The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, April 04, 1895, Image 1

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TRI-WEEKLY EDITION. WINNSBORO, S. C., APRIL 4 1895. ESTABLISHED 1849 SINCE IT MUST BE. Since it must be that fairest flowers will wither, Uright springtime days depart, we know nol whither; Since It must be Look well upon the bloasoms while ye may, Glean all the gladness from each golden day, lo gain sweet memories for your weary way; Since it must be. Since It must be tht hearts are daily breskin, That sorrow comes to some with each day's waking; Since It must be Why bear thy sorrow with a smilinz fAce, Nor grant it in thy thought the chiefest place Pass ever onward, taking heart of grace; Since It must be. PAMELA'S WALK. "Pamely was ter'bul sot in her way,I Grandpa Coan often remarked, "but arter her adwentur with that bar, she want nigh so sot." No one could deny that Pamela wat. "sot-" Indeed, the pretty blackeyed girl rather prided herself on this partic ular trait of character. - She sometimes said, with a toss of her head that made every curl in it dance, "them as is sot gen'ly gets their own way;" which is certainly true, and shows that Pamela, though living in the woods of Oswego County, was wise in her day and gener' ition. It was early in 1800. Already tht settler's axe had made tin7 clearings, and their log houses stood in the shade of the gigantic pines for which that locality was once famous. And two miles from Pamela's house, at the fall of the Oswego, the first saw mill clat * tered noisily. Here John Goodsell had made a clearing of several acres, and built the largest log house in the vicia ty, one of three rooms. And it had need of such Implitude for. .it sheltered eight roistering boys and girls, between vh'om and the Coan children the greate. *affection existed. The Indian' trail ran close to the brush fence which surrounded Mr. Coan's clearing, thence wound devi atingly among the trees and terminated at the river's brink, just above the saw nill. But it was much oftenerpressed by the quick feet of the white children than by the moccasined feet of the in lians. One sultry day in August Pamela sat discontentedly on the broad doorstep, It was ov.erreached by a' -ude trellis coveted with morning-glory'vines, nw one blaze of flowers. The busy whirr of her mother's spinning wheel~ sounded cheerily inside, a;nd- mingled with the voices of her four little brother picking "erries on the edge of the woods, But above all these sounds the roa of the falls came with an overwhelming pt rsuasion to the ears of Panila, whc had. beei most cruelly .disappointed bat morning. Her older brother had promised to go with her for a day's visit to Good sell's, whose home by the river offered inducements for pleasure her own acked. But on the last moment . they bad zone with their father on an expedition to the post at Oswego, so Pamela sat on the doorstep and pouted--refusing any assistance to her mother inside or the ittle berry-pickers outside. Suddenly a thought 'came over her Why- shouldn't she go alone? What oee .,as there for the boys to always go with their guns? I(o one had seen any signs of a bear since the snow went off 'n the spring. Yes; she would go, -she was decided. "Mother," she called, "I'm going to Goodsell's by myself; and that's all 'here is to it!". "Sakes 'live child! Wha~t are ye thinkin' on?" said Grandpa Coan, who was working in the little garden before the house. "Goin' through the woods 'lone, 'thout anyone with a gun with ye? Do ye want to beet by b'as?" "No," said Pameia tartly, "I don't want to be et, and I don't iend to be, neier; but I'n. goin'--I'm act on it, 1o there's no use talkin'.". And Pamela went, the objections of ber grandfather and mother being barely heard in her eager haste to be off. In less than ten minutes after she had reached her decision, her pink4 sunbonnet was glancing throngh the trees, as she followed 'the trail to the ny~er. A day of cloudless: enjoyment -fol lowed, and at 6 o'clock she began to think of going home. For, although the sun was shining orn the river with noonday brightness, the forest ways were already dimming and thick shad )ws lay across the trail. Pamela, refusing the proffered com panionsbip of big, bashful Sam Good se'il and his gun, with an empnasie that showed she was not- dissembling, started homeward. As she walked1 swiftly along the narrow trail, her pink~ munbonnet hanging by one etring from her hand, and the evening breeze. cool from the river, blowing her tangled curls round the flushed cheeks; a- smile curved her lips, and she skid to the birds, probably, sihce they 'were her only companmon: " 'Sif I wanted .thai gawk Sam GoodseH to go h3ome with me! He said my cheeks were jtust the - color of his mother's June roses.I wonder if they be? Guess~ I'll rut down to the spring and see-" A cheery laugh -ended her soliloquy. A few rods from the trail a spring bub. bled whitely- from the ground, then sent a silver thread to the river. "Bear's spring" was the suggestive name it bore. The kindly sun lenta ray to aid Pamela's inquiry as, holding back her curls with both hands, she took a long look at the rosy, dimpled face that smiled at her from her sylvan mirror. Well suited with the result of het inquiry she started to return to the trail. Started-then stood hke a little white statue of fear framed in the greet black of the pine woods. Between her and the trail sat a black bear, his greal arms extended as though to embrace JoEa hours it seemed to Pargelg they iaced eac:. o'her thus. Tlen mse turnedl an' ran away iiito the deepest woods. Tbe low-hanging branches brushed her head- her feet slipped on the smooth pine needles. On, on, on! among the column-like trunks-over . the bodies of fallen forestgiants, armed clumps of bushes. Orce she fell down -down-down-would she never stop I falling? But the depth of her fall was more in her imagination than reality for it was only a deep hollow filled with dead leaves and slippsry pine needles and she was not hurt. Pamela was not running blindly. She intended to strike the trail a half mile above the spring. And soon she came through a thicket of black-berry bushes, oat on the familiar track. And there sat the bear, with his black, bideous face, and red rolling tongue! Her pink bonnet, to which she ha(. clung through all, slipped from her t fingers, and again she sought safety in the darkening woods. One she looked over shoulder to see if the bear was following her, and saw him smelling of her bonnet. Even in her mortal ter- t ror, a pang pierced her heart at the thought of its probable destruction. 1 Exhausted, she sat down under a lin den tree. A "screech owl's" startling cry seni her again on her wild flight. A pro- P truding root threw her to the ground, F and she rose with a purple bruise < .growing dark - on her forehead. At < last, with a sinking heart and a pre- t monition of the horror to come, she again came out oi the trail, a hall mile from her home. And there, still barring her path. sat the grim monstor Until now fear had kept her mute but this time her desperation found vent in a shriek of anguish that echoed 1 through those leafy solitudes with. ar appalling intensity. The bear, wit]: a snort of fear, plunged from the trail, into the bushes, and was seen no m'ore. But Ptamela did not know her way I was clear The sound of her own voice had start ed her as much as it did her enemy, .nd again she fled-this time from he.-self. Too exhausted to run long, she staggered on, and with bated breath--skirted a dark and sullen pool, to whose surface one ray of the setting sun had penetrated, and shone redly, like a malignant eye, and guided 1 more by the wild wood instinct than by any sense of her own, she came to the f ence that bounded her father'C clearing. The little house lay dark in the shodows, but light shone through the open door, and fami!iar 'voices t came like sweetest music to her ears. t It was only a minute after this till t she reached -the opening that served I for a gate, and came through the dooi just as her father and brothers, with guns and lanterns were starting in search of her.. A pallidspecter of. the Pamela they "had last seen, with bruised, fear-distorted face, her dress [' torn wi:h briers, and stained with swamp raud, her hands scratched and bleeding, she sank into a chair ane gasped 'the bear! on the traill" The maples and lindens stood barF and brown, and the pines wore snowy wreaths on their heads .before' PamelE again walked the trail that led to the Oswego. The petty, stubborn girl had almos given her life for her waywardness, Her roses and curls were gone, and in their stead were a white face and close cropped dark head. But that "gawk" faithful Sam GoodI sell, whispered to her theat she was as "white aLnd pretty as the snowdrops in mother's flower bed," and-this time -was no)t snubbed ior his pains. That zvinter the Coan and Goo dsel. boys cut down the trees each side the tra il, arnd made .a bros d road down which they hauled the g.:eat pine loga to the river. And this road, in mem- I mtory of her adventure, they namedt "Pamela's Walk." And thus 'it was called until the pin(s were all laid low. a and the forest gave place to grain tieldi and orchards.-.-Detr oit Free Press. They Are Curses to the Country. Too much cannot be said against tht. .nen of wealth who sacrifice everything t to getting wealth. There Is not in the I world a more ignoble character -than 'jthe mere money-getting American; in-. sensible to every duty, regardless of every principle, bent only on amassing. a fortune, and putting his fortune only to the basest uses-whether these be to speculate in stocks and wreck railroads himself. or to allow his son to lead a life of foolish and expensive Idleness and gross debauchery, or to purehase. some scoundrel of high social position, foreign or' native, for his daugchter. Suh a man is only the more daingerous If he occasionally does some deed like ounding a college or endowing a shurch, which makes those good peo pe who are foolish forget his realE IniquIty. These men are equally care less of the workingmenl,'whom they op. It press, and of :the State, whose exist- I' ~nce they imperil. Theie are not very many of. tyein, but there is a i-ery greatj1 niuber of . mien who approach more r. less closely- to the type, and, just in ofar as they do so approach, they are nrses to the'-country.-Foruim. All Depends.. Miss'Blithely (interested in scIence, -Can one get a shiock from a tele phone? Top Spiffkins '(intent on 'ethics)- J That depends, my dear young lady, on who Is talking at the other end.-HIan per's Bazar.. Weather or Coffee? Landlady--Is it cold enough for you-? 'o Boarder (vindictively)-Do you mean the coffee? j I It Every sweet thing finally makes you :IRST UNITED STATES COINS. ] Brief Illustrated Sketch of the Ori- la gin of Our National Specie. G The United States mint was estab ished and the money of account and a Lational coinage authorized by act of :ongress of April 2. 1792. On July 31, .792, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon, the 'foundation stone" was laid for the irst United States mint building by i )avid Ritterhouse, the first director of n CENT Z.,T ie mint The building stands at No. O !9 North 7th street, between Market tnd Arch streets, Philadelphia, an-1 vas completed on Friday, Sept. 7, 17V2. A. )n the following Tuesday, Sept I 1 lie first purchase of metal was mad, onsisting of six pounds of old copper at .s 3d per pound. In October,.1702. three presses were " mt in and President Washington. it is annual message to Congress of Nov. . 1792, says:' "There has also been a . mall beginning in the coinage of half- ,a imes; the want of small coins in cir- il -ulation calling the first attention to I1 hem." This piece has on the obverse n: ientale bust, emblematic or liberty, a) ind it is stated that Martha Washing- % on sat to the artist while be was de- w igniig- it. The silver from which It a vas struck was furnished by Washing- it on from his private plate. Only a a mall number were coined, and it has d low becolhe one of the rare coins of n kmerica, but being unauthorized can I ot be classed in the national series.' b There appears to have been ,nothinh y nore done at the mint In 1792, and the i rear 1793 was devoted to experiment ng on the copper coinage. The cent . tnd half cent made their first appear tnce this year, the former in a number f designs,.but the Issue of all was very mall' and all are rare. The year 1794 aw a very much larger Issue of copper olns, and as the dies became worn out r broken, new ones were engraved to ake the place of the samelgeneral de ign, but differing In details.' Fifty-six arieties of 1794 cents have been dis overed, showing a gradual transition rom the type of 1793 to that fourid on he cent of 1795. The year 1794 wit kessed the beginning of our regular na onal silver coinage, which was con inued without -intermission for 100 'ears, some one or more denominations Laving been issued every year. On uly 18, the Bank of Maryland depos ted in the mint a lot of French silver pD oins, valued at $8,715.73%, and the W Lrst silver dollars were delivered at W' ho treasury on Oct 15, 1794, over 100 W ears ago. The number coined was C. ,758, and they are now exceedingly pl aluable. They were designed by Rob- to rt Scot, first engraver of the treasury, p< nd weighed 412Y2 grains, nine-tenths w lit Ife ft Gi hi lui FIRST sILVER DOLLAR. mre silver. Half dollars and half imes wei'e also coined this year. The Luarter dollar and the dime- did nol .ppear til'1796. 1 l GEORGE WALLACE JONES. esides at Dubuque and Is the OldeslI to Living Ex-United States Senator. i Gen. George Wallace .Tones, of Dui-.t uque, Iowa, is the oldest living 'ex-s nied States Senator. Recently be ,th .celebrated his 90th bi ~' birthday. He was hi born in Vincennes, of IdA pril .2. 2, c- 804'.-Eis- inther'. d John:Rice JTones. Ic ' \ was -born in Mer- ci: In 1765. took three m - -. diplomas from O0 I , - ford Univer'sity, N a n~d graduated N GEN. JoNvs. from Its law de-, artment. He practiced law -In Lon-. on. and coming to America located in I ~hiladelphia, upon .the- invitation of' E) ~enjamin Franklin, who was a- close t riend. He removed to Louisville, Ky.,j bence to Vincennes, w~here he was the~ .rst lawyer to practice. - Here his son, George Wallace, wam orn. *He entered Tranmsylvgtnia U'ni 'ersity,' Lexington, *'Ky., in 1S21, and] 'hile there served as sergeamt of Gen. acksn's. body guard on that hero' arcefrom Tennessee to Washingtont a 823, and did similar service for the arquis de Lafayette thie next year. Le served during the Black Hawk war s a soldier, was made a general. an'Il, m 1848S, elected United States Senato:. "4 hen his term expired President Bsa- 00 hanan appointed him Minister to Co- 2 )bi,. from which he was recalled cr alleged treasonable correspondence th w'ithi Jefferson Davis at the outbreak "' f the civil war. th Gen. Jones has figured as principa by r second in seven duels, the most in. th resting of which was the affair of t onor- between Jonathan Cilley, of be lane, and William J. Graves, of K'en- 1st ucky. in 1838, which arose from polit- wm 'al differences. Jones wvas Cilley's Ith -nad 'The wansn were ries and 0( .ch man fired three times. At the st Cilley fell wounded to death. Thli :eral was the last delegate to Con 1:s irlom thi Territcry of Michigar d delegate from Wisconsin from 13' 18s9. commanded the militia of Wis usin for a time. and for three year: as itschief justice. To'GeorgeWallacE >nce; belongs ihe distinction of narn g the Territories of Wisconsin an, wa. Gen. Jones has known intimatelN ost of the prominent. men-of the-conu l. He was a Chesterfield in polite ss and very popular. He was a class ate at college of Jefferson Davis and ichary Tiy!or; in Congress he was s iend of John Quindy Adams, Andre Lckson, John C. Fremont, Martin Var airen and Franklin Pierce; he was the xrtner in business enterprises of Dan. I Webster; the colleague in the Housi James K. Polk. John Bell, Abrahan neoln, and in the Senate of Thoma! Benton, Charleq Sumner, Stepher Douglas, William H. Seward ant Lmes Buchanan. THE HOOSIER POET. imes Whitcomb Riley 'Was Once v Farmer Boy-Uis Poetic Genius. The tone of James Whitcomb Riley'a )etry tells for itself that he was once farmer boy. His father's home wa' the old farming town of G.ceenfield id., and there the lad grew up in the idst of sweet, healthy country life though the poet is apt to confes ith a merry twinkle in his eye that he as of little use in farming, yet, as he Ids, "My father used to press us boy4 to the service in corn-plantin' time id ,we went very loatlifully, at least, I d." He tells frankly, too, that he wai > scholar, for, as he confesses, "At 1 could not repeat the simplest school, y speech without breaking. down id rather than undertake it I dellber ely chose to take a whipping." After leaving school, says Farm and JAMEs WEiTCoMB nILt. ome, he begai to write tolocal Va rs and his first appearance in print as made in the Kokomo Tribune, bere. a number of his dialect poems re published under the name of John Walker. It was not until the ap .arance of Leonainie, which he gave the world as a newly discovered em of Edgar Allan Poe's, that Riley's Drk began to obtain recognition in erary circles. Then came a little vol. ne of dialect poems, which were pro. ssedly by B. F. Johnson of Boon, and liowing it there appeared The Boss irl, Afterwhiles, Pipes o' Pan and a tndful of the sweetest poems unde' e taking title Old-fashioned Roses. Mr. Riley is a hard worker and pre rs the unreasonable hours of night for s labor. He is a warm-hearted. nial, companionable man and in hi! rsatility and mastery of the faulty ery-day language of his countrymen, never had an equal. His thoughte e chaste and the human sympathy d pure purpose that runs througli s song is the true index of the man id will be his best and most lastlny logy. 'oduction and Cost of Aluminum Concerning the amount produced and e cost of producing aluminum, thE )don -Grocers' Review says: "The production of aluminum in, eased from 50 tons in 1890 to 2,00'I ns in-1892, and the price has dimin ied in proportion. It was 60s per und in 1SS6, 20s in 1889. and now it about 1s 7d. When it is considered at a pound of aluminum is so much ~ger than a pound of other metals 1k for bulk, it weighs about one-third ordinary metals-this price cannot called high. No aluminum is pro ced in England now. Two compan. were started in 188G-87, but the emical process they employed is now solete. All aluminum sold in the irket is now made by the aid of etricity. Thie largest factory is at mhausen, in Switzerland. It is capa Sof turning out 1,000 tons a year. e second largest is in the south of -ance. It turns out about G00 tons. it a company has now been formed in igland, and as the soldering diilicul seems to be overcome, the metal wir Slack in His Geography. A curious incident regarding a strait urred during the Russian war. I1 ~uld have been ludicrous, if anything a be ludicrous connected with w'ar. mmodore Elliott was blockading a issian squadron in the Gulf of Sagha ,on the east coast of Sibe'ria. Think he had the Russians in a cul (1e sac. complacently waited for them tc ne out, as the water was too shallow him to attack them. As the enemy I not come out, he sent in to investi te, and found, to his astonishment, t Russians and ships had vanished. hile he had been waiting for themu in south they had quietly slipped cut the north. teaching both him and British Government a rather se re lesson in geography, as it had en thought that Saghalin was an hmus; and they were totally una re of a narrow channel leading from gulf to the Sea of Okhotsk.-New TRUE AMERICAN IDEAL& M'a Words and Deeds of Good Men In finence National Character. We have examples enough and t apare that tend to evil; nevertheless, for our good fortune, the men who have most Impressed themselves upon the thought of the nation have left behind them careers the influence of which must tell for good. The unscrupulous speculator who rises to enormous wealth by swindling his neighbor; the capitalist who oppresses the working. man; the agitator who wrongs the workingman yet more deeply by trying to teach him to rely not upon himself but partly upon the charity of individ uals or of the State and partly upon mob violence; the man in publie ife who is a demagogueor corrupt and the newspaper writer who fails to attack hii because of his corruption, or who slanderously assails him when he is honest; the political leader who, cursed by some obliquity of moral or of men tal 'vision, seeks to produce sectional or social strife-all these, though im portant in their day, have hitherto failed to leave any lasting impress up on the life of the nation. The men who .have profoundly influenced the growth of our national character have been in most cases precisely those men whose influence was for the best and was strongly felt as antagonistic to the worst tendency of the age. The great writers, who have written in prose or 1erse, have done much for us. The great orators whose burning words on behalf of liberty, of union, of honest government, have rung through our legislative halls, have done even more. Most of all has been done by the men who have spoken to us through deeds. and not words, or whose words have gathered their especial charm and sig nificance because they came from men who did speak in deeds. A nation's greatness lies in Its possibility of ichievement in the present, and nothing helps it more than the consciousness of achievement In the past.-Theodor' Roosevelt, in the Forum. Reasonable Request. Mrs. Williams always asserted tha whenever her husband-proffered a rea Bonable request, she complied with it as promptly as possible. When asked, on one occasion, what she meant by thii teservation, she said with a laugh: "Well, once in a while Mr. William"1 makes what I call an unreasonable re quest. For instance, -he came home a few days ago and said he had Ben a woman on the street whose dress he ad mired, and he wished I would have one made just like it. "'Tell me how it was made, and I tertainly will,' I answered. "'Oh, it was very simple,' he began 'The color was-well-it was one ol those mixed goods, you know; brown, I should say, or a sort of yellowish-gray, with a figure of some sort, a spot, or perhaps a small-strfipe, or it might have been a check. It was made with a skirt -just one skirt, I t'ink-and it had a ruffling, or a band, or a-a-some thing to brighten it, a little here and there, more toward the bottom, I should say, than the top-though I think there was a little ornamentation of some sort '.ound the top, too. "'And the waist or Jacket, or what :ver you choose to call it-that wat perfectly plain, I think, except thait there were a few frills about it, and a contrivance of sopne sort about the neck -nothing elaborate at all, but just what would look neat and appropriate I wonder if you catch my idea?' he in quired, as he finished this lucid descrip *ion "Now that was-one of Mr. Willams requests which I found it really impos sible to gr-ant!" The Origin of Point Lace. A little known example of inventive 'genius in woman is that afforded by Barbara U'ttman, of Saxony, and her point lace so long in fashionable use all over the world. She invented the pro cess and apparatus for manufacturing this beautiful handiwork, which has since given employment to millions of operators, and which, in its line, has never been excelled. The apparatus cooks like a long pincushion bristling with pins arranged to outline the pat tern or design. The operator manages from ten to fifty peculiar spools, allow ing the thread to feed over the pins alternately, until the design is complet ed. The spools or bobbins are purpose ly of different colors, so as to be easIly distinguishable. The process is slow and difficult to learn. Miss Uttman founded schools, where thousands Larned it. Since her time, when inv-en tive ability was rare, even among men, her Ideas have been incorporated in the construction of machinery by which the lace Is produced at wonderful lower rates, and yet Barbara Uttman's lace utill surpasses all. -No Sign of Regret. A drill sergeant of a volunteer rege inent, in drilling a squad whom he w:ts instructing in the funeral exercise, said: "Now, lads, I want to see how well y-o.i ean do it. I'm going to walk thirough the r-anks, and I wish you to .,uppost 'm the corpse." He ordered the squad to rest on~ their arms reversed and stand at ease. Then e walked through the ranks and -id dressed them as follows: "Your arm4 ~re all right and your feet are all right, but there is one thIng wanting. my lads-you hadn't that look of regret on your face that you ought to have whe' r marpse walks past."-Tit-Bits. Wonders of' the Desert. The great Yuma Desert of Arizona tas formerly a salt sea. Sea shells and oysters 14 inches In diameter have frequently been found at from ten inches to two feet in the sand in vari, ons parts of that desert.J FIGS AND TH15TL.tA B EFOR" a mal can pluck fruit from the tree of life he has to be Smore than a brother-in-law to the church. Put a smile on your face when you go out for a walk, and some body will be / helped. No man seeks his best who does .ot seek God first. The first step toward the cross is re 8entance. Love never finds a burden that it does not try to lift. There is no risk so great as to delay in seeking Christ. Happiness is never found by those who seek it on the run. When the devil is most like a lion h6 looks most like a lamb. St. Paul never backslid when he came &o a poor boarding house. God's plans are made for eternity, not for the present moment, The devil smiles when he meets. a Christian with a long face. The man who looks through cobwebs vill see spiders eve-ywhere. Sin tries to commit suicide when It has to look itself in the face. Gratitude can sing songs of praise with an empty pocket The saloon-keeper ruins other men, out damns himself. Whoever takes his first drink, does it xtanding on the edge of the pit. Heaven would have a black look it ieen through the devil's telescope. -Many people delude themselves Int tbhiring that laziness is poor health. The best equipment for the work of Christ is a constant enjoyment of his *St. It is a sure sign that Christ is in the house, when the devil makes a fuss in oburch. No higher salvation can be declared with the tongue than the heart can say %men to. There Is hypocrisy in thanking God for the-'bread and finding fault with the cook. Men know that God can make worldk, but they are slow to believe that He #An love. Wanting to do rght will afmount to little, unless we decide to do it with God's help. God has declared that no. man shal do the devil's work without reaping the 'tevil's fruit There is something wrong with the. religion of the home where the children Iate the Sabbath. The right kind of a Christian life 1% sure to make more than one sinner feel uhamed of himself. An angel would be unfit for heaven V! he had to think the thoughts of a wick ed man for an hour. When you want to say a few wordtL for God and have them count, don't do #t with a long face. -The man who does not love his neighs bor as himself still throws banana kns on the sidewalk. A happy Christian in a cold church has a fine chance to give the devil the biggest kind of a backset.I There are too many people who are willing to do all the shouting and let somebody else do all the work. The man who claims that there is nc such thing as an honest man, tells others what he thinks of himself. Who will have the highest place iit Aeaven-the man who did the biggest preaching or the one who suffered most or Christ?-. Many a man who feels good undet tar preaching, goes right out of the church to take somebody by the throat end say: "Pay me what thou owest." The World of Sunshine. The tiny ray of sunlight which stok in through the crack of the shutter yesterday wrote with Its golden pen these words upon the darkness within: "There is a great big world of sun shine, just like me, outside." Don't keep sunshine barred out 'from your soul. Open wide the shutters. Do not Iterpret the meaning of life from the darkness, but from the sunshine which falls upon it.. The joy of yesterday, which crept into your clouded life. points you to a world that abounds with it 'The satisfaction you felt to day, upon doing that good turn for an other, was as a drop to the ocean of satisfaction -you will find if you mak-' ivery other day just like this. *hark Took the Ship's Log as Bath. The log and part'of the linie of the ark Jobii J. Marsh, now discharging a cargo of salt at this port from Ragged Island, is believed to be in course of digestion in a shark's stoma.ch.' The Marsh was beating her way north through the Bahamas,-the home of the man-eaters. when a pull almost strongr enough to bring the vessel to a halt was felt by all on deck. In looking aft the line was seen disappearing down the throat of a big shark. As the log is made of copper and weighs several pounds it is probably by this time mak ing the sea monster feel somewhat un comfortable.-Philadelphla Record. Trust in God. It is a wise providence that we can ot see the future. We can see through one p~ane of glass easily, but througl: ten placed together we cannot see. yet each is transparent. By living ada at a time we get along well and all i: clear, although we cannot see thr-ough all the ipurposes of God concernig us. News in Brief. --Upper Tonkin, China, has wood mines. -A hen that catehes and eats mice is 4-he latest Kansas product. -Originally the custom of raising the fiat was a sign of submission. -Manchester, Engaid, gets its water supply nidety five niles away. -In Poftugal the tobacco tax bringa $500,000, the lan~d tax $8,500,000. -The new catalogue of the British Museum will contain 1,400,000 distinct titles. -Until about forty years ago the Persian Lovernment levied a tax On eats. -Vernier, the young French-mathe matical prodig3, is only eighteen yeark of age. --Paraidoxical as it may sound, there are several varieties of lish that can ,lot swim. -A clay found near Clarence, Mo.. has been found to contain forty per cent of aluminum. - -Montenegro, having 3,600 squar. miles, is aTmost ex-ictly three times. the size of Rhode Isiand. -Pilot balloons provided with sell registering apparatus have been sent to % height of 30,uOO feet. -Or the 218,373 foreigners living in Great Britaio, nearly one half, or 95, 153. reside m London. -Uruguay and Nebraska. are o nearly the same size, the former having 112, 00, the latter 76,000.. -The name of a steamship hailing from Honolulu, Hawaii, is. Likelike vronounced "le .ky leaky." -A Thibetan tribe keeps a regulai watch over c-meteries, who prays %load when he sees a meteor. -Anal sis proves the white- corn has about one per cent, more muscle forming elements than yellow. -Safety matches that can be used without a box are to be placed. on the -arket by a German inventor. -In a suit for the possession of a hog at Powhatan, Kan., five lawyers were -unpl)yed and the case cost $200. In Greenland the "candle-fish' U used as a lamp. It is about sa inches !ong and burns for fifteen minutes. -Glossometer3 are complicated in truments which the French are usig 'or messuring the tongues of bees. -At the Bombay, India, zoologiosi gardens the skin of a sea serpent slzty !our feet in length is on exhibition. -Loftus Jones Parker of Washing ton, who is thought to have two brams, is twenty two inches around the head. -Beloochistan was thus called be cause the Belooches were the domi nant tribe in its rivers, valleys and plains. -The sound of a bell which can be heard 45,200 feet through the water can be heard through the air -only 450 !eet. -The proportion of salt in sea water is largost where the water is deepest, but does not increase with the depth. -To prevent wrinkles the ladies ot the court of Catherine de Medici wore a forehead cloth tighty bound . on thleir heads. -Verdi was a very handsome youth,. and in spite of his four score years, retains a large share of his former good looks. -Counterfeit tickets, which were ao repted in large numbers, have reduced the dividend, of a Camden, N. J., street railway. -it is estimated by engineers thai the leakage from the gas'plpes of Lon ion equals nine per cent. -of the total canufac~ture. Corn taken south from a northern. ocality will not do it at best until so :limated, and southern corn taker iorth fails to ripen. A Baltimore syndicate contemplates building a system of electric railways :o connect a dozer of the largeattowns in central West Vi:ginia. -During the reign of Rich'ard ILI. wood f'or burning cost in Londoi. :tiirty cents a load; a load was what :onid be carried by a hors.. -The Duchess of T.rk for some rears has devoted a portion of her eisure in the winter to the manufac aure of clothes for the poor. -Louisiana has the largest farm it. he United States. It is 100 mailes mne way and twenty flve the other. r'he fencing alone cost $50,000.. -WVhen a student at the University >f Bower the Emperor William stad. ed the violia as a surprise :to his par. ants, and became quite proticlent. -In. Londion nearly 264. streets are iamed after the Queen, while there are 241 Cross streets, 240 Albert streets, 212 Church streets, 191 Queen streets. -Henry Van, Elten, In 1660, anticia pated several inventions, believed to be mod' rai. He describedl the air gnin the, steam gun and the hydraulbe press... -it is said that in. London aloni -he-e are no fewer than .10,000: pro tessional musicians of various-grades, tnd thait more than half of them are vomnen. . -Passenge.rs from the United-States ~or London can 'now take the'tai eight on. the dock at'- Liverpool im m~diately upon the ~arrival of -the tegmers. -Japanese shops are never verj arge, so reely mre then- httle alcoves ~pen from the street. There is noth og corresponding to ear genersi store nu Japan. -To prevent the evaporation.of ~wa :er in fire pails it has been discovered ~hat fifteen so twenty drops of oil will fo.rm a coating sufficient to obviate the hfmlnity.