THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR.
EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892.
VOL. LVII. NO. 13.
The District of Columbia has 382
far tas, with 11,745 acres?
Ex-Senator John J. Ingalta lately
?aid that ."law, journalism and rail
road management are thc three are*
hues bf success.'* *
Governor Budd, of California, has
aroused a good deal of opposition
among semi-military organizations by
his refusal to allow them to carry any
bat the American flag.
Ever sinoe the war tho proportion
of farmer immigrants to this country
has rapidly and steadily diminished,
most of the wage-earners appearing to
come from olasses that did not follow
tlie plow.
According to the Popular Health
Magazine the Toronto (Canada) courts
have decided that tuberculosis shall
be classed under the head of contagious
diseases, and children so affected are
now debarred from attendance on the
publio schools.
The feo for a professional visit of a
doctor in Nottingham, England, is
one shilling-equal to twenty-five
cents ; and even this pittance, the New
fork Independent relates, often has
to be traded out with the small shop
keepers, who consider it an exorbitant
demand._
Consul General Karel, at St. Peters
burg, has sent to the State Depart
ment a report upon the iron industry
of Bos8?a. He says Bussia is rich in
iron ore and ha? plenty of fuel to de
velop the industry, but has not yet
made great progress. Compared with
other countries she Ts considerably
behind._
The first trial at sea of the Defender
was a great disappointment to the ad
vocates of aluminum as the metal of
the future, and many experts deoiare
against its utility. According to the
New York "World, it proved so lacking
in strength that the cleats and belay
ing pins made ont of it were so twisted
and bent that they had to be dis
carded, and new ones of hand-wrought
steel substituted.
General Greely's statement before
the International Geographical Con
gress that in a little more than two
centuries the Arctic region has fur
nished the world with produots worth
$1,200,000,000, will surprise most
readers, and indicates to the New York
Mail and Express the possibilities of
that frozen region when human dar
ing and ingenuity shall have per
manently opened it to commerce. '
Two thousand million gallons or sh
million tons of petroleum is the an
nual output of the world ; half of this
is supplied by the United States, near
ly a quarter comes from tho Caspian,
26,000,000 gallons from Galicia, 25,
000,000 from Canada, and 7,000,000
from Burmah. The working of the
wells in Burmah and Galicia is only
just beginning, while the petroleum
basin of the Mackenzie Biver is proba
bly the richest in tho world.
The habit of moving is still 6trong
in the American people, or it may be
that it is in the climate, for natives
and newcomers possess it alike. Many
of the changes made, doubtless, are
in a process of betterment, but many
others appear to bo just for change's
sake. The other week a party of Ken
tucky and West Virginia farmers
passed through Kansas City on their
way to settle in Kansas. Very likely,
suggests the New York Sun, they,
passed on their journey West a large
party of farmers from Kansas, Ne
braska and Illinois, who started re
cently to find new homes in Virginia
and Georgia. And in the same week
some families in Bussell County, Kan
sas, were preparing to join a colony
of ex-Kansons in - Wyoming. Such
migrations from one State to another
are constantly in progresa, and usually
they are in the nature of a simple
interchange o' inhabitants.
Tar Superior Court at Cincinnati,
Ohio, has decided that a railroad is
not obliged to carry a passenger who
makes a business of conveying mer
chandise between stations to supply
customers. One A. J. Smith had
built np qnite a bnsiness as purchas
ing agent for persons living along the
line of the Cincinnati, Hamilton and
Dayton Railroad, and was in the
habit of carrying his purchases on the
train as he rode back and forth. The
railroad had a contract with an ex
press company, agreeing to give to no
one beside the express company the
privilege of carrying merchandise on
its passenger trains. In accordance
with this contract Smith was forbid
den the privilege of carrying his
bundles on the trains, tho oompany
refusing to carry him as a passenger
with his usual load of satchels and
bundles. Smith sued the railroad,
olaiming that as he had a commutation
tioket he was entitled to passage on
the trains of the railroad from whose
agents he purchased it, no matter how
many bundles he carried. The court
decided against him on the ground
that the railroad only undertook to
carry personal baggage on its passen
ger trains for passengers, and that
personal baggage only included wear
ing apparel and personal effects, and
sot general merchandise; J
Ills Mother's Risa.
It was her wont when, tired ol pla/
He to her bosom crept,
With golden locks in disarray.
To kiss him as ha slept
And still her plea would be but this '
"I shall not wako him with a kiss!
"3o heavenly sweet his sleeping face
So beautiful end bright,
I know the angels lift the laos
To kiss my boy good-night.
For, see ! he smiles in dreams of bliss:
How should I wake him with a kiss?"
So did his mother say, and when
God whispered His sweet will,
Sbo only moaned : "He sleeps !" and then
Koevling, she kissed bim still :
And'weeping, murmured only this:
..I cannot wake him with a kls3?"
-FRANK L. STANTON, lu Chicago Timos Her
ald. m
A Strange Case of Telepathy.
BY LOUISE OHANDIiEB MOULTON,
Tho May afternoon was moro than
warm-it was hot. Summer had hur
ried into the world, nu expected and
uninvited, Perhaps that was what
made Jas my n Meredith lend a little
pink ear to something she had re
solved over and over that she would
not hear-tho passionate, illogical, al
together absurd love making of a
young fellow who would not have
taken his university degree till a
month lator on. He was twenty-one,
to bs snre, and she was only eighteen,
but at eighteen a girl believes herself
already a woman.
She listened, and then she said,
with a smile: "Why, you aro a
boy!"
"A wise boy," he answered, "who
kilowa enough to love you, and who
will have all the longer time in which
to love you, because ho begins early."
?Tm glad you are to be a lawyer,"
she answered somewhat irrelevantly,
os it seemed to Robert Marsh.
"Why?" he ventured.
"Because I now see that you. have,
after all, a logical mind. Your powers
of argument might be thrown away in
any other profession. " And then shu
added: "It takes a good while to
got admitted to tho bar."
"It shan't take very long in my
case," ho answered, "if you will
promise mo my reward for making
haste,"
"Oh, yes," she said, "I will come
to court and hear your first plea."
"That!1' hecried, a little scornfully,
"No, I want you to listen in private
to my first argument, and be con
vinced by it"
"Ab, bnt yon are not a lawyer yet
-you must wait."
"Yon can keep me waiting as long
as you please-it is for you to say
but I have told yon that I love you.
You can't get away from that I'll
trust you to remember, and when any
other man tells you the same story, I
-I will be his judge. You shall
think of my love and my words, and
you shall ask yourself whether he
loves you as well."
Jasmyn smiled at this outburst, and
then she said, with an air of sweet
toleration: "Dream your dream,
gentle youth- it may keep you from
isome worse folly !"
"And you will not even be here for
class d8.y?"
"No; we sail on Saturday. My
mother is half English by birth, and
more than half at heart. She is sigh
ing for Mayfair. Wo shall go to New
York tc-morrow."
Ha looked for a moment into her
eyes. His lips were athirst for her
but ho knew her too well to venture
anything she would have the right to
resent He contented himself with a
hand clasp ; but there was a tone in
his voice she would not soon forgot
as he said: "You will remember."
Three years went by, and still Mrs.
Meredith and her daughter had not
returned to America. Robert Marsh
heard of their movements only through
the kind newspapers, for Jasmyn had
decreed that there should be no cor
respondence.
She vas a social success in London,
where there were so many fair com
petitors; but she deftly managed to
avoid proposals for tho most part, and
when she had to say no, to say it so
gently &s to make no enemies. Her
mother had not intorferred hitherto.
Mrs. Meredith was too wise a woman
not to hasten slowly, but nowtho time
seemed to her to have come when a
son-in-law would be desirable.
"You are twenty-one now," Bhesaid
to Jasmyn.
"Yes, Mnmsie. Of course you can
easily remember my birthday, since
yon also are a Mayflower.*"
"Yes,.and a year before I was twen
ty-one I had married your father. Ho
never caused me but one sorrow, and
that was when he died. I wish you as
happy a lot ns my own and I think
jon are old enough to marry."
"Yes," her mother answered, mus
ingly. "Perhaps you have not seen,
but I, who have lived twioe as long as
you, can seo clearly that Lord Gains
ford is only waiting his opportunity to
ask you to be Lady Gainsford."
"That old fellow !" cried Jasmyn
irreverently.
"He is thirty-nine," said Mrs.
Meredith, ..miling." "That does not
seem so venerable to most of the world
as it seems to yon. Do you see any
thing else in him to complain of ?"
"I havn't thought Why should If i
He ii very well, Z suppose, hat X ffie^ <
i no reason why I should care for him
more than for another."
- "Ah, weill you must know him bet
ter/'
And the opportunity was not long
in coming; It seemed aa if fate wore
on the side of his lordship. When
ever the Merediths wont they wore
sure to meet him-and he let it bo
seen clearly enough that it was for
Jasrayn's sake he had come.
Ono night they were sitting ont a
danco which she had promised him.
Ho had persuaded her to go into tho
conservatory instead of ciancio.2, and
she sat on a low seat, over which some
strange foreign plant leaned. An
odor that seemed like inoanse bnrned
on the shrine of some old time god
half intoxicated her. And there and
then Lord Cainsdorf told his lovo
story. She had charmed him from
the first, he said, and now he loved
her. Would she-b At that very
instant it seemed to her ns if she
heard a voice from far, oh, so far
away-a voice that Baid: "Wait!"
And just then, before she had spoken
at all, her partner for the next dance
appeared, and Lord Gainsford said,
with that cool self possession that be
longed to his age and rank, ' T shall
see you to-morrow. "
That night wleep did not come to
Jasmyn. She lay with wide open
eyes, vaguely wondering. What
should she say to Lord Gainsford?
Gould she love him-and why not?
Would she be happy as his wife?
How much there would be to make
her so.
Then suddenly it seemed to her as
if the room opened its windows, to tho
stars and the definite night, and she
looked far, far off, as perhaps we all
shall look when death has taken us hy
the hand and led ns far away from
what we call life. She know that her
vision had gone beyond the sea, and
that it was a room in New York, in
which she saw a young man writing.
He had just turned a page. Sho did
not know' how his lettor hogan, bot
she read these words :
"I am twenty-four now, and you
are twenty-one. You oan no longer
call me a boy. I was admitted to the
bar a year ago. I have succeed ed so
well that in October I shall make my
first important plea. Remember that
you promised to hear it. I will oross
the sea and bring yon back in time.
I shall be with you almost as soon
aa'this letter. T'havo obeyed yon-j ?
hitherto in keeping silence. I write
now because I wish you to know be
fore we meet that I am unchanged. "
And when she had read thus far 't
seemed to her that suddenly tho win
dows that had opened to the vastness
of the night were closed and she was
alone.
What did it all mean? She was not
asleep. It was no dream. Plainly a
if 6he had held the sheet in her own
hands she had read those written
words. Plainly as if ho had been in
the room with her she had seen Robert
Marsh.
Yes, she would wait. She would
decided nothing until she know. She
turned on her side and drew a long,
calm breath, and thon sleep, the delin
quent, kissed her parted lips and led
her at last into dreamland.
The next day Lord Gainsford
pleaded his own cause, but he pleaded
in vain.
"If you will wait two weeks," Jas
myn said, "I will answer you thou.
If I say anything to-day it must be
'No.' I do not feel that I understand
myself. Will you give me time, or
shall it end here?"
Of course he gave her time. He
turned to Mrs. Meredith. Mrs. Mer
edith was his senior by threo years,
therefore she was a safo as well as a
sympathetic confidante.
Tho two weeks were not over, in
fact, only nine days had passed, when
a letter came to Jasmyn in a hand she
used to know. She opened it. She
read the first page, and then she
turned the leaf, and there sho saw the
very sentence she had read when the
windows of her chamber opened into
the infinite night.
And that same day Robert Marsh
followed his letter. Then Jasmyn
Meredith knew for the first time her
own heart's secret The lovo that
was strong enough to conquer t'me
and space and 8j>eak to her across the
estranging sea was the love of her own
life, as well as of her lover's.
The next day she told hor mother
that she had made up her mind.
Naturally, Mrs. Meredith did not like
it, but sho was helpless. John Mer
edith had left his fortune to be equal
ly divided betweon his daughter and
his wife, and after Jasmyn was twen
ty-one she was absolutely her own
mistress. Mrs. Meredith would fain
have beeu mother-in-law to a lord,
but there was nothing to be Baid
against Robert Marsh, so she quietly
resigned herself to the inevitable.
"You deserve," she said to Jasmyn,
with a little vexed laugh, "that I
should marry Lord Gainsford myself."
And that is precisely what she did six
months later.-St. Louis Globe-Dem
oorat
The Pigmies of Equatorial Africa.
Whatever doubt may have existed
in the minds of naturalists as to the
existence of trno pigmy raoes in the
(vilds of Central Africa, as was fi rut
xuthoritatively reported by Du
Dhaillu, has, aa ls well known, been
mm II i ? i M.mi ni i ?! ?.III .III
dispelled by the discoveries of Str
ley; indeed, years before, the t
plorations of Schweinfurth had i
ready satisfactorily demonstrated th
the fabled people of Herodotus, <
others representing them, had a fi
claim to recognition. Recently t
researches of tho erudite traveler ai
naturalist. Dybowski, in the weste
?quatorial forests, have put us in pc
cession of many and valuable facts r
yarding theso diminutive people; tl
3bougos, which help to clear awi
ihe anecdotal from the true history
svhat must, for the moment, at leaf
36 considered among the most inte
?sting inhabitants cf our planet 1
(tature they are shown to be (prol
ibly) the smallest of all living pei
des; if the specimens selected li
neasuremeut by M. Dybowski are i
di representative of the many, the
he average stature of the men cai
lot greatly exceed four and one-ha
eet. In throe coses the heights ol
ained were respectively four feet si
nches, four foot seven and one-quai
er inches, and four feet seven an
ibree-quarter "inches-a stature fa
>elow that of the Eskimo, who is i
)opular (but erroneous) estimation :
rue pigmy. Despite their diminutiv
rames the men aro described as bein,
rery powerful and courageous* th
mnters having no fear of either wil<
>e&at or attacking man.
A most striking feature of the peo
>l? is their light tint, the color o
heir skin being a light bronze, barel,
larker than the brown of the mulatto
ry ebro wa aud eyelashes ara also botl
air, and the eyes have little of tha
dsual intensity which disti*iguiBhei
hoso organs among most negroes,
L'he greater part of the body is largel;
miry, the arms and chest being in i
neasuro protected by a short, almos
it might and noarly blonde down.
Jew Science Review.
?lrds that are Odd in Various Ways
A canary bird carried in a closec
iago from Charlottenbnrg, near Ber
in, to London escaped in the las
lamed city, and found ita way bael
o its Gorman home, inside of twt
lays and one night*
W. F. Williams,' of Six-mile Ranoh,
lear Buffalo, "Wyoming, captured t
pe ci m cn of tho blackbird family tha'
vas pure creamy white and had pink
.yes.
A representative of an unknowr
pecies of bird bas been captured al
Woodlawn, Cal. It ?s~withoul
eathers, the body covering being
>la'k, stiff, bristly hairs. It has ?
.ood-rod beak and green feet
The British cuckoo and the Ameri
ian cow blackbird are the only two
mown speoies of the bird family that
lever build nests. They deposit their
iggs in nests made by other birds.
The crow can make a speed of twen
y-fivo milos per hour, one hour with
nother for a wholo day. The spar
ow hawk eau beat brother crow about
ix to one, and tho humming bird can
lover a distance of 275 miles in the
pace of sixty seconds.
Professor Orton says that the con
lor soars higher than any other
pecies of the feathered tribe. He
urther says that it spends nine-tenths
>f its life at a height of over three
niles above the sea level.
Tho only speoies of Carnivorous
l?rrot knowu lives nc?? the great
heep folds in Australia, and is so
ierco that it will attaoi live sheep
.nd cut their throats with ita strong
>eak.-New York Advertiser.
Doing More Than he Promit.
A story is told of a Pittsburg oil
iroducer who was putting down a well,
ome years ago, in a territory that had
lover been tested fo< oil. He was
:eeping the fact a profound seoret, in
?rdor that, in case he got a good woll,
ie might without difficulty secure all
he leases he desired in the vicinity.
Io was on the ground himself, watchi
ng with great interest the indications.
Everything pointed to success. Two
lays before the well was expected to
ome in," he was called home. Anx
ous about the result, he arranged with
o's contractor to telegraph him as soon
3 the drill reached the sand. He
;new, however, that secrets will some
imes leak out of a telegraph office
nd so he told the drilier that the
entonce, "Pine trees grow tall,"would
aean that he had struok oil. The
triller promised to do as he was or
lered. Tho mingled satisfaction and
exation of the producer may bo imag
ned when two days later, he received
ho following telegram: "Pine trees
;row tall. She's squirting clean over
he derrick !"
Good Fortune Through Sheer Luck.
No better instance of good fortune
louting through sheer luck could be
ou nd. perhaps, than in the experience
tf a prospector named Mahoney, near
Calispell, Montana, recently. Having
lothing whatever to do one afternoon,
te, out of pure fancy, as an idle boy
irould throw stones at a mark, drilled
, hole into a projecting hunk of rook
nd put in a shut, intending to blow
iut a ton or so of it just to see things
ly. When the blast was made he
ouud that he had broken iuto a treas
ure house. There was a big pocket
n the rock the sides of which sparkled
nih almost pure gold. There wus
?lough in sight to net Mahoney a
ut nd tome sum, and if the mine prove:?
i rich as tho surfuou showing iud;',
atea he has struok a bonanza.
Census Office Estimate of What
tlfe Indian Has Cost.
About 1&000 Whites Killed in
War With Redskins.
In the'gympiete Indian census re
port, justjbublished, an interesting at
tempt is made for the first time to
cast np inaugures an aggregate of tho
government expenditures on account
of the ret- men residing within our
borders: rance the Union was estab
lished irr 1789. The result of this
remarkable attempt, says the Washing
ton Star? indicates in tho statistics
presented that the gigantic sum of one
billion one hundred und fivo million
odd dallas? ($1,105,219.362) was spent
by the government up to the year 1890,
either upj>n the Indians directly, or
indirectly because of Indians. Count
ing in, however, the civil and military
exponses'for Indians sinca then, to
gether. Mpth .incidental expenses not
recognized in the official figures given
?tr is safe to say that up to June 30.
1895, a farther snm of $144,780,628
may be added to tho foregoing figures,
making a grand aggregate of $1,250,
000,000 chargeable to Indians to date.
Of coarse, a large amount of treas
ure wosjspent in wars with the Ameri
can Indians prior to the establish
ment of the- federal government in
1789. Indeed, ever since the white
man appeared within the present terri
tory of She United States there has
been wa*r almost continually, begin
ning on;the Pacific side in 1539 and
on the Atlantic side soon after the
year 1600. Since tho founding of our
government the United States army,
except when engaged in the wars with
Great Britain and Mexico, and during
the civil war has been used almost ex
clusively in the Indian service, and
has been stationed largely in the In
dian country or along the frontier.
In thoff calculation the Indian cen
sas experts omit the army expenses
incident io^Jie-wars with Eagland and
.Mr)xicot."an^ the oivil war with its
sequel of reconstruction, and safely
count two'thirds of the total expanses
of tho array,as chargeable directly or
indirectly to the Indians. The total
; expens?lo* the army from' 1789 to
yWO'-j?p found to h? $4,725,521,
?95jJ^dedact?ag .$3,514,911,00*
for the foreign wars and^iKe civil war
the remainder is 81,201,601,487.
Fully two-thirds of this sum, or $807,
073,558, it is estimated, was expended
for Indian wars and for army service
against the Indians.
To this sum tho census experts add
the expenses of tho Indiau civil ad?
ministration for the period between
1789 and 1890, amounting to $259,
9?4,082, and $10,000,000 moro to re
imburse particular states for expenses
incurred by them in Indian wars, and
$28,201,632 moro for pensions to sur
vivors or widows of Indian wars, and
then the total foots up to $1,105,219,
372. Counting in, as suggested above,
$144,780,628 for civil administsation
expenses and a proportionate share of
the army expenses since 1890, the
grand total becomes $1,250,000,000
a billion and a quarter of dollars.
The Indian wars under tho govern
ment of the United States are stated
to have numbered moro than forty and
to have oost tho lives of about 19,000
white men, women and children, in
cluding about 5,000 killed in individ
ual encounters, of which history takes
no note, and of 30,000 Indians, in
cluding 8,500 killed in personal en
counters.
It has been the policy of the nation
al government since the year ?828 to
refund to the states and territories
the money paid out by them in sup
pressing Indian hostilities. The lia
bility is based on tho fact that the
federal government has treated the
Indians either as nations or us wards
of the nation, thus keeping thom from
control by the several states.
Speaking of tho number of Indiar
now in the United States, as shown
by the reports of special agents, and
tho number supposed to have lived in
the past, the census editor says:," It
is not probable that the present aren
of the United States since the white
man came has contained at one time
more than 500,000 Indians. High
estimates were made in the curh
days, but the average even then wac
about 1,000,000. In 1890 we have
248,253 civilized and uncivilized In
dians. Through almost four centu
ries warlike bands have resisted, and
many of these Indians are still resist
ing progress. There are not ten
tribes out of any of the 200 or more
now in the United States but that
have been in revolt, and those exist
ing as tribes are now remnants, with
a few exceptions, too poor or too fen
to fight, or they consider it too dan
gerous."
Canine Knowledge of Human Speech.
No dog lover requires proof that hie
canine friends understand human
speech, and he is always ready to ac
cept new evidence in favor of a theorv
already held. Knowing this fact, a
correspondent narrates the exploit oi
a sailor dog appropriately in?i ed
Jaok.
His master was the Captain of a fish
ing vesnel ."ailing from Provincotown.
Jack had often been his master's conv
panion ia his voyages, bat on one oc
casion it was decided that the dc;
must be left at Iiome. The eve of the
Captain's departure had come. The
dog lay dozing before the fire, and
gavo no sign of interest when his mas
ter said in ordinary tones, "We must
^shut np Jack in the barn to-night, or
he will try to follow me in the morn
lng.
Presently Jack barked to bo let out
and no one thought any more about
him until bed-time, when he was to bo
made prisoner. Then no Jack was to
bo found. In vain were whistling,
calling, coaxing, and scolding, and at
last the puzzled master gave ap the
search.
The next - morning the Captain
started before dawn on his long tramp
to the neighboring port. There his
Bailors were waiting to row him to his
vessel, which was one of a large fleet
lying in the harbor at some distance
from the shore. As they threw near
his own vessel the Captain was aston
ished to see the familiar head of Jack
watching his approach with evident
interest, and probably with varied
emotions.
The dog's appearance had been as
great a mystery to the sailors daring
the night as it was now to the Captain.
Shortly after midnight they had been
startled by a whining and scratching
at the vessel's side, and had been de
lighted to find their friend Jack beg
ging to be taken from the water to the
deck.
There is no reason to doabt that the
creature had fully understood his
master's parp?se, aad determined to
forestall it. How he accomplished his
long tramp to the port, swam across
the harbor, and, in the darkness,
selected his master's vessel from the
large fleet of similar craft, I leave it
to some master of canine psychology
to explain, I simply state the facts
as I know them to have occurred,
Youth's Companion,
Vagaries Among the Rose Bushes.
There are many carious and inter
esting features in all floral culturo, and
none more so than the complete
changes of both color and habit, by
planting in close contiguity, or in
changing from one soil and locality to
another-, were different conditions
prevail.
A lovely blush rose of most uncom
mon beauty and fullness of petals waa
emoved to a home not five miles din
ant, arid when it bloomed it waa |
only a half double and "just a com
mon red rose." Its owner was much
disappointed and most positive that
a blush rose had not been sent Not
daunted, she tried again, and this
timo she saw the rose taken from tho
parent clump, yet lo, when it bloomed
next summer it was still again almost
single, and only a common red rose.
The blush rose had grown in a. poor,
limerock soil, and was transplanted
into a rich black loamy soil. No other
reason was discovered.
White roses have become tinted
and colored ones havo paled by being
too closely set, one against the other.
Interlacing of the roots and mingling
of the polien was the apparent cause
of the changes.
The most curious accidental change
on recard is that of a row of half
double, old-fashioned red cluster
roses set alternately with half-douWo
common white cluster rosea After a
while there was a period of neither
doing well, and many absolutely died
out. Those loft were carefully nur
tured and responded to enriched soil
and good cultivation by sending forth
large, full very double roses, but
only one bud on each long stem and
of a very delicate shade of pink, and
j strangest of all, the wonder of won
ders, they were thornless. Where
had the thorns gone, and why? Here
was a change from half double tc
double ; from the habit of the old
fashioned cluster to the new style of
long single stems, and no thorns.
Surely nature is a skillful manipula
tor and full of unaccountable vagaries.
A Name to Conjare With.
They tell a good story in Dalton of
a recent revival meeting in ono of the
rural districts of Whitfield Couaty.
In the middle of the services the
preacher said :
"Will Brother Smith please lead in
prayer?"
Seven men arose and began praying
at once.
This embarrassed the preacher, and
he said, hurriedly:
.*I mean Brother John Smith."
At this announcement one sat down
and five more got up and began pray
ing^ The preacher saw his mistake,
said nothing and let the eleven pray it
out among themselves.-Atlanta Con
stitution.
Force of tho Human Jaw.
Dr. J. V. Black, a dentist of Jack
sonville, Fla., has made some experi
ments as to the foroe exerted by the
human jaw in chewing food. He says
that tho amount of pressure recorded
in a Bingle bite varies from 30 to 270
pounds. This maximum record, it is
interesting to note, was made by a
physician. Tho crushing force necea
Bary to masticate, ordinary beofstak,
Dr. Black says, is only 40 to 4)
pounds. He says that usually a good
deal more force is applied than is nec
esaury, v.z., fram sixty to 80 pounds,
aud he laments soma what this waste
o? energy.
QUAINT FETE.
The Lilies of Nola Built by Italian
Gilds.
Obelisks of Paper-Mache Nearly
a Hundred Peet High.
In the Century, Mary Scott-Udy
gives an account of a qnaint bit of
Italian merry-making, "The Lilies of
Nola." The writer says: The fifty
trains despatched by the narrow-gage,
railway on Juno 24 are insufficient to
contain the crowds that flock to Nola
to admire tho famous Gigli, or Lilies,
which are its pride. Pure tradition
(for I can find no treatise or historical
account of the custom) has handed
down from father to son the art of
making these largo structures, which
I should be afraid to describe did not
photography come to the aid of faith
and enable mo to lay before the in
credulous the proof that reality is
sometimes stranger than Action. The
"Liliee" of Nola, which in the begin
ning were probably pyramids of flow
ers carried in the procession in honor
of St Paulinus, are today towering
obelisks or turrets eighty or ninety <
feet high, artistically constructed in
Gothic, Corinthian, and Doric stylos,
adorned with statues, ornamental
friezes, bas-reliefs, and emblems, and
built on movable platforms.
Undoubtedly the handsomest Lily
of the year I am describing, for puri
ty of design and elegance of finish,
was that built by the Butchers* Gild.
It was a turret in pointed Gothic
style, inclosed on all four sides, rep
resenting in pure whito and soft
chiaroscuro tints tho central minaret,
with its delicate and tracelike tracery,
of the famous cathedral of Milan. A
winged Viotory crowned tho summit,
and beautiful statues filled the orna
mental niches ; and, vanity ot van
ities !. a life-size portrait of the proud
architect decorated the plinth, to tho
edification of beholders. The Lily of
tho prodigal wine merchant I have
quoted was in delicious rococo style,
very tangle of brilliant coloring and
elaborate detail as fantastic as a vase
of vieux Saxe. The grocers' Lily was
in Gothio and tho shoemakers' in
baraco style. The Lilies of the smiths
and the tailors rose like colossal tow
ers of glittering majolica, while the
bakers' Lily, built in pure Corinthian
style, was admirably adorned with re
clining angels, trumpet in hand, that
recalled the exquisite seraphs of Fra
Angelico. Thus the old artistic fire
lingers iu the veins of an uncultivated
people, who rudely bu~. vividly ex
press what they vaguely fool.
Tho choosing of designs and the
work of preparation occupy consider
able timo; but tho ereoting.or "dress
ing" of the Lily, as it is called, is
like the building of Aladdin's palace,
done in a single night, a haste ren
dered necessary by tho fj.ot th it an ao
cidental ehowcr would speedily melt
the.gay structure to pasto. However
in this brilliant climate, in the month
of June, unless Vesuvius hop a very
threatening cloud-cap on, fair weather
may be counted ou.
As soon as the lily is dressed and
fully adorned (I counted upon one no
fewer than fifty statues of papier
michel) it is firmly anchored with
ropes to the trees and balconies about
the home of the gigliante, which be?
comes the Mecca of the fa ithful, until
it is called to join the procession at
the public square. Then the rigging
which is mai ked with thick bunches of
green box and is gaily decorated with
fluttering bannerets, is mounted by
daring urchins, who, poised hero and
there like squirrels fifty feot in air,
steady the lofty pinnacle with invis
ible ropes. The platform is occupied
by the band, without which it would
be impossible to keep step, and the
underpinning is manned by the robust
porters, whose shoulders before the j
day is over are always bruised and
often cut and bleeding. The gigliante
like a band-master, goes ahead and
gives tho signal of march, crowds of
small boys dance and cut fantastic
trioks before it, the people applaud to
the echo, and the majestic pile moves
swiftly and smoothly through the
crowd seeming to be propelled by its
own impulse rather than by the will
of forty men.
Que?r Advertising Scheme..
One of the most clever schemes in
advertising ever perpetrated was one
which a Chicago theatrical house
worked. Tho management announoed
through the papers that it would give
a free ad mission and seat to every boy
who would bring an empty barrel to
tho rear entrance of the theatre. The
next morning the street was paoked
with boys carrying barrels, which in
itself would have beeu a good adver
tisement, but the clever management
had something behind all thia . A bill
poster was on hand and as each boy
presented his barrell a shew bill was
pasted upon it and it was returned to
the boy with a theatre ticket and in
structions to take the barrel baok to
the place where he found it. In this
way advertisiug matter was distributed
all over the city, and it made a great
hit.-New York Sun.
A first cousin of Mr. Gladstone died
near Jefferson City, Mo., the other
day, in 1 he persou of David G. Steel,
u Cole County farmer?
REGULATOR
'Are yon taking SIMMONS LIVER REG
ULATOR, the "KINO OF LIVER MEDI
CINES?" That is what oar -readers
want, and nothing but that. It is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recom
mendation for it is, that it is BETTEB
THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak
ens, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. It never Adis.
Everybody needs take a liver remedy,
and everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
Be sure you get it. The Bed Z
is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin &
Co., Philadelphia.
Origin of Street Lighting.
The custom of lighting the streets
dates back to remote antiquity. Ia
the cities of Greece the streets were
lighted after a fashion by means of
very old fashioned lamps suspended
or set in sockets in prominent posi
tions. Similar plans were followed
in Rome and in the Egyptian cities,
and relics of these have been found
which date back to the fourth cen
tury before Christ. The lamps used
were for the most part prim-tive in
form. Many of them were made of
skulls of animals or of sea shells of a
convenient size and shape.
The general principal of these
lamps was copied in the stone cups
and boxes used in later years. The
lights at best were very inadequate,
and it was customary for those who
ventured on the streets at night to
carry blazing torches. Crime of all
sorts flourished under such a system.
It was not uncommon in ancient
Rome to find a number of dead and
mangled bodies lying about the
streets every morning.
The lamps used in this period were
exquisitely decorated, but for several
centuries not a single improvement
was made to increase the light. The
lamps were made usually of bronze
and covered with figures in bas relief
taken from mythology or from sub
jects of daily life.
Corns on Horses' Feet.
A common cause for lameness
among horses is corns, and they may
be growing for several months before
they give evidences of th sir existence.
Horseshoers closely wa'ich the feet
of the horses they shoe for evidences
of these disturbers, and are often
able to get rid of them before they
have done much injury. Corns on a
horse's hoofs usually form just above
the heel and where the hair joins the
hoof. They then grow down into the
hoof as the hoof itself grows, and
about the first knowledge the horse
shoer has of their existence is when
he pares the hoof and uncovers the
corn.
It is often the case that they have
festered while in the hoof, and when
an incision is made a large sized hole
is lound. In some establishments
ointment is used for the cure of
corns, but in others it is considered
best to protect them from gravel and
s:ones, and permit them to grow out
with the hoof and be cut off with it.
The shoes on Arabian horses, which
are required to go long distances in
the hot sand, are solid pieces of iron,
an opening being left only for the
frog. They are fastened to the hoof
with unsightly looking nails, and
altogether are cumbersome affairs,
yet they serve the purpose of protec
tion to the hoof.
Russian TMstle ?Hoeing Bees."
Western farmers lind that individual at
tempts at fighting the Russian thistle avail
nothing because the plague grows again
faster than the individual farmer can find
time to hoe it down; so they ill unite as
often as convenient to have " boeing bees"
in designated localities. The details of
operations are settled by the town councils,
every one in the neighborhood takes a day
oil to fight thistles, and in this way it is
possible to make at least some starirl against
the persevering plague, and to keep some
sections fairiy free for other than thistle
crops.-Chicago Inter-Ocean.
The Eiffel Tower's Sucosssor.
It has now been practically settled
that the chief sensation of the Paris
exhibition of 1900 will consist of a
now bridge over the Seine 100 meters
broad, and with houses, theaters and
monuments on either side of it, like
the Pont Neuf in olden days, not to
mention old London bridge. It will
span the Seine from th? Champa
Elysees to the Invalides.
Where Shaving ls Cheap.
Two barbers are fighting for supremacy
on Fort street, in Springwells, Mich. The
contest has reached the point where one
offers to shave customers free, while the
other not only shaves them tiree but gives
them a cigar.
THE RULING PAESION,
"What this town needs," said the
public spirited citizen, "is exten
sion-"
"That's it," replied the street rail
way magnate.
, "Of the streets."
"No. Of time." - Washington
Star.
AT A DISADVANTAGE.
"Willie," said the teacher to the
new woman's son, "you are a nice
little boy; but you shouldn't give up
so easily. You should be more
manly."
"I can't," replied Willie, in dis
consolation. "Everybody says I
t don t take after mother."-Wish?
' ina tea Star.