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^_'__s_ _'_ * ' ? " G TlIOS, J. ADAMS? PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNES ; RY '?8, 1895. VOL LIX. NO. 52: ?? Cf the white population of America only eight per cent, are unable to read or write. Tho legislative assembly of Victoria, Australasia has passed a bill imposing a tax on the unimproved valuo of lind. . There are in the United States at pr?sent 6,000,000 farms. About one - half the population of the Republic or over 30,000,000 people live on them, and these dwellers furnish more than Seventy-four per cent, of the total value of the exports of the country. Italy proposes to encourage the na tives of Abyssinia to emigrate into the valleys of the Nile and open up the Soudan to civilization. The Italian colonists on the high lands, now that the possession of Kassala has opened new horizons, would protect and en courage the native emigration. Tho new State officials of South Carolina are unusually young in years, even for the South, says the New York Advertiser. The Governor is thirty one, tiie Adjutant-General twenty-five and the Attorney-General only twenty four. Governor Evans is the young est man ever elected to the Governor ship. _ In the olive shades of the Tivoli that Horace loved and that Felicia Hemans sang there is now an electric generating plant operated by the water delivered from the old Roman aqueducts. Th9 energy thus gener ated is transmitted to Rome over four copper cables and is used in lighting the city. The figures of the New York Build ing Department show that in the last fourteen years S325,000,000 have been spent in building fiats and tenements in New York, and tho St. Louis Star' Sayings estimates that at least $50,? . 000,000 of this amount has been wasted in needless brickwork, which only obstructs ?ghfr1- -, In the course of a recent speech Ad miral Field, a. Tory member of the British House of Commons said: "There is no such thing as equality in this world and there will not be in heaven." The Liberals among his , constituents have challenged the Ad miral to produce his Biblical authori ty for the latter clause of this asser tion. -- ? . , i -- The Japanese alphabet of forty eight letters is written in four dif ferent characters, one of which is re garded as especially appropriate for men and another for womeu. Works of p^ieace and higher literature of an i official nature aro written ia the ! Chinese characters. At present, adds j the New Orleans Picayune, Japan is writing the history of the Japan Chinese war in characters of blood. According to the New York Sun, American cheeses used to be sent abroad by the thousand pounds twenty years ago and returned by tho same steamship line properly labelled a3 English. It is perfectly well known that most of the popular for eign cheeses are more or less success fully counterfeited in this country, and it w ould be interesting to know what proportion of the large ex portations of American cheeses return as foreign. Probably few readers are aware of the fact that modern industry has al ready got a foothold in the Arctic regions, and that mines are worked on a largo seal; and a railroad reg ularly operated in such high latitudes. This is the case in Sweden, where the Lulea-Gellivare Railroad, built for thc purpose of carrying iron ore from the Gellivare minc3 to the seaport at Lulea, extend fifty miles above the Arctic circle and enjoys the distinc tion of being tho. first railroad to open np the frigid zone. The fattening of live stook on cot tonseed hulls and meal is becoming quite an important feature in South ern business affairs, announces the Manufacturers' Record. It promises to add materially to the prosperity of the South, and to enable that section not only to supply its own wants for good beef, but to ship fattened beeves North in competition with the West. The cattle can be fattened on cotton seed meal and hulls at a total cost of about ten cents a day, while it is esti mated to cost at least twenty cents a day in the West and Northwest, where hay, corn and other foodstuffs are used. It is said that the Chinese are the greatest gamblers in the world. Games of chance are the very breadth of their nostrils, and they cannot live without them. It is the one pastime in a life of unceasing toil, but the evil does not assume serious phases so long as foreigners do not meddle with their games. A Chinaman may in rare in stances lose bis all when gaming among his countrymen, but if he doeB he goes contentedly back to work next day and is not, like most ruined gam blers, incapacitated for honest toil. It is when the riffraff of other races are allowed to take a hand and to utilize Chinese game tables and banks for the gratification of their own pur poses that widespread mischief id wrought, JL Jl Ul iiiu M. \ SI?RY Ol? "AMERICA' DR. SMITH TELLS HOW TUE NA TIONAL HYMN WAS WRITTEN. On a Scrap of Wasto Paper-First Suns on July 4, 1S32, in Bos " toa, and ?Since Then in All Tarts of thc World. IDID not know that I uad written a National hymn tiil the convic tion was forced on me, writes Kev. S. F. Smith in thc New York World. While I was a student in the Theo logical Seminnry in Andover, Mas?., Mr. Lowell Mason, through whose ef forts tho 6tudy of music was intro duced into tho public schools of Bos ton and elsewhere in this country, . brought me a number of singing book?, ! which Mr. William C. Woodbridge, who had visited Germany to inspect the school system there, had brought : home with him and put into Mr. Mason's hands. Mr. Woodbridge had been much im? pressed with the German method of teaching niusio in the schools, and I j was asked to look through the books : aud translate 6uch of the songs ns I teemed to me appropriate to our i American schools. Turning over the leaves of one of ? the music books, I found one 6ong of I a patriotic nature set to the tune which I England claims cs hers becauso she luis so long sung it to the words "God Save the Queen," but which the Danes claim as their, and which the Germans j claim as original with them, and of the real origin of which I believe no ' one is certain. The music impressed me by its sim FAC-3IMILE OF THE FIR3T TWO I TEN BY TRI pl ici ty and easy movement, and I was ' at once moved to write a patriotic 1 hymn of my own, which American ' children could sing to this same tune, 1 which I did on a scrap of waste paper, probably finishing it within half an ] honr. That was in February, 1832. I gave the hymn to Mr. Mason with : others-some translations, an i others my own-and thought no more of it. : The following Fourth of July I hap- 1 pened into Park Street Church in Bos- 1 ton, where Sunday-school children : were enjoying a patriotic festival. It i was at this children's Fourth of July 1 celebration that "America" was first sung, the words of which I had writ- 1 ten a few months before. Since then : I have heard it euag all over tho 1 world. Dr. Smith's Career. Dr. Smith was eighty-six years old last October, and he is one of the last j of that famous class of Harvard '29 I men which included, besides the late Dr. Holmes, the Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Prof. Benjamin Pierce, Judge Curtis, Judge Bigelow and a nurub?r of others well known in Massachu setts's annals and beyond them. The data for the following sketch of his career were furnished to the World's correspondent by Dr. Smith, i and he added the preceding account of the way in which he came to write the hymn. Dr. Smith is a native of Boston,and his family at the time of his birth lived very near tho historio old North Church, where Paul Revere ordered his friend to hang tho lantern aloft. After being graduated from Harvard University, which he entered a Frank lin medal pupil from the Boston Latin School, Dr. Smith studied for the ministry. His first charge was in Waterville, Me., where he presided over the BapLf>t parish for eight years, occupying at the same time the chair of modern languages in Colby Univer sity in that town. From January, 1842, to July, 1854, he was pastor of the First Baptist Church in Newton Centre, Mass., be ing also for the first seven years of that period editor of the Christian Review, a quarterly published in Bos ton. Dr. Smith then gave his time to foreign missionary work as Editorial Secretary of the Missionary Union for a period of fifteen years, during which time he also preached constantly as "stated supply," and kept up his lit erary work and teaching without in terruption. From 1875 to 1876, he traveled in Europe, accompanied by hie wife, who before her marriage was Miss Smith, a grand-daughter of Dr. Hezekiah Smith, of Haverhill, Mass., who was a chaplain in the Revolution ary Army and one of the founders of Brown University. During the two years succeeding September, 1892, Dr. Smith again visited Europe and Asia, inspecting missionary stations of all denomina tions on both continents, including India, Burmah, Swedea, Norway, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Turkey and Greece. As an author, Dr. Smith ha3 pub lished the "Life of Joseph Grafton," "Lyric Gems" (a title given by the publisher), "Rock of Ages," "Mis sionary Sketches," "Rambles in Mis sionary Fields," "History of New ton," besides many articles for news paper?, magazines and reviews. He has edited editions of many books | and translated in full an entire volumo j of ConversatioiiK-Lexicon (German) for the "Cyclopaedia Americana." Ho is an enthusiastic student of j foreign tongues, speakiLg several fluently, and has a reading knowledge of fifteen language?. Dr. Smith is a natural versifier, having begun to write poems when ho was but eight years old, and ho has had moro or less published each year eir.ee he was twelve or thirteen years old. Ho has written moro thau a bundled hymns, including ?everal upf a stirring patri otic character, "The Morning Light is Breaking" among others, all of which, are to be found in tb.3 Psalmody. Dr. Smith still devotes himself to literary pursuits in his home in New ton Centre, a suburb of Boston, where he has lived in the house he still oc cupies for more than fifty-three years. It is an old-fashioned, gabled struc ture, low and brown, and in summer is picturesquely overgrown with climbing vires and shaded from the road by trees. '?rr? Highest Decoration in Japan. It is interesting to note that the re lations subsisting between the rulers of Germany and Japan are of a dis tinctly friendly kind. A few weeks ago it was announced that the Mikado had bestowed the Grand Cross of tho Imperial Chrysanthemum upon tho Emperor of Germany, in recognition of tho military and naval instruction given to the Japanese by. German officers. This order, which was es tablished by Emperor Matshito, on December 27, 1887, is the highest iu Jupan, and consists of a single class. It is bestowed upon none bnt sover eigns, members of royal houses and the Presidents of B-epublics. The Order of the Chrysanthemum has four emblems-the collar, the rib? bon of tho grand cross, the decoration i iteelf and the star. The collar con sists of four parts. The first 6hows a golden chrysanthemum blossom with a Bccond blossom springing from its stem and Eurronnded by a green wreath, bound with a fringed band of gold. The second part of the collar consists of a device formed of golden palm branches. The third part is a gold chrysanthemum surrounded by a rich wreath of green leaves, and the 3 AUTHOR fourth is an oval medallion of gold, similar to the second division ot the jollar, but consisting chiefly of Japau 3se characters. The ribbon belonging to the cross is oovered with chrysanthemum blos soms and leaves, and bears the word "Meiji" in ancient writing. In color it is dark red, with violet borders. The general style of the, decoration itself: will be gathered from the ac companying illustration. The rays are white, with gold edges, and in the middle is a purple medallion, with gold borders. In eaoh of the four corners there is a chrysanthemum flower surmounted by a blossom of the same kind. Both are of yellow ena mel, while the leaves are green. The star is similar to the decoration, but is not surmounted by flowers. It ia worn on the right breast. The rib bon, which is red, with violet borders, is worn from the right shoulder to the left hip. ORDEB OF THE CrntlSANTHElTUAT. It will be remembered that recently the German Emperor requited the courtesy extended to him by the Mikado by conferring upon the Japan ese sovereign the collar of the Black Eagle. ^^^^^ An "Onion Social." Cattaraugus County belles and beaux have evolved a new game which is hav ing a large run. It is called the "onion social" and is played as fol lows : Six young women stand in a row, one of thom bites a piece out of an onion, and the young men pay ten cents each to guess who bit it. The correct guessers kiss tho other five girls, while tho unsuccessful kiss the one who bit tho onion.-New York World. A hearth tax was formerly assessed in many of the German States. An Engagementju High Life, r-Liie, LU LEK OF AN AF] CECIL R A speech was made hy Cecil Rhodes >-Prime Minister of Cape Colony and the enormously -wealthy President of the company -which owns the Kimber ley diamond fields-in London to the shareholders of tho British South Af rica Company recently. Cecil Rhodes is a man of scanty speeoh ; it is the aptitude of his view which commands respect.. He spoke of the "very large piece of the world" possessed by the company-measuring 1200 by 500 miles. A few years a~o this pisoe of the world was almost unknown and entirely barbarous. Now it has o A Handy Sewing Basket. In the bottom of a light, round willow basket thirteen inohes in di* ameter by three inohes deep, is fitted a circle of pasteboard smoothly cov ered with lining silk over a thin layer ?^wStr^ing. This is all the lining re quired. Around the uppper part of the baskemtinside, nine spools, n pin cushion ar%d a shirred pooket, for thimbles are fastened all in a row. The nine spools (No. 20, 36,50, B sew ing silk and shoe thread, black ; No. 20, 40, GO and basting cotton, white) are oach strung on a piece of ribbon half an inch wide by at least fourteen inches lung. Each ribbon end is brought through to the outside of tho basket just below the brim. The dainty pincushion, two inches square, and the thimble pocket of the same material, have ribbon ties r-acked with tiny bows to their upper corners. These are also passed through to the outside where by tying the eleven pairs of ribbon . ends into neat bows the trimming of the basket is com pleted. Arranged in this way the threads cannot become tangled, an empty ppool is easily replaced and there is plenty of room left for all the other necessary furnishings of our handy sewing basket.-American Agricultur ist. _ An Ex-Empress Importuned by tho Impecunious. Ex-Empress Eugenie, widow of Na polen III., paid a visit recently to tjueen Viotoria at Windsor. She is said to have looked with almost envy on the comparatively small nnmber of appeals for assistance which come into EX-EMTRESS EUGENIE. the British ruler's hands. The enormous post-bag which reaches Farnborough, the residence of the Ex-Empress, is filled, week after week, ?with appeals of all Eorts, mostly from France, and mostly in the name of re ligion. In Switzerland a President ischoson every year from the Federal Council of seven members, olected for three years. Our savings banks have $1,739,006, 705 deposited with them as tho sur-. | plus suviuga of our people, 5?C?N EMPIRE. HODES. railway, 1400 miles of telegraphs, magistrates' courts from end to end, and a press. The natives are content ed with a rule that is firm, and the shareholders are pleased with the prospect of a dividend that bids fair to be equally firm. The territory of tho South Africa Company is managed like an estate ; but it looks uncom monly like au empire, with Cecil Ithodes as its absolute ruler. During his recent visit to England he was re ceived as if he were royalty itself, and dined with Qaeen Victoria by special invitation. Easter Ulfa. These exquisite flowers have become popular for winter blooming among florists, and their culture would be general among amateur caltivators if it were known that early planting is essential to success. Many persons get the bulbs in November or Decem ber, and because the plants do not como into bloom in January or Febru ary, they consider them a failure. Bear in mind that they should be started five months before you expect the plants to bloom. Tho bulbs start slowly, and the plants are not rapid in development, BO that bulbs potted in August will not bloom till January, . whiletthose started in September will bulbs. Give each lily a six-inch or * seven-inch.pot, and plant two inohes ander the surface, so as to accommo date with soil tho annual rootlets which come out along the stem just above the bulb. Firm the soil, water well and place in a dark closet to root. As soon as tho top shows above the soil, bring tho plant to the window where it is to bloom. A cool but frost proof room suits the plant until the buds appear, when a sunny, warmer window may be given it. Water free ly while the plant is growing and blooming. Th e. engraving is a fair representation of a blooming plant. As a rule the illustrations in catalogues are overdrawn.-Home Circle Maga zine. Hears With His Mouth. A boy whose mouth is wonderful, in that it does tho double service of tast ing and hearing, was in San Antonio, Texas, the other day. His name is John Mihand, and his home is at Sa binal. He was born ten years ago. Both ears were closed at birth, and they have never been of servie* to him. But by a remarkable freak of nature his mouth has done what his ears ought to have done, and he is not in commoded in the slightest. Several local doctors examined and tested the powere of the mouth and pronounced tho case a phenomenon without a parallel.-St, Louis Globe-Democrat. Growing Violeis. Tiolet growing, BO important an oc cupation in parts of this country and j even more so in Southern France, has I for two or three years been much hampered by reason of a disease that attacks tho plants. Tho French grow ers spray the plants with a solution of copper, and thus savo many thousands of diseased ones, but the process is laborious and expensive.-New York Sun. -Bril - Effective Way ot Branding Animals. The Arizona Indians have a peculiar and effective way of branding animals. The brand is mado of steel, with a knife edge, lt is fixed on tho head of nu arrow and shot with a bow at the animal to be branded with such torce that it cuts tho mark in tho hide New York World. HANDSOME GOWNS. RECEPTION DRESSES WORN BY NEW YORK SOCIETY WOMEN. Beautiful Costume Named 1 After Lady Somerset, of W. C. T. U. Fame-A Defence of Feathers -Japanese Fancy Dress.. ONCEET3, operas and recep tions seem to engross consid erable attention just at pres ent, says the New York Mail and Express. The weather has been so unkind, the frost so biting and the skies so threatening, that woman fair and fascinating has had. to create indoor amusement. Receptions and operas aro considered more informal and educative than dinner3 or dances, and so the season has been made np mostly of these functions. Special gowns are being created daily to fill the demand. A costume artist, a novelty, by tho ?way, in the professional world of wo men, Mrs. Ida M. Eew by name, is spending a great deal of time creating new gowns for receptions and the op era. The Mail and Express prints an exclusive double-column picture and desoription of the latest metropolitan designs. One is a "frou-frou" gown, all tulle, ribbon and silk flowers. The skirt is gored and made very fall. The basque falls beneath the skirt, and is confined by a wide ribbon belt. There are no sleeves. The shoulder "frou frou" garniture of tulle falls to the el bow. Gloves of Bernhardt style are worn. The coiffure follows the accustomed model which Sarah Bernhardt invari COSTTJMES FOE BEG1 J . f^thers^arci, not-good'/ taste forefeet .wear, '~?mr''"&W cumber is'notyet very great. As a substitute they sug gest enormous hats of dull blaok felt trimmed most simply with black rib bon and practically rain proof, favorite fashion rolls the brim straight ably arranges when playing Frou Frou. An aigrette of ostrioh feathers in the braid of hair ornamenting the crown surmounts the costume. The other figure is a "Somerset," named after a costume much like one worn by Lady Isabel Somerset, of W. C. T. U. fame. It is of rich velvet, jet passe menterie and silk. The skirt is tailor made, with velvet panels at the side. The basque is princess shape. If high neck is desired, a fichu of lace such as Lady Isabel wears can be added. The opera coat shown has several new points. One is the absence of the large extra shoulder cape and another is the annex of the Mary Stuart col lar. Tho garniture of the hair, to be in good taste with the costume, should bo simple. A butterfly bow of black velvet ribbon is preferred to all other forms of ornamentation. IN DEFENCE OF FEATHERS. A crusade is starting in behalf of the curling plumes that are now so fashionable. Its devotees insist that back in front and sets a great bow a little at one side of the roll as the only trimming; indeed, it is made conspicuously lonesome in this class of hat, so that the choicest effect may be associated with severe simplicity. But those very plumes are an obstacle for the would-be savers of them, be cause their beauty makes their posses sors long to display them at every opportunity. So the befeathered hat is favored by the great majority, even for outdoor wear. One of the hand some types of these hats that set women in a rush for shelter at the first fall of rain or snow is pictured here. It is round, of black velvet and garnished richly with black ostrioh plumes, bows and rosottes of black satin ribbon set off with and seeming A BEFEATHEnED HAT. ly fastened by rhinestone buttons. Ten plumes are employed in all, and, as indicatod, little height is added thereby. Dutch bonnets aro in high favor for dress occasion. They are being made so wide at the sides, however, that the gil ld at tue to cat re not only crush ajaiust ouch other's sleeves, but touch huts also when tboy movo a little from an upright positiou. Side combs aro another fanoy of tho hour and are be Miff made so rioh with jewels that the most expensive ones come attached to each other by a chain that passes about the head at the back and is made secure by a bent gold hairpin. An elaboration of this idea is shown that jewels the chain and makes it part of the ornamentating of the coif fure. It is secured to the central prong of tho back comb, this comb and the side ones constituting a set. ABOUND THE NECK. The ribbons around the neck are finished in a variety of ways. Some times they have a rosette on either side or in the back. Again, they are made to wear with a fiat buckle, from either side of which sticks out a frill of white lace. Sometimes they have full fiat plaits at the side, which ara held down by small buckles. Neck buckles are exceedingly elaborate af fairs. They are made of gold, silver, rhinestones and jewels, as the case may be. Diamonds and pearls com bined in an open work little wreath is a favorite design, and three of these buckles put on Ja band of satin or vel vet make an extremely handsome fin ish for any gown. Tulle and chiffon collars made"'in this fashion are very much the rage, purple and the new shade of blue be ing the most fashionable, although lately yellow has made its appearance for this purpose. A JAPANESE FANC? DRESS. The Japanese costume makes a very piquant fancy dress. Ihe hair is drawn back over a frizette and looped or cuiled at the back, and decorated with fancy pins, butterflies or flowers, or with little fans set upright, as shown in the sketch. The underdress 2PTJON AND CONCERT. ! is of plain color?d ??k or oashmore, or be worn over nnstardhed skirts, so as to keep flat and strait. The overdress is cut in princess form, and resembles a dressing-gown, and crosses in front, leaving rather less of the underskirt exposed than is shown in the sketch. This robe is held to the figure by a broad sash of pongee or China silk of bright coloring, which is tied in a large formal bow at the back. The revers and facings of the robe are of plain colored silk, and the wide sleeves may be joined up in a point, as PIQUANT JAPANESE DRESS. shown, or left hanging square. The robe is of brocaded silk, or* there are charming theatrical sateens prepared for these robes, which have almost the effect of silk. CHILDREN'S DRESSES. One might be forgiven for the stere otyped remark that children's dresses were never so pretty as now. The styles are simple and quaint, with just enough character to them to relieve them from plainness ; and fussiness, of all things, is discouraged in such cos tumes. Velvet is as popular for children as for grown people, and is such a ser viceable and becoming material that one may be pardoned the trifling ad ditional cost for the excellent effeot produced by this most useful and ele gant of all fabrics. JEWELED FL0WKP3. Flower brooches are losing nothing of their oldtime prestige, but the preference is now given to those which can be utilized as hair ornaments. One of the most striking of these is an orchid, whose shape ia perfect, and whose petals are iucrustod with dia monds and sapphires, while in the center is set a lustrous yellow topaz. NABZtOW BUFFLES. One or more narrow ruffles around a skirt may always be worn, and will never look out of place ; but to make skirts up out of bands and frills, is a waste of tho good fabric.', provided by tho skillful fingers of practical arti sans, LOOK OUT!!! for these imitations and substi tutes, they are poor stuff at the best and increase your misery. Take Simmons Liver Regulator only. You will know it by the large red Z on the face of every package and by the -elief it gives when taken for Dyspepsia, Indi gestion, Constipation, Biliousness and Sick Headache. Mc 8^T [Mi y L REGULATOR UH LI ' J. H. ZEILIN & Co., Philad'a, Pa. CATCHING COLD. The Chief Cause is a Lack of Out door Exercise. The animal body is the most deli cately constructed thermometer ever devised. It is entirely self-rogulat>: ing, and probably never becomes en tirely deranged. In normal conditions the body con forms to the temperature of the me dium in which it finds itself. The control thus exerted is purely a ner vous ono-an influence exercised by the nerves over the minute blood vessels which cover the surface of the body. Thero are two sets of these nerves, ono acting as the signal line by which the temperature is recorded in the brain, and the other serving as a medium through which that organ transmits its orders to the blood-ves sels at the surface. This mechanism works in perfect harmony and uni son, except under certain unfavor able conditions. Let us endeavor to discover what these conditions are. Except in extreme cases of heat or coM, when these nerves become par- - tially or wholly paralyzed, they do their work faithfully, so that we shall ' -expect to find the cause of a "cold" in a disturbance of the brain or an interference "with tho orders whicfcifc - has-senfc ont to the surface vessels. Obviously it. is only the latter con- . difcion of affairs which interests us. Frobfibly "the c?iiol' causo ot cntrh Ihg ?old lies in the enervation result ing from the hothouse life .which too many persons lend during the winter months, under the impression, that they are saving their bodies from the shock which naturally comes from exposure to a cold and bracing at mosphere. But a gentle shock of that nature is precisely what is necessary to tone up the set of nerves in question, and enable them to perform their work quickly and properly. Ginsing. Ginseng is a root worth almost its weight in gold in China, and Secretary Morton, in his last report, recom mends its cultivation in this coun try. Formerly wo shipped $1,000,000 . worth of ginsing to China every year, but the supply has fallen off,. and Corea now furnishes nearly all of it The Chinese regard this plant as a cure for almost every disease. They believe that the root possesses intelli gence and powers of locomotion which enables ic to run away to es cape capture. They also believe that it is guarded by the tiger, the leopard, the wolf and the snake, an imals appointed by the gods to pro tect it. A root weighing three or four oun ces sells for $200, but the American article commands only $2 a pound. In Corea it is cultivated under gov ernment supervision, but in this country the plant grows wild in the mountain regions. The Chinese say that the virtue of the plant is not in its material composition, but in a mysterious power appertaining to it through being produced wholly apart from human influence under the care of a beneficent spirit. But while the Chinese will pay any price for this root, and will consume all that cab be produced, the medical men of Europe and America have never found any curative power in it. Our Indian tribes, however, agree with tho Chinese and regard gin sing as a valuable medicine. A Mammoth Turkish Cave. They have a mammoth cave in Turkey which takes all the brag out of Kentucky. It is near Selef keh. And where is Selefkah? Well, it is near that part of the Turkish coast which is just exactly north of the island of Cypress. One of the natives went in with a party and roamed around for five days, and when he came out he said he had tramped fully twenty-five miles un til he came to a large lake with great cliffs rising up in it. Having no boat, he had to turn back. Of course ho was a Turk, and perhaps we should be a little caraful about accepting his idea of distance too literally; still it is probable that the exit of the cave is at Cape Lisua el Kebeh, fifteen miles eastward of Selefkoh, right on the sea, where the waves dash in the mouth with a rush and a roar, which has given the place the name of "the roaring hole." If one stands at the entrance of Selefkeh, he can hear a dull, booming roar, which ls, In all probability, tho waves at Capo Lisau el Kabeh rushing into tho roaring hole. MANY of ns are engaged iu pursuit of the same folly, but are traveling by different routes. - >