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THE MIGHTY HERRING Played a Star Role In the History of Some Nations. COST ONE KING HIS LIFE. The Herring Fieheriee Proved an Im? portant Factor In the Overthrow and Ultimata Exacution b> tha Haadaman af Charta? I. of England. A tale aa stirring as auj Action could be baaed on the part played bj the sea herring In the history of some of the principal countries, writes Hugh M. Smith In the National Geographic Mag salne. Its spawning and feeding m grounds ha?e determined the location V of cities, and lu several Instances the actual destiny of nations snd the fate of monarchs appear to have been In? volved In the barring fishery. Bven today the herring is a factor in em? pire, kt Countries In which the quest of the \ herring is su important Industry are the United States, the Canadian prov? ince* of New Brunswick. Nova Scotia. Quebec and British Columbia, New feundiand. Rngland. Scotland, Wales and Ireland. Norway, Sweden and Denmark, Russia. Germany. Holland, y Belgium, Francs. Japan and Siberia. r The prosecution of the herring fish? ery and trade has been considered not beneath the dignity of nobility and royalty. Fits-Greene Halleck tells us that Lord Stafford ratoes for coal and aalt. Tba Duke of Norfolk deals la maJt. Tha Douglas la red barrings. f In 16T7 the Duke of York and other parsonages of rank formed a corpora? tion called "the Company of the Royal Fishery of England" for the purpose of carrying o.i the herring fishery in the North tea. They bulit a fleet of Dutch "Dulses'* and manned them with Dutch usher neu and then were L bankrupted by the capture of their vessels during a war with France, in 1720 some 2,000 of "the principal gen? tlemen of Scotland" formed a com? pany for herring fishing, but were quickly disrupted, leaving a mournful lot of stockholders. In 1780 the Prince of Wales became f president, or governor, of a herring ?abery. with a capital of f2.o00.000. whose members "were among the erst In the kingdom." one of the pro? pers being General James Ogle founder of the state of Geor? gia. Stock was taken with eagerness, ?vessels were built quickly, and efforts were made to learn the secrets of the Dutch methods of curing herring, but the company soon suspended, and Its failure cast on the English herring fishery an odium that continued for a long rime. It la a matter of great historical In? terest that the herring fisheries should w have been a prime and perhaps the Boat Important factor In the over? throw of Cbarlea 1.. whose attitude toward the development of home and colonial fisheries was most unreason? able and unfortunate At a time when the Dutch herring fishery had attained such magnitude and importance that tt was regarded as the "right arm of Holland" and when the sturdy Dutch fishermen were pursuing their lucra? tive calling under the encouragement of their government the English peo ple were chafing under the grievous restrictions Imposed by royal approval on all who desired to engage In fishing anywhere off the American coast be the fortieth aud forty-eighth de of north latitude. This effort on the part of the crowu to interfere with the cherished privi? lege of "free fishing * had begun under Jsmes snd was bequeathed to Charles and was perhaps the first lu the series of farresching differences that sprung up relative to the prerogative of the crown aa against the rights of the sub Je< At the same time there was another restriction placed on the fishermen at home. When James ascended the throne of England his navy consisted of but thirteen vessels, and Charles succeeded to a war deet but little stronger and utterly Inadequate to cope with the navy of the Dutch or French. After Cbailes had beeu successfully opposed by the commons In his plan to 1 have no fishing conducted on the American shores eicept by permission of the company of "noblemen, knights and gentlemen" known as the council of Plymouth be levied "ship money" on the fishing and mercantile vessels at home In order to build up his navy, with the distinct object of breaking op the Dutch herring fishery on the ahores of England and driving the Dutch from "the four narrow seas" over which England claimed Jurisdic? tion. At the expense of the fisheries and navigation Cbarlea finally fitted out the Isrgest war fleet England had ever had and succeeded In his purpose, so far ss the hutch were concerned, but tha levying of "ship money" stirred u;? civil war at borne, und Chirles paid the extreme penalty. t Tha Exception. "W hat are the dining hours of your clubr rom 6 to 8 for all except the com mlttee." ? Why the exception?" "Because role I says. 'The commit? tee la at liberty at any time to fill any vacancy In their body.'" ? Boston Transcript. Troublesome Teeth. The Young Ore* I >o your teeth ever g1vo you trouble? The Old Oae-Oh, yes. I mislay >m ,-Yonkers Statesman. Honesty Is not greater where ele faaoe Is leas.?Johns Life of the Happy-go-lucky West Indian Negroes. LAZY JOY FuR LITTLE WORK. Six Months' Labor Enables Them to Loll In Indolence For a Year and a Half?Combing the Islands For Men For the Sugar Plantations. A happy-go-lucky, stand up and fall down, genial. Inconsequential spirit an? imates the West Indian negroes In their labors and In their begging From the sweating toilers on the dock at Maroria loading sugar Into the steamers, with their warning cry. "Bee-low!" to the men in the bold, to the grinning boys hauling their Ashing boats tip on the beach at Dominica, they lire from day to day and take no tbongbt of the morrow. A West Indian negro with SCO will lire for a year and never do a stroke of work. And why not? His llrlng costs him only 9 cents a day. lie has his little cabin for the occupancy. A mango tree grows In his yard, ami be can pick plantains by the rood at will. If be Is too laxy to bake 5 cents will buy bread for the family for the day. and a few cents more will bny a dozen amall flsb and one large one. A single garment does for the women, and $5 will clothe the man for a year, while the pickaninnies ran as God made them. The West Indies are the paradise of the happy loafer. Krery year the Is? lands are combed from end to end for bands to work the great sugar planta? tions In Santo Domingo, and at that the negroes must often be practically kidnaped to get them on the boats. In November of esch year the sugar boats, little sloops and schooners that spend the remainder of the year trad log among the Islands get into the Santo Domingo negro trade. Their captains and supercargoes, when they hare them, nnd the owner* go up and down the islands telling the necroes that on a certain day the vessel will sail for Santo Domingo nnd take all who wsnt to go to work on the sugar , plantations. | Take the little Island of St. Martin's for Illustration. For a week the Island Is combed, nnd on the appointed day a dozen sloops nnd schooners are crowd? ed into Marlgot bay. The night before the negroes have begun to stream into the little town that sleeps through the year, waiting for this one day to bring It to life. Boards are laid across boxes, and rum and whisky are set out to arouse the negroes to the pitch that v#il carry them out to the vcasets bound for the plantations. All day the men stream Into the town, traveling barefooted along the sandy roads, swept in by the sailors, singing their song of riches to be had for the asking. Ahead of the men walk their women, toting heavy boxes on their heads, while the men are dressed In their best, with a cocky straw hat perched on one ear. swinging a dandy cane and carrying their shoes in their hands. At the outskirts of the town tbey put on their shoes and swing gayly up to the open air bars on the beach. The women lug the big boxes down to the beach and wall at being left alone until they, too, become filled with the excitement of the scene and urge their men folks on. The men hang back and laugh and drink and deny that they are going. ?Ms you goin\ Big Tawm?" "Naw. Ah aln' goln'. Ah Jus' come tub see." "Yas, yo* is goln'. Big Tawm. Git In dat boat." "Come on heab. boy. Ya. ha!" And all th? time the rowboats. load? ed to the gunwales, are plying back and forth between the shore and the ?loops. By sundown the beach Is swept clean and six little sloops und a schoon? er make sail and drift out of the har? bor on a dying breeze, loaded down with a thousand black men and wo? men, who will wake in the morulng with a raging thirst. Then woe be to the captain who has not filled his wa? ter cusks. for there Is sure to be at least one body to be given to the sharks after the fight around the butts! When the vessels drop anchor off Macoris the plantation foremen come off and look over the cargoes and pay the shipmasters $2.50 each for passage money for the negroes. Then the blacks are herded ashore and are cred? ited with 30 cents a day for a month for working from sunrise to sunset in the cane fields. By that time the $2.50 passage money is paid back. Then they receive tbeir 30 cents a day in cash for the next six months until the cutting and grinding season is over, when the sloops show up again aod take them to their homes for $2.50 each, paid In advance. The foremen collect from the planta? tion owners (XI cents a day each for pay for the black bands, but with their ahare of the money 11??? negroes can live for a year and | half before they have to think of doing ? not bar day's work. And they do it. Near after year the trade Is plied, nnd the islands are combed for men for the planta? tions, and \?ar after year the negroes return home to eighteen months of Iwp Joy.- New York Tribune. Groundhog. Teacher was telling her class li stories In nntiiral history, and she aal ed If any one could tell her what s groundhog w as. Up went n little hand, waving frantically. "Well. Carl, you may tell us what s groundhog Is " "Please, ma'am. It's sausage."-Ev arybody's Magazine. Labor, wide as the earth, has its summit in heaven.?Carlyle. A Mystery That the Mind of Man Is Unable to Penetrate. THE CAVERN OF MORPHEUS. It Is Pitch Black as Far as Human Understanding Goes, For We Know No More About It Than We Dc About rts Twin Mystery, Death. When all Is written, how little Wfl know of sleep! It Is a closing of the eyes, a disappearance, a wondering re? turn. In uueasy slumber, In dreamless dead rest. In horrid nightmare or In ecstasies of somnolent faucles the eyes are blinded, the body Is abandoned, while the Inner essence Is we know not where. We have i > other knowledge of sleep than we have of death. In de? lirium or coma er trance, no less than In normal sleep and in dissolution, the soul is gone. In these it returns, in that it does not rome again, or so we ignorantly thlnk.w Yet when I reflect on my death I for? get that I have encountered it many times already and find myself none the worse. I forget that I sleep. The fly has no shorter existence than man's. We bustle about for a few years with ludicrous importance, as bottleflies buzz at the window panes. They, too, may imagine themselves of Infinite moment In this universe we share with them. But this in to take no account of the prognostics of sleep. There is something hidden, something secret, some unfathomed mystery whose presence we feel, but cannot verify; some permeative thought In? sistently moving in our hearts, some phosphorescence that glows we know not whence through our shadowy at? oms. Neither sleep Itself nor half its prom? ises nor mysteries have been plumbed. It Is the mother of superstitions and of miracles. In dreams we may search the surface powers of the freed soul. Visions in the night are not all hallu? cinations; voices in the night are not all mocking. There is a prophet dwells within the mind?not of the mind, but deeper throned lu obscurity. The braiu cannot know of this holy presence nor of its life In sleep. The brain Is mortal end untrustworthy, a phonograph and a cameru for audible and palpable existence. Strike It a blow in childhood so that it ceases its labors and nwake it by surgery after forty years and it will repeat the In? fantile action or word it last recorded and will take up its task on the in? stant, making no account of the inter? mediate years. They are nonexistent to it. Yet to that hidden memory those diseased years are not blank. It knows, it has recorded, though the brain has slept. And in hypnotic or psychic trance, when that wonderful ruler is released from the prison of the body, it can speak through the atom blent ma? chinery of the flesh and tell of things man himself could not know because of his paralyzed brain. This ruler Is not asleep in sleep, nor In delirium is it delirious, and In death Is It dead? Through all the ages it has been our sphinx, which we have Interrogated in vain. It joins not in our laughter nor our tears. We have fancied It with im? mobile, brooding features of utmost knowledge and wisdom and sorrow. It has asked us but one question, nor from the day of Oedipus unto today have we answered rightly, so that we die of our Ignorance. It is Osiris liv? ing in us. It Is the unknown God to whom we erect our altars, the fire in the tabernacle, the presence behind the veil. Not in normal wakefuluess at least will It answer our queries, but in sleep sometimes it will speak. And it may possibly be that at last, after all these centuries, we are learning how to question it and In hypnotic trance and in the fearful law of suggestion are discovering somewhat of Its mys? tery and how to employ It for our worldly good. Yet to its essential se? cret we are no closer than our fore? fathers were. We may define dreams and night? mare, coma and swoon and trance with what terms we will, search their physical reasons and learn to guide and guard, yet we know no more of them than of electricity. We may be- ! gin to suspect that telepathy and clair- j voyance and occult forces of the soul are not superstitious fancies, and we may even empirically classify and : study and direct them. Yet the soul j itself Is no nearer our inquisition. Though we should know of Its real? ity, though our finite minds should ' fathom the infinitude, of what benefit j would it be? Would it modify our be- I llefs or our hopes or our faiths? Would it dlctato one action to our passionate lives? There would be no change In human nature and no reforms of the world. We are the children of our fa? thers, and our children will tread tho prehistoric paths. Dreams are our life, whether we wake or sleep. We drowse through existence, awaking and dying and being reborn daily, ever torpescent and unamnaed, and our thousand slum? berous deaths we call restorative sleep ?sleep thai restores our physical be? ing building lip where wo have torn down, recreating what we destroy. Black?pitch black. Indeed?li the cavern of Morpheus. Faith peoples it with varied legions and builds its chaos Into myriad forms. Nightly we enter it and drain the Lethean air and forget, and dally we return with re? joicings, babbling of dreams that were not dreamed, and finally we enter for tho last time aud drain somewhat more deeply the essence of ecstasy and awake no more and no more re? turn to tho. autumn dyed skies of the dawn. And yet wo shall dream.- \t lailtk Monthly. There is no sanctuary of virtue | like home.?Bdward Everett. I A MARK TWAIN STORY i Showing What May Be Achieved by Nerve and Reiteration. A LESSON IN PERSEVERANCE. Going to Prove That Repetition Will Work Wonders if a Man Has Only the Necessary Amount of Cheek to Stand Up and Keep on Talking. Mark Twain once told a reporter that if a man says the same thing of? ten enough people will begin to listen to him, "Now," said the great humorist, "there was that story about Hank Monk. That was the oldest stalest, driest, deadest bit of alleg.d humor that any man ever heard. It had been circulated around Nevada and Cali? fornia until there wasn't a man left who would even listen to it I had heard it so many times that I knew it by heart It told how Hank Monk got Horace Greeley over the Glennbrook grade to Placerville. "I was about to deliver my second lecture at Platt's hall in San Fran? cisco?the second oue I had ever de? livered. It occurred to me that I might begin that lecture with the worst story I had ever heard and by telling it often enough start the lec? ture with a big laugh. I took that story and memorized it so that it would not vary in the telling, and I made it just as pointless and just as dull and Just as dry as I could, ?'When it came time for me to tall: I stood up aud with a few introduc? tory remarks began that story. If I remember it went something Like this: " 'Horace Greeley once went over the Glennbrook grade to Placerville. "When he was leaving Carson City he told the driver, Hank Monk, that he had an engagement to lecture at Placerville and was very anxious to go through quick. Hank Monk crack? ed his whip and started off at an aw? ful pace. The stage bounced up and dowu in such a terrific way that It Jolted the buttons all off Horace's coat and finally shot his head clean through the roof of the stage, and then he yell? ed to Hank Monk and begged him to go easier?said he warn't In as much of a hurry as he had been awhile ago. But Hank Monk said, "Keep your seat, Horace, and I'll get you there on time!" And he did, too?what was left of him.' "Now, that was all there was to the atory. It was bad enough to begin with, but I made it worse in the tell? ing. I droned it out in a flat, monoto? nous tone, without n gesture to mar its depressing effect The people received It in dead silence. I had insulted every man in the audience?I had 'graveled' them with a story that was not only Btale and pointless, but one which they had heard at least a thousand times. I waited a few seconds for the laugh? ter, and then I began to iiem and haw and shlit my feet I tried to appear Just as embarrassed as I could, and after floundering about helplessly for a few sentences * cheered up a little and said that I would tell a funny anec | dote which might be new to them. It ; began: " 'Horace Greeley went over the Glennbrook grade to Placerville'? "I told It In exactly the same miser? able, pointless way that I had told It I before, and when I got through I wait I ed a longer time for the applause, but i there wasn't any applause. I could see I that several men In the house were I growing quite Indignant. They had ; paid money to hear a humorous lec? ture. I took a long breath and plunged In a third time, more embarrassed and flustered and worried than ever, and I by and by I worked around again to ' the time when Horace Greeley went ? over Glennbrook grade to Placerville. "This time some of the smarter ones i began to laugh, and this encouraged me so much that I thanked them and started right In to tell the story over again, never varying the delivery so j much as a pause to take breath. The I fourth time fetched 'em, and at the : end of tho story they stood up and whooped and yelled and cheered for some time, j "You see, I thought that if a man j had sand enough to stand up before an I audience aud tell the oldest stalest ' and most uninteresting story in the j world he could make people laugh if he had the nerve to tell the story often enough. The rest of my lecture went ! very well. They were willing to laugh at my anecdotes the first time I told them. Maybe they were afraid I would tell them a second time. "I felt so sure that I had discovered a new phase In human character that I tried the same thing in New York years afterward. There was an au? thors' reading bee one afternoon, and most of the authors read selections from their works. 1 sat on the plat? form beside James Russell Lowell. He asked me what I was going to read. I said that I wasn't going to read anything. I Intended to tell an anecdote. " 'Is it a funny one?' he asked. "I said it would be If I lasted long enough. "I started out without any preamble, nnd 1 told the Hank Monk anecdote. There was an awful silence at the end. I took a drink of water, mopped my forehead and told the story again. Same effect. Young man, I told that story live times before I landed 'em. When I sat down at last Mr. Lowell whispered to me: " 'You have cost me dear. I have been sitting here and wasting sympa? thy on you.' "That's tho point, young man. Repe? tition will do anything If a man has the sand to stand up and keep on talk? ing."- New York American. The two noblest tilings, which are sweetness and light.?Swift. ANOTHER DEMOCRATIC VICTORY Ha* ens Elected Over Aldrldgc in ltd Now York. Rochester, N. Y., April 19.?Be? tween G.000 and 8,000 voters of Mon? roe county changed from the Repub? lican to the Democratic column to? day and elected the first Democratic Congressman that has represented the 32d district in twenty years, Jas. S. Havens, a Democrat, running on a tariff reform platform, defeated George W. Aldridge, for a score of years the ruler of the county Repub? lican organization, by 5,900 votes. Community Giving. Columbia concluded last week a remarkable campaign for raising a large sum of money for the erection of a new Y. M. C. A. building. An effort extending over a period of ten days resulted in the subscription of $86,000 for the purpose. That was an achievement of which any communi? ty might be proud. Columbia is not a large city, nor is it a particularly wealthy city, though it has many prosperous citizens and a great num? ber of enterprising inhabitants, who are making fine use of the prospects offered to Intelligent workers and In? vestors. The raising of such a sum of money as has been given by the people of Columbia for the Y. M. Q, A. building would probably be called by some people a tr'.umph of charity; as a matter of fact it is an expression of faith and hope. The people who give to a community institution thus generously are the people who be? lieve in themselves and their future, who are convinced that they rav-? a great work before them, and that large opportunities are open to them. Columbia has not merely endowed a philanthropic institution, it has giv? en expression to its own belief in the future of the city. The money given to the Y. M. O. A. building fund will return a hundredfold to the commu? nity in material betterment. Every subscriber to the fund, who has met the appeal made to him in a large spirit will take a larger view cf the whole prospect of his community, and will be moved to greater faith In his own opportunities, and he wul realize from the inspiration in a very genuineway.?Charleston Post. Drawing Inferences. President Lincoln once told the following story to D. H. Bates, man? ager of the war department tele? graph office: "I'm like an old colored man I knew. He spent so much of his time preaching to the other slaves it kept him and them from their labors. His master told him he would punish him the next time he was caught preach? ing. " 'But, marsa,* said the old mtn, with tears in his eyes, 'I always has to draw Infruences from Bibie testa when dey comes in ma haid. I jes* caln't help it. Can you, marsa?' " 'Well, said his master, 'I suspect I Jo sometimes draw inferences. Bbt there is one text I never eou'd under? stand, and if you can draw the right inference from it I'll let you pre^-.h to your h*art'f content.' "'What is de text, marsa?' asked the colored man. " 'The ass snuffeth up the east wind." Now what inference do you draw from that?' " 'Well, marsa, I's neber heard dat text befo' but I 'spects de infruence am she got to snuff a long time be? fo' she get fat.' "?Pittsburg Chron? icle-Telegraph. The bridge ordered built across Beach creek near Stateburg was built last week by the chaingang in three days. The gang could not get in but seven and a half hours as they had to leave the camp near town every morning and return at night. Some will be disappointed as the ford there is destroyed and there will be no place to shrink the wagon tires as has been the custom heretofore. ANSWERS EVERY CALL. Sumtcr People Have Found That This Is True. A cold, a strain, a sudden wrench. A little cause may hurt the kidneys. Spells of backache often follow, Or some irregularity of the urine. A certain remedy for such attacks, A medicine that answers every call. Is Doan's Kidney Pills, a true spe? cific. Many Sumter people rely on it. Here is Sumtcr proof. Mrs. Louis Jeffords, 14 Owen s; . Sumtcr, S. C., says: "I am pleased to say that lean's Kidney Pills proved of m?at benefit to me. I was a vic? tim of kidney complaint for over two years. My kidneys were weak and I bad difficulty in controlling the kid? ney secretions. My back ached nearly ail the time and frequently I was so lame that I could scarcely dress my* ?ell I at length read of Dean's Kid? ney Pills and procured a box at China's Drug Store. After I had used them a short time, the backache and pains disappeared, my kidneys be? came normal and I felt better in every way I am pleased to give Doan's Kidney Pills the credit for this change." For sale by all dealers. Price 50 cents. 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