The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, February 15, 1894, Image 2
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HOTELS FOKTHE POOR
HOW THE HOMELESS ARE CARED FOR
IN GLASGOW.
Municipal Lodging Houses Minna the Sting
of Charity—No Chance For Politics In It.
The Saturday Night Entertainments and
flow They Are Conducted.
One Saturday in Glasgow I tramped
abont the poorer portions of the town
till midnight, first in company with the
head of a municipal department and
afterward with an estimable bailie who
is renowned in the town for his opposi
tion to all things alcoholic. My tour be
gan soon after dusk, which comes a*tom
ishingly early In these northern lati
tudes, giving one hardly time to salute
the sun between dawn and dark. Onr
points of call in the earlier half of onr ex
pedition were the municipal lodging
houses, those places of agreeable refuge
which the city established 20 years ago
for the purpose of selling decent shelter
to the lower elements of its floating pop
ulation.
On Saturday night in winter time
some form of entertainment is devised
for the 2,000 nrauicipal lodgers. The
entertaining talent volunteers for the
performance. It is part of thedntyof
the city committee having in charge
these hotels for the poor to secure on
Saturdays the assistance of amateurs
who can sing or dance or tell a story or
give an athletic show. There are seven
municipal lodging houses, and in the
recreation rooms of each these Saturday
night pleasantries are conducted. Every
concert, or magic lantern show, or what
ever it may be, it presided over by a
chairman, who volunteers for the pur
pose from the members of the city gov
ernment.
The gentlemen so presiding are not
municipal politicians, because, as I have
previously explained, they have in Glas
gow no municipal politics, but merely
an administration. Mr. Chairman, there
fore, is not in qUeet of votes, and if he
were hit services in a lodging house
would 111 requite him. Nor is there auy
appearance of charity, condescension,
nor any other untoward thing in this
business. The entertainment it carried
on very much as a concert is aboard ah
Atlantic liner—with this exception, that
no collection is made. The unnicipali ty
is put to no expense in the matter, and
it may be assumed that the chairmen
are put to no inconvenience. They are
usually men who devote a large part of
their lives to philanthropic work.
A Saturday night’s audience at one of
these municipal lodging honsss comprises
a wide assortment of characters and a
considerable distribntion of race. There
are sailors who have got hard np in port,
soldiers recently discharged. There are
poor devils who are spending their last
pennies for shelter and food, which will
take them over to the Monday me,ruing,
when they may be able to pick np some
where somehow pennies enough to last
them ever another night. And there are
laborers in regular employment, arti
sans, too, who are not hard up, but who
*ar* lodging here while they are at work
In the town. There are of course men
who have seen better days and men who
by no possibility can ever see any worse
ones. Some are here from necessity,
some from motives of economy, and all
of them are fairly comfortable while they
are here.
The Saturday night entertainments are
voluntary altogether. The entertainers
give their services, and the andienoesare
not asked for a penny. There were from
800 to 360 men in each of the recreation
rooms which we visited, and hearty ap
plause gave evidence of the delight of
the men, who appeared to enjoy them
selves thoroughly.
A municipal lodging boose is a large,
well lighted and well ventilated build
ing. At the entrance there la an office,
where the applicant for lodging pays his
Bid. or 4td. and receives a ticket en
titling him to the privileges of the bonae.
On the ground floor there are three large
apartments, one used as a sort of eating
room, another as a sitting room, another
as a .kite hen. The lodgers supply their
own food and cook it themselves, having
the free use of the kitchen fires and the
steam heaters for this purpose. The house
is in charge of a superintendent, with
several assistants. ... ...
At 8 o'clock in the evening the dormi-
tor'es are opened. Th^se dormitories are
spacious rooms divided by partitions 8
or 9 feet high into small compartments,
each compartment containing s bed ar
ranged in the fashion of a stateroom
berth on an Atlantic liner. The only
difference between the threepence half
penny and the fourpdnc* balf]penity ac
commodation is that the higher price en
titles the lodger to an extra blanket.
Lodgers are admitted to bed until abont
1 a. m. They must arise not Later than
8 o’clock in the morning. The premises
art kept scrupulously clean by the staff
' ~ dl
of assistants. A well fitted laundry at
tached to the place is constantly at work
washing the bedding.—Cor. Boston Her
ald.
Ancient Pmamtloa of the Dead.
Herodotus gives a good description of
the manner in which the early Ethiopi
ans preserved their dead. Having thor
oughly dried the corpse, they plastered
it over with a paste made of gypsum and
than painted the face and exponad parts
to make them look a* natural as
Dead bodies segfpd in this
... c l intact for hundreds of
. Louis Republic.
When Miss Limberjatr returned from
Washington, she remarked to her friend.
Mis* Chatterbox, “Only think of it. Mat-
salaries, and all they have to do is to
talk!"
ridiculous!—
A Faraona Steamboat Kace.
Tho famous race between the Hannl-
bal City and the Ocean Spray occurred
in 1809. Prior to this race the Ocean
Spray had splendid records. The race
was from St. Louis to Keoknk. The
early part of tho race was very close,
and the excitement was intense. When
nearing Bisaell s point, the Ocean Spray
found the Hannibal City passing her.
The mate on the Ocean Spray, one Davis,
becoming desperate, ordered the head of
a barrel of tur[ientine to he knocked in.
His men were then ordered to dip the
wood in tills turpentine before putting
it in the furnace, the object being to
qnickly increase the steam pressure.
The Ocean Spiay was supposed to carry
only 180 ponnds of steam, but Davis
thought that by “putting another nigger
on the safety valve” he could run the
pressure np to 20o ponnds and distance
his nval. In carrying the dripping wood
to the fnrnaco the track became satu
rated with tmpentine, which cangbtflre
from the open furnace. The flames quick
ly reached the barrel. An attempt was
made to throw the barrel overboard, but
it exploded, and the burning oil being
scattered all around the boat was soon a
mass of flames.
Scott Matson was captain on the Han
nibal City. Ke was a brave and gener
ous man, and in this instance these two
qnalities made bis name famous. Not
withstanding the imminent danger, he
ran his boat alongside the burning one
and rescued every person on board. Da
vis, the mate of the burned boat, was
afterward convicted and sent to the peni
tentiary for such gross violation of the
rules of safety. He was later pardoned.
—St. Louis Letter.
complimenting the oiu
grow every day
'itor.*
Somebody's Father.
I think that one of the saddest inci-
Idents of the war which I witnessed was
after the battle of Gettysburg. Off on
I the outskirts, seated ou the ground with
his bock to a tree, was a dead soldier.
IDs eyes were riveted on some object
held tightly c’asped in his hands. As we
drew nearer we saw that it was an am-
brotype of two small children. Man
though I was, hardened through those
long years to carnage and bloodshed, the
sight of that man who looked on his
children for the last time In this world,
who, away off in a secluded spot, had
rested himself against a tree that he
might feast bi t eyes on his little loves,
brought tears to my eyes which I could
u6t restrain had I wanted. There were
six of ns in the crowd, and we all found
great lumps gathering in our throats and
mist coming before our eyes which al
most blinded us.
We stood looking at him for some
time. • I was thinking of the wife and
baby I had left at home and wondering
how soon, in the mercy of God, she
would be left a widow and my baby boy
fatherless. We looked at each other and
instinctively seemed to understand one
another’s thoughts. Not a word was
spoken, but we dug a grave and laid the
poor fellow to rest with his children's
picture clasped over his heart. Over his
grave on the tree against which he was
sitting I inscribed the words: “Some-
liody’s Father. July 8,1868.”—Blue and
Gray.
A Telegraph Line Before Morse's.
Honor to the poineers in the vast field
of Science! Mr. John Sime has published
at tho Chiswick Press in pamphlet form
a very interesting memoir of Sir Francis
Ronalds. Twenty years before Wheat
stone and Cooke or Morse had patented
their improvements in the telegraph, in
deed while the first two were respective
ly lads of 12 and H years of age, Ro
nalds had sent messages over eight miles
of overhead wires of his own construc
tion and had laid and worked a service
able underground line of telegraph of
sufficient length to demonstrate the
practicability of communication by tele
graph bet wee u long distances.
Details of 1 Is overhead telegraph wires
were published by him in 1823. Ro
nalds' reside! cent Hammersmith, where
these experiments were carried ont, is
the house now and for long past occu
pied by Mr. William Morris, the poet,
who has caused a tablet to be placed on
the wall bearing the inscription, “The
first electric telegraph, eight miles long,
was constructed here in 1816 by Sir
Francis Ronalds, F. R. S.,” etc. An
autotype facsimile of a portrait of this
father of electric communication ac
companies the publication. — London
Telegraph.
Calculating «h* Distant, of a Storm.
Although lightning and thunder occur
always simultaneously, an interval of
shorter or longer duration is usually ob
served between these two phenomena,
which is due to the fact that sound trav
els only st ths rate of 1,100 feet per sec
ond, while the passage of light is almost
instantaneous. Based upon this fact, it
is an easy matter to tell, at least approx
imately, how many miles a thunder
storm is away. A normal pulse will
beat about oi.e stroke to the second, and
by counting the pulse beats during the
interval of the lightning and the thunder
the lapse of seconds is arrived at and
consequently the number of feet, which
can he reduced to miles.
■For example: If 30 seconds elapse be
tween the fln.'h of the lightning and the
crash of thunder, the storm center is at
a distance of 83,000 feet, or abont H
miles. An almost accurate calculation
can be made by using a watch with a
minute dial.—St. Louis Poet-Dispatch.
Cm Parc Water Freely.
Unhygienic habits report themselves
unmistakably in the skin both In color
and odor. To health and beanty it is
essential the: one should use pure water
(ram water is best) frequently and free-
ly and follow its use with brisk friction
all over the >ody with a piece of coarse
flannel, which is a wonderful aid to a
soft and glowing skin, as it stimulates
healthful circulation. Bun and air baths
are necessary to the proper nutritive
'ftmotions of the skin, and daily atten
tion to the promptings of nature is im-
Iterative to save it from becoming a ve
hicle for offensive exhalation. Care will
do touch to put off the evil day of wrin
kles and decay.—Exchange.
Th.jr.ltak. Aarora. la Ord.r.
Artificial miniature auroras of the
borealis variety have been produced by
both De la Rive, the French savant, and
Lenstrou, the Swedish astronomer. In
Professor Lenstrom's experiments,
which were made in Finland, the peak of
a high mountain was surrounded with a
coil of wire, pointed at intervals with
tin nibs. The wire was then charged
with alectrii ity, whereupon a brilliant
aurora appeared above the mountain, in
wjiich speci oscopic analysis revealed
the greenish yellow rays so chaiacter-
“tic hi nature’s display of “northern
lights.”—St. Louis Republic.
UNCLE SAM’S WARSHIPS.
Fitting One of Them For a Cruise Coate a
Small Fortune.
Furniture and supplies for Uncle
Barn’s new war vessels cost a mint of
money. To fit out one of these ships for
a cruise is a bigger job than equipping a
first class hotel. Here is a floating for
tress as long as two city blocks, with all
modern conveniences and complete res
taurant facilities, lighted thronghont by
electricity—a gigantic fighting machine
and military barracks combined. Her
steel walls, bristling with gnus, shelter
a small army of men. The New York,
for example, has a crew numbering 455,
besides 40 marines and 44 officers. To
feed them all for a twelvemonth at the
government’s rate of allowance costs
$60,000.
On going into commission snch a ship
most be furnished thronghont, from the
kitchen, which is as complete as that of
a great city hostelry, to the captain’s
cabin. She carries large stocks of sta
tionery, hardware and apothecaries’
goods, and is provided with tools for all
sorts of trades. Everything conceivable
that may he needed for purposes of war
and peace is supplied, because on the
high seas do shops or factories are ac
cessible. Usually the vessel is pro
visioned for only three months, because
there is no room to stow more. The ra
tions are purchased by the uavy depart
ment and comprise each necessities as
hard bread, cornmeal, oatmeal, hominy,
flonr, salt pork, beans, peas, rice, pre
served meats, batter, coffee and tea.
Every man in the navy, from the last
boy shipped np to the admiral, has an
allowance of 80 cents a day for rations,
which he may draw either in food or in
money. The paymaster of the ship has
charge of all the provisions, which are
dealt ont by his "yeoman,” who is in
tarn assisted by the jack-o’-dnst. The
person last named attends to opening the
barrels and packages. Coffee and sugar
are served out once in 10 days, flour ev
ery four days and meats daily. While
In port fresh provisions are furnished,
each man receiving one pound of fresh
bread, 1 j pounds of fresh meat and one
pound of fresh vegetables per diem.
These take the place of the ordinary ra
tions. only tea and cof je being provided
In addition. The allowance is at all
times so liberal that the enlisted men
cannot possibly consume the whole of it,
so they take part of it in cash.—Phila
delphia Times.
Remarkable Stalactite Caves In Utah.
Two of the most wonderful stalactite
caves in the world are located within the
territory of Utah—one five miles south
of Toquerville and the other 26 miles
west of St. George. Neither is remark
able on account of size, and to the best
of my knowledge the dignifying title of
"cavern” has never been bestowed upon
either of the two. They simply come
within the category of the wonderful be
cause of the immense number of stalac
tites of various sizes and colors which
depend from their roofs. The first, the
one near Toquerville, is known as La
Virgin, and the other by the name of the
Black Warrior.
The Virgin was discovered a few years
ago by the contractor of an irrigating
company, who was engaged in driving a
tnnnel through a mountain called “La
Virgin Bench” for the purpose of tap
ping the river beyond. When the light
was first let into this wonderful under
ground chamber, the effect is said to
have been startling, the roof and floor
glittering with cubes and points of crys
tal alnm and the roof studded with mil
lions of rain colored stalactites.
The “Black Warrior” cave is a coun-
terpsrt of the Virgin and was discovered
by miners at a point where their tnnnel
was 365 feet beneath the surface.—St.
Louis Republic.
Ex-PresidonU In Politic*.
Several of the presidents have remained
in active politics after retirement from
the White House. Buchanan was elected
president at 66 aud retired at the age of
70. Tyler was a member of the provi
sional confederate congress st the age of
71. John Adams, at 85 years of age, was
a delegate to the convention for revising
the constitution of Massachusetts. John
Quincy Adams was elected to congress
by the anti-Mason party when he was 64,
and he remained in congress for a period
of 17 years. He died in the hall of the
house. James Monroe retired from the
presidency at 67, was a regent of the
University of Virginia with Madison and
Jefferson at 68, but declined to serve as
an elector from Virginia at 70 on the
gronnd that an ex-president should net
be a partisan, bnt afterward acted as a
local magistrate and was a member of
the constitutional convention of Vir
ginia. Andrew Jackson was 70 when he
left the White House.—Washington Star.
Hanaro a. Trlflea
The floating bits of humor to be picked
up on many a random page of literature
are enough to convince ns that the world
is a blithesome sort of place after all.
Chief Justice Rushe and Lord Nor-
bury were walking together in the old
times and came upon a gibbet.
“Where would you be,” asked Nor-
bury, pointing to the gibbet, “if we all
had our deserter
“Faith,” was the reply, “1 should be
traveling alone!”
O’ConneU’s cutting description of Lady
H is worth a dozen ordinary witti
cisms, “She had all the qualities of the
kitchen poker without its occasional
warmth,”
Then take the remark of Sydney Smith
in regard to a very attractive and dash
ing widow, “When Mrs. H appeari
in the neighborhood, the whole! horizon
is darkened with majoreP — Youth’s
Companion.
Toe. of P.trifl.d Full.
In the northwestern part of Colorado
there is a region several hundred souare
miles in extent which is literally a' vast
deposit of petrified fish of all sizes and
shapes. These fish beds—shale contain
ing fish remains—are abont 180 feet in
thickness and extend np and down ths
Green river for a distance of 150 or 200
miles.—Detroit Times.
Won. Than Wlck.d.
If more people understood that any
appearance of haste or carelessness was
ont of place in formal correspondence,
they would not use snch expressions as
“many thanks” any more than ths hard
j ly less objectionable phrase, “thanks,”
I in conversation. Snch enrtneas la like
! the old story, “Worse than wicked; it’s
; vulgar,"—Philadelphia Press,
Women a. Coad acton.
I Mr. Harry Furniss, in The- St. James
Budget, comes ont as an advocate of
feminine bus conductors. He asks, “Is
It not time the rude male conductor was
, abolished and girls employed instead?"
WANTED!
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We have ever had the pleasure of offering to the public, and
that these goods were bought with a view to tho present hard
times, which means that in order to sell this large stock, we pro
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We ask the people of Darlington and adjoining counties] to
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Remember, our stock embraces everything in the way of
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