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ESTABLISHED 1865. N EWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1888. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR Touches of Nature. [Wni. C. Prime, in New York Jour nal of Commerce.] In the Abbott collection of Egyptian antiquities, in possession of the New York Historical Society, is a bundle of wax tablets, looking not unlike school boys' slates of our day. They were the tablets (serving the same purposes with modern slates) of the school-boys in an Egyptian school in the Ptolemaic period. How they came to be placed in a tomb we have no time to coiijec ture. Perhaps they were an offering to a dead schoolmate. They are the record of many interesting things; but I am writing now about the perpetua tion of records of little things, of small thoughts, trifling and unimportant mental actions. One of the boys nad a copy, a line of Greek, set by the mas ter across the top of the tablet. (Young readers may need to be told that the tablet was wood, covered with a black waxen composition, in which the boy could could make marks with a sharp stick, like a pencil; and he wculd erase a mark by smoothing down the wax with the blunt or flatened end of his stiek.) This boy had worked along just as modern boys work in their copy-books. Probably he got to be weary. At all events, he came to a point, as many a boy has done, when the pencil would go wrong in spite of him. He mis spelled a word. He carefully erased it, smoothing down the wax, wrote it again, and it was again wrong. He smoothed the wax and wrote the word once more, and once more his wearied brain and his pencil went wrong. What did he do ? Just what you, my boy, might have done, I fancy. Some of you would exclaim "Confound it !" Some boys in the up country might say "Darn it !" The small Egyptian not only said, but with his pencil scratched, a Greek word (phthazesthe, it seems to be) which means just about what one means who says "Duce take it!" And there it is to-day, the record of a school boy's little quarrel with his own pervsrse brain in the days before Cleopatra was born. Many yeai= ago, before crowds of travelers went to Egypt, there was (and I doubt not there still is) away up among the Theban hills, in a ravine once crowded with temples and sculp tured monuments, one tomb which the Arab resurectionists for many years had used as a convenient place for breaking up mummies found in other tombs. In the course of years this tomb, consisting of two rock-hewn - chambers in the side of the mountain, had become filled to within a few feet of the ceiling with fragments of mum mies and masses of mummy cloth. I have, from time to time, spent hours in overhauling this accumulation, chiefly for the purpose of finding speci mens of the cloth of ancient Egypt. .Here I once founid an old garment, a linen shirt, of coarse fabric and much -worn. It had belonged to a poor man. How it came to be part of his burial dr ess could only be conjectured. As I first saw it in the dim light coming in from the top of the doorway, I was about to throw it down as worthless, when my eye fell on something which seemed to be an interesting relic of a poor mnans home and home surround .ngs. At thini plac~e in the old shirt, where, indeed, it had once given way entirely, was carefully darned with coarse thread. You can read the record in what way you please. To me. it made the Egyptian hut of the ancient ages to have very close simi harity, ini sonme respects, with the mod ern hiome of a poor mian, in which you have doubtless seen, as I often have, the wi fe mending the ragged clothes of her husband. Let me tell of one more little record which speaks of peisonal affections. If 1 have told of it before it will do no harm to repeat the story. I once opened an Egyptian coffin which con tained the body of a woman who had lived somewhere about 1.300 or 1400 B. C. The body was enveloped in the usual way, with linen bands. Wound aroundl the head, and trailing down on the chest, was a wreath of leaves and flowers. It was simply made. Splin ters of palm branch formed a contin uous cord. The fresh green leaf of somie Egyptian plant, a pointed leaf, was folded over this cord, point to the stem, and pinned with a splinter through the folde'd leaf. Another les was folded and pinned, lapping a little over the first one. Then another and another; so that the cord, more than two yards long, was covered with a .continuous row of folded leaves, the points hanging downward. At the place where each leaf lapped over the next one was pinned a flower, making thus a row of flowers all along the wreath. All this was dead now, and leaves and flowers alike were of a dark brown color. When I was a boy, in the up country, I have a thousand times made baskets in which to gather raspberries and blackberries in just this way, by pinning leaves together with splinters. stiffening the rim by folding the points of the leaves over a flexible stem. In younger days I can remem ber making wreaths closely like the Egyptian wreath, on which dande lions were pinned like great buttons. I handed some of the brown flowers of the Egyptian wreath to that emi nent and lamented man. whom many rea lers of tis remiembler with warmi -atl'eetion. Dr. John Torrev, not telling him where. I obtained theam. He ex amiined themu and found them to be the immnortelle, t he tiower now in universal use for funeral wreaths in Europe and Amneric~a. "They were the driest tiow er I '!ar 'oxmnirL" he said: '"where Here was a flower which thirty cen turies ago expressed, in the symbolism of flowers, the same thought which it still expresses, the thought of immor tality. The wreath itself was eloquent of love, for nlone but loving hands had woven it for the dead woman, sister, mother, which? For is it not likely it. was a woman's gift to the woman dead? AN ELEPHANT EXECUTED. Chief, Forepaugh's Wickedest Mastodon, Strangled by His Companions. PurILAIsLruI [A, PA., Decomnber 17.1 -Chief, the most vicious elephant in America and the murderer of seven men, was executed yesterday afternoon in the winter quarters of Forepaugh's circus, at. Lehigh avenue and Front street. Chief was 40 years old, and had been in this country nine years. He crushed a man to death shortly after his arrival and since then he had gone from bad to worse. He was known all over the country as the most wicked elephant that ever crushed circus peanuts. Though always close- I ly watched he would go on periodical rampages. On the Sth of October last Chief broke from the winter quarters up on Lehigh avenue. He was in a rage and was driving men, women and children e before him and creating a panic, when the police were called out to stop the mad rush of the elephant. He made) t such a desperate fight that ten police men opened fire on him, but it was only when eight bullets had been planted in his left leg that he was forced back to the winter quarters. t Chief was at once chained, but broke from the chains that night. He was; chained again, all his feet being fast ened to the end of heavy iron cables. He was quiet for a few weeks, but lately he made repeated struggles to burst his chains. Chief tried to kill his keeper on Saturday morning, and as he threatened to get loose at any moment and clean out the winter quarters, it was decided to execute c him. Three o'clock yesterday afternoon was the hour of execution, and two other elephants were the executioners. A good sized but quiet crowd gathered to see Chief die. As the big beast stood glaring at the crowd a noose was made in the centre of a piece of rope half an inch thick and ten yards long. As two men tried to put the noose around his neck the doomed elephant got in a rage and tried to toss one of the men against a wall. By hard work the noose was finally pulled over his trunk and placed behind his ears with the knot directly under his throat. Then f Basil and Bismarck, the most power- I ful elephants owned by Forepaugh, were fastened to an end of the rope on t either side of their murderous comi r:ade. As Chief stood waiting to meet death he was more heavily chained.. Then young Adam Forepaugh gave the word, Basil and Bismarck weret given a prod with iron hooks, and the death line began to grow taut. An-] other signal and the elephants pulled I with all their mighty strength in op- I posite directions. Chief began to tot ter. In twenty seconds he dropped to I the ground a dead elepbant. Bis marck and Basil had strangled him. I At 7 o'clock this morning a big force I of men will begin to load the body on I a catamaran, with the aid of a derrick. Ten horses will then haul the body to . the University of Pennsylvania, where it will be skinned and stuffed, while the bones will be set up by D)r. Joseph Leidy, the eminent zoologist of the I University. The elephant's skeleton I and stuffed skin will be placed in theC museum of the University. Chief was ten anid a half feet high I and weighed over 10,000 pounds. He was an Asiatic elephant and was bought from Carl Stagenback, the noted animal dealer in Hamburg, nine years ago. He began life in America by killing a man just after the ship came into port. A year later he caught a keeper and dashed him against a tel egraph pole. Since then he had miur dered five more men and had tried to kill scores of others. He was a terror when he started out on his rampages, and swept everything before him, even the lemonade, purple candy and pea nuts of the circus butchers. Hie tore down a wooden house at Grand Rap- , ids, Michigan, and when he had fin ished a visit to a side show one fair surxmer day at Topeka the showt looked as if it had been struck by a Kansas cyclone. He took possessionr of the town of Akron, Ohio, and was finally arrested by a country constable on the charge of disorderly conduct and malicious mischief. t He was again arrested in Cincinnati for chasing a saloon keeper and a hun dred patrons out of a place on Vine1 street in that city. He had been em ployed to appear in a spectacular play t a few years ago, and had done good work until the second act, when he lay 1] down on the stage and refused to let the play go on. While on a "tear" down near Cairo, Ill., he grasped a can vasman of the circus and threw him in the Mississippi river, and was duck ing him until he was almost deid, when fifty men attacked the elephant : andl saved the man. He was the only elephant that Adam Forepaugh, Jr., couldI not conquer. - ---...- - -- t Earthquake in New York. It Tirov. N. Y., Decemnber 19.-Earth-e quake shoeks were felt in Washington and WVarreni cuenties this morniug. u ilding s hat- r ioientleyn AN ECCENTRIC MILLIOA IIE. I 't ome of the Peculiar Personal Traits of Isaiah V. Williamson, of Philadelphia. [Philadelphia Rtecord.j Who is Isaiah V. Williamson? I'e ule s-ratch their heads and ask this Luestion. Every now and then the <1 t:lnne bobs up in print, but the owner f it is so Iodest that only his 1ost in inate friends know much about him. Isaiah V. \Viiliamuson, who has given nle-sixth of his fortune of $15,000,00 0 e o establish the Free School of Me hanical Trades, and intends to double is gift if the money shall be needed, d tas been one of 'hilaclelphia's most niergetie capitalists and phuilambhrop- t >ts for years. Oil lierchants who tave known him for i:alf a Cenltury do ot know where to fi+l 1_in if he is Lot at his dingy little oice at No. 30 lank street. He has remained a bach- t lor all his life, and now in his eighty- t iftlh year he has founded an institu- t: ion which, like Girard College, will iwavs reuain an enduring m.1ontumlentf u his princely liberality and the higI urpose for whiclh it was founded. t Jr. \\illianuson is of Quaker origin, id was born inl luck's county in t es. His father was a hard working t .riner in that section, and the son in arly life became imbued with those conomical principles that in later 'ears enabled him to roll up his im ,.ense fortune. It is saiti of him that t he guiding principle of his money- t aaking ventures has been not to do a s hing to-day that can just as well be one to-moyrow. To this he attributes' b ts success in the comn1z1 crcial world. c Ie used to be fond of rational amuse- h uests, and for twenty years spent ev- si ry sumnier at Saratoga. 'ihough an Id man he was passionately fond of Lancing, and was always on the floor t the fashionable balls and hops at 0 hat famous watering place. He was d tever at a loss for a partner, for lie was fl :nown to everybody at Saratoga as the 'rich bachelor from Philadelphia." e ,any were the adroit little schemes a oncocted by ambitious Imalmmas with aarriageable darlings to rescue the old 0 ;eutleman from bachelorhood, but they f .11 failed, as the object of their atten- t ion slipped through their hands. To b his day, in the sunset of his life, the ged philanthropist delights to gossip rith his ever-narrowing circle of ac Luaintalces-for lie makes but few tew friends-about the gay times he 1: sed to have at Saratoga. Long ago, a a luarter of a century perhaps, he drove good team, but he dispensed with his i trriage and horses because he grew f them. A gentleman who has known him or forty years said yesterday of this >eeuliarity: "It was easier for 11r. t Villiamson to give away 10,000 than . o purchase a suit of clothes for hin elf." He has carried the sanie um >ro lla for fifteen years or more, ndl stuck to it because he says he likesC t. He moves about frequently, andi( ~enrally stays at the house of a rela- ' ive. He has no furniture to speak of, ud can move about at his pleasure. ec does not care.to have many peopleC mnow where he lives, and the city di cetory only gives the location of his >fice on Bank street. lHe is not, and iever has been, a mueahu man, and the -rowning act of hi.- life--the establish- C nent of the proposed school-has beent mdertaken with the ~I ew of re-estab ishing the old apprent iceshiip system, vhich flourished so extensively in his -outh and manhood. In personal appearance Mlr William on is rather a siuall man, weighing botut 130 poiud.e. He has a very leasant face, anid somei peopiIle sa his 0 eattures are somewhat of a fenminine ast. He has a bright eye, and his chole countenance is suggestive of irnmness and decisive character. THE WARt IN THE SOt DAN. 1. A Great Battie Fouaht Near Suaki:n. r LONDON, Deemnber oh.-A dispatch rom Suakimi says :A combinmed force f British and Egyptians have made n attack upon the rebel position. Thley tormned the redotubts and1 trenches, nd after a brilliant engagement, last rig half an hour, drove thle enemy into he bush. The rebels are reported toe tae lost a thousand mnen killed. The lritish loss was slight. The British are neamped in the rebel position. The ictory wvas complete. A later dispatch fromi Suakimi says: 'lie British lost four men killed anda wo woundled dluringr a gallant cavalry harge. Thme Egyptian and black regi .ents charged the trenches and cairried bemi brilliantly, losing two rmen killed nd thirty wounded. Thle only officers rounided in the attacking force wvere wo Egyptians. The rebel loss is now t atedl to have been 400. ;Ow TIHE BATrTLE WAs FoU('GHT AND WvoN. SUAImt , D)ecemt er 0.- Before dawn is morning the British mani-of-war d tartling and an Egyptian steamer ioved up the coast, wvithu orders to b over the rebels at Handoub. At day reak the forts opened fire upon the renches and the troops advanced to ttack, the black brigatde on the right tank and the cavalry and amounted in in try covering. The Scottish Border rs, the Wel~-h regimnent and thme Egyp an brigade occupied an embanciukinent ' etweeni the forts. the British inf:mtry in held :n reserve. The for uts shelled he trenrce. keeping~ up ai terrii e ire. he enmy held their ground with in ense courmage until tIhe b lack briga de t harged the trehies, wihich fell after c al an hour's hard fighting. The e is fu.:t with fanatical bravery. lie works. The Scottish Bordiers are ow at work entrenching the rebel's ositionl. The eneimy are retreating uward laslicen and Tanar. ThIe hritish foree numbers 4,000 men. F i'1THIEnc DEiTAIL, (;F TIIFE Fic;HT. L)Nio N, )eceiber 20.--The Stan aid's orresolindenit at Suakiim sends be folkmuw:ing particulars o) the battle Lt 4:3) this ioriin;r the Inain-of-w:,r taeer opeied the battle by shelling tie nemy's trenches. The ships up the oast tollowed suit, and landed parties, rho lighted fires and placed dummies 1 nosition. This had the effict of eceiving the enemy coling frot landoub. The whole force moved wards the enemy's left flank, with 1c naval detachment, with iiachine un-, the cavalry and mounted infan sconutiiig and protecting the flanks ud rear. Two lines, comprising ha' ilions in double opaniies, rushed wards the left eornetr of the enem v's "eniches, the British infca:try and the gyptiai reserve linin;g the eiiiank ient between ihe water forts. Genceral reenfell and stafl' oc:!upieil a position the left of the water forts. From 3 clock heavy salvos of guns and inor rs from every fort bore on the enehies. The Time-Ball. In large cities, and especially in lose which have large shipping and 'ading interests, it is always very de rable to have time which shall not nly be exact, but official, and accepted y everybody. In several of the large ties of the l~nited States this official our is fixed by an ingenious, and yet niple and easily visible apparatus, illed the time-ball. At Washington, Philadelphia and ew York a ball, placed upon a staff a sonic central and lofty building, is ropped by a common electric current '0111 the observatory at Washington. At Boston, the ball is dropped by an lectric current from the observatory t Harvard College. The New York time-ball is at the top f a tower three hundred and twelve ?et high, which is a part of the Wes !rn Union Telegraph Company's uilding. At a distance it looks like a )lid ball. It is really hollow, and iade of twelve strips of sheet-copper. t is placed upon a nietalic platform tirty feet high, so that the ball itself three ;lundred and forty-one feet bove the' 'vel of the sea. It falls about-eight yards; and when has reached the end of its fall, it is eld fast by an apparatus which pre ents it from bounding. Every morning the ball is drawn up the summit of its 'pole, and when xactly twelve o'clock is marked upon lie clock at the observatory at \Wash igton, two hundred and twenty-eight ilies from New York, an electric cur unt, au tomnatically operated from this bservatory, acts upon an electro inignet which draws a lever in such a ~ay that the ball falls by its own reight. Th'le ball is thus dropped in f'ew York and Philadelphia by a ma hine at Washington, and in the for ier city its fall is visible seven niiles warv. A great mnaiiy p)eople besides those -ho have ineed to know the exact time nee every- day w-atch the fall of the ie-ball, in order to see how closely beir own time-pieces are running, andi et them if they are wrong. The time-ball does not finish its work ierely by falling. Not e; erv one can ike the time or the trouble to watch it dl. A iinmber of clocks have been oiiiected electrically withi it, and are utomnatically regulated by the fall of ie ball. A t:emarkable UmbrelUa. A mor.g the many curio collectors in iew York city there is one old1 gentlc ian who declares his umbrella to be is greatest treasure. .It is his insepa t ble com ipanion, and accomipanies him herever lie goes. The handle is made 'onm a piece of the Charter Oak,: -hich is set a small triangular p)ie2ce one clipped from - Plymiouth R~ock; re stick is made fronm a branch of the id elm tree at Cambridge, undei hich Wasiiington assumed conunmand tihe colonial armies; the brass ip on the lower end of the stick made from the trimimings of a vordt scabbard once used by Geni ral Grant; the green coveringr riginially served as the lining of a coat -orn on State occasions by the saare id courtly Aaron Burr ; the ribs, >ringsund( other metal trappings were ianufavtured. from a simall steel can on capt ured by the Anmericanis from ie Hessians at the battle of Bandy ine. Eight oblong pieces of brass ave been inserted in as~ many sides of ie octagonal haindle- They- were mnade onm buttons cut fronm the umilitary >ats of eight generals fanmous in the evolutionary wvar. The owner of this nique umbrella values it at three hun red dollars, does niot believe in keep ig his treasures under lock and key, ut miakes free Ose of his interesting ossession. An Old Bale of Cotton. A IKEN, S. C'., December 20.-Hahn & o., leading cotton buyers at this place, uh yetrdiay fromi the- plantation f the late Earl Sawyer a bale otf cotton fleen y-ars ol. It showed up a fine unpile aind brought !N cents. Con dering the priee wvhen ginned, and ampl~ounlding interest on tihe money 11 the present time, it is worth 45 e-nts per oud. - SLEsLE?i-ss N i(;uiTs, made miiseral de tha:t t-,rible cough. Shiloh's Cure STATE FARMERS' ALLIANCE. A Called Meeting of the Organization in Columbia. [Elegister, _Uth.] A eaiied teetim, of the Executive c':1miit t'e (f the t:ate Farmers' Alli an:e anl fne ;elegate froi each county wiere th,ie is a local organizatioli. was L.i hi inl this citv ycstierday, the three .-essi'is b:ing held in the old Senate room of 11he agricultural building. The foliowing delegates were in at tendance: Anderson-J. W. Norris. (.hes.ter-J. H. Hardin. (liestertield-1E. N. Iedf.-rn, Cr. W. Baker. I)arlingtoli-E.1 R. :MeIver.1 :Iirfield-Samuel lcC'orniek. t (reenvile-W. WN. Keys. r I Horry-J. P. Durham. Ker.haw-J. I. Me(ill. Lancaster-Rt. S. Hlicklin. 'darioni-J. 1). idontgomery. c tarlboro-J. B. Green. Newhberry-Jno). F. Bank. . tco itee-E. E. Verner. i'iekells-1:. A. Hester.I S1partanblurg-Rt. A. Lancaster. r r.um1ter-Rt.:.1. (oc,pe;r. t Union-A. C. Lyles. t t W.,illiamisburg-Josiah C'odefield- c York-W. N. Elder. I;esides the regular delegates named above, there were in attendance most of the officers of the State organization, I six or eight of the county business agents annd a ium1ber of members of the a Legislature, who, being members of the local Alliances, dropped in at the f meeting yesterday. The first session was called to order y at 10 o'clock a. m. by the president, e Gen. E. T. Stackiouse, of Marion. Mr. J. W. Reed, of Spartanburg, the secretary, ofliciated in that capacity, t being assisted by Mr. W. W. Keys, of C Greenville. The meetings of the Alliance being t held with closed doors except to mem bers, a detailed account of the proceed- e ings is impossible. The object of the meeting was to make arrangements for supplies for the ensuing year, and to perfect the organi zation. By supplies are meant pro visions, dry goods, etc., and the Alli ance are considering the feasibility of forming a joint stock company and buying supplies as such. The report of President Stackhouse was very encouraging, and shows the Alliance to be in a very prosperous condition, the membership in the last twelve months having increased four fold. There are about 440 subordinate Alliances with an aggregate member ship of about 15,000. The order was introduced into South Carolina only a little over a year ago, and has made wonderful progress. it was decided at yesterday's meet ing to provide for active steps being at on1ce taken for a thorough canvass of the whole State. with the view of largely i ndreasinug the present niembier ship. At the anternoon session, wihws held fromi 3:30 to 6:31, Commissioner A. P. Butler, .At the request of the dele gates, miade a very brief address on the 1 fertilizer question, affording much I valuable information on that important quiestion. A Remarkable Editorial. The World, one of the leading pa pers of Cleveland, Ohio, and of Re p)ublicanl faith, recently p)roduced the following in its editorial columns, nmuch to tihe sturprise, of course, of miany of its N%orthern contemporaries: The question that will soon be of all absorbing interest, is the question of the color liue, the question of the rights and( p)rivileges of negroes; the question, not only of their right to vote and hold omece, but their rights in a social way. Negroes are slaves no longer and no one, save perhaps a few rabid Southern ers, would like to see the times of 185~0 return. The qutestion was arising is not:' question of slavery; it is aquestion of equality. The question of the color line in the South seenms to be purely a matter of politics, and the Republicans l urge that every colored mani's vote be ~ counted because the negroes are Re- ~ publicanms. As far, however, as the C majority of these Southern negroes are capable of judgin;. what the right of I ballot mueans, 10,000 bobtail gorillas ~ raiued to put folded pieces of paper in I a slot would exercise as much judg- ~ ment and understanding as 10,000 col- f ored Rteptiblican voters in Louisiana a and G4eorgia. The Northern negro is I encroaching up]oni thme white men's ( rights, lie is claimting equal rights ~ with the privilegedl citizens of the re- 3 public, andl forcing himself into their t midst. lie enters society circles, he a dines at any restaurant, he comes to the ' opera house with his girl and sits down ~ beside you. He tries to join your club, and generally succeeds. He sits down in your seat in the railway train, and he moves tup close to your wife on a i street car. Indeed, lie considers himself a the white man's equal in every respect, C and it will not be many years before heI will imagine himself his superior. A s lady enters a dress-maker's shop. She ~ has to wait a few minutes while a 'cul- 6 lud lady' is being fitted. A man goes I into a barber shop. He has to wait i un:ii a culiud gentlemn' is shaved. r Th e cry is, educate the negro. It s'xu(i that thme more the negroesar educated the morem.. forwvard1 they be- 1 comie. Thy' 'will not recogiz'/e the fact that there is a prejudice against them, which prejtudice can never be over- j colle. A darkey does not."know his I level. He bobs up where not wanted, I like an inflated bladder. Prick the bl.aer and1 down it goes Cannot thia j :luestion of the color line be settled by forcing the negro to his level? There s a cry, the Chinese must go. A sup lemental cry is slowly being founded. Perhaps as yet it is only in the process )f incubation, but there is no danger of t not being hatched. Negro cheek and legro forward iness will furnish the heat. It is recognized that the above is at ariance with the usual order of things, ,ut we believe w%e LxprOess the ,-eiti nent of the majority." How Cycloramas are Made. The popular idea of how the war cy loranas, like the Battle of Gettys ,urg, Battle of Shiloh, Battle of Chick :nauga, etc,, are painted, appears very aughable to a person who knows how lie work is accomplished. The Battle f Gettysburg and the Siege of Paris iave been shown f,,r several years. ,n1 the stock paid large dividends. aeli was advertised as the work of elebrated French artists, father and on, and the popular idea is that these entleien painted theni. The fact is hat, beyond a general outlining of the cork, which was probably faithfully uade after maps procured from authen ic sources, and a general direction of he plan of the work, the artist-in hief had very little to do with it. No man engaged in a battle sees it, nd an accurate painting of two armies a combat is impossible. The general satures only are known. .For instance, a the Gettysburg painting there are ecurately. defined the roads, Crown I11, Little Crown Hill, the wheat ield in which a memorable charge ras made, one or two buildings which ere headquarters of the leading gen rals, and with reasonable accuracy he topography of the country is de icted with excellent perspective. But he details of the battle, the actual lash of arms between this and that ivision or brigade, is left a good deal o the imagination. The artist-in hief hires some men to put in the sky, ther men to put in the trees and foli ge, other men to put in the men in etion. Atte'ntion is paid to develop ug this or that memorable incident, s, in the Gettysburg painting, the Leath of the cannoneer, the amputa ion of the soldier's limb beside the apstack. Take it all together, it makes p a picture that is thrilling enough to rouse the most intense interest on the >art of the old soldier. A veteran at the Chicago picture of xettysburg was explaining to a com >anion the details of the fight, in vhich he had borne ah honorable >art. "Say, Bill," said he, "at that tonewall there I lost my hat, and, - by osh! if there ain't the old hat lying here yet!" In painting pictures of >attles shrewd artists never fail to be trew the field with lost hats, muskets .nd canteens. Adulteration. The editor of the Christian States nan, published in Milwaukee, says he cas lately informed by a railroad offi :ial that he transported ort r his road .t one time four tons of cockle seed, to >e ground up and mixed with black )epper. A confectioner of that city eceived a letter with a handsomiely ithographed head froin a New'York irm of'-"importers, manufacturers, and *xporters," whose business was "es ablished in 1820." The latter says: 'Inclosed find samples of refined trench terra alba which we offer at even-eights cents per pound, barrel in luded. Packed in hiandsomie new >arrels, nil branded, 'California Beet ugar.' Freigh t to Chicago $.3.70 yer 06 pounds. Shipped as sugar." Ter a alba is mnerely a finely powdered vhite earth. This earth is largely nixed with tile cheap candies. Some f the baking powders are made of this arth and ammonia. There are mills n which nothing is grounid but terra lba. Gypsum is also largely used. hiploads of this article are sent to ~hina to he used in making green tea nother letter, also from an enterpris ng New York firm, says: "If vou se terra alba, we can sell you goods ke the enclosed sample at one and a Laif cents per pound.: It is jgut up in ugar barrels, and each barrel is sten iled 'Imported Potato Starch," and huipped as such." A tirm of Philadel hia druggists show equal enterprise. 'hey offer through their agent 100 ounds of an article they call "Cali >rnia Powdered Sugar'1 for 90) 3ents 3r which thley have a large trade mong confectioners.. This is sweet ..ss dirt cheap. It is no wonder that ur people are afflicted with dyspepsa nd debility and that ebildren di oung. Until laws against the adul eration of food are enacted and ener etically enforced we shall have to eat ot only the proverbial "peck of irt" but no end of nastiness, and there 110o telling what poisons. During the yearjust closedl $59,231.45 r-as contributed by the white Baptists f this State to the various benevolent bjects in wvhich that denomination is uterested, as follows: For State Mis ions, $10,314.40; for Bible anit colport ge work, $549.01; for ch urch buildings, 14,32.5.20; for Home Missions, $4,312.69; or Foreign Missions, SS,737.55; for mini nterial education, $.3,G-,8.83; for endow lent of Furman Un iversity , $10. 133..7; ar cottage on the Uniiversity grouniids, . t1iE indieg SI,100. In its annual re ort thed Etit&Mi-rion Board say,.: During the past year mlore mnxen have een employed;:mnore work has been one; more "frnit--gathiered and more noney raiseu than 'durin.g any year of he Board's existence." The low pricts that Flynn is selling oods at is astonishing every body. tf THE CHARLESTON EAGLE. Bill Nye's Remarks in Reference to Market Street Buzzards. [Fromt the New York World.] I attended the other day a meetin the Charleston Board of Health. buz.ard of Charleston is rightet; regardld with awe and veneration. is the City scavenger. The buzzarc not a pretty bird, and his song is aln destitute of melody. His face is plain as the clear-cut mouth and treating forehead of the catfish. has a raw-looking head and neck, he is willing to eat things which e the boarder at a second-class h would disdain to enjoy. A heavy fine is imposed on one i kills a buzzard. This maaes him eternal envy and admiration of negro. Charleston regards the ma from a local standpoint mainly : says virtually: "The buzzard h< himnseif to what we do not want, the nigger gathers in just exactly w we do want to eat, and so in the c of the killing of the nigger we remit fine." The buzzard has a very reprehensi stage walk, I think. It is someth between the hop, skip and jump. looks like the stride of a frozen-foo tragedian playing a New York enga ment after walking in from Oma His stage presence is bad. The i gedian's stage presents are also 1 sometimes. The buzzards roost all the time on old market at Charleston and keep streets nice and clean. Now and tl a butcher throws a tenderloin steak them and they try to pull it apart. ordinary, durable tenderloin steak v last theni several days. Sometir one will have it and sometimes anc cr. Interested spectators watch th for hours and bet on the result. A buzzard must at times feel pressed, especially when he wakes in the morning with that tired feel and a disagreeable taste in his moi which generally precede a gene breaking down. Buzzards do not seem to think mi of the future. They live in the glori but fleeting present. The motto of buzzard is, "As we journey throt life let us live by the way." They are poor pets and think of nc ing but the joys of the table. They not care for the works of the Creal They prefer the works of a dead ho: A buzzard is low and coarse. He g to bed hungry and he wakes up e more so. He takes no interest in 1 but death fills his soiled bosom vw joy. He follows the Nortnern inva around Charleston for hours, enjoy his hollow cough. Frequently : will see a flock of buzzards followin prosperous physician for miles a asking him ior his handiwork. The buzzard is not a game bird, 'the spor*sman who would bring he a brace of them for his dinner wo be his own worst enemy. In Char ton they are quite tame and will out of the hand at times, taking part of the hand as a memento. ' breath of a buzzard is something shun. Shun it as you would the de ly upas tree spoken of at college c< mencenments. A buzzard, accompar by his breath, could go on board an~ vated'train and have three seats himself. He could get in one of ti cars and actually drive away. the n with the dead segar snipe. He co drive away the long-legged man 3 puts his feet in the aisle in orde n ipe them on the good clothes of passing throng. A few good buzzs would endear themselves to New Y peop)le in that way, sometimes, I thi H E WROTE 7,ooo sONGs. IThe Methodis,t5 Celebrate Charles Wesd Death. In all the Methodist chure throughout the civilized world, vices were held last week in ccmm< oration of the one-h imdredth anni' sary of the death of the greatest sac song writer that ever lived, Cha Wesley. He was a brother of John Wes] the illustrious founder of the Met dist liturgy, and was born atEB worth, England, in 1708. His fat was an eminent divine, and during years of active service in his Chur was known as the ablest preacher the Continent. His talents were in rent in his twvo sons, and during ti long and useful lives made for the selves reputations that will last for times. Charles was a studious you and after having graduated at Oxf: University he was ordained a Mii in the Methodist Church. In a c< paratively few years he achieved reputation as an exponent of relig that extended from London, where was estaiblished, to the four cornern the earth. He spoke so beautifu: his language was so rhymical and discourses so able that he beca known to fame as the "poet preache and thousands of people made the grimage to his church from all part the globe to hear him preach. He' ited this country four times, and each occasion received a flattering o tion from people of all creeds. A gi deal of his popularity, perhaps all o was due to the beautiful manner wich he place.d the precepts of C:hurch in verse. Long before he aidmitted to the ministry he be writing hymuns, and when he died, 1788, lhe had written ovor 7.000, a greater number than was ever or si written by any one person. A collection of all his works made soon after his death, and it found that he had published thi nine hvn s or volumes of his wo and a large number of his sermons are even now in existence and in constant the use. When he died, in his 80th year, his funeral and interment were among the most notable events of the last cen of tury. [he A BAY STATE SAMSON. isly He He.Bends Big Crowbars, Pulls Ep Young i is Trees and Performs Other Feats. 1ost [Boston Globe.] as re- There is a broad-houldered, dark He complexioned man in Chelseo, who, it md is claimed, is the strongest man in the. .en County, if not in the State. He has )tel been a physical giant from boyhood. When a mere youth he used to amuse ho himself by lifting a barrel of flour, put the ting it on his shoulder and carrying it the around the block. Later he would ter shoulder a barrel of sugar and carry it md up two flights of stairs and, bring it psdown again, just for the fun of it. When he was 21 years of age he cele bat brated his coming of age by lifting a set e of quarry cart-wheels,- including axle the and pole, and lugging the whole lot, weighing 1,100 pounds, a quarter of a ble mile. After that, his feats of strength were numerous. He held two men, .. It weighing 160 pounds each, at arm's ted length, holding one on each hand. Bending big crowbars and pulling up ha. sapling trees six inches through by the ra- roots were 'ordinary pastimes for this a young Samson. The-crowning feat of his: life hap he pened a few years ago, when he was a he carpenter and worked on a new block Len then building in Chelsea. The work to men had been trying to hoist a big iron An girder into its place on the second story. . The girder had square edges and weigh n ed 1,800 pounds. The ropes which had - been placed around it were cut in two. em by the sharp edges as soon as the tackle mwas hauled taut. Finally, in dse de- tion, the foreman sent for a chain. While the man was gone Mr. Houston up shouldered the girder and took it up the ith ladder and placed it in position. ral "It hurt my shoulders some," said he, when telling of his performanee, "but ch outside of that I felt no inconvenience. )US I have never lifted in harness and do the not know how much I could take up, igh but I have an idea that I could lift as much as Dr. Winship ever did if Itried, th- Iam a workingman and have no time do for such fooling." His muscles are as. or. hard as knots, and he looks the picture of manly strength and muscular sfection. oes ren - - ife, A Good Thing for Bo7i. ith lid [American Magazine.] - [ng Manual training is one of the fear rou good things that are good for every-, a body. It is..good.for the rich boy to and teach him respeet for the dignity of beautiful work. It is good for the poor nd boy to increase his facility for handling - me tools, if tools prove to bethe thing.gh ald must handle for a living afterwards. It [ les- is good for the bookish boy to draw eat him away from books. But, most of ls all, it is good for the non-bookish boy, 'he in showing him that there is something. to he can do well. The .boy utterly un ad- able, even if he were studious, to keep e- up book-knowledge and percentage ied with the brighter boys, becomes die ale- couraged, dull and moody. Let him to go to the work-room for an hour, and es find that he can make a box or plane a an rough piece of board jas well as the uld brighter scholar, nay, very likely bet rho .ter than his brighter neighbor, and you Sto .have given him an impulse of self. the . epect that is of untold benefit to him rds when he goes back to his studies. He ark will be a brighter and a better boy for uk. finding out something!that he can do well. Mind you, it is not planing the board that does him good; it is planing the board in the presence of other boys "'who can no .longer look-down upon him when they see how well he can bes plane. He might go home after school ser- and plane a board in the bosom of his m-fr family, or go to an evening school to - -er- learn.to plane, without a quarter part, red nay, without any, of the invaluable .ie effect upon his manhood that it will have to let him plane side .by side with ey, those who in mental attainments may o_be his superiors. ep ber Eggueratiating Performance. his BALTIMORE, Dec. 19.-A boiler ch, maker named Charles Howe astonish en ed the epicures at a swell up-town res he- taurant last night by eating five dozen eir raw eggs, shells and all, on a wager of in- $5. The eggs were placed before him all on the eating bar half a dozen on a th, plate. He stood up in front of the ten >rd plates of eggs, and, taking one after ter another, broke the point, sucked the in- contents and then deliberately chewed a up and swallowed the shells. [on After finishing the first dozen he he asked for some spirits. Whisky was iof offered, but he preferred alcohol, and ly, took a big drink from the bottle that his supplies the spirit lamps. He repeated me the dose after every twelve eggs. In r,'' half an h"our half the eggs and over a pil- pint of alcohol had been consumed. of After swallowing the last of the eggs ris- he pocketed the $5, buttoned up his onl vest, remarked that he had often eaten "a- nine dozen eggs in the same manner eat and left the group of astonished men it, wondering whether the boiler maker in had an iron plated stomaeb. his IHowe is alive and well to-day. v'asI- - ~an The Laurens Municipal Election. far LAURENs, S. C., December 19.-The nce election for City Fathers, which was held on yesterday, passed. off very vas quietly. The contest for Y.tendant w'as was between J. F. Martin and L. E. ' v-ty Irby. Captain Irby was elected by a5 -ks, majority of 52.j