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I v iimiWili'iriMWIi aJfSS JM? (\ \ " *4 .;vj \ > ^ 1\ A “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” . .,. ■... .. . ■ — ^ . * VOL. III. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER ft, 1892. -i’ T^ i ? . v^ 1 Eiteriiff la. The church wm dim and ailent With the hu»h before the prayer, Only the aolemn trembling Of the organ stirred the air. Without the sweet, pale sunshine; Within, the holy calm, Where priests and people waited. For the swelling of the psalm. Slowly the door swung open And a little baby girl, Brown- ?yed, with brown hair falling In many a wavy curl. With soft cfieeks flushing hotlv. Sly glances downward thrown, And small hands clasped before her, Stood in the aisle alone. Stood half-abashed,"half-frightened, . Unknowing where to go, While, like a wind-rocked flower, Her form swayed to and fro. And the changing color fluttered. In the little troubled face. As from side to side she wavered With a mute, imploring grace. It was but for a moment; What wonder that we smiled, By such a strange, sweet picture From holy thoughts beguiledt Up. then, rose some one softly, And many an eye grew dim As though the tender silence He bore the child with him. And long I wandered, losing The sermon and the prayer, If, when sometimes I enter The many mansions fair, And stand abashed and drooping In the portal's golden glow, Our Lord will send an angel To show me where to go? —Sunday School Visitor PEOPLE’S PARTY PLATFRRM. t»- P A4*pte4 by th« EweitUi HtU at •■aka, July 4, 1892. FINANCE. ' First We demand a national cur rency, safe, sound and flexible, issued by the general government only a full legal tender for all debts,, publu and private, and that without the ust of bankiug corporations, a just equit able, and efficient means of distribu tion direct to the people at a tax not to exceed 2 per cent per annum, b be provided as set forth in the sub >> treasury plan of the Farmer’s Alli ance, or a better system; also by pay ments in discharge of its obligations ~~ for public improvements. We demand free and unlimited coinage of silver and gold at the pres ent legal ratio of 16 to 1. We demand that the amount of circulating medium be speedily in creased to not less than $50 per cap- ita. We demand a graduated income tax. We believe that the money of the country should be kept as much as possible in the hands of the people, and hence we demand all State and National revenue shall be limited to the necessary expenses of the gov ernment economically and honestly administered. We demand that postal savings banks be established by the govern ment tot the safe deposit of the earn ings of the people, and to facilitate exchange. TRANSPORTATION. Second. Transportation being a means of exchange and a public ne- cesity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the inter est of the people. The telegraph and telephone, like the post office system, being a neces sity for the transmission of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. LAND. Third. ’The land, including all the natural sources of wealth, is the heritage of the people, and should not be monopolized for speculative purposes, and alien owaership of land should be prohibited. All lands now held by railroads and other corporati ms, in excees of their actual needs, and all lands now owned by aliens should be reclaimed by the goverument and held for ac tual settlers. The Llvlag Issie. The claim, that for the yearjustclos- ed “the balance of trade” in favor of the ITkited States was two hundred million dollars, is made the ground for mnch gratification on the part Of protection newspapers and Republi cans generally. The argument is that protection of Amerioan indus tries, enforced by a high tariff, en ables us to procure our goods from . fostered enterprises at home; and onr trade abroad, assisted by reciprocity with Central and South American countries, very nearly a net gaio. In other words, that the tariff sper- atet to minim-k onr purchases from foreigners, and the excess of our ex ports over the imports is to our cred it and is an achievement of the Re publican principle of protection. The figures have a very formida ble look upon Mr Harrison’s balance sheet, but it is not stated how this benefits those Americans who are forced to do their trading in the home market and to pay from 15 to 45 per cent more than the manu facturers of other countries would be willing to receive, were the Custom House dnties imposed for “revenue •nly.” The main points made in the Democratic arguments against the protective tariff are never answered Side issues are brought up to muddle the laboring man. One of Presi dent Harrison’s arguments against tariff for revenue, is that many mills will be closed and thousands of work ingmen will be thrown out of em ployment or be forced to work at re duced wages. Admit that some of the protected factories would be clos ed and that the wages of operatives in others would be reduced, and what would be the result? A dozen or two manufacturers of woolen goods for instance, would be crippled, their owners not being able to cle ir from 50 to 100 per cent.; a thousand or twe operatives are thrown ont of em ployment, and the wages of a thous and or two are reduced. To balauce that over 60,000,000 of people, who derive no benefit from the factories, will be enabled to purchase their wollen clothing for one-third less than at present and so it is in a greatsr or less degree with every pro- ected industry of the country. The Times, of Dayton, Ohio, asks this pertinent question: “Why should all the people of Ohio be taxed 2 cents a pound on tin to give employment to foi -/-two Welshmen up at Youngstou?” Every State in the Union can as anxiously ask the same question, not alone as to tin, but of dozens of other products manufactured by the favor- ed class. If it were possible for South Caro lina to impose a duty of 50 per cent, ou all cotton goods entering the State, the few manufacturers of such cloth within our borders would increase the price of their product 45 per cent., undersell the imported goods, grow rich and afford to double the wages of the operatives. But where would the profit be to every other inhabitant of the State, and whal would be our gain if our exports of cotton at 6 cents was largely in ex cees of our imports. Give as a tariff only for reveuui and we can afford to liberally pen don every operative in the highly protected industries whose wages may be affected thereby. The Spirit «f Intolerance. There is abroad in the land a spirit of intolerance which is uupre- ..-edented in this country. As a rule the people of the coun try seem solidly arrayed against thi people of the town, and especially against all persons who do not hold to the political views of the majority of the people of this State. No matter what the merit of the individual, his merit, his ability and his trustworthiness goes for naught if he does not pronounce the shib boleth, and no matter what h s pur poses or what his claims may be, be is regarded as a public enemy if he does not fall down and worship their idol. Although the National Bunk of Abbeville has yearly loaned the farmers of this connty sums of mon ey about equal to their capital stock, yet the existence of that institution is regarded a public calamity, and as a cjnseqnence the demand is made that its doors be closed. Although there is not a merchant in this town who has not advanced to the farmers money and goods far in excess of bis own estate, yet the merchants are regarded as public enemies deserving of no considera tion. ^ Although hundreds of unfortunate debtors have been, in the. past, unable to meet their bills and pay their liens and mortgages, yet, as far as we know, not a single debtor has bee.v pressed to the wall by any merchant O i the contrary, the merchants of the different towns have renewed tue obligations and “carried” the farm ers in some instances,^for years, thus inconveniencing themselves and im perilling their own credit and their own estat *. Besides this there is scarcely a merchant wi.o has not loaned out his goods ou insufficient security, trusting more to tho honor and integrity of his customer than to the security, and there is not merchant in our acquaintance who has not had reason to regret such act in trusting some indnidnals, yet as a rnle, those who have failed do pay their just and honest debts and sometimes most pronounced in their intolerance of merchants and bank ers. In cases of misfortune, the un lucky individual or his friends, have often apjiea'ed to the citizens of the towns for pecuniary aid to make good losses by fire or deprivations by the deaths of animals. In many eases, and perhaps all of them, the unfortunate individual has not been sent away empty, and yet today we do not know of the recipi ent of such favor, who is not solidly arrayed against his benefactors. The people of the towns have often helped to build churches in the country, and in return for this, there is scarcely a member of any church in the country who has not joined the crusade against the people of the towns. Hundreds of persons in peed of money have been accommodated bj citizens of the towns, and .while they have paid interest, yet it is often a great accommodation to get what we want, even when paying for it These are only a tew of ths facts that occur to us. The town people have never been i therwise than friendly to the country people. They have always desired the respect and good will of their neighbors, and they are unconscious of having dom anything which should excite tin- enmity and illwill of their neigh- bros. They are sorry to recognizt the existence of the present spirit of intolerance, and they are tumble to account for the action of those who are indebted to them. Warfare on the town people by their debtors may tot always be profitable; and a con itaut nagging may finally awaken a orresponding spirit on the part oi those who are indulging their ad versaries. * - While all sorts of waffarelms beei nade on the people of the towns, Wf are glad that we know of no siugU instance of retaliation on the part ol any citizen in town.—Abbeville Prest and Banner. A Lawyer’s Stratagem. A well known Kansas citizen telh this story: Fifteen years ago Judge McSween- cy was a famous criminal lawyer ol Southern Michigan. He was called upon to defend a young woman fron the charge of having poisoned hei old husband. It was a question ol whether or not she had placed poison in a cake of which the old man had eaten. A portion of the cake had been analized by a chemist and found to contain a great deal of deadly poison. The chemist testified fc this in court. Other witnesses suc ceeded in making a chain of damag ing evidence against the pretty young widow. The time came for the sum ming up speeches of the attorneys. The prosecution began and finished and all looked hopeless for the pris oner at the bar. Judge McSweeney, the only speaker for the defense, arose amid breathless silence. Tin room was crowded and all were lis- tfiiding. One could almost hear the quiet, it was so intense. He began in a low tone to sum up the evidence in defence of the prisoner. He had been allowed an hour in which to plead his side of the case. He dealt with everything but the cake. It rested upon the table just at bis right hand, where it had stood during the weary trial. Thirty minutes passed and the people were still motionless, charmed by the sweet eloquence of the gruff old lawyer. Three-quarters of an hour passed by, then another ten minutes. When the clock over the big desk told him that there were but five minutes Jeft he reached his hand out to the cake, half of which stood upon the table, and broke off a ragged chenk. He held this in his hand and between sentences took great mouthfuls of it. During those five minutes he calmly argued the case and eat cake. He demolished more than half of it The chemist had declared that there was enough poison in it to kill fifty men. The good people looked at him in amaze meat and the jurors turned to each other and whispered. McSweeney wound up his speech, took another chunk of the cake and walked quiet from the court room eating it He closed the daor behind him, ran into a unall room close by and locked the door. The physicians stood ready with a stomach pnmp, and in ten minutet the cake was all in the slop jar. The jury returned a veidict of “not guilty” without leaving the court room.—Kansas City Times. Some Things Worth Knowing. 1. That the height of the atmos phere is almost forty mile& 2. That sound travels through water at the rate of 48,000 feet per second. 3. That freedom of the press was first granted in England in 1688. 4. That there are -more magazines and newspapers published in the United States than in all the rest of the world combined. 5. That the cost of the railroads in the United States has been nine billion dollars. 6. That over one million persons are employed by the railroads of the United States. 7. That the average cost. of con structing a mile of railroad in the United states at present is $30,000. 8. That the firat printing by steam was done in London in the year of 1817. Chines* paper currency is in red, white and yellow, with ^ilt lettering and gorgeous little hand drawn de vices. Queen Victoria’s maids of honor, who are paid $1,600 a year for their services, earn their salaries. They i obliged to appear before the Queen in a new gown every day and lo be in readiness to attend her Majesty at any and every hour of the day. “It aae Pi marl into A fragment of the “Holy Cross,” which Marie Stuart wore during her imprisonment and on her way to the scaffold, has recently been presented to the treasury of the cathedral at Mayetine. A StoVy from Pari*. 1 was residing lu Paris as .represents-... , tfeeol a LondstHtaa. jAii^8ngliefc girl.-LEM* of «gs. Now they are mana xompanied my wife to the French factored out of wood pulp who accompanied my wife capital as upper servant, was married soon after onr arrival there to a young French artisan', who almost immediate ly disappeared. He had been knocked down by a runaway team and wounded in the head. He was conveyed to a hos pital, and when he recovered his past life was a blank to him. He could not even remember his name. He drifted about, living upon charity, until strong enough to work, when he secured em ployment, and by industry and economy acquired a snug little sum of money. One day his wife met him and threw herself into his arms. He did not re member her, but seemed delighted to meet one who knew him and tell him of his past life. He came home with her, and both dry wife and myself identified him. He did not yet realize hia rela tionship to the young woman, bnt asked if she was not his sister. I thought the yonng wife's heart would break. I be lieved the fellow was shamming and spoke to him pretty sharply. He then told his story and referred me to the nospita! physician, who certified to its trnth. He was perfectly sane, bnt could not recall a single inatance in ids life prior to the time he was ran down in tho streets. He accepted his wife, re sumed his name and they. are very happy together, hut the first twenty live years of his life are still a blank to him. —Interview in St. Louis Globe-Demo- rrafc. The Chinese Cultilne. “In passihg through Chineeo towns/' said the Rev. A. T. Wright, of Mil wan- kee, to the writer, “the astonishing]} large number of cookshops interest; and attracts the foreign passer by. One’s curiosity is often aroused to know tin ingredients of the messes lie secs being concocted. These places are unpleas antly pressed upon the pedestrian, for the front is invariably open to tho street, and in order to tempt customers by the sight and smell of viands the cook pre pares his dishes over a charcoal fire in fnll view, and sets samples of his ma terials and his bill of fare ont on a show- boald before him. Tables and .stools are placed in the rear, and here the hun gry may bauqnet. “The Frenchman is not the only one who has his frogs’ legs and snail sonp, for the Celestial, too, revels in these dainties and many more stranger than these. Snakes and eels alike know the fryingpan, and when skinned and dressed appear very mnch alike. Many varieties of nonpoisonous snakes are used for food. Silkworm grubs are regarded as a choice morsel and are stewed in lard and eaten as a relish, and a multitude of other insects are deemed edible.”—Chicago Inter Ocean. She Purchased Then. She wasn’t exactly old, bnt the dis criminating observer could see that she hadn’t seen the inside of a schoolroom for at le.st ten years. The shopman threw down piece after piece of fleecy white material before her critical eye', but none of them seemed to claim her unreserved admiration. She was taking a great deal of his time and the silk counter was crowded, so he decided to play his trump card. Holding up a length.of crepe de chine so that it fell in a perfect cataract of shimmering folds, he remarked, reflec tively, aa if to himself alone, “The best thing for graduating purposes we have had in the store this year.” The effect was instantaneous, and in another min ute the tactful salesman was measuring off a full pattern for his well pleased patron.—Kate Field’s Washington. If cork is tank 900 feet deep In the ocean it will not rise again cm account of the great pressure of the water. AddlM Insult to Injury. “Tell: about adding insult to injury," said Luvram, as with the aid of a heavy cane he hobblea to his favorite seat in the Rounders' club the other afternoon, “something happened to. me last night that capped the climax in that direction so far as my experience goes. I dined some friends of mine from ont of town last erening. They were old college churns; you know, and as we had not met for years we lingered long over the table, jflhcl the loving cup was passed steadily around until my.friends had to leave fpr a ipidnight train. It was a very hot. night. I was very mnch be- fnddled. and, as is my custom on such rare occasions, 1 turned my feet Turkish bathtrard. J went down into the hot room. A strcfig desire came upon me to jump iqto the big oold plunge t)w without whiting for the usual scrubbing byJdwHttendant been my habit' to forego the the stairs leading down into the and to simply get up on the railing and fall off backward ■ the cooling waters. So up ou the marble railing I stepped and threw my. self off. 'ihere was not a solitary dru; of water in that plunge. The attendants had emptied it for the purpose of clean ing it Down I went fall six feet* and landed squarely on my back on the mar ble bottom. No, 1 did not break my back and fracture my skull, though it is a wonder that I did not ’So much for the injury. Now let me tell you about the insult A* I lay there on my back partially stunned an attend ant .came, and shaking me ronghly by the shoulder said, ‘Say, if you do that again you will be put out!’ If I did it again I would be pot ontl Wonder if he thought I did it for fun?"—Nfew York Tunes. J . ' White Paper Not Wasted. "There is no snch thing as waste paper,” said the jnnk dealer to‘ a re porter. “Hardly a scrap of white paper is wasted. Every bit of it that is thrown away is carefully gathered np and finds its way eventually to themill again to be made over. The notebook in yonr hand may famish material for the pages on- which yon will write a letter six months hence, S|Ud perhaps a year later you will unknowingly find it incorpo rated in a summer novel with yellow covers. Thus the stofck of paper that supplies the world is used over and over again indefinitely through the medium of the scavengers, the dealers in jnnl. and the factories, which are continually engaged in transforming th6 discarded material into fresh and clean sheets. ‘•“Brown paper, however, is different Because it is composed of nothing more valuable than straw it is mostly thj-own Sway and never nsed again. 1 would not pay yon twenty-five cents for a ton of It A few years ago old newspapers -were worth four cents a pound, being pnlp and straw, and their market value is only a quarter of a cent a pound. Office paper, snch aa old bills and snch scraps, are worth the same price as newspapers, while what we call “office sweepings,” com posed largely of envelopes, are quoted at fifteen cents a hundredweight”— Washington Star. The Literary Ferment In France. Philarete Chasles relates in his me moirs hew one afternoon, as he was at work in his newspaper office, a young man with a military air, looking as bold as if he were going to the wars, knocked imperiously at the door, walked in, sat down and said, without farther pre amble: * “Monsieur, I am Hugo." Then, after handing to Chasles the famons yel >w covered book "with the password “Hierro” on the title page, he asked him if he was on his side or not. and continued: “Monsieur, not only ?re we going to change poetry, which needs a funda mental revolution, but grammar also. What do you think about onr prosody? French prosody must be completely over hauled,” So R is in France, vhere neither centn- ries nor years coant, bnt only minntes and seconds, the shock of contraries and the violence of reaction. The French most always be fighting about some thing-oven for Boileau against Ron- sard, and for Nonotte against Voltaire. Printers’ ink must smell of powder, otherwise life seems insipid and thought without any savor. Victor Hugo’s visit to Chasles is typical.—Theodore Child inHarper’s. Old English Meadow. Probably there are no meadows in the worlfao good as those in England or so old. Yet from the early Anglo-Saxon times old meadow has been distinguished from “pastures” and has always been scarce. Two-thirds of what is now es tablished meadow land still thows the marks of ridge and furrow, and from the great time required to make a meadow—ten years at least on the best land, a hundred on the worst—men have always been reluctant to break up olu pasture. The ancient meadows, with their grea’ trees and close, rich turf, afe the sole portion of the earth’s surface which modern agriculture respects aud leave- iu peace. Hence the excellence of the meadows of England and the envy of the Ameriean.—London Spectator, The Cat In Art. Until the present century the peculiar difficulties offered by the structure and texture of cats had hardly been sur mounted. When the old masters drew a cat they made it solid and hard—it is probable that the varieties they knew were less beautiful than those which we now delight in—but also there was a conventional neglect of the farry char acter of the surface. In painting a cat now the danger is in avoiding a false solidity, to lose all sense of the osseous forms in securing softness and light ness.—London Saturday Review. Crltl.Ulng th. Panon. A minister of the Gospel must be pre pared to submit to all kinds of criticisms. One “leading” member criticised the minister for saying, "When Adam was »orn," and remarked to a friend; “Any pan who will say, ‘When Adam was born,’ instead of ‘When Adam was cre ated,’ is unfit for his position. I call such a remark an egreg-rions blander.” —Christian Advocate. STAR TIME AND SUN TIME. Vlie Way Astronomers Find Ont from - the Stars When It Is Noon. * The time for sending out the noon signal from Washington is the instant the sun crosses the seventy-fifth meri dian. This, however, is not the sun which gives us light and heat, but an invisible, imaginary one; because, foi certain reasons, tho true sun does not cross the meridian at the same moment every day, bnt daring one part of the year he gets over it a little more ahead of time each day, and during the other part he is correspondingly behind time; and so this fictitious sun is used, be cause its apparent path around the earth brings it exactly over the same line at the same moment every day. Now at jnst what instant this sun crosses the meridian is determined by means of the stars, for time at the observatory is not reckoned by the snn bnt by the stars. Every clear night an astronomer at the observatory looks throngh a large tele scope for certain stars which he knows mpat cross a certain line at certain times, Snd by the ose of an electrical machine lie makes a record of the time each star liasses, as shown by a clock which keeps sidereal or star time. He then consults a printed table, which shows him at just what time each star mnst have passed, and by as mnch as this time differs from tlytt recorded by the clock the latter is .wrong, and in that way the sidereal clock is regulated. This star time is then reduced to sun time, which requires some calculation, as there is a difference be tween the two of about four minntes each day. These two clocks—the Vine keeping star time and the other gun time—are of very fine quality, and are as near perfection as possible. Although they cannot help being affected by changes of tempera ture and different condjtiene of the at mosphere, they very rarely are more than a fractional part of a second ont of the way. No attempt is ever made to correct snch errors, hat they are care fully noted and allowed for in making calculations. For the purpose of distributing time a third clock, known aa a transmitter, is nsed. This is set to beep time by the seventy-fifth meridian and is regulated by the standard clock before mentioned. It is in all respects similar to the other clocks, except that it has attached to it an ingenious device by which an electric tircuit may be alternately opened and closed with each beat of the pendulum. —Clifford Howard in Ladies’ Home Jour nal. A Carious Cavs. The cave temple of Karli, India, is rightly considered One of the greatest wonders of the world. This gigantic recess itu the mountain ledge has been chiseled by human hands from porphyry as hard as the hardest flint The nave U 194 . feet long, 45 feet broad and 46 feet from floor to ceiling. Before the entrance to the temple stands a monster stone elephant, upon whose back is seat ed a colossal goddess, all hewed from one solid block or stoni. Like the temple walls and the outside, ornaments, every article of adorning sculpture on the in side is hewed from the native rock. There are aisles on each side sep arated from the nave by octagonal pil lars of stone. The capital of each pillar is crowned with two kneeling elephants, on whose backs are seated two figures, representing the divinitiee to whom the temple is dedicated. These figures are perfect and of beantifnl features, as in deed are all the representations of deities and divinities in this peculiar temple. The repnlsiveness so characteristic of modern Hindoo and Chinese pagodas is here wholly wanting. Each figure is true to life, or rather to art, there be ing no mythical half horse, half man or beast birds depicted in this underground wonder of Karli. This wondrons under ground pagoda or cave temple has been a standing pnzzle for the learned ar chaeologists of both Europe and Asia for the kat 2,500 years, and is os much of an enigma h day as it was in the time of Confncins.—Philadelphia Press. A Blbllophll. IndMd. A lady left some very precious first editions of a book in three volumes in a hansom while she went into a shop—a risky thing in itself to do. When she came ont of the shop she couldn’t find ths hansom, which had been made to move on by a policeman, and in despair took another, and just saved the train which she had to catch at Charing Croes. After waiting for an hour and a half the cabman thought there was something queer going on and endeav ored to find his fare, without success of course. Then he looked inside the cab, saw the books and some parcels, and conveyed them all to Scotland Yard. And here comes the pith of the story. The lady applied the following day for her precious books and got them. It was suggested that she should pay a certain quite adequate sum as recom pense to the cabman. Bnt the lady was indignant That sum, she averred, did not in any degree represent the percent age dne on the enormous value of the tomes. They were worth something stupendous. She mentioned what Quar- itch gained them at. And quite cheer fully she paid a sum that made a com fortable nest egg for the cabman. She also made the Scotland Yard official understand something about books that he hadn't a notion of before.—London Vanity Fair A Joker Among Birds. The blnejay is the most persistent practical joker in the feathered king dom. He will conceal himself in a clnmp of leaves near the spot where small birds are accnstomed to gather, and when they are enjoying themeelvee in their own fashion will suddenly frighten them almost to death by screaming ont like a hawk. Of course they scatter in every direction, and when they do so the mischievous rascal gives vent to a cackle that sounds very much like a langh. If he confined his pranks to snch jokes as this, however, he would not be each a bad neighbor to birds smaller than himself, bnt when he amuees himself by breaking the eggs in their neste and tearing the young to pieces with his bill he becomes a pesti lent nuisance, and they often combine their forces to drive him out of the neighborhood. They do not always succeed, for he ie aa full of fight as of mischief, but a severe conflict teaches him that they, too, have their rights, and this Induce* him to mend his manners.— WHAT MAKES THE SWELL. Rome Interesting" Points About Two Ap* patently Well Dressed Men. 4 I was standing in the lobby of the Adams House in Boston. A New York u’.'ih man came in and stood talking with some one in the lobby for several minntes. After he had gone ont the man he had been talking with came over to me—he was a friend of mine—and pnt this ques tion : “How does Hicks Yardly dress so well? He has only $5,000.a year, and yet he manages to dresa himself eo as to look mnch better garbed than any Bos ton man I know. Strange, isn’t it?” Not at all. The Boston man dressed on a cash ac count and an eye tp color. The New Yorker’s dress was not only an art, but a Science—an art because he had an eye to harmony; a science because he had a comprehensive knowledge of means to ends. Any one knows enough not to wear a red cravat and a bottle green coat; but how many men know how to have their coats, cat or their shoes shaped? They l#ive it to their tailors, and most tailors cut a coat the same for a stripling of twenty as they wonld for an alderman. Hicks Yardly would have informed the Boston man that his hat was too broad brimmed, his collar was too high in front and too low in the back; that his cravat was blue and his violets pur ple—Oh, horror of horrorsl—that his cut away had one too many buttons on it; that his waistcoat hnng down like an inverted V, whereas it should bind about him like a belt; that his trousers were tight to the knee and loose from there down, whereas they should have been the reverse; that his shoes turned up at the toes—the sole of the English made shoe touches the ground from tip to heel; that his gloves were russet, whereas they should have been brick color; that his hair was short on top and long be hind, whereas it should be long on top and short behind; that his mustache should not be waxed; that his topcoat was loose in front and tight fitting in the back, whereas the reverse should be the case; tljat his stick was a buckhorn, in the face of the well known fact that no true man of the world wonld carry nowadays any other than an all wood cane. Mr. Hicks Yardly wonld then pause for want of breath and leave the lobby, while the Bostonite drew out his Brown ing and turned to “Home Thoughts from Over the Sea.”—Frederic Edward McKay in Kate Field’s Washington. H. Liked FUhlng. In the performance of my pleasant dnties as editor I am called upon to greet members of the craft from every part of the world where angling is fol lowed as a pastime. I have yet to meet one who failed to respond’ to my eager .search for facts relative to the fish in their home waters with less eagerness and enthusiasm than evinced by myself. I have talked and queried with the un couth and unkempt aud wtth the po’ ished and cultivated anglers of the brooks and the—books, and I have found them, each and all, to be possessed of valuable information as to the byways if not the highways of the art recrea tive. I have been tenght by the clodhopper of the streams; I have gained invalu able points from the bushwhacking boy who snatches ’em ont; the cowboy fisher of the gulch holes, the “wnm” baiters of the Mississippi sluices, the Canadian half breeds of the Lanreutian streams and the malaria saturated dweller ‘ ’away down on the Suwanne river” have all dropped angling pearls along my path way, and last, not least, have I gathered consolation and enthusiasm from an h gennons remark made by an old but il literate angling rodster friend when he was first told of Sam Johnsen’s slur. “Well,” said he, “tell old Johnson for me that, rather than not go a-fishing at all, I’m willing to be the worm.” Conld self abnegation go farther in sac rifice or enthusiasm?—American Angler. A MU.r*. Hoiplt.llty. Sir Harvey Elwes, of Stoke, in Suffolk, next to hoarding money, found his prin cipal pleasure in netting partridges. He and his household, consisting of one man and two maids, lived upon these. In cold or wet weather Sir Harvey wonld walk np and down his hall to save fire. His clothes cost him nothing, for he ran sacked old chests and wardrobes and wore those of his ancestors. When he died the only tear shed was by his serv ant, to whom he left the farm—value, fifty pounds per annum. The whole of his property was left to his nephew, John Maggott, who thus in herited real and personal estate worth £250,000, on condition that he should as sume the name and arms of Elwes. Of this man, who is better known as John Elwee, the miser, the following story is told: His nephew, Colonel Timms, vis ited him at Marcham, and after retiring to rest found himself wet through. Find ing that the rain was dripping through the ceiling, he moved the bed. He had not lain long before the same inconven ience again occurred. Again he rose and again the rain came down. After push ing ths bed quite aronnd the room, he found a corner where the coiling was better secured and slept until morning. When he met his nncle at breakfast he told him what had happened. “Aye, aye,” said Mr. Elwes; “I don’t mind it myself, but to those who do, that’s a nice corner in the rain.”—Cassell’s Journal Warren's Idea of Dying. Warren, aged four years, had formed his ideas of angels and their forms from the study of certain steel engravings, and told his mother if she scolded him again he would “die and go right to heaven.” Being told that that was easier said than done, and asked how he wonld get there, he answered without hesitation: “Oh, I wonld pile up all the chairs and tables and boxes and ladders as far as they wonld go, and then 1 ’spect an angel wonld come down and det ms. And anyway I'd a good deal rather go that way than have things screwed into me!”—New York Tribune. The parish church of Hazeleigh, near Maldon, Essex, retains hat peg around the nave and an hourglass stands near the pulpit Glass mirrors were known in A, D. I, but ths art of making them was lost and not rediscovered until 1800; in Vania* . PRAIRIE FIREMEN. malr Engine I* a Freshly Slaughtered Cow Dragged Over the Line of Flame. Whoever heard of killing a horse or an ox as the first step to be taken toward putting out a prairie fire? What dweller in the Dakotas has not. heard of it? For •it is frequently done by the settlers of .the new northwest, where prairie flies are a greatly dreaded menace to life and property. Every dweller of the great northwest is more or less familiar with prairie fires. They have often at nightfall seen their lurid lights in the distant horizon, or by day their huge volumes of smoke rising and bending with tho clonds, and many are even familiar with the consuming march of the flames themselves. Prob ably the first intimation the settler re ceives of an approaching tire comes from the falling of burned particles of grass that hare bean carried long distances by strong air currents. Later on smoke may be seen on the distant horizon, which increases in vol- nme and blackness until,the whole sky may be darkened, or if the night be coming on the flames will light up the whole landscape and their glow will be reflected above. The wise Dakot&n has his farm or ranch protected by fire breaks. These are usually made by plowing two strips a few furrows wide and several rods apart and burning the grass between. . There is but little likelihood of put ting ont a Dakota prairie firs during the day, as the wind, which is almost in variably blowing, and which the fire seems to greatly increase in force, never lulls nntil the coming of night. Th-m, though there is no dewfall in that re gion, the fire burns less fiercely and may be at times entirely extinguished. The most successful method of putting out a fire, and one frequently employed, is to kill a horse or cow and, splitting the carcass, drag it along the fire line and over the flames, which are thns ex tinguished. This is done by attaching long wire ropes to two limbs of the carcass, to sach of which is hitched a horse, on which is an experienced rider. One of these horsemen rides on either side of the line of fire, and by skillful reining they draw the body of the dead animal directly over the flames. Sometimes a fresh hide, weighted down with pieces of iron fastened to it, is used instead of the carcass of an animal. By this method a line of fire twenty miles iu length may be extinguished in one night. Men on foot usually follow after the horsemen and pnt out any fire that may remain after they have passed. The scene presented by such a com pany of fire fighters is extremely weird and one which a beholder is not likely to forget. Fortunate it is if those in terested complete their work before the coming of dawn, for if they do not the rising of the wind may send the fire leaping over the area of country they have labored to save, and blackened plains and smoldering heaps that mark the sites of former ranches aad home steads will tell the oft told story of the Dakota prairie fire.—Chicago Herald. A Phenomenon on Wheels. The yonng man had been especially sancy on the subject of his prowess as a bicycler, and he bet money that he could make a showing which would startle somebody. Arrangements being com pleted, he started off on a twenty-five mile trip through the country. Nobody knew exactly what happened, but sev eral hours later a conglomeration of young man and bicycle was slowly brought into town on a hay wagon. In the evening a friend called and found him in bed, done up in splints and ban dages. “Hello!” he exclaimed, “what’s the matter?” “Took that bicycle ride today,” groaned the phenomenon. “Did you break the record?” “No,” and here he added some unin telligible word, “but I broke everything else.” It cost twenty-seven dollars to repaid the wheel. The other doctor hasn’t sent in his bill yet.—Detroit Free Press. The “Caned Flower of ladle.’* The Erythrina indica, a beautiful flower of the basil family, which grows wild in India, is supposed to be under a curse, and although the bloom ie per fection itself, both in odor and in color, no true Hindoo would touch it for all the world. They tell you that it oi ig- inally grew in the "Garden of India,” in the center of heaven, where it wai hourly worshiped by all the denizens- of that blessed abode. Krishna stoic it and brought it to earth, but all who worshiped at its shrine after that event died before they could leave the spot. On this account indica is shunned as if it were a poisonous serpent.—St. Louis Republic. A Swimmer's Feat. A professional swimmer named Tay lor attempted to swim from Folkestone to Dover with his hands and feet tied, a somewhat difficult performance, seeing that the distance ho sought to cover is six miles. This novel attempt natural ly attracted a good number of spotjta- tors. He started at 8 o’clock in tho morning, but made very slow progress for two miles, after covering which he began to show signs of fatigue, end shortly after he was taken out of the •ea in an exhausted coudition.—Loudon Tit-Bits. Needed the Hardest. A young dentist who opened an office on Jefferson avenuj finds a good many discouragements. His first patient was a thin young man who wore no waist coat, and triced up his person with a pink and yellow belt. There was a profitable hour or two in the chair, during which the young den tist told his funniest stories as he filed and chiseled and buzzed. At length, in stead of filling up the biggest cavities with gold and charging ten dollars apiece, the conscientious beginner said: “Shall I put iu a soft filling, sir?" “I board,” replied the exhausted oc cupant of the chair briefly. “Beg pardon,” said the dentist doubt fully. “I asked you about a soft tilling.” "Thunder and lightning,” shouted the patient, sitting up in the chair and pull ing his mouth into shape; “1 tell you 1 live in a boarding house, and if you've got any ground glass, amalgam or roiled steel caps use ’em. Soft filling, you gnsy coot; do 1 look like a suiehhrVa* SrVJ’j %] \\\