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"THE PEOPLE'S JOURNAL" VOL 12.-NO. 39. IICKINS, S. C., THURSDAY, NOVIMBIR 13, 102 9 -mm nri T A T meA nv SEA ISLANDS IN OLD TIMES T1 1R'V ALT11 AN) L.UXIl OF FORMIEI )AYS. The Story 'l'ol<l 1By a Strvivo of the Wreckage CaItSsIl b y Devastatinug War. Col. Miiddleton St uart, of Texas, at old-tine Southern gentleman, wa born suventy-two years ago in the towi of Beaufort, S. U., the social center fo years of the wealthy Sea Island cotton growers. As this once famous suctioi of the Soutlern cottion belt 11115 beer generally ovcriookel by agricultuia, writers of today, a (ialveston News correspondent, re(luestod (Jol. Stuart to give him a brief account of the Sea Islands of South Uniolina, where the best and happiest years of his life were spent,. Cof. Stuart said: '1 lived on llilton IIcad, one of the best of those islands. It is soic seventy-ive miles seutiiwest from11 Charleston. Ol hor adjacent, islands are James, I;uist), F'enwick, St. lelena, Coosaw, Lady's, Port Royal, Paris, Barnwell, Pinckney, and others that 1 (10 not 19W recall. 11ilton llead, one of the largest of the group, is eight miles wide by thirteen long. Port, Royal Island is l0xI:5 miles in eicunt. The town of eautfort is on Port Royal Island. It is a beautiful little city of 4i,000 or 5,000 inhabitants, and prior to the civil war muost of the Sea Island cottol-)lantors 1.h ereahout had their summer residences in Bleaufort. It was indeod a very fashionablo town, being inhabited n(,stly by people of weath, education and rfiniemnent. " North of the Coosaw river is a small group known as tli IIuntang islands. In ante-belluan days the Hllutmng islands formed 1uite a resort for those plantors who were fond of the chase. Every fall these islands were visited by hunting parties of from ten to fifteen planters, thoroughly equipped with guns, dogs and provi sios for a week's sport. They also carried a good many negro servants along. It was not unusual for a pat ty of hunters to kill eight to ten deer in a day. They had the best-trained(1 dor hounds that money could procure. I 4 re:nember two brothers. Abram and Julius Il,ugueniin who kept a kennel of sixty deerhounds. They took a hunt every year, each one carrying allong it gcod retinue of (tegro slaves. The negroes of one brother wore ed shirts, while those of the other had blue shirts. " Fishing was also a highly popular sport with the ohd Sea Islanders. Catching dovillish was a very popular anluselent on I'aris I 'land and Iiiltan 1(ead. An e1101lnmou dkvilislh, the largest I ever saw, was once caught which mneasured tweity-two feet from point to point, and was four or live feet thick. It was caught by lion. William E.lliott. Sheepheal, bass and drum were abuncdant, too, and fut nish 0(1 great sport, for us. After crops were laid by many plantors flocked to flay Point with their families for a live or six weeks' vacation and frolic. They hived in tents and temporary sheds while there '" Oh! I tell ytii, thn ,e were great. times. Eve(ryholy liait 10i;my of money, and all were happy, the negroes as well as their masters. " Prior to the civil war these islands were ill a very high state of enliva tioni, Sea Island cotton being the~ prinl cip)al crop raised. A gv(ood deal of it, was also raisedl on the mainlanid along the CJoosaw river andlc Broad river, andl while tho quiWIS was exellent, it, was far belo0w the pr1oducIt or t,be isIlnds. This mjainlai Sea Island cotton used to sell for twenty-dive cents a pound when thlat grown uiponl the islands prop per b)rought from lifty to sevenly-fivo cents. TIhe linlest quality of all wvas riaisedl 01n I'istt) Islandl(. This was the 75-cent gradeC, thle very perfc(tion1 of long staple cotton, the finost, inl fact,Iproduced in the world. Th'le same < uality of cot,ton cannot he reproduced " Sea Island cotton is not, nearly so prolific as the short, staple cottons. About 100 pounds of lint cotton per acre was the average yield when I lived on Ililton Heaid. It waIs put up inl 300-poundia bale c mtead of 450 or 500 p)ounds1, as5 the1 short staple planters use. France was the latgest buyer of our long stap)tc Sea Island cotton. The groat bulk of the erop was used in the manufacture of line Fi-ench laces. Our lands wecre enriched by heavy aplplica tions of muc11k from t,he adljacenlt marshes. This muck, consistmng mainly of dlecomnposedl vegetable mat ter, is exceedingly rich in plant food, We used to app)ly fort,y wagonloads tc the acre. " No one who never lived ini 01 never visited the Sea Islands of Souti Carolina in the glorious old (lays o1 fifty years ago can form a proper coni ception of the luxury of their owners A number of large planters ownedl at entire Island each. Coosaw island for example, formerly belonged to ai uncle of mine, Maj. John G. B3arnwvell Robert, (hishiolm owned an entirl islandl of 2,000 acres extent. ,Jehossil Island belonged to a former governo of the State, William Aiken, who wa a man of great wealth. Hion. Willjiat HLenry Troscot, who was sent as comn missioner to China and also to Chill b)ehalf of the United States under Mu Blaine, once owvned .Bat nwell lslan<) Te111 most impijortant island of the era t,ire group is P'inckney Island, jmt west or Hilton IIcad. Tils large an valuable property was owned( by Ger CJhailes (otesworth Pmckntey, of i volutionary fame. He0 lived on thi island in elegance and comufort, dii peinsing there a princely h1ospiltalItj Mr. Henlry Mungini had, perhaps, til most beautiful oramental grounds (1 the coast. lIe owned i)aufuske3 Island, and had an expert Euglisli Idln(IsCapo gardener employed t< beautify his estate. This island ii situated at the mouth of the Savannali river and looks directly out upon the r Atlantic ocean. '( I recall a number of large hen Island plantations of from 900 to I ,000 acres in extent. )r. (leorge Stoney t had 5,000 acres in one body on II ilton IIead. 1)r. Thomas Fuller had 2,000 acres on 'aris 1slatnd. (,en. Stephen Elliott, who Commanded the Coifed crate forces at Fort Sumter during the latter part of the war, had 1,200 acres on Paris Island. Rtobert V. Barn. well was a large plantor on Port lloyal 1ian(d, and also on the mainland. Each planter owned from 100 to .0) :legro siaves. " As I have before stated, most of the Sea Island cotton-plan tere lived in Beaufort, during the summor. They also hlad palatial winter residences on their island plantations. They often went Ncrth to spend the Sunlmer months. In addition to elegant ear riages, almost o'ery planter owned a large boat for purposes of business and pleasure. These boats were made of hewn cypress slabs, fifty feet long and eight, feet bean, and wero propelled by I doz.en stalwart young negro oars 111e11. They were kept well painted and were of larco carrying capacity. A canopy was spread over a portion of the stern for the fatnily and their friends to sit under. 'I'hey were used nos'ly for pleasure, but also ofteu for transporting cotton and Supplies to and from Beaufort. 'lhley all had names, and were fruluently named in honor of some female inenber of the owner's family, usually his wife or daughter. Those family boats cost from 81,000 to 1,200. They made frequent trips to the various coast towns between Charleston and Savannah. " In addition to these large 50-foot family bots, latny planters also owned handsome little two-sail launches, used exclusiv ly for pleasure. These, too, were constructed of cypress, an( cost about S1,000 each. They were the boats used for lishing excursions. I have seen from 150 to 200 of them at ono view during the spring wlen 1i.Th ing for d rtun was at i:s height. " The glory of the eIi I limIdR h1a1s long sinCe deimrted. They were laid waste by the ruthless hand of war. At the battle of Port Royal in 1801, all the wht.e population left, leaving their well-furnished, palatial houses to their former slaves. A(lmirlal I)upont, in (ommiand of the l'edleral forces at port Royal, sont detachments of soldiers to several poits in a vii ii attempt to stay the devastation of the splendid estates, 11t!0>1 which \,'ars of labor and tens of thousands of dollars had been expend ed, but to 110 purpose. The planters knew that under the surrounding con ditions of active warfare they could 110 longer carry on their old busintess of raising fine cotten for foreign markets, shut out by blockade, and they made no attempt to (o 9o. Their hue old country homes woro left to the Lender mercies of the negroes who soon wasted an1d destroyed everything. When the long, bloody siege ende(d we wert: all too imipoverished and too dis he: tWimol to attenllpt to rehabilitate our phm onctadtiono. With a few rare ex eCpItionIs, non1e could( afford to even pay taxes oni thoir land, and most, of it thus passedl out of thirb hands(1 and1( was, to alil)practical Ipurposes, conflscatedl. Only thie islands of Edisto, James, F?enwick and JIohnis are no0w cultivate<l by their formcr- oners or their descen dants [. T1he Seabrooks, Townisends and Popes were great cotton1-planter-s years ago, and their children and grandclhildr-en are still growing thie same11 liucelong staple that gave [lhe Sea Islands their reputation, but they (10 niot get as goodl pr1ices as [heir fathers got. Inferioi cottons have. to a great extent,, supplanited [lie true Sea Island. Improvedl methods of cultivation have been1 adloptedl unce [lhe wvar, however, and( [lhe yioldl per acre has1 been mia t,erially i ncreasedI. Th'e d iscover-y of the great phosphate beds in South Carolina and1( other States has proved a wonder-ful blessing, and the few Sea Island planters of [lie 01(1 school wvho are left are making good use of it. "CoosaIw 181land, 011ce ownedO by Majo- BIarnwell, is now owned wholly by negroes. IndIeedl, negroes now own much of [the land on the other islands. They seem) to be doing fairly well, but of courise [,hey do not raise near [lie quantities on the 01(1 plantat ions that [,heir former masters did. Much of [lie land, bothi on the island(s and [ho ad jacent mintiland, is now uncultivateod and abaridoned." A CUnjius PnaexDEN.The No. braska State Jour-nal says: " The judIgmIent of Mi-. Buchanan, of Texas, dhisplayed mn waiving his thirty dlays of preparation and having his hanging on lec spot was peOrhaps good. There were so many people0 around who were bent on executing that coloi edl brother inl an informal anld im.prop)er mlanlner [hat lie didn't care t,o t,ake the chances. So, at his request, [ho sheriff marched him from [lie court room straight to th[le gallows and susp)endhed him as t,he lawyers say hunc pro tunc. it might Shave been a little irregular to accept, a waiver of thie sort, but it was so un Sdeniably convenient, for all concerned that probably tho shor-iff will be sus tained by the courts as well as by [lie p Ieople. But [.e inicidhent will go (downi in hist,ory as one of thie curiosities of Soutbern jurisprudi(ence." B Thle Jews of Palestmne r-c en[.irel3 de(lscenIded from .Jews who r-etiuned t( '. [liat land from lMurope. Most of their 0 speak a corrupt,.form) of the Germar n) language; BILL ARP ON RAISING BOYS. "S'A It,'IE I (O1I)ANl) SI'OI1, TI'lIl CH1)1.'' Solnoniioi Wn..s 'l'oo lBig n Fiol Ab)oirt Wouiecn to Dlirect F''mily Afairs. In a recent letter I took the part of the bad boys and said they must not, be given up. That, letter has provoked a niost intelligent, comn:unt, from a Western school teacher, who has been teaching boys for twenty years. lie says that, his so-called bad boys almosL invariably turned out to be his best boys, best scholars, and best men, and he ncvr punished one with the rod. Ii s it dastrations are very apt, enter taining and instructive, for lie is no ordinary teacher, but is a highly cul tured gentleman, and writes a beauti ful letter. His letter contained eeveral pages and was eagerly perused. I[e says I am a.believer in the rod, but it has been my lot to have to use it most ly, but lightly, on mamnia's pets-the good boys who never did anything wrong. lie does not believe in moral turpitude or total depravity, but that all natural instincts are good, and that evil is only an abuse or misuse of the good, and lie has never seen a human being who would not at times perform some kind ollico for another, never ex pecting a reward. Once upon a tine, the story goes, a fittle girl was watch ing a sculptor as lhe put the finishing touches upon an angel that he had chiseled from a block of marble, and she exclaimed: '' Oh, what, a beauti ful angel you have iade !" " No," I said the sculptor, " the angel was al ready in the marble. I have only tt elhipped away the rough stone that hid it." So it is with every man-there is an angel there, though too often hidden by the stony covering. The skillful c iculptor could find it. 1 This reminds mne of an incident that p happened many years ago in tome t while I lived there. It was on Sunday f while a great freshet was iniiindatmg a ,, portion of the town' A poor boy, the son of a widow, had rowed his little c boat out. in an eddy to catch some wood t that was floating down. By somei mis- ( Mhiance his boat was caught, by the cur rent, and he was carried rapidly down the stream. 1iis mother ha, iccu it all and ran down the bank sereaming for help. Many people ran along with g her, but could do nothing. It was . near a quarter of a mile to the junction b where scores of men and b)Jys were ,j watching the surging waters. As the y little boat neared the bridge pillar it 1 capsized and the boy disappeared with t Lhe boat. In an instant it came to the e marface again and the boy was seen , clinging to the chain at its end. "Save c Lhat boy, somebody." Said one, " I'll 2 give $5 to save that boy." Said anoth- i er. '' I'll give $10.'' ' I'll give '.,'' said another, but. nobody dared to ven Lure. The mother cried in agony. " Won't somebody save my boy." .I Just then a young man was seen rush ing wildly down, throwing off his coat rnd shoes as he came and passing the crowd, he ran down into the water and struck out boldly for the boy. He got 1) him, and clasp Rig one arm around his waist swam with the other and laid him at his mother's feet. le was P hlp and1( speechless, but, alive. ]'ut,ting in his slioes and coat, t,he young manc walked qmickly away. But lie was knowni to most of t,hose p)resent. iIe C was a barkeeper and his mioral stand- 0 ing was niot, goodl, for lie was profane ,) in speech aind his assoiciates were the sport,s and1( drinking men of t,he town.? liec was under the bain, but, there wvas an angel in him somewhere. iIe knew the poor widow andl he kiiew the boy-- I and lie scorned to accept, ainy reward. " I have ofteni ruminiated over thiit heroic i' dheed andl wondered.C My school teacher friend says that r the dilference between a bad boy andl 8 a good one is that the stone is harder t.o chip from the former, but gives a finer and more durable polish when the rough outsidle:is chiseled away, but t.he good boy's aiigei is found in chalk, andl soon crumbles or decays. IIe tells . of Bob, the worst boy ever taiught. It was far out in Western Texas, and a when the school was made up) it was predicted that Bob~ and the teacher wvould have a light in less than a week. iIe was fully apprised that 110b was wicked and cursed like a sailor and wouldl light at the drop of a hat and dIrop it himself. Bob's father was diead aind his mother an invalid andl very poor, but Bob loved her and was kind and good to her and cooked the breakfast before ho went to school, which was 2i miles away. iIe always hurried home after school to chop the wood and bring water and help her with the supper. The teacher's punishment of his pupils, when it had to be given, was keeping them after school and requir ing t,hem to get their lessons. Bob very respectfully asked to be allowed to go home to wait upon his motber. iIe behaved very well for a week, but his bad day came and lie did not st,udy at all. HIe seemed to be ready for a row. The teacher told him mildly but fIrmly, that lie uist st,ay in until he got his lesson. HIe gave a look of de flance and shut up his book. My friend says: " It was one of the trials of my life. I pret,ended to be reading a book, but, I was only thinking. In nialf an hour Bob opened his book, but, I- saw t,ears in his eyes. After a while lie said, 'I can't, study now. P'lease, sir, let me go home. It's gett,ing dlark* and mother will be scared. She's all alone andl sick. I'lease, I will get this lesson tomorrow, and I won't be0 bad any more.' Well, I was just, over come, and I took him in my arms and we wepit together. Never did Bob zive mle ay maore trouble a al thu neighbors wondered. I verily" beli ve that if' I had i'hipied hanl he wout1 hve. been ruined by it. A flet his lmother's dent,h lic iiisted ill the ariny nd Won Iis straps, ald be writes me occasionally, and always thanks mne for the kindnes i I showod himt at school.'' I believe that the use of the rod in our public sco11016 has been generally abandoned. The Pulnisliinut of re fractory pup)ils is now jut what it is ml 0our col leges. E:x pu I.ion, suspen1. sion, mnliiithly rcports a f" celuct aid I ogress. I'aitrlons sei i-" lied with this and Ithe .11--pal .i-d . is that Soloiloni was joking. My f1ienld Port Was atw hostile to Wlipiug Children as is I)r. 1olblerby, of A lnta, aun when I quoted Solomon, vh; said, '' lie that spareth the roil hai-t.iii bis son, ho said, W'ell, Sololni was madi( when lie wrote that. Vitli all of those wives lhe miust have had1( three or 10111 findred Chiliren, aind the littlc rascals t were always tagiig aftei liml mnd lcgging for candy, or a knife or a doll, t Jr sonething, and they elinbd up his t egs and felt in his pockets and pu'.led sy n15 ha~ir, anid it wvas plappy~ this aittiI laddy that, until be got le--ieratc and bI vrote that verse. 1 doni't take every hing for gratted that Solomon says, p) 1olow. A man who was as big a fiol iout womuenl as lie was, needn't tell w ni about whipping c'ilbiren. Hie a lidi't know how to raise I;bobo uain, i vito succeededl him, for lei said to the y hildrent of Israel, it Aly Father chastis d you with whips, but I will iastise of out with scorpions.' TIiat's the ki nd I f a boy he raised with is rod. But after all and before all it is the w 011e influence that mouils the child, do ar that is cois(titt and enduring'..he di ngel that was withiii I ob wits un overed by h is mo her's love. Some SI lothers send their little chiiren to ' uhool as to a nursery to get thcul out f the way, or Ibecause they Canttnot fi tnnage themt at homle. \Vlute others I. ut up for them a nice hinch ani kiss w be ita sweet g)olhy atnd l'ondlly watch a )r their return. )tiir chiiren had to Smoi i!tn a mile to schiocal whlien e lived on the fiariil. 'l'hey had to ross Ilie creck oil a fc ut I0g ai thn i Itrougli a lield ip a I,nn.g lull and theii tn own the lill until otit of sight. It m vas my daily pleasue to watch them it o and come, and feel that they were And now our eldest diughter is uN oing to leave ts--going to W nsboio, outh Carolina, to live, where her lus-v and has found plrofita!bc eilplovment.. 'hey have live children, somc of whom th rere our daily visitios ai mlade us aplpy when they caatia. What Iiall a de do now? We thaou!ht. that this xodus of our" cliiuulrn was uver. Rly rife uand I are growiig old and it ua rieves us to lose our cliren and randchildren. Itt this is the con- Li on lot. There is nothing true but 1l L"aven.ti liiti.s A1:' t. Titu-: i 1.:i'li;r W A S . rn :n :, - li 'he valic of the I'ililll ine silver dol tr is now about -10 cents in gold, 'hicl means that a miierilit doing a usiness in hula iia, if he wishes to in- o ort breadstuff', nieat, lent lie'.' goods, imber, liardware or heer fr i the tted States, puts up ;':2.51) in I Philip inc silver for every dollar rlepreseltcd R1 ihis invoice. Tlhis, as a mlatter' of hl >urse, dliscouragecs Ltrade with the a rinitedi Sta.e,s, and has cut the est imat- S Il receipts from11 dulties for the year ai nding D)ecemiber 31I over $1 I,(Jti),001) ai elow t,he figutre atgreed uplont by the vi 'aft. commission. School :11n4 oth.r xpou)tdituires for the b)entllit of t,he rl dlandls will be cut, accordinigly. Two years ago~ a spieiail atgenit of the Jnited States treasury departmient wats LI cnt, to t,be Philipp)ine islands to in ostigate the finanicial situation. A fter onsult,ing the businiess intorests lhe "' eporte m( i favor of tihe coinaige of a p)ecial Philippine silver dollar, to take W lie place of the Mexicano (coin now in d1 enoral uso. Th'le P'iiippino silvor. ollar wouldl be a full legal teiider for ni cal taxation alnd debhts, andl wouild erve the people of the islands in ti0 th er cent, of tijcir business tratnsactionis, P' 0 that the dilferenlce betweein silver P ,nd gold in the L ondon maretiit wouild e lightly felt, if felt at iall, in the orii aary channels of t.rade. The iIouise conmmittee Oin co1iae, lb veights and1( meauesc, andl the Se3nate LI ~ommittee on Iitnance, each tunder' t.he ntiuence of the London-New Yorku ~old clique, smiotlheieid the report, of ~he speciatl agent, because the grant- i ug of silver coinaig would bC it coni eessiont to the silver nuiies of' the West 11md to the (desires and cuistoms of the peopIle of the l 'hilipplihes, who, like tho 1)e0p)1 of India, must be dli iven at, all haziards to the sin1gle gold standard. (IrIJrrNay SA tuca.-Iicere is at tested1 s English recipe for chuitiiy sau1ce, us1.ed t as a substitute for the nigo chuttney\ of the tropics, satys ltural Newv Yorker. I It is ver'y atppetiziing, and1 ploplar with those who like a hot cattsupi. Mat erial!s required: Eight, ouinces of tart aies,iC I pooled and cored, eight ouinces of< peeOled tomatoes, (iht ounces b)rown 1 sugar, eight ounces satlt, fouir ounces1 powdered ginger', four ounces red 1)ep- 1 per, two ounces shallot,s (or Onlionl), I two ounces gatrlic. Pound atll together< in a mortar (or pass throuighi at chlopper4 set to cut fIne) and thien putt atlI the materials together in a jar with t,wo andl one-half pint,s good vinegar. Plaec the jar ini a warm plahce, cover f or one month, st,iring with a wooden spooni twice every day. At, the end of t,be tIime pass the chutney through a sieve, and bottle, when it is ready for uise. The intense heat of the pepper grows milder with keeping, and the chutney imnproves and1 becomes richer in flavor the longer it is kept.. CAltitH' NATION IN CIlAI,l;ti'I'ON. The llsas C ebIrit y Vi'i1s 1lhe Blind 'I'igter --''he Saie All t Wi" 'iorld Over. 'harlestot 1-:veing Post. Airs. Carrie Nation, the KIanlsas tia-1 0011 snahler, arrived inl Charlest i at 11 1 io-dsy from ( olumbiaut, wlhere sl mwi beetn bor everal ays m miiiitkiig a tudy oe io p iration of the dispelt sary law of the State. Ste had not wien in the city mou'e tiant lifteen mini tes before she was inside of ait al ugel blindl tiger, ,ut she did not re urt to any WYestorn mtethocds. She rierely took 21 peep at the surrouindinga, tilfed arouind like a1 pointer dog ty ig to wilt at covey of hirds and called lt beer and whiskey, which were re ied her, the proprietor telling ier lat he did not sell the stuff. "( )h, yes, You dlo,' said Al rs. Na i on, "for this is a1 blind tiger. I have een in them before and know one hen I see it. If ti is not a blind1 ger why doni't you tkl down that er sign then?" 1'That is just a1n old sign,'' sald the rolrietor, "aud hts no mealning.'' Ali. Nation turnied on her heels and alkedout out of the establishment. As plartiig shot she said to tle lrolrie , "You conduct a hind tiger and s m know it; if you don't, I do.'' c Ars. Nation was met, at the South n depo. by an :Evening Post reporter, ho accompanied her to the St. .1ohn J otel, where ihe is stopping. There 1s no one except the reporter at the pot to meet her. Mrs. Nation was essed im black and her head was par illy covered with at little poke bounet. chad on her eyeglasses and lokei er th aeii n1id s wiled lien the lcws- (( ler man itroduced himself. lcr oulders were covered with i cape, 1 iieh was pinned about her throalti it breast pin made in the slope of latclln L. 1 Esn re'e to the hoteI from the depot r.. Nation said she wanted to visit '.he historical places of lnterest, in e city and also wanted to visit as i any blini ligers ats she conld before ivin', for New York. While ii Co mhia, she said, she called at, a mllul r of blind tig;crs, and that they were 3 aetly like Ithe himd! I igers in KIans;is. ilInd tigers, she said, are theIsame the I Id over. I)id you br-iig youlr t 1cliewl" asked c reoteIcr. "Oh, yes, I have my Bihle; that is a y hatchet now and " inv(r fail to nse was the reply. She said "the mioold not do:lany tna:h. 1 g in (harlesto+l. "You know 1 had eight hatchets ken from nie inl Kansas last, year by c iuthorities and I never got one of t em back. ],last year I paid out over V ,500 ill litsvs, and this year I've pill ' it about))1 $5,00, but I am still carryt m.y war against the liquor trilie. a Mrs. Nation, while talking awaiy at ra111(1 rtate about blind tirers and h1ar OINI, sulddelily spied it whiskey ald Y itiseinent on a hill hoard on Meeting t .vet. y '1ook t. tlhal,'' said the saloon . mliher; "the whiskey men seem to ris of attractive aidv~ertiong mat.t or me whtiskey mcin ad(vert.ixe win'skey '(Owl' whiskey., )hm'r you kno1w owl W(4t11d not,1 tOteh ai dr1op It' the A1.. the St,. ,1(11hn 114)1.11 At ri. Nation)1 giitcd as (~ " Ci Na21tion 0i114me1 "Whelire i.. your hioni ?"' iing mre j. "1 ha2ve 1o hiomei anid htravel atone cll. Al y husbam)114 is somIew here ini hiio. Jus onxe 0 ylear ago to..day hie as dhivorcedt 11rom me1 and4 I am1 no0w Alt,er giving some1 dlirect.ions to the >tAd clerk abhout her blaggage, idle left o hotel, suayinig she wanted to visit, e hI,ndo tigers, catll on the cie(f of >I ico and1 see St. Myiichioel'u and1( other aces of intcrest. A WVo[m 'ro( I1oiisy. ieriPi;is. . lhile iit is nattural for 1an amitiou :ms.ewife t.o wish to be en rolledl amBiong Ie good mlanaigers andl I.0 he crchted1 itlh exectutive abtility -to he looked p to and1( lonllted a5 aulthiority uiponl LI hioulseholdI matttcrs; y..t, iiy dIear str tiotsekeeycrs, you1 are0 1101 wise you dto not coniside(r yourself tirst our health shioldl comelO first. There re limes in everybody's life wvhien tiere is so much t.o do tha2t t,he only' liay to (10 is to sit, downi and dto nioth rig. I would feel as if I were doing 0111 godi the world if I could only ay' a1 word inow and thon that, would Ike root and1( live. I sec 50 many1i ner -ous wrecks'-miuthiers and1( WIVeS who iave sacerificed t hiemselves. The wvo 1111 who is Oil tier feet, from morning Lntil night, without alny rest is a1 very ooor manager. There would be fewer clicate wives if the kitchen ini every 10mc1 (little or hdi) Woro kept perfectly vhiolesome~ ando pure. The kitchen ink hecomes a1 hiot-bedl of (128eas8 if eft cloggedl and not, ltusthed ouit, and lisinlfected1 every few days. The dishi :toths aind ton4owels should receive :spcilI care, and1( need( to be0 washdio tit (laity in a strong thot sudsE of rain vaher and10 hung ot,t in the open air to Iry'. 'iThe garbalge pail shioult always >4e left, outside tihe d:>lor. A friend >ho4wed me1 through hier kitchen rei -,iitly. It, had( a1 restful look, green ~rowing plan1ts. ini the1 widows, one or ,wo easy chalir.( with cushions, 0110 a rocker. It was healthy [and( hygienme, 1d0 hiad (evOry convniVciice' needed ini It IN A Il U1OIZOUS VEIN. In a hall in Glasgow a few wee ago Ihe)e was It led tre on '' Marrinl an(after." The lecturer said th men should kiss thcir wives as th< did w hen they were a year or t muarriod. When the lecture was over an of 11an w ent home, put his arm aroun his' wife's nleclk and kissed her. Meel ing the lecturer noxt (lay, ho said: "i's 1)o go." "' tat isnl't ?" said the lecturer. " \ 'el," said tho m1au, ' when kissed ily wife, she said, 'What's gon, vrmog vi'ye, yo aid fool ye ?" "I 'al, may I ask you a (luestion?' "ies, my son. I'm always glad t( Iliiart information."1 " Well, papa, when a snako wrig. les its tail where does the wigglc " Well--um ---er. Look hore, yound tan, don'(t ol let. ime hear atnothel vord out. of yol t.ill hed time.'' " There, thank the stars, that's thc ast. loadI Iy ' j, ve, I hope we don't ive to move agaiI for twenty yearsI" ,L^o>k, Geo)rge, ther:1e'4 at mant1 with a1 amea! See, te Is getting it up. Ylhat do you s5p1 'ose" ho Wants ? ' Guess he's after a moving picture, Ily dear. " I ran ito town today to do 011 hoppin1'g, dear,'" said Mrs. Subhuhs untering iher h ushantd's ofiec, " and '' I see,'' he interrupted, " and you ulst ran ini helt because you ran out." " Itani o,'t?" " Yes, of mtoney.", ' I shall never larry," said liss Tn Teek, with an air of dotermina 11. " ''erhaps not,'' replied Mis P'ert but everybody will admit you have lade a brave light agalnist t'hilt inevit ble." "llow about that, new cook of yours. 3 she good ?' '' I hope o.'' " Don't you know ?' " I ean oIlly trust so. She tried to ght the lire wit.hi benzine yesterday." Teachor- 11-And the twenty-irst of )ecenher is the siortos, day of the oar, is it not ? 'Tommu)y - Stonet.iles. 'l'Tachler---- ily s metnc:-? TIommIly-V1es'm. When It's a1 holi ay. lloI little We really know about ur nei'llhols, after all," saidl the minig w'i1e lusingly. "W V ,"i rIplied1 the husband, aland Mw nluch 1Iney scm t( know about School Itelicer, exailinil, t.he class, ghts on the youngest, and is so struck nItL) his in1telligeniI aspect that lie uest.iins hilis forthwith' " Ntw, my little mani, what do live 11d t wo mnale ?"' Tie little one rmIlaiued silent. "1 WV:lI, 41(ppo)8 n10W 1 Were to give (Ill live Ilait,ts t.-day aiid two llore -i ,)rroW, how iimany rabbits would tlu have Lhthen?" ih" 'rm111tly answered .he lave i1e. "_ ha 'h Wby, how d..1 you make " .ise~t I 'vte got, one4 to hiome i t'ady." Sunita Qiu~ay wenit to the Adiron lacks a few weeks ago to priepare fo lie rtin ii hlome of hIiS famiiy. Il mdel up the miounltin ini a coinehi tha was dhisl.ressintgl y tardly andl( which wa 14low 1g iti aother fliat, if piossi ble was e.venu sl.>wtr. lEc chafed for Aie ait the pace(3, and then lilt upon0 1 dian lhe Itoughit wouldt serve to spect >Othl teiiuns. lie leaned over to th< I rivter andf tiffered at dollar if the lattel voubtl gel. aheadl of t,he team in front I'he driver smilinigly agreed, and14 ther' -IUsed! his voice t,o say: " IIey I I say. hIll Bill, turni yer rig t.o the side ol hoe road-. -will yoi? TIhiere's a guy icro says he'll give me a dollar if mISh ye; andt l'Il divide if you makt '0om)!" While the( recenltly organized choi, f the Sunday school of the Central 'resbyteriani church of Brooklyn were 'ehearatin.ig last, Sunday nlightL '. CJar, on1 asketl them if they could suggest r tood hymn which they cou1ld sing oir a fewv minutes the singers lookem br'ough tbeii books in search of an ap )ropriatte one,3 bult were unlsuccesBsful Linially the silence was broken by soimi wag satymlg: "For goodness' sake, Doctor, don'1 ing ' From Greenland's Icy Moun Lains,' with conti at $20 at toni." A Missouri farmer has made a feri Dtus mistake in exposinig hiimiself to thu gibes of a heartless worhl. Hie say an atdvertisement of a " two-dollar firn cacape," and1( the more he lookedt a tho advertisement the morchle wante< the lire escape. "I can't let a b)a,gain like that a-on< glt away," lie murmured through hi ttagly whiskers. And then he sa down and1 miailed the two-dollar bill. In dlue time t,he tire cecape arrived It wias all ineCxpensive copy of th Bible. TIom Ochilt,ree relates that while hi Was at Representative from Texas aln returning to his~ home from Wasuin1 ton, he observed a large crowd at LI station. WVhen the train stopped I stepped(M upon0 the platform and start( to adtdress the crowd. HIe began: "Gent,lemen, I thank you for th welcome home." " Welcom( I Thlunder!" interruptt a constituent. " Henry Bacon h just committ.ed suicide in the station c INIUSTRIAL EAND GENERAL it y A substantial business firm in Bos ton is considering a proposition to take up the work of paper hats. They re fuse, however, to give out details of the process which they use in prepar ing the raw material for their pur poses. George M. Yankovsky, a young Si berian of wealthy parents, is touring this country, working as a farm hand and general utility man in stables, stockyards, ranches and other places, where he may gain a knowledge of stock raising and agriculture. Both the Czar and Sultan possess jeweled swords and sabers of groat price. But the most precious sword in existence is that of the (aekwar of Baroda. Its hilt and belt are inerusted with diamnonds, rubies, and emeraldls and it is valued at the fabulous sum of $1,l10,000. A Jewish rabbi recently explained to a number of his follow countrymen, who had just landed at Castle Garden, that the American flag contained stars and stripes to remind the people that the government had stars for those who behaved themselves and stripes for those who did not. Senator Cockrell, of Missouri, never drinks water when speaking in public. Blefore lie begins his address he puts a specially pt epared pellet of potash un der his tongue and this keeps him from becoming hoarse. The Senator declares that for fifteen years he has never touched water when speaking. James (ilaisher, the meteorologist, is 0: years of age. Forty years ago he made one of the most remarkable baloon ascensions on record. le was able to record a height of 28,000 feet, hofor he became unconscious, and the balloon probably reached 35,000 feet before his companion, Mr. Coxwell, managed to pull open the valve. -J. t. Ilutchings, who discovered the Yosemite Valley, and opened it for tourists, was killed last week by his team going over the grade on his way into the famous valley. Mr. Ilulchtings was nearly ninety year old, and until recently spent every winter ill the Yosemite. lIe had kept this Season the Calaveras Big Trees Hotel. The lacon e'oleg)ranh says : "Ma con has forty manufacturing plants, the products of which amount to $25, 000,000 a year. 'T'hese plants pay out annually to their employees $1,500, 000. A1acon's prosperity is largely due to her manufacturin industries, and she is to be congratulated upon the splendid progress she is making along this line." The supreme court of Iowa has ren dered a decision which prevents ex prseu companies from handling liquor (14. 0. )., and makes such goods contra band and liable to seizure if found in the possession of the conmpanies. The court holds that the privileges of ori ginal packages or of the freedom of Inter-State commerce does not apply to a business of this character. It is regarded as a curious coinci dence that Alexander 11. Stephens and D)r. Crawford WV. Young, whose statues are to be placed by Georgia in St,atuary ilall at the nat,ional cap)ital, were stu dlents together at, the University of Georgia, and occupiied the same room -as b,edfello,ws while pursuing their stu.. r dies. One became a great statesman 3 and the other a surgeon of world-wide t ren)own. 'A recent, invention in railway travel uses magnets, arrangedl to slide along undler surfaces of the rails, lifting themel)Bive andl the cars to which they are attached, so that the wheels just clear the upper surfaces of the rails. Thle engineer can adljuist the power so that the uplwardl pull of the magnets will exactly b)alance t,he dlownward pull of gravi.tation. Th'le object of the in vention is to adjust, t,he weight of the train b)y magnetism andI reduce friction to a minimum. The Pennsy$lvania railroad has finally complletedl its terms with New York city, and( the north and east branches of the Hudson River are to both be t.unnelled between the cit,ies of New York and Brooklyn, a dist,ance in all of nine miles. A depot Is to be built uinder-groundl in New York the size of two entire blocks, and passengers are t,o be taken dlirect to and from foreign steamers. This is the biggest under takmng of any heretofore, and is to cost $200,000,000. It will give em p)loyment t,o about 8,000 hands and re ,l qmre nine years. The Agricultural D)epartment has b)egun a series of investigations into the matter of cold storage. There are several mysterious phenomena which lake place in cold storage warehouses. For instance, It, has been noted that one lot of fruit will keep in flne con dition for many months, while another nearby will decay in a few dlays. This 3 is particularly true of peaches. It has t. also been noticed that some peaches lose their delicate flavor very quickly ,in cold storage, while others are not a, affected in that way in the least. Governmnent agents are trying to dis cover the causes of these contrary ef 0 fects, jCASTORIA For Infants and Children. is The Kind You Have Always Bought d1 Bears tho a~ Signaturo of