The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 30, 1894, Image 4
BESIHOHD BY WOLVES.
an \ovkntfkk tn noktukkn kuhsia.
(>u a bright summer morula#, thoro
are few pleasanter places in all Wurope
than out* ?>f the #reat pino forests of
uorthorn Russia. The whole air Is
fragrant with tlie rich scent of the
woods, and stray suiiIkmuus pltiy lx>poop
amid the tioutim; shadows, ami
bright-eyed squirrels llit hither and
thither aiuou# the trees, and birds
twitter merrily overhead, and every
now and then a sturdy little Russian
lx?y, rcund-faeed and yellow-haired,
oouies trudging pust. with a gasket of
mushrooms in his hand, looking up at
you u.s no passes vviin wiue, wondering
eyes.
But the forest is a voiy different
place when the winter winds are howltug
und the winter snows are lying
deep, and not a gleam of sunsnino
breaks the cold, gray, lowering sky,
over which the great clouds roll us
thick and dark, in grim warning of the
coming storm. Then is the time to
pull your fur cap well over your face,
and head as straight as you can for the
nearest log hut, glancing warily about
you as you go, lost you should suddenly
find yourself confronted by the gaunt,
gray body and sharp, white teeth of a
hungry wolf on t he lookout for '* something
nice for supper."
So thought Vania (Johnny) Muslotf,
a Russian peasant l)oy belonging to the
hamlet of I'avlovsk, in the northernmost
corner of the province of Vologda,
as he struggled homeward through
the frozen forest at nightfall, lie had
been senton an erraud by his father to
another village sevoral miles olT, and
had*spent so much time in games with
some of his playmates there, after his
work was done, that the sun was setting
when he started on his way hack.
It was a dismal evening. The dullness
of the frosty air felt like a cold
hand pressed against Vania's head to
pusn mm duck, me rising winu moaned
drearily among the frozen trees
that stood up white and gaunt on every
side like giant skeletons,and the darkening
sky showed that there would he
more snow beforo morning.
Vania was a hravo country hoy, aceuetomed
to "rough it" in all weathers;
and ho would have cared little for
either wind or snow had that boon all.
lint there was something else which
was troubling him much more. in
the thick wood that ho was traversing
?a gloomy place even in broad day
light?it had grown so dark the moment
the sun sunk, that even he, who
knew every foot of the way by heart,
hegun to fear that he must have got oil
the right track, for the snow-drifts
seemed to grow deeper and deeper as
he advanced.
This thought (in itself anything but
a pleasant one) was quickly followed by
another even more disquieting. Out of
the cold black depths of the forest rose
suddenly a hollow, long-drawn, dismal
sound, which Van la had heard too often
not to kuow it at once for the cry
of a wolf, or rather of several wolves
together.
The hoy started to run, for with such
enemies on his trail there was no time
to be lost. Hut any one who has tried
running through knee-deep snow (especially
with the stilling cold of a Russian
winter tuking away one's breath
at every step) knows what fearfully exhausting
work it is. He had barely advanced
llft.v vuivls when the horrible
j ~ ? " ? ?" " ' """ I
cry broke out again, sharper, lloreor,
nearer than before. The monsters had
ncented their prey, and wore in full
chose of him !
Vania looked around him as he
ran, with a numb horror, such as he
had never felt before, tightening round
his l)olil heart. Ho was now in the
very worst place of all?a wide clearing
in the forest, where all the trees
had been felled except a few. If the
wolves caught him there lie was lost,
and their yells scorned to como nearer
and nearer evory moment.
All at once a dark shadowy mass
loomed up right in front of him, plain
even amid tho blackness against the
ghostly white of the snow, lie knew
nt once that it must he tho huge pilo of
split legs which he had noticed in passing
that afternoon, and ho sprang up
it like a wild-cat; hut he had barely
reached the top when tho gloom around
him was alive with whisking tails, and
gnashing teeth, and fiery greenishyellow
eyes.
Tho next moment the wolves were
leaping up at him on evory sido ; but
luckily the wood-pile was too high for
them to reach the top with one hound, ;
and Vania, snatching up a heavy piece
of wood, struck so fiorcoly among the
scrambling monsters that at every
stroke a wolf dropped hack in the
snow, howling with pain, with a crushed
paw, or a broken head.
The yells of the wild beasts, and tho
snouts in \ ama inmseii, made such a
din amid the dead silence of tl?e lonely
forest, that the Iniy began to hope that
someone might hear it and come to
his assistance. But the help for which
he was looking seemed like to come too
late: for the constant scrambling of
woIvcb up the sides of the wood-pile,
and Yaniu's violent leaps to and fro on
its top, had begun to loosen the logs,
which were already tottering, and
must soon roll down altogether, Hinging
the poor lad right among the
blood-thirsty jaws that wore gaping
and gnashing for him below.
But just when all seemed over, an
un-looked-for way of escape suddenly
presented itself. A pale gleam of
moonlight breaking through the gathering
storm-clouds, showed our hero a
single tree standing behind the woodpile,
and only a few feet away from it.
Could he make a spring and clutch
one of the branches, and so swing himself
un into the tree, he would be safe.
Gathering all his strength for tho
perilous leap?for he knew that if the
tirSt Rttomilt. fllllftll llO nannnlliu
|- - "? ovum * ?->
t<? repeat it the daring lad shot out
into the empty air. The wolves yelled
and leaped up at him, hut it wan too
lute. Vaniu had seized the nearest
bough. The slender limb bent and
cracked terribly beneath his weight,
but it did not givo way, and in another
moment he was safe among the higher
branches, just as the whole pile of logs
caino crashing down at once, burying
three or four of the wolves underneath
it.
But now that he was sitting up on
this uneasy perch, cramped and no
longer kept warm by the violent exertion
of beating oil the wolves, the
piercing cold of the wintry night began
to tell upon him in earnest. Vaniu
was a true Kussiun, and could bear
without IIinciting a degreo of cold that
would have killed a native of a warmer
climate outright; but oven he now
began to feel that he could not sturid
much more of this, and must oither
drop down among the wolves or be
frozen whero ho sat.
A flash, a crack, a sharp cry from
the nearest wolf, a lusty shout of several
voices at once, and a broad glare
of light through the gloom scared the
cowardly 1 trusts into a general scamper.
The last of theai had hardly vanished
into the thickets, when V ania's
?u?her. three or four other peasants
I with axes and pine torches, aiul the
village watchman with his gun, came
just in time to catch the half-frozen
boy as he fell fatting among them.
AN HONOKAHIjH CAltHKIt.
I The Oldest Itallroml rnuitww... t.>
Xincricn An Interesting Skclcli ol'
the Veteran and IIIn Work.
Mr. Henry C. Kaworth, of Augusta,
Ga., is tho oldest living railroad engineer
in America, and his sands of life
are fast running out. lie is gradually
sinking from waste of l>ody and mind,
as might bo expected from one who hus
long since passed his four score years.
Mr. Kaworth enjoys the proud distinction
of having pulled the cars of
the tirst locomotive over used on the
South Carolina Railroad. He adds to
this the remarkable record of more
than half a century of continuous service
on the same road, lie has held
the throttle in every style of locomotive
from the crudest engine to the finest
mogul and has witnessed the evolution
from twelve miles an hour over a
rickety track to sixty miles over steel
rails and rock-ball as ted roadbed, lie
has kept pace with the improved machines,
and when at the age of 7"?, ten
years ago, he stepped from the engineer's
cab for tho last time, it was from
failing eyesight and not because of any
lack of ability to discharge the duties
of the position.
The following sketch of Mr. Ha-1
worth's life was given eight years ago j
in the Railway Ago: I
"There remains hut few among us 1
who from personal observation or participation
are able to tell us of the early
history of our railways, of tho practices,
methods and accidents which
went to make up this history. So deeply
were tho actors in these events 0111
gaged ill iuinrovinir ??! ,.voili.w
ods, in meeting aud providing for tlio
necessities by which thoy found thomsolvos
constantly surrounded, in discharging
duties of a most exacting nature,
that t hey did not have time or
disposition to record their experience
for tho benefit of their successors.
And this was true alike of the humble
! and the conspicuous of every grade,
1 from the president who dictated policy
| and practice to the laborers who toiled
on the track. While, therefore, there
are few living witnesses left from
whom to obtain information, there are*'
fewer books whose pages supply it even
in a disconnected way.
" The most notable of these remaining
witnesses only a few years ago
pulled the locomotive's lever for the
last time, and after more than tlfty
years of continuous service on a single
railway, stepped from the footboard
never to mount it again. We refer to
Henry (I. Haworth, whose last years
are being passed quietly and happily
among relatives and friends in Augusta.
"Mr. Haworth was born Dec. 15, 1811,
in Charleston, S. C., and entered the
service of the old South Carolina Hail- i
way as apprentice in its shops about '
the year 181111, his duties as such and as ,
a machinist qualifying him later on to i
run a locomotive, in which more rc- i
sponsible service he engaged as a life
neenmit.irm ir> ? -? ??
,? v winiuwiii^ wnixmi j
interruption until August, 1885, when
he was com polled to quit work because 1
of the partial failuro of his eyes. Were
it not for this misfortune he would now
bo as competent, to presido ut the lever
as is the youngest and strongest engineer
in active service. When Mr. Uaj
worth began his long career as a loeomotivo
engineer the science of railroading
was in its infancy. The pioneer
American locomotive, the 1 Host
Friend,' had after a brief service exploded
its boiler through the ignorancoof
its colored tlreman, who hud
fastened the lever of the steam valve
down to roleivo himself of the annoyance
caused by escaping steam, and it
had just boon rebuilt as the ' Phoonix.'
It was in l.S.'M that Mr. Kaworth became
the engineer of this rebuilt locomotive.
True, he did not find himself
emharrascd hy the dangers attendant
on the fast running of later years, for
the ' l'hoenix' did not average a speed
exceeding twelve miles an hour, hut lie
had to contend with very many dillicultios
common to the experimental period,
in which he was an early and earnest
worker and which are unknown to
the engineer of today.
" During 118 years of Mr. Kuworth's
career he had but one tireinnn, a negro
?of whose faithful services he speaks
in terms of unstinted praise. When
lirst employed ami for many years afterwards
this man was a* slave, his
I owner having contracted his services I
i to ;no rail way company for an uvorago
I consideration of a dollar a day. When
| ho became a froo man ho still continued
to work as flroinan, rccoiving the
same wages |)aid others, and continuing
at his post until four years ago,
when he died. During his long service
on the South Carolina road (ho was
never employed on any other) Mr. Itaworth
had only one accident, which
occurrog in 1KT>2, and was the result of
a washing away of a culvert. lie
claims to have killed less stock than
did any other engineer on the road,
i When the 'Heat Friend,' which was
the lirst locomotive built in this country,
was received in Charleston, Mr.
Uaworth was an apprentice in the shops
of the (south Carolina road, and he
helped to put it up for service.
" He attributes his pust good health,
which has always been perfect, to his
habits of life, not a drop of intoxicating
liquor over having passed his lips. On
behalf of the great army of railway men
who are now in active employment the
Railway Age extends cordial greetings
to this grand representative of the early
days of an interest which has now
grown to such wonderful proportions.
Although he has gone into the 'side
track,' may it be long boforo he goes to
the 'scrap heap.' May ho live yet
many years to witness even greater
progress in the science in which ho was
pioneer more than half a century ago."
A LAWYKits Tlticu.?111 the murder
trial before a Western court, says
the Chicago Times, the prisoner could
account satisfactorily for the whole of
L! A! 4 " *
iiih umoexoopi. nvo minutes on the evening
when the crime was committed.
II is lawyer argued that it wan impossible
for hi m to have killed the man under
the oircumstunoos in so brief a period,
and on that plea largely based his defense,
tho other testimony being strongly
against the client.
When tho prosecuting attorney replied
he said :
"How long a time really is live minutes?
Lot us see. Will his honor command
absolute silence in the courtroom
for that space? "
Tho judge complied. There was a
clock on the wall. Kvory eye in the
courtroom was lixed upon it as the pendulum
ticked olT the seconds in breath-\
less silence.
The keen-witted lawyer waited until
the audience gave a sigh of roliof at
tho close of the poriod and then asked
quietly:
"Could he not have slruek one fatal
blow in all that time?"
| The prisoner was found guilty, und,
as it was proven afterwards, justly.
A CONFEUKItATE II HI to.
Cii|it. ('. I> Itnrkstlnle, ol" tlit* Carolina M
liiylil Infantry- A llcaulit'iil I'oeni'
in Ills Memory.
I Kd iters of tho Augusta Chroniolo :
llero and there throughout tho tor:
ritorv reached by your excellent paper
| may Vo found a survivor of the famous t
. I'Mrst Kegllnont of South Carolina t
Volunteers, familiarly known in the ;
early days of tho war as " Maxoy >
Grogg's Koglmont." In this city there |
! are several, and I know there is not <
I one of them who on perusing the fol- <
I lowing beautiful lines will not with the ?
WVlii.?u I
" Hut O, for the touch of a vanished
hand, v
And the sound of a voice that is still!" *
The matchless valor of the "Hoy Com- (
pany " of that noble regiment has, per- (
liaps, been the subject of more coin- (1
mont among those who personally
know of its deeds than any other coin- I '
maud that ever went forth in defence
of its country. Could Cuptuin Harks- j,
dale have lived, and had his talents. |,
which were of the first order, achieved
for hin. the most exalted proferments -|
of his native Carolina, I am sure that ,
not one of them would have supplanted f,
tho proud honor of having been the
commander of the Carolina Light In- | ^
fantry of Charleston. In the desperate , ,]
encounter in which our bravo and be- j |,
loved Captain lost his life the second j j
battle of Manassas, August lihtb, 18(12 (j
the compauy, at sunrise on that i ((
memorable day, numbered twenty- | t
eight, and at sunset the record showed I
nine killed or afterwards died of their |(
wounds, oight wounded and one taken
prisoner. The smallness of the num- ^
her, twenty-eight, with which we en- '
to rod tho battle, is best explained by |(
a remark that the gallant (..'aptain, I).
1*. Cogguns, of tho Newberry Company, t |
once made about us. lie said : "Com- !
puny L. always has more men on the (1(
imttle lield than on dross parade."' The (
seven days' battle around Kichmond
bail reduced us to that. 1 *
In tho old family burying ground
some two miles from the city of Laurens,
S. C.. and within a stone's throw .1
of his " His Father's Hall," the soldier I
sleeps. Last Friday through the kindness
of Dr. .1. A. Harksdalo and bis two ^
sons, brother and nephows of Cnpt.
Harksdale, 1 was most hospitably taken ,,
charge of and tho opportunity afforded
mo of visiting our Captain's grave, j
As my memory took mo buck thirtytwo
years, a tear welled up at the
changed scene and 1 turned away. y
I am told that immediately upon re- f
ceipt of the intelligence of the Cup- I ,,
tain's death the writer of tho following t|
lines, who Is a very near kinswoman I ^
and who was at his father's house at J
the time, with wonderful self-compos- >.
....... A 1 1
uio Miiu uuwu una penned 1110111, not ; (|
rising from her seat until they wore
finished. j,
To the great majority of your road- | ,,
org thoy cannot have even the interest
of a passing glance. hut to those of us j'
(and thoro are very few now) who wore
with him in the fray, and who witnessed
liis splendid courage and devotion,
they are peculiarly touching and sjid.
When they were first published in
the paper at Laurens in |N(?2and copies "
circulated at company bivouac on the
Rappahannock I became quite fainil- /
iar with the lines, hut as time rolled
on they passed from my memory. A p
verse carved on the monument over |>
the Cuptain's grave called them hack p
tome and upon repeating the first two h
lines, which was a'.l I remembered of ft
the piece, Dr. Harksdalo at onco took
from his poeketbook a printed copy 01
which he had been carrying on his per- ai
son for over thirty years. The doctor f y,
vury Kintuy mauo mo a present of tlio ']'
])Oom, and to say that I appreciate the ti
ift is l)ut to {,rfvo poor expression to o<
my feeling's. t)
"Ills 1<'ATHICK'8 HALLS AUK lONK ,l
TON I(IIIT." S
Linos on the death of Captain Cullyar 1,1
Douglas llarksdalc, First I'cgiment South hi
Carolina Volunteers, by Mrs. I'hoebe IV pi
Farley, Laurens. S. C., tst.'J.
Ilis father's halls are lone to-night,
And lonely is the hearth, '
Where in his ehilhood's joyous hour, I 11
llis voice gushed out iii mirth, oj
As with von graceful greyhound, j j|
He hounded thro' tins hall:
Their pictures now hang side by side.
Upon the silent wall. ('
We sec them in the litful light, (](
Of the tires' dazzling bla/.e. u.
They seem almost replete with life,
'As thro tears wo on them gaze,
His aged parents, weeping here,
His name blend with their tears a
Thev call him not as once they called tl
In youth's bright, happy years. tl
And saw him dash in gladness out SJ"
Their loved, their latest horn, tl:
When to his coueh, they came and cried- - "
" Wake, hunter! wake, 'tis morn !" oi
War against earth's oppressors vile, to
K'en then Mashed from his eye,
A soul of noltle daring,
Of impulse bold and high,
He grew a monarch of the soil, (jj
A man of feeling deep,
And he hath died, these hearths and halls, .,
Inviolate to keep.
And fell as lie so wished to fall, ai
Amid brave comrades lying, til
Home with them from tha' hartle Meld, hi
Where stars and bars were Hying. w
Gallant young hearts were'round him then, 1"
Who loved their leader well,
Whose blood with his have bathed the soil
'' Where the pride of manhood fell,"
No mother now with streaming tears, 1'.'
Calls on him for her son,
lie lies beside them on that field, pt
Where victory was won, $|
ifi ? * .i .... ?
iic iiwiu <1 iHiiiM' tiiiii i*#ii^ iit'un nccn
Henowned in song or story, ?>
Mingled with shouts of victory, lii
Another nnme for glory,
Well, well,old Scotland knows it
Her proudest battle cry,
When her martial hosts were gathered, ,
On her hills,' to do or die." hi
" 1 Heeding heart and rampant lion,"
Onward in triumph swept,
The brood claymore in Douglas' hands, C1
The good Held always kent,
From that hero race descended, at
High, high, his spirit soared, cj
And for his country's holv cause,
His heart's best blood lie freely poured.
II. F. IlltOWN, 1
Sergt. Co. h. 1st. Hegt,, s. o. Vols., lstii <>.r>, ni
Augusta, Oa., June 25. inot.
He was regularly descended from hadv ?i
June Douglas, of Scotland.
?I)r. M. S. WalUor, president of the
Merchants' and Planters' Hunk of
Greenville, Miss., was fatally stabbod ,
by Win. Magrudor, at Wtlzinesky, !K
Miss., lust week. 'J'ho tragedy grew *'(j
out of Dr. Walker's alloged intimacy
with Mugrpder's wifo. Walker is one Ul
of the wealthiest and most prominent
planters in tho lower Mississippi valley.
'U
?Tho trouble with you, John is,"
said a lady to her husband, who was tl
suffering cannot say ' No.' J ..earn to
say 4 No' John, from the effect of the w
night before, and you will have fewer so
hsiulsc.hnH. (km viwi ..... ?
J .... avu UK) IIUVl! a uc
littlo' monoy this morning?1' "No"
naiil John, with apparent ease. Ij,
? A guest was shown to a room on |)(
tho upper lloor in a hotol in Memphis. U
lie noticed that'^ho roof evidently
leaked, and spoko of the matter to tho ri
attendant. " Yes, it leaks." said the
latter, 44 butonly when it rains. You'll
find an umbrella alongside the washKtand."
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CAlMr.Alj MOWS AM) CiOSSIP.
I'lir is SI ill IiicrcuMinj; ?
lilO Tin ill" Hill Nut Yet Out ol'l>aii*
K<'r Cmici'iss Will Adjourn \\ lien
I hU Quest Inn In Set I led.
Washington, Aug. The; gold
eservo passed tho $54,000,000 murk
o-duy. being a gain since yet* erday
if nearly $200,000. Since export of
fold have ceased it is noticeable that
noro gold coin tbun iihuiiI is being 1
mid in at Now York on account of the
nistoiu duos, it amounting to 8 H> of
?no per cent, this month as against
lothing for the corresponding period
.f July.
Senators A Id rich and Quay were at
irork this morning endeavoring to
mooth the way for tho passage of the
louse bill through tho Senate that
orrects tho error made in tin tarilf
ill relative to tho rebate on alcohol
iscd in tlie arts and sciences. Such
etion, owing to the absence of a ,
uoruin, can only bo bad by unanimous |
onsent. It is understood that if the
ill does pass the Senate, it will go j
aek to the House in a very different
hapo from that in which it left, it.
'he sugar men will amend it by tucking
n to it as a rider the MeKlnley bounty
>r the crop of 1H1H, and it is not linrobablo
that other aiuendinonts look- '
ig to the protection of some industries
hat suffered by reason of the tarilf
ill will ho made to the bill. Tho I
louse will then be given the ultornaive
of agreeing to these amendments !
r permitting the error regarding
Ichol to go uncorrected.
So many disturbing reports have
ecu made as to the effect of disputed
oints in the new taritf law that
ocrotary Carlisle, it is said, will
lake public an ohieial statement as to
is understandiii'_r of its lirovisions. !
t is well understood in tho Treasury
nit tlio Secretary will construe disuted
provisions in a liberal way in ueimlunce
with the manifest intent of
'engross, not taking advantage of
nibbles based upon mistakes of
mu tilation, but keeping in view the
urposo of the law makers.
Speaker Crisp is quoted as saying'
nil he felt very certain that tho tarilV
ill will become a law. lie does not
xpeet the I'rosiilent to sign it. lie,
links it will become a law without j
10 executive signature and thatCon-|
ress will adjourn within an hour
fter this fact becomes known to the
lumbers and Senators.
A large number of Southerners re- i
idont in Washington assembled at i
HI lard's Hotel to-night to arrange
>r the reception of the delegations!
x pee ted he.ro to the convention on |
lie :tot!i inst. Col. Ulackwell, of i
klabamal was made permanent eliuiruin
and Dr. Walter i'. Murphy, of
lorth ('arolina, permanent secretary
f the reception committee. Over six
mill red liiil.ill(>iit.iniK fivim ni>iimlii.nil
usiness men, boards of trade and coinlerciul
organizations liuvo boon reeived,
unnouneing tlioii* intention to
0 present or represented at the eouention.
" Vr.KV ,\N\()VINCJ."
low Aii I'hlitor Can <?et In and Oul
ol'Trouble.
iiigiistu < lirt niele.
\Vo havo frequently heard the exrossion
" tho language failed him,"
at we have never seen a mere striki}*
illustration of it than is contained
1 the following mild announcement !
om the Brooklyn Times:
" An unfortunate typographical j
rror occurring at the last moment 1
nd undetected until the paper had
one to press, made a headline in the
imos yesterday declare that ' Ovor?n
Thrashed Ills Wife.' It was
trident to every reader of the stor,>
lat the Times had intended to say
nit Mr. Overton 'trusted' his wife,
ueh errors are, perhaps, unavoidable
i the rush work of a daily newspaper, :
it they are very annoying to all the
irties concerned."
It is easy to read between the lines
this pathetically simple announce- 1
cut the bail quarter of an hour that j
ic editor had when Mr. Overton
ill'd to demand an explanation of !
ie damaging headline. The contrast
jtweeii the simple paragraph in the 1
litorial column and the editor's in- '
irview with the proof reader, was
mbth'ss as st riking as tho dilTeronce 1
itween the language of a Carolina |
ilitieal debate and that of a prayer
>ok, and none but the inhabitants of
newspaper olliee can fully api>"cclato 1
ie editor's tired feeling as ho penned '
ie foregoing lines. A man who will
and being called a thief will resent 1
ie published statement that he
thrashed his wife," and while the
iginal headline familiarly referred
i him us Overton, wo note that after
is call at the ollloo he is referred to i 1
i Mr. Overton.
Occurrences like these make editors j 1
o young, and only a newspaper man |
m appreciate the feelings of the 1 '
rooklyn editor, as with worried look
id an exhausted vocabulary, he wrote '
iat publishing that a man " thrashed
s wife" instead of "trusted his
ifo" was '-'very annoying to all
irties."
???
?The New York ICvoning World
ints a list of lop men and women reding
in that city who will have to
iy an income tax of from $1,000 to
78,000. It puts Mrs. Ilettie Croon at
ie lu: head of the women, and Win.
'ahlorf Aster at the head of the mon's
st.
?Andrew Franklin, of liurlington,
ans., one of tho oldest pensioners on
ie rolls of the War Department, was
>rn on Christmas day in 175>1. lie
light in tho war of IM", in two Indian
ars, and served as a teamster in tne j
vil war.
? A dispatch to tho London News
ates that the king of Corea has cleared
himself independent of the (Jlii se
government, and has appea.ed to
ipan for assistance to expel the Cliijso
from Corea,
?The IC in press Frederick, daughter
Queen Victoria and the widow <d
io late Kinperor Frederick, lives in
itirement in German/, but enjoys the
mors and distinction usually accorded
tho widow of an lOmperur
?Seven hundred lie nor dealers have
ion arrested in Mpiriphis for failure |
' pay "privllogo taxes." It is suit!
,000 has been lost by the State |
id eouuty through failure to collect.
?The famous" Littlo Church Around >
io Corner," the Church of the Trans- |
juration, in Now York, recently re-1 |
lived a chock for $00,000 on its cbllee- i
on plate. ?
?A collection of 80,000 stuffed birds '
ill be one of the attractions of a mu- 1
urn now in course of erection at l.ey>11.
Holland. 1
(
The production of cotton yarns in (
ipan has increased from 1,000,000 .
muds in 1888 to 01,000,000 pounds in
02. S
?Lightning caused the destruction
2,000 barrels of oil in the Standard ,
i! Works at Jacksonville, (.Ma.
It apiiears that l'opulisip in Ocor- <
a is to break up in a family row, i
_ _
TilI? TOWN II \I)1'?I/\NC;KI) II\N'I)S.
I (JikmI Story on a I'arty of Prominent
lv\-t 'on I?-?I CrUt OS,
Con. Money, of M ississipni, tolls a
story of tho famous Mr. Martin, of
| Texas says The Chicago Record. VVhoti
I JclYerson Davis died tlio Uovoi'iHii's of
1 tho Southeun States united in calling
I upon tho people to observe with divine
; service and memorial meetings the day
|and hour of his funeral, and, knowing
J there would ho no services in vVashiugton,
a number of the faithful wont
down to Vlcxamlria. There wore < Jen. 4
and Mrs. Cordon, Justice and Mrs. 4
I annul*. Strmii11 ii? I'munni .....1 I.:..
.
(Jon. VValthull and his daughter-. Mrs. '
Milr<d Loo an<I her brother. Speaker H
Crisp and thirty or forty others, so i
that tiio forry l>out was pretty well j
orowdod. To tin; surprise of ovory y
0110, thoy discovered ujiou thoir arrival
at Alexandria that there wore to bono
services there, and wliilo the crowds 1
waited in the forry house (Jon. Lit/.- n
hugh Loo and (Jon. Money were sent, n
as a cniiimi ttcc to tiio reetjjr <f tho >
Kpiseopal ('hvreli, which tin; Southern
aristocracy has always attended, to ask
him to hold an impromptu meeting, at c
which (Jon. (fordon, .lust,ice Lamar W
and otliors had consented to speak.
The committee waited upon the clergy- q
man and upon thoir return reported '
tliat he would not grant, their request. ^
(Jen. r.oe explained the reasons with *great
detail. In the first place, the
church was cold, and it would take a d
1 <>11j4f time to heat it. In the second y
place, the trustees hud considered the
question and had decided not to hold
services. The clergyman did not think
it propei to do so without consulting
them and obtaining thoir consent, and
finally, after a number of other equally
good excuses, the clergy man explained
with great delicacy that Confederate
sentiment was not very strong in that g
church, and that the death of .IclVcrson K
Davis was not an event that required V
any especial demonstration of sorrow.
With this remark (Jen. Loo concluded
his explanation. There was absolute c
silence for a second, which was broken _
by th" strong < lour tones of Maj. Martin,
u( Texas, who exclaimed: "I
nckon this town has changed hands.'' ..
WllKN IT (JOKS INTO KFFKCT. There
is irroiit. ii?u?nt?tjilii(-.?? ...i..,.. .
0 W..vw? VUIIIV) UO H/ *? iil'U J
tho tarilVact goes into clTeet. Many w
i-ondieting stories have boon tele- al
graphed broadcast, and tho public pi
mind bus naturally become much b ;< in
fuddled. Secretary Carlisle and Attor- Mi
ney General Olney held a conference i $
over the disputed points, and Seero- fo
tary Carlisle soon after this meeting in
said : tw
" The bill provides that so far as tho T1
internal revenue and whiskey taxes are eu
concerned, they are payable as soon as in
one bill is signed, or it becomes a law, ar
but on the other articles, the Supreme el'
Court has held that persons paying es
taxes can prove the hour and minute hi
in which a bill becomes a law. If the be
the 1'resident does not sign the hill, it
will become a law at midnight on the sa
2Sth, and will be in full ell'ect and force to
on and after the 528th.M te
In regard to those goods which arc fa
now held in bondand which arc placed so
on the free list by the new tarill' bill, wl
the Secretary holds that they cannot be
withdrawn from the bond for consump- to
lion without paying the McKinley wi
duty. To escape this tax, these ar- cc
tides will have to be re-shipped to a ea
foreign port and then sent back to this er
country. I his is not truo of dutiable tli
goods beeauso the section of the bill a
which relates to tllem provides that w
they may be witilraw 11 for eonsurap- as
tiou. se
The second section, which relates to fu
the free list, makes no such provision, wj
Asking A Simxial. Skssion.?The j'|
Attorney General has reqnested that ,
11 special session of the Supremo Court 'i(]
lie called to hear and decide upon the
onstitut ionality of the dispensary law. 1 !
It all eoines out of the Aiken dispensary
ease. Assistant Attorney General ' ''
Ihi' bi-r lias returned from Aiken where ^ j
lie had been to perfect the appeal of
the State from Judge AUlrich's decis- j j
ion in the ease between the town an- ^
Lhoriticsaud the dispenser. It turns jjj
:?ut that both the State and town auLhorities
have appealed. The town ^
authorities hecaiise .1 udge Aldrich
granted the writ restraining them ^
from interfering with the dispenser or '
his clerk in the discbarge of their du- j
ties, and the State appealed because .
I udge Aldrich held that the act of * 1
IShll was unconstitutional, and upon ^'J
exceptions to his ruling that a inunicipal
corporation can plead unconstitu- jj(
Lionality in a case in which the State
is represented through a relator.
When the Supreme Court will meet . V
cannot'now be said, but it is thought 1
that it will meet within the ne\t. ten m\
days and hear tho case. How long it
will he before a decision can be rendered
is another matter, but it i9 entirely
probable that a decision will be ren- 8?
tiered very soon after tho hearing of
the case.- Columbia .lournal. eh
Wkatiiku Hints. Watch tho sky "~~
for what is called " mare.->'-tails." CJ
These appearing aftor clear weather v'
show the track of the wind in the sky.
A rosy sunset predicts fair weather.
A read sky iu the morning foretells
had weather. A gray sky in
the morning means line weather, if
tho (irst streaks of light at dawn are /
seen above a bank of clouds, look out
for wind : if they are close to or on the et<
horizon, tho weather will be fair. In coi
general, soft, delicate colors in the sky, foi
with indefinite forms of clouds, mean wt
fair weather; gaudy, unusual colors, ??a
find lmrd-edged clouds, mean rain, and Bh
probably wind. ^
A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ;
but a bright, light blue skv indieutna on
lino weather. Goncrally, the softer ^
douds look, the less wind (but per* coi
hups tnoro rain1 muv bo expected : and f?'
Lh?- harder, inoro 4" greasy," rolled, [J?,
111fted, or ragged, the stronger tho boi
joining wind will prove, ole
A bright yollow sky'at sunset pre- ?','1
mgos wind : a pale yellow, wet, orungo wii
?r copper-colored, wind and rain. H'"
These are some of the most important p
points about weather which have been reji
tot down in the books by old and ex- Jns
porienccd sailors. ,'^i
The income tux clause of the tarilT tin
bill states that from and after .Tnnunov M
I, 1H1>5, until January 1, 11)00, there 1
4l1u.ll ho assessed, levied, collected and J,"
paid, annually, a tax of "J jut n nt. on
tho amount of income over *1,000, and Hin
that this tax shall ho assessed by the of i
^'jmmisftionc* of internal revenue and J,","
collected and paid upon the gains, and U
nrotit,; and Income for the year ending i"
December 31at, next preceding the V"j
time of levying, eolleeting and paying nta
juoh tax. Tho law cannot go into tar
atTect until January I. 1S05, and no In- T(fT
30mo tax will ho paid until Dccombor lior
$1, Thin it' tho status of the tax, ^h'1
?nd it is in no sense rotroaetivo, s'0||
Don't he talked into having an opera* '
Lion sis it may cost you your lifo. {'j'.
lapanero I'ileCuro is guaranteed to jj
juini you by (Jurpopter Dyes., (ireon- opt
/Hie, a. c,' s
? J;
AFTER THE "GRIP" 1
r in convalescence from pneumonia, ,
evers, or other debilitating diseases, ;
rout* quickest way to g? t llesh and I
itrongth is with Dr. Pierce's Golden
dodical Discovery. That gives
mrity to your blood, plumpness to j
our body, and puts every function \
nto perfect working onlcr. It i1
uakes thoroughly effective every
latural means of repairing and
lourishing your system. For pale, i <
amy, scrofulous children, especially, ; i
othing approaches it. it builds up *
oinpletely their tiesli, their strength,
nd their health. :
The " Discovery" is the only |
uarantevd blood medicine. In the ' ?
uost stubborn Scrofulous, Skin or !
lealp Diseases, Kczema, Salt-rhrum, 1
nd every kindred ailment, if it '
loesn't benefit, or cure, you have
our money back.
A "eoi.ii in inn hicad" is quickly
cured by I)r. Sage's
Catarrii Remedy. So
m&^'X is Catarrhal Ileadaclie, J,
/ I :lM(' <>V<M'.V trouble that
t<tg \ caused by Catarrh. |(
b;'^) So '* Catarrh itself. ,
I'he proprietors offer >
jj.-OO ju (.asj, fol. Jiny v
use wiiieh tiny cannot euro.
an in i i-:i.t.i(;t;\ i' anim xl.
own II i. Ir|ili;| it I t'e'iiiiglil .? filler lo
.1 lis! li e.
'J'be elephant, at li: st glance, appears
bo a (iull, heavy sort of a M ow. i
iLit a mind, if ho has such a tiling,
out suited to the appreciation of j
a-nuts and noting' more. If wo look
to the elephant's oyo, however, wo ?:
mil see that it is a pretty sort of an i J'o,
and uioro often than not it will be , i,;
and to twinkle in a manner which *
dieates the possession of an idea or i,
(> inside of that mammoth head. 111
liis second glance will give us a more y
rreet understanding of theelephaut > <
telleetu.al qualities than the Hist:
id as wo never judge a man by his C
nthes, so we should not attempt lo ' ~
timatc the elephant's intelligonee by ^
s personal appearance, which is not
lautifui. ' ?
Many a time and oft. as the poet !'
ys, the elephant has shown himself j|
he a creature of very 1 > markablo inlligonco?(piite
as intelligent, in | ,,
et, as the horse, and sometimes more
than the dull-patcd witless persons ?
ho have had hint in eharge.
In illustration of this point there is
Id a story of a large elephant which
us sent some years ago to a remote
umtry district in India, to assist in
rrying and piling timber. Tho ownof
tho elephant-, suspecting that
10 native driver was dishonest, wrote
letter to tho wife of a missionary, at
hose house the elephant was lodged,
Icing her to watch tho servant, and |>
e that ho did not defraud tho faith1
animal of his rice. The hidy
[itched. ami her suspicions being
oused by his conduct, she expressed
sr doubts to tho servant, lie pre- U
ndod to be much surprised, and very
gry, and exclaimed in his own lanlago,
" Do you think I would rob iny
iid V"
riie elephant stood quietly by, and |,
poured to understand what was goes;
on. No sooner had the driver utI'ed
his question than the animal
row his trunk around him, throw
in down, and untied the unusually It
llcy cloth the servant wore around
s waist. Out rolled a large quantity
rice which had been stolen by the
I'vant out of the elcphant'sallowance.
We have frequently seen elephants t
at could wait'/, and ring dinner bolls, , 1
d play pranks with a circus clown, j fr
t this, we believe, is the first in- I
ineo on record of one of those mon- '
ous beasts turning detective and
inging a thief to justic. nirther- j,
ire, the circus cioplmnt, smart us he g,
had to be taught to do the clever |.
ings he does, while the bulky do- 1/
jtivo had to reason out hi ; work of b
; own accord, relying solely upon his
n intelligence to help him through. J'
Harper's Young People. ^
?Congressman Wm. L, Wilson will I.
to Kurope when Congress adjourns. b
?.losiah Quiney has resigned the J',
airmanship of the Democratic; party g,
Massachusetts. A
DltUOUNDEl) BY MYSTERY!:?
1
1/
A Great Mistake.
k
V recent discovery Is that hoadaoho, j?
;z loess, dullness, confusion of tho mind,
\, nre duo to dorangeuient of tho norvo
liters which supply tho brain with norvo j ^
ooj that Indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia,
nd In stomach, etc., nrlso from the derangenit
of tho norvo centers supplying theso or- Ai
lis with nerve, fluid or force. This Is likewise
10 of many diseases of the heart ami lungs. 1,>
i0 norvo system Is llko a telegraph system, a,
v. :!l >.,111 11y tie- accompanying j
IV
;hly celebrated ''v
octal 1st and .imSfm flwr*>- ; As
(lent of nervous diseases, and author ;
many noted treatises on t he latter subject, ft
K Binco realized t he truth of the first y|.
tcrnont, uiul his Restorative Nervine * '
prepared on that principle. Its success .'
curing all diseases arising from derange- ? "
nt of the norvous system is wonder- Ca
, as the thousands of unsolicited test Into* '
Is in possession of t ho company manufac- !?>
Ing too remedy amply prove. ...
r. Miles' Restorative Nervine Is a reliable . '
nedy for all nervous diseases. ,uch m
tdacho, nervous debility, prostration, P 1
aplcssncss, dizziness hysteria, sexual do- 'I
by, nt. Vitus dance, epilepsy, etc. It Is \i|
it by all druggists on a positive guarantee,
*ontdirect by the l>r. Miles Medical
(hart. I lid., on receipt of price, rl per liot,
six DOttles fur t??, oxpicss prepaid. I' 1
!? itutative Nervine positively contain? no .
ates or dangerous drugs.
i >1(1 by Carpenter Bros.. Druggist.
Ki.evkn Years in Prison. Henry
Williams, colored, was u life convict in
the penitentiary. Ho lias been pardoned
by (iovei ;? 'i llman. and it was
Kranleu with >ul li e papers being referred
11? the Judge and Solicitor us is
usually the ease.
The fuels are tboi-o: When Williams
W)IH 11" i.r.w. 1 *
.. ihu< iuuv tuiun'u ooy no
worked for a man in Orangeburg
County who refused to pay him hi?
wages. Ono night lio stole a Hutlleion^iniouiit
of clothing and small article*
to maku up the value of what was
jwing him. lie was tir res tod. but re*
dort-d tho stolon floods. When lie was
?ut on trial before Judge Wallace iu
issi. lie had no lawyer to defend liiui
uid pleaded guilty. At that time life
MiprHomuent was the penalty for
nir;.. iary and larceny and Williams
ecived the full sen to nee. He bus
ec? nt ly been working at a rock quarry
n KdgetUdd County. Ho told his
>tory toa white man who mode an In,
i t e at ion and to-certained the facts,
i >\ < rn r Tillman promptly pardoned
lie poor u?'t:ro a? soon as tlie facts
vorc ailtlioritati voly put before him.
The hoe-keeping industry is growng
^ cry rapidly in this country. In
Still the I'nited States produced 15?"
iOtl,000 pounds i f lioney: in lsso the
iroductioli was (il.tioo.OOO pounds, la
lio.-c two decades the cot..sorption
pau1 npli'il, while tlie popululiffc, did
tot do as aiindt as double.
Magnetic Nervine quickly restores
ost manhood and youthful vigor. Sold
?y Carpenter llros., Greenville, S. C.
The Georgia Farmers' Alliance
ais disbanded.
Johnson's Oriental Soap is far so
icriorioail the othur so-called inediinal
soups for beautifying the collide.\
ion. Sold by Carpento.' Bros.,
freenville, S. C.
Men are made manly, the old nuulo
oun^und vigorous by Magnetic Noritie.
Sold by Carpenter Bros., G reonille,
S. C.
MAGNETIC NEHVINET
v'xCv ,s so'') with written
-ye- \ yitarantoe to cure
I sVSA fo'f-ir ?*Nerrcu8ProRtr.v
i KY tfr* ilon, Fits, TJU/I
0/ V'- noBB.Hoiuli.i'jAuiit
Nournlgln 1 !
v f. Jt.K. futuertt.cAumjd IVyox<\i
C?.BlVOUMM?fOpiUIII,
1 /*, '$>3 1'otmeco und Alrof\cLrrinc.
_ rvV v'i n ~ ho,I Mental Ot-pro* t
E"!'0rtc Ai 1 LR Hion, 8oftoninn?'
10 tsroin, rausiPK Winery, Innanlty nnd Death;
irrou Be, Inipotency, Loot Power in elthorNb
remoter? Old Atio, Involuntury T.os?e?, enured
y iiver-inilulgonro, over-exertion or tho 15rain and
rrors "f Youth. Itiftverto Weak ortram* their
ntural Vigor and doublea the Joya of life; curca
in or?bean nttd Fomalo Woskoou. a months treat*
out, lu iilatn package, by mull, to nny uddrovH, ft
r box, * boxen f.%. with every fr> order we give it
Irttton Guarantee ! > euro or refund tl?o money,
in ;ili?? free, Gunrauteo issued only by our ex*
usivo :igeiir,
'.AHl'KNTIlK BltOR . BltKKNVILI-K, S O
, \J ACl'AM AW LINK STKAMKKS.
} V The Steamer will leave her wharf
t i'n hmh cvi'iy Monthly and Wednesday
mining for Georgetown at I o'clock . touchrjf
all intermediate points. At it will leave
i-r wltarf at Georfcetown every Tuesday
mi l'Titlav morning for Conway at I
'clock, touching all intermediate noiiou
I?. r. M"NKIK,<;oiFt Ag't and Tie 8.. Conit
y, 5*. '
15. A. Ml N N Kill.Y N, Aironl, Georgetown,
. '
Schedule of Local Mail Routes.
or I K No, 2027:1 ?From Gallivants Ferry
to Cod way, mail arrives 1.45 pin, on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday: leaves at
2..'it) p in on same days. Mail closes at
3.95,
Ol TK NO. 202s0.?From Conway to llirewav.
N. C? mail arrives at 4 :M0 p in oil
Tinsilny, Thursday and Saturday; leaves
at o p m on same days. Mail closes at
4 p m.
Ol' I'K No. 2<).si.--From Conway via
For.iey, .Jordativille, Gideon, I alinna and
retnr >, mail arrives at 7 p ui on Tuesday.,
Thursday an ' Saturday; leaves at 0 a in
on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Mail
C;loses at U p in.
ol'TK NO. 203512.?From Conway tol.i*.
C" lliver, mall arrives at 5 p m on Monday,
Wednesday and Friday; leaves at 7
a in Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
Mail closes at 0 p in.
ol'TK No. 2t)28o?Fron Conway to Fort
Jlurrolscn, nin'i arrives daily at 13 m;
leaves daily at 1:45 p in. Mail closes at
1:40 p m.
\T I L\] I NGTON, CllADUOUHN &
IV Conway 11. U. Passenger and
eight daily, except Sunday.
SOUTH IIOUNI).? NO. 4(>.
v a 1 rutin
v 1 lions a 80am
rChudbnurn ... 0 OOuiri
v I hadbourn 10 10nm
i Clarendon 10 10am
v M t 'labor 10 65am
v Loris 11 20am
v Sail ford ...... 11 87sin
v llayboro 11 nam
v Pii vetts II 67aiu
v Adraiu 12 02pm
r Conway 12 80 pm
NOHTIIHOU^)?NO. 14.
v Conway . 2 OOpm
v Aurain 2 80pm
v ITivoits 2 85pm
11 llayboro 2 45pm
/ an ford 2 66pm
r I .oris 8 20pm
r All. 'labor 8 55pm
r t lareudon 4 20pm
r Cbadbourn 4 60pm
/ ?,'bndboorn 5 15pm
i I lion 5 45pm
r Hub 6 00pn?
t TLANTIO COAST LINE. "WILV
mington, Columbia A Augusta 11.
. Condensed sehodulo, in clTeet Dec.
1803,
TRAINS CiOlNU SOUTH.?NO. 55.
, \\ i!m ngtou 8 20pm
, Cbadbourn 5 60pm
/Marion* 6 50pm
r Florence or.ni.nt
NO. 00,
i Florence 7 10pm
r-under S-J.spm
; jc niter ~ 828ptu
i- Columbia ' 10 OOpw
NO. 58.
/ Florence 7 lOam
r tun. tor " 20am
no. r?2.
r Huuitei' V 50am
i* Columbia 11 Oliftffl
TWAINS GOING NORTH.?NO. 51.
r Columbia 1 80am
r Sumter f> 57 am
i Sumter .. .... 5 f>7am
r Florence 7 16am
so. 50,
' ( olumbla 1 20pm
r Siwi'ter 8 85pm
NO. M?.
Sumter,,,, 0 45pm
Florence 6 55pl?
NO. .'if'.,
Florence 7 40am
>1 iirifin ....... .-s^. 8 liiiiin
< luulboni n ... . 0 20am
\\ ilm ngton I 10 loam
So. 52 runs through from Charleston via
ntrnl llullroad, leaving Fnncu 8.14 a in,
uiiiiuK 0 20 a in.
So runs tlnou-h to Charleston, 8. O,,
i Central I*. H., arriving Manutag 8 p m,
i es M0 p in, Charleston in.40 p in.
train on Alarichester .V Augusta It. U.
ivcr. Milliter, daily < \ccpt Sunday 10.60 a
nvrivcH Ulnilni 11. 0 a m, Returning !
ivo Kimini 12.00 p u\ arrive 8viinter 1.40 .
n.
I rail.a on IlnritvlUe K. 11 P ave llarlslc,
daily except Sunder, at 6 a in, arrlv(
Floyda 5 2a a in Returning, leave
>> a 0.45 p in,? rrivlng at Hailsvde 10.15
n.
T. F. HlViNK, Ucn'l Bupt.
I. K. KlNLY. Snpt. Trans,
f. M. Emerson, Oou'l I'ush. Agent.