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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. ? DA/O. O. HUJYLU -CLEAR THE WAY!" Men Of thoueht ! be ap and stirring Night and day; glow the 'wed, withdraw the curtain, Olear the way. Hen of action, aid and cheer thora As ye may! There's r. fount about to stream, There's a light about to beam, There's a warmth about to clow, . There's n flower about to blow; There's a midnight blackness changing Into gray; Hen of thought and men of action, Clear the way. Once the welcome light has broken Who shall say What the unimagined glories Of the day? What the evil that shall perish In its ray? Aid the dawning, tongue and pen, Aid it, hopes of honest men; Aid It, paper-aid It, type Aid*it, for the hour ls ripe; And onr earnest must not slacken Into play; Men of thought and men of action, Clear tho way. Lo! a cloud's about to vanish From the day, And a brazen wrong to crutnblo Into clay. Lo! the Bight's about to conquer Clear tho way! With the Right shalt many more Enter smiling at the door; With the giant Wrong shall fail Many others, great and small, That for ages long have held us For their prey; Hen of thought and mea of action, Clear the way! -Charle; Mackay, "fluop Waffler.' HOPE DAKING. 1L1AN SNELL, teach er of the first grade in building No. 3, public schools of Windsor, turned quickly from the blackboard wher2 on she had been dr&wing .a pext wren swinging on a sprav of clover, j "Who if. orying?" she asked, in a sweet, firm voice. "It is little Agnes Gregory," volun teered a dimple-faced boy who eat near. Miss Snell crossed the room and j bent ever the child. "Agnes, what is it? Can you not tell me all about it?" Sobs were Aguea'e only reply. Miss Snell kissed her eentlv. then went back ishec with chiL the t . A(--. Of Bl ber ...cu., m gViUCU about her faoe and neck. Her cloth ing was olean, but well worn, and Lil ian noticed the piping hole in the tiny shoe as well as the thinness of the faded dress'. Noticed it with a sym pathetic thrill of the heart that throbbed with sometbiug of the di vice spirit of motherhood toward the chil dren in ber care. Agnes's story was soon told. Her widowed mother had had no break aat for her little ones. j "1 don't care BO much about my- ' self, Miss Snell," the child went on artlessly, M 'caa se I'm m tra m a's brave j girl, bat when little brother Boyce ! wakes np he will be BO hnngry, and he is eily three years. He does not know he mustn't cry." A little more questioning and Lilian ! learned that someone owed Mrs. Greg- j or y for sewing, also that she hoped to ! have dinner ready when Agnes came home. Lilian looked out into the driving storm of a January forenoon. t?ho [ knew Mrs. Gregory, and her hear; ached for the pale yoting mother. Miss Snell was quick of thought and | action. Ten minutes later Agnes was ? in the warm cloak room feasting on the j dainty lunch Mrs. Snell had prepared ; for her daughter's midday meal. The j young teacher had written a note and a li?t of articles of lood and was at the door of the room across the hall. The teacher, Florence Fox, listener1, sympathetically to Lilian's story and to the suggestion that her own twelve year old brother be called from tho sixth erarte to deliver the note. "Of course Fred can go," she cried, "And Lilian, you say you have written to Mr. Davis the circumstances and asked bim for good weight. I'll Fend an order to cousin Hugh for a hal f cord of wood, tell him the story, and ask him likewise for gooo weicht." A faint crimson flush stained Lilian's cheek, but she warmly thanked her friend and hu rr L-l back to her work. Mark Davis was a stout, genial-faced man of thirty-eight. Ho fat in his office, his morning's work at bis books just finished. Through the open door he contd see brisk clerks stepping about in the grocery store from which the office opened. There was an odor of spices, coffee, fruit and fis h in the air. "Eight hundred dollars more profit this year than last," the grocer said to himself. "Somehow it don't do a man any good to pile up money, when ho bas no one to spend it on." Here his reverie was cut short by the entrance of a clerk, who handed bim an envelope, saying, "A boy just brought this." Two papers dropped from the en velope as be tore it open. The lir-t was % list, including a loaf of bread, j ?totatoes, crackers, dried beef and a i sw other articles. He glanced over : it and opened the other. It was Lil . ian's note. Dear Mr. Davis-A little srti4 la my roo-n is erring because she has had no breakfast. H?*r name is Acnm Gregory, and b^r mother ls a r?or widow who lives on the third floor of 4 Hampton struet Pl a-e ?on.I the things ordered at once. I wib rome in after sch ol and pay for them. Aod, Mr. Davis, please give good weight. Truly yours. .'LILIAN SNELL." Mr. Davis had been s friend of tba Snell family for years, and it was not the first time that Lilian had appealed to him for help in ber charitable work. So that was not the reason that so strange a look came into his honett brown eyes. "Agnes Gregory and lives on Hamp ton street," he murmured. "It surely THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. he had finished , she laid down her work and sat for a long time, gazing into the danoing Aimes. .The only daughter of my old friend, Bebeoca Henson, in want of food," she said, a note of pain in her voice. "Mark, you and I both have plenty of money. There is room in this house, and in our heart, for Margaret and hex babies. But sba is proud. Go and ask her to com? and sew for me. Tell her 1 am lonely and ask ber to bring her little ones to brighten me up." Mark bent to kiss the placid face. "Thank you, Annt Elsie, I see you noderstaml." A few honrs later he knooked at Margaret's door and saw that years had ?hanged her. The wild rose bloom had faded from her cheeks, tears had washed fie joyous light from her blue eyes, yet it was surely the Margaret he had loved, that stood be fore him. She met him frankly and with un disguised pleasure. Her voice trem bled when she undertook to express her gratitude. Mark made light of the whole affair and insisted on talking of their childhood days. The fruit and nnts ha brought proved an open s?samo to the bearti ot Acnes and Boyce, and they were soon on the best of terms with the caller.. Margaret was very grateful for the offer o: work. Shs hesitated a little over accepting Mr*. Everts's kind in vitation, fearing lest the children prove an annoyance. But when Mark drew a tenoning picture of the loneli ness of his aunt she gladly consented to come. It was arranged that the oarriage come for the Gregorys the following afternoon. One morning, two months later, Florence Fox tr'.oped across the hall of No. 3 and entered Miss Snell's room. "Of oourse, you are going to the wedding reception Thursday evening," she began. "I think it snob a lo>e!y marriage, don't you?" "Indeed I do," Lilian replied warm ly. "Yes, I am to go in the afternoon and help with the decorations. The whole house is to be in green and white, smilax, ferns, roses and carna tions. Mrs. Everts Rays Mr. Davis cannot do too much for his bride, 'our dear Margaret/ the sweet old lady calls her." "And I believe it all came about from your begging him to give ker good weight," "Florence cried, mer rily. "He is obeying your request in an extravagant manner. Anti Lilian is not that pretty pearl ring an i the beatific) expression on cousin Hugh's face the result of my efforts nong the same lice of charitable work?" The bell rang then, and the blush ing Lilian was spared the necessity of a reply.-Womankind. If--? . '-? Ul any other Known creature. There are three times as many mus cles in the tail of a do ; as there are in the hum An band an 1 wrist " Silk that ha? been weighted with metallic salts can be detected hy the use of X-rays. Tho pure silk throws no shadow; the adulterated silk doee. A series of investigations recently comoleted by railroad experts shotes that the average life of an iron rail is sixteen years, and that of a steel rail forty years. A German naturalist hat? curiously developed the "scarecrow" idea. The dragon fly is a. deadly enemv of the mosquito, and the natural.st has found by many experiments that the dried bodies of a few dragon flies suspended by threads around n bed keep the mosquitoes at a distance. A mine of graphite of remarkable purity has been discovered about tive miles south of the town of Coon Bap ids, in Carroll County, Iowa. The vein is said to be fourteen inches in thickness. The value of the discovery can be estimated when it is reco' lected that pure graphite sells for $80 a ton. An improved railway car trnck is constructed largely of pressed steel. The weight is carried on springs over the axle boxes, thus reducing dead weight, and the ends are united trans versely, thus making one side assist the other in resisting shooks and affording means to seoure the brakes to the .out Bide of the wheels, where they can be easily inspected,, applied or removed. A Baltimore (Md.) man who demanded $3500 from a street railroad company as damages for the alleged breaking of his arm was offered $100 as a com promise, and refused it, and wa; then subjected to tho test of the X ray, which showed that his heavily band aged arm was not broken and never had been. Then he offered to settle for $25, bat the company was no longer in a compromising mood. A practical use for asbestos has been devised by a Yankee, who has converted it into shoes for ihe use of workmen in foundries and smelting works. In the intense heat of these factories ordinary leather hob-nailed shoes, such as are generally worn, last but two or three weeks. Shoes of asbestos are not affected by the heat, and seem practically indestructible. The won der iu ?lilt the availability of the ma terial had not previously suggested itself to any ene. An Unwritten Law. It is one of the unwritten laws that tho President shall never go beyond the boundary line of the country dur ing his term of office, and naval men say that as soon as the President's ship loses soundings he is out of the jurisdiction of the Nation. This ie not literally true, however, for all along the Atlantic seaooard, from the Virginia rapes to N6W York, there is what is known as the 100-fatbom mark, extending far out in the ocean beyond the three-mile limit, declared by international law to be the extreme limit of jurisdiction that a couutrj bas over its ocean boundary. Indian Ocean Sharks. Although tho waters of the Indias ocean are filled with voracious sharks, the inhabitants of the nnmeroui inl ands near Ceylon swim about in the water with impunity, the sharks re fusing to molest them, while a J stranger would be instantly devoured, PINS BY THE BILLION. INGENIOUS MECHANISM EMPLOYED IN THEIR MANUFACTURE. It Takes From Ten to Sixteen Different Processes to Make One PLn-.Turn ing Oat 300 a Minuto-Women Are Employed aa Inspectora and Sorters. What becomes of all the pins? It is an old question, and one that has never been answered. Take it in everyday life. Nobody ever willfully destroys or throws away a pin. On the con trary, all tradition is in favor of care in preserving these useful little articles. The connection between good luck and pins is brought out by an ancient An glo-Saxon saw, which runs: See a pin and pick it up, And all the day you'll nave good luck Ree a pin and let it lay, Bad luck you'll have then all the day. This may he a little weak in gram mar, but the point is obvious enough. Every student of household supersti tion knows, too, that to come upon a pin lying with the point toward one means bad luck, while the opposite end is an equally potent harbinger of good fortune. And so a long story might be made of the romantic and historical as sociations of the pin, but lest this prove a tender subject for school-mas ters, it may be well to turn to the more prosaio and practical side of pin ology. "Can anything be more simple than the making of a pin?" you say, and you hold one up to look at it. There is nothing to it except body, head and point. You may be surprised, then, to learn that this pin in the course of its manufacture passed through from ten to sixteen processes, journeying from basement to roof of a great fac tory in which are employed hundreds of skilled operatives, all giving their minds and muscles to the task of turn ing out so simple an object as the ordinary pin. And besides the human workers the industry engages dozens of different kinds of machines, operat ing with the mysterious and almost in telligent action wliioh makes modern machinery so highly interesting. It is estimated . that nine-tenths of ..I';.*W IflQ tia! :??. MU American pins are made in Connec ticut, and the largest pin factory in the country is in that State. The number of pins turned out by this one factory in the course of the year, if placed end to end, would form a line reaching three times around the earth. The total production of the country is about twice this number, or nearly enough to extend in a straight line from the earth to the moon. The pins make their appearance at the factory in the form of coiled wire packed in barrels. The ordinary pin is made from brass wire, though iron is used for the cheapest grades. The first step in the transformation process is the straightening of the wire. The coils are placed on revolving racks and fed from these into a machine from the vise-like grasp of which the wire emerges perfectly straight. Thence it goes directly lo the pin machines, where the most interesting step in the work of manufacture goes on. The pin machine, like the printing press, combines in one compact piece of me chanism a number of interesting pro cesses. In the Machine. As the wire is fed into the machinery it encouuters a sharp knife, which cuts it off into uniform lengths of what ever size may be desired. As each lit tle length of wire drops from the knife it falls upon a wheel, perhaps ten I inches in diameter, set upright in the frame of the machine. The edge of this wheel is notched into a number of little grooves, each one just large enough to hold one of the bits of wir a. The embryo pins settle into these grooves and are carried along by the revolving wheel until an iron thumb and finger seizes and holds them firm ly, while an automatic hammer, by a single smart blow, puts a head on one end. Then they fall upon another grooved wheel, which revolves hori zontally and looks like a miniature PIN STICKING MACHINE-PUTTING PINS IN PAPERS. barbican with the bits of wire project ing from its rim. As the wires move on in the clasp of this second wheel, the projecting ends pass over the sur face of a number of rapidly revolv ing wheels, which may he described as circular steel files. These wheels pjrind the end of wire to a neatly tap ered point, and after leaving them the points pass across a pumice stone wheel to give them the smoothness which the files cannot impart, and then drop into a wooden box placed beneath the machine to receive them. The process is the same for all grades of pins, except that in the best ones a stream of oil falls upon the points as they pass over the surfaoe of the files. This "pointing in oil" is said to impart ?j toughness aud durability not other "fise obtainable. It will be seen that since the wire was fed into this com plicated machine it has passed through A PIN MACHINE. four distinct processes-cutting, head ing, pointing and smoothing. There are 100 of these machines ranged along the sides of the manufacturing room, e?ch one turning out 300 pins per min ute. Not all the machines are like the one described, but this is the new est, most up-to-date and most rapid in its operations. Back in a corner of the room are some of the old hand ma chines of a decade ago, capable, under the direction of a skilled workman, of turning out one-tenth as much as the most improved modern machines. tia the square wooden boxes beneath the machines we have what may prop erly be described as a pin, looking very much as it does when it leaves the factory, although it has a number of processes to go through still. The next step takes the pins to the whiten ing room. Here they are first placed in a "tumbling barrel," which is sim ply a revolving cylinder, half filled with sawdust, and rolled until they are" cleaned of grease and dirt. Then they are passed through a blower, which re moves the sawdust and leaves the pins bright and shining. Next they are placed in large square sieves and low ered into vats filled with a pecnliar green fluid. These are the nickeling vat3, and after remaining in them an hour or more the pius come out changed fri m a brass color to the familiar nickel hue. They are again rolled in saw dust until dry, and then pass upstairs to the sticking room. Sorting tho Pln?. Thus far the pins from each of . the machines have been kept in separate boxes, as the least variation in size would injure their appearance aud sell ing qualities when placed in the papers. Now, however, if there is any doubt as to the exact uniformity of all tho pius in each consignment, if any of them have been bent or imperfectly formed, they are mn through a "sorter." This curious machine has a hopper at the top from which the pins feed down through a narrow groove to an aper ture graduated to any desired size, where every imperfect pin is thrown ont, while the others drop out a re ceiver. It is impossible to get the bet ter of this machine. Bend a pin ever so slightly, njar the point or head the least bit and the machine will instantly reject it. Next. comes the sticking room, where the pins are mounted on papers, as they are to be seen ?n the shelves of dry goods stores. It is not so very long since that this process was per-1 formed by hand, but now it is all done by a most ingenious machine. From the hopper into which the pins are poured, as wheat is in a flour mill, they pass down into a narrow slit, which holds the pins upright. In In dian file they move down this narrow line and at the bottom fall upon a grooved screw, which rejects all that are imperfectly formed. The others it neatly turns upside down, and leaves them standing point upward, thirty in a line, in a narrow frame. As the pins enter the sticking ma chine from one side, the paper, whioh has previously been cut into proper widths, and gilded on the edges, is fed into it on the opposite side from a big roll. There are raised lines along the roller over which the paper passes and A press descends upon it making a double "crimp" in the paper. At the same time the narrow frame which holds the line of the pius is automat ically raised and the pins are neatly thrust through the paper, being re leased and left in exact and orderly ar ray as soon as they have pierced it. The h%g strips of mounted pins are cut into proper lengths as they emerge from the sticking machines and pass on to the inspectors. The inspectors from the court of last resort, where all deformed or injured pins that may by any possibility have escaped the ma chine, are disoarded and thrown out. This work requires the greatest skill, and only experienced hands are em ployed. I t may be said in passing that all the inspectors aud most of the workers employed in tho sticking de partment are women. Men do the work in the whitening room and oper ate the pintnaking machines. Innpccllnrr the Product. The inspectors have the lightest and pleasantest room in the factory, for plenty of light and keen vision go to gether to make their work effective. The inspectors sit in a row before a table. The papers of pins are spread out before them, and they deftly re move all blunt and injured pins, in serting fresh ones in the places. Bj their work of handling thousands ol pinB every day th?ir eyes become won derfully trained, so that they can de tect the slightest flaw. Of the pins that they throw out one will be found to have a little hook on the point, an other an ill-shaped head, but the im perfections are so slight that the or dinary person, untrained to such work, would not detect one in a hun dred. A paper of pins of standard size contains twelve, rows, with thirty pins in a row. So ueftly and quickly does the inspector do her work that she handles thousands of pins in the course of an hour, yet she almost never overlooks one that contains an imperfection. After leaving the inspectors; the papers aie folded, labeled and packed in cases, ready for shipment. It may have been only two or three hours since the little pin now reposing in its neat case, along with hundreds of its fellows, was part of a coil of wire many rods in length, but during that time it has passed through a dozen different operations and twice that number of pairs of hands. The process described is that through which the ordinary pin, what may be called the house' pin,' passes, but, of course, there are endless vari ations on this usual form. Some of the brass pins are allowed to retain their original color, and these, of course, do not pass through the nick eling baths. Instead, they are boiled in another solution. Then there is the murderous hatpin and others which it is desirable to have a dark color. These are subjected to the treat-nent known as japanning. From the manufacturing room they go to the basement, where they are placed in a revolving cylinder half filled with the hot japanning mixture. "When re moved from here they are hung on racks and placed in big ovens under an intense heat, where they are allowed to "bake" for an hour or more. Then they are removed, cleaned in sawdust and henceforth treated like the others. Safety Pins. Safety pins require more hand la bor than any other kind, and are made by a separate process. The point is sharpened while the pin is still a straight piece of wire. Then it passes through a machine which deftly winds it about an upright steel rod, thus making the spring. The heads are made separately by a machine which stamps them out of long strips of wire, r i-oyed lu ? Bingle factory gives no adequate impression of the great mountain of pins that is required to supply the market every year.-Washington Star. ORIGIN OF MEDICINE. Where and How Well-Known Remedies Originated. Tho fact that certain herbs and plants produce certain effects upon the human system and alleviate or cure certain ills dates back to time immemorial. Perhaps the most ancient of medicines -properly authenticated, that is-is hops, which was used in the dual cap acity of an intoxicating beverage and as a medicine in 2000 B. C. This is attested by pictures of the plant on Egyptian monuments of that date. Creosote was discovered in 1830 by Beichenbach, who extracted it from the tar of wood. Potassium was discovered in 1807 by Sir Humphrey Davy. Alcohol was first distinguished asan, elementary substance by Albucasis in the twelfth century. Scheele discovered glycerine in 1789. Nux v?mica, which is nearly as old, is the seed of a tree indigenous to In dia and Ceylon. Peppermint is native to Europe, and its use as a medicine dates Lack to the Middle Ages. Myrrh, which comes from Arabia and Persia, was used aa a medicine in the time of Solomon. Hemlock, the extract of which killed Socrates, is a native of Italy and Greece. Iodine was discovered in 1812'by Courtois, and was first employed in a hospital in London in 1825. Ipecao comes from South America, and its qualities are first mentioned in 1648 by a Spanish writer, who refera to it as a Brazilian medicine. Ergot is the product of the diseased seeds of common rye, and is one of Hahneman's discoveries. Aconite grows in Siberia and Central Asia, aud was first used as a medicine by Storck in 1762. Hasheesh, or Indian hemp, is a resinous substance produced from tho tops of the plants in India. It has been used, as has opium, since Indian history began. Caffeine, the active principle of cof fee, was found by Runge in 1820. Or dinary coffee contains ?bout one per cent., Java coffee 42-5 per cent, and Martinique 6 2-5 per cent. Arnica hails from Europe and Asia, but thc medicine is made from artificial plants grown for that purpose in Ger many and France.-New York Journal. No great man ever had time to play checkers in the middle of the day. The boy scorched on the bicycle bridge, Whence nil but him had fled. The moon lit up the bicycle wreck, And the boy stood on his head. 1 -Judge. PIAZZAS ARE POPULAR.' Valuable Suggestions About Their. Best Situation and Construction. If the experience of the majority of house owners could be gathered, it is altogether probable they would testify that no one feature of the house has so amply repaid the construction cost QSKESAL VIEW. as the piazza. American climate ? nd social conditions are such that it is possible to make constant use of the piazza during almost all of the year, even in the northern latitudes. The wide growth in popularity of the piazza is nowhere.more strikingly shown than in the farmhouse. A decade or two ago one might ride mile upon mile in the country without seeing a single farm house with a piazza; but now almost every new one erected makes nome pr?tentions in this line. It is safe to say that not a single villa or detached house, aside from the smallest and cheapest home for the laboring man, is built in this day with out a piazza. Often even a small house will have two. It is, therefore, im portant to consider the subject in a general way. The size and style of the veranda must depend upon the de sign of the house, its height, the shape of the roof, etcetera. In a very warm olimate, or at the seashore, where people expect to live a large portion of the time out of doors, almost every thing gives way to the piazza, and the TTBST FLOOR. 2.". vi"' ' ba an integral ??ai? tc;;L looks'like a mere excrescence, and de stroys the entire effect of the building. It must be remembered that the ver anda, more than any one feature, giyes character to the house, and conseQuent ly it must be in perfeot accord withrihe general style. Whenever it is possi ble a piazza should extend upon two sidf.8 of a house. It should preferably hav9 an eastern exposure. There n<??d be no fear that a piazza will prove too sunny. It should get the full rays of the sun, even at midday, rather than catch the chilling breezes from the north. A hardy vine, carefully trained over a wire rack, or a quick growing aunual like the morning glory, will provide a sufficient screen for com fort or for privacy. If for any reason these cannot be had, the pretty Japan ese split bamboo screen affords an ad mirable substitute. The accompanying plan shows a style of veranda.- that is occasionally adopted with excellent effect. The roof is carried up in an unbroken sweep to join the main roof of the house. This gives an extremely pic Roc*. SECOND FLO OE. tuxesque appearance, and it will be seen that no inch of space in the house itself is sacrificed.-Copyright 1897. The Telegraph In Persia. The overland telegraph line which connects England with her great In dian empire passes through Persia, and has recently been subjected to an inter ruption of a quite serious character, due to the fanaticism of the populace. It seems that there has bee? a terrible drought, whioh the subjects of the Shah, instead of attributing to Provi dence, ascribed on the contrary to the telegraph poles, and, above all, to the posts and signs of the survey depart ment of the company. Accordingly all the obnoxious poles, wires and survey signB were destroyed by a priest-led mob. Strangely enough, heavy rain fell immediately afterward; and now, in spite of the severe punishment in flicted by the Teheran Government up on the ring-leaders, the masses of the population through Persia ara firmly convinced that telegraph and survey posts are productive of drought and in ventions of Satan. ,* "Why Orange Blossoms Are Worn. _^Much uncertainty exists as to why the orange blossom has been so much worn by brides, but the general opinion seems to be that it was adopted as an emblem of fruitfulness. Accord ing to some authorities the practice j has been derived from the Saracens, I among whom the orange blossom was ! regarded aa a symbol of a prosperous . marriage, a circumstance which is ; partly to be accounted for by the fact : that, in the East, the orange tree bears ripe fruit and blossoms et tho same time.-New York Ledger. Quinine and other fe ver medicines take from 5 to 10 da vs to cure fever. Johnson's Ch i H and Fever Tonic cures in ONE DAY. A Curious txperier.ce. ."One of the most curious experiences I have met with in a long time happen ed to me last Monday," said a young bank official to a Star reporter yester day. "I waa standing at my de3k dur ing business hours when a w>maa came up and asked me if I was a no tary public. She was rather a mce looking woman, in the neighborhood of forty, I should think, the sort of wo man that one ordinarily describes as motherly. When she was told that I vas qualified to administer oaths she informed me that she wanted to swear off drinking whiskey for a year. Her request nearly took my breath away, for she was not a woman one would pick out as a bard drinker, but she told me that she was altogether too fond of whiskey, and found she was drinking it to excess. Her relatives and friends were anxious th't she should swear off, and she had finally agreed to do so. When I drew up the paper for her I Included all other forms of intoxicating liquor. She objected to that at flt st, but I urged her to do the thing up right while she was about it, and she ended up by doing so. Then she paid me my legal fee and walked out, but when she opened her purse I noticed that it was just full of money, and the whole occurrence puzzled me not: a little." Washington Star. Johnson's Chili and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure, ft cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. Snake For a Necktie. Some men will fly from a snake aa they would from a pestilence. Others, whose nerve centers are under better control, will handle the cold, crawling reptiles with as much Indifference as they exercise in manipulating a ham sandwich. Gus Behmer, of Indianap olis, is one of the latter class. He is a machinist, and when he came to work he was observed to take unusual cue with his shirt collar. Later on he was seen to have about his neck, under his shirt collar, a tie of peculiar form of the snake, tui ?AV. w .. . ; of the door. During the evening it is unnecessary to say that Behmer was aot to any extent bothered by those who desired to discuss politics, religion JS anything else.-Detroit Free Press. A Queen-With Whiskers. A. captain in a regiment Natal, when paying bis da>, chanced to give a man" vaal crown, which, as one urally expect bears "the image and su perscription" of President Kruger. The man brought it back to the pay table and said to the captain: "Please, sir, you've given me a bad half-crown." The officer took the coin, and, with out looking at it, rung it on the table, and then remarked: "It sounds all right, Bagster. What's wrong with it?" "You luke at it, sir," was the reply. The captain glanced at the coin, say ing: "It's all right, man; It will pass In the canteen!" This apparently satisfied Bagster, who walked off, making the remark: 'If you say lt's a' right, sir, lt's a' light: but it's the first time I've seed the Queen wi' whiskers on."-London An swers. Why take Johnson's Chill & Fever Tonic? Because i t cu res the most stubborn case of Fever in ONE DAY. The Sun and the Doctor. A physician writing in The Hospital eays: "Where the sun does not go, there goes tue doctor. All sorts of dis ease, from consumption down, are mit igated or cured by sunlight and pure air. Watch for the sun, for life and health dwell in the sun beams; and when it is shining, open every window in the house until it goes down again. There is every reason to believe that the germs of such diseases as scarlet fever, diphtheria, typhoid fever, and other such deadly enemies, are entire ly destroyed by strong sunlight. Not only, however, has the sun the power of making germs die, but it is equally en dowed with the potency of making men live. Let every man and woman make sure that not only themselves, but also their children and their servants shall have the fullest opportunities of taking in unlimited quantities of the Inex pensive but life-giving sunshine." Johnson's Chill and Fe ver Tonic is a ONE-DAY Cure, lt cures the most stubborn case of Fever in 24 Hours. According to the London Court Jour nal, Li Hung Chang has a most arduous task before him. The story is that th? Chinese emperor, being anxious to learn French, appointed the erstwhile possessor of the yellow Jacket as bia tutor. But when he discovered that his teacher had but a smattering ot the tongue, he ordained that Li be in carcerated until be learns the language.