Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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.9 I" iF - <r et~rtb. ~~0 ?~ ScWr's ~. Till-WEEKLY EDITION. 1893. ESTABLISHED 1849 MILLINERY, MILLINERY, MILLINERY Always full in Hats and Bonnets, Flow ers, Feathers, Laces, Nets, Veiling and la test novelties of the season. A competent and experienced mil liner in this depart ment fully posted in Styles, Trimmings, Etc. Special attention. given to Mourning and made up Hats and Bonnets. Renewing Crepe Veils, Etc. J. 0. BOAG. Dry Goods, Fancy Goods, -N&Utons,, hite Goods, Carpeting3,' il Cloths, Matting, 0._BOAG'S os, Parlor and Chapej Orga . Fifty new and im proved light-running Family Sewing Machines, vertical andi under-feed of tle best makes, different styles and prices. Also, a lot of good second-1 hand Sewing Machines for sale cheap, by J. 0. BOAG. Different Sizes. CLOCKS, CLOCKS, CLOCKS. Family Groceries -Confectioneries, J. 0. BOAQ. Always on Hand Single, Open and Top Buggies and Douse-Seated Vehicles. One. Horse Wagons. Singe and double harness. Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma ehines, Cocking Stoves, Clocks, - Buggies an1d Wagons, are all k shipped direct from their va rious factories, therefore no agents expenses or commis sions to he paid for by pur chaser: Tie best goods for the 1owest pies~ for cash or good paper, at i, O, BOAG'S OLD STAND, ice e rames, Chromo, Bab ar r. Peton or. wil always give you1 3.0. BOA(Q ALL roads will lead to Washington !or some time. VERAGUA might have come out al) right if it had not been a bad year for bulls. THE honest house-fly has nothing tut feelings of respect for the bald opaded baby. FRANCE is in no uncertainty about her northe n boundary line. Ger :nany fIxed that. IT requires a right smart nation t maintain 6.000 postmistress and the postai card, but we do it. IN due time we suppose that some lunt of the Duke of Veragua will be tprung upon A merican sympathy. Taz King of Siam wears a golden bat which weighs twenty-seven pounds, but never talks through it. THER.E is one got d thing to be said in favor of the icenien. They havi as yet refraiced from selling the pub tic glass imitations. A cORREsPONDENT, who has sinei been killed, reports that when En gland asked France if she was goinj to ilght she replied, "Yes, I am." YOUG people are always wishi ni something would happen, and olk 1.eople are thankful when nothinj does. They have learned that whei things happen it usually means mor trouble. THERE never was a man who wou( not get the big head on twent. thousand dollars. A man with 1 million is more apt to be sensible anc modest than a man with twent, thousand. ,ONE of the largest hides evei tanned has come from a San Fran cisco tannery. It is eight feet wide and fourteen fcet long, and weight 7uO pounds. It is one of a dozen oi more walrus hides. FRUIT land has appreciated in value enormously in Western Maryland during recent years. The De'awjrE "Farm and Home" cites cases of a rise in raw land from $5 to $100 pci %;re during the past ten years. IF your children are babies, don't w:sh they were grown. It iz nct. the height of felicity to get up with a baby that has the colic, but it is p'easanter than to lie in bel know ing your girls are on the front porch drting. NO WOND.NR the young Gorman em peror wanteO mere soldiers. Late dispatches say he is going to tran his army to ride bicycles, and, o1 ourse, he had to make some arrange. ments to compensate for loss by breakage. THE efforts to make soldiers out ol In pans have proved unsuccessful. The braves find the discipline of army life Irksome, and the fact that the Government will not permit squaws to carry the bucks' carbines by caused Lo to throw up his job. THE remarkable knowledge of nav igation shown by the men court martaled in connection with the Victoria disaster would lead the or dinary reader to believe that the col lision or! Triroli was the result of a nicely executed plan rather than the logical outcome of a fooli-h or lr. _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ GERMAiNY produces about nine hun; dred million bushels of potatoes an nually; Russia ahout ore-half that quantity; and France nearly as many as Russia. The United States rra.ks below the UniterFKing dom as a producer of potatoes, and our crop seldom reaches over i75, 000,000 bushels. SOMrE time during his life every man is compelled to "stand punish ment," as the prize fighters say. HouwI do you stand yours? Do you go cil and sulk, or do you make the best of it? Every man who sulks is coml pelled to staind double pualshment.. If such a thing is possible, qit sulk Ing. It is a borribly foolish thing to do. The greatest satisfaction In life is found in doing your duty. It may be hard at times, but It Is easier th~an neglecting it. The more ytOu sulk, he more apt you are to think of sul ide. __ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Lr-ra tEelgium is a continual sur priso to the world. She supports more people to the square mile than any other country, her hens lay more eggs than those of any other country >f anywhere near its size, and the amount of fooil supp~jlies sent to other nd lazier peoples is astonishing. t-he s right at the front in many forms f mod.ern progress aso, and has lately extended the right of su:irauc L women on the same terms as to Rapid growth of the finger nails isI :noclred to indica.t3 good health, The Brvook lyn y.:iv 'ne s Sunday b~ernt.n1. Subjcct: "A Great Woman." Tr.XT: "And it ftil on a ?.-ty th E,-s"t Passed to I.unew, where was a gr*eat wo 71all."-II Kiing iv.. S. The hotel of our time hadI no counterpar in any '-ntertainnent of olden time. Thf vast uajoliy of travelers must then be e:. t1'rtainud at private abode. Here com Elisha, a s!%rvant of the Lord, on a divinE mission, an-i h.- must find shelter. A bal. cony o.erloo:ing the v.ule Esdraelon is of fered him in a priv:a- hous-, and it is es pecially furnished for his o'cupancy-aehaii tosit on, a talle from which to eat, a candle. Miek by which to roai aud a bed on which tc sdumber-the whole (stai-h:ihent belonging to a e-at and :roo-l wo:n. Her husoand. it son-:.r. was a godtly man, but he was entirely ovvrshadowcd by hih wife's excellencies. just as now you some times find in a household the wife the centre of dignity and influene and power, not by any arrogance or presumption, but by superior intellect and force of moral nature wielding domestic aff-iirs and at the same time supervising all finan-ial and business affairs, the wife's han'! on the shuttle, on the banking house. on the worldiy busines. You see hundreds of men who nre success'il only because ther-t is a reason at home why thoy are successFul. It a man marry a good, honest soul, he makes hi8 fortune. If he marry a feoo, the Lord help him! The wife may be the silent partner in the fIrm, there may be only rnasculine voices down on exchan~ze, but there otentimo comes fro:n the ho-ne 'irel a potential and elevating inllane.a This women of ay text was the superior of her husband. He, as tar as I c.a under stand, was wh::t we oft:-n see in our lay-a man of large fortune and only a moaieu a of brain, intensely quiet, sitting a long while in the same place without moving hand or foot -if you say "yes," respcnd ing "yes :'i you say "no," responling "n"-inan, eyes half shut, mouth wide open. maintaining h:i position in society only because he has it large patrimony. But his wif--, my text says, was a great woman. Her name has not corn" down to us. She belonged to that collection ot people who need no name to distinguish them. What would title of duchess or princess or queen what would escutcheon or gleaming diadem --be to this woman of my text, who, by her ir:elligence and her behavior, challenges the admiration of all ages? Long after the bril liant women of the court of Louis XV have been forgotten, an-t the brilliant women of the court of Spain have bein forgotten. and the brilliant women who sat on mighty t brones have been forgotten, some grandfather will put on his spectacles, and holding the book the other side the liight read to his grandchil dren the story of this great woman of Shu nem who was so kind and courteous aud Christian to the good prophet Elisha. Yes. she was a great woman. In the first plac., she was great in her hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarion nations honor this vi:tu . Jupiter had the surname of the hospitabl'. and he was said especially to avengo the wrongs of strang ers. Homer exalted it in his verse. The Arabs are punctilious upon this subject, and among some of their tribes it is not until the ninth day of tarrying that the occupant has a right to ask his guest, "Who ani whence art thou?" If this virtue is o hon ored even among barbarians, how ought it to be honored among those of us who believe In the Bible, which conmandis us to use hos pitality one toward another without grudg Ing? 0 course I do not mean under this cover to give any idea that I approve of that va grant clars wi." rro around from plaeO to piae ranging their whole lifetime perhaps under the auspiees of some benevolent or philanthropic society, quartering themselves on Christian families, with a great pile of trunks in the hall and carpetba: portentous of tarrying. There is many a country parson age that looks out week by week upon the ominous arrival of wagoa with creaking wheel and lank horse and dilapidated driver, come under the auspIces of some charitabla institution to spend a few weeks and canvass the neighborhood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beautiful vir tue of Christian hospitality. Not so much the sumptuousnes of your diet and the regality of your abode will Im press the friend or the stranger that Steps across your threshold as the warmth of your g reeting, the Informality of your reception, te reiteration by grasp and by look and by a thousand attentions, insignificant attention-, p f your earnestness of welcome. There will be high appreciation of your welcome, although you uave nothing but the brazen eandlestick and the plain chair to offer Elisha when he comes to Shunem. Most beautiful Is this grace of hospitality when shown in the house of God. I na thankful that I am pastor of a church where: strangers are always welcome, and there is not a State in the Union in which I have not heard the affability of the ushers of our church complimented. But I have entered churches were there was no hospitality. A stranger would stand in the vestibule for awhile and then make pilgrimage up the long aisle. No door opened to him until, flushed and excited and embarrassed, he started back again, and coming tosome hali filled pew with apologetic air entered'it while the occupant., glared on him with a look which seenied to say, "Well, if I must I must." Away with such accursed in decency from the housem of God ' Let e-ver church that would mainta~n iarge C'hristian Influence in community eulture Sabbath' by Sabbath this bcautiful grace of Christian hos pitality. A good mali traveling in the far we.=t, in the 'wvdtrn-is, was overtaken by itbht ardi storm, and1 he put in at a eahin. H'e sa ir arms along the beams of the cab-in : an-i he felt alarmed. He did not know but tb-at he had falien into a de-n of tieve. H- Iit there greatly perturbed. A ter awisi tie man of the house came home with a "un rop his shoulder and set it down in L orner The stranger was still more '-iar'n-J. A te awhile the man of the house wh'sp. -red with t bi.a wife. and the stranger tam cghlt his de strurtion was being p!-mned. Then the man oi the l'ou'i 0-n- forar. cad said to thest-ra'ri'e-r. v.Tar a rough an I rudIe people out h-r- 'ndn we work hard for alJivang. We- maik ->Ur -ivn by huntin:'. andl whn we coe uto the i::t fail we are tiredI, and we are ap~t to :o to b-i early, a-d before retiring we :ire aiway in the habit of r-'ading a c'hapter from the wo'dl of God amnd manking a praye-r. If you dou like such things. if you will just sm-p outs-tdi the door until we ;:et thr-ou-gh 1'il be gr'a'ly obliged to you." Of course the strang-rItr ried in theu ro-n. and the old -uint-'r tok holl of the horns ot the altar and broairhtt down the blessing of GodI upon hia houne bo:d an-i upon the stranger wthiin thir gates. liude but glorious Christian hospi tality ! Agein. this woman in my text was gr-'at m r her kindness toward Go'S mssen::er. Ehishae may have been a stranger in that housihold. but as she fount out le had com-'on a divin mission lhe was eerlially wlcome. We haeve; a great many b-o-.a in our dayi abouit the b'ar-1ships oit minite-t and ti-c trials o1 Christ~ian mniiter-:. I wish so:n'-bo ly wouldi writen book nabout the joys of the~ Chiritian minister- -at out the sy:pathies nil at -una him, about the kin ineses, about the genial considerations of hini Do--s sorrow come t,, eur hiome and is ther" a shadow on thie era-lil-, t tier" are hiundr--is of han-is to help, an I many 'lio weary not thriugh th' !cug night r- lt-hin::. andi iun it dr-'-s of pray.rs going iu: thmt Go I wouW t restore thle siek. is ther a tburnin. oin ming cup of calamity placedI on the! pa:at-r i table, are the-re not many to help him tc drink of that cup an-I who will not be com-t forted because he is stricken? Oh. for somne-i body to w:rite a book about the rewar:ds oh the Christian minister-about his surroani inns of Christi-a smnpathy. This woman of the text was only a type o0 thousands of men .snd women who comt en down from the mansbn and from the cot tc m< do kindness to the Iord's servants. I sup- Pu pose the men of Shuiem had to pay the bills Ye but it was the large haarced Christian sympa. -a thies of the womet, of Shunem that looked :k after the Lord's messenger. :0< Agrain. this wonai in the test was great in rh her behavior under trouble. Ayr only son had died on her lap. Avery n brhbt light went out in that household. The JO sicred writer puts it very tersely when he n slias, "He .nt on her knees until noon. and - then he died." Yetth- writer goes on to say :o that she ex'-aimed. It is well !" Great in )f prosperity. this wo'nan was great in trouhle. W-a Where are the fe-et that have not been blis- t tered on th hot sands of this great Saharal Ie Where are the ahoulders that have not been Wi hent underthe burden of grief? Whereis the ship sailing over classy sea that has not ar after awhile ben eaught in a (ye'lone? Where ma) is the ,artn of earthly comfort but trouble We hath hitched up its fIerv and panting team n1Z ant -ono throu'h it itli burnin:Z Plo;wshare f disastr? LUdecv tne pe!in of a.ges of 3o imrin: the great heart of the world haS Aur't with woe. HO Navigators tzil us a'oout the rivers. and the 1n A.mazon and the Danube and the Mississippi ave been explor.'d, but who can tell the >:t lerth or length of the great riv'-r of sorrow h -1:nde up of tears and bioo:d rolling throu'h 17' all lads and all ages, bearing the wreck of m .amilies and of communities and of emipire I -'o""" writhing,. boiling with the agon ro "a of F000 years? Etia and Cotopaxi and Th Vesnvius have been describe.!, but who ha' 'cl 'ver sketehld the volcano of suffring reach- he .g up fro'm its depths the lava and the soorin :hi inl pouring theti down the sides to whelm or :he nations? Oh, if I could g-tther all the to leartstrin-s, the broake heartstrings, into a mt )arp I would play on it a dirge such as was iever sounld. r 3il'''.ts:~ tell us of Gorgon i-nrl Cen- )la :aur and Titan. and geolo:.ss tail Is of Cx- 10 :inct sp ofes fmonsters, but greater than hc .ordou or megatherium, and not belongin ik o the realm of fable, ant not of an e--tinct ad ;pecies. is a monster with iron jaw and iron Til aoofs walking across the nntions, and his- n0 :ory and poetry and sculpture, in their at- J :enipt to sketch it and deseriie it, have ee.ned to sweat great drops of blood. But, thank God, there are those who can I !onguer as this woman of the text conquered )r! ind s-y: "It is well ! Though my property. )11 )e gone. thouzh my children 1,e gone. though >r ny homie be brokon up, thotigh my healih '01 )e sacrificed, it is well, it is wll !" There is .ho 2o storm on the sea but Christ is ready to vel ise In the hinder part of the ship and hush Lnd t. There is no daakne s but the constella- he :ions of God's eternal love can illumine it, fl and though the winter comes out of the :orthern sky you have sometimes seen the :iorthern sky all ablaze with auroras that seem to say : "Co-re up this way. Up this way are tnrones ow light, and seas of sap phire, and the splendor of an eternal heaven. come up this way." ' :C1 We may. like the shlpc, by tempest he tos:ed YiN On peril :us depthe, but cannot he lost. Thonughsatan enrage the winI and t*.e t, nf T::e promise assures us the Lord will provide. :0 I heard an echo of my text in a very dark t i 3our, when my father lay dying, and tile old ountry minister said to him, "Mr. Talmage, low do you feel now as you are about to pass -al he Jorlan of death?" He replied-and it Di was the last thing he ever said-"I feel well, n [ feel very well; all is well." lifting his hand n a benediction, a speechless benediction 0 which I pray God may go down through all I Ib4 bn generations. It is weLl ! Of course it 'o Tas well. Again, this woman my text was great n her application to d..mestic duties. Every in yictuare is a home picure. whether she ii -ei ntertaining an El -r whether she Is giv ng careful att ,I0 her sick boy, oz vhether she ip n. aling cnr the restoration >f her propertN..-'very pie:-1 in her ease i T0 home picture. Those who are not disci- hit >les of this Shunemite woman who, going - ut to attend to outside charities, neglect th . luty of home-the duty of wife, of mother, f daughter. No faithfulness in public ben- no faction can ever atone for domestic negli ence. There has be'n many a mother who by in, lefatigable toil has reared a large family of :0 hildren, equipping them for the duties of :h ife with good manners and large intelli ence and Christian principle, starting them - ut, who has done more for the world than any another woman whose name has bo ounded through all the lands and all the a enturies- Lh I remember when Eossuth w'as in this ountry there were some ladles who got 'putations by presenting him very grace. ~h ully with bouquets of flowers on public oc asions, but what was all that compared with he work of the plain Hungarian mother who are to truth and civilization and the cause ai f universal liberty a Kossuth? Yes, this Pa roman of my text was greatin her simplicity. g When the prophet wanted to reward her or her hospitality by asking some prefer- I'9 sent from the king, what did she say? She 91h teclined it. She said'. "I dwell among my ;re. >wn people," as much as to say ."I am bra atisfied with my lot. I1ow many there are who want to get great *In .rehitecture and homes furnished with all fa rt, all painting, all statuary, who have not nough taste to distinguish between gothi Lie ad hyzantine. and who could not tell a mu gure~ In plaster of Paris from Palmer' :n 'White Cai tive.' and would not know a boy' enciling from Bierstadt's "Yosemite"-men rho buy large libraries by the squaire foot, 'e uving ~these libraries when they have hardly sei nough eduention to pick out the day of the .. lmane! Oh, how many there are striving o have things as well as their neig~hbors, or etter than their neighbors. and in the strug Ie vast fortunes are exhausted and business ros thrown into bank'ruptcy, andi men of eputed honesty rush into astounding for- St. Of aourse I say nothing against refinement . r cultu:'e. Splendor of noode, sumptuous- s i'm of diet, lavishnwss in ar, ni'ntness in ap- As ardl-there is nothing algainst them in the ing heor out of thea Dible. Got i not. mnat us. to pr.fer mau hovel to English co ig''. er untanned shiepskin to Fren'h.. roede 'oth. or huskS to pin"'aple or the h1< turnsiness of a boor to the ma'nn'-r, of aa 'entlemn. God, who strung the. bea'h wiii ab ited -hell andt the grass of the oI"id wit h'lws of thc night and! hatha exqumisitely (' ing'ed moruin" dlon I ani Irobin re. r brt. wil mnsu- to k eep our eye open to aill b'i'iti- hr 'l sight', ain I e.ur eta' open to all 'iatif :i!.ne,' an I our heitrt ope~n to all ele. ings oisthat youi no'hlt not to itnventory thte thi ont'ri'- o' life a- amoi~ng thle indi=poe' hles.d kn aitnt. rlIeponde, "I dwa-~ amo''lni my o' nt Yes, this woman of the text was gre-:t in . or jowtv. faith in God. ant it hewa no lsi: .haime'i to talk about it tA .ore idoat rs. Ah. 0f vomant will n 'ver appeciate wh'at she" owe i o Chi t ianity uutil stie kno'ws and so's thih "'gradaon o; ner s'dx under p:;amlena f hiommte'danism. Her very' birth cons Ic I 11 . msforthint', -old like cattle in thc sham-io ,in. Slavye of all work, ad at h:.st her boly ha' u-I fore iune rat py:~r" of h.-c hu. nd. n ftia n above thec rumling of the ja,1 r nuts I hear the -:ii I"tion''gra of rrn i, insulted. t'roiten' hear' c. iotan roddfen woe~aan. Hfer ieairi i, have a i.n th: sieand Tigr' an 1 the L.: Phl't ' rni on th teppes of Tairt try. S:c h:: b'e"n dh'ou-i ti ne .d i'panish A iam'ra.)ri Iin i-' 'Cd *~r Ii ,* -sa ',id in th" Gain ;. Ta;:r isno r,. on. or a ul-" on. or ln ilan L or a .e nountain. 'or a riv -r. -r a ''. bit "old tel w1ia . tory of th out r"a-"e :rap" d i'pa' hr. But, thtanks to Go) !. "r -'e.ian r ro n ignouniny to e'x.t'd 'n-c'"n-l -- p -o'mi" the' n.1e i Onate 'au. ht.: t'e getl IIa rifeth hon'ored methlat. in uniui Chrs an. Ot.if 4Christiani:y has donei so muc.ih ~ or womanit', srl woman wieu10 b lem its su1 nost ardent advo--il" and its eiublii'ca. a xemnlitctioi When I come to speak of womanly Infn ce, my raind always wanders off to one >del-the aged one who, 27 years ago, we t away for the resurrection. About 87 irs ago. and just before their marriage y, my father and mother stood up in the I meeting house at Somerville. N. J., and )k upon them the vows of the Christian. ( rough a long life of vicissitude she lived rilessly and usefully and came to her end 0 petep. No child of want ever came to her d or and was turned empty away. No one sorrow came to her but was comforted. It one asked her the way to besaved butshe of inted him to the cross. When the angel '.B1 life came to a neighbor's dwelling, she al s there to rejoice at the starting of an ier immortal spirit. When the angel of th came to a neighbor's dwelling, she PI .s there to robe the departed for the burial. 9i WVe had often heard her, when leading hi aily p-myers in the absence of my father, vs . "0 Lord, I ask not for my children cr alth or honor, but I do ask that they all .y bethesubjects of Thy comfortinggrace!" th r 11 children brought into the kingdom of d 1. 1ho had but one more wish, and that e3 s that she might see her long absent mis- of nary son, and when the ship from China cc :ored in New York harbor and the long ;unt on DAssOd over the threshold of his st 'ernal home she said, "Now, Lord, lettest et ou Thy servant depart in peace. for mine gi s have seen the salvation." The prayer tq s soon answered. bc t was an autumnal day when we gathered -n afar and found only the house from C ich the soul had fled forever. She looked Ps y natural, the hands very much as- when of y were employed in kindness for her It laren. Whatever else we forget, we never of ,et the loo'. of mother's hands. As we - S ther by the casket we could not help say, "Don't she look beautiful?" It was tb :1u -, day when, with heavy hearts, 10 e-rrie.i her out to the last resting th The withered leaves crumbled under St )> and wheel as we passed, and the sun te 'ne on the Raritan River until it looked ! fire, but more calm ard beautifu! and cc ianut was the setting sU; of that aged pil- 14 n's life. No more toil, no more tears, no BI re sickness, no more death. Dear motlhezr! n tutiful mother! ra Sweet k4 the slumber beneath the sot, While the pure spirit rests w1th God. U n-ol not go back and show you Zenobia ce 0miramis or Isabella or even the woman Sl he text as wonders of womanly excellen e lo .reatness when I in this moment point to fo r own picture gallery of menory. and w you the one face that you remember so 1, and arouse all your holy reminisceneer, al L start you in new consecration to God by th pronounciation of that tender. beautiful, C rious word, "Mother, mother " th pa Medicine in the Xiddle Ages. at: En an entertaining article in the ateenth Century on medieval med- m: ue, some curious prescriptions are fe en. A person whose right eye was a lamed or bleared was recommended ru "take the right eye of a Frogg, lap ra ii a piece of russet cloth, and hang of about the nec!." The skin of a gi en's heel was prescribed for 'gout. T1 fident young men will be interested di this: "If vou would have a man be- R: ne bold or impudent, let him carry wE ut him the skin or eyes of a lion or (P k, and he --ill be fearless of his fu 3mies; nay, he will be very terrible Pe to them." The tendency to reti ice, which is so common a fault of ca eliaments, municipal councils, etc., sh ght be cured by this reatment: "If a woalis~lim o a n tr< n tongues, and seek out those of m ter frogs and ducks, and such crea- be es notorious for their contianual wi ise making." to< [f a man had a "sounding or a pip- be in his cars," he was recommended s1 put oil of hempseed, warm, into am n, "and after that let him leape m on his one legge upon that side sa ere the disease is; then let him e doune hys eare of that syde, if 03 ?y any moysture would issue out." e remedy for nose bleeding was to g cat egge shales to pouder, and sift all mn through a linnen cloth, and blow in mi into hys nose ; if the shales were [r egges whereout young chickens are en :ched, it were so much the better." die wdered earth worms mixed with tic 1eC were recommended for jaundice. m< othache might be relieved by an ap- mu cation of the fat of "little greeneJ ges," or of the "graye worms Ot athing under wood or stones, hay- Pr many fete." Frogs and toads were e -orite remedies, especially when chI ated in some grotesquely barbarous C nner. Popular prejudice against in dical science to-day is declining, wl .1 will probably disappear alto- se :her ; but in the Middle Ages it th ns to have had a very rational basis. ag ioronto Globe. ei< _____________th Saved by a Blotter. j A commercial traveler writes to the gu Louis Globe-Democrat: "The , tter' in a hotel writing room once he red me from very considerable loss. w< a genera!lrule the blotter in a writ- lic : room is so dirty and covered up) m th ink marks that the whole preonits ai a pearance of au Egyptian Vi roglyphies. But on this occasion, luck would have it, the blnt-er was I solutely new and cean and could be 50 imined very closely. The last man 1 had been using it was also the 't st, and as he used rather a liberal dc pply of ink and wrote rapidly he re- a oduced alnost the entire letter upon C.) blotter before folding it up. I p ew hin to be the representative of a co -eEstern hous~ein asirnilar thou~rh chi trival capa-ity to our own, nil ou toeut inteni lin +i O do so, 1 fo1 ~ -li alning at th r" riouctMi his uletter on thie blotter. I was -ek at one. w~iLIX the name of the t use froma which I had the previous .t eit y trien an exceptonally large ier, andi reading on I found that he t ai notified his fir'that, acting under I ei 'ice fromt a veryv reliable source, he e d decided not ~to cairry cut his in- le 'actions and sell this firm a h'ill ofes ds. I weut out at once and mad"- bu ft w inauiries which convinced me en it not only was the house in qut : an nin d iicaelties, but that it was aho b utempl:'ting a fraudulent transfer co defeat its creditors. I promprtly cl redl the house I rcpresentedtbignure Sltter by mail containing this thu -r giv in the reasons brnictly. j.n-1jdi lowig up the telce. a by an ' ntary lett'ar. Somec 'nr u. ,t corespondence followed, but d isws abtuptly termina^.ed by thia spens~i of the lattec anti the ab- e. CULU1MU1AN EXPOS1MD N 0ELS.. DLAR. En~r: While the building a voted to th di:play of minerals, etals and incident.lly to geological rmations, is dscribed in the odicial rectory as belonging to the "early alian renaissanee with a slight touch French spirit," the Agricultural v iilding may be recognized in part as C muccessful revival of tneclassic Corin ian, save that it lacks the imposing f esentation which more height would v ve, being a little more than a story c gh. Its surroundings however are ried and charming. Approached by r ossing a bridge over a wide part of V e lagoon, the water sceno becomes a lightful enlivener and rebet to the e. This approach brings you to one the chief entrances at the rorth-east rner of the structare, greatly iengthened by Corinthian columns iborately corniced. Interiorly, the t ound floor is equally divided into v o grand areas, the south-eastern part f ing allotted to thirty-four foreign v untries, while the north-western 'I rt is occupied by the different States t the Union, including Greece, Russia, j ily and Switzerland. In a collection 700J or 8000 exhibits you can well f agine that time fails to paticularize em to any great extent. There are 25 exhibits of that grand cereal of a world, wheat, from the United ates alone, consisting chiefly of win- a e wheat, wbite and red, of which Wis- f nsin leads in the number of exhibits, 1. Of the foreign show in wheat, ain and Uruguay sead the moAt merons specimens. Indian corn is ised in nearly every State of the 2ion, and the exhibit of this valuable real is full and very interesting, coa ting of all varieties, white, red, yel v and oven black kernels of different rms in single seeds, and on cobs g, short and of medium length. For propriate and tasteful utilizing of a space allotted to her in the Agri Itural Building it must be a ImittedI it the State of Illinois takes the Im. The exterior of her fanciful cture presenting to the eye layers striped yellow kernels shced from r a cobs, the white of the latter in the t ddle ot the slices prodaeing the ef- r t of innumerable golden stari with a )right central light. You enter the -' ral enclosure to discover a well ar aged exhibit of cereals in glass jars a form admirably constructed to , -e a complete view of each product. Le whole effect outside and inside in ates the mind and hand of an artist. r e, oats, barley and the grasses, s , 11 as flowers, meals, decorticated eled) grains are here in great pro- t ion, but the only couutry which ap ars as a producer of rice is Japan. r e cereals in food form, as bread, ' kes, pastry, biscuit, crackers, vermi- C ai, macaroni, etc., have an abundant t Ding, and sugars and syrups from v . epe* and frnit. - antont. + es, palms, mille, sorghnm, with re- t Lrkable exhiwiie of honey and boney- u es, impregnate the surrounding air h th an overpowering sweetness. Pota- S !s, carrots, turnips and the orinary N ets are not forgotten in this big d ow, and peanuts loom up in a style b d quantity to aEtonish the youthful ., nd. All sorts of dried, smoked and ted meats, cannel food, including h, flesh, fowl, sardines, lobsters, sters, with meat extracts, soups, ndensed or evaporated milk in tin or a ss are disp'ayed in endless t ray. Milk, butter, cheese and .the applieances of the dairy nte special attention. One ebeese >m Canada is a veritable phenom- A on, weighing 23,000 pounds, and stined after the Columbian Exposi >n closes to make the circuit of thte a >ther country as a telling advertise- 11 nt for the maker thergof. India andi d pan appear as the chief sources of 'J r tea supply, as indicated in the esent exposition, while coffee, cocoa, e ocolate, hops, peppers, cloves, cin a mon and tobacco come from varioas mes. Kentucky, Wisconsin and v inecticut are the most prolific states the union producing leaf tobacco, ich Nicotian plant has a parasite, it t ms, that like the p)hylloxera upon r i grape vine, makes extensive ray s unless destroyed by some inse'cti--' e. What sort of a worm cain it be C t thrives upon nicotine? Eutomno- t fically he is well known, and it is e d lie likes his favorite food. Dc t siibus non disputandums cs'. Lotton is well represented. Also S mp, flax, jute and wool; and silk in f >rms as well as in cocoons. Alcohol, a uors, ales, wines, cidar, vinegar, d neral waters, etc., have their share, It large one, of space for exhibition. s, fats, lard, tallow, butteri-ie, oleo-J rgaine, vegetale oils, cotton-sceed ,olive oil, liinseed oil, J:dirn oil, ips, stearine, glycerine, piar~dline, ermaceti, wax, candles, ce, will C se our list. II Bnt if the teamng earth he so ron rf y prolitie, not less surpri-eg n the mnvention and akill ot ma'i in IS astacting nachines for tien, eting, harvest ing and exhibiting hert ntless prodnts,~ nll of whicht ma- i ins and prdu' ar' mYIre: thor- j ghly imp'rovei ye.:r a ye . .-. * 1 There is no bani.imgz connecie I with SColumnbian Exos.ition in -Jackson rk that will bear a closer inspection her for a certain symmetry in its terior or for a gn-.nd exhibit inside, mn the Palace of 31echanic Art, gen ily call d ll this long list of machines doubt- j s seems wearisome to the uninter- I ed reader, buit seen in tWi largio ildmlig,and varied by tue pers.'n i pei ee of an increaised numbe hr of miate d fern de operatives. *nli;.ened amo water vh'eN, fountniux of water in r ieL, clank andi roar of mach:linery, 1 iuntiring and assidunous Yauikee' au~i undaunted it quirer froni every er clime catnnot fail to b.e imprewediu , i:i eu~se of thm constant wo ri1ng ei :n's mind- and an outward visibjle onstration of it such ais he will not oerience in any other bui ld.lg of the hmian xom iua c A CAT AND A RATTLER. U3 Formter Completely Vanquishes am."i Slays4 Her Vicious Foe. "A curious fight between a cat and rattlesnake was witnessed by some .hool children lately," said a Penn !Ivanian. "The reptile was lying urled up in a field. The cat stole owly upon him, and before long it 'as plain that the rattler had dis overed the approach of his foe, for e raised his head slowly out of his )lds and began to shake his rattles 'arningly. But this Maltese was no idinary cat. She had evidently been aking quiet notes of the methods of ttlesnakes. She crept on, and when -ithin a yard of the snake, she Lopped. raised one paw and held it ut toward the rattler. Tnat was hallenge enough for him, and he brew his vicious bead and a foot and half of his body forward to strike he daring cat's foot. But the cat as as quick as the snake, and her )ot was not in the path of his fangs rhen they got there, and he missed.' 'hen, quick as a flash of lightning be cat brought her other paw into, lay. and with it she struck the. lake a blow that knocked It a )ot or mcre to one side. She did't eep the velvet over her claws -lien she struck, either, but had hbmi at full length, and laid the riake's neck open in two long gashes, om which the blood spurted. The A REMARKABLE DUEL. ttlesnake was surprised enough at ais unexpected result of the first )und, but, maddened at the cat's zsault, he coiled again for fight. 'he little backwoods school girls reamed with delight over the cat's martness, and the boys declared it -as a no-good rattler. "Again the wily Maltese presented er paw as a feint, and again the ttler was fooled by it, for his icious strike was avoided again by be cat's quick maneuver, and again bie snake received tabby's terrible ight-hander alongside the head. hese skillful tactics of the smart at were repeated three times, with he same result, and then the rattler, reakened and thoroughly dispirited, .rned. tc vnr. e way. The moment he snake moved away the cat sprang pon it fiercely and ripped it open alf way. down the back with two ashes of her sharp claws. As it lay -rithinlg on the ground the cat sud only seized the rattler in her jaws y its slender ncck and crunched its cad from the body. She then ragged the carcass to the other side I the road, where she dug a hole nd buried it. Then she trotted way toward the school house and a children were happy." HANGED Hi-S OWN FATHER. Pcular and Toucbing Scene on a Gal lows. It was a strange meeting of father ud son on the occasion of the hang ig of old Bill Stebbens for the mur er of his second wife at Spokane. 'he murder was attrocious, the peo le said, and there were few glances f sympathy for the doomed man mong the morbidly curious stares of ne ittle crowd that filled the jail The Sherid's deputies had attended >the details. The trap was set; 3ady t> be sprung and in an instant nd a man into the gre t beyond. 'he noose ha~l been m de carefully f the best hemp rope, greased withl allowv for that occasion. The pro ssion had maoved up the steps to be platform. With business-like dignity the hri fl, who hAi been notified, stepped rm his omice, crossed the courtyard, nd mounted the scaffold with the ath warrant in his hand. He read h document in a calm voice, as one ould a notiee of a sheriff's sale. ;Throughout his trial, in the dark ours after his sentence, through the ist night of life, and wvhile viewing uriously Irom his cell the rays of the t-t sunrise he would ever see on rth, the victim of the law had been Loically sulle:. iEnrotio~n had never rown itself in his face. He had aken his fate philosophically from. he first, making no defense, ying nothing when the stern Judge ad given him an opportunity to be re passing' sentcnc'e. Few noticed b ut it semIed as if a tear glistened :a his eye then. Addressing himself r thc Sheii, ho said in a suppressed one: "Won't you shake hands, my boy, efore I go?" The Sheri1i did not hear him, or ii' e did no or'c could have told it. He .as still the business.like executive :cr of the county in which he i ved: nothing more. "1 know 1 didn't treat you- right," he condemned man continued, show rg a trace of excitement, "nor your auther either. but a wordl of comn ;rt to a man that's going to die isn't auch. Wo~t you say somnething?~" Twenty years of battling with! the (rb1 on his own hook had hardened he Sheriff's heart. Silently he mo ined the assistanlts to buckle the traps, :mdust the cap and fix the Then with steady and unwavering ountenance he pressed the button nd sent his father into eternity. nokane Recview.