Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TfijLMP.FT A. e = sounds a warng r9:0 V tho Uaredeemed, PT\TIE STRONG est tbing on earth is a holy life. WE all deserve so much credit that we never get. - TREASURE In Heaven draws in terest on earth. How so 311 shepherds d(: love to weigh their sheep. PEOPLE who never look up are ne account at lifting up. No MAN can overcome himself with. out the help or Christ. IF you have God's word for a thing, isn't that good enough? THE cow has been more of a bless ing to man than the lion. IN God's vineyard every tree is ex pected to bear good fruit. WiEN we lift on somebody else's burden God takes our own. GooD actions, like sheep, are not apt to follow one another. MAno3rT admitted bees to para dise, but barred out the hornet. IT is hard to convince a dyspeptit that the world is growing better. A LIE is aiwavs several shade. blacker than. the sin it tries to hide EVER-Y sensible man you meet wil admit that he was a fool last week T&% rnNG a child to ao wrong is a much a sin as shooting a man with i gun. No aMAN will ever be celebrated fo his piety whose religion is all in h; bead. THE man who believes the gospe with his heart loves his neighbor a himself. SO3iE men who start out to set th( world.on tire give up at the tirst thun ler clap. TiiEeRE is nothing we ought to do that we may not expect I.ou to hell as to do. TarERE is no place in the Ilil where God has promised to make . loafer happy. IT will not be found tl:at many o' the songs sung in Heaven were writ ten on earth. UNtEss a Christian's walk ccrrc' sponds with his talk the less he ha to say the better. MOST Christians are wll ng to d. Zreat things for God., waie but fers are willing tosuiler. THERE is Something wrong with the religion of a man who never toors happy inside of a church. THE moment you let a doubt touch. your heart and stick, voa will begiL to limp in your (Christian walk. UNLESS a Christian lives as high as he shouts, if he makes any noise a. all in church he makes to THR r sure thar. esinner who will give up hib sins can count on God forgiving them. WHENEVER a Christian sees a spar row he ought to remember that God has promised he shall not starve tc death. You can't tell anything about what a man is doing for Christ by knowing how much he is paying for his church pew. THERE are people who boldly assert their willingness to suifler anything for the Lord, who cannot eat a cold dinner without growling to save their lives. THE SWEET POTATO. DIade Into a Pie, Fried. Escanoped In a Deep Dish. Ordinarily th sweet potato is either roasted or boiled. When it is Secooked, it is generally fried; but here are several other ways of pre paring it, according to the New York Tribune. A method that is almost mrnnown at the North -is to fry the ;raw potato in hot fat. For this pur pose the potato should be peeled and cut in thin lengh-wise slices, and laid in a broad spider of hot lard, deep enough to immerse the slices. As they brown on one side and rise to the top, turn them and let themn brown on the other, as the under sid? of an article immersed in boiling fat browns before the upper side. A nice way to prepare cold boiled sweet potatoes is to escailop them. Slice them in thin circles, sprinkle them with salt and pepper, and put them in a shallow dish which has been well buttered. Moisten the potatoes with a little brown stock or gravy, thinned with water, and add p few bits of butter. Continue till the dish is full. Then set it in a very hot oven for ten or fifteen min utes to brown. Few Northern housewives are ac'qua inted with thie sweet potato pie of the South. This is made of dry, n'ealy potatoes, which~ arerubbed through a sieve in the same way as pumpkin. To two cups of the strained potato add a pint or milk. two eggs, a saitspoon of salt, half a teaspoon of nutmeg, a teaspoonful o1 cinnamon, with sugar enoi'ra to sweeten the pi . Tne amount will depend largely upon the sweetness of the potatoes. Bake in an under crust iike a pumpkin pie. Steel.' A new method of producing steel has been suggested by a F:renchmuan over some late diamond-makingex perimients. lie claims that it is suc cessful. The steel :s instantaneously made by pla ing a bar of iron and a stick of charcod to~iethier in a pairal lel direction in an e:ect rical lire- brick furnace of a temnperauarc of 1,O'00 degrees and subjectin~g thlem to e strong current. THE pummel-lozical is the most fruitful of professions. --Boo, the exclamation used to frizht en children, is a corruption of Bob, the name of a famous Gothic General. It has been used as a. terror word for! many centuries. -The smallestknown species or bog is the pigmny swine of Australia. They are exactly like the larger brethren in every particular except size, being net larger than a good-sized house 'INCOMPLETENESS I saw the cold, half-moulded clay.-I The artist's goodly thought Long uncompleted, laid away, Now never to be wrought In all its fulness, all its grace. One hand alone could mould The beauty of that dreamlike !ace A story but half told. And yet the story is conplet A In what it tells to me: We pass with busy, rushing feet, With eyes that will not see, Unto the Everlasting Day, Where Time's sands never run 'And leave behind us on our way Great works, but just begun. 4-lavel Scott Mines, in Harper's Bazar. AN ORDEAL OF FIRE, , BY W. THOMSON. T the time of the great bush fire which, with dis astrous results te human and animal life as well as k -property, swept over a vast exteni of the Western States in October, 1871, there were living, on adjoin - 1 ing farms in Isa bella County, Michigan, two families, named. :espectiveIy, Wilson and Moreau. The first-mentioned consisted of .athier, mother and their five-year-old -win boys, Samuel and Peter; while sarcisse and Mr.s. Moreau had but one 'hild, a girl of fifteen, called Marie 'darie Moreau--a name almost as ,retty - as was its American French lescended owner. In additior to remarkable beauty, Iarie rossessed the still more precious :ift of a sweet, unselfish disposition. sad was, moreover, the foremost .mong all the scholars attending the ,omewhat distant country school. 3ut, for a girl brought up in the Voods, she was neither very large nor ;trong for her a:ge, and the perform tnce of a specially daring deed was he last thing of which any one could :tave supposed her capable. The two log-houses of these fam ilies stood 300 yards apart, in the nidst of cleared fieldsand consider :Jibly more than that distance from any standing timber, the nearest piece of woods being a tract of primeval forest lying over a quarter-mile southwest of and facing both, so that it seemed hardly possible for either to be en dangered. Up to the 10th of the month, though the surrounding atmosphere was then somewhat darkened by smoke wafted from the great conflagration at Chi cago, no fires had broken out in the Wilson-Moreau neighborhood. On that day, in accordance with a previously made appointment, the arwell village, sixteen miles distant, o make the final payments on and re eive deeds of their respective farms, rs. Wilson leaving the twins in harge of Marie, not another person iving within two miles of her house. The party set out in Moreau's farm agon at ten o'clock in the forenoon, >romising to return not later than ime that same night. Marie, well pleased at the prospect f having curly-headed "Sammy" and 'Pete" all to herself for a whole day, pnt a delhghtful forenoon playing vith and amusing the little fellows, nd in due time prepared in their onor a regular holiday feast, while iscussing which Sammy ingenuously emarked: "Me likes mudder to go 'way in ig wagon." "So does me," chimed in Pete, "cause us gets lots of pies an' cakes "I'm rather afraid," merrily said arie, "that I'm giving you little ogues too many sweet things; but ou can run outdoors now and scamper ound while I wash up the dishes.' "Us couldn't have too much honey nd jam, c'ould us, Pete?" sagely ob erved Master Sammy. ".Dess not; they's awful good," re oined Pete, and the pair rushed glee fully out. But the next moment, though fol owed by a cloud of dust and smoke, hey rushed still more gleefully in gain, shouting: "Oh, auntie"'-as he youngsters always called &!~sie there's a b'n'ful big fire out in the oods. Mebbe we'll have 'nudder ourth July !" Much to the twins' surprise, Marie eceived their joyful tidings with an iarmedt cry, and, hurrying to the oor, she saw that, just beginning to how through the trees, a great fire as raging in the heart of the forest nd, driven by the southeast gale, was apidly approaching the clearings. On the instant the clear-headed girl ealized the danger: for, parched by six weeks' drought, not only the rass and stubble but also the upper oil itself was as dry as gunpowder, nd, helpecd on by numerous rail enes, the fla.mes would beC sure to wep across the fields and destroy oth houses, as wvell as erery living hing lying inl their path. ".But," she easoned, "the very violence of the ind will keep the iire to a northeast ourse, and, though wide enough on eaving the woods to face the whole of ur clearings, it will probab'ly not ex end to any great distance either due est or due north." The children, ouick to cateh the in .Ation of fear, had beco'ue gravely silent, and Marie, liinug the lrap-dooz f the cellar, cheerfully sai: "'No w, lit tle mn, you must be brave ndl do just as auntie says. The smioke is so bad thait you'1l almost smother p here. CoXine down to the cellar, ni stav there till I got back. i'll be onec only a 1:1io whie." With !em 'm''-i cons ence be oten of love uns' replied: "Yes, aunt ;ui he0 wealI good, an' +,) CXV V p m .ro onn s 'ets way tfo tn rue It hurts ou I)-e he.r wivth :oear ew- and six youtn-. ad lately he ru to u:'e this. th- leasi :hriv edl of 1 . !'minres inmo. duibcreatur&i if possible,-and repay ing each one of the twins' parting kisses with a hearty word gi cheer, she caught up a bridle and hurried out to the field. Here she found the instinctively frightened animals hud dled close in a fence-corner. Letting down the bars and slipping the bridle on one of the horses, the practiced girl sprang to his back, and, after some trouble, succeeded in driving the whole herd down to Pine River, lying somewhat south of east and nearly a -mile away. Then, through blinding smoke, she rode at full speed back to the house, intending to carry the children also to the river. But by this time the front of the forest was a roaring sea of fire. The boundary fence had caught, and great masses of burning leaves were whirling over into the fields. The heat was stifling; in a few short min utes more the dwelling would be wrapped in flames, yet the good horse 'night yet save the three young lives. Sliding to the ground, Marie threw the reins over a post, dashed into the house, jerked a pair of blankets from her own bed, soused them in a tub of water, folded them saddlewise on old Dick's back, snatched up the children, set them astride the horse's shoulders, and mounting behind them turred tc fly. Too late ! On glancing toward the way whence she had just come, she saw, to her dismay, that escape in that direction was cut off, an advanced tongue of ever-widening flame having already crept across the path, while on, and fearfully close now, came leap ing waves of fire, projected from tht 'orest. What was to be done? The heat was becoming intolerable and the horse frantic. She could no longer hold the boys to their seat; she and they would be thrown and, perhaps, killed on the spot. "Oh," moaned the brave girl, "why did I not save the children at once ani let the poor cattle go?" "Will us be burnt up auntie?" piti fully asked little Pete, as she scrambled off the plunging horse with her preciour sharges. "No, no, my pets, you shall not be burned !" exclaimed Marie; for sud denly there had flashed across hei -nind a possible means of salvation. Dragging the blankets to the ground and freeing Dick from the bridle, she struck him sharply across the quarters with it, when the intelligent beast wheeled about and galloped away, for tunately due north, now the only safe point; for, though he might run be fore, and at first outstrip the pursuing flames, they would quickly cross. the intervening space and catch the un broken forest to the northeast of the farms. Connecting Moreau's with Wilson's house was a lane, sixty feet wide, bounded on either side by a rail fence, and a little way beyond Wilson's there was, as our heroine now recollected, a milk-house, chambered deep in the stone of a solid clay snoiud ,.0pm the three reach this all would be well, as it was absolutely impervious to fire, and by the time both houses and barns :were consumed, the grass and rail-fed flames would die out and leave thE -fields passable for further flight i aecessary. Raising Pete in her arms, the girl wrapped him and herself in one of the wet blankets, enveloped Sammy in the other and, bidding him hold tight tP her, set off down the lane. But before they had gone one-hah of its three hundred yards of length, the fence on the left caught fire, driv. ing thenm over to that on the right. A little way farther they struggled on ; and then poor Sammy, not having wit enough to keep the protectin8 'blanket properly before his mouth, in haled the pungent smoke and san) senseless to the ground. Marie uttered a despairing cry. The place of refuge was yet fully one hun dred and sixty yards away. She could ~not shield and carry both children at once. Must she abandon the uncon scious boy ? No, a thousand times no. though fractions of seconds were pre aious and the danger appalling. Bravely she rallied her senses; and, knowing that quite close to the earth'i surface the air was comparatively free of smoke, she laid herself fiat down, with little Pete in her arms, rolled Sammy over and over, mummy-like. in his blanket, secured it about hiu with half a dozen wire pins, snatched from her hair, and in an incredibly short time was again on her feet. Now she told the trembling Pete ti. clasp his arms about her neck, while with one hand she held the blanket be fore his and her own face and with the other dragged Sammy, like a woo] tack, along the ground. 'Twas desperate work for a young girl, as the dry grass on the left ciile of the lane had taken fire and tli neat and smoke had so greatly increased that only by drawing every breath through the saturated cloth could life he sustained. But Marie never fal tered. Nerved to unwonted strength by the heroic resolve of her own un daunted soul, ~she managed, despite her double burden, not only to keep moving but actually to quicken hez Wace to a run. Just as the flames took posseion of the whole lane and beat fiercely against the house, she passed beyond tia latter into a small ploughed field leading to a mound, barely eighty fards away. There was no fire under foot here, but the heat was greater than ever, and the almost exhausted girl found it well nigh impossible to :raw Sammy's chubby weight over the turned un soil. At last, however, after much pain ni taging, she arrived at the door f the milk hious3, but only--oh, hor ror !-to find it securely fastened by ,i padlock and hasp affixed to the out side. The key, of course, was at the now blazing dwelling. It mgtas 5vel1 have been a thousand miles away. Clouds of steam were now rising romi Marie's blanket. Not for three ninute's longer could she or the boys liin the furnace-like air. Quite inor'ng' her own peril, she sobbingly vajiled "Dear, Merciful Father, must these nnocent lambs perish? Oh, if I could ulv find a stone or an ax !" liheni from beneath the hot lnKet-folds, observant little Peter "Daddyv did have an ax here for to naske a bench, one day, auntie !" "rh, --u blesed childl". *-ie& 'arie,~as she caught sight of the im lement lying on a pine board. Drawing a long, deep breath and re ;aining it in her lungs, she laid the li .le fellow down beside his brother. ,overed both with the blanket an, ;eized the ax.. While the superhecte( %ir almost blistered her now unpro ;ected face, she still held her breath, with one deft blow broke the east-iron 3taple. and the next moment the thre-e were safe in the cool underground :hamber and had reclosed its clay. ined door. No danger of burning here, nor of starving, either, for on a low shel were ranged four great pans of milk, b roll of butter and a cold rice pudding. In order to ventilate the room, a fev .engths of small drain-tiles had bee: :un from its arched ceiling, through th, ;olid earth, to the top of the mound, and down this narrow tube there cam. enough light to redeem the place fron absolute darkness. While Marie, in trembling doubf whether the child yet lived, we.s un winding Sammy, the youngster re ;aned consciousness and set her fear at rest by feebly murmuring: "M wants a dwink"-a want shared by th other two and easily satisfied by ai. of a tin dipper. It was now about three o'clock in th ifternoon. The imprisoned childre would have to wait six hours for tb return of their parents. But the roon was now too cool for comfort; its at mosphere was delightfully pure; no a particle of smoke descended the shaft: the twins behaved remarkably well. and their auntie was so blissfully happ: aver their escape that she whiled awa' the time with merry jest ani- story un til, by and by, the little heroes droppe, :uietly asleep. Driving straight down from the aorth, the two farmers and their wives had come within three miles of tht spot where stood their homes thai morning, when they met old Dic; peacefully grazing, or rather, tryini to graze, by the roadside. Instantl. recognizing the horse, and seeing, far to their left, the light of burnin. woods, they hurried on and arrived ai the northern edge of Wilson's clear ing half aLL hour before nine. No fire was in the fields now, but a] were black and desolate. Houses an. barns had vanished; not a fence nor: head of stock was to be seen, and th. ruin seemed complete. Yet, in shuddering dread of a greate: catasirophe, they scarcely thought o their material losses, as, forcing theii team to a gallop, they drove furiousl. on. Their way liy close to the hill-cel ar, of which, very curiously, not one of the four was thinking-the men, with sternly set features, lookin. straight ahead, and the cowering wo men covering their eyes, as if to shu. out to the last moment a sight of the unutterable horror which each in he: 3ecret heart deemed certa'n must al too soon appear. M eiopea in clouda p1be~as raised by their own beating hoofs, the horses rushed madly on until, abreast of the mound. Then they stopped so suddenly that the wagon's occupant pitched forward on their seats, for right in their path, looking weirdlike in the murky light, stood Marie Moreau, holding outstretched before her one of the dingy blankets. Hearing the thunder of the ap proaching vehicle, the watchful girl had darted out just in time to inter cept it. "'Tis I--Marie !" she loudly called, as the aifrighted team stood shiver ing in their tracks; and, almost blend ing with her own voice, came in re sponse two startled cries-one a fer ent: "Oh, thank God!" and the other. rising to a shriek: "My boys I Oh, my boys? Marie !" "Safe, safe and unhurt, in the milk house, Mrs. Wilson I" rang out the girl's joyous answer. Silence for a moment. Then the dft weepirng of women, the shaking sobs of strong men, and presently the two mothers locked in each others arms-the returned travelers stood ou the ground. Next day the farmers found that all heir cattle had escaped injury, the fire not having extended far enough east to reach that part of Pine River whither provident Marie had driven them. Though much incommoded by the loss of houses and plenishing, the good people were by no means ruined. The two men went to work with a will, and long before winter came both homes were substantially rebuilt and refurnished.-New Yor) Ledger. Beaconsfield the Jew. From his proud loyalty to the 26 brew race he never for a moment swerved. For eighteen centuries that race has been slowly taking possession of the civilized world. Throughout the martyrdom of individual souls Jewish morality has changed the face of the globe. The conduct of the European peoples-modern civilization as it is called-Is their work; while in art, in music, and in letters they have more than held their own. Power, of an overt and conspicuous kind, has, how ever, for eighteen centuries been denied to men of their blood. Disraeli broke the spell. In July, 1878, in the capital of tht greatest military nation of our time, among the heroes and statesmen who had creatcd imperial Germany, among the representatives of the civilized na tions of Europe, congregated there to check Russia in her victorious career, and maintain the equal balance of Eu ropean authority, the most observed and conspicuous personage was not Bismarck, nor Moltke, nog Andrassy, or any Prince nor Emperor of them all, ut the slim and still youthful figure that with pale and haggard face and slow step, leaning on the arm of his private secretary, was seen day by day to cross the square from the Kaiserhof to the congress, the representative of the Queen of Great Britain and Ireland and Empress of India-the figure of Lord Beaconsfield, the Jew.-The Hon. Reginald B. Brett, in the Nineteent) Century. 'She Bad Noticed. The Poet,-Ah, spring at last! ITh ou no ce it.? The Girl-Of course. Tey've ukene down all the storm1 doors in the block, and the soda fountain's runr~iog in the corner drug store. - - WORK OF COUNTERFEITE] A DEAL OF SwT.T BEQUIRED BE SUCCESSFUL. Some New Methods of Work-Ralsi the Denomination of Small No1 -Worrying the Treasury. OUNTERFEITERS are wor3 ing the Government detectii with a new departure. Th are flooding the cobintry wi anall notes and certificates alter intc big ones, the work being so w lone as to render them most dang< :us. Many of them are "raised" wi mueh art as almost to defy scrutir lacking a magnifying glass. They v pass anywhere short of a bank. Soi :f them are produced by pasting oN the denominational numbers oth agures cut out of internal reven stamps, with no attempt to change t ,value of the piece of money as ( pressed in words on the face and ba of it. But these are comparative -rude. The formidable forgeries this kind are turned out by expe2 who transform both words and figui by methods so skilful as to commai %dmiration. At the office of the secret servi "hief Drummond exhibited wh looked so much like a $10 silver c< tificate that not one man in a thousa: would hesitate to accept it. Neverti less, it was in reality only $1 experi altered. The big figure indicati the denomination was in each case 3 placed by an N taken from a real te lollar bill. That is to say, the n meral, together with the oval bit lathe-engraving containing it, was c out of a certificate for $10 and so ai fully inlaid in the paper of the or dollar greenback as to leave no trac of the operation visible to the nak eye. Of course the ten-dollar bi) thus mutilated could easily be treat so as to disguise the purpose of t' mutilation, and then sent to the Tri ury at Washington for redemptic In this simple manner plenty Jncle Sam's engravings could be ut ized without expense for patchwor The words "One Dollar" on the fi of the bill described were altered 1 putting "Ten" in the place of "One the spot where the "S" ought go at the end of the dollar being defaced by scratching with a sha knife as to make it look as the "S" had been rubbed off by sor accident. - Along the edges of the c( tificate and particularly in the corn( the ink was carefully smered in su a manner as to render the wording the denomination indistinguishab] All this must have required a go, :eal of labor, but it represented 3lear gain of $9. This product 3riminal industry was the work ol man named Freeland and his wil who were caught at it and arrested )hicago the other day. In similar ways silver certificates $1 and $2 are raised to $5 and $2 ~reasury notes of $1 are altered to $1 Taif'ational bank notes are chang from $1 to $50;.tyizinati-cigan.Mm in many instances, furnish figures fi the patchwork. Some of these me amorphosed pieces of money ha' been circulated widely before beir etected, and it is probable that tho1 ands of them are now passing uneu >ected from hand to hand. Peop: ught to be warned to look out f< them Those of them which fall ini the hands of the Government aro r< eemed at their original face valIn ['his sort of crime has been practie to some small extent in the past, bi uring the last year it has sudden] ecome alarmingly prevalent. Its ia :rease is believed to be due mainly i he difficulties which have been place n the way of imitating Unitd StatV arrency. Counterfeiters cannot zn esfully reproduce the fiber papy ar nachine engraving of Governmei ecurities ; they find altering easier. Another formoficounterfeiting whic a obtained a sudden and remarkab levelopment of late is the gilding< ilver coins for fraudulent purpose No sooner did the new twenty-five cel iece appear than its design suggeste odishonest persons the idea of tran orming it into a $10 gold piece by ti imple process of plating it with gol Ihe words "Quarter Dollar" being 01 iterated by means of a punch, the si rer piece when coated with the yellc netal will pass very well as an eagl But thismethod isimproved by strikir ot only the "Quarter" and solderir to the coin in its place three s etters, making the word "Ten," 's" being added in the same fashi< on the end of the "Dollar." Then: oly remains to do the plating, ar he profit is about $9.50. In lii anner a dime is changed into a 4 old piece. False eagles and half-eagles of th lesription have already been cirea ated in great numbers. As a rule th4 ,re passed without difficulty. B: >rofits have undoubtedly been mai y those engaged in the industr; The business requires little skill and i xtensive plant. It may be carried c n most convenient privacy. All tha is needed is a small tank, some cyani< f potash for a solution, a few feet< opper wire and a little battery. Ho, ver, an ordinary electric light en ent will do. The process is simp hat of plating, the coin being a ached to one end of the wire and piece of gold at the other end. Boi nuas are immersed in the potash s< ution, and the current being turne n does the rest.-Washington Star. WISE WORDS. i Self-conceit is or~e of the first goi en worship. The party who refnses to forgive he one who is wrong. The only way to have constant peac to have constant trust. There is hope for the man who: onscious of his own faults. The only thing that keeps a sting an from stealing is the risk of t: hingv. Love and hope always live togethem ~ill hope, and love will bring it to lii gain. It will be time wasted to undertal 3 preach any higher than your o~ xperienc. It will not help yo-1r own crop an . throw stones at~ your neighbor .ck patchb. Many a man's religion, if boile Jwn, would be found to be nothin iore than notion. One reon*hy -some men do not iave bettev wives is because they are .ach poor husbands. The sun keeps right on shining, no aatter how much men have to say about its black spots. The man who has a kind word for ;es .verybody will not need a brass band , ;o draw mourners to his funeral. 7- It is about as wise to sit on the limA 61 re ,f a tree and saw it off, as it is to worry ey tbout things we cannot help.-Ram's th Iorn. ed all Strange Game. r- The following is said to be a true th itory of the piny woods of Mississippi. ] yl [t is now some time ago that a zealous i i young Presbyterian minister, whose ne heart yearned over the benighted con er lition of the denizens of the piny er woods, determined to make an expe 1e :lition into the Black creek settlement, f he some forty miles back from the coast, t to carry the gospel there. His friends k tried to dissuade him, saying that the lY people of that region were mostly P of Methodists and Baptists, but he re ts 3olved to persevere, and mounting his es horse one Saturday morning, took the i road into the woods. He had to camp :)t over night, and it was about 8 ce :'clock Sunday morning when he b: at reached the first house in the neigh- ix r- borhood which he desired to visit. He id Lound a woman there who, in response # .e- to his request for a breakfast, invited ly him in and regaled him with black ig coffee, cornbread and salt pork. His e- wants satisfied, he turned to his er n- rand and asked the woman where her n- husband was. "Oh, he's out a-hunt of in'," she replied; "he goes huntin' nt every day !" "Well, but this is Sun t- day I" said the astonished minister. e- "Yes," she responded, "it is purty A es sunny; but the mast's good, an' the 1 d turkeys'll be out on the hills." "But Is I mean Sunday-the holy Sabb'' - ed cay," said the astonished preacher., I ise "Isn't your husband afraid of the a- Lord ?" "I do'know I" she answered, n. indifferently ; "I reckon he ain't much of sfraid. He allus takes his rifle along." il- The minister paused, nonplussed for k. awhile, and then began again: "I hear b, ce that there are a good many Methodists )y and Baptists around here?" "Mought , be," replied the woman; "they's a to powerful lot o' varmints in these here so woods." The minister rose in despair rp and prepared to go. "Do you think X if T could find any Presbyterians in the b; se neighborhood?" "P'raps so I I never r- seed none; but I kin tell you how to x rs ind out. Jes' you step around the b h house an' take a look at the barn. of John's got the hide of about every e. varmint in this neighborhood nailed d ap there. Maybe you could tell 'em a by that." That was a little too much of for the devoted missionary, and he . a took his departure without so much e, as a glance at the hides-so the story ir goes.-New Orleans Picayune. 13 of A Musical Language. ) A philological curiosity, which i.l 0, said to be the invention of an Italian, sd is the Cosmolangue, a new universal ~ ~ .ngue, which is expected to do for ei t- and failed. The new lar gaage is con ' structed entirely of combinations ofc Lg the musical syllables, do, re, mi, etc., o 1- and can be written on the musical staff s- with notes, all those composing one i e word being joined together by a bar. l r Eere is a little specimen of it: Misi O 0 (our) sidofa (father) lado (who) re (art) e-~ ido (in) lasola (heaven). The in- t 3 ventor thinks that it would be verytl sa sy to learn, being composed oL so d few and universally used elements, de Y very easy to write, which is done by a 1 few simple marks on a staff of five 0 lines, and altogether is well calculated as dto become soon the one language of P~ 35 the world. One evident advantage .ia ~that it can be whistled as well as It d spoken, and thus might easily be it taught to mocking birds.-Picayana h h The Latest Superstition. 7 Le The latest superstition is that if a >f girl takes the smali bow which fastens se B the lining of a man's hat, and wears it t inside her shoe, she will have a pro- de d posal from the youth within a month. * I'he success of the vcheme may be open ~ e to question, but it is proving very de - struetive to hats.-Indianapolis Sea Stinei 3. -"Only a Piece of String." .g Those who are unfortunate enough ra g lo number among their acquaintances to 11 i persistent borrower, will appreciate ~ 'fn ihis reply of Gutzkow, the German 'n covelist, to a lady of hls'acqluaintance le it who wrote an unstamped letter ask- t a lug to borrow a copy ot his novel, :e "The Knights of the Spirit," on thew 15 plea that she could not lind it at the booksellers' in her town: "Dear is Mladan:--In the town where you re 1- qide there appears to be a lack of all ' ysorts of things wh'ch are easily pr o t zurable elsewhere-not only my re- m e zent woric in all the bookshops in which it is applied for, but also the O postage stamp for letters. 1 havei n my possession, it is true, the boolt a which you desire to obtain, as als o a the stamps to pay its carriage; but, 0 3j to my regret, I am without the neces . sary string to make it into a parcel.:. r- f you cau supply me with a piece, I am at your service. A b ~Systematic Rest. STi, understand the way to rest is d )f more importance than to lnow how to work. The latter can be learned easily; the former It takes years to learn, and some people nev ei i learn the art of resting. It is simply b s change of scenes and activities. e Loafing may not be resting. Sleep a ing is not always resting. Sitting down for days with ncthing to do 1P n rot restfuL. A change is necded tc bring into play a different set ofli taculties and in turn the life into a snew channel. The man who works P~ hard tinds his best rest in playing e1 hard. The man who is burdened e with care finds relief in something that is active, yet free from responsi .bility. Above all, keep good-natured, ' e and don't abuse your best friend, the stomach. -American Analysts U ti Some 00onqolation. P y Applicant for Work-But the oc t s curation seem ; t~obe a danage.ous one. " Manager-Yes: but then n case you u d are killed the company would sendI E 'wers to your funeral. - Bostp I Trnncript. Italy yields the nness corag' Aiaska has enormous coal &d'[ . -Patti, the cantatripe, doesn't open! tters herself. ... - : - The Chinesebuilt supenio rer 2000 years ago. In England it is imperative tha. ildren be vaccinated. Dolls have been the' playthings d Lildren of all nationalities. England has hanged two of her iNlb executioners for murder. . Sea signals were invented and put in eration during the reign of James The log was first used in navigation r Pigabetta early in the sixteenth )tury. t =-.. Copper sheathing was first used foi esels of the English navy about the )ar 1770. - -. &i The Naval Asylum of the" United ;ates was 'established in 1835 near iladelphia. 7 The formation in European irmies the two-rank line introduced aboul venty years ago. The use of cavalry as'infantry wa -ought to the highest perfection dar g the Civil War. The first naval expedition on recoia s that of the Argonauts, probabIr rates, B. C. 1263. For over 500 years the Egyptian onarchs maintained a strong body of reek mercenaries. Massachusetts is first in fshenesk ond in commerce, third in manu tures and printing. Indiana is third in wheat, fourth it in and hogs, seventh in cattle and ilways, eighth in coal. Texas is first in cattle and eottou, S==' i'-aeugar, sheep and mules, sev th in cows, eighth in hogs. A gentleman must kiss every J introduced to in Paraguay. is te custom in that country. The first war vessel captured by az nerican ship was the Edward, takes r the Lexington, April 17, 1777. Since the establishment of our;, ving service, in 1871, 9989 person wve been saccored at the stations. In China gold and silver are merel3 ,mmodities, whose price is regulated r the laws of supply and demand. The rei of Brazil is an imaginar in, no piece .of that denominatkoi lng coined. Ten thousand rda Tans Without Bark. it is said that a German res iladelphia has invented a ich will tan leather in Ithout the use of bar tide superior to the best bark-tanned des. After he got his patent he ied for several years to interest ather men in it, but they simply aghed at him. One firm, however, an experiment, looked up the pat t, and tried the new method with Lt consulting the patentee. The S- ' was a great e leather being g-.ea - .eaply than by the old method, and a quality so superio~r that wherever was introduced it drove the old ither, as the electric ligh.. driven t gas. Competitors of mting firm saw their trade going, d they could not understand how a better leather that was making in ads upon their business was pro ced. But the German inventor un- . rstood, and saw -his opportuniy a went to one of the injured firms d explained that it was his patent ocess that made the new leather, I after some negotiations he sold patent for $20,000 or $25,000, with ontingent provision that, in case e patent proved a success, he should ye about as much more. He prompt invested his money in a good farm, th which he 'is said to be perfectly ntent, and while he is enjoying him L on this the purch~aers of the pat t are endeavoring to establish on r it their sole right to make the imv oved leather. -icayune. -- fSpol Ekag Eere, for instance, are huge atacks timber, and our ears are greeted th the hum and birr so certain1y as sated with a saw mill.; This long nge of buildings is entirely devoted the making of spools. The ma ines employed .are variotis. Here e wood is being out into short agths;. there a hole isbeingpunched rough the small round pieces; while >nder, a machine' shapes the rough od into a smooth spool in one swift roke. - It is by means of the wood require( make these spools that we get soma ception of the enormous output of is factory. Each day there is as ch thread finished here as would nd round tho world several times, d in order to produce spools for tire read, it is calculated that an extent~ '' forest planted with birch trees vering 550 acres has to be cut down ery year, while, on an average, -el ships of large-carrying capacity e employed each season in bringing e wood across to this country fron nerica and Canada.-Good Words. -A Candid Opinion. Herr Ehlers, the German travelei, a received the other day by the Ger-; an Emperor, when His Majestypu sularly desired to see the servant he d brought home with him-a black >y, fourteen years old. On His Maj ty asking him how he liked Berlin, e little fellow-half African, half datic-replied,it is said, without any .yness: "The town is very fine, but e people are not very intelligent, or ey woald not laugh at me and per ~tually make funi of me in the reets."-Necw York Dispatch. New York Architecture. A~ young student of architecture wbe, L been spending the last year in gain g a knowledge of the fundamental -inciples of the profession he has cho n complains that there are compara rely few buildings in New York that issess artistic coherency. Many of e most imposing of the structure ir, is city are a kind of architectural a~eyquilt, combining many different yles in a crude mass that sacrificea ~auty for the sake of utility or somo. lug elsa -New York World..