In a few moments a
boat was lowered from the Alabama
and an officer from the rebel ship came
to the Kearsarge and inform* d Captain
Winslow that the Alabama was sinkI
ing. Twenty minutes later tin; Alabama
went down, stern lirst.
As soon as Captain Winslow was informed
that the Alabama was going
down, he ordered out the Kearsargo's
boats to pick up the otlieers and crew
of the rebel ship. The English yacht
Deorhound was in sigiit and her owner
.John Lancaster, was requested to assist
in the work of rescue. lie did it
only too well. He picked up Sommcs
ami all the otlieers and hurried thorn
to land, thus depriving Captain Winslow
of his lawful prisoners. This action
on the part of the Englishman led to a
serious international question, which
at one time threatened trouble between
this country and Great Britain. During
the tight many casualties occurred
on board the Alabamu, while only
three persons were wounded on the
Kearsarge. One of these afterward
died.?Chicago Inter-Ocean.
A SOUTHKKN V1KW.
Tho incidents of the light are too
well known to require repetition. It
was the only important engagement at
sea during the war, as the sinking of
the llatteras by the Alabama in sight
of the United States Gulf squadron
scarcely amounted to an engagement,
and the Kearsarge, as the victorious
ship, has enjoyed her peculiar honors
over since without a rival. The Hartford,
Farragut's tlag ship, is as popular
at the North perhaps as tho Kearsarge,
but her lights wore fought and her
fame was won in smooth water, and in
company with other ships.
Tho Southern people admire good
fighting, on land and sea, and thoy are
disposed to deny to the Hartford and
the Kearsarge any measure of tho
honor they deserve for their part in
tho war. We tlunk, however, that
most ex-Confederates have a much
higher regard for tho Hartford, for
the reason that sho was not only a
good hard tighter, ready to give and
tukc, but "fought fair" withal. The
Kearsarge fought her famous battle in
disguised armor, equipped in that respect
like a duellist witli a coat of mail
hid under her shirt, and the Alabama
fought her not only in ignorance of
that fact, but with spoiled ammunition.
The two ships were well matched
otherwise, and the Kearsarge justified
her trick by her success, and was certainly
not responsible for the condition
of her adversary's powder.
It is worthy of note, perhaps, that
tho commanders of both the Kearsarge
and tho Hartford, the two ships that
hold the highest place in the admiration
of our Northern friends, wore both
Southern men. Farragut was a Louisianian
by birth and Winslow a North
Carolinian.?Now and Courier.
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A Gold Bkick Kkaud.?Mrs. Ilarriot
Morrison of Jackson, Mich., a
wealthy widow of seventy-four years,
accompained by Charles llolling, Iho
husband of her adopted daughter, and
Dr. Hianchard, the family physician,
presented themselves at the United
States mint in Philadelphia last week
with two heavy bars of metal, which
they supposed to bo gold and worth $.'10,
000. The men carried the metal, which
weighed eighty-five pounds in a grip,
and thotrio announced that " they had
gold bullion tosoll." The mint attaches
made an essay of the metal and discoverd
that the metal was nothing
more than a low grade of copper and
zinc and worth but eight cents nor
nound. Thirteen years ago, Mrs.
Morrison advanced $0,000 to a nephew
and recently a stranger came to her
with the twocupolashaped bars which,
he said, were mined by her nephew in
British Columbia and wero worth $.10,000,
and that the nephew wanted
to give her as security for an additional
loan. Mrs. Morrison paid the intermediary
$0,000 and the trio named
above started East to sell the " gold."
Tho old lady is greatly grieved over
the swindle.
THE JEWS IX PALESTINE.
Rrrunrkuhle Iiiirraso of the JchIhIi
r*>l>tila(Ion in the IiuikI of Promise.
Travelers in Palestine have noticed
lately that the number of Jews in that
country is increasing. The reports
which tiiey huvo circulated witn reference
to the matter, however, have
always been more or less distorud. In
the last number of a journal published
by the Gorman Palestine Society
(Palestina Verein) Doctor Dalinan, of
the University of Leipzig, has a careful
and reliable description of the
Jewish population of the Holy Lund.
From this the following statement has
boon condensed.
The Jewish population of Jerusalem
during the ten years between 1881 and
181)1 increased from 12,U20 to 2.">,.'122 so
that at the latter date about threefifths
of the people of the city were
Jews. There was not room for them
all in the so-called "Jewish quarter"
within the walls : they therefore built
themselves now houses about tho
northern and western gates, thus adding
considerably to the extent of tho
modern city. These houses are usually
constructed in groups under the direction
of some foreign society interested
in the restoration of the. Jews to their
country, and sold to their tennunts on
terms to suit their circumstances.
Besides those P. Jeruaslem, there
arc numbors of Jews in other cities of
Palestine, especially Julia, Hebron,
Haifa, Tiberias and Safod?in ail
Tlio most interesting fact to bo
noticed, however, is the appearance
in recent years of Jewish colonies in
tho various parts of Palestine. There
arc no fewer than nine of them in the
vicinity of Julia. In these colonics
there are 1.did Jews of all ages who
are engaged in cultivating 11JJJ2 acres
of land. Tho principal crop is wine,
but fruit and grain also in largo
qualities are produced. There is a
small colony of ten persons on a truet
of 1,200 acres of land near Jerusalem.
In tho northern part of the country
there arc several colonics. Tho largI
est in all Palestine, consisting of 800
Koumanian Jews, occupies 2,784 acres
of land between Mount Carmol and
tho ruins of Cmsarea. In tho neighborhood
of Safed are six colonics w ith
ISO members, who eultivato in all f>,2(K1
acres of the, to them, sacred soil.
It appears, therefore, that there
are?or wore in IS'Jl ? 2,(512 Jews in
I Palestine engaged in oarning their
I bread by ugriculturo, and that they
have possession of 20,24.'! acres of land.
| These figures, however, do not repreI
sent the extent to which Ihis movement
has progressed, for, besides the
j land under cultivation, there are 59,j
512 acres that have been bought for
the purposes of colonization. About
; half of this is in a single tract beyond
I the .Jordan near the line of the proposed
railroad from Haifa to Damascus.
This tract was purchased by Baron
j Edmund Llotbchild, who is more or
1 loss interested in at least nine of the
; colonics now in operation.
The whole number of Jews now in
Palestine, according to Doctor Dalntan,
is 4.'1,78.'!: and the whole amount
of land held by them or those intorcstj
oil in their welfare is 80,755 acres.
Two facts with referoneo to this
movement are favorable to its success :
(ljThat there are men of great wealth
and influence behind it; and (2) that
thus far it seems to have been wisely
directed, in that the people have been
1 encouraged to devote themselves to
agriculture, and have been settled on
j some of the best land in Palestine.?
j Professor II. G. Mitchell.
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A ItKM A It It A III jIO INCIDENT.
The l<ife ol' a Federal Soldier Saved
by a Popular Hymn.
A party of Northern tourists formed
part of a large company gathered on
the deck of an excursion steamer that
; was moving slowly down the historic
Potomac one beautiful evening in the
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lias since gained a national reputation
i as an evangelist of song had been do;
lighting the party with the happy
j rendering' of many familiar hymns, the
! last being the sweet petition so dear to
every Christian heart: ".Jesus, lover
of my soul." The singer gave the first
two verses with much feeling, and a
1 peculiar emphasis upon the concluding
| lines that thrilled every heart. A hush
had fallen upon the listeners that was
I not broken for some seconds after the
I musical notes had died away. Tnon a
, gentleman made his way from the out!
skirts of the crowd to the side of the
j singer, and accosted him with :
" Lieg your pardon, stranger, but
J woro you actively engaged during,the
late war?"
" Yes, sir," the man of song answered,
courteously : " 1 fought under (ienerul
Grant."
" Well," the first speaker continued,
with something like a sigh, " I did my
lighting on the other side, and think,
indeed am quite sure, 1 was near you
one bright night eighteen years ago
this very month, it was much such a
night as this, if I am not mistaken.
You woro on guard duty. We of the
South had sharp business on hand, and
yon were one of the enemy. 1 crept
near your post of duty, my murderous
weapon in my hand ; the shadow hid
mo. As you passed back and forth you
wore humming the tuno of the hymn
you have just sung. I raised my gun
and aimed at your heart, and 1 bud
! been selected by our commander for
the work because i was a sure sliof.
Then out upon the night rang the
words:
'"Cover my defendloss head,
With the shadow of Thy wing,"
" Your prayer was answered. I
couldn't lire upon you. And there was
no attack mailo upon your camp that
night. I felt sure when 1 heard you sing
this evening that you were the man
whose life I was spared from taking.
The singer grasped the hand of the
Southerner, and said with much emotion
: " I remember the night very
well, and distinctly the feeling of depression
and loneliness with which 1
wont forth to my duty. I knew my
post was one of groat danger, and I
was more dejected than 1 remember
to have boon at any other time during
the service. I paced my longly
boat, thinking of home and friends and
all that life holds dear. Then the
thought of God's caro for all that lie
has created came to me with peculiar
force. If lie so cared for the sparrow,
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His own image, and I sung tho prayer
of my heart and ceased to feel alone.
How the prayer was ans verod I never
know until this evening. My Heavenly
Father thought best to koop tho
knowledge from mo for eighteen years.
How much of His goodnes to us we
shall be ignorant of until it is rovealed
by the light of eternity ! 'Jesus, lover
of my soul' has been a favor!to hymn :
now it will be inexpressibly dear."
Tho incident related in tho alx>\o
sketch is a true one, related by a lady
who was one of the party on the
steamer.
FOR THE FARMERS.
The Introduction oftlte Ituncli Yarn ,
Hweet Potato.
In the year of 1 HiJo, just aftor the
close of tho late war, my father. T.
1). IVdolford, found in a patch of the (
old-fashioned long vino, yollow yam.
a hill of potatoes that attracted his '
attention so much that he watched its ,
growth all the way through its growing
season. The next year he planted j
the potatoes that this hill produced (
along side by side with its parent (the
long vino vain). Ho gave both rows
the same Kind of cultivation all tho '
way through in order to mako a (
thorough and impartial test, and to (
his great delight found the new potato
to out-yield its parent by one-fourth
ou the two short rows. This test
brought out its good and superior (
qualities over tho then standard variety (
the long vine yellow yam. (
This now potato had extremely short : 1
stumpy vines, its leuves are set close |,
together making it very heavy sot,
which produced a dense shade around
the hill, its fruit grow in a cluster
eioso around tho stent : the potatoes I '
proved to be of large zizo and very (
sweot and an nniber yellow in color, !
cry productive and extremely early,
it partook of its ])aront in only one i
particular and that is its color. My ! ,
father then decided to name his new
potato the hunch yam, owing to its I
general appearance and habits; to ,
further prolong his tost ho sent out
sonic of tho bunch yarn potatoes to i
several of his friends throughout tho
county, all of whom adopted them to
the rejection of all others. The bunch
yam can bo cultivated and dug with
perfect ease.
Will the sweet potato mix by two or '
more, kinds being planted together, is
a question so often heard. I can say
that my experience with thorn is that ]
they will not mix, as all plants and
vegetation mix only through the
medium of tho bloom by pollonization.
The wind and various kinds of insects
are great agents in mixing the pollen
blooms. I havo often seen sweet
potatoes bloom, but I havo never seen
them mature their seed or seed food
in order to obtain dilToront or now
varieties. But tho sweet potato, us
does various other kinds of plants that
do not mature their seed food, frc- (
quently sport otT from parent and form |
now kinds in this way, as did the bunch
yam, sport oiT from the old long vino
yum and formed a now and different
variety.
The word sport is a phruso used by
gardeners and botanists, meaning a
springing off, tho cause of which I
can not explain. I saw the vineless
yum advertised last seusou and procured
some of them. I planted them
side by sido with the bunch yam,
cultivated both alike all tho way
through, and as I thought they would
do, proved to be tho sumo as tho hunch
yam, tho difference beingonly in the
name.
The farmers of tho South ought to
pay moro attent ion to their potato j
patches and not neglect them when
Mm m ass ueguis u> grow u> give tnoir |
time and labor on some other crop;
wo should plant a big swoot potato
crop and keop thorn woll worked up, j
as no other crop will bring us in more
bushels to the aero. If our Northern
friends could keep them through their
extremely cold weather, they would :
raiso them by the millions, which
would take the place of their various j
kinds of root crops.
Wo can raise such nico pork and j
milk and butter by feeding on the
sweet potato as they need no cooking
to pursuade them to oat thorn. Thoy
will also furnish the table with a
delicious dish twoivo months out of the
year. My advice is to grow sweet
potatoes and a plenty of them.
A. S. P A DK LP OH D.
Edwards, Miss.
?
Thk Purpose ok Affliction.?
A mictions do not spring out of the
dust; do not be impatient with them ;
we need something to soften this hard
lifo. O, if it were all buying, selling,
getting gain, outrunning one another
in a race for wealth in which tho
racers take no time to record themselves,
there would be no gardens on
the faeo of tho earth, no place consecrated
to Moral beauty, no houses built
for music, no churches set up for
prayer. Put aflliction helps to keep us
right; atlliction helps to bring us to'
our knees. Poverty says, ''Think,
fool, think." Aflliction open the iiiblo ,
at tho right places. I f you, strong
man, with tho radiant face and the 1
full pocket wero to open the Bible it
would open upside down and at nothing
But you, broken-hearted moth- j
er, you, child of sickness, you, orphan !
and lonely one, your Bible falls open i
always at the right place. CJivo me ;
your family Bible and 1 will tell you
your history. The Bible of the strong,
prosperous, rich man?'tis like himself;
well kept?too well. Hand me
yours, man of the broken heart and
the tear-stained cheeks and the reddened
eye and the furrowed brow. Ah !
nil marks and thumbings and turnings .
down and marginal notes and pencil
indications?thirty-third Psalm, fourth J
of Isaiah, a hundred places in .loremiah,
including tho Lamentations?
why, I need no concordance to this Bible
if I want to seok out the promises.
I sco your guest has been sorrow and
tho hospitality you have olTorcd him
has been pationee. If you would know
the value of the Bible in the house,
consult those who have needed it most,
and abido by their sweet reply.?
.loucph Barker.
Placed in a Box.?Tho original
Copy of the Declaration of Independence
has been withdrawn from public
exhibition in tho State Department
Library, made into a roll and placed
in a tin box for filing with tho archives
of tho government. The rapid fading
of tho text of the Declaration and the
deterioration of the parchment on
which it is engrossed from exposure to
tho light and on account of age, rendered
it impracticable for the department
to allow it to bo oxhibited or handled
longer. In lion of the original document
a fao-similo will he placed on ex- (
hibitlon.
Some years ago it was noticed that
tho ink on the original parchment was
fading and it has been gradually growing
fainter. Recently chemists were
called on to examine it, and they gave
tho opinion that tho strength of tho
ink could be brought out again by (
coating with a chemical solution. But ,
this experiment was not tried, owing J
to tho fear that tho procious paper
might bo injured in somo way and also
(localise no alteration or anything whatovor
could bo dono to it without the
authority of an net of Congress. It required
nn act of Congress to bring the
Declaration of Independence fro n ,
Philadelphia to Washington. ,
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young and vigorus by Magnetic Nor 1
vino. Sold by Carpenter Bros., Greenvillo,
S. C.
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Ol ll NATION AT* HONOR.
Senator (iray'i) Speech Against th?
\ iitiexai ton of Hawaii V (a<iii
1'i-iiieiple 1 ttv??l\ ? ?!.
Washington. Fob. l.'h Senator
iiruy, i DoiU', of Doiuwur.e, resumed Kis
jpeeoh in support of tho resolution
from the Committee on Foreign Kelalions,
declaring; it unwise and inexpedient
to consider furtiior tho treaty
Dr project of annexation of the Hawaiian
territory: that tho provisional
government there sir uhi bo allowed to
pursue its own line of policy, and that
ioreign intervention in tho politiral
ulfairs of the island- would be regnrdDil
as an act unfriendly to tho government
of tho United States.
After reading some testimony showing
a statement by Sopor t ai In* hail
ussuruneos from the old man himself
meaning Minister Steven Senator
liray said that l.e left no r. ?*.i, for doubt
that the revolution in iionci tlu never
would have Occurred tool it m/?? 1.. ....
for the ustmruuce thut the militury
forces from the United St i' - war
ship Boston would ho on ^hot to Klipport
and countoimnce wl at was to he
ilone toward dethroning the queen and
establishing the provisional government.
Senator Cray devoted much of his
speeeh to a discussion of the question
whether the appointment, of Mr.
I Mount as commissioner to Hawaii was
Hueh an otlieo as required continuation
by the Sonuto. Ho urgucd that it was
not.
Ho was asked by Senator Teller
whether if Mr. Blount supplanted an
otlleor whose uppointment did require
confirmation by the Senate that did not
change the situation.
Senator Cray gave it as his opinion
that it did not; and that a person so
appointed for a spoeilic purpose was
not an ollieer under the constitution.
In conclusion. Senator Cray said :
' Tho case is important?far more
important than the material interests
involved. The islands arc very small
und insignificant. If an earthquake or
a convulsion in those Southern seas
were to swallow them up tomorrow
there would not bo, except for feelings
of humanity for the loss of life, a ripple
on tho surfaces of tiio world's affairs.
But the importance of this question,
as I said at tho {outset, is one of
the international morality and you cannot,
in our rotations with tho least
powerful government in the world,
wound or destroy or attack tho integrity
(if t.lwwn mini inna
ing the whole pooplo of the United j
States. Wo aro concerned in maintain- !
ing (more than if a powerful kingdom
or great republic were involved; the
good name and the fame of this great
race. Its name and fame should bo
bold so high that the breath of a specsum
or detraction could not reach it. j
If wo aro over to step from the shores
of this continent out on a career of empire
and colonisation, let it bo with
head eroct, without the breath of suspicion
or dishonor, intrigue or low I
dealings. Lot it be in the light of day. ;
if it be conquest, let it be by force of
arms and with the blast of trumpets, |
and let it he open and above board that ;
wo may know when we acquire a title ,
that it is by the will of the people i
whose soil and country we absorb. I
That is the question presented in the
papers presented to the Senate by the
President of the United States on j
which we aro called upon to pass. That
the President should have attempted
to withdraw this country from the dis- |
honorable situation in which it was ;
placod by the indiscreet action of the
United States minister in January 18UJ1,
is greatly to his credit, and will always
remain to the credit of that distinguished
man as long as this record re- '
mains. You cannot blot out the record
that has been made during the last
year, and it will continue to be the 1
vindication of the man who tried, in
his great ollice, to do justice and work
righteousness in the international af-'
fairs of this great country with the j
pooplo of the earth.
44 I am not so much concerned," said
Senator Toller, "as to what has been
done as I am as to what is going to be
done. 1 ask the President if he understands
that the whole question hus
been remitted by the President to j
Congress ?"
44 The President says so," Senator
Gray answered.
44 You understand that," Senator Toller
romurkod, with an air of satisfaction.
44Then I want to ask him whether
an effort is now being made by this '
government to restore the quocu to
powor ?"
441 do not know of any such effort," j
Senator Gray replied. 44 The saino
sources of information aro open to the 1
Senator that aro open to me. I do not
know of any in question."
Senator Teller : 44 1 want to ask the
Sonator if the matter has boon submitted
to Congress. 1 ask him as a mem- i
ho" of t.lin fnmmil ti>? <?lm uritl> KIo I
' *"? uil 10
mutter, what it is proposed that we aro i
to do? Aro we to do what the l'rosi- j
dent lias failed to do, or are we to con- J
sider the matter sottled, and to let the
provisional government remain?"'
Senator Gray : " When this resolution
was reported from the Committee |
on Foreign Isolations thoI'residonthad
sent in a message. I understood that
ho committed the matter to Congress
bccauso tho efforts which ho had made j
up to that time to restore the status 1
quo and to undo the wrong which (ho .
conceived) had been done by the an-i
thority of tho United States minister, ;
had failed, and he submitted tho wholo |
matter to the wiser discretion of Congross.
This is my understanding. The j
committoo reported this resolution to
the Senate. So far as 1 am concerned.
I am- willing to vote for it now, although
I would not have been willing
to vote for it a short time prior to its
being reported. When it was reported
there was (as 1 understood) nothing to 1
bo done on the part of this government
but undo what 1 consider to havo been
a great wrong and outrage on the
Hawaiian government oxiating on tho
1 titb of January, 1893. That being so,
I thought then, and i do now, that the 1
intorosts of all concerned in these
islands, as well as tho interests of the
people of the United States, is best
conserved by leaving the Iiawuiiun
pooplo to pursue their own lino of
policy. If tho provisional government
bus established itself in such manner
is to be able to make itself a unity, ,
which it never was during' tho precod- .
ing months, then I consider that the
host interests of tho Hawaiian people
und tho l>ost interests of tho United
States will ho promoted by its going
on and obliging tho sanction of people
if it can, what, up to this time, I have
never heard,of its having done."
?Some one praising public schools i
to Charles Lamb, said : "All our best
men wore public school men. Look at <
r>ur poets. There's Byron ; ho was a \
Harrow boy." "Yes," interrupted I
Lamb, "and there's Burns: he was a
plough boy."
,
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A Defaulting Offkek.-?John L.
Weber, ex-8chool commissioner of
Charleston, now professor of KngJisli
literature in Trinity College, N. C., is
a do fan 1 tor in the sum of over iH.200.
Weber left Charleston about a year
n?o to jr0 to Trinity College. When
his annual report reached State
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in the lluunciul part of it, and
began a quiet investigation, which
rosultcd in tlio discovery of the shortage.
Weber raised a number of school
eertilicutcs, a species of forgery common
in cases of that kind. The defalcation
extends over a period of moro
than a year. Efforts were made to
suppress the facts and prevent criminal
proceedings being instituted, but
tho State authorities declined to do
this. Weber will be prosecuted, lie
was quietly arrested over a week ago,
and gave a bond of $1,")00 for his appearance
when wanted. Weber was
at one time on tlio stuff of The News
and Courier, and was a writer of considerable
ability. lie is the author of
a school book on tlio history of South
Carolina. An official report of tlio
defalcation has heon mado public by
the State authorities.
* * ? mm
Auout (iiklb.?An old astrological
prediction gives the character of a girl
acconling to tho month she was born in
as follows :
If a girl is born In January she will
be a prudent housew i fe, given to melancholy,
but good tempered and fond of
line clothes : if in February an affectionate
wife and tender mother and
devoted to dress; if in March, a frivolous
chatter box, somewhat given to
quarrelling, and a connoisseur in
?u'i ; ii in nprn, tnconstunt.
not v? i \ intelligent, but likely to
be good looking unci studious of fashion
plates : if in May, handsome, amiable
and given to stylo in dress; if in Juno,
impetuous, will marry early, be frivolous
and like drossy clothes : if in July,
possibly handsome, but with a sulky
temper and a penchant for gay attire
: if in August, amiable and practical,
likely to marry rich and dress
strikingly : in September, discret, afl'ablo,
much liked and a fashionable dresser
; if in October, pretty and eoquetish,
and devoted to attractive gorniturc ; if
in November, liberal, kind, of a
mild disposition, and an admirer of
stylish dress; if in December, veil
proportioned, fond of novelty, extravagant
and a student of dress.
I -?A
boy in the Wichita schools baa
been suspended for reading the following
essay on "Pants:" "Pants
arc made for men and not men for
pants. Such pants don't last. Pants
are like molasses; they arc thinnor in
hot weather and thicker in cold. The
man in the moon changes his pants
during the eclipse. Don't you go to , A.
the pantry for pants : you might bo
mistaken. Men arc often mistaken in
pants. Such mistakes make brooches
of promise. There has been much
discussion as to whether pants issingulur
or plural. Seems to us when men
wear pants they are plural, and when
they don't wear any pants it is singular.
Men go on a tear in their pants,
and it is all right, but when the pants
go on a tear it is all wrong."
^ \
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.?r, .1. . nowii(!n, ttie delegate
tithe National Alliance meeting from
this State, has given tho information
that one of the three subjects recommended
by that body to the Alliances
of the county for discussion the coming
year, was tho advisability of each
State controlling its liquor trallle by
such a dispensary systom as South
Carolina has. Ho says there is no
danger of the Alliance putting up such *'
control of tho liquor trafllo by tho
government as one of its demands, but
tho Alliance leaders of promidonce
wish the scheme thoroughly discussed
and want the poople of the country enlightened
as much as possible on this
greatest of all questions.
?Tho President has signed tho hill
repealing tho federal election law, and
Tom Heed says tho " ballot box stuffing
bus at last becomo logali/.ed."
? ?i mm
?This is tho ago of woman, says an
ixohango. That's the reason there is
jo much uncertainty about it.
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