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?HE r?AtlONAL BANK OF AUGUSTA I L. C. HATNK, Pree't F. G. FORD, Cashier. Capital, $250,000. Undivided lTo?ltt f $110,000. Facilities of oar magnificent New Vault [containing 410 Safety-Lock Boxes. Differ ent Sizes are offered to our patrons and the public at $3.00 to 910.00.per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND SAVINGS RANK. AUGUSTA, GA. F*7S Interest on Deposits. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Hajne, President. Chas. C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXV1?. EDGEFIELD. S. C., WEDNESDAY. JULY 16. 1902 NO. 29. . UND?R-SEA TALE OF A DE IBy ARTHUR I The old diver was putting a rubber latch on one of his son's suits. "It ain't what you could call a right handsome piece of tailoring, is it?" he said. "The waist's just a trifle too much like a sea-cow's, and as for the . " trousers, an elephant's ain't much bag gier. I don't wonder that when a maa gets into clothing like this, and then crowns it with a head-pieee like a - wall-eyed lookout lamp, a shark h?ver -takes him for anything human and eatable. "No, ? shark won't touch ? man *ih ?rmor.' And they're not so mighty fierc? ?fter human flesh out of it: On ? 'black' coast the natives'li tell you they can run the surf and dive" for ?6?hs without much danger b?c?us? s?a-tigers' hardly ever touch any but white men; and almost all whit?s in ;hark waters have a firm belief that dark meat'is the only sort the brutes rare about. "As for their cruelty-'hough I've ..sot a shuddering, vivid recollection of tho fury of one of them when wound ad-I don't believe much in that, eith er. Whim they make ? kill they tear lt to pieces and down it the q?icke?* Ihey can, which isn't more brutal than nature. Indeed, what's made me sick a hundred times has been the cruelty . . * of sailors and fishermen toward them. I like fish in a pan just a little better than I like them in the water. But it's ? worse animal than I've ever run Keross that deserves torture. And ?ea beasts are, as a rule, the most harm less, easy-going, good-natured tribe imaginable. "My only adventure with a fehark was in the spring when I hired with a regular wrecking company, and had my first job south of Cuba. That was the rising of the famous Georgia Belle, Y'hich'was about the unluckiest and costliest yacht that ever kept a mil lionaire from worrying lest he'd die rich. "On this occasion she'd rlln oh ttn? o1 those saw-tooth reefs off Cayo Lar go in the Jarilinillos; and after giving her owner and his friends Just time enough to get away in the boats, she'd ? backed and took to the bottom, firs', bow and then stern. Wnen I climbed .-^Tlown to look at her, 1 found 30 feet S Of her forward sheathing from keel lo cutwater riddled and torn like a biscuit-tin target. And the first part cd my job was to sling myself over her side, like a house painter fror roof, and put a 'sticking-plaster* . "roncrete and canvas over every ~-v rd those thousand odd holes. It ws *. month's contract, and promis?lrto H a mighty tedious cnv, J.op. ^ \J . _ "But up above we had Cohsiderd -. ' i verdon. Not only were there*: ply-boat, but there was a Batabi spoil sing-sloop raking off the reef, ana* her officers used to come over even ings and entertain Us" with music. They had only a cranky mouth-?rga? and a broken guitar; but wo all used to join in the chorases. "Whether it was the racket or the refuse from the cook's galley, we brought ourselves a visitor. The third day I was down, a heavy shadow sud denly swung over my head. At first I thought the tug. had warped round ; but when I looked up I saw a fls!i that seemed as big as a topedo-boat It hung above me there in the under sea twilight, slowly furling and unfurl ing its tail like a propeller standing up against a tideway. "I knew what it was. My whole , inner machinery seemed to stop short, my blood went cold and heavy as mer cury, and I clutched at my sling cables lo keep myself from, falling. What I'd heard of a man in armor being safe - from sharks went out of my head like the bubbles from my helmet; and when at last the 'sea-tiger' slewed around, and slid quietly off through the black-blue wall, of ocean behind me, I caught at the signal-line as if I .ii ere drowning. "Up on the tug, though, they only thought it was a great joke. They had seen the man-eater! The mate r.aid he seemed to him 'about the length of the Great Eastern, and the mouth on him looked like a church door hung with icicles.' Tivey, the engineer, declared it was true that fcbarks had the power of throwing off electricity, for at first it was as if they had a galvanized jumping-jack at the end of the life-line. "It ended with myj;oing down again, looking silly and feeling mighty shaky about the middle^ But I wasn't trou bled again that day. "Yet next morning the shark was around, and off and on through that week. He was always alone. It was tho small fish, though, that always gave me the first warning. As I scraped at the Belle's sheathing, a dozen or more little 'gropers' were all the time at my elbows on the watch for broken shell-fish and barnacles, like chickens after worms when you're spading a garden; and all of a sudden they'd whip away, and next moment the shadow would swoop in over me. I'd work myself around sidewise on the slings, turning slow as the hands of a clock for fear he'd notice me though I knew his eyes were placed so he could only see level and- upward -and then I'd grip myself tight an j watch him through the ghost sun light. "Yet for all my fright, I couldn't help helng fairly fascinated by the -way he handled himself. No fish seen from under water seems able to make an ungraceful move, and that great . 38-footer threw off curves like a show penman doing decorative birds. I sup pose it's because a shark has a kind of elastic cartilage instead of bone, but I know no eel was ever freer in its motions. And he could turn, not only in his long length, but as if on a pivot, though how in nature he could do lt with nothing but fins and tail beat me. "But the times when h? came in be 7;ind me or dropped down from the rt: rf ace to see" me working-those were . minutes when the only feeling I had was cold, sick dread. He would hang there, his nose almost under my arta cr over my shoulder-I could feel the water move with him .he was so close SHARKING, EP-SEA DIVER; s. MCFARLANE. F -and look on like a big dog watching a man whitewash a fence. "He wasn't ugly or threatening, merely interesced in a lazy, casual sort of way. But while he was there I never moved, even to turn my head. And when he came in 'slantwise from above, and I caught a glimpse of his great blunt muzzle and crescent jaws ragged with arrow-head teeth, X would make one gasping vow. that if I got up safely no money would ever get mo down again. "But once out of Water and on the tilg am??g the ra?n, ? hadn't the spunk tb speak. Two words to the boss, and he'd have had the shark put out of business in h? time, some way Or Oth^ er. Not one diver ia ?0 has his right courag? tind?r wat?r; bdt ? w?fc to? y??hg te acknowledge th?t theiL 1 .pretended that i'd got used te i?y VisP tor-indeed, that I was rather interest ed in watching him. "I don't suppose I fooled them much. Tivey, the engineer, seemed to guess the truth of the matter, anyway, and with an old man'3 delight in picking en a younger one, he did what he could to add to my misery. He'd throw out hi's greasy waste whenever the brute came around, by way of keeping iv from deserting. And sometimes when I was Up, he'd pitch a piece of pork nailed to a barrel stave. Its jaws would clash on it like a bear-trap, and (he old fellow would chuckle horribly and say: 'Wait till ye get absent minded Some time down below, and move your arm too ?ttdden! You'll find that everything I hat moves quick ip pork to him!' "Then the next time the brute came hear me I would sit all hunched to gether, and as I felt him nose me, now this side, now that, I quaked as if from a spurt of icy. water. Once he brushed me with his elephant's ear of a forward fin and rolled his great p?rth against me as he turned. I stif fened out with a jerk that almost spilled me off the slings. "Well, that sort of thing couldn't go on, and it didn't, but the end of it came from a direction and w.'th a suddenness I hadn't had any hope of. As you may know, a good many Key West spongers, when regular, business ic slack, do a little 'tiger-killing.' For shark's about half liver, and it tries tut gallons to a cod's gills, though of ii?r? -1 ly enough,' and the other rue*. , keen for the sport. ; "Early the.next morning the spong ers brought over their line. There was a hundred fathoms of it, with a slx:foot snood of' steel chain and a regular old-time blubber-spade of a harpoon. The men rigged the small windless for a reel, and I had them set it well up in the bow, figuring to avoid fouled lines. Then I put on ex tra weight, for my idea after making my strike was to drop from the slings like a plumb, and then lie lbw on bot tom. I started down In a sort of Joy ous excitement. "I hadn't much more than laid the iron down beside me and got to work M hen my groper 'chickens' melted out of sight. I felt the water push against my back, and I knew the brute was cnce more behind me. "I turned, but gradw My as a jack pcrew. His great torpedo-shaped head hung well within reach. If I could get him through that pulpy . mackerel crown! But he suddenly drew back, i saw I would have to do some shadow catching. The excitement made me cool. He hove to, and began to throw bis lazy curves about me. That gave me broadside chances, but I wouldn't take them. Then, seemingly without the slightest fear, he turned and came straight in on me. "I threw up the iron. His vicious bot tle-green eyes caught the quick move ment with one hungry flash, and the next movement the huge curve of muddy white was whirling over at and at me! "I struck wildly just below the spreading reef of jaws, and threw my self oft the slings with an unnerved jell of terror that roared and boomed about my helmet as 4 went the 20 feet to bottom. There I flattened my pelf beside a big f.rkin-like 'logger head' sponge, and lay gasping. "The Nantucket sharking boats are not only built solid as ice-crushers, but are covered with heavy steel-wire meshing as well. For even the six-and eight-foot 'wolves' they go after will often turn when strv k and try to tear the little craft to pieces in their fury. Ii I'd known that then, I'd have eaten and slept with all the 'tigers' in the Caribbean before I tried any under-sea harpooning. "I could feel something sawing and chopping at my hose and line, and fear alone forced me to turn over and see what it was. The water above me was in one swirling ilraw and surge, like the double maelstrom whirl from the screws of an ocean steamer; but there was little sand to rise from bot tom, and I could take in the situation with horrible clearness. "I had simply set the brute mad with rage, and not having me to vent it on, he had flung himself at the slings. The hanging stage was already jerking about in ragged splinters, and as he leaped and twisted and doubled, his jaws caught and gnashed it through^ again and again. Then he threw him** self against the -side of the Belle, rip ping and striking and pitching about l'.ke 20 rabid panthers. When he let tis tail go, it was like a bunch of elas tic thick as a tree loosed off at full stretch. He struck faster than a thrasher can use a flail. "I hop? I may never again have such feelings as I had during those min v.*es. It seemed nothing but a choice of deaths. At any moment he might s see me hiding, yet if ? Slipped my weights and tried ? r?sh for the top he would surely p??nce on me. if he gdt his line roiind mi??-going like a shuttl? as he was, too-that was only another ending: If niy air-hose once fell . ?cross his teeth, an oat-straw couldn't be shorn through my m?wer knives any more easily. I lay and waited. "When he tired for a minute of lash ing out at the Belle and the tangled wreck of the slings, he drew off, sav agely, throwing his head from side to side and snapping his bear-trap jaws at every jerk. Then he started to whirl spindlevise; and when he'd spun all the slack about him-and they shouldn't have let Mm have a fathom Of it-he suddenly stopped dead, and Uko a cracking whip, with one plunge flung free again. "The 'liff of the water from it al most twisted mc from my loggerhead. And then he was back at tho slingy and tackle again. I lost all sense so completely that I got to talking to myself, like a surgeon to a child. "I found out later that my tenders fe?ht down one signal after another: I trever took the first of thom. Again ftnd again the shark came back, and when he was still for a hicment I felt he was looking for me; and with the terror of it my breath came sucking in through my teeth like a whiffling rafety-valve. "It ended as suddenly as it began. In one of his doublings the brute got Lil tall round the harpoon line, exact ly as a sailor kinks his leg round ;% rope he's sliding down. And when, the next moment, he stiffened out again with tho rebound of a sprung bow, the iron came away like a tooth on a string. Probably it had done no serious harm to that IS feet of gristle. "For a moment he hung \here, vi cious and uncertain, and thea sullenly moved away through the shadow and out to sea. I never saw him again. "The color of my hair didn't do any lightning changing In that quarter of rn hour; they pulled me up as red headed as ever. But I reckon, none ? the less, that I got considerably older iv wisdom. Since then, when I've been scared, I've generally been honest enough to own it, and when I've felt that I really had to go looking for trouTii -well, I've always had better ? prnae than to seek it with a harpoon ii! the under-s^a."-Youth's Compan ion, GUAINT ANO CURIOUS. The atmospheric pressure upon the i surface o; an ordinary man is 32,400 i pounds, or over 14 1-2 tons. The or- i dinary rise and fall of the barometer ? increases or decreases this pressure by IOUI i~ ! high estimate to saj .uai i. 000,000 to 10,000,000,000 feet of lumber i are annually thus utilized. An observer of small things is said I to have seen a certain little fly run three inches, taking in the passage i from point to point, 440 steps-all in a second of time. To equal this, in proportion to hts size, a man would have to run 20 miles a minute. A com- [ mon flea leaps 200 times its own length. To do as well, a man six feet tall would have to jump 1200 feet. There has recently been mounted in the Admiralty building in London a British gun which has an interesting ; history. The gun, which is a bronze 12-pounder, was found last year in Pe kin by the Germans, and as it proved to be a British piece of ordinance it was handed over to Admiral Seymour, who discovered that it was the gun which he himself had lost from the gunboat in the Canton river in the Chinese war of 1S57-62. The Chinese had dredged it from the river and taken it to Pekin. The whitening of hair, so familiar to us, has not been easy to explain. In a recent study of the subject, E. Metch uikoff has found that nigment atrophy of the hair is due to action of pha gocytes, or white blood corpuscles, which absorb the pigment and trans fer it elsewhere; In whitening hair and its roots the phagocytes filled with pigments are numerous, while they gradually disappear as the process progresses, and are almost completely absent in perfectly white hair. This discovery of the part played by phago cytes sheds light on various puzzling facts. It shows, for instance, that the sudden turning white of hair in a single night,_or In a few days, is a result of increased activity set up in the phagocytes of the hair. ".cpeck*" in tin Itrlr?s?? Anny. The following order, nothing short of revolutionary, has just been issued by the British war office: "Officers and soldiers of the regulars are al lowed to wear spectacles on or off duty." Hitherto it has been a rule of the British army that no officer below the rank of major could wear glasses: this, of course, prevented all line officers, as well as all enlisted men, from wearing them. Officers of the guards and other regiments, some of whom needed the aid of glasses, got around the rule by. inventing the mon ocle, sometimes irrevelently called the "eye popper;" and a decision of the war office made years ago solemnly held that an officer might wear a monocle, because it had only one glass, and so did not fall under the rule prohibiting glasses. The new regulation apparpntly is the result of "the war in South Africa, which has developed that spectacled Boers can shoot, and In some respects at least will serve to bring tho British army up to the rtandard of the German and French armies, the officers and men of which wear spectacles or not, according as they need them.-New York Sun. The police force of Montreal, Can ada, are nearing lectures once a week on both civil and criminal law. I ELEVATOR. TO THE CLOUDS Captive Balloon With a Car Dairying From Below. ?1, Patrons of suburban parks have come to look for new sensational features every year, and it ls not improbable that some amusement promoter miry decide to offer his patrons this year ELEVATOR CARRIES PASSENGERS TO THE PLATFORM, Hie attraction shown in the illustration, which hus for its object the maintain ing of a platform at a great height, with au elevator to carry passengers up and down. Going up in a ballowl; " is a feat that tlie majority of peopje, do not care lo perform, but if thc balloon were captive, with no chased ' for it to escape, it would make little, diff?rence at what height lt was ari; chored; thc higher up it was the?great> er would be the temptation to ascend ?rid view the scenery. The intention of the inventor is to provide a car of lufficient buoyancy to carry cables af' great length, with means for drawidfc the balloons down to anchor lt "close this Case. men; 10 ?. in the observation platform, through which the car rises to discharge and take on passengers, with a single cable to operate the car. Joseph Greth is thc inventor. Tool For Ornamenting Wood. Smoked or charred wood, leather, etc.. have recently been used for deco rative purposes until much interest has been manifested in the prepara tion of designs and articles. In the il lustration is seen a new charring tool for this work, the invention of John P. Muller. It comprises a reservoir for the storage of a volatile liquid, which easily turns to gas when ex posed to the air, with compression bulbs for forcing aid through tb?V liquid and a stylus to be beated by the flame of thc resulting gas. The stylus is rounded at the tip and Is hollow, the flame being projected against the interior Instead of acting direct on the surface to be decorated. Pressure on the bulbs drives air through the liquid, mixing the latter in vaporous form with the air and forc HEATED STYLUS CHARS THE WOOD. ing it to the point of delivery inside; the stylus. Here a flame is presented to ignite the jet, after which frequent pressure on the bulb maintains tho flame and controls the temperature of the charring tool. The more rapid the flow of air and gas the greater the? heat generated. Brush With Son? Mugazlne. | A self soaping scrubbing brush Is the j novelty illustrated herewith in section and perspective. At the back of the SF.LF-SO APING SCRUBBING BRUSH. brush a stamped galvanized receptacle is provided for holding the soap, which may consist of waste, or chipped pieces, as most convenient. These are Introduced through a circular opening. Thc sectional illustration shows-plainly tlie openings through which the soap and water are fed to the fibre or bris ?les. Tho manufacturers of this nov elty assert their brushes use a mini mum of soap, ?ind there is no lYead (0 swili thc door with n wet cloth before beginning to scrub. The brush is easily cleaned TRACKLESS TROLLEY LINE A Company Gets Permission to Build One in Franklin, N. H. The first trackless trolley line in America will be in operation at Frank lin, N. H., the City Council having granted permission to a company to erect poles and wires for the system between the railroad stations.^ Work upon the new line is to be begun at once. A fine stretch of macadam road will serve to give the trackless trolley an excellent opportunity. In Germany a line of the sort has been operated from the old fortress of Konigstein through the Biela valley, the cars making use of the highway and street pavements without diffi culty. The cars were at first operated over a distance of a m'le and a half, but an extension of the service by eight or nine miles is planned. In place of the usual single overhead trolley wire there are two wires, allow ing play enough for the car to deviate about ten feet, when need be, from its ordinary course. When cars have to pass, the motor man of one merely has to remove his trolleys from the wires for a moment while the other car slips past. . Thc ability to change direction within lim its, of course, will be necessary to allow passing other vehicles on the road. The basic idea of such a linc is not a new one. As far back as 1882. Sie lt is a well-known tact that with mowers and reapers it is difficult to cut grass or grain which has been blown RUNS IN EITHER DIRECTION. down by the wind and become lodged on the ground. This trouble arises largely from, the necessity of having to cut around and around the piece on all sides with the machines now in use, instead of doing all the cutting on the most convenient side. To pro vide a machine which can be run back and forth on the same side of the field, Nils S. Hludbjorgen has designed the reversible mower which we show in the illustration. The tongue of the machine is pivoted at thc centre, and by pulling a lever the pin which locks the tongue to the curved frame ia drawn and the team is swung around tu pull the mower in the opposite di rection. The cutter bar has a double set of knives and the mulling gear works as well in one direction as thc other. The mower is also designed for use in large fields, where it is not de sirable to cut clear around the piece on account of its size. The Scldsors EftK Opener. To be extremely technical in de scribing this invention it embodies a series of jaws relatively movable toward each other to contact with the shell of un egg simultaneously at dif ferent points in a single horizontal plane, whereby a continuous line of fracture is produced. To tell the-etory in simple form, this egg-opener has two curved arms pivoted together op posite the haudles and carrying three curved plates. Those plates have slots and pins as a connecting medium, and when the handles are drawn to gether the arms contract the plates. This causes the pins to slide from the outer ends of the slots to the innei CONTRACTION HANDLES OLir SHELL. ends, contracting the size of the open ing sufficiently io cause the alia rp teeth to Lite into the shell and sevet lt A ONE- ARMED MACHINIST A Vise on the End of a Stump to Take Place of a Hand. Gustav E. Soderbaum, of Holyoke, Muss., was born on thc Fourth of July, and since bis arrival in this country ten years ago two of his seven children were born on the same memorable day. The result is that the Fourth of July is a day which must be properly ob A SUBSTITUTE FOU A LOST HAND. served in the Soderbaum household. While this was being done a few years ;igo a cannon prematurely exploded and blew off Soderbaum's left hand. Being a machinist, lt was thought that ho would never be able to follow his trade again, but as ho had acquired much valuable knowledge and experi ence in his line he was greatly grieved it the prospect in front of him. He resolved to make an effort to do his old work and had a device made, de signed in a measure to take the place sf the missing hand. This he does with an attachment to the arm which probably differs consid erably from any other ever devised. The cut (from the American Ma chinist) shows the attachment of thc irm with the vise in place. This vise was made by its user, and is for hold in?r chisels. centre-Duuch. letter stamps, "..uv., mu soon, with the result that he has a blackened face and perhaps a blinded eye to show for his curiosity. Antonio Delgrandc lias designed the firecrncked shown in the drawing with the intention of eliminating the dangei of accident from this cause. To ac complish this result the cracker lt. made with a preliminary alarm ar rangement which, while not sufficient to injure the face or hands, explodes with enough force to frighten the child and cause it to jump back in time to escape the effect of the main exp?o? sion. As will be seen U3- a glance at the picture the fuse is similar to that hitherto emplo3*ed for discharging tho cracker, but instead of passing direct ly through the packing, wad into the main charge of the explosive,, it enters a preliminary division (??-ihr- *";be, oon OIVES WARNING BEFORE THE EXPLOSION taming a small charge of powder or illuminating compound. After passing through this compartment the fuse extends to thc malu explosive charge. Catche* und Kills tho Moths. The affinity of the moth for the flame is well known, and this Inordinate love is utilized in the device illustrated herewith to exterminate the insect. A DEVICE TO EXTERMINATE INSECTS. metallic receptacle is provided, which h ts the sides sloping toward each other at tile top. On this receptacle are placed (wo plates of tin or other poi ished tu? 'al. piovided with slots, wliich allow them to 1K> set at right angles to each other, supporting a small lamp cu the shelf formed at the centre. The receptacle underneath is partially filled witli water, and a small quantity of coal oil is placed on the surface to kill the moths or other insects, which, at tracted by the bright flame and the numerous reflections on the surface of ?he tin, will circle around the appa ratus until they : .. ike against ono 01 the reflectors, falling into the liquid. EXCLUSIVE TRADE MILE. WHAT MOST DISTINGUISHES NEW YORK FROM OTHER CITIES. Where People to Whom Cost I? "So Ob ject Buy Their Goods - Stockings at S150 a Pair und Ti ? ras from 8150,000 l'p-Can Get lticli on One Order a Week. The thing that most distinguishes New York from other cities is found in Fifth avenue, between Twenty-sixth and Forty-second streets. Here, for nearly a mile, stretch block after block of little stores. Many of them are no larger than the shops of Hes ter street. Tho majority are smaller than the average retail stores on Third avenue. The narrow, low buildings frequently contain several establish ments, one to each floor. And yet the men who do business here pay enor mous rents, for they occupy part of tho most valuable ground in the world. There are, of course, in other cities small stores in localities of great wealth, but here is a whole mile of them, in two almost unbroken rows. These stores are the most pronounced evidence of New York's enormous wealth, for nowhere else could they Lave survived, in face of the great de partment stores and large houses in the more active centers of trade. These small stores could not com pete with the larger ones, but they ex ist, because in New York so large a proportion of the people do not need to consider the cost of things. A small, exclusive place appeals to them be cause it is small and exclusive. They value their wealth principally because it permits them to pursue their whims, and they are willing enough to pay the price sufficient to maintain a compara tively private emporium. There is very little about these stores that is in touch with the mod ern life of trade. There are no cash registers, no cash-boys and girls, and in most of the places no cashiers or bookkeepers, and one might be tempt ed also to think that there were no customers. For an hour at a time in more than one of these places yester day, no one entered. One can pass the entire day loitering here, and scarce ly see a sale made. And yesterday was an ideal day for shopping. The avenue outside was thronged with a wealthy, leisurely multitude. Few, however, of the passing carriages and automobiles stopped. Of the people passing from window to window, idly inspecting the displays, not one in a hundred went inside. Under such cir cumstances, the merchant on Third avenue would go bankrupt. In most of these places, however, a single pur chase is often enough to provide a fine profit for a week. . . . stores Cv ?J s nothing bht ' _j.MAvi Hi i iiuaucrpnia. The leg was of black lisle, and might have been woven by a spider. The lower half was an open web over which was worked a delicate vine, also in black. This was- hand-embroidery. lt was beautifully done, and produced a most striking result. But there are now no more of these stockings to be had. The girl who was employed in the task is in the hospital, and this Philadelphia manufacturer is so peculiar in his na ture that he has refused to put another to the ordeal. The trade in stockings made to or- \ der seems to be an unusually good 1 one. A customer who came in yes terday to inquire for a $75 pair intend ed as a present, was told that he must wait for a few days, as the factory where they were being made was $50, 000 behind in its orders. A little further up the avenue was a jewelry store into which no one might look. Close against the glass of fhe windows was a carved oaken panel, rising some three feet. There was nothing but a word, in small gilt let ters, on the door, to indicate that there jewels might be had. Inside, the glass cases were filled with brilliant gems. The office was in the rear, and con sisted of a little roll top desk, behind a rail, where a pleasant-faced, gray haired old gentleman was leisurely writing a letter with a quill pen. "Why do you have no window dis *play?" he was asked. He looked up with a quiet twinkle in his eye as he said: "Because we do not want any." lt took some time to explain to him why so personal a ques tion might properly be asked, but fi nally he explained the philosophic principle underlying the barred and bolted apeparance of his front. "Our customers," said he, "are a class of people who like to think their dealings are exclusive. They would not readily cuy a costly necklace that every passing eye had seen. It would lose its value if it became too com mon." And then he added: "We feel that we are safer as we are. Your jewel thief seldom enters a store after what he has not seen. That, is, perhaps, a cu rious fact. for. of course, he knows that a store like this would have val uable treasures, even if they were not in the window. But when such crimes have been run to earth, it has almost invariably transpired that the thief has seen the jewels exhibited, and went in search of them. But. still, that is only incidental. We wish to cater to those who come on purpose to buy, and are willing to pay for property that is really private, and we do not wish to tempt the merely curious to come in side. If you would like to see some jewels." he said, "I will show them to you." He led the way into a little recep tion room, very small and very quiet, and very richly furnished.| In the centre was a little cabinet on a table. ' It doesn't look much," said he, tapping it with the fingers. Taking a key from his pocket, he lifted its front that rolled from view like the top of a desk, and revealed against a back ground of exquisite white velvet four diamond collarettes, a tiara, and a necklace of pearls. "Here." said he. indicating the neck lace, "is $175,000. It is intrinsically worth all that, but a woman whe wears it at her neck would rather take it from this hidden cabinet than from under the nose of the people on a holi day." "And yet," it was suggested, "your theory is unusual." "Not at all," he? answered. "A T. Stewart, the first merchant of New York, never had a window display." A flight of steps and a door to the left leads into a furnished store of three small rooms. It is not as large as an East Side flat. There is no stock at all, no office, no desk, no clerks. The proprietor receives a customer as a gentleman of leisure does a caller, and discusses business as they lounge in upholstery chairs. He has nothing to sell, but when the business is over he may, perhaps, put a check for $25,000 in his pocket He can then afford to wait a few days for another customer to drop in. His quarters are large enough, for he deal3 in castles of the air. His widow display is a single arm chair upholstered In cretonne with wide bands of flowers. "The styles have changed." said he. "A few years ago upholstery was rich and sombre, now it is bright and fan ciful. French cretonne has replaced the plush and brocade." The walls of this cosey store are adorned with sketches in water-color. These are the goods in stock. A cus tomer wanting a room furnished or .altered may have Ideas of his own or he may leave the whole matter to the merchant. There are those who worry about the smallest derails, who spend a week in giving their order, and who haunt the job until it is finished. A man will sometimes enter, stand by ihe door, and while consult ing his watch give the street and num ber of his residence, just finished, leave instructions to "fix it up all right,'* and be seen no more until he pays the bill of thousands. This mer chant deals only with private resi dences. The ordinary cost of decorat-, ing and furnishing a bedroom is from $1,000 to $1,500. But he can, if pvi *0 it. charge $8,000 for a single table. New York Post. A ROMAN SCHOOLBOY. Work Done by Graeco-ltoinan l'npila 2000 Yearn Ago. Something new In the form of an ex ercise book for budding Greek schol ars has made ita appearance in Ger many. Into this "Greek- Reader," says the Westminster Gazette, have been packed all sorts of delightful and al most unknown specimens of the litera ture of ancient Greece, such as fables, fairy tales, stories, etc., adapted uergarments, anoint and comb my hair, arrange my neck-cloth, put on a white uppergarment and a wrap per. Then I leave my bedroom to gether with my tutor and my maid, salute my father and mother and leave the house." The mixture of Spartan abstinence in leaving home without a breakfast and of the alto gether un-Spartan luxury of an at tendant tutor and maid is suggestive. The youth goes on to explain, with a deliciously pedantic air: "I reach the school, enter and say 'Good morn ing, my teacher.' He returns the salu tation. My slave hands slate, pen box and pencil to me. I sit down In my place and write, and then I cross out what I have written. I write from a copy and show it to the teacher. He corrects and crosses out what is bad. Then he makes me read aloud. Mean while the small boys have to learn their letters and spell out syllables. . Ono of the bigper boys reads to them v_ - - Others write verses, and I go in for a spelling competition. Then I decline and analyze some verses. When I have done all this I go home to break fast. I change my clothes, and I eat white bread and olives,cheese.figs and nuts and drink some cold water. Af ter breakfast I go back to school. I find the reader reading aloud, and be cays: 'Now we will begin at the be ginning.' " This schoolboy perform ance goes a long way to show once more that there is nothing new under the sun not even the trivial round of the modern schoolboy. Tho Modern Fattier. "Did you call on her father this morning?" "Yes, I did, and my head ls whirling yet.-" "Didn't use violence, did he?" "Violence! I guess not. I got Into his office all right. I had written ask ing for an appointment, and he at once pulled his watch on me and said: T can give you just seven minutes. Talk fast.' Well, say, that rattled me so that I could only 'stammer. 'You want tc marry my daughter, don't you?' he abruptly asked. I said I did. 'Any thing else?' ic roared. 'That's all,' I hastily said. He made a hurried mem orandum. 'Did you put your request ip writing?' I told him I hadn't done so. 'How irregular,' he snarled, and made another memorandum. 'When?' he yelled. "When Miss Amy is ready,' I replied. 'She says June.' he snorted, and made another memorandum. 'Where do you want to go on your wedding journey?.* he cried. 'Wherever Amy wants to go,' I murmured. 'She's going abroad,' he said, and worked away at another memorandum. 'One first-class suite on steamship Adriatic, June 25. I'll order it today. Any thing else?' he growled. 'No, thank you, slr,' I said. Then he put out a clammy hand. 'Glad to know you,* he said. 'Come in again some time when Tra not so busy. That's all. See you in June, I suppose. Good-day.' And I found myself gasping outside the door."-Cleveland Plain Dealer. Kven G?nln* Mistaken. "This beautiful morning," said tho poet, "I can feel the sap rising." "Perhaps it's only softening of thc brain, my dear," responded his wife. Atlanta Constitution.