Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TIE EUTAWViLLE LYNCIiSQ. A .Preliminary Examination to be Held in Charleston. Columbia, Nov. 20.-The half doz ?n white men %ho are being held ?a the charge of the En taw ville lynch? ing will be given a preliminary bnar? ing at Charleston on Friday next. .Ever since the prisoners have been in ?ie Penitentiary, where they were sent .Immediately on their arrest for safe? keeping, their counsel, Messrs. E. J. 33ennis and Mr. Baynes, have been "trying to have a preliminary exam i na? iboa m the hope of securing? the re? lease of the prisoners on bail, if not without bail. Under the statute law the prisoners are entitled to a'preliminary hearing, ?ad if no showing Is made by j the State they are entitled to their release. Mr. Haynes and Mr. Dennis have insisted upon a preliminary examina? ron, and Solicitor Hilderbrand has -told them that they can get such sights as they are entitled to under the law. '":?*? Tfsen the-y appealed to Magistrate JfcCoy, imt Magistrate McCoy was seriously 58.*; Mr. Haynes went to ?se* Mr. McCoy and found that he ?onld be unable to have the hearing $0* ?lome time. Solicitor Hilderbrand suggested j i&btias corpus proceedings, but that ?Sd not snit the defence, as both ?ides had to make a showing at such a asaiing, and under the niles of law .at a preliminary the State has to show ?affilent cause ' for the committing onagistrate to hold the prisoners, and tbe showing is entirely on the part of the State. Under the arrangement that has bees; made Magistrate McCoy will go 'to Charleston, and the hearing will fee had there on Friday, as it is thought that tbe witnesses and the defendants can better go to * Charles? ton than to Entawville or any other ; point in Berkeley county. v Tlie prisoners in the case will all go -to Charleson at- their cwn expense ?ad under-escort They will hardly nave anything to say, and the State j . -will hardly develop more of its case thar; is necessary to hold the prison -eas for trial at tho next tenn of Court ia Berkeley county. Magisrate McCoy ls one of the largest property holders ?ad strongest men in Berkeley Coun? ty, and the State is entirely satisfied to have bim judge as to whether the State has not ?mple testimony on wai sh to hold the prisoners charged 1 with the Entawville lynching. If the^prisoners are held they will be returned to the Penitentiary at Co? lombia fox safe-keeping, and their aexn move will be to appjy for bail. Sicilian Prince Aground on Long island. Sow York, Nov. 21.-Despite the ?Sorts of a half dozen tags, the Prince iiner Sicilian Prince which ran aground on Long Beach, Long Island, yesterday, has sot yet been pulled into deep water. When the tide was at its .height at six o'clock this morning all tags vv^rs sent to work on the vessel, bat failed to move her. In fact she worked ashore abtut two lengths 3roo last high water position. A Sreng northwest wind lias sprung up causing a rough sea and the position of the vessel has consequently become more serious than it. was last night. Ail tugs left the Sicilian Prince at &30 this morning and it is now be? lieved a portion of the vessel's cargo will have to be ."Lightered before she can be Scated. Tbe passengers nc in? hering in all 557. all emigrants, have been taken off, and landed at Ellis island. Trouble Brewing in Panama. Panama ?tfov. ?l.- While every? thing appears serene on the snrface. "following the events of last week when .General Hartas, the commander cf the army resigned and army was dis? banded. Americans are still watch? ful, and they distrust the Panama po? lice which is made up largely of form? ier members of the army. Commander Goodrich of tke Pacific squadron has left there for the purpose of placing a Tnnnbcr of marines In tho principal barracks, lt is reported that Presi? dent Heytz, of Colombia, offers,Stn aesty. and reparation to all Colom? bians wbo have served in the army ander Gea Huertas. '.. The Krocriiand Safe. ~New York, Nov 21. -\ dispatch from Nantucket -Mass., announces that the Bed Star liner Kroonland. with more than a thousand passengers aboard is safe. The steamer passed there this morning and the captain reported all well. It was rumored Sunday in London that the Kroonland bad been lost with all on board. New York, Nov. 18.-Twe?ty-one persons, were rescued from tbe big freight steamer Mohawk of the Cen? tral Vermont railroad's fleet which terned to the water's edge off Hor? ton's Poi Qt, in Long Island sound, ?arly today. The watchman, a S ?ede ?amed Larsen, is believe to have been -barned to death. All on board, in? cluding two women, were taken off -the burning vessel by the freight boat Boston of the Fall Biver line shortly after 1 o'clock this morning and al? most immediately atferwards there was a heavy explosion on the abandon? ed freighter, which apparently com? pleted the destruction made by the ??mn ni Asheville, N. C., Nov. 20.-Fire which broke out at 10.20 o'clock to? night has wrought damage totaling "between $75,000 and $100,000 and the Jesses may be further swelled before tbe flames are brought under complete control. San Francisco, Nov. 18.-By unan i ?ions vote the delegates to the Ameri? ca? Federation of Labor today decided to aid the striking textile workers of jft'l Biver, Mass., to the extent of $?,000 per week for three weeks. If by the end of this time it is found that the strike is not broken the exe canve council will, if it sees flt, con? tinue the donation. The money for the purpose is to be raised by an as? sessment of one cent each week levied ?a eaoh member of every labor organi? sation affiliated with the American federation of Labor. 60V. HEYWARD COMINO TO SUMTER But Cannot Go to Charleston as He Finds lt Impossible to Leave Columbia Wednesday. 2 Columbia, Nov. 22.-Gov. Hey ward cannes go to Charleston on Wednesday on account of Ex Gov. Hugh S. Thompson's funeral at Trinity church, tbis city that day, but will keep his engagement in Sumter ou Thursday. W. H. M. Canadian Independece. I . The recent Canadian election is in? terpreted by Collier's for November 19 as a open declaration for national autonomy. It says : The triumph of Laurier and his party in this month's Canada elections was no direct expression of feeling either toward England ot toward the United States. The Canadians voted on their own welfare. People who think that, because they do not wish to subordinate their own interests to those of the empire, they most therefore be anxious to become part of our conotry, ate merely fantas fie The Canadians are loyal, in a constant but cool sort of way, to the empire of which they are a part; but they are loyal in a much warmer sense to their own home country. Their first wish is that Canada shall be prosperous. They will baye no ob? jection to Mr. Chamberlain's tariff schemes if those schemes can be exe? cuted without injury to Canada. On that possibility, they keep an open mind. They are willing to have recip? rocity with the United States, but applaud Sir Wilfred Laurier's deter? mination to put Canada in a position to gain as much in any negotiations for reciprocity. Their attitude toward the railway, likewise, was a businesslike calculation of the relation of cost to value. The people have trusted Sir Wilfrid and the Liberals because they like the method of pursuing, with clear heads, what is directly and tan? gible to Canada's self-interest, and re? legating sentiments, for and against England or the United States, to the background, to be considered when they shape in some question that is tangible. The result in Massachusetts, however, is to be taken as an indica? tion of demand for reciprocity in New England. Douglas undoubtedly won primarily on his strength with organ? ized labor, bat he made a thorough and careful campaign . of education along tariff lines, pointing out to the people the purely business advantages of certain changes, and his election will do something, perhaps consider? able, to further the canse of Canadian reciprocity. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 20.-News was recieved itt this city tonight ol a don? a's tragedy at Kennesaw, twenty eight mites from Atlanta on the West? ern and Atlantic Railroad, in which J. R. Butler, of Augusta, an engi? neer on the Central cf Georgia Rail? road, had shot and killed Mr. Lola Green, of Atlanta, and mortally wounded himself with the same pistol. The tragedy occurred in a back in which the couple were riding to the depot to catch the train toi Atlanta. The exact nature of the trouble which led up to the killing and suicide is unknown. Mrs. Green came to At? lanta from Greenville, S. C. Batesburg. Nov. 19.-A very sad death occurred here about 12 o'clock last night. Carroll Hook, the little ll year old son of Mrs. J. W. Hook, died after an illness of abont four days. It will be remembered Carroll was bitten about two months ago by w?at was supposed to be a mad dog. Every attention a was siren him by the local physicians and he was car? ried to a mad stone and treated for some time, and he had seemingly re? covered from the effects of the bite. For the hst thr?e weeks he had been in schcol performing his usual duties there. About four days ago he began to show symptoms of fever and com? plain of a pain in his arm, Drs. E. K Hardin and W. P. Timaierman were faithful in their treatment of the case, but all to no avail. It is the opinon of those who saw the little sufferer, and ot the physicians also, that his doath resulted from the bite received on the 21st of September. New York. Nov. 20.-Capt. Van Wyck of the Long Beach, Long Island, life saving station reports the British steamship Sicilian Prince, from Mar? seilles, Naples and Palermo for New York, with 615 persons aboard, went ashore at 5 o'clock his morning abont half a mile we-t of the life saving station. The steamer lies in an easy position. The sea is smooth. Norfolk, Nov. 19.-The pay wagon of Forepaugb & Sells Brothers' Circus was robbed of thirty thousand dollars rbis morning at Tarboro, N. ?C. Every effort is beine made by the cir us people and thc limited police au? thorities of the town to apprehend the robber, and several arrests have been made, but no trace of the missing for? tune bas yet been found. St. Louis, Mo., Nov. 19.-The Mis? souri State building at the world's fa?r was destroyed by fire early this evening, resulting from the explosion of a hot water heater in the basement. Instantly the flames shot np through tbe rotunda and the north wing and copula were a solid mass of flames within ten minutes after thc explo? sion. The loss cannot be estimated accurately, owing to the temporary construction material which bas no salvage value. The principal loss is in the contents of the building. The building cost $145,000 and in it wore $75,000 worth of furnishings, the most valuable of which were portraits of all former Missouri governors and su? preme judges. These cannot toe re? placed, mum ????li New York, Nov. 20.-Smothered 'be? fore they could reach tho rear fire es? cape in a buming tenement building at 186 Troutman street in the Wil? liamsburg District of Brooklyn, 12 persons met death shortly before 2 o'clock this morning. Two entire families, those of Maranio Tri?lo and Chas. Polognio are wiped out, the last living member of each being now in a hospital with no hope of their recov? ery. They are Cnas. Polognio, 33 years old, and Tony Tri?lo, 13 years old, both of \*bom are terribly burn ed. THE CAPITAL OF THE STATE. Interesting items Gleaned From all Over Carolina by Our Regu? lar Correspondent. Colombia, Nov. 21.--Commander R. H. Piuckney of the naval militia of the State has resigned for business reasons, beeac se he is so frequently absent from bis headquarters at i Charleston. The officer next in com jnand is Lient. Commander J. J. Igee, in charge of the Lafayete com? pany at Charlestou. Daring the war with Spain the naval militia of this state did good work in manning the coast signal stations from the North Carolina line to the Florida gulf coast, but the most conspicuons service was that done by the "Celtic," which took part in the great naval battle which practically ended the war off Santia? go. Of the 425 South Carolina naval officers and men who volunteered for the war with Spain the govern? ment accepted 227, the remainder be? ing kept on the waiting list. In a small room in the Olympia cot? ton mill here, shut off from the sight of all but a trusted few, is a small machine which means more to the cotton maufacturers of the world than any improvement in cotton mill machinery since the invention of the Draper or Northrop loom, and which marks a distinct period in the develop? ment of tb& cotton manufacturing in? dustry. This new machines' name is the Baroer Warp Tying machine, in? vented by the originator of the Bar? ber Knotter. The function of the Warp Tying machine is to supplant the slow, tedious and expensive method of "drawing in" by hand, and a three months test bas proved that it is a de? cided success. Ex-Governor Hugh Smith Thompson of South Carolina is dead at his New York ?home, where he held a promi? nent position with the New York Life insurance companj. Governor Thomp? son was a; native of Charleston, but was reared on the farm of his father: Henry T. Thompson, in Greenville county. His grandfather Chancellor Waddy Thompson, was for 28 years an equity judge io Sooth Carolina, and his uncle Gen. Waddy Thompson, wa? for a number o? years a member of congress and afterward minister to Mexico. During most of the civil war Gov. Thompson did duty in Charles bon in defense of the city in command Df the cadets. He is the last survivor af the Bampton ticket, for which he did splendid service as an orator in reconstruction times. At Hampton's funeral he walked with che only other survivor of the ticket, General Moise, who has since died. While for 16 years, from 1876 to 1892, he held many positions with the State and national governments he never once sought office. He was thr<te times unanimously nominated for State sup sriutendent of education and would have been offered a fourth term, but declined to let his name be used be? cause the South Carolina college trustees wanted bim for president. Columbia, Nov. 22.-In a drenken row at the home of Claudia Long near Donalds yesterday morning Bennett Elaynes was shot through the heart while he was about to strike his aunt with a piece of scantling. The wo? man, who is young and pretty, was carried to the Abbeville jail with her infant. Julius Drill, a negro driver, was found with a bullet through his.heart in front of what is known as theRock House near (Greenville yesterday. The team he had boen driving was'picked up before the body was found, some distance away. There is no clue. He liau only 25 cents in his pocket on the trip. Al?x Josc-ph a 12-year-old negro is in jail at Kock Hill charged with two cases of urson. He was caught set? ting fire to a farmer's barn. Congressman John Sharp Williams of Mississippi, the popular national democratic leader, will speak from the Wofford college audiorium in Spartanburg on the 2d of December, under the auspices of the colIegQ lyceum, Complete federal election returns from all but Abeville county shows that Roosevelt received only 26,254 votes in this State against 54,635 for Parker. The biennial sessions propo? sition carried every county in the State. Actual work has begun on the con? struction of the Saluda Valley rail? road, a 25 mile spur out of Greenville toward Caesar's head. It is the in? tention to ultimately-very ultimately probably - to extend the road to Knox? ville, Tenn. The first intimation of the arrival in this State of an organized band of safecrackers and burglars, of which Sooth Carolina police departments have been*warned as beaded this way from North Carolina, is the breaking into and robbery of a general mer? chandise store at Campebello, where much booty was secured. There is no clue. The Saluda mystery is still unex? plained, though explanations have been up to several prominent people over there for several days. Their statements are much overdue. A ray of light was shed on the situation yes? terday by a long distance telephone interview your correspondent had with Mr. N. G. Evans, whom the Sheriff Rhoden accused in his state? ment of obtaining his signature to a receipt for the persou of Henderson under false pretenses. Mr. Evans said that be not en ly nvid not present this paper to Mr. Rhoden for his sig? nature, but he bad nothing to do with its preparation. Rhoden, it will be remembered, signed the certificate without looking at ft when Mr. Evans presented rt to him with the explana? tion that Tit was only an unimportant paper iu an application for bail. This was the paper on which the governor paid "Maj R. S. Anderson the $100 reward offered for Henderson's cap? ture, although according to Sheriff Rboden's statement there was never any necessity for offering a reward, as 'Henderson bas all along been under hie guard. The last publication here concerning the affair asserted that Henderson was not then in jail. Mr. Evans "sAid most emphatically to me that Henderson was in jail, and that he would apply for bail for bim on Thursday. Mr. Evans gave me per? mission to see a copy of a statement \^!hich he said he wonid mail to The St?te n?Svspaper last' night, but it has not arrived this morning. The wires were not workng well and my inter? view over the long distance phone was very unsatisfactory. Sheri 5 Rhoden seems to have altogether ig norpri the governor's request for an explanation. HORSESHOE LUCK. A Superstition Common to Xearlj All Races anti N'ationx. The origin of belief in "horseshoe luck"' is so ancient that it never has been determined, with certainty, and no superstition is more universal. Ever -since horses began to wear shoes those crescents ot* iron have been accounted lucky emblems of all peoples, races and nations that have been acquainted with their use. ? The ('hi?ese, for instance, say they nail them up over their doors as a charm against evil spirits because of the close resemblance in shape between them and the arched body of the sa? cred snake, Nagendra. one of their principal deities. Ask a Turkish Mohammedan for in? formation on the subject and he will tell you that it is because they are ir? form like a . crescent, the sacred em? blem of Islam. A Folish Jew will explain that at the passover the blood sprinkled upon the lintel and doorposts, in the manner directed by their ritual, forms the chief points of an arch; hence, obviously, the value of arch shaped talismans such as horseshoes are. The stolid and unimaginative Rus? sian peasant, on the other hand, main? tains that the luck associated with the horseshoe is due chiefly to the metal, irrespective of its shape, iron being traditionally a charm wherewith to nullify the malevolent designs of evil spirits and goblins. Very different is the story by which the Irishman seeks to account for his liking for the same talismanic symbol. The name "Ironland" or ..Ireland," he will tell you. originated ns follows: The whole island was once submerg? ed in the sea. out of which it only rose once in seven years, and then only for a very short time. Many attempts had been made to break the spell and in? duce the country to remain perma? nently above the waters, but all were vain until one day a daring adven? turer threw a horseshoe from a boat on to the topmost peak of the Wicklow mountains just as they were disap? pearing beneath the waves. Then at last was the ban removed. The Emer? ald Isle began forthwith to rise again from the ocean depths into which it had sunk. And it has been dry land more or less-ever since. In England, up to comparatively re? cent times, horseshoes were extensive? ly used almost everywhere as anti witch charms, and the custom is not even yet an extinct one. No witch, it . used to be said, could enter a building over the door of which a horseshoe or, better still, three horseshoes--had been affixeil. prongs downward. The origin of this particular belief is "referable to the old legend of St. Dunstan. This versatile English eccle? siastic was a skilled farrier, ami one, day while at work in his forge the evil one entered In disguise and requested Dunstan to shoe his "single hoof.*' j The saint, although he at once recog- j nixed his malign customer, acceded, j but caused him so much pain during | the operation that Satan bogged him to ! desist. This Dimstan did. but only j after lie had made the evil one prom- I iso that neither he nor any of the less- j er evil spirits, his servants, would ever molest the inmates et' a house where a horseshoe was displayed. THE SKYLARK'S S0N( ? AN ASTONISHING FEAT FROM MAN' i POINTS OF VIEW. Xot Alone I? Ii a Wonder of "tlelorty Tone and Quality, lint its Volnme i IK A*touml?u?; and It* CirenmittaJie? i of t.'iterance u Physical Marvel. Fer its music alone the song of th? j lark is almost the jnost melodious c\ ! any bird's. The tone and (?uahty ar - j admirable and the volume of sound as- , tunishing. It can be heard clearly when the lark has mounted, as it sometimes does, beyond recognition by normal eyesight. The volume of sound "s also most noticeable when a caged ! lark is heard, singing as it does far j nearer io the hearer than the bird in j the sky. But apart from the quality ri nd music of the song thc circum? stances in which lt is uttered render j il an astonishing feat. j Every other considerable songster ia ? unite aware that singing entails much I i?i.vsie:il effort Consequently it takes j .i c. re lo secure a good platform to sm;; 1 . m. A thrush or a blackbird or a robin nearly -always selects a top shoot ? or projecting bough, preferably a dead j <>;:e. on which it sits and sings, nevei 1 ?noviiig its i>osition, and without any j ?orvets round it to hinder the carry of j fis f?foc. The blackcap and night in :g;;$e ;.nd some of the warblers sit in /. bush to sing, but the whitethroat ;;r?i .-eon the hedge sparrow choose thc topmost twig. The whitethroat ...(?JIM-limos sings when descending, and s:?ii.e of ?he pipits and the wood lalk do the s i me. the meadow pipit singing }'. feeble little song as it makes a short a scent and descent lint to the strain on its lungs of long ?protracted song the lark adds the great Hiiuseiilur exertion of a steady upward li?gut. usually carried ont not by scal? ing the air in gentle circles, as in thfc Miariug of the larger birds, but by a .vernen! climb made by the incessant beating of its wings. Wordsworth's recognition of it as the Type - f the wise who sonr but nevcj True tu the kindred points of h^nveri and ' home. ts often almost literally correct. After two or three spirals the bird goes up almost as if it were drawn heavenward hy :\ (.?.rd. and then, closing its w"ie/ descends like a falling stone to tue very point from which it rose. - The strain upon the muscles and the lungs would be great if during all this time lt were silent. But it chooses to add to the exertion ot" soaring that of pour? ing forth a continuous Hood ot' sweet notes with no intermissions or breaks whatever. A lark will soar and sing during a space of ten minutes consecutively. The rapidity with which the pectoral inris c?es are .working during this period may be judged from the fact that the bird makes not less than from five to six beats of the wing per second. The beats are usually in sets of from three to iive. the bird pausing for a moment as if to take a fresh start after the interval. When chased by the merlin falcon, skylarks make their finest ex? hibitions of flight, ascending into the air to heights which have been esti? mated as being not less than a thou? sand feet. Sometimes the bird uses the same means of ascent as wheu it is soaring and singing, rising vertically by incessant beats of the wing. In the language of the falconer, these are termed "mounting" larks, and their object is to outfly the hawk directly, shaking off its pursuit during the as? cent. Others prefer to rise by flying in a spiral, which the falcon imitates. Mr. E. B. Michell, in his volume on "The Art and Practice of Hawking." says: "The one bird may be circling from right to left and the other from left to right, and neither seems to guide the direction of its rings by any refer? ence to those which the other is mak? ing. It is now a struggle to see which can get up fastest, and it is astonish? ing to see to what a height such flights will sometimes reach. As soon as a lark is SOO feet high it can drop, almost like a stone, into any cover within a radius of 200 yards from the spot just under it, allowance being made for the effect of the wind. But SOO feet is not high for a ringing flight; at least there is nothing unusual about it. A lark does not go out of sight until it is much above that height, and it is no extraordinary thing for it to do this." The lark seldom sings late, in the day. It can be tempted to rise in a burst of melody for one final ascent if the even? ing sun breaks through the clouds after rain, but as a rule it is silent long before the sun has descended into the western bed of cloud. We have Mil? ton's authority that it is up and in so**g before dawn. But those who haye Heard the lark begin its flight And singing startle the dull night are not easily found, though in the height of the pairing time it may very possibly be beforehand with aurora in greeting its mate. But as a rule the lark sings at sunrise, as the ortolan eats. Darkness depresses it and keeps it mute, but a gleam of sun is the sig? nal for ft to ascend. Obviously rain would make it most difficult for it to soar, both by adding to the weight of us body from the moisture caught in the feathers and by wetting the webs of the pinions, so the lark only soars in the dry as a rule. It is one of the mest sensitive and best of nature's weather gauges', for when the larks begin to sing it is almost certain that rain has ceased for some time, if not for the day. It is the cock lark which sings. William Cobben noted that one was just soaring and/ beginning to sing when the hen flew up rind evidently told him to stop, for she fetched him down again-"an instance.** says Cob hett, "of that petticoat government which is universal.'-London Standard ENGINEER'S LAST RUN. Hi? Story of How He Lived Iii* Lit* All Over In a FIa.nl?. ..Drowning Ls not thc ouly experience that causes a man to read his own biography in the flash of a second," said F. C. Uoberts. a locomotive engi? neer. "I was running on the passenger trains between Atlanta and Macon sev? eral years ago. and 1 was to meet the northbound train at a certain station on the road. Well, it was ail my fault. I hadn't slept any for live nights, and the only rest I had was in my cab. The last stop that we made before this experience of which I speak the fireman had to wake me up when the signal to no ahead was received. 1 had gone to sleep in my cab. "As we approached the next station the conductor may have signaled me, as he claimed he did. but we dashed through the town at alunit forty miles an hour before I heard the down break signa!. The minute 1 heard it I saw the headlight of the northbound train less than :>00 yards away, coming around a curve. 1 threw on the air brakes and reversed, but it all looked too late. The ii reman jumped, bat I was paralyzed. The two great engines, one bearing a special train, rushed to? gether like angry bulls, and I was frozen there, and while those trains rushed together 1 saw every incident of my life just as plainly as the day it happened. That's all I know about it. .They took ure to the hospital, and nine days later I woke np after a spell of brain fever. The trains stopped so ?close together the pilots were sprung out of place, but otherwise there was no damage. They had to get ;i new engineer before my train pulled out, though, and that was UK* last time J ever palled :i throttle." Louisville Courier-Journal. 'Descriptive. Parka way- I>id yon mal:? love to any of the girlsV deverton Ves; one from Boston and one from New (?rl?nns. "How was it ':" .*?>id yon eve:- have chills and fe? ver?" Pnmrl M> . Thr Other Way. pror.il I PAH* I ?. . : . . ' haw yon could 'hird; of marry;; g into such a con;:;; -ir-In-e f m ;. as t at! K > man V I >::t:\ ir.c . ? !;. Lin no" g> "it to mi~r.v in-. ? \'.< f.trxily. ?le's tro.uy to mar y In: - mir 4Eau*;|y. WHEN STAMPS WERE NEW. Trouble In Getting: People to Stick Them on the Envelope. "When postage stamps first came in to usc." sa .'tl a veteran postal cierk, "thc public didn't know how to handle them. Voa remember how. when tea and coffee first appeared among us. thc people fried the tea leaves and the coi-' lee berries and served them with salt and popper; Weil, tho people treated their stamps as absurdly in 18?4. "?Some folks would put the stamps in? side their letters, out of sight Here is thc official notice that we issued to stop that practice."' The clerk took from the drawer an aged bulletin that said: 'The stamps upon all letters and packages must be affixed on the out? side thereof and above the address thereon." He put back this bulletin and drew forth another one. .'People would pin the stamps cn then- letters instead, of gumming them," he said, "and when they did gum them they would not do it right; hence this second bulletin," and he read: " 'Persons posting letters should af? fix the requisite number of stamps pre? vious to depositing them in the letter receivers, as when posted In a damp state the stamps are liable to nib off and thereby cause the letters to be treated as unpaid. Do not pin on the stamps/ "Still." said the clerk, ."the public didn't understand. Think of it-it didn't understand the simple matter of sticking a postage stamp on a letter. So we got out a third bulletin." The third bulletin, in big, impatient letters, said: "The simplest and most effectual. . method of causing stamps to adhere firmly is first to moisten well the out? side of the stamps and afterward the gummed side slightly, taking care not to remove the gum." The clerk said that a philatelist had offered him $12 apiece for these three queer bulletins.-Galveston Tribune. COTTON SPINNING. The Scheme by Which a Workman.' Kept His Bobbina Clean. The father of the famous Sir Robert Peel was a cotton spinner in a com? paratively small way until he sudden? ly went straight ahead of all his com? petitors. The earliest cotton spinning machinery gave serious trouble through filaments of cotton adhering to the bobbins, thus involving frequent stoppages to clear the machinery. The wages of the operatives were affected-, by these delays, but it was noticed that one man in the works always drew full. pay. His loom never stopped. "The onlooker tells me your bobbins are always clean," said Mr. Peel to him one day. "Aye, they be," said the man, whose name was Dick Ferguson. "How do you manage it, Dick?" "Why, you see, Mester Peel, it's sort: o' secret! If I towd yo', yo'd be as wise as 1 am." "That's so," said Peel, smiling in response to Dick's knowing chuckle. "I'd give you something to know. Could you make all the looms work as smoothly as yours?" "Ivery one of 'em, mester!" "Well, what shall I give you for your secret, Dick?" The man smiled and rubbed his chin. "Well. Dick, what is it to be?" "Come. I'll tell thee," was the re? ply. "Gi" me a quart of ale ivery day as I'm in the mills and I'll tell thee all about it." "Agreed." said the master. "Well, then," returned Dick, beckon? ing Mr. Peel to come closer and let him. whisper in his ear, "chalk your bob? bins!" That was the entire secret Ma? chinery was soon invented for chalk? ing the bobbins, and Dick Ferguson-, was given a pension equal to many daily quarts of beer. THE MEDITERRANEAN. Although Called a Tiddes? Sea, It*? Water Rise? and Fall?. Why are there no tides iu the Medi? terranean? asks a reader. As a mat? ter of fact, there are tides in the Medi? terranean. The general rise and fall are, however, so insignificant, owing to the comparatively small area and the mass of water involved, as to have escaped detection until scientific meth? ods were brought to bear, and hence the Mediterranean has come popular? ly to be looked upon as a tideless sea. A similar want of knowledge and ex? perience of tidal phenomena cose Caesar the loss of most of his fleet on his invasion of Britain in 53 B. C.. when his vessels were dashed to pieces; upon the coast. ' At Algiers a self recording tide? gauge was set up by Aime, and from its records ho deduced a rise and fall of eighty-eight millimeters, or three and one-half inches, at springtide and half that amount at neap tide. a fluctuation which would escape ordi? nary observation, as it would be mash? ed by the effects of atmospheric dis? turbance. At Venice mid in the upper reaches of the Adriatic the true lunisohvr tUte seems to be wore jieeentuated th::*] i> other parts, hui here its eTevts an? sub rd.nate to tl.?>se of the \\\iu\ -London Answers. A DI? ?t tbe Satirists. The Instinct of mankind against sat? ire is really :i vor.v sound instinct Satire is always dishonest, for it is al tvnvs thc repression of hatred for a Hiing l op-ii-ssly coveted. Who satirize* human. O V None but bc who not hav? ing thc rommitn intu?an advantage ia obs.?ss-Ml w t li admiration of ' lu m IVlm s.-;tiri: -s plutocracy? Hl?' pUUp<T wi o i1? ?va: t?ud l?> '??'* nc ion of iV.. ?t|, \\ ' c <:nir:;v s :tets*o?-rac1 ;-j". ,;) \v' (. ni- cs be had been I:?.. ' ,:, . , ? :.clarar w M d !'.:.*. ;, M.? -M ? ir il ??s' w >*. mi* . L- ??M*" irl'H" ic-- .? bi- Wish ?a in S.i. a:-...?.. K*-\??**r