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. V4& ^'V LINGTON “IF * FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. III. DARLINGTON, SOUTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 7,* 1892 NO. 14. AYER’S CHERRY PECTORAL In use for fifty years, is still the most popular and successful of all pul monary medicines. Taken in the early stages of Consumption, it checks further progress of the disease, and even at a later period, it eases the distressing cough, and enables the patient to procure much-needed rest. In emergencies arising from Croup, Pneumonia, Bronchitis, Sore Throat, and Whooping Cough, it proves a veritable household blessing, affording prompt relief, followed by certain cure. “Having used Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral I "I believe Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral in my family for many years, I can con- saved my life as well as that of one of fldently recommend it for all the com plaints it is claimed to cure. Its sale is increasing yearly with me, and my cus tomers think this preparation has no equal as a cough-cure.”—Solomon W. Parent, Upper Queensbnry, N. B. “ I have repeatedly prescrllied Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral, in cases of acute bron-. chitis and tuberculosis, and have ob served that, by its Has No Equal As a Cough-Cure my sons, in the win ter of 1890, when we were down with la — grippe. It has also cured Charles Morrison, Of this place, of asthma.”—Mrs. II. L. Raymond, Millstield, N. H. “ Ayer's Cherry Pectoral cured a cough of four years’ standing for my wife,nftcr all other remedies had failed. She took less than a bottle, and has been free from a cough ever since.” —J. N. Hard, Drugs, Manchester, Vt. use, expectoration bccamo easier, coughing ceased, and the patient was able to procure . “ Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral is one of the much-needed repose.”—Nicholas Homs, best remedies for colds, coughs, and Prof. Medical Clinics of the Faculty of Mugg troubles I ever sold.”—James A. Barcelona, Spain. | Jdhnson,Oen.Mer.,Barelayiville,N.C. Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Prqtared by Dr. J. C. Ayer <t Co., Lowell, Maas. Sold by Druggists Everywhere. Prompt to act, sure to cure BOOK, - BOORS. Stationary Novelties. SCHOOL SUPPLIES II SPECIILTY. f '. All School Books have been reduced in price since last season Toys, Wagons &c. Full line small Musical Instruments, PIANOS, ORGANS Ac. DARLINGTON BOOK STORE. E. C. ROTHOLZ. Later teals i& lash Seels. Persian Mulls in very neat design. Bl«‘.k Sheer Stripe and Plaid Lawns. Glysee stripes, black ground and handsome figures. Linen chambrays. Immense line of Parasols with pretty handles. Ladies’ summer undervests. 10 cents and upward. Silks mitta in all lengths. . , CORSETS! We have six grades of the H. & S. corsets; best value for the mony. The largest assortment of cream and black laces in all widths. We have open up some very desirable Point De Jenes, Point l)e Gui pure and Point De Irlande in white and ecru. Our MILLINERY la still conducted by Miss Maugie Jokes, who has proven to the ladies that fg~ she can and tries to please. flV Your call is requested. E. C ROTHOLZ, MAIL ORDERS promptly attended to. John C.-White, Darlington, South Carolina. Stoves, Tinware, Pumps, Piping, House Furnishing Goods, Bolts, Tobacco 5 \ Flues, &c. Oor M, ami m u Plaase laythli* N*t !■ SUck Will be Ordered fer ¥•■. YOU. War Telegraphing. The Union army in 1862 lay camped on the north bank of the Rappahannock, opposite what was to he to the Union soldiers the disas trous field of Fredericksburg. On the bank of the river in the extreme front of the Union line, stood the house of Mrs. Gray, a long, rambling stone building, whose front of three stories faced the river. The roof sloped steeply towards the rear, while the stone side was but one story high. Mrs. Gray, herself, an elderly widow, received the Union advance with every demonstration of welcome, and in the course of tiiac it became a favorite rendezvous for young officers. A prime cause for this, aside from Mrs. Gray’s cheerful hearth and good fare, was the beauty of her daughter Sal lie, a brunetts of per haps twenty years. A young lieuten ant was badly wounded by these bat teries, and spent all his spare time at the feet of the fair Southerner, who professed much sympathy with the Union cause. Late one rainy night a sentinel, pacing back and forth before the stone front of the Gray House, heard a faint but sharp noise cutting the air. It sounded like the click of a telegraph instrument, and it seemed to come from beneath his feet. Great ly perplexed he called to the sergeant of the guard. They listened care fully and were presently joined by the gallant lover of Bailie Gray. Con viction of treachery smote his heart, and with thrsorgeant he unceremoni ously entered thd Gray dwelling. Sallie and her mother, despite the late hour, were busily sowing.by a taLle in the sitting-room. The ladies rose in apparent surprise and indig nation at the intrusion. “Step aside If you please,” said the sergeant “What does this mean!-” asked Mrs. Gray sharply. “Ffank, I appeal to you for pro tection,” cried the young lady to the lieutenant. That officer could only shake his head and sternly ware her aside. “You are false.. Yon have deceived me,” he said hoarsely, as the girl who had promised to be his bride sank sobbing upon a sofa. The soldiers could hear the tick ing more plainly now. They moved the table, lifted the carpet, and dis covered a trap door leading to a cellar of whose existence they had no sus picion. A light below was instantly quenched, but they fearlessly des cended and discovered a telegraph instrument, with an insulated wire running through the cellar wall, and evidently passing uuder the river, to the enemy on the opposite side. Crouching in the corner was the operator, a young and handsome man, who had never befoie been seen about that house, having lived for days in the cellat. “You are my prisoner,” from the sergeant, brought the distressed wail from poor Sallie of “My husband, oh, my husband.” The heart of the Union lieutenant went back once more to the girl he left behind him. But notwithstanding the detection of this line of communication, the enemy seemed to know every move ment of the Union troops. It was a mystery to the officers how they gain ed their knowledge. There were no more telegraph wires, and there was no passing across the river. At last the mystery was solved. Within the Union lines, but in sight of the ene my, there stood a low frame house occupied by a negro who did wash ing for the soldiers. He hung his clothes to dry in the front yard; but it was noticed that in the porch there hung three flannel shirts; one red, one white and one blue. The negro said they were his Union colors. But the shirts were not always in the same position, and a suspicious ser geant finally became convinced that the negro used them to signal across the Rappahannock. The arrest of the negro and the effectual use of the shirt to deceive instead of to inform the enemy, followed. At another time the army of the Potomac was nearing Berlin, Vir ginia. To receive orders in the rear, the troops had laid ten miles of in sulated wire running through the woods, now beneath the leaves and again among the tree-tops. It was impossible to picket the entire line, and a large part of it was exposed; but it was thought to be effectually concealed. A scout lying in ambush one day heard a sound like the tick- 1 1 ig of a clock. Creeping forward he was astonished to see a “Johnny” in his gray uniform, sitting on the i ground and chuckling to himself and busily writing. The scout sprang to his f?et and levelling his revolver, said to the laughing rebel: “What are you doing there?” “I surrender was the chagrined reply, the smiles suddenly disappearing. The scout discovered that the rebel had cut the wire and had connected the ends with a loop running into a clock, the elec tricity securing the escapement so that the messages ticked themselvees plainly into the rebel’s ear. The in genious machine was captured with the rebel.—Philadelphia Press. Tkc First Tbanksgiving Proclama- iMk 41 Following is the first Thanksgiv ing-Day proclamation ever issued by a President. The original is in the possession of the Rev. J. W. Well man, and came down to him as an heirloom from his great-grandfather, William Ripley, of Cornish, N. H. We have never seen this proclamation before, nor even heard of it.—The Locomotive. BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA A PROCLAMATION. Whereas it is the Duty of all Na tions to acknowledge the Providence of Almighty God, to obey his Will, to be grateful for his Benefits, and humbly to implore his Protection and Favour And whereas both houses of Congress have, by their joint Com mittee, requested me “To recommend t > the People of the United States a Dav of Public Thanksgiving and Prayer, to be observed by acknowl edging with grateful Hearts the many Signal Favours of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to Form a Government for their. Safety ^and Happiness. Now Therefore. I do recommend and assign THURSDAY the Twenty- Sixth Day of November next, to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glori ous Being who is the beneficent Au thor of all the good that was, that is, or that will be: That we may then all unite in rendering unto him our sincere and humble thanks for his kind Care and Protection of the Peo ple of this Country previous to their becoming a Nation;—for the signal and manifold Mercies, and the fa vourable Interpositions of his Provi dence in the Course & Conclusion of the late War;—for the great Degree of Tranquility, Union and Plenty which we have since enjoyed;—for the peaceable and rational Man ner in which we hare been enabled to establish Constitutions of Govern ment for our Safety .and Happiness, and particularly the national one now lately instituted;-—for the civil and religious Liberty with which we are blessed, and the mi a is we have of acquiring and diffusing useful knowledge;—and in’general, for all the great and various Favours which he hath been pleased to confer upon us. And Also, that we may then unite in mod humbly offering our Prayers and Supplications to the great Lord and Ruler of Nations, and beseech him to pardon our National and other Transgressions;—to enable us all, w hether in public oi private Stations, to perform our several and relative Duties properly and punctually;—to render our national Government a Blessing to all the people by constant ly being a Government of wise, just and Constitutional Laws, directly and faithfully executed and obeyed; —to protect and guide all Sovereigns and nations, (especially such as have shown kindness unto us) and to bless them with good Government, Peace and Concord;—to promote the Knowl- edge and Practice of true Religion and Virtue, and thci increase of Sci ence among them and us;—and gen erally to grant unto all mankind such a Degree of temporal Prosperity as he alone knows to be best. Given under Hand, at the City of New York, the third Day of October, n the year of our Lord One Thou sand Seven hundred and eighty- nine. G. WASHINGTON. A caso of “peanut” politics is re ported from Philadetyhiu. A devout Harrison worshipper, who must be considerable of a goose in other re spects, paid an election wager by pushing a peanut along the sidewalk on Chestnut street from Broad to 7th with a toothpick. By the time the man reached the end of his journey his back ached so that he thought the whole Democratic party had jumped on him. Tke Embarkatiwi of Columbus. On August 2,1402, everything was ready, and the crew were n >.i »u . await the uncertain moment when a favorable wind shonld permit the little fleet to set sail. Nothing so befitted that solemn hour as a votive procession from the caravels to the monastery, to which the eyes of the mariners turned as to a spiritual beacon, brighter than any that flared along the headlands. This pious duty i>erformed, the crew returned on board the caravels, where they patiently awaited the order to sail, whjlqfQolaflibus retired to the mon astery eagerly to watch for a favor ing wind. Columbus kept all sail on his caravels during the night of August 2. The old salts of the crew looki- for a favoring wind at starting, and Columbus, eager watchfulness was not to pass unrewarded. From the height on which La Rabida stood, he scanned sea and sky with stead fast gaze, like one of those seabirds, presagers of changes of wind and weather, clinging to the scarred and storm-beaten cliff. About three in the morning, while the stars yet twinkled in the skies and all earth slumbered, the awaited breeze sprang up, bringing new life to the dis coverer’s veins and quickening the throbbing of his heart. The pines murmured as though hymning the dawn, and the waters rippled as though heaving with the breath of love and hope. Columbus awakened I’ad re Juan, and he in turn the child Diego, and the three repaired to the chapel in quest of heavenly aid and religious solace for the ap proaching pangs of separation and for the fateful voyage. As in the boundless ether shine the stars, so the lamps flickered in the little church, lighting with their rays alike the courses of the ocean and the pathways of the soul. The monk put on his priestly vestments, and celebrated the holy sacrament at the high altar, before the taper-lighted Virgin. The hour was come, and Columbus resolutely descended to the shore, plucking himself away from embraces that held him to the land like some deep-rooted oak, for the sail-wings were ready to bear him to the realm of sea and sky. He soon reached tne wharf, and as the dawn broke in the east the flag-ship ma jestically ran m shore to take the new Argonaut on board. The flut tering sails, the hurried manoevers of the crew, the boatswain’s whistle, and the cries of the sailors as the ships got under way, announced a speedy departure, and attracted the early risen villagers to the shore in their natural desire to witness the scene, and to bid farewell to depart ing friends and loved ones. When Columbus sprang from the skiff on hoard the caravel, and the anchors were weighed, a shudder ran alike through thedeparting sailors and the leave-takers on the stand. Where they weie going they knew, but as their westward course after leaving Cadiz and the Canaries was to take them far beyond those lately won islands, none knew whither they were bound or the duration of the voyage. The cross floated above the flag-ship, which bore seaward toward the unknown, seeking mysteries per chance impenetrable and inaccessi ble to the human mind and uncon querable by human will. DEATH’S SENSATIONS. MAN WHO PRACTICALLY DIED THREE TIMES IN ONE YEAR. THE DEATH OF TOMMY. Professional Women. Women are forging to the front m professions followed, hitherto, exclu sively ,ly men. Montana has a wo man Attorney General in the person of Miss Ella L. Knowhs. They say she is pretty, witty, and twenty- eight. Kansas is threatened with the affliction of having Mrs. Lease for a senator. It is unwomanly in any woman to make herself so con spicuous, and we are surprised at the actions of the men who helped to place these women out of their places. Women politicians must not be tole rated. If the .admission of women into the arena of public and profes sional life would make the men bet ter we would be willing to admit them. But it won’t have that effect. To be respected a person must respect himself or herself. A wo man who aspires to a position which removes her fro n her recognized sphere forfeits her right to be respect ed. She, moreover, challenges criti cism and comment. She lacks those distinguishing virtues—modesty and gentleness—w hich have always com- ni duled the bight st admiration and regard for her sex. The women’s movement should, therefore, be nip ped in the bud.—Colleton Stan dard. Personal Experiences with Death Go to Show That the Moment of Final Dlsao- lutlon la Absolutely Painless and With out Fear of Future Life. Although neither a physician nor a clergyman 1 wish to corroborate the views of tlie physicii ns contradicting Rev. Dr. Epworth under the heading. “What Is Death?” in your Sunday issue. As a Federal soldier, May 81, 1882, I was one of those who fought against the snrprise of General Johnston, at the time commander of the Confed erate army, at Fair Oaks. The snr- .prise was made at noontime, while onr boys were eating lunch. I remem- ber one soldier being struck in a vital part and killed while leaning upright against a tree in the ret of carrying a flapjack to his mouth, remaining after death in precisely the same position. When I saw him standing there I mis took him for a live i lan, especially as he seemed to me intent only on eating his flapjack, but the illusion was dis pelled when touching him, because as an officer I wanted hil l to join his com rades. My own personal experience in the matter confirms the physicians’ also. The 80th of April, 18‘S6, a fire was rag ing in my factory in Sr n Francisco. By some means I was about ISO feet from the main entrance in the burning build ing when, to my dismay, I beheld the five story wall topple over me through a skylight. Passively 1 lowered my head, thinking only of my c< ming death and wishing it would be swift. In less than » second thousands of oricks fell on me sounding like a big drumstick beating on a big bass drum. 1 remember a crash, then nothing, hi t when I came to my senses 1 was weeged in between heavy timbers, the upper part of un- body only being free. About a dozen steps lack of me was a stranger to me who ha 1 not received a scratch, but ascertain ng that my leg was broken, and also n ;y utter inability to save myself, he era-vied over to me md attempted to pnll i ae ont of my ter rible situation. But all his efforts only increased my suffering and as 1 saw the flames come up I entreated him to leave me to my fate and trj to save himself. Finally he crawled i way, promising however, to return wit i help and axes. 1 must have been bewildered, for no act of my past life came to my memory, bui suddenly thinking of my small, mother less children 1 shouteu for help, whis tling at intervals through uy fingers. Some firemen must have heard, for presently there were « veral streams of water ponred on me. 1 then realized my danger, yet I, who had never gone into a battle without a pang, felt none whatever while in that deathtrap. The water and smoke combined must have asphyxiated me, for wl en my stranger returned leading a brave party of tire men and policemen I laid as one dead. Believing me dead, anc being in a very dangerous position, they ent away pari of the timbers and ndely bnt safely- passed me over the debris in the street. A deafening shonf from an immense throng which had witnessed the gallant rescue, streams of cold water and fresh air revived me, and I begged of them to he careful with iny li nbe, which were dangling from my body. After many weeks of suffering the physicians decided to break my leg again, but being unable to do it well while I had my senses they decided to chloroform me. Being subject to heart disease 1 objected, but the matter being urgent I finally consei ted to take the anaesthetic. Fully convinced, however, that I should die undei its influence, bnt knowing that either way I would have to die, I agreed to take the only chance of life 1 had and laid myself resignedly on my back; yet, alt.lough convinced that my last hour had come, 1 had not the slightest recollecticn of my former deeds. As 1 heard the physicians’ whis pers gradually lost in t le distance I was only wondering what vouhl come next. 1 recovered, howeve-; but, breaking my leg a third time on account of some adhesions in my kne<, it was decided that 1 shonld undergo snother operation, which necessitated the use of anrestliet- ics again. This tim) the physicians thought 1 was a goner sure, for it took them nearly two hours to revive me; yet, although certain of my last hour, 1 could not recall my uast life, and in neither case did I fear death when I had sqnarely to face it. In each instance the passing away was painless, while in the fire suffocation came almost nneonse onsly, while al most the same seusat on came in the other cases. In the cs se of the soldier at Fair Oaks (Seven Pines) a certain time mnst have elapsed bel ween his decease and my notice of him, yet heaven or hades did not seem h bother him; his flapjack seemed to be what he wanted— his eyes were on it and his month was open ready to receive it. In my own case I could claim to have died three times within a year, yet 1 do not think 1 had any other but a sensation of rest. Dr. Epworth, in his a-isertion also that either a look of horror or beatitude overspreads a deceased person's face, seems to forget that the Scriptures teacl ns that the soul lean s our terrestrial envelope at once on dissolution; henci the body cannot show what reception the soul had on the other side of the Styx.—An Interested Reader in New York Press.- Caste Broken Down by Street Can. Street cars in Bombay are mostly of American manufacture, and ths pro moters of the street ca- lines are Ameri cans. When it was proposed, not many years ago, to start such lines Europeans prophesied their failure upon the ground that snch common public conveyances could not be profitable in a caste ruled community. It was believed that the high caste man, who will not eat or drink from the vesstl used by a low caste man, would refuse to ride in a public conveyance beside his humble brother. In spite of these dolefnl prophecies the railways were bnilt and equipped, and lot the high caste man complacently pays his fare and rides untroubled by the side of any sort of mail. The cheapness and convenience of the street cars were too mnch for even tiie hard and fast roles of cute,—Chicago Trihuns* Virginia Hospitality Could Not Bo DU- regarded Too Lightly. The south has always been known for its hospitality, and nowhere has this quality been more religiously main tained than in Virginia. Unfortunately tlie war made sad havoc with the Vir ginian's resources, but his old time open heartedness has never altered. Some years ago a friend of mine trav eling in the lower portion of that state stopped for a few hours with old ac quaintances and remained for tea. An occasion of this kind in Viiginia calls invariably for the favorite dish of the south—fried chicken. Alas! there was but one young chicken on the place, and that one a pet. It had been left an orphan by its mother at a very early age, and, like Pip in Charles Dickens’ “Great Expectations,” had been brought up by hand. The children called it Tommy, and were very fond of it, while Tommy in turn was attached to the children. The matter was a very serious one, and a family consultation was held. Virginia hospitality could not be lightly disregarded, and it was decided that poor Tommy must become the sacrifice. My friend of course knew nothing of the tragedy that was being enacted for his comfort, and when tea was served regarded the plate of nicely browned chicken with contemplative joy. Soon, however, he became aware that something was amiss. An air of silent sorrow pervaded the little family group nsnally so gay, and the children took nothing on their plates. The chicken was passed, but with the exception of my friend no one partook. Selecting a juicy looking drumstick, lie fixed it with his fork, and cutting off a choice bit conveyed it to his mouth. At this there was a sudden and heart breaking howl from one of the little boys, “Oh, mamma, mamma, he's eating np our Tommy!” Thereupon the other children mingled their voices in a wild wailing, and the aider members burst into uncontrollable laughter in which, as the truth dawned upon him, my friend joined. Then there came explanations, more langhter and tears, and adjustments all around. Pool Tommy could not be restored to life, bnt he was buried under a big apple tree with appropriate ceremonies.—Al bert B. Paine in Harper’s Young People. A Ball of Fire Make, a Vl.it. A very singular story is told concern ing the vagaries of one mass of globe lightning. A tailor in the Pne St. Jacques, in the neighborhood of the Vai de Grace, was getting his dinner one day daring a thunderstorm when he heard a load clap, and soon the chimney board fell down, and a globe of fire as big as a child's head came out quietly and moved slowly about the room at a small height above the floor. The spec tator, in conversation afterward with M. Bahbinet, of the Academic des Sciences, said it looked like a good sized kitten rolled up into a ball and moving without showing its paws. It was bright and shining, yet he felt no sensation of heat. The globe came near his feet, hut by moving them gently aside he avoided the contact. After trying several excursions in dif ferent directions it rose vertically to the height of his head—which he thre--- back to prevent it touching him— steered toward a hole in the chiinne- above the mantelpiece, and made its way into the fine. Shortly afterward— “when lie supposed it had had time to reach the top,” the tailor said—there was a dreadfnl explosion, which de stroyed the upper part of the chimney and threw the fragments on to the roofs of some adjoining buildings, which they broke through.”—Chambers’ Journal. A Theory About Man’s Beard. There is a theory favored by the disci ples of Darwin that the beard is merely tlie survival of a primitive decoration. Man, according to this view, was orig inally as hairy as the opossum itself, hut as he rolled down the ages he wore the hair off in patches by sleeping on his sides and sitting against a tree. Of course the hair of the dog is not worn off in this way, bnt a great theory is not to be set aside by an objection so trifling. By and by our ancestors “awoke to the conscionsness that they were patchy and spotty,” and resolving to “live down” all hair that was not ornamental they with remarkable unanimity seem to have fixed on the eyebrows, the mus tache and—unfortunately, as the self scrapers mostly tliink—the beard as be ing all that was worth preserving of the primitive covering.—English Illustrated Magazine. Snap Shot* at Royalty. King George is to Aix what the Prince of Wales is to Homberg. He is remur’.a- blo for extreme assurance, tempered with reserve, and wears his hat slightly on the side of his head as he strides along the streets, looking straight at people as if to invite them to get out of his way. He is an habitue of the casino and the cardrooms. On alighting from his carriage yesterday a number of pho tographers ran up to take snap shots at him. Seeing this the king good naturedly stopped and "stood fire,” turning ills face toward them. On returning to his carriage when the visit was over he did the same, saying aloud when he thought they ought to have done, “Ca y est"(It’s all right, is it not?)—a remark that elic ited great laughter.—London News. Three Views of Mars. M. Flammarion, the French astrono mer, regards it as very probable that tlie dark areas of Mars are water and the bright ones land. Professor Schaeherle's observations with tlie greatest tele scope in the world (the Lick) under the best possible conditions, lead him to pre cisely opposite conclusions. Mr. Brett (the English artist astronomer) doubts if land and water exist on Mars at all, and gives good reasons for deciding that tlie planet is in a heated state—as we sup pose Jupiter to lie, for example.—Pro fessor E. S. Holden in Forum. Th. Formation of Hoot. M. Lagrange has communicated to the Belgian academy a paper on the forma tion of bodies in the universe. In this paper he expresses the opinion that, be fore any expenditure of work, the quan tity of heat of the universe was nil, that ti e temperature was gradually raised a’jove absolute zero at the expense of work done by attraction, and hence the formation of solid bodies mnst have pre ceded that of liquide and gases; that, throngh the gradual condensation of matter and consequent enormous devel opment of heat, the earth would attain, at least in the parts near the surface, the st ate of fluidity necessary to its form and geological characters; then, as the tem perature gradually rose with gradual agglomeration of matter, a very dense a .moephere would form, with pressure diminishing ont ward, and in a more ad- v ;nced phase, the temperature of this, a ’ter reaching a maximum, would gradu ally diminish, causing liquefaction or so lidification of certain matters at first vaporous, while other solid bodies m-ght remain suspended in the atmosphere. Briefly, M. Lagrange, in elucidation of the basis of his original and rema -i:a- h e theory, as thus set forth, deci .’■ e s tl at space is occupied by two substai n unely: One, attractive, which is viat- tt r properly so called, or material at. ins; the other, repulsive, which occnpie iho ii teratomic space, and from which re sults between any two atoms a van .hie n pulsion exercised at the surface of the It tier.—Philadelphia Ledger. Yawning Witnesses. A few evenings ago half a dozen .nen w ere sitting out in front of the Capital hotel discussing various topics, wl.m J idge Yost, of the supreme coir - ,. in telling an anecdote of a trial, rema: .ted that the witness yawned and he knew h j was lying. “How did you know?” was asked. “Well, sir, I have seen witnesse:- lie and not yawn, but I never knew one to yawn that he was not telling a lie.” Judge Sims, the member of tlie legis lature from Trigg, remarked, “Y< I a,ways know a witness is lying when he yawns.” Senator Dave Smith said, “It is al- uost invariably the case.” Judge Wall, the senator from M..-a,n, c .me up and corroborated ’the si ite- n.ents of the others, and just then Judge Brent, of the superior court, joined tlie group. “When a witness yawns lie is ti lling a lie, and lie knows it.” Several other lawyers were appealed t<, and all bore out the statements made. N one, however, could explain the phe nomenon. Judge Yost was the only one wlio had a theory, and that was hat when a fellow was swearing to a lie ho could not face the music, and his em barrassment found expression in yawns. — Louisville Courier-Journal. Centralization of Government. The history of the federal govern ment is one of growing strength and in fluence. The difference lietween the intention of the founders of the system and of the existing fact is nearly as great as that between the opinions of Jefferson and moderate Federalists. From the first organization of the gov ernment to the present time there has l ’on almost a steady advance toward centralization. This advance has been both aided and retarded by the supreme c ourt; but in the legislative branch of the government and in the popular mind fie proportions of the federal govern ment have constantly grown larger. It has not been the tendency of the people of the republic to strengthen the local government at the expense of the general government. On tlie contrary, the gen eral government has grown at the cost of the states.—Henry L. Nelson in Har- rw»rV It has been mentioned as a proof of Al exander Pope's love of economy that lie wrote most of his verses on scraps of paper, and particularly on the hacks of let otters. One hundred and two kernels of grain, it is said, have been counted in one head wheat grown near Cheney, Wash. The Death of Jumbo. The story told by Scott, the keeper who went to America with Jumbo, of the elephant’s deatli is sad. The animals were being loaded while the circus was performing, and Scott was walking J jnibo along the railroad between two rows of trucks. There was another elephant with them —a dwarf elephant bought in Singapore in 1883 to be “clown elephant.” Jumbo w ould not go anywhere without iiim. On this occasion the small elephant was going in front, and when the train came round the curve Jumbo caught hold of his chum and pushed him between two freight tracks. This saved tlie small o’ie, who only got ins leg broken, but Jumbo was badly cut up by the heavy 1ccomotive and died about an hour alter. —St. Jame; Budget. A Young Child Wife. The conversation had drifted to early marriages, and Allan Thompson. o e Dubuque, said: “The youngest wife 1 e ’er knew lived at Fairview, la. Her n.aiden name was Ella Hotchkiss, and at the age of eleven she was niarnM to a youth of eighteen, whose name I can not now recall. I frequently saw her a ter her marriage playing witli other children about tlie village, making mud p eg, etc. About a year after the inar- r age a little daughter—a tiny thing weighing bnt three pounds—was bora to the youthful couple. The ladies of tlie neighborhood then persuaded the c did wife to don long dresses ami quit jumping the rope in the street.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. A Military Doubt. “Did you see a boy about my size round the corner?” a hoy inquired of an elderly gentleman who was passing. “Yes, I believe I did,” said the man. “Did he look ugly?” “I didn’t notice.” “Did he look scared?” “I don’t know. Why?" “Why, I heard ho was round there, and I don’t know whether he wants to lick me, or whether he’s afraid I’m go ing to lick him. Wish 1 did!”—Ex change. Familiarity Breeds Contempt. Judge Duffy—How dare you come it to court so? Take your hat off I Tramp—But, judge, you know I'm not a stranger here.—Texas Siftings. Telescopic observations show that the planet Venus appears to a distant ob server far moie nearly like the earth than does Mars. The guests at a hotel in Ohio presented one of the waitresses with a pair of roller spates in hopes of being waited on more