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Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12
Can't Stop 's1lpping..

al see," remarked well-known
man about town the other day, 'rhat
we are in the midst of another of those
periodic outbreaks against tipping, but
il won't mako bit of difference; tin
ping will go on just the same. Some
few people will conceive the notion
that as q matter of principle they
ought 10 refrain from tipping and they
will try it for a few days aud then
will conclude that for the sake of their
own peace of mind they'd better tip.
They'll continue confirmed 'uppers'
for the rest of their days.
"The fact is it requires moro cour.
age to rebel against the tipping sys-
TEN than it does to revolt against al.
most any other social custom. know
whereof l speak, for I've been there
aud I'll just tell you how it works
When you withhold the usual TIP you
become painfully aware that the wal
ter thinks you are frightfully mean.
You would like 10 explain to him that
you are only making a noble and he
roic fight for principle, but Of course
that is out of the question. Now,
nothing hurts a mans pride so much
rs 10 feel that somebody thinks him
mean. He could better endure being
thought a gambler or bunco stcerer,
or man who didn't pay his debts.
You become afraid TO look that waiter
in the face. Next time you dine some
where else and again incur the odium
of undeserved contempt. You don't
get hardened 10 it; you hate it worse
each time, and after it has gone OH
three or four days you just say to
yourself. Hang it'-or something
else--'this thing has got to stop. L
can't stand having people think l am
mean when know | amt. devil take
:he principle of the thing Then you
resume tipping and arc happy oucc
more. - New York Herald.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12
Before we had gone one-quartcr Of

- Before we had gone one quarter of
nj way night had set in for good.
| lHit there was moon, and that helped
Jsj along amazingly. We had got
#thin mile of the station and had
od reason 10 believe we were safe.
zen suddenly the horse stopped with
mort of terror, reared up, and tried
uturn in the road. A cut with the
whip Strengthened him up, but ho Kept
on snorting and showing evidences Of
terror looked up the road and dis
covered the cause of all this. An i'm
mensc bear stood on its haunches at
one side of the road growing and
Startling and showing disposition to
alvancc upon u'. When my brave
over saw the savage beast he rose up
the wagon, gave ayell, and gasped:
"Ohl Jennie, let's go back"
81 forgot all about the bear.
aa2ed in amazement at my gallant
might lie was rs pale as shccs.
he lines hung loose in his hands. ]
,ized them, jerked them away from
lsim, took the whip, and, as held the
Eorsc from turning round, ordered
The eowardly youth out of the wagon.
He crawled out of the back end of the
wagon, and tore down the road as fast
d his legs could carry him.
a"Then l whipped the horse with all
Nv might, and he sprang forward aud
yhizzed the wagon past the growing
ear SO close that lit almost knocked
ae ugly beast over. L drove on TO
ac station, had the horse put out, and
liant in the little hotel there to wait
A ! father. My loves young dream
~ gone as if it had never been. Tan
lutes after | reached the station the
N came aud went. Ten minutes
"a Ii father came tearing OH horseback
r'aAto the door. met him.
:" Father" said |, I've been saved
y calf
"Then told him all about the adj
Fenture on the road.
".Saved by caIfP he exclaimed,
kYou mean saved by BEAR"
".Not at all. replied. IF Jerry
ladn't been calf and the biggest
hind of a calf, that bear wouldn't have
been any more than a stump il my
.yay. 1 was saved by a calf, tell
'tou. and | want to go homer
"My gallant lover was never seen
round our neighborhood again, and
omehow or other, father always
4eemed to think more of me after that
Chan he ever had before. .'--[New
FORK Sun.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12

strength than either Percneron or
Boulonnais and possesses equally as
much energy. In 1850 the Belgian
Government established depot for
stations, but this was afterward
given up and the Government sought
to improve the horses of the country
by encouraging local competition for
colts and prizes for stations. The
Belgian horses are generally bay or
brown-black in color, but sorrel, roam
and other colors are occasionally
found. They resemble the Percher-
ons very closely and require a second
look even from an expert to distin-
guish them. The subject of our
sketch is the draft stallion Brilliant,
by Orange, the property of NJ. Du-
mont, of Sart-Dame Avellines, Bra
bant, Belgium.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12
A Bundle Bee Chased by a Humming
Bird.

An observer writes that he is salts
fed that there is just a. much rivalry
between humming birds and bees in
their quest for honey as there is be-
tween members of the hnman race in
their struggle for the good things of
life, and describes recent quarrel
that he saw i'll Portland, (Me.)
garden, where a humming bird with
an angry dash expressed its disap-
proval of the presence of a big bumble
bee in the same tree. The usually
pugnacious bee incontinently fed,
but he did not leave the tree. He
dashed back and forth among the
branches and white blossoms, the
humming bird in close pursuit.
Where will you find another pair
that could dodge and dart equal to
these? They were like flashes of
light, yet the pursuer followed the
track of the pursued, turning when
the bee turned. In short, the bird and
the bee controlled the movements of
his eyes. The chase was all over in
half the time that it has taken TO tell
it, but the excitement of pack of
hounds after fox was 10 greater.
The bee escaped, the bird giving up
the chase and alighting on twig. 1t
couldn't have been chasing The bee for
food, and there is no possible cxpla-
nation of its unprovoked aitnck except
that ii wished 10 have all tho huuey
itse E. TChieagr Times.
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12
One of Natures Economics.

Birds with long legs always have
hort tails. Writer'S on the flight of
birds have shown that the only use of
birds tail is TO serve as a rudder
Turing the act Of flight. When Eirds
re provided with long legs these are
directly behind whom the
,ird is flying and so act as sort of
udder. Nature is economical and
lever provides two organs for the
anne purpose, SO when tie long
eggcd birds began to use their legs as
ieering apparatus hature cut eff their
ails and made the leg rudder per-
IN Jcrat,
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cxplosiC contact
with anolnvT cuemical compound.
The explosion is almost unaccompanied
by smoke and the detonation is incou-
siderable. The recoil is very slight.
even when the heaviest charges have
been used. The explosive does not
heat the weapons sufficiently to cause
difficulty in the way of rapid firing,
and cartridges once used are easily re-
filled. For the present rihc, model of
1886, the new compound is not avail
able, but if future tests be as satisfac-
tory as the recent ones it will be in
troduced generally in the artillery
branch of the service. Four models
of new army rifles having many ad-
Tantages over the rifle now in use,
have passed successfully the trials of
she small arms inspectors. The in
ventor of all four is Mr.. Weiss of the
Gera dynamite factory Chicago
Herald.
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whlcn canehe manufactured a !.

which be manufactured "a,
and fine cloth, while the juice
skin forms an indelible ink and can be
fermented into a good vinegar.
1t is not impossible that spreading
a knowledge of these facts will result
in large extension OF banana culture
in the United States. The business
is paying one in some portions of
Florida and one or two other States.
The peninsula is subtropical, and
should offer an inviting field for an
industry which promises so well for
those who engage in it, while it would
enable many to obtain an abundance
of cheaper food than is now available
to them. 1t would seem that this
prospect is opening out before our
people, as wide areas are reported to
have been bought in the Gulf States
with view to banana culture, that
to form the foundation of manu-
features of the meal and the cloth.
If these products come into competi-
tion with corn and cotton, so as to
cause further cheapening Of both,
the result may be some dissatisfaction
among growers of those two staples,
but 1t will benefit the people at large
20 a far greater extent than that of
the injury that may temporarily en-
sue to the producing class. Chicago
Tribune.
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BELGIAN DRAFT HORSES.


Excepting the Shire OF England They Arc
the Largest in the World.
Great care has been given in Bel
Kium to the breeding of draft horses
which, excepting the Shire horse OF
England, are the largest drafting
horses in the world. They are finely
iproportioned. having excellent legs
and feet. They are divided into two
classes, namely, the heavy and the
light draft horse, but differ from
each other only in size. The special
characteristics of the Belgian draft
horse are stature, form, strength and
breed. The line on the back is
straight, the rump long and the legs
large and clean. He has less bulk
and strength than the Clydesdale or
,Shire but is better bred and has more
energy He has more bulk and
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12

The banana is generally regarded as
a luxury in the United States, while
in some countries it is staple article
OF food, and in others seems destined
to become so. For several years ex-
periments have been made with
view to extend its culture. Great
Britain wishes to increase its growth
in her tropical colonies, and Germany
"sees in the banana a most nutritious
sausage for feeding its soldiers" that
will be cheaper than the American
maize it has recently used in army
rations. Samples of banana meal
have recently been sent from the
West Indies to the Agricultural De-
partment at Washington, and SAM
Piles from the consignment will be
distributed to all large growers Of the
fruit in the United States, accompa-
MED by circulars setting forth the
great value Of the material as food for
human beings.
The banana is a curious as well as
important article. 1t may be called
a fruit, as above, but it might with
equal propriety be termed ~vegeta-
BILE, and its original was a flower, be-
ing the lily. Its producing power is
stated to be forty-four times that of
the potato, and according to Hum
bOldt one hundred and thirty-three
men can be fed with bananas grown
on an area that would only produce
enough wheat for one. Supposing
that this applies to an average
yield of little less than thirty BUSH
els Of wheat to the acre, the culture
OF bananas would maintain a popula-
tion Of not far from half million
people to the square mile. The ban
anas can be ground into meal which
will keep as long as flour, and which
is claimed to be more nutritious than
meat, lean also be used &C. IA
uaE HFIH . = 4
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PORT TOBACCO, MARY
A Death and a Life.

Death and Life. a. 4
Fair young Hannah N
Ben, the sunburnt fisher, gayly woos; y !
Hale and clever,
For a willing heart and hand be sues.
May-1ay skies are all aglow,
And the waves are laughing sol
For her wedding
Hannah leaves her window and her shoes.
May is passing;
Mid the apple boughs pigeon COOS.
Hannah shudders,
For the mild Southwestern mischief brews.
Round the rocks of Marblehead.
Outward bound, schooner sped.
Silent lonesome,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
=
Sailing away!
Losing the breath of the shores in NAV.
Dropping down from the beautiful bay,
Over the sea slope vast and gray!
And the skipper's eyes with a mist are
blind,
For vision comes on the rising wind
OF gentle face that he leaves behind.
And heart that throbs through the fog
bank dim.
Thinking OF him.
Far into night
lie watches the CLEAN of the lessening light
fixed on the dangerous island height
mat bars the harbOr be loves from sight.
And he wishes, at dawn, he could tell the
tale
U how they weathered the southwest gale,
10 brighten the cheek that had grown so
pale
with wakeful night among spectres grim \
Terrors for I'M.
Io-heave-yo
Here's the bank where the fishermen 90.
Over the schooners side they throw
Tackle and bait to the deeps below.
And skipper Ben in the water secs,
When its rpples curl to the light land
breeze,
something that stirs like his apple trees,
And two soft eyes that beneath them swim
Lifted to him.
Hear the wind roar,
Nnd the rain through the slit sails tear and (
pour!
steady! we'll scud by the Cape Ann shore,
hen bark 10 the Beverly bells once more"
nd ch man worked with the will of ten;
lille mp in the rigging, now and then,
he lightning glared in the face OF Ben !
urned to the black horizons RIM
ocowliag on him.
Into his brain
urned with the iron At hopeless pain,
ITO thoughts that srapple and eyes that =
strain, 81
efces the memory, cruel and vain "
ever again shall he walk 1t ease ii
nder the blossoming apple trees -
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May DIsnIaee GunpoMder.

A commission of German artillery
experts has been testing at tho Jueter.
borg new explosive which is intend
ed to replace, ultimately, gunpowlnr
in the German army. The explosive
is brown. fotiy substance of the con
sistency of frozen oil when exposed
to ordinary s.rperaturc. 1t retains
Igllss6 iriilIs @neo lla degrees
rs unsurpassed in.cglSy spsrk does
- w Nm. sDh
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12

taNhE "ith I-4fut-
How they ,sent down
Never was kn0y|fn inthe stiIl old town.
Nobody guessgsd how the fisherman brown,
With the, a(Iook of despair that was half
fFs6wn,
Faced his fate in the furious night
faced the mad pillows with hunger white,
Just within hail of the beacon light
That shone on woman sweet and Trim.
Waiting for him.
Beverly bells
Ring to the tide as it ebbs ana swells.
His was the anguish moment tells
The passionate sorrow death quickly knells.
But the wearing wash Of lifelong woe
Is left for the desOate heart to know.
Whose tides with the dull years come and
90,
Till hope drifts dead to its stagnant brim,
Thinking of him.
II
Poor lone Hannah,
Sitting at the window binding shoes.
Faded, wrinkled,
sitting, Stltcnlng, III Il lnOuTHluI muse,
Bright-eyed beauty once was she,
When the bloom was on the tree;
Spring and Winter,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
Not neighbor
Passing nod or answer will refuse
To her whisper:
''Is there from the fishers any news?'
oh, her hearts adrift with one
On an endless voyage gone.
Night and morning
j Hannsb's at the window, binding shoes.
] 'Tis November.
Now no tear her wasted cheek bedews.
From Newfoundland
Not sail returning will she lose
Whispering hoarsely, Fishermen,
Have you, have you heard of Benz
Old with watching,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes.
Twenty Winters
Bleach and tear the ragged shore she view
Twenty seasons
Never one has brought her any news.
Btill her dim eyes silently
Chase the white sails DER the sea.
Hopeless, faithful,
Hannah's at the window, binding shoes
-[I.ucy Larcom.
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'asn't long in discovering
der relations that had
~ between inc and his
young clerk, and he
lin one day and told Inc
sory to sec that | was such
lnd that [ must get over
and then informed my
steadfast idol that at the
month he could 60 back
course my heart was
Life had ,ost all fis charm.
s the victim of a stern and
Rhetic parents cruel will aud
Nthat were dead.
agh this lover of mine
my fathers store for
J his board, his father
McIHluh, ana he was tile
len ! was at the height
lover the paternal inter-
had rutfied tho course of
as think was in the
ng it, my idol aud l met
g, quite by chance, of
be house of a neighbor of
what did my brave knight
1T an elopement, aud what
mantic soul do but prompt
be to the proposition on the
a was railroad station eight
|stant The last train for any
left that station at z o'clock
vening. All we had to do was
ri e to the station, get the train,
mlIhe county seat. only an hours
g get married, and be happy ever
We fixed OH a certain night
was along toward the middle of
1ber-and got everything ready
lc elopemcnt. 1t was a good
r-and-a-half drive TO the station
Z the sort of road we had to travel
and SO We were obliged 10 take an
ly start. The winter had been
V mild. There was no snow. 1t
ast beginning 10 get dark when |
.Ho where my valiant lover was
" for me with Il horse and
| knew that the chances were
! vor of my Ievel-headed father
: ing the whole plot before VIC
zach the station, and l was
that he would DO OH our track
4 horse a good deal faster than
oue we had TO depend on. But |.
, no fear tIat he would overhaul
Maryland independent. [volume] (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1874-current, 1893-05-12

Russians are worse afflicted with
blindness than any other nationality.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-01
Death of f.. "A. COnnOr.

The Hon. Francis Ambrose Con-
o died at his home at COkesbury,
in Abbeville County, on last Satur-
day, July %, after a brief illness.
The Abbeville Press AMI Banner
publishes the following concerning
his life:
"Mr. Conner was born near
Cokesbury, then Mount Ariel, in
the year 1918. He was a son Of DIR.
Francis Connur, who was q leading
physician and one of the most
prominent and public-spirited citi-
zens of that section. Mr.. Conner
received his academic training at
Tabernacle Academy and Mount
Ariel, and completed his education
at Randolph-Macon College, Vir-
gia, where he graduated with first
honors of his class about the year
1888. Shortly after his graduation
he married Miss Frances Hodges,
a daughter of Gen. G. w. Hodges
and n of the most beautiful wo-
men of her day. Twelve children
were born to them. His third wife,
formerly Mrs. Evans, of Charles
ton, also survives him.
"In the early forties Mr.. Conner
vas elected professor of Latin and
Greek in the Cokesburry Confer
enoe School, when that institution
was at the very zenith Of its pros
perity, and held the position for a
number Of years. He was after
wards elected president of the Ma
sonic Female College, and remain
ed at the head of that hourishing
seminary until it was forced to sus-
pend by the war. Hundreds Of his
old pupils will bear willing testi-
mony to his distinguished ability
as an educator, Those who knew
him we'll in that capacity say that
as O teacher he was never eHce]led
and rarely equalled in this county.
"Before the war Mr.. Conner was
engaged in planting and farming
on a large scale. After the war he
continued his planting for some
years, but latterly has been engag.
ed in business pursuits, aud has
been very successful. For some
years before the Columbia and
Greenville Railroad was sold al
foreclosure sale he w9s one of its
directors, He was elected to the
House Of Representatives Of the
State Legislature in 1876, and was
a member of the famous "Wallace
House." In this body he served
with conspicuous ability and was
prominently spoken of for Speaker
when Judge Wallace resigned tt
accept a seat on the Bench, but de.
clined to become q candidate. Foi
many years he was q T:ominent
Mason and a leading L1ember OF
Bascom Lodge, No. 8e.Mr Common
was an original thinker, o strong
speaker and a clear and forcible
writer, his spoken and written com.
positions being models of pure and
idiomatic English.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-01
DRINKING.

The reports indicate that there
has been less drunkness than before
the dispensaries were established
and apparently less money spent
for liquor.
But suppose there were no dis
pensaries and no bars? Would not
the decrease in drunkness be yet
creator and the expenditure for H.
quor even smaller?
We see no reason to change our
former opinion. If the dispensaries
are successful as moral agencies
they will be failures financially.
If they are successful financially
they will be failures morally. They
can not sell large quantities of IL
quor and diminish drunkenness.
They not largely decrease the
sale of liquor and be profitable.
We think the practical fact will be
that when the new law has been in
operation a while and the law-less
classes "learn the ropes" there will
be about as much whiskey sold and
used as ever. There is nothing now
but lack of money to prevent any
man who wants liquor and belongs
to the prohibited classes from in
ducing a friend or anybody else
who has the required qualifications
TO buy for him from the dispensary.
The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1893-08-01
THE STATE ALLIANCE TAKES
THE BIT IN ITS MOUTH.
Greenville News.

Greenville News.
WALHALLA, s. G., July 27.-The
Alliance has been engaged all day
on routine matters and very little
has been done that would interest
the public. The elections will
take place tonight at o'clock, and
the meeting will remain in session
until all business is disposed of so
that the delegates may leave in
the morning.
1t is pretty we'll settled that w.
d. Evans will be president. An
old scandal about Norris has been
revived with disastrous effect on
the Pendleton statesman's presi-
dental aspiration. 1t is under
stood that he is Tillman's candi-
date bat some of his opponents
worked the scandal ON him and he
is out of it. Evans friends say he
will be elected without opposition.
WALHALLA.--It was decided to
limit the voting power in the an
nual conventions to the delegates.
Heretofore the officers have eXer-
cised the privilege. 'Donaldson's
friends claim that he has sufficient
votes to re-elect him, but he de-
clines to allow his name to be used,
saying that he can not be president
of the alliance while it remains in
such a hostile attitude toward Pres
ident Cleveland. The resolutions
seem to take the alliance right into
the third party at one leap. They
were offered by Jos. l.. Keitt, an
avowed third party man, and
adopted without alteration. After
the usual high flown whereas and
a pledge Of faith to the National
Farmers Alliance the resolutions
says
"rhis body hereby notifies tho con-
greSsinen from this state elected by The
alliance influence that this order expects
them to oppose repeal Of the Sherman sill
yer act unless the repeating bill embodies
a substitute giving freer and unlimited
coinage OF silver upon the basis of sixteen
to one and they are also expected to op-
pose the repeal Of the 10 per cent. tax on
State banks"
The executive committee is in
stucted to submit to candidates for
State offices two questions and de.
mand written answers. One OF
them requires the candidates to dis.
cuss the alliance demands an the
stump. The other is "wM you
pledge loyalty to the demands oil
the Nationl Farmers Alliance and
industrial union above loyalty to
party caucus and vote against any
and all candidates wdo declina to
commit themseles 10 this extent
There was quite q squabble over
the question of salaries and they
were cut all around. The pres.
idents Is reduced from $500 to $3.50
and the secretary's from $500 tC
$500. Norris opposed the reduc.
ton and was severely used in some
resolutions by Burn, of Darling.
ton:
Y RI. TT.