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GONE WITH THE PINS. ROBERT J. BURDETT. Where is the thrill of last night's fear? Where'is the stain of last week's tear? Where is the tooth that ached last year? Gone where the lost pins go to; For last night's riddle is all made mi-, - plainer The sunshine laughs at the long-past ? g rain,. And the tooth that ached hath lost its pain That's what our troubles go to. Where?iare the clothes that we used to Where-ar? the burdens we used to bear? Where is the bald-head's curling hair? Gone where the pins disappear to : For. the style has changed and the . clothes are new. The skies are wearing a brighter blue, The hair doesn't snarl as it used to do, . And the /-parting has grown more clear; too. Where are the bills that our peace dis ; tressed? Where is the pin that the baby "bless ed?" Where are the doves in last year's nest? Where have the pins all gone to? On the old bills paid are the new ones . thrown The baby's at school with her pins out . grown,* And the squabs are running a nest of " '. .;their??wn-^-:.$? You cant bring 'em back if you . ' want,to. _ We can stand the smart of yesterday, I To-day'?- worse i 11 s we can drive away ; Wha^t waaand is brings no dismay g Fbrlfist^a?d present sorrow; Sut . the burdens that make us groan ., v %nd sweat . T?e troubles thar) make us fume and Air^tne-tbi?gs-thst haven't happened ?~;- The pins that we'll find to-morrow .' v:. / Apple Trees. 1 ? ?. ** .-" An apple tree is an organism tbafct demands for its full development all the favorable conditions of earth and air that eau b? secured for it, and all the intelligent care that man can bestow upon it. The tree will ISySr-for a good while^~if it is lat gseverly alone , but it won't do mu^Ji more. Let the^eod thicken aid- '.wax"tough above its roots; let-.:? suckers . sap its juices I unchecked ; let the borer, the tent ca te rpi lar, the cankerworm, and t?.e.'rest of the seventy five apple t'reejpests prey upon it; let its limbs interlace and worry each e^fiet unrestrained by the pruning knife nevertheless, it will stuggle through all to accomplish the end of?--vite- being, But its best endeavors will result only in a crop^f nubbins, which will serve theshif tless owner right. /An apple tree needs encour agement. It needs care. It needs fertilizing. It needs cultivation. It/resents neglect and niggard lineee. -We nave recently given some details with, regard to the setting out of an .apple orchard. Let us say Arther tm%t no matter how well an orchard has been planted, if afterward it is turned over to the tender mercies of nature -generous mother thongh " she - be-tHe" ?nd: will be a lamentable failure. " For the cultivated apple tree,yilke? the cultivated horse or co^, isJiot fitted to cope with the varying elements unaided, and needs to be sustained and bolstered up by'the care of-man. If the trees aie set at a distance of not Tess than forty feet apart there is ample room and verge enough for several years to grow some kind of hoed crop-potatoes, peas beans, etc-with advantage to the tree. But in that case the fertility removed must be restored by supplying soil with fresh fertility. In planting crops of any kind in the orchard care should be taken to keep them beyond the space occupied by the roots of the growing txees. "ThiB, if the ground has-been properly prepared, will extend somewhat beyond the spread of the top. The one principle to be observed, in fine, is that the ?ground is first of all set apart for the use and behoof of the ?rchard?itself, and that the other crops are simply grown for the purpose of making the most of the land) and incidentally bene fiting the main crop, which is ap ples, strange as that assertion may seem TO some too thrifty orchard owners. One of the most objectionable practices of farmer orchardists is seeding1 the Orchard to grass, and leaving it in sod for eight or ten years or more.. An orchard should not be put in grass at all and certainly should not be left so for an indefinite period. Of course, if the fruit is a secondary consideration, it dees not make so much difference. But, in that case, it would be better to devote the land entirely to grass and buy /roma neighbor the few apples that would be obtained from an orchard so treated. An apple orchard that has beer ia grass for a number of yean may be greatly improved bj plowing, though it may never bc brought to the condition of one that has received proper cultivator from the start. But in turning over the sod the plow should bc run shallow, so as to avoid injuring the roots, which in such a case will lie pretty near the surface Still, if the plowing is done earl} in the season, the cutting of thc roots will cause numerous fibroui roots to be thrown out, which will aid in imparting new life to the tree. If the soil is thin or the trees enfeebled by long neglect, well rotted manure or compost should he applied to the soil several days before plowing, spreading it out so as to cover the space filled by the feeding root which are always at the extremities of the main roots, and in full-grown trees,at some dis tance from the trunk. Then turn a flat furrow, not more than five inches in depth, and the fertilizer will tte placed where it will do the most good. Even old trees, overgrown with moss and bristling with suckers, have been restored to a thrifty condition by the re moval of superfluous wood and thorough cultivation. There is no better way of keeping an orchard in good bearing conditon than by turning a drove of hogs into it. They will "cultivate" it to perfection with their sharp noses, enrich it with their droppings, and at the same time act as scavengers to gather up avery wormy apple that falls. One of the handsomest orchards we ever saw-a ten-acre pl ot lilied with thrifty trees loaded with wormless fruit of beautifully uniform size and quality-was I almost entirely left to the swine to cultivate. The fruit from such an orchard is worth far more than a poor crop of fruit and a crop of grain from the same land. Dame Nature is a bountiful mother, but she has her limitations and must not be overmuch imposed up on. A. VTVLTXAJBLE PEKSENT. A. Year's Subscription to a Pop ular 'Agricultural Paper Given Free to Our Readers. By a special arrangement with the publishers we are prepared to furnish free to each of our readers a year's subscription to the popu lar monthly agricultural journal, the AMERICAN FARMER, published at Springfield and Cleveland, 0. This offer is made to any of our subscribers who will pay up arrear ages on subscription and one year in advance, and to any new sub? scribers who will pay one year in advance. The AMERICAN FARMER enjoys a large national circulation, and ranks among the leading agri cultural papers. By this arrange ment it cost you nothing to receive the AMERICAN FARMER for one year. It will be to your advantage to call promptly. Sample copies can be seen at our office. He Wanted to Get In. Jimmy Murphy was a newspaper of fice boy, and Jimmy was a terror. He did nothing in particular save smoke cigarettes and beg for 'theater tickets, and was known to aH the reporters as ''Morph. " One night he wanted to go to a certain show very badly, but had not been successful in begging or steal ing a ticket from the dramatic editor. He went np to the theater about 8 o'clock and stood around the gallery en trance in the hope that he could in some way gain admittance. The manager of the theater carno along in a little while, and noticing him standing there, said, "Hello, Murphl" and went into the house. Five minutes later "Mnrph" walked up to the doorkeeper at the main en trance and said, "Say, is de manager in?' "What do you want to know for?" asked the guardian of the portal. "Well, I wanter see him, see?" "But what do yon want to see him for?" "I wanter get him ter pass me in." "But he won't do it." "I tink he will, see?" "What makes yon think that?" "Well, he came along, out dere an said, 'Hello, Mnrph,' an ennybody wots familiar ennff wid me to call me 'Mnrph,' will do a little favor like dat fer me."-Buffalo Express. An Innocent Rural Lady. Monroe is a flag station on the Bots ford branch of the New Haven and Derby road. When the engineer of Con ductor Beer's train saw the flag exposed a day or two ago he stopped bis train. Only one~person, an old lady, was to be seen, and the conductor stepped from the train to help her aboard. The old lady did not stir, and the conductor said, "Step on board, lady, so we can ge on." Then her month opened, and she said: "Laws, I don't want to get aboard. 1 stopped yon to send word to my folks that I was raming up tomorrow, and I want you to tell John to meet me at the station to care for my baggage." Then she stopped, for the train was moving, the conductor having given the signal to start without waiting to learn where "John" and "my folks" lived, while tiie old lady looked as though she thought train officials were not very accommodating,when they would not even carry a message for her.-Hartford Courant. ._ An Actor's Unknown Friend. "Joe Jefferson," said'an old theater goer, "had taken A lady to a restaurant, and when he put his hand in his pocket to pay his bill he didn't feel a penny. He explained his position to the cashier, hut the cashier 'didn't know him.' The perspiration began to ooze when a gen tleman stepped np, laid a twenty dollar hill on the desk, and said: " 'I know you, sir; allow me to settle.' "Jefferson was profuse in his thanks, and when near the door, said: " Ton must give me your name and address, sir. in order that I may call around tomorrow and settle.' " 'Never mind that,' said the stranger with a smile. That hill was a counter feit'and I got seventeen dollars in change.' "-St. Louis Chronicle. A Modem Curriculum. Visitor-I understand that the public schools of this city are models of Nine teenth century progress? Little Boy-Yes'm, that's wot every ene says. I go to 'em. "What do yon study?' "Oh, everything-free 'and drawin, an cookin, an bacteriology, an music, an spectrum analysis, an se win on but tons, an agricultural chemistry, an dish washin, an everything."-Good Newa How to TeU Frosh Cod. To tell a good cod when yon go to market, examine the fish just above the tail In a healthy cod the body is round and plump. The lower half of tile fish will be almost cone shaped.-New York Journal. THE BIG LAGOON. Aa Interesting Formation on the North ern Coast of California. On the northern coast of California, some thirty miles below the month of the Kiama th river, is one of the most in ter ea riu g natural formations to be found m this country, known as the Big lagoon. Here the coast, which runs north and south np to this point, takes a sharp torn inland, bordered by very high bills, running to' a distance of about three miles, then turning out again makes a sharp bay almost V shaped, and for ages past a sand bar has been washing itself up across this bay until the bar has raised np out of the water some ten or twelve feet, having a width of about 100 feet and a length of four miles, reaching across the entire bay. This bar is in the shape of a roof. When there is a storm the breakers will roll up one side of it, break over, and run down into the bay inside, and it is a novel sight to stand there and watch the waters, mountain high on one side and perfectly calm on the other, the line between the two at intervals hidden altogether. This bar is a sort of short cut and'can be traversed on horseback. In a 'storm the horseman will one minute be high and dry on land, the next minute a large wave will roll up and running under the horse's feet to the depth of a foot or more, the rider will be for an instant four miles or so at sea on horse back, with no land nearer than the high bluffs of the mainland in sight. Hoes agates may he found in abun dance on the pebbly beach, and when the sun shines they glitter with dazzling brightness. The wild duck that frequent this part of the coast literally fill this inland bay, and the passing hunter, should he take a shot at them, will raise such a cloud and such a quacking that ha will think all the ducks of the earth have gathered there. Occasionally some wild beast like a bear or a panther will be found crossing this bar, and the Indians have much sport when such a thing happens, the amma! rarely escaping capture or death Here the Digger Indians abound, liv ing on the shellfish, which they catch along the beach, seldom going over the ridge of hills to capture a deer, which are plentiful. It would astonish a Yale or Harvard football man to come upon this scene some bright morning at low tide and see the squaws and children playing lacrosse on the beach They get so excited with their sport that they keep it up until the tide drives them from the beach, often staying there Un til they have to chase the ball down into the surf.-Detroit Free. Press. Whttt Ia Electricity? If the question is now asked, "What is electricity'/" we may reply advanta geously, in the words of Jokai: A thing of which we know a little more than noth ing and a little less than something. A little more than nothing, for we know that it is of the nature of light and heat, extending itself like them in waves of motion. A little less than something, for of the essence of electricity itself, whether static or dynamic, we are still absolutely in the dark. There has been no want of other theories, but the fun damental tendency of the age is to re duce all phenomena and forces to the fewest possible primaries, and it is not improbable that this will be facilitated by the wave theory of the so called ether. The problem of gravitation, too, which was so long regarded as a force acting from a distance, is now equally attrib uted to the agency of a medium. In his efforts to demonstrate the oneness of all natural forces, the physicist is not likely to be led astray, even although the cog nition bf force presents one of those world problems, the solution of which must forever escape us; aye, although, as the final result of the most exact in vestigation, it should forever be denied to him even to assert decisively, "It is only a force, and the ether is its me dium of transmission. "-Exchange, Verdi' and His Admirer. Verdi was traveling in the same rail way carriage with General Tournon, commander of the Ravenna district. They got into conversation, which soon turned on the subject of music, and the general, who did not know his rompan-, ion, expressed a most enthusiastic pref erence for that of Italy. "I can hardly go so far with you," replied the other. "For me, art has no frontiers, and I give German music the preference over Italian.** "Indeed, sir," said the general testily. "For my part, I would give all the Ger man operas in the world for one act of ?Rigoletto.? " "You really must excuse me from fol lowing you any further on this ground," replied the composer, blushing a little, "I am Veidt "--Monde ArtisbV Psychic In fl u eu ce. The other day a woman was "building with great deliberation a dialect story. Suddenly she felt her attention called to the corner of the room. There she Baw a friend who lives in Washington seated with bowed head, crying. The story writer called out the visitor's name, and the vision fled. Immeniately, on her manuscript paper, this woman wrote her friend, detailing the circumstance. The next day she received a letter from her friend, saying: "A queer thing has jost happened tome. I was sitting in my room crying when I distinctly heard you call my name." The two let ters had. crossed each other in transit New Y ork Evening Sun. A m irons arl Am axons. "Who's the large lady over there rais ing a row with the waiter?" inquired a guest at the hotel of the landlord. 4?Oh," was;,"t?e good natured reply," "Ah, indeed; 'she's a perfect Amazon, isn't she?" "-V"- v > >: "Well, mighty nigh it, responded the landlord reflectively. Her mouth ain't quiet BO' bigj perhaps, but she'talks a heap sight more/^Detroit Free Press. Early I'ri nt in g and Illustrating. The first printing press in the United States began ita civilizing work at Cam bridge, Mass., in Harvard university in 1639. The first American made illus tration, it is still believed, is in Tully's Almanac, of Boston, in 1698. The first American copper plate portrait pub lished in this country was in increase Mather's "Ichabod," published in 1703. The first three engravers were Paul Re vere, Benjamin Franklin and Isaiah Thomas, who distinguished himself at the battle of Lexington.-New York Sun. _ Why Some Babies Cry. A great many babies cry out of pure cussedness. They have no reason what ever. I have seen them stop playing to begin to howl, refusing both food and drink. Often a child will wake up, be gin crying, and fall off to sleep again. Babies show individuality, and cry just as adults grumble, scold, lecture, bang things about and swear. There may or may not be cause for the outburst, but there is a certain amount of relief which has a physiological if not a moral value. -Cor. Baby. Call at Once. And get first-class choice of those beautiful French Sateens, only 15c. ? yard, at W. H. TURNER & Co. Pathetic FarewclL ? Jacques Jasmin, a barber and poet of Prance, began life in extreme poverty, rhat the pathetic events of such a child hood must have sunk into his soul may be guessed from one incident which, in Elfter years, he set down in his "Recol lections." His grandfather, when too old and infirm to solicit alms, quietly made arrangements to be carried to an almshouse in order that he'might no longer burden the family. Jasmin says: I was then Cen years old. I was play-' lng in the square with my companions, girded with a wooden sword, and I was king, but suddenly a dreadful spectacle disturbed my royalty. I saw an old man in an armchair borne along hy sev eral persons. The bearers approached, and I recognized my own grandfather. In my grief I saw only bim. I ran np to him in tears, threw myself on his neck and kissed him. He re turned my embrace and wept "Oh, grandfather,** said 1, "where are you going? ' Why are yon leaving our home?" "My child," said he, "I am going to the almshouse, where all the Jasmins die." He again embraced me, closed his eyes and was carried away. We fol lowed him for some time under the trees, and then I abandoned my play and returned home, full of sorrow. In five days the dear old man quietly breath:! his last His wallet was hung np un its usual nail in the room, but it was never used again. One of the bread winners had departed, and the family was poorer than ever. On that Mon day I knew and felt for the first time that we were very poor. Fortune came to me years after, but for some of those I loved she came too late. Vegetable Hedgehog*. Cactuses are the hedgehogs of the vegetable world; their motto is- "Nemo me impune lacessit" Many a time in the West Indies I have pushed my hand for a second into a bit of tangled bush, as the negroes call it, to seize some rare flower or some beautiful insect and been punished for twenty-four hours after ward hy the stings of the almost invisi ble and glasslike little cactus needles. The reason for this bellicose disposition on the part of the cactuses is a tolerably easy one to guess. Fodder is rare in the desert The starving herbivores that find themselves from time to time be lated on the confines of such thirsty re gions would seize with avidity upon any succulent plant which offered them food and drink at once in their last extremity. In tho ceaseless war between herbi vore and plant, which is waged every day and ull duy long tbe whole world over witb far greater persistence than the war between carnivore and prey, only those species of plant can survive in such exposed situations which happen to develop spines, thorns or prickles as a means of defense against thc mouths of hungry and desperate assailants. Grant Allen in Macmillan's Magazine, The Pather rf Modern Jurisprudence. Louis IX was practically the founder of modern jurisprudence. About the year 1241 he noticed the abuses which were caused in France by men taking into their own hands the work of re dressing their own wrongs, and pub lished a proclamation establishing the quarantine du roi. This forbade private redress for wrongs for the space of forty days after the injury was committed. During that time the injured person must seek redress and satisfaction in the king's court, and if his wrong were not righted at the end of forty days he might then take its rectification into his own hands. This proclamation made justice speedy and tolerably sure, although of course its adrr'nistration was in a'rough and ready way, and unless the records are at fault some law of this kind prevailed in Louisiana at the time when Missouri was a part of the French king's posses sions.-Philadelphia Ledger.' How Mew Torie Appears to a Foreigner. Of the ugliness, confusedness and shab biness of New York nothing new can be said; but full justice is done to the Cen tral park, which in another generation will bo tlie most beautiful public resort in the world. It would, however, be al together unfair to judge of America by New York; no other town in the Union can vie with it in dirt, inconvenience and meanness of appearance.-London Spectator._* Writing Letters Without Sight. A woman whose eyesight 'has passed almost beyond the failing point find* such relief in using the ridged tablets upon which paper is laid that she says ail nearly blind persons should do like wise. "They have made letter writing a pleasure," she says, "where before it was a pain. I put a pin in where I lear? off, and I can begin right again after any interruption.-New York Times.. When Yon Are in Doubt About ? Diamond. Put your finger behind the stone and look at it through the diamond ac through a magnifying glass. If thc stone is genuine yon will be unable tc distinguish the grain of the skin, bul with a false stone this will be plainly visible. Furthermore, looking through a real diamond the setting is never visi ble, whereas it is with a false stone. New York Herald. The Last Office. Poet-They tell me Tve got to die. Editor (weeping)-Yes, John.* Poet-We can't take anything, with ni into the next world, can we? ' Editor-No, John. Poet (sadly)-Then 111 have to leave all that unpublished MSt Editor -Don't worry about that, John, I'll see that it's buried with yon. -Kate Field's Washington. A Bear That Would Mot Be Tamed. The officers of the Bear tried to make a pet of an arctic cub bear which th?) had caught It would brook no famil iarity of any kind, but would walk nf and down the deck, looking straight ahead and growling and gnawing al everything.-New York News. Feelings of a Monkey. A native of India was sitting in hi gardon when a loud chattering an nounced the arrival o? a large party o monkeys, which forthwith proceeded b make a meal off his fruits. Fearing th loss of his entire crop, he fetched hi fowling piece, and, to frighten then away, fired it off, as he thought, ove the heads of the chattering crew. The; all fled away, but, he noticed, left bebini upon a bough, what looked like on fallen asleep, with its head resting upo: its arms. As it did not move, he sent a servan up the tree, who found that it was dead having been shot through the hearl Ho had it fetched down and buried be neath the tree, and on the morrow h saw sitting upon the little mound th mate of the dead monkey. It remaine there for several days bewailing its lost -Robert Morley in Nature Notes. Irish and Germana Kat Potatoes. Ireland leads the world with a potat eating capacity of 1,820 pounds for eacl man, woman and child, while Aineri cans eat but 150 pounds per head annn ally. The Germans are great oaters ? the vegetable, their consumption bein] over 1,000 pounds per head each year. Good Housekeeping. "VEGETARIAN PAKE. A WOMAN WHO EATS NO MEAT ANO LIVES ON $1.30 A WEEK. Mn. Le Fevre, of New York. TeUe About Her Diet of Nutt, Grain* and Fruit?. It ls Really Very Attractive-Borne* thing About Those Who Kat Meat. Why ia it there are only about 200 vegetarians in New York city, lesa than the number in either Boston or Chicago? In the latter city visits to the sanguinary meatpacking establishments have driven people to a nonmeat diet, and there ia a large and increasing class that forages upon the fruits, nuts and leaves of the earth. These facts were communicated to me the other day by Mrs. Le Favre, the leader of New York's vegetarian 200. She has not eaten meat for four years. A diet of nuts, fruits end seeds she claims is more wholesome and much cheaper than one composed of flesh. Her thirty day experiment of living on her favorite foods at the lowest possible cost was recently told of. She brought her table board down to $1.30 a week. She claims that with this she committed many gastronomical extrava gances and that the price can be still further pared down. Mrs. Le Favre, goes a little further i than most vegetarians in discarding roots and leaves altogether. The hum ble potato, the succulent lettuce and the homely cabbage are not to be found upon her bill of fare, nor will she par take of radishes, turnips, carrots or the many items usually so well relished that come under the head of roots or loares. She thinks that they are a very poor class of nourishment and inteaded only for horses and pigs, though nader a vegetarian dispensation what the pigs I are intended for it would be difficult to say. Some of the proprietors of vege tarian sanitariums who find potatoes I som 3what cheap and excessively filling for their patients take issue with her on these points. 1 don't think that Mrs. Le Favre is a very hearty eater, as eaters go, but she is very well nourished and does a vast amount of work for the fuel she con sumes. I doubt if any meat eater of my acquaintance can do more labor of brain or muscle than she. For her breakfast she eats cereal food, granula, wheatens, rice or corn. Of one of these things she takes a table spoonful and a half, costing perhaps one cent, and cooks it. Then she has a enp of coffee, costing about one cent more, and a slice or two of whole grained bread at less than a penny a slice, and j concludes the repast with an orange or banana. The quantities given are not large, but they can *e increased to suit the appetite, and the heartiest ?aler, she thinks, couldn't very well make away with more than ten cents' worth. The luncheon consista of a plate of lentil soup, a most nourishing dish, in volving au outlay of about half a cent This is followed by a vegetable of some sort well cooked, a few olives or nuts, two slices of bread, some fruit, canned cherries or something like that or pud ding. The check for this meal would be seven or eight cents. Supper is made np of whole grained or oatmeal bread, preserves, bananas or oranges and a little chocolate. Once this antimeat advocate saw a porter in the east carrying a large piano down the street on his shoulders. She became interested at once and wanted to find out what food would produce such enormous strength. She inquired and found that he lived chiefly on green encumbers and garlic, and never de voured flesh at any time. Two-thirds of the people in the world-three-fourths some people assert-never eat meat and wouldn't know how ta In Boston there are vegetarians of tho second generation-that is, their parents had eaten no flesh for some years before they were born and they themselves have not broken their fast upon roasts and boileds. To these people the sigh; of a butcher's shop or a wagon load of deceased pigs is exceedingly repulsive. There is no vegetarian restaurant in the United States, and the nonmeat eaters want to start one in New York. Lon? don has at least forty places where one can dine upon the vegetable fat of the land without tasting flesh. The number and variety of dishes that are served in these places v> ould startle the unsophis ticated and shock a butcher. Vegetarians everywhere realize that the ber. , way to preach their doctrine is to induce people to eat one of theil meals. Bachelors and spinsters bent on dietary reform and ignorant of cooking, or perhaps not having a kitchen at theil disposal, find it hard to board at a res taurant and not lire on meat. They can live on apples, perhaps-Mrs. Le Favre did once for two weeks and grew stout and healthy-but many of them might not care to. * All the fighting of the world is done by meat eaters," said Mrs. Le Favre, "Flesh engenders a fierce restlessness which finds vent in war. Vegetarians, while they will work unceasingly, arc not fighters, but they win their point bj gentleness and persuasion. "There is a constant craving for stim ulant in a meat eater. Children fed or flesh swallow slate pencils and ashes It is because their system calls ont foi j the carbonates and lime of vegetables, Vegetarian children never eat their slat? pencils. x 'A square mile of land will sustain I six times as many vegetarians as meal (eaters. Think of the waste there ii beret Meat is the most extravagant food we can nae. The overcrowding ol the earth will compel the universa.1 \ adoption of vegetarianism. "The roots and leaves I consider food for the lower animals. The pig grubt in the ground for his potatoes, hut 1 don't I pluck the rich, ripe grain, the nuts and the apple. I consider the ap pie the finest food there is. An electri edan can arrenge apples in a row and obtain a current of electricity from them. I think we should eat only thc very best form of nourishment, and J consider that the nuts and fruits ans wei this requirement"-New York Herald. The Romani Did Mot Ute Soap. The Romans were not acquaints with the use of regular soap, but the; employed an alkali, with which th greasy dirt was dissolved out of thei clothes. This alkali, called nitrum, i referred to by Pliny, but the che apes solvent was urine, which was most! used. The clothes were put in tim mixed with water and then s tam pe upon with the feet This process wa performed by old people, while boy lifted the clothes out of the tubs. Th white garments, after being washed were subjected to the vapor of sulphui being stretched on a frame and the sn] phur burned beneath. Poor people i Rome cleansed their bodies with mes of lupins, called lomentum, which, wit common meal, is still used in som places for that purpose.-Knowledge. Very striking to a stranger is th Englishman's fashion of covering hi face with his tall hat as soon as he ha taken his seat hi his pew in church. The Hindoo makes his toes work s the loom, using them in his weaving o\ b ?rations with almost as much dexterit; [. as be does his fingers. A race of wild dogs is said to exist ii Newfoundland, keeping near the coas and subsisting on what the sea casts t the shore. THE LAST DECADE. When murky cloads that pall a summer day Do. ere its close, dissolve and drift away. What Joyous smiles break o'er the sunlit plain. How stirs the dc .-m ant pulse of life again! And tn tb? afterglow of fading light There breathes a promise of a morrow bright: So at thia century's eventide-whose years Vain hopes hare wrought to merge in darken ing fears Doth man rejoice; for from a rifted west Assuring rays beam 'cross his weary quest, DuU, leaden skies now chango to gladdening hues; The waiting heart its cherished song renews; That song divine!-sot less its power than when Twas first heard-"Peace on earth, good will to men." -Gilbert 8. Fletcher in New Nation. Music, Welsh and Basque. Having two American friends stop ping with ns, we brought a nice Welsh girl from Dolgelly ono evening to sing to them the national songs. Miss Madge Roberts, a sweet, pretty yoting lady and excellent singer, went over an immense repertory of Welsh music, and Miss S., who is a very scientific musician, made many remarks on the peculiarities of the Welsh scale, etc Suddenly she ex claimed: "I cannot think what music it is that I know that these Welsh tunes so much resemble. Stay, it is Basque!" and she proceeded to hum three or four typical Basque songs. Miss Roberts and all of us instantly recognized the similarity of these with the Welsh, es pecially the oldest Welsh', songs which she had been singing. Miss 8. was v-ry much surprised when I told her that Professor Boyd Dawkins believed in the original identity of the Basque and pre-Celtic Welsh, a theory of which she was quite ignorant, so that her testimony to the similarity of the national music was entirely spontaneous. I am not musical, and my opinion is of no value, but there does appear to me to be in the old Welsh music, as in a great deal of the Welsh character, a dis tinctly non-Aryan spritelike character, irreducible to the order so dear to the Saxon soul. The music goes on for a few bars with even, exaggerated em phasis on time as in a soldier's march; then suddenly, as if tired of it, bounds off among the bushes, hop, skip and jump and never comes back!-London Academy._ Stopped the Miracles. The tomb of Saint Etienne de Muret, canonized in 1088, in the Abbey of Grandmond, was so great an offender on account of the number of miracles that the religious were completely worn ^out by the rush of votaries. The prior devised, however, a very simple but ef fective remedy for this grievance. Be taking himself to the tomb, he spake as follows: "Servant of God, you preached to us the delights of solitude and yet yon assemble in our retreat as many people as if it were a market or a fair. We are sufficiently persuaded of your sanctity not to be curious about your miracles. If, then, you will not leave off working them, we protest and declare on high, in virtue of the obedience we have promised you, that we will un earth your bones and throw them into the river." As might be expected, the threat was sufficient, and Saint Etienne de Muret did no more miracles.-All the Year Round. A Useful Patrol Wagon. A useful patrol wagon has been de vised for electric railroaders. It is con structed very much like a police wagon, but has a square tower rising out of it which is mounted by a ladder. The tower is raised or lowered by means of a crank and pulley, and when elevated to ita full extent it is fifteen feet high The consequence is that the lineman can drive under the wire to be repaired and be immediately placed by the raising of the tower on a level with his work. The patrol wagon is a great improvement on the old method of repairing, without its risks.-Exchange. Shakespeare's Autograph Worth 9100,000 "The most valuable autograph in the world is that of Shakespeare," said a dealer. "There are only three genuine autographs of Shakespeare in existence, and those are altogether out of the mar ket. Bring me a genuine Shakespeare and HI undertake to pay you $50,000, yes, $100,000, for it within a year. It might not sell immediately for a very large sum, but it would be sure to do so as soon as collectors were satisfied as to its genuineness and became properly ex cited about if-Collector. A Liberal Offer. Seventeen years ago a young man in Chicago found a pocketbook containing several thousand dollars. Now, having made nearly a million dollars clear from this find, he advertises for the loser and expresses his "willingness to pay for the poelietbook and restore the amount of the contents."-Philadelphia Ledger. When Taking Down the Stove. In taking down the stove, if any soot should fall upon the carpet or rug, cover quickly with dry salt before sweeping, and not a mark will be left. ?-New York JournaL An acre planted with sunflowers yields 2,000 pounds of seeds, from which 250 pounds of oil may be obtained. Ten million quarts of this oil is produced by Russian mills annually. Two Kinds of Diamonds. ..Several years ago I chanced to stop at the same hotel in Dallas, where Alvin Joslin did," remarked an actor now fill ing an engagement in Chicago, "and 1 was astounded by his ostentatious parad ing of hia diamonds. There were a number of ladies sitting upon the hotel veranda, and he seemed to take especial delight in dazzling their eyes with his jewels. After strutting past them sev eral times he suddenly stopped, made a bow to the coterie, and said very brusquely: 'An, I see that you admire my diamonds. Permit me. This one is worth $2,000. This cost me $2,500. This cluster pin I value at $5,000. I have with me diamonds worth $30,000, and I own $10,000 worth which I have stored for safe keeping in a Chicago bank.' "None of the ladies fainted or fled or went into ecstasies over the display, and not a word was vouchsafed in reply. 'That evening when Davis entered the hotel dining room he was seated at a table in the middle of the room and alone. A few minutes later a half dozen young men in full dress entered the dining room in a body and sat down at the same table. In the enter of each immaculate shirt front shono a bit of plate glass as large as a marble, while brass rings bearing great settings ol glass fairly loaded down the hands of the newcomers. Davis glanced about the table and his jaw dropped from sheet astonishment. Before he could recover himself, one of tho young men arose and, walking around the table to Alviu's seat, said iu a tone that was distinctly audible throughout the room: 'Ah, I see you ad mire my diamonds. Permit me. Thu one is worth eight cents a pound, retail. This cost me a nickel, just as it is. This one I value at a dime. I have with me eoventy cents' worth of gems, and I OWE an interest in a glass works at Cliicagc besides.1 "Before that speech was ended the be diamond Joslin either lost his appe tite or finished his supper, for he hastily arose and left the room, followed by ? lively chorus of abs and ohs."--Chicag< MaiL IF YOU ARB LOOKING FOR POPULAR PRICED, SM, WELL MADE CLOTHING. We with all sincerity recommend you to cull when in Augusta, and see the immense stock of I. C. LEVY & CO., Tailor Fit Clothiers. AUGUSTA, - - GA. GEO. R. LOMBARD & COMP'Y MM, BOILER aM SIN WORKS HILL, ENGINE ail GIN SOPPLT BOOSE. AUGUSTA, .... GA. Is the place to get Machinery and Supplies and Repairs at Bottom Prices. 50 New Gins and 62 New Engines in stock. If you want a First-class COTTON GIN at Bottom Prices write for a New Catalogue and Reduced Prices of IMPROVED AUGUSTA COTTON GIN. 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