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> 0 THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 11, 1896 t IN CONCHA PAS8. Wind of tho west, Wind of tho wccttern plains, Wind of tht' gray ffirt hilU, Wind of l ho winding tnill.t— Blow pure. Mow uoft, Mow sweet Across tho land 1 love. Soft is the wind of the west, And cool and drenched In odors lily sweet. And soaked in wild perfuma I That drips l Proin dejiv drenched lips Of rows as they Kway To mid fro . i In tho soft embrace 1 *", Of the passionate Wind of tho west. Wind of the west. Wind of the’wailing harps, i Of gross and grain, * i . Wind of odors subtly blent VWthin^bo Occident. Wind of tho wanton plains, Wind of the winged clouds, Wind of the grassy sea. Blow pure, blow Soft, blow sweet Across tho Concha pass, , And kiss tho wild blooms On her grave. —John N. Hilliard in Indianapolis Journal ! THE GONDOLIER. ' Zcfiriiio wad not tho largest gomloliei in Venice, nor the handsomest; noithei was ho ever guilty of winning a prize in tho snndolo races, but ho was not a bit surprised when tho very blond si- guoriuu from America picked him out from the crowd of gondoliers who were bumping their boats against each other, calling ono another pigs and such like fanciful names under their breaths, and shouting to the young lady who stood, half amazed, half disgusted, on tho ho tel steps. Zeilrino was neat as a pin, young and good looking. Ho neither scowled at his fellows nor pushed his boat far into the crowd. Rather did he stand proudly on the high stern with the air of a man of genllc blood whom fate had reduced to a meager, but not dishonorable, trade. Yet that was not the reason of his calm ness and tho quiet certainty that she would select him to bo her gondolier during her stay in Venice. This calm certainty was begotten of a dream into which lie had not ventured far in respect to its interpretation,* but tho little ho had seen was marvelous. Tha dream bad been long, but certain things stood out in his memory. At first ho thought that he. tho most temperate of men, was drinking a very sweet liquid from a cup of gold, and became intoxi cated thereby; that meant some great person would love and enrich him. Then a face nunoared-.^Vv hrmi^iL ^ with blomljrff abotlt in a most eup£ ing v;ay>tf, a t , ue ant joy and S U vairwalkiug along _ n *J^‘ad with tho owner of that face woman—and he had a sword fn his hand; that was a sign of success. Therefore, Zofirino was not at all sur prised when his white lady came trip ping down the steps quite unattended and entered the gondola as coolly ns she might a cab. In tho first place foreigners buvo a way of doing just what they please, taking no account whatever of fho social rules of tho Venetian upper class; second, Zefirino had heard Vene tian ladies diocuss American girls a hun dred limes. Ho learned that they had a fragile beauty which disappeared early; ivero very bold and impudent, stared at men as you might at a dog, but could defend themselves; finally, they and their race were barbarians, and that was all about it. Zefirino was a fine sight as with nerv ous strokes, unheeding tho sarcasms showered about him in tho Venetian dia lect by his two less fortunate comrades, he swept tbo gondola away from the ho tel steps, and, putting his best work on tho forcola, where the sweep swung Hghtly but firmly, shot up tho Grand canal. He knew that this was the first time tho fair stranger had cvea^njoyed the exquisite quiet and steady onward rush of a Venetian boat, for he was only too well awaro that she had come late the night before on ono of the steam launches from tho station. Not a word had the rose leaf blond ut tered so far. Sho seemed to be stupefied hy tlw beauty of Venice—or bored be yond making a motion—and when the dark arch of the Rialto was passed and tho lovely palaces on the upper stretch brought no sign from her mute face, Zefirino was a littlo angry, fie popped rowing, leaned forward, and inquired- ‘‘Command?" - . * No; that did not work, either. The head in u perfect bonnet bent gracious ly, r.ud one gloved band was raided with as much ease as Queen Margherita her self might have displayed. Zefirino seized his oars and set to wondering how ^he could mako her say even a wordl perhaps sho knew as little Italian as ho English. What was his surprise, #heu, to hear her call out to stop as they reared a broad boat full of vegetables And fruit whichovas being slowly poled along, and in very slowly spoken but not impossible Italian negotiate for some oranges and pomegranates. It was out of all order so to do. Bread and wa-. ,ter for a week would have been the por tion of a signoriua of one of the real old families who dared to do such a thing. And then tbo sweet lips uttered ‘‘Zeflri- uo, ” and the little hand held out of the folso window a couple of crauges to the gondolier! i He ran forward a few steps and ku p’ on one knee to receive them, mattering to himself blessings by all tbo saints, .but was too agitated to say much. Such a glance as she gave him—such a mis chievous, bewildering glance 1 As if she itaw right through his body and knew that, Ids heart thumping; The rest ‘of the giro, through canals great and small, back to tho hotel was as much a dream as that on which his hopes were built. Ho hardly cumo to himself until he was lying cn his buck on tho quay, .trying to think it all over. I The uigucriua, bless her little gra cious head, with thu prettiest bad ac- .ceut in the - world, had ordered Zefirino to wait her pleasure lhaVevening just .before moonrise. so that she might be taken on to thu lagoon opposift*"' JPm/./a, now ban Giorgio, and see donblo effect of the light on the square and the moon on the wave. True to the instant, ns the boat touched the steps tho white lady appeared. Would she have gone had she known what madness was boiling in tho young gondolier? As tho first hint of the moon tipped the horizon her voico came quietly, but not to bo gainsaid,‘‘Sing, Zefirino!” The poor boy was n very nightingale that night, with his breast against the thorn of lovt. Ah ho continued it seemed as absurd and hopeless as possible that he should i ver win the woman before him. Therefore it was that bis melancholy became wonderfully mingled with tri umph, and that when he could sing no more, tho lady was interested enough in the singer to ask him something about himself. bhe did not understand all ho said, but the dream, tbo way she mixed up in it, struck her fancy immensely, and perhaps alarmed her a little to boot. Feeling thus, sho wrote down, with out thinking, lumbers on the edge of tho boat and gazed at them in tho brilliant moonlight. Strange! She was just 1,8, and two of the other numbers wore just tho ages of the two persons who stood nearest to her in life! It was a shock. Perhaps there was something in it ‘‘Zefirino, buy and 18 and 88.” • #•••* Tho white lady was roused from the delicious reverie in which moonlight in Venice steeps one. Boats came down the canal in a knot, from which rose tbo twanging of guitars and formed a background for two cries. One was ‘‘Zefirino,” tho other “La donna biauca. ” That was what Zefirino had called her, and sho had been amused thereat. But the boats stopped at tho hotel, and beforo tho.porters could hold them in a parley, the revelers had pick ed Zefirino up and carried him bodily on to the terrace to render thanks to tho white lady, who had counseled him so well. For poor Zefirino, when tho strain gave way, must needs blab of her to whom ho firmly believed his fortune was duo. Ah the excited mou rushed up a tall figure rose in a leisurely way from a chair, and taking tho white lady’s arm in his faced tho group with no very amiable countenance. “Who aro those insolent beggars, my dear?” “Hnsb,” said the white lady, putting her hand over his month. “This is my gondolier, Zefirino, whom I ndvieei buy a certain number in he has won, I see. y ° way they spend their ffmey!” “Oh, dear, you old goose, will yon never stop being so practical? They aro like children, don’t you see?” Zefirino was white end trembling, but be plucked up courage to thank his saint, his liberator, his patronMS, hi# goddess, for having brought him luck end jnado him a rich man. Then he stopped and said tupidly: “And to your zio, illustrious white lady, I”— The white lady burst out laughing and said in a low tone: “George, do you hear? Ho takes you for my uncle.” “Humph 1 I see nothing childlike in that I” “Zefirino, this gentleman is my hus band, and his ago is one of the numbers I cbo.:e frem the five yon selected. ” “Marito!” cried Zefirino, with a quaver that let all tho persons present into a secret ho would have done better to bury deep in his breast. One or two began to feel the awkwardness of the whole proceeding, and by a happy di version caused the whole party to retreat under a volley of thanks and compli ments. On the hotel steps Zefirino was liko a dazed man, “After all, ’ ’ ho muttered, “ho is not so young—he.may die. ”—Gentlewoman, A Story of Charles O'Conor. At tho closing of the St. Nicholas ho- tol in 1884, in answer to a question by the writer how ho succeeded in saving tbo life of Colonel Loriug in the mem orable triuf for murder committed at that hotel, Charles O’Conor gave tho following account: After the trial had proceeded for some time tho court was informed by the jury that one of their number was a relative of the prisoner. The court adjourned trial for consultation on a questioq so serious. Mr. O’Conor, as prisoner’s ooun- * sel, consented to the withdrawal of the juror and Btipulatedlo proceed with 11 jurors. Tjbp point was doubted, hut on consent of the ifl&fict attorney tho trial proceeded with 11 jurors, bo only wit ness to the killing was the \>potblac£, who testified that cn some disturbance being m^do by Graham in throwing out his boots ttyi prisoner angrily came from bis room .and, altercation ensu ing, with bia.flwoxd cane stabbed Graham and worked about jUv? weapon when it his body, and wituesn shortly infoirine$ prisoner that Graham was dead. “What did be say when you told bin* this?” Answer—No. O’Conor—Is that the answer of one who intended to kill? Is it not the an swer you would make if informed a friend you had just seen was dead? Seeing the jury somewhat impressed by this view and the change appearing in their faces, he so pressed the point that they found a verdict of manslaugh ter. Tho court imjpoaed the heaviest pen alty—impriaorineut for seven years,— W. 'Watson in North Aiberican Review. STICKY FLY PAPER. rintcheiy la War. In one of Du Guosclin’s victories so many English were taken captive that even the humblest soldier among the French Imd^^or more prisoners. Tho victors, hownR:, fell to quarreling, and ill feeling becoming ri(e in the Trench army in consequence of these quarrels over tho prisoners Du Guosclin ordered all tho captives to be butchered, and the brutal order was carried out. Kalned. “You are fagged out. You must give up nil headwork. ” “Why, that spells ruin! I’m a hair dresser. ”—Lo Petit Provencal Most of tbo World's Supply Manufactured In Secret In a Michtcan Town. The world’s supply of sticky fly paper comes from Grand Rapids, Mich. There are three or four other small factories scattered about tho country, but none of them makes enough to cat much of a figure in the market. The groat producer is tho single factory in this city, a big concern employing 400 to 000 hands all the year round, and its product is ship ped to every land. Tho factory is surrounded by a high board picket fence,* and guards are on watch day and night to kocp out intrn- der.i. The best friends of tho proprietors meet with as cold a receutiou when the matter of going into tho^ictory is men tioned as any stranger. Tbo sticky prep aration with which it is expected tho flies will form entangling alliances is prepared by tho proprietors personally, and they alone know tho exact formula. The preparation is not patented or copyrighted, as to gain the protection of tho government it would bo necessary to reveal the materials that go into it and thus make the formula known to the world and give trade pirates a chance to operate. Tho secret is protected by not letting it out, aud it has been kept suc cessfully for nearly 20 years. Tho ma chinery used in the factory is guarded in tho same manner against infringe ment instead of being patented. Most of the machinery was designed for the spe cial purpose to which it is put, and tho four brothers engaged in tho business made tho designs for it themsolvos aud had different parts of it constructed at different machine shops. The fly paper factory occupies four largo two story brick buildings, aud tho employees in one department aro not allowed under any circumstances to visit any other de partment. Nono but trustworthy men is employed, and, onco engaged, they have substantially a life job. But oven tho most trusted is not allowed to know more than ono branch of the business. Tbo fly paper is made by spreading certain balsams and gums on a sheet of sized mnnilla paper. Tho sheet has a narrow border of wax to prevent the sticky stuff from oozing out. Tbo border of wax is put on, the stiqky preparation is spread, and tho sheet is folded ready for inspection and shipni^"^" e m .“ chine, and thiso,... n capacity J^ii>tfr507000 sheets a daj*. From tbo machine tho sheets pass to inspectors, who see that tho stuff is of tho right consistency, and then to tho packers, to be pat into hose# for shipment. Tho pa per goes to Africa, Asia, Europe, Aus tralia and Sooth America, besides all parrs of this country. The manufacturers of tbo sticky paper began business about 20 years ngo on a small scale, occupying a lean to in con nection with a suburban drug store which the brothers had established as a branch of their city business. Quo of the brothers carried on the fly paper manufacturing us a Hide jssne, and at first only enough was manufactured to supply a limited local demand. The do- maud gradually grew, and the factory is now one of tbo big institutions of the city, and tbo four brothers all devote to it their entire time.—New York £nn. —^ Jod~« Deuley. Chief Justice Mercer Beasley of Now Jersey, now an octogenarian, has eat on tho bench for nearly 40 years. “Despite this advanced age,” says the Philadel phia Record, “his intellect is as bright as ever and his sonse of humor as keen as it was 50 yoars ago. His associates on tbo supreme bench tell an anecdote which occurred during the last term of court. A certain young lawyer, whose idea of forensio strength consisted in tho use of extraordinary law terms, without regard to fitness, handed the chief justjeo a copy of bis brief. After glancing at it tbg judge interrupted the fledgling by remarking, -‘^ir. Blank, what particular meaning did yoq jitfacl. to this sentence when you yrrqtq jt?’ “The young lawyer attempted 1° ex plain, and was finally forced fq admit that he had forgotten thu significance of that particular sentence. Thereupon the old chief dryly remarked: ‘ You remind me of a philosopher who, years after having wri'ieu a certain book, was asked to oxin a passage. After study ing awhile he said: “Young man, when that passage was written, just two knpw its meaning. Ono was Almighty God aud the other myself. Now only ono knows tbo meaning—that one is Almighty God.”’ ” The Green Member. Thero is a now Irish member of par- Ugment from tbo rural districts whose artlessVjpplicity Is the theme of many stories in the {/uddgrpaperg. The first -time he heard tho tiluu hoqqred cry of the messengers, “Who goes bamg?” de noting tho termination of a sitting, be exclaimed in astonishment to a brother Colt: .“Well, did vou over see such im pudence as'that) 'What business is it of those follows wfyq goes homo?” But he eclipsed this perfurmancQ' when ho alighted on tbo forma) unuouucemont of the severance of Mr. Scxton’g connection with tbo boose, which was pnlbjahcd in the customary form—namely, that tho gentleman in question had been appoint ed steward and bailiff of one of her maj esty's manors. Tho iuuooent Hibernian pointed this oat with great concern and gravity to a brother member, saying, “Who’d have thought that Tom Sexton would have sunk so low as to take a bil let like that and from a Tory govern ment too?”—London CoiTOHpoudout. A Breeij Prnpsy. The Marysville (Mo.) Tribune ap pears to bo a breezy not to say cyclonic paper. It is engaged in writing up tho popular clergymen of the locality, aud tho way in which it does it may be in ferred from the following paragraph in a recent sketch: “Preacher McKinney of Hopkins is what the sports call a ‘craokerjuck. ’ He If jka liko a sport him self—of the tin born variety. He dresaea like a follower of the races, uses tobac co, swears oocash uully, invents perpet ual motion luaol.incs, aud mokes an oo- casltiflul bluff a' practicing law.” • A Box Cnr. It is probable that in spito of fho fact that one-twentieth of tho population of this country is dependent to a largo ex tent upon railways for iho money it has to spend but very few people know much about tho cost of railway transportation. For instance, there aro few business men who can say wbat tho cost of on or dinary box car is or how much it costs its owner a year. Ah a matter cf fact such a car costs about $500. The wear aud tear which has to be repaired costs on an average about $20 a year. Th av erage life is 13 years, and at (ho ci l of this timo tho car will bo worth ai out $80 for scrap, so tho annual cost for re newal, or Iho annual sinking fund, will be about $25. Tho railway owning iho car has to maintain shops to repair its rolling stock and that of other roads, aud it is probably about correct to esii- mate tbo wear and tear of tools while repairing the car at $4. It has general ly been the custom to add 10 per cent to bills for work done for outside parties as compensation for the use of tools, or n little more than the estimate of $4 rondo above. Taxes will add another $4 to tho annual cost of a car, and interest at. 0 per cent adds $30 more. Hence it will bo seen than tho annual cost of a box car to tho owner is about $83. If the car is assumed to bo iu tho shop 80 days, it will bo in service 835 days, aud its cost per day of service is nearly 25 cents. A flat or gondola car costs about $450 orig inally, and a similar series of estimates will show that its annual cost is about $75, and its daily cost about 22.4 cents for tho time it is out of tho shops.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. _ Eastern Africa. Professor Angelo Heilpriu, tho dis tinguished physicist, indorses the state ment made by Dr. Gregory of the Brit ish museum that thero exists in eastern Africa, occupying a very considerable portion of its extent, a narrow and in places a very deep trough, in which tho great lakes timl many of their tributaries aro located, and which, with a more or less open and depressed lowland, com municates with tho basin of t^i and yet further with the_l. n ,i Pea a 7Id to the vaB^yJordan—that is, ac- cor - ( ii^7oI)r. Gregory, (hero runs from jVbanou, aud then almost to tho cape, a deep and comparatively narrow valley, margined by almost vertical sides, aud occupied either by tho son, by salt steppes and old lake basins, and\y a series cf over 20 lakes, of which only one has an outlet to the sea—a condition of things absolutely unlike anything on tho sur face cf tho earth; indeed, tho presence of such a rift, for this it appears to bo, can only bo compared with tho long limar fifts which have so long puzzled astronomers. To Professor Knees, the eminent geologist of Vienna, is attrib uted the first demonstration that over large areas cf tho party’s surface thp crust has been steadily braking through fu tho direction of the earth’s center; and that tho crust has been torn pm} rifted throughout ail timo by the sub* sidences pf earth blocks, and bo, many yoars nyo, poiptcij oqt tho probable cx- istenco of this vast Afro Asiatic trough. Tba Itrvrard of Merit. One of tho institutions of Copibo Florey was a fmndsoma china bowl half filled with colored wgfeto, such jts vyero then in general use for closing letters, and placed in the center of Sydney Smith’s huge writing table, just behind • “presentation" inkstand of massive silver, which he spoke of ns bis ‘^funnt of inspiration.” On the evening after our arrival at the rectory, when bedtime bud sounded for me, and I went up to tbe dear old man to bid him good night, ho took mo between his knees, drew tho bowl toward him, aud picking out a white wafer pressed it hard upon my forehead, saying: “While you stay with us, in this wise every night I shall sig nalize your conduct throughout the day. Absolutely irreproachable behavior will bu rewarded to a white wafer. Any jrivial misdemeanor will bo gently hint’- pd at by a colored wafer. *& black'wafer will mean that yon have done something really wrong and that I am seriously displeased with you. flow go to bed, dear child, sleep well, and if yog imist dream, let it bo of white wafers. "Men, Cities and Events,” by Beatfy Kingston. -«* mm v~m ' vm* "t m "i- 1 . ■». ? Trine* Napoleon, Prince Napoleon in J870 was some thing of a prophet. When he heard of tho emperor's declaration of war, ho hurried to St. Cloud aud had a stormy interview with the emperor. He didn’t hesitate to say, “It is tho emperor who has brought this upon us, ” aud tho em poror, while offended at bis frankness, admitted that “your presentiments per haps correspond With mine. ” Then the pfiggg pred his last shot and showed that though bn wight go astray in many things, knew of th# wc;‘k? 10tiS nf France and the strength of Germany. Ho turned on his heel and, with that ^ittoruess which ho didn’t hesitate to exhibit when occasion required, said: .“Soho jt, so to iti Let -Ufr, however, jnakc haato to pack our possessions, fojr W9 arq already beat eg. r ’ And so tho ro se R proved,-W-Now York Herald. Wbat He Needs, “What I need,“said tho statesman ig speaking of his work in Wnshiugtou, “is a good private secretary to look aft er my correspondence, so that I can give more time to affairs in the house. ’’ “What you need, “ returned bis con stituent earnestly, “is a real good man to edit yogt speechdfr while you attend to yogjr correspond., -'a. It would bo foolish to have your n- 'ts more con cise and better writteg than your pub lic addresses. “—Chicago Post, —— y ■ — — Telegraphing. An expert telegrapher says, “Between New York aud Philadelphia, over n copper wiro weighing 800 pounds to the mile, 8,000 words per minute can be recorded, and with a copper wire of 850 pounds to the mile 1,000 words per minuto can be carried from Now York to Chicaga ” SERVANTS’ BALL IN PARIS. A Splendid A Shir In Which Six Thousand Bom,-stirs Are Interested. One cf tho great balla of Paris is that of th5 so called “Dal dcs Gena do Mai- son” nt the Kalla Wagrara, which has just been held. Tho “Gens do Maison" aro an association comprising some fl,UQ0 cf tho superior servants, tho cream, iu fact, aud iho aristocracy of tho 150,- 000 domestics employed to wait upon the well (“• do citizens cf Paris. Tbo anion i.® rich and eclectic, in so far as it will permit no servant to retain his er her name on its rolls who bus been guilty of disgraceful conduct. Tho president ia n M. Picard, a butler, of imposing presence-, who, with a bread, bin a sash of oCke crossing bis capacious white waistcoat, as tho rib bon o/ the Legion cf Honor crosses that of President Fauro, received tbo goutts at tbe ball with just ea much dignity and stateliness as if he were the chief niugiefrato of tho republic iu parson. The demeanor of tbo guesta was irre proachable, and tbo attire of both men and women compared favorably with that cf tho people present at the muni cipal ball a conplo of days previously. Tho men were ju fullcveniug dress,whi.’o the magnificent jewels that adorned the necks, tho arms and tho coiffures of many cf tho women gave evidence cf tbo fact that their mistresses had allowed them for tho occasion free access to their caskets. These gems, however, and tho costly laces may bo said to havo constituted tbo sum total of tbo borrowed plumes, for it was manifest from tbo perfect fit of the gowns that they had been mado for their wearers. This is by no means surprising when it is borne iu mied that to tho lady’s maids, tho valets, tho but lers and tbe private coachmen in Paris this Bui dcs Goes do Maison constitutes tho principal social event and festival of tbe cJitiro year, tho ono for which they reserve nil their finery and all their i economics as well an their bert manners. M;;-icrs and niistro res seem to take i pleas a: o in helping tbo members of their I household to cut a good figure < u - 1 this ceres.on, and many u lady’a maitk having had tbo fiuiiii- ing touches givT»TSA^J;cr toilet and I lie jewels fastened into bcr'^lhirT around her threat and wrists aud into her ears by tho hands cf tier own mistress. 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