The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, May 31, 1906, Image 3
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The Horrylerald,
C6NWAY, S. C.
" hu '"'ay, May 31, 19h6,
MRS VIRGINIA D. YlTJNG
Bj Mr?. OUto F. (Junhy In Barnwell
Sentinel.
In a New York editor's < ftloe one
day, the sanctum of a great newspaper
that wields Irtiuenoe. a woman
who was doing her little best In the
world of letters was lutrcduced to Mr.
Wm Lloyd Garrison, son of that
Huston man who did things.
"You came from South Carolina?"
he Ir quired ^Ith a poHt^ interest.
* "On, ye*! That '? Mrs. Young's
Sta?e," said he. "You know Mrs.
Young?" Mr. Garrison along with
Mr. Curt's, lligglnson and other
worthy advocates of suffrage for wo
man know Mrs. YouDgasa womanSuffragist
hence it happens t^at in
circles of advanced views Mrs. Young
and South Carolina are bracketed
together, one and Indissoluble.
The woman's right movement, 'tis
said, does poorly In South Carolina.
But Mrs. Yor.og is upholding the
banner and getting lu an entering
wedgo wheresover she can. Those
who have Keen her at home, frel that
she is creating the best possible sentiment
in favor of her cult by reason of
the dainty home atmosphere she
maintains, and her genuine devotion
to her husband's comfort and interest.
A most definite characteristic of this
woman plon; er Is that she elevates
the commonplace duties of life into
pleasures and contrives that every
thing shall be sweet and clean and
purely wholesome within her gates.
Woman ar qoalnted with our languor- i
ous climate that invites to a ham- :
meek and a book oftener than to ?c
tive employment will appn elate the j
unremittinucnt ynal supervision required
to keep' things fresh and attractive
in a household. <
"I always strain the milk myself
as soon as it comes in," she explains, 1
excusing heiself for this purpose, i
And next morning if up early enough 1
you will find her working the pats of 1
butter and planning for its accommo- <
dation in the milk safe. Kvery par <
ticular about this milk safe is a poem i
In puritv. The shelves spread with <
white surfaced papers, easily renoved
and replaced, the tins glistening In <
the morning sunshine. 1
The car looms? s who depict the wo
man's rights advocates In the comic
papers as grot er que figures, garbed In
strange attire, swaggering forth with
hatchets or banner to break down established
customs, ought to see Mrs. '
Young working her butter, or beating 1
up biscuit, feeding her chickens or 1
gathering eggs, culling roses or set- J
ting forth her dainty breakfast table.
Then they might get some fresh :
ideas on female suffrage. She would '
be sure to talk while they were there,
and whatever she talks about she en
tors Into with her whole heart. She
believes In herself and that Is why
you believe in her after jou rieet her.
You may not subscribe to her doc
trlnes altogether but upon hearing
her discourse you are more apt to see
the reasonableness of arguments as
she puts them.
A short-haired freak tampering
with theories far beyond herand from
whose presence the orderly anc
biau y 1' viog Ike from b r d?.m p r
bod J ii a, 1'iis jh r,r.e a< c pic icivirt of
the woroi.n suffragist?that is, ti e
old oi s-rv \tive S >ut.h. But Mis.
Young raiuus lids both in appear
ai c<> and in manner of daily 11 vi g
While she talks you listen and are
glad to listen, which is more thanc.vn
be said of a goodly number of the
talkers of the earth.
She will rdite how successfully the
women are moving things politically
out in I iaho and Colorado and oth^r
parts. She will teil of the young woman
leglsla or s o knows, who
''thinks up bills" for pubhc improvement
the while she nurses her baby
and what this, that or the other celebrity
she knows is doing from pulpit,
prees or platform. There is a j jke in
staid old Boston that the folks there
stay under dormant somewhat like a
whale, and have to come "up" every
now and then in New Yoik to breathe
freely. Just so women abidirg ia the
trarquil, long established lines of
thought gft a whiff of a larger, more
charged atmospbere in Mrs. Yourg's
talk. R'.miuiscences of conventions
here, mere and yon, of trips to
Washington on public mission of
press club confabulations and such.
She will give a vived word-pioture of
Riosevelt's cordial bearing towards
Vi at whpn in thmrip.ntnn. and t.pll what.
other public men say and do as to women's
affairs.
Mrs. Y>ung edits and prints a
weekly newspaper In her own house
and writes tssays and articles for the
various woman's riuhts organs. She
has written three hi.f/ks, ail printed
In Boston and al/hringing out clearly
her views as to woman's conventional
status In society. There Is a strong
vein of religion In her books. And a
plea for the beauty of wholesomeness
as portrayed in the love of whatsoever
Is good, pure and true In human
life.
A woman of kmall stature and proportions,
she is evidence that spirit
and not matter count most in affairs.
Her first public work began with the
starting of a Sunday school at the
local country ohurch when Fairfax
v as only a handful of houses. Later
Fhe embarked In the work MIfs Wll
lard loved and dlstbaguished. Gradually
Mrs. Ycung wm led Into larger
views of woman1s sphere, and the
leaders of the suffrage oause gladly
?eleomed her Influence tfnd her artl
cles. Now Id her sunny secluded
Carolina home she fo.iows zealously
the same line of thought and practice
that Mrs Cady Stanton exempted In
her New York apartment, 'he narrow 4
rooms of which so of'en held groups
of delightful, intelUoual women,
glad to h< Id converse with the highminded
dame and her interesting
circle of IntlmateB.
A chief charaotesttcof Mrs. Yourg.
and all suffragists, Is that they ex- (
amine critically all accepted rules for <
women's doings before thej subscribe ]
thereto. \
"Why should a wife have to be r
younger than her tusband V I'm not 1
sure that the m? st go* d results there- >
from," one of Mrs. Young's book h?- (
roes is made to say. As all the world ,
knows, for a body to so question is \
tloutlrg the very narrow oi accepted '
ti eory. It means that in the event
cf the husband's failir g, of being
weak, the mate could all the better (
supplant him In heading the house- i
hold. It mi re than lutlmates that i
mere man does not hold the whole j
earth In the centre of his grasp. It
means?but I will leave everybody to ]
tigure out for him or herself what It ]
means, or what It leads to. ,
TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
IjiKhtninfc KIiIh Five Sp? catora at 1
Sunday Hano Hall Ciami. I
A dicpatch from Mobl'e, Ala., says
about three miles from that city Sunday
afternoon during the progress of i
a base ball game Id an open Held, a
thunder storm came up, accompanied '
by vivid lightning, which struck in the '
midst of the crowd of spectators, instantly
killing live and injuring some '
twenty-live more or less seriously.
The dead are: Donald Touart; aged '
21; Stephen Touart, agen 19; sons of
Stephen J. Touart; Arthur Moody,
aged 19; two negroes, Johu Green and
Charles Thomas.
Seriously injured: John Yockers (
and Fred Johnson. 1
Amorg the painfully injured were: '
Fred Buroh, Joe Dolbear and George '
Cleveland.
At least fifteen or twenty others J
were shocked and knocked down by
the stroke, who uulokly recovered and
were able to leave the Held. The Held v
was strewn with bits of shoes and
slothing from those who were killed j
or seriously injured and the bodies of
the bead presented a terrible speota- ?
jle, being burned in numerous places.
A silver dollar taken from the pocket 1
jf one of the victims was melted on fc
both sides.
acreftk" mmi iiiiiu n.
According to an estimate made by *
the Southern Cotton Ass.elation, of
which Itarvle Jordan is president, 1
luere is an Increase in the cotton u
at reoge of the S utli of 2 7(1 per cent.
over last yew acreage. It is ifstlma- (
ted that the acreage planted In cot- 1
ton this year is 27,735,870 against
20,999,042 acres in 1905. The net in- 1
3rease of acreage is 7.30,228. Thises
tlirate is based upon reports received 1
from 17,000 correspondents. Latham, i
Alexander & Company, of New York
\ very reliable and trustworthy tirm, 1
has placed the 1900 acreage at 27 ,
956.010, which is an increase of but
tnree and a lialf per cent, over last
year. This estimate was made on
the strength of 3,482 reportf of aver
age date of May 14. These reports
would Indicate a yield of not more 1
fchad eleven million bales und r ordinary
veathor cor dtt ions and thai;
size crop n v f; 1 will not be a large
sin by aey rn . s ut d?r the conditions
that will *xi'< * ext 'r>U,
Struck 0/ >!?
A roeteorlui sulicit Andrew Guyso, i
of ItitonUlU, nfarSuuiii Norwalk,
C inn., so terrible h blow that he was
found sense e.-.s re*r his hoo^e with a
crushed and fr ctur< d skull. The i
none is ine siz^or an orange, strange- i
!y corrugated and marked with wid
rranstatten or peculiar crystalline tig
ures. Mlueraloglbts who saw it de- i
olare it is unquestionably of meteoric i
origin. The aerolite consists of metalilo
iron alloyed with a small percent
age of nickel. Its rush through the
heavens gave it a bluelsh-black coloring.
Guyso was removed to the S >uth
Norwalk Hospital and in a moment- 1
ary connclousne^ declared that as bt
was walking home he saw a flash in
the sky and was suddenly struck down
as if by lightning. Dr. Jean Dumortler
operated upon Guyso, and it is
said he may live.
Murder Myniory. I
A dispatch from New York says 1
under conditions that indicate murder
the body of a young woman was found
Sunday on the Bionx shore of the
Harlem river. The body was scantily
clad and around the neck was tightly
fastened a nose or cord. An aut?>rj?*v
- ? ? m? /
showed that death pr< hably was not
due to drown ng but the condition (f
the body wblcn had evidently been in
the water for several weeks was such
as to make it impossible to determine
the precise cause of death. The body
was that of a woman ab.ui 25 years
of aue.
Tackitid Uiu WroiiK Men.
John Brltt, a foreman of construction
on the Tidewa er railroad. Saturday
evening shot and killed Harris
Creasy near Cambria, Va Creasy recently
was dltcharged from the position
Brltt now holds Creasy and home
of his friends went to where Brltt was
working and assaulted him. Brltt was
knocked down and seriously injured.
He managed to draw his revolver and
11 red two shots Into Creasy killing him.
A guard is protecting Brltt from further
attaok.
Some people ask your advice for the
purpose.of working it off on^others as
original matter. '
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BLOW* TO PIECES.
Shot l)>a<1 by an Intended Victim ot
a Bomb.
Russian bomb throwers are at work
n different parts of the Empire. At
rittlB while Gov. Gen. TlmcseU ff and
3hlef of Police Martinoff were drivirK
Sunday, bombs *ere thrown at them.
Neither was irj-ured, but a Cossack
jelontfbitf to their escort was killed.
The crime was a tempted in the center
of the lown a few rods from the
loene of tiie assassination of Gen.
Skiaztv ff, chief of staff of the viceroy
jf the Caucasus, who was killed by a
x>mb explosion, J \n. 29 last. Gen.
rimoall ff and Chief i f Police MartintT
were riding in separate carriages.
Phey were on their way to attend the
coronation anniversary Te I)eum at
the cathedral. Two bombs were
throwu simultaneously, one of them
failing .o explode. Chief of Police
Martincff, who was riding wiui his
revolver in hand, shot and instantly
killed one of the terrorists, out tl<
jther e*o ped. Gov. Gen. TimohoklTt*
coachman was wounded,
At Sebastopal several bombs were
thrown Sunday while a review of
hro ps was belutf held after the Te
Deuuu in celebration of the anniversary
of the emperor's c >ronatlon.
Eleven persons were killed lucludiiiK
live children and several wounded.
A.montf the wounded were the commander
of the fortress, Gen. NaplutlT.
who received slight hurts, and the
Chief of police. who was i/ravelv Iriinr
3d. Other high dignitaries et-cape^.
Vice Admiral ChouknlD, commandlrg
the black Sea lleet, who in & special
mbject foi terrorist revenge, was not
present. Four of the tomb throwers
were arrested.
At St. Petersburg M. Shatah IT,
warden of the city prison, was shot
rour times Sunday and mortally wouniad
by an 18-year-old youth, who was
executing a social revolutionists senienci
in revenge for Shatah tTs had
treatment of political prisoners. The
assassin whosi name is Skutllmin,
tilled a begger who tried to stop him
Dut afterwards was arrested.
A liittlo Whll?*.
Such a lit t le while to right the wrong
we've done,
Such a; httle while to finish tasks be
gun;
Suchja litle while to love and live, and
smile.
Dear Godl ah, such a little while!
juch fleeting nights to dream our
little dreams'
Such hurrying days to gather stray
sun-beams;
>o many storms and smh a little
cairn,
Vnd we lean on Death's strong arm.
\ little time, and yet our hearts arc
cold?
hir sweetest story oft' is left untold.
We water thorn-trees with our burning
tears,
\nd life is over, dear God, in such an
a-down of years.
\ little while and countless hearts
must break?
We do so tnariv wmnvs iii^t fnr u-i-ftnirV
?? *V*. " 4 Wl'h ?
sake.
Wc glory not in sin, yet dwell in guile,
\nd life is o'er dear God, in swell a liltle
while
Win iN ii llu> .
The State Kiys Mr. J. E N ^rnoent
dated Satimliy that he had decided i
1 >t to enter the race for secetary < f
aato tMs year The announcere^f
win doubtless he as pieasiug 10 tne
other randldate* for this office ?s it
will bo disappointing to Mr. Nor
mcnt'e many frier d* all over S iuth
Uaroltna vd o had fully mad up their
minds to vote for him, when it wa>
stated some time ago that he woul i
likely be a ~ati ildate. Mr Norment
as private secretary to Govern >r Heyward
since tne governor s tiist Inaui^uration
has added thousands to nis
a 1 ready large circle of personal friends,
mane In his capacity as a newspaper
man. He 1 ad received a^nrance of
stiong Miopvirt as a candidate for
secretary of state and was generally
regarded as the most formidable en
try for that < nice.
Ne^ro Woman Shot.
Friday Light a colored woman was
stot by an unknown person tu Mar
ion, S. O. at her home, which she owns
In a negro quarter in the eastern sub
urhs of the town She was standing
by the'wlndow ironing, and was snot
with a shotgun lotde-i with shall shot
the load taking t fleet In her left arm
and side. The wounds are not considered
fatal. At the time of the
sho tting she was alone In tiie house
her married daughter wl o lives with
her having gone to a neighbor's. Her
ion in-law, Frank Scruggs, who has
not been hv ng very peaceably witn
the family lately, was accused by his
wife of theshooting, and wasarr^sted
and placed in j\ll.
(Jl UBllttU to l> >*!(?.
A horrible accident (ccurrrd at
J >nes\i le in Union County on Satur
day rrv?rriing. Itufus Smith, a c lured
liborer in the dje plant or the
Jen. .<vilie Manufacturing company
was caught in the shafting and so
dashed against the ceiling before the
engine crulrl he stopped, that many
hones were broken, as a result of
which he died live hours later. A
belt had slipped from the pulley and
Smith was standing on one of the
chrome machines attempting bo pub
it back when by a caerless movement
he stumbled and throwing out his
hand, in which he had a web stocking,
caught on the shafting and In an instant
It drew him up and was whirling
him through the air.
Somk of those young San Francisco
people who married in a hurry last
week may discover after a while, that
there are worse things than earthquakes.
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WHAT CAME IN
TO POLICY BOLDKKS IN THIS
8T ATK FilOM
Life Insurance Companes. Somethiig
Over Two Million Tollars
Paid to Them.
The Journal, the insurance press,
has sent out advance sheets of Its
next issue c mtalning much Interestir
g information as to IKe insurance
premiums paid during 1905, together
with other data of importance from a
statistical point of view. The tigures
are not o< mparatlve. They show
what the vark us companies have paid
out by counties In various states, for
different periods, but thero are no
dgures as to how much was received
by the companies. Nevertheless, here
are some facts which are fresh and
Interesting. Amorgst cities receiving
largest payments on account of pre
mlorriM Nnw York naturally leads
with $29 785,797. Charleston stands
tifty-ti?Lh in tue list, of 198. that city
oaviog received $405,649 In settle
meets of life policies or all kinds.
That cltv, alRO, stands tifty-fnurth
among 100 other cities with New,York
at the top, in tne amount of life
insurance carried, the tigures being
$40,000,000. New O leans, Atlanta.
Uobmond, Dallas, Men phis have a
few millions ahead of that city, hut hi
proportion to population Charleston
is away ahead of any other Southern
city in the amount of life insurance
carried by her cltzrns. Stauding
tiftleth she also exceeds in the amount
that of many larger Northern cities.
According to The Insurauce Press'
figures south Carolina received In
1905 $2 123 643 in claims on aicjuut
of life Insurance distril uted In various
cities and towns as follows:
Abbeville $ 3 300
Aiken 6 000
Allendale 4.500
Alvln 13,000
Audorson 42 667
Barksdale 2 176
Barnwell 4 575
Hatesburtf 3 ooo
Bath 2 230
Beaufort 20.110
Bennetisvlllo 88 662
Bethel 3 250
Blshopvilio 3 000
Blackstock 2,665
Bonham 3,0u0
Bowman 5,00ft
Bruuson 7,000
Otdes 5,000
Cvmden 29,104
Catarrh 2 000
Charleston 405 649
Oheraw 18 ooo
Chester 13 09 6
Uhestertleld 2 690
Clinton 6 500
Clover 2 101
Con burn 3 ftftft
Columbia 80 122
Darlington . 21,500
Dillon 4 375
Dorchester 3 000
Doru 3 100
Due Weot ; 7 ooo
Early Brat ci 6 600
E Icefield 6 500
Fairfax 3,000
Falrv;e.v 1 4 600
Florence 4 500
I F rk / 1 ooo
Fountain Inn. I 4 luo
Garnett \ 11 ooo
Georgetown 12 150
Graulteville 4 nun
Greenville.... f 131,07 i
Greenwich 4 i. 00
Greenwood 4 Ouu
lft.ru pton 4.033
Hannah 3 000
Hartsvllle 8 800
Heath Springs 4 oOO
Holly Hill 4 000
Hopkins 4.500
J a apa ... 2,007
John's Island 7,000
Johnston 3 148
Jofienville 8,9oo
Kershaw 0 000
KtnKStree 4,ooo
Lake City 3 ( 52
Lancaster 15 229
Lafc'a 3,ooo
Laurens 6 000
L'ttle Rack 3 820
Lockhart 3 050
L twndesville 3 000
LukcIT 3,000
Lykesland 3 628
Manning 0,955
Marion 8,000
Meeting Street 2 ooo
Mldenoorf 2 000
Moultrieviile 2 100
M &. Pletsaut 19 633
Newberry 28 500
Sew^'fc- .... 2,248
N w Z oil 2,0(0
()iar 3,000
Orautfc bur# 19,095
; ^Oolet 9 000
I !/*U,"la 4 500
I J Ar er 3 000
lP*)z?r 7 080
PiCKfciiH 8 9 70
Piedmont 3 ooo
Point 2,118
Rscdy River factory 2 000
Riohburg 1,400
Rton 2 ooo
R-jok Hill 0 9JO
Rowesvllle.' 3,000
Ruby 3 900
St. Matthews 4 ooo
Sandy Flat 0 5o0
Scarboro 2,ooo
Soutla 3,000
Seminole 2,240
A Montana man says he has found
out how to grow a bushel of potatoes
In a bushel of sawdust in sixty days,
and it can be done in the cellar or Any
other old place. No vines, no bugs,
no trouble and it is likely no potatoes.
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MARKIAGB.
Some lt? II -ctlona 011 the All Impoitaut
HuOJnot.
God made tbe man for the woman,
and the woman for the man. Each
Is incomplete without the other. In
our experience even those who have
married Indifferently will have developed
completer and nobler characters
than those who have remained single.
Marriage teaches both the man ar d
woman tolerance, patience, tender
ness It lulls the passlcns and stimulates
ti.e intelligence. When then
are ohlldren the noblest virtues and
aspirations are aroused. Father and
mother are united In the desire to d(
their utmost for the helpless little
ones who defend upon them alto
gether, and make life fresh and young
and beautiful for them.
There are certain men no woman
houid dire to marry. She would not
darg to marry a man she does not
love, no matter how exemplary hi'
character and how attractive his bank
account Ilappintsn in marriage U
tlrstand fori most dependent uoou the
individual and his powe?rof not simply
respect, but the deepfst and com
pteteat devotion. The man whe
wnillrl m n If A rtnn mnmon r) I ,,1.. ^1 ..
VllVi TV V/ IJJ t* I VII * Hil l J
happy would make another miserable,
bcc&iAe she la not his mate, and
the go>d Lord nt ver meant tier t'
dwell with him. There rruat be that
congeniality, that sympathy, that Inexpressible
aoraetbli tf that men cal
l< ve, that accepts Its mate altogether,
Ignoring all faults, bearing all things
believing ail things, hoping ah
things, enduring all things, never
falling In tenderness and loyally ever
though the whole world should turn
against the beloved one. Such a love
?s worth waiting for and worth living
for. To most women there 1h not
much else In the world worth llvh g
for?and to most men also, since li
Is the only sure basis for permanent
happiness.
No matter how much a woman may
think she loves him, she should not
dare to marry a dissipated man. True
love Is rooted and grounded In re
spect. A woman may pity profound
ly a man of weak character, but she
cannot love him. Pity Is so akin t<
love that women are deceived by it
Into the belief that It Is a real devo
Lion. Hut it will not last. It is uc
proper foundation for the married
state. The more intimate your rela
tlons with a dissipated man, the
more worthless beseems. He is hk?
a rotten branch that the tirst wind
will sweep to the ground. There It
no dependence upon him, no pleasure
in him, no true love for him.
SCATTER AUtiti^OF LEAD
On Fit, wer [P'(Ih to I'birioti thfe GrowiiiU
Finnic.
A dispatch from Cincinnati, Ohio,
says out of the rlecp and lasting lov?
they bore their nead friend, Dr. Eaoll
Ltothe and Joseph Rmuer a few dayt
since carried out to the letter a wl.-d
that is un q tely be> utlful; one that
prot^bly has no parrallel in the an
nals^;.' that city or State.
Hut as a pre tlx to this there uiust
needs he a rcck&Mon of ouu aspect o
tiie life of Captain Henry Meiser. Hi
was a lover of naiur.-; a tuau whose
bein? was wrapped uu in the wonders
she unfolds to those who. having e><s.
can see. Tnat infatuation t' ok the
un'ut uf a iiovcr-enohi^ lovuof Ujw?, ?.
and it is in dial the key to this story
is t( und.
During Ciplain M liver's life In
reared ai (1 tended an sor*s of flowers
with a cire that made him famous -v?
an amateur horticulturist. Ills spro
alty?if, in deed, he had one?wa
roses, and toese he kmw in threat profusion.
Captain Meiser died in May of 1894
and his body was cremated. Ills ashea
were placed in an urn, which reposed
upon the mantel In Kmll Rjthe'a
home.
Spring, with its warm sunshine, and
tempered winds, hwoke in the minds
of these two men the recollection ol
what was praeticady Captain MelserV
last wish. With the rcool'eotlon cainthe
regret that it had not l?p?n rh.f.?
sooner, and, as a balm bo this feeling,
they decided to accomplish it at once.
They accrdlngly carried the urn c >ntaininir
the ashes cf the lover of nature
up to Eden Park. The tlowei
bed on the blulT, near the water woj ki
pumping station, which overlooks th?
() lio River, wat a losen as the one on
which the ashes of the dead man
should be placed.
Reverently, and with the feeling
that they were in the p.enence of
something sacred, these two scattered
their frienci's ashes upon that H iwei
bed. And when the "roses bio< m
a^aln beside tbo river" they hope tc
Kbt perrrJsslon from the cli j authorities
to cull the II .wers and fulfill t'
the letter the wis us of a ^ rule man,
a poet and h lover of ifu-v
11 titled ? 1. tn ?..
A band of anarchists hi noon Friday
made an attack upon an industrial
savings bank at Warsaw, Poland.
The employes c f the Institution re
slated to loot the bank and there was
a d'sperate fight. Toe anarchists
were forced to retire. They did so,
covering their retreat by tiring theii
revolvers. T *o clients who were in
the hank and oie clerk were fatally
shot and six others wounded. Tue
anarchists made their escape in cabs.
Fatal Kuuaway.
At Gadsden, Ala., Rev. J. R. Trotter,
a prominent minister ana & former
Confederate soldier was killed
Saturday afternoon In a runaway. HH
horse became unmanageable and Mr.
Trotter was thrown out of the vehiole,
breaking bis neok. He waa 70 years
old.
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SUPERFICIAL SENTIMENT.
iporct uf Power I.Icm In InteiiMltx of
Kuiutloii.
Superficial sentiment Is without vital ,
Influence. Tliu se< ret oi' power lies in 1
the intensity of etiiotioii. hut especially
so In poetry, art atul literature. I'.y uo
hocus poeus eau artists and writers
adequately depiet what they do not
feel. There should ho a thermometer
of temperament as well as for temperature.
FeelIlift ami emotion have their
decrees. We are serene when our feelings
are In tne temperate zone. Indignant
when we pass eighty three, furious
when we reach hlood heat, mad at
boiling point. When feeling falls he- - '
low fit) we become Indifferent, and
nnIicii it reaches freezing point we are
heartless. An emotion that does not
attain the seventy sixth degree is hardly
worth recording. At summer heat
the rarest (lowers hegiu to hloom and
nature becomes poetic. While the temperate
Is the proper sphere for pure
reason atul sclent Hie observation, it Is
rarely, if ever, proper for the highest
achievement in any art. In the world
of art Imagination and feeling are not
content with a serenity that touches
tin- borders of Indifference. The creative
instinct is never effective unless
at a certain pitch of enthusiasm. It is
the sharp, clear, brilliant current of
thought that electrifies the brain. Ihit
^n idea is wort it less unless we can tliul
a form to hold it. In the best work
Idea, form atul feeling appear to the
beholder as one. An electric holt seems
a cold tiling, yet n stroke of lightning
will consume more at one Hash than
an ordinary lire would consume lu an
liour.? Francis Crierson in Critic.
GETTING THE NEWS.
Mctlio?l Ailopti'il nt tin* Oiiilirt'uk of
tlie He vol 111 Ioiih i'y War.
In contrast to the workings of tiio
newspaper of the day and of the rapId
transmission of tidings without tho
aid of even a wire to guide the message
is a document printed In the Herkshire
Courier at the beginning of the
ltevolutionnry war. ltut evidently people
were as eager then as now to hear
tho news.
"For the Purpose of getting Speedy
and Certain Intelligence from tho
Army at Itoston. W e the Subscribers
hereby promise and agree to Ulde from
this town to Tyringham or Sheffield
by Turns so as to bring Intcligenco
from thence each I>ay (the Sabbath excepted)
and to Ueport tho same at tho
House of Mr. Josiali Smith?And in
Case no regular method is come into
for bringing the News to Haiti Tyringham
we promise to bear our proportionable
part of the Cxpense in procuring
Intcligenco from Sprlugtlchl
twice in each Week?Witness our
hands this ,'lrd bay of May 177."."
Following tins agreement is a list of
days, with the names of tho citizens
who were to be riders. Jacob Van
Deusen, who agreed to be tho tirst
man to ride to Tyringham or Sheffield,
was to go for it on Monday. May 8,
and Mark Hopkins was to follow on
Wednesday, tho service from that time
on alternating, except as to the Sabbath,
which compelled a no news interval
of two days in the week.
SPEED OF INSECTS.
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iMMinr I My I IVt'lJI II M ll?
III Thil l * -< lll'4?<. StM'OllllM,
It is tiu? popular beli that the (light
of the fiirds Is much swii i'i' than that
of iho in.a ts, >'tit .. number of naturalists
who have b< n in il .. z a sum/ ul!
the mat tor think that such is not tho
case.
A common house ily, for example, is
not very rapid in its flight, but its
wings make sot) beats a second and
send il through the air twenty-live feet,
under ordinary circwinstnuees, in that
space of time. When the insect Is
alarmed, however, it has been found
' that it can increase its rate of speed by
over Ido feet per second. If it could
> continue such rapid llight for a mile in
a straight line, it would cover that distance
in exactly thirty-three seconds.
It is not an uncommon tiling when
traveling by rail in the summer time to
see a bee or wasp keeping up with tho
train and trying to get In at one of the
windows. A swallow is considered one
of the swiftest of Hying birds, and it
was formerly thought that no insect
could escape it.
A. naturalist, however, told of an exciting
chase lie saw between a swallow
1 and a dragon fly, which is among tho
1 swiftest of insects. The insect tlew
1 with incredible speed anil wheeled anil
1 dodged with such case that the swallow,
despite its utmost efforts, coin
pletely failed to overtake it. ?
Ttir Wilier I'llelier.
The following simple method of keeping
Ice water in a common pitcher is
1 worth knowing: Put a layer of cotton
batting between two sheets of wrap1
ping paper three inches higher than
fhe pitcher. Fasten the ends of the
paper and hatting together, forming a
circle. Paste a cover over one end of
the batting and paper. This cover,
when over a pitcher, must come close
to the stand ami so exclude the air,
and Ice will keep a long time. This
paper cover will be found of great
service in a sickroom for both milk
and water pitchers.
Devotion,
That was a remarkable Instnnco of
devotion to which an Italian journal
referred some time ago. wherein a husband
011 hearing that his wife looked
her best in mourning committed suicide
that she might have an opportunity
to wear It.?London Queen.
Sarcastic.
Young Doctor?lie seems to have every
confidence In my ability to save
1 him. Old Doctor?Is he delirious on
1 other subjects also??Judge.
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