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* VOL. XLIIL WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1886. NO. 8. Ill IIH"i -L -rv- L-.?~ J? i",.- r"ll.?n .11 ..1,1 . ^jng I I II III IIWIMaMI^MM?1???M?.. . rrn? ..aan^?? WHAT IS THE SEA-SERPENT. AX I-Mil IKY OF IM KJtK-vT J O KM L*E.V1> OK SATlitAI, ItlV'OIJY. A Kclrntlflc S;a;c?iicnt of Whnt We Know and Don't Know A>>utu It. (Fiom the Proviuencc Joura:!.) Twice within a few days parties of observers whose trustworthiness is beyond question, and in one case including a gentleman of suck equable and conservative mind as a Boston schoolmaster may be presumed to possess, have reported the appearance near Cape Ann of what. in /7r.foron/v? +.-i 111 7 ?!:< <! luwia. they are pleased to call "the sea ser-1 pent." The account they give is substantially the same as annually finds its way to public notice, and is likely to be received in the same spirit of sceptical levity which these narratives have always encountered. An attitude of f: auk unbelief toward all stories that smack of the salt water seems to be an ineradicable peculiarity of the human mind. A "fish story" is a synonym for a falsehood the world over; and indeed ix the court of public opinion every man who tells a tale of sights at sea is presumed io bo a liar until he is proved innocent. The person, therefore, who has the tcrmcrity to state that he has seen the sea serpent rp<r:iins his old position in rrnLlic esteem* to have chanced to observe an unfamiliar marine animal "swiftly undulating along a quarter of a mile to leeward" is a violation of the proprieties which one can hardly hope to live down. This state of things may be only one phase of the general indisposition of man to acknowledge that others have seen what circumstances have concealed from his own sight, but at all events the socalled sea serpent, whose persistent reappearance may be regarded as a pathetic attempt on its part to prove its own existence to a skeptical world, is cither jeered by the paragraphist or silently relegated to that region of myths over which Munchausen and Sin bad hold sway. But even Sinbad's tales, when read in the light of modern science, arc readily interpretable in many cases as distorted and magnified versions of. actual facts. And, in much the same way, beneath the exaggerations and absurdities with which different observers have described the so-called sea serpent, there is undoubtedly a basis of truth. Indeed, what reason is there to doubt that such an animal exists? The only considerable argument against its existence is that advanced by ! Professor Owen, who objects that if it |, existed we should be able to find either! its separate bones or its complete stele- ! I ton. " Such objection, however, has no validity, because we never find the bones * of whales or seals save on beaches where ] men have lolled them ; nor do we ever ' discover the skeletons of the countless : thousands of birds that die in the forests. ( Nature is her own scavenger; we never J [ come upon lier braying places. We may ! not, therefore, deny the existence of a I t sea monster simply because its skeleton !1 is not obtainable for the museums. On the contrary, the iaei_a?~Iii?- v>x4?r- j ence of some snake-like marine animal unknown to the present zoologist is at tested by a throng of witnesses. We may i not rehearse here the long list of circum- ] stantial and detailed narratives of those f more or less eminent men, from Diodo- 1 rus Siculus to the president of the Glou- j cester Common Council, who profess to have si en the monster in question. Any i librarian can furnish the inquiring read- ' er with a sufficient number of these ac- ; counts to keep him in interesting read- i ing for two days at It ast. The narrators include clergymen of ?ll nation aities and ( creeds, physicians, experienced travelers, hard-headed business men, naval oiiicers ' of such repute as our own Commander : Preble, and a host of others equally dis- ; interested. Many of these accounts j must be set aside as obviously colored up f for effect. But even then there remains ( an accumulation of evidence too weigh-y ^ to be withstood. There is, of course, much 1 exaggeration; but after setting aside the ] "personal error" for which trained ob- 1 servers alwavs allow, the general cohe- 1 rence of the details given in these van-1x ous accounts is indeed remarkable. All;( the observers have found the animal only ; in northern latitudes; aii agree that its ? color is blackish brown above and white ; beneath; that its prominent eyes are on 1 the top of its flattened head; that it c moves at the rate of live or six knots an I . hour; that it is harmless and even timid, ' and that its undulatory movement ( caterpillar-like, that is, vertical and not 4 lateral. There is, too, substantial agree- ( ment in placing its size at seventy feet in length and twelve in circumference. This concurrent testimony from hundreds of witnesses, strangers to^ach other and often separr ted by centuries t of time, sufficiently proves the existence ] of such an animal as thev describe. A J " - 1 . line 01 porpoises, ii svauui UJ. iiuxiu j mackerel, a mass of sea weed, an old 1 mast covered with barnacles and tossing ' on the waves, have each been mistaken i for a sea serpent many times. Nevertheless, unless all the laws of evidence are at fault, there is in actual existence precisely such a marine monster as : reported near Cape Ann. The so-called sea serpent is not a myth. What, however, as a matter of fact, is the animal which bears in popular phraseology this alliterative name"? Vve ! may boldly assert that it is not a serpent. All observers agree that it undulates vertically, like a caterpillar. But any one who takes the trouble to examine the structure of the vertebrae of serpents will see at once that they arc capable of no other undulatory movement than a lateral one. There are plenty- of ?ea serpents, but none over live feet in length, and all have their tails flattened side ? i-'U.n-f. mnva fltm-morli fho WilJ d OU W-mAV iuviv biiwx>v water like eeLs. We have, then, as described by its observers, an auimal utterly unknown to the zoologist, at least as a contemporary form. The only ini'erY; ence therefore is that it is a survival from ? some group of animals now on the verge of extinction. "When, however, we ask what this group is, there arc two equally go.;d answers. It may be a survivor of the saurians?probably the enaliosaurian ?to whose form, as known to the paleontology t, it corresponds with sufficient exactness. Or it may be a survivor of some snake-like cetacean, such as the zeuglodon, to whose habits it lnwalr / rvnfnrms Most scientists ? notably Professors Proctor and Agassiz ?incline to the former supposition. There is, however, considerable ground for the latter. All its motions are cetacean; it is uniformly described as thrusting his head out of water?a custom to -which sperm whales are much addicted; its undulatory movement may be seen illustrated by every school of porpoises; it rises suddenly to the surface, or sinks like lead to the bottom, as every whaleman knows his victim can from the peculiar structure of its lungs; and its harmlessness is also cetacean, as whales seldom attack save under exceptional circumstances. ~~ But whether the so-called sea serpent is a zeuglodon or an eualiosaurian, we ghall never know for surety till we secure its skeleton for tlie zoologist to cla^** And very possibly this may yet be i^e* i ho exi'itt ncc of the devilfish was '^Eo dcried, but finally a specimen wa* taincd that silenced ail cavillers. ES^'tofor< observers of the sea serpen? have either stared in childish wonder, rnu away i:; abject fear or pepped the monster with liana I ess shot. ^a3" an old whaler with a harpocn m?? uiake a capture that will bring him fai?- In the meantime we 112 ay as "well tnat the man who announces tlie jsappearancc of the so-called sea serpeiS is not necessarily a deluded ignoramus or a falsifier. "Doubtless many of &e monsters reported by summer exjarsionists have r.u more real existence than the semblance uf a whale which. Polonius saw in the clouds, but never&filess there is in actual life and presumable vigor a curious, but harmless, mape animal erroneously called the sea serpent. To believe all the stories that an* told of it is credulity, but to deny tbJ possibility of its existence is presumpton. THK ??tE\T FK.lH). A J! Ohio 5'aui-r Tell* Why It IfXot Forgiven or Forgotten. (Fro!n tie Cinoinmt'Sur..) A Democratic contcmpfary, which is disused to take an extreme view of the matter, says it is to be Juped that the trustees of the Tilden libary, when it is established, will make stfue provision to exclude Rutherford D. Jayes from the privileges of the munScent establishment. It even decisis that "Haves would be likely to steal-lie books which the late President Til?en provided for the benefit oi" the peojie." We quote this matter? a spceimet of much that is current in print?to stow that the indignation over the fraid of 187G has not died out. General K^es is a most respectable citizen of ttis State, against whom, personally, we are not disposed to rail. He was an e:ccllent soldier, and acquitted himself wel in the civil offices which he held in Ohi>. As a Republican, he felt himself htter than bis party, but the force of circumstances carried him along with his party into the greatest -wrong that Xas ever been per- j petrated under a republican form of government. General* Hayes is, unfortu-! iiofn]-*' frit* l"niY>c?*>l? n^vori-nnl rnnra sentative of the most rascally fraud known to a hundred years of politics. Even his soldier record, Uis unassailable private character, and his dignified behavior in Ohio politics ccnnot save him from the disgrace of 1876. Many of our Republican contemporaries seemed to think tint the death of Mr. Tilden would step the cry of "fraud." There was a icgree of Republican self-congratulation on this point :hat bespoke a consciousness of guilt. Ike demise of the Democratic candidate jf 1S7G seems only io have intensified :he Democratic feeling. Mr. Tilden, hough a man of splendid attainments md especial value as a leader, was p. secondary consideration. It was the Democratic party that was defrauded. More Iran that, it was the voice of the people hat was stifled. The Democratic reuembrance of the rascalitv of 1S7G-77 is lot buried with tiie mortal remains ox iiC D<_IUGCi*.<.ie titaatijvm-HpoTP-r uonvouenial cjielt winch postponed the iscenclnacy of the 'Democratic party in lie government for eight years?-which, n other words, drowned popular acclaim 'or two administrations?will be particuarly preserved in the minds of Democrats as long as one of the principal poitical thieves still undertakes party burglary in Ohio, and as long as another of :he unscrupulous "Visiting statesmen" is glorified as a Senator of the United States from the third State in the Union. vYe need scarcely specify personally for >ur intelligent readers. The man who reads as he runs must recognize Edward P. Noyes as the original of the first picture ond John Sherman as the man who sat for the second. I'he Republicans complain about con >tant Democratic reference to the fraud >l 1876, but keep the feeling of distrust dive by persisting in debauching the jailot bos. Since the "work of 76, in vhick they were so eminently success:d, they have vron a Presidency by cor apting the State of Indiana, and in 1SS-A hey hooded every voting precinct in 3hio with a corruption fund. They even indertook to smirch the record of the rural districts of the Buckeye State for lonesty in elections, and in Cincinnati hey carried the day bv organizing a mob >f criminals to intimidate peaceable citi:ens and murder the regularly constiated olliccrs of the law. The Democrats have ground for complaint. A liurnal acclaim for a generation of men . annot wipe out tlae awful record. n> ' V'tsy and Buchanan. Henrr Clay used to take especial de.ight in annoying Mr. Buchanan, "who liad, he believed, started the report that lie had made a bargain with John Quincy :Vdams by which he sccured the election rA the Massachusetts statesman as President, receiving in return the appointment cf Secretary of State, which had been up to that day a stepping stone to the Presidency. "On one occasion, as Mr. Buchanan was defending himself ?.gainst the charge of disloyalty during the war of 1S12, he having been "an old Federalist," to prove his loyalty he stated that he entered a company of volunteers at the time the British attacked Baltimore, or at the time of the battle of North Point, and marched to Baltimore. "True," he said, "he was not in uny engagement, as the British had retreated before he got there.'" Mr. Clay?You marched to Baltimore, though? Mr. Buchanan?Yes. Mr. Clay?Armed and equipped? Mr. Buchanan?Yes; armed and equipped. Mr. Clay?But the British. had retreated when you arrived? Mr. Buchanan?Yes. Mr. Clay?Will the Senator from Pennsylvania be good enough to inform us whether the British retreated in consequence of his valiantly marching to the relief of Baltimore, or whether he marched to the ralief of Baltimore in consequence of the British having already retreated? Tile Senators and the occupants of the galleries roared with laughter, and Mr. Buchanan, red with anger, prudently made 110 reply.?Ben. Perloy Poore, in tne i>cs:on onager. The Fnil of Martin Iron*. A few montlis ago Martin Irons was a power ii: the land. At a nod from him thousands of laborers quit their work. At a stamp of his foot millions trembled. When he opened his lips men feared a revolution. lie lead the great strike on the Gould system, and paralyzed the traffic of four great Slates. For this blatant demagogue a future "as predicted. It was thought that he would crowd Powderly out of his place and become the head of the labor reform movement. All this is at an end. The other dav a police officer in Knnsns f;itv " nniimv-pvpd hjicrcronl. shabby set on a street comer. He took him to the station house and locked him up. On the docket the following entry was made: "'Martin Irons, drunk and dis^ orderly/'?Ailania Constitution. AX ARMOR BELTED CRl'ISER. Orlando, the Latent Addition to the l&riti.ih Xavy. Ja?t Launched. (L'^d^n Corn-sponger, ce of Cincinnati 'Enquirer ) Orlando, the first of the "armor belted cruisers" building for the British navy, was launched on the Tyne a few days ago by Palmer's Shipbuilding Company (limited.) She is SOU feet long, 5G feet wide and 37 feet deep, with a normal draft of 21 feet and a total displacement r aaa n - -1 vx I'jus. one ib ijuui ui miiu su:ei, with a belt of "compound" or "steelfaced" armor 51 feet deep and 10 inches thick on a 6-inch teak planting, which extends for 200 feet on each side. On a level with the top of the "belt"?that is 1 i feet above the water line?and running for the same length, there is a steel deck 2 inches thick, which at a distance of 50 feet from each end slopes downward at an angle of 30 degrees, with deck and plates 3 inches thick. The openings of the decks are protected by armor shutters or shell-proof gratings. The engines, boilers, magazines, etc., arc placed beneath this protective deck, and the navigation of the ship and the tiring of the guns will be directed from a "conning tower" covered with armor plates twelve inches thick, placed at the fore end of the ship, and communication to the various parts of the ship will pass through steel tubes eight inches thick. The sliip is divided into one hundred water-tight compartments, the bulkheads in some parts being exceptionally strong. The engines and boilers (occupying four water tight compartments) are placed in the middle of the ship, with coal bunkers on each side live feet wide. Beneath the engines and boilers there is a double bottom, divided into compartments, to be filled with ballast water. There is an open space be tween tnc Dunsers ana tne snip s siae. The magazines are placed in the middle line of the ship, fore and aft of the engines, with store-rooms, shaft tunnels, etc., on cither side. She will have two sets of engines, one for each screw, of the "triple-expansion type," with fortytwo-inch steam cylinders, indicating a horse power of 8,500, and will steam nineteen knots per hour. She has four boilers, with six corrugated flues each, capable of working to a pressure of 130 pounds per square inch. Her steering gear is placed aft, below the water line, and she has eight tubes for discharging torpedoes. Her armament will consist of two twenty-two-ton guns, ten five-ton guns and sixteen Hotchkiss quick-firing guns for throwing six and three-pound shot. The twenty-two-ton guns will loj [ placed on tne ripper deck, mounted on automatic carriages placed on revolving platforms and protected by steel shields. The six-ton guns will also be placed on the upper deck, five on each side. Of the small guns fourteen will be placed on the main deck and one at the top of each mast. Her ship's company will consist of 420 officers and men, for whom accommodation is provided on the main deck. The builders have made rapid progress with this ship, as the contract was only given them in April of last year. They liave another ship of exactly the same plan now building for the British government. The contract (II ii?i? ft.I- Him linll mill I ngincs. cacti snip, is ?224,000. Talking of armaments, one is reminded that the victory, Nelson's old flagship at the battle of Trafalgar, was one of the ships inspected by the "colonial and Indian visitors" who were the cruests of the naval officers at Portsmouth ten days ago, and a comparison betv i her armament and that of one of the modem ships illustrates very strongly the revolution that has taken place in naval architecture and ordinance since the beginning of the century. While the Victory carried 104 guns at the battle of Trafalgar, the entire weight of ber broadside was only 1,1G0 pounds, while one gun of the Inflexible will throw a projectile of 1,700 pounds. In other words, one of the modern eighty-ton guns will throw nearly five hundred pounds more metal than the whole armament of the largest British ship engaged at Trafalgar. The gross tonnage of the Victory was 2,200 tons, while the Inflexible has a displacement of 11,400 tons. The former is a wooden sailing ship of the old "three-decked line of battle" type; the fetter is a twin-screw iron armor-plated turret ship, carrying four guns. The Inflexible took a prominent part in tlie bombardment of Alexandria. How Some of l"s Are Talked To. It is a foregone conclusion that the chief end of woman is to marry. And it if no less true that the question of marriage is one in which the women of the world are more nearly interested than in any other. This being the case, the wonder grows that there are so many illassorted marriages and unhappy homes. * * * a little common sense in matrimonial affairs, although it may despoil the courting days of something' of their romance, is a very good thing. * * * Man, of all animals, is the most susceptible to creature comfort. A loving heart and a caressing hand are very alluring, but they lose some of their enchantment if they forget to season the soup and show an utter disregard for shirt buttons and sock heels. * * * A man has an eve for beauty in his wife. He notices the soft wave of her hair and the fit of her gown with a sort of pleasurable pride, even after time and trials have dimmed the glamor of first love. The successful wife must represent to her husband all the virtues; must be sympatnenc, ana at iuc same um e sensi ble. She must be bright, entertaining and agreeable at home as well as abroad, and she must know how to preserve silence when it is desirable to hold her tongue, even though she is ready to burst with indignation. If she does not possess these qualities, let her cultivate them most assiduously. * * * A woman's natural impulses lead her to choose a nxler and guide in her husband. Very few women desire to rule the man to whom they link their destiny. The true wife gives to her husband her heart's best gift; she rejoices in him, is proud of him, and wishes the whole world to be in sympathy with her. But let her not err in thinking that her love can hold his. me iovcTviucn prompts unsemsnness, thoughtfuhiess and consideration is very good, so far as it goes; but it must bo tempered with common sense, so that in its absorption it does not neglect the comfort of the house and forget to be agreeable and dainty.?Philadelphia Piccord. I'hoiera Sweeping otr the Population of .Japan and Corea. Sax Francisco, September 1G.?Advices ! by the steamer Ga-lic from China and Jamn .ire as follows: The total number of cholera cases throughout Japan since the first appearance this year is 09,000, of which 37,000 resulted fatally. The indications are that the epidemic is now abating. Intelligence from Seoul, Corea, says that the cholera is still raging in that city. According to the official returns the fatal cases for July of this year were 48, GOO, out of a population of 250,000. Outside the capital the epidemic is equally fatal. At Shinshu. province of Kcishado, 5,000 and at Tearai, 6,000 deaths were reported in one month. THE PRESIDENT'S RETURN. HE lis EXPECTED JsOO.V TO OCCUPY HIS COTTAGE. V acation of Cabinet OniccrH-Swrptnry Mannln;;'n Intention to Itotirc from Public Life? Other .^ntter*. (Correspondence of the Baltimore Sun.) Washington, September 17. ? The ont-of-toTvn season is about over, and "Washington society is returning to its "L mi., -n t j. i i. - ? i_ uiij iiULU'j. jlhu a rosiueau uas prooauiy grown weary oi fishing and gunning in tiie Adirondack and no doubt is looking forward with pleasant anticipation to occupying his remodeled cottage on Georgetown Heights. Information received here yesterday indicates that he will start homeward this week. During his absence the repairs on the cottage have been pushed forward to completion, and the interior thoroughly cleaned and burnished, so that all is in readiness for the reception of the President and his wife should they arrive here to-morrow. It is the intention of the President to occupy his cottage imt.il cold weather sets in, and even then he will probably spend his winter Sundays there. The return of the President will, of course, be the signal for the home-coming of the cabinet and other prominent ofiieials, who feci that they arc not entitled to a longer vacation than tlie liead of the Government. Postmaster-General Yilas will return from his home in Wisconsin the later part of the present week, although his wife and family may delay their return to Washington several weeks longer. Nothing definite is known about the intentions of Attorney-General Garland, but at the Department of Justice he is expected here before the first of October. Secretary Whitney has notified his steward to have the I street residence ready for occupancy by the latter part of next week, and also to straighten up things at the summer house, near the President's cottage. Secretary Lamar will be in Washington when the first cabinet meeting is called. He enjoys taking his vacation in driblets whenever the spirit moves him. Secretary Bayard has remained at his post all summer, and it is probable that he will take a brief but much-need vacation during the month of Octobcr. lie will seek a secludcd spot, where he can have absolute rest and an opportunity to recuperate. SECRETARY r.iAXXIXG's EETIREMEXT. Tliorc are but few persons who expect Secretary Manning to resume bis seat at the cabinet table. His personal friends and those who arc hi frequent communication with the members of the Manning family assert positively that his decision to retire from the Treasury Department is final, and has been unchanged since he forwarded his resignation to the President. The latter was and is now averse to losing Mr. Manning from his official family, but he oi iwtr. Manning's health, and therefore caunot conscientiously Insist it pun His remaining. Had Mr. Manning's resignation been promptly accepted when first tendered, there are hundreds of antiadministration people who. it is claimed. would have seized upon the opportunity to charge that there was a political disagreement between the President and his best friend and most valued political adviser. As soon as Mr. Manning's family physician diagnosed the case, he announced that it would be almost as much as the patient's life was worth for him to attempt to tax his brain with the cares and responsibilities, to say nothing of the physical duties, of Secretary of the Treasury. As much as the President rcgietted to make a cia-uge in his Cabinet, he was obliged to bow to the inevitable. It was determined, however, that there was no necessity for hasty action, as Acting Secretary Fairchild was fully competent to manage the financial branch of the government. In the meantime, the extent of Secretary Manning's physical infirmities has become apparent to all reasonable persons, and he will reluc tantly retire from public life. EXTRA WORK FOP. THE CLEKSS. One night last week, Chief Clerk Youmans went down to the Treasury Department about 10 o'clock, and found a large force of clerks at work in the offices of the First Comptroller and Treasurer. As such an occurrence was somewhat unusual, Mr. Youmans asked a chief of division why the clerks were working at such a late hour. The chief frankly informed Mr. Youmans that the settlement of the Alabama claims had imposed a large amount of additional work upon the bureaus interested in adjusting the claims referred to. Besides the extra work imposed, much annoyance and delay in the work have been occasioned by the frequent visits of claimants and their attorneys, urging that the cases in which they were directly interested should be made "special." The rides of the department require that all persons seekiner information relative to public business shall be granted a respectful and patient hearing. Many of the Alabama claimants, it is said, presume upon this rule to occupy the time of the clerical force in endeavoring to push the settlement of their respective cases ahead of others. This class of claimants resort io the most adroit of methods to get into the Treasury Department after the regular visiting hour, which is 2 P. M. Every hour or half hour which they consume in appealing to clerks to make their eases "special" delays the work on other cases that much longer. To avoid any further trouble and delay by visiting claimants, Mr. Youmans lias issued a special order which will prevent such persons from entering the Treasury building after 2 o'clock. Unless authorized to'do so by the Secretary, no cases of this character : will be made "special," but all ox them will be settled in the order in which they w ui<j jjiisscu upuu uy uic auuiung oincers. For the past week the clerks in Treasurer Jordan's office liave -worked extra hours drawing drafts for the payment of these claims, which are promptly signed and registered and mailed to the respective claimants. The principal clerks of the Navy Department are said to be dissatisfied with the present rules governing the purchase of supplies. Secretary "Whitney discovered some time ago that the chief clerks of bureaus were in the habit of ignoring contractors who are under agreement to iurnisn supplies ro tue department ana procuring any articles they wished in open market. He issued an order at once directing that all supplies should come from the department contractors. The order at first was not obeyed, but after several of the clerks were forced to pay for the articles purchased in violation of it, they came to the conclusion that Secretary Whitney was determined. A little sou of Mr. Robert Sullivan, of Lancaster, aged about 2 years fell from bis bed on Wednesday afternoon last, and broke his right arm between the ??lbow and wrist. SENATORIAL Their Favorite lienor: atI*oint of itocK.i In She Maryland Mousitniiis. (CnrrespDEdcEoe of the Philadelphia Tir:io.; Poixt of Rocks, 31 J., September 10. ?Along tlie Potomac near tlxis little mountain station is one of the finest fishing places in the South. It is only thirty miles from "Washington and has long been the favorite resort cf legislators who have a penchant for the rod. Three roclrs jutting up from the stream are knovm as the "Senatorial Hocks" and one further down as the "Presidential Piock." The people of the village arc ever eager to toll of the famous fish ing excursion here tlirce years ago., when President Arthur and Senators Hampton and Test sat on those rocks through four long hot days and caught nearly four hundred fish" Nearly every week during this summer one or more Senators have been seen perched on the racks angling for the sportive swimmers. According to the testimony of the villagers. Senators Wade Hampton, Vest and Keima are the most persistent and successful anglers, with Edmunds, Erye and Gorman as good seconds. Hampton was here four times during the spring and early summer, and stopped over for two days after Congress adjourned. He is tlie most silent of all the Senatorial fishermen. While his negro bod}* servant keens the hooks baited and a mysterious dark flask ever at his master's hand, the Senator is constantly bent forward, with eyes intent on the sparkling, except when the passing fish bites. Then, unlike most Senatorial fishermen, he does not get excited and give the line a tremendous jerk which throws the fish high into the air and back again into the water. As if afraid of hurting the swimmer, he elevates the pole gently until it is above the surface, draws it in slowly, lets the negro detach it; then in a moment the line is once TV>ava crnVmrt1 -iv* TT'rtfAV XXXIALVS oijifki HQ xxj. ua^ cwxavi > J 1^,1.1 LZ tor is bending forward as if liis life depended on catching every motion of the string. It is said that he has never lost a tish in getting it out of the water, and that no man who has ever appeared on these fishing grounds has been more successful than he. A catch of sixty fish in one morning is credited to him." From those caught, he selects a dozen or so for dinner and gives the rest to aziy one who will take them. There are some oncer stories afloat here about his servant going into the village three times a day to replenish the mysterious dark llask, but no eye-witness of the occurrence could be found. Besides it was a time when Senators Vest and Blackburn, of Kentucky, occupied the adjoining rocks, so if there be guilt Hampton should not bear it all. Vest is hardly inferior, to the South Carolina Senator in handling the rod. Oeeasionallv lie mv to a little ex V 0- V J ^ otement when there is a particularly sharp nagging at liis line, but, generally quaking, lie is a calm and scicntific fislierman. He was the teacher of President Arthur in the science and this accounts for the warm friendship which, exists between the two. Just before Congress adjourned Mr. Arthur wrote to the fcJentitty 11145 imtt as soon as- tns iicnltsr" punnitixulkc jmuldiike to have another week at Point of Pocks. Senator Vest is not so silent. He intersperses his catches with stories about his fisli successes in Missouri and out at Yellowstone Park, but all the time keeps'a close watch on his line. He has, perhaps, the finest fishing tackle that has been seen in these parts. The rods arc of a peculiar cherry-colored reed and his reels are silver. The set cost, it is said, about $150. Kenna, of "West Virginia, who was out on the river yesterday, has the repratation of being the champion angler of West Virginia. Unlike every other fisherman, Senatorial rr otherwise, lie carries a real bars bottle. This may be accounted for by the fact that he is a temperance man :.n private life. The West Virginia senator goes aoout nsnmg in regular backwoods style. Dressed in jean trousers tuckcd in boots, a blue shirt and a short rusty alpaca coat, he looks like the typical dweller on the banks of the Potomac. Ke digs his own bait, attends to his own hooks and | manipulates his catches with his own hands. In fact he believes in carrying out the role to the letter rather than playing the gentleman angler. He loves to tell stories about his great doings on the Kanawha, and the truth of his tales are corroborated by his home people. Ke ranks next to Vest as a fish-story teller and is infinitely more truthful. ' Senator Edmunds, who is now up in Maine handling the rod, is known to every villager about here. What is L<J YT ctOiii-Ll^ LUllitlliCj tiiuj SJJW.il of him as the "jolly old bald-headed follow." He is certainly bald, and his looks justify his being called old, but just how the people got the impression that he is jolly it is hard to guess. Perhaps he thaws out away from the dignity of the Senate chamber. Perhaps the mountains and the river and the simple country people recall the days of his childhood and stir the sluggish blood in his veins to its youthful vigor. Perhaps the Senate restaurant-keeper kindly puts a good supply of cold tea in his valise for use on the Potomac, or perhaps?but after all it is all only guesswork" The Vermont Senator is like Hampton in silent contemplation of the waves and like him, too, in scientific management of his rod. In the latter part of July last he caught fifty-six fish before noon. TTin at* +I*a wt-av if JUULO cfcLci-HJ ?uug VJJJ. IUC A X > Ui i-O LX1V j as lie wears in the Senate chamber, with exception of a big, broad-brimmed straw hat, which is pulled down over his ears. Frye and Gorman have gained fame ai Point of Eocks also, but they are tco busy with their home campaigns this summer to give any time to angling. Frye never carries any rods with him. With a common line woun'i around a bit of wood he starts for the river and cuts a pole on the way down. In fact, he goes about the matter much after the manner of a schoolboy and seems to enjoy it all with a thoroughly youthful appreciation. He was one of President Arthur's favorite companions, under the preceding administration. Senator Gorman lives oniy a few miles from Point of Piocks, and frequently brings his guests up here for a days' lishing. __lle is exceedingly fond of the spoil. "When he makes an unusually large catch he is oc rrln/.frtl oo a WImIa hTi TVflV from Hagerstown to Baltimore, a few (lays ago, lie had to stop over here for half an hour to await his train. He spent his whole time down at the liver bank looking longingly at the ;'Senatorial Kocks." He said that as soon as the political conventions in Maryland were ovej: he would come here for a week and bring the President with him. if the latter had not got enough of the sport up in the Adirondacks. 3>i. l. e. Now that young 3Ir. Gould has married a wife, suppose we allow him to Lave a season of immunity from persecution. V?"e - ? ? ? - r - v _ -: * 1., agree mat uic marriage ui u;c nuuust .it-.: in America is a matter of some importance, but we do cot admit that the question of where he intends to pass the next night ought to lash the whole newspaper world into a frenzy of solicitude. It seem- to us this is a mere detail. i I I THE s-Oi L OF GOOD I\ EVIL. Some Timely and sieauiifi:! Extract* from an Oi?{ f,ecti:re ?!>' I?ass! II. Hayne. Beyond the orbit of Longfellow's "red planet Mars," wheeling in circles wliich sometimes interest each other, astronomers discovered between-1800 and 1307four small planetary bodies, to which Sir John Herschel has given the name of asteroids. Deviating so much from the path i:i the heavens described by the1 other tenants of cur solar system that j tlio zodiac must be expanded five times its breadth in order to include their orbits, bearing with them traces of atmospheric phenomena and gigantic scale; and what is most remarkable, presenting to the observer's eye not the form of an oblate spurid, but edges nigged and uneven. It has been conjectured by Prof. Olbers, of Berlin, that these bodies originally united in one great planet, must by some strange explosion have been scattered into space, whenever they gleam upon us now with the light dimmed and mournful of a fragmentary existence. A doom akin to this may be resting latent in the bowels of our own earth. Sometimes we hear the demon muttering his mysterious language and rolling his thunders underground, and then, unchained for a season, he riots in earthquakes or soars upon the fumes of volcanic exhalations. Pompeii and Herculaneum were buried in a night. Lisbon, with her thousands, vanished like one ot those dissolving ;'earth bubbles" to which Banquo compares the wind sisters in Macbeth. Elvers that have flowed for ages within their appointed bounds are precipitated into new channels, or swallowed up in the vortices of fire and smoke; fertile plains shiver like glass beneath the heel of some malign enchanter, and the whole globe trembles as with throes of dissolution. And yet, in the economy of nature what are these convulsions but the normal vents where through the earth's overcharged heart relieves itself of the pestilent humors?the consuming lieats which seethe and boil about the core of lior vitality? A few days, months, or years and her scarred visage assume again the lovliness of old; from tlic site of her Lava burials and the chasms which show where her sick agony was all but mortal, a richer verdure courts the airs of heaven and waters more brightly beautiful flash back the splendor of sunlight and stars. The earthquake, the tempest, the passion of vulcanic eruptions, are therefore but visitors of mercy. Were it not for their strong agencies, we too might have been rolling through the "voids immense," shorn of our birth-right of life niil cr\rirr! irm on lmnr* l?XAV.l iVi. U1A XAVUA ) stability for ccnturics; tlic upheaval of ancient landmarks to-day, and to-morrow the beginning of a new order of harmonious law, which progresses from epoch to epoch, along pathways of bcneficencc and love; sudden deaths to hundreds of thousands, and the fullness oi' life to myriads, perhaps of generations! Such are the sublime compensations oi' Providence. Who, then, can 7 ; ii ii.ni I. ii-i-i fni system, balanced and controlled by the omnipotent arm, is but a type in its perfect advancement of that moral, spiritual and political world within whose orbit humanity is called upon to act the drama of its destiny. In the conceit of theoretic reason we may ask: "Wherefore, 0 God! hast thou done thus and thus?" Or with the Spanish sceptic's audacious hardihood wc may afiirm that "if God had only consult d us at the creation, we could have favored him with hints to nis advantage; our, uespiio mans blasphemy and folly, tlie kind "AilFather' is leading him through processes he cannot comprehend to the noblest fruition of his hopes. 4-It suits not," says the archangel in "Festus," It suits not the eternal laws of God That evil be immortal! Yet on this temporary, partial stage of hum-in aetion it is often through evil alone that the highest possible good is evolved, and in proportion to the magnitude of the evil may be the vital grandeurs of the benefit. Those are truths that v>-e should all deeply ponder. The temptation to utter skepticism to ' 'curse God" in our hearts and 4'die" rises upon too many with a terrible force. Yet from the depths of sorrow and pain, if we listen aright, comes the voice of a beautiful consolation which seems to say: "From the ashes of corruption spring the flowers of verdure, the rich blooms of earth, and so in the loathesomcness of sin and error and all "things evil," lies hidden away, but acwly gathering its powers for resurrection, the immortal "soul of good." 1 , , q, q m A Bfll'si Five Hundred Youth, The city oi Urcslau celebrated the five hundredth anniversary of an occurrence which was memorable m the history of the town and is known wherever German poetry linds a home. The bell i-.mrf" in t!ia er?ni1?/v!-v> tmrov iii St. Mary Magdalen's Church and is named "St. Mary's bell," but is usually known as "the poor sinner's bell," rang out morning and evening on the 17tli of July to remind all who heard it that it was cast on that day live hundred years ago. Next day (Sunday) the preacher reminded his congregation of the pathetic story which, has made it singular among bells, how, when all w.? ready i'or casting, the beil founder witndrew i'or a few moments, leaving a boy in charge of the furnace, warning him not to meddle with the catch that secured the seething metal ia the caldron. But the boy disregarded the caution, and then, terrified oil seeing the molten metal beginning to How into the mould, called to the boll founder for help. Hushing in and seeing what he had intended to be his masterpiece rained, as he thought, angered to madness, he slew the boy on tin: spot. When the metal had cooled and the mould was opened, the boll was found to be an exquisite work, perfect in iiiiish. and of marvelous sweetness of tone. Coming to his senses, he recognized his bloody work and straightway gave himself to the magistrates. "JJluod for blood" was the law; he was condemned to die, and he went to his doom while his beautiful bell pealed an invitation to ail to pray for "the poor sinner," whence its name. T*r "IT*-c+rvvir > V . ULiCl iit.fc.-3 oi?v.i OLViJ r iu a b:Jia<l of touching simplicity: "War oiast eiu Glockengieszer 2a L'rc-lan iu del Stadt." London Times. ? ? ^.ii Lord Ilandolph C.: archill, replying to | the directors oi the Scottish Protestant Alliance, who rcccnLy criticised, his answer to their remonstrance against the appointment of Matthews, a Korean Catho lie, to the Heme Secretaryship, says he must decline to discuss the matter. He adds that ii the views of the Alliance were pushed to :i logical conclusion, they would involve the repeal of all those Acts of Parrnmrivincr lliA nnli}?f::l disabilities of Catholics and the re-enactment of penal I laws, which a vast majority of the British ' people are anxious io forget. APACHES IX CAPTIVITY. THE CHARACTERISTICS OF GEROXLMOS BAXD OF MURDERERS. The Women of the Tribe and How They Look. --~and Drexs?Other Chfricahups on Their Way to Florida. Sax An-tokt^Tex., September 15.? Geronirao and his band of savages have attracted great attention Tlere^ Tlie captive chief wore a white straw hatpa-gray alpaca coat, white trousers and armyboots, brand new. He was evidently much tickled with them. His black eyes frequently wandered to them with a glance of proprietary approval. He moved around the tents given him, quietly conversing with and directing his men. He was not impressive, but he was interesting. Flowing from under his coat was a piece of white cloth, alarmingly like a shirt tail, of table cloth proportions. It flapped wildly in the warm breeze and beat against the legs of the great chief in emphasis of the few things he had to say. George Wratten, ths interpreter, acted as the medium of communication between prisoners and captors. It was a curious scene when Geronimo was assured of his safety. He and Natchez had been suffering with the idea that they were to be instantly executed. They looked miserably at the shining weapons of the sentries, and ever and again glanced at their couchant braves with a kind of see-that-my-grave-is-kept-green gaze. General Stanley stood squarely in front of the wholesale and retail murderer. A little apart was a crowd listening to the queer language and its translations. The interpreter, a cartridge belt crossing his broad breast, waited for the general to speak. "Tell him," said the commander, "that when the white makes peace he makes peace. Tell him that I am now his best friend. Let him go to his tent and rest. Tell him that I will be near during the day. He and his friends shall not be harmed." The speech was slowly put into the tongue of coughs and grunts. As its mea,nin?? came to the bronzed band which had gathered around, they broke into a chorus of grateful "ughs" and their white teeth hashed. Taken by and large, the hostiles are a queer gang. Their not intricate but unique ra iment, handkerchief head gear, tawdy decorations, small figures and long coarse hair looked strangely, juxtaposed to the white tents and trim figures of the soldiery. A noticeable peculiarity was the great development of their legs and their slender arms. It is a manifestation to see them walk. They move with the lightness and springy grace of the panther. One of the women had no nose. Another had a very handsome face and was dressed with more taste and cleanliness than her companions. She sat in front of (Thipf "Nftf-heg:' t^nt. S<~>rnr> cm'.'l _ she"princess, but if so lier domain has gone from her. The females were very small. They wore their hair parted in the middle and the long elf locks fell into their eyes. Chief Hachez' boy, a sturdy youngster of fourteen, was especially noticeable. He moved freely about and laughed gaily at the curiosities of the whites. Around one of his limbs was tightly bound a leathern thong, so tightly, in fact, as to bury in : the fiesh. It was probably an effort to relieve a strained tendon, fie was scarred in several places, and when asked what caused it, picked up a small stick and intimated that ha had been hurt in ridincr through undergrowth. i On the very day of Geronimo's surrender he became a grandfather, and next day the mother of the papoose was trudging along the rough valley with the : other captives, her infant strapped upon 1 her back. This hardiness is character- ; istic of the squaws of the Apaches per- : haps to a greater degree than of any oth- . er Indian women. The whirlwind of an Apache flight carries with it the women ' and children of the tribe as long as the ' pursuing foe is imminent. When the mountain fastnesses are reached the noncombatants are secreted and the braves begin their murderous retreat from the avenging troops. The wife whom Geronimo rescued from Fort Apache at the risk of his own liberty and hie is one of the many who contribute to make his wigwam happy or otherwise, as the case may be. fSiie is said to be a woman of rare intelligence, great courage and entire devotion to her savage lord, accepting with thankfulness her fraction of his affections and giving in return an absolute allegiance. Captain Lawton gives it as liis opinion tliat (Jreronimo is 50 years of age, though the old reprobate vrill confess to but 45. He is purely a self-made man. That is, he is an accomplished murderer and a crafty cut-throat, and is not a hereditary chief. The Captain says he is bright, intelligent, a good talker, crafty, cruel and treacherous to a wonderful degree. During the past eighteen months Geronimo and his followers are credited with having murdered no less than 400 persons, a majority of whom were Mexicans, on the Mexican side of the Kio Grande. Captain Lawton has himself seen fourteen of the victims after death. Nachez is a son of Cochise and hereditary chieftain of the Chiricahaus. He is described by officers who know him as a very remarkable man. He is by long odds the finest looking of the band He is six feet in height, sparsely built, muscled like a race horse, and straight as an arrow. He has an open and expressive countenance, which says as plainly as it could be said that the man is a dauntless, desperate and competent warrior. He wore a kind of bizarre dress made up apparently from odds and n n ~ j rri ~ UilUfc MLU1CU ilUHI UCifcU illCil. ilicrc 115 IX great" difference between Mm and liis medicine man, Geronimo. In tlie first place he is much younger; secondly, he is a man of his word, while his ruler is a most wonderful and ornate liar. An Idea for Fairs. A new idea for fairs has been successfully worked out at Islington, England, and might be adopted at bazars in this country, when gypsy tents, Christmas trees. Rebeccas at the Well and other well-known attractions become undesirable. At the Islington bazar interesting historical buildings were reproduced, and their interiors embellished with libp-rallv and tastefully sur)t>lied tables. presided over by ladies in characteristic costumes. The homes of "Wycliffe, Tyndale, Shakespeare, Cowper, John Bunyan, William Penn, Milton and Wordsworth were reproduced. A military camp, with tents and other fittings, occupied a part of the hall, and a crowning of the May Queen and old English sports formed the entertainment of the fair. Adapted for this country, different bazars might represent Priscilla's Kitchen, the homes of some of the poets and other historical buildings, while an Indian village would doubtless be a great attraction to any bazar. Prof- Cleveland A bin* Predicts a Long Rest from n Earthquake*. \ (From the New York Herald) "Washington, September 12.?Prof. Cleveland Abbe, who was absent from Washington during the recent earthquake, 3 luis returned and has given to your corre- \ ? spondent sorac interesting views as to the V/ event. lie has made a very extensive study v of earthquakes and the theories regarding \ them. His views are outlined as follows: \ Prof. Abbe considers the Charleston \ earthquakes to belong to the same category as that which was so violent at Long Branch on August 10,1SS4, and which was W felt from 3Iainc to Virginia and westward \ tob'hlcu About one hundred and fifty such earthquakes-, occurred between 1872 and 1000 .t n /-I orti/>ln 1"vtt lOO/w, uliU V>tHT Oiuuivu ixx iio.v? cu uv/iv %jj Prof. Abbe, published in the Herald oa August 17,18S4 In tliis^nicle Prof. Abbe concludes that these shocks' - originated above the Archaien strata and in the lower portion of the sedimentary deposits?name? ly, from one to five miles below the earth's surface. He holds that there is no reason to believe in a hot fluid [interior, but that probably the rocks beneath this portion of the surface of the globe are in a condition of considerable constraint due to several causes?namely, first, the weight of superincumbent masses; second, the contraction due to slow cooling or the expansion due to warming in case chemical changes are still going on; third, the strain due to bending; and fourth, the strain due to the slow process of crystallization, such as occurs in the formation of dikes or: .asses of granite, marble, &c. Under t'. se accumulated strains the rocky strata are perpetually r?hinrr cn<tm(p ao/-?! ? onrl VIUUUUq, UU i^CVIU^ ouu again giving way. Every "fault" met with in a mine or quarry means a slight earthquake. If it were not for the myriads of little quakes wc should have to do only with greater earthquakes, which would, in fact, be of the nature of terrible paroxysms. When a severe earthquake happens it is usually preceded and followed by numerour slighter quakes, indicating that the strata are gradually being relieved of their strained condition, but that the main relief is found in the main shock. The distribution of the one hundred and fifty Apalacliian earthquakes show that numerically they are least frequent from May to September, but that these are precisely the months when the severer earthquakes are likely to occur; and, again, that a period of few earthquakes is especially likely to be followed by one or two severe ones that become stronger tiie loncrer the period of dearth has existed. Charleston lies precisely in the region where the earthquakes have been least fre quent for the last fifteen years. According to the study made of the number of earthquakes already mentioned, the whole country is now entitled to a period of rest at least as long as those between the earthquakes of Boston, in 1735; of New Madrid, in 1S11, and the present one of 1886?namely, from fifty-eight to seventy-five years. With regard to earthquake tidal waves, there was from the beginning no occasion for fear in the present instance. The waves of 1755 in Uuropc and America; that of India, in 1819; that of St. Martin's, November 18, 1855; that of Callao, 1856; Arica, August, 1868, and Conception, February, 1836; that of Japan, December 23,1854, and that of Krakatoa, July 1883, all illustrate the general principle that ocean waves attend onlv such carthanakps n<; originate tracer tiiC oc-an, or on the immediate coast. .The occan water must receive i nearly vertical shock in order to start thfe wave. Shocks that originate under continent, some distance from the ocean, strike tbe latter with a nearly horizontal movement, and so far as onr records show these appear never to produce severe earthquake ocean waves, at least not in the neighborhood of their origin. If any such wave attended the Charleston earthquake, it would be felt in the Bermudas and Europe rather than on our coast. Mot Long. How long will we be missed when we are gone. ]N"ot long. The best and most useful of us will soon be forgotton. Those who to-day are tilling a large place in the world's regards will pass away from the remembrance of man in a few months, or, at the furthest, in a few years after the sjrave is covered over the remains. "VVe are shedding tears above a new-made grave and wildly crying out in our grief that the loss ib irreparauje; \ ei 111 a suon lime me tendrils of love have entwined around other supports and we no longer miss the one who is gone. So passes the world. But there arc those to whom a loss is beyond repair. There are men from whose memories no woman's smile can chase the recollections of the sweet face that has given up all its beauty at death's icy touch. There arc women whose plighted faith extends beyond the grave, and drives away as profane those who would entice them from a worship of their buried love. Such loyalty, however, is hidden away from the public gaze. The world sweeps on besides and around them, and cares not to look upon unobtruding grief. It curves a line and rears a stone over the dead, and hastens away to oiler homage to the living. Casting Glass Like Iron. Berlin papers copy from the Germania the account of an important discovery in glass manufacture m.. ~.d by Friedrich Siemens, of Dresden. He lias succeeded in casting glass in the same way as metal is cast and obtaining an article corresponding to cast metaL This cast glass is hard, not dearer in production than cast iron, and has the advantage of transparency, so that all Haws can be detected before it is applied to practical use. It will be much less exposed to injury from atmospheric influences than iron. The process of jjroduction is not dillieult, the chief feature being rapid cooling. The hardiness and resisting power of this cast glass are so great that experiments are being just now carried out at the Siemens Glass Foundry at Dresden with the purpose of ascertaining whether the material could be employed for rails on railways.?London Times. A Curious <_'au.?e of Blindness. Dr. Widmark, a Swedish surgeon, haviiif? lis a mtient a vountr trirl in u.-hn-m * O ? ? Jf" 1/ O o he was unable to detect the slightest pathological changes in the right eve, but who was yet completely bhnd o" that side, observing considerable defects in the teeth, sent her to M. iSkogsborg, a dental surgeon, who found that all the upper and lower molars were completely decayed, and that in many of them the roots were inflamed. H^e extracted the remains of the molar on the right side, and in four days' time the sight of the right eve began "to return, and on the eleventh day after the extraction of teeth it had become quite normal. The diseased fangs on the other side were subsequently removed, lest fliov cn nil Id n wlnrn +1-.^ ophthalmic affection.?London Lancet The Spinners' Assembly at Amsterdam has resolved to stand by the strikers. All the mills in the town belonging to the Knit Goods Manufacturers' Association have shut, down, throwing over 2,000 hands out of employment. Both sides are determined. The manufacturers claim that the spinners wish to deprive them of the right to hire or discharge whom they please, and the spinners reply that one of their number, formerly Overseer of the Poor, has been blacklisted by the manufacturers. Many of the Knights of Labor condemn the action of the spinners, but Master Work| man Cummings has issued o ?tatemeDt approving of their course.