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The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1886-06-03
Tsttooing Abolished'in Japan.

The Japanese government, in its anx-
iety to complete the occidentalism Of the
nation, is passing very paternal measures.
Its Latest piece Of legislation prohibits the
favorite practice of tattooing. No doubt
the habit is little barbarous, but it
boasts an honorable antiquity, and its re-
suits are extremely picturesque, as was
shown by the Greek nobleman who eXhib-
tied the charms of his figured person to
Londoners year or two ago. The sup
preston of artistic development is seldom
advisable, and, except in the case of sump-
tuary laws, the limit of state interference
are surely reached when the right of per
sonal adornment is infringed. And tattoo
ing can scarcely be styled sumptuous,
though doubtless one effect of its abol-
ition will be to throw number of artists
out of employment But what seems to
prove graver objection to the new law
is that the Japanese, without the assist
ancc of the family totem prickcd on the
skin, will experience considerable diff
Guilty in distinguishing one another.-St.
James Gazette.
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Natures Favorite Garden Spot.

The terrestrial fowerland par excellence
is the Caspian slope Of the Caucasus
range, near the pass Of Derbent, the an
cient Pyle Caucasie. The mountains, to
height of 5000 feet, are all summer
afanae with flowers, both in the forest and
open glades. All sorts of blooming creep
ers stretch their festoons from tree to tree;
flowery mountain meadows attract
swarms of butterflies; hollyhocks and
tlger-lilies are found near the upper limits
of arboreal vegetation. A correspondent
of The Ausland, who visited that Caspian
Florida in the company of party of Rus
sian railway surveyors, comes to the con-
clusion that the highlands of the cast
were, after all. natures favorite garden
spots, and that the master races Of man
kind who abandoned that paradise have, in
many respects, gone further to fare worse.
DR.. Felix l., Oswald.
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vaccination on q Grand Scale.

A correspondent of The Paris Temps
proposes that bust of Radama II, king
Of Madagascar, be placed in the vestibule
of the Pasteur institute. Radama II.
dourished about 1901, and so knew moth
ing Of NJ. Pasteur, but he was an cnthus-
iastic vaccinationist, thinking that all
complaints might be prevented by some
such treatment as has proved efficacious
in the case of smallpox. With view to
proving his theory, he obtained the virus
Of all diseases known in his dominions,
placed his collections in large bottle, and
inoculated his council of ministers with
the mixture. 1t proved that he had dis
covered not SO much q panacea for all hu-
man ills US q speedy means of producing a
change of government. 1t is recognized,
however, that Radama II. meant WE'LL
Chicago Tribune.
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Introduction Of tho Potato.

The French intended doing honor to the
potato by celebrating the cenetenary OF
Of Parmentler, who not only introduced
that root into France, but inveigled his
countrymen into eating it. Parmentier's
efforts to popularize plant which has
since become staple article of food were
all in vain, until he bethought him Of the
old proverb concerning stolen fruit, and
planted very large field with potatoes.
When they were fit:for digging, he caused
them to be protected all day .ong by
geudarmes. When the officers were with
drawn his potato field was plundered.
The taste thus acquired spread with
amazing rapidity; Parmentier had a title
bestowed upon him by Louis XVI, and
took for his crest potato flower. At the
festival all the different varieties of the
potato are to be exhibited and all the
instruments used in its cultivation.-;Bos-
ton Budget. -'r' 80. '.' ...'-
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THE STREET SCENES OF TUNlS.
A Moving Living Panorama That Is OF
Intense I,terest to the Stranger.

a Moving Living Panorama That Is OF
Intense Interest to the Stranger.
The street scenes OF Tunis are novelty
to Euiope or an American, as you see
nothing like them except in an oriental
city, or perhaps in Tunis itself. AS SIT
by my hotel window and gaze down upon
the street, the moving living panorama
that is continually passing by from early
morning until late at night is ever chang
ing like the prisms in kaleidoscope ana
never devoid of intense interest to the
stranger. Camels are as plenty as horses
in an American city, and I seldom look
out into the street without seeing more or
less Of these uncouth animals crowdlng
their way through the narrow thorough
fares, sometimes sineSy or in pairs, ana
not infrequently long caravan OF forty
or fifty or more coming in from far away
interior towns, heavily laden with mer-
chandise and all manner Of country pro-
ducts
Strapped to the backs of the camels, un-
til it would seem as If they would break
down with the heavy burthens, are SACKS
of wheat and barley, bales of wool anu
compressed rags, hay, cord wood for burn
ing and, occasionally, sticks OF timber.
Many have large epaniers made OF grass,
thrown over their backs, which are filled
with vegetables Of different kinds, earthen
pottery, rude stoneware, etc. These cara
vans are usually preceded by an Arab
mounted on a donkey, who acts as the
leader, and who seems to have perfect
control of the long line Of camels follow
ing. In going through the streets there ls
O stampede of the motley crowd of Arabs,
and of vehicles, if there happens to be any,
to places of safety, for, like sailing vessels,
the camels have the right of way, and IN
very narrow Streets with the big paniers
bulging out from either side of their bod
les, they occupy all the space between the
low buildings, to the exclusion OF street
loungers and wayfarers.
In the kaleidoscope of humanity that
meets the eye from my hotel window are
the Arab money changers, with baskets OF
coins on their arms: medicine men" In
their grotesque costumes, who. by their
strange, unearthly incantations, and for
small fees, pretend to save souls from
purgatory; wretched, half-naked beggars,
bowling, moaning and beseeching, with
outstretched palms, for the smallest of IA
vors in the way Of food or copper coins;
street venders, bearing on their heads or
shoulders baskets Of merchandise or vege'
tables; jugglers plying their craft: Arab
priests, or "holy men," to whom the rabble
pay Difference by getting out of their way
and making low salaams as they pass by.
Occasionally one of the bey's ministers, or
possibly the bey himself, in his gilded car
riage drawn by four or six mules, accom-
panied by an escort of ten or twelve OIL
cere in gorgeous oriental uniforms,
mounted on splendid Arabian horses, goes
dashing by, followed, perhaps, by num-
Der of mounted Bedouins, who are testing
the speed of their favorite steeds with
those of their illustrious rulers.-Tunis
Cor Boston Herald.
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President Arthur's Happiest Days.

President Arthur always dressed well,
and his clothes were always in accordance
with the occasion. His usual suit when
receiving callers was black diagonal with
a Prince Albert coat closely buttoned and
cut so as to fit him perfectly. He wore
business suits while in his office, and his
favorite hat was q tall plug, black during
the winter and white in the summer His
fondness for fishing was we'll known, and
it is said that he caught the largest salmon
ever caught with fly in this country.
During his presidency he made many fish
ing trips, and about the only presents he
would receive were those consisting Of
fshing-rods When he left the White
House he went Off fishing as the first thing,
and 1 think his happiest days were spent
with the rod in his hands.-"Carp" in Cleve-
land Leader.
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The Fourteen Mistakes of Life.

Somebody has condensed the mistakes
of life, and arrived at the conclusion that
there are fourteen of them. Most people
would say, if they told the truth, that
there was no limit to the mistakes of life;
that there were like the drops in the ocean
or the sands Of the shore in number. but it
is well to be accurate. Here, then, are
fourteen great mistakes: ut Is n great
mistake to set up our own standard Of
right and wrong, and Judge people accoro7
ingly; to measure the enjoyment of others
by our own; to expect uniformity of opin-
ion in this world; to look for judgment
and experience in youth; to endeavor to
mould all dispositions alike; to yield to
immaterial trifles; to look for perfection
in our own actions; to worry ourselves and
others with what can not be remedied; not
to alleviate all that needs alleviation as
far as lies in our power; not to make al
lowances for the infirmities of others; to
consider everything impossible that we
can not perform; to believe only what our
finite minds. can grasp; to expect to be
able to understand everything" Ex-
chanpp
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For and About Wolnon.

It is rumored that Mary Anderson is en-
paped to q Hindoo snake charmer.-Life.
1t is n question for the mathematicians to
solve how much time two women save who
risk their lives running across the street in
front of horse car, and then to have to
stand and wait for the other woman, who
was afraid to run.-Somerville Journal
A woman can't sharpen O pencil herself
worth cent, but she can get O man to cut
his finger and get his hands all black
whittling her pencil down for her, and then
beguile him into the belief that she has
really done him favor by rayishing smile
and q tender "Thank you."-Somerville
Journal,
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A Substftute for n Drink.

1t is little strange that we have no
other amusement for our friends but to
ask them to drink. Several years ago I
carried box of seidlitz powers, and it WIS
my habit at summer hotel to wake up
some man on the floor and compel him, in a
friendly way, to have seidli:z power with
me. Nobody was allowed to refuse, and
the only way he could be permitted to go
sleep again was to take q seidlitz powder.
In little while all the men in the house
became good-looking; compilations i'm
proved; but at last ran out of seidlitz
powders. From that time onward cock
tails before breakfast, whisky and beer
late at digit and the usual forms of folly
resumed sway.-George Alfred Townsend.
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Making It binding.

" am lawyers daughter, you know,
George ar" she said, after George had
propos d had been accepted, "and you
wouldn't think it strange if l were to ask
you to sign little paper to the effect that
we are engaged, would you!'
George was too happy TO think anything
strange just then, and he signed the paper
with trembling hand and bursting heart.
Then she laid her ear against his middle
vest button, and they were very, very happy.
"Ten me, darling" said George, after a
long, delicious silence, "why did you want
me to sign that paper' Do you not repose
implicit confidence in my love for you'"
"Ah yes" she sighed with infinite content,
"indeed lido, but George, dear, l have been
fooled so many times. Life.
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Doomed Unfortunates in Florida.

But who are these meet ut every turn
who seem to have stayed awhile-longer
perhaps, than they will stay anywhere
else in this world, whose hacking cough
jars so painfully on the sympathetic
nerves? They are the army Of invalids, or
rather the stragglers from the main army.
left here in its northward march. And
they are one and all "disgusted with
Florida" They ali. think it q bad place
for invalids. They are all "just waiting
here few days, till they get strong
enough" to 60 to Minnesota, Colorado, or
California Many of them have their
trunks packed to start; one or two tell me
they have bought their tickets and "would
have started to-day only caught u fresh
cold, and so am not gaining strength just
now" Poor fellows! Poor, doomed, un-
fortunates, halting feebly on the verge OF
the tomb, and still believing every siren
song of hope.
lam not hard-hearted, hope, and ]
certainly have personal cause to SYM
pathize with consumptives; but l confess
that arrange my movements SO rs to lis
ten to them as little as possible. For am
satisfied, and long have been, that con-
sumption is contagious-very contagious,
indeed, to those who have slight ten
dency that way-and between two resorts
of anything of equal attractiveness, l
would urge the incipient consumptive to
20 where he will hear the fewest like HIM
self. 1t is not only breathing close air
with them-that may be avoided-but to
hear them talk and cough will certainly
aggravate the consumptive tendency in
another. I fancy that one reason my
seven years in Utah and the Rocky Noun
tains did me SO much good was that I
associated entirely with healthy people
miners, Mormons, Indians, railroad men,
soldiers, and hunters. All the prominent
people saw or thought much about were
healthy.-"Parke", in Chicago Times.
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THEO DO R I K0HN.
INSURANCE AGAINST
STORMS AND CYCLONES.
HOME INSURANCE COMPANY,
OE' NEW YOleEa,
ISSUES A TORNADO POLICY ON
HOUSES AND ANIMALS.

In view of the frequent occurrence Of
disastrous Cyclones and 1ornadoes, in sec
tions of the country which have heretofore
Ren.considered exempt from such storms,
we deem this fitting opportunity to CALI
your attention to the fact that the HOME
is now prepared to issue It's policies against
losses from such disasters, at such rates, as
to be within the reach of every property
owner.
DURI>.G ONE IEAE TORNADOES
OCCURRED IN VIRGINIA--12 IN
NORTH CAPOLINA-22 IN SOUTH
CAROLINA-3S IN GEORGlA-1S IN
ALABAMA-7 N MISSISSIpII-1 IN
LOUISIANA IN TENAS.
Losses such ., the Following. were re-
ported:
TOWN NEARLY DESIEOIED-IOo
BUILDINGS nEsTEOIED-22 HOUSES.
DEMOLlSIlED-5u BUILDINGS De
MULISllED, LOSS OF PROPERTY
500, ,oou-55 BUILDINGS DESTROYED,
DAMAGE TO PROPERTY 100000.
The followin" extract from the Signal
Service Burcau report, indicates the I'M
portancc of such Insurance as is offered by
the HOME INSURANCE COMPANY:
1T is we'll nigh impossible to construct
any buildings strong enough Ia completely
resist the extraordinary violence of the
Tornado cioud you can never expect to-
save your buildings. The harrow belt OF
destruction renders it practicable lUr /.
whole state, through Insurance Companies.
to bear the loss that occurs at any one point
General Insurance is the wiSrSt policy.
~" DON'T WAIT UNTIL THE NEX1
STORM SCATTERS YOUR PROPERTY
TO TIE WINDS, EUT PROCURE 4
POLICY IN TIE HOME INSURANCE
CO., OF NEW YORK, AGAINST TOR
NADOES, CYCLONES AND WIND
STORMS. JNO. \. HAMILTON,
May 20 Orangeburg, 5. e.
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A Bronze Beauty in the Saddle.

The Duchess d'Uzes is in despair. The
empress of Austria is green with jealous
rage. Why! Because their fame as the
greatest equestrian women in Europe is
about TO fade. The Princess Bargash
Said Medfid is here. And who is She?
The sister Of the sultan Of Zanzibar
What, negro? Not quite; and African,
Of course, but her complexion is only
bronzed, and she is really beautiful and
cultured woman But in the saddle! Why,
she is accustomed to riding out to shoot
lions, and she can outdoo any circus per-
former in the world. She has stood erect
on the back of a gallqping horse and with
her rifle shot running antelopes. What
are our European equestrians to herl-
Paris Cor Chicago Tribune.
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Nashington's Bcd-Room ut Mt Vernon.


Washingtons bedroom is almost eX-
actly as it was on the night of his death
Even the covcrlid on the bed is the same
which covered him during his dying hours,
and in the fireplace are the andirons which
were in use when DR.. Craik, on that
memorable night in December, 1899, sat
by the fire listening to the terrible breath
ing of the dying man. After his death
Mrs Washington never entered the room,
but went up ON the third floor to a little
hip-roofed room, which she never left
from that time to the day of her death,
which followed eighteen months later.
When asked the reason for choosing out
of the whole mansion this mean little
room, sho said it was because from that
window only could she see Washington's
tomb. During the little while she survived
him her chair was always placed at that
window, and even from her deathbed she
could watch the grave.-Washington
Letter
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THOSE sMatL WNIVE HANDS.


Those small, white hands, how peacefully
they rest, -,.,s.
Crossfolded there upon her little breast,
And were it not that they oft rise and
sink,
With her calm breathing, one would
surely think
That she had dropped asleep at deaths
behest.
Ilove to feel upon my cheek impressed
The touch Of those soft palms in mute re-
quest;
For love dwells in those palms SO white
and pink;
Those small, white hands.
Perhaps in future days they will arrest
A portion of the woe to man bequest;
Perchance may lure from dire destruc-
tions brink
Some erring souls by holding forth the
link
To bind them unto God, content and
blest,
Those small, white hands.
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The Virtue of Bottled sea-Foam.

A few days ago reporter witnessed aG
North beach, while listeningto what the
wild waves were telling to each other, the
putting into practice of a strange supersti-
ton. A belief obtains among many OF the
credulous all over the world that ocean or
river water, if collected in a certain way
with certain vessels, is positive cure for
many diseases that flesh is heir to. The
best known instance Of this belief IS the
strong faith of the natives of India in the
healing powers Of the rivers Ganges and
Euphrates.
At a little cove between Meiggs' wharf
and the Shelby smelling works two ladies,
both apparently belonging to the most re-
spectacle social ranks, were the actors IN
the strange drama witnessed by the re-
porter. One of the ladies stood on the
shore close to the rising tide, and was
counting long string of black and white
cowrie shells, while repeating a formnla
Of which the reporter could not quite
catch the meaning but it sounded like re-
peating number of numerals in Spanish.
Standing in the water knee deep, regard
less of the ruin to her clothing, was the
other participant in the ceremonies. In
one hand she held white fint-glass bot
tie, with an extremely long, thin neck and
a capacity of about q pint. With the other
hand she was carefully gathering the foam
from the crest of each incoming wavelet,
using as scoop large blue shell of the
coquille variety. The contents of the shell
she carefully decanted into the bottle.
The lady skinner Of the seas refused to
answer any OF the inquiries of the over
curious, preserving strict and freezing
silence, but the counting lady was more
communicative. She said: "My friend is
gathering the sca-foam to bathe her little
sick dog in. You may laugh at US, but we
know by trial that the water as we are
now getting it is sure cure for the poor
thing Unless we observe all the neces-
sary forms it is time and work wasted.
There! All, poor thing! She has to COM
mence all over again. She put the water
without the foam into the bottle, and that
spoils all she had already got. We were
told of this cure some time ago. I tried it
on my maltese cat, and it cured her, sure.
AL there is to do is to wash the sick ami
NAL in it; that's all there is Of it. Yes, it
may look very silly, the whole thing, but
we are willing to be laughed at if our little
darlings can be cured."-San Francisco
Call.
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NIatrilnony Under False Pretcnses.

Proceedings, it is said, are about to be
begun by Frenchman who bears q fa,
NOUS name to obtain a divorce from his
American wife upon the truly noble
ground that her father led him into matri-
mony under false pretenses by promising
his daughter dowry which he was not in
position to give. Incidents like this throw
q light like that in the apothecary's win
dow on the tinseled romance Of the coro-
neted wooings, 60 dear to the fancy, I fear,
of not few transatlantic damsels. One
hardly knows whether to laugh or become
angry at the rapid transformation of the
republican western girls into European
DANES, becoming more royalist than
the kinp.n-Paris Letter.
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Carolina CultiVatOr.
Patented October l3, 1885.

EARMERS ARE INVITED To
L examine this CULTlNATOR at the
Office of Mr.. Kirk Robinson. II cultivatcs
COTTON, CORN or VEGETABLES dur
inc .ncir early growth. working 10Th
SIDES Of plants .iT THE SANE TIME.
and will harrow cotton before coming up
without iniurng stand. 1t BARS OFF or
throws dirt TO tie plants Il may DC dcsir-
ed. 1t is simple, durable. and great
lahor.savcr Ii took !irs: Premium at the
last state Fair. Send for descriptive circrl-
lar. Price, $50 and freight from Colum.
bia. S. G. Address, JAS. Ii. FOWLES,
Patcntee. Orangcburg, 5. {.
April /.
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mo, not any"
aFound something to pay better?n

day.
@No, not any,"
aFound something to pay better9"
HWeH, can't say that have; I am busy
Just now looking for q mathematician to
figure how long it takes man, after losing
two plantations In cotton deals, to bring up
within yelling distance Of second class
poorhouse."
A dealer in ground coffees in western
city was approached the other day by o
commission merchant who desired to dispose
Of 100 0barrels Of beans at low figure.
aBeansl' exclaimed the merchant; "why,
what use can put them tor
"Use them in your coffee"
"In my coffee9 How little knowledge of
the coffee trade you outsiders possess7 If I
should put in beans at their present price,
I'd be bankrupt in q month. Bring me
carrots and parsnips and old corn, and I'll
talk business. ."-Wall Street News.
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School of the New Theology.

Another religious sect will be repre-
sented upon the shores of Chautauqua
lake this season, to be known as the Lake
wood School of the New Theology. The
object of the association, as announced, is
to give instruction in art, in science and in
literature; in the Bible and kindred topics;
relaxation to the body and culture to the
minds. DR.. Townsend, who is preaching
the new theology in jamestown, is the
leader in the movement.-ChicagoJ Jour.
nal,
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Rivalries of Two Cities.

Said the mayor of Minneapolis to an alder
man:
~ hear that another family moved into st.
Paul yesterday"
"Yes"
"How large!'
"Man an wife and four children"
"That's bad. What are we doing"
"Well, one pair of twins is reported from
the Fourth ward, and two immigrants from
New York have just got here. l expect d
friend and his wife and one child to arrive
on the noon traia. think we'll manage to
keep up with tlat one-horse town down the
river."-Estelline ID. IT, Bell
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Dame nIourns for. a Count.

The story runs in Paris that when the
Comte the Chambord died certain dame
of the soft-brained Bourbon eX-nobility Of
France carried her ostentatious sorrow SO
far as to have her lawn-tennis net and
raquettes dyed black.-Chicago Journal
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There are 5000 teachers of elocution in
this country trying to develop the orator
ical talents Of the people.
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Arsbi Pasha is teaching school at
Colombo, IN Ceylon.
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Mary Anderson is said to be negotiating
fer stock ranch in Nebraska.