OKIGIN OF BAGPIPES
IT IS FOUND IN THE ANCIENT REED,
OR SHEPHERD'S PIPE.
fa Early Times There Were Many
Different Klnda of Baarplpea In Vm
In Enrope The Hlarhland, Lorn-land
and Iriah Varletlea.
According to the encyclopedia, the bag
pipe la a wind Instrument the fixed char
acteristic of which has always been
two or more reed pipes attached to and
founded by a wind chest, or bag, which
bag has In turn been supplied either by
the lungs of the performer or by a bel
lows. The original Instrument was pre
sumably the simple reed, or shepherd's
pipe, which was well known to the
Trojans, Egyptians, Greeks nud Ro
mans. But the strain of blowing these
ancient pipes was so great that some
genius conceived the idea of having a
reserve supply of wind lu a bag attach
ed to the pipes, and hence the bugpipe.
The first real Instrument is believed to
Lave been a skin of a goat or kid, with
two pipes, through one of which the
bag was Inflated, the other emitting the
souud.
In early times the bugpipe was com
mon lu Great Britain and abroad. At
one time there were five different kinds
known on the continent, some Inflated
by the mouth and others by bellows,
while In the British isles three kinds
were known the great highland bag
pipe, the lowland bagpipe of Scotland
(which closely resembled the Northum
brian) and the Irish bagpipe.
In the great highland bagpipe, which
originally hud but one drone, a valved
tube leads from the mouth to an air
tight bag. which has four other orifices,
three largo enough to contain the base
of tliree fixed long tubes, termed drones,
and another smaller, to which is fitted
the chanter. The three are thrown on
the shoulder, while the latter Is held lu
the hands. All four pipes are filled
with reeds, but of different kinds. The
drones are tuned by means of sliders,
or movable joints, and this timing or
preparation for playing, which general
ly occupies a few minutes of the piper's
time before be begins the tune proper.
Is heard with impatience by those not
nccustomed to the Instrument. Indeed,
it gave rise to the saying, applied in
Scotland to those wlw waste time over
small matters. "You are longer In tun
ing your pipes than In playing your
tune."
The Scottish lowland bagpipe, like
the Northumbrian l'lp'. was in two
forms, one consisting of a smaller and
milder toned edition of the highland In
strument and the other a miniature of
this and having the same relation to it
ns the fife has to a German band. Its
great drawback, from the point of view
of the devotees of the highland bagpipe.
Is that it Is unsuiteil to perform what
they consider the perfection of pipe mu
sic the pibroch. These small piie
were, however, gentler than the high
land, having the same tone, but less
sonorous. It was to the strains of such
a bagpipe 1h::t Chaucer tells us the com
pany of pilgrims left IxMiilon. and It Is
the same Instrument that is alluded to
In Shakespeare ns the Lincolnshire bag
pipe. The Irish bagpipe is the instrument in
its most elaborate form and is supplied
with wind by a bellows. The drones
are all fixed on ue stock and have
keys which are played by the wrist of
the right hand. The reeds are soft and
the tones very sweet and melodious,
and there Is a harmonious bass which
is very effe -tive in the hands of a good
player. The Irish instrument Is fast
tlyinir out.
The bagpipe, though at one time fair
ly co:iiiu.iii, never obtained a firm hold
in England. It lost favor and gradual
ly deteriorated until It is now practi
cally extinct. The average English
man neither appreciates nor under
stands it. A famous poet Irreverently
once compared its notes to "the shrill
screech of u lame goose caught in
corn." w'. lle another heretic writer lik
ens its souud to a "horrible, noisy, mad
Irishman" or to the cries of the "eter
nally tormented." To the Irish people
it appeals more strongly. They still
possess in a degree the feeling of at
tachment to the bagpipe which is so
general among Scotsmen. But It is
undoubtedly more closely associated
with Scotland, both In the highlands
and lowlands, than with any other
country, the particular instrument in
use being the great highland bagpipe,
which, ua already explained, consists
of three drones. Including the big
drone, which was added about the be
ginning of the last century. It is this
type which lios gradually superseded
the lowland pipe. There Is no doubt
that the bagpipe was lu use In Scot
land from a very early period, and it
ls In Scotland that it has been brought
to the highest degree of perfection. Its
music distinctly connects it with Scot
land, as Is clear In the pibroch, the
strathspey, the reel, the march and
other popular melodies. There are
proofs that the instrument was culti
vated In Scotland certainly In the
twelfth century and of its universal
popularity as early as the fifteenth cen
tury, while In the seventeenth century
nearly every town in the highlands and
lowlands boasted of its piper. London
Globe.
Treating to Appearance.
"A photographer Is really among the
most trusting of men."
"How do you make that out?"
"Doesn't he always take people at
their face value?" Baltimore Ameri
can. A Relief.
Mother Do you think It is a good
thing to spank n child? Dir-tor Well,
It often relieves th: parent of a bad fit
of temper. DetrD't Free Press.
mother's tears are tht In a!'
AN ODD SEA FOOD.
Virtue of the Glatantlc Marine laall
Kiowa aa the Abalone.
Though the flesh of the abalone Is a
nutritious and wholesome article of
food, highly esteemed by the Chinese
ant! .Tnnnnese. few people in the Unit
ed States know earthing about the
abalone except that It has a large shell
with a bright, pearly interior. Tne a Da
lone Is a gigantic sea snail, whose nat
ural home Is the deep water off a rocky
coast. The whole coast of central and
lower California, from Cape Mendo
cino to Cape St. Lucas, abounds in aba
lones, the supply being absolutely un
limited. As fast as an area of fishing
ground Is depleted it is repeopled by
full grown abaloncs coming in from
the ocean. Three mouths after a piece
of ground has been thoroughly cleared
by the abalone fishers the supply is as
abuudaut as ever. The contents of the
largo abalone shell weigh as much as
1 two pounds.
Long ago the Chinese and Japanese
I discovered the value of the meat as a
I wholesome and digestible food. The
supply of abaloues in Chinese waters,
i is, however, small, and the fishing
i grounds off the coust of Japan were sc
J heavily drawn upon that they became
! exhausted. The people are forbidden
! by an imperial edict from taking them.
; The Japanese and Chinese in Calif or
j nla dive for the abaloues, which crawl
; about the .rocks at the bottom of the
' sea in deep water outside the surf.
; Tiie divers bring them ashore and
srjread them out in a sunny place to
! dry. This process reduces the abalone
to'about one-third of its original bulk,
leaving a tough, horny product. The
' dried abaloues are sent to the orient,
: where they are soaked aud stewed or
ground Into powder and used for mak
ing soup.
In the pure, deep water of the ocean
the abalone lives, aud as it Is a clean
feeder Its llesh is always souud and
wholesome, being superior in this re
spect to that of oysters and clams,
which live near shore and are often
contaminated by sewage and other ltn
' purities. The viscera of an nbalona,
1 unlike those of the clam or oyster,
which must be swallowed whole, are
quite separate from the musclar or
edible part aud can be detached by a
Klngle stroke of n knife. Chicago
News.
A BUNCH OF FLOWERS.
In I'aiestiue and I'ersia the "sorrow
ful lnycautlius" droops In the day, be
ing apparently ulniiit to die, but re
vives as evening comes on.
Tulips are so sensitive to the light
that during u cloudy day they will of
ten close their petals and remain shut
up until a return of sunlight.
Lilies of the valley in France are
called "virgin's tears" and are said to
have sprung up on the road between
Calvary and Jerusalem during the
night following the crucifixion.
The night blooming sereus blossoms
about an bo.ir before midnight, but by
the approach of daylight the flower is
a complete wreck, having lost all it
beauty and fragrance.
The four port-led lotus in an exposed
situation makes a cover for its flower
y drawing one or more of the leaves
over the blossom and keeping them
there during the licit of the day.
Wiiftuer niitl Scliunuinn.
Wagner, writing in lMii, said of
Schumann: "lie is a highly gifted mu
sician, but an impossible man. When
I came from I'aris I went to see him.
I told bim of my Parisian experiences,
spoke of the st:ite of music In France,
then of that in Germany, spoke of
literature and politics, but he remained
as goo l as dumb for nearly an hour.
One cannot g on talking quite alone.
An Impossible man:" Schunpauu gave
an account of this interview, which
practically agrees with that of Wag
ner. "I have seldom met Wagner," be
said, "but he is n man of education
and spirit. He talks, however, unceas
ingly, and that one cannot endure for
long together."
The Term "Prime Minister.
'Trime minister" is one of the many
terms In English which seem to have
been slang at one time. It was first
applied to Sir Itobert Walpole, but !n a
reproachful sense. Feb. 11. 1742, after
twenty years' tenure of office. Sir Itob
ert resigned all his employments.
"Having Invested me." he remarked,
"with a kind of mock dignity and
styled me prime minister, they Impute
to me an unpardonable abuse of that
chimerical authority which they creat
ed and conferred." Such n personage
as the prime minister or the premier is
not even mentioned In the official table
of precedence and Is unknown to the
written constitution of Great Britain.
The Live Spnnire.
When the pponge Is In the sea alive
the Inside of the pores is covered with
a soft gubstnn-e like the white of an
egg. This appears to be the flesh of the
animal, and currents of water may be
seen running Into the sponge through
the small pores and out of It through
the large ones, and It is. supposed that
while the water is, passing through the
f ponge the nourishment for the support
of the animal is extracted from it
Both.
"Do you peer swear when your collar
buttons roll under the bureau?"
"I keep a man to attend to such
things." answered young Mr. Nuritch
haughtily.
"The buttons or the swearing?"
Pittsburg Post
Good News.
CnFV.Ie? p;ir:!. s!r, that
John .Tones is n bankrupt? Bunker
Well, that's g):xl nev.-R. We'll now get
a 11tt! of r,-i::t lie owes us. whereas, if
he bad rpnbi" 1 In lm!ness, we'd nev
er have got a cent. Fiicg -niie Blatter.
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Enter Your Name On Our List at Once and Win One of the
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the work of securing subscribers
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ar IN ADVANCE will get free with
The Courier one of these papers
oneyear, the Woman's Magazine, The
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Southern Agriculturist, or the
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This contest begins NOW aud will j scriptions with $18.00, we will send
close July 1, 190C. The person j both thee premiums,
who sends" us the largest number of But that is not all, we
subscriptions during that time will ! make another offer that every
receive as a prize a handsome Na- body can get and that is that
tional Sewing Machine, which st lis every worker, who will send us six
forOoOO " ' subscription at one time acconipai-
To the' person wbTleml m'f by G.00. we will give a
the second largest list of subscriber. : fine powiain, 30 piece Ibreakfas
we will give a Champion New Home , set or for live subscriptions .we will
Sewing Machine, price $05.00. ! ,il handsome stereoscope and
To the persen who obtains for us colored scenes from all parts of
the third largest list of subscribers we of the world. This break fast set
will give one Carolina Cook Steve ver sold for less ha.. $4.00
witL "B" list with pipe, including :" 13 wol th -00 'fi'
full and complete Vooking outtit. and the stereoscope and v.ews
which sells eJrywheie fotU.W. fre & fulIJ.fM .
This stove is on exhibition at the ; break fast set, or if at.j worker will
Lewis & Window Hardware Com-. 8end "? 10 subscriptions accom-
pany
i-
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To
fourth largest list we will
, - ir'"" vail uumi- ouiu a ji uhubo
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.atch madi'by theNewlork btau- coull2nt if we Jid not know ft
aid Uatch Company, htttd m u exllfrience that three-fourths of
gold filled hunting case, wiiiranted
for 20 uais. It is a etem-w.ndei
.. ..:
aim stem -seuei, iu.u m c, ."
reliable tune keeper. Lack cae :s
handsomely engraved.
To the worker who sends us the
fifth largest list we will give a watch
with movement like the foregoing
description except a ten yeargnara .-
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To the person sending us tne
sixth largest, list we w.ll Ji't.
a pair of Queen Quality Shoes !
tt oith 3.50. These shoes are on
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Mor-
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The person seudin
the
seventh laraeet list will receive
ti pair of the celebrated White House
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Shoes worth 3.50. These shoes can
be seen at anytime at the Morris-
Scarboro-Moflitt Co's Store.
The person sending us the eigth
larsrest list will receive a pair of
the popular onian s Collect'
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be seen ut Mr V J Miller's store.
The worker sending us the ninth
lamest aubscrintion list we will give
free a beautiful aa-picce porcelain WAIT UNTIL TO-MOUHOW TO
breakfast set. I'.KOIN WORK. Start now and
To the person sending r.s the keep it np, if yon want one of the
tenth largest subscriptions we will big prizes. We will send you eam
gne a haudffOJie water set orth j'e copies, if you ask for them, but
6.50. we do not furnish rtceipts and sub
The person sending ua the eleventh seription blanks except direct to the
largest list of subscribeis will re- subscribers upon receipt of the list
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Shell and Butter Knife to match, envelope and fold it up and put in
pure coin silver plated over nckel another en vt lope which bears the
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Ilul-i.lPnMll-l.lbriirl.il. I
A very interesting report on rural
public school free libraries establish-;
e l unler the act of 1890 has been
prepared by Prof. 11. D. W. Connor,
of the office of the State superin
tendent of public instruction. It j
shows that to date the Statu has1
appropriated $15,000 for such libra- i
ries, of which $12,590 has been ex-
pended, that 1,500 libraries ha e
ot-en provided for ana 1,259 estab- j
lished; that 97 counties ha;e one
or more such libraries, that 29 coun
ties have the full number, 18, of
such libraries. No county is with
out a library For supplementary
libraries the State has appropr ated
$5,000. of which $1,035 has been ex
pended. A thousand' supplement
ary libraries have been provided for
and 207 established, 00 of the couu
ties having one or more of tnese,
and 31 counties having none. It is
reported that 107 libraries hav-3 'ten
t stiiblished without State aid. The
total number of lioraries in the rur
al schools in the State is 1,366.
The total expenditure for libraries,
exclusive of private aid, is $40,875,
and the total number of volumes is
1,113,208. The State fciv8 oat
third, $10, the county a like sum
and the school district the same.
The folder issued by the State
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000 copies and these are being sent
aU over the North and West.
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Now here are the "sure things"
prizes those you KNOW you can
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lo every person sending us twelve
: Subscribers at one time with twelve
I dollars, we will give a handsome
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prefer, a set of genuine Rodgers
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anywhere for $5.00 to $6.00. Or to
any person, who will send us 18 sub-
these handsome premiums,
,,-,. ' ,;n wnnW bow
we can make such a remarkable
we
om
pen
the
new
subscribers obtained in this
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way
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subscribers at the end of the year,
We an handsomely
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The merit of the paper itself will
j0 tne rest anj j tne 0I)g nm we
,vj iake a protjt ami y0U wm be
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,y inducing the people to read a
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umke niore money from their farms
alH jn VJ1j0US occupations,
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Chamiiion ew Home Sewinjr ila-
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Any young man who wants a p ir
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"liv getting subscriptions or job work
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Now the facts are all before vou
ai d the contest is on. DON'T
DO YOU GET UP
WITH A LAMB BACK?
Kidney Trouble Makes You Miserable.'
Almost everybody who reads the news
papers is sure to know of the wonderful
cures maue uy in
lraer's jwamp-
the trreat kid-
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It is the great med
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4
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eminent kidnev and
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aniA mtarr'ii of the bladder and
Bright's Disease, which is the worst
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found just the remedy you need. It has
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proved so successful in every case that a
special arrangement has been made by
which all readers of this paper, who have
not already tried it, may have a sample
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in r more about Swamp-Root, and how to
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Bone or Back Pains, Swollen Joints, Itching, Burning Skin
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Leading; Symptonn.-B."j; pilu, sclaUea os)
shooting palnl up and down tbs ic; aching back oa
shoulder blades, swollen joints cr tw jllea muscles; dif
ficulty In moving around S3 you have to use crutches;
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