The Darlington herald. (Darlington, S.C.) 1890-1895, June 10, 1891, Image 4
A Superstitious Girl.
I am not superstitious; I never was.
But I know a girl who carries tho left
hind foot of a rabbit in her pocket, trims
her hair by the ligjit of the moon, who
won’t change a garment put on wrong
side out, who throws salt over her left
shoulder, who won’t cut her nails oa
Sunday, who believes in odd numbers,
who never misses a chance to touch a
hunchback, who won't cross a funeral
unless she is in a hurry, who is in despair
if she secs the new moon over her left
shoulder, who believes the first one to
move from the marriage altar will die
first, who thinks a dropped knife or fork
or a cracking fire brings company, who
believes a broken mirror brings seven
years of bad luck, who wears a ring on
her left thumb, anri that girl is—Nellie
Bly.—Heilie lily, in Bdford.
Sheep's Wool Sponge.
There is on exhibition at a store in
Pearl street, New York, an enormous
sheep's wool sponge, which is said to be
the largest one ever obtained. It meas
ures ten feet in circumference and is two
feet thick, being quite solid throughout.
It was fished up near the Bahama Islands
by the crew cf a vessel engaged in that
trade, and, judging by the stories of tho
fishermen, they had a tough time iu get
ting their prize aboard. Being in a
small dingey when the hooks fastened
themselves in the sponge, the men nearly
upset their boat in the effort to haul tho
sponge to tho surface. When it was
finslly secured, the iron prongs of tho
hook had become straightened out un
der the tremendous weight. When thor
oughly, soaked this monster sponge is said
to hold ten pailfuls of water.—Timet-
Dmocrat.
No Wonder Bees Arc Busy!
An enthusiast on the subject states
that each head of clover is composed of
about sixty distinct flower tubes, and
each of these contains sugar not to ex
ceed the five-hundredth part of a grain.
The proboscis of the honey bco must
therefore be inserted into 500 clover
tubes before one grain of sugar can be
obtained. There are 7000 grains in a
pound, and, as honey contains three-
fourths of its weight of dry sugar, each
pound of clover honey would represent
the insertion of its proboscis in 2,500,-
000 clover heads.—New York World.
iHifiobe”Killlq«.
The specifics for the destruction of
ipecial disease-germs continue to multi
ply, but their popularity is naturally
modified by their liability to kill
the patient ns well as his microbes.
Cold air is, after all, still the safest pre
scription for sucli purposes. In a single
frosty night it kills out fever-and-ague
germs over thousands of square miles;
and the sanitary statistics of the upper
Alps snd high latitude seem to provo
that its curative effect extends to pul
monary disorders, consumption not ex
cepted.—Dr. Omald, in Belford.
That
Tired Feeling
Prevails with Its most enervating and discouraging
effect In spring and early summer, when the toning
effect of the cold air Is gone and the (Says grow
warmer. Hood’s Barsapaiilla speedily overcomes
•that tired feeling,” whether caused by change of
climate, season or life, by overwork or 11 Incas, and
Imparts that feeling of strength and self-confidence
which is comforting and satisfying. It also cures
sick headache, biliousness, Indigestion or dyspepsia.
Hood’s
Sarsaparilla
Sold by all druggists. $1; six for $>. Prepared only
by C. 1. HOOD & CO n Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass.
IOQ Doses One Dollar
SMITH’S
Qile |)eans
Cure Biliousness
Btek Headache, Malaria, Costiveness, Heart
Barn, Dizziness, Bad Breath. Nervous
Debility, Dysentery, Jaundice,
Pains in the Side and under
the Shoulder Blades.
Rsvtr fail to aot on a Torpid Lhror.
Expel poisonous bile from tho system;
Cleer the Complexion; Aid Digestion; Create
an Appetite; Care and prevent Chills ana
Fevers. We also make
Smith’s PILE small
DEANS
(O to the bottle.)
Some prefer thla adze. Rapedaily among womb
and chftdnsa. Both rtaea sugar coated. FI want
to take.
RELIABLE, SAFE, ECONOMICAL.
Prioe 25 cents per bottle, five for tl,
either size. Sold by DruLgirta- Write tor
Picture.
I F. SHTH 4 CO. JTCII0M CITT.
‘'German
Syrup”
Martinsville, N.J., Methodist P
sonage. “ My acquaintance w:
your remedy, Boschee’s Germ
Syrup, was made about fourte
years ago, when I contracted a C<
which resulted in a Hoarseness a
a Cough which disabled me fr<
filling my pulpit for a number
Sabbaths. After trying a Physici;
without obtaining relief—I cant
say now what remedy he prescrib
—I saw the advertisement of yc
remedy and obtained a bottle,
received such quick and pennant
help from it that whenever we ha
had Throat or Bronchial troub
since in our family, Boschee’s G<
man Syrup has been our favor
remedy and always with favoral
results. I have never hesitated
report my experience of its use
others when I have found th<
troubled in like manner.” Rh
W. H. Hagoarty,
of the Newark, New * c a *-
Jersey, M E. Confer-
ence, April 2$, ’90. Remedy.
G.G. GREEN, Sole llan’fr, Woodbury,N.J.
PAINT,
EQuiREs Addition of an
jualpartofoilaA or
MflNQ COSTprq-ll^l £2
>im 7348 PAPERS
Wraui WM HAVE NO AGENT WILL ARRANGE
WITS AMT ACTIVE MERCHANT. —L. A M. —M. T.
REV. DR. TALMAGE
The Brooklyn Divine’s
Snndav Sermon
Text: “I wifi say to the north. Oiveup,
cud to the south, Keep not baefc.”—Isaiah
xiiii., 6.
Just what my text meaut by tho north
and south I cauuot say, but in tho United
States the two words are so point blank in
their meaning that no cue can doubt. They
mean more than east and west, for although
between those Jast two there have been riv
alries and disturbing ambitions and infelici
ties and silver bills ani World’s fair contro-
versier, there have been between them no
batteries unlimbered, uo intrenchments dug,
no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown
•up. It has never been Massachusetts Four
teenth Regiment against Wisconsin
Zouaves; it has never beon Virginia artil
lery against Mississippi rifles.
East and west are distinct words, and
rometimes may mean diversity of interest,
but there is no blood on them. They can be
pronounced without any intonation of wail
ing and death groan. But the north and the
south are words that have beeu surcharged
with tragedies. They are words which sug
gest that for forty years the clouds had been
gathering tor a four years’ tempest which
thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook
this planet as it has never been shaken since
it swung out at the first world building. I
t hank God that the words have lost some of
th<‘ intensity wh ; ch they possessed three de
cades ago, that a vast multitude of northern
people have moved south, and a vast multi
tude of southern people have moved north,
and there have been intermarriages by the
ten thousand, and northern colonels have
married the daughters of southern captains,
and Texas rangers have united for life with
1 he daughters of New York abolitionists, and
their children aro half northern and half
southern and altogether patriotic.
But north and south are words that need
to be brought into still closer harmonization.
J thought that now, when we are
half way between presidential elec
tions, and .octional animosities are at
the lowest ebb; and now, just after
a presidential journey, when our chief mag
istrates, who was chiefly elected by the north,
has been cordially received at the south: and
now, just after two Memorial Days, one of
them a month ago strewing flowers on south
ern graves, and the other yesterday strewing
flowers on northern graves, it might bo ap
propriate and useful for me to prer.ch a ser
mon which would twist two garlands—one
for the northern dead and the other for the
southern dead—and have the two interlocked
in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever
the two sections into one; a'd who knows
but that this may be the day when the
prophecy of the text made in regard to tho
ancients ninv be fulfilled in regard to this
country, a’Ki the north give "pits prejudices
and the south keep not oack its confidence?
“I will say to the north, Give up» and to the
south, Kc p not back.”
Rut beforj I put these garlav ds on the
graves l mean to put them (>is morning a
little while on the brows of the lining men
and women of the north a*) scuth who lost
husbands and sous and brotheia during the
civil strife. There is nothing more soothing
to a wound tnan a cool bandage, ind these
two garlands are cool from the night dew.
What a mo. aing lhao was on the banks of
the Hudso. and the Savannah when the son
was to start fer the war! What fatherly
and motherly counsel! Whrt tearsl What
heart breaks 1 What charges to write home
"lten! What little keepsakes put away in
the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be
exchanged for the knapsack I The crowd
around tbe depot or the steamboat landing
shouted, but fathei and mother and sister
cried.
And how lonely the house seemed after
♦bey went home, and what an awfully va
cant chair there wa at the Christmas and
Thanksgiving tab.e! And after the battle,
what waiting for news! What suspense till
the long lists of tne killed and wounded were
made out! All along the Penobscot, and the
Connecticut, and the St. Lawrence, and the
Ohio, and the Oregon, and the James, and
the Albemarle, and the Alabama, and the
Mississippi and the Sacramento there wore
lamentation and mourning and great woe,
Rachel weeping for her children, and refus
ing to be comforted because they were not.
The world has forgotten it, but father and
mother have not forgotten it. They may be
now in the eighties or nineties, but it is a
tresh wound, and will always remain a fresh
wound.
Have you realized the fact that our civil
war pitched out upon the farmfields of tho
north and the plantations of the south a
multitude that no man can number, chil
dren without fatherly help and protection?
Under aP the advantages which wo had of
fatherly gi iuance, what a struggle life has
been to the most of us! But -W of the
children, two and five and ten years of a^e
who stood at their moth-r’s lap with groat
1 ound, wondering eyes, hearing her road of
those who perished iu tho Battle of the
\\ ilderness, their lathers gone down among
tho dead host? Come, young men and
women, who by such disaster have had to
make your own way in life, and 1 will put
the garland on your young and unwrinkled
u r< ?, n * , : y° u have ,,a(i your own Malvern
iiilJ, and youi own .South Mountain, and
your own Gettysburg all along these twenty
yeaiv. Come! if I cannot spare a
whole garland ffir your brow, ( will twist in
your locks at least two flowers, one crim
son and one white, the crimson for the stnisr-
gleot your life, which hasalmost amounted
to carnage, and the white for the victorv
you have gained. J
Betoro I put thn two garlands I am twist-
mg upon the northern and southern tombs,
I dotam tho garlands a little while that I
may put them upon tho brow of tho living
RoMiors and sailors of tho north and south,
who, though at varianco for a long while,
nr • now at peace and In hearty lovalty to
th > Umtsd Statos government, and nnlv,
it no? 1 be, to march shoulder to shoulder
H, i jisc any foreign foe. Tho twenty-six
'Vinters that have passed since the war, I
think, have sufilcieutly cooled the hatreds
taut one o burnoi north wand and south
ward to allow the remark that they who
loii-ht in that conflict wore honest on both
side.!. The chaplains on both armies were
■lonost in thou- prayers. Tho faces that
went into battle, whether they marched tow
ard tho (rulf of Mexico or marched toward
the north star, were honest faces.
dt is too much to ask either side to bolievo
lost those who came out from their homes,
forsaking father and mother and wife and
child, many of them never to return, were
n<5t in earnest when they put their life into
awful exigency. Witness the last scene at
•amuy prayers up among tho Green mount
ains or down by the fields of cotton and
sugar cane. Mon do not sacriflco their all
for fun. Men do not eat moldy broad or go
without broad at ■nil for fun. Men do not
sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for
fun.
As chaplain of a Pennsylvania regiment,
and as a representative of tho United States
Christian Commission, I *was for a while at
tho front, and in those hospitals at Hagers
town and Williamsburg and up and down
tho rotamac, where all th > churchos anc’
farm-houses were filled with wounded aai
dying Federals and Confederates, I forgot
amid tho horrors to ask on which side they
fought, when with what little aid I could
take them tor their suffering bo lies, and the
mightier aid I could pray for their soul-?, [
passed the days and months amid sesnes
that in my memory seem like a ghnitl'
Jr SS ul ra ^ ier ^ an 11 possible reality.
U hen a New Orleans boy, unable to an-
nwer my question as to where he was bun
look out from tho folds of the only garment
that had not been torn olt' him in the battle
n New Testament, marked with his own life
blood, and I saw the leaf turned down at the
passage “Aly peace I give unto You, not as
the world giveth give I unto You,” it read
^ust as though it had beeu a northern New
aestament. And when I sat down and took
from a South Carolinian dying in a barn o4
Boonosvillo his last message to his wife and
mother and child, it sounded just like a men-
Rage that a northern man dying far froci
home would send to his wife and mother aiW
chlhL
And when I picked up from tho battle
field of Autietam the fragment of a letter
which I have somewhere yet, for the name
and the address were torn off, I saw it war
the words of a wife to her husband telling
him how tho little child prayed for their
father every night that he might not get
hurt in tho battle and might come home
sound and com.* home well, but that if any
thing happened to them they migho all meet
again in the world where there art no part
ings, it read just as a northern wife would
write to a husband away from home and in
peril conveying tho messages of little chil
dren. Oh, yes; they were honest on both
sides. And those who lived to get homo aro
living yet worn just as honost, and ou/ht
Miey not for tho suffering they endured have
a coronal of some kind?
But wo must not detain tho two garlands
•ay longer from tho pillows of those who for
» quarter of a century have boon prostrate
•n dreamless slumber, never oppressed by
summer heats or chilled by winter’s cola.
Both garlands are fragrant. Both have in
them the sunshine and tho shower of this
springtime. Tho colors of both were mixed
by Him who mixed tho blue of tho sky, and
the gold of the sunset, and the green of
grass, and the whiteness oi tho snow crystal.
And I do not care which you put over the
northern grave and which over the southern
grave.
These august throngs gathered 5ais morn
ing in these pews and aisles and corridors
and galleries are insignificant compared with
the mightier throngs of heavsn '▼ho mingle
In this service which we render to God and
our country while wo twist the two garlands.
Hail spirits multitudinous! Hail spirits
blest! Hail martyred ones come down from
from tho King’s palaces! How glad aro we
that you have come back again! Take this
kiss of welcome and these garlands of remin
iscence, ye who languished in hospitals or
went down under the thunders and the
lightning of Fredericksburg aud Cold Har
bor and Murfreesboro aud Corinth and
Yorktovvu and above the clouds on Lookout
Mountain.
Among tho thousands of gatherings at
the north and at the south for Docoration
Days I am conscious that this service is
unique, and that it is only one iu which there
has ueen twisted two garlauJs, ouo for the
grave of the northern dead and the other for
the grave of the southern dead. O Lord God
of the American Union, is it time that we 1
bury forever our old grudges? My! My! Can
we not be at peace on earth when this mo
ment in heaven dwell, in perfect love
Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, Will-
•am T. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson,
and tens of thousands of northern and
southern meu who, though they once looked
askance at each other from the opposite
banks of the Potomac and the Chickahominy
and the James and the Tennessee, noware
on the same side of the river, keeping jubi
lee with some of those old angels who near
nineteen centuries ago came down one
Christmas night to chant over Bethlehem,
‘Glory to GckI in tho highest; on earth
peace, good will to meu!”
I have been waiting for some years for
some one else to twist the two garlands
that [ to-day twist, but, no one doing it, in
the love of God and my country I put now
my hand to the work, and next spring
about this time, if I am living and well, I
will twist two more garlands for northern
and southern graves, and every springtime
until some man or woman whom I may
have cheered a little in the struggle of this
life shall come out and put a pansy or two
on my own grave. But if the time should
ever come when this land shall be given
over to sectional rancor and demagogism,
and north and south, or east and west shall
forget what the good God built this nation
for. and it shall halt on its high career of
righteousness and liberty nnd peace, and be
come the agent of tyranny and wrong and
oppression, then let some young man whom
1 nave baptized in infancy at these altars go
out to Greenwood and scoop up my dust and
scatter it to the four winds of heaven, for I
do not want to sleep, and I will not sleep in
a land accursed with sectionalism or oppres
sion .
Aud now I hand over tho two garlands,
both of which are wet with many tears—
tears of widowhood and orphanage and
childlessness, tears of suffering and tears of
gratitude; and as the ceremony must be
S erformed in symbol, there not bei ng enough
owers tocover all tho graves, t ike the one
garland to the tomb of some northern
soldier who may yesterday have been
omitted In the distribution of the sacra
ment of flowers, and the other garland to
the tomb o£ some southern soldier who may
a month ago have been omitted in the distri
bution of the sacrament of tho flowers, and
put tioth the wreaths gently down over the
hearts that have ceased to beat. God bless
tho two garlands' God save the United
(States o£ America I
SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL.
It has been shown that if the sun wat
a burning sphere of solid coal it could
not last 6000 years.
The price of platicum has advanced
fully 100 per cent., owing to its in
creased use for electrical purposes.
When the Minneapolis suspensioi
bridge was removed recently, the anchor,
age irons, although they had been care
fully imbedded iu cement, were found to
be deeply corroded.
One million tubes for Koch's lymph is
the work which is at present engaging
the attention of a Germau glass works.
The tubes are made of a lino quality oi
glass, and arc closed with a glass stop
per.
A sugar, fifteen times sweeter than
cane-sugar, and twenty times swectei
than beet-sugar, is reported by a German
chemist Irom cotton-seed meal. It can
not be sold to compete with the ordinary
article.
M. Datnoiscau, of France, has in
vented a camera to take panoramic
views. It is made to turn on its axis so
truly that the picture on the entire strip
of sensitive paper is said to be perfectly
clear iu its details.
The four most coramou causes of boil
er explosions arc external corrosion,
overheating, overpressure and weakness
of flue. The four least common causes
arc absence of safety valve, bad material,
weak manhole and deposit.
The principle of the compressed paper
car wheels, which are so widely used
throughout the world, is applied in
France to the manufacture of pulleys for
power transmission. Tho pulleys are
?aid to he very light, cheap aud service
able in every respect.
A Swedish metallurgist, C. A. Casper-
son, tests the hardness cf iron or steel in
process of manufacture by electrically
melting a sample of certain size and com
paring the strcngtli of current necessary
.vith that known to he required to fuse
standard pieces of metal of determined
hardness.
A firm of stono cutters in Berlin hive
introduced a pneumatic chisel into their
establishment. The workman holds tho
syringe-like apparatus with both hands,
and, as ho slides it over the surface of
tho stone or metal, the chisel, making
10,000 or 12,000 revolutions u minute,
chips off particles.
A German clcctriciai# Herr Gulchor,
has made a thermo-electric battery giv
ing electric power equivalent to 1.08 per
cent, of the heat employed, and hopes
to exhibit at Frankfort a battery which
will yield at least live per cent, net effect.
With an economical source of heat, he
believes that his thermo-electric battery
will even excel the dynamo machine in
efficiency.
A gallon pail filled with fine sand
placed within easy reacli of each work
man employed where oiling nnd finish
ing is going on is strongly recommended
ts an essential part of the equipment for
3rc protection ,'n wood-working estab
lishments. This practice can bo followed
with advantage wherever there is a pos-
libility of fire starting in oil or oil-soaked
materials. "It has been found that noth
ing will subdue an oil-fed fire so quickly
ind effectually ns sand, and the subse
quent freedom from water damage is a
strong point in its use.
Ancient Mnn in (he Mississippi Valley
Let us now take the antiquity of clas
sical lore and see how it compares with
that of the American continent, as evi
denced by our mysterious monads, and
the indications of a great and glorious
past set forth by our lost and ruined cit
ies, as well as by tho fossil remains
brought to light through the researches
of Agassiz aud others eminent in science
and archaeology, fn the “Types of Man-
kind,” pp. 137, 138,wc have the follow-
jug:
“In digging for the gas works at New
Orleans, sixteen feet below the surface,
beneath the fourth forest-level, burnt
wood was found and the skeleton of a
man.”
Or. Bennet Oowler, in his "Tableaux
of New Orleans,” goes into a calculation
which proves it correct, that the fourth
cypress forest level must have been
formed 57,000 years ago, and that con
sequently the skeleton had been reposing
where it was found for that period of
••me. Such of the mounds ot tho Mis
sissippi Valley as have been explored
have clothed us with a prehistoric past
the most mysterious and overwhelming.
They reveal another page in the history
and chronology of the world—a strange
civilization of a great people that had
passed away thousands of years before
that mummy had “walked about in
Thebes's streets.—/M/mf,
AGRICULTURE OF GREECE.
ITS PRESENT FARMING METHODS
LIKE THOSE OF HOMER’S DAYS.
How the Farmers Live, and Their
Diet—The Dresses of the Farining
People—Fond ol Holidays.
The farming methods which prevail in
Greece to-day, writes Frank G. Carpen
ter in the American Agriculturist, are the
same as those in the days of Homer. Tho
same plows are used as those one secs on
the inscriptions of the temples, and the
wheat is still cut by the sickle and bound
with the bands. A great deal of the
harvesting is done by women, aud the
Greek maidens of to-day, in their pic
turesque costumes as they labor in the
field, are quite as handsome as they were
when Socrates talked philosophy and De
mosthenes practiced speaking with peb
bles in his mouth. The plowing is chiefly
done by oxen, and the farmers have little
idea of the modern methods of fertiliza
tion. They know nothing of the rotation
of crops, and they plant the same crop
year after year, until the fields are worn
out, and let them lie fallow for a couple
of years to recuperate. I saw uo fences
anywhere about the fields, and there
seemed to be no systematic farming. One
of the great troubles was the lack of rain
and running water, but this is being
remedied somewhat by irrigation. The
soil is generally thin nnd light, hut it
will, I am told, produce bountifully if it
can be well watered, and with proper
fertilization it would bring fair crops.
The farmers live in villages and go out
into the fields to work. They live almost
altogether in the open air, and during
the summer the majority of them sleep
ou’, of doors. The houses are, as a rule,
small and rather mean in comparison
with the homes of the peasantry of other
European countries. They have stone
floors, and the poorer ones have neither
windows or chimneys. Such as arc of two
stories have a .stable on the ground floor,
and the people live above this, and go
up by a stairway from the outside.
There is almost no furniture to speak of,
and a little stone stove or an open fire
constitutes the cooking arrangements.
There are no modern conveniences con
nected with the houses of the poor, and
one may travel for a day in tho country
without finding a washbasin.
The diet of the people is of the sim
plest nature. 1 did not see a drunken
man while I was in Greece, and there
is but little gluttony in a country where
bread and wine and onions make up the
average dinner. Very little meat is
eaten, and goats’ cheese and dried olives
largely take the place of meat. The
Greeks seem to be very fond of salads,
and they make salads of all kinds
of greens. Olive oil takes the place of
butter, and is eaten upon everything.
Farm hands are usually fed upon bread
and olives, nnd on feast days a little mut
ton or goats’ flesh is added. Beef is
practically unknown to the farmer, and
such good beef as there i i in Greece is
imported. Easter is the great Thanks
giving day all over the country, and a
roast lamb at that time in Greece takes
the place of our Thanksgiving turkey.
One of the delicous dishes made by the
Greeks is known as pilaff. It is a stew of
rice and chicken, and is common in Tur
key as well. Some honey is produced,
but I saw no practical bee-keeping, and
I did not think the famed honey of
Hymmcttus was as sweet nor as well-
flavored as that of Jerusalem, or of
Switzerland.
A Greek farmer would be a curiosity
if be could be transplanted in his native
dress from the Plains of Marathon or
Troy to an American village. One
would be in doubt whether to take him
for a man or a woman until looking at
the hair on his face, and many of the
Greek farmers look as though they were
dressed for the ballet rather than for the
field. They wear knee breeches aud
leggins, and above these show out about
a dozen short white skirts which are
stiffly starched, and stand out from tho
waist. Above these skirts there is a vest
covered with embroidery, and a fez cap
completes the outfit with the exception
of the shoes. These are usually of red
leather. They aro turned up at the toes
like the old-fashioned skates, and there
is a red woolen tassel ou each toe. In
their Sunday clothes the Greeks are as
gorgeous as was old Solomon, and the/
strut about as though they owned the
earth.
The women have also curious costumes
and there are different dresses for nearly
every locality. The dresses as a rule are
long and flowing, and they well become
the tall, well-formed, Grecian maidens.
In the fields the girls wear a single gown
of linen, which falls from their necks to
their feet. Over this gown they wear
a sleeveless sack of white wool, bordered
with stripes of black. Upon their beads
they wear large knit or felt red cups, or
bright-colored handkerchiefs, and their
feet are often bare. They carry heavy
burdens on their backs, and they are in
dustrious, thrifty and intelligent. Every
girl, as soon as she is old enough to sew,
begins to embtoider a fine skirt or gown
with silk to be used upon her wedding
day, and I bought a gown of this kind
in Athens, which had a band of silk em
broidery a foot deep along the edge of
the skirt, and the silk in which weighed
several pounds.
The cotin try people ol Greece are very
fond of holidays. About one-third of
the whole year is taken up iu fast aud
feast days, and these prevail to such an
extent that the Albanians come down in
companies, ct the time of harvest, and
work under captains in order tq help
with the crops. They arc better work
men than the Greeks, in that as they are
Mohammedans they do not lay off for
feasting or fasting. I visited, on the
historic grounds of Eleusis, where Cicero
was initiated in the mysteries when he
visited Greece, and where all of the great
Greek poets were wont to go, a farm vil
lage and witnessed a country dance. A
score of Greek maidens clasped hands
and moved to and fro in slippered feet
to music. The girls had the Greek fea
tures of ancient times and their faces
shone out like rare pieces of sculpture in
flesh and blood. Their long, loose
gowns, seemed a part of their tall beau
tiful forms as they gracefully glided over
the grass, making their way to nnd fro
upon beds of the reddest and biggest
poppies ever to be seen. Their should
ers were dristeifin gorgeous vests,-and
many of them had breastplates of gold
coins hanging from their necks. Their
heads were draped with long veils of
white silk, the ends of which hung down
their backs', and flowed in the air as they
danced. Their vests and jackets were
of purple and gold, nnd under these
vests hung sleeveless coats of the finest
white wool. Every maiden had a bright
silk apron of gay color, and tho gold
and silver buckles which clasped the
belts at their waists were made of discs of
precious metals, ns big around as the
bottom of n tin cup. The amount of
jewelry on each maiden represented, I
was told, the sum total of her possessions,
and gave to the beaux present an idea of
the dowry which their sweethearts might
bring them in marriage.
Tho nas A. Edison says the secret of
sue'css is to d » hut one thing at n time;
a control of thought an I attention it
takes some years of patience to learn.
HE THRASHED THE BULLY.]
HOW A SOLDIER WON AN OFH-1
CER’S COMMISSION,
A Good War Story Told by Ex-Gover
nor Curtin, of Pennsylvania—Tbe
Result of a Midnight Row.
Amos J. Cummings relates in the New
York Sun a war story, which, he heard
ex-Governor Curtin of Pennsylvania tell
during the last session of Congress. The
incident occurred in the second or third
year of the war. The Governor had left
Harrisburg, and come to Washington on
business. A great battle had been fought.
The number of killed and wounded nad
mounted into the thousands. Governor
Curtin had been ia consultation with the
President nnd members of his Cabinet.
He had returned to tho Capitol, where
an old lady dressed in deep mourning
accosted him. She was evidently very
poor and nearly distracted. She wore
old-fashioned black mils, and her habili
ments of woo were worn and rusty. Her
face was wan and wrinkled, and her fin
gers were (oughened with work and
g narled with rheumatism. She had not
card from her hoy since the great bat
tie, and she bad come to Washington in
search of information. He had enlisted
in a regiment raised in the mountains of
Pennsylvania, and had been at the front
for more than a year.
“ Oh, Governor,” she cried, as tears
streamed down her faded cheeks, “my
boy never failed to write before. He al
ways sent mo a letter after n battle. I
haven’t heard from him now in more
than a fortnight. He’s the only boy left
me, and I can never live without him.
Oh, 1 fear lie's dead or sorely wounded.
If I could only get through the lines to
nurse him or bring his body back home.
Please, Governor, try to get me a pass,
and God will bless you. My heart will
break without my boy.”
The Governor said that ho heard the
cumber of the regiment with a shudder.
It had been in the very heart of the
light, nnd had been cut to pieces. His
heart went out to the old mother. If
her boy was alive he was determined
that she should see him, or if dead that
she should have his body. Upon ques
tioning her he found that she was ut
terly destitute. She hadn’t even money
enough to pay for u night’s lodging. He
assured her that he would do what ho
could for her. He would see either the
President or the Secretary of War in the
morning aud get her a pass through the
lines. Then he look her by the arm and
escorted her down stairs. Passing out
under the arch of the Senate wing of the
Capitol he hailed a cab. Gallantly as
sisting the old lady into it he paid the
cabman his fee, and told him to drive
his charge to a hotel where the Governor
was well known, and where he had sent
many a destitute friend. As the cab
rattled away the Governor turned to re
enter the Capitol, when he met John
Sherman, Fen Wade, and Gclusha A.
Grow, then Speaker of the House. The
Senate had ad journed, and they were on
their way home. It was a clear night.
The great temple of national legislation
shone in the moonlight like a palace of
alabaster. The city lay below them,
dotted with gas lights. The music of a
drum was heard away off on the right.
-A railroad train had arrived with a new
regiment, and the troops were seeking
quarters at the Soldiers’Kest.
The four statesmen descended Capitol
Hill together. They drifted down Penn
sylvania avenue, conversing on political
topics. '1 hey had halted on a corner
near the National Hotel preparatory to
separating, when a cab was driven to the
curb near by. Its driver was in alterca
tion with a woman inside the vehicle.
Governor Curtin was even then telling
the Senators and Speaker the story of
his meeting with the old lady in the
Capitol. The altercation attracted his
attention. The driver was using vil
lainous language. Ho insisted that his
passenger should leave the hack then and
there, or ho would pull her out.
‘•Something told me,” said tho Gov
ernor, “that it was my old lady who was
in trouble.”
He stepped to the door of the hack
and looked in. The suspicion was con
firmed. She was tho old woman whom
he had sent to the hotel, and she was in
trouble. The driver had not taken her
to her destination. Ho had stopped at
two or three saloons, and spent nis fee
for liquor. Possibly ho had forgotten
where the old lady was to go, but at all
events he had determined to drop her on
the street and let her shift for herself.
He was tilling the air with profanity and
threatening the poor old woman with
violence. Tho Governor was indignant.
He asked the ha< kman whether ho had
not paid him to lake the old lady to a
specified place of shelter. Tho driver
swore that he had never seen him before,
and threatened to punch his head if he
did not mind his own business. The
Governor's indignation was getting the
better of his judgment. Sherman and
Grow tried to calm him, but old Ben
M adc grew as hot as a bird pepper and
swore like a pirate. He not only wanted
the hackman thiashed, but he wanted to
help Curtin thrash him. The driver was
a giant. He laid his whip across the
foot rest of his hack and squared away.
Things were looking decidedly squally
when a boy in blue came along. He
carried a musket, and wore the tail of a
buck in his cap. The Governor recog
nized the insignia. Tho soldier was a
member of Colonel Kane’s famous Buck-
tail Brigade. Over six feet tall, he was
brawny and well proportioned. He
looked like a raftsman, and he swung
along the avenue as if the world was too
small for him. He was promptly hailed.
“Do you know me?” the Governor
asked.
“Yes,” was the reply. ‘‘You’re Andy
Curtin, Governor of Pennsylvania. I’ve
seen you many a time at home and in the
field.”
“I want you to do me a favor,” the
Governor continued, pointing to the
hackman who had already begun to
skirmish with Ben Wade.
The hoy in blue sensed the situation
in a twinkling. Turning to the Gover-
nor. he said : “Hold my musket.”
Then he jumped between Ben Wade
ami the cabuinu and sailed in. It was a
rough ami tumble worthy of the days of
Poole and Morrissey. The raftsman
proved too much for the bully. He had
a teirifio struggle, hut finally literally
mopped the sidewalk with him. The
hackman looked ns if ho had been
through a fanning mill.
Governor Curtin ascertained the name
of the soldier, and placed the old lady in
his charge. 8he arrived at her destina
tion without further trouble. Ou the
next day lie secured passes for her, and
she went to the front for her boy.
Two weeks afterward Private Fox of
the Bucktait Brigade received an order
directing him to report at the Adjutant-
General’s office iu Harrisburg. Trans
portation ami supplies were furnished. It
was a bright aud sunny morning when ho
entered the city. Without delay he
sought tho office of the Adjutant-Gen
eral. There he was told that tho Gov
ernor wanted to sec him. Tho wav to
the Executive chamber was pointed out.
'1 ho soldier entered with his haversack
swinging at his side. Tho Governor
stood neir a table, talking with a friend.
He saw Private Fox approaching him.
The soldier was awkward and very much
embarrassed.
"Good morning, f.i'entcnant, ” said the
Governor, “I’m glad to see you."
“Why, Governor,’’ replied tho boy in
blue, “you make a mistake. I'm not a
Lieutenant. I'm only a private.”
"It is you who make the mistake,” the
Governor replied, with a smiling face.
“You were only u private last night, but
you are a Lieutenant this morning. Here
if your commission.”
It was the commission of a First Lieu
tenant. The parchment was gratefully
accepted. The soldier expressed his
thanks. He was modestly asserting a
doubt as to his merits, when the Go"er-
nor replied: “I know your record. You
can truthfully say that you won your
rank by service on the battlefield.”
The Governor dispensed the usual hos
pitalities and Lieut. Fox departed. His
fate showed that he richly merited the
distinction. Within three mouths ho
became Captain and afterward Major. Ho
was shot through the heart while leading
his regiment as its Lieutenant-Colonel iu
a charge at Spottsylvania.
WISE WORDS.
Slang is the wart on language.
Men have sight; women insight.
A broken silence is never repaired.
Good humor is the blue sky of the
soul.
Silence is less injurious than a weak
reply.
Energy is the sand in the craw of en
terprise.
Every kind of work that we can't do
looks easy.
We take less pains to be happy than
to appear so.
Man is cold as ice to truth, but hot as
fire to falsehood.
A little woman can tell just as big a
lie as a big woman can.
Distrust of yourself really means con
scientiousness of wrong.
You can't climb a telegraph pole by
shinning up a fence post.
Shallow men believe in luck; strong
men believe in cause and effect.
Your bank account, unlike yourself,
never gets tight by getting full.
Nothing hut a mule occupies less space
than his hind foot and makes less noise.
Every life is a center, and all things
are made for it as if there were no
other.
Tie a coward’s hand behind him and
you give him an additional reason to
boast.
Our First Iron Article of Native Ore.
The accompanying cut, reproduced
from Iron in All Ayes, is from a photo
graph obtained by Mr. C. M. Tracy in
1890, and it depicts the first iron article
made from native ore in Amor'-'.
THE FIRST AMERICAN IKON POT.
The Bulletin tells that this unique
kettle was cast in Lynn, Mass., in 1645,
and is still preserved by Lewellyn and
Arthur Lewis, residing at Etna place.
The pot weighs two pounds thirteen
ounces, capacity, nearly a quait; inside
measurement, 4 1-5 inches wide by 41-5
inches deep.
Where It Was Coolest.
He—“Getting cool outside now, ain't
it?”
She—“Yes; but you would find it
cooler inside. Ma nnd pa are there.”—-
Fathion Bazar.
A Voang latilj's Predicament.
A story comes from across the water
that a young lady in an English church
accidentally let her handkerchief fall.
By repeatedly stooping to reach it fur
tively she attracted the notice of a gen
tleman in the pew behind, who thought
she was about to faint. With the best
of motives, therefore, he took her gently
under the arms aud raised her up,
greatly to her surprise. As she tried to
release herself another gentleman went
lo her assistance, and before the lady
knew what was the matter they were
moving her out into the aisle, and, in-
deed, carried her into the vestibule be
fore she could recover from her nslon
Uhment sufficiently to find words for
protest. The finale, of course, was lu
dicrous in the extreme. — Chicago Herald.
Both the method and results when
Byrup of Figs is taken; it is pleasant
and refreshing to the taste, and acts
gently yet promptly on the Kidneys,
Liver and Bowels, cleanses the sys
tem effectually, dispels colds, head
aches and fevers and cures habitual
constipation. Byrup of Figs is the
only remedy of its kind ever pro
duced, pleasing to the taste and ac
ceptable to the stomach, prompt in
its action and truly beneficial In its
effects, prepared only from the most
healthy and agreeable substances,
its many excellent qualities com
mend it to all and have made it
the most popular remedy known.
Byrup of Figs is for sale in 60o
and 91 bottles by all leading drug-
gists. Any reliable druggist who
may not have it on hand will pro
cure it promptly for any one who
wishes to try it Do not accept
any substitute.
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The Rewarx or Sagacity.
One of the stories they tell of “Oh.
Hutch,” the grain speculator, to illustrate
his sagacity in discovering pecuniary
opportunities is this: He noticed tho
windows of a big carpet store decorated
with placards stating that prices were re
duced, as the whole stock of the con
cern was to be closed out. Struck with
a sudden idea he went in, asked tho
price of several lines of goods, the
quantities in stock and the original prices.
Having indeed gone practically through
the place he sent for the heads of the
firm and coolly made them a lump suol
oiler for the whole stock, good-will and
fixtures of the concern. The bid wa)
accepted, and “Old Hutch” at once gave
his check. Then, without leaving the
place, he sent for a relative, who, by tho
way, was in another line of trade, and
informed him that he wanted him to
take charge of his new acquisition and
run it, adding: “At the prices I paid
there is money in it.” Events proved
the correctness of Hutchinson'sjudgment,
and the business so summarily puichased
is still in successful operation.
Greenland's Dust.
The cosmic dud collected by Nordcn- j
skjold in Greenland in 1883 has been |
submitted to scientific examination, and ,
found to consist chiefly of feldspar,
quartz, mica and hornblende, with a |
smaller proportion of some other com- !
mon minerals, n nitrogenous organic sub- I
stance, and some particles similar to
those obtained in deep sea soundings. It
is believed that tho last-named material
has come from space, aud that the other
substances have been carried in the air
from a region of crystalline schists. If
the dust taken from the Greenland snow
represents the fall of one year, the total
annual fall ou the earth's surface is equiv
alent to a cube of thirty-one yards oa a
side. — Trenton (A r . J.) American.
Cleveland in the White House.
Washington, D C, [Special.]—A
'irgc portrait ol K\ I’ro ddeut Cleveland,
painted by E. John ou. was received at
tho White House rue-day morning, and
was temporarily hung on the cast wall of
main vestibule in full view of every per
son who enters the house. It will be
subsequently given a place in an interior
(oiridot, I . dde otbi i iMeddcntial poi-
bails.
Swept, by a Scorching Whirlwind.
Waynkshoko, Ga., [Special.]—The
■vhitlwiud that passed over the Powell
place, at Shell Bluff, recently, had many
• urious features and resulted strangely
and disastrously. It was so severe and
of such a dry, parching nature that it de
stroyed between four and five acres of
cotton. After the wind passed the cot
ton weed, which before was growing vig
or.: usly. would crumble to powder in the
hand w hen handled.
Elected by the Legislature.
Newport, 1L I . [Special.]—The leg
islature mot and after organizing sepa
rately mot iu grand committee, canvassed
the returns of tho April election for
state officers, declared that there had
been no election and thou elected the
republican ticket, headed by Governor
Ladd. The vote was, republican 75,
democatic 23.
His Words aro Golc’en.
Peoria. It t,.. |Special. | - liabbi E. M.
Calseh, who has had charge of the Jew
ish Synagogue lure for four years, has
accepted a call to Hichtiioud, Ya. He
recently lectured there and the trustees
of the Hebrew Temple asked him to
eomc there for three years at $5,000 a
year, to be extended if desired.
flow’s This ?
We offer One Hundred Dollars reword . n r
any case of catarrh that cannot he cured by
taking Hall's Catarrh Cur?.
F. J. CHE.NKV lb Co., Props., Toledo. O.
We, the undersigned, have known K .1.
Cheney for tho last 1A .ears, and believe him
perfectly honorable in all business trausar-
tions, aud linaucially aide to uirrj out any ol,.
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Price Toe. per bottle. Sold by all druggists.
Bridle the appetite with reason and save
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Dadies needing a tonic, or children who
want building up, should take Brow n’s Iron
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makes the Blood rich aud pure.
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Marvelous cures. Treatise and 5k’trial bottle
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There’s a patent medicine
which is not a patent medicine
— paradoxical as that may
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the
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The medicine is Dr. Pierce’s
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The makers of it have
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That is—you can get it from
your druggist, and if it doesn’t
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That's what its makers call
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