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The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
AN OLD MANS SONG.

1he world is full of mystery,
Which no one understands;
Whit q before our eyes we see,
Thu work Of unseen hands;
Bus whence and when and why the
wrought,
Escapes the grasp Of human thought.
Ihzrs Tas time when we were not,
And there will be again.
Kaea we must cease and be forgot,
WIth all Our joy and pain
Suns like the w.nl, or like the snow
That fell thousand years ago.
We fre as if we should not die,
BliDdly, but wisely. too;
For we knew that death was nigh,
What could we say or do,
But fold our arms and close our eyes,
AMI care no more who lives or dies?
M dfath to each man in his turn
Is coming soon or late,
Re ourS the soldiers unconcern,
And his courageous fate;
Better to perish in the strife
1hsa 10 preserve the towards life.
New Year, if you were bringing youth
As you are bringing age,
1wonld not have it back; in sooth,
ihsre no strength to wage
Lost battles over. Lot them be;
Bury jour dead, o memory:
YOu can bring nothing will surprise,
And nothing will dismay,
80 tears again in these old eyes,
No darkness in my day.
Yon might bring light and smiles instead,
j yon could give ME back my dead.
have beheld your kin, New Year,
Fnlly fifty times, and none
Thns was so happy and so dear,
I Hept when it was done.
Why should we weep when years depart,
And leave their ashes in the heart!
Good-Sy since you are gone, Old Year,
And my past life, good-by!
] she'd no tear upon your bier,
For it is well 10 die.
New Year, your Worst will be my best
What can an oh man want but rests
Richard Henry Stoddard.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
Tea-Eating Women.

Two servants, who were hauled up be-
fore Boston police justice the other
day, charged with creating q rumpus,
Indignantly denied having been drunk.
They said that they had been somewhat
under the influence of tea, which was
responsible for their eccentric behavior.
But" remarked the julge, III never
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30
WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOR
FEMININE READERS
ViOletS.

violets are the prevailing flower in the
fashionable world now. White violets
are succeeding lilies of the valley for
bridal bouquets, and bridesmaids carry
dark blue Parma violets. At recent
wedding all the flowers used about the
house for the wedding decorations were
violets. The cost of the display was
fabulous. Great punches of maiden
hair ferns are also used for bridesmaids.
Fashionable women are using violet
perfume aud no other, for the odor is
delicious. .-.Neu YorE Telegram.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30

American wagons have the market
South America, and the American wh$
barrow is to be met with in every d
ton of China and Japan.
The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1889-01-30

The richest university in the world i
said to be that of Leydeu, Holland. II
has real estate to the value of So, 00C, OOO
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
THE DIRECT TAX OF 1861.
Hartford Courant

Hartford Courant.
In the summer of 1861, civil war then
being fragrant in the land, the congress
at Washington levied a direct tax upon
the people of the states and territories
the only tax of the kind ever laid in this
country within the memory Of any one
now living The act was approved by
President Lincoln, August 5, that year.
That tax was laid because the govern
ment had the job of suppressing rebel
lion on its hands, needed the money, and
needed it at once The states of the 10y
al north promptly paid the quota assess
ed upon their people. Colorado. indeed,
which was not then a state, still owes
the government $715, and Washington
Territory $3,4S7; but, with these excep-
tions, the north paid. For obvious rea-
sons, the collection of the tax in the
southern states, the misconduct OF
whose people had made Its levylng
necessary, was at the time I'M
practicable The result is that under that
act of August 5, 1861, Alabama owes the
United States $511, 02S; Arkansas 107, IS4;
Florida, $72,762; Georgia, $466, 1884; Lou
isiana, 81, 3S5; Mississippi. S3O2, 046;
North Carolina, $19S, 742; South Carroll
ma. Sal, ia; Tennessee, SIT .493; Texas,
$174,2 65; Virginia, $2S6,662. Add the
Indebtedness of Utah 1926. 9S2), Colorado
and Washington Territory. and the to-
tai sum due the United States under the
act of congress and remaining unpaid Is
$3.50, 314.
Of course, with surplus in the treas
ury, nobody wants to put the screws on
these delinquent states and compel them
- l,a n of
their people in rebelling against the
United States that made the levylng OF
that direct tax of 1861 necessary, and 1T
Is obviously only the fair thing, it they
are allowed to go scot free, that the gov
eminent should refund to northern states
the sums in which they were assessed
because of that misconduct. The logic
OF the situation requires one of two
things-the collection of the money
due or the refunding of the money
paid.
A year ago last December, Mr.. Morrill,,
of Vermont, introduced a bill to credit
and pay to the several states and terri
tories all moneys collected under the dI-
rect tax levied by the act Of congress
approved August 5, 1861. After amend
ment it passed the senate. In the house
it encountered a. determined ''tlibuster
headed by TIE gallant Colonel Oates, Of
Alabama, which prevented its passage
last session, but this session December
70, 1889 it was amended and passed.
The amendments made a committee nee
essary. This committee agreed upon
and reported a bill, Colonel Oates,
one of the house conferrees, de-
clining tosign the report. The senate
agreed to the report last Saturday, and
on Tuesday voted down a motion to re-
consider, yeas s, nays 4S. Yesterday the
conference report was agreed to by the
house, yeas 16S, nays IS. The bill was
Immediately signed by the speaker and
the presiding officer Of the senate, and
sent to President Cleveland. If he signs
it. or if he fails to return it with his OBJ
iections during the next ten days Sun
DAYS not counted), it will become law.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
THE SUNFLOWER.

A Mississippi county ARK correspon-
dent for the Memphis Weekly Avalanche
writes: noticed an article headed '.An-
other Poetical Delusion," copied from
Science Gossip, criticising Moore's lines:
No, the heart that has truly loved never
forgets,
But as truly loves on to the end:
AS the sunflower turns to her god when he
sets,
The same look she turned when he rose.
l give the full verse without his mis-
quotation in using how for as The
writer states it is an entire mistake of
the poet, as the sunfiower does not turn
at all to the sun.
Ny observation of the sunfower dur
ing the past summer on a large scale,
and more or less for many years, fully
corroborate Moore's observation. Dur
ing the past summer had several rows
of suntlowerS along the north side
of a corn field, and all day
work hands (who had never heard
of MooreI noticed that the sun
flower turned 10 the sun. The writer
says he could note no twisting of the
stem. etc. The stem does not twist. but
the whole plant bows to the sun the same
as every one has noticed the bushes
along a creek leaning toward the light
In the morning they will turn to the
east, at noon south, and in the evening
very decidedly west. This movement is
more marked before the flowers are fully
expanded while the stems are soft. and
at the time the seeds of the disk fiorets
begin to ripen disappears almost entirely.
This turning Ito her god when he sets
Is common more or less TO nearly all the
species Of the genus heilanthus.
The varieties of the suntiower ]
observed this past summer were the
common varlety-many Powered,
the flowers coming out all
around the stem, and the large Russian
variety having mostly one or two flow
ers on the top of the stem.
| think If this scientific observer or
any one else wishing to test the matter.
VIII plant some suntlowers next spring
and observe them ali through the season.
they viii De convinced that it is not q
''postical delusion." Moore. although a
poet land it is generally considered that
If q man is poet he is nothing more
was close observer of the poetical side
OF nature. Who has not recognized his
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
DUST, DANCES AND DISEASE.

From the London Lancet.
In this festive season dangers are en-
countered with light heart. Words of
prudent caution are apt to be regarded
as indications of senility which can be
laughed to scorn by the more youthful
and robust. The dangers of sudden
chills when heated are rashly braved by
those who have not learned wisdom from
sad experience until too many families
have to mourn the loss of one whose
initial troubles date back to exposure
on leaving a dance" \ correspondent
seasonably draws our attention to an
other risk which cannot be
avoided by the most prudent I'M
til it has been generally recog-
nized, viz, the probably deleterious
action of the irritant PARTICLES of glass
fluX, known in commerce as ''glitterlng
frost" frost powder" etc. These par
ticles were formerly affixed to artificial
flowers and fancy dresses by some
adhesive material, but they are now en-
ployed extensively by merely being
busted on before attending places of
amusement, and are, hence, readily
shaken off and diffused through the
atmosphere by any brisk movements.
Our correspondent has experienced irri-
tation of the throat, while he has known
other persons who were affected in the
eyes. or who suffered from irritation of
the skin of the face and hands, doubtless
to be traced to this. cause. 1t is quite
conceivable that the trouble may extend
further. 1t is well known that opera
tives working in an atmosphere charged
with irritant spicules suffer from various
forms of chrome pulmonary disease. In
his admirable report upon the mortality
! in England and Wales during the ten
years 1Sa1-S0, DR.. William Ogle devoted
considerable space to the consideration
of the mortality from phthisis and dis
eases of the respiratory organs in what
he terms discriminating occupations
His figures bear heavy record against
the dust of stone and the dust of metal.
Hitherto the dust of glass has escaped
observation; indeed the circumstances
under which it is likely to be inhaled
render it probable that subsequent bron-
chial affections are more likely to be at
tributed to some other cause; still it can
scarcely be supposed that these insoluble
sharp particles can be inhaled with i'm
pFlnltV
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
THE TRAVELLING MAIL SYSTEM.

| EX-PostmaSter General James con-
tributes to Scribners for March a series
of short articles upon the postal service
of the government, mainly touching the
railway branch of it, the first of which
articles, giving a history of what is
known as the Travelling Mail Service, is
herewith given and will be read with in
terest, not only because the idea or sys-
tenn Is of western origin, but also because
the mail service more directly and inn
mediately concerns each individual citi-
zen than any other department of the
public service. General James says:
The credit of suggesting the first step
toward the present system has generally
been given to Colonel G. B. Armstrong,
who in 1864 was assistant postmaster at
Chicago. This is incorrect; Mr.. w. A.
Davis, a clerk Of the St. Joseph, Mo-,
postoffice, where the overland mail was
made up, conceived the idea in 1862 that
if the letters and papers could be assorted
on the cars between Quincy and st. Jo-
seph, the overland mail could start
promptly on time. He was given per-
mission to carry out his idea, and there
are vouchers on file in the department
at Washington showing that he was paid
| for that specific work. In 1864 Colonel
Armstrong was authorized and encour-
aged by the Hon. Montgomery Blair,
then postmaster general, to undertake
the difficult task of arranging and intro
ducing the service, On August 81, 1864,
he wrote: To-day | commenced the
new distribution" Subsequently, Colo
mel Armstrong became the first general
railway mail superintendent, and held
this office until i'll health compelled him
to resign in 1871. To Colonel George S.
Bangs, of Illinois, and his successors,
! Theodore \. Vail, VIM. B. Thompson
and John Jameson, is due the excellence
of the present system. Colonel Bangs
was a thoroughly equipped postoffice
man, energetic, courageous, and pro-
greSsive. Brimful of ideas, he was ever
on the lookout for Improvement. Never
satisfied with old ways, he was constant
iy striving to simplify and better the SER
vice. Ee forgot himself in his work,
and died martyr to his duty, leaving
the travelling postOfiice of today mon
ument to his memory. While to Col
onel Armstrong is due the credit for the
skeleton Of the system, it was the genius
of Colonel Bangs that clothed the bones
with flesh, developed the sinew, put the
blood in circulation, and breathed into
its body the breath of life. He intro
duced a system of emulation among the
employees, rewarding those who display
ed proficiency by promotion over the
sluggish, and thus in fact was probably
father of what is now known as civil
service reform.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
Ycmnle Progrrs. .n Japan.

The London Mode Of Fsshion says tnst
the Empress Of japan Is 81 the bead OF
powerful movement for lettering The cond-
ton OF the women Of that oosntry She has
established a college for women At Tokso,
under the management Of Q cSrpHitise 81
European and American ssorns1- The si.ad-
ard OF education il very low. especially la
the country dtstricts, AID i IL hopef THAI
this college, viii prove valuable sad In
raising the women Of japan 70 . higher iev-
Ell In enc 81 the Lonosn hospitals sasrs
are new three japanese ladies vas are 90
fng through their training a. nnrses, VITA
the in.enii0u Of rgturriag 70 their owu
country when qualified aud ,~sosAing thssy
es1uetyywo1aen.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27

a Observation-Disclosures was porn near the
shores Of Lake George, and whose life had
been spent among the foothills OF the Al
irondacks, who shoots rife with accuracy
and relates seeing a deer ard occasionally
a bear near her horne. She teaches schOo.
both winter and summer, frequently hav-
ing 20 walk long distances through the
woods 10 her school. Last summer she
found rattiesnafe In her path one morn
ing, which she killed with stick, and now
has the ratties preserved as a rnemento
OF the occasion. The school was built
IN grove Of pines, and during the sumner
she was bothered by mosquitoes, and had a
tin pail in which she kept burning prepa-
ration, the smoke Of winch drove the fnos-
GuitOes out Of the scheolhouse Arriving
at the school one morning, she took up the
pail and carried IL outside 20 clean. Motto
ing that IL was unusually heavy, on getting
out IN tie sunlight and oyerturuing the
pail, rattlesnake over three feet IN length
was found 10 have been h!dden IN tho
'smgdge in the pail He had crswied tn
during the night, ane she had carried him
outside without disturbing him. She killed
him with the assistance % small boys, and
opened school a. usual She has TO fear Of
rattiesnalges, which are plentiful IN the
vicinity Of her hone, ts a good fisherman,
swimmer and oarsInsn, and IL relating her
adventures did not appear 20 think them
uncommon or different from the ordinary
girls experiepce -
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
ABOUT APPOINTMENTS.
Globe-Democrat.


1t is given out on the authority of a
prominent Indiana politician that Gen
eral Harrison is going TO adopt the policy
of referring all applications for office TO
the department where they properly be-
long; and when appointments are 10 be
made, the several cabinet officers will be
expected TO consult the state congress
sional delegations and decide what names
on the list of eligibles shall be given the
preference. That is to say, the president
Will be governed in the matter by the
advice of the members of his cabinet
and they will give heed in turn TO the
recommendations OF senators and repre-
sentatives, thus leaving the responsibility
practically with the latter There Is good
reason to believe that this statement is
true, as in indicates just such acourse On
General Harrlsons part as Is TO be ex-
peosed from man OF his good sense and
thorough acquaintance with the problem
of distributing public patronage. In the
nature of things he can not properly IN
dertake 70 make personal Investigations
in any except the most Importan. cases.
He has other duties which forbid the
idea of bis passing upon the claims Of
Office seekers as class. and the mani
testify reasonable thing for him TO do Is
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27

uae 1901 IS DaKed, ana wnen the IRE has
burned low the contents of the oven are
lifted out by several men and the feast
opens Travellers who have Toasted with
the Kaffirs on occasions of this kind have
paid glowing compliments to their cookery.
The natives are said TO love elephant foot
next to TIE marrow taken from the leg
bones of the giraffe or Gland, but the prep
ara.iou of this food does not afford the en-
joynent which is associated with the dish
we have described.
know of no people who get oysters from
trees but the mandlnCOes, through whose
country flow the Senegal and Gambia rivers
The bivalves are taken from the branches,
TO which they attach themselves during high
tide. Here is 4 Maudingo bill Of fare which
Rsade. the explorer, leaves on record fOrthe
amusement Of the curious: Then fol
lowed. +" he says, . gazelle outlets a la papIl-
lote,; two small monkeys, served cross
legged and with liver sauce on toast;
stewred iguana, which was much admired; a
dish of roasted crocodile's eggs; some shoes
of smoked elephant from the INTERIOR q
few agreeable plates Of fried locusts. land
crabs and other crustacse; the breasts Of
merm aid or manatee, the grand bonne-
boucho of the rcp2st, some boiled alligator,
and sumo hippCpotomus steaks" While
this Dim or does not equal ~ courses some
of the elaborate feests Of civilized lands,
certainly no one Will say that It lacked va
riety.
Lotus seeds form one Of the most com
mon disbs known TO the Bari OF Central
Africa. TIE pods when gathered are bored
and strun.. On reeds and hung in the sun
for drying, after which they get 70 the table.
J. - 81.
Barri tribe bleed their cattle monthly, and
cook the tso1d with their -four and meal
They esteem this luxury, and the dish Is
ea+ar ..gifh .rrrsaf rp4fsh
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27
CAN MEN LEARN TO FLYq

| The readers of the EAGLE will remem-
Der that few days after the Inaugural
ton of Gov. Humphrey and converting of
the legislature citizen of the western
part of this state applied to the gov
ernor for assistance to develop an inven-
/ ton that he claimed to have made Of
machine with which the air can be navi-
gated at will. His prayer was politely
declined, the petitioner being commonly
held as belonging to the genus crank. A
! statement now comes from New York
that a company has been organized with
a capital of 81, 100000 to back an inven-
tor of new flying machine.
The inventor Is a Scotchman and
| claims he has been at work on his
machine along time, and it is said that
he recently took trip of two miles IN it.
The academy of science is taking enough
interest in the matter to discuss it, and
the opinion seems TO be that machine
modelled after the form Of sea bird will
some day be mode to traverse the air.
The New York machine is sixty feet
long and forty-two feet in diameter. 1t
is cigar-shaped, and its wings work Like
those of bird, by the aid of an electric
propeller, and the passenger is carried
just as the eagle carries his prey.
One reason why scientific men feel so
much confidence in the final success of
aerial navigation is because it is no
new thing. 1t was practiced by the
ancients. and we are told that 400 years
before Christ wooden pigeon was made
to fly successfully.
If the Scotch inventor is able with his
unprotected machine to travel couple
of miles, he will doubtless be able to do
still better with improved facilities.
The million dollars placed at his disposal
by the stock company ought to enable
him to find out whether his invention is
a success or failure.
After all the sport that has been made
at the expense of our Kansan, therefore,
it may develop that he is on the right
track for both fame and wealth. Ney-
ertheless, until success in this enterprise
is doubly assured most people will set
it down with the Kelley motor class of
impracticabilities.
Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-02-27

to rely upon his cabinet, with the un-
Outstanding that the wishes of the sen
ate delegations shall be ascertaIned and
carried out as far as possible.
Ihls does not imply, OF course, that the
requests of delegations that are wholly
or IN part Democratic should be sys-
tematically granted. Under such circum-
stances it viii be right and necessary,
we should say, for the cabinet officers
to take independent action, having due
regard alike for the interests Of the gov
eminent and the success of the admin
lstratlon. It is to be presumed that Re-
publlcans only be appointed, and that
Democrats viii not be retained to please
Congressman of that faith; though so
far as places which come under the
civil service law are concerned, partisan
influences must necessarily be disre-
garded. AS a general thing, it is safe to
assume that a Congressman will not
recommend a man for an Office in his
district whose appointment would be
condemned by his constituents, partic-
ularly when he knows that he is to be
held directly responsible for 1t. Mr..
many unfortunate selections If he had
listened more kindly to the suggestions
of Democratic Congressman. and had
had not attempted to perform
the work which he should
have left to his Cabinet. General
Harrison is likely to profit by this glar-
ing example of folly and weakness. The
blunders of his predecessor will not be
repeated, it is entirely safe to predict.
He is not so blinded by self-esteem and
so ignorant of administrative processes
and conditions that he will burden hima
self with all the details of the machin-
cry of government. lis past experience
as a senator will enable him to take a
practical view OF his duties, and to con-
fine his attentions to things of superior
Importance, instead of trying to monop..
Ollie all the powers and privileges of
president, cabinet and congress. In
short, we may confidentially look to him
for policy of statesmanlike dignity,
prudence and fidelity to his party and
his country.