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THE DARLINGTON HERALD. VOL. I. DARLINGTON, S. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 1891. NO. 49. CHURCHES. Presbyterian Church.—Rev. 0. Law, Pastor; Preaching every Sabbatli at Hi a. m. and 8 p. m. Sabbath School at 10 a. m., Prayer Meeting every ■Wednesday afterno on at 5 o'clock. Methodist Church. - Rev. J. A. Rice, Paator; Preaching every Sunday at llj a. m. and 8 p. m., Sabbath School at 5 j». m., Prayer Meeting every Thursday at 8 p. m. Baptist Church.—Rev. G. B. Moore, Paster; Preaching every Sunday at llj a. m and 8:30 p. m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday at 8 p. m. Episcopal Chapel.—Rev. W. A. Guerry, Rector; H. T. Thompson, Lay Reader. Preaching 3rd Sunday at 8:30 p. m,, Lay Reading every Sunday rm rc- mg at 11 o’clock, Sabbath School every Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock. Macedonia Baptist Church.— Rev 1. P. Breckmgton, Pastor; Preaching every Sunday at 11 a. m. and 8:30 p. in. Sabbath School at 3:30 p.m., Prayer Meeting every Tuesday evening at 8:30 o’clock. COUNTY OFFICERS. Sheriff.—W. P. Cole. Clerk of Court.—W. A. Parro.t Treasurer.—J. E. Bass. Auditor.—W. H. Lawrence. Probate Judoe.—T. H. Spain. Coroneh.—R. G. Parnell. , School Commissioner.—W. H. Evans. County Commissioners —C. B. King, W. W. McKinzie, A. A. Gandy. Professional tint:its. W. F. DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, DARLINGTON f C. IL, S. l\ Office over Blackwell Brothers’ store. £ KEITH DARGAN, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Darlington, 8. C. THREE STREETS. I. I sought the new.'unknown to meet, Andfound a gay and favorel stre?fc Where 'ashion walkel wifi flitting feet; And 1 watched, a golden gleam Pierced swiftly through the summer air And darted o’er the human stream; Then nestle! ’mi ’st some dusky hair, I gazed upon the hair’s dark grace, The tender frame to woman’s face. That pictured all its charms so sweet. Then as I looked, 1 n et her eyes, Deep as the blue of southern skies. And from them glance 1 a baby smile My own poor treasure to beguile; Through every vein, throughout my frame, There swept a dry, an ardent flam?, Love’s passion! ’Twas in the time o. r L r.'?’* defeat, I wandered through a bu v street And paced to where four c‘ossways mrct; And as 1 gazed, the thronging crow i Pressed onward, without reck or heed, With hasty feet, too anxious browed To cast a glance upon my need. The chill neglect, the biting blast That o'er my heart as ice wind pass?:!, And turned to bitter all the sweet, Brought from its frozen realms a gift, The love of self, a careful thrift To guard its treasure and to guide The current of its burning tide Through every vein, through ev?ry pore, An angry summons at my doorl Ambition! I wandered for a dim retreat, rToun l a quiet moss grown street, Ami trod its length with tired feet; And as 1 passed, a door ill-kept And battered with the strife of years Unclosed, and forth a figure stepped And met me with a fac? of ten's. A figure, that had beauty’s mien, A face, that in a mood serene, Unmarred by grief, had been more sweet • Than aught that painter’s art had traced, Or chiseled marble coldly graced. And as 1 gaz? I with anxious Will, There came a glow, a silent thrill Through every vein, through every part, The swift born message to my heart. Life’s mission! —Good Words. THE AMIR’S TIGERS. N ETTLE9 & NETTLES, ATTORNEYS AT LA W Darlington, C. II., S. C. Will practice in all Stale nod Keilcral Courts. Careful attention will bd given to all business entrusted to us. BISHOP PARROTT, stenographer and t y p e writer. LEGAL AND OTHER COPYING SOLICITED. Te»timony icported in short-hand, and type-written transcript of same lur- nished at reasonable rates. Good spelling, correct punctuation and nent work guarantee'!. Office with Nettles & Nettles. c. P DARGAN, ATTORNEY -: AT AND TRIAL - Darlington, S. LAW JUSTICE, C. Practices in the United States Couit and in the 4th and 5th circuits. Prompt attention to all business entrusted to me. Office, Ward's Lane, next to the Dar lington Herald office. DARLINGTON DARLINGTON DARLINGTON MARBLE MARBLE MARBLE WORKS. WORKS. WORKS. —ALL KINDS OF MARBLE MARBLE MONUMENTS. MONUMENTS, Tablets and Grave Stones furnished a Short Notice, and as Cheap as can be Purchased Else where. Designs and Prices Fuinished on Application. fW~ All Work Delivered Free on Line of C. & D. R. R. DARLINGTON DARLINGTON MARBLE MARBLE WORKS, WORKS, DARLINGTON, S. C. FIRE! FIRE I Represent Twelve of the must Reliable Fire Intuiance Compa nies in the Woild Among them, the Liverpool and Lon don and Globe, of England, the Largest Fire Campany in the World; and the A-hna, of Hart ford, the Largest of all Amcii- oan Fire Companies. “ Pron.pt Attention to Ihisioefs and Sdishti lion Guaranteed. F. K NOKMENT DARLINGTON, S. O. BY CLARENCE PULLEN. A certain September evening, years ago, found Gordon Trautwine in India, in the province of Sindh and the city of Haiderabad. This young electrician, in the employ of the Indo-European Tele graph Department, had arrive.I by boat from Knrrachee two days before. Learning that it would be a week be-' fore he could get up the river, he had' taken quarter* at the house of a resident who often entertained European visitors. This bungalow, near the river side, was a large, rambling editico of one story, with the usual extensive verandas, wide doors and windows. Although situated in the heart of the city, its grounds were of considerable extent. Gordon as the latest guest was as signed to a detached building, separated by a wall from the rest of the establish ment. This structure, which had once I been used for the storage of merchandise, fronted upon a large compound or yard, surrounded on three sides by a high stone and mud wall, the building form ing the fourth side. The street passing the front wall was considerably higher than the level of the yard. The one room was high and spacious, and the large windows at the back, overlooking the river, wire protected by strong iron gratings, which admitted the cool breeze from the water. The single entrance to the building was in front. To reach the main house Gordon had to go into the compound and pass through a low doorway in the dividing line between it and the gardens. In his own yard was "kept the buffalo civ which supplied the milk used by the household. On his second night at the bungalow Gordon had sat in the main building, one of a company agreeably entertained by music and cards until near midnight. At last, the goodnightshaving boon said, he passed into the open air and went to his room to go to bed. His native lamp was a little open vessel in which a cotton wick floated in cocoanut oil; this he ex- tinguished, and, clad in hU pajamas, dived between the mosquito curtains an ) composed himself to sleep. Some people who were in Hsiberaba 1 a quarter of a century ago will remcinbei Amir Talphur’a two great tigers, cap tured in the Sakkar jungles, and kept in captivity at his palace. Such persons will be likely to recall the night when both these savage beasts escaped and set the town in an uproar. Their cages were found empty with broken bars, and the mangled body of a native watchman lying in a by-street indicated the route they had taken. This episode occurred on the night of which I write. Gordon had slept perhaps two hours when he was awakened by the move menu of the buffalo in the yard, which was bellowing as if in distress. He was not yet fully aroused when the buffalo's noise was swelled by a sound which probably had not been heard in Haidera- bad since the days before the Grand Mo guls, the roar of a tiger at large. There was a scratching of claws on the street wall, the sound of s body striking henv ily but softly it to the yard, one loudbel- window looked out between the slats ol the blinds. The clear moonbeams shorn into the yard, lighting every part of it except the black shadows beneath the walls. Fronting him, near the middlt of the compound, was the white breast of an immense black, and tawny animal, which stood over the postrate buffalo tearing its throat and greedily lapping its blood. The beast of prey raised its head from time to time, End glared about with eyes of fire as if watching against interruption. The situation was a surprising and ter rifying one for Gordon, who could not escape by the windows at the back ol the house owing to the iron gratings. There was no way out of the compound except to emerge upon the veranda, ana walk a distance of ten yards in the very face of the tiger—for Gordon had at once recognized the nature of his terrible visitor. He stepped back and lit the tittle night lamp to gain such comfort as its light could give him. He was un armed, and there was nothing between him and the striped monster but those thin blinds, which could offer no more hindrance to a tiger than if they had been tissue paptr. Suddenly the tiger wheeled, and with his paws still resting on the buffalo, looked up toward the wall in the direc tion of the street. Upon that wall another huge cat-like form similar to its own had appeared, as if evolved out of the darkness, and from it tiiere came an unmistakable roar, which was answered in the same note by the tiger in the yard. With tails swinging angrily the two creatures eyed each other, their roars changing to deep growls; and presently tiie one on the wall leaped into the en closure. The animal upon the buffalo crept over his prey toward the intruder, which, crouching low, crawled onward. As the two beasts drew near together the urowls became fiercer, and at last the ad vancing tiger gave a great Icip forward, which was met by the other, and a ter rific fight began with hideous growling, deep snarls and roars as they reared, bit, and tore, in the presence of the one awe stricken spectator. At last the two beasts separated, one backing swiftly to the buffalo, while the other, retiring in the same manner to a safe distance from its opponent., began to-explore the yard. if the beast had any intention of leaving the place it was disappointed, for the walls rising . at least ten feet above the yard were too high to be leaped. He approached the veranda, snuffed along the face of the house, and peered between the slats of the blind, but, repelled perhaps by the light or fearing a trap, did not enter. As his movements brought liim near the buffalo the tiger, in possession of the prey, stood again on the defensive; but the other beast seemed cither to have had enough of fighting, or to realize that ho was again imprisoned. Failing in his attempt to get out of the compound he began to roar in alarm. Many people living in the vicinity of. the bungalow were awakened by the rounds, and surmising the danger which they could not fully understand closed their doors and windows in fear; but no one dared remain outside, except the native watchmen, who gathered in groups at a distance and speculated as to the cause of the disturbance. But the character of the noises was not inviting of approach,-and so for some time no one came upon the scene to investigate matters. The first tiger at the change of note in the other's roaring became als) un easy, and leaving his prey joined in the outbur-t of sound and walked uneasily about, still, ho wever, keeping near the buffalo. As Gordon, with no barrier between him and a terrible death when ever tbo animals should see fit to enter the house, stool with his eyes held in awful fascination upon his besiegers, lie became aware, by a growing light an 1 a smell of burning, that a new clement of terror was added to the situation. A puff of the night breeze from the river had blown a fold of the mosquito curtain against the lamp which stood by the bed, upsetting it. Like a flash the curtain and bedding were in flame;, to which was added the combustion of the oil spreading over the floor matting. It was a conflagration beyond the power of Gordon to extinguish, oven if ho had found the heart to attempt it in the face of his other great peril. It was but a few moments before tbo whole interior of the apartment was in flames, from floor to ceiling. He heard the tigers come one after the other upon the veranda. The blow of a paw broke down a blind and the heads of one of the brutes appeared at the opening. Gordon cowered back as near the flames as he end of the enclosure they stopped to crouch with swinging tails at the sigh : of the young man’s figure outlined black against the fire, and crept toward him, only to turn away and retire before some fresh outburst of the flames. The heat on the veranda had become unendurable, and Gordon saw that, live or die, he must, as bis only chance of escape, try to get through the door of of the wall; to reach this spot he must pass within a dozen yards of the tigers. This small door, which was strongly made, opened into the compound, and swung toward the front wall where the beasts were pacing. It was fastened, when shut, by a strong latch. To effect his escape Gordon had to take ten long steps, unlatch and opsn the door, pass through the opening and close the door behind him before either one of his savage besiegers could leap upon him. With the flames already scorching him he decided that a quick death by teeth and claws was better than to be burned alive. At a moment when the nearest tiger’s back was turned ho walked rapidly but steadily across the corner of the compound, lifted the latch, opened the door, and flooped to pass through. At his first step from (he veran la the tiger nearest him wheeled, and both the animals began to work toward him. But to attack him they must dash to ward the tire that awed them, and while they crept onward, growling and eyeing him, neither of them sprang until he had rr ached and opened the door. Then the nearest tiger, moved partly perhaps by a hope ol escape through the opeu- ing, leaped for it. The creature’s paws st ruck the door just as Gordon was pass ing the threshold, shutting it against him with such force ns to throw the young man violently upon his face into the garden beyond. Had the door swung ajar after closing, tiio beast would at once have been after and upon him; but the latch caught and held, and Gordon turning round as he regained his feet heard the scratching made by the tiger's claws, and the ani mal’s whinning snarl over his discom fiture as it retired to the farther end of the compound. Gordon's appearance in the garden was loudly hailed by the people in the main house who having been wakened by the tumult had gathered in one apart ment. and barricaded the windows and doors; and the men with such weapons as they con'd obtain were standing ready to defend the premises. Believing that Gordon was surely killed, they were sur prised and delighted to see him emerge so unexpectedly from his perilous situa tion. The people of the neighboring houses were equally awake, and on learn ing tiie facts in the situation the more courageous ones approached an 1 lookei down upon the self-entrapped animals restlessly moving about between the high walls and the fire. Some solditrs that arrived from the British garrison, and a force of the Amir's retainers, including the chief huntsman and his assistants, now set to work to capturo the tigers. The natives worked zealously fro n the certainty thnt if tht tigers were not recaptured—per haps even if they were—that some per sons would loose their heads on general principles of disapproval of the animals’ ’ escape. From the wail coir rope nooses were launched at the now thoroughly de moralized ani nab, which, after various misthrows and mishaps,were caught suc cessively by the neck, legs and body, until they were at least so well secured that one or two bold fellows leaped down into the compound, and finished the tying of them in safety. Rilled, tiod, and twistc 1 in a network of ropes, the two struggling brutes, slung to long poles, were borne on the shoulders of natives to the Amir’s palace and returned to their cages, which it is to be hoped, were suitably strengthened. It was only after the event that Gor don Trautwine, who had behaved so coolly through bis time of peril, realized how badly frightened he really had been. He left Haiderabad tbo next day to brace his nerves by the adventures and excitement of a trip up the Indus River.—St. h>ui» Rtpublir. ASUNCION. CHE UNIQUE CAPITAL OF THE REPUBLIC OF PARAGUAY. Its Picturesque Situation—Electric Lights on One Street and Graz ing Cows in the Next— The Houses. long colonacles in tront that cover me sidewalk, and offer protection from the tropical sun. The more modern houses, in the other hand, have no verandas; they arc like those of Buenos Ayres, and their lacadcs are over ornamented with stucco and elaborate iron gratings.— Harper's Mafjaiirte. CURIOUS FACTS. Office between Edward), Norment V'o., apd Joy A ganden’, A low from the buffalo, followed by anotbei ending in a stifled sound, and then then : was heard only low, deep growls, min glcd with the sound of tearing flesh. Gordon had started up into a sitting posture at the first alarm, and up to thii point had remained in that position listen ing, with suspended breath. Now hi slipped from bed, and going to the open could endure to remain, until the tiger, as if dazed with the light, withdrew to resume his round about the foil of the wall. Rapidly the flames, fanned by the breeze into a roaring conflagration, burned along the cloth and bamboo coil ing overhead and crept along the mat ting on the floor, forcing Gordon for ward step by stop upon the veranda into the open vi w of the tigers. They roared more loudly when he appeared, but, seemingly frightened by the smoke and flame, they did not at one - ) attack him. But a; they paced to and fro along the foot of the walls at the farther A Wonderful Frost. The New York Herald has been getting a new printing press which is a mechani cal marvel. According to the Herald “its consumption of white paper is so astounding that even the imagination grows tired and sits down to catch its breath. It is fed from three rolls, each being more than five feet wide. When it settles down to shew its best work it will use up in one hour nearly twenty-six miles of this paper, or, to make th« matter more significant, it will use up about fifty-two miles of paper the ordi nary width of the Herald every sixty minutes. “Our readers will be startled to learn that it can piint and fold ninety thou sand four-page Heralds in an hour. This is to the mind which is not versed in tho problem of rapid printing, a feat which makes Aladdin's lamp an old woman’s fable. Ninety thousand per hour means fifteen hundred copies jmsc minute, or twenty-five copies for every second of time ticked by tho clock in Trinity’s steeple." Girls are no longer to be flogged in tho industrial schools of Kirkdale, in Lan cashire, England. Biich la the order of the Local Government Board. , ' ••••Li. < • In Paraguay there is but one town— Asuncion, the capital. When tho trav eler has seen this city he has seen tho quintessence of all that is fine in the republic. Asuncion is charmingly situated on gently undulating ground, rising to a considerable height above tho river, which makes a bend here, and forms a bay in which are anchored a few steam ers, many schooners, a white Brazilian gun-boat, and two or three hulks, while close to the shore are some long wood rafts and cedar logs. To the northeast of the port, which consists merely of a wooden pier, simple quays, and the usual buildings of custom-ho iso and ware houses on a small scale, the beach for so-r.e distance forms a broad level stretch of green meadows, bounded by steep rod smidstone cliffs, which arc crowned by the.silhouettes of the principal edifices of the town—tiie palace of Lopez, the Cabildo, the barracks, the dome of the Pantheon, the Church of Sin Francisco, and below this church, perched literally on the side of the cliff; the suburb or quarter called La Clnearita. Ail along the shore arc groups of women washing clothes, with, in the background, a flourishing growth of trees and jungle, and the town itself appears to be sur rounded and intersnersed with verdure. Tho view of Asuncion from the river is delightful, but the view from tho in terior is still more so, particularly from tho high ground of La Cancha, a sort of hotel and pleasure resort, situ nted a short distance to the cast. From this point the spectacle is most fascinating. The outer zone of the town consists of a belt of low wooded hills, dotted with cottages and yellow with orange-tree;. The inner zone, more level but still undulating, elopes toward the river, and appears covered with build ings, from which emerge tall church towers and, here aud there, grdups 'of trees; beyond this is the silvery river winding along between islands, jungles, and shallows, and in the back-ground is the dark blue interminable flatness of the Paraguayan Chaco. Tiiere arc few towns in the world more picturesquely situated than Asuncion, and few urban pano ramas that offer a beautiful distribution of soft hills, rich vegetation, pretty river scenery, and grand and limitless hori zon. The town is full of surprises aud con trasts. The hotel of La Cancha, for in stance, almost within a stone’s-throw of the virgin forest, is lighted by electricity. The streets of Asancion are, with two exceptions, unpaved, and in some of the side streets cows may be seen grazing, but all arc lined with tall posts and cross-trees tint cany innumerable tele graph wires, aud in some the old oil lanterns have been replaced by electric lamps. The town is laid out rectangu larly in cuadias, the streets running in one direction toward the port and river, and in the other toward the wooded country. These streets all go up and down hill; they have high sidewalks, more or less paved; hut tho roadway is generally a sort of deep and rugged val ley of fine red sand, with hero and there a protruding rock. A proof of the con dition of the streets of Asuncion is nivo oy tiie fact tiiat tiiere are no public or private carriages; the only vehicle; that can circulate are ox carts, and higher vehicles drawn by three or four mules. Pack-mules, donkeys, and riding-horses are also used, but lor light goods and passengers the great and indispensable conveyance is the tramway, which bears the name of Conductor Universal. Tho streets go on aud on to the limits of the town, the houses and huts liijorco less frequent, but the deep sandy road con tinues between forests, orange trees and innumerable varieties of flowering shrubs and creepers. The telegraph posts con tinue likewise, and with them the tram lines and the cars, with their teams of ill-used mules, their dark-skinned driv ers and conductors, who talk Guarani, and barely understand a few words of Spanish. One wonders what can be tho use of a tramway through the forest. At last, however, after running some five miles, tho cur stops at n spot called Villa Morra, where the streets arc indicated by hnger-posts stuck in tho open fields. PRISON LIFE. TRICKS OF CONVICTS TIME. TO KILL The Gulf of Mexico has risen over a foot since 1852. A fish with two tails is the chief curi osity at Madison, Penn. Brass bands arc not allowed to play in the streets of Nashville, Tcnn. Ten days per annum is the average amount of sickness in human-life. Hebrews arc not allowed to leave Mos cow, Russia, unless they have paid their debta. There is a difference of only twenty- two square miles between the areas of England and Iowa. Francois Coppcc, the French author.is fond of cats that surround his desk and nibble at his pen when he writes. Camden, N. J., boasts of a blind bar ber who can shave as well as if he had perfect sight. He works every day and makes regular wages. Alabama has a new religious sect, one of whose tenets is to pay no taxes to the support of a secular government, even to the extent of a dog tax. The King of Ashsntes is allowed 3333 wives. Many of them are the daughters of the chiefs of tributary tribes over which the King has turisdictioa, and are sent to him as hostages. The chimney is a modem affair, being not yet seven centuries old. In the thir teenth century chimneys were allowed only on religions houses, manor houses and noblemen’s castles. A church was being moved across tho railroad track at Oakdale, Washington, when a special train came along, and be fore the engineer could stop his engine it struck the church, cutting it in two. Chinese dentists are said to possess a wonderful powder, which is rubbed on the gum over the affected tooth. Alter an interval of about five minutes the patient is told to sneeze, whereupon the 'tooth falls out. A tailor of Koenlgsberg, Germany, demonstrated an enormous inulbu'.ar power before the class of students. With one hand ho lifted a heavy chair, on which sat a 200-pound student, from the floor to the table. A Connecticut River shad dressel re cently at New Haven had in its stomach a railroad spike five inches long and weighing seven ounces. The spike was rusty, and the liver aud side of tiie fish were coated with rust. A lobster has been caught in Penob- seot Bay which weighs twenty-two pounds. Its size has procured for it r certain immortality. In place of being eaten it will occupy a shelf of honor among the exhibits of the Smithsonian Institute at Washington. Prisoners Who Deliberately Malm Themselves lor a Purpose and Others Who Incite In cipient Mutinies. Tiiere are a few country bouses here, a manufactory of palm oil, a hotel, and, at a short distance, the church and cemetery of the Keeolcta. The landscape is beauti ful, and the vegetation and flora of a variet ■ and richness beyond description; the roads are line 1 with orange trees; every hut nestle; in groves of orange, banana, lime, fig and palm trees; the hedges and fences are formed of huge cactuses, convolvuli and lianes. As for the cottages and lusts, they of very primitive architecture, most of them being built of mud and cane, with bark roofs; a few only are of brick, with tile roofs; and still fewer have more than one room, or.o door, and one small win dow, shaded in front by a veranda sup ported on pulm tree pillars. In the town, too. the old bouse* all have verandaijpt Chicago's Unique Scheme. Unless negotiations which arc now all but completed should fall through, and of that there is very little prospect, Chicago will soon add to her commer cial enterprise one which will startle all creation. A syndicate has raised $1,- 000,000 for the establishment of a vast clearing house to be used by wholesale merchants. The site selected is at the intersection of Twelfth street and tho Chicago River. The plan contemplates tho erection of 150 brick buildings, each six stories high, all alike and all connected. L. W. Yaggy, of Lake For est, a Chicago suburb, conceived the idea of this enormous undertaking. In these buildings wholesale merchants may receive goods from all railroads en tering Chicago, store them in floors rented for the purpose and reship them at will. From tho North Pacific Rail road have been leased thirty-two acres for ninety-nine years. It is understood that the promoters ol the scheme arc to receive $1,000,000 in stock for their services, and that amount has already been paid in cash. Of the other $3,000,000 capital stock, $2,000,- 000 has been subscribed, the principal holders being wholesale merchants of Chicago. Railroad cars will reach the various II ors of the 150 buildings by inclined tracks and the goods can thus be unloaded direct from tho cars wher ever the consignee has secured space. A circular railroad upon which small and specially built cars will run will be used to remove the goods. The buildings will be perfect as to construction and every demand of business will bo met. Tbo tbirty-two acres leased has a quarter of a mile frontage on Twelfth street. • This frontage is alone worth $350,000 aud tho entire property is con servatively estimated as being worth $1,500,000. Tho Northern Pacific charges nothing for the lease, expecting to be sufficiently roamnerated by freight charges over its line. From a real estate standpoint it is tho greatest transaction in the history of Chicago. Tho com pany has not been incorporated and the name of those in tho syndicate are yet kept secret. H. I. Cobb is the architect employed by. tho syndicate and General Sooy Smith is to be the chief engineer. It is expected that the buildings will be completed in about a year.—.9* Louis Republic. V. T.- Tbr-rc are many incidents in the pris- rn life of convicts that are out of the ordinary, and may be said to form part of their pleasures, although some are weird ami ttagic enough in themselves to be c’nssed ns anything but pleasures. I recollect en one occasion that I was appointed a special “trusty” over a tall, lank, dark featured young Southerner who, in a moment of hopeless despera tion, had cut his throat. Teddy, as we will call him, had been a headstrong boy, and his parents could not control him, and, after a youthful vagabondage, he had enlisted in the regular army, where he was always in trouble. When under my care in the special hospital ward to which he had been scut lie re lated much of his past life to me, and I learned that he hail attempted to take his life when he was a soldier in the same manuci as he had done in State prison, lie was not a bad sort of fellow, but be ing of a sensitive nature, as well as un- rtasonablo, he allowed his gloomy thoughts to master him, and this would result in periods of depression and stib- rcqui'nt desperation, and he cared not what he said or did. In fact, he was inclined to emotional insanity. One night, while my fellow trusty and 1 were engaged in conversation, he lay on his cot pondering over his gloomy fate, when something we said aroused him and he flow into a rage, got up and grappled me in a desperate manner. I quickly flung him hack on his cot nad pinioned him, telling my fellow trusty— a mere boy—to ring up the guard. It was a terrible struggle to keep him in subjection until the guard arrived, for his frenzy gave him almost superhuman strength. He quieted down as soon as the guard arrived and said he was a fool forgetting into such a temper, and as he feared the etraightjacket he promised to behave himself in the future. Ho, how ever, in another of his frenzied attacks attempted to tear open the wound in his throat, and it was by no means an easy matter to prevent him doing so. But a reasonable and sympathetic talk gen erally conquered his excitability. Ho finally was sent to the insane asylum. One morning as prayer was being said in the prison chapel one of the convicts set up a howl and began harking like a dog, after which he clapped his hands— one, two, three; one, two, three—and this caused a general murmur of mixed merriment and expectation. Two guar Is immediately passed to the end of the form on which he was sitting, and were hustling him out of the chapel, when he Hew into a rage,struggled with them aud hurled horrible curses at them as well as at the. officiating chaplain,who wasapar- ticulnrly obnoxious man to tho prisoners. Whether the fellow was insane or not I cannot say. The prison authorities thought he was not, and he was roundly punished for his escapade. On another occasion as wc were marching into the hall for supper one of the convicts gave a howl, threw up his arms and dropped dead on the floor—a fellow convict bad stabbed him. There was gome enmity between the two and it resulted in the death of both. Malingering is a very general method among prisoners to shirk the monotony or the labor consequent on their imnris- onn ent. Anything that wilt relieve the the incipient mutinies that take place from one cause or another. It is some what pleasurable to even the mosl “model'' prisoner to listen to a crowd ol his fellows singing and shouting in up roar when something has arisen that has irritated them. This something is a varied thing in itself. It may be a mean and cowardly guard in charge, or it may mean some obnoxious order given by the Warden, or it may mean the derision of some sneaking “trusty” who has got one of his fellows into trouble, or it may mean the wailing of some raw recruit who has not got over his first tcrroi at confinement or it may mean nothing more than the pure deviltry of one oi two lucorrigiblcs who have become de- sirious of making tilings lively for them selves and their guards. The ringleaders of these outbreaks are sought out anil punishment is meted out to them, but oftcu an innocent man is the selected culprit. Thu old jailbirds start the tumult, aud knowing the im pressionability of their fellows, allow these latter to keep it up, while they lapse into silence or read their Bibles, and of course the guard never suspects any of them of insubordination while thus en gaged. Mot cover, taey arc iml ot sug gestion, and being somewhat conversant with the men in the ring, they soon con vince the guard that, say G1S, started the row.—A’sic York Iff raid. A Bare Book. James AY. Ellsworth, of Chicago, pur chased in Washington recently anothei rare book, a Latin volume, in which the name of America is first given to the Western continent and of which but six or eight copies arc known to be in exist ence. The story of the book is an in teresting one. It seems that in the hitter part of the fifteenth or early part of the sixteenth century King Rene of Lorraine founded a university and printing press and gath ered about him a number of learned men. Among them was Matthew Ringman, who some time afterward was called to 1’aris to build a bridge over the Seine, the Bridge of Notre Dame, which stands to this day. While in Paris he discovered a letter which Americus Vespucci had written to Lorenzo de Medici, and sent a copy ot the letter to King Rene. The good king had sense inough to place the communi cation in the hands of his printer, one Martin Waldseemuller, who printed it as an appendix to a volume he was issuing in Latin called “Rudiments of Geogra phy.” Waldseemuller commented an the letter as follows: “Now, truly, as these regions are more widely explored aud another one-quarter part discovered by Americus Vespucci, as may be learned irem the fallowing letters, 1 see no good reason why it should not be justly called Amcrigcn, that is, the land of Americus, or America, from Americus Vespucci, its disco*’srer, a man of sagacious mind." T'ne “Amcrigen,” or “America," stuck to the new region and spread over the civilized world. The copy which Mr. Ellsworth has just secured is one of the original edition. There arc three copies in this country and eight known to bu in existence, one ■ in the British .Museum, one in Vienna, and this copy. The Ellsworth copy of ' one in Munich, one in the library of John i Carter Brown, of Providence, R. 1., one in the Lenox Library, New York, i the “Rudiments,” ns it will henceforth he known, was picked up by Eyries on the quays of Paris for twenty cents and j at his death in 184li was sold for $32. I when again under the hammer at the ; Ycmeniz sale in 18«7 it brought $i«H*. Mr. Ellsworth docs not care to make ’ public the price paid by him, as he has tediousness and is at hand is brought ' ' Jccn into action. One here in the quarry will mash his finger in order that ho may he » :nt into the hospital. Another there will —quite accidentally, of course—fail down the corridor steps and sustain such injuries as to insure a quiet time of con valescence on a hospital diet, ami so forth; but the prison doctor is an fait : with all classes .if malingerers, and uses his experience in treating such as come before him. Couseqently the goal times often anticipated never materialize. i know one ignorant, soft headed fel low who bccaaic really ill by eating tho soap he was allowed with which to per form his daily ablutions. Often had cases co ne before me where soap eating had put men into a feeble state of health and lent n sickly aspect to their counte nances, but this fellow was sick and no mistake. After a course of treatment which was in itself as bad as the cause for it, he was, however, restored and sent to solitary confinement as a further punishment. He never ate soap again, hut, I may remark, he was subsequent ly poisoned by eating same of ihe vege- ; table growths around where he, with his fellows, was wont to labor. I All things considered, the malingerer , comes out only second best, but it must > be a terrible punishment, that causes men to resort to it in order to ligntcn their burdens. The two most notable cases l ever met j of this kin l were where a man boldly put his foot under a falling massol stout in the quarry, causing it to ho terribly crushed, and to he eventually ampu- j fated; and, in the second case, where a 1 man feigned rhe imatism and underwent, j every conceivable torture at the hands of i the prison physician, who knew the tel j low was shamming. Then another phtue of life artaei from annoyed by the incidents growing out of the publicity given to the price which ire paid for the Guttcuburg Bible.—i«a Francisco Chronicle. His Watch Charm Ones Saved His Lite Colonel A. I). Gwynnc, of Memphis, carries a charm that has a history closely interwoven with his own, for it is a relic of the battle of Sniloh, and brings to mind a time when tho gallant Colonel might have yielded up his life in tho cause of his country hut for the same but ton. It was an old brass button of tho Fed eral pattern, for at the time the battle of Shiloh was fought the Confederates did not possess a button peculiar to their own uniforms. Colonel Gwynnc keeps ii brightly burnished, and its every inden tation is as plain as on the day it was turned out of the factory. In the pride of its youth it was puffed out, that is, it was globular in form in the middle, but as it appears now tho conceit has been taken out of it by the bull that struck it and flattened it. At the head of the Twenty sixth Ala bama Regiment of cavalry Colonel Gwynne took a foremost part in the bat tle of Shiloh, and it was in tha thickest of the fight that, whea leaning over in a charge, a ball tore through tho front of his cap, grazed past his nose, and struck the first button on his coat, glancing thence to ids right arm, which was shat- tcred, so thnt for some time he was laid up for repairs. But he never forgot the button that saved Ids life, and ever since it has hung from his watch chain, slight ly disfigured, but therefore the more honored.—Memphis Appeal-Avalanche. 1'elroit telephones cost $50 to $7A a ytur,