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THE NATIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA ly C. HAYNS, Frea't F. Q. FORD, Cashier. Capita!, $250,000. Sarplusand ? <M OC Qflf) |Undmded Profits <? M> I ?JsUUU I Facilities o' our magnificent New VanH I loontalnlng 410 Safety-Lock Bozos. Differ-1 lent Sizes are offered S to our patrons and I I the public at 83.00 to 510.00?> or ?ntiim. L THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK, AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposita. I Accounts . Solicited. IL. C. Hu jue, President. Chas, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL; LXVIII. EDGEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MARCH 25. 1903. NO 13. 5 As Good A<?r By LOUISE 'v "There!" said Miss Ann EHza Som ers,, setting the rolling pin on the end, and deftly scraping off the dough, that had accumulated on its sides. "If I do say it. there ain't bin a hand somer batch of doughnuts than that set on any pantry.shelf ia Belton this fall leastwise, none that we've seen. "Gim-m? one o' them," said a small voicer as a dirty little hand was thrust in at the kitchen window, and a grimy finger pointed at the colander -piled ' high with the brown circles, braid and diamonds, that Miss Ann Eli was contemplating with so much satis faction "JLand sa.iics alive!" she cried, and tho'rolling-pin fell to-fie floor.-with a bang. "YVlio be you? Git right down ^__from there. I shouldn't wonder if you was a steppin' right on my j?cminot rosebush." The hand was w'?f?rc?rawn so'quickly and it had been such a small hand, that Miss Somers, from some feeling of compunction, or possibly to gain time, added, "You kin go round back:" Now Miss Eliza, all through the morning, as she lifted from the boiling fat each doughnut as it attained the required shade of brown, had seen v sions of her self offering her friends, who might drop in during the day, a few of her doughnuts on one of her best china plates, and .she could almost hear them say, "These are the best I ever did eat; they just melt in your mouth-;" and she could seo herself with proud generosity complying to their requests- for- ihs receipt. She knew there would be no such ap preciation from a boy-boys had no pl?c?*'iri Miss Eliza's catalogue'of use ful "things-nevertheless she selected the last doughnut that had been fried, made from odds and ends of dough which had the merit of being much larger, if also much inferior in quality to' the others, and after depositing the colander in the pantry, stepped to the back door. ."Well, I never did!" she cried, rest ing both hands on her hips and regard ing the owner of the hand that had ---v^sa-4^djejv__disturb?d her equanimity, boy ^IgbT^tfc^ seven to ten years cid. Pie was vcry small, but his face might have seen a score of years, so deen were its line' It was framed in the rim of a brown derby hat that had, probably, once 1 sheltered a more fortunate member of society. The few articles of clothing. al though in tatters, were evidently his own, as regarded origin as well as possession; while ?ls feet were protect Cinderellar proportions. From .under the hat two big gray eyes fixed upon the doughnut which Miss Eliza held in her hand; not long, however,, for 'waiving all ceremony, the boy tool^ it" quickly from between her Angers, and the doughnut disappeared in three mouthfuls, so much to Miss Eliza's alarm, that she ran for a glass of milk; for she often remarked that sponge cake and doughnuts, be they ever so light, did beat all for sticking in one's throat, and for her part she never could cat either without drinking at least two cups of tea to get them down. The milk followed the doughnut, and evidently met with some degree of ap preciation, for the hard and weary little face softened as it was lifted to Miss Eliza's, and the boy said - ^"Gim-me sumpin' ter do." "Miss Somers regarded all boys as her natural enemies. Liiiug alone for the past twenty years since her father, Farmer Somers, died, she associated them only with stolen fruit and tram pled flower beds, and so declared them "imps and posts," and impatient with herself for relenting toward one of the race to this extent, said sharply, ."Yes, wash your face." ' She closed the door, drove the bolt in with a good deal -of force, and went back to her task of clearing up. This done, and having eaten her fru gal dinner, she went up-stairs and made;her afternoon toilet. Before sitting down to her small mending she thought of her plants ne glected this busy day; so taking the watering pot from its hook in the porch, she went out to the cistern to fill it. for she always maintained that no plants ever flourished like those watered with pure rain water. ? This was a day of upsets. There, by the side of thc cistern, cuddled up in a heap, his head pillowed on the butter firkin, that served for a bucket, lay her small acquaintance of the morning, fast asleep. ^ ? [His face, streaked by his recent ama teur ablutions, looked so dra\ n and pinched that Miss Somers was startled aid took hold of his shoulder. jThe boy jumped to his feet, ducked Ader her arm, and ran to the other sae of the cistern. "I-I washed r^e face; gim me sump in ter do," he said, for he felt there was need of propitiating this woman, who, notwithstanding her kindness, spoke and looked so sternly. "You needn't be so scairt; what do you mean, going to sleep in my yard, right side of the cistern, too; you might a' fallen in and drowned, then there'd been a pretty how-de-do." "Me name's Mugsy, and I come from the city; guess I was clean beat. I kin work." "Humph! beat you may be, but I don't seo anything clean about you; as for work, I'd like to know what you kin do." "I kin scrub floors, an' sift ashes, an' If there was one thing Miss Eliza dis liked to do it was to sift ashes. She said she never got cn the south rJe of the barrel but what the win;) ?lew from the north, and it she chr >ged to the north side1, the wind wa^ oound to shift to the south. The idea of a boy be'^g useful, and "^ch a specimen as t^.s appeared to be, haunting thepr<iiises all day like a disconcerting spirit. "There's a sifter full over on that barrel; you kin sift that, if you're so .terrible.*- anxious, and then you go .'straight home." .* ?ifes^EHza* went back to her plants $ but many a grub had Mugsy to thank that night for undisturbed dreams for Mit EM*<^ could not forget the figure as it looked, asleep by thc cistern; and when Mugsy appeared at the door with the sifter," holding a generous supply of rescued bits of coal, she handed him a thick slice of bread spreed with mo lasses, sayiDg, "I s'pose you're hungry again by this time." "I allers is;" and looking up at Miss Eliza with his mouth full, he said, "Kin I stay here? I ain't got no place." "You mean you ain't got no folks; whera'd you sleep last night?" "Down de road, under some beards; twuz freezin'." Miss*Eliza wen?, back to the kitchen, and left Mugsy sitting on the steps. She drew thc table to the center of the room, spread the red- cloth, and put two plates in place, the last quite forcibly, as she said aloud, "Well, tenny rate,, he shan't sleep out doors tonight, laying up rheumatism enough to last his natural life. You-er Mu-Mugsy (setch an onchristian name I never heard), come in here." Mugsy came just over the threshold and stood staring about while the lamp was lighted and the curtains drawn. Standing in the lamp light Miss Som ers could see where the buttons were gone from the thread-bare coat; that it was all that sheltered Mugsy from the cold. "Ain't you got any flannels?" said Miss Eliza. "Flannens!" said Mugsy, blankly, "dats me coat." "Do you see that sofy?" said Miss Eliza, pointing to a venerable specimen that stood in the corner of the kitchen. "Well, I am going to give you a com forter and you can sleep there tonight, and in thc morning we'll see. If you were a girl, nov/, I should know better what to do with you; but a boy!" "Yes-cm." "You sit down there," said Miss Eliza, pointing to the chair opposite her own, "and drink this bowl of tea; then you might as well go to bed." . Mugsy sat down and not only drank ?TL but also ate some bread and ot tu?- uiiorlsnea u^j^m?, W then obediently lay down on the sofa" as Miss Eliza tucked in the connor'er he turned on h:s side and said drow I si ly, "Me warra, and ain't hungry " Miss Eliza took off her glasses and wiped them, they blunod suddenly ' "How that kettle does steam," she said. ?Dr the time the few dishes were brllSnn^?r?nT^fie^ ledger was safe for the night. She took the lamp and went into the adjoining room where she slept, and returned with a suit of her own flan nels which she proceeded to abbreviate as to the extremities; this done, she locked up the house and went to bed. She was up bright and early in the morning, but not .?.nrlier than Mugsy, for when she openu her door, there he was on the hearth, before a freshly kindled fire. "Hello!" he said. "Well, I am beat," said Miss Eliza, and a faint smile might have been seen lurking about the corners of her mouth as she filled the kettle, but she spoke no word of commendation. Mugsy was a boy, and she did not know what m might not do next. After breakfast Miss Somers brought from tho barn a large backet of dried b?ans which she gave Mugsy to shell, and carefully locking up the rest of the house she left Mugsy in the kitchen, charging him on no account to go out, and with her basket on her arm she started for the village. There at the store she bought a suit of boy's clothes, boots and a cap. . Miss Eliza hurried home and found Mugsy playing a mysterious game with a few of thc beans he had finished shelling. Mugsy's eyes grew round with won der as Miss Eliza opened the bundles and dressed him In his new clothes. "There, you look like somebody now; but if you'd been a girl, I could a made you look better, boy's clothes are ter rible expensive. As Mugsy made him self useful about the house and barn during the day, Miss Eliza's thoughts ran somewhat in this fashion: "He's sort of handy, and if he'd been a girl, I don't know but I might have kept him; but I never could abide boys. I shall have to look about and see what can he done with him." Day after day, went by, however, and no effort was made to find other quar ters for Mugsy. He had been at Miss Eliza's about two weeks and the short legs, much rounder than they were the day he asked for the doughnut at the kitchen window, had saved Miss Eliza many steps. One day Mugsy came across the yard dangling a pail from which he had just poured a mixture that brought joy to the heart of Dennie, the pig. He took tho pail into the kitchen, expecting Miss Somers to wash it, but she was not there. "Misanliza!" no answer. He went to her room; she was not there; then to the door, and looked about, an., at last to the gate and down the road, and there such a sight met his view that his eyes seemed to start from their sockets. Down the road with lowered head, and pawing the road, came Mr. Per kins' bull, old Plato, and before him, fleeing for her life, ran M'ss Eliza, his Misanliza. What could he do? As if in answer to Lis question the red table cloth, hang ing from the line, flapped across his face; quick as thought he tore if from its fastenings, and screaming at the top of his voice, "I'me comin', Misanliza! Hi you Plato! Hi-hi-yah-yah!" Such a noise diverted the bull's at tention from the fleeing figure in front, and he turned. This fiery object writh ing and twisting about roused all his fierceness, and with a loud bellow he fairly flew for Mugsy. After running a short distance, and the thud of the bull's hoofs coming nearer and nearer, Mugsy knew ho could never reach thc gate, so dropping the tablecloth, he scrambled over tho stone wall just as Plato was upon him. He dropped on the other side, but something else fell too. There was a faint cry, and then it was very still save for the heavy breathing of the bull as he trampled and tore the table cloth into ribbons. Having veniod his wrath on this article, he galloped down the road and was soon out of sight. Presently Miss Eliza's head appeared above the wall on the opposite side of the road. How quiet it was; the bull had disappeared and where was Muggy? In fear and trembling she regained the r?id and walked quickly towards the house. She passed the remains of the table cloth. Such a pity! The diamond pat tern had been her pride and joy; "but then it might a been me," she thought, and went on. Through thc house and barn she went, calling "Mugsy, Mugsy," and her heart beat faster and faster, for she did not hear the familiar 'True a corn in', Misanliza." Then it occurred to her that the table cloth, had been very near tho stone wal!, and she ran down to where it lay aftd looked over. There lay Mugsy, his eyes closed and a heavy stone on one foot. Miss Eliza pulled several of the stones from the wall so she could step over, and lifted off tho heavy one that lay on Mugsy's foot. She caught him in her arms and kiss ed him again and again, rubbed his hands and called his name. Mugsy opened his eyes and sait' faintly, "I'm comin'." Miss Eliza rolled up her apron and put it under Mugsy's head and then hastened back to the house, where she put two of her best down pillows into the wheelbarrow and J ?turning to Mugsy, lifted him gently in and started for the house. "When she reached thc gate she saw Silas Perl-ins coming up the road, lead ing his bull by a stout chain attached to a ring in his nose. "Well, I ne\er was so glad to see you. Sile Perkins. You jist aitch that critter o' yourn to that apple tree, an' hitch him strong, harness up old Peg, and go for Doctor Wakefield. That | beast has most killed my boy." "Your boy! Well, I swan." "Yes. my boy; don't stand there ask ing foolish questions; I don't know but he'll die." f^^-HT-?Ter^?lfrtffi?' nfif?fr obeyed I most everybody did whcnUis3 EIi:a commanded. \ Miss Somers laid Mugsy on h^ofa in the kitchen, and made him as co?J tortable as possible. Soon she heard Farmer Perkins' hurS in60"'" D?Ct0r WakefleW "Well, Mugsy, what's the trouble? M^^-th^M^ -ow," oaid the mg. "Humph, we iTLiiSj^'oJdBBEtodv ether, I guess; now just take a long breath; that's the boy, again; once more." As Mugsy lost consciousness. Doctor Wakefield turned to Miss Eliza and said, "It's pretty bad, but there's only one small bone broken, he will bc round spry as ever in a few weeks." The doctor stayed until .Mugsy began to recover from the efforts of thc ether, and then Miss Eliza knelt by thc side of thc sofa and said, "How did you come to think of the table cloth, Mugsy?" He stole one arm around Miss Eliza's neck and said; - "I knowed ycr warnt much on racin* an'-an'-I liked yer, just-like-a girl." One Sunday morning pix months af ter. Miss Eliza stood at the font, in the little village church with a boy about eight years old. whom the minister baptized Joseph Henry Somers.-Wav erley Magazine. Benjamin Franklin's Visit to Ger many. In a doctor's thesis by an American we find mention of Franklin in Ger many. "The Relation of German Pub licists to the American War of Inde pendence, 177")-17S3. Inaugural Dissen tation for tho Doctor's Degree of tho Philosophic Faculty of the University of Leipsic submitted by Herbert P. Gal linger, Amherst, Massachusetts, I.cip sic. 1000, is a pamphlrv ia G^rmnn rf seventy-seven pages, with an addition al page giving tho derails of Dr. Gal linger's life. On p. 8, etc., he says: "Franklin visited Germany in IT'Jli, and in G?ttingen, where he mitt Achenwall and Schlozcr, awakened interest for tho colonies." In a foot-note bc adds: "Achenwall published in the Hannover ian Magazine, beginning of 17G7, p. 258, etc., 'Some Observations on North America and tho Pritish Colonies from verbal information furnished by Mr. B. Franklin.' " At the close, the strug gle between thc mother country and the colonies is described entirely from the American point of view. It is clear that Achenwall was convinced by Franklin. In closing ho says: "1 doubt not that other men of learning in this country have used their acquaintance with this honored man (Franklin) as well as I. Could they be persuaded to give thc public their noteworthy con versation with him, it would bo do ing the public a great benefit." These observation? were reprinted twice, in 17C9 at Frankfurt and Stuttgart, and in 1777 at Helmstedt. They appear to be the only account of thc dispute over the constitutional questions at issue in America in the Gorman language pub lished before 1770.-.1. G. Rosengarten, in Lippincott's Magazine. Illinois Girl Declared a Spendthrift. A rather nov<;l case from Normal at tracted much -ittcntion in the county court, Miss Hrttio Watt, an extremely pretty girl of 19, being thc defendant. She was recently left a fortune of $10, 000 and her relatives filed complaint that she had become a spendthrift and was dissipating her bank account so rapidly that unless immediate steps were taken to prevent it she would be penniless. A goodly portion of her wealth had besn spent in traveling over the country and in buying finery. The case was hoard by a jury and a verdict was found against the girl. Ac cordingly tho court appointed a con servator, who will ba\c sob* charge ol her fortune until she becomes of logai age_St. Louis Globe-Democrat. READING THE BIBLE. 8ome Facts That Occur to Few Per sons in These Days. "Did you evor figure out how long lt would take you to read the Bible?" asked an observant man. "Well, you would be surprised to know in what a short space of time you could finish the last chapter of the Holy Book. Of course there are different ways of reading. There are men and women who read without knowing anything about what they read. They ars the class of persons who never get lasting impressions from the book. They may pick out one or two chapters, but when it comes to the various phases of the story they do not remember. This is due largely to a sort of uncon scious bias which the reader shows for one character or another, or to an abnormal sympathy for some of the si lent actors in the plot But there are persons on the other hand who read critically and who can talk about the book they have read when they come to lay it aside. Readers of this latter kind will be considered in the calcula tion which follows: "There are in the Old and New Tes taments combined a total of GG books, containing 1189 chapters, 31,173 verses and a total of 773,692 words, approxi mately. The Old Testament contains 39 books, 929 chapters, 23,214 verses and approximately 592,239 words, .while in the New Testament there are 27 books, 2G0 chapters, 7939 verses and 181,253 words approximately. Adiding these together we get the total given. How long will it take a person to read the Old Testament, with its 5*>2 2'iO words, or the 3SI,253 words of the New Testament? And how long to read thc 773.G92 words of both? A man can read undeistandingly 100 wards every min ute. By hurrying a man can read 1G0 words, or probably more. I will as sume that a man can read critically, that is, carefully and understandingly, at least GO words a minute. That is slow reading, being only 3G00 words an hour. . Suppose a man should de vote an hour a day to the Bible. "At this rate he would read 108,000 words in 30 clays, or a month's time. At this rate he would read the Old Testament in less than six months, and he could finish the New Testament in less than two months. Thc whole Bible could bc read in less than eight months by devoting simply one hour to it each day. Yet there are few per sons outside of students who claim to have read thc Bible from lid to lid. Which argues that the agc is strangely perverse."-New Orleans Time-Demo crat ?? Plantagenet Monuments. ^he renewed attempt which is being Il>on this side of the straits of Do a fl?sse attention to the neglect vcr to ai^kj 4. .. V^LP^taeenet monuments ?? ^Vf?N?ench abbey of Fon in the famous ^Westminster Ga who take no particular interest in them, may have as decided an objec tion to their being removed to West minster abbey now as they showed when that step was last suggested some 40 years ago. These monuments are leeumbent effigies, dressed in their royal robes, of our Henry II and his v:je. Eleanor of Guionnc, their mn Richard Coeur dc Lion and their daughter-in-law, Isabel d'Angouleme, widow of John. What was once an ab bey has since become a prison, and more than one endeavor has been made to secure that these most interesting relics-which are also fine specimens of the art work of their time-should either be fittingly preserved in the place where they so long have lain or be brought to Westminster. But although during the revolutionary pe riod they were in almost as great dan gar of desecration and even destruc tion as the tombs of the French kings themselves in St. Denis, and despite the fact that they have since been left, and are still being left to moulder and docay, there seems little chance of their reclamation. And thus it is that they remain, as an English ex-foreign becre tarv 4 '..years since sold the then for eign nu-ister of France, "neglected! exploited '-v a jailer, seen by few in their allott?.': place, interesting Franco but little, OL' unhappily unknown by and lost to En^and." Is there nothing in the present ?. -?tente cordiale which will remedy this? ' Gt ting Down to Level of People. Thomas B. Reed, a Philadelphia lawyer says, made a political address in a small Pennsylvania town some years ago. The town hall was small and badly lighted, and the speaker's desk was set exceedingly close lo the edge of the platform. Mr. Reed, as his speech progressed, became o.citcd. He forgot his sur roundings, ho forgot how near he was to the platform's edge, and inadver tently be leaned upon his lectern too heavily, with the result that it and he fell to the floor together. The desk alighted first, with consid erable noise, and the speaker followed in a cloud ol' dust. He immediately rose to his feet again, none thc worse, but tuc laughter of the townspeople would not allow him to proceed. Ho stood this loud and coarse laughter for mme moments. Then he held up his hand. "Don't laugh at mc," he said, "Don't laugh. I was merely getting down to the level o? my audience."-New York Tribune. Babies Don't Get Seasick. "Babies never got seasick. I have carried thousands of them in my lime," said an American Lino steward, ac cording to The Philadelphia Record, "and in rough weather I have seen their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters keel over like soldiers before a cannon ball, but not so with the ba bies. Whe'.her it be rough or smooth at sea, a baby is always an excellent saUor-rosy, jolly, and with thc appe tito o." a horse. Do you know the ex plantation of this singular fact? It is as simple as thc fact is ttrango. Ba bies don't get seasick because they are accustomed (o the rocking of-tho cradle That movement is much like thc rocking of a ship. A baby aboard ship, therefore, is merely a baby in an unusually big eradle, and lhere is noth ing odd to him about thc rocking, for it is what ho has been accustomed to all his life." ,??.?Jik M^^ V^i^ i^i^i^J^ 1 Be Ancient Ruins of 3 Pa?eiike. 2 - 7 : - By F.nos Bro .\n. i i TjrtAVELEIt who recently visited the f;imous ruins nt P?llenla1, Stn te of Cliinpns, Mexico, laments thc changes which time and the clements arc grad ually making in their appen rn ucc and condition. Nothing has over been done by the Federal Government to preserve those Impressive monuments of thu highly cultured race who constructed them, and of whoso history and origin but little is known. Tho climate of the region in which the ruins are situated ls the direct opposite of that of Egypt, Inasmuch as the rainfall at Palcnko has been known to amount to 2?!) Inches a year. Tho air is humid and ?ncournges decay, and at thc same :imo .itiinuiatcs the rapid growth of :he vinos and creeping plants, which OABVIXvi FUO.M TIIS ItU-XS OF PA LEX KB are disintegrating the walls and pave ments'and will eventually'- level thom to tho ground. So dense is the foliage surrounding the ruins that light from the sun is almost totally obscured. The photographer who was employed by the Mexican-Government to take pic tures ^?T^t lie ruins could accomplish his object In some Instances only by means of a flash light. Tho ruins of Palenkc are about 200 milos from the port or/ Frontern, and are readied by steamer up the Tabasco River to San Juan [Bautista and thence by trail. The group nil lie within a radius of 2000 feet, and consist of nine distinct structoes, ; of which the "palace" is the li?kt-.and most ce?ir?]. The! ruIneOj^^dings consist ^of temples, pyra " whose all tb balcoj whlcf en od j sentiiPTkiUie scenes and ov?HTs1 naUon's life are carefully depicted. From them tho physical characteristics and domestic habits may be correctly ascertained. . The dimensions of the "palace" are great. Its length is 2^8 feet, and breadth ISO foot, and it is el evated on a mound .?>10 foot long, 2fi0 feet wide and forty feet high. Tho ma terial used was stone, many blocks of prodigious size being used, and all joined together with mortar. As great architectural ability was displayed by the builders of tho edifices at Palcnko as was shown by the architects who erected those of the Nile. How it was possible for a primitivo people to fash ion, convey and sculpture such im mense stones as were emoloyed is tho wonder ol' modern archaeologists. It would seem that the same people were the builders of these structures found at Mllta, Mayapnn, Tula, as well ns at Palenkc, a race which covered Yucatan and the Southern States of Mexico with mighty temples. A French scientist with a lively Im agination and unusual powers of ob servation credits tho "Toltocs" with building these ancient temples, and fixes the seventh century as tho period of their erection, but those confident assertions aro doubted. Others place the a-a in which they were built as early as the date of the pyramids of ?gypt. However, it seems to bo provod beyond a doubt that many centuries before the 'discovery of America these ruins were in existence. It Is not be lieved that .Cortex or those with him knew of the Falcnke ruins, though that conqueror must have boen close to them nt one time. Europeans first hoard o" them in 1750, but lt was not until 17S7 that they were explored. The key unlocking the mysteries hid den Ju the hieroglyphics which are carved on hundreds of tablets may some time be discovered, and the his tory of a great race of people and'thelr origin bo known, but their successors who now Inhabit the region have no 'jaditionti that can aid the Inquirer. The ruins of Palenke should bo pre served, ana tho Mexican Government owe that much to thc world. If lt were possible to clear the timber away anil destroy the growth of vines which is rapidly overwhelming them, these In teresting relics might bc saved for the future.. They have so far resisted the effect?of time and physical convulsion, but must eventually succumb to tho ceaseless, persistent and silent assaults of an overwhelming tropical growth. Sciontl?ic American. A NEW BANANA. - * . . ? ;~ A ?Strange Sut Interesting Product of the East. A new banana has recently been de scribed by Mr. Fletcher, of the Botanic Gardens, at Hongkong. The seeds of this plant, which is known ns 'the "Elephant's Head," were- obtained by a Mr. Wilson lu Yunnan in ISO!). The seeds were planted iu the Hongkong gardens in IS!)!) and three plauts grew, two uf which still U'ya and thrive. It is cultivated by thc natives for the in ner portion of the trunk, which is used ns food. The plants arc from ten to twelve feet high, with about a dozen leaves each. It is a highly orna mental species, with broad, arching leaves, ten or twelve feet long. The trunk is conical. The fruit ls club shaped, of a golden yellow color, and about four luches long. They contain on an average twenty seeds imbedded i-nH-? Tomb nf Prc.-hlent Arthur. xne monument at .the grave of Ches ter ?. Arthur, in Bural Cemetery, AI D.iny. New York, ls in tho form of an angel placing a palm leaf on a sarco phagus. It is a beautiful piece of sculpture. At the base there appears only the simple Inscription, "Arthur." Somehow or other a girl with her first diamond ring loses ull interest in gloves. :E KUI NED TEMPLE OF PALENKE It is not likely that English ocean steamers will soon be built longer than the latest specimens. No ship of more than 7?0 feet-can work in the Liver pool doeks, and in thc Loudon docks 700 feet is the limit. TR Oldest Mm in 157-and Ke Has Documents to Prove lt. Undoubtedly the oldest man In the world, and probably the oldest human being, ls Manuel del Valle, cf Menlo MANUEL DEL VA, Park, Cal. Ile- nas reached the age h if 157 years. aj Ile has legal proof of his age. Ii) h many cases of persons living beyond a ibo hundred mark who have attracted ir public attention there has been gru.e V loubt ns to the year of their birth. Belief in their age is based upon their jwn stories or on hearsay. Manuel del Valle's proof ls docu mentary. Ile has In his possession the I T< ..ertilicate of his birth, signed by the j ci ?efe politico, o Zacatecas, nr;r?ecr rr that a human being could have reac the age of 157. At the time Del Valle, was born George Washington was only thirteen years old. This living man was ten years old when the French and Indian war began. Ile was a grown man of twenty when the battle of Bunker Hill was fought. He was already an old man when Napoleon was defeated at Waterloo, being then sixty-five years ol '. Del Valle was 101 years old at the beginning of the Mexican war. He retired from activo business nine teen years before tba:, having then reached the age of eighty-eight He was twenty j a.s a customs ofli cial at Ensenada. Lower California From 1S14 to 1S45 he acted as super uumerary in the Franciscan mission at San Quentin. Lower California, the lirst mission building to be established on tlie Pacific coast, and which is now in ruins. In 1S45, when lie was just 100 years old, Del Vade came with relatives to what is now San Francisco in a vessel that sailed around C?.pc Horn. He has lived In Menlo Park since then and has occupied the same room, his great-grandnophew. Jose del Valle, looking after the truck farm that sup ports the family. -Manuel del Valle looks his great age. Ile is a little, dried-up. frail man. scarcely five feet tall and weighing not more than ninety pounds, lio is still able to walk without assistance and takes a daily stroll about bis house. Ile has not been moro than two blocka. away from It in thirty years. He can see but little, but ho hears, fairly .well He speaks English brokenly, but un derstands it well. He never was much interested In the big events of tho world, ne says he bas never used " liquor nor tobacco. Furthermore ho declares that he never has wet his feet uor been-out lu a frost, apparently LLE, AGED 157. olding these things to be equally bcmlnable. He never eats solid food, - Is only nourishment being bean broth, nd all day long he sits in the sunshine i front of his adobe home.-New York I'orld. .. .' .'? Remarkable Fishing Coats. This "photo was taken- n't' r"nisr?inayo, a the coast of Peru, and shows soi ?markable fish.'ng-boats constructed likely of bundles of reeds tied rough 'HE "BOATS" OF THE FISHERMEN" OJ PACAS3IAY0, rsnU, CONSIST OF BUN DLES OF BBEDS TIED KOCOHLY TO GETEEIt. ishcrman kneels or sits astride the >road end and used a thin paddle. These bouts, which can be launched brough very rough surf, were prob ibly used by the Indians many years >eforc the Spanish conquest. In the iccoinpanying photograph wc sec them wing dried, a most necessary process ifter they have boon ?nade use of foi ishing purposes-The Wide World Magazine. The Howitt Lan") in Unplnnd. The remarkable mercury vapor lamps leviscd by Mr. Peter Cooper Hewitt ire now being exhibited at the otlices if the Westinghouse Company. These lamps can be run off any ordinary con tinuous-current electric light supply system, and show an efficiency of two to three candles p?r watt, or for the same lighting require-only about one ninth the current taken by ordinary irlow lamps. The sole drawback to thc light lies In its extraordinary color. There ls a total absence of all red rays, and consequently all tints red by ordi nary light are curiously perverted, ? lady's Hps look purple; so that at pres ent no attempt is being made fo utilize the light for domestic purposes, as feminine opposition would be toe strong. In other eases, however, the light has very strong advantages. Il is stated that it is an excellent light to work by, aud this we can well believe -London Engineering. Smart I>oc Savt-s Trouble. ' The following Incident occurred while the writer was a student In tin Philadelphia Normal School. Th? teacher of drawing there was extreme ly anxious that tho girls should d< Imaginative work. She requested them to make a draw lng to illustrate a story in which a do.? and a tree were the principal factors One bright young lady finished .hej work ?nil then sat ycrj complacently waiting for her criticism. Present?] Miss Campbell appeared, and as sh! looked upon a beautifully finished drawing of a tree she said: "Vcr,' good, but where is the dog?" "Th! dog," exclaimed the young Inly. "'Oh he's behind the tree."-Philadelphia Ledger. All tho world loves^a lover exec]* the fellow who has bcou cut out.