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THE Kfl?iONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA L. C. IIAY2O, Preset. F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided Profits i SI 10,000. Facilities of our magnificent New Vault {'containing -U0 ^afety-Lock Boxes. Differ en; Sizes aro offered-to our patrons and tho public at $3,00 to *;0.00,j>er anuurh. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS BANK. AUGUSTA, GA. Pays Interest on Deposit?: Accounts Solicited, L. C. HAYNS, President. W. C. WAEDLAW,| Cashier. THOS. J. ADAMS PROPRIETOR. EDOEFIELD, S. C.. WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. 1899. VOL. LXTV. NO. 18 PATIENCE Wi Sweet friend, when thou and I ure gone Beyond earth's weary labor, When small shall be our need of graco From comrade 0/ from neighbor: Passed all the strife, the toil, the care, And done with all the sigbinp; "What tender ruth shall wa have gained, Alas ! by simply dying? Then lips too chary of thoir praise Will tell our merits over. And eyes too swift our faults io see Shall ->o defect discover. Then hands that would not lift a stone Where stones were, thick to cumber Onrfiteep hill path, will scatter flowers Abovo our pillowed slumber. ?< - PRANK ? ?rm ip ?p^^Bh^pnQi-v-V-W "Step this way a moment, if veu please, Miss Chndbourne." Mr. Vaughn had oponed ike letter book and was lookiup rt it with a puz zled air. He spalte quietly, hut his tone caused tho young stenographer to start from her chair and approach hun with trepidation. "What do you call that figure, a thre-j or a ii ve?" he asked. As she caught sight of the blurred press copy of the letter she had taken from dictation and seut to Marshall ?fe Hobbs the evening before, she flushed guiltily nud "with a premonition of no- j peaching trouble. Mr. Vaughn's lean I forefinger was poiutiug to the fourth I item in a long column of figures, quo tations of prices furnished to one of t'.ie firm's best cristo tiers, and Mildred Chadhourne suspected that tho trans action involved was ono or unusual importance. .To hide her.confusion she bent low over the paga ,and anxiously scruti nicej? the indistinct copy; but to do her best she could not decide whether ihatfourth item was thirteen or fifteen. Late on the previous afternoon Mr. Vaughn had dictated this letter to her, slowjynad with extraordinary pains, charging her tons* all possible' care in getting the figures down correctly. He had seamed to her quita unnecessarily ?deliberate,for she was impatient to go home that she . might finish a gown ! she was making, and she had planned to leave a few minutes before the cus tomary closing hour. When the dictatiou was completed ihe had rushed off to his train,although ?first charging her to write, copy and post the lette:- that night without fail. Inwardly rebelling,she had rattled the important communication through the ?writing machine at railway speed, aud then, ns the office boy was invisible, , she had undertaken to copy it herself. , 1 It requires care to copy a letter as it \ should be copied. If tho -tissue leaf not wet enough,-the result will he a faint copyi if too wet, a blurred one, ami in that case the original sheet will , sometimes be so badly defaced by the ?washing of the ink as to be almost il legible. Mildred had rushed the- letter through the copying press with quite as much haste as she had put into the typewriting of it. She had passed a dripping brush over the leaf and then had neglected to absorb with a blot ting pad tho superfluous moisture. In consequence, the copy had turned out a.slovenly one, and the original had been seriously, defaced. She knew then as well as she knew afterward that haste had made waste, and'th.it her plain duty would hav 1 been to' do the work over again from beginning to end; but the letter was a long one, G o'clock was drawing near, and just then the completion of her new party gown was of more im portance to her than the business con cerns of Theophilus Vauglin ? Co. Moreover, if she were to send the letter off fis it was,probably she never wouldjiear from it again; as for the ^cVpyv*th'at might be a matter of little importance. Not half- the . copies in the letter book ever were referred to. They were put there because it was a business custom to preserve them,but they seldom proved to be of vital con s?quence-that she had discovered in her experience thus far. . " So she had crowded the "water logged" sheet hastily out of sight in an.enveIope and sent it away^ .Xow, 24 hours later, it had occurred to Mr. Vnnghn to glance over the copy, and a time of reckoning had come. "I can't make it ont, sir," she said, desperately, after keeping silence as' long as she dared. "I can't tell whether it is a five or a three. I will look at my notes and seo what it ought to be." "I know perfectly well what it ought to be," he .commented, dryly. "It Ought to be a five. "What I am anxious to learn is what it is." "I have it a five here, sir," said the girl, who had been consulting her shorthand notes. "Xbe j.-^int is, did you get it down a five here?" lier employer returned. Mildred's spirits sank, and she dared not mee* Mr. Vaughn's gaze,but stood before him hot, silent and thoroughly uncomfortable. "These quotations," he proceeded, indicating the column of figures, "were furnished to' Marshall & Hobbs at their request to?, nable them to submit a bid for a large contract-an unusual ly large one, I iui'e.r-which they are hoping to secure shortly. They asked for bed-rock figures, and I gave them our very lowest. Now those castings there, which T intended to quote at fif teen cents, they are going to. want a great many of-thousands, in fact -and at fifteen cents we should make one cent profit,whjte at thirteen we should sustain n corresponding lo-s. So you see if they have gone ahead and pul in their bid on a basis of thirteer cents we naturally shall have to statu' back of our figures, and-well," k< concluded, significantly, "it will mak< a difference to us." "Yes. sir," assented the girl,in fain t 'lies. "That's a wretchedly poor copy Miss Cuadbourne," he remarked afte a few seconds of uncomfortable silenci _uncomfortable to her,at least. "Yoi must -,poak to George. He is gettin? to be unpardonably careless. He' .thinking too much about his own con cern?. 1 fear. " "Y-ves, sir," stammered Mildred reddening furiously. "I will-I mea -Mr. Vaughn, to tell the trutl TM THE LIVING. Sweet ?n??d,perchance, both thou and L Ere Love is past forgiving, Bhould take the earnest lesson home Be patient with the living. Today's repressed rebuko may save Our bil iding tears tomorrow; Then patience, e'en when keenest edgo May whet a nameless sorrow! 'Tis easy to bo gentle when Death's silence shames our clamor, And easy to discern the best Through memory'3 mystic glamour; But wise it were for thee and mo. Ero love Is past forgiving. To take the tootler lesson home Be patient with the living. -From the Boston Watobman. George didn't take that copy. He happened not to be about, and so I took it." "Indeed!" said her employer, with an accent that caused her to flush still more; but to her relief he made no fur ther comments. "Well," he con cluded, shutting np the letter book, "I don't see what we can do about it now. Thirteen is held to be an un lucky number, and it would bo partic ularly so here. Let us hope this non descript blotch stands for a five." I Mildred went home that night al I most wishing she had never been boru. Nearly a month now she hud been with Theophilus Vaughn & Co. -it was her first situation-and she had begun to flatter herself, with rea son, that she was giving satisfaction. At the end of her first week Mr. Vaughn had goue so far as to tell her so. "I rather think you will suit ns," he said. "Ton are quick, accurate, and you can spell." "Thank you, sir; I hope I know something about spelling," Avas her wonderiug resjjouse. "The young lady who preceded you knew something about spelling," pro ceeded Mr. Vaughn, with a queer shrug, "aud proved the truth of the familiar assertion that a little knowledge may ba a dangerous thiug. "See here!" aud opeuiugthe letter book he showed her the copy of a letti.r of about a dozen lines in which he had under scored with a pencil three misspelled words, aud words not usually consid ered '.hurd" ones, either. "I shouldn't want to employa sten ographer Avho was obliged to consult the dictionary continually," he went on, "but one who didn't know enough to look in it when she ought I wouldn't have at any price. A girl who can't spell, or who can't learn to spell, misses her vocation when she starts out to become a stenografier. uu"XQlLSyi>4^ ?avAs-C^bs -racrc ?tie; Miss Chadbourne," he proceeded. "Girls who have had only a comioon school education and have neglected theil opportunities at that, whose knowledge of spelling and grammar is wofully - deficient, and who couldn't write a presentable letter to one of their owu friends to save their lives, aud yet who expect to do the corre spondence in a business counting room! A stenographer who has to be watched continually, lest she send out something like this thing here-a let ter that any reputable house would blush for -such a stenographer - well, I have uo use for her." Now, as sho took her homeward way, Mildred reflected upon these ..ords of her employer, realizing with shame aud contrition that she had been guilty of sending out on one of Theophilus Vaughn & Co.'s letter heads a "thing for which any repu table house would blush." There were no,misspelled words there, the grammar was faultless, the . sentences properly constructed, and every figure iu it, with the possible exception of the blurred oue, had been set down correctly; yet to send ofT such a letter -a letter that looked as if it had been left lying out overnight in the rain was n discourtesy toward the firm's correspondents that barely fell short of an insult. r That evening occurred the party to which for. weeks she had been looking forward with the liveliest anticipations of pl .-asure; but her regret over that nu fori u?ate letter, joined to her anxiety concerning her future staudiug with Vaughn & Co.,h id brought on a head ache which of itself would have spoiled her enjoyment efl'eptually. So, after a dismal'attempt to take part in the gayety, she left carly and came home ready*to cry with disappointment. The next day chanced to be a holi day, and the one following it was Sun day. Forty-eight hours e>* greater Ap parent length Mildred v ;,sure she never had passed. On Monday she probably would learn whether or uot Vaughn*& Co. were to lose several hundred dollars by her blunder-if blunder it was; meanwhile the sus pense she-was being kept in seemed intolerable. If.the firm were called upon to beat the loss, would Mr. Vaughn visit the consequences, so far as he could,upon her head aud decide that he had no further uso for so unfaithful a stenog rapher? Whatever might bethe event she was forced to admit that she de served to lose her situation, that she no longer merited his confidence, and thus, with unhappy doubts and self qnestioniugs,the t wo intervening days dragged slowly by. Eariier than was her custom on Monday morning Mildred rc-urned the office. As she was removing her out of-door garments her glance fell in voluntarily on the pile of mail matter that George had brought from the postoffice audlaid ready for Mr. Vaughn upon his desk. It'was ? large pile,so large that the upper part of it had slid backward so as to reveal the edges'of some of the lower envelopes. She caught sight of a printed name in the left-hand corner of oue of them: "Marshall k Hobbs." She would have giveu a week's salary tc open that letter,but taking such a lib erty was out of the question. Mr. Vaughn arrived late, and in sc leisurely a manner did he opeu and read the letters that Mildred began tc wish she bad taken occasion to plac? that from Marshall k Hobbs on lop o the heap and thus saved herself nuiu^ long minutes of torturing suspense. Finally, when he reached it in dui course, he showed the most exasper ating calmness in making acquaintance with its contents-quite as if the los iug of several thousand dellars were a matter of no importance whatever. . While pretending to be busy herself, Mildred watched him with tremulous anxiety. His face, however, was ut terly inscrutable, and after having h?ld the open sheet in his fingers for full five minutes-or so it seemed to her-he turned and extended it toward ber, remarking briefly, "This may in terest yom" She seized the letter in what cam? near to being a frantic clutch and re seating herself, for she felt too weak to Stand, began to read: 'Tour valued favor of tba 20th inst, has been received and contents noted. The letter has been somewhat defaced m the copying-probably from c too free use of water by your oflice boy but we think we b?ve been able to make out all of it except the estimate given for tho No. 1009 castings. We aro in doubt whether the figures in tended are 13 or 15. Please telegraph the correct amount ou receipt of this, as wo cannot delay much longer in submitting our bid." "The moral of that seems to be," said Mr. Vaughn, quizzically, "if you must make a mistake make such a very bad one.that nobody can decide what ou earth your driving at. Now, Miss Chadbourne; I wish you would go out and telegraph Marshall & Hobb.s that the proper figure is fifteen. Prepay the charges, and have the message re peated, so as to make sure it is right. Do you .uderstand, and can I trns; you to do that?" "Yes,sir," the girl answered, blush ing at what she fancied to be a covert sarcasm. "And, Mr. Vaughn," she thought it best to add, "I want to tell you how-sorry I am for my carelessness iu copying that letter. You may be sure such a thing will not occur again." . "I trust not, indeed," was all the response he made, and she left the of fice in some uncertainty as to how her apology had been taken, but as he did not refer to the matter afterward she was finally encouraged to hope he had not lost faith in her entirely. She never really knew whether that important figure in the hurriedly writ ten letter was a three or a five, but sbd never allowed herself to be trou bled with any painful doubts as to her figures again; one escape from disaster was enough. Thereafter she made sure to have every letter she sent out exactly right in all particulars before it left her hands,and she was never again known to neglect her employers' interests for her ..wu pleasure or convenience, as she clearly recognized she had been guilty of doing in the case of her "un profitable hurry."-Youth's Compan ion. TO FIND PRIME BEEF. Pru.i.l T-/--... - '-j The prime steer used for beef pur- , poses weighs about 900 pounds. Of this amount there is in the carcass two sets of first quality ribs, consisting of seven ribs in each set and weighing about forty pounds per set. There are also two loins weighing about forty pounds each. There is, on nu average, 175 pounds of choice beef in each well regulated steer, but some butchers have baea known to sell porterhouse from a carcass after everything was gone but the horns. The remainder ofthc beef,after thc choicest bas been cut away, is called the "misnomer," from the fact that it sells at a lower price. A largo percentage of the most nutritious meat is found in the coarsest cuts, but nearly every one demands a part of tho 175 pounds, which is a false idea of domestic economy as well as judgment. Practical experience has shown that tho utilization of thc chucks, the best part of the nm nd, the rump, flank, the peate and brisket gives the best re sults and is conducive of better health than the' high-priced meats. Such parts need more attention while cook ing, however, yet the many tempting dishes that may be made from them more than repay for all extra trouble. Tho average housewife may not know it, but nevertheless it is a fact that butchors wno are daily and hourly handling all kinds of cuts of beef almost invariably choose for their own consumption flank steak. They say it is more savory and just as tender as tenderloin, which cut the butcher seldom eats. The flank steak is situated between the inside and out side lavers of creamy colored fat in the flank, and when taken from well fad stock is excellent, lt costs at the market but hali as much as porter? house or sirloin. QUAINT AND CURIOUS. The screw was one of the mechani cal powers known to the Greeks. Church attendance in England, early in thc seventeenth century, was en forced by law. An act of Parliament imposed a tine of one shilling upon every adult who missed church ser vico ou Sunday. Some timo ago the water of a well not many miles fromBerlin, Germany, began to taste of petroleum. Though cleaned repeatedly, it got worse, and at latest accounts 75 per cent, of the liquid was petroleum. A newspaper, printed partly in Eng lish and partly in the Cherokee lan guage, named the Phoenix, was pub lished at New Echota, in 1628. The types used were furnished by the United States government. A London plumber was arrested tho other day for stealing two houses. He was two months at work tearing them down and taking away the material without any one interfering with him. It was only when the owner went to look at his houses himself that he found they were gone. The principle of the telescope was described by Roger Bacon in 1250, and in 1537 Leonard Digges arranged lenses so that he could see very dis tant objects. In 1008 telescopes were constructed by Lipperhey and -Tensen. A description of these enabled Galileo, in the following year, to construct au Improved instrument, with which, iu 1610, he discovered Jupiter's satellites. Two Sorts. Hostess-Please play something classi:1, professor: play something pretty. Professor-Vich vii! yon haf virst, ma'am?-New York Weekly. <??oi<c S PERILS OP TEE The Brave Coast Guards While the S ? the year ?871 the Life-Saving Service of the United States was founded by Sumner L Kim ball, at that time head of the Rev enue Marine Bur reau of the Treas ury Department: He secured ap propriations from Congress, introduced scientific meth ods of saving lives and ship?, drilled the men, built stations nt points with in a few miles of one another from Maine to Florida, and along the shores of the Great Lakes, and effected Buch improvements that he got the en tire country heartily at his back. The amount of property and the number of lives saved, from the outset, was most impressive. In 1874 he prepared a bill to extend the work, to bestow medals upon deserving life-savers, ? to" collect and tabulate statistics of ma-, rine disasters, and to determine what points on the const were specially, liable to maritime calamities. He caused life-boats to be selected for particular regions with a view to their fitness for meeting the conditions there existing; he investigated the merits of various inventions in the way of guns for . shooting lines to wrecked vessels, and of life-cars and other devices for bringing persons from wrecks to the shore. Finally, 4. the Bureau was separated from the 1 Treasury Department, and set up in j business for itself. Our Life-Saving Service is now unique among nations. The greater,! part of our coast being practically uninhabited aud deserted, and in many places very daugerous to naviga tors, there was need that it should be sedulouslv watched. The entire B?ffrtfrV stormy" seasons, and' ?r~ r wreck can occur without being prompt-1' ly reported, and all possible means' taken to minimize loss. The men are perhaps the most thoroughly drilled, intelligeuG and efficient body in the world, and constant inspection and encouragement of the worthy maintain them at this high level. The station buildings are commodious and welr kept, and stored with whatever can be . of use in the service, or productive of benefit in educating the men. The latter are paid regular salaries by the Government, and in case of their dis- / nblemeut or death, pensions are prc- j vided for them or their families. Poli tics are kept rigorously put of the Bu reau; and altogether, its history and statistics are perhaps more gratifying to the national pride and pleasure & than those of any other bureau apper- ? faining to our GoTernment. Mr. Kim- v ball has been the right man in the right place, aud the life-savers them selves have magnificently supported - him by their achierements in the face ap of tremendous pe-ils and difficulties as Collier's Weekl; has a striking arti N< cle on tho Life-having Service fron wa which the following is taken: be The venturesome mariner may lay gft straight course pas Iceland and Spitzsh< bergen northward till he brings u set against the etemahce, by steering du as northeast from anjwhcro on the coa.'Sta of Eastern Massachusetts, and keejaut ing away encugh t< clear tho projec'hat ing headlnn.lsof N?vn Scotia and NOM wai foundlnnd. In olher words, when thpro northeast find arises in its might nu dar goes forth from its lair in the Arctsea seeking whim it may devour, the fir I laud that it strikes squarely is Cajgrei Cod andth?first large reaporttbatli the in its tracks P>03ton. tho The met?rologists tell us that mc ohe: of tho des?ctivo cyclone storms ori thir, inate in th Gulf of Mexico or eh scie LAUNCJTHE LIFI wher the South Ailnntic, fl i truthe warnings of appro? hurrRS at all seasons cou hr) I *_..fUi"-o u, j>tlt i,0 t'3 i trntlthis theory, it m then tho northeast win an ratructed sweep of some gaudmile? down the wide i (phenom ul ol that leads the Gulf i J from va Ligh eye to ? their m heavy t quires ordin?r ! LIFE-SAVEES ? ? Who Patrol the Shore t?rm Rages. northward it has a chance to develop a degree of violence that it cari hardly attain where its course is interrupted by outlying islands and reefs. During the comparatively calm and peaceful voyage that most travelers by sea achieve from New York or Boston to London, Liverpool or Southampton they are told that when the ship crosses a tract known to sailormen as "the BEACHCOMBERS AT W( hole in the wall" their seamanship is likely to be tested. The reason for this is that until that point is reached the southward'sweep oi wiud and wave ds more or less modified by submerged shallows such as the Grand Banks and other ridges that are revealed by deep sea soundings. It is not surprising, therefore, that the accumulated force of a protracted winter's gale is some thing terrific when it breaks on the sandy headland that forms the ex tremity of Cape Cod. On one of the high sand dunes that form this promontory stands the High land Light, looking out to sea, and from sunset to sunrise, year in and year out, sending its rays over leagues of restless ocean to give warning of the dangerous sand-bars that are formed by waves and current all along jhis coast. >. The Government observers of ocean phenomena, in their forecasts of North Atlantic weather for the winter this zone and extending southward as far as Hatteras, or perhaps even till they melt away into the gentle trade winds of the tropics. But not even the hydrographie office ventures as yet to predict very far ahead the SAVED P.r THE" BP.EECT?ES DUOT. iproach of phenomenal storms such visited this coast at the end of )vember. It could and did give truing several hours before the storm gan to make itself felt at the Yir iia capes and along up the Jersey 3re. Hurricane signals w ero promptly ? at every station away up the coast far as the jurisdiction of the United ites extended, and if the coastwise horities of tho British possession 1 only been willing to accept the ming of American weather phots tlyay, too, might have shown iger signals for the benefit o? their faring population, t is a singular characteristic of a it many masters of vessels, from flag-officer of a squadron down to skipper of a coasting sloop, to risk a certain contempt for every ig that savors of meteorological nee or official interference. TO in{ so inf r thc gO( fri< pla -BOAT. tships are anchored with an noient conditions of tempest, ooring chains aro so huge and hat to lift one ot the links re something ol' an elfovt to au y man. In spite of all, this enal gale tore theoe lightships ooriugs, breaking the huge i AI homo gorge The li in gol with c siciam with g C?.ps Vi and ht Tribut Mas; (optics chain cables anti sending them adrift to svork their way under sail to sucb harbor as Providence might vouchsafe. One of them, the Pollock Pip light ship, was driven away down toward the Delaware Capes, aud was at last picked up and towed to a place of safety by the Belgian steamer Switzer land. As this is written revenue Vessels are out looking for the othor lightships that are adrift^ andj as still other storms have intervened between then and now; the question of finding them becomes more and more doubt ful. Td recount even ti, few of the inci dents and adventures' arid daring deeds of rescue performed alike by men of the Life-Saving Service and by volunteers who manned lifeboats and went to the rescue of crews on board 3P.K ON THE SALVAGE. foundering vessels that they met on the high seas would take far more space than is at my disposal. Wher ever human life was imperiled men were ready with daring hearts and skillful hands to rescue their fellows without hope or prospect of reward, and whilb instances have been re ported of alleged plundering of wrecked persons and property along shore, the weight of evidence, on the side of courage and faithful discharge of duty, is largely in the lead. Heaven graufc that the interval may be long before suoh another storm descends from the Northern Ocean! It Houser! His Ambition. The fat boarder groaned softly as he watched the landlady hand around the cold chicken. Ho saw his finish. It would either be a section of tho back, or a leg joint. He wasn't much of a favorite with the landlady. . "I am not," he sorrowfully re marked, "a man of ambitious long *.-??, -T-^?^4?.in?_far..th?.eares oi But it never struck me "so forcibly as it ('.oes this earning that I would like to be Presid "And wh;. the unsuapf "Because fat boarder "because th dines-and custom-is firsl." And he took his section of back with a heavy sigh.-Cleveland Plain Dealer. is evening?" inquired g landlady. President," said the . an unctuous fervor, resident, whenever he au old and beautiful ariably waited upon The Passing of tlie Tow-Path Mule. The speediest solution of the canal 3oat difficulty is offered by M. Salliot, )f Dijos, France, who has invented an dectric traction engine which will run >n any towpath without rails. The notivo power is furnished by au over lead trolley wire. The towing cable s fastened to the back of the engine, nd in the cab sits a man who does the teering and controls the current. The )comotive is perfectly stable, and bands all sorts of shunting and cross WING CAXAEBOATS EY ELECTRICIT2? j. Experiments made in Paris were successful that the problem of tow t; canalboats seemed to be solved. This photograph, taken near one of i European capitals, shows how the )d, old, sure-footed, long-eared md of our fathers has'been sup nted. t i c i s t F F e w. o ii h; gi tc 8G lo re fo co mi ta? pa sel thi soi th< fat Our Traile in Locomotives. n 1896 we exported 312 locomotives, 1897 34S, in 1898 580, and the con 2ts for 1899 already exceed that ?ber. It will not be long before erican locomotives are used on ry great railroad in the world, be so they aro universally conceded to the best made. Consul Smyth, of ll, in a recent letter io the Secre ' of State says the announce* it that the Midland Eailway Com y had closed a large contract for locomotives with American build "fell like a thunderclap among ish manufacturers," and the man s were compelled to make an ex ation through the newspapers. 7 said that orders placed with iflh manufacturers in 1897 for '-eight engines had not yet been I and that they could get no def satisfaction as to their delivery, ?omotives are a necessity to the ?any," he continued; "we must thom, so the directors decided to enders from America, ten engines from two firms, the Baldwin and Schenectady, to be deliverod n ten weeks from the receipt of rder."-Chicago Record. 'he Gorgeous Insurgent Officer. Causas boy in Manila thus writes : "My, you ought to see the ou6ness of the insurgent officers, ttle brown rascals strut around d lace. They wear red trousers louble white stripes like ourruu white coats, green epaulets old stars on them, aud white 'ith gold eagles and white shoes, ?w they do strut!"-New York jachusetts is caring for 500 epi of all ages from four to seventy. . EARLY CHRISTIAN G?NS, Recent Find of Alleged MewbCftlC Coln rai Paris Has Aroused Numismatists. A holy coin found by Boyer d'Agett in Paris, and alleged to bea specimen of the Messianic coin which was in use among the Christians in Jerusa lem during the first century after the birth of Christ, is stirring' rip consid erable discussion in England arid on the continent. The coin bears a por trait of the Savior, with the name of Jesus in Hebrew characters. On the reverse, in Hebrew characters, is this motto : "The Messiah, tho King, will come in peace- He is tho incarnate living light of men." The claim that this coin was in cir culation in the first century after Christ is disputed in England, where George Mackey, a noted coin collec tor., shows almost au exact duplicate of the Parisian coin. This coin was unearthed in 1812 by a peasant's daughter who was helping her father dig potatoes in Irelaud. Cn one side is the head of the Savior, with a Hebrew inscription as shown in the illustration, and on the reverse a Hebrew inscription reading: "The Messiah has reigned. He came in peace, and being made the light of man He lives." Walter Davis, member of the Lon don iS'umismatical Society, has dis covered that a similar coin is de scribed in Kev. E. Walsh's "Essay on Ancient Coins, Medals and Gems," and according to this authority the character at the back of the head is the Hebrew letter "Aleph," and the characters in front of the face form the Jewish name Jesus. Still another holy coin, one of silver and somewhat larger than those mentioned, was submitted some time ago to the authorities at the British Museum. There is no such coin there, but the verdict, passed on the coin submitted was "Italian coin seven teenth century. Son of "Jesse, the Messiah, was crucified on the siith day and taken down on the sixth day. Ile lived." The owner of this coin disputes the grfat age of any of these so-called holy coins. -TSCTcrronc cimu-SlUUy in^uiatMprTsvnooisr Scientific child study has commenced in the public schools of Chicago, and while as yet it has reached no definite stage, a beginning has been made at least. The most notable test now being made is that through the medium of the ergograph, which is the invention of Professor A. Mosso, of Italy, and is for the purpose of determining the stored np energy of the pupil. Apart from the ergograph tests there are others, all o? which are deemed es sential. lu the first place, the pupil is weighed, then his height is carefully ;aken, both stouding and sitting. Then comes the ergograph. It con sists of two main parta, one of which s a cylinder, revolved by means of ilockwork, about which a paper strip s pasted. The working portion of the econd part is a- small sliding carriage, 0 whicn is attached a stylographic 'eu, the point of which rests upon the aper covered cylinder. To one nd of this carriage is attached a ?eight, and to the other a cord made f twisted wire. The arm of the pupil to be exam led is strapped into a rest, the latter aving no connection with the ergo raph, however, so that it is possible 1 move?>nly the fingers. The child's icond finger is then hooked into a op in the wire cord, and the pupil is quired to work the finger back and rth in time with a metronome, a utrivauce for marking time. This ives the carriage and the pen at ihed back and forth, and on the per of the cylinder, which has been t into a barely perceptible motion, 3 pen records an unbroken line nething like the teeth of a saw. As i finger of the pupil weakous from igue the distance he is able to pull riXXXG A SCHOOL. PUPIL BT MEAN'S OF THE ERGOGRAPH. carriage forward grows shorter shorter until he cannot move it 1, and consequently tho mark of ?en on the paper over the cyliu lecomes almost perfectly straight, w, the principle upon which the ition of the ergograph is based is ?uy ono set of muscles is an iu o the general condition of the A Cause of Round Shoulders. akness of constitution or health cl to be ene of the first causes of I shoulders, and the person thus ed should take the best and most ?bing food. A tonic is needed, ar hours should be kept regard leals and sleep, and plenty of ar exercise should be indulged . hard mattress is the best to ju, aiul t he pillows should never rb. While walking the head ! be held up and tho body car act. Sewing or reading should ie doily in a iuw chair, but ono ias a straight back to lean Is pa bu E\ ev mc ?in cr< tio nat noi git ves hoi thr wit has thr du? 1 if t Thc che and piec aboi fron pine qnis sing muc kerc threi mus vent delic Th now and i this'' einpl this { skillf turke little low a hours over ti quail, chase uuder hunte in his It i: a goo< few m He wi hours dicate game i ceived ?..ile oi stragh with'tl he trac WHEN LOVE LIVES? When ?ll the world, for Sj <ng s swe?t sake, lt% festal robe of grew? put on, Aird flowers wero ga/ in field and brake Because the Winter1? power was gone; Within the white-..earled hawthorne tree You frftftrd the mated thrushes sing; You had no word to say to me, For all your thought was of the Spring. An I when a thousand buds uncurled A thousand scents your garden knew, I And v.hen the wonder of the world The Summer world grew clear to you; You heard the skylark overhead Between Rreen'flelds and sky of Woe? You had no heart for me. you 6aid, Summer had won your heart from yott* But now the woods grow thin and brown, Tho dry fems shiver in th? broeze, j The year puts off her bridal gown, Puts on her mourning draperies. Down io your orchard robins sing; Ah ! Can you bid me RO, my dear? For Summer's gone, and gone is Spring; 'Tis Love alono lives out the year. HUMOROUS. An Irish philosopher says it's ? wise man who has his after thoughts first. "What frightfully tall collars Harry Higgs wears." "Yes; he can't see that his shoos are not blacked." "We didn't have time to stop, so we bought a lunch and ate it as we drove along." "Ab, I see-you dined a la cart. " "I rise for information," shouted an excited politician. "I am very glad to hear it," said a bystander, "lor no mau wants it more." "lour daughter has a rather pecu liar name." "Violetta Jernsha? Yes, but the grandmothers she is named after are both rich." "3Iy first dumplings !" sho exclaimed: And she looked so very sweet He was carried away and protested, '.They look nice enough to eat !" . "I cau't go to jail," said a funny vagrant. "I have no time." "The court provides that," said the magis trate. "I give you ten days." "The ?Tinkle girls have given up all their social ambitions." "Money run wt?" "No; they couldn't teach their mother to say 'candelabra' " } Teacher-You must know "book" is neuter geuder. When did you ever hear of a masculine book? Tommy I've heard of "hymn" books, miss. Magistrate (sternly)-You're a piti able specimen of humanity. What brought you to all this degradation and disgrace. Prisoner (proudly)-It took three policemen. Cholly-I'm the only one left in London. Grace-Then why do you stop? Cholly-Why I wondered how^ Wobinson Cwusoe felt and I wanted to fiud it out, don't you know. Thero aro poems unwritten and songs un sung- ; Eut don't let this fact get your nerves all unstrung; 'Tis economy wond'rous for midnight lamps And thiak what an awful saving of stamps. "I trust," she said, patronizing -^rtrwryoror^^^ jon ~ confine your efforts to an elevated pl; ne." "Assuredly I do, madam," was the reply. "I am a frescoer, and invariably work with a ladder." "You say, " remarked the pedestrian, "that you have vainly wished for work." "Mauy a time," answered Meaudering Mike. "What is your avorite occupation?" "It all de )e:uls on where I happen to he. In )regon it's pickin' bananas, and in florida it's shovelin' snow." A widow went to the office of the nsurance company where her late .'-bund had insured himself in order 0 receive payment of her claim. Dur-' ig tho conversation which ensued the 1 erk remarked sympathetically that e was very sorry to hear of her hus ..ind's death." Whereupon she fair-' . staggered him by remarking, 'Ton en are all the same-always sorry, hen a poor woman gets the chance of little money." ? Prom ?Mind inf? in Manila. ' The Caljada, in Manila, Philippine lands, is an odd sight in tho latter rt of the afternoon, when the day's' sin ess is over and the air is cooler".] .ery one is there, and, as nearly erv one knows every one and has >re time to be polite than folk have some other parts of the world, the >wd is in a state of continual salu'ta-' n. The newcomer fears the promo ters have got to going so they will t be able to stop, but when the md bells of the cathedral toll for pera he will discover his misappre isiou, for every one in that great ong will bow or kneel silently, h uncovered head, and, before he realized what he is looking at, the ong is nodding right and left as in ?triously as ever. "he native women dress prettily,and hey have money, very expensively. >y wear only two garments-a short misette, coming hardly to the waist, a saya, or skirt, made ?.f a single se of cloth, and wrapped tight at the figure. The material is pina, i the fibre of bromelia, .a kind of tapple. The best quality is ex itely fino and is transparent. A> le saya will cost sometimes as li as 32000, a scarf $200 and hand" hiefs from $25 to $100. The ids are so light that great care t be taken in the factories to pre-' gusts of air from tangling the ate strands. Turkey? Tracked by Dogs. e wild turkey in the Ozarks is hunted with a slow-tracking dog, A-hole flocks are often killed in svay. Till the trained dog was oyed to follow up the wary bird jame fowl could baffle the most ul hunter. Now when a flock of vs is found the sportsman has difficulty. A good dog will fol turkey track that is three or four old, and set the birds when iken, just as the pointer does the After the turkey has been d awhile it hides in a tree or a log, an'i stays there, until the r guided by his dog, comes with rauge. s astonishing what fine instinct I turkey dog will develop after a onths of training in the woods. II follow a flock of turkeys for just ahead of the hnnter.and in? by unmistakable signs when the is ne ir. After a turkey has re a fatal shot it may fly half a r more. 'A trained dog will go t to a wounded or dead turkey ie ?ame precision with which ks the game.-Chicago Record.