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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. WORTH WHILE. Tis easy enough to be pleasant, When Ure flows along like a song; Bat tho man worth while ls the one who will smile When everything goes daad wrong; For the te?t of the heart is troubles, And lt always comes with the years, And the smile that is worth the pralso of earth ls the smile that comes through tears. lt is easy enough to be prudent, When nothing tempts you to stray; When without or within no voice of sin Is luring your soul away; Bat it's only a negative virtue Until it ls tried by Are, And the life that is worth the honor of earth .j ?9 the one that rest, .o desire. By the oynlo, the sad, the fallen; Who ha 1 no strength for the strife, The world's highway is cumbered to-day; They make up the item of life. Bot the virtue that conquers passion, And the sorrow that hides in a smile It is these that are worth the homage of earth, For we find them but once In a while. -Ella Wheeler Wilcox. MY FIRS!' PATIENT. BY MASC BOYF.N". tHAD been a week in my new apartment. A week -a short time-and yet it seemed in the retro spect like an endless succession of days, each one of which contained the dreams and hopes ot an entire lifetime. For a whole week the white porcelain sign of a practic ing physician had shone in splendor ai the street entranoe and upstairs on the glass door of my neat little flat. - For a whole week my small recep tion room, with its dark curtains and its straight-backed chairs, had waited for patients to avail themselves of the advice and help of "Dr. Max Er hard!." It really did not surprise me at all ihat my office was empty for a few days, because, as, I told myself, con solingly, the neighborhood must be come familiar with the fact that it had good medical advice right here in its midst? After I had sene away my first patient completely cured, thiugs would assuredly bs different. Theu-after my growing reputation had been an nounced to the neighborhood, or better still, to the whole city by a orowd of patients in office hours, as well as by a neat little coupe, which a dignified coachman would drive through the principal streets-then, As, then- And so I carno to tho dream ^Kiohoccupied me mo-t. I fancied my j Vwui"5. the .-o'<- ot . ?..>:.. t tl''-;. .?Cti-'i'- ' .-. . [ft&'l "it-.. *.,- "uiu???*i!' .4'K-,.'?jvf., ' .U.lCOTif *...:<".; b-V " -.,\V-.? '- . about the ..auxen-uairecr -nwiaear When I came home, after passing my first examination, the young medical student became sure that the "flaxen haired maiden" returned his love with all her heart ; yet not a word was spoken. My university course was finished. Whenever I was working unusually hard or fighting successfully the tire soma battle of a final examination, in spite of my preoccupation, my dear Mary's eyes were constantly in my thoughts aud seemed to be taking tho liveliest interest in the results of my efforts. When my little cousin, greet ing my home-coming,whispered softly, "Doctor Erbardt," I looked deep into her dear eyes and whispered, just as softly, "Mrs. Doctor Erbardt" Then I saw a bright blush pass over her face, as she drew quiokly baok into the win dow niche. In the following days I had oppor tunity to talk with Mary about all the air castles which a young physician in his empty office has abundant time to build ; bat I did not venture yet to discuss my dream of the future doc tor's wife. There lay at times in my sweetheart's blue eyes aa expresi?n which drove the words baok even when they were trembling on my lips. Not that 9 doubted in the least that Mary's heart belonged unconditionally to me ; no, it seemed rather ss if a lack of confidence in my professional ability lay in her glance, and my pride in duced me to keep silent, until a re port of my first independent case shoald call forth Mary's fall approba tion and unlimited confidence in my chosen vocation. I sat in my consulting room buried in such thoughts as these on the after noon of this dall November day. I had barely heard the timid ring with whioh some one begged admittance. I rose to open the door in place of the little page whom I had sent on an errand. During the few steps that I had to take, I con'ess that I was over whelmed by a flood of the wildest fancies. Here was a caller who needed my help. Of coarse, it was an aristo cratie patient, with ringing praise, and fame, and-ab, there I was again, thinking of the doctor's wife. I opened the door. A poorly-clad woman stood before me in the dim light of the late fall day. A pair of great dark eyes looked beseechingly at me from a face thin and streaked with coal dirt. "Doctor," she said, in a trembling voice; "ob, Doctor, be merciful, I beg you I My little Mary is so sick." That name atoned, to some extent, for the disappointment which the woman's poverty-stricken appearance had caused, for it did not harmonize with my recent dreams. "Who are you? Who sends you to me?" I asked. "No one sends me," replied the woman, softly and rapidly. "Oh, Dootor, do come ! Ever since morn ing I've been carrying coal from the wagon to the next house. I live over opposite in the court. My child has been sick since yesterday, and I found her so much worse when I hurried home for a minute just now." I hesitated somewhat, the disap pointment was so great. 1 he woman wiped with her grimy band a face that already showed the traces of tears. She sobbed painfully. "I suppose 1 onght to call io tba oharity dootor ; bat yoar ssmnt u A too ot tho cobbi*? is oar ooart, and he has told all the neighbors that voa were so kind-hearted. Oh, help my little girl!" * "Well, of coarse, the woman must be helped. I was human, and surely knew what was due to humanity. So I went with her, after first taking oat, with an importance that surprised and half-shamed me, most of the necessary instrnments of a physician. Across the street to a great court lying behind a long row of houses, up five flights, eaoh darker and steeper than the last, tbroagh an ill-fitting door into a little chamber with a slop ing ceiling and one tiny window, and there on a poor but neat bed, with feverish limbs, and wandering, uncon scious eyes, lay a child about fourteen months*o!d. The woman knelt down by the bed. "She doesn't know mo anymore," she moaned. The child coughed hoarsely. That was croup of the worst kind. I tore a leaf from my blank-book and wrote my first real prescription. "Go to the nearest apothecary's," I said She looked at ma with some embar rassment. "Cna't I take it to King street?" she ask?d. ?.No, indeed,'? I cried. "Why do you not wish to go to the apothecary in this street '(" The women reddened visibly in spite of the coal dirt. "I think," she stam mered, "at the Eagle Pharmacy, in King street, they may know me. 1 carry coal there, and perhaps they will -I have no money." A large tear fell onto the paper in her hand. "Ob, these people who can't pay for doctor or medicine either 1" I said, impatiently, to myself. I took oat some money and said aloud : "There, take that and hurry !" The woman pressed her lips on the little one's hind, and then, before I could stop her, on mine, and hastened away. I looked around the room for a seat. A poor chair, a rough box, an old table, some cheap kitchen utensils on the low, cold stove, which took the place of a range ; in ono coruer. hang ing on tho wall, a threadbare woolen dress, and near it a child's gown and a little hat trimmed with a bluo rib bon; on the narrow shelf near the tiny wiudow a curled myrtle plant, a scarlet geranium, and a hymn book with bright gilt edges ; that was all that the room contained. I brought up tho chair and sat down near the little sick girl. She was evidently well nourished; her little limbs were plump and shapely, the golden hair soft aDd curly. She breathed painfully, but she was not conscious; and her blue oyes stared straight before her, as if she were looking into a distant, unknown coun try. It was cold in the room. I went tn 1 ha a^nrrn Kr.* f V." ir Iv'C. *'-.?.> Kl '???'> .? ?;. li oe anio w> save tue cniia; that per haps I had not been decided enough to take on my own responsibility tho extreme and energetic measures which would have wrested the little sufferer from death. My heart grew hot as 1 hurried to the door and listened for the mother's footsteps. There ?he was at last. To my re proachful look sho only answered, humbly : "There were so many people in the store. Folks like me must stand baok." An hour of tor tur passed. The medicine did no good; littie Mary could not swallow it. Neither did it avail when, with trembling heart, but a stea <y hand, I used the knife on the slender, helpless throat. The little golden-haired girl died-died before my eyes on the lap of her stricken mother. i The woman looked up as if startled when a tear fell on to her hand, for she had not wept. "ibu are crying, Doctor? Oh you must not do that. Ton will havo to stand by so mauy Rick beds where God sends no relief." She looked earnestly at tho little body. "I loved her so. 1 did every, thing for her that I could, being so poor. When I came home from my dirty work I always found her so pretty, so loving. For hours sho would lie on the bod or sit on tho floor and play with almost nothing, and then ehe would laugh for joy when I came home. God has taken her ; He loved her better than I-but oh, how lonely it will be for mel" I pressed the poor woman's hand; I could not speak, bat I laid some money on the table and went ont softly. Once at home, I laid my oase of instruments away, and sat down overwhelmed. I could eat no sapper ; I went to bed and hoped to sleep, bat the pictare of a dismal attic room, of a dead child, and a humble, devout woman would not let me rest, any more than tho torturing recollection of my own part in that scene- * Early the next morning t n old col lege Iriond oame to see me as he was passing through the city. He dragged me through the orowded streets, to the museums,to all sortsof restaurants,and complained of my lack of spirits. I pleaded a headache, and so escaped going to see a popular play at the theater. Tired and exhausted, I went at last al ou o to my room. As I passed a florist's brilliantly ligthed windows, I stepped in and bought a costly white camellia and some fragrant violets. I olimbed the five flights to the home oi the poor woman. I fonnd the attic room unlooked. It wa? dim ly lighted ; a small coffin stood in the middle of the bare room, and the child lay there in a white shroad. The rib bon from the hat on the wall had been worked over into two little bows ; a myrtle wreath rested on the fair hair, and the geranium blossoms wore scat tered over tho body. On the table near by wes a lamp, and the open hymn book was beside it. I laid the beautiful whito blossom in the stiff little hand and fastened a bunch of violets on the breast of the silent sleeper ; then I looked at the open book. "I joy to depart"-the old hymn that I had learned at sohooi and half forgotten : "To my dear ones who grieve, Do not mourn for mo now; This last message I lime, To Goa's will you mus: bow.:' I laid tb? book away with a ilgh. The words oi the old hyraa, the sol* emn stillness, the peaceful little child oppressed me. I went home, after inquiring about the hour of the burial. I retired early. I was weary, and all my unrest had gone. As if called forth by a power higher than my own, the words of an earnest prayer came to my Ii pi:, of the praver that God would bless me in my bard profession, ?and would change my haughty self confidence into a humble trn?t in Hi? protection, wherever my small knowl edge and my faithful efforts would not avail, when I must stand, as on the day before, helpless to aid. In the enrly morning I awaited tho little coffin at the door of the hon -e. A man bore it before him, and the mother followed in her poor black gown. She pressed my hand with a grateful took, when she saw th".11 had joined the little procession. The way was not long, the streets were al most empty, and the air was unusually mild for ? ovember. When the iron gate of the cemetery opened, the weeping woman bowed ber head still lower. A young clergyman stood beside the grave. 1 'I have undertaken, as far as I am able, to pronounce a last bleesirg over all the sleepers of my congregation," he said, softly, as he met my surprised look. That ovening I wont to see my rela tives. I did not find the parents at home. Only Cou un Mary was there to reoeive me. We sat by the window where the moonlight fell on ns, and then I told her of my first patient, and what I had learned from it. Mary said nothing in answer to my conies sion; but suddenly I felt her arms thrown around my neck. She looked at me with wet eyes. "Don't you see, Max?" she said, "now you know your self what was lacking in your prepara tion for work ; but, thank God, it has come to you with your first poiknt. Now I believe that you will make a good physician who will bring help, even where his own skill does not work a ame." I kissed my dear one. "And now, what do you think?" I asked. "Have you the courage to become the wife of snell a doctor?" She smiled through ber happy tears. And so at last we were betrothed. As it happened, the very next day, 1 was called to a child that was suf fering intensely with croup, and was so happy as to be able to save it. Since then God has shown much favor to the sick and miserable through my efforts, and my work has grown ever dearer to me. ?ut the mother of my first patient moved into my house to bc my house keeper until my sweetheart became the doctor's wife. Even a'ter the wedding, she remained as cook, until ehe dec ded later to mako still another change, and carno to nurse our little ?",.* i-i - ....^u.vuuu mo waria. Some English reporters now take notes at night by tho li^'ht of a tiny incandescent lamp attached to thu waistcoat. Some interesting investigations have been made on the green color for which some Italian cheeses are so re markable. This color is not, as bas sometimes been supposed, due to the action of bacteria, but is a conse quence of the presence o? copper in the cheese. Tho world contains at least four mountains composed of almost solid iron ore. One is tho iron mountain of Missouri, another in Mexico, an other in Iadia, and a fourth in that region of Africa explored by Stanley, and there have been reports of such u mountain existing in Siberia. Insect lifo in the Arctic regions is very limited, and to in-uro their at traction ono of the genus genni (a rosaceous plant) from Alaska has a row of large petals. This plant, also the genni rovale, is utterly unable to fertilize itself, and demands insect help, as in the skunk cabbage. AU Arctic Howers are very large in com parison with the plants bearing them. Unbreakable mirrors aro now bein? mado by putting a. coat of quicksilver on the back of a thin sheet of cellu loid, instead of on glass. By Jayirg a second sheet over the coating a double mirror may be obtained. Com mon celluloid is highly ir: :1 DH tn a ble, one of its ingredients being gnu cot ton. But it is alleged that a way han been found to overcome this objection by introducing a small proportion of some other substance into tho com position. The late Alvin Clark, of Cambridge port, Mass., discovered in 1862 thai the star Sirius had a far less brilliant companion. Continued observation for nearly thirty years proved that this second body revolved around the first one in ar. elliptical orbit, at a distance nearly as great as the planet Neptune from the sun. But in IS.' ; the companion disappeared from view, having reached a point in its track so nearly in line with Sirius that its faint light was overwhelmed by the dazzling effulgence of the dog star. Daring tho last six years it has traveled far enough to become visible onco more. Au Eagle as au Alarm Cluck. Mr. W. Le 0. Beard, in St. Nicho las, tells of a tame eagle he had as a pet in Arizona. Mr. Beard says : The half-breed in whose charge he had been left told us ho was far better than au alarm olock, for no ono could Bleep through the cries with which he greeted the rising sun and his notion of breakfast time ; and while an alarm wonld ring for only half a minute, Moses was wound np to go all day, or until he got something to eat. But his guardian treated him kindly, and Moses grew and thrived, Boon putting on a handsome snit of brown and gray feathers, which he was very proud of, and spent most of his spare time in preening. _ The Heading of a Goori Book. A pump may bo connected with n very deep vi ell of very good water, ami yet need a pitcher of water to be brought from another source to be poursdin at tho top before it can work. So with tho mind, sometimes. The reading of a good boole helps it into finning order. MEASURING ROGUES. Tt?K BKRTILTiOW SYSTEM OF IDENTIFYING CRIMINALS? A. French Idea PUK Into Practice In the New York Police Depart? ment - How Measure ments Aro Taken. ?T is estimated that there are about 1,500,(100,01)0 people apon the face of the earth at the present time. If anyone had been so bold as to affirm, only a few years ago, that it would be possible to give such a description of auy one individual that he could be positively identified: among all these millions, his state ment would have been met with ridi cnie. To-day, however, thanks to the re-carches of Qnetelet, the Belgian scientist, and the subsequent labors of Dr. Alphonse Bertillon, a celebrated French anthropologist, we are able to record such a detailed description of any given individual that his identi ii cation becomes a : nat ter of absolute certainty. Although it is true that the Bertillon Rvf-tem of Anthropometric Identifica tion, as it is called, is primarily in tended for the prevention of crime, this is only one of the objects of the system. In every oase where the es tablishment of the identity of an in dividual is desirable, whether for his own benefit or that of his family, or the State, this ingenious and highly scientific system ioay be applied. The victims of the cable car or the railroad accident, the slain upon the battlefield, the unclaimed bodies at the city morgue, all present cases for which Bertillon has made full pro vision ; and in cases where the body h HS been mutilated beyond all possi bility of recognition by the usual methods of identification, the system MEASUREMENT OF THE STtt would be simply invaluable. Further instances of its possible usefulness would have been the prevention of frauds on the UniteJ States Pension Bureau by parties who have assumed the name and condition of others, the detection of false claimants to estates, tho prevention of the landing of Chinese who come to this country bearing thc name and papers of others of their countrymen who have returned to China, lt requires along acquaintance with this race to be able to distinguish oue celestial from an other, and by the present methods of identification it is f.lmost impossible for the Government officials to detect a fruud of this kircl. Perhaps there is no sphere in which the benefits of the system would bo more immediately felt than in the army, where it would act as a check upon desertion from the very day of its introduction. Tn time of war, moreover, it would serve as an in fallible identification of the killed and wounded, and in subsequent years, as suggested above, it would prevent fraud upon the Pension Bureau of the country. The question of its intro-; ductinn into the army is being actively urgod by Dr. Paul B. Brown, United States Army, to whom we are indebted for valuable assistance in the prepara tion of the present article. The Bertillon system for measuring criminals has received its most exten sive trial in France, where it has been carried out for over ? en years with the thoroughness for which the police of that country is famous, lt is in gen eral use als. o in Belgium, Switzerland, Russia and several Sonth American re publics, and is being tested in Eng land. It was introduced into the United States by Major R. W. Mc Claughry in 1887, and is now in opera tion in Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin and the State of Massachusetts, lt was adopted by the police department of the City of New York on March 6, 1896, and in May of the same year its use was made obligatory in all the prisons and penitentiaries of the State of New York. The accompanying illustrations show the practical operation of the Bertillon system at police headquar ter in this city. It varies in no es sential particulars from that of the countries and States above mentioned, only snch slight modifications as were suggested by local conditions hav ing been made in minor details. The system is made up of three distinct parts. First, the measurement of certain unchangeable "bony lengths" of tho body ; Beco.ad, a careful [de BIGHT EAR AND TRUNK MEASUREMENT. scription of the festeres of the face ; third, a careful localization of all the ecars and marks upon the body. Of these three the first records are by far the most important, because tho moat permanent and utiftltorftble, Bortil ion statei that the experience of tbe last ten 3 ears has shown the "almost absolute immutability" of tho human frame after the twentieth year is EEA > LENGTH MEASTT -XKNT. passed. !?he great diversity of dimen sion wbic h the skeleton shows in dif ferent sn jjects. and the facility and precision with which it may be meas ured, rer "1er thie means of identifica tion by tar the most reliable that could be adopted. Increasing age and muti ation will produce cLanges in the fet turee, but.they cannot affect the measi irements of the frame. The analysis of the features of tho face, and the d ascription and localization of scars upon the body, add their accum ulated testimony to the unchanging 'record of the measuring apparatus. The bony or skeleton lengths adopted ly the Police Department as admitting of easy measurement and descriptif n are as follows : Tho length and width of the head; the cheek width ; the lenglhs of the foot, tho middle finger, tl e little finger and the cubit, that is, from the elbow to the tip of middle fhiger ; the height standing,tho height se .ted ; and the stretch ; and in addition ? o these the right ear length, which, w! lile not a skeleton measure ETCH AND THE LEFT FOOT. ment, remains virtually the same through 1: fe. The m< apurements of tho bead aro taken whi 0 tho subject is still spated, and are rc ad off on a pair of calipers provided with a graduated arc. In taking th( length the left point of tho calipers is held ut tho root of tho nose and the right point is brought down over the t aok of the head. Tho thumb screw is tien tightened and tho meas urement ?hecked by pass'u.^ tho iu strument again over tho head. The width of he head over tno cheeks is taken in t uc same way. The mei s?rement of the foot is taken with a ca ?per rule somewhat similar to that tsed by a shoemaker. Tho subject is placed on the stool, standing on his loft foot and steadying himself as shown in the illustration. The graduated stem is placed against the insido of ;ho foot with tho fixed arm in contra :t with the heel, and the sliding ar. a is then brought in tightly against th 3 toe. Caro is taken as before to oheck ide reading. In mea ?tiring the loft middle and little fing? rs, tho buck of the caliper rule is med, two small projections being provided on tho fixed and sliding arms. T ie finger to be measured is bent atrij ht angles to the back of the hand, an. 1 the measurement is taken from tho tip of the finger to the knuckle, 1 .s shown. The rn? asurements being all taken, the next ? nalysis is that of the feat ures of th i face. As these aro liable LEFT Mi DDLE FINGER MEASUREMENT. to ohange with ago or disfigurement, no measurements aro taken, but, in stead, an Elaborate and exhaustive de scription e given. The third step in registering a criminal i 3 to make an exact record of all scars, narks or deformities. To as sist in keating these on tho body, certain aaatomical points, known as "guiding pointe," are employed, and the partie ular mark is described RB be ing such i. distance from one of these points. Finally the subject is placed be fore the ( amera, two negatives, a full face and protile, being taken, and the photographs are mounted in tho cen tre of the identification card. In add tion to the dato recorded on the face of the identification card, there is provision on tho reverse side for recoiding the particulars of tho name, ali ises, crime, date of sen tonco, .peculiar! ?es of habit, criminal' his tory, et(., and there aro six ruled spaces foi inserting details regarding the marks, scars, etc., upon tho body. After ead card has beeu made out in duplicate and filed, tho examination is complete, and the department is in possessio!, of a means of futuro iden tification which may be said to be ab solutely i ?fallible. Oar tl etched were made at the Identification Bureau of tho New York Police Deportment through the conrtesy of Commissioner Andrews. Scientific American. * MODERN BEDROOMS. The Vest Architectural Ideas May Bo Ruined by the Furnishings. In the great majority of canes the furnishing of bedrooms is left to chance. That is, the different artioles of chamber furniture are arranged in the separate rooms as convenience dictates, with such regard for congru ity an is possible ; or perhaps complete chamber suites aro purchased from the dealer nnd little attempt is made to go beyond this. If either of these courses is followed, tho result may be comfortable, but will scarcely prove satisfying or artistic in the aesthetic sense. One fact should never be lost sight of ia any scheme of furnishing-that in the bedroom one spends a third of HOUSE HEATED BV HOT ALU. his entire lifetime, and occupies it under peculiar conditions. Most of tbe time ho is unconscious, under the influence of sleep, and ho cannot adapt himself to changing conditions of temperature and ventilation, as ho can when awake. His muscle, too, ire relused, and his po wer of resistan 30 lowered ; nothing then should tend to. vitiate Ibo air or should afford a lurk ing placo for dust or disease germs. Sudden changes of temperature should be prevented, if possible, and there should be means for obtaining a con stant snpply of fresh air. In the main these things aro attended to by the architect, but his work goes for naught if tho doors end windows are covered with heavy hangings, or if there are inaccessible corners and nooks behind ponderous furniture to serve as catch-alls for dust. Every bedroom BLOUUI be pleasant, light, cheer i ul, and the utmost ele gance prevail, so long as it does not interfere with the truest sanitary con ditions; but very often the best ef fects are obtained from the elegance -- 3 ... -.;???.li/Utv^_?__^_ ta Jv?. ?HS put?c wi mo -.-.iL ora ft. Nothing more beautiful, convenient and comtortable in the way of a bed str" il has ever been devised than those made of brass. Theie are remarkably cheap at tho present time, but if be yond out's means, those of iron in wliito enamel with brass trimmings ?ir?i PLoorr are almost as effective. One |advan tage of this stylo of bed is that it goes equally well with any kind of furnish ing that in in good taste. Mahogany is just as desirable for bedroom furni ture HS for the parlor or dining-room, but tho choice of wood has a wide runge. One of tho most satisfactory woods for thc bedroom, and lt is very fash ionable just at present, is the curled or bird's-eye mnple. This bas strength and lightness and takes a fine finish. Better than silks and laces for hang ings anil decorations are the neat fig nio>l chiutzes that can bo had in be wildering variety at the present time. If tho rest of the furnishings will harmonize, the blue and white colonial drapery is the best of all. All of the coloring should be bright, and the pictures most suitable are colonial prints in fcilt frames, if ono cannot afford oils or water colors. Thc house designed in this article is heated by hot air, which, though con demned by this association of archi tects for tho heating of city houses, for suburban use, in small houses, costing up to $5000 to build, is very Second Floor* acceptable, though hot water is prefer able in 11 ny case. The house is 4f> feet 4 inches wid ?, by 4b' feet 6 inches in depth, inoludiug Iront verauda. Inside it is finished throughout in thri-e-ooat plaster-tho flooring being or North Carolina pino -tho trimming in white wood, with main staircase ?3h. The laundry is in the cellar under the kitchen. The cost to build this house in the vicinity of New York is about S4200, though in many sections of the conn try, where labor or material is cheaper, the cost should be much less. Copyright 1897. Character in Children. Parents sometimes congratulate themselves upon the fact that one child ia never self-willed, never pas sionate or angry, always amiable, con tented and calm, seeming to need no discipline and no restraint. And they mourn over the fact that another child is eager, impetuous, willful, troublesome. Yet not infrequently the mourning 'ad the rejoicing ought to ohange places, if tho future life and character be taken into account. The tranquility of the one may bo only the outcome of a feeble character, which leans against the nearest prop because it cannot stand alone, while the other, who is so difficult to man age, may contain the elements of a powerful nature, which needs only to be gnided aright to become a valuable and a noble man.-The Ledger. A KENTUCKY UIA>T. Boss Skaggs ls Seven Feet Tall and Weighs 5??0 Pounds. Lawrence . County, Kentucky, has for a citizen one of the largest men in the world. Tho Louisville Courier Journal says his name is Boss Skaggs, and his normal weight is 530 pounds. He is seven feet tall and is thirty-five years of age. He measures five and one-half feet around tho waist, two feet around the arm and three feet BOSS BRAGGS. around the thigh. Ho was born and reared on a farm in a remoto section of this county, and all thc weeks he has ever spent oil of that farm could bo counted on the fingers of one hand. Notwithstanding this narrow and secluded life, he is above tho average in intelligence, and is quito a jolly fellow. Boss was always large for his age, but did not begin to get fat until he was eighteen. About this time he was first married. He has been mar ried twice, the last time to a woman who weighs only 125 pouuds. Boss owns 400 acres of mountain land, upon which he hoes corn and doeR all kinds of farm labor, just ns industriously as his neighbors. Flour $1 a Pound. The steamer Mexico arrived from Alaska at daylight this morning. Two days beforo sailing from Juneau Hugh Day, the mail-carrier lrom Juneau to Circle City, returned from the round trip, which ho mado in four months. Ho brought ont 500 letters. He says that many miners, blinded by the glamor of gold, aro going to Clondyke witbout provisions, and star vation is almost certain. According to reports he brings, flour at Circle City is telling at gi per sack. At Clondyke there is none pro curable at any price less than ?50 a sack, or SI a pound, and then only when freighted in from sonia other point. A man namod McKay 'took down a email quantity from Polly, which was eagerly bought up at $40. At Forty Mile, dog feed consisting of ham so rotten it eau not be boiled indoors, but must bo cooked in the open air because of the stench, is sold fer forty cents a pound.-Port Townsend (Wash.) dispatch to tho San Francisco Chronicle. A True Parasile. There are not many true parasites in the vegetafclo kingdom. Tho mistle toe is unquestionably one of tho most perfect samples of this class of vege table growth. It is absolutely do pendent upon his host fur subsistence, and in time draws the very lite blood from the plant to which it attaches itself. Experiments have been made in raising the mistletoe in greenhouses, but tho results are scarcely satisfac tory. Tho mistletoe is an exceedingly slow-growing plant, two leaves anda bit of stalk being all that is usually produced during the season ; therefore some of the gnarled and knotty branches which wo seo in our markets represent long j'ears of patient en deavor. -The Ledger. Greater New York's Population. The population of Greater New York will exceed that of Massachusetts by half a million, and it is (?tated that if tho populations of Maine, *Scw Hamp shire, Vermont, Rhode Island, Mon tana, North Dakota, Oregon, Utah and Nevada wero all united in a single Stute it would still have less tbau the population of the contemplated mam moth metropolis. American brooms uro exported io large numberB to many countries, Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. BREEDING LOBSTERS. How the SupDly is Kept UD on the New England Coast. One ten-inch lobster will produce about 10,000 f'r.28, and an elghteen-inch ene will yield about 75,000 eggs. When a female lobster is caught early in the spring she is stripped of her eggs and allowed to return to her native ele ?nent. The eggs are then put into Mc Donald hatching jars, where they are kept under the conditions essential to their growth. A constant stream of pure sea water hested to the proper temperature, is forced into the jar, and as this comes in with considerable force, it keep3 the eggs bobbing up and down. The water passes through the tcp into a tank or other jars. The eggs are heavy and have a tendency to sink to the bottom, and it is only the force of the water that keeps them well stirred up. When 1he young lobsters hatch out, they float; upwards and are carried by the water into another ves sel. The young lobsters are very small at first and swim about near the sur face of the water in large colonies. As they increase in size and weight, how ever, they gradually subside and sport around less in the sunlight. In time Whey crawl around on the bottom al most entirely, eating the dead fish fed to them. At this age they can slip through, the sides of Che lobster-pots, and fishermen rarely see them. When the lobsters are large enough and the season far enough advanced, they are turned loose in the bays ar,l coves along the coiist. As they are protected by law from the fishermen until they are over ten inches in length, they have only the ordinary enemies of the sea to encounter. The greatest danger ls from their own race 'nd blood. A mother lobster does not hesitate to eat her young one3 when .'.;ey get old enough to crawl about. An c'.d lobster considere a young one a special delicacy, and lt is only the su perior agility of the little fellows that prevents them from being devoured by tho thousands. Even as matters stand, a good perentage of them fall a prey to their older kindred. When they can not catch young lobsters, the old ones live on clams, fish and other food.. Although the lobster hatchery is lo cated at Wood's Heil, Mass., the eggs can bc and are shipped to various points along the coast. Through years Cure. It cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Baron Hirsch's Widow. Instead of hoarding up the immense fortune which has recently come into her possession, Baroness Hirsch is ex pending the greater part of it in reliev ing the distressed members of her race. To the liberal benefactions of her late husband she has recently made a sup plemental gift of $10,000,000, most of which is to be applied to the relief of Hebrews in New York City. Within the last few years the number of Hebrew immigrants from European countries has very greatly increased; and while the magnificent fund provid ed by Baron Hirsch some time ago fer the purpose of relieving these exiles is not yet exhausted by any means, it is hardly sufficient to meet the constant ly increasing tide of immigration. His widow's object, therefore, in devoting such a large sum at this time to Hebrew charity lu New York is to sup ply any deficiency which might other wise exist hereafter in the Hirsch fund, as well as to create other important benefactions. Of the sum donated by the Baroness, at least $1,000.000 will be expended dur ing the present year. One of the pro ducts of this sum will be a home and training school for Hebrew girls. This is a scheme which the baroness has cherished for some time, and it shows that aside from puting her husband's philanthropic ideas into effect, she has practical ideas of her own. ?n devot ing her wealth to Such noble ends the baroness is doing a grand work and one that will not bs without ita re compense.-Atlanta Constitution. Why take Johnson's Chill ?t Fever Tonic? Because it cures the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY. A Prince's Motor Car. Prince Oldenburg, the uncle of the Czar, is preparing for a tour through the Caucasus on board a caravan which is to be drawn by an auto-motor. This auto-car is to be a veritable train de luxe, for trust a Russian noble for inventive genius when his own com forts are concerned! 'There is to be the auto-motor, and attached to it a couple of vans, the first of which is to be in turn the din ing room, the cardroom and the bed room of His Serene Highness. The second car is to combine all the culin ary and domestic offices, including a safe in which the Prince's rubles and raiment are to be stored. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take i rom 5 to IO days to cure fever. Johnson's Chill end Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY