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DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 17, 1892.
NO. 50
Ab Ex-TiHraan Man's (oniplalnl,
[From the Lexiugton Dispatch.]
I voted and worked for Governor
Tillman two years ago. I did it be
cause I thought he was a friend to
the poor, but I can’t \ote for any
man to pay $3 poll tax or eight day’s
work on the public road if he can’t
pay $1.50. That is putting the poor
man’s labor too cheap for me. I pay
my poll tax and I work the public
road and every poor man ought to
raise his voice against them both. I
don’t believn it is doing tk« l>oor
man right G&-giv5»tfic poor man
but little means and he must woik
four days and take the bread from
his children’s mouths and $1 [toll
tax and now they want to make it $3.
He has no horse or waggon, but a
poor wife and children depending on
him for bread, whether they' are
white or black. God made us all
and we are compelled by law- to pay
as much road duty as the richest
man in the State, and the rich man
will make his $1 in five minutes.
No equality there. I urge you to
work the road, pay your poll tax just
as long as it is a law, but you can’t
make anything equal but so much
out of the dollar, and if the poor
man has but one dollar and he re
turns it and pays his part out of it
for his taxes he has done his part and
should not be made to do any more.
Run the free schools all the year,
but take so much out of the dollar
and the poor man will pay as much
out of the dollar as the rich. God
bless the poor of our land and open
the eyes of our law makers to take
the poll tax and the road tax off our
men, and defeat every man that wants
to heap a three dollar poll tax on
them, or eight days’ work for $1.50.
Some one said that a man was a trai
tor that left the reform party. I sa\
as far as my judgment goes every
one that is a friend to the poor man
will leave, for the reform party can’t
show one place where they hare given
the poor man any better wages or
done anything for them. On the
other hand they have cut the wages
and laid the burden on the poor.
Cheap labor don’t help the poor man
or low prices don’t help the farmer.
It will take a third more of what
you raise to bring you the same it did
two years ago.
My farmer friend, I ask you to
open your eyes and think for your
self. You can’t live on promises,
and that is all you have got from the
reform party and you will ever get
from them outside of low wages, hard
times and low prices for what you
have to sell. Yours,
P. J. Ri'cker.
P. S.—The poor man don’t pay
any poll tax in Columbia to send his
children to school all the year. He
don’t work the streets and our streets
can’t be beat. The same plan ought
to be in the whole .State.
* P. J. R.
k True Story.
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I Saloon Keeper’s Advertisement.
A saloon keeper of Lima, Ohio, not
desiring to deceive any body as to the
quality of the goods he handles, put
out the following card as an adver
tisement of his business:
“Fribndb and neighbors:
“Greatful for your past patronage,
and having a new stock of choice
wines, spirits and lager beer. I con
tinue to make drunkards and beggars
out of sober, industrious people. My
liquors excite riot, robbery and blood
shed, diminish comforts, increase ex
penses, shorten lives, are to multiply
fatal accidents and distressing dis
eases, and liable to render these lat
ter incurable.
“They will cost some of you life,
some of you reason, many of you
character aud'all of your peace; will
make fathers and mothers, friends,
wives, widows, children, orphans and
all jxjor. I train the young to igno
rance, infidelity, dissipation, lewdness
and every vice; corrupt the ministers
of the religiou and members of the
church, hinder the gospel and send
hundreds to temporal and spiritual
dea f h. I will accommodate the pub
lie even at the cost of my soul, for
I have a family to support, and the
trade pays, for the public encourages
it
‘T have a license; mv traffic is
therefore lawful and Christians even
countenance it, and if I do not sell
drink somebody else will. I know
the Bible says,‘Thou shalt not kill.’
•Woe unto him thatgiveth his neigh
bor drink,’ and ‘not to put a stumb
ling block in a brother’s way.’ I al
so read that ‘no drunkard shall enter
the Kingdom of God,’ and 1 suppose
a drunkard maker will not share any
better fate; but I want a la/.y living,
tod have made up my mind that my
iniquity pays very good wages. 1
shall therefore carry on my trade and
do my best to decrease the wealth, im
pair the health and endanger the safe
ty of the people.
“As my traffic flourishes in proper
to your ignorance and indul-Uhan his adl erence to principle, for
gence, I must do all I can to prevent
your mental culture, moral purity,
social happiness and eternal welfare.
“For proof of my ability I refer
you to the pawnshops, the police of
fice, the hospital, lunatic asylum,
jail and the gallows, whither many
of my customers have gone.
“I teach young and old to drink
and charge only for the materials.
“A very few lessons are enough.
“Yours till dead.”
t’ommonplace Happiness.
“Papa, will you please give me 50
cents for my spring hat? Most all
the academy girls have theirs.”
“No May, I can’t spare the money.”
The above request was persuasively
made by a 10-year-old maiden as she
was preparing for school, one tine
spring morning. The refusal came
from the parent in a curt, indifferent
tone. The disappointed girl went to
school. The father started for his
place of business. On his way thith
er he met a friend, and being a hail
fellow well met, he invited him into
Moc’s for a drink.
As us"*!, there were others there,
and the man who could not spare his
daughter 50 cents for a hat treated
the crowd. When about to leave he
laid 50 cents on the counter which
just paid fnr the drinks* Just then
the saloonkeeper’s daughter entered,
and going behind the bar, said: * “Pa
pa, I wa it 50 cents for my new spring
hat”
“All right,” said the dealer, and
taking up the half-dollar from the
counter, he handed it over to the girl,
who departed smilingly. May’s fath
er seemed dazed, walked out alone,
and said to himself: “I had to bring
my 50 cents here for the rumseller’s
daughter to buy a hat with, after re
fusing it to my own. I’ll never drink
another drop.” And he kept his
pledge.
The exact geographical center of
the United States is marked by a
grave—the last resting place of one
Major Ogden, who is buried on a lit
tle knoll a short distance nortbheast
of Fort Riley, Kas.
Mrs. Margaret E. Sangstor deliver
ed a lecture at Monona I^tke, Wis.,
recently, on ■‘Commonplace Hap
piuess.” Among other things she
said: “Many and many a man will
tell his wife that he loves her and con
siders that sufficient, making little
practical demonstration of the fact.
This only occurs in case of a crisis,
such as sickness. A good old deacon
died not long since in Massachusetts
It was anticipated that he would die
—not because he was sick or ailing,
not because he was old or feeble, but
because he had been seen kissing his
wife. People spend altogether too
much time in attending to the ma
chinery of life and leave but little
for actual enjoyment. This is especi
ally true of the American people, who
scarcely know how to enjoy life.”
Things 1 «u Can Do.
Speaking the Truth in Love.
Truthfulness certainly is a noble
virtue, but it is not the noblest.
When the deepest, fullest signifi
cance of truthfulness‘s comprehend
ed, when we have learned that it
means genuineness, then its admira-
bleness is more than ever conspicu
ous. Yet there is a higher, holier
virtue than mere truthfulness, even
iu its best sense, and that is this same
truthfulness enfused with and char
acterized by love. You may be scru
pulously truthful in s{ieecli and be
shunued for your coldblooded and
cruel bluutness. You may be as sin
cere and straightforward in conduct
as a human being can be, and also you
may have a more dangerous influence
than some who possess nu^di less loy
alty to duty than your own, simply
because you are coldly correct, hard
and stern in demeainor, winning no
one to yourself or to the views of life
which you cherish and illustrate.
Speaking the truth iu love, wheth
er by lips or life, never means belit
tling theauthority or dignity of truth.
It never seeks to evade the conse
quences of the most simple, absolute
truthfulness. But it means being
filled to overflowing with Christ-like
tenderness, in loving truth, because
He was the truth and lived the truth
and made Himself one with it for
evermore, so that, the effort to be
true is the same thing as to be Christ-
like. Speaking it so as to make it.-
trueness not only apparent, but con
• incing, and e'en winning, no mattei
bow inher. ntly unpalatable it may be.
We once read a story about a man
who uniformly endeavored to tell the
pure, simple truth about everything
L'he author certainly gave an atinis
ing account of his collisions with tin
unintended but real exaggerations oi
household life, the polite evasions ol
society, and the customs of trade.
The hero gradually became a social
failure, for everybody found him an
uncomfortable companion; yet thic
was more because of his want of tact
all respected his fertle spirit, even i
they could not approve bis choice o!
times and seasons. When lie died
the community mourned him deeply.
Ht had the truth-loving spirit and
also the disjiosition to speak the truth
in love. He did not realize sufficient
ly that the truth need not always am.;
necessarily be uttered in the form of
direct assertion, but may be even ir
I hat of inquiry, jest, or even irony
l’he point of the story was this, tha*
he who makes his loyalty to truth
unmistakabh plain, and who doct
this in the spirit of gentleness and
tenderness, never fails to win confi
dence and resjiect.— Selected.
Rothschild’s Maxims.
The elder Baron Rothschild had
(he walls of his bank placarded with
the following maxims:
Shun liquor.
Dare to go forward.
Never be discouraged.
Never tell business lies.
Be polite to everybody.
Employ your time w< 11.
Be prompt in everything.
Pay your debts promptly.
Bear all troubles patiently.
Do not reckon upon chance.
Be brave in the struggle of life.
Make no useless acquaintances.
Maintain your integrity a sacred
thing.
Never appear something more than
you are.
Take time to ccusider, oml then
decide positively.
Carefully examine into every detail
of your business.
Then work hard, and you will lie
certain to succeed in life.
An Accommodating Undertaker.
For Diflerent Fancies.
Forturue has rarclv condescended
to be the companion of genius.
A man has his clothes made to fit
him. A woman makes herself tit her
clothes.
A man is a cat, aud the people too
often shut him up in the same room
with the canary.
A girl of sixteen seems to know of
A JEALOUS COW.
Sh* Cures Her Master Uccause He Nursm.
no other use for her nose than to turn gutter by the side of the road to the
it iin ut ruuivitw
it up at people.
Pleasure may he had, hut it comes
fearful! high. Nothing iu the worl
costs so much.
Don’t say you would amount to
more if you had tbu opportunity; if
you have the ability you will make
the opportunity.
Man never pretends to tell a
woman the truth. Men learn to lie
l.o women when they are courting
them, and never get over it.
We should miss a great deal that
is valuable iu human nature if we
confined our attention exclusively to
important personages
A woman is good because it comes
natural, men are never really good un
til they have tried being bad and
found that it didn’t pjiy.
The trouble with getting a boy hoe
iu a garden is that he digs up so many
grub worms that tempt him ‘.o run off
ind go fishing.
A gentleman is one who understands
and shows every mark of deference to
the claims of self love iu others, and
exacts it iu return from them.
When they are engaged they act
ashamed to show how much they
think of each other; and after they
re married they are ashamed to show
how much they don’t.
Parting with a dear friend at the
grave is a great deal like parting with
me when you start on a journey and
leave him behind. You cry the first
mile or two, aud believe you will cry
forever; but soon you become inter
ested in new scenes, new people, and
new experiences, and forget him.
You imagine when von leave the o-em-
etery you will never forget the friend
you left there, but you do.
Kucklcu’M Arnica Salve.
The best salve in the world for cuts
oruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever
sores, tetter, chapped hands, chilblains,
:orns, ami all skin eruptions, and posi
tively cures piles, or no pay required. It
s guarantee eltogive perfect satisfaction,
or money retumled. Price 2o cents per
box. For sale at VVilcox’sdrug store.
a fiili.
A few years ago, says a writer in the
London Spectator, i had a quiet milch
cow. Rose, which was fond of Thomas,
the stableman, and also showed an aver-
ston to dogs. One morning I had just
bfegun to dress when I heard my puppy
barking in the cowshed. The nextmin-
ufta I heard a roar of unmistakable
&ar and anguish—a human roar. 1
dashed downstairs, and - at the same
moment arrived my son pitchfork in
'hand.
There lay Thomas o*-. his face in a dry
-house and the cow hutting angrily
Mm. We drove off the cow and poor
scuffled across the road, slipped
;h a vyire fence, stood up and drew
“Well, Thomas,” said I, “what’s tho
matter with Rose?’’
"Well, sir,” said Thomas, “I heard
the pup hark and untied him, ami I was
just coming out of the cow-house with
the pup in my arms when Rose came
round the corner. She knocked me
down and would have killed me.”
Thomas had, indeed, had a narrov.'
escape, his trousers were ripped up from
end to end, and red marks all along his
legs showed where Rose’s horns had
grazed along them.
“VVell,” said 1, “you’d better not
milk her this morning, since she’s in
such a fury.”
“Oh, I’ll milk her right enough, sir,
by-and-hy; just give her a little time to
settle down,” said Thomas. "It’s only
jealousy of that 'ere pup, sir. She
couldp’t atide seeing me a fondling of
it.”
In about twenty minutes Thomas
called me down to see the milk. The
cow had stood quiet enough to be
milked. Hut the milk was deeply
tinged with blood, and in half an hour
a copious red precipitate had settled to
the bottom of the pail. Till then I had
doubted the jealousy theory. After
that I believed.
WIPES KNEW THEIP VALUE.
The thimble was first called the
•‘thumb bell,” because : t was used on
the thumb instead of tlu finger, us at
present The word soon evoluted
into tliumble. The word thimbls is
coniparai i vely modern.
A Newsboy Who Would Only Accept Five
Coots for Saving Six Lives.
Human life is dull aud in small de
mand—spot cash, five-sixths of a cent
each person—at Holden I’oint, on City
island. These figures are the result of
the sad experience of Kd ward Gallagher,
of New Vork. Edward is a newsboy,
sometimes called “Swipes the News
boy,” as a complilnent to. his ability.
He is not the original “Swipes.” Ed
ward is sixteen years old, black-eyed,
brown-haired and small. What Ids
muscular development lacks in quantity
it more than makes up in quality. He
sold a big armful of newspapers be
tween this pity aud City island Monday
afternoon and then went rowing near
Belden Point Four men and two wom
en who had sailed up from Greenpoint
in the small sloop Agnes went in bath-
ing.at half-past six o’clock, so “Swipes'*
says. Three of tho men and the women
presently got into the skiff and paddled
out into the sound, followed leisurely
by the fourth man, who swam. Two
hundred yards from the shore he grew
tired, tried to climb into the skiff over
the side instead of the stern and upset
it. “Swipes” said he rowed fiercely to
the rescue and saved them all.
“They made me weary,” he confided
to a New York Herald man.' “When I
began taking them in all the men could
say was: ‘We’re all lost!’ Soon’s I got
’em ashore one says: ‘Johnny, that was
great work you done. I’m going to take
up a cTection.’
“He passed the hat and raised thirty
cents out of all their clothes. When he
give It to me he says: ‘You’re only a
hoy, you know,’ an’ I gave him back his
quarter an’ says: ‘Yes, an’ I ain’t goin’
to overcharge you. The hull gang of
yer ain’t wort’ more'n fi'pence.’ Then I
skipped.”
Hut will not some society or some
kind individual give "Swipes” a medal”
You can never lie lost unless you
are willing to be.
Yon can do as much for God as the
angle Gabriel. All be cun do is his
best, and you can that well.
You can find a way to serve accept
able, if you want to.
You can deny yonrself aud take
up your cross daily and follow him.
You can sec the hand of God in
everything, if yon will look for it.
You can be saved in an instant,
whenever you are willing to be.
The greatest curse in the World is
jealousy. Nine out of ton domestic
troubles originate in it. More than
half the murders in the world are
committed though its influence. It
is a guest that no man or woman
who ever entertained, could afterward
get rid of, Iustitntos shoud lie open
ed to cure those afflicted with it, for
it ruins more homes than drinks. It
is the shadow that follows love, and
the happier and more blessed love
makes you, the darker and m curs
ed the cloud of jei lousy wi.l leave
you.—Exchange.
All men are alike when it comes to i ' iut b' does nothing, and everybody
death and dollars. I goes telling of it everywhere.”
This is a cheerful old world. An
Owensboro undertaker anvertises
that “he will be glad to embalm some
corpse free of charge to convince the
people that he can give satisfaction.”
There are people dow n there who
won! I be improved by embalming,
and it is hoped that the undertaker
iu (jiistion may not be long deterred
from exhibiting a specimen of his
“before and after taking” work.—
Frankfort (Ky.) (.’apitul.
Scandal Well Defined.
Some pupils were asked by an ex
aminer at a school examination wheth
er they knew the meaning of the
word “scandal.” One little girl held
up her hand, and being told to an
swer the question she replied: “No-
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fttatistics show that more mon
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The Perfect Man.
There are no perfect men. We have
been men uad understand the whole
tribe. On a clear morning when they
are well dressed and the road is clear
they look admirably, but none of them
enjoy having a passing vehicle splash
mud on their newly-blackened hoots.
None of them look placid when some
one treads on their sore corns. If you
want to find out that no man is per
fect just marry him. Hut I think that
the two sexes are about equal. If you
secure for life the companionship of
some one about as good as yourself you
are to be congratulated. Better have
the two blades of a pair of scissors as
nearly as possible alike.—Philadelphia
T<=«.
—Asomewhafsuriousand noteworthy
collection has come into the market,
and has lately been offered for sale to,
among others, the authorities of the
British National Museum. A Canadian
gentleman has expended a vast amount
of patience and shown considerable
perseverance in gathering a collection
of buttons of officers of every regiment
and department of the British army.
The collection, which comprises 148
buttons, has taken nine years for its
formation, and the owner wrote 584 let
ters to all parts of the globe in pursuit
of his hobby.
STILL A MYSTERY.
Nobody Him Tot Kxplslned the Secret of
Oulja's Strauss Power.
Ouija still flourishes in Boston, ac
cording to the Transcript, as a draw
ing-room amusement. Now and then
it accomplishes something quite remark
able, as, for instance, the other night,
when a story-writer asked the question
of Ouija—the story-writer not being at
the board, hut sitting near by—“What
is to he' the name of the hero of my
next story?" No one but the asker of
the question knew what the name was,
but Ouija proceeded to spell out the first
four letters of a very unusual name—
and then stuck. After awhile, with a lit
tle faltering and a wrong letter once,
the entire name was spelled out. It
must have been hit upon either hy acci
dent—which would he very remarkable
—or else must have somehow got from
tho mind of the only person who knew
the name to the fingers of the persons
who were at the board—which perhaps
would be still more remarkable. One
young lady was told by Ouija that a
friend had a gift of lilies for her at the
office. To test the matter she went to the
office, and found him about to send her
an offering of lilies. Perhaps this was
simply a clever guess. It is a singular
thing that Ouija is generally inclined to
blackguardism and had words, and has
been known to swear violently in
households where no oath was ever
heard. The spiritualists explain it on
the ground that the board is manipu
lated by an idle, impertinent sort of
spirits.
Inventors of the Photograph.
A French dealer in “Notes and
Queries" has discovered that Fenelon,
in ItS'JO, foreshadowed the photograph,
and that a less knowu author,
Tiphalgne, in 1700, In his old book
called “Giphautie," described the photo
graph process very closely. He said:
“The rays of light reflected from ob
jects made a picture on all polished
surfaces—the retina of the eye, glass,
etc. Now we have sought to fix this
fugitive image, we have invented a sub
stance very delicate, viscous and qui U
to dry and harden. By means of this a
picture is made In an instant, we then
back this up with a piece of cloth and
present it to the objects we wish to
point"
DEATH IN THE BATH.
fspors of Monnt Itmlox Pure the Gout or
Kill the Hat her.
When Charles Boner was in Transyl
vania he visited Mount Kudos, a volcano
which is never in actual eruption, hut
Is all the time sending out sulphuretted 1
hydrogen gas. In particular there are '
two caves or clefts in the whitish-gray
rock, out of which this gas, mixed with
carbonic acid, is emitted with special
freedom. The principal one of these ‘
caves is about twenty paces in depth,
and, as will he seen from Mr. Boner's
description, is much frequented as a
heal til resort.
“To enter the cave in safety care must
be taken not to draw the breath. A
long respiration is made before rushing ,
in, the nostrils are closed, and then with
hasty steps the farther extremity is 1
reached. _ J
"A pricking feeling in the eyes is J
caused hy the warm atmosphere. From -
the feet upwards the whole body has :
the agreeable sensation of a gentle heat
playing around every limb. Hut your
stock of breath is exhausted, and you
i run hack to the open air.
“The day before I was there a man
had committed suicide hy entering a
step or two. He dropped at once; and
' when a shepherd, who was tending Ilia
flocks on the opposite hillside, and who
saw him enter, came across to look for
him, he was dead.
“The vapors of the cave are highly
; valued as a cure for the gout, and for
diseases of the eye. At the end of the
cavern a tasteless, slightly warm liquid,
| clear as crystal, falls slowly, drop hy
drop, from the rock—the result, prob
ably, of tho condensed vapors rising
from below.
“A loose dress is worn hy those who
take this vapor hath. They go in, re
main as long as they can hold their
breath, then run out, breathe, and go iu
again.
“The second cave is not far away,
and is called the Murderer. In flying
past the opening, birds drop dead upon
the ground. Close to the entrance I
found a jay that had just met its death. ;
I thought of the upas tree and its vic
tims.”
QUEER SOUTHERN PHRASES.
ProrlnctallauM Abound There, and Are
Always Picturesque.
In Dr. Pierson's description of life in
the southwest as he saw it many years
ago—“before the war”—lie speaks often
' of the peculiar turns of speecli there
; prevalent. He was once present at an
ecclesiastical meeting where motions
i Were piled upon each other until mat
ters were in a frightful muddle. Fi
nally the moderator was appealed to
for a decision.
He rose from his seat, as became a
presiding officer thus appealed to, and
lifting his lank form till his head was
among the rafters of the low school-
house, he hesitated a moment, and then 1
| said:
"Brethren, my decision is that you
are dill ahead of the hounds.”
Dr. Pierson confesses that he did not
fully comprehend the meaning of the
words, but he could not help seeing
that the decision was perfectly clear
and satisfactory to the assembly.
As Dr. Pierson traveled about—he
was an agent of the Bible society—he
often put up'for the night at very hum- !
hie cabins, and commonly, before the
family went to bed, he was invited to
conduct family worship. The form of
the invitation was peculiar and invari
able.
| The Bible and hymn-hook were
brought forward and laid upon the ta
ble, and then the host turned to the
preacher and said: “Will you take the
books, sir?”
At table he was expected to ask a
blessing, and bore, again, the phrase
ology employed was peculiar. When
all were seated, the man of the house
would say: “Will you make a begin
ning, sir? ’’Then all heads were bowed,
and the blessing was invoked.
WONDERS IN FIGURES.
Some of the Recent Illscoverles of the
Figure Fiend.
Some person of a mathematical turn
of mind lias discovered that the multi
plication of 987054821 (which, you will
observe, are simply the figures 1 to 9,
inclusive, reversed) by 45 give 44,444,-
444,445. Reversing the order of the
digits and multiplying 123450789 hy 45
we get a result equally as curious, viz.,
5,555,555,505. If we take the 123450789
as the multiplicand and, interchanging
the figures in 45 so as to make them
read 54, use the last numbers us the
1 multiplier, the result will be 00,-
00(8006,000. Returning to the multipli
cand 9S7054321 and taking 54 as the
multiplier again, the result will he 53,-
383,333,334—all 3s except the first and
last figures, which together read 54—
the multiplier. Taking the same mul
tiplicand and 27, the half of 54, as the
multiplier, the product is 20,000,000,007,
all 0s, excepting the first and hist fig
ures, which together read 27—the mul
tiplier. Now, interchanging the order ;
of the figures 27, and using 72 instead ;
as a multiplier and 987054321 as the mul
tiplicand, we get as a product 71,111,-i
111,112, all Is except the first and lust
figures, which together read 72—the
multipl ier.
Ships Thai Never Return.
Sea captains were yarning about
ships which never returned and various
dangers of the deep, when a Thomesvon ]
mariner related an experience which, :
he declared, made his hair rise every
time he thought of it. lie said: "One
trip 1 made from New York to San
Francisco is very distinctly impressed
upon my mind. We had in n general
cargo, including seventy tons of gun
powder ind some railroad iron. We
had a very rough passage around the
Horn a id were tossed about pretty i
roughly 'or a week or so. 1 could hear
the vesstl straining and the cargo
groaning and grinding and it made me
pretty nervous, I can tell you. When
we reached San Francisco and dis
charged, I found that thirty tons of the
powder had been stowed on the rail- |
road iron. Some of the packages hud
tiecn broken open hy the working of
the cargo and the iron was covered
with powder. We swept up aeveral
barrels of it and—well, I felt tick to
think what might have happcnaL”
He Wititeri Two Hours, Then Started to
Leave l:i a Rage.
The London News gives this interest
ing version of Henrik Ibsen's courtship:
When he fell in love with the beautiful
daughter of Pastor Thorcsen, how to
make known the fact to her troubled
him for weeks. At last he resolved to
write to her. He would come and fetch
his answer the same afternoon at five.
Did the lady accept him she would be
“at home.” otherwise not. At five
o’clock he presented himself, and the
maid asked him to go into the best
room, lie was very hopeful and was
ghul to have time' to collect him
self before he met the lady. But when
he had waited half an hour awful
doubts began to assail him. After an
hour had passed he imagined the letter
hex) not reached the young lady. Some
fatal mistake was milking a fool of him.
Still lie waited on. After two hours he
began to he ashamed of himself. She
would learn that he had sat two hours
in that deserted house and would laugh
at him. At last he jumped up in a rage
and ran to the door. He was opening
it when a loud peal of laughter ar
rested him. He turned and saw the
fair head of ids adored emerge from
under the sofa. Her mouth was laugh
ing but her eyes were filled with tears.
“Oh, you dear, good fellow, to wait all
this while!” she said. “I wanted to
see how many minutes a lover’s pa
tience lasts. How hard the floor is!
Now help me to get out, and then we
will talk.” In less than a week the
marriage was arranged.
AN HONEST JERSEY GIRL.
TRIED HER LOVER’S PATIENCE. WHY THE MONEY WAS NOT SENT,
The PofttinaHter General Was Merely
Waiting to Ascertain the Addreas.
There are two capital anecdotes of the
strange Irishman, Sheridan Knowles,
a dramatist of singular capacity and
knowledge of stage effect, combined
with mastery of blank verse of a rather
peculiar kind, which gives him his own
niche in stage literature. He was an
actor also, and afterwards turned
preacher; hut he was distinguished for
hulls. He sent two hundred pounds
sterling in Bank of England notes to
his wife in London, which failed to
reach her. He angrily demanded of the
postmaster general an explanation and
an apology, as he happened to be un
usually certain of the day and hour
when he had posted them, and de
nounced the authorities with energy.
The answer was pleasant apd courteous,
with the assurance that the minister
knew him as a friend by bis works, and
was only keeping the money at the
post olliee till the address was known,
as it had been sent in an envelope with
out any address whatever, and only “I
send you the money,” written inside.
My dear sir, you are right and I am
wrong. God bless you!" was Knowles’
answer. On another occasion he rushed
across the Strand to shake hands with
“O. Smith,” an actor well known by his
initial, and ask after his health. Smith,
who knew him only by sight, thanked
him, but told him who he was. “I beg
your pardon,” said Knowles, “I took
you for your namesake, T. P. Cooke.”
As for the postal story, it has a quaint
counterpart in that of one of Toole’s
many city friends, who never would put
any address on his envelope hut “J. L.
Toole, Esq.,” on the ground that the
post office al ways knew where he was
traveling. “You get it,” he said, “you
get it, my boy.” It was Toole's sugges
tion that he might send him one hun
dred pounds sterling to test it.
WATERWAYS OF THE FUTURE.
She Refuset! to Take a Purao That Was
Til rust Fpon Her.
She was from the country, and the
country in her case was New Jersey.
5’ou would learn the first from the tan
on her nose and the second from tlie
mud on her gown. If there had been
any room for doubt on either point it
would have been removed by her bag.
The woman from Jersey, according to
the New York World, always carries a
hag when she comes to town. She was
on a Broadway ear and had ridden all
the way fmm Grand street up to Twen
ty-first. There she signaled the con
ductor to stop the ear. She let it come
to a dead standstill before she rose from
her seat. Then she made a leisurely
progress to the door and stepped from
the platform—still deliberately. The
ear was well under way in obedience to
the impatient jerk of the conductor's
bell before he espied a purse lying
where the woman had been seated. He
gave the hell a second yank, seized the
purse, and, with “Just like a woman,”
he made a break for the platform and
hailed the woman.
“Here’s your purse!” he yelled.
“You’ve gone off aud left it.”
She turned, walked unhurriedly back
to the ear, looked hard at the purse and
said in a gentle drawl:
"I can take it, if you wish, but It
isn't mine!”
The car, with a mad conductor and a
load of amused passengers, was started
on its way by a tingle that almost
wrecked the bell rope. The woman
smiled and returned to the sidewalk.
MACHINE-MADE MUSIC.
An luReiiious Piece of Mechanism Played
liy Pneumatics.
An interesting arrangement of pneu
matic mechanism for the production of
high class music has recently been ex
hibited. The instrument has two and
one-fifth sets of reeds, tho regular ac
tion of the air grooves being located
above, and on top of the board contain
ing these is a row of small pneumatics
corresponding in number to the keys of
the instrument; underneath this hoard
are four rows of large pneumatics, one
beneath the other, and from an arm on
each of these pneumatics hangs a wire at
tached to a lever operating on the coupler
buttons on the pitmans or wooden rods
connecting the keys of the instrument
with the reed.board valves. By means
of tiiese levers, operated hy pneumatics,
the movement of the valves becomes
automatic, subject to the passage ever of
the airhoard of perforated paper. A
peculiar characteristic of the motor
which operates the music roll, which
distinguishes it from all other appli
ances of the kind, is its adaptability for
running to the right to wind music and
tlie left to rewind, or vice versa. When
the instrument is in operation tlie key
board becomes a tiling of life, keys
dropping with the exact rapidity re
quired hy tlie selection rendered.
Navigation from t'hlcago to the Atlantic
Only a question of Time.
Tlie groat waterways of this country
are eapahle of a wonderful growth and
improvement. The recent disasters
upon the Mississippi should be guarded
agaiust as much as circumstances will
allow. And, speaking of the Missis
sippi, the day is not distant when its
northern arm will bo connected with
our inland oceans and a ship may sail
from New Orleans to Chicago. Then
will come the Nicaragua canal, by
which that same vessel may proceed
directly into the Pacific and down the
western coast of South America. There
is no doubt that a ship canal will he
cut from the lakes to tlie Atlantic. Con
gress has already been asked to pro
vide for surveys and make estimates,
and when Brother Jonathan gets so far
the end is assured. Canada is enlarging
those waterways which would admit
British war vessels from the Sb Law
rence river to these lakes, and at pres
ent we have no avenue of approach.
Under these conditions, in a few
years from date, the grayhounds of the
ocean will traverse lakes Erie, Huron,
Michigan and Superior, anchoring in
Chicago and Duluth. A direct connec
tion via the enlarged Erie canal and
the Hudson river will open up another
stream for traffic to New York. Talk
of ship building and revived maritime
interests! What will people behold
who live another fifty years? asks the
New York Ledger. That not only rail
way hut naval supremacy belongs to
this repuhlie, and that supremacy will
entail a commercial importance which
to-dny is only feebly shadowed.
Norse Ambition.
TWO STRANGE ISLANDS.
A Murderer’s Sad Fate.
First Thug—Bill Blugeon has been
convicted o’ murder.
Second Thug — Poor fellow! How;
they’ll lock ’im up, an’ his lawyan willj
apply for a new trial, an’ poor —
MTI '
They Are In the Gulf of California, Re
tween GuayinnR and La Far.
An employe of the state department
has given an interesting description of
twoislundssituated in the gulf of Califor
nia, which were recently visited by him.
About au equal distance between Guay-
mas and La Paz lies the island of Car
men, where there is an immense salt
lake surrounded hy hills forming a sort
of crater; tlie sal* deposits mixed with
muriate of soda lie in strata, which be
gin with the thickness of six inches and
increase to about fourteen inches at
fourteen feet below the surface. Tlie
(■lima*_■ is exceedingly hot, and only a
few people live on the island, which is
r’.most devoid of vegetation except for
the luxuriant eaetus growth.
The island of Tihuron, situated an
equal distance north of Guaymas, is said
to tie a resort of the Ceres Indians.
They are exceedingly hostile and op
pose the landing of strangers on what
they consider their domain. Their
weapons arc poisoned arrows. The
canoes made use of by these Indians are
of peculiar construction, consisting of
long roods hound together with strings.
Wticrc Cannot Live.
There is not a lizard or snake north of
the southern extremity of Hudson’s
hay Tlie summers there are so short
that these reptiles have no time to en
joy themselves even if the ground at a
deptli of two or three feet below the
surface were not frozen all the year
round, thus depriving them of a place
to hibernate. Snakes and lizards can
not endure a cold climate, and a latitude
of 53 degrees north is altogether too
frigid for them.
Norway is an ambitious country, and
its people are given to original modes
of thought. A scientist of Christiania
proposes to immortalize himself by
proving the feasibility of reclaiming
| the gold and silver in sea water hy
electrolytic action. He suggests that a
channel about sixty meters wide should
be selected for experiment. Tlie place
should be well sheltered from sea and
wind, and there should he a current of
about four meters per minute. Across
this channel sixty plates of galvanized
iron, each two meters by three meters,
should tic fixed at an angle of thirty de
grees with the stream, and an electric
current be sent through the series to
precipitate the precious metals. Herr
Munster, to whom the credit of this
conception is due, lias hit on a very fas
cinating idea, a veritable electrical
philosopher’s stone, and if he could
only succeed in demonstrating its prac
ticability he would deserve to the full
the fabulous reward that would fall to
him.
Old Maryland Churches.
An interesting landmark of the past
is All Hallows’ church at Snow Hill,
Worcester comity, Md., which has just
passed through a perilous process of im
provement. The parish is nearly two
hundred years old, and the church edi
fice was reared in 1734. The earliest
church was built of logs, hut the pres
ent building is of brick imported from
England and paid for with tobacco
raised by a general levy upon the par
ish. Sixteen miles from Snow Hill is
old St. Martin's church, now disused, a
brick structure of nearly the same age
as All Hallows’. St. Martin's parish is
older than the church, as the baptismal
service still in use was presented hy
Queen Anne. Quite as old as either of
these church organizations are several
Presbyterian churches in tlie same re
gion, founded hy MacKennie, the father
of American Presbyterianism, while
some of tlie earliest Methodist congre
gations in the United States were
founded upon the same peninsula.
' Henson for Gratefulness.
A little girl hut four years old was
observed to be very devout in church
and to be very eager not to miss attend
ing the services. “What do you do
when you are (here, Rosie?" asked a
lady friend. “You cannot rend and you
must get very tired of such long serv
ices.” The little one shook her head
gravely. “I am never tired,” she said;
“I have so much to say to God." “What
do you say? Do tell me," persisted the
lady. The child climbed ou her knee
and whispered, with all her soul in her
eye*; “I cannot go to church too often
to than’: God—I was not horn a boy.”
—If n man hasn't friends, M U be
cause he does nothing to dea«r>« thcxA
—Atchison Globe.
—Doubtful, But He Had 14—"WM
Gi n. Jones ever in the war?” “Bayer ‘
“Where did hs gel Ills titleT" ‘■OWMil
six lots near a military eucuiupsaa^b*—
Atlanta Constitution. ,
PfcP
—TIM •roeotnr of the Breslau Ophthal
mia yjMvwty alleges that iu three J
huntoMt esuoa which have come under
Us owm nosMa, the affection of the eye
sight T •--f nfWT 1 of has been caused hy
wearing ttglt collars. The pressure oq
the vein* of (be neck, he says, disturb*
the ctroulottat eL blood to the head. 1
—Two companies of the famous
“Buektail" regiment in the Union army
dime from tho lumber regions along the
west branch of the Susquehanna river.
They built two large, long rafts, lioii ted
a flag at both ends and sailed d »vn to
Harrisburg upon those primitive crafts.
A small portion of one raft is still at|
Harrisburg, aud It may he exhibited at
the world’s (a[r. j
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