THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR.? EDGEFIELD, S. C., W?D^ESDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1896. _ VOL. LXL NO. 47
SOTES AA'D COMMENT,
j Many paupers have lived to bo i
hundred years old, but there is n<
record of a millionaire having attained
thai age.
j Those who believe that the oecwks
always produces the man must bc
looking now for tho early coming ol
a really great statesman on the scene
of European politics. There is surely
need for one.
: The Frazilian Legislature has voted
to the members of the next Congress
free passes on all Government railways,
in addition to pay and mileage. It is
somewhat hard to reconcile- the free
pass and mileage.
i "Within thc last twenty-five years it
has become evident, observes the New
York Advertiser, that hypnotio force,
if dimly understood, is yet as real a
force aa electricity ; that only length
of time and persistence in experiment
are necessary to unfold tho laws which
?govern its workings. Even in this day
it is not entirely severed in tho minds
?of many persons from charlatanism.
^Because, it has been associ?t ad with
numerous frauds they reject it as
spurious. There is excuse for this
prejudice. Tho best attested phenom
enon of hypnotism wears an air of im
probability.
i It is bad policy to rent land where
it can by any possibility be bought. A
really good farmer is sure to leave the
farm he occupies in better condition
than ha found it, and in this country,
unless a special bargain is made, the
mun who las made tho improvements
gets no benefit thereby, except as he
has made it while occupying the farm.
Ibis matter is managed muon better in
Ireland, declare? tho Boston Culti
vator, where for a number of years the
law requires that tho landlord shall
pay to the tenant thc value of the im
provements made. Deuting land is
mtich moro common in Ireland and
England than it * is in the United
States, lt is also true that in Eu
ropean countries land under cultiva
tion is moro apt to improvo than it is
in tho United States. Heretofore in
deed there has l>een little oooasion for
lavs to reimburse the renter for in
ore ?iso of value in the farm from whioh
he had been for several years taking
off the cream of fertility. Probably
ather
A new plan is being tried in Ohio
which threatens the extinction of thc
old fashioned "deestrict school." In
Kingsville, Aahtabula County, there
were a number of small schools requir
ing many teachers, entailing much ex
pense., and whioh could not be prop
erly graded. The farmers of that sec- j
tion studied the question, and then
applied to the legislate re for relief.
Five outlying school districts were
abandoned, with the agreement to
bring the pupils to the schools at the
oentre of the town. Covered wagons,
completely inclosed on stormy days,
were provided, and arrangements made
with certain farmers to bring the chil
dren each morning. The wagon held
from eighteen to twenty-two persons.
In two districts pupih were brought
four and a half miles. In the other
thrco the longest trip was three and a
half miles. The conveyance both ways
cost from niucty-five cents to ?1.05 a
day for eaoh vagon. As a result the
expense of education in that district
has been reduced from an average of
?22.75 per cot i ta to ?12.25. T?e at
tendance has been much better than
under the old plan ; there has been
less sickness among the children, their
feet and clothing being kept dry in
stormy weather ; teachers are better
paid and of ti higher grade ; and the
improved teaching would be main
tained even il it cost as mach as the
old plan. Tho scholars reach the
schoolhouse at nine o'clock and leave
at four, with the usual noon recess.
Ihe plan is being tried in other parts
of Ohio, and one by one the "little
red sohool houses" are being deserted
for more commodious buildings farther
apart, a loss to pleasant memories of
the old, but a great gain to the rising
generation.
An Iilca in Parachutes.
An Italian aeronaut namod Copazza
has invented two balloon attachment,
which are said to have fu-ly realized
the expectations formed of them. The
oneis an enormousparaohute stretched
over a balloon, and the other a folded
parachuto hinging under tho basket.
If the'aeronaut finds that his balloon
is rising" too fast he opens the folded
parachute, which immediately acts as
a huge air brake and ofleetually re
tards progress.
On the other hand, should the air
vessel explode through expansion.fire,
or any other oause, the top parachute
some into action and a descent may be
made without the slightest inconveni
ence. _ _
Dredging lor Pearls.
A look at the map of the Bay ol
Panama will show, some forty milei
from Colombia, the Pearl Islands, or
the ea3t side of the bay. On the weal
side of the bay pearls are found al
the way to Ohiriqai and Veragun. Th(
latter beds may be dredged, and the:
are poorly dredged ; but no drodginf
is allowed at the Pearl Islands, wher<
.pearls now are only secured by divers
-Philadelphia Ledger.
DOCTOES of divinity very often nee<
divine dcotriue themselves.
???E YELLOW METAL
, n?W AND WHERE GOLD IS D1S
I COVERED.
Curious Forms in Which It I? Found
Jtich Deposits Scattered Every?
where-Great Hoards in In*
dla-Bia _ Nuggets*
?AM surprised at tho stories 1
daily hear as to tho now develop
ments of our gold territory,
?writes Prank G. Carpenter in the
Chicago Times-Herald. Old districts
are being reproBpected, and judging
from the results it is ?tafe to say that
the brst of our mining regions have
not as yet been touched. The great
mountain chain running from Alaska
to Nicaragua ?eems to bo an almo?t
unbroken mineral bed. Gold and sib
ver are found in the continuation of
thc ohain in South America, and min
ers are working to-day at intervals all
along tho western part of oar hemi
sphere from the Yukon Kiver even to
Patagonia.
Most of the gold which has made the
world rich in the past has come from
nuggets ?ind from veins so large that
^ou con! 3 see thom. The flood of the
preoious metals whioh is now begin
ning to deluge the tarth comes from
infinitesimal particles, BO ecattered
through the rock that not a gleam nor
a glint of them can be detected Ly the
naked eye. According to some scien
tists this gold has been deposited in
CALTFOBNIA'S BIG NDGGBT.
(Weight 193 pounds. Worth|48.0^.)'
the rook in Ihe form of gas. Ages
ago, say they, there was nu eruption
in the bowels ol tho earth, at whioh
time this gas, mirad with gold, rushed
up through the vertical
great force and soaked
the porous rook in whi<
now being found. It
means that the little bits,
dropped throughout tl
I "
~ld miners h^T-ao
' existence, and their ex ti
only posfiible by means ti!
process. Thero ?B plent;
salt water. Scientists say that gol?
is generally diffused in th9 waters of
the ocean, and one eminent ihsmist
statea that the sea water of the British
coast contains one grain of gold to
every ton of water. The proportion
is much larger in the Great Salt Lake,
and the man who can invent a cheap
process of getting out such gold will
have a fortune.
Few people have any idea of the
queer forms in which gold is foumu
Dame Nature is the most wonderful of
jewelers, and she has decorated the
bosom of old Mother Earth with gold
in a thousand different shapes. 1 saw
a box of gold nuggets and crystals
taken from the Little Johnnie mine
near Leadville. Many of them would
have made beautiful brooches without
redecoration. Some appeared frosted,
and others had been torn from the
rock in the form of sheets and plates.
A great deal of gold is found in crys
tals. Not long ago there was brought
to tae Philadelphia Mint $4000 worth
of Australian gold. It was made up
of little gold cryfctalp, ranging in size
from that of a marrowfat pea to that
of tho head of a pin. Gold is also
found in cubes and eight-sided crys
tals aro common. Some ol the gold
nuggets from the California mines are
shaped like moss. Tho Little Johnnie
has produced a great deal of wire gold.
I have seen bits of rock from Cripple
Creek upon which, when subjected to
GOLD CRYSTALS (ACTUAL SIZE) AND
POUND IN I
an intense heat, the gold would bub
ble ont and stand up like little gold
pin heads npon the dark stone. Gold
in its natural state is usually mixed
with silver. The new Utah gold de
posits are associated with arsenic, lc
the Mercur mine you find the yellow
ore in connection with quicksilver,
and in South America it is sometimes
mixed with bismuth.
I have spent some time watching thc
placer miners in different parts of the
Wefct Jflftcer raining was the chief
fource of gold production in the day*
of 18J?). Jt isfctill curried on, but the
oatput is much Jess than in the past.
The chief plucer mmes of to day arc in
Siberia, where tho enrth has teme
times to be dug up in a frozen statt
and melted before the gold mu be ex
tracted. This is the case in some ol
the Yukon Pi ver minep. Ihe fact 1 bal
there is a gold placer is evidence thal
there is gold-bearing rock near by,
and miners pretend to tell from the
character of the gold of the placer as
to the nearness ot the gold-bearing
rock from which it comes. If the gold
dust is very fine it is supposed to have
come a long distance. If coarse it ie
thought the lead is not far off. Some
of the first mining bf California was o?
gold scales which measured less than
l-16th of an inch in length and one
millimeter ?n diameter.
Placer miners usually find their
biggest nuggets in streams -where the
bowlders are large. Where the
streams are fine gravel the gold is
generally fine and scaly. The biggest
nugget ever discovered in this coun
try was taken out of a mino at Carson
Bill, in Calaveras County; California.
It weighed 195 pounds and was worth
more than 8*3,000. A number of
other large nuggets were found in this
same region, ranging in value from
$1000 upward, in 1855 a nugget of
gold was discovered in Sierra County,
Cal., worth S10,000,and inlS?Oamass
of quartz and gold was picked up in
Tuolumne County which waa Urorth
$30,000* Outside of California some
of the largest lumps of gold in the
United States have come from the
South. North Carolina has produced
three nuggets ranging in size from
thirteen and a half pounds to thirty
seven pounds, and in Georgia a num
ber of big nuggets have been disoov
er?d, the largest of which weighed
737 pennyweights.
Through the mining engineers
whom I have met here in the West and
information which has recently come
to the director of the mint at" Wash
ington, I am able to give some facts
as to the mines of Africa, which are
making such a change in the gold
product of the world. These gold
mines are a surprise to ^geologists.
One famous man said he would have
rather expected to find gold in the fens
of Scotland than in the Band District
of South Africa. William Weston, a
leading mining engineer of Cripple
Creek and a graduate of the Boyal
School of Mines of London, tells me
that he believes that the South Afri
can gold deposits originally consisted
of the bed of a great lake, which,
having been dried np and nolidified,
was by the action of the elements so
heaved up that it stood half on end.
The upper half of this great gold de
posit is now being mined, but as the
region is further developed tho miners
will have to go deeper and deeper into
thc earth and tho cost will be much
greater. As it is the prospeots of an
enormous quantity of gold from South
Africa are excellent.
. Hamilton Smith, W'JO is perhaps
one of the best mining engineers of
the wcrld, and who was here not long
ago as tho agent for the BotlKchilds
J^T-'"!,, Oo.?rc">tc? that the . '?..d svildi
?ia??ict o? Africa wil?-pro?mo??
io C?jR3p a miin ~.
.Vf!? ". >? . oxpoi ts tho p
tho African mine? ._.
000 a year by the close ot tne centnry,
and ho believes that they will bo
profitable for years to come.
To-day all of the Africau mines must
bc economically managed in order for
them to pay dividends. A great part
of the gold bas to go back into tho
mine in the shape of machinery and
labor, and up to the present only
about one-fifth of the gold gotten out
has been clear profit. There are now
emploved in this African gold district
5000 white men and 30,000 black?.
Wages are low, and everything is done
on tho largest and most economical
scale.
New mines are being discovered in
different parts of Australia, and a re
cent report to our director of the mint
states that the gold fields there have
hardly been scratched. Some of the
best mines of to-day aro in West Aus
tralia, in a district whero there is lit
tle water. In the Coolgardie go!'1, re
gion, for instance, water sometimes
brings as much as twenty-fivo cents a
gallon, as there are no great quanti
ties of water within 300 miles of the
gold fields. There is a great gold reef
in this district. It was discovered by
two young men, who found a forty-five
ounce nugget sticking out of a moun
tain of quartz. They took a bag of
nuggets off a single claim and came
back to their camp loaded with gold.
The Mercur mining district, south of
-1
NUGGET OF SHEET GOLD (FULL SIZE
CALIFORNIA.
Suit Lake, is also affected by tho lac ]
of water, but this bri? been rem?di?e
by forcing water ever the mountain!
from a stream on Ibo other pide. Th(
parties who own thu waterworks hav<
a fortune, in them. Water, in fact
costs so much iu Mercur that the milli
using it do not allow thc steam tc
escape, but run it o.i into pipes np th(
mountain. As the steam strikes tin
cold pipe it oijudenses and Hows bael
so that it can bo used again.
An f-nermoiiH amount of gold of th<
world is locked up iu India. Dunn;
a visit to that country a few years ag<
I found 1 Lint ?old had gone out of cir
enlatio?. TbV people seemed misera
bly poor, but they bad quantities o
jewelry. Girls dressed in cotton oftei
wure ?old and Hiker bracelets au<
anklets, and many M bure ooled gir
bad gold rings and go'd bells on he
toes. For ages the East Indians havi
been oppressed. They have not dare
to Joan their money for fear the;
i would lose it, and they have preferred
to pat it into ornaments. This oas
tom prevails to-day, even thougl
there is now ander the English secar
i ity of property. Among the chie
hoarders are the Indian rajahs, wh<
wear the most expensive of jewelry? j
MOSS GOLD FROM OltEGON.
(Actual size),
saw many gold rings set with precious
stones worth 8l000 and upward, and I
lound gold chains for sale everywhere.
Sir David Barbour estimated the
amount of the gold hoarded in India
during the half century previous to
1885 at 8650,000,000. This was the
accumulation of only fifty years; He
estimated that $800,000,000 woarth of
silver waa hoarded in thia time, add
states th/it nearly all of the gold and
6ilver which came into India in return
for its exports was thus kept. The
Hindoo bays little from other
countries. He lives on rice or coarse
grains. A cotton rag in most coses
forms his clothing. All the money he
gets he keeps, and if this hoarding is
tt> continue it is certain that a great
part of the gold viii eventually be
absorbed by the East Indians. Tho
English have realized this for a long
' time. They have attempted to remedy
it, but in vain. About ten years ago
they tried to get tho hoarded gold and
silver into circulation by offering high
rates o' interest for money, but the
natives would not respond. There are
ubout oOO,000.native bankers in India,
who lend to tho peasant, but the most
of their business is done in kind, the
money lender advancing so much
grain with the understanding that he
shall receive so much back when the
crop is harvested.
Another gold hoard was discovered
not long ago upon the death of the
maharajah of Bnrdwan. This was
opened up on the death of tlje mahara
7~fv constate^ of ?wn roor"? filled
wno. gold ?nd silver and precious j
Threo o/iii-"1 .-oona? -....TC loci?.....
dicked npi <7:.:<- raona^ |
neiu, uuu even the exact numuer y?
the vaults is not known. This treasure
is now in the hands of the maharajah's
descendants.
There is undoubtedly a vast amount
of gold in China. There are mines in
different part9 of tho empire, and a
great deal of gold is brought down
every year from Siberia, lt jomes to
PLACER COLD FROM THE BLACK HILLS.
Pekin nnd, and is there melted down
into email bars of about the size of the
little cakes kuown aa lady fingers. It
is almost puro, often running over
twenty karata in fineness. It is caat
in this small shape in ordei that it
may be hoarded and easily passed
from hand to hand. The offi
cials, who in many cases make for
tunes out of their offices, buy these
gold bars and secrete them. They do
not dare to put their money into the
banks, for fear that their brother offi
cials may discover their wealth and
confiscate it. Tho result is that such
gold bars will bring two per cent,
moro in Pekin than they will ir
Shanghai. There aro said to bo more
than 100 places in China where gold
is found. In Mongolia there aro i
number ol mines, and in the south
western part of the empire ther<
aro gold workings which aro 100 fee
deep.
A great part of the gold of botl
Japan and China comes from Korea
The Korean mines nre said to be ver;
.rich. Korea is mountainous, an*
nearly all of its mountains contaii
minerals. During my visit to th
country eight yeard ago our Americai
minister told me that ho believed th
gold product amouuted to $3,000,00
a year. General Clarence Greathousc
the American foreign adviser to th
king, described the mines as ver
valuable, and foreign merchant
showed me quills of gold dust and lil
tie nuggets"which had been brougt
to them by tho people. So lar nearl
all o: the gold gotten out of Kore
hat come from placer washing*. Thei
are few quartz mines, but. these ai
worked in tho crudest of ways. Tl
loose rock ?H pried out with picks t
crow barf. When such means fail
fire is built upon the rock, and whe
it is bot water is thrown upon it I
crace it. Alter the ore is gotten on
it is ornsheil between two stones, th
under stone being Hat and the uppc
one somewhat round, so that it can h
rolled backward aud forward over th
ore, crnshing.it. After it is cruahe
the metal is saved by hand panninj
No pumps ure. lived, and blasting poi
der and dynamite are practically n;
known. Lhere is no quicksilver 1
{jalLer the gold, and in ?ll probabilit
the most of it ?ota to waite. Tl
minwore the property of tho king,
butiftose who work them undoubted];
greater part of the product. A
?fer of foreigners are now trying
' possession of the mines, anc
_ a few years they will probably
by cfjyned by English, Americans ant)
R?ssens.
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A CALIFORNIA. NUGGET.
(Actual size).
JHAMPION WOOLMAKEK.
Det
ist, Bluest and Woollcst Ram
Earth Just Sold for $8400.
ipld a fine likeness of the most
distinguished member of one of tho
mofl^useful families in the world.
H<j is the champion Merino ram
President, and waa recently bought in
Sydney, New South Wales, for the
enoitnous price of $8100. This is be
lieved to be tho largest price ever paid
for i| ram. His championship is there
foreman honorj which he claims from
tho whole world. If any American
ramvhas any claims to make let him
step forward and state them.
Injsizo aud in quantity and quality
of wBol ho surpasses any ram now be- ?
fore^the public His horns are also
remarkable for size and symmetry,
and would make a fine household
ornament, but his owner hopes that
it will be long before they suffer that
fate, for tho ram should have many
yea? of aotivity before him.
s not easy to decide which of tho
man^r species of domestic animals is
theiaost valuable to man, but it is not
rssoect upon this magnificent ram and
the abundant coat which envelopes
him. Shorn of this onco a year he
will supply hundreds ot human beings
with warm and comfortable clothing
From his wool will be woven thc coats
which cover the backs of statesmen,
of dandies a ad horny-handed sons of
toil, and also the moro intimate gar
ments which lie next to the skin and
preserve them from the deadly cold.
He will also have a part in furnishing
bloomers to tho now woman.
Not only will bc personally yield all
this wool, but he has already founded
a large family of sheep who \*ill com
pete with him in usefulness. Karns
never fail to do their duty in this re
spect. _ _
Biggest Medical Fee on Record.
One of thc greatest prizes that ever
foll to the lot of a medical man was
that awarded to Dr. Dimsdale, for
many years a Hertford (England)
phyeioian. T?at gentleman went to
Russia in tno year of 1708, and inowi
lated tho Empress Catherino and ber
son. For this servico ho received ri
feo of $60,000, and was also awarded
a pension for life of $2500 per anunm
and the rank of Coron of the Empire.
A Famous Madstone.
W. T. Treadwell, of Tilton. Ga., pos
sesses a curiosity in tho shape of a
mndstone, given him by au old sea
captain ten years ago. lt bas been
tried in numbers cf coses on snake
and mad dog bites, and in no iustanco
failed to draw tho virus.
T?ic Improvised RoVi'.
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FANCIES ON THE WHEEL.
Tbc principles of stern severity whicl
have heretofore distinguished the cor
rect wheeling attire seem to be givin
way to the growing tendency to aprlj
trimming to everything. The jacket*
-and even skirts-of the newest
cycling suits are garnitured with VDI
vet, braid, corduroy, etc*.
ONLY FEW WOMEN VOTED.
Miss Mary E. Ives was defeated al
the October election in New Haven,
Conn., as a candidate for member ol
the Board of Education. Her vot(
was 2387, and that of the lowest sue
cessful male candidate was 3718. The
women were victorious in six wards,
but only 663 of Miss Ives's votes were
3ast by women. Some wemen voted
against ber.
A LIKING THAT LED TO GOOD.
An American woman who had an ab
sorbing liking for trees began to study
forestry. As knowledge increased
practical landscape gardening appealed
to her, and that too, was studied, as
well as tho draining fand clearing of
land. At present this woman has two
large estates under her direction,
where .large forces of men are engaged
in carrying out her plans for beauti
fying and improving.-New Orleans
Picayune,
NEW SILK GOWNS.
.The new taffetas show richer and
deeper coloring than those worn dur
ing the summer, and useful autumn
gowns are made of these which can be
worn all winter for house and recep
tion gowns. Variety in making these
is almost exclusively confined to the
j corsage, which takes every form that
the taste of the wearer or ingenuity of
tho dressmaker can devise. Skirts of
silk gowns can, with comfort, bo wider
than those of heavy wool, and a quaintly
novel gown of brown and prune
Ohangeable silk has a skirt in which
the back breadths are ungored and
aro gauged to the belt quite across the
baok ; the side breadths also are wider
at the top and have little bunches of
gauging at the scams with- plain,
smoothly fitted spaces between. . -Dem
orest's Magazine.
SHJ iC 1ETOSO ma NOMTNATION.
. ?. i roc! atty ask) d a j
. . uughthe bed !
feeling of deep gratincaiiou mau oUW
accepted the henor he had done her,
and hoped that she would always faith
fully preserve the traditions of good
housekeeping, etc. He was nearly
dead with exhaustion when he reached
the postscript, which read: "You are
so full of politics, I thought '.it might
please you to be accepted like the can
didates accept their Presidential nom
inations."-Atchison Globe.
CARELESS BACKS.
It is curious how many paople dress
themselves as if they were paper dolls.
They have everything well aTranged
and becomingly put on in front, while
the back seems quite a secondary con
sideration. Yet a neat-looking back,
with hnir, neck ribbon, waistband,
bows, etc., all accurately and method
ically placeo, is most attractive. It
seems hard to realize, in looking at
ono's reflection in a mirror, that the
reverse of the picture is quite as muoh,
if not more, seen by the people in
general, and that a well dressed woman
should scan her back carefully by'the
aid of a handglass before leaving her
room. Hair particularly should be
especially studied at the back as at the
front, with the additional reason lor
caro in that to very few women is it
given to possess a pretty nape of the
neck, with the hair growing tidily
aboutit. "It is tho only place where
Nature shows herself a bit of a sloven
-she's apt to leave it unfinished,"
said an artist critic, speaking of this
particular spot. So it is well to let
judicious art supplement Nature at
this point, and to endeavor to make it
attractive.
NEW WIDE BELTS,
Stifi belts are out of fashion. Sc
are the narrow ones. It is the girdle
of velvet or ribbon that reigns. More
than half the new gowns this fall ar?
made with a girdle. Tho girdles an
wide and soft, and cling e?eotively tc
the figure. Some of them aro finished
at the back in a bow, with long sast
ends. Others are shaped exaotly lik<
a butterfly.
Buttons are much used to trim thi
firdlee, but they must never be alike
novel idea is the girdle of tbre<
folds of velvet, each fold being finishet
at the left bide with a different button
Of course, tho buttons must be some
thing out of the ordinary, or the;
cannot be used. There aro other gil
dies which are finished nt the sid
with three or four bows, one above th
other.
Then there is the girdle shaped lik
a corselet and fastened np tho fron
with tiny, jeweled buttons. A stylisl
girdle is made of straps of double
faced satin ribbon, alternating wit
bands of laco inscrtiou over black rib
bon. Both lace and jot butterflies ar
used to ornament many of the ne'
girdles. When a butterfly adorns tb
front of a girdle, theu the ribbon ;
tied at the back in a butterfly bow.
HOW TO BE A BEAUTY AFTER FIFTT.
A bright womin, when anplaude
recently for her goodness begg?d he
friend to let tho matter drop. "For,
sho said, whimsically, "though I d
try to bo good from some reall
high motives, yet I have one reaso
for trying which I am afraid is a lo
one." "What do you mean?" iuqnirti
ber laughing friend. "1 mean that
once heard many years ago that beauty
l after fifty depended not on features',
. but on character. Like all women, I
r desired to bo beautiful, and, as Provi
T dence had denied me tho 'features'
, necessary to secure that result in carly
t 1 determined to make the attempt
. to be beautiful at fifty. I am now
thirty-five," she concluded, merrily,
"and I must confess that I see no signs
of this Indian summer loveliness, bat
I still try to bo good." These friends
treated the matter as a jest, but there
; is really senso and truth in the saying
? that beauty in later life, in either man
or woman, is dependent upon charac
ter far more than upon form or color.
1 It is a common experience for a young
( woman to say: "How fino.looking
Mrs. - is. Sho must havo been a
beautiful girl." And to hear the re
ply : "No : she was not nearly so good
looking in her youth as she is now.
Her beauty has developed with her
years." And it may have been ob
served that this is oftenest true of wo
men of high character. Nobility will
tell upon tho outward aspect. -'. Tfie
carriage of the figure, the pose of the
head, the expression of the fane-these
come to reveal more and moro with
the lapse of time the inner life. Thero
is something more than u mere pretty
sentiment intended in that part of
"The Little Minister" where we read
of the beautiful face that God gives to
all who love Him and follow His com
mandments. Unselfishness, sincerity,
thoughtfulness, refinement-all of
these graces of character, which aro
worth so much more than mere out
ward shape and color, load their
charm to those who havo consistently
cherished them, until nt fifty they may
really become beautiful.-Tho Church?
man.
noss rp.
Major McKinley's wifo is very much
an invalid.
In Denmark an "old maid'b" insur
ance company pays regular weekly
benefits.
A woman mail-carrier makes daily
trips between CostlelowandAnderson
ville, Ky.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Bnrnett
makes a larger income th'?u any other
woman writer in the worlo'.
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g ve .ir: "v '. - ajta a;?o acd
have shown great skill.
Queen Victoria purchases almost
every new book of note published, and
her expenditure on literature of all
sorts ia over $0000 per aunum.
A ?neater bonnet law has recently
gone into effect in New Orleans, which
allows the wearing of "opera hats"
but forbids the wearing of tigh hat?.
Empress Eugenie is said to have
made her will, leaving the bulk of her
fortune to her goddaughter. Princess
Beatrice of Battonborg's little daugh
ter Eugenie.
Mrs. Buckner, tho wife of tho 3an
didate of the National Democracy for
Vice-President, was ono of tho most
famous belles of Virginia beforo her
marriage, twelve years ago.
Miss Eliza Talcott, who has been a
missionary ia Japan for twonty-five
years and acted as a nurse in the Jap
anese army during tho war with China,
is visiting'her old home in Fiskville,
Conn.
Princess Helene, of Montenegro,
who is to marry the Crown Prince of
Italy, is a poet, and many of her verses
have been set to mueic and are ?ung
by the peasants in all parts of tho
principality.
Many girls at present arc having
freokles removed from their arms by
means of electricity. They didn't
mind the freckles in tho bathing sea
son, but for parties and dinners tkt
little brown spots are not desirable.
The Queen of Italy when stopping
in the little Alpino village of Gras
soney, dresses in the pretty scarlet
costume of tho peasant v. omen. She
delights in the innumerable Alpine
walks and scrambles that abound on
every hillside.
Mme. Nilsson has had worked ont
an ingenious idea in her Madrid home.
The walls of her bedroom are papered
with leaves of music from tho operas
in which she has sung and the dining
roora is papered with the hotel bills
she has collected during her journeys
around tho world.
FASHION' NOTES.
Tho very pointed bodice is a revival
of an old time fashion.
Asparagus fern is a particularly
decorativo house plant.
Many hats aro trininioel solely wita
ribbon, not a quill nor a plumo being
used.
A gold golf stick with a perfect
pearl ball is the latest fashionable
scarfpin.
The really modish girl adopts one
flower as her own, and never wears
any other.
Corduroy and many ether ribbc?3
materials aro being used a great deal
in making up nobby fall miits.
Some of the prettiest autumn oap?M
are of dark brown broadcloth, edge*
with sable and trimmed with browt
cord.
lt is the fashion to wear the mos
unnatural-looking birds on hats. Som<
of them aro a combiuaticg* of four oi
five different species. The tails o
two kinds are combined with the wing
of a third and tho head and breast o
a fourth. Mixtures of feathers an
also used, such as the plumage o
birds of paradise and ospreys, am
owls' heads with jeweled eyes an<
1 black and white quills.
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MOTHERS READ THIS.
The Best
Remedy.
For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dyson
tony, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In
fantum, Teething Children, Cholera
Morbus, Unnatural Drains from
tao Bowels, Pains, Griping, Loss of
Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis
eases of the Stomach and Bowels.
PITT'S CARMINATIVE .
Is tho standard. It carries children over
the critical period of teething, and
is recommended by physicians as
the friend of Mothers, Adults and
Children. Jt is pleasant to the taste,
and never falls to give satisfaction.
A few doses will demonstrate its su
perlative virtues. Price, 25 crts, per
Dottie. For sale by druggists.
HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS.
KEW UTENSILS'.
Bread roasters and broilers mado of
fine wiro and steel rods have nettings
whioh prevent tho blaze from reaohing
and charring the goods. Strong glass
has superseded tin for measuring and
mixing utensils, and they are, of
course, much easier to wash than the
old fashioned ones, besidet being less
likely to impart a metallic flavor to
the goods. Flat irons have nickel
plated surfaces, which will not rust
Asbestos handles are part of all up-to
date oooking utensils and keep the
hands from being scorched. Pails and
even dishpans aro made of heavy
papier mache.
HEATING PLANT WIND?W3.
On cold nights people having win
down fall of plants get apprehensive.
They get out an oil stove* and let it
burn all night in tho room where the
planes are kept. It gives no smoke or
smell and they fancy it does no harm. .
Flame, even if clear and without
smoke, must give out productions of
combustion, and these are fatal to .
plants. What then shall we do? Have
a tall chimnoy to your oil stove. Not
a litfile glass thing, but a sheet iron
chimney six feet high, or as high as
the lop of the room" and connect it
with the ohimney or lot it go throngh
tho roof of the bay window. Such a
sheet iron chimney will radiate a great
deal of heat so that the products of
combustion will escape almost cold.
This is the theory of all the oil heat
ing stoves-a large heating surface
above the flame. But the important
point is, that <uch stoves should have
a connection with the outer air, or
with tho house ohimney.-New Eng
land Homestead.
.?Vii virtue &? by the ?j iou rv
tongs ora wire spoon nna Jay tipo na
hot wire strainer on the stove, then
place it upon toast in the serving dish
with appropriate sauces ; appropriate,
for many sances are not at ail allied
bo the asparagus. Asparagus ?hould
have no dressing of a distinct flavor
except it be sauce Hollandaise or sauce
coquette ; because the result desired ia
to preserve the doliciou3 flavor of tho
vegetable over and above all, and tb*
3suco or dressing must bo **" '
ground to it, as w<
if any of the hig
one see quoted as
paragus were ser
arest's Magazine.
BUTCHEBrS'G
Many housewiv
heart, etc., as u
parts oan be mac
dishes, and in fa
more than the n:
Boast Tongue
two hours in si
.boil slowly for i
skin, roast in thi
ing often with bi
Stewed Liver
cut into two-incl
pieces in a gr
enough water to
burning; covert
an hour and a h
if necessary and
a tablespoonful
pepper to taste,
tie cold water
flour ; add this
liver, and wher
on a hot platte
Sweetbreads
Boil a pair of s
ters of an hour.
Bcmove all skit
sweetbreads int
Put them io a f
olive oil or butl
over them thre? ?gs. Mix the egg
well with the sweetbreads. Se voa
with salt and pepper. Pour tho mix
ture over a'few slices of toast arranged
on a hot platter.
Stewed Heart-Wash and cut the
heart into slices, cutting itero? the
grain of tho heart ; put thrco table
spoonfuls of butter iu a stewing kettle
and when hot add the meat, stir-con
stantly uotil the meat is well browned,
then add enough hot waior to nearly
cover tho meat, two alicea of lemon
and salt and pepper to taste. Cover
the kettle and cook gently for ono
Lour, stirring occasionally and adding
raore water if needed; thea reuiova
tho meat from tho gravy'to c. hot plat
ter and thicken the gravy with a table
spoonful of flour, pour over the meat
und serve.
Kidneys and Tomatoes-?lico three
or four nice tomatoes into a pan (or
I their equivalent cf canned tomatoes)
and let them cook ten minutes with a
slice of lat bacon. Soak a veal kidney
over night, iu salted water. In the
morning wash and clean it thoroughly,
cut it in slices, dip in bread an I egg
crumbs and fry a light brown in hot
lat. Arrange the slices in a hot dish
and pour the tomatoes in the center.
American Agriculturist.
BUBBKB bands on tho frames of bl?
cycle wheels make music and many
riders are BOW riding in the airs,