Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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But it brightened a gloomy day, Or, spoken to some one weary and sick, It charmed his pain away. Only.a loving word! But it made the angels smile; And what it is worth, perhaps we'll know After a little while. MIRANDA'S SURPRISE. The new girl gave her name as M'randy Sayles. 'She was a short, stout, little body, with a pair of shoul dere that squared themselves deter minedly, a round face profusely deco rated with freckles, and a shock of yellow-red hair ending in two tight braids in the back. She wore a faded green dress, a stiffly starched gingham apron that much soap and waier had despoiled of its original color, and shoes that were undeniably patched. We girls looked at her as she marched into the school-room that first day, and then looked at each other. "I don't like her!" telegraphed Helen Campbell; and, of course that settled it-none of us liked her. "She hasn't pretty hair," said Sue; the minute we were together at recess. "And I can't be.r freckles," said Lizzie. "I mean so many of 'em," she hastily amended; for Sue's 'tiptilted' nose was not altogether spotless, "And such an apron!" ehimed Helen. "Anyway, she lives in that old house in the hollow." Yet, it was not her poverty that troubled us. Our little village school ,was too democratic for that, and most of us came from plain homes. It was only an unreasonable dislike, born of a childish whim, and persevered in with thoughtless selfishness. We did not mean to be cruel. We simply did not "a gsf4D randyjiti ummestand trioon we frequently left her to eat er dinner alone, when we wandered way by twos and threes with our well filled baskets. When we were start ing in pursuit of wild flowers and ber ries, some one of us was sure to whiE per, 'Don't ask that M'randy Sayles." And so, as the weeks went by, she was left much to herself. There was a wistful look in the hon est gray eyes sometimes, and the good natured face grew a trifle sober, but there was a sturdy-independence about the little woman that could not be easily discouragei or overridden. She joined heartily in every pastime that offered her a chance, and she neither moped nor sulked, but found what pleasure she could in looking on. But one day she astonished us by taking the initiative. Right in among us she marched at the morning recess, and, leaning back against a tree, an nounced abruptly: "I'm going to have a party." Now, a party in our school days was a rare and wonderful event one of the greatest delights that earth.- afforded; and we stared at M'randy with an as tonishment that began Instantly to par take 6f' respect. "Who sa,ye so?"- demanded Sue, with a touchi of awe in her tone. "I say 00," answered M'randy, with san emphatic nod of her heari. "You ;ee , it' gomng to be a s'prise party," ~he continued,' fushing a little under *he unusual attention she had attrac qid, anid vigorously twisting~ her sun bonnet strings by way of aiding expla nation. "It's going~ to be to-morrow afternoon, when there won't be any school; and everybody that comes must bring something to eat-anything they want to down to the crooked pine at three o'clock. All you girls are mnvitedl -everybody that wauts to come." "Humphi I guess likely we won't want to' come," said Lizzie, trying tather doubtfully to rally to the de *fense of- firat principles, "It's for whoever'Jl come," repeated M'randy, turning away. """iWhere'll it be?" one of the girls called after her. "At a' nme place, where there'll lbe lots of fun," answered i'randy. She had given her invitation, and would add nothing more. There was' a good deal of mysterious telegraphing between the desks th1at *afterinoon, and 'holding up of blases ~scribbled over with questions. The t.eaoher intercepted one that bore the legend: "Air you goin'?" She admitted that airing one's gown 'might be a proper and sanitary meas ure and prevent moths, though 'she in - slsted that the garment was not cor :-anty spelled. nJuth eacherm. had not been Invited to the- party, and did not know whereof she talked. We were all in a state of excitement, and discussed the matter in every available opportunity. We remembered indeed, that the invitation camerfrom M'randy Bayles; but, then, a party was a party, and though a few affected indifference, and spoke of attendance as doubtful, each one of us was secretly eager to go, and determined upon it if leave could be obtained. How that point was managed in all the homes there is no record to show; but certain it is that when the appointed hour came, every one was at the trysting-place, clean dresses, white aprons, and tempt ing baskets doing honor to the invita tion. Evidently M'randy had not expected so general a response, and her round face grew brighter and brighter, until it was as full of sunshine as a mortal face could be. "All ready? Come on," she said. We followed through the grove and down the road to a little house at the edge of the meadow, and there our leader paused. We knew the place. Mrs. Burns took in plain sewing, quilting, even washing and ironing oc casionally, for any one in the village who wanted such work done-anything by which she could provide for herself and Annie. Little Annie, delicate al ways, had attended school in an irreg lar fashion before the attack of scarlet fever which left her lame and helpless, but we had almost forgotten, in the year that had passed, that she had over been one of us. "There? A party at Widow Burns'l" exclaimed one of the girls, pausing in dismay and disappointment. But M'randy and those in advance had al ready been admitted; and, a moment's irresolution, the others followed. The house was in its neatest order, and Mrs. Burns' quick welcome showed th.at she expected us. "Though I din't think there'd be so many," she said, laughing and nodding cheerily. '-Annie Is pleased. Just look at her.' She was well worth looking at* het cheeks flushed, and her eyes sparkling with the delightful surprise. = atsi't--t nice? <--ow:-did you'eVer think of it? Oh, mamma, isn't il nice?" she replied joyously; ant the mother laughed with tears in her eyes. Such alt afternoon as that was M'randy took the lead naturally. "Hei foot was on its native heath" here and, indeed, Mrs. ]urns and Auni appealed to her constantly. It wa M'randy who thought of one gami after another in which Annie coult join, and who suggested adjourning tc the yard, and carrying Annie's chal out to the porch, when the house grev too small for our merriment. Thle she helped Mrs. Burns oanstruct i long table on the porch when tea-timf came, and to arrange upon it the con tents of the baskets we had brought and a tempting sight it was, with fruit and dainties enough to- coax Aunie't appetite for many a day after he guests had departed. After that, in the pleasant twilight Mrs. Burns asked us to sing. And a we sang our Sunday-school hymni on 'hearts -grew hushed and tender, an4 more than one cheek flushed at the un deserved praise when the mothe thanked us for coming, and said a she bade us good-night, "You .don' know how muoh good you've done." It had done us good, even thougl we were rather a quiet party as we walked homeward through the grove When we reachecd the crooked pine our parting place, M'randy suddenl: inquired: "Well, are you.sorry you went?" ".Noi No, indeed I We had a splen di timel" was answered in a chorus And then Lizzie asked, curiously: "M'randy, how did you come t< think or it?" "Well, I go there so much; andi then, I--I kind of know how it feels t( be lonesome," said M'randy, slowly, "But what made me think of it mosl of all was the last Sunday-school les son, about 'When thou makest a feast' you know. Ile said what ones to do ii for, that's all. Brave, true-hearted, litt,le M'randy She did not look poor or common tC one of us as she turned away in thE gray light of that evening. We sai not a word to each other of change o1 feeling or purpose; but when she came in the schoolyard the next mnorning just as we wore choosing for a game. Hele~n Camp'bell'. voice rang org as eager1y as iif t.1: 'ww-c<>mer were a nugget or gold: "I choose M'randy Saylesi" --A peculi.tr phlenomenon -1s being notice'd in the large lakes near the vii. lage of Matzuren, near G)umblnnen, Prussia. The level of the water 18 continually decreasing; d uring the last ten years it has fallen. one meter an nually. so that many of the islan'.1s In the lakes have nao'ib;rome pnnsul.as ALL ABOUT MUSTARD. Row the Seed -is Made to Furnish Oil and Flour---Varloties . and Uses. "Where does mustard co rara?" replied a wholesale. spice dealer to a reporter's inquiry.-. "Most everywhere. It is of two varieties. One is white and the other is black. The frst is called English and the other masquer ades under a score of other titles. The English is full of flour, lacks pungency and is seldom used alone. The other. kind contains a large amout of oil, said to average twenty-five to thirty Per cent. The best variety comes from Italy and is known as Trieste. There are many varieties of this kind grown in California of every uhade and quality, also in other States. That known as. Kentucky is very pungent." "Do farmers generally raise it?" "If they don't it is their own fault. They can. ~It -requires little or no cul tivation, but most of it is not worth handling." "How is it prepared?" "Usually by compressing the seed to extract the oil, because the seed is mudh more easily worked when the oil is out, and because there is now a ready market for the oil as salad oil, It being in many respects equal to the olive oil. To extract the oil requires very power ful hydraulic pressure, and a- suitable press would cost from $1,500 to $2,000. Large dealers in the principal cities operate in the seed or crude stock and press it and supply the trade with what is known as mustard cake, formed by the process of extracting the oil, and which contains everything except the oil-the same precisely as linseed cake. After this the pressed seed is separated from the bran to extract the flour. Pure mustard cannot be ground in mills, and unless it is very much adu' terated It cannot be ground at all, on account of the oil retained in the cake. The usual process, therefore, is to take say 100 pounds and put a quantity of the broken cake in a pot or mortar and pound and sift it so as to extract about lifty per cent. The-maohinerg pes4t1 o 'potifiing th miusftrds a simple con trivance, caked sometimes a stamp mill, being a battery of pounders rang ing in number from two up to sixteen. The process is slow, but very simple. After passing through the pounders the mustard cake-now reduced to the consistency of soft middlings-is trans I ferred to a series of sieves, the fine 3 falling into a receptacle below. This 1 bolted flour of mustard is strictly pure and is as pure as it is possible to make it from the stock you have used, whether it is good or bad. A LIFE ROMANCE. A Lady Finds Her Relatives and Dis covers She Is Heir to a $43,000. While novelists are cudgeling their brains to construct plots and incidents for use in their productions, stranger things they dream of are occurring among theirneighbors-butso woven in to the warp of real life that their peculiar Interest does not attract attention. An example has just come to the notice o' our reporter which will illustrate t6 above statement, and which has i~n complete but a few days./ Mrs, Lucinda Davidson, a w -pre served widow7 of middle age, w6 lives was Wan stet Indi apolin, a family of seven children. /Vust prior to the war the parents die' and the children were scattered aiw6ng friends. Then-followed the rebention, and the family with whom the. daughter, Lu cinda, was making het home, being of Union sentiments, came North. The girl lost all trace of her brothers and sisters, and, until tour weeks ago, had never heard one word from them si.nce their separati on. Since 1804 she has been writing letters to Southern towns and vilagej, it this way hoping in time to address some place where one of her lost 'felatives was located. A month ago a reply came from a South Carolina town, from some person who knew the family before it was broken up, and who gave the name of a -place in Missouri where one of the -brothers lived. Mrs. Davidson made haste to write him, and a quick answer was re turned. HIe was her'eldest lirother, and lie told her of the death of some of the children, and that lie himself ts lh,y with consumption, Dut the story does not end 'aere. In t.he correspad@er' which fonllo'w'd be tween Mrs. DavlAs~on and her family, In the past month, she has discovered ihat many years ago an aunt died in -Charleston, 8. C., leaving no nearer heirs than this scattered family et nbphews and nieces. She possessed at I her death an estate valued at $300,000, which was to be divided among the aeveni children. The trusteen in charge of the p prty sotught far and wide for the legal r nd finally found all of them an- %V them their portions, ex cept Mra: Davlitaon.. Her. ehare, or !ginally a mpunting: to about $;3,000. was.conv rted into monoy-and has now i been drawing interest for nearly twenty i yeirs, while the searclh for her has been i going on; The necessary proofs. of identity and the legality of her .claim were completed this week and a few I week.mote will witnes her in possess. ion of this;snug fortune. Her ctrcum. 1 stancos hbte always been moderate and the battle of life has beegs a hard one with ber, ut now she looks forward to passing the rest of her days in comfort among the irriends of which sect she has always been a cot.sistent mem ber, What in an Hotel Bill? The question of what constitutes a "hotel bill" has just received a solution from the Supreme Court of Colorado. At the St. James Hotel, Denver, kept by Mr. David Gage, a well-known Western landlord, one of the guests was Mr. J. W. IIamm, and his friend, Mr. T. M. Patterson, became responsi. ble for. Mr, Hamm's "hotel bill" in a written agreement, in which he said: "I will be responsible for the hotel bill of J. W. Hamm, and will see it paid I in-twenty days." Hamm left without paying his bill, which was for board I from September 20 to October 4. $42; 1 extra meals, $5; extra lodgings, $2. and bar bill, 523.25; total, $72.25. 4 A couple of months after Hamm left Patterson was "dunned" for the amount of the bill, and offered to pay the board bill, but refused to pay that at the bar. He was sued for the amount, and in the litigation that fol. 1 lowed the case got into the Colorado Supreme Court, where it was to be de. cided whether a "hotel bill" includes an.unlimited bill at the bar for intoxi cants. The pupreme Court held that an inn-keeper i bound to furnish board and lodging tofil'gtests--what is necessary to their health and comfort. All items of cost relatit to these necessaries of words "hotel i.l'1"3it wh comes to furnishing' articles not necessary,the phrase does not Include their cest. As the court says: "A hotel keeper is not I bound to furnish hisguests with liquore, I cigars or billiards, and therefore the I including ofCsuch articles in a hotel- I bill would notbe.expected or anticipated 1 by one contractin,g to pay the hotel bill of another." A Brid -Juipor"s Suicide. William K tz, the boy who jumped off the Brook n Bridge on November 29, 1880, fro the highest point, it is said, that an: of the jumpers selected, shot and kill himself recently at the home of his f end Adolph Wagner of 154 Forsyth r eet, New York. Kurtz was a pale, si ly young fellow of 19. He w s a 11th grapler, but was out of wor.' Whe lie jumped from the bri4ge it was ecause -he was out of airkrand wa ted to kill himself. 7 ils mother~ who lives at 010 East Ninth street, says that since the bridge jumping her son has been more or less out of huis mild. He0 has boarded with Mrs. Conkle ait 150 Ridge street since January 1, aid was in love with Mrs. Conkle's tiaughiter Lena. He drank a good deal of beer, and Lena and her sister reproached him for It. On Sun day the trio had a quarrel over the boor drinking, and Kurtz stabbed his sweet heart's sister In the navel with his1 pocket knife. Then he fled to the honse of his frIend Wagner. He went with Wagner to Lena's house the next afternoon, but did not succeed in making it up with Lena. He came back to Wagner's, and had a good deal of beer with the family, and finally pulled out a pistol, shot himself twice in the stomach, and rolled off the sofa, dead, lHe left a note biddIng goodby to lisa friends, and a realed ler. ter to Lena, No-vel Use for Ballast;. A novel suggestion has been made with a view to utilIzing thme great masses of lead which are carried as ballast by some vessels. It Is thought that they may answer the purpose of electrical aceumulators, .which could be made to carry several horse'power, and thiL 2:3 0z, by. the intervention of a motor, could be apl)ied to the Work ing of the/ 0ndlass, hauling In the main sheetrl well as furnisliinghlight. Although startling in its.noyelty, the piiAn..is thought (o be practicable. * --When. man is deemed reliable nut ia Montana, they say, 'lHe'll stand without hitohin." . --Alt,hough a native of an almoste Aretic land, Jenny ind was rlways t rery sensitive to COld THE DOG'S SOENT. lie Itemnarkable Power of Following the Trail or an Animal. Of all the feats common to hunting Itfe and woodcraft none seems to me talf so wonderful as tracking or trail ng. As practiced by man tracking is ronderful enough, but far more mar relous is the power by which a dog or ox.canfollow its . prey at full speed, ulded only by scent, without erring or )eing led astray. To us the word "aoent has but little neaning, It is the name of a power vith 'which man is comparatively al nest unendowed. We go into the roods and see nothing but a leaf-strewn round. thinly scattered over with ierbs and thi3kly planted with trees; we see no quadruped and find no sign f any, perhaps, save the far away chat or of a squirrel. But our dog, merrily sareering about, is possessed of a super or power. At every moment of his ,ourse he is gathering facts and reading wonderful record of the past, and >resent and even of the future. "Here," ays his unseen guide, "is where a deer )assed a minute ago," or "an hour Igo;" "this was the course of a fox a week ago;" "that was the direction in which a rabbit flew by a few minutes igo, and, ohol there was a weasel after ilmi" Such is the curious record of scent, ,evealed to the dog, but hidden from he man and even inexplicable to him, or though we have a theoretical know! dge of the subject it is too imperfect o make us 'fully understand that not mly has every kind of animal, but each ndividual animal its own peculiar cent. Thus the dog can distinguish iot only the bucks, does and fawns, of ,he deer tribe, but can pick out of a lozen the track of the particular buck bat he is following and never leave it ir loose it. Moreover, he can tell by icent which way the animal is going nd he is never known to run backward )n a trail, The Bonapartes asMosts. af .p p3apartes are W4i0rhosts, ieit' dined axfelist,at to _3ease-thie gourmand, and their guests are always hosen with the tact and discretion ,hat are necessary to make any dinner success. In Washington they are as enowned for their graceful hospitalittes les as in Newport, where they always >ointed out to anxious visitors as two >f the most interesting figures to be een there. On the avenue they are asily to be distinguished at a distance, or their servants all wear the Bona )arto livery-ecru wit4 scarlet facings -which was at one time very well mown to France. Colonel Bonaparte iimself looks as little like his famous Jorsican ancestor as one could imag ne. He is a handsome man, unusual y tall, with a fine and well-developed igure and something in his high-bred ace that, without resembling that hero n the east, yet suggests the nobler uahties of Napoleon. Not a man in Newport the season through is half so listinguished in bearing, and it is little vonder that strangers Invariably select urm from the rest as that particular| haracter whose history they long to mnow. Mine. Bonaparte is a grand laughter of Daniel Webster. To a 3ostonian that is suffieient. No more s needed to assure him that intellect mally she has nothing to desire, and, ortunately, she has also the gift of ood looks, which in Newport does far nore -for its possessor than brains. Tall, argo and of stately beauty, admirabty ulted to the position she occupies, she nakes a most fitting companion ftor her usband, and would rule a nation as >rliliantly as she presides over her owvn alons. In Washington Street Care. Some of the funniest scenes or Wash ngton life occur in the street cars, anti he lines of society run so closely into ach other that one must be very care ul of his~ language. A remark about noted person there made is sure to eaoicl ia ears, and1 the colored boy rho sits next to you may be a servant it a justice of the supreme court, and he maid with the pretty child across he way may be employed by a society ady. Somne of the greatest of our non ride in the street cars, and I have iad companions such as Judge Waite, len. Sheridan and Tom. Reed, I have len Stanley Matthews putting in nick is in a bobtail oar and actig as con.. luctor,and I have seen Sp5eaker Carlisle live his seat to a weak looking colored !irl. I have seen president's daughters tanging on to the strap for want of a eat, and I have seen son'iuern generals tattd while the car was flled with iegrees sitting. I have ridden with 'cabinet officers and have peon joa. led by name of the nsenvM Winno NEWS IN BRIEF. --Queen Victoria has knighted Edwin Arnold, author of the famous poem, "The Light of Asia." -A low estimate puts the number of persons supported by all the forms Df employment furnished by electricity at 5,000.000. -There are forty-three log school houses in Iowa. This is the number giveu in the report of the State Super intendent for 1887. -Alexander liI of Russia is going to spend $d50,000 on a monument to is father in the grand court of the Kremlin at Moscow. -Venus, the morning star, is brighter than it ever appeared to any nan now living, and nearer the earth than it will be again for 840 years. -One hundred and twenty bull lights were given in the City of Mex lco during the past year. Seventeen bull lighters were wounded, and one professional and two amateur fighters killed. -A certain Philadelphia family seems to be of very fragile material. There are 10 persons in it, and they have experienced 82 fractures of bones during the past few Years. -Two Protestant citizens of Madrid were lately condemned to six months' Imprisonment for refusing to kneel be fore the Viaticum. The liberal news papers are indignant at this display of intolerance. -Mrs. Eliza Wilcox is the only per son born in the White House. She was the only daughter of President Jack son's adopted son, and was born in the presidential mansion during the admin Istration'of "Old Hickory." -A year ago Miss Clara Moore, of Dincinnati, went to visit friends In Los Angeles, Cal. bhe had a few hundred dollars with her, which she Invested in .Southern California lands, and in the boom that followed she soul Dut her property at a net gain of $125, D00. -There is a man in the Kansas pen itentiary who, beginning with a term at Sing Sing years ago, has served his time in regular succession in the peni tentiaries of New York, 1'ennsylvania, Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and Kansas. -Miss Meuk Meyer, a grandniece of Anton Bubinstein and a pupil of I.szt, is the musical prodigy of Vienna, Aust ia. t3he is not yet eighteen years old, ut..-Quiomposed the. musio ad . *ritte: the librotto of an-opera. --There were lynched during the fear 1887 in the United btates no fewer than 128 persons. Of the various States and Territories Texas leads the list with flfteen lynchings, and Missis sippi is entitled to second place with fourteen to her credit. All the vic tims were males, eighty of them being negroes. -Queen Victoria dislikes the elec tric light, and refuses to have it in her palaces. She has at length permitted one of the royal yachts to be fitted with electric lamps, except her sleeping cabin and saloon. It is said soft oil lamps best suit the complexions of el dorly ladies. -There is a little girl in Baltimore who goes out into the streets, begins crying and gets the police to try to find her bome. She gives an accurate description of a house, but when such a one is reached she always declares it is not the right one. The other day she kept . three policemen busy all day walking about the city with her, and at night admitted that she knew all I he, whiie where her home was, and could have gone to it any hour. --The princes of the Hlapsburg family are abanit to present the Em eror F'rancis Joseph with a magnill Dent album, the cover of whichr is to be richly studded with jewels; and it is to contain life-size photographs of the [lonors, taken in the uniform of their respective Austrian regiments. The Prince Regent Luitpold of Bavaria and the other German princes who are sonnected with the Austrian Imperial family have joined in the gift. --Baron k1irsch's offer ot :iU,t00,UJt. to be expended by the czar of Russia in promoting the welfare of the Rus nian Jews has been accepted. The money is to be paid into the Bank of England, and Baron Rothscild and Baron De Worms, who were appointed trustees, will receive the interest of the mm deposited. 1t is estimated that it wyil be possible to open 1,000 schools for t50.000 children with the money, )ther charities not being neglected in hie meantime. --The old Rodgers house in Wash. ngton is for sale. This interesting tructure has many curious associa ilations. On the sidewalk in front of ~t General Sickles shot Barton Key. Fhe house was occupied during the war by Secretary Stanton, and It was here that Payne tried to assassinate lecretary Seward. The lot on which he house was built was formerly wned by Henry Clay, who swapped. t with Admiral Rodgers for a blooded rolt. -Among the various substances 'ound on the human tongue, as shown gthe microscope,are the following: i bres of wool, linen and cotton, fibres tf spiral vessels, and fibres of muscle, tarch grains. cheese mould, portions f potato skin, scales, moths, etc., airs from legs of bees, hairs from legs f spiders, pollen of various flowers. tamens of various flowers, hairs el ats, quite common; hairs of mouse, mee only; hairs from various leave., ving of mosquito, once; fragments rom the leaves of tobacco, of champ nile flowers. etc.