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Inconsistencies of the Stage.

There Is no person III the world that is
easier to overlook the inconsistencies
that show themselves on the stage at
theaters than we are, but once III while
there Is something SO glarlng that 1t
pains us. We have seen actors fight
duel in a piece of woods far away from
any town, on the stage, and when one OF
them fell, pierced to the heart with
sword we have noticed that he fell on a
Brussels carpet. That is all wrong, but
we have stood it manfully. We have
seen a woman on the stage who was so
beautiful that we could be easily mashed
if we had any heart left to spare. her
ewes were of that heavenly color that has
been written about heretofore, and her
smile as sweet as ever was seen, but be-
hind the scenes, through the wings, we
have seen her trying to dig the cork out
of a beer bottle with pair of shears, and
ask a supe. in harsh tones, where In =
that cork-screw was, while she spread
mustard on g piece of cheese, and finally
drank the beer from the bottle, and spit
the pieces OF cork ont on the floor, sit
ting straddle of a stage chair, and her
boot heels up ON the top round, her tran
rolled up into ball, wrong side out,
showing dirt from forty different stage
floors. These things hurt. But the
worst thing that has ever occurred to
knock the romance out of us, was to see
a girl in the second act, after twelve
years is supposed to elapse," with the
same pair of red stockings on that she
wore Ia the first act, twelve years before.
Now, what kind of way Is that? IL
does not stand to reason that a girl would
wear the same pair of stockings twelve
years. Even if she had them washed
once in six months, they would be worn
out. People notice these things What
the actresses of this country need Is to
change their stockings. To wear them
twelve years, even in their minds, shows
an inattention TO the details and proba-
bilities of a play, that must do the ac-
tresses an injury, if not give them corns,
Let theater goers insist that the stock
ings be changed oftener, in these plays
that sometimes cover half century, and
all will feel more at their ease, and the
stockings will not become moth eaten.
Girls, look to the little details. Look to
the stockings, as your audiences do, and
you will see how it is yourselves.
PecEs Sun
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The Size of Molecules.

With regard to the absolute diameter
of a molecule and their number in a
given space. everything at present is
only probable conjecture. Still it may
be interesting to state the views which
are held on these questions by such
investigators as Sir William Thompson
and the late Professor Clerk Maxwell:
but we give these without attempting to
indicate the character of the speculations
on which their conclusions rest. Sum
ming mn then both the known and un-
known we msy state that the molecular
WEIGHTS and velocities of many substances
are accurately known 1t is also con-
iectrlred that collisions take place among
the molecules of hydrogen at the rate Of
seventeen million-million-million per sec
ond: and in oxygen there are less than
half that number. The diameter of the
hydrogen molecule may be such that two
million of them in row would measure
q millimetre. Lastly, it is conjectured
that a million-million n-million-miilion hy-
drogen molecules would weigh about four
orammes. while nineteen million million
n;lIion would be contained in a cubic
centimetre. Figures like these convey
no meaning to the mind, and they are
Introduced here only to show the charac-
Ter and present state of the research.
Chambers Magazine.
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When to Use Gestures.

A writer in the Golden Rule rebukes
the tendency to a gushing and overtime
style in literature as well as in oratory,
and emphasizes useful hint as follows ::
A young lady in France, placed under
the tuition of 1--WE think Madame Clarion,
was constantly offending her teacher by
excessive action with her arms. She
was in the habit of fiinging them about
in a supererogatory way, which tore
passion to tatters, Gin Ercles vein. !"
After many admo-itions, the lady re-
solved to tie her pupils hands to her
sides with piece of string.
"Now," said the girl, / can't move
them at all !"
"Go on with your part, kindly re-
Piled the other, smiling.
And go on she did, with elocution all
the better for action the less. At last,
on reaching the climax of her part, her
excitement nerved her little wrists, she
burst the strings, and, as your
Chairwoman would phrase it, she
- gestulated with great vehemence.
tears IN her eyes, saying she really
"could not help it. " To her surprise,
her instructress praised her action this
time.
"That, mon enfant, is what we want
Reserve your vehement displays of feel
ing till you cannot help making them,
and they will be both appropriate and
successful.
Surely the lesson is large one. Quiet
energy, with readiness to strike the iron
when (but rot before) it is hot, is the
secret of success in most undertakings.
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BLACK DIAMONDS.
statistics of Coal proeuction.

The coal trade has about it no sugges-
ton of antiquity. The old Romans cut
aqueducts through coal fields with the
loftiest contempt for black diamonds.
and ii was not until 1910 that coal was
used III London. Sixty years later there
was considerable trade in coal, and in
1880 the production of coal in Great
Britain was 134, COS, 2SS tons.
The United States, with coal area of
192, 600 square miles, produced sc, 200, -
934 tons of coal in 1880, while Great
Britain, with coal area of IL i, 900 square
miles, produced 134, 600, 600 tons, and
Germany, with an area of only 1,770
square miles, produced 46, 953, O02 tons.
In the same year France produced
Il. 1Q4. 4S.4.-- tnns-l Belgium, 10, 446, ,53i
2, 2,5SS, GOA tons Spain, 775, 900 tons !;
Nova Scotia, 7SS, 600 tons; Australia,
], ,750, 600 tons India, 1000, 900 tons !;
Japan, 750, 600 tons; Vancouver island,
$50, 600 tons Chill, 900 tons; Swe =.
den, 80, 900 tons Italy, 100000 tons !;
China, 4, 900, 600 tons.
Increase in the production of coal in
England has not been rapid. But III
countries like the United States, Russia
and Australia, the growth in business is
astonishing Ten years ago Russia
mined only $40, 745 tons of coal, and in
1929 Australia produced only 7S0 tons.
In 1858, the output of the whole German
empire was 4, ,3S3, ,5S5 tons of coal, ana
/, AT, 420 tons of ignite. In the United
States the production has been more
than doubled in the last ten years. The
following table shows the production of
coal in the different States of the Union
in 1869 and 1880
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Smart Children.

A child of 3 years of age with a
book in its infant hands is a fearful
sight. 1t is too often the death warrant,
such as the condemned stupidity looks
at-fatal, vet beyond his comprehension.
What should child years old
nav, 5 or 6 years old-be taught
Strong meats for weak digestions make
not bodily strength. Let there be
nursery tales and nursery rhymes. /
would say to every parent, especially
to every mother, sing to your children,
tell them pleasant stories if in the coun-
try, be not too careful lest they get
little dirt upon their hands and clothes
earth is very akin to us all, and, in
children's out-of-door plays, soils them
not inwardly There is in it a kind of
consanguinity between all creatures;
by it we touch upon the sympathy of
our first substance, and beget n kindness
for our poor relations, the brutes. Let
children have free, open-alr sport, and
fear not though they make acquaintance
with the pigs, the donkeys and the chick
ens-they may form worse friendship
with wiser-looking ones; encourage
familiarity with all that love to court
them dumb amin ais love children, and
children love them. There is a lam
guage among them which the worlds
language obliterates in the elders. 1t is
of more Importance that you should
make your children loving than that you
should make them wise. Above all
things, if YOU become old and poor,
these viii be better than friends that
viii never neglect you. Children
brought up lovingly at your knees will
never shut their doors upon you, and
point where they would have you CO.
The HouseEeepeT.
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Geraniums.

For constancy of bloom the geranium
is unequaled. Small plants, that can
be bought very cheap, if put Quit In May,
will completely fill bed in three weeks
after planting, and early In June will be
a mass of flowers, and continue getting
better and better until blackened by the
frosty nights of autumn. While other
plants are willing under the scorching
rays of our summer sun, the geraniuIo
seems to glory in the hottest weather:
There is such a variation In the color of
the flower, as well as in the form and
color of the leaves, that with few vari-
cites of geraniums a more artistic and
varied bed can be made than with almost
any other flower. The center OF large
bed may be scarlet, with ignt colors
around. or few rows on the border may
he of the silyer-Ieaved kinds. Indeed,
we have seen delicate and intricate pat
terms formed OF geraniums alone in some
of the celebrated gardens of Europe.
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A Warning to Mothers.

Here is warning to spanking moth
ers: Mrs. r. w. johnson, of Anamosa,
attempted to administer a corrective to
one of her children in the good, old-fash-
ioned way which we all know more or less
about from extremely sad experience, to
wit: across the maternal knee. The little
one held in her hand piece of glass and
as the admonishing palm was descending
the child instinctively threw back her
hand and the glass opened the radial
artery of the mothers wrist The blood
gushed out in stream half way across
the room, and had not medical assistance
been promptly secured the consequences
might have been fatal CYty
(IotO0) Journal.
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Big Water on the aIIssIssIppI In 1914.

vi
Life in the mississippi swamp is
unique, but, perhaps, never so much so
as during that met1orable summer. The
shallowest water,for indefinite miles in
any direction. as two feet deep,
the nearest land<the = Hills of Arkan-
saw" thirty mles away. The mules
were quartered oR the upper floor of the
clubhouse the cattle had all been
drowned long ago; planter. negroes
and overseer were connned IN their re-
spective domicll% the grist-miu was
under water, andShere was no means of
preparing corn io1 culinary purposes ex-
cept wooded pomlpy-mortar. The
hog land -hominy $50 highly extolled
by some people have never lived
e. u xs? x9 Of of necessity, I'll. the
no visitors, u ssM and then a So
ciable snake, wh9h, no doubt bored by
swimming around Indefinitely IN the
overflow, and craving even human com
! panlonshlp, would gli6e up on the gallery
OF some of the houss. There was no
means OF locomotiol except the sdff
and the humble bit ever-serviccable
! dug-out-nowhere to go and nobody
within days iournel otherwise or more
comfortably situated. The only sense
of sympathy from without was had from
remote and infrequeht glimpses Of the
| gallant steamer J. M. White, Which,
! leaping from point to point, made bet
ter time from New Orleans to st. Louis
than was ever made. before or for many
years after.
That year, nineteen plantations ont of
I tNyaf1rW 10
/ OF cotton or a single bushel of corn,
and when the food was over and the
swamp Noahs came ont of their respect
i've arks, they were to say the least,
malcontent. They were not ruined, Of
course, but they had lost whole years
! gross income. Moreover, the prestige
Of the swamp as a cotton country was
wofully diminished The planters in
the Hills" as the Iplands are denom-
/ mated, began to holdup their heads, no
longer overcrowed b! the extraordinary
/ crops alleged TO have been heretofore
/ produced in the swamp.
The swamp-planteis set to work to re-
deem the disaster, and to provide, as far
/ as possible, against its recurrence.
With the purpose Of retrieving their
| financial fortunes they took some unique
measures. There is tradition that, at
a public meeting held in Green
vile, Miss, in October, 1874,
among other more Commonplace resolu-
tions one was gravel, and unanimously
adopted to the etfectthat a demand for
! payment within twelve months from
that date of any deot, great or small,
upon any planter Who had been over
flowed that year, slDuld be considered
distinctly persona "a clear case fol
pistols and coffee. The code was GER
tainly a curious intitution, but proba-
bly, this is the only instance in which i
was expected to do dlty as a stay-law.-
g The LeUees Of tie Mississippi, " u
| Scri6ner.
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Even Burglars Are Rushed.

"Why," he replied to a cop, 81 never
saw so much push and rush in Detroit
since the war, and l presume it is so all
over the country. The boom even ex-
tends TO my profession, which you are
aware is that of burglary. / haven't
been so rushed in ten years. l have adj
vertised in a dozen papers for pal,
but can't get one at any price. Third
class men, only fit to put up ladders,
hold lighted candles, pound with a
sledge, and swear an ahbi, are getting
their own prices this year. The two |
had struck for 81 day apiece, and l
had to pay 1t or let my business go to
ruin. You have no idea of the number
OF chances We have had for Jobs this
year, and the season is promising all
that any burglar could ask for. l am so
pushed that L hardly know which way to
turn first"
Anything very big on hand?"
oh dozen of 'em. / ought to go
mp Woodward avenue tonight and rob a
house where two back windows have
been left up for a whole week, but l.
may not get around to it because one OF
my pals is dead drunk IN his room up
stairs. Then there's a splendid show
down Fort street Two of the back
doors won't lock, some of the chamber
windows are unfastened, and there's half
cord of silverware piled up In one
room. Duty tells me that l ought t1
take it in right away, but something
may prevent. Dear me, but wish
could lire at least three first-class burg
lars for the next six weeks. I've got
special lay for them
Anything startling"
"Well, no. There's bank IN Toledo
we could get at very handy. a leweiesr
over IN Chicago who aches to be robbed,
and know of farmer ont here few
miles who has $1,000 in gold IN the
house. If / had two good men could
gather in at least $50, 600 within the next
ten days; but this boom has taken me
all aback. need two full sets of burg
lar tools right off. but my blacksmith Is
rushed with other work, and must delay
me. I went yesterday to see about wigs
and whiskers, and&bund dozen orders
ahead of me. -
"Well, / shouldsay so 1t just makes
my heart ache to know that scores OF
back doors are unlocked, hundreds OF
windows left open, heaps of silver and
iewelry left kicking around, and here ]
am SO fixed that / cent half push busi-
ness. I'm nervous and uneasy, but ]
can't mend matters as L see. If you
bannen to come across a first-class hall
thief and pair of professional cracks
men. I wish you'd send 'em to me. I'll
puarantee the very highest wages and
Steady employment for the season. p
Detroit Free Press.
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In Spanish America, where infantiie
diseases are as rare as in Hindostan, ba-
hes of all classes and all sizes toddle
about naked nearly the year round, and
the Indians of Tamaulipas, between
Tampico and Matamoras, raise an aston
ishinp number of brown bantlings, who
are never troubled with clothes till they
are big enough to carry garden stuff to 8
city where the police enforces the apron
regulation. Popular Science Monthly.
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WI--II
1t viii be seen by this table that while
the older OF the coal-producing States,
ike Pennsylvania, Ohio and Illinois,
have about doubled their output, the
newer States like Iowa, Kansas and Ne
braska have increased their production
ten and twenty fold.
The consumption of coal at Pittsburgh
for 1880 Is about 100000 bushels /;
New York, 5,250, 600. The receipts OF
coal at Chicago were 2, CSC, 748 tons St.
Louis, 1915, 600 tons; New Orleans,
3,187, 400 tons Cincinnati, 1,7S7, $50
tons Cleveland, 1, 700, 600 tons.
The United States stands next TO
SIresaU DrissfE1 SSSsl- producing cOuII
try, but, while Great Britain exported
Is, 702, 551 tons last year, the United
States exported Ga, 900 tons, more than
half of this going 10 Canada.
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Does the World Miss Any One Z

Not long. The best and most useful
of us viii soon be forgotten. Those
who to-day are filling a large place in
the worlds regard Will pass away
from the remembrance of men in a few
months, or, at farthest, in few years
after the grave has closed upon their re-
mains.
We are shedding tears above new
made grave and wildly crying out in
our grief that our loss is irreparable,
yet IN short time the tendrils of love
have entwined around other supports,
and we no longer miss the one who has
gone.
So passes the world. But there are
those to whom loss is beyond repair.
There are men from whose memories no
woman's smile can chase recollections of
the sweet face that has given up all its
beauty at deaths icy touch. There are
women whose plighted faith extends be-
yond the grave, and drives away as pro-
fame those who would entice them from
a worship of their buried loves.
Such loyalty, however, is hidden away
from the public gaze. The world sweeps
on beside and around them and cares
not to look in upon this unobtrudlng
grief. 1t carves line and records a
stone over the dead and hastens away to
offer homage to the living. 1t cries out
weepingly, 's lie roy est mort, but with
the next breath exclaims loyously,
'' vive lie roy
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The First Libretto.

The first ibretto for an italian opera
,-as written in 1884 by Giulio Rossigliosi,
Who afterward became Pope Clement
TX. First he introduced saints. demons,
a.rerais.g virtues, Pope's nuncios, ETC.,
.-bo all sang and danced together to
,,s sic composed by Stefano Landi. The
opera was performed during the a1,ll earnl. u.
,,a,ia,,d in theater built by Cardinal
porherini, Pope Urban VIII. s brother.
VIC M would have thought that it was a
pone y NE who wrote the first opera ibretto
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Life.

The following stanza was written by
Mrs. baroauld in extreme old age.
When II was repeated to Wordsworth,
he said !: Il am not in the habit of
grudging people their things, but wish
/ had written those lines.
Lifel we've been so long together.
Ihr9ssJi nsri peasant - and through cloudy weather
..ns lls ~ ~ part when friends are dear,
Perhap.s I.s,I viii cost sigh, tear;
ChOose thine own tim time: ~ "A'hihs'
say not good-niQbt hn; 4, 49,. ,-..,...- .,.-~.
Bid me sood-morninr. sumo VI sn'si '''n'e
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rnE way o. ArnErE.


| lIhe song Lawrence Barrett sings in the play
o.. there abou' yon heather hill,
Where footla' comes but rarely,
There is house they point out still,
Where dwclt the man O. Airlie
He wore coat o holden gray,
His hand was hard WI labor,
But stil he had n namely way
o. standin' by his neighbor.
His burly laugh made men rejoice,
His words the neighbors guided;
The little bairnies loved his voice,
And in his smile confided;
The words to-day that left his lip
Became deed Tomorrow.
Hout, man. the friendship of his grip
Would lift the heart O. sorrow.
ID was na' loud, he was ma proud
Tie lacked in iarnin' sairly,
And yet ye'd pick him frae crowd,
The honest man o. Airlie.
His wealth IL was ma In his land,
IL was ma in the city;
"A mint o. honor was in his hand.
HIS heart a mine o. pity
Hes dead and gone, this prince O. r'ifc
Mute Is his buriy laughter;
But, ahi the music o. his life,
That bides with uS lang after.
His memory lives the man may die,
That fingers bright and louin',
Just like star lost frae the sky,
Whose ray survives his ruin.
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my child?" Eyes, paw" 81 saw
,opng Sausargent giving you taffy, yes
2erday. Never, my daughter, never pay
Ia TO fiatterers." But, paw, how
IN 7 tell when they are 6attering?" Pa
BASES.
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PREcocIoUs boy of years, listening
wearily to long -winded tale related by
a. prosy relative, took advantage of a
short pause to say, slyly, . wish that
story had been brought out in numbers. ;"
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The Oft-respited Convict.

JEFF David, the negro who was
condemned to die for the murder
of the Franklins three or four years
ago is not dead yet. Before and
since his conviction Mr.. Benet, OF
the Abbeville Bar, has worked most
assiduously to save his life. Time
after time the Governor has re-
spited him, and his fate has been
handed down from one Governor to
another since Ha npton's term.
A few days ago Mr.. Benet sue
ceeded in securing for David new
trial. The evidence upon which
David was convicted before was a.
together circumstantial, and we
doubt whether he would have been
convicted had it not been for the
horrible nature of the crime with
which he was charged. The best
of iuries are unconsciously biased
under such circumstances. It is
hardly probable that he will be
convicted again. His case has been
q remarkable one.
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Congress.

Jan. 10-Mr. Speer, Ca, has IN
troduced bill in the House to ex-
empt from import duty all ma
chinery for the manufacture of COT
ton goods.
Mr.. Carpenter, Iowa, a bill to
provide q Constitutional amend
aent that all civil officers except
heads of departments, Supreme and
Inferior Court Judges, and officers
whose duties are temporary shall
be elected by the people Of the
State in which they are to perform
their duties, their term to be four
years.
In the Senate, Logan, Ill, intro
duced bill to authorize the Presi-
dent to appoint e1-President Grant
on the retired list, with the rank
and pay of a General of the army.
Jan. 1.-THE House adopted the
resolution to issue the new govern.
ment bonds at 8 per cent. interest.
Jan. l3-In the House the Mill
tary Committee reported unfavora
bly, on bill to place ex-President
Grant on the retired list, and the
matter is killed for this session.
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STATE or SOUTH CAROLINA
COUNTY OF NEWBERRY.

Louisa 81. y. Su:,er vs. Thos. II. Crooks.
BY virtue of All Execution 10 NE d.
rected in the above stated case: will
sell, at Newberry Court House. on the
7th day Of February next, (S*le-day)
a. D. 1881, within the legal hours Of sale,
at public outcry, to the highest bidder, the
following Real Estate, to wit One tract OF
land situated in the County and State atore-
said, containing Two Hundred and Fifty
Eve Acres, more or less, bounded by l:nds
o: John F. Giymph, David Suber, Columbia
Road, other lardS of Thos. H. Crooks, and
others. Also, one other tract, situated in
said County and State, containing One
hundred and Thirty-Nne Acres, more or
less, bounded by lands OF John F. GlYuph,
Wm. A. Hcu.z and i,v the Columbia Road.
Levied on rs the property Of Tho7. H.
Crooks.
TERMS OF SALE-All cash Purchaser to
pay for papers.
D. B. WHEELER, S. y. C.
Sheriff Office, Jan. Is, 1881. 3-St