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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. UNDER E31DE a lovely lit? lake in SwitzerlaDi there is a small villag. of scattered vine-cla< chalets, and the grea mountains loom fm beyond. On a slri of ground, juttmgintt the lake, a woman is standing. Hei grsy hair is smoothly drawn in a knoi on the bark of her head. She is clad in peasant cost?me and there is a strange mingling of youth and agc about her. Her face is a strangely pathetic one, and there is a look ol terror in her eyes at times which comes and goes, awakened by the least emotion. The villagers call her Andre's mother. Above her two gentlemen are in tba terraced garden, and the elder cries to the peasant woman: "Good even ing. Mme. EngermanD. Are yon ex pecting Andre ? When he eames back with his cows and goats from the mountain he will be ttaying with you.'' "I wish it were so," said the wom an. "Eut he stays at home only a short time. He has to go back again. Then-then he will remain home until the springtime," and Andre's mother, bowing, went on her way. The gentleman's friend then asked his comrade: "Who ia that woman? She reust have been beautiful once. What wonderful, far-searching eyes ehe has ! They haunt me. Has she a a story? How account for that sem blance of terror in her face?" "Poor soul ! She was married four teen years ago, and had a good hus band, the handsomest man ip the canton. He was the most famous guide, with a passion for scaling mountains, and he was well-to-do, and once he went on his las was just before Andre was never came back. He w, the snow. " "And the shock his de?tv has left its trace on the no face?" "That is it. They e. fint, then more and more was awakened from her came to me-told me her had heard her husband ory for helu. Three days afterward came the sad news. Her husband had been covered by an avalanche- Then I heard that Elisa had gone to the mountain. I followed her. In a mountain chalet I found Elisa- aud by her side was her new-born son. Her hair had turned gray ina single night 'JLhen there was stamped on her eyes that look of horror. It is a sad ?tory. The telling of it is depressing. Come, let us finish our cigars by the lakeside." Andre had como home for a couple of days. He was so brown and healthy looking that his mother cried for joy. He would be gone soon, that was true, bnt would return in October for the whole winter, -and then he should read his father's book. Ho was not an idle lad, had no bad ways, if only she could get out of his head the idea of becom ing a guide like K ooor father, and when this thought came to her, her heart would stand ?til), and that strange look of horror filled her eyes. In tho little house everything was in abeolute order. On a wooden bench sat the mother and her tor, she busy with her knitting, and Elisa was silently worshipping her son. He was fifteen now, and so like his father. And now they talked, and th? boy said: "Mother, what with your knit ting and the chickens to care for, and housework, you never can be lonely." The mother started. "Lonely lonely 1" She would not tell him how she longed for him-her boy-and then at once that dread look started ic her eyes. The fear born with her ohild had never for a moment left her. Would her Andre, living on the moun tain tcp, get an idea that he could not pass hi; days in the lowlands? Would he become a guide, like his father? Il was in the blood. "I had better go to the mountains,' Andre said ; "the air down here feeh close and heavy. It is nice to be witl yon, mother, bnt I could not work s< well down here." The mother started in terror, rosi from her 6eat, and covered her fae with her bauds. How had it hap pened? These were almost the ver p jrds Andre's father had spoken whei bo started on his last trip-the jour ney from which he had never returned Was it so ords oed that Andre shouli share his father's fate? When the tw< days were up, Andre left for th mountain. There c??e a night never tobe foi gotten ?pibe villages beside the lake Old fceople shivered in their slee and drnamed they had ague. It wa later on that came a booming sonn across the lake. "What was it?" Elisa asked hersel as she looked ont. The atmosphere was clearer. TL lake looked peaceful an 1 gray, bnt tb mountains and even the lowest ridg of the hills were white with snow, i ?he watched, the huge pyramids oj posite, on which she knew Andre kej his sheep, began to gleam with silv< brightness as the sun sent up ligl from behind the cloud veil in whic he was rising. A heavy snowfall in Septem be; For a moment Elisa could not belie1 her eyes; but there was no use doubting them. Presently the heard voices in tho gu den above. M. Wissembourg was tal ing to Hans Christen, the village ca pewter. "I do not say it wag ar. ivalnnche betaid; "but it waa a fall ol SOI kimi above bohooegg," SHH HR THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. "Mother dear," he says softly, .? want to tell you something. " She smiles fondly at him. Eve since the day when she was allowed t bring Andre home exhausted, but alive it had seemed to Elisa as if life wer too full of blessing* He had been some weeks in re covering from his burial under th snow. "Mother," says Andre, "did yoi guess that I was keeping a secret fron yon?" Elisa's heart gave a big throb and the lad felt it as he leaned agains her. 'Ton will tell me your 6ecret now,' she says, timidly ; for as she looks ai him Ehe feels puzzled, there is such i gleam of mirth in his eyes. Andre put both arms around her. "Darling mother," he says, "yoe must not be hard on me, I was verj .childish then, I thought only of my self. I know it was not kind. I neel e to want to grow up fast so as to be a strong man like father, that I might f guide travelers across the glaciers." . He felt her tremble, but she kept 9 her face still. He clasped her still closer, and kissed her. 4 '?Mother, dear," he went on, "that is all over now. I told you that while j I was lying there under the snow it r seemed like years. 1 went on think b ing and thinking more than 1 ever , thought before. ?This grief will kill her,? I said. 'Preoious little mother ! , she has suffered so sadly ; sho cannot [ stand this.' And then presently I be gan to see how the mountain life I wanted would have been a sad trial to you. Mother," he roso up and took both her hands in his, "I knew then for a certainty I could not bo happy while you were sad, and I wondered how it was I had been to dull ; it all came so clear"-he paused an instant ; then he broke into a merry laugh. "You will have me to plague you always now. Imeantobe a carpen ter. " Andre's mother strained her boy to her heart as though she would make him grow there, and he fjlt her hot tears on his neck.-Macmillan's Maga zinc. Rights of Tree Owners. Tree owners have pome rights in tho trees, even against corporations which string wires, remarks the Boston Tran script. It might bo supposed that all interested people knew this fact, were it not that the employes of telegraph, telephone and trolley companies so o!ten hack and mutilate trees without so mnch as asking permission aud without incurring any penalty there for. One tree owner in Pennsylvania refused to suffer in silence, and suc ' '7inof inflicted npon ? virtual proprietorship lu u?ea extend to the trees upon abutting streets. The idea is a good one, adds the Tran script, as the trees thus situated are most liable to abuse from the string ers of wires. _ Figs Attacked by a Pjthon. No creature of the jungles of Java is more feared tuan the terrible python. A hunter tells of his experiences with one of these hugo snakes. "Gunning one day near the Wasli river, in the interior of the island," ho says. "I watched a number of irild bogs coming to the water to drink. Suddenly the head of a snake roso abovd the grass and a hog squealed. A python had seized a full grown one, easily threo feet high at the shoulder, and thrown two coils around the body. Under the tremendous pressure the hog seemed to lengthen, and when the sn ak J uncoiled I saw only a strip of meat, nothing distinguishable but the head. I shot the snake. It was twelve feet long and over seven inches through, and yet its coils had crushed the bones of its prey like chips. There is no doubt that hidden away in vast swamps of the interior are many ana condas of enormous size. Parties have been made np to hunt them, but the malarious climate drives them baok." _ . A Perpendicular Farm. Julian Hawthorne writes of "A Tropic Climb." describing one of his experiences in Jamaica, for the Cen tury. Mr. Hawthorne says : The land up here is doubtless Government land, which sells for about fifty cents per aore. If, however, it is measured on the horizontal, such an estate as this must come cheap indeed ; for 1 don't believe the horizontal extent of this plantation, which might have had an area of a quarter of an acre, was more than fifteen or twenty feet. It is a perpendicular region. The most con venient way to operate such holdings would be to rig a derrick to the top, and swing the min with the hoe by n rope in front o? his field of labor. He would have to be careful in gathering his produce, lest it should escape hil grasp, and roll half a mile down inte tho depths of the valley. Canse of insomnia. "Insomnia is caused by a surplus o blood in the brain, and tho only wa; to cure it is to remove the cause, says a very wise doctor. "Loog-con tinuod mental labor should, of course be avoided. It keeps the blood vessel of the brain constantly filled, an when it is over they canrot cootracl Tight clothing tends to throw th blood to the brain, and it should b avoided. The feet should be kej warm, sinoo cold extremities interfer with circulation. Unless the malad results from moral causee, a little cai aild common sense ure all that ai necessary to cure it." Plaiu Food for ?rain Workers. Cruel and brutish people like larg pieoes of raw or half-cooked mea The more rofiued people aro the moi oareful are they m the selection i their food. They object to coars heavy and greasy food. They lil lean, well prepared meats, accompai ied by vegetables, fruits and pla dessert. Deep-thinkers, men of lar? intellect, like plain food and ligh dainty desserts. Wemen, asa gener rule, require leso food than men. IN THE W A Description of the Pres! Capital as lt THE White House has bee greatly changed within th past few years, writes Fran G. Carpenter-in the Detroi Free Pres?. All kinds of improve ments have been made, und the whit hair of John Quincy Adams' gboi must rise in holy horror as he looks a the magnificent furnishings. Mrs President Harrison expended some thing like $52,000 cn improvements and a number of changes have beei made by Mrs. Cleveland. The Harri fiona spent a lot on the kitchen. Whei they came in the basement was full o ratp. One kitchen floor had been lah on top of another, and they were al rotten. Mrs. Harrieon ordered th< wooden fl' ., taken out and had tin grout ' rered with concrete. Upor the top of this she put porcelain tilei and walled all the rooms of the base ment as high as one's ehoulder witt the same material. The White House is now lighted with electric lights. The chandeliers have electric globes and the lights are kept burning in the basement and in most of the rooms ol the building all night. I think it was Martin Van Buren who was denounced all over the conn Iry for buying a set of gold spoons fer the Whito House. The new china which has been recently bought is worth almost its weight in gold. I know nothing about the late purchases of Mrs. Cleveland, but tt a new set of cut gla the cupboards of ihe ext mansion which co3t $1973. happen to know that Mrs. Ha sent one order to Europe for t* four dozen chiua platee and live coffee cups of u special design, gress allows each President some like $40,000 a year and moro to the Whito House, and a largo pa: this goes into new furniture dishes. The linen costs a sic.all tune. The table cloths are of the fl damask, and )ho napkins shine silk New carpets are bought abo at e\ six years, and though the ones wt I found on the diflerent parlors good, Mrs. McKinley will proba have a chance to select new ones, don't believe she will care to :rede<: ate the rooms. When the blue rc was last fitted up the artists :recei more than $5000 for the work. '. walls of the blue room are now pad and draped with silk as fino a9 i of tho ball dresses of the lajies v is .ttl ".6 "ke hardsv than a thou6ana White House parlors and dining rouu.-, and tho carpets every wi ero match tho furniture and hangings. But let me tell you just how the White House looks in this year of our Lord 1897. It is bigger than it seems, for it covers the third of an acre. You do not see the basement as you look at it from tho street, and tho base ment ie almost a house in itself. Its rooms aro high, and, with its recent improvements, it is now as dry ns a bone. The White House is nome dis tance back from the street A big park surrounds it, and going up to the flout door you walk about a drive which leads in the shape of a half moon to Pennsylvania avenue. On one side of this drive there is a flag pavement, and in coming iuto the side of the yard nearest tho Treasury you walk half the length of the build ing before you reach the frc nt porch. As you do this you can look right down into tho basement and see the servants at work. The room below you is devoted te the laundry, and you may see colored women here al most any day of the week rubbing away at our President's shirt?. Passing these you reach tho large porte cochere. The columns which uphold this are as big as tho bigger,'; oak tree, aud the stone platform within thom is so large that a regiment of soldiers could be stationed upon it and have room to spare. You reach this plat form by stone steps and stand at la before the front door of the Whi House. Tho front door of the White Houei What stones it could tell of grif f well ns joy. Through that door Ahr ham Lincoln was brought after hew Bhot by John Wilkes Booth. St? with nie to that side window and I w show you an old man who was one the White House messengers at t time, and who is still stationed at t door. His name is Pendle. He tc mc once how little Tad Lincoln cai running to him the morning after i thootiug nnd cried : '.They have killed my papa; th Uftye li?i?^d pay papft ?" I ! i HITE; H dent's Manton at the Nation's Appears Tebay. He will [ Tad and how he o [ room and dropped ol It was th ! Garfield wi by Guiteat] weeks in i aad wora io fice-seoke I about to days of m I out here I depot, no ' waiting for assassin's He was ca j and lay h excruciati you how he picked up to comfort him. and d him upstairs to his alked to him until ho to sleep. pgh that same door that brought after he was shot He had been but a few White House, and, tired ; by fighting with the of nd the Senate, was just io Long Branch for a few needed rest. He came took the carriage for tho If a mile away, and was e train to start when thc let brought him back, d in through this door for weeks, racked with pain. RED PARLOR OF when we came trol the streets night and day. n a dozen on [ouse grounds, iloy will be 3fully as any ls within the sido of the in tho base ers who con rootn, though have by long t dotectives, ' -* ?Inn?e. will fina truuiov.. ~-_ might be tJalied a very cave of Alad din. Columns have been written about tho ?ast room and the wonders of the poilors of the White House. The most [beautiful part of the whole building tio my mind is this great ves tibule, wfith its frescoed ceiling, its beautifulJwalls covered with the coat of arms of the United States, its floor of many colored tiles, and tho jeweled wall which separates it from the corri dor opening into the bluo room, the red room and the green room beyond. One of fiie great monarchs of India made a throne ot gold, tho back of which wis set with jewels to represent the feai'hers and colors of the pea cock's tail. Tho Ihrono cost $30, 000,000/ and it is described ns having been vonderfully beautiful, lt was, howeye', not much larger than a chair. ? visited tho roora where it stood tiring my stay in Delhi some years ?go. Thc thron0 room was, I venturi not as larce as this White Housejestibule, ano here, instead of a cha? of jewels, ther^ 's a whole wall mido of bits of glass and costly stone nt together in the form of a magnijeent mosaic. It has cost not as mar thousand dollars as the pea cook trono cost millions, but when I the clctric lights rhino behind it it fie, I'vpturc, far more beautiful, lt is in thi vesti bule that the Marine Band, st eseed in their gorgeous red uni te jrms, with their brazen instruments lining like so much gold, play at the sjresident's receptions, ami over this nstosaic floor step the diplomats of all abo Nations of tho world, clad in their atoldlace; the gay uniformed officers epf our army and navy, and tho pow .llered and bejeweled throng which cnakes up what is known a3 Washing ton society. H You will go to the left through this (Vestibule to reach the second floor of itho Whito House, where the offices Jure, if you have business with Presi dent MoKinley, but if you wish to see Mr*. McKinley aud are EO fortunata M to be a. frieod ol tht} family, you will be tuten right across tho yes? tibule, and a door in Ibat TrondcTrnl wall will open for you and admit you to the parlors cf tbe Whito House. At tbo President's evening recaptions tho rooms to the left of the White House will be fitted tip with shelves, where tbe hats and coats of tho men can bo put away, while the wraps of the ladies will be stored for tho time ia the state dining room. It will be in the blue room that President McKinley will receive at such times. This has been tho custom from time immemoiial, and it will not bo changed. I doubt, however, wheth er Mrs. McKinley will bo able to be with him. She is net at all strong, and she could not stand the wear and teer of an evening reception. It took all of Mrs. Cleveland's vitality to enable her to carry out her part during her first years in the White Home. I know of receptions at which she shook hands with at least 5000 people, and at which it seemed to me she gave a smile to each ono and no two alike. THE WHITE nOUSE. Mrs. Harrison tried to save herself by not shaking hands, and at some of tte receptions she corned ii bouquet in order to show the people that she cou'd not do this. ?Some think that it was the care, overwork and worry of tho White House that killed ber, and the same is said to have caused the death of the fiitt Mrs. Tyler and also of Mrs. Fillmore, although ehe survived, I believe, until a few weekt? after the left tho White House, lt wns ia tho bhio room that Mrs. Cleve land was married, aod Lere she bade AUTHUR, THE WHITE nOT'SE JIESSEN'GSB. goodby to her guefits and took the I carriage with the President to tho J special car on tho Baltimore and Ohio road, which was secretly waiting al most half a milo from the station to take the White House bride and groom to their honeymoon cottage at Deer Park. _^^^^ Chloroformed tho .Snake? Tho L. A. W. L'nlletin prints a pic ture of a fourtcen-font suake and a let ter from Fostoria, Ohio, written by A . 'rew Emerino, President of the Fostoria Bicycle Club, telling how the snake was captured and photographed. "The tnake was traced by wheel men for seven miles," tho letter says, "over hills, a river, tho fair ground and a race track, lt left a trail four inches wide in dusty places, aud it was easily followed. When come up with ho was on the top burs of a fence gate, stretched along it and hanging down like a clothesline where he wasn't resting on tho bur. "The reptile was captured by soak ing a spongo in chlorolortn and tying , the sponge on tho end of a iUh rod. ( Tbo sponge wna held against the snake's no e, and he soon grew drowsy. Then he was tied up iu a hard knot and wound about with ropes. Thous- ; ands of persona saw tho jnako iu the ; city park at Fostoria, and he is now in tho museum of tho bicycle club. He measured fourteen feet nin j inches lou.';." ?II i.? Load ol' Cora For a Pair of Shoes. Iowa is a good example with which ' to illustrate ono of tho conditions which hare produced, or moro accur ately, perhaps, contiuued tho hard timen. Our Superintendent at Des j Moines says that tho Iowa fur mer is .hurd up because he cannot get a fair j prico for bis produce. "Why," faid . he, "the other day a farmer drove into J town with a load of corn-about forty | bushels-which ho wished to sell and , with tbo money buy supplies for him self and family. That load fetched just enough tor him to get ii pair of shoes'. Twelve couts n bushel was tho best prico be could fiud. Tho fortv bushels went for $1.80.-New ?ork Press. Wintergreen Oil. Distilling oil of wintergreen u i uow carried on lo a small extent in I northern Maine, but recent neus- 1 paper reports of its magnitude there j ?re no doubt exaggerated. The bulk < of all tho wintergreen oil coming on 1 the market is still produced in Peuu- < sylvania, while practically all of tho ' oil of birch, which is both chemically ] and commercially I lio same thing, is < ?hipped from North Carolina,--Now i Eugjn?d Homestead, THE VENDS. A PECULIAR RACE STILL FOUND IN GERMANY. Their Home is the Serbian Swamp Baptismal Processions and Wed ding Parties-Pajran Prac tices That Survive. /~~Y HARLES DE KAY, Consul [ / General to Berlin, is the V/*V author of a paper entitled "An Inland Venice,"in the Century. It describes the picturesque scenes in the Serbian Swamp, Germany, and the peculiar manners and customs of the Vends, a remnant of which TACO still makes its home there. Mr. de Kay says: A? a rule, the older women wear white headgear ; at least the big square kerchief that falls nearly to the shoulder*) is white, while with girls this upper part is colored like the tulip-beds of Haarlem. "But on Trinity Sunday they wear tho plyachzishka: all is white on head and shoulders, while the gown, the wohnjanka, is black. Then is the old church at Bnrg a sight that recalls Brittany. The men for the most part are in the galleries. Almost the entire floor of the church is tilled with seato*! women, their starched caps, as white as white can be, having the effect of stiffened windrows of snow. But on other Sundays the young women appear in all their finery. Many of them enter the village bare foot, and put their shoes and stockings on just before assembling in front of tho church. The men gather in one group, tho women in another. As a gentle reminder of the uncertainty of life, the first thing one sees in the vestibule of tho church is a pair of coffin-rests, past which the people troop to their Gorman prayers and Vendish sermons. After the services a baptism may be held, when the godmothers (kmotra) are expected to appear in a special kind of white cap very difficult to describe. When the baptism is over the party adjourns to a tavern, and the dresses and cap are duly criticised or admired, and the proud parents are expeoted to do the handsome thing by the friends and godparents. Godfathers and god? mothers are also given a present of money, but not a roand sum-that is unlucky-always a little over. The child must not be left alone ; at least a bird or beast must be left with it to baffle evil spirits. The elder god mother carries the child to the church, the younger from the sanctuary. But before they re-enter the home some one lays symbolical tools across the threshold over which the baptismal party mnst pass. For a boy it may be an ax and a hoe ; for a girl a spinning '--?am. As she steps <*?wr, bear wortija, W orsola. Next to a baptismal procession a wedding party is the jolliest sight on Spreewald fliesses, since every one is naturally decked in his or her best, and the men carry staves bound with bright ribbons, said to be a survival of the swords of an earlier period when the bride was carried off more or less by force, or at least with a show of violence. Kozol, the bagpipes, still survive in some parts of the forest. The bridgroom, preceded by his druzba, or best man, a fiddler and a bagpiper, and followed by his friends, knocks loudly at the door of tho bride, and on being admitted de mands thc young woman with a great show of wrath, only to receive, in stead of the bride, an old maid who has a false hump on her back. The men strike her on tho hump, which soon breaks, since it is an old cooking pot, and drive her back into the house. Then the bridesmaid, or druzka, is given up ; but she also is compelled to flee into the house. Fnally the bride herself is handed to the best man, who places her beside the groom, where upon the couple turn about three times, a peculiar pagan rite known formerly to Ireland and Scotland, and the whole party enters the house to breakfast. The Turkish and Finnish tribes of Asia have similar custom* of teasing the groom and his best man before surrendering the bride. At the wedding both must have money iu their shoes, or they will always be poo:.*. On the return from the wedding a newly bought tot filled with milk and beer is sent to meet the couple ; as Boon as they have drunk the druzba seizes the pot and dashes it to pieoes. On reaching her now home the bride must feed all the animals. At the wedding feast neither groom and bride nor best mau and woman must rise from the table under any pretext whatever until dancing begins m the evening at the tavern. To Sweep the (?lobe. Everywhere that village improve ment takes activo form we find women oonnected with it, for there is some thing about ic congenial to the femi nine temperament, even as the inti mate connection between a woman and a broom handle is an obvious and i natural fact. My lady's qniok eye, i her relentless spirit, her uncompro- J raising activity, hitherto largely mani- 1 fested in house cleaning, here find a 1 broader field to pre-empt, and the full i utilization of that energy which now i joes to waste in many fertile pursuits may in the end create force enough to sweep this globe from pole to pole, md neatly duet every continent. atlantic Monthly. Geology. The scientific beginning ci geolo ire said to have been treated of ?n ?h:;nese works long before the Chris tian era. Some degree of geologicr.* information is displayed in the book }f Job, several passages of which have been held to indicate an exact knowl edge of the different strata of the earth, rh a science is treated of by Aristotle, Pliny and Theophrastus. Geology lid not become what may be called in exact science until the present con* tury, ? 1 i 1 i i i < i t f ! ! ( t MOTHERS READ THIS, f The Best Remedy. 1 For Flatulent Calle, Diarrhoea, Dysen tery, Nausea Coughs, Cholera In-1 fantwn, Teething Children, Choierai Morbus, Unnatural Draina L-on( the Bowels, Pains, Griping, LOBS of. Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis-, eases of the Stomach and Bowels,' PITTS CARMINATIVE e Is the standard. It carries children over* the critical period ol teething, andi is recommended hf physicians as, the friend of Mothers, Adults and' Children. It is pleasant to the taste, f and never falls to give satisfaction.. A few doses will demonstrate its su perlative virtues. Price, 25 cts. per( bottle. For sale by druggists. WISE WORDS. LOT? always weeps when it has io whip. Praise undeserved is scandal in dis guise. Love never bestows a barden that is heavy. Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness. Charity is an eternal debt, and without limit. It takes more courage to endure than it does to sot. People who make crooked paths never get in earnest. Every time a bad man throws mud at a good man he hits himself in the face. If yon would keep the wrinkles ont of your face keep sunshine in your heart. There are people who would like to do good if it could be done without effort or sacrifice. There are some wornen^*?w'never find occasion to h-r*-flTtne passing of the dav* --^chivalry. A lie is often told without say: ng a word, by patting the rotten apples in the bottom of the basket. Adversity, if for no other reason, is of benefit since it is sare to bri ag a season of sober reflection. When a man says that nobody cares whether he lives or dies, he isn't ad vertising himself very well. Mental worry and disquiet, arising from any cause, is the strongest agent in "aging" men and women. Merriment is always the effect of a sadden impression. The jest which is expected is already destroyed. eaters on me lsiauu. xxn to ciaw&ru Fleming, known among his associates as "Eddie Et" Fleming exhibited gormandizing tendencies at an early age, his capacity in this direotion first becoming apparent when one morning he disposed readily of forty large pan cakes and clamored for more. On another occasion, when his father happened to retarn home late for a Thanksgiving dinner, for which a large turkey had been cooked, he found nothing of the repast except a few bones, his son having eaten the en tire bird. Eec en t ly when Fleming's eating powers were being told a friend of a rival for gastronomic honors offered to wager 85 that he could pro duce a man who would defeat Fleming in a contest at eating boiled potatoes. The offer was promptly accepted by Frank Underbill. A few days later the rival contestants met at a hotel, where many gathered to witness the match. Six pounds of potatoes were placed before each, whioh dish Fleming ate almost before his opponent had mus tered oourage to make the attack. And three more pounds of the vegetable were Bet before him. These, also, with short intermissions for rest, were eaten, making nine pounds. The other man by this time had suc ceeded in eating only 6ix pounds, and protested that the match should be adjourned. This was done. Though the lead whioh Fleming now holds is so great as practically to preolude his opponent's defeating him, the outcome of the contest is awaited with interest. -New York Press. Wheelbarrow Instead of Knapsack, Major Padrin, of the Italian army, has invented a very ingenious con trivance whioh is designed to super* sede tho knapsaok. He has invented a vehiole to whioh he has given the name of the oyclosao, or the sack on wheels. On this will bo carried the baggage of two soldiers, and the up rights of the tent will be ased to con vert it into a sort af wheelbarrow, which the soldier can drag behind him when ascending or push before him when descending. The two soldiers will take it tarn aboat to push or draw the eve lo ?ao, and it is contended that this arrangement will not merely snable the troops to maroh much longer distances, bat to fight mach better on the field of battle, being re? lioved of all implements, which oan be left in these light wheelbarrows in tue rear.-Philadelphia Record. A Peculiar Find. M. S. Taylor of Thornton, Whitman bounty, Oregon, tells of a pesnliar thing that came to light in his vicinity i short time ago. A neighbor was tiaving a well dug, and at tho depth of ninety-eight feet a black walnut log ?bout twenty inches in diameter was >truck, The log was as sound as the lay it was placed there, there not be ug a sign of decay. A pie:e of the vood aboat six feet long was brought ?o the surfaoe and found to be of the lneat quality, and onred to perfection. iVhen the wood wai removed from ita position in the well a plentiful t upply >f water babbled ap. The owner of his rare walnut stiok prizes it highly? -Portland Oregonian,