Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Rosy. cheeks, blue eyes, auhur n hair, a plump form, faultless teeth that gleamed when she laughed-that was Iosie Fenn. A tall, muscular, dark featured young man, with bristling mustache, black eyes, and brown hair-that was :Benjamin Fales. Nobody could make a popgun or a "hummer" quite so well as en--Uncle Ben, we boys used to call him. iosie was only our hired girl, and Ben drove a truck for a dry goods house, but the same cupid that shoots his arrows on Fifth avenue had aimed his missiles at Ben and mayhap at Rosle. There was no mistaking that Ben was in love with her. I hid b. hind the kitchea door-boylike, and saw him take her shrinking hand and . heard him tall her how he worshipped the ground she walked. on. I could nor, then understand why she tossed her head and told Ben that he was a fool, and that he hadn't money enough to keep a mouse, let alone sup port a wife. Then she ran away and ren' strode off to his work looking ter riblv sad. And what did Rosio do but rush into the sitting-room, throw her self face downward on the old hair cloth sofa and. sob as if her heart- was breaking. 1 tried to comfort her,. for she thought much of me; but I felt some. how that I had blundered when she sprang up, her blue eyes all wet ? ith tears, seized my arm and said: "So you played eaves-dropper, did you. If you ever tell Ben-that I cried I will box your ears. 'The very next e. ening as Rosle was bustling about the house there' came a knock at the door, and who should come in but Bob Fallon. I was young, but I knew 'enough to realize that Bob was in love with Rosie just as Ben was. I diidn't like Bob, but I envied him. He was a locomotive engineer and once he took me aboard his engine and let me ride with him from the sta tion to the round house. How insig nifcant poor ien, driving a truck, ap peared to Bob running an engine. And yet I loved Ben and hated Bob. I almost hatel Rosie, because she smiled ~on Bob while she repelldd Ben. B len cams to my mother and poured the story of his woe into her sympa.. 'thetic ears, hut she only shook her head and said: "You must never think ~of marrying Rosie." He went away sorrowful, but in a few days he re turned to m~y mother, his honest face radiant with pleasure. lHe had so 'cured a place as firem'm on the road whiere Bob ran, and had been premised a place as engineer as seen as lhe had had the necessary experience on the sine. It wasn't long before Bon, who somnehow had influence with the comn zany, caime to tell us that he had been end nengineer. Rlosie was present, ibut she didn't seem to hail his good fortune with any interest. Bob came un, glowered at Ben, and sat downt mear Rosie. She smiled on him, list ~ened intently to the stories of his rail 'oad experiences; and lien finally left Te house looking very disconsolate. -It was a psoud day for me when I 'stood at the depot and saw lien board ite great engine of which he was rmas iter, pull its shining lever and send it ''flying over the rails. lien wasn't a learned man, but it was as good a 'novel to hear 1im afterward tell his sensations when for the first time lie 'open.ed the throttle-valve and felt the 'reat machine nioving at his will. Poor Bent Not a month had gone 'when lie came to our house utterly -crestfallen, Hie had lost his situation. 'The journals of his engine had been 'ruined on one of his trips and the mas -ter mechanic had discharged him for elesness. "Yet I know I oiled all :Me bearings carefully," said Ben. "I - can't understand how it happened." Rosie tossed her head higher than ever 'when she heard of Den's ill-fortune adgave him not a word of comfort. Bncalled mymother out of the room 'and begged her to inte'rcedo with Rosie in his behalf. "Ben," said mother, "I mm tell you the ;truth. [osie will becom a lunatic. Her mother was one befor her. She realizes her fate. Yo wouldn't have a nyaniao for a wife would you?" What did Ben say but declare tha he would not believe that RLosie wa threatened with insanity. It was long time before we saw him, and thei he came to' tell us that he had beel given a job as fireman on B3ob Faillon' engine. Bob had ceased to come t our house and I suspect he had learnec the sad story of Rtosie's impending fate She grew pale and sad, and no on heard ter laugh and sing as she use to do. I grow almost afraid of her. One day came a messenger for Bosi with the words, "Your father is dying come home at once," A week passed ant Rosie returned dressed in black, whiol became her well. Strange to say, sh looked almost joyful, and her first ac was to whisper something to m mother which made her look happ and exclaim: "You don't say so! No1 you and Ben -..." "Hushl" said Rosle, as the blishe mantled her cheeks. She hurried awa; to get supper, and while she was at he work and I was loitering on the fron door steps newsboys came along shout ing, "Extra! All about the great ral road accident!" Mother purchased a paper, cast he eyes over it, and then ran to the kitchen, threw her arms about Rosie and began to cry. "Dear child. Bei is dying! is all she could say. Rosali shted no tears. . Her face blanched She, ran for her hat and wrap an asked. "Where is lie?" "At the hospital," answered mother "but you should not go there alone.' At this mother put on her shawl an the two wvent out to see poor Beni There was no supper for us .that night to be sure. I went with them, and i seemed an age that we had to wait i1 the hospital oflce. A brakeman wli ha'l been on the wrecked train was there and le told us how it happened. Th engino had jumped the track, topplee over on its side, and buil3d Ben an Bob beneath the ruins. When mei came to release him, he said: "Ge Bob out first; he'sr hurt woruo -than- 1' As soon as they could they remove( Bob from under the wreckage and lait him all mangled and bloody beside the track, and then Ben was taken out Bob's face had grown ashy and hig eyes were glazed as the train hand bent over him and heard this: "Tell Ben to forgive. I was the cause of his losing his place as engi n3er. I put emery dust in the oil cat of his engine. That's why the journali ground out. I was jealous of him Tell the master mechanic." Before the train reached the city Bob was dead; and there seemed to b, little life left in Ben, But he ralied and when we finally reached his bad, side he had regained consciousness While the house physician was telling my mother that lie would live, but tha he might be a cripple for life, Rosl was on her knees at his side, and smoothing his pale btrow. "Dear Ben," said she. "What is it, Rosie?" lie murmured. "You must get well for my sake." "But you said you would nove: marry." 'That was before I knew, dear, ex claimed Rosie. "I supposed I wa doomed to be crazy like my mother-: no, not my mother, but the womat who made ine believe I was lher child Father died last week, and just befori lie breathed his last he told me thti truth. I was an adopted child an< there Is no crazy blood in my vein' Oh, Ben, I am so happy, or I wouilt be if you were well." There wasn't much strength left ii -Ben's arm, but it managed to sten around Rtosie's shoulder, and even tht digniied doctor looked not at al shocked when her lips sought those o honest Ben.. Ben lived and--well, while I an writting this in RIosie's sitting room sh is at the window of her cottage tha looks out on the railroad track, "Bien' tramn is late" says she. "No it isn'tr Mrs. Bien,'' I exclaimed "Go and got his supper." Just then there Is a roar and I whistle-Ben always gives a peculia wvhistlo as he passes the cottage-anm then the express rushes by, and Wi catch a glimp3o of Engineer lien at tha window. "Bien is4 never late." I say, and Rosie, as shte runs out into the kitchei to get his usual meal, murmurs "Dear lien!" with great emphasis o1 the word "dear," --It may comfort some American ti learn that the queen's railway coach doesn't begin to compare in luxurious ness with our American palace car, ii which one can ride all day for 62. Tb! ought to make a fellow more conten to ride on an accommodation tan. NEW FASHIONS IN DTNEXtS. Now Wrinkles of tho Parisian Taitio -Lots of Lifo and Alivajs Music. Among accepted novelties must be s metioned the now general fashion of much silver bric-a-brao upon the tables. To each guest a tiny silver salt=cellar, of a different shape to each cover. 9 This is in the shape of a marmite, this of a saucepan, that of -a shell. Also at small familiar dinners to each guest is a little butter dish, also- of silver, 'in ia fanciful shape, and a tiny knife there i to-an excellent addition to the table when oysters are served, and, p'r6tty o withal, also appetizing with the io ; spangled pat of yallow butter in the I silver shell. Still at the diner intima, in front of the host : the mustard pot, y the popper mill. Yonder a silver pickle b Jar. The tablo should resemble a y children's feast. -Liliputian trifles e everywhere. Candles are much' used r now, with tinted shades, in* sliver can diesticks. 3 At grand dinner parties the most r luxury possible is the.Qrdei of the day. It Is in these lean. years a matter of b serious consideratioi .the giving of a fashionable dinner party, the expenses - being enormous. Including wines. flowers and the indispensable orchestra, r it is safe to assert that a fashionable dinner of twenty or thirty covers in a good house costs the entertainers a i minimum of $20 a head. Candelabra of silver or gold are much used. It is the object to have as much light as pos 1 sible. Rare and recherche flowers and fruits are sought for at no mgtter what expense. It is indifferent whether the flowers be beautiful or -the fruit of pleasant savor. provided they be costly and unique. Hors d'ouvres are - now almost in. t variably served in the Russian way. 2o dinner begins well nowadays which is > not proceeded by caviar, smoked salmon and Russian cordials, The host must also play the costly role' of Monte t Cristo, and there must be at leist one I unique and rare dish on t,e menu-a i storlet, a bustard, a culssot of bear, a b rotide cerf. Fole-aras should bo e Vi! S-unnos'-iuo ed%iW rIYfllesvn a I large block or in rounde on a pyrAmid i of illuminated ice. The ice Is white or i tinted an choix, and is of beautiful effect. As to the menu cards, no present novelties are to be noticed. At good houses the menu is printed on rough edged paper, the guest's name being written in illuminated text 'at' the rightihand corner. In the Important matter of decorations a novelty exists in the garlands looping from the cen tral chandelier round the candelabra. The garlands should be made of green ery, with costly blooms, and tied with bows of various colored silks at i: tervals. To complete this style of do coration a large epergne, full of grow ing flowers, should be placed before the hostess. The "uniquo" style is to place one most costly flower before i each guest, each flower to be different cf its kind, and each to be placed in a tinlque and costly bouquetlere. At one bouce the sole decoration was a sinirle orchid of priceless value in a little Venetian glass standing in the centre of the table. FR'1OM JAPAN TO EGYPT. / nloturn of Three Mem bers of' the Garre,tt Par't-y--On.e a Phil. adl(Ophilan. Mesers, Marshall Thomas and C. Crawford, of Baltimore, and Mr.. , R. Mackenzie, of Philadelphia,9 hr~ied home on Sunday evening. Thy la:me from Japan, where they left M, and Mrs. Robert Gairett and their arl,y. IThese gentlemen all look Wel~ and 3 were enthusiastic about thmeit trip. From the time they left San P -aicisco till their return they were royally re ceived and entertained. The whole voyage from San fran cisco to Japan took twentyay..t . 5 Mr. Garrett was not seaick some ethers were. At Yok -were heartily welcomed, anda 'ifter their arrival Dr.IC United States navy, gave tht i at the club. From there tlo e Tokio. HIe obtained peI uh I the Mikado to show the ~i i vate gronnds. Those groud~ a beautifn). An idea of the1l bo had from the fact thathe I vato race track on them. of the gentlemen were po club at Tokio. This club w ', a paliace,owned by the Japano ment. It was given by the g eft for a club, where the offliaj1nc1the higher classes could meat a social Intercourse with foei the club the Americans were iA uced to Vlcomto Machuldiew wy~leq position something like that berlain to the Mika,. Tm.VI~t enlertat P the party at a ,apan ,nner. lwas givei t a pr1iA4 cafe ai t he club.. regutlar _ s1n1r t in pa nes e fled before entering tie difng-h ll to take 'o> hl a .Te,.x e- thel>r} selves Gh ug i b a11Qsb+foie 'them.: rety'Ja gilatt A them. il;,~;ia bin U>oleu an sla cooked i .all. %y$ *eresetbefbr;thein, Tho guests also had the pleasure of par ltaknjr of the tia, a huge fish, which le served up whole. They also 'drank saki, the great, Japanese drink, from dahoty cups. of rare ohina, After the dinner Japanese musicians, with their 13urious instruments, entered. As they ,came - forward with their strange pnusic - maidens in eaquisite costume danced before theyiitors. After. visiting Osaka they went to Iioto.' At Osaka,they visited a won. derfi palace,. .vhteh is now usqgd as a a)isthenlc ohool,temporarily however. The stone-work on this palace was Wonderful. -The walls in' some place,s WGro 100 feet high, of blocks of stone' *eighing four or five tons. Kioto was One of the most beautiful places they 1isited. The hotel Is situated on a high hill over-looking the city, the lew being, a most- magnificent one. iere they saw the Japanese. wrestlers.- Their great strength astonished the 'Ameri o&azs. It was here also they went to tle :theatre. Mr. Garrett saw their great actor, who' is known as the Irv ing of Japan. When a 'man goes to the theatre la; Japan he . takes his luncheon, as well as a day of. He goes in the morning preprd to stay all day.. The' actors keep at ft all the mbrning. . Then an intermission is had for, rest and refreshment. The lun cheon Is eaten and, this over, the auc ence is ready. The play goes on the rest; of the day. A Japanese au dience is unlike an American one-not onlyl it this respect. They weep like childten When ther feelings are moved, at they. often -are; when they are' pleascd-..and amused they laugh as happily ind as heartily. -;Froi'Kloto the party ivent to,Kobi, wijre : all . save -Messrs, Marshall whoma? .'"E . Vrawrxi un :. I ; Mackenzie took the French steamer Yangste for Shanghai. Mr. and Mrs. Garrett went from Shanghai to Sanga. pore, to Colombo and up the Red Sea. On Saturday they reached Cairo. From there they will go through Europe, returning home some time in October. In Japan the entire party I had,their photographs taken in Japen. esoe costume. Some of them did not loo4 as well as in their native dress. I They were very becoming, however, to thrie-to Mrs. Garrett, Mr. Thomas anc Mr. Crawford. Rme's Rainbow Hued Umbrollas. ne of the common sights of 'Rome I is view the assortment of umbrellas r ho ted on a rainy day. The opportuni ty a frequent, for when the drops fall th y do so on a scale so generous that, th raIn continues three weeks. Under t dome of the akies nothing was t e r seen to surpass the parachute plc- ~ t e. The colors of the rainbow are , n more varied. Outside the rapidlyt d appearing Roman peasant costume ii umbrella has the next greatest a ount or. character in it. The rentst tb t t;ime and accident have mr.dle are pm ched with any gay looking scrap,g ail its size so distended by the elastici-r ty of the goods that when opened It covern the sidewalk. Without his um-e breia the peasant Is not at ease. Rain or shine lie carries IL under his arm, h for.with him it is a maxim that dogt and strangers are the only ones who 8 walk in the sun as well as in the Wet. Yet lie too Is ridiculed In the fashiona bly cut clothes of the present Romans, with their sharp toed patent leather boots and handsome parachutes. Tho Catowha Indins. t Chilef IIarrison, of the OCatawbn Da Indians, of York county, S. C., was In O< lumbia recently on business for the ' ri be. The unfortunate red men ar( t( in. a bad condition, The tribe has an dWindld to eighty-two members, and tt their .deservatlons, originally many ti' thoiiend acres, i now something less It tihan 700 acres. The Indians have tit leased tracts of land to wvhite people, n< 5and It is probable that many of these Pf leases will expire in a few years g( wi.rer.-tho Indians will be able tc he ~~i~iopossssion of their lands aftet so been occupied tpy whitE ft0 Iille$ for half a century and upwarC. sai # question. The Indians have- peti, de tjoned -the governor to have certair wi [Miwless white men ejected from thehs kr lands, They also ask that their chief, th Htarrison, be made the agent fot their as tibe, instead of paying a white man tb 10a .year out of thent' appropriation air "Ntas their agent. Th'Je tribe is in at degtiLtute circumtances. A NOBLE SWEDISH WOMAN. The Lady Who Imitates the Famous Agnes Weston In Work Among the Poor. Miss Hedenstrom felt one day a personal call, and became conscious of a new life within her. Women are not .allowed to preach the gospel' in Swe den. Impelled by the sense of .a minslon laid upon her, Miss Hedenstrom left the laud of her birth. Her inten tion was to dnd out Miss Reeves and. go to India to help In gospel work. With this intention she traveled. over to .London. There the terrible tragedy of sin, enacted in the highways and by ways of the great city, enrolled itself before her, and it came upon her that there lay the field of- her work. The spectacle of the Soandivian sailors, who are so largely employed in the English merchant service, and who appeared so h6meless, exposed to such dire tempta tion on L-ndon shore, especially appeal ed to her. She grew impelled to warn, advise and pray with them in their own tong ue. Some ton ydars: ago the Stranger's Rest was opened in Radcliffe highway by Mr. Radcliffe and Miss McPherson and a few earnesb people. The idea was to form there a centre for Gosptl teaching among the seamen o' all 'na tionalities, congregating in the London docks. Miss Hedenstrom found her way thither one night with the purpose of addressing herself to the Scandinav Ian tars." Th9 terrors of that. night, the humiliating insults to which she was exposed on her return through the highway, are still. vividly impresssed upon her mind-abandoned women jost led her, mocked her, pulled her by the hair. "I c'etermined never again to go down that awful road" she said "but the Lord had determined otherwise-I went again and again." Each time that she preached her audience increased in numbers, her hearers grew more rever ent and attentive, and as the work grew and its attendant difilsulties in oreaspd it became nmoie and more evi [lent to her that.hinwag the mission tshe had been intended to fulfll-to be a q,s4 0 . L. aoonuymen in. a. foreign land, For thre years. the young Swae lish wonian lab)re'l with preaching. md prayer among the Scandinavian lailors in London. Then the neel of a respectable home for them became ap. arent. The men over and over again sad expressed this need to her. They old her they knew not where to go to iseape from the temptations raging. t round them. After many struggles t he Scandinavian Temperance Sailors' C iome was opened on October 25. 1880, i which has since been visited by hosts of I eafaring ngen to be housed and cAred a or. An average of more than one mundred men sit down to four sunstan- t tal meals, and to realize the extent of c vork Miss Hedenstrom accomplishes it t oust be remembered that she alone ] ules over that large household, lays in g ts provisions, works and serves its in. 1 oates. XStory of Jsse James. "1'Now that I am on the subject cf C rotting," said Secretary Hall. of Die roit, in the rotunda of the Merchant's, I am reminded of an incident that f vk placeinl1875at the Kansas City b meeting. There were several thousand sople congregated In the vicinity, of ii de ticket oflce, when suddenly a band 0 f men rode Into the inolosure and be-. an discharging firearms apparently I ght into the crowd. As they expect- ]I I, there was a general scattering, and a ce the people collected their senses the c eket man had been overpowered and . e is cash box, containing about $i,201i, iken away by the members of the b looting party, who turned out to be d embers of the Jesse James gatig. RLe- a, ards were offered for th3 detection ci id arrest of the perpetrators, but nothx-a Lg ever came of it;. I "The next summer, one day whilo el 'aveling along the road toward Indc. St nidence Mission, I met a single horse an, and we sodn becama engaged in i nyersation. We did not exchango ~rds or names, but rode along into the g$ wn on pretty good terms, and a few a oments after we separated I learned T at my conapanion was none other i an the notoriouas Jesse James h imself. tt was his crowdl that had robbed moy e sket seller a year before, but 1 did f$ it recognize him as one of the partici- or unts.. Among.the people it was. the or neral implressioni, and I have never oard it contradieted from a reliable to urce, that Jesse James scorned to en t the role of a. highwayz%n when .a igle person was concerned, but toolk og light in frightening large crowds -cc sen in seatch of booty. is men- W] ew that shooting over the hleads of. th e spectators wouldi alarm them fullya much and create more of .a panic is an by killing people in cold blood, og ci hence tir forays were always i tbendIed .with a great deal ofimoise, but 37 Lie 'tiolence toward their victims. , NEWS IN BRIEF. --It has been calculated according to Professor Proctor, that a man of 7 has consumed twenty wagon loads, of eighty tons, of food, solid and liquid. -An elephant has been sent by Lord Dufforin to the Shah of Persia as a gift.- - It is a very fine one, gorgeously caparisoned and attended by thirty Ilindoos. --A patchwork quilt made by child ren in the United States, and an Indian shawl. the gift of Queen Victoria, were buried with Jenny Lind at her re quest. --'Carolus Duran. - Cabanel. - and 3onnat," says the London World, "imoug them have painted almost every living American who is worth more than $5,000,000.-. -Des Moines, Iowa, ias been stlrred up.over an attempt At grave robbory in a cemetery on the suburbs of that city. The ghouls were medical students and narrowly escaped lynching. -The Arabs exhaust their grwens, and blues, and purples, and reds, and black upon the walls.and ceilings and make their apartments perfect kaleido. scopes of colors, and with beautiful results withal. o-There is a Shakespeare Hotel in Stratford-upon-Avon, and instead of numbers the names of plays are upon the- rooni doors. -"Take the gentle man's Iuggage up to Romeo and Juliet" is a common order. -The common thistle, which now covers large areas in southern Uhili, is said to have been introduced there by an Englishman, who imported a bushel of seed and sowed it under the delu slop that'the plant would prove valu able for fodder. -The orange tree and the lemon are both descended from the citron. The history of the orange tree is said to date back to the crusades, the return ing. pilgrims carrying it into Europe 700 or 800 years ago. -There. is a bookkeeper in a New York wire factory who has merely to glanoe at broadsides of figures, row ifter row, filling a whole sheet -of legal cap, and declares the result in itantly. He doesn't know how he toss it, nor does anybody else. -It is curious to note that acQord Ing to Thomas Wilworthy's "Guide to the English Tongue," -which was 'c. 3epted as a standard in pronuolation by polite English society of a century go, the vowel sounds in file are toil, blo a d;boil were pronounced alike, s o # ero thorse in tour' and tower, ire and air, dew and do. . -letween December 11, 1808, and qov. 11, 1809, 1.152 poraons were con Ined in the New York Debtor's rison. None of the debts exceeded >25. The debtors principally received ustenance from the Humane Society. -Many persons use the phrase "In a rice," who have no conception of Its neaning. A trice is the sixtieth part >f a second of time. The hour is di 'ided into sixty minutes, the minute ato sixty seconds, and the second into - lIxty trices or thirds. -One of the smallest manusoripts in he world to be sold.-For sale, a grain f rice -with the whole first chapter of he Koran written on it; given to as inglish officer in 1812 by an American entleman, who received it from an Lrab sheikh, whom he had cured of a langerous fever in the desert, -The prince of Naples, who has ust come of age, has received the rder of the golden seece from the mperor of Austria. and the black eagle romn the late German emperor. It is sug ested that, in -view of the close riendship beetween Italy and Enaland, e ought to be invested with the garter. -A Hartford man started a good re in a sheet iron stove in his ocalce, rgot to close the draught, looked the 1ilcc door and went to. drive. 'When amne back he found the fire out; but it ad made itself felt before going out. iverything in the room was scorched, pples en a shelf were baked, and a og that had been locked in was dead, nidently suffocated. -Li'Hung Ohang, the vicerq,y of hina, is si feet tall, 65 years old,;-well aLlt, gray and swarthy; his eyes aye ark and piercing and his teeth 4jI id uneven. When receiving Amgji. mn guests he wears a gray 4strak,i Irtout with long, flowing sleeves, 050 slken trouSers, felt shoes and a iring hat with the button of his rank 1 the top and a peacock's feq.ther icking out behind. ~.T wo boys who attempted to learun 10 amount of 'petroleum in the - oil nks on a car at Flint,Minn.,recently, i letting down a ligte lantern irough a hole in the tank, were very uch disappointed with the result. lie explosion of the car followed, and eo flames shiot two hundred feet In 0 air, lighting the country for miles ound. One boy was hurled twenty at and badly burned about the head, ce and-neck, and his companion was ly slightly burned, but thrown fifteen twenty feet~ -An aocldent; happening at the Vi0 riai Theatre, iia -8erlin, Germany, ppl~ the ne# .aid-sateresting ex vl*A that-elehtrio::light does not reaq 5sec#rlylagain*t the danger fire. 'uripg; the pertormnande al dt an eletric lamp, in a og ilte heat, fell out and lias hfd in a folds of the dress of a lady hitig neath, In a momaent the dress was late. Two gentlemen sitting by the ly's side Immediately Joined hands er the flamiig spot an4~ succeeded e)ctinguishing the fire, not, however, thout being beverely - burned them. ves, both their hands reqnirsag Basingr by the suren.