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Sil IO? U IKE Sensosness of Ex Murray's Orime. Conviction of Successful South Carolina Negro of Forgery Bound to be Used as Argument Against Education for Negroes. His Career and the Temptation Which Resulted IQ His Downfall. Washington, May 25.- 'Another crime against the negro race" is the comment heard os every side among the friends of the black man on hear? ing that George Washingoi Murray, the colored ex-member of Conrgess from South Carolina, had been con? victed of forgery. This is the way in which all such tilings are viewed here now. It is recognized that t?e negro citizen is on trial and that his whole future may depend upon the way he meets his responsibilities when he has had the advantage of an " education," and opportunity has opened before him. Manny's "education" came a little hard, out he got it, and the difficul? ties that compassed its. acquisition were expected to prove-'blessings in disguise in developing his character and making a man of him and aa ex? ample to his people. Their first e ffect, however, seemed' to be to increase his selftimportance. The biography he. famished for the Congressional Directory on his admission to the House of Representatives tells quite a story to one ?rho reids it between the lines : Georeg Washington Murray was born September 22, 1858, of slave' parents, near Rembert, Sumter County, S. 0. Emancipation found him a lad of elevan summers, bereft of both par? ents, thrown upon the rugged shores of early emancipation, after a cruel and dehumanizing "war had deprived the population of almost all the finer sensibilities of human sympathy and philanthropy. , Without a friend upon whom 'to rely for either aid or advice, he entered upon the fierce combat then in pro? gress in an impoverished section for. the indispensable bread of life. Among the waifs of his neighborhood, in 1366, he picked up his alphabet and acquired an imperfect and crude pro? nunciation of monosyllables.. During the next five years he so industriously applied himself in efforts to improve his meagre stock of knowledge that in January, 1871; he entered while in ses? sion Ipr the first time a day school, but as teacher, not as scholar. He taught until the fall.of 1874, when he successfully passed a competitive ex? amination and obtained a scholarship as subfreshman in the reconstructed University of South Carolina. Having passed through his alma mater to his junior year, the accession to jpower of an administration un? friendly to the co-education cf the races (1876) forced him without her doors. He re-entered the public schools of his county as teacher, and was successfully employed until Feb? ruary, 1890. His description of his struggle for nomination,and election,' in which be was opposed by everybody of influence and power in his own neigbborhood-* accordiag to his way of thinking-fe equally characteristic. If he had con? tinued the narrative farther, he might have told now he obtained his certifi? cate of election only by a trade with j , the Populist element at his home, a favor which be reciprocated by mak? ing a speech in support cf the free and unlimited coinage of silver at the time when all the other Republicans in Congress, except a handful from! the West, were helping .President Cleveland in his effort to repeal the; Sherman Act? Murrray apparently, was unable to understand why the white Republicans did not warm np to him thereafter as he felt they ought to, and why, when he appeared as s contestant for a seat in a later Con? gress, nose of the' McKinley wing of his party-was willing to take an active' hand in his fight .However, Murray was no worse in his notion that politics and business and morals are separate and unrelated interests, than many a white politician is. He was simply imitative. After he had got through fooling with office seeking he went back to his State to stsy, and resumed a calling which, thanks to bis native cleverness, had proved pretty profitable already and seemed destined to grow more so. Long ago he had made up his mind that what the Southern negro most, needed was a home of his own, with a sense of independence, and that the man who could furnish such homes might make a lot of money in the process. So he took his own earnings and what other capital he could scrape together and command and bought by j degrees between 4,000 and 5,000 acres ! of agricultural land when the old j planters who owned it were in need of cash and willing to sell cheap. Tbis area he cut up into small hold? ings and planted negro colonies on them. In the choice of colonists he showed a good deal of intelligence and # thrifty spirit, taking only those of fair repute and industrious habit, and trying wherever practicable, to keep relatives together. The little farms were of a size which could be cared fyr by a man and his w:fe and children, if they all turned in and | worked nard. From the bead cf the family betook a series of promissory notes aggravating the fall price fixed for the farm, the notes representing equal instalments of the purchase money, and maturing far enough apart to afford a reasonable assurance that the' makers would be able to redeem them when due unless some unforseen misfortune should occur. Each batch, of notes was secured by a bond between Murray and his cus? tomer, so conditioned that, although Murray was obligated to give a deed in fee at'the end of the full term, ia the meantime he was to have a lien on the crops as well as on the land. Tais was a shrewd sh cern e. and the white people in the country round about generally encouraged it ; as it tended to bring a decent and hardworking lot of negroes into their part of the State. Everything might hare gone well, and Murray might have become one of the rifest ?nd most respected colored j citizens of South Carolina, if he had ! not, within a little while, done just what the Southern white is accustom? ed to, prophesy of practically all edu? cated negroes-used his 'education for the promotion of a fraud in his own interest. He had gone on accumulat? ing land till he owned or controlled something like 8, OOO acres all of which he was turning to account by his sys? tem of business enterprise with inci? dental philanthropy, when one of his exemplary contracts led the way to his ruin. He had made a sale after the usual fashion to two grossly ignorant but industrious negroes, when in midterm, along came a railroad and eet up a sta? tion where it was bound greatly to en? hance the value of this particular property. The temptation was more than- Murray could resist, and he forged a new bond and substituted ic for the original, changing the con ditions so as to give him and not the purchasers the benefit of the adventi? tious profit. In the course of a law suit last year he Lad occasion to put this forged bond in evidence, so that thereafter there was no retreat for him,. the record being final proof of his perfidy. In due time he was in? dicted, and at the recent trial he was convicted and will probably have to serve a term in the Penitentiary, What* happens to Mnrray is of infin? itesimal consequence as compared with :he question what a backset American negroes at large will suffer from his offence. That is what makes men ofrall parties denounce such an act as his as a crime against a race. Unhappily, it is a fact which cannot be blinked, that the inferior races, thrown among Caucasians, suffer more damage proportionately from men of their own blood than from the "Cau? casians. Whoever knows the indian situation intimately'will confirm this view as regards the Indians ; everyone acquainted, with life in the Chinese quarte i of the Pacific coast cities will give like testimony as to the Chinese ; and ali kind-hearted Southerners will agree that the brunt of their trouble in trying to protect the ignorant and helpless negro is caused by the col? ored brother who is "smarter." Just as the savage, on receiving any gift or acquiring any new art, thinks first of the use to which he can put it in overcoming his enemies and promoting his own ambitions, so the first thonght of many members of the inferior races, cn their introduction to civilization, is how they can turn this to their own profit in their relations with the poor creatures whom they have left, behind in the contest. It is the know? ledge of this tendency that handicaps so. sadly the efforts of the unselfish teacher, and gives the pessimist and the scoffer their most effective ammu? nition. The bad things Murray has done will cling in the minds, of the critics of negro education long after the practical good he did has passed out of memory ; and with a fine sense of fitness it will be charged to the discredit of the whole negro popula? tion, and to any and all plans for lift? ing it above the plane on which the Lord first set it down. / . Yet of course there is no more logic in laying the blame of an occasional crime to the innocent instrumentality which was ebiployed in its commis? sion, thais there would be in abolish? ing forks frcm civilized tables because at rare intervals a diner has used one to stab his neighbor. Every year thousands of persons are drawn into the vortex of speculation for the first time. Here and there one thinks he has discovered a "system" by which be can always win and never lose. Does this occasional folly prove the insanity of all those who try a short cut to fortune? In strictly legitimate trade, it is one argument against banking that now and then a new concern thinks that it can expand its business far past the limits set by the experience of centuries, and goes down in disaster. To Murray the mor? al aspects of his trick were probably clouded over by the practical possi bi li? ef gain. He had become bynotized by his success, and the passing op? portunity drew him along. Bigger and wiser men than he have been caught in the same way. There was more of that sort of thing going on among the white race in an earlier stage of its civilization than now. We cannot hope to make over the whole negro contingent in our population in a night, or to escape an occasional case like Murray's ; but what such an offence really proves is not th at the offender is over-educated, but that he has not been educated enough. New York Evening Post. Tho, XhyeixgV First "Woman. The Khyengs of Burma are probably the only race or tribe of people thai have any tradition of the origin of the human race that do not have a man or male human beins in some way COD nec?od with that important event. The Khyeng genesis opens in this wise: "In the beginning of the world, after the sun. moon and stars bad appeared, the earth by its own inherent power of pro ?uctiveness brought forth a female .creature, which was called Illoeneu. Sh? laid IOU e.^'??s and liai ched tl/ om in cotton wool, and from them sprang IOC Iranian beings, the progenitors of thp ?i.T^rent races." The least that can be said of this carious belief is that it is ? Gai1 illustration of the multiple theory as applied to the origin of the burran mee. On :lie Installment Plan. Mrs. Brown?-Oh, what lovely wert (?:"?:?/presents! Such beautiful silver- > v\::re and such rare china! Wasn't it nico to j;e? such presents? Mrs. Greene- Yes, it was. but we are now banning to pay for thom on the j installment plan. Mrs. Browne-Pay for them? On tho installment plan? Why. Mrs. Greene, what do you moan? - Mrs. Greene-Why. the younir people wno jrave us wedding presents aro get? titler married, and we have to send them weddin0: presents.-Lippincott's. Another Word For lt. "Henry." said Mrs. Smudgers, glanc? ing over the front page of the newspa? per, "what do lucy mean when they say that one train telescoped another?*' "They mean, my dear, that lt rushed risrbt into it. It ts a bad kind of colli sion." **Col!Iiiton? Theo why don't they call lt a eollideoscop'* instead of n tel* Kansas f?:'^innresI -~*" Bestowing Crosses of Honor. The Dick Anderson Chapter Daugh? ters cf Confederacy,, will ou Friday, June 3, at 10.30 a. m., (Jefferson Davis' birthday) bestow Crosses of Honor at the Armory on the follow? ing veterans: Avin, J. E., Co. C, Palmetto Bat. Barrett, J. W. Co. I, 1st Reg. S. C. Ca val J y. Bradford, J. W., Co. B, otb. Bat. S. C. Reserves. BroiTn, J. S. BL, Go. B, 5th Bat. S. C. Reserves. Brown, R. S., Co. G, Hampton Le? gion. Brnnsoon, Joel E., Co. B, 5th Bat. S. C. [Reserves. Burkett, T. H., -Co. D, 2d Reg. S. C. V. Cain, W. O,, Co. B, White's Bat. Cadets. Chira, A. J., Asst. Surgeon, C. S. A. Dinkins, W. J., Co. D, 7th Reg. S. C. Cavalry. Duncan, D. P., Co. A. State Cadets. Foxforth, J. A., Co. B, 5th Batln. S. C. Reserves. Fraser, W. W., Co. K, 9th Reg. S. C. V. Hair W. W.,9th Regt. S. C. V. Hancock, George, Co. G, 20th Reg. S. C. V. Harby, Horace, Co. C. White's Bat Artillery. Hodge, O. T., Co. G, 23rd Regt. S. C. V." Jennings, Richd., Co. C, Culpepper's Bat. Jone?, S. J., Co. G, Palmetto Bat. Lewis, Joseph, Co. K, 23d Regt. Mack, R.. M., Co. B, 5th Bat. S. C. Eveserv( ts ? Minas, ' Henry, Co.. E, 7th Bat, S. C. V. Mose?, A. J., Co. B, 5th Bat. S. C. Reserve is. Nettles, J. A., Palmetto Bat. Artil? lery. Norton, W. B., Co. C, Palmetto Bat. A rtillery. Parti a, W. A., Co. G, 29th Reg. S. C. V. Rogers, R: M., Co. H, 5th Reg. S. C. Cavalry. caffo, T. C., Co. A, Palmetto Bat. cartorough, W. D., Co. E, Palmet? to Bat. Warren; A. G., Walters' Lt. Bat. Artilleiy. Wells, D. W., Co. A, 9th Reg. S. C. V. Wilson, -, Co. F, 8th Reg. S. GE V.; Witherspoon, R. H., Co. G, Pal? metto Bat. Artillery. Letter to R. L. Edmunds, Sumter, S. C. ' Dear Sir: The late president of the Croton River bank, at Brewsters, N. LY, built the finest house in all that region j n 1334 and painted it'wi th iead and-oil at a cost of $400-the house cost $3.'.,000. In l??87-three years-he repainted it with De voe at a cost of $350. In 1897 hi;> paint was in good condition. Lead and-oil, ' $400, three years. Devoe <'>350, ten years. Yours truly 55 v F W Devoe & Co P. S.- h, B. Durant sells our paint. HIGH NOON, Originally Ct W^ts 3 o'clock In the : Afternoon. The word "noon" is originally de? rived from the Latin nona bora, the ninth hour of the Romans, the 3 o'clock of today, but no clew is given as to when or why the change took place which made "noon" mean midday, or 12 o'clcck. This will be discovered if we go back to earl} . times, for then great deference was paid to Saturday afternoon as a prepars tion for the . Sabbath, when work was eased all\over the land. In 958 King Edgar in his ecclesiastical laws laid it down that "Sabbath shaD be observed from Saturday 'noon' till light appeal's oh Monday morning." Johnson, commenting, upon this, says "noon" is 3 otcloek, and remained so till the reformation. How, then, came it to mean 12 \ o'clock' In this way: Monks, by their rules, were not to dine till they had sung their "nones," or noontide service. When midday, 12 o'clock, began' to be the tine of eating and drinking the monks, who were also the masters of language in the dark ages, anticipated both tteir devotions and--their meals by singing "nones" immediately after the 12 o'clock service. Thus &ie "noon" of old was merged into the "noon" of today, ;ind for a time distinction was made between the two by calling 12 o'clock noon and 3 o'clock "high noon," as it a ppears in "The Shepherd's Al' manack." Qoite ns Satisfactory. "I want to ask you something, Gracie," said the beautiful heiress. "What is it, Duckie?" the dake in? quired. "Would you object if I should request the minister to omit the word 'obey' from t:.e service when we are mar? ried?" "Certainly not. ne cnn just make it 'love, honor and supply.'" -Chicago Record Hera Id. 1 To Get Rid of Rats. After all other remedies fail, i here still remains a way of getting rid of rats, and that is by depriving them of water. They can live for a very long time without food and when hard pressed will not hesitate to eat each ether, but no rat can go twenty-four hours without drink. Therefore if ev? ery possible means of obtaining water is taker from the rats they will desert the vicinity. Very Pathetic. "What ear; be t-ore pathetic," said the sentimental woman, "than a man who has loved and lost?" "Well." replied the man of expe? rience, "a fallow who has bot on a sure thing and lost cuts quite a ligure In the pathetic line."-Chicago liecord Herald. Lachrymal Amelioration. "Foor thiuii! Did she take her hus? band's cleatb much to heart?" "Why. she's prostrated with grief I She can't see a soul except the dress? maker."-Town Topics. STUPIDITY OF SHEEP. Tlie Way Them? Exasperatingly Foolish Animal-* Court Death. A sheep herder gives some af his ex? perience tn handling sheep on the west? ern ranges i:i the following: We have io watch them every min? ute, and if vigilance is relaxed for an Instant the entire flock is likely to com? mit suicide. In handling most animals some degree of self help or intelligence can be relied on to aid the owner in saving their lives, but sheep seem to 6et deliberately to work to kill them? selves. If caught in a storm on the plains, they will drift before the wind and die of cold and exposure rather than move 100 yards to windward to obtain shel? ter in their corral. To drive sheep against the wind is absolutely impos? sible. I once lost over 1,000 head be? cause 1 could not drive them to a cor ral^OO feet away. In the corral they are still more fool? ish. If a storm comes up, they all move "down wind" until stopped by the fence. Then commences the pro? ceeding so much dreaded by sheepmen, known as "piling." The sheep will climb over one another's backs until they are heaped up ten feet high. Of course all those on the bottom are smothered. Not one has sense enough to seek shelter under the lee of the fence, as a horse or dog would do. Again, if a sheep gets into quick? sand its fate teaches nothing to those that come immediately af?er, but the whole flock will follow the leader to destruction. , No more exasperatingly stupid animal than a sheep walks. A RABBIT CAT. j Tne Manx Tailless Feline Was Once a Seacoast Freak. i .It seems probable that the tailless Manx cats originally came from Corn? wall. They managed to survive longer as a distinct breed in the Isle of Man than in Cornwall, the predominance, of j the common tailed cat being of course j aided in the latter district- by the fact that, although remote, it is part of the mainland of England, whereas new cats could be carried to the Isle of Man only by sea. The Manx cat which first attracted modern attention was a ,very different animal from the vari? ously colored specimens which now take prizes at cat shows. It was al? ways of the color of a hare and hod fur ?ike a hare. Like a hare, too, it always moved its hind legs together. Its chief food was crabs caught on the beach, and when transported inland from the seacoasts it very seldom, if ever, survived long. No cat of this kind has been seen for many years in the Isle of Man, though there are plenty of tailless cats, its crossed descendants, to be purchased there.? Wherever it originally came from, the. Cornish or Manx cat was more nearly a separate species than any kind of show cat now existing. It was a seacoast animal, with fur, color, absence of tail and method of locomotion obviously adapted by the inheritance of ages to its habit of catching crabs and other small life be? hind the ebbing tide. Gorki's oauand AutoMograpny. Maximo Gorki, the Russian novelist? was requested by his publisher to write his own biography. Taking up a pen, he wrote the following: 187S-I became an apprentice to a shoemaker. 1S7&-I entered a draftsman's office as apprentice. 1SSO-Kitchen boy on board a packet boat 1884- 1 became a street porter. y 1885- Baker. 1S8G-Chorister in a traveling opera company. j 1887- 1 sold apples in the streets. 1888- I attempted suicide. 1890- A lawyer's copying clerk. 1891- 1 made the tour of Russia on foot 1892- 1 worked in a railway shop. In the same year I published my first story. The Wily Quaker. A Quaker had his house broken into by a burglar and several valuables stolen. He did not inform the police, however, but kept the affair to him? self. The following evening a neighbor re? marked to him: "I am sorry to hear of your house being robbed, Mr. Fry. I hope your loss is not heavy?' "Friend,", said the Quaker, "thou must know the extent of my loss as well as 1 can do since thou art the burglar. I spoke not to a soul of what had happened, and thou art the first to mention it to me; hence I know thou art the burglar and will trouble thee for my property." He got it. Corncob Pipes. The first cob pipes were not made in Franklin county. Mo., but at Warrens burg. Fritz Tibbs, a German cabinet? maker, who resided in Warrensburg in the early seventies, used to whittle them out with a jackknife. He after? ward mored to Washington, Franklin county, where he engaged with his brother in the manufacture of cob pipes and became wealthy.-Warrens-; burg (Mo.) Standard-Herald. Dr. Bartlett and Margaret Fuller. In regard to brilliant Margaret Ful? ler the following story ls told by Sen? ator Hoar In his reminiscences: "Old Dr. Bartlett a very excellent and kind old doctor, though rather gruff lu man? ner, could not abide her. About mid? night one very dark, stormy night the doctor was called out of bed by a sharp knocking at the door. He got up and put his head out of the win? dow and said: 'Who's there? What do you want?' He was answered by a voice In the darkness below, 'Doctor, how much camphor can anybody take by mistake without Its killing them? to which the reply was. 'Who's taken it?* And the answer was, 'Margaret ? Fuller/ " The* doctor answered in great wrath. 'A Beef " "BALDY" MONSON'S SCALP." -? llotv It Waa Won by "l-ncky" Bel fi-* rriti in n. Faro o?ame. '.During the time that gambling wajl in its glory on the Pacific coast," sai<t an old Californian, " 'Lucky' Baldwin was easily the most.daring chance talc? er of all the notable argonauts. Bald? win did some amazing stunts in that day of all day and all night drinking, when overmellow men, wost of them with riches so suddenly acquired that they hadn't had time to stop and figure on how much they possessed, tried to outvie one another in the capers they cut with the Lady Fortune. "One night in the late fifties 'Lucky,' as he was then called, walked into the famous old Alcatraz club on Kearney street in San Francisco after having been religiously shunning his bed for about three days and nights running and in that shape 'Lucky* was, in those days, ready for anything. "A famous dealer in the Alcatraz club-the biggest gambling establish? ment on the coast. at the time-was 'Baldy' Monson, so called because his poll was bare of hair as a pat of butter, except for a tiny patch that remained right on the crown of his head. ' It had been a cowlick, and. with, consistent stubbornness, it had refused to go when the rest of 'Baldy's' hair had departed. "Baldwin strolled over to where 'Baldy' Monson was acting as lookout for the faro game, preparatory to tak? ing hold of the box himself, and draw? ing Monson's head down 'Lucky' began to count the hairs that the dealer had left on the top of his head. " 'How many have you got left?' Baldwin asked of Monson. " 'Eighteen of 'em an inch or more long, the last time they were counted,' soberly replied 'Baldy.' 'There may be some trifling short ones besides in the tuft, but they don't figure.' " 'Eighteen, ch?' said *J ucky.' 'Well, it's just foolishness to be packing around only eighteen hairs. Turn me the king, open, for $1S,000, and if I win your eighteen hairs go with the yot how's that? " 'Baldy' glanced inquiringly at the proprietor of the club, who was stand? ing by, and his employer gave him the nod. Monson took the dealer's chair and began the deal. The king won down near the middle of the box, and the proprietor of the club scrawled a check for $18,000 on the Bank of Cali? fornia and handed it over to Baldwin. " 'Lucky' snipped the eighteen hairs off 'Baldy' Monson's head with the razor edged blade of his pocketknife, had the housekeeper at his hotel tie them up in tiny pink ribbon, with a double bow to set them off, and ex? hibited the tuft in thc window .of the Bella Union, labeled 'Baldy Monson's Scalp.' "-washington Tost. Not Witlumt Distinction. A note of family pride was struck in the conversation between three small Reading boys the other day. The parts played by their respective grandfathers in ^the civil war were being depicted by two of the boys in *Yirid colors. The career of each, it seemed, had been halted by confinement in southern pris? ons, and it was on the latter fact that the lads laid particular stress. The third youth, unable to match these re? citals with any military achievement of his own forefathers, preserved an envi? ous silence for awhile and then, not to be outdone, said disparagingly: "Why, that's not so much. My Un-? ele Bill was in jail a long time, and he' was never in the army at all!"-Phila? delphia Ledger. Four Kinds of Liars. The late Sir Frederick Bramwell waa famous both as a witness and arbi? trator in engineering disputes. It is re? called that his brother, the late Lord Justice Bramwell, on giving advice to a young barrister told him to be care? ful of four kinds of witnesses-first of the liar; second, of the liar who could only be adequately described by the aid of a powerful adjective; third, af the expert witness, and, finally, of "my brother Fred " The Dictionary. "Neither is a dictionary a bad book to read," says Emerson in his essay on books. "There is no cant in lt, no ex? cess of explanation, and it is full of suggestion, the raw material of possi? ble poems and histories. Nothing is wanting but a little shuffling, sorting ligature and cartilage." Boaud to Ce Ladylike. Ethel-Weat did you do when Gus proposed lo you? Mabel-I was so surprised I puckered up my mouth to whistle, but then I re? membered that would be unladylike, so I hurried and pressed my lips against bis to keep myself from whistling. 5-YEAR OLD C< Di ect From Distil The public has l>ee truthful claimsof nr.se: r?stillers. We comm? th?.- most ricld exr.rnin: WV arc thc largest Whiskies i.T thc 5'nit Co olina t?? ii guarnirte smallest. We rc <??"?. direct from the listiU* alike the possibilities Middleman \N tr ship "Pride of secure.y packed in pla your order reach?** us. 4 full quarti 1 doz tull q 2 dc* full p 4 doz. full % Pints and halt pint: i to 4?4 gallons, fi.5<) packing. * Let the above figur Mean, thieving "bust-t tiiis old Honest Hand-3 what your father used anything you ever had return the" goods and v< mail. The D. L La* Salisbury, References: Pint Kati Dnn or "BJ INSECT MIMICS. Clever Denises That Save Them From Their Enemies. A well known naturalist tells us of an insect in Nicaragua so completely disguised as a leaf that a whole host of the ants who prey upon it actually ran across it without recognizing it as their food. Mr. Sclater noted in South America another Insect, one of the membracido, which not only mimicked the leaf cutting ant for its own protec? tion, but, like its model, carried in its jaws a fragment cf leaf about the size of a dime. Even more wonderful is the disguise of the mantis of Java, which turns itself into so exact a semblance of an orchis flower that the insects upon which it feeds visit it in hope of a feast, but remain to furnish one. The heliconido butterflies, which are avoided by all insect eating creatures, are exactly imitated by another class, which are so good to eat that if they did not assume a protective disguise they would be extirpated, and they do so to such perfection that even expert naturalists sometimes cannot distin? guish them. Another authority men? tions a small beetle which turned itself into sb good a copy of a wasp that he was afraid to ton h it with his fiigers. Sources of Color. An interesting enumeration has been given of the sources of color. From this it appears that the cochineal in? sects furnish tho gorgeous carmine-, crimson, scarlet carmine and purple lakes; the octopus gives sepia-that is. the inky fluid which the creature dis? charges in order to render the water opaque when attacked; the indian yei 'ow comes from the camel; ivory chips produce the ivory black and bvne black; the exquisite Prussian blue comes front fusing horses' hoofs and pigs' blood: blue black comes from the charcoal o? the vine stock; Turkey red is made from the madder plant, which grows in Uindoostan; the yellow sap of a Sia? mese tree produces gamboge; raw sien? na is the natural earth from the neigh? borhood of Siena, Italy; raw umber i? an earth found near Umbr?a; Indian Ink is made from burned camphor; mastic is made from the gum of the mastic tree, which grows in the Gre? cian archipelago; bistre is the soot of wood ashes; very little ultramarine, ob? tained from the precious lapis lazuli, is found in the market. Getting Rid of the Acid. An exploring expedition in a remote part of China had a queer experience, which one of the party thus relates: "Ar large bottle of carbolic acid had been broken inside its wooden case. We ex? hausted our ingenuity in hopeless ef? fort to unscrew the cover. We feared to carry it farther, as the burning tears distilled by it destroyed everything they touched. We dared not throw it aside lest the unsophisticated heathen should drink it as a cheering or me? dicinal beverage. We had no time tb wait and empty it, as the fatal fluid would only trickle drop by drop through \ a chink which had been cautiously and laboriously excavated with a blunt hunting knife. What were we to do? Degrading as the confession must ap? pear, we had to deposit the torpedo in the middle of the yard and throw bricks at it until it was smashed." ? n Opal? cf Varices Degrees. ^* There are several varieties of opals and therefore several degrees of merit. The precious or noble or oriental epali. is the supreme. This has all the col? ors, and when these colors are broken* into spangles it is then called] the harlequin opal. Then comes the fire . opal, or girasole, with hyacinth red and yellow reflection. The former comes from Hungary and the lattej?.* from Mexico. The common, or semf- . opals, are nonopalescent The hydro-1 phane, or oculns mundi, is uontrans- - parent, but becomes so by ?mmersi?aa in water or any transpannt fluid. The cachalong is nearly opaque and of a bluish white color. The hyalite ls colorless, pellucid and white. The opal jasper, or wood opal. As the petrifaction . of wood, opalescent, but without the coloring which makes the "noble" gem. j so precious.... .?adc the Cannon Balla Flt. The first battle of the war of 1S12 was fought at Sachet's Harbor. July 9. 1S12, and consisted of an attack made upon the village. The inhabitants had but one gun of sufficient size and: strength to inflict damage, a C2 pound? er, for which they had no shot. This dificulty was overcome by the patriot? ism of the housewives, who tore up carpets from the floors and with strips wound the small balls to fit th? cau DO:;. ORN WHISKEY lery to Consumer. Express Prepaid :i frequently misled by extravagant pad un ?a m Jons cea lera w!ir re j resent ?*en\selvesas nd tilts fact to venr couside;ati< ;. invite r:!ic?!i nf eui c'a?m. dsstiUer*;rind distributers of pr.rc N. C. Cora ed States and the onlY concern in North es everv package, from the largest to the cf the fist finns in N. c to famish whiskey irv to the Consumer Vou thereby avoid of Ail..Iterations and the 1 ro?ts of the North Carolina", Kxpress charges preppi'l. in case so no one can tell content- same day at the io!lowing prices: i nicely labeled fU.?o per case ts. " .* <M 00 ts. .. .? ?y.oo pts .* $10M s fitted with cork rings. In jugs hold from per gallon No extra charge for jugs or es on North Carolina's Eest talk to you. lead" stuff will cost wu more. 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