Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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I I fHWn far f«falk«iKMi ahomld be rcityh ta a dMr, hfibfa haad, ud oo oaiy Jba ride 0/ Um ft*. 4, ill •baa^M !■ adrertiaemeata bauit ftclTM M HER PICTURE. ' t ' I *m bar now—tiw falreit thing That erer niocked man'a piotnrtng, I ptotore her m one who drew Aaide Hfe’i enrtain and looked through The mhU of all life’i myetery, Aa from a wood to open sea. The aoft, wide eye* of wonderment That, trnating, looked yon through through; The aweet, arched month, a bow new bent, - That aent lore’* arrow aw 1ft and true. fhat aweet, arched month 1 The Orient Hath not each pearls in all her atoree Not all her storied, spioe-eet ahorea Have fragrance inch as it hath spent. I picture her aa one who knew How rare la truth to Jm untrue— Aa one who knew the awful sign Of death, of life, of the divine, Sweet ptty Of all lovefe, all hates, Beneath the iron-footed fates. I picture her as seeking peace. And olive-leevM and vine-net lana ■, While strife stood by on either hand. And w«ug her team like roeariee. I picture her In passing rhyme As of, yet not a part of, these— A woman bon above her time; A woman waiting in her place, With petient pity on her face. -Herface, her earnest, baby face; Her young face, so uncommon wise— The tender love-light in her eyes— T*9 stars of heaven out of place. Two stars that atng aa stars of old Their silent eloquence of song, From skies of glory and of gold, Where God in purple passed along— 1 That patient, baby-face of hers That won a thousand worshipers 1 That silent, pleading face ; among Ten thousand faces just the one I still shall love when all la done, And life lies by, a harp unstrung. That face, like shining sheaves among ; That face, half hid ’mid sheaves of gold; ’ That face that never can grow old ; And yet has never been quite young. JoAQcm Miujck. Yours Truly. BT M. U HATWa. • " Amiiin Grace,” said Mm. PiJabnry, M she sat with her daughter at their afternoon sewing, “ be jew goin’ to piece a quilt r “ What fur, mother?” “Why, ain’t Mr. Van Vleet been to •eo yon twioe’t runnin’ lately? He’s axed ye, I a’poae, to hev him ?” “ An’ I guv him the mitten.” “ Bho I Ton wouldn’t be half eo silly ! Why, he’s wuth a dozen orniray men. Yon might go flther^pd fare wuss ” “Jest what Tm goin’ to dew.” > “ Did yew tell him so ?” “ No, I writ; now, mother, let me be; I ain’t a goin’ to many no man thet thinks I’m jumpin' «t the chance. I’d a heap rather he an old maid.” There wee nothing said for some time; y-then the widow asked: “ When did yew write, ’Marin?" “ A flay or eo paet” “ When did you git a pen ?" “ I borrered one. Mebbe you’d like to know what I said tew him.” “Yoo’to guessed rite,” said the widow, eegerly. “ It ain’t nathin’ to nobody bat ns, mother, along ee I didn’t hareirim,” said the girl, cortly, and no more waa said, bat the widow sighed heayily and held her hand to her left aide. - Amarin knew that it meant her heart, for she had been bronght op to respect that organ as an intimidating power. Thin th»e she did not relent, bat won- desed why she could not like that big. good-looking Van Vleet well enough to marry him, lor they were pear, poor as that historic church moose, and he was watt off. But-they were not mercenary. People called them Simple folks; perhaps be cause they lacked education, and be lieved everything that waa told them. But they wen good as gold. ^The widow’s face and form, lank and ungainly, were familiar in svmr sick room. They ren» dered hitkfdBUr the things that wee though "they worked early and late to ac complish it. They were good to every body and everything; MfeAmazin Grace VOL. VII. NO. 29. Shirt, Mint she had song it all her Hfe. It was her bread and batter. “Thera’s Van Vleet I” aha exclaimed, looking op from her lap-board. _ “Wall, I declare! What brings him here ?" “P'raps he’s cornin’ to ask yew to hev him, mother," said Amasin Grace, laiagh- ing, while a sweet flash of pink stained her round cheeks. “I wish he should!” said the widow, devoutly; “I should consider it was flyin’ in the face of Providence not to marry each a man—if he asked me.” Bat Mr. Van Vleet stalked in with a brief “good-day,” threw an armful of blossoms into the lap of Amarin Grace, and said: “I’m ready for a weddin’.” “Did yon get my letter?” asked the girl. “Yep! It warn’t. to say, lovin’, bat I took yer mean in’. I’ve fenced in the * hull north lot, and fnrbushed the house up, so yer wouldn’t know it, an’ I kalen- Inte ef we kin get married next week, It won’t interfere with my spring work hey ?” Amazin Grace sat back and looked the pioture of surpriae. The widow thought she heard the cat in the pantry and dis creetly withdrew. A* the door closed Farmer Van Vleet took two little red hands in bis, and handing forward gave Amazin Grace an awfufimaek. - “That seals the bargain,"he said^but the indignant girl jumped up and ordered him out of the boose. To her astonishment he didn’t budge a step. “Not mutch! I reckin I’ve a right to kiss yer now,” he said boldly—then he stepped to the door and called londly : ‘Mother ! knm here I” The widow must have been conven iently near, for she almost fell into the room at his first word, and he bestowed another sounding smack on her. “It’s all rite,” be said, “mean’ Amazin * Grace is goin’ to be married, and you kin dance at the weddin’.” “But—but the letter,” gasped the girl. “You ain’t understood a word of it," . j "The fact is,” said Farmer Van Vleet, “I ain’t had no eddication to speak of; been too busy grnbbin’ land all my life. I didn’t r&ly read the letter to sense it, hut when I see how you signed it that was enuff for me. I knowed you wouldn’t hev writ that way'to a feller ye weren’t goin’ to D&any. I don’t know ■mchgiboilUlto frntiUmmi Ml" < <. When it was all settle'! that they were to be marrritd next week. Bun day, Farmer Van Vleef rode off, and the two women put away the lap-board and re signed the universal shirt-making busi ness forever. *Td give the world to know what writ to him,” said Amarin Grace. "The world ain’t ynnra tew give,” OOT reeled her mother, piously. BARNWELL. C. H., S. C., THURSDAY, MARCH 20.1884. 12 a Year. T’m sartin sure I told him no,” said hymn Beginning, “Amazing Uraoe, how sweet the edtod"—Was really pretty. Bo thought big, hoiking, shame-faced Van ViHW. xshen he came a-courting her, with his trousers* tacked into cowhide boots slid a coon-skin cep tied down over hie cars. She was the only girl he was afraid of, come At He iNra a fiat Iften sledge hammer and a heart, like ahLd's, He wanted Amarin Grass, and bfefpnldn’t imagine any meson why heriupld not have her. .Wham hf got hot riippie little letter of refusal, written oat with infinite difficulty and spell ad on a new plan of phonetics, be rend tt over and oter, smoked hie cob pipe, reed the letter again, grinned a good bit than folded it revarentiy, and pat It tn the poeket nearest hk heart. ' ' "That’s all rite, my girl,” he chuckled. A couple of months passed sway. One peculiarity of tfane fa that it treats all people alike. It dbee not fly from sUl with often. It spring at tiqsVml Vleet fara t wfaieh ■mat apple end ft my bins- it wee spring at the Widow Pflftftyh mile’ the girl, “but I reckon be was bound to hev me, an’ I duuno ex I’m half scary, cither, now.” i When they were married and Amarin Grace and her mother had gone oht to the new home in the smart new spring- wagon, the bride returned to the subject of the letter. “1 hev .a bnrnin’ cur’oeity to know what I writ,” she said, “cause (blushing prettily) I thought I riffmed you.” “O bo, I gam not,’’said the triumph ant ftnr. “Loft n hen Vleet, here’s the letter. ’JBein’t bat few words. There ain’t no ’tioulsr in’ in them, but ith the signing of them. Do you see that? Them two words would stand in law to mean pl&in yes; there’s no giltin’ around them 1” Amarin Grace and bar mother both rfml at neme—r- — "Mr. Van Vleet: ^ “deer siv—I am sory to Inform you that yoor attenshuns ate in nowise Be- oipperkated. ^ “Yores trewly, "Amazin Gbace Ptlsbctet.” “That fetched me,” said Mr. Van Vleet, looking admiringly f at his new possession. “I doan’t know much, but I reckon I kin tell what a gflrl means when she writes to a feller and signs bet self 'Yuree trewlyr’ ^—Detroit Friz Preta. TRADITION OF El MAHDI. flKNBKAI, HTONB»B l.K<'Tt’RK ON THB FALMR PKOFHKT OP THB HO (JOAN. A t'Brtau AraMaa LacaMI- tS« Ro4 at tka WariS a>4 ChrtoC’s Trt- ■msb—A Wlaka4 Caaaaarar. Lieutenant General C. P..Stone lec tured in New York for the benefit of the Bartholdi Pedestal Fund on “El Mahdi in the Bond an.” In his lecture General Stone said:— It is probable that ten year* ago Mohammed Ahmed, the poor »nA un known Koran reader, far up on the White Nile, little dreamed that his deeds would be discussed to-day in every part of the civilized world. The Soudan was firmly held by a hand of steel, though gloved in velvet—that ef the Khedive IsmaO. Mohammed Ahmed must have been well aware of another Soudan Koran reader who shortly be fore assumed the same title bat was quickly conquered. Mohammed Ahmed proclaimed himself under more favora ble oircuniataneea. In the place of Ismail, who had been driven from Egypt by ftetwo gnat Powers repre senting Ms bondholders, there reigned his eon, Mohammed Tewfik, whose hands were held by England whenever he desired to act vigorously. The weakness of the government favored the appearance of a strong man who, appealing to the Arabic and Islamic sentiment, could unite the people. He came in the presence of Mohammed Ahmed—El Mahdi. What is meant by that name? “Sitting one day in my office in the War . Apartment in Cairo," said the General, “a confidential secretary of the Prime Minister hurriedly entered ynd informed me that a rebellion had broken oat in the Island of Abo, and that a man was calling himself the Mahdi. As military measures became at once nec essary I desired to know the meaning of the word. After consulting a transla tion of the Koran without attaining my object I appljedjo an intelligent Mus sulman, and from him learned that there was nothing in the Koran regard ing this personage, but that tradition maintained that during the last days of this world an Arab false prophet would rise up who would conquer—first, the country occupied by the Arabs, then 1 Aria Minor, and then the rest of the world; then once in possession of power his ruling would be bad: bat short, inss- much as Jesus Christ would then appear on earth, near Jerusalem, and call from their graves the great and good war riors of all times; that on reaching the grave of one such be would salute the ancient with the Islamic salutation, “Sa laam Aleickoom,” whereupon the old ariae^ folly equipped, and join his forces;, that with this invincible army constantly increasing, Christ would march on Mecca, occupy that city and there proclaim the truth of the Is lamic doctrine, with peace and good will to all men. Such being the belief of the Arabs, it is easy to see how dangerous it is to the peace of the world when Mussulmans in all countries bfcoome persuaded that Mohammed Ahmed is really the Mahdi of their traditions. Had he been de feated at the outset he might have been proclaimed a vulgar impostor, far he was unknown outside of the Soudan; bat circninstances favored him- First he obtained a local prestige. Then fol lowed the troubles in Cairo—England end France each striving to create Eu- 1 NEW BANKRUPTCY BILL. Paints C'ha ilia Draft of AeroaC aa Sr tka Va THE LIME-mN CLUB. WAflVAN’ft INPLOKNCB AND CONN 190 TION WITH L1BKKTY AND PUL.IT1CH. The Committee on Bankruptcy ap pointed by the Chamber of Commerce of New York in November have agreed on a report It ia accompanied by the draft of a bankruptcy bill which incorpo rates the moot zeosnt feataum oi Britiah legislation with the Lowell bill ae adopted by the House lari session. The proposed pvooednre differs chiefly in that it enables an honsst debtor to ob tain the protection and relief of the court without being adjudicated a bank rupt. On the presentation of a petition either by the debtor or by a creditor the Court makes a receiving order, ao aa to protect the eftate, and a general meeting of creditors is held, at which the oil rial referee presides. The debtor presents his accounts, and makes an offer. If the creditors by special resolution accept the proposal the matter is adjourned in to court, where any creditor has a right to be heard in opposition. If the offer is reasonable, and no offence under the act can be proved against the debtor, the Coart approves the arrangement, and affixes its seel to the proposal, which thereupon becomes binding on all cred itors. if the requisite majority do not ae oept the offer, or if, on the examination of tbs debtor, it appears that his failure has been brought about by excessive peaaonal expenditure, or by gambling in stocks or produce, or if he has pre ferred his relatives or friends, or any creditor fraudulently, within the mean ing of the act, an adjudication takes place, and ordinary bankruptcy ensues. This procedure, although taken imme diately from the English act of last ses sion, is in great part a reproduction of the French law. There is one important difference; under the French law, every failing debtor is arrested. The proposed law ia restricted to traders only. All agricultural pursuits which begin and end in "the cultivation of the soil and the preparation and vend ing of the produce thereof,’’ are excluded. This restriction, according to the report, is requisite, because “we cannot, as in Great Britain, limit the operation of the law to special or commercial communi ties,” but are compelled by the terms of the Constitution to adopt one uniform law for the whole country. The oom- mittee do not propose to interfere with' the homestead laws, because they consider that “these are, in fact, a con tract between the State and the settlers which the central authority has no right to impeach,” and they add: "We can not consider on what principle of equity a creditor can seize under a flat in bank ruptcy what he cannot touch under an execution at law." The Romance of a Bank Note. The Mmaker* al tke Clak K Opiates la a BeU **d Opea War. Iketr CHECK-KAISERS. Tm k™, an*, good was the reputati<C of tea So in x—r-'j jtoam ago, to increase the ounaumptioo of il The prnftrod extra allowance of ten was aa compensation for a reduced alkflmnoe of grog, and little favor did it find from Jacfc, however graciously it may Juris been regarded by Jus masters. These waa to bn no forcing of ihi adop tion, but unlimited p4£n*slon Wan to be used in order that it might be voluntar ily aooepted. One oepiain fold me that ropean domination. Folio tring these * une<L He laid the matter before the was the open rebellion of Arabi Pacha, when, from April, 1882, to October, no one either in Egypt or Europe thought of Mohammed Ahmed. The shrewd Availing himself of the enoes by which he was surrounded, the manifest weakness of the EhgHah guTermneot, or the inability of the Khe- In the year 1740 one of the directors of the Bank of England, a man of unim peachable honor, lost a bank note for £30,000, under peculiar ciroumstanoea. It seems that he had bought an estate for that sum of money, and for con venience sake obtained a note for that amount As he waa aboat to pat it under lock and key, after he reached home, he was called oat of the room, whereupon, as he thought, he placed it upon the mantle. Upon returning * few minutes later, the note, had disap peared. It could not have been stolen, for no one had entered the room, where upon he concluded that it had been blown into the fire Mid bad bean eon- officers of the bank, and they note for the same amount, he bonds to reimburse the baft if the note should ever be prsesoisd for payment chief took advantage of the situatf^ Thirty yeare after, when hs had long been and hk estate distributed among them, a* eloquently m refuse the evfl, and to choose the good (Aft it Was thq *.»■>.</*w to 'V>n*it1nr it> When ha bad aaid hk say, knowing that Jack’s first feeling wtmid he one of indignation, he said be would not ask tor ia answer then, bat would rpspive it three days after, by which time they would have been aMe to think calmly over the proposal. At the end of three days the ship’s company, nhonring peo- posely to mhahdoTstand the offer, in- timatad, dhroagh a denotation, gratitudefortheohoteewhfah bid dive, he ooeoentraled his foroas, made an ostflsught, aroused hie meases and is now in a commanding position. The Khedive and hk minis ten were prompt in the recognition of the perilous situation, and requested the chief of the army staff to adopt measures to avert the danger, but it waa impossible. Brit ish bondholders were pressing for the ahead thirty payment of their semi-annual coupons and the British government itself was exacting in its desMtndf for -the mepey to Bey the expenses of tire 10,000 British troops constituting the army of occupa tion. It .was a moment when a little re laxation of the pmae strings, the taking on of n tittle more pecuniary responsi bility without aotuntiy expending e penny would hare made the Khedive; hk government and the wisest of the EgypUans the grateful friends of Eng land. The British government allowed (lie opportunity to slip, and it will hard ly return. In oowehnrion General Stone paid a handsome tribute to General Gordon aa n soldier and a man, bat strongly depre cated the act of the English government in compelling him to submit to the dan- of hk mission in going single sad alone to Khartoum. he knew how, to good pasture of e can’t somehow give to idea of the lying going counter for pay ment As the bank could not afford to dishonor the obligation, the money was paid oat and the heirs of the deed man were asked to make good the lorn; this they refused to ip, nor could the baft employ any legal machinery to force them to do sa The person who profited by the matter waa supposed to be a builder, employed to poll down the dead man’s - boose and Mild another on its site, lie. found the thirty-thousand pound note *ia a crevice in the chimney, in which it somehow got lodged after being laid fO the mantelpiece. It must have been kept many yeats, and its presentation to the baft was so arranged that the bnildowbareme axeok sean by n sodden stroke of blind l<&m*.+-I><xnori4? Monthly. fTTom the Detroit Vres Frees. ] • *1 hold hash a letter,” said the Presi dent as the meeting opened, “axin' dis club to report its observenhuns on ds in- flooenoe of do female sex on liberty, poUytieks, art, progress and bisness. Brother Bebee, what do yon know of the inflooence of females on de matter of lib- xstpt 1 * Brother Bebee replied that he had of late years observed a deposition on the part of the female 'sex to do u they pleased, go where they pleased and cany a bundle of liberty tinder each arm day and night. One hundred years ago lib erty waa a persimmon on the highest limb of a tall tree. To-day it was s pumpkin which anybody could roll along the ground. Everybody breathed it, ate it and walked arm-in-arm with it, and the masses could no more be deprived of liberty than bobtailed cows could take the first premium at the State Fair. “Brudder Pickles Smith, what do you know of the inflooence of de female sex on poUytieks?” asked the President. Brother Smith replied that ho knew of several wives in his neighborhood who bossed their husband’s votes. He could also recall three or four oases wherein women had exercised a power ful influence after their husbands got home from a convention. “Brudder Penstock, has yoa noticed any pertiokler inflooence of de female sex on de matter of art?" asked the President. Brother Penstock had. Such a thing as making an old, yellow, fonr-gallon jug a thing of beauty and a parlor ornament would never havs been thought of but for the gentler sex. A man would pass on old tomato can in the back yard a hundred times a day without a second look. A woman would seize upon it at the first opportunity and transform it into a Grecian vase of exquisite beauty. Twenty years ago an omnibus with a landscape on the side would be followed around the street by a crowd. To-day a six-gallon crock, to be need aa an umbrella-holder, with a view of the Yosemite painted all around it in nine different colors, could be drawn all over the city on a handsled without exciting remark. Art had become part of our every day lives. A- stout upman couldn’t even fall down on an icy sorner without displaying more or less genuine talent for the artistic. “Brudder Pullback, has you noticed any par tickler inflooence of women on de matter of progress T' inquired Brother Gardner. Pullback thought he had. Women bad discovered moat of the comets, pro jected the grandest bridges, engineered the greatest tunnels and wrested the most secrets from soirnoe. If it hadn’t been for the progressive ideas of women, stage coaches would yet be running be tween New York and Chicago. Judge Cadaver was asked what in fluence women had on business, and he drew a long breath and replied that if it wasn’t for the female sex the business of the world would drop one-half; one dry goods store in a city could supply all the men, bat the women supported two or three hundred of them. Women’not only maintained business, but estab lished new manufactures. For instance the decoration of female hosiery gave employment to 6,000 persona the jeer round. It was all out of sight and utterly but it circulated milltona of dob lift. Pads, bustles, paints, cosmetic and false hair were of no real service, convenience or ornament, and yet $50,000,000 and the labor of 200,000 peo ple were the annual results. Woman was straight bnsteess. When a wife whose husband earns only $25 per week can keep a carriage, wear $100 bracelets a nd put on a $250 seaJsk In aSOqoe, the man who contended that the female sex bat no financial abilities had better hang up. Pwrtoo* Uted/»r Krmnutny Ink «n4 Oowwl- f*S Fifnm. "Check-raising is getting to be one of the loot arts,” said an old detective, "and as cheeks are prepared pow-a- days they are pretty safe. There are some of the crooked men, however, who know all the tricks of removing ink. I was once curious enough to learn bow it was that they coaid so auccesa- futiy alter a check. Different forgers ate different methods. One successful stock-forger used equal* quantities of lapis cahuninaris, common Bait and rock alum, which he boiled for half an boar m white wine in a new pip kin, or he used a fine sponge ahaped like a pencil, which he dipped in equal quantities of nitre and vitriol distilled. As he passed this point over the ink it came right out Sometimes equal quan tities of sulphur and powdered saltpe ter, both distilled, were used. For a long time the police did not understand what use was made of a little ball that now and then waa found in the possession oi a prisoner. This tamed oat to be made of alkali and auiphrn, and was used for removing ink. It is hard to find an ink that will not dis appear under one plan of treatment or another. I knew a check-raiser who had a small laboratory. He kept bot tles of acids of all sorts and a case of oamel’s-hair brushes. With a small quantity of oxalic or muriatic acid, somewhat diluted, and a camel's-hair pencil he could paint ont any number of ink spots. One or two applications, followed by the use of a blotting-pad, would restore the paper to primitive purity. It requires skill and an ac curate' knowledge of chemicals to use any of these plans so ss not to injure the texture of the paper or discolor it -If the paper is injured it is not so easy to write upon it again, bat, by the use of finely-powdered pounce, rubbed in lightly with the finger and burnished with an ivory folder, the pa- per can be repaired. Common writing ink,..however, ia bast removed by the use of oxygenated muriatic t soul “ But the new styles of check, with the amount cat through the paper with a die, are hard to alter. Here ia a check with a revenue stamp in old-gold color in the center, and broad lines of red ink are djpwn close up to the aaaoant writ ten in. There is another broad line of red ink after the name of the pays. Up in the left-hand earner, where the amount is in figure*, yoa wfll reslEat the figures are also cut through the paper. On ft* reverse aide of the check, just over there figures, is parted a pink ■trip whift brings the oat figure ont ia such reliffi that they cannot be altered without detection. The only way to alter that check fa to taka ont the first written word in th* amount ia the body of the check and the amoontin tire corner, and, after replacing than with the raised anm, to inlay a piece of oheek paper in the place of the eat figure. This inlaying process requires great cue, and only one or two men in this oouatry are able to do it The cot fig- area mart be carefully ont oat by* sharp raaor-like tool, and cat in soft a way that the edges of the opening will be be voted. Than a fresh bit of check- paper must be ahaped to the aim of the opening and fitted in, with its edges also beveled. The edges moat be held to gether with a peels made of flour and rtrained potin aftd carefully pressed. Borne pounce rubbed over the lines will conceal the patch, unless there is a strong light, and then, with the same die that the bankers use, raised figures can be inserted. The work is dslteate, and is not often attempted, as it involves the risk of raining the oheek for the amount for which it ia good.—New York 8m. :——f— am**. .^laBMqprr- » " " "Wirt - THE HUMOROUS PAPERS. vrsuT w* “What yew need, madams," tinguiahed physician to ai invalid, “is outdoor air and particularly walking.” “I know it,” was the aad reply; “bat my husband won’t fha me any to go ftopping.” nnrosAxas msuas, wra “Ain’t yoa tehtared of yourself to fight with * boy so much —titer than yourself? I really can’t understand H,” said a clerical looking gentleman to a big boy who was imposing an a small one. “So yoa can’t understand it?" re torted the young ruffian, impudently. “No, I can’t” “Well, then, why do you meddle with things you don’t understand T— Auatin St/tinffM. a umai. q—snow, *1 notice in tha papers,” said tbs wife of a well-known judge, “that some law yers are adjroeating that judges shoold be clothed In silk gowns." “Yes,” be replied, straightening him self up. “How do yoa think 1 weald look in anew silk gown f” “I hardly know,” said the lady. “Yon ipigbt look well and yoa might not, bat it is about tires that somebody in tha family had a new silk gowa’i^vPAtta- delphia Call KB KJTSW TUB “Yes,” said th* doctor, “yoa prepare yourself for the worst. Yoa cannot live many days. Yoa had batter make your will at onee.” ‘(Make my will f* gasped the stek lawyer. “ Yea,” replied the doctor, gently. “ It Would be wall, I thiqk.” “ No,” the legal man said, shaking bis end. “J will uerer mft* * will. My | family needs what little property I h»e got Philadelphia Evening Call Those Little lUrfis. The Wheat Crop, The Oinoinnati Price made a special examination of the wheat ■looks in the country and publishes the result. nThe report rfhowa the total supply of wheat ft be 175,000,000 bash- el8; to this is added $5,000^)00 brehate in flour in the hoods of dealers, making a total of 210,000,000 bushels for the re maining half of jhe crop year. The esti mated requirements for that tow are : For domestic food, eft, 128,000^000 bushels; for export, including floor, 57,000,000 bUaheh, leaving a surplus of 27.000,000 bushels. This is calculated upon the basis of exports of l$fl 000,00(H bushels this * year, agaiftt 108,000,000 boahek teat year. - Mr. Tslmage. in his sermon recently, illustrated some of his remarks with the following picturesque anecdote: “I have been told that the Cathedral of Mark’s stands in a square in the oen of the City of Venice, and that the clock strikes 12 at noon, all the birds from the city and the regions around aboat the otty fly to the square Mid settle down. It came aboat in thfa wise: A large-hearted woman, passing one noonday across the square, saw some birds shivering in the eold, and ■he scattered some crumbs of bread among than, and so on from year to year, until toe day of her death. In ber will she bequeathed a certain amount of money to keep qp the same pmetier; and now, at toe flint stroke of the bell at noon, the birds begin to oobm there, and when toe clock has jart ■track 12 tha square is covered with not learn to ptey well in a weft, be swapped the fastrsment for a cow, bat th* tetter not giving milk enough to suit hire he killed it far bort. The beef was kept too long before he got a cost oner and has spotted on his hands. Morel: pou t bay a metodsoo.—-PMft CUL 1 Lake Prying Up. The rapid drying np of Tolars Lake, in California, is one of the most re markable geographical changes of this country within historical times. A few years ago the lake was thirty-three miles long by twenty-one miles wide, and now it is bat fifteen miles long pod has an average width of lam than eight miles. This result is attributed largely to human agency. The cutting of timber on the mountains, and more especially the tap ping of the water oooraes by which the lake is replenished, by the boring of artesian wells and appropriating the waters of rivets lor irrigation, make it impoaribte that the lake shoold supply the loss inenrred by evaporation and maintain its former level Two or three dry *omona have doubtless made toe program in this direotibo^ more rapid than it would otherwise hare been, and one or two rainy winters might cause the lake to rise again temporarily.—Alta Cali/omUm. It Might Havs Bssh.—Poor Mr. Villard ! If he had even the empty bot tles that his distinguished gas _ emptied test summer on the trip to j Mff** - *** ho ooald sell them to a juft —Peck'a&m. , Cuba . owes $80,000,000, and oo friendly bankrupt law there for fc* to FLAirr AXIOM A little minA. in er i lift a boy Ubin’ alone in er |_ Dar’s two men what yer kain argy wid ’boat wimmin. One what’s Axin’ ter git msqded an’ on* wbui’a booh married for some time. When I sees a man dal alios wants ter pray I somehow kata’ he*p thinktn* flat befa done solhin’ < ‘ ter wipe out. had a ’aodse far bate’ proud, for ef h* wfll only tom tar de riapkai ia aator’It oon’t take five mines’ rtody ter ’Tteer him dot he’s er fool Good clothes — *H right, young—, f alius — ’speoted, bat fool yer. It ain’t de ghttes de knits oat, far a oetimas has do kooaert edg*.-Ar- kemeenp Traveler. TT T Tamm) m older An old hte— Attached tool ash-wagon was teft standing ha ] #h«et Wert, yesterday, ing of a load of eoal tke run. When the the spot where he had teft hisi informed him of what had < “Ban away? Do ran away?” “Yea, sir.” “ Did he strike Into a gallop f" “He did.” “ And people were exerted f “ Yea, sir. There was quite a crowd around." “ And‘after he toraad the ootnerha Jbrfte the wagon, yea say r “Smashed it all to pieces, sir.” “ Well, by George! I was off trying to find some one wbo*d ghrs mo too dol lars for that hors*, but now I won’! taka a cent km than twenty-five doUsoal rar Actually struck a gallop and mu aesy, eh? I behere I won’t seO abort of thirty dollars V—Detroit Free Preee. a Muaoama Axonoox. dna day three or foar wafts ago a re tail grocer over fat Jersey oat dawn with his eterk a— oveniag, andsrtd t “James, I owe Now York houses over $8,000." "Yes, rir.” “We have $2,000 ia cash in tha mfe, the stock is all run down, sad thfa would be the time to fail in ~ "ir- •at ••Bailwint n / /' -1-TT ~ ■