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TIIOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, 1895. VOL. LX. NO. 21. An electrical plow in Germany turns up an acre of ground in an hour at one-half the cost of animal power. There are 88,210 acres of land in Great Britain devoted to market gar dening or truck farming, as it is called on this side of the Atlantic. Cnptain L. S. Hinde, of the Belgian rervice in Africa, writes fhat in spite of their slave trading propensities tho Arab?, during their forty years' dom ination, have brought the Manyema and Malela country to a state of high prosperity, ''the landscape seen from the high hills of Kassongo reminding ono strongly of ordinary arabic Eng lish conn tr v. The Illinois Legislature has passed 'a law providing that any citizen may go before a court and make affidavit against a public officer for neglect of duty. .On the first complaint the offi cer is warned, and the second brings the case before a judge, who may, if he finds canse, impanel a jury and try the case. The penalty of guilt may ? bo a fine varying from $25 to $2000, or imprisonment from ten days to eleven months, or both. The New York Sun remarks : There is no doubt that the population of tho earth is far greater at the end of our century than it was in any other cen tury since the creation of man. It is probably more thau twenty times greater t?an it was at the beginning of the Christian era, thoagh it has been kept down since then, in some measure, by war, famine, plague, and bad government. There are French men and Germans who like to take a pull in the dark at this question. There can be no harm in guessing how many people may be in the world when it ia 1895 years older. There may possibly be betwoen 2,000,000,000 and 3,000, 000,000. with plenty of room for more. A now fashion that is just beginning to grow in vogueis that of writing let ters in pencil rather than with pen and ink, and when once it is fairly es tablished, it is doubtful, states the At lanta Constitution, whether anything but logal documents and business papers that must be preserved will ever be prepared in the old style. Let ters are generally shorter nowadayt than they formerly were, are more hastily, written, more frequent and sel dom worth keeping for any length of forts bT by-gone ^aaySj^u^^er^rwa cherished for their intrinsic worth. The pencil, whioh is far moro conveni ent than the pen, is, therefore, taking its place in the great mass of casual correspondent. The greatest and busiest writers in tho world are news paper reporters. They write with pen cils, and they are in the swim with the fashionables. In deciding the case of the Risdon Iron and Locomotive Works against Philip Medort, appealed from tho Cir cuit Court of the Northern District of California, Justice Brown, in the United States Supreme Court, com mented at considerable length upon what constitutes a patentable article. "There is," he said, "somewhat withe same obscurity ia the line oi demarca tion as in that between mechanical skill and invention, or in that between a new article of manufacture, which is universally held to be patentable, aud the function of a machine, which it is equally clear is not. It may be said in general that processed o? manufac ture which involve chemical or other similar elemental action are patenta ble, though mechanism may be neces sary in the application or carrying out of such process, while those wbieti consist solely iu thc operation, of ? machine, are not. Most processe which have been held to be patentable require the aid of mechanism iu theil practical application, hui where sud mechanism is subsidiary to the chem ical action, the fact that the patentee may be entitled to a patent upon hil mechanism does not impair his righ to a patent for the process, since would lose the benefit of his real covery, which might be applied *u ft dozen different ways if ho we-^ not entitled to such patent. But if thc operation of his device be parely me chanicalno such considerations apply since the function of the machiue i entirely independent of any chemice or other similar action.'.' An Amusing Tragedy. Weiss, the cpera singer, was a ver handsome mau, but so thin that h wore what on tho stage is called "shape," a complete suit of paddi' from neck to anklos, worn next * skin. One night he was playing ir11 opera in which he wore Mowing res and was able to dispense with hVin the course of tho performance anP* palling shriek astounded thc p?"? and a coryphee rushed into th'refn room with the information t6 T basso had hanged himself. e peeped into his dressing-rr1 seen the "shape" behind tkloor* Wow Orleans Picayune. Diamon'l Mines of I8" A writer'in the Engrrin/ end Mining Journal notes th^o discov eries of the African diT'1 ,miDes have pretty well killed tmond mT' ?Dg in Brazil. Thirty?T aS?.fc9he Brazilian mines prog* 8om? *V 500,000 worth of oW8 ft J**.?* now the output dotg' amount to more than .?150,00C?razihan dia monds are so infer?* t*T/*T* iu Africa that it doTt pay to look lox them. A BIG CHURCH. UNIQUE FEATURES OF THE NEW BROOKLYN BAPTIST TEMPLE. I A Greater Seating Capacity Than Any Other Church in the Metro politan District-Will Bo Open Day and. Night. "V" "T"<?~T"ORK on tba new building V-TV/ fcr tho First Baptist \ Y Church, corner of Third avenue and Schermerhorn fftreet, Brooklyn, is being pushed rapidly, and it is thought, declares the New York World, that the struc ture will be completed even sooner than the builder anticipated. It will be known as tho Brooklyn Baptist Temple, ?nd the Rev. Cortlandt Myers will bc retained as pastor. The temple will have a larger seat ing capacity than that of any other church in Brooklyn or even New York. In fact there aro only about half a dozen other churches in the United States that can 6eat as many people as the new building will accommodate. The main feature of this church is economy. It will have cost when en tirely completed less than $70,000. This sum has already been raised by the congregation, and there will be no debt ou the building when it is com pleted. G. W. Kramer and B. H. Simonson, aro the architects. They planned a structure in tho Norman Gothic style. It is being constructed of rain-washed (When completed it will have a brick, with terra-cotta trimmings, and will havo a frontage of 100 feet on Third avenue and 130 feet on Scher merhorn street. It will be three stones in height, and will have a tall, square tower at the corner where the streets intersect. Thero will bo nine en trances on the avenue front and on the street side of the building, each open ing from a vestibule directly opposito tho foot of an aisle. The main auditorium, which will be arranged to seat 3000 people, will bo reached by easy tiers of steps, both on the interior and exterior of the build ing. The steps to the entrances will be broad and the doors wide and high. The first floor of the church will bo eight feet below the level of the street, and will contain a large hall to be used for prayer meetings or lectures, and so arranged as to accommodate 1000 people; a drill room for mombers of the Boys' Brigade, commodious dining rooms for sooiables, reading-rooms and library rooms for the King's Daughters, young men's parlors, ac commodation for the Ladies' Aid and Dorcas societies, work rooms for mis sion woik of all kinds and toilet rooms. It is intended to have members of tho Sunday-schcol assemble in thc main auditorium, after which they will retire to ,Jass rooms underneath the gallery, where rooms are to be formed by an ingenious arrangement of poles ft0*3 curtains. Beforo tho regular cknr?h services begin these will be racc<^ ou* ?f 8*&ht, leaving no evider0 ?* *?e auditorium having l^gjjjsed for anything else. rpo main floor will be entirely sur T/xnded by a large and deep gallery, a which there will be seating accomo dation for tho congregation, except in that portion directly over the pul pit platform. In a semi-circular re cess baok of the pulpit platform will Tat placed tho large 810,000 organ, vhich has been removed from thc old church at Pierrepont and Clinton streets and which is now in storage. lt is the biggest organ of any church in Brooklyn. In front of and at its ?ides there will be a space for a chorus of200 voices, which it is intended to organize under the leadership of Sig. . C. Brocolini, the choirmaster at the :hurch. Just beneath the organ loft there will bo placed a white marble baptismal pool, with retiring room on each side. Adjoining the main auditorium on the Schermerhorn street sido will bo the assistant pastor's study and tho church offices. There will also bo rooms on the opposite sido of tho au ditorium, lu tho rear of tho main building thero will be au extension three stories in height and twenty-five feet square. On the first floor of this extension will be tho kitchens, pan tries and the storo rooms of tho church. It is designed to cover the entire structure with ono roof, forming a pointed dome. The dome will be cov ered with enamelled, mottled Roman tiles. Thero will be no obstruction in the auditorium to mar its grand proportions. On both of tho street sides of tho structure there will be large rose and mullion stained glass windows, with scriptural aud em blematic designs. Tho interior finish of the church will be iu hard wood in natural colors and handsomely fres coed plaster. To tho pas!or, thc Rev. Cortlandt Myers, is due the credit of the new church's many original features, The church is to bc kept open from early in tho morning until late at night. The reading aud other rooms of tho church aro to be in constant use, forming practically a home in the church for all those who desire to como together for prayer, Christian intercourse or mutual improvement. Although Mr. Myers has been pastor of the First Baptist Church for only about two years, he has made it ono of tho most popular and strongest churches in Brooklyn. Unlike the Baptist Temple in Boston, tho Brook lyn edifice will bo used for none other than church purposes. HOUSES PAST AND PRESENT. Advantages of Both Styles, With Plans for a Modern Residence. (Copyright 1895.) Whenever a house that has stood for many years is finally demolished, there aro many cries that "our fore fathers build better than we." It is undoubtedly a fact that there was greater honesty of construction in tho old days than afc present, and that the materials used wero generally better. The mortar in the old buildings is so hard that it seems almost a part of tho stono or brick ; it was not made with a plenitude of sand, a modicum of cement, and so it has never crumbled under wet weather as does the modern mixture. The old bricks wero better burned and seemed more flinty than porous; the beams wero hewn out of the heart of tho tree and wero not slender joists 6awcd liko planks, tho greater seating capacity than any otaer chu^ hewn beams having twice tho length e of life that sawed timber has, tho ax ? leaving a glaze on the surface of the ? wood, closing tho pores. Iron played s little part iu tho older buildings, i structural iron work being a late ap plication, but wherever metal was t used at all it was of the best. Plumb- ? ing and gas fixtures were honestly cast j and finished and fitted by hand and r not stamped out by machinery, There 1 were wide halls, easy stairs, generous 1 fireplaces and solid, substantial wood- A work. These were undoubted advantages \ in the old style and many of them < might well havo been retained ; still ( there is no justice in continually do- ] cryiDg modern building. It is true t that the man of the present now builds i his houso for himself, taking little \ tnought as to whether it will serve his children or his children's children. Tho conditions of modern life provent the cxciciso of great foresight for one's descendants in this regard. Tho diverso interests of business make society largely migratory, and owing to tho rapid growth of our cities there is a constaut shifting of population. So it would be worse than useless to build a house in any city with the ex pectation thai it would bo occupied by three or four generations of the builder; and it is the general and wide recognition of thia fact that prevents tho erection of such solid and endur ing structures as our forefathers put up. Wo can afford to sacrifico some thing to sightliness in detail, in cost and construction. The essential matter of all receives far more attention now than ever be fore-that is, sanitary [condition. Solidity of masonry and joinery can not take the place of sealed drains, perfect ventilation, good lighting and heating. In the old days every builder was left to his own devices with con science ns his solo mentor; now tho most rigid laws prescribo tho things i that aro essential for health and safety : and leave the builder perfect freedom only to gratify his aesthetic tastes. i Holding our tenures as wc do, with ' no privilogo of entail to posterity, tho American's attachment to locality is not a conspicuous truit, for there ia not a people on earth boasting a high MODERN nOTTSE. civilization and intelligence who are such a roving . ice. The writer does not make tho state ment in a fault finding way, but to fdtow thnt in the erection of buildings utility is our chief object, and >o this tendency we can trace the popularity >f the moriera low cost houses, and ?vonld refer to the design illustrating ;his article as a type. A somewhat de filed description is appended : Width throughout dining room and library, 26 feet 6 inohes ; depth, in duding veranda, 45 feet 10 inches. Heights of stories : Cellar, 7 feet ; irst Etory, 9 feet 6 inches; second story, 9 feet. Exterior materials : Foundations, ?tone to grade and brick abovo grade; irst story clapboards; second'story md roof, shingles ; gables, panels and (bingles; floors of balconies covered nth heavy canvas. Interior finish: Three-coat plaa ;er ; hard whito finish ; soft wood looring and trim ; main staircase ash ; jicture molding in principal rooms ind hall, first story; kitchen and bathroom wainscoted; all interior voodwork grain filled and finished yith hard oil varnish. Colors All clapboards and spindle vork of balconies, fawn ; trim, in duding water table, corner boards, jaeings, cornices, bands, veranda josts, rail, etc., Tuscan yellow; out side doors, blinds, sashes, stiles and rails of panels, dark green; brick work painted dark red ; shingling on 3ide walls and gables stained sienna ; roof shingles stained dark brown. Tho principal rooms, their sizes, closets, otc, are shown by floor plans. Uellar under whole house, with insido and outsido entrances and concrete floor. Attic floored for storage pur poses ; open fireplaces in parlor and dining-room; brick sot raugo in kitchen ; folding and sliding doors be tween dining-room and library and parlor and dining-room. Bathroom with complete plumbing ; ample ver anda and closet room. Stationary washtubs could bo introduced in kitchen or a separate laundry planned in cellar. Double doors may be intro duced connecting parlor and hall. Servant's room may be finished in attic. Open fireplace could bo planned in library. Tho veranda spaco may bo increased or diminished without af fecting thc artistic appearance of tho design. This house may be built ns de scribed for ?2700, not including man tel, range and heater, the estimate bfiiug based on New York prices for materials and labor, though in many sections of the conntry the cost should bo much less. This is a thoroughly modern house in all that tho terra stands for as to healthfulness, perfect sanitary con dition, and that it is not calculated to last for a hundred or two yours is no drawback to those who admire tho plau, ns the economy in urruugeraenr. of rooms and general idea brings it within a limit of cost that is rot alarming to even tho most conserv ativo builder. SHIRT WAISTS. "A THING OF BEAUTY AND A JOY FOREVER." . I - Newland Pretty Forms of the Shirl Waist-Sleeveless Eton Jackets Jtire Elaborately Decorated Ih New Form of Bonnet. i SHIRT WAISTS, like Banquo'e ghost, will not "down;" they are too much of a joy forever, ;. and may be easily made n tbinjf.of beauty. In its newest and prettiest form, says tho New York Re corder, it is made of swiveled silk, which is well known to be a combina tion' of silk and cotton, which goes through the laundry in a most satis factory manner. There is one partic ular Bhade which is very attractive, and Vmay bo described as raspberry, with!" tiny seed ligures all over its sur face.in white. This is mado up into a shotf-waist with a box-plaited front and ydke back, full sleeves gathered into stiffened cuffs, and is belted be neath the skirt. The colors- of the shirt waists aa they; are displayed- on tho counter J suggest an old-fashioned garden, with their marigold and primrose yellows, carnation pinks, pea-pod greens, lilac and cornflower bine. Then there is another shade, which our grandmoth ers >new as "Buff." And what a treacherous color, too; for a drop of tea or perspiration invariably results in a black spot, or discoloration, which nothing can remove. Cotton cheviot in uneven checks is again largely used for shirt waists, but is not as cool for midsummer as per cale or linen. A very cool and pretty waist is made of a Madras gingham in the true Creole plaid, combining red andyellow. It is fastened up the front with bright gold buttons half the size of a penny, and has gold studs in the cuffs. A certain Gotham bello has a set of buttons mado of out-of-date gold dollars. SHIRT WAISTS AND SLI Sheer grass linen is, no doubt, the material for the ultra, fashionable shirt waist ; 80??***yy n "QT,frn hnj .pj^it ,yZ?t ali edged with narrow Val .^'c??irn?s, which may be either in whit? or the fashionable suede tint, and then the lingerie collars and cu ff H will be of white linen lawn hemstitched. These are "never starched, but allowed to fall soft and limp, t The shirt waist and Eton jacket ever seem to go hand in hand, as one appears to be so dependent upon the other, until the heated term comes tc separate them. The Eton may match the skirt or not, as the wearer's taste may dictate, and in its present form il is made without a centre seam at thc baok, very broad lapels and drooping sleeves. Frequently it is sleeveless, ai the sketches in the double column illus tration show, and elaborately decora ted with braid or braiding. Largo or namental buttons, either [in out steel, enamel or paste diamonds, are added to the fronts, generally two at ead side. These sleeveless Etons aro be comingly worn over tho pretty ne? waists of dimity. They are in th< very daintiest of colorings and pat terns. - The dimity waists arc delightfully cool and pretty. They show mostly old fashioned patterns, 6uch as tiny posies scattered about, and again have hair lines of color, with tiny sprigf between. These waists are mado gen erally with plaits in front and a yoke at the back, and when the coloring will admit, the waist is belted wit! bright scarlet, closing with a silve] buckle in Indian hand work. COMBINATIONS IN CAPES. Some of the new capes aro made ii very narrow seotions that continuo ut to the neck to form tho collar, tlat entire length of the garment, collai and all, being in one piece. This is c. pretty and becoming style if one car be satisfied to leave the cordings am pipings out of it. A cape of raby vcl vet recently made to fill an order Lac heavy cordings of lemon-yellow be tween each seotion. Yellow is the ca price of the moment, and every wo man who can wear it thinks hersel quite the mode for tho timo being Yellow is a beautiful color properly used, but, like all fashionable fancies, is liable to the greatest misusos, one women who are simply hideous ir yellow cover themselvos with it froti head to feet. In all shades it prevails from orange to cream. A special viev of elegant costumes recently import ed showed yellow in some of its varia tions in nine-tenths of tho garments and m millinery it appears in almos every bit of headgear on exhibition. SUMMER CnETONS. The cotton goods likely to bo ii most demand for costumes and dresse are zephyr cr?pons, generally som' sort of striped patterns; plaid am checkered zephyrs, batiste, printe and woven, in trou trou; plumeti with plaid and other figured ground and colored and figured pique reps Among tho last, stripes of two color and little brocaded dottings on pal tinted grounds will be the favorites. THE LATEST IN VEILS. Another vagary of fashions deserve mention. Some of the new lace aui embroidered net veils are so tkickl; covered they havo thu effect of a masli and render tho features beneath un recognizable. Fortunately for th eyes of thc wearers, the pattern b( comes much lighter or ceases alte gether a few inches from the toi which, however, adds to tho mas] ?ike appearance. A NEW FORM OP BONNET. This hat is moulded on the idea of a Dutch peasant's head dress, the jet ? forming wing-like appendages starting from the middle toward tho side, where they meet a large and beautiful ; mauve orchid ; a rich osprey of un nsnal size stands erect over the fore head. The bonnet is of shot straw, green and black, like a beetle's wing, while a largo wired lace bow, secured LIKE A Durca PEASANT'S HEAD-DRESS. by a handsome diamond ornament, up rears on either side. CRINKLED MATERIALS. The number and variety of crinkled, waved and puckered-surfaced fabrics increase, reiiorts tho New York Lecl ' ?<r, like tho flowers of spring. When tbey aro not woven, they are machine crimped in 6uch a bewildering, be > witching way that they capture tho fancy at once, regardless of tho fact that they aro not worth a rap for dura ?EVELESS ETON JACKETS. bility, and will scarcely bear the pro cess of making np without becoming J^B^bc draged ed and aotually good t u n a??~ieil I lilies ur trade that immediately an elegant fa bric is put on the market, some-imita tion is thrown out to catch and do ceivo tho publio eve Thero are on the counters of some of tho stores crinkled materials that absolutely mislead tho unwary pur chaser. There aro alternate puffs and plain stripes, deep-crinkled waves, and apparently close and firm shir rings that aro made entirely by pres sure between hot dies. Tho light touch that one is supposed to bestow upon such goods fails to warn the buyer of the utter worthlessness of it in the item of durability. Every one who desires to investigate crinkled things should take tho material be tween the thumb and finger of each hand and gently and firmly pull it. If it straightens out into perfectly smooth-surfacod material, its pos sibilities of wear aro clearly apparent. Of course, if one merely wants a fabric for ornament this is immaterial, but it is almost always the case that thc buyer wants to get what she pays for, and when sho buys crinkled goods, it is scarcely comforting to discover that a few hours' U3e will entirely destroy its beauty. A CHARMING CHECKED ALPACA. This is a girl's frock in checked al paca with a full bodice and Equarecapo with plaited frill. Tho collar, cuffs and waistbaud aro of ceriso velvet. GinL's FUOCK IN CHECKED ALPACA. Wide strap of the same down the front, with largo gold buttons. .SKIRT BLAZER. Ladies who take delight in tho easy and comfortable skirt aud blazer, with the shirt waist that ha? become a ne cessity, will bo comforted by tho as surance that this stylo of dress is even moro popular than heretofore, and a groat deal of puins is being taken ivitk the lit and finish of it. Hidilen (??'nins Discovered. Chicago has recently discovered an ?rlist in .fohn W. Needham, a mulatto, who worked os n house painter, and occupied his spare time iu painting pictures on pieces of tobacco boxes. His work is said to be lacking in technique, but virile and fredi, and to show undoubted genius.- New Or ients Proayune, now to Judge Cats. "A cat is judged by practically tho same points as a dog. Cats are of two liasses-long-haired and short-haired. & long-haired cat I always look at Brst for hair or coat, |then the eye, tail, body and ears. A short-haired lat is judged first for color, then for eyes, head, symmetry and ears. Tho coat in a long-haired cat includes the mane, chain and frill, as well as tho cnr tufts, which last show plainest of nil, perhaps, any admixtures of short haired blood. This misture of short haired blood is often purposely made, POINTS OP A PERFECT CAT. since the short-haired cat is imposing. Dr. Huidekoper, an American ex pert on the subject, made a little sketch and explained even further what are tho good points of a cat, re gardless of its class. "The head should show breadth be tween the eyes and bo strong boned. The eyes should be round and open. The nose should bo short and taper ing. The teeth should bo good and the claws flat. The upper log should lie at closed angles, the lower leg should be straight. The foot should be small and round. A good cat should bo deep chested, but light framed. The neck should be slim and graceful, but firm ; the ear? medium in size, with rounded points. The croup should bo square and high, tho tail long and tapering."-New York Herald. A JIammolIi Potato. Mr. E. William Randall, of North Easton, Mass., has received a photo graph of his brother-in-law, Mr. Howard Talbot, with a mammoth po tato said to weigh eighty-six pounds on his shouldera Mr. Talbot was a former resident of North Easton, and is known as a man of veracity. The Loveland (Col.) Beporter says of this potato : "At last J. B. Swan has succeeded in having his immense potato of tho Maggie Murphy variety photographed. This mammoth ?jotato was twenty eight inches in length, not circum ference, and fourteen inches across it, and is claimed to weigh eighty-six AX EIGHTY-SIX POUXD POTATO. pounds and ten ounces. Mr. Swan is a grower of great repute, but this last production beats anything of the kind we have yet seen. "-Boston Globe. Myrrh. Ten drops of tiucturo of myrrh in a glass of water will sweeten and refresh tho mouth ; a teaspoonful of spirits of camphor or peppermint in tho samo gargle is among tho very best antisep tics, and a few drops of myrrh and camphor in tho water are recom mended in case of cold, throat trouble, or any slight indisposition which may affect the breath.-Hartford (Ccnn.) Post. _ _ _ A Scll-Itocking Cradle. Mothers and nurses who have been compelled to spend hours and wear out their arms cradling tho babies to 3leep will henceforth bo able to road a novel or atteud to their household duties while Morpheus, aided by a AN AUTOMATIC! CRADLE. " (simple contrivance inveuted by ar Englishman, is overcoming the rebel lious senses of their little charges, The fin de si?cle is automatic. Th< machinery is so arranged that it cat bo wound up to rock for any length of time desired and caa bo stopped at will. A DISREPUTABLE PRACTICE ?which the people of the South are - resenting, is the efforts of some to sell them imitations for the real Simmons Liver Regu lator, because they make ,more money by the imitation ;w and they care little that they swindle the people in selling them an inferior article. It's the money they are after, and" the people can look out for themselves. Now this is just what the people are doing, and merchants are having a hard time trying to get people to take the etuff they offer them in place of Simmons Liver Reg ulator-which is the "King of Liver Medicines," because it never fails to give relief in all liver troubles. Be sure that you get Simmons Liver Regulator. You kuow it by P03l!fojjrrffr tne same old .stamp of the Red Z on the S^5?eW package. It has never fail ed you, ff||5jy|y?| aD(l people who have ^??*S?g|? been per suaded to take something else have always come back again to The Old Friend. Better not take any thing else but that made by J.H. ZEILIN & Co., Philadelphia. Can Pains be Remembered. If an ordinary person who has at some time in his career experienced tho miseries of toothache were asked if lie remembers the pain in question, there is very little doubt as to what Iiis response would be. Unquestion ably lie would say he remembered i tl Bat this incautious admission might lead at once to controversial difficul ties, for it appears that psychologists are in doubt as to whether any one can? under any circumstances re member a toothache or any other pain. It seems desirable to follow this statement at once with the assurance that it is not a joke, Psychologists, as a rule, are not humorists, and they have no thought of boing funny when they assert that pains and other sensations cannot be remembered. Those of them who hold this view aro strictly in earnest and mean ex actly what .the words imply in their / soberest sense. They are perfectly aware that we commonly speak o? remembering pains, and suppose that we do remember them. But they contend that in such a case we re member not tho pain itself, but the ideas that were associated with the pain. Wo remember, for example, that we were unable to work because we had a toothache ; that we applied, remedies to it unsuccessfully; that - finally wo went to a dentist and had tooth extracted, and at once L?jLre'lief. All this we remember 3-: every one^&droits.. itself \s a'memoryv -or ?)f-the sensa-. . tioh' of relief "that* came: when the; .< pain ceased. - . To the person not accustomed to looking sharply -into the,, darker " corners of his own mind this will no doubt seem a very unnecessary. .1 splitting of hairs. But the psychol ogists do not so regard it. They are discussing the matter pro. and con with "a good deal of vigor, this being indeed, one of the controversies that. ?0 to make up the current history of that world apart in which the phil osophers live. Another moot-point of perennial interest to the philosophers is the question as to what pain and pleasure really are, psychologically speaking. -. There is opportunity for whole dic tionaries full of controversy on that question._ Two Farmers and a Wildcat. "Nate" Bowen .and W. 0. Curtis, farmers, living just over the State lino in Pennsylvania, eight miles from Deposit, N. Y., had an exciting adventure with a wildcat. Bowen is a good shot and in tho winter does a good deal of hunting. Two wildcats % were seen by him one day recently, and he succeoded in killing the fe male, tho male getting away, the dogs running it into its den, a cave in a ledge of rocks. Bowen set a fox trop and found it smashed the next morning with plonty of yellow hair and blood on it, showing that the beast had had a struggle to get free." With Curtis he next set a bear trap, the jaws of which were strong enough to cut the cat's le?s off al most. Going to the place the next morning early they missed the trap, and investigation showed that the cat had dragged it far back into the darkest corner of its cave. Neither of Bowen's hounds could bo coaxed to go down into the hole. Curtis, armed with a shotgun, said "he'd be blowed" if he was going to give up the fight like that, and helet himself down into the cave. All he could seo were two big gleaming eyes in the darkness. With as good an aim as possible he fired at the eyes. Ho was greeted by a savage snarl and ? rattling of the trap as the ani mal retreated further back into the den.. Ho climbed out in a hurry. Bowen then said he would "tackle the varmint," and he went down in to the cave armed with a self-acting revolver. He was creeping toward i,ho back part of the cave when he heard the screech of the cat and the jingling of the trap as tho wounded beast Hew at him. Ho ii red, and lucki ly the shot took effect, the cat falling dead at his feet. Tho animal weighed nearly fifty pounds, and was one of tho largest that had been seen in Northern Pennsylvania for years. There is a bounty of $2 on wild Mts, and tho skin is worth a few dollars. This is the season of the year when they are most hun rry and savage, and Bowen ran a ;reat risk in killing the cat as ho lid. Professor Culin, of the Museum of Archaeology of the University of "ennsylvania, states that football ?risinated with the Chinese. The ;ame was popular in China and lapan as early as the seventh or eighth century.