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The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1895-08-27
LIST OF Books AND PRICES.

BIOGRAPHIES. 4
Maury's Elementary Geography. 49,. y5 \
Maury's Manual of Geography, S.
90 ". edlIlon 80. .,............. 1 20
Maury's Physical Geography 49,. 1 20
ARTTHMETICS.
Robtnson's New Edition Arithmeticss,
Wero adopted as the standard for then
State:
Robertson's New Rudiments of
Arithmetic. 30
Robertson's New Practical Arithmetic 65
Tho following Arithmotics were per-
mitted to be used where they are now
in use until the County Boards order O
change to the standard:
RobinSon'S Rudiments Told edition) so
Robinson's Practical Gold edition) GO
ALGEBRAS.
WentwOrth's School Algebra 1 10
DICTIONARIES.
Wcbster's Dictionaries adopted as the
standard for the State:
| Wcbster's Primary Dictionary 4S
WebStcr's Common School Dictionary ~
Wcbstcr'S High School Dictionary 9S
Webstcr's Academic Dictionary go
Worchester's were permitted to be used
where now in use until the County,
Boards ordera change to the standard:
Worcestcr's Primary Dictionary SO
Worcester's New School Dictionary 60
Worcester's Comprehensive Dictionary 1 60
Worccster's Academic Dictionary <HDn,
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Fruit Jars, Jelly Tumblrs, Ice Cream
Freezers, Fly Fans and Ely Traps can
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s.. MN Ell. WILKES Co.
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Save your labor, time, and do your
work better, by buying q peach pcelcr
from'J. O. g. Fleming ~ Co. lis q
perfect little machine. docs it work
we'll and rapidly.
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Shirts, shirts, dress shirts, fancy DO.
som shirts, ~unlaundried shirts, ncgli-
gee shirts. See our selection.
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the scene none the less picturesque. The
object of these fires is simply to permit
people who pass to warm themselves from
time to time. But there are constantly
around them hordes of sans logts, who
have no homes but the lodging houses, and
no resources but private charity. To see
great brilliant city like Paris burning fires
in the open streets after the fashion Of the
middle ages Is a strange sight. 1t would
rot be possible to conceive such an Idea in
New York or London. Nevertheless they
manage to do it here, and that in the most
crowded sections.
For those more happily situated fur over
the high swells with sealskins and sables
down to the most insignificant youth who
has invested his little all in one of the
bargains, Parisiaqs seem to be persuadthg
themselves that they are Russians living
by the frozen Neva. All these magnificent
overcoatS are of uniform appearance.
There is an immense collar, of whatever
fur it may be. The inside lining is either
fur or wadding, quilted. But the cloth
exterior is always a soft blue or black
resembling broadcloth. You will walk a
half dozen blocks without seeing an ulster
or anything that looks rough and ready
The whole Partisan idea of mems dress is
to look as ladylike possible. The rough
woolens of the English, which we Ameri
cans delight in also, have no place in
France.
The thing that has struck me most in
these bad weeks has been the abominable
condition of the Paris streets We have
always heard so much about these splendid
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Paris than to go to Nice or Cannes" This
winter they were right, but only because
1t was cold everywhere. Snow fell in
Africa. and the lions and tigers went about
In rubber boots and listers. At Monte
Carlo people waded through snowdrifts.
But that did not prevent the gentle Par
isiennes finding their beds the only sure
snug place, nor that to "faire chapelle"
was the best substitute when standing on
ones feet. This latter is equivalently what
the ladies do at home In good old furnace
heated America. They stand over the hot
air registers, presenting the spectacle of a
balloon about to go up. In Paris the same
solace Is arrived at by standing with ones
back to the regulation open-grate fire of
soft coal, coke wood, hitching up the
skirts in dignifed and ladylike manner.
1t Is true that great deal of heat is thus
lost and that its radiation is irregular
some parts receiving more than others.
The American plan is better. But then the
American plan is better all around.
Imagine an apartment without stove,
where each room has yawning open fire.
place for the wind to howl down. You pile
on soft coal and "briquettes," but they will
never last through half the night 1 know
American girl in Paris who will Soma
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The Cafe de la Paix has set up a real
American bar, with German and English
barkeepers.
1t is the largest and the most handsomely
decorated concern of the kind in the gay
capital, and all the sporting world of lace
and ribbons patroniZe it. 1t is a strange
thing to see fair damsels In expensive furs
stand up before the bar and take their
medicine like men. In the American bar of
the Cafe de la Paix the favorte hot drink
seems to be a kind of Tom and Jerry. The
Parsians have no hot drinks of their own
suitable to real freezing weather. and you
might say that the hot American mixed
drink has been the special sign of the last
two months.
In the real cafes it is the game of domi-
noes, hearts and ecarte. with hot black
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REAL wnALERoNE A RARITY.
The Pliable Substance Has Almost
Disappeared and DeAes Initiation.

The Pliable Substance Has Almost
Disappeared and DeRes Initiation.
From the New York Herald.
A little thread and needle shop in 9Th
avenue has recently displayed in one of
the show windows a large slab Of a now
exceedingly rare substance. 1t is labeled
with the words. Real whalebone."
1t is only a short time ago. as~ history
runs-twenty, perhaps not more than ten
years-that display Of "whalebone'' in a
shop which makes a speciality Of thread
and needles. corset covers and minor arti-
cles for a woman's toilet would have been
regarded as an absurdity.
Real whalebone, forsooth!" my lady
would have said. We'll. why not? Where
else should we look for whalebone but in
just such shop as thisf' And indeed, 1t
was true. No one thought OF false whale
bone then. IL they thought Of the substance
at all. How the times have changed
Whalebone has almost disappeared from
commerce. Not because a substitute has
been found for it, for that is not the case:
not because the women folks have no
longer any occasion to use pliable corsets,
for as long as they will wear such wretch
ed things they will prefer whalebone
The scarcity of whalebone is due to sew
eral contributing causes Since the advent
OF petroleum whaling for oil is no longer
profitable, and the original whalers cruised
both for bone and oil. The substances were
secured from two different species Of
whales. The whalers sought oil first and
hunted for bone on the outside" Now
there is no Incentive to seek oil at ALL and
a whaling voyage for bone alone is not q
particularly profitable business, even
though the price of the substance owing
to the scarcity Of supply, has gone up forty
fold.
In addition to the meagerness of the
profit the right, or bone producing whales,
have become very timid of late They
used to be found in great abundance of
the southern shores of Greenland and
has made them timid, and theylDare more
difficult to locate than formerly. That
this Is true 1T is only necessary to state
that several whaling ships last year cap
tured but one for their entire seasons
take OF whales while some were entirely
unreWarded. A catch OF five whales Yields
handsome profit for the venture by any
one ship. and it is said that one will pay
expenses.
And while the whales are seeking colder
water and higher ATTITUDES men of an in
Vent1Ve turn throughout the world are busy
racking their brains for some substitute
Tor the wtalebone. AS yet they have not
found 1t, although they have tried celluloid,
finely split rattan, various metals and
numerous other substances. Nothing as
yet hit upon possesses at once the lightness
OF weight, elasticity and tenacity of the
real article.
Unless the men with ideas succeed in
finding the substitute no one can foretell
what future generations OF gentleman
drivers will do for a good whip. and alasi
what will womankind not suffer for q com.
Portable corset?
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as Americans have annually. 1t is publicly
estimated that a third of all the road paw
ing of Paris will have to be torn up and
relaid this spring. On several recent days
of sun the frost has begun to come out Of
the ground In protected places. and then
1t has been seen that they swell and force
themselves loose, completely breaking up
the roadway.
Throughout the winter it has been the
practice to melt the snow as soon as it
falls by sprinkling salt and other chemi-
Gals: this being done by the city. The
result has been slush without end and no
street cleaning. Men refused to work in
an atmosphere at once so damp and cold,
that seemed to burn the lungs instead of
chill the body. Despite the Wanted sewer
system the soup-like mass of mixed dirt,
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after-effects are what they most fear. 1t Is
when you are up again and able to crawl
about that you are dosed with tonics, which
appear to do small good.
The winter of 1S94-5 Is likely to live In
the annals of Europe as one Of the most
serious of the century. 1t has pafalyzed
industry, crippled trade and almost ruin
ed the amusement season. In Paris peo-
pie have refused to go out, and staying
in they they were attacked with chilblains,
swellings, grips, bronchitis, neuralgia, rheu-
matism. pneumonia, COMPOSITIONS. deafness,
dyspepsia insomnia and premature decay.
Come. gentle spring.
The coke fire burns a sullen red but all
about the room the air Is chill. When go
out, the fire goes out.
Come, gentle spring.
STERLING HELLO.
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fire and pile on coal again. But the other
people on the same floor did not under
stand 1t, and made all manner Of unkind
remarks, the least Of which was to say
That the young lady kept strange hours
She would not have minded this. Her real
chagrin came when she caught bad cold
getting In and out of bed.
On every hand 1t is the question, when
VIII the springtime come again?" Paris is
only Paris In the spring and autumn In
the summer 1t Is sweltering hot, 1t smells
bad, 1t Is dusty. and every one who is any
one is out Of town. In winter like the
last 1t Is sudden death to breathe the
frozen mist of the open streets It is now
the middle of February, and the city is
white with snow and blue with fog. Yet
two years ago, on the Sth of March. the
horse-chestnut trees were in half leaf
Slipping along the deserted boulevard of a
chill morning the astonished Imagination
eo onsn ss, the memory. Can this be the
time year ago? Then the men had dis
carded their overcoats and the ladies had
LETT their Jackets off. The awnings over
the cafe terraces were spread"
AT present no one sits outside the cafes
phenomenon unknown to the Oldest in
habitant. Inside the cafes reek with heat
ana tobacco smoke. these famous cafes of
excuse for every one to idle in them; and
tnose who drank one absinthe now drink
TWO. II IS TO Keep the cold out, Just as in
summer 1t is to keep one cool
one OF these cafes, the Cafe de Ia Paix
mas stolen march upon the others. In
Paris the "srog Americain," a sweet and
gummy hot drink, is one of the great tnsti-
buttons CT the winter. That it never saw
America may be imagined. Its base is an
Gdious and spiced up alcohol strip. com
ing from the liquor trade to the cafes in
bottles. Its chief ingredient is rum or ar
rack, so perfumed that you cannot well dis
t1nguish it. However, when a grog Ameri-
cam Is ordered a certain quantity of the
slrup is poured out into a large tumbler
ana mas nve times Its bulk in boiling water
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asphalt and wood
pavements. f cry
returned tourist and
every travelling Euro
pean poin t $ with
scorn 10 our own city
streets. Henceforth I
shall take all they
say with a grain OF
allowance. Because,
however well the
Paris streets may be
In spring, summer.
a u t u In n and the
a v e r "a 6 e Partisan
winter, they so to
pieces in really Sc
we're weather. such
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oAdCd. L HAT Is called
an American mixed
drink. 1t has all the
advantage that 1t re-
Qufres no barkeeper
to shake 1t up. Just
now It is very popu-
lar in private fam
lilies to offer at musi-
Gales, soirees and
dances THE new
A m G r | C a n drink
What a pleasure
How good 1t smells
Just the thing for
this a b o m 1 n a b ! G
weather. Are you
sure 1t will not make
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account of. In the crowded quarters, such
as around the Place of the Bastille, the
city government has kept constantly burn
ing for three weeks great iron braseros
filled with red hot coke. They are immense
iron pots. punctured with holes for the OBJ
tanning of good draught and they hang
swinging between poles planted in the
street Each brasero has a guardian con-
stantly in attendance on it, to keep 1t
raked down and stocked up, and that this
guardian shelters himself in a tent makes
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Times Have Changed.

From the Chicago Tribune.
Mrs. Hagglemore-"But we surely ought
to give our own daughter a wedding pres
ent, Hiram"
Mr. INSTRUMENTATION my dear,
certainly. When we were married your
father presented US a receipted bill Of SG.5T
for gate hinges. I shall make Araminta O
wedding present Of s27.31 for extra gas"
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day be a great singer
If she does not catch
cold and ruin her
voice. Not to catch
cold has been her
one preoccupation all
this long, blue win
t e r. Living in a
boarding house, as
she does. she has had
the maids bring up a
double supply of coal
each night. T h e n
s h 9 sets her alarm
clock for $3.50 am.
At t h 1 s unearthly
hour she would get
IN raEa ioun n q
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Written for The Evening Star.
Nnf Int

Written for The Evening Star.
Not Lost.
Nos Morris Ne Sont Pas Perdus"-Etudes de
Nature.-St. Pierre.
All, no! Our dead, they are not lost,
Deaths river only they have crossed
To realms sublime.
On those SERENE celestial strands
They beckon with spirit hands,
To guide us DER the trackless tide,
Who linger on the mortal side
A little time.
Not lost! but saved forevermore
With loved ones who had gone before;
And beings pure,
Weary and weak, the burden great,
Their eager spirits could not wait,
They before life's stormy path
What strife and tears the journey hath
Hard to endure.
Then far beyond deaths turbid stream
They saw light, whose heavenly beam
Was hope and joy.
With faith that river they did brave
And vanish its soundless wave.
We know they reached the other shore,
Where hurtfai things shall nevermore
Their peace destroy.
We should not weep. for never there
Snail sorrow come, or tears, care,
Or Deaths fell shade.
Meier, ne'er that glorious realm within
Shall come the blight of mortal sin.
No tempest there, no cherries night,
But shines an orb whose golden light
Will never fade.
Our selfish sorrows take away,
o God! until the heavenly day
Succeeds the night.
Although their forms no more We see,
Oft lingering near they may be.
And this should tears and grief remover
Death makes no breach in hope and love,
Though he doth smfte,
And though no sound our ears may reach,
There comes q spiritual speech
From that far shore.
It bids US hope and toll in faith,
And to the doubling soul It saith:
sSoon shall ye reach the heavenly plain,
And see your loved and lost again,
But lost no more"
DE WITT G. SPRAGUE
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A MfgcOuut.

From lie Petit Meridicpal.
Doctor-''Why. my dear sir. I see four
empty wine bottles standing there, and
yet 1 only gave you permission to drink
one bottle"
Patient-"Ahl doctor, I am afraid made
a istaae in counting
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-09
An Elevating Tonic.

From the Indianapolis Journal
ut Is queer" said the philosophical
boarder, how whisky will make a man
have so good an opinion Of himself
Nothing queer about it," dissented the
Cheerful Idiot, at makes a man rate him.
self at his full value, that Is all"
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The grip has been
a real scourge. Per-
sonally, every one I
know in Paris has
had 1t, even the cafe
walters, poor fellows,
who crawl about
their work, shifting
and weeping with the
"maladie a la mode. "
The doctors have
written a great deal
about the grip, but
1t is noticeable that
they give less medi-
cine during the at
tacks than ever be-
fore The "slIite" or
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spring.
PariSians have had
q winter such as they
see only once each
hundred years.
The people Of Paris
are never prepared
for cold weather.
They always s y
TT will not last.
Wait t hire e days
more and you will
see the sunshine. 1t
is better IN Stay in
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nance. BY Hilton Hill. New York: Home
Book Company.
LIBERIA. Bulletin No. 9. Issued by the American
Colonization Society. Washington: The Colonies
ton Society.
THE PoTTSvIIIE EVENING CHRONICLE ALMA
MAC. 1895. Pottsville. Pa: The Standard Pub
fishing Co.
THE SUPREMACY OF THE SPIRITUAL By Ed
ward Randall Knowles. Washington: Woodward
LOthrop.
THE DAILY NEWS ALMANAC AND POLITICAL
REGISTER, 1895. Chicago: The Chicago Daily
News Co.
JACK OD0ON. A Novel. New York: Henry Holt
Co. Washington: w. II. Lowdermik & Co.
A WOMAN OF IMPULSE. BY Justin Huntly Nc
Carthy New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons
HOW TO GOVERN CHICAGO. By Practical Re-
former. Chicago: Chas. H. Kerr s. Co.
THE NEW YORK TRIBUNE ALMANAC, 1885,
New York: The Tribune Association
HONDURAS Bulletin No. 81, Bureau Of American
Republics.
PARAGUAY. Bulletin No. "a, Bureau Of American
Republics.
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frequently in the brain. For instance, last
week young married couple went to bed
leaving window partly open by accident.
The mex. morning they were found dead
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Some Curious Phases of the Late
Phenomenal Winter.
FIRES LIGHTED IN THE STREETS
The Pavements Failed to Stand the
First Test.
AMERICAN HOT DRIN KS

Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
PARIS, February 16, 1885.
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coffee and hot red wine or bitters and alb
snthes for refreshments. 1t is remarkable
to see the game of poker creeping up into
something like popular habit. 1t is the
young men whe take to it. not the old ones.
AS long as money Is not displayed too
openly or in great quantities the cafe
managers welcome all players. You enter,
1t lasts the longest and then ask for the
cards and chips. The waiter brings a
plush-covered board. about the size of the
little table top. You play on 1t. Chips,
cards and all are free No one sees any
harm in it, Why should not people play
cards openly and above-b board in reputa-
Bile saloon. Must they devote themselves
only to getting drunk?
Outside, upon the sidewalk, it is bitter
cold. To give you an idea of the general
distress it will be only necessary to state
simple fact, which no one in Paris makes
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OFFICIAL RECORDS OF THE UNION AND CON
FEDERATE NAVIES IN THE WAR OF THE
REBELLION. Published under the direction Of
the Hon. Fl. A. Herbert, Secretary of the Navy,
by Lieut.. Commander Richard Rush, U. s. Navy,
Superintendent Naval War Records and Mr.
Robert II. Woods. Series Volume 1. The
Operations of the Cruisers from January TO-
1861 to December 81 1862. Washngton: Gov
eminent Printing Office.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-23
TO PRESERVE THE POE COTTAGE.

PLAN OF THE SHAKESPEARE SOCIETY OF NEW
The Shakespeare Society Of New-York he'd a meet
ing In the Poe cottage in Fordham yesterday after
noon TO do honor 10 the memory OF Edgar Allan
Poe. the poet who spent some OF the hardest years
OF his life within its walls The society has for
some time proposed buying the Poe cottage and
thus save II from the vandalism to which II would
otherwise be subjected
Appleton Morgan the president OF the society
made an address. in which he said in part:
Although Edgar Alan Poe has been dead almost
hfty years, and although his genius has been ac-
know edged and admired by every English-speakng
race for more than half century. this is the first
lime that here. on this spot where he lived and
feow-citizens and admirers has beer made in his
nonor think we ought to hang our heads for
half century we have as Nation RESPONDED liber
ally to buhd memorials to the poets and the writers
ignored the grandest and unique. the most
no6e and sweetest. of our poets;
you here to-day. gentlemen. TO consult with and
see how we can at last right this wrong and wipe
laborious. honest, kin-ovlng and famly-lovIng man
VINO lived and starved here on this spot within
these honey walls has ever suffered word Of
be forgiven. II he deserved bitterness and suffering.
in bis lifetime Gentlemen Edgar 4 Alan s p Poe s
while writing his immortal prose and poetry upon
with glass OF brandy, am tempted to say thank
God for that glass OF brandy.
AS the property stands. and this society has Sc
cured lit Is for sale to us-the difficulty in pur-
chasing il H. that the city Is about to widen this
historic Old thoroughfare OF the Kingsbridge Road
and that will cut this poor cottag. just in half SO
We must move II II we wish to preserve II. and we
mast act quickly. Mr.: Thomas ". Keene has gen
erously given US 800 Mr.. Augustin Daily has cabled
from Europe subscription of SO-and a promise
Of more-and three prominent artists have agreed
TO give benefit performances at prominent city thea
tres for the fund An offer from San Francisco to
aid In erecting monument to the poet to stand
facing this cottage its site when secured,
has reached us: another from Baltimore 10 aid In
securing a replica OF the bronze raven over his
cenoaph In that city. to crown our gateway. In
its years OF life the New-York Shakespeare So
ciety has never undertaken any project which II
did compete. made promise which IL
has not fulfilled and this one is not going to be
al execution
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-09-23

;s,s. IN Milan He was native OF FerraFs' s"o w
50, of a carbonaro whom the Austrian
nent sent (, spelberg. Young Iem'''o -
,hereupon sent to an institute In vienna " ..
educated; but he scaled the walls, ran away anu
was n member Of peripatetic circus "ns"
captured This time he was sent 10 co"ese
Milan. where his poetic instincts were awa"e"eu
and he began TO scrbble verses Inc resues'"
OF his youthful years followed him all Ms nv
died about twenty years ago. after naVi"s Nv "
while I'm Spain been chief OF police Tor the hneu'o
OF Egypt and a dealer in antiquities IN PARIS nc"
Verdi and solera became friends they were aoou'
the same age and both were consumer VIZ
IN. ambition TO write for the stage soiera e''"e'
wrote or revised verds first lihretto. Oper'o "o"'o
dl Bonifazio." and afterward furnished the Poons
for "Nabucco" (verdrs first telling success''
Lombardl," "G!ovanna dArco' and "Attiia -"''""
which belong to the period precedent to the CON-
poser's most brilliant popular achievements. IN.
dlspositlon was In marked contrast Win tna' VI
Verdi being careless and lively, while Veru' "nS
from childhood prone to thoushtfulness ana me'a"'
choy. -. ,
II was the charm which Soleras verses nan ior
Verdi which brought forth "Nabucco' Inc ope' a
which preceded 1t, "Un Glorno di Resno' the LOON
OF Fence Romani, who Is also credited WIN inc
r,einal draft OF "Oberto') had failed. ana the