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Tlie second ship is all for me A-sailing on a misty sea And out across the twilight gray. What it brought of gift and blessing Would not stay for my caressing, Was too dear for my possessing, So it sails and sails away. The last ship, riding fair and high Upon the sea, is By-and-by. O wind, be kind and gently blowl Not too swiftly hasten hither, When she turns, sweet, you'll go with her. Sailing, filiating hither, thither, To what port I may not know. —Harriet F. Blodgett in St. Nicholas. A STRANGE CASE. The transitory mental aberration of Bidney Davidson, remarkable enough in itself, is still more remarkable if Wade's explanation is to be credited. It sets ono dreaming of the oddest possibilities of intercommunication in tho future, of spending an intercalary five minutes on the other side of the world or being watched in our most secret operations by unsuspected eyes. It happened that I was the immediate witness of David son's seizure, and so it falls naturally to me to put the story upon paper. ■ When I say that I was the immediate witness of his seizure, I mean that I was the first on the scene. The thing happened at the Technical college in Gower street. He was alone in the lar ger laboratory when the thing happened. I was in the smaller room, where the balances are, writing up some notes. The thunderstorm had completely upset my work, of conrse. It was just after one of the louder peals that I thought I heard some glass smash in the other room. I stopped writing and turned round to listen. For a moment I heard nothing; the hail was playing the dev il's tattoo on tbe corrugated zinc of the roof. Then came another sound, .1 smash —no donbt of it this time. Something heavy had been knocked ciT the bench. I jumped up at once aud went an-td opened the door leading into the big lab oratory. I was surprised to hear a queer sort of laugh and saw Davidson standing un steadily in the middle of the room, with a dazed look on his face. My first im pression was that he was drunk. Ho did uot notice me. He was clawing out at something invisible a yard in frout of his face. He put out his hand slowly, rather hesitatingly, and then clutched nothing. "What's come to it?" he said. He held up his hands to his face, fingers spread out. "Great Scott 1" he said. The thing happened three or four years ago, when every one swore by that personage. Then ho begau raising his feet clumsily, as though he had ex pected to find them glued to the floor. "Davidson!" cried I. "What's the matter with you'* 1 " He turned round in my direction and looked about for me. He looked over me aud at me and on either side of me without tho slightest sign of seeing me. "Waves," he said, "and a remarkably neat schooner. I'd swear that was Bellows' voice. Hullo!" he shouted suddenly at the top of his voice. I thought he was up to some foolery. Then 1 saw littered about his feet the shattered remains of the best of our electrometers. "What's up, man?' said I. "You've smashed the electrometer!" "Bellows again!" said he. "Friends left, if my hands are gone. Something about electrometers. Which way are you, Bellows?" He suddenly came stag gering toward me. "The d d stuff cuts like butter," he said. Ho walked straight into the bench and recoiled. "None so buttery that!", bo said, and stood swaying. 1 felt scared. "Davidson," said I, "what on earth's come over you?" He looked round him in every direc tion. "I could swear that was Bellows. Why don't you show yourself like a man, Bellows?" It occurred to me that ho must be sud denly struck blind. I walked round the table and laid my hand upon his arm. I never saw a man more startled in my life. He jumped away from me and came round iuto an attitude of self de feuse, his face fairly distorted with ter ror. "Good God!" he cried. "What was that?" "It's I—Bellows. Confound it, David son I" He jumped when I answered him and stared—how can I express it?—right through me. He began talking, not to me, but to himself. "Here in broad daylight on a clear beach. Not a place to hide in. " He looked about him wild ly. "Herel I'm off." He suddenly turned and ran headlong into the big electro magnet—so violently that, as wo found afterward, ho bruised his shoul der aud jawbone cruelly. At that he stepped back a pace, and cried out with almost a whimper, "What in heaven's name has come over mo?" He stood, blanched with terror aud trembling vio lently, with his right arm clutching his left, where that had collided with the magnet. By that time I was fairly scared and excited. "Davidson," said I, "don't be afraid.' He was startled at my voice, but not so excessively as before. I repented my words in as clear aud firm a tone as I could assume "Bellows,"'' ho said, "is that yon?' "Can't you see it's me?" He laughed. "I can't even see it's myself. Where the devil are we?" "Here," said 1. "in the laboratory." "The laboratory!" he answered iv a puzzled tone, and put his hand to his forehead. '' 1 was in tin- laboratory—l ill that flash came, but I'm hanged if I'm there now What ship is that?" "There g no ship, " said I "Do be sensible old r-hap "No shipi' <*• a, and seemed to forget my 6 itfa. "I sup pose," said he i .... "we're both dead. But the rum my part is I feel just ias thongh 3 itill had a body. Dent get ' used to it ail at once, I suppose. The old shop was struck by lightning, I suppose. Jolly quick thing, Bellows—oh?" "Don't talk nonsense. You're very much alive. You are in the laboratory blundering about. You've just smashed a new electrometer. I don't envy yon when Boyce arrives." i He started away from me toward the diagrams of cryohydrates. "I must bo deaf," said he. "They've fired a gun, i for there goes tho puff of smoke, and I * never heard a sound. " 1 I put my hand on his arm again, and this time he was less alarmed. "We i seem to have a sort of invisible bodies," said he. "By Jove! There's a boatcom | ing round the headland J. It's very much STAUNTON, VA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19,1895. liKe me ofci arc, artel - an— m a, umerem climate." I shook his arm. '' Davidson,'' I cried, "wake up!" It was just then that Boyce came in. So soon as he spoke Davidson exclaimed: "Old Boyce! Dead too! What a lark!" I hastened to explain that Davidson was in a kind of somnambulistic trance. Boyce was interested at once. We both did all we could to rouse the fellow out of his extraordinary state. He answered | our questions and asked us some of his own, but his attention seemed distradted by his hallucination about a beach and a ship. He kept interpolating observa tions concerning some boat and the dav its and sails filling with the wind. It made one feel queer, in the dusky labo ratory, to hear him sayin;; such things. Ho was blind and helpless. We had to walk him down the passage one at each elbow, to LV.yce's private room, and while Boyce talked to hir.i there, and humored him about this ship idea, I went aloug the corridor and asked old Wade to come and look at him. The voice of onr dean sobered him a little, ■ but not very much. He asked where his hands were, and why he had to walk about up to his waist in tho ground. Wade thought over him a long time— you know how he knits his brows —and then made him feel the conch, guiding his hands to it. "That's a conch," said Wade.. "The couch in the private room of Professor Boyce. Horsehair stuff ing." Davidson felt about, and puzzled over it, aud answered presently that ho could feel it all right, but ho couldn't see it. "What do you see?" asked Wade. Davidson said he could see nothing but a lot of sand and broken up shells. Wade gave him some other things to feel, telling him what they wero and watching him keenly. "Tho ship is almost hull down," said Davidson presently, apropos of nothing. "Never mind the ship," said Wade. "Listen to me, Davidson. Do yon know what hallucination means?" "Rather," said Davidson. "Well, everything yon see is hallu cinatory." "Bishop Berkeley," said Davidson. "Don't mistake me," said Wade. "You are alive, and in this room of Boyce's. Bnt something has happened to your eyes. You cannot fee; you can feel and hear, but not see. Do you fol low me?" "It seems to me thatlsee too much." Davidson rubbed his knuckles into his eyes. "Well?" he said. "That's all. Don't let it perplex you. Bellows here and I will tako you home in a cab.'' "Wait a bit." Davidson thought. "Help mo to sit down, "said ho pres ently, "and now—l'm sorry to trouble yon—but will you tell me all that over again?" Wade repeated it very patently. Da vidson shut his eyes, and pressed his hands upon his forehead. "Yes, "said he. "It's quite right. Now my eyes are shut I know you're right. Thut's you, Bellows, sitting by me on the conch. I'm in England again. And we're in the dark.'' Then he opened his eyes. "And there," said he, "is tho sun just rising, and the yards of the ship, and a tumbled sea and a couple of birds flying. I never saw anything so real. And I'm sitting up to my neck in a bank of Fund." He bent forward and covered his face with his hands Then he opened his eyes again. " Dark sea and sunrise! And yet I'm sitting on a sofa in old Boyce's room. Cod help me!" That was tlie beginning. For three weeks this strange affection of David son's eyes continued unabated. It was far worse than being blind. Ho was ab solutely helpless, and had to bo fed like a newly hatched bird and led about and undressed. If he attempted to move, he fell over things or struck himself against walls or doors. After a day or so he got used to hearing our voices without see ing us, and willingly admitled he was at home and that Wade was right in what he told hi in. My sister, to whom he was engaged, insisted on coming in to see him, and would sit for hours ev ery day while he talked abont this beach of his. Holding her hand seemed to comfort him immensely. He explained that when we left the college and drove home it appeared to him as if we drove Tinrht. t.lirnmrb a sandhill —it was per fectly black until he emerged again— and through rocks and trees aud solid obstacles, and wben he was taken to his own room it made him giddy aud al most frantic v.ilh the fear of falling, because going up stairs seemed to lift him 30 or 40 feet above tho rocks of his imaginary island. He kept saying he should smash all the eggs. The end was that he had to bo taken down to his fa ther's consulting room and laid upon a couch that stood there. I remember ono odd thing, and that was he wanted very badly to smoke. We put a pipe in his hands—he almost poked his eye out with it —and lit it. But he couldn't taste anything. I've since found it's the same with me—l don't know if it's the usual case—that I cannot enjoy tobacco at all unless I can see the smoke. He described the island as being a bleak kind of place on the whole, with very little vegetation, except some peaty stuff and a lot of bare rock. There were multitudes ef penguins, and they made the rocks white and disagreeable to see. The sea was often rongh and once there was a thunderstorm, and he lay and shouted at the silent flashes. Once or twice seals pulled upon the beach, but only on the first two or three days. He said it was very funny the way in which the penguins used to wad dle right through him, and how he seemed to lie among them without dis turbing them. But the queerest part of his vision came when Wade sent him out in a bath chair to get fresh air. The Davidsons hired a chair and got that deaf and ob stinate dependent of theirs, Widgery, to attend to it. My sister met them in the lower town, Widgery trotting along complacently, and Davidson evidently most distressed, trying in his feeble, blind way to attract Widgery's atten tion. He positively wept when my sister i spoke to him. "Oh, get me out of this ; horrible darkness!" he said, feeling for ; her hand. "I must get out of it, or I I shalldie. " He was quite incapable of j explaining what was the matter, but i my sister decided he must go home, and r ■ presently, as they went up the hill, the T horror seemed to drop from him. He I said it was good to see the stars again, i though it was then about noon and a blazing day a "It seemed," he told mo afterward, i \ "as if I was being carried irresistibly , ' toward tho water. I was not very much I | alarmed at first. Of course, it was night i there —a lovely night." 1 "Of course?" I asked, for that strack a | me as odd. "Of course, "said he. "It's always - ! night there when it is day here. Well, j I we went right into the water, which was canfi- ana snining unaer tne moot* light—just a broad swell that seemed to grow broader aud flatter as I came down into it. The surface glistened just like a skin—it might have been empty space underneath for all I could tell to the contrary. Very slowly, for I rode slant ing into it, the water crept up to my eyes. Then I went under and the skin seemed to break and heal again about my eyes. The moon gave a jump up in the sky and grew green and dim, and fish, faintly glowing,came dartiug round me, and things that seemed made of luminous glass, and I passed through a tangle of seaweeds that shone with au oily luster. Aud so I drove down into the sea, and the stars went ont one by one and the moon grow greener and darker and tin* seaweed became a 1;,;.. :i ons purple rod. It was all very faint and mysterious and everything seemed to quiver. And all the whilo I could hear the wheels of the bathchair creaking and the footsteps of people going by and a man with a bell crying coals. "I kept sinking down deeper and deep er into the water. It became inky black about me, not a ray from above came down into that darkness, and the phos phorescent things grew brighter and brighter. The snaky branches of the deeper weeds flickered like tho flames o* spirit lamps, but after a time there were no more weeds. The fishes came staring and gaping toward me and into me and through me. I never imagined such fishes before. They had lines of fire along the sides of them, as though they had been outlined with a luminous pencil. And thero was a ghastly thing swim ming backward with a lot of twining arms. "And then I saw, coming very slowly toward me through the gloom, a hazy mass of light that resolved itself as it drew nearer into multitudes of fishes, struggling and darting round something that drifted. I drove on straight toward it, and presently I saw in tho midst of the tumult, and by the light of the fish, a bit of splintered spar looming over me and a dark hull tilting over and some glowing phosphorescent forms that wero shaken and writhed as tho fish bit at them. Then it was I began to try to at tract Widgery's attention. A horror came upon me. Ugh! I should have driven right into those half eaten— things. If your sister had not come! They had great holes in them, Bellows, and—Lever mind. But it was ghastly I" For three weeks Davidson remained in this singular state, seeing what at the time wo imagined was an altogether phantasmal world, and stone blind to the world around him. Then, one Tues day, when I called, I met old Davidson ■ in the passage. "Hecanseehisthnmb!" the old gentleman said, in a perfect transport. He was struggling into his overcoat. "He can see his thumb, Bel lows!" he said, with the tears in his eyes. "The lad will be all right yet." I rushed in to Davidson. He was hold ing up a little book before his face and looking at it and laughing iv a weak kind of way. "It's amazing," said he. "There's a kind of patch come there.'' He pointed with his finger. "I'm on the rocks, as usual, and the penguins are staggering and flapping about as usual, and there's been a whale showing every now and then, but it's got too dark now to make him out. But put something there, and I see it—l do see it. It's very dim and broken in places, but I see it all the same, like a faint specter of itself. I found it out this morning while they were dressing me. It's like a hole in this infernal phantom world. Just put your hand by mine. No—not there. Ah, yes! I see it. Tho base of your thumb nnd a bit of cuff! It looks like the ghost 'jf a bit of your hand sticking out of the darkling sky. Just by it there's a group of stars like a cross coming out. " At first he was unfeignedly glad and seemed ouly too anxious to complete his cure by taking exercise and tonics. But as that odd island of his began to fade away from him he became queerly in terested in it. He wanted particularly to go down'into tlie deep sea again, and would spend half his time wandering about the lower town, trying to find the waterlogged wreck he had seen drifting. The glare of real daylight very soon im pressed him so vividly as to blot out ev erything of fan shadowy world, but in the nighttime, in t» darkened room, he could Btill see the white splashed rocks of the island and the clumsy penguins stagger ing to and fro. But even these grew fainter and fainter, and at last, soon aft er ho married my sister, he saw them for the last time. And now.to tell of tho queerest thing Df all About two years after his cure I dined with the Davidsons, and after dinner a mau named Atkins called in. He is a lieutenant in the royal navy, and a pleasant, talkative man. Ho was on [riendly terms with my brother-in-law, tmd was soon on friendly terms with hie. It came ont that he was engaged to Davidson's cousin and incidentally ho took out a kind of pocket photograph case to show us a new rendering of his fiancee. "And, by the way," said he, "hero's the old Fulmar. " Davidson looked at it casually. Then suddenly his face lit up. "Good heav ens !" said he. "I could almost swear"— "What?" said Atkins. "That I had seen that ship before-" "Don't see how you can have. She hasn't been out of the South seas for six years, and before then"— "But," began Davidson, and then: "Yes. That's the ship I dreamed of. I'm sure that's tho ship I dreamed of. She was standing off an island that swarmed with penguins and sho fired a gun."* "Good Lord!" said Atkins. "How the deuco could you dream that?" And then, bit by bit, it came out that on the very day Davidson was seized H. M. S. Fulmar had actually been off a little rock to tho south of Antipodes is j land. A boat had landed overnight to , j get penguins' eggs, had been delayed, I and a thunderstorm drifting up the boat's crew had waited until the morn ing before rejoining the ship. Atkins had been one of them, and ho corrobor ated, word for word, the descriptions Davidson had given of the island and the boat. Thero is not the slightest doubt in any of our minds that David son had really seen the place. In some unaccountable way, whilo he moved hither and thither in Loudon, his sight moved hither and thither in a mannei that corresponded about this distant is land. How is absolutely a mystery. That completes the remarkable story of Davidson's eyes. It's perhaps the best authenticated case in existence of a real vision at a distance. Explanation? There is nono forthcoming, except what Pro fessor Wade has thrown out. But this explanation invokes the fourth dimen sion and a dissertation on theoretical kinds of space. To talk of there being *""a kink in space" seems mere nonsense to me; it may be because lam no math ematician. When I said that nothing would alter the fact that the place is 8,000 miles away, he answered that two point§ might, be a. jard. away ona Knee: ea rnivi: ant 5" eE co orougm, cv ' getfaer by beading the paper round.— English niußtrated Magazine- THE MARINE COMPASS. The I.eason Why It Varu'3 During Thnn- I ' derstorms and I:i Fogs. i ' Apparently the compass is a simple ; ■ instrument, a needle of steel suspended i on a pivot, the needle magnetized either I by a magnet or battery, so that its points 1 : are attracted north aud south. What at -1 ; tracts and determines the position, of the I needle, whether it be currents of elec i tricity from north and south passing i round the earth, or, as vulgar sea knowl edge has it, the north pole, scientists I ; yet are iv doubt. Of course every school child knows that the compass is useless I ; as it approaches the north pole, the dip II is so great, although instruments have ■ : been made for the use of vessels destined IK for voyages of discovery. But this com i mercial age requires that all things should bo practicaL Tho modern steel and iron vessels have made it a necessity that there i should be some test for tho compass. In fact, upon an iron vessel the compass is useless unless the local attraction of the i iron in the vessel can bo neutralized or ' counteracted. This is done by placing i small magnets in the pilothouse, which I ; can only bo done correctly by swinging i the vessel exactly north and south, then by small magnets overcome the local at ; traction, until the needle of the compass [ is correct. There the danger begins. In a mouth or so the magnets lose part of their power; the iron of the vessel ab ; sorbs it. Tho consequence is that the ! vessel is in danger. Another thing, a dense fog will neutralize or rather weaken the magnetic power of the nee dle of the compass, so if there be the least friction in the pivot the needle : swings upon, the compass is faulty and ; the vessel is ashore. It is a singular, unexplained fact that coming to and passing the straits of Mackinac the local i attraction of the shore is such that the i compass cannot bo depended upon for safe navigation. Many a vessel might be saved, if in a fog, by placing a compass at the masthead and "con" the course by the call of the man placed there to i observe it. If the ship is near the shore, say within one mile, the needle of the compass will bo deflected one-fourth of a point; tlie shore attracts it. A thun derstorm will change the poles of the I compass at times, and summer light- j ning or any electric disturbance will j make a difference In the fall a bril-' liant display of the northern "lights (au-' rora borealis) will play hob with your • compass. Sometimes the point, espe-! cially in the spirit compass, may become ■ very blunt (it is made of brass) and the compass cord will hang. It is a good plan for every captain navigating the lakes to test his compass. Take a piece of steel ora long knife, chisel or file; apply it opposite the north pole of the compass and gradually try to pull the needle either way. If after releasing tho needle from tho influence of the article used it swings back and points to tho , north, the compass is correct —that is, if , the needle is placed right on the card. But when within a mile or more of the shore the lead is tho instrument to be depended upon. I venture to say that every shipmaster will tell you that at times the compass has its moods. But when we take into consideration the many surrounding influences that in our modern iron ship bear upon the efficien cy of the compass we wonder there are not more errors.—E. R. P. Slmrly in Chicago Inter Ocean. The Psychic Fad. Now that hypnotism is in the air, our conversation books will have to be re modeled, as thus: Good morning. Have you hibernated well? Yes, I had a most successful trance last winter. Have you laid up at all? Only for a few days at Christmas, just to escape the bills. Well, yon take my advice, old man, and rent a private catacomb on the three years' system, it conies much cheaper in the end, and you save all your coal and gas, to say nothing of clothes. We've started a Nirvana club in onr neighborhood on the tontine principle. The last person who wakes gets the prize, unless the first who comes to makes off with it. It is capital, any way, when you are taking a tour. Saves all tho trouble of Sightseeing. You arc just packed up and forwarded from place to place, with an automatic kodak which records every thing you visited. Try it! Will, some day. By Jove, I mnst be off! I've got to attend an anaesthetio concert, absolutely painless. And I've got a mesmeric dinner party on tonight. All the bores will be put in glass cases and fed mechanically. Goodby, them. Sleep well! — London Punch. », ,., i.tr.ic in rovuer .fillls. Apart from the danger of explosions, which, by the way, are less frequent than is generally supposed, gnnpo'wdei mills are exceedingly healthful places. Such a thing as a workman dying oi consumption is nnheard of, the explana tion being that the constant breathing into tho lungs of dust containing char coal, sulphur and saltpeter is beneficial to tbem. As to the death rate in powdei mills, the popular ideas are much exag gerated, the average freight yard being vastly more fatal than they. Statistics show that from the beginning of this century, when the Dv Pout powder mills were established, np to the present year, there has been an average of not quite one death a year from accidents or ex plosions. As among the employers, so among the men, fear is almost unknown, tbe black faced fellows shoveling the gun powder about as if it were coal and walking through it knep deep, as they would through so much flour. They are perfectly happy, these stolid Irishmen, who go on risking their lives year alter year for about the same wages as are paid in less dangerous employments— that is, $40 or $50 a month. Aud yet they aro exceedingly superstitions, it be ing not uncommon for a man to throw np his job'because he has had a warning or his wife has dreamed of a white horse. Thero are various dreams under stood by powder men to foretell an acci dent or an explosion, and it is very dif ficult, often impossible, to get a man who has had ono of these to go near the works.—McClure's Magazine. A Queer Kceipe. In an old black letter translation oi Albertns Magnus the donkey figures in the following extraordinary recipe: "Take an Adder's skyn, and Auri pig j mentum, and greeke pitch of Renpiriti- I cum, and the waxe of newe Bees, and I ' the fat or grease of an Asse, and breake them all, and put them all in a dull seething pot full of water, and make it to seeth at a glowe fire, and after let it I ; waxe cold, and make a taper, and every man that shall sec light of it shall seeme I headlesse. " —Gentleman's Magazine. ASTRONOMY CLASS. A PROBLEM THAT THE STAR SHARPS ARE TRYING TO SOLVE. The Nearest Fixed Star—The Distance Bil lions of Miles—So Far Away Its Loca tion Can Be Appreciated Only by Com parison Willi Known Distances. An interesting discussion took place recently in Paris at a meeting of scien tists as to the distance of the nearest fixed star. A number of astronomers had been asked to make observations of a certain star, and then to report the result of these observations to the meeting. It was discovered that no two calcula tions agreetl, but the astronomers de parted with feelings of great satisfaction, for in no case was the difference between any two results greater than 20,000,000,- -000 miles. There are eight planets moving about Ihe sun, of which the earth is ono, and astronomers have calculated, with very little chance of error, the distance of these bodies from each other and from the sun. The various results can be con veniently recorded in miles. But when we come to tho fixed stars, Which are themselves suns, many of them far larger and brighter and hotter than our own sun, and around every one of which it is not improbable that a family of planets is moving, the task of computing distance is far more difficult. The abyss of space that separates ns from our nearest stellar neighbor is so enor mous that the human mind cannot even form the slightest conception of it. Even astronomers, who are suspected by some of possessing minds of more than human capabilities, confess that this dis ; tance cannot be adequately represented in terms of miles. Nor is the ordinary astronomical unit, or distance of the sun from the earth, sufficiently large to be convenient in ex pressing the distance of the stars—that is, if we attempt to denote the distance of the nearest fixed star by stating that it is "so many times the distance of the earth from the sun," it is fonnd that this unit is entirely too small to be used with convenience, thongh it measures 93,000,000 miles. Experience has shown that it is more ' satisfactory to take as a unit the distance J that light travels in a year, which is i about G3,000 times tho distance of the , earth from the sun. Tims, if we say a particular star is at a distance of ten light years we mean that it is so far I away that it will tako ten years for its light to reach us, supposing it to have just sprung into existence. It is curious to think that such com paratively insignificant creatures as hu man beings, inhabiting a fifth rate planet, revolving around a third rate sun, should be able to compute with any d ;ree id MenTacy the enormous dis tance of any one of these stars. The magnitudes are so great that the ordi nary mind can comprehend them only when they aro represented by some il lustrative comparison. This may be done as follows: If we select any flat surface, such as a level field, and place on it a globe 3 feet in diameter wo may consider this the sun. Mercury, which is the nearest planet to tho sun as well as the smallest of all the planets, will be represented by a grain of mustard seed at a distance of 82 feet. Venus will be indicated by a small pea at a distance of 142 feet from the aforesaid globe. The earth will be a slightly larger pea 215 feet from the globe. Mars will become a rather large pinhead at a distance of 327 feet from the central body. Jupiter, the largest of all the planets—in fact, larger than all the others put together—will assume the respectable dimensions of a moder ate sized orange nearly a quarter of a mile from the globe. Saturn, the beau tiful ringed planet, will be represented by a small orange two-fifths of a mile from the mock sun. Uranus will be a full sized cherry or a small plum three fourths of a mile from the same object. Neptune, the most remote of all the planets, so far as known, will be fairly indicated by a good sized plum at a dis tance of miles. If, however, we attempt on the same scale to indicate the distance of the near est fixed star, we impose a heavy task on our power of imagination. F*ir such a star would he represented by another globe, about 2 feet iv diameter, at a dis tance of 8,000 miles—in other words, at the antipodes, at the other side of the earth, on tho end of a line drawn through the earth's center from the globe representing the sun. In 1838 Bessel succeeded in demon strating and measuring tho parallax of the star known as CI Cygni, and then, by a protracted series of calculations, in determining the distance of this star as 60,000,000,000 miles. This announce ment created a great sensation in the scientific world, and the fortunate Bessel was loaded with congratulations and medals of honor. Then Strove published the results of his observations of the same star, in which he located it at not less than 40,000,000,000 miles. Curious ly enough this announcement was re ceived as a confirmation of Bessel's dis covery. A matter of 20,000,000.000 miles was a trifle. However, one star is known to be nearer than 01 Cygni. This is the star known as Alpha Centauri, which is sit uated in the left foot of the constella tion of the Centaur in the southern heav ens. It is never visible in northern lati tudes, and its distance is about 35,000,- -000,000 miles. This distance is repre sented in terms of light years, as ex plained above, by 3. G—that is to say, if this star should suddenly spring into ex istence from nothingness we should kuow nothing about it until nearly four years had passed.—New York World. The New York Yonng Man. On Sunday morning the west side of Fifth avenue is thronged with church parade. There one sees in all his splen dor the New York yonng man. Some how, notwithstanding all his efforts to be English, he never quite effects it. Either his hat is too curly, his coat too long, or his trousers overpressed He looks like an advertisement for a fash ionable Manchester tailor, and represents the wide difference between gentleman ly and a gentleman. My impression is, by the way, they will never be able tc produce the breed of American gentle men until they manage to buy np and transplant an English public school, with all its traditions and style. At present the gilded youth here seem to be in the transition stage between the cow boy and the masher; they talk very low, between their teeUi; they call each oth er "old man," and describe the theater last night as the "rottenest show," but next minute ont leaps the cowboy, either in manners or talk, and the temporary illusion is gone.—Temple Bar, .-- ~ ... ....— Inums, I Itmmton % periator* RATES OF ADVER TISING. I Advertisements are Inserted —-— - '"-- ? " - ViX cents per line, for the flrst. and •MeZSm for each subsequent insertion s Local Notices are inserted at the rata of ai cents per line for the first, and liji cent, each subsequent Insertion. cents.for Business Notices are inserted at »>,« »«»„ „. 15 cents for the first and i cent, for „.i? te £ sequent Insertion. ts for each sul> - l-or gg?lf HAon U order. a a^ffim t e e n C tl araCter ' Wl » S3'arged for an NO. 31. i Proud of His Worst^^^^^^* "I hope you like your work, my lad " said a benignant elderly person to* messenger boy as they waited together to cross a street. "Men who take pride in their work are the men who suc ceed. " "Oh, I'm a record breaker, the manager says. " " That's the way for a boy to talk. Tell me how you do better than the other boys. " "I can take long- IB to carry a message than any ot aem. "—Providence Visitor. Little IS elne persistea in roexing oacK- Ward and forward in her high chair at' the breakfast table. "Don't do that, dear," advised mam ma. "Yon will lose your balance." Nellie heard, but healed not. In au other moment she was thrown from hep perch, and without crying a sound look ed earnestly about her. | "What are you doing, Nellie?" asked mamma anxiously. "I'm looking for my balance," whim-' pered NelL —Exchange. BICKLE & HAMRICK UNDERTAKING PABLOB NOS. 11 AND 13 W. FREDERICK STREKT, NEXT TO JESSER'S We keep constantly on hand -"he finest stock of goods in our line ever seen ln the city of Staunton. All the latest stylos and novelties. Calls attended day and night. FUNERAL OUTFITTED in every detail and under careful personal at tention BICKLE & HAMRICK aui-j 4-tf N os. and W.Frederick St. CHURCH DIRECTORY. First Presbyterian Chnrch, on Frederick St between New and Market streets, services II a. m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. A. M. Fraser Second Presbyterian church corner Freder ick and Lewis streets. Services at 11 a. m aud 8. Pastor, Rev. Wm. Cum in ing. Emmanuel Episcopal Church, worship at Y. M. C. A. Hall. Services at 11 a. m., and 8 p.m. Rector, Rev. R. C. Jett. Trinity Episcopal church. Mam street, be tween Lewis and Church streets. Services at 11 a. m., and Bp. m. Rector, Rev. W. Q. Hul llhen United Brethren church, Lewis street, be tween Main and Johnson streets. Services at 11 a. m md Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. D Don ovan. Methodist church, Lewis street, between Main and Frederick streets. Services at U m. and Bp. m. Pastor, Rev. J. H. Boyd, D. D Christ Evangelical Lutheran church. Lew- Is street, between Main and Frederick streets Services at 11 a. m. and 8 p. m. Pastor Rev H. F. Shealy. Baptist church, cornei Main and Washing ton streets. Services at II a. m. and 8 p. m Pastor, Rev. W. J. E. Cox. St. Francis Roman Catholic, North Augusta street, Mass at 7 and 10.30 a. m. Vespers and benediction of Most Blessed Sacrament rt p. m. Pastor, Rev. Father McVerry. Young Men's Christian Association, corner Main and Water streets. Services at 1 p. m. Sunda . DIRETORY OF LODGES. MASONIC LODGE. Staunton Lodge No. 13, A. F. and A. M., meets every second and last Friday night in eacl month, In Masonic Temple, Main street. Jas M. Llckliter.W. M; B. A. Eskridge, Secy. UNION ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER. No. 2, meets third Friday in every month, ln Masonic lemple, on Main street. W. W. Mc Guffln, High Priest; A. A. Eskridge, Secy. ODD FELLOWS' LODGE.; Staunton Lodge, No. 45,1. O. O. F. meets cv cry Thia-sday night In Odd Fellows' Hall, ovel Wayt's drug store, on Mam street. John C Fretwell Noble Grand; C. A. Crafton, Sec' KNIGHTS OF HONOM ODGE. Staunton Lodtc. No. 756, Kr.ghts of Honor meets every first tu.3 third Tuesday in each month, in Pythian Hall, Main street. W. L. Olivier, Dictator; W. A. Burnett, Recorder. MOUNTAIN CITY LODGE. No. 116,1. O. G. T., meets every Friday night ln their lodge room over Wayt's drug store on Main street. A. S. Woodhouse, Chief Templar F. B. Kennedy, Secy. DISTRICT LODGE. No. 22,1. O. G. T., meets every three months ntss&J"pp";"' D - C. T.; s. H. Bauserman District Secretary. —•»•. ROYAL ABCANL'M. Augusta Council, No. 490, Royal Arcanum meets every second and fourth Tuesday in the month, at Pythian Hall, Main street. W. W. Robertson, Regent; Jos. B. Woodward, Seo-° retary. sons of tempera::cf Charity Division, M. A., Sons of Temperance meets every Monday night at Odd FeUowa all. W. A. Rapp, Worthy Patriarch; John B. Coffelt, Secy. UNIFORMED RANK, KN.GHTS OF PYTHIAS. E. B. Stuart Division, No. 10, meets second and fourth Mondays each montn at Pythian Hall. Sir Knight Captain, F. B. Berkley; a Knight Recorder, S. H. Roseabaum. KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS. Valley Lodge, No. 18, K. of P., meets Monday night at Castle Hall, on West street, over Dr. Wayt's drug store. C."T. Ham mond, Chancellor Commander; Albes Keeper of Records and Seal.. KNIGHT TEMPLARS. Staunton Commandery, No. 8, Knights Tem plar, meets flrst Friday night in every month in Masonic Temple, on Main streot. W. B. McChesney, Eminent Commander; A. A. E k- Hdge, Recorder. ONEIDA TRIBE, NO. 88,1. O. R. M., Meets In their wigwam, in Valz Building every Wednesday at 7th run 30th breath setting of the sun. S. S. Peterson, sachei- James W. Blackburn, chief of records. J visiting brothers welcome. AMERICAN LEGION OF HONOR. Valley Council No. 736 meets on the flrst and third Mondays In each month. Commands- A. S. Woodhouse; secretary. Dr. J. M. Hange collector, Isaac C. Morton, Jn CATHOLIC HIBERNIAN BENIFICAI| SOCIETY.! Meets first Sunday In every month In tbe J hall on the church lot. M. T. B presi dent; J. J. Kllgalen, flrst vice-president; J. J Murphy, second vice-president; D.J. O'Connell recording secretary. "STONEWALL" BRIGADE BAND. Band meets every Monday and Thursday orchestra, every Wednesday, at 8 p. m., ln City HaU. Mr. J. M. Brereton, director, J. A. Armentrout, president, and C. Harry Haines, secretary. CENTRAL PROHIBITION CLUB. Meet on Thursday night of each week, ;in the ub room, 119 East Mam street. Jas .W. Bod . y. Acting President; Preston A. Ross, Secre a*»y CHAMBER OF COMMERCE. Monthly meetings. Fourth Tuesday ln the month at 7:30 o'clock. Room ln City Hall build ing Isaac Witz,presld t; J.C.Shields, secre ary.