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VOL. III.
DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY,SEPTEMBER ft, 1892.
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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.
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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.
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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*
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