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1B MORIAL DAY UOW T E VY w oB 4KV D IN NEWBERRY. Appropriate Exorcises In the Opera House An Eloquent and Forceful Add,ePs Iy Bishop Capers-iuSte By a tlect Choir-The Decoratioon. It is a beautiful and noble sen timent which prompts the people of the South to set apart one day ir each year upon which they may gather to place flowers upon the m4*4graves of their heroic Confederate ead, to do honor to the memory of the men who gave their lives for a cause they believed to be just, to worship at the shrine of truest he roism, of unsullied patriotism, oi unsweving devotion to duty, of unfaltering loyalty to home and people and trust in God. Thirty-seven years have rolled into the past since the men who followed Lee stacked their arms and furled their stainless banner; a majority of those who survived that terrible conflict have crossed the silent river; a new South has been built upon the ruins of the old; but the lov6 and the reverence cf the Southern people for the Southern soldier, their just pride in his va lorous deeds on the field of battle and the heroic sacrifices which he made has only grown stronger and deeper. There are not many high and costly monuments to decorate; most of them sleep in unmarked graves; but the flowers wet with true women's tears, that are placed on these lowly riounds, tell in words more thrilling than any ever cut in Parian marble, that here a hero sleeps. The noble women of Newberry always respond with sympathetic hearts and willing hands to this call of love, and on Saturday there were floral offerings on every sol diers grave, and the monument on the public square was artistically and *beautifully wreathed in evergreens with intermingled flowers of white *and red, the colors of_the Confed eracy. 'THE ExERCISES. The exercises of the day were held inthe opera house. The stage had been very prettily decor ated- and appropriately arranged for the occassion by the ladies. On the right to the left of the audience, the figues '6i, made of white flowers encircled in a wreath, were -fastened to the wall; on the op posite side, similarly arranged in -red, were the figues '65. Near this stood a staCk of army rifles, and next to this a large potrait of Gen. Wade Hampton tastily .draped in * mourning. Suspended.from differ ent parts of the large .stage were -the flags of the different camps and chapters of the city. Seated on the stage were Bishop Ellison Capers, the orator of the d'ay, Dr. James McIntosh, Dr. E. P. McClintock, Mr. Jno. A. Chapman, Col. 0J. L. Schumpert * and the members of the Drayton Rutherford Chapter Daughters of the Confederacy. THE CHOIR. A select choir furnished the music for the day, and all the num bers were appropriate and ex cellently rendered. The choir was composed of the follovn ing persons : Prof. Burr H. Johnstone, Rev. W. I. Herbert, Mr. F. M. Boyd, Mrs. J. A. Burton, Mrs. Theo. Johnstone, Misses Gordon Weeks, Margaret Johnstone, Jessie Sum mer, Nannie McCaug'arin and Lizzie Dominick. Miss Dominick - performed at the piano, and Mr. Boyd and Miss McCaughrin ad ded much to the success of the mu sic with their violins. -At five o'clock standing room could hardly be obtamned. The exercises were opened with the rendering of "Those Who Died Their Cause to Save," by the choir. A beautiful and fervent prayer was offered by Dr. E. P. McClin tock, Chaplain of the James D. Nance Camp U. C. V. "Tbe Bonnie Blue Flag" was sung by the choir, after which Dr. James McIntosh, in a few well chosen words introduced the oratoi of the occasion, Bishop Ellisora Capers. C Bishop Capers said: THE ADDRESS. * Confederate comrades of the James D. Nance Camp of Veterans. A an Ladie of the Dravton Ruther ford Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy and the jno. M. Kinard Camp of sons of the Vet erans and my fellow citizens of Newberrry: With heart-felt interest in the commemoration ofthis day, sacred to the gallant dead of the Confed erate Army, and a memorial to the patriotism, the virtue, and the valor of our southern people, I have gladly come, at your request, to unite with you in its celebration. To reverence patriotism, and to commemorate achievements which do honor to our humanity are alike the impulse and duty of every man ly nature. The sentiment that ex alts the examples of sacrifice niade on the altar of duty, is a sentiment which belongs to the higher and purer part of human nature, and which adds not a little to the strength of States. "A people," says Lord Macau lay, "which takes no pride in the noble achievements of its ancestors will never achieve anything worthy to be remembered with pride by its descendants." Our memorial days perpetuate the history of a noble endurance! They preserve the memory of blood and treasure poured forth from gallants hearts, and generous hands, in willing sacrifice, on the altar of home and country. They have become to us all symbols of the character of our fathers- out ward and visible signs of the rev erence we pay to our fathers, and the duty we owe to ourselves. But our Confederate monuments and our memorial days my friends, perpetuate the history of disaster to our arms, defeat to our cause. destructiQn to our property, and the material ruin of our homes. rhey tell us of the brief life of the Confederacy we established; its unrecognized existence in the fam ily of nations; its high hopes dashed to the dust ; its exalted en deavors and sublime sacrifices spent and given in vain for the inde pendence and self-government we claimed as of moral and chartered right our due. They are memorials of a people's bitter disappoint ment, and tell of a proud flag that was furled, and a prouder heart that was bowed down with grief. The emblems on our shields are the em blems of a lost cause. The shell are piled by the side of broken can non wheels, the swords are sheath ed, the flags are drooping by their staffs, the silent soldier on our monuments has grounded his rifle by his side. But his form is erect, and his be*ing is the form of a man who stands before the gaze of friend and foe, and faces the world in witness of the heroic struggle he made, and the patriotic pride he feels in the unconquered truth, that the n.onument which commem orates his defeat forever imrmor .alizes his honor, his courage, and his faith! In the clear light of his native skies he stands in silent mar ble, on granite foundation, the Confederate Soldier, emblem for ever of his people's character ! ex ponent of his people's action! He would not be there if aught in his career rebuked the natural emo tions of the human heart--if he was the representative of a sordid contest for material prosperity, the champion of a bad cause, the hero of a causeless rebellhon. He is there, because he and his people es teemed their characters of far more value than their property. and their honor and independence dearer than life! And we, my friends, would not be here today, if his aged parents, his brothers and sisters, his wife and children, aye his brethren all did not recog nize that he gave his heart's blood to consecrate his most sacred con viction of duty, and willingly died in defense of the rights he believed were his and theirs by inheritance. It is a crime against virtue and truth to call him ''traitor,'' and since his forefathers and the fore fathers of his Northren brethren were called "rebels,'' he is not dis honored by the un worthy ignorarrce or the unmanly prejudice which styles him "rebel.'' The Athenian orator commemo rating the dead of Salamis and of Marathon ch'arged his countrymen with the duty of perpetuating their heroism, for, he exclaimed, "Your greatest glory is to keep the virtues the gods have given you.'' We build Confederate monuments, my friends, we keep Memorial days to keep the virtues our God has given ,us, We dedicate them to truth and valor, to sincerity and honor, conscience and patriotism, to cou try and to God. This we do faithful citizens of our reu'iit( country, accepting the results our great struggle as the decisic of heaven concerning us. Yiel ing the cause of Southern indepei dence to the God of battles, v we accept the victorious flag as tl flag of His providence, and the d feat of our hopes and efforts as tl chastening of His Almighty hani But we can never yield to obhvic the memory of our dead brother We have never surreadered tl grateful duty we owe their memoi and sacrifices. We would embal their virtues in the sweetest incen of grateful love, and build the characters in Parian marble. \ would make their examples speo to generations from the pages our history, and have the legend < their valor live in our songs ar echo in our hearts, an inspiratic to our posterity, If our Southern soldiers had wc no fame in the great contest thE made, if every campaign had bee a failure and every battle a defea if the Sonth had produced no gre. generals or able seamen, but, c the contary, we had met our ove throw in half the time consume by the millions who effected i still, our dead soldiers would I worthy of our commemoration, f< they died in obedience to the polit cal, social and religious principl< held sacred by us all. They wei not soldiers of fortune waging wC for the conquest of territory. The did not fight for dominion ov< their Northern brethren or to ei force upon them their convictioi of truth and right. The Confederal soldier took up arms for his righ in his old home-the land of h fathers- rights he believed to I his under the Constitution his for fathers framed; rights which gua anteed to a united people the choi< of their o wn government ;. th: which would best secure to thei ''life, liberty and the pursuit< happiness." This truth, nm friends, has been again and agai acknowledged by candid minc who were opposed to us in ti great contest of '61-'65 Brave and accomplished soldie: who led their battalions agains our dead brothers respect and prais the motives which inspired the service under the Southern Cros In a recent number of the Centur' an officer of the - United Stat4 Army, brevet-Lieutenant Colon Dodge, writing of the skill an valor displayed on both sideg, pay this tribute to the Southern soldier The Southerner felt that he wa ighting for his home and firesid< This greatest of all inspirations n (of the North) lacked. He fougi with an intimate knowledge of tU countiy, wvit h * the aid of ever farmer, indeed, of every womal He was more in earnest, as a rul as will be every soldier whose fielt and homesteads are being waste and burned. It is not difficult I state the task of the South ; it wa simply to conquer its independenc No student of the war, no old so dier, no American, but what ha bors the warmest admiration f< what the Southerner did. He b gan the war with a view to win< die in the last ditch- He did n< win, but he did actually do ti other thing. He gave up the strut gle because he had practically use up his last man and fired his la: :artridge. Nor he nor any oth< :ould do more." (Century for Me 19.) This is his vindication b fore the civilized world, and th his claim upon the respect of po terity. It is not my purpose to discu dead issues, or to review the caus' that made our great civil war il evitable. No thoughtful student c American history, from.the form tion of our government to the e: of the wvar. will fail to see the dee seated causes of agitation, whic1 for half a century, excited our pe pIe, touched the consciences of ti disputants on both sides of ti great controversy, and constant: provoked them to anger. Hie h: only to study the Constitutional d bate in the national forum-a d bate which lasted forty years, ar in which our noblest spirits at greatest minds spent their be powers in the vain endeavor to a just honest differences-to see ho the storm wvhich burst around t walls of Sumter was brewing f .a generatin. ''Every test of t :o ballot had developed the evdent .i- determination of the people, on is both sides. to yield nothing to each d other." >f The nature of man being what fn it is, it was not in )re surprising i- that, at last, the torch of war was i- lighted in our fair land than that re the flash and the thunder bolt should ie dart forth from the angry cloud. e- "A great revolution (says the elo ie qu'ent Daniel, of Virginia,) need . never apologize for nor explain it n self. There it is! the august and s. thrilling rise of a whole population ie And the tact that it is there, is the -y best evidence of its righ, to be mn there. None but great inspirations ;e underlie great actions. None but ir great causes can produce great re events. A transient gust of pas k sion may turn a crowd into a mob -a temporary impulse may swell f a njob into a local insurrection ; d but when a whole people stand to n their guns before their hearth stones and as one man resist what n they deem aggression; when for long years they endure poverty and starvation, and dare danger and t death to maintain the principles which they deem sacred; when ita n they shake a continent with their heroic endeavors and fill the world d with the glory of their achieve t, ments-history can make for them ie no higher vindication than to point to their deeds and say, 'Behold!' " . Brave and true men of Newberry whose names are written in our *e hearts, bore a worthy part in this r mighty rush of their country to arms. They illustrated her spirit. ,r They defended her character.- They maintained her principles and fell s in her name, and now they sleep :e in her bosom, and "honor's seal is on their brow, and valor's star is ison their breast, and the peace of God descends upon them." What test of character so sure and so terrible, so exalted and so epurifying as that which the soldier endures while passing through the mortification of defeat ; the scorch fing trials of repeated disaster, and the bitter disappointment of hope less struggles against accumulating s odds. Unly patriot soldiers, my friends, would have stood by the eConfederate standard after Vicks-. burg and Gettysburg, and none but strue heroes would have fought at tAppomattox and at Bentonville. r South Carolina's,12,ooo dead Con rfederate soldiers speak to us from 'their silent bivouacs, and the echo of their voices is heard sin every true heart reminding d us they died for South Carolina! Let love and memory bend over their graves in benediction and the -hfand of gratitude preserve their deeds to history, that our exam eples may teach posterity how loy ally Carolina's sons defended C>ar eolina's honor. A classic poet has said : "The firmest mind will fail *Beneath misforlune's stroke, and ' stunned, depart s From its sage plan of action." d The Greek poet wrote before othe light and grace of the great sexample had taught mankind the 'moral worth of suffering, before ~ the cross had revealed the powers rof sacriffce, and shown the tri >umphs of patience and endurance. He did not know that the minds >purified in the fires of disappoint tment, and hearts exalted by suffer eings endured for cherished ends, grows stronger to bear their bur ddens. greater to prolong their at hopes. r"'Misfortune's stroke" only y closed up the ranks of our 1grave ~Confederates and nerved their is minds for grander sacrifice. sBut the end was predestined. The terrible winter of '6.4-'65 had 's well nigh exhausted the resources a of the South, and there were no ~more young men at home to re cruit our wasted ranks! Gen. Lee's unparalleled defense of - etersburg was the glorious crown Iof his giorious career, and when the end camne at Appomnattox, his surrender of the brave remnant of ehis army had become so manifestly lthe dictate of courage and duty, tht all the world has declared him iad his army, as great, and as true, and as self-sacrificing in that last e hour of sorrow and loss, as in the ddays of victor ious battle! iAfter the surrender of Gen. Lee st az Appomattox the only forces ol d-the Confederacy, cast of the Mis. sissi ppi. numbered, all told, 2:5,000 seAgainst these were opposec or three armies, under Graint, Sher hie man and Canby, numbering in th aggregate 350,ooo; armies splen didly equipped, flushed with vic tory, and capable of being concen trated within a few weeks against the devoted 25,000. Ir his memo rable interview with President Davis at Greensborro on the i3th of April, iS65, Gen. Johnston represented to him, and to mei bers of. his cabinet present, that in his miitary judgment further war fare on the part of the Confederacy was hopeless! Under such circum stances as 1e described to Mr. Davis, such was the military situation that in the judgment of this great com mander, it would be the greatest of human crimes to attempt further to prolong the war. "Having neither money nor credit," said Gen. John ston, nor arms but those in the hands of our soldiers, nor ammuni tion but that in their cartridge boxes, nor shops tor repairing arms or fixing ammunition, the effect of our keeping the field would be, not to harm the enemy, but to complete the devastation of our country and ruin its people.'' The inevitable hour had come. Nothing was left to brave, true men .but to cease to contend in battle and blood, when contention was hopeless, and blood shed in useless strife would be re venge and murder, Lee had said to Grant at Appomattox, "Gen eral, I am not willing even to dis cuss any terms of surrender, incon sistent with the honor of my army, which I am determined to main tain to the last." Grant appre ciated the, sentiment of his great antagonist, and in the spirit of the soldier he was, responded nobly to Lee's proposition. To the honor of Gen. Sherman be it gladly confessed, he met the proposals of Gen. Johnston and asked only the pledge of a soldier's honor to keep a soldier's parole. With the giving of that pledge, the career of the Carolina Confed erate soldier was ended! Ended, as it had begun, in obedience to the manifestations of an Almighty providence; in accordance with the dictates of an enlightened con science; in response to the highest and purest and noblest instinct of the human heart- Iu the words of Gen. Johnston, the hour had come when warfare was hopeless-when to prolong wvar would be human crime-and then the Sonthern sol dier grounded his arms, and gave the pledge the victor asked, the pledge of his unsullied honor ! Today, we commemorate his honor! His courage! His noble endurance! His immortal -history! Thirty seven years have passed since the Confederate soldier laid down his rifle, and sheathed his s word, and tore the battle flag from its staff to take to his home! All bitterness, I trust, has gone from our hearts-the new life, and work, and energy, and hope of a generation have come to represent the courage and the character of the past ! The old love our fathers bore our great country is once more claim i.g our loyalty ; and Confederate soldiers have been fighting under the old flag with Confederate valor to maintain the honor of our reunited country, and to free a whole peo ple, oppressed by tyranny. Then was our Confederate strug gle in vain ? WVas the sacrifice of men like Nance, and my dear classmate, Drate Rutherford, a vain and use less sacrifice of noble lives? Are the names which our mothers, and wives, and daughters have cut in the granite of your Confederate monument, names lost to New berry and to the State? Was our great struggle for the principles of home rule, and consti tutionatl rights, and polhtical and social independence all for naug it? No ! answers our Memorial day! Come here, ye sons and daughters of your gallant sires and read the legend of their sacrifice ! Come, as to a shrine of truest patriotism and '"sanctify your memories, purify you hopes, make strong all good intent by commiun ion with the spirits of heroes!' Aye, and our peoole come! They come, on Memorial days, with garlands of roses and wreaths of immortelles ! Time will not efface from the Southern heart the honor due to the Confederate sol dier. IIis memory is immortal! T wenty-three hundred y'ears have passed since Leonidas and nis Spar tans defended the pass of Thier .-py.a aganst the hosts of Nerxes, and yet dear to the human heart, and ever fresh to the memory, as if ! it were an event of our generation, is the story of that heroic example! "&I owe a life to my country, and it t is now my duty to fall in its de- C fense." said Leonidas to his fellow Spartans, Tell the governor," said Gregg, when he received his mor tal wound at Fredericksburg, "that if I am to die no-w, I give my life Q :heeerfully for the independence of South Carolina." The patriot's heart is one ! Ages do not change i it. The soldier of the Confederacy peaks its language and illustrates its spirit in the very words and i deeds of the soldier of Thermopyl. t .t nd so dear to the human heart is he exhibition of a true sacrifice- z ;o inspiring and helpful is the ;pirit and example of resolute cour ge-and so genuine the homage 2 mankind pays to the devotion of e patriot and the hero-that more t ,han two thousand years lift up 'heir voices in his commemoration .oday, and assures us, and our chil Iren that no Confederate soldier s lied in vain! c "While the voice of the world shouts C its chorus, its pa )n, for those who have won; While the trumpet is sounding trium - phant, and high to the breeze and the t t sun 1ad banners are waving, hands clap r, t pinL, aud huirying feet rnronging after the laurel crowned vic- f tors, I stand on the field of defeat. S n the shadow, with those who are fall. r en, and wonuded, and dy ing, and there bhaut a requiem low, piace my band S on their paiu-knotted brows, breathe a prayer, t old the band that is helpless, and whisper, 'fbey only the victory win Who have fought the gool fight and i have vanquished the demon that t Leu,pts us within; 6 Who have held to their fait h, un6edueed c by the prize that the world holds 0 1 high; t Who have dared for a bigb cause to c suffer, resist, fight-if need bw to die 'Speak History! Who are life's vict,,r.? Unroll thy long annals, and say: re thev those wh"m the world called c the vi~ctors-who won the success of a e day?.c Che mart3 rs, or N rc? Tbe Sparlai s who fell at Tnermoppe's tryst', )r the Persians and Xerxes? His judges or Socrates? Pilate, or Christ?" Immediately after the adadress y "Tenting On The Uld Camp 3round" was sung by the choir. THE SOUTHEN CROSS OF HONOR. The Sonthern Cross of Honor was conferred on a number of vet- e rans by the Daughters of the Con ederacy. Bishop Capers in their behalf, made an eloquent speech of p)resenl- a tation in which he said that he I 'would rather have this cross, From the hands of these Southern a crirls and women, than to have it C rom the hands of royalty". It was an inspiring and beauti' ful sight, the old veterans, as their names were called coming forward to the stage-many of them on ac- a :ount of wounds received in the battle and the infirmities of age baving to be carried to receive From the Daughters of the Confed racy, this little cross of small intrinsic value,but something which an not be bought with gold, and arrying with it a title of true no The following are the names of he veterans :1 A ROLL OF HONOR. M. M. Buford, I. H. Boulware, Levi Britt, WV. H. Blats, E. P. Bradley, Thos. S. Blair, M. H. Buzhardt, J. N. Bass, J. C. S. roWn, J F. Banks, J. A. Chap man, R. C. Carlisle, J. L. Crisp, I. A. Carlisle, E. S. Cromer, J. F. Cromer, E. P. Cromer, A. B. Cromer, J. F. J. Caldwell, P. D.4 Cannon, H. S. N. Crosson, j. y1. Culbreath, D. A. Dickert, J. WV.1 Feagle, WV. Y. Fair, J. J.Gallman, J. . Gry,O.P. Harris, M.. M. ari, GV. ayM. Hawvkins, WV. R. Jones, I. H. Kibler, M. H.1 Livingston, A. J. Livingston, Geo. Lthrop, G. F. Long, M. M. Long shore, W. C. Megg'ett. E. P. Matthews, WV. G. Metts, E. P. McClintock, Jas. McIntosh, J. C Neel S. S. Paysinger, A. P. Pifer, X. G. Peterson, Y. J. Pope. J. A. Rikard, WV. D. Rutherford, J B. Reagin, J. D. Smith, J. H. Sith J. D. Shealy, R. I., Stoud enmeyer, WV. C. Sligh, tL. MI. Speers, Jas. J. Schumpert, M. J. Sott, W. T. Tarrant D. B. WVheeler, Jno. C. Wilson, J. C. Wilson, MI Werts, 0. Wells, Bel on Wicker, N. HI. Young, S. (G. Welch. O. L. Schumpert, Glen Rikard D. A. Ruff. Some of the veterans to whom these crosses were to be awarded were not present, and their badges are in the hands of the pre.sident of the Newberry Chapter U. D. C. mmediately after the benedic tion began the work of decorating' th graves in the village graveyard and in R osemont. The Fruitm of War. Not long ago I visittd the town of ovar:. in noritrn Italy. There in a i-hvatfield the furners have plowed Lp skulls of meii util they have piled p a pyramid 1o or 12 feet high. Over his lpyrtmid somec one has built a can py to keep off the rain. These were lIe skulls of young men of Savoy, Sar inlia Z1:41 Austria--men of IS to 35 e:si of :e. peasants from the farms ld wNorkiien from the shops-who let at Novara to kill each other over iitter in which they had very little 011ceril. Furtiiher on Frenchmen, Austrians lu1 It :ili:ns fell together at Magenta. lie hIe of the blood that flowed oul ldhr fhe 1live trees. Go over Italy s you w\ill t1:wre is scarcely a spot not riis0ned by the blood of France, arcely a railway station without its ile of French skulls. You can trace eni across to Egypt, to the foot of he pyrainids. You will find them in ermany-at Jena and Leipsic, at Lut en and Bautzen and Austerlitz. You ill find them in Russia at Moscow, a Belgium at Waterloo. "A boy can top a bullet as well as a man," said apoleon. And with the rest are the kulls and bones of boys "ere evening o he trodden like the grass."-Popular cience Monthly. Queer Turkish Fish. April 19 is the great fete day of "Ba kli," or place of fishes. This is a mall church situated outside the walls f Constantinople, and it enjoyed no articuilar reputation before the con iest of Constantinople by the Turks. Lt the time of the invasion, however, a [onlk was cooking some fish there hen a messenger came and told him hat the Turks had entered Constanti ople. The monk did not believe the tory and said. he would sooner believe hat the half cooked fish would jump ack into the water. As he spoke the sh jumped back into the water, and ince then the place has had a great eputation for Its healing powers. A church has been built over the pring dedicated to "Our Lady of the 'ishes," and on this day a regular pil rimage takes place from all parts of be town. Many sick are cirried thith r, and many miraculous cures are re orted. The truth of the story is proved y the presence In a large marble lined ank in the church of the lineal de-* cendants of the half cooked fish. Any ne who does not believe has only to >ok in the water, and he will see them, rown on one side and white on the ther, swimming about at their ease. Sea Bathing. A person can easily determine with ne indulgence whether or not open ir bathing Is hurtful to him. If cir ulation is speedily restored after he as left the water, if his skin is well eddened and he r's soon well warmed p and as strong and "lively" as when e took his first plunge, then he may roperly assume that his bath has done im good. If, on the other hand, his kin continues cold and clammy for 15 r 20 minutes, notwithstanding the prisk rubbing he gives himself, and for .n hour or more afterwvard he is we&k, lull and languid, then he may be toler .bly certain that there is something 1rong with him which forbids cold athing. A Pot Walloper. The parliamentary register for 1896 howed that there was then only one ut walloper in all England. One see ng the term for the first time might asily imagine that a pot walloper was species of ichthyosaurus or some oth r reptile of a past age. It will be dis 'overed upon inquiry, however, that he term "pot walloper" is literally one vho boils a pot and was applied to vot rs in certain boroughs of England here, before the passage of the re orn bill of 1832, the qualificationzs for uffrage was to have boiled (walloped) mis own pot in the parish for six nonths. A Curious Tree. There is a curious combination tree n West Stockbridge, Mass. It is pri narily a ma'ple which measures, a foot rom the ground, 12 feet 3 inches in ~ircumference. Fifteen feet from the ~round there are ond or two birch limbs ~rowing, and higher up are currant and aspherry bushes which bear fruit each rear. It is not stated whether the ugar made from its sap has a rasp erry flavor, or the birch bark a cur -ant color and taste, or the berries a tpicy tang of birch. It is very old and )ids fair to stand for many years onger. His Manners All In a Bunch. The laundress' little boy. is being ;trenously brought up "by band." 'Why, mum." she said despairingly, "if pounded that boy black and blue I ~oudn't learn hIm his manners. Here, Villie!" to the urchin, who was looking 'onfusedly at some pennies given him >y the mistress. "What do you say to he lady ?" Willie looked troubled. Then, "Yes, na'am; no, ma'am; pease, fank you, ~stuse me," he said breathlessly, re nem bering all his "manners" at once, he occasion evidently being great There's Etiquette In All Trades. A lady who imprudently explained to fishmonger the other day that her )rchase was intended for the cat's hinner was a little hurt at receiving it wrapped up in a newspaper. "1 under itood, as it wasn't for yourself, mum," eplied the fishmonger loftily, "we ney r wraps up in brown when it's for mts!"-London Chronicle. The Human Jaw. The human ja w is very loosely sock ted In the skull, so that it is often dis ocated by the mere act of yawning. ot being intended for biting purposes. ffensive or defensive, n~ attention ;eems to have been paid by nature to naking It fast. Playing It Down Low. "I haven't much use for Blithersley," said te p)roud papa. "Why'?" asked the proud mamma. "I listened to him for an hour today vhile he told me about what his baby and said1 or tiedC to say. and just as I as about to tell him about ours he eft me, saying he had to catch a train." -Baltimore American. *