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' ' VOL. XIX, NO. 37. DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1892. WHOLE NUMBER 920. LKAL L1C0SIIS, MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS PEROUS DARLINGTON. A Column of News, Persons I and Oth erwise, of Interest to Our Many Readers. The Cleveland House is now open for the reception of guests. Misses Bessie and Emma Wil liamson returned home last week. The Confederate monument will shortly be removed to the Court House park. Mr. R E. James is buying cotton for Messrs E. H. -Lee A Co., of Raleigh N. C. The Misses Fountain have re turned from New York with a new stock of millinery. Mr. J. T. Sumner, of Doves- ville, lost a very fine cow from hydrophobia last week. Mr. Clarence A. McCown is clerking for Messrs West & Honour, where he will be glad to see his friends. Mr. McKenzie, of Monroe, N. C., has located in Darlington. He is buying cotton for J. M. Fairley of Monroe. Mr. J. J. Sheppard, proprietor of the “Racket Store”, nas re turned from New York with a large and desirable stock. Rev. W. A. Guerry will con duct services in St. Matthew’s Episcopal Church on Sunday evening next, beginning at 8 o’clock. We wish to call the attention of our readers to the new adver tisements of Brunson Lunn & Co. and Woods & Milling ap pearing in this issue. The subject for the meeting of the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday afternoon next is, “The sincere inquirer will find the truth,” John III, 4-18; VII, 17. Mrs. J. H. Gandy, of Harts- ville, has an advertisement in this issue in regard to the new stock of hats, bonnets, etc for her millinery establishment. Four additional deacons of the Baptist Church were elected on Sunday last. They are Mes srs E. C. Lide. John Douglas, E. R. Cox and J. P. Coleman. The Florence tobacco market was opened on Tuesday. A large crowd was present and a number of sales were made. Several Darlingtonians were present. Mr. S. Muschel.of New York, the new merchant, who is locat ed in the Early building makes his announcement to the people of Darlington and vicinity in this issue. Dr. W. B. McGirt, the popu lar dentist, will be in Society Hill next week to allow persons in that neighborhood, who de sire to do so, to consult with him professionally. The Darlington Guards will hold their first fall meeting on Wednesday evening next, Sept. 21. Business of importance is to be transacted, and a full at tendance is requested. Mr. D. S. McCullough has commenced work on his livery stable on Main Street, on the lot formerly occupied by Mul- drow’s blacksmith shop. He expects to be ready for business in a month. The attention of our readers is called to an article on another page from the pen of Dr. W. J. Alexander. It is a criticism on Dr. Bogg’s recent baccalaure ate address on Ethics to the graduating class of the South Carolina College. is pr nth The News office with a fine printer’s brush made from the root of the palmetto. Brushes made of the palmetto have no equals for durability and Mr. white keeps in stock all kinds of these brushes sutable for every purpose. The county Democratic exec utive committee has been call ed to meet on Saturday next for the purpose of considering the Contest of J. N. Parrott for the nomination for Clerk of the Court. Thisis a very important matter and it is imperative that every mdmber of the committee attend the meeting. The popular play, “the Colon el,” will be rendered at the opera house in Florence this (Thi com run lington returning after the play and a number of people from these places will take advan tage of the opportunity to see a good show. On last -salesday J J. Ward Esq, purchased as agent the en tire property of the Darlington Light, Water and Power Com pany, A new company will be organized on Saturday and will be called the Darlington Light and Water Company. A notice concerning the books of sub scription is published in anoth er column. By means of the new company Darlington will soon again have electric lights. IN FANCY COSTUMES The Young People Make The Evening | Merry. A pretty fancy party was given by the young men on Tuesday evening at the resi dence of Hon. Geo. W. Dargan. The merry participants were gaily bedecked in fancy cos tumes. All of these costumes were quite pretty and some THE CHARGE AGAINST A YOUNG NORTH CAROLINIAN. He also Sells a Horse and Boggy Which he had Borrowed and Finally Comes to Grief. On Saturday night a man, calling himself James Chat- were, indeed, very handsome. | hams, was arrested in Darling- The entertainment was contin ued until quite a late hour and was a happy occasion for all. The following are the names of those present, together with the characters they represented. Misses Clara Ward, Maid of the Mist; Emma Williamson, Forget-Me-Not ton for abduction and larceny. He is charged with stealing a horse and buggy and a little girl in North Carolina. The horse and buggy belonged to one F. C. Watson, of Chatham county, North Carolina. The „ , Bessie Ervin,! Spring ; Margaret Ervin, Swiss * s about fourteen years old Peasant Girl; Ella McCall, Au- and is also from that county, tumn ; Edna Dargan. “All’s i Her miinn not Gold that Glitters Edith Law, Bertha Travis; Marie Lide, Golden Rod ; Sadie Dar gan, Madame Necker ;01a Rast. Pink of Perfection ; Corrie Law, White Rose of York ; Ida Law, Blue Bell ; Carrie Mclver, Ceres; Maggie Law. Flora ; Eliza Dar gan, Little Dorrit. is Mattie Philips. The girl while in Darlington gave the following story: Chathams, on Sunday of last week, took the girl to ride, car rying her to see her uncle. Af ter visiting her uncle they Apples, onions, lemons, pota ab £ ut Ar Hnnnnr F years of age. He again took a ride. ~ Messrs T. E. McCullough, I ® 0I r etime he told her that they Capt. Kidd ; H. H. Rast, Ivan- had ,08t their wa y> b,l t h e kept hoe; Harry Smith, Clown ;Fred ?. n dr,v l n 8 towards South Caro- Law, Country Dude; Charlton * i J i n . a i an( l reached Darlington on Law, Newman Nuggs; E. B. Friday. Fortunately for the Dargan, Charles VIII of France ; K irl she found relatives and E. M. Wells, Knight of the Gar- friends at the Factory and to ter ; Henry Dargan, Sailor Boy ; these she told h,i r story. The Walter Griffin. Skipper; Lawton inil tter was reported to the au- Dargan, Uncle Sam ; Walter thorities and Chathams was ar- Edwards, Knight of the XIX rested on Saturday night Century. j Chathams sold the horse and I buggy in Darlington. He is a about twenty-two says that he I borrowed the horse and buggy from Mr. Watson and that he did not intend to steal them or to runaway with the girl. He got lost and when he reached Darlington, he had no money and he sold the horse and bug gy to enable the girl to get back home. He knew, he said, that as soon as he could obtain em ployment he could pay Mr. Wat son for the horse and buggy. On Monday Mr. Watson came to Darlington and recovered the horse and buggy from the par ties to whom they had been sold. He wanted to take Chathams back to North Carolina, but of course, he could not do this. Chathams will have to remain in our jail until the North Caro lina authorities secure him through the regular channel of a requisition. The girl has re turned to her home. toes etc. West & Honour. * - Harvest your pea vine and other forage with McCormick mowers and hay rakes sold by Welling & Bonnoitt 4t. THE CONDUCTORS' FESTIVAL. Eorthe Benefit of the Sick of the Worthy Order. The Palmetto Division of the Order of Railway Conductos in Charleston, will give a fair in that city on October 10, the proceeds of which will he de voted to the sick and burial fund of the order. There is no class of men that is more worthy of the people’s attention than the conductors and as their fair will be given for a noble pur pose the liberal assistance that has already been given it is not surprising. But there is room for more assistance, which our people should freely give. A handsome gold watch will he presented to the man who is vo ted the most popular conductor on the three roads that run into Charleston. Capt. W. G. Webb, the well known conductor on the Atlantic Coast Line, has been put in the race by his friejids and he stands a good chance of winning the watch. There will also be an “Atlantic Coast Line” table at the fair and any contributions for this table will be greatly appreciated by the friends of that line. All contributions should be sent to Mrs. W. G. Webb, 215St. Philip St., Charleston S. C. Buy a suit of clothes from the handsome line just in. Black- well Bros. See our line of new crockery just in. West & Honour. GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY. Welling & Bonnoitt carry a full line of repairs for McCorm ick mowers. Buy these ma chines and save delays in har vest season 4t. Found, Sept. 10, 1892, that on and after this date best bar gains can be had on goods at Blackwell Bros. WORK OF THE FLAMES. A NEW TAILOR. A Popular Columbia Tailor Removes his Establishment Here. John Pugh, a highly respect ed colored citizeu of Columbia, has removed to Darlington. He is a tailor and one of the very best in the State. He proposes to follow his calling in our town. Darlington has long needed a genuine first class tailor and we can assure the people that one is to be found in John Pugh. His work has alwajs given satisfaction to the people of Columbia. We need no lon ger to send off for tailor made clothes for we can now have them supplied at home. But a man must have work to live and Pugh’s residence in Dar lington, affording the people the advantages of a first-class tailor, depends upon the peo ple’s appreciation of his valua hie services It is to our inter est therefore to patronize him. He comes with letters of recom mendation from Mr. W. C. Swaffield, Columbia’s popular and well known tailor, and Prof. E. S. Joynes, of the South Carolina College. He may he found in Mr. F. E. Norment’s building on Exchange street. Go to Welling & Bonnoitt for McCormick mowers and hay rakes 4t. —» — Two lb can corned beef, 5 cans for $1. West & Honour. OCCASIONAL SUBSOILING. 1 A Work that Brings Great Advantage to the Farmer. [American Cultivator.] Probably no work on the farm 1 pays so well as that done with j the subsoil plow on land that i has been well nnderdrained. The advantage of suhsoiling is | that one operation lasts a num ber of years, and if the drainage is perfect, the land never loses the porosity which the subsoil 1 plow gives it. If new land were I drained as soon as the forest were cleared from it. subsoiling would not be needed. The de- ! cay of roots of trees in the sub soil makes a natural drainage way through which superfluous or stagnant water can pass. But in 99 cases out of 100 drain- a* e is not resorted to until the ! compacting of soil and its ina bility to carry off water makes drainage necessary. Then af ter the underdrain is down it takes years of freezing and thawing and clover growing to establish the old water courses again, or rather to make new ones. The subsoil plow helps this work amazingly. It should follow the drain, and it will do good to repeat the subsoiling every few years, thus enabling the soil to hold more water with out being saturated, because the surplus must always pass off wherever an outlet is provided for it. THE mm NEWS. ASHLAND. Our pea crop will he very FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY OUR CORRESPONDENTS. Philadelphia Matters.—A House De stroyed by Fire.—Personal Para graphs Mr J. N. Parrott went to Col umbia last week on business. The weather siill continues dry, affording ample opportun ity for the farmers to gather their short crop of cotton. Mr. M. N. Graj’has purchased a twelve horse power engine to which he proposes to attach a saw after the ginning season is over. Mr. C. II. Decker’s business has increased so much that he has had to employ Mr. Laury Lawson as an additional clerk, who will prove very acceptable to his customers. A h a w k a few days ago swooped down into Mr J. w. Wadford’s yard among li i s young fowls and on missing his game flew into the house through a window, whereupon Mr. Wadford caught him alive. Mr. A. R. Garner has just re turned from Charleston, where he has been purchasing a full stock of goods to fill his store at Syracuse, which he has enlarg ed. He took advantage of his trip and made a few days visit to John’s Island. Mr Madison Windham, who lives on the McCall place, had the misfortune to lose his dwell ing by fire on Thursday. Al most the entire contents, includ ing about five bales of seed cot ton, which he had stored in the house, were destroyed. The cause of the fire was a defective flue to the kitchen stove. The loss falls very heavily on Mr. Windham as there was no in surance on anything. NEW PROVIDENCE. a good season last Mr. J. J. Gandy Again Fire. Yesterday morning about day light Mr. J. J. Gandy, who lives ! near Palmetto, had two build- ; ings on his place destroyed by fire. One of the buildings was I used as a pack house for tobac- |CO, and in this building he lost about twenty-eight hundred | pounds of the best tobacco he i he had. The other building was used as a storehouse and the I cont< uts, consisting of one J thousand pounds of fodder, and plows and a number of other Hon. Adlai E. Stevnerson, Our Next farming implements, were des- Vice Preaident, Will Speak. troyed. The total loss is esti- A grand Democratic rally will mated at $550, but Mr. Gandv be held in Fayetteville, N. C., bad insurance on the pack on Wednesday next, Sept. 21.’d 1 ®. 1186 aad to bacc °- Mr. Gandy a Sufferer by j Evaporated codfish, s»me thing new. West& Honour. Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Demo cratic nominee for Vice Presi dent of the United States, will he the chief orator of the day. thinks the fire was of incendi ary origin. The loss falls partic ularly heavy on him, as only about two weeks ago he had a Hon W. 0. Ewing, of Chicago, barn and about a thousand will also speak. A number of :P ounds °f tobacco destroyed by attractions will also add to the, dre - pleasure of the day. Fayette ville is not far from Darlington a “Reynolds” shoe and a and if our people sliow a dispo- ' “ilk hat, found only at Black sition to attend,''sufficient to warrant it, the railroads will! run an excursion. This occa sion affords an opportunity not given this section in half a cen-1 tury, namely, to hear an ad- j dress from the next Vice Presi dent of the United States. well Bros. Good Rio coffee, 6 West & Honour. lbs for $1. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Next Session Will Begin on 26 Inst— Schedule of Examinations. Can salmon, $1,50 per dozen. West & Honour. THE COLORED FAIR. An Attractive Programme Arranged for the Fall Festival. The annual fall fair of the Colored Industrial, Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Company will be held at the grounds of the Darlington Agricultural and Mechanical Fair Company (white) on October 26 to 28. The company has provided premiums for all varieties of exi'ibits in the agricultural, mechanical, industrial and art departments and has also arranged an attrac tive programme for the occasion. This is the second year of the company’s existence and we hope that an institution like this, which cannot fail to be beneficial to the colored people, will have many years of useful ness. A notice concerning the next session of the Darlington Public Schools is published in another column. It will be of interest to all who contemplate entering the schools at the approaching session. The session will be gin on September 26. The schedule for examinations for all pupils who have not received grade tickets and all new appli cants is as follows : Mayo School, children under 10 years of age, Monday, Sep tember 19; children over 10 years of age, Tuesday, Septem ber 20. Factory School, Wed nesday, September 21. St. John’s school, children under 10 years of age, Thursday. September 22; children over 10 years of age, Friday, September 23. Members of the High School should meet the Superintendent on Saturday, September 17. Wheeler & Wilson No. 9 and New Home found only at Black- well Bros. —— STATE NEWS. Gathered From Our Exchanges, And Put in Paragraphs. The Tillmanites of Sumter | have abandoned their contest and the full Conservative coun ty ticket has been declared nom inated. A handsome monument will he unveiled in Greenville to-day, with imposing ceremonies, in memory of the Confederate | dead of that county. Last week the News and | Courier published an admirable | trade review of Charleston for i the past year. It showed that ! the city did solid work, despite the hard times. W. B. Boyle, a Sumter mer chant, shot and killed D. W. Chandler in his store on Wednesday of last week. Chandler had been employed by Boyle, hut was discharged, and the killing grew out of this. Two negroes were hanged in Spartanburg on Friday for mur der. Two other negroes, one of them a very little girl, were to have been hanged on the same day, but the Governor respited them until he could look further into their cases. The two young men who start ed on a trip across the continent on bicycles, from Charleston to San Francisco, have abandoned their venture, because their wheels broke. They had reach ed a point beyond Augusta when the accident happened. A brick pavement is being placed in front of Moorhead Cox & Co’s store. New mackerel in kits, W. & H. short Mr. James right sick. Gardner is Garfield Park, a race course in Chicago, was raided by the S ol ice on Tuesday of last week. ames Brown, a wealthy horse owner, refused to surrender. He killed one policeman and badly wounded another. Be fore he could escape, however, the wounded policeman killed him. Since the primary add has passed and the muddy waters have be come settled we do not hear so much of the Columbia Register and its smart editor. He will have a good rest until the next election and then he will have another opportunity to praise I the dear farmer and quiety scoop in their dollars in the way of subscriptions. But we are un der the impression that Editor Gantt will not have such a pic nic two years hence as he had this time. Our cotton is opening very rapidly and the crop will be much less than a full one. Those who sowed peas after small grain have had nice weath er to save their hay, and most of them have a real nice lot of it already housed Ashland Chapel, the new Adventist church near here, has secured the services of Elder W. D. Grantham and have preach ing the second and fourth Sun days in each month. There are Sunday School exercises at the Chapel every Sunday. Dr. Rutledge, who moved from Clyde to this neighborhood last winter,has proven to be one of the most successful and effi cient physicians that has ever practiced in this section. His practice has been remarkably successful. He is well qualified for his profession; besides he is very attentive to business, and universally popular among all classes. We feel that we have been very fortunate in securing his services as a M. D. JASPER. We had week. Mr. H. J. Nettles started his ! gin this week. Mr. Willie Ham has removed from Mr. C. D. Player’s to Dr. T. E. Howie’s. Most of us are well pleased at the result of the primary elec tion and wish our opponents well. Didamus Kelly will oblige H. T. Jones greatly if he will send him his address. This will he important both. Some of us were desirous of attending the protracted meet ing at Black Creek Baptist Church, hut were too busy to do so. The writer was in the lower part of Chesterfield county a few weeks ago and the farmers were complaining of short crops of cotton. A hot supper will be given at the residence of Mr. J. W. Coker on September 27 in the interest of the New Providence Baptist Church. On next Sunday all who have been lately baptized and all who wish to unite with us by letter will be received into full fellow ship in t h e New Providence Baptist Church. Mrs. W. C. Gandy died on the j 8 inst. Her remains were the first interred in the New Provi dence cemetery. The deceased often predicted that she would (de at the age of forty. Htr fortieth birthday was on the 7 inst and she died on the 8. section has been finished. Nelson Jeffords died on the evening of the 11th. inst., from an attack of typhoid fever. Mrs. C. M. Wilkes had a wat ermelon vine that furnished six teen melons of delightful flavor. Mr. T. H. Sanshury has a child that is quite sick with ty phoid fever, though at last re ports it is better. Mr. E. L. Stephens has return ed to his home in Louisiana, where he will take charge of a graded school on October 1. The farmers are gathering their short crop of the fleecy staple. It will not take them long to do this. They will then take the cotton to market and realize small money. We are happy to say that we are having some rain, for it had become quite dry in this com munity. Garden vegetables were suffering, especially the late or winter varieties. We failed to get turnip seeds up. CLYDE. Mrs. J. D. Dixon has been quite sick, but is some better at present. Our boys have saved a nice lot of fodder and will, if the weather permits, save a lot of peavine hay. idgi Mr. D. D. Johnson’s is being re paired and will soon be put in good condition. Mr. W. T. Goodson recently found on his place a curious im plement which it is supposed is an Indian tomahawk. Mr. M. S. McKinnon has re turned from his trip to the springs and has resumed his po sition with Mr. McNair. Borne of our boys are visiting frequently the Union neighbor hood and we anticipate enjoy ing turkey in the near future. Mr. J. A. Smith’s little son, Luke, is quite sick, hut under the treatment of Dr. Wallace we hope to see him well again soon. THE WORLD S NEWS. CYPRESS Mr. C. W. Harris left on last Tuesday for Nashville, Tenn, to i enter the medical college in that city. We had a fine shower of rain | on Sunday night last and a cool spell set in as soon as the show er came. Messrs Edwards, Norment & Co are to be congratulated on securing the valuable services !of Mr. Charles E. McLendon. A colored woman was badly hurt on last Sunday morning by a mule running away and throwing her out of a wagon. The farmers are very blue over the short cotton crop and the low prices. Good judges say that about sixty per cent of a crop is a fair estimate. A temperance society has been | organized at this place with a good membership which is con' tinually increasing. We hope it will meet with success. Try the roller pa “ ‘ ell ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM EVERY WHERE. What the Outside World it Saying and Doing.—The Happenings of aWeek. Three negroes were lynched together in Texas last week. Each member of President Harrison’s cabinet will make four or five speeches during the present campaign. A railroad accident occurred near Boston on Saturday night in which seven persons were killed and forty injured. John Greenleaf Whittier, the famous uoet, died at Hampton Falls, N. H., on the 8 inst., in eighty-fifth year of his age. Thos. Rooney, of Plymouth, Pa , having lost all his property and money on the recent Sul- livan-Corbett fight, committed suicide on Thursday. An engineer on a train near Altoona, Pa., disobeyed orders on Thursday and as a conse quence a collision occurred and eleven men were killed. During the street parade of a circus in Mayesville, Ky, on Thursday, a man who was rid ing in the cage with a tiger was suddenly attacked and killed by the beast. Deaths still occur at a great rate at the quarantine in New York, hut the government is taking such careful precautions that the disease will hardly spread in this country. The census of 1890 gives the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, a membership of 1,209,- 976. There are 12,687 church edifices and the total church property is valued at $18,775,- 362. LYDIA Cotton picking seems to be “all the go” in this community. Miss Kate Carnes, of Bishop- ville, is visiting Mrs. Dove Pate. Ernest and Lida Harrell who have been quite sick with fever are improving. Messrs Eugene Harrell and John Skinner paid a flying visit to friends and relatives at this place last Sunday. Rev. Mr. Bethea and wife, who have been visiting relatives in Marion, returned nome last week accompanied by the form er’s mother and tne latter’s niece. latent flour for $5,50 at Blackwell Bros. III> Ultimatam. “MmU-llne, will you marry me?" Hi» voire bail a hunky, appraliut; aouud, hie heart thumped audibly and hia kueea hail got beyond his eonrml. “No, Horace, I will U)L” “This—this Is your Anal answer, la It, Madeline?" “It is. Horae*. I am sorry I cannot” “This Is the and of all my fond bopea, the waking from the dream I have been dream ing, and the winding up of the fool’* para dise in wbiah 1 bare dwelt for the last three months Is it?" “I—I suppose It is, Horace, bat do not be utterly cast down," said the young woman aooUiingly. "Time aoftena all our griefs and turns sorrow into Joy. In tha future, Horace, when the pain of this refusal shall have” "Miss Hhuekers," he exclaimed, rising with dignity, as became a man who had received a temporary backset but had ra- covered himself, "talk not to me of tha fu ture. It may have its consolations, its joys and its repose, but it cannot reawaken old delusions, rienct forth, Mias Shuck- era,” he added, reaching for his cane and bat and moving with anrufflad self pos session toward the door, “I can never be anything more to yoa than a brother.”— Chicago Tribute. During a storm in Austria last week a house, in which sol diers were quartered, was struck by lightning and set on fire. Eight soldiers were killed and their bodies cremated, while seven others were seriously burned. On Wednesday of last week a bank officer was crossing the Sierra Madre mountains, in Mexico, with $10,000. He had five men for a guard. The party was attacked by brigands, who killed two of the guards and captured the $10,000. # The papers state that peace reigns in Democratic circles in New York State and that the Cleveland wing and the Tam many wing have flapped togeth er. It is announced that Sena tor Hill himself will open the campaign in Brooklyn the latter part of this week. The Republicans last week carried Vermont by the usual majority and the Democrats had a walk over in Arkansas. In the latter, State there was much talk of the great part the Third party would play in the election, but the result gave that party a very insignifica t vote. John L. Sullivan, for twelve years the champion pugilist of the world, was knock out by James J. Corbett in the twenty- first round in a prize fight on Wednesday of last week. The result was a surprise and as the bets were heavily in favor of Sullivan a large amount of money was lost on the fighi. Corbett won $35,000 as the prize. Aged at Nineteen Years. An important bit of local history has been discovered at Salem in connection with a tombstone in the old Charter street burying ground. In the utter most corner of this ground is a stone bearing this inscription: "Mr. Nathan Mather died October ye 17th, 1688. An aged person that h»d seen but nineteen winters in this world." The meaning of this peculiar inscrip tion has long been a matter for conjec ture among local historians. In his "American Notebooks,” Nathaniel Haw thorne refers to it and says: “ ‘An aged man at nineteen years,’ saith the gravu- stone. It affected me deeply when I cleared away the grass from the half buried stene and read the name.” The mystery has been solved by the discovery in the Essex institute of n book entitled, "The Genealogy of the Mather Family." By this book it ai>- pears that Nathaniel Mather was born July 6,166V, and was a brother of Cotto:i Mathei and a son of Increase Mather. At the age of twelve years he ha thoronghly fitted for college, and he w;: graduated from Harvard at the age of sixteen. At twelve he had read the Old Testament in Hebrew and the new Tes tament in Greek, and waa able to con vene familiarly in Latin. He was dis tlngutshed not only for his complet • mastery of languages, bnt for his attain ments in mathematics, philosophy, hi tory, theology and rabbinical leamin . as well. At the time of his gradnatii i he delivered an oration in Hebrew npo:i the state of learning among the Jews.- Boston Journal. The Celer* *f Amber. Amber has a wonderful variety of colon. Some of it is as clear as crystal. some as yellow as honey, some light blue and again a transparent green. Then it is found as white as snow, the color of cream, and often many of these tints are blended in one piece. There is a popular notion to the effect that am ber has curative qualities for such ail- i as croup and sore throat, and thousand necklaces of it an sold ^ _ iBy tor that purpose.-latcrrimr Perilous Biding on the Iron Horse. “Did you ever ride on a locomotive!" asked O. G. Haskins. “I tried it once and have no desire to repeat the experi ment. It was ont in Colorado, where yon sometimes run so close to bottom less chasms that yon could drop your hat into them, and make turns so short and sudden that it nearly disjoints your spinal vertebrae. The master mechanic was an old friend of mine and gave me permission to ride over the road on the engine o# the lightning express. The engineer did not appear to fancy my presence mnch, but treated me civilly. We wore behind time, the night was black as Erebus, and a terrific thunder storm was raging. The engineer was determined to go in on time, and the way ho rnshed around those curves and across canyons was enough to make a man’s hair turn gray. "The peculiar thing abont these moun tain engines is that they do not take a curve like any other vehicle. They go plunging straight ahead until you feel sure that they are clear of the track and suspended in midair, and then shoot around and leave you to wonder by what miracle you have been saved. The trucks take the curve in the orthodox manner, but the superstructure is so ar ranged that it consumes more time in making the turn. With the lightning playing abont the mountain peaks ami half disclosing the frightful gorges and swollen torrents, the great iron leviathan swaying and plunging along that slip pery, serpentine track, I first realized the perils of railway travel and the re sponsibility of the sullen man who kept his hand on the throttle and his eye on the track. I stood with my heart in my throat, admiring his nerve, but not envy ing him his job. At the first stop I clambered back into the coach and staid there.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. linight Old Mon In Kmsox County. Essex county, Mass., has been noted not only for its legal lights like Rufus Choate, Caleb Cushing, Judge Story and others, but also for its deputy sheriffs, some of whom have served many years. Of one of these men, Daniel Potter, many amusing stories have been told. At one time he entered a newspaper office in Salem, and addressing the only scribe who was in sight said: “I thought I would tell you that to morrow I shall go where I never went before and can never go again.” The scribe, knowing his caller, promptly “gave it up,” and then Mr. Potter said: “It is into my eightieth year!" Some years ago these old deputies had a gathering at the home of a certain one of their number in Gloucester. While they were roaming about the honse the host called the attention of his guests to an old clock, a great favorite of his. He told his friends of his geeat attach ment to this ancient timepiece and grew quite pathetic at certain points in his remarks, which he brought to a close by saying in a voice full of emotion: “Gentlemen, I have wound np that clock every night for more than forty years.” He hail evidently made an impression on his visitors, when one old deput),- who had been carefully examining the clock, turned the tide of feeling evoked by the story by saying dryly: "Well, I always did think you were something of an idiot! That’s an eight day clock!”—Youth’s Companion. Where Columbu* Got His Idea. Mediaeval Europe knew but very little of eastern and northeastern Asia. Many of the most learned cosmographers of the time taught that Asia stretched east ward indefinitely, and no one imagined that it bad an eastern coast washed by the ocean. It was seriously taught that eastern Asia was a land of vast swamps, inhabited by monster serpents and dragons. This was the opinion that still prevailed np to within 200 years of the time of Colnmbus. At this time two Venetian merchants by the name of Polo went on a vast trading expedition to the uttermost parts of Asia. They were gone many years. Upon their return the son of one of them, a young man named Marco Polo, wrote ont a full account of their travels, described the empire of the grand khan (the Chinese emperor) and revealed the fact that Asia was bounded on the east by a vast ocean. He de scribed this eastern coast minutely, with all its vast cities and its wealth of precious stones and spices. It was from reading this book that the imagination of Columbus was fired, and he conceived the bold conception of reaching this eastern coast of Asia by sailing toward the west aronnd the earth. So when he discovered Cuba he had not a doubt that he had landed upon the coast of Asia, and that he looked upon the same scenes that Marco Polo had gazed upon 200 years before.—Yankee Blade. The Flouting Weeds iu the Atlantic. The gulf weed (Fucus natans) which, with its litle round "berries,” is not un like the mistletoe in form, bnt of a brownish yellow color, has been thought to have lost its property of rooting on rocks and to have acquired the power of living afloat. It has even been sug gested that the sea marks the site of a submerged continent, apparently the lost Atlantis. Dr. Krummel holds that the weed has simply been drifted to its present position by the Gulf stream and Its affluents from the West Indian is lands and the Gnlf of Mexico. It is now proved that the Gnlf stream is not a single narrow “river of the ocean," as Maury poetically described it, bnt consists of a mnnlx'r of currents, not only from Hie Mexican gnlf, but the Antilles. The weed, according to Dr. Krummel, wonld take fifteen days to float as far north as the latitude of Capo Hatteras and five and a Imlf months to reach the Azores. In the Sargasso sea It becomes heavy and sinks: bnt the snje ply is kept np by the Gulf stream.—Lon don Globe. A Growing Industry. Inventive ingenuity of the highest order is constantly at work to discover uses for paper, while the manufacturer and the inventor of paperraakiug ma chinery are straining every eutr.y to improve the quality of the prodia d.tn cheapen production or to provide a i i grades for new uses. Judging fr .n t.:e still undiminisbed flood of .an a: as. it wonld appear that the industry i yet in its infancy os compared with the influ ence it is destined to exert on the com fort, intelligence'end advancement of the human race. —Engineering Maga-