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Edfiref ield Aavertiser J. L. M I MS, - - - EDITOR. Subscription Price-8;nt to any address for one y..-. ?~. 1.50; for "?ix mon tn-. 75c; for three months, 50c, Payable in advance. Write for term?. Kates for Advertising-One inch first insertion, $1.00; each subsequent insertion, 50c. Want Notices, one cent per Mord, each insertion. Other local . iof ices, ten cents per line for first in sertion; live cents per line or each subsequent insertion. Obituaries and Tribu? es of Respect, Notices of Thanks, and all personal notices of a political nature, are cha reed for as regular ad vertisements. Liberal contracts made for three, six, and twelve months THE ADVERTISER, Edgefield, S. C. WEDNESDAY, AUG. 20, 1902. COUNTY CAMPAIGN. During last week four cam paign meetings were held Berea, Rehoboth, Parks ville and Republican. It was our pleasure to attend the first three of these meetings with Mr. A A Glover. All of the meetings have been well at tended by the flower of Edge field's citizenship, including the young and the old the grave and the gay. There being "no variableness nor shadow of turning" from the programs o f the previous week there is nothing new to report. The feeling of broth " erly love, so noticable from the beginning, which exists among the candidates, con tinues, and the deportment o the several audiences has been well night perfection. The meeting a t Berea, though not as large as some of the others, was an idea one. Col JP Hagood, who oerformed the duty of chair man, would in his introduc tions outspeak many of the speakers. In his inimitable way, always in the humorous vein, he not only entertained the audience but kept them in an uproar of laughter Manj- good speeches were made. The dinner and re freshments could not be sur passed. As the shadows be gan to lengthen all turned faces homeward with happy hearts. We wended our way toward Rehoboth, so"" ding the night .under the hosp' i *e roof of that sterling citizen, Mr C M Williams, who re sides near Cleora. It was our pleasure there to meet with that gallant veteran, Captain gushing ?it? shoving? ?nd- the ;roj?as were bulging with thc pressure of med, wbm?ii and children, its I came flowri frbiri the dressing room I noticed two giils-Outside -the ropes, of about 14 arid 16j and inside the rope a youngster of 8 br ?). They were skiding illili b? the hands, and he was struggling, ex citedly and half in laughter, to get away from them. I thought nothing of it at the time-just a bit of childish play, no more; and it was only in the light ?f ?ft&r events that the scene was ?mpr?ss?d vividly iip?h rae": "Keep them cleared out. Georg?!" ? called to my assistant, "We don't want any accidents." , ''Ay," he answered, "that I will, ?h?rleyY' George Cuppy had helped me in nd eud of ascents, and because of his coolness, judgment and absolute reli^ ability, I had come to trust my life in his hands with the utmost confi dence; His business it was to over took the inflating bf the balibb? ?nd tb see that everything about the par achute was in perfect working order.. The "Little Nassau" was already filled and straining at.the guys. The parachute lay flat along the ground and beyond it the trapeze. I tossed aside my overcoat, took my position, and gave the signal to let go. As you ktnow, the first rush upward from the earth ls very sudden, and thia time the balloon, when it first caught the wind, heeled violently. over and was longer than usual in righting. I looked down at the old familiar sight of the world rushing away from me. And there were the thousands of peo ple, every face silently upturned. And the silence startled me, for, as crowds went this was the time for them to catch their first breath and send up a roar of applause. But there was no hand clapping, whistling, cheering only silence. And insteac, clear as a bell and distinct, without the slight est shake or quaver, came George's voice through the megaphone: "Ride her down, Charley! Ride the balloon down.'" What had '?appened? I waved my hand to show that I had heard, and be gan to think. Had something gone wTong with the parachute? Why should I ride the balloon down instead of making the jump, which thousands were waiting to see? What was the matter? And as I puzzled, I received another start. The earth was a thou sand feet beneath, and yet I heard a child crying softly, and seemingly very close at hand. And though the "Little Nassau" was shooting skyward like a rocket, the crying did not grow fainter and fainter and die away. I confess I was almost on the edge of a funk, when, unconsciously following up the noise with my eyes I looked above me and saw a boy astride the sandbag which was to bring thc- "Lit tle Nassau" to earth. And it was the same little boy I had seen struggling with the two girls-his sisters, as I afterward learned. There he Was, astride the sandbag and holding on to thc rope for dear life. A puff of wind heeled the bal loon slightly and he swung out into space for 10 or a dozen feet, and back ?gain, fetching up against the - tight canvas with .a thud which even shook roe, 30 feet or more beneath. I 1 bought to ste him dashed loose, but hf. clung on and whimpered. They lightful dinner which was ?b erall)* patronized. Friday be ing an off day the candidates leisurely made their way to Republican where the last session of the summer school of oratory was held on Satur day. We regret our enforc ed absence from the Republi can meeting. The little fisticuff that Lat imer and Hemphill engaged in at Gaffney is not calculated to win any votes for them. The most remarkable cam paign ever conducted in Edge field county is nearing its close Instead of the usual discord and strife perfect harmony has prevailed. The primary election is near at hand and it is ?the duty of every citizen to lay aside all prejudice and vote for the most competent men from United States Senator down to magistrate. A great re sponsibility rests upon every one"who casts a ballot and it! should not be none without due thought and consideration We hope that Edgerieid county will give Hon John J McMahan,candidate for State Superintendent of Education, a large majority. His defeat would be a [public calamity. He has made the best super intendent of Education that South Carolina has ever had. Vote for him and ask your j friends to vote for him. BILLS OUT OF TUNE. Some papers of the state are still using, with a faction nal significance, the terms '.Conservative" and '-Refor mer. " Such papers may be sweet bells but they are dread fully out of tune. Our people have agreed by common con sent to let bygones be by yones. The true South Car }linian.has dropped from his vocabulary the above mention ?d factional terms. Lonesome, ndeed, is the individual or ;et ofindividuals who endea vor to resurrect the follies md foibles of the past. Even some of the poli ti tans in covert speech endea or to appeal to the few who lave not Altogether forgotten he strife of several years ago. inch a n appeal will and honld; in ^'mf^".-""3 JIJ^IPflfflRened. i(M?V'would you like to go in'for the feusin?ss?" ? asked .' He'" cfi??rec? 'iii> at''onc?yfiii4 ?sked, "Do you get good pay?" But the "Little Nassau" beginning to cool, had started on its long de scent; ind ran into counter currents which bobbed it roughly about. This swung .he boy around pretty lively, smashing him into the bag quite se verely. His Up began to tremble at this, and he was crying again. I tried to Joke and laugh, but it was no use. Iiis pl?fc'k was oozing out and at any moment ? was prepared ta feee him go shooting past me. I was in despair. T*en, sdddefily, ? remembered how one fright could de stiny another fright, and I frowned up at him :i?d shduted sternly: "You just hold on t? that rope! If you don't I'll thrash you within ?ii inch of your life when I get you down on the ground[ Understand?" "Ye-ye-yes, sir." he whimpered, and i saw that the thing bad worked. I was neater tb him than the earth, and he was more afraid of me than of fall ing. "Why, you've got a snap up there on that soft bag," I rattled on. "Yes," 1 assured him, "this bar down here is hard and narrow; and it hurts to sit on it. Then a thought struck him, ard he forgot all about his aching fingers. "When are you going to jump?" he asked. 'That's what I came up to see. I was sorry to disappoint him, but I wasn't going to make any jump. But he objected tc that. ' It said so in the papers," he said. "I don't care," I answered. "I'm feeling sort of lazy today, and I'm just -.oing to vide down the balloon. It's my balloon and I guess I can do as I please about it. And, anyway, we're almost down now." And we were, too, and sinking fast. And right there and then that young ster began, to argue with me as to v. hether it was right for me to disp point the people, and to urge their claims upon me. And it was with a happy heart that I held up my end of it. justifying myself in a thousand different ways, till-we shot over a grove of eucalyptus trees and dipped to meet the earth. "Hold on tight!" I shouted, swing ing down from ine trapeze by my hands in order to make a landing on my feet. W skimmed oast a barn, missed a mesh of clothesline, frightened the barnyard chickens into a panic, and rose up again clear over a haystack all this almost quicker that t takes to tell. Thea we'came down in an or chard, and when my feet touched thu giound I fetched up the balloon by a couple of turns of thc trapeze around an apple tree. I have had my balloon catch fire in mid air, I have hung on the cornice of a 10-story house, T have dropped like a bullet for COO'feet when a para chute was slow In opening; but nevei have I felt so week and faint and sicl* as when 1 staggered toward the un scratche-d boy and gripped him bj the arm. "Tommy Dermott," I said when 1 had goi my nerves back somewhat "Tommy Dermott. I'm geing to lay yo; across my knee and Tive you the great est thrashing a boy eyer got, tbi world's history." Rar. J. W. Btrty? of ArkAmm Ifitfeodlit Con reren?*, two packagM of "TEETHING. " Wa wonder how wa n Douri Mn tu a pack*?? and il MUM at a BM) opporton? boas ia bad condition for dart, and aoUrio** that wa ga KrfaelNJJet and ha ha? kad io rorlhw keafcla, Ot?ar an a parfect laceou. MY BOY. South Cvrolina Baptist. About the year 1841 I taught a country school in the Blocker or Lake neighbor hood, just ten miles north of Edgefield Court House. The gentleman I boarded with sent six children to school. Among them was quite a re markable boy, then about 12 or 14 years old just such a boy as would be an especial favorite witha lmost any teach er-calm, quiet, thoughful; and intellectual ; and one of the best readers, for his age I ever knew, with one excep tion was trained in a printing office, and we all know the printer's boys can beat the world reading. My boy, how ever, subsequent}', h?d distin guished opportunities and made distinguished use of them, as his father possess ed ample means, so the boy soon became head and shoul ders taller than his young teacher, (then only 20 or 21 years.) My boy has been in the State Legislature, Lieut. Gov., State Treasure?, and is one 0; the 5 candidates for gubernatorial honors. The worst put to it I ever was about voting was when my boy and another special friend were both candidates for state treasurer. Both good and true, just the men I wanted, could not vote for both, must vote, did vote. 1 concede to all the right to cast a free, untram meled vote. But if I helped the friends of my good R. H. J. to put him in, is it asking too much to ask them to help me LO put in my boy ? He's all right Beautiful in exam ple, in influence and in Chris .ian charscter. (REV.) B. F. CORLEY. DON'T WAIT. If you knew how SCOTTS EMULSION would build you up, increase your /weight, strengthen your we?k throat and lungs and put youi te?;.-? ??eard, incandescent stones were thrown out, and a great fire ran like a fiver across the island. Thc fire then shifted into Lake Bonbon, throw ing tig Water and ashes in immense masses. ''The water grow hot and black, fish were strewn on tho beach es as if they had boen cooked) and ibe air was so full of sulphurous smells and the odor of dead fishes ?nat the Inhabitants sickened." At one of the eruptions Of Albay, that in 1814, 1200 lives are said to have been tost. In drawing comparisons- between <he volcanoes of the Philippines and those of the Dutch East Indies, Mr. Becker" notes that "Papandayang, in West Jav?, had a great eruption in 1772, destroying 40 villages. Galling Gung in 1S22 destroyed 114 villages, and it fs some measure of the viol ence of the Krakatoa explosion of 1883 that over 3G.OO0 people pcr ii-hed." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. In Siberia a winter rainbow some times lasts almost, all day. It is caused by fine particles of snow sus pended in the air. Unique properties are possessed by the River Tinto, in Spain. It petrifies the saud of us bed. and if a stone falls in the stream and alights upon an other, in a few minutes they unite and become one stone. Fish cannot live in its waters. In thc city of Heidelberg. Germany, there is a building called the Church of the Holy Ghost, which Ls unique in its way, being the only church in the world in which the Protestant.anti Catholic services are held at tho ssme time, a partition wall through the cen tre separating the two congregations. The members of the United Metho dist Free dniren, Overton, near Wrex ham, England, have hit upon a unique idea of raising the wind, lt was de cided to have an egg service, and mem bers of the congregation were invited to bring eggs. Over 1000 which were j.laced in and around the pulpit, were brought and readily sold. In the centre of a field at Wavcrhill, Suffolk, England, is a large fiat stone covering thc grave of a mare which died in 1852, inscribed as follow.;: "Polka. She never made a false step Ecclesiastes 3, 19th verse." A refer ence to chapter and verse shows UH following: "For that which befallet! the sons of rr.en befa) let h bea*?:;, ever one thing bcfalleth them; as thc oh; dicth. so di Uh the other." This h probably thc only instance of a tcxi from tho Scriptures appearing ou i m?morial stjne to an animal. The monks of the Ho*-p>tal of St ran de Dion, Ghent, in their span moments have decorated the walls o the hospital with exquisite picture formed entirely of stampf:. lu Chesi pictures are forests and streams, pal aces and cottages; birds ol' gorgeou plumage perch cn ?ranches, gaily-col ored butterflies iii' about, snakes an, lizards glide, and animals of all kind figure in the landscapes. The monk have already used no fewer than 10, tOO.OOO stamps in this unique form c art. m. F FETT'S POWDERS) BLICK Brans, Ark.. 8?pt. IB, ISOL writ*?:) "Eacloted And fifty MPJM for which pleaaamaO ma ATO r&lwd children wi thoa? IL Th? o th tr dara lad? In XI* I Ha* ; ?ar bab* waa In a ? triona coi di tl o nl~ hil ba walt had ra did any good; tba second doa? of TEETHINA" gar? ??abm ?I ?ka inmil/ har? u**d 1? and Kerr iuaboe UNION MEETINGS. The union meeting of the first division of the Edgefield Baptist association will meet with Bold Spring Baptist church on Satur day before the fifth Sunday in Au? gust. Organiaatiou at 10 o'clock, af ter which verbal reports from the churches. Introductory sermon at ll o'clock by Rev. G. H. Burton ; alternate Rev, J. S. Jordan. QUERIES : Is it right for a man who is a Christian to be a dispenser? W. H Yeldell, R. T. Strom. What ought to be done wi*;h a church member who willfully re fuses to cjntribute ? (Speakers not announc-d.) . What qualifi cations ought a man have before being licensed to preach ? 0. Shep- j pard, Rev G H Burton, Rev J S Jordan. What are the best quali fications of a Sunday school teach er ? B. P Talbert, P B Call ison. Sunday ll a. m. Missionary Ser mon by Rev. Luther White, alter-1 nate Rev. P P Blalock. T. E. BYRD, T. E. DORN, Clerk. Moderator. Standlug committees of the Edge field association to make reports at the meeting on September 10, 1902: State Missions-Rev. G H Bur ton, J L Mira*, H C Sanders, Il W Quarles, Home Missions-Rev P P Bia lock, S B Mays, W B Cogburn, Whit Harlinir. Foreign Missions-Bev J P Meal ing, W H Nixon, R. A. Cochran, P H. Bussey. Oiphanage-F N K Bailey, "J C Morgan^ J L Gilchrist, J W Aiton. Temperance-Rev P B Lanham, J L Mims.J B Mathis J I* Wells, Education A S Tompkins, Wm A Byrd, A A Glover, W ll Hurling. Periodicals-Rev J E Johnston, P B Calliaon, T E Byrri.L R Brimson, Bible and Colportage work-Rev J T Littlejohn, R A Walsh, P R Waits, A W Reel. W omans Work-T G Talbert W A Strom, H F Green, J M Rambo. Aged Ministers' Fund-Rev L R 3waltney,H W;Dobey, BP Talbert, S G Meriwether. Sunday. School-W H Yeldell, S E Freeland, R T Strom, E G Mer ran, Sr. Order of Business-L F Dorn, L El Gwaltney, J P Mealing, R T Strom S. E. FREELAND, Sec'y. The Uuion Meeting of the 2nd di* vision of the Edgefield association ?ill convene with the Red Hill Rap ist church of Christ on Saturday jefore the flth Sunday in August, A 3 1902, at ll o'clock, a. m. Missionary Sermon by Rev P B lanham, alternate Rev J P Mi ng. shall-be crowned." As the date of the coronation ap proached his' thoughts "recurred' with increasing frequency, It is said, to this prophecy. Twice in King Edward's career have public prayers been offered for him, ..md once a public thanksgiving for bis recovery. Un his return from America In 18(10 his ship, thc Hero, was delayed by storms. Anxiety was so great that special services were held in all the churches of the king dom. In the latter part of 1870 he contracted typhoid fever, and for weeks his life was despaired of. On January 14, 1871, his recovery was announced as certain, and a uatioual thanksgiving was ordered for Febru ary 27 following. A special service was held in St. raul's. The Queen went in state to it, and a Tc Denni, specially composed by Arthur Sullivan, afterward Sir Arthur Sullivan, was sung in the presence of 13,000 per sons. The heir to thc British tnrone is King Edward's second child. George Frederic Kniest Albert, Prince of Wales. The eldest child of Edward and Queen Alexandra was Prince Al bert Victor Christian Edward, thc Dnke of Clarence, who was born" at Frogmore on January S, 1804, and died at Sandringham on January 14, 1S!>2. The Prince of Wales was boru nt Marlborough House Oil June 3, ISO"). Ile was married on July 0, 1803. to Princess Vic'orin .Mary of Teck. He has nothing like the string of titles which his lather, as Prince of Wales, bore, but he is, among other things, Dulce of York and Rotliesay, 13ail ol Chester. Earl of Inverness and Baron Killarney, Earl of Carrick. Baron ot Kelli'lew. Lord of the Isles and (J ra nc Steward of Scotland, a Vice-Ad m i ral and holds several offices in the Germar .Military establishment. He is alsc THK PRINCE Or' WALES. (Heir to the Urititili Throne) n Knight of thc Garter, St. Andren the Golden Fleece and other orders. Last year, accompanied by the Prii cess Mary, he made a tour of fl British dominions, and arrived in Cai ada at the time of the death of Pros dent McKinley. On his return to En I COBB'S ! COBB'S! Something Special. 3 Cases of the following Celebrated 4-4 Bleach ed Longcloth & Cambrics just opened at SPECIAL PRICES. "Hill's Semper Item," "Fruit of the Loom," "An dras Coggin", "Barker Mills," "Pride of the West .JJCome at once and get a bolt for your fall sewing. TcatfoTFaIlii f?r Ste: ow in store. We have both price and quality. J. M. COBB ACT. FOR BUTTERICK PATTERNS msmmmm MM? C. A, GRIFFIN. E. J. MIMS GRIFFIN & MIMS. FIRE, LIFE and ACCIDENT Insurance! The Companies we represent are among the largest and moat repu table in the world. Any business entrusted to us will receive prompt attention. Officejover May & May's S ?ore. WATCH THIS SPACE For bargains in Fall Goods in a short while. Our stock is complete now in all lines of staple goods,but in a few weeks I will go north and buy m} FALL DEY GOODS, SHOES, and Notions, and then will be ready to show our friends a mammoth line of up-to-date goods Yours for Bargains, JAME? m HART, % HART * BUILDING, % . EDOEFIELD - - - - Sc. XriE TE.JPOKARY EXECUTIVE MANSION, WASHINGTON. nt thc White lionise. The dwelling has been dubbed the "Temporary White House." The Cabinet meetings are also held there, and it is interest ing to note that eighty-eight years have elapsed since il regular session of the Cabinet has been hold outside of the White House. When the British troops burned the White House In 1S14 Cabinet meetings were held in private residences pending the repairs to th? structure. Haying Willi Tulley*. There is so little level land in Nor way that the making of hay enough to last during the long winter is a very serious problem. Most of the necessary gn'ss is grown on little mountain terraces, sometimes 2000 or 3000 feet above the rarmhou.se. Thc considerable diflicnlty nf getting the liny tn the barns would have been al most insuperable but for a clever con trivance which has been in use now for many years, and which the peasants call the luuperstreiig. Tue grass, after being cut. is rapidly dried on hurdles and then lied into bundles. These are slung on pulleys on a wire, which runs straight to the valley below, and so go flying down ai a tremendous pace.-Cincinnati Enquirer. An Uxoltlnir Thin- Duo. Passengers on au eleva led railway train this morning who happened to be looking out of the car windows saw a strange thing. A district mes senger boy was leaning against a stoop reading a paper-covered novel, utterly oblivious to all thal was going ou around bim. At bis heels some one luid thrown a lighted match, and his trousers were just breaking out info a blaze as tin; train rolled on. What happened afterward could be onlj' imagined by the people on the train, It ouglit to have been to the boy at most as exciting as the novel.-New York Post A Kuli KIHI Tree. At tile historic field of Bull Bun to day. thc guide leads Iiis visitors to tl certain cedar tree that grew so mud faster than Hie others in that loealitj that an Investigation was made, re vealing that il had grown over flu; re mains ol* au unknown soldier," whicl had not been carried away to Arliiig ton with the others.-Sau Francis? Argonaut. Glgnntlc I'iilni Leaves. A palm tree which grows on tilt banks ol' the Amazon has leaves thlrtj feet to' li Tty feel in length and tel feet-to twelve feet in breadth f ?:<3 ? VM1V. Ill" J ?r-Dimmy^n- ,? ( I -wheeling ber copper-colored infill about the reservation in a go-cart < tlie most expensive pattern. Aga! she moy have a pony hitched to the g cart and will ride in it with her chil One tiny a white man who had an I dian woman for his wife returned his reservation home with a go-cai which was the first that had appear* ! in that section. Imagine his surpri I a few days later to come home fro ? a hunting trip to lind a number j squaws 'from adjoining tepees con' CAODO MOTUKU ANO CHILD. lug down hill in the baby pera m I lalor. The sacks for the Indian bab when hung upon the back are said missionary women to be really co fort? bb' for I he child. I have si squaws carrying lheir children aron in this fitsliioli. the little ones fj asleep. But Indian babies arc born iii lil THE ARTISTS FAVORITE, The Matchless m lid HIM? E ? KRELL PIANO' | Unsurpassscd in touch tone, work manship and durability. Sold on TERMS Of EASY f AYMEflT j Factory and Wardrooms, ^ I Cincinnati, Ohio. ) J. A. HOLLARD, Traveling Agent for ?outli Carolina, NINETY-SIX, S. G. li Iii i T ATTENTION, LADIES !f| In order to handle the latest and newest styles of ?goods Bin my line I am going to offer my summer jil stock of m ii MILLINERY At Greatly Reduced Prices to make room for my fall goods, and now is your(|)|| III best opportunity to buy. Come see for yourself, j I am showing a very large assortment of Lad . s Sailors, !. 'Street Hats, and Dress Hats, either Trimed or untrimmed. . We have a beautiful assortment of Misses Hats and Chil- il .jdrens Silk and Lawn Bonnuts. My entire stock is new. MISS yV\ARY BUF0RD, NOEBIS BUILDING- EDGEFIELD ? 7t llullillMlllllll^lllllllllllllMIIKMHNIHIIMIIIHIIIIIIMIIIIlilllllllllillllillllllllllllll IIWimillllllll|l==?= [ We begin today a COST SALE on - iStra^vvr Hats. While they last you can get any straw hat in my || store at New York cost Cast aside shat oid bx own hat and buy a new one. H ??tiF" Come now while we can tit you ll iiiiiiiiiiiifiiniiiiiiiii iiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiftti?iiiiiiiiiiiittitiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiTrifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiirp<?x~ to attend school at Jive, which means a trying time for .he mothers. Gener ally the squaws pack up their few be longings and move close to the school, where they may visit their children every day and have them with them during the night time. indian children are' generally born healtliv, and few of them die unless y epidemic. Twins are a rarity among the red race, and it was formerly an evil omen to have them boru in camp. In other days they were killed, but now they are sent East to school and forgotten by their people. In schools the little red children lose all their long Indian names, and teachers give them short ones of their own making. One can distinguish ?ven these days which among the mothers are of a progressive nature by the manner in which they clothe their babies. Some of the women are quite backward in deed, about taking up with the white people's ways, and they keep heads and buckskin dresses on their children; while thc more civilized are wont to dress their babies in white. The pres ent generation of full-blood babies now growing up will be the last, for intermarriages of whites and reds have come to be the fashion.-The Delineator. Chenp Cul?.* For Women. Russia is supposed to be a backward and half-civilized country. Vet wom en there have privileges which they do not enjoy iu our enlightened land. Those who have property of their own hove a voice in municipal affairs, and on all railways there are carriages for ladies only. In St. Peter burg and other cities there are cabs set aside for women only, of which the fares are. by law. "out half those demanded from mere man.-Chicago Tribune. What ItiiMitn Deem? fcitnration. The orthodox church of Russia has in its elementary schools 1,500,000 children, about forty pupils in each school, and thc average" sum for a school is al ?out $11)3 a year. Of thc teachers, ninety-four per cent, are un educated and they are paid next to nothing. Tile school-houses are hut? and theiv are rn? hooks, pens or ink furnished. This is the education' 0/ Kuswians. '". . . '.-'/..^:-^?.is?*r-.v.v?. months ago a stranger arrived, st the town and announced that money de posited with him would be returned at the end of one week, with fifty percent interest. This promise having boen faithfully observed in the case of sev eral depositors, lhere was a general rush to deposit money with the stran ger, the villagers even pawning their goods and chattels to convert them in to cash. As will readily be imagined the de posits increased rapidly, and on the 7th inst, a large crowd assembled in front of the welcome visitor's dwelling to receive back their moneys with in terest. They were told, however, to return after a week, and obeyed. On their coming again at the end of the week they wepe asked to wait till tho evening; but when evening came and still there were no signs of payment, the mob grew impatient, and the sub inspector of Nanddigram Thana. Ral Charan Ghose, with twenty-seven po licemen appeared on the scene and or dered them to disperse. The men asked him to help them to recover their money, but as he apparently did noth ing, but persisted in the endeavor to disperse them, they assaulted him, and, when he sought refuge in a hut, locked him in and set fire to the place, so that he was burned alive. Such is the story which, it is stated, is now being inquired into by the dis trict superintendent of police, who has made several arrests. According to one report the police visit was for tho purpose of stopping gambling, and their interference was resented in the way described. The villagers, however, declare that they have been done cut of fifty-two thousand rupees.-Lahore Tribune. lie wine of Hlgll (ll ll I rs. A young lady of small stature re cently fainted at a dinner given in her honor. It was then found she had not been aide to touch either of her feet to the floor or her back to the chair, and the restricted circulation and prolonged discomiort had finally overcome her. An antiquarian traces the present mania for high seats to thc fact that at the old French courts sets of handsome furniture were ranged along the walls for effect, but never occupied. The chairs and sofas actually used were much lower. Fur niture makers of today copy the more showy pieces and further enhance their inutility by spring cushions. The dictum of a famous cabinet maker is that in choosing chairs the knee of a person standing should clear above the seat he intends to occupy.-Pop ular Science News. Education. A well meaning man feels rather small when, alter wrestling for 10, 20, 3d years with the question of "will" or "shall," "would" or "should," he gives lt up and settles down at old age with a compromise on an apostrophe. "PH do it." or "I'd do it." satisfies all ex cept thc most hypercritical taste, leav ing tho reader to expand and extend as he pleases.-New York Press. Much in ll??r Niitno. Church-She is a Russian Countess. Gotham-Indeed! Has she much in her own name? "Has she? She's got nearly.the en tire alphabet!"-Yonkers Statesman.