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M OTIONAL BANK OF AUGUSTS L. C. HAY2i3> Pires't. F. O.FORD, Cashier. ; Capital, ?250,000. Undivided rr.,il lo } $110,000. 9 Facilities ol our magnificent Nsw Vault /{containing 410 rafety-Lock Uo.tos. Diff?r ent Sizes arc offered to our p.itrons and tho public at $3.00 to $10.00 per annum. THE PLANTERS LOAN AND (SAVINGS BANX, AUGUSTA, GA. Paja Interest on Deposita. Accounts Solicited. L. C. Haine, rresldent. Cha?, C. Howard, Cashier. VOL. LXVII. EDGEFIELD, S. C. WEDNESDAY. OCTOBER 1. 1902. NO. 40. t JOHN BOYLE When D??ise Doy?e catered thc c ces of ?elancejr cc Gri.'fin, architects, the htimbiv Capacity of copyist, the sc of her father rose in angry rebellh Two years previous John Doy?c h retired from the grocery business wi a tidy income, a substantial brick re .dence and chronic rheumatism Whc ; ?ever ' the malady loosened ita gr JDoyle wandered f&e$ to th? ccenes Siis commercial ae&ievenents. His si ?essor always, gave him cordial wt ..come, and a comfortable chair back the cashier's bcotb was at his dispcsi Whfth too lame to walk as far as t ?^ore, he consoled himcelf by pl&yi: innumerable games oi pinochle, hi ll rear of Simpson's cigar store, ju across the street. lt was from a disastrous defeat pinochle that he came home lo he; ' that Louise was "going to business The moment was inauspicious. ~I never heard tell of such tomfoc ashness. My girl going to chase dowi town six days in the week, like tl daughters of that no-account To: Saunders? People'll bo Questioning ni credit next And she won't mal enough to pay for tao new feathci and fixing she'll want, to say nothir of the shoe leather she'll wear 01 traipsing back and forth ia all kine of weather!" ' Mrs. Doyle, who in spite cf thc fai that she never joined a Mothers' clu nor studied household economics, tia succeeded in making John Doyle con fortable and content, calmly set gusset in her husband's new shi~*. ? she replied: *'I don't know about that, John, .think that if more girls knew how har it ts to earn money, and to mak^ e. su< ?c?'ss in business, we'd have fewer shifi less and grumbling wives." Mr. Doyle groaned at his wife's J( sertion to the enemy. "And as for her wasting her t?O??ej I don't believe Louise'll do ariythin of the sort She's got too much of he father's blood in ?IT. Besides, shp* going to pay her board-says it's on] right seeing that she won't be hom to help me with tho work." Hr. Doyle fairly gasped in hts. fun-1 "Pay her board! Minerva. ?JOyfc lave you gone? daft? Gr &r? you tr.rn lng miser, like your "Uncle Sam? M; daughter shan't pay her board, so lon; as I'm here to rr?vent it. But Louise bad her way. Ever; Saturday night she paid her board, an? every Monday horning Mr. Doyle car ried the ?a<W>y straight to the saving bank deposited it to ihe credit o LoulP/e Doyle. 'Three years rolled round and Louisi failed to fulfill any of ihe dire predic tions set forth by her parent. She die rXxot take pneumonia from facing keei northwesters. She did not catct ^rnajjjn^jrorn r?-Mnjr. in ill-ventilatec caral And'she refused to 'elopeSiitt the junior partner." But she had riser steadily in the estimation of her em ployers, until, when George Shaw came to the city, she was confidential ?teere tary to the senior partner of Delancej & Griffin. ; ?n his secret heart, John Doyle wai wonderfully proud of this self-poss essed, capable young woman, and whefi yoting Shaw from up-State, vigorous, v/ell set-up and well-p .4sed, a?peared op thc scene, Mr. boyle groaned afresh. "If Louise hadn't that business bec 3n her bonnet, there's the man I'd pick out. for her husband. Why On earth ?ny sensible girl would rather take ?dictation from a snarling, bald-headid old crank downtown than to make a nice home for a fellow like George Shaw, 1 don't sec." But as a matter of fact Mr. Delancey was neither bald nor ill-tempered, and George. Shaw had come to the city with but one well deaned ambition to gain 'a business foothold. John Doyles successor m the grocery trade heilig second cousin to George Shaw's "mother, he had taken the first thing at hand, a position as clerk in the store where Doyle had once ruled with an iron hand. Perhaps the happiness Of Luuise was not the only thing at stake, in Doyle's mind. He might have cherished a se cret longing to maintain even a distant family connection with the scene of his commercial success. At any rate, .Mr. Shaw- was in due time invited to call, and Mr. Doyle fairly hugged him self when he saw the admiration in the young man's eyes on meeting Louise. But for six months matters progress ed no further. Mr. Shaw called at ir regular" intervals, and was courteously received by Louise-in the presence of her parents.* From his point of vantage behind tho cashier's booth Mr. Doyle studied thu young man whom he coveted as a son ! in-law, and decided that an occasional cigar could be offered his idol with im punity. In the meantime George Shaw was studying the uncertainties of cus tomers and market?, to the profound satisfaction of his mother's second cou sin. When Mr. Shaw invited Louise to ac company him to the theatre, John Doyle went into the seventh heaven of delight The calmness of Louise irri tated her exuberant father. The theatre-going became an estab lished weekly event, and Mr. Doyle beamed, even when defeated a? pin ochle. Each day he spent less time in the rear room of Simpson's cigar store, and ' longer visits were made to the grocery store. He bought a better brand of cigars, too, and proffered them at more frequent intervals. But when Louise imperturbably an nounced that Mr. Shaw had Invited her to see Bernhardt in "L'Aiglon," and followed up the information with the prosaic observation that her rainy day skirt needed a new binding, the vials of Mr. Doyle's wrath were again uncorked. As the door closed on her retreating form, he turned to his wife: j "Well, that bca}s me! I'll bet George . paid every cent of $25 for those two seats, and she takes it as cool as if she was used to such treats every night in the week. I do believe she's more interested in Delancey's contract for that Newport palace than in getting a husband.'' "Like as not." tesponded Mrs. Doyle, gathering the butter scraps for the ?cooking jar. "An architect's contract is ea?iiy filled, but marriage is uncer -MATCHMAKER., t tain, and it's got to stand for most of us. I don't seo that there's such a rush about her settling down-. She's do ing well. Beside*. how d? you know that Mr. Shaw wants her?" *'Want her!" roared Mr. Doyle. "Who wouldn't want her? Ain't she pretty? Ain't she bright and up to the mark every time? Ain't ? got money td leave? And ain't she as, c?bl as a cucumber, too, the independent minx?" A Week after the Bernhardt episode dohn Doy'e came home fairly brim mir^ over with excitement. "Y/hat do you think? George has bought an interest in the store. Had a tidy bit of money laid by when he came down here, and seeing this was a good opening, bought in. Everybody around the store is tickled to death. Say, 1 invited him round to dinner Sunday, to celebrate the occasion." Mrs. Doyle smiled. "That's nice." Louise likewise smiled placidly and passed her plate for another chop. John Doyle boiled inwardly. "Don't care a rap. TniL comes of letting her work ariiong a lot of coun terjumpe*^ and upstart young brokers. She don't know a real man when sh? sees one." . . The next night Louise dined with two young women who lived in true Bohemian fashion, in two rooms with S. bath. She came home animated and gossipy. "Oh, mother," she exclaimed, as she folded her new veil with thrifty care1. "It's the dearest little lien-. The par; lor couches are their feeds at night, and inside there's a place for their gowns. Abd such a cute dinner"-with a fern in tho middle of the table, and every thing so easy to get-canned soup, fried chicken an5 salad and things from thai delicatessen store, and rolls heated in the gas oven, and charlotte russe, with the queerest black coffee and preserved sweets from India to finish off. No two dishes alike and each ono with a his tory! " Mrs. Doyle patted the two slender band? that stoic round her neck. rtWe had a good dinner, too, dearie, roly-poly pudding with strawberry jam." "Not strawberry jam." sighed Louise, "Neiighty mother, not to wait till a hight when I was home. I've been thinking that when Mr. Shaw came Sunday we might have something out of thc ordin&ry, just to celebrate the I occasion-." This with a sly look at her father. "To be sure," responded Mrs. Doyle heartily. "The poor fellow has boarded ever since he came to town. No doubt he'll enjoy some good home cooking. We'll have a fine roast of beef with both -kinds of potatoes^ 'c?l?ry and vegetables, and I'll make some extra thick mince pies." Louise tapped the table thoughtfully. * "I know, mother dear, you're the best coek Iii the world, but-don't you think it would be nice to have some little extras like-well-like the girls had tonight?" "Bless my sbuU'' rcm'?i'..cd Mrs. Doyk*% Wiping her glasses anxiously, when Louise left the room. "Whatever i does she want, I'm sure-" "Novcr mind what ?be wants, she's going lo have it," growled Mr. Doyle, j in unconcealed triumph. "That's the j nf?t ray bf sense she's shown since George's been coming herc. Let her ! buy what she wants -for Sunday." In fulfilment ol' this injunction, he j pressed a ten-dollar bill into his daugh- , ter's hand, bidding her spend it for j anything she '.iked l'or the momentous j occasion. An when the two young ; people had retired to th3 parlor, after I dinner on Sunday, and he was ex- ) uberantly wiping the dishes for his wife, he remarked: "Weil, Minerva, that dinnor'll do one of two things for George Shaw. It'll either kill him or make him pro pose." "I declare. Johh Doyle, I believe you've gene daft on the subject of marrying off Louise. But I must say that 1 do feel a bit squ. amish myself after these iced oysters." The next morning A?ter breakfast j Louise lingered over the task of tying ? her voil and rebui toned her gloves ner vously. Finally she crossed abruDtly to her mother's side and rested one hand caressingly on .th?.gray hairj "Mocher, I guess you'll have- to me how to roast beef your way; G -" Mr. Doyle started ard his fell to his knee. "George never -mentioned the salad, nor the lotte russe, nor anything 1 bought he saiu your beef and pies made think of his mother-and-and we go to housetteeping we're to roast beef every Sunday." Mrs. Doyle wheeled round to c at empty air. Louise had vanish the front door swung to with a cr "Well, John Doyle, I hope you'r isfled!' she exclaimeu, a suggesti tears in her voice. "Satisfied ain't no name for it, erva. If I'd had him made to or couldn't have got a -son-in-law to me better."-New York Sun. Ants.in Kimmiv A plague of ants has appearej the northern central counties of sas, and the insects are destrc thc alfafa and wheat crops. All tation within a radius of severall of their hills is killrd. The ant a larger variety than has ever deen in the state before. They tiply very rapidly, and the farmeri using every means to external them. The insects have invaded) cities and towns and are makinf miserable for the inhabitants, are very vicious and do not hesj to attack either person or anime terfering with them.-?-Topeka . G| spondence Chicago Record-Herald] Tark A Itractionn. The Superintendent-Now, children, why do we love to go to the beautiful parks? What do we find there that is aiways fresher and purer than it is in the city? Truthful Tommy, (with cheerful promptness)-Popcorn, sir!-Cleveland Plain Dealer. The butterfly invariable goes to sleep head-downward on a stem of glass, with its wings tightly folded. IMPEOVED VEGETABLES. MARVELOUS CROWTHS MADE TO ORDER BY GARDENERS* Seedless Tomatoes) Climbing Cucumbers; Emitting MiVia Rfesma mid Other Mur Vcls-Whopping Blc Strawberries-Tho Hnmble Onion Minto Proud. Never in the history of market gar dening have such fine fruits and vege tables been seen in the local markets as now, and all because the man with the hbe-at least he who helps to supply the big cities with their daily supply of fresh garden truck-ls more wide-awake to the demands of the hour than his city brother gives him credit for being, says the New York Mail and Express. If one were to compare the flavor, substance, appearance and general good qualities of tho vegetables sold here 10 years ago with what are of fered in the markets today, the differ ence would be striking, ?v?n to those Who kh?w little bf such matters: Prbb?bly ho more striking example bf the progress made in the time mentioned can be found than is fur nished by the tomato.- Here is an humble product of the garden, be loved by all men who have a proper fondness for good things, that has been so changed and improved of late as hardly tb know itself. And it is strange, yet true, that the improve ment in the tomato has been due large ly to the discovery of that popular ail ment, appendicitis. When the surgeons first established the fact that appendicitis and colic were not one and the same thing', and began *t? op?rate for the relief and cure of appendicitis, there was much discussion as to the cause of the then dread affliction. The conviction soon became general that it was due to the presence of foreign bodies in the ap pendix, such as fruit and vegetable seeds, and, thereupon, the doom of the tomato was sounded because of the many seeds contained In it. There were large and small and highiy-cdl, 6red tomatoes iii the market, but all were full of seeds. Here then, was a serious situation confronting tho big tomato growers, as well as gardeners generally. There were then and there are still men who make a specialty of tomato growing, and who originate all the new varieties that are offered to tue growers. These did not despair, but said if the public wouldn't eat a to mato with seeds in it they'd grow a tomato without seeds. And they did. Not entirely without seeds, to be sure, but wi*h so few seeds in them as co justify the assertion of the originators that they had produced a seedless to mato; whereupon the tomato was re stored co popular favor. But that was not the only change made iii the tomato. Without the great humber of seeds they were found,.to be far sweeter in flavor. This flavor was retained while the size and solidity were increased, "un til today there are tomatoes running up to six inches in diameter, from two to four pounds each in weight; that are as solid as a piece of meat, 'defy all sorts of weather, that last from the first picking until the com ing of frost and of which as high as 20 tons have been taken from a single acre. The tomato specialists are just ly proud of their accomplishment. But improvement in other directions has been just as great and often with out such good reason. Msny gardeners j objected to the old way of growing ? Lima beans. They didn't want to go | to the expense of cutting poles and sticking them in the ground for the beans to run upon, and it took the beans a long while to mature, anyway: so they turned out a bush Lima beau, which grows only two feet high, needs no support and upon which the beans mature quickly and in great quanti ties. While they were at lt they origi nated a new lot of string beans which Were ready for the market all of two Weeks earlier th?ii the Usual kinds, which were really stringless and so tender they snapped when not picked carefully. Tha,t was (mother big stride. Then the men who know more about Strawberries than most folks could dream of thought they'd see what they could do. First; they increased the Size Of the berries until they had shdwn specimens almost as big as one's fist, with whole fields averaging Then Ie big et as ieties than |m for ?at, a forth Un its in a faring srries the tumn. lieve ^ed a ?oeie hose not .regu ?o the \t cu per >r and [other many .s call io he there and and [Other were ?ought grew that in an (liking lng on ??^r?lrnT?^?HliW^^^P^* worl d a climbing variety that grows on poles and which, like the Frenchman's strawberries, bears continually until killed by frost. The struggle for supremacy in the various lines continued, and slowly, like the tortoise, the humble onion | pressed forward for recognition. Spain produced a large onion that was fino grained, of mild flavor, and alnior.c white. The native onion growers thought it was fine and that they could j turn out something just as good, if ? not belter. They tried und succeeded!, and during the proper season tho fine, big white onions on Bale in all the fancy fruit stores, which the deal ers ball Spanish Onibhs; ?re th? re^ suit of that effort. They are Spanish" oniofcs bniy to the Uninitiated buyer; for they have been no nearer Spain than Long Island or New Jersey; where (hey are grown; Despite the fact that these onions are often 15 inches around, and gro-r? sc freely that close to 2000 bushels of them have been taken from a sin gle acre, they are so mild and tender that any one can eat them without ill-effect. Physicians regard them with much favor, because they induce a natural sleep, and patients who could by no means cat the ordinary, strong onion can partake of them freely. As it is, the home-grown product today excels all the onions brought from abroad, not exceptlhg the far-famed onions Of Bermud?: What has beeh told here simply furnishes an idea t?f the great prog; ress made in this humble line of in: dustry. Every vegetable bri the mar: ket has been improved so greatly that the consumers would make a great fuss were they compelled to.go back to what they thought was so fine 10 years ago. It is clear that th? "brother of the ox': is doing his part, even if he does it quietly. CAUSE OF DUST RAINS Sand Driven by Wind to Europe from Atrfcan Deserts. About a year ago there was a kind of plague, or visitation, of dust rains throughout Europe; Few sections of the continent were spared. From the cities of Sicily to the islands of the Baltic rad mud drizzled down upon the earth, and the men who watched the phenomenon were stirred, according to their training and disposition, either to awe or to curiosity. Among those who were curious rather tnan awestruck and who regarded what they had seen as a matter for se??ntiflc rather thad religious research was Dr. Hapke. Now Dr. Hapke is a German". Accordingly he went to work analyzing samples of the dust that had fallen of different piaces, noticing color, amount, specific gravity, taste, and all other particu lars. The results of his investigations have finally appeared in a memoir, to which is appended a map showing the geographical distribution of the dust, in terms of grammes per square kilo meter. It appears that the cause and origin of the dust rains are now once for all determined. Thc predominance of rand and thc presence of magnetic iron in all the dust that could be found prove conclusively that the desert re gion south of Tripoli and Tunis is re- . sponsible for the whole trouble. The ground of that part of the world i? not firm enough. It is carried up into the air by th? wind and is theti rushed across the Mediterranean to encounter European clouds and to fall upon Eu-|jy ropean soil, no longer sand, ^but mud. Wherever it falls, town and country are colored ? bright red. The spectacular effect can be itnagin: ed and the superstitious reverence the peasants have for the "blood rains" cai; easily be understood. Superstition will vanish, however, before th im placable Industry of the Teutonic herr professor. One of the by-products of Dr. Hapke's works will be that it will be easier now to study the movements of the glaciers. Dr. Hapke has marked thc points at which glaciers have been discolored by the dust rains, and by observing those points, sdientists will l,e able for the future to study more accurately thc laws that govern glac ier conditions. Altogether, Dr. Hapke's memoir illustrates pretty well the ( character of scientific study 'in Ger many at the present time-Chicago Tribune. QUAINT ANJO CURIOUS. The village church at Upleatham, North Yorkshire, is claimed to be the smallest in England. The church dates back to 900 years. Som? of the tombstones in the graveyard are dated 1550. If ail the land planted in corn in the United States this year were massed, the area would exceed the British Isles, Holland and Belgium combined, or four-fifths of the area of France or Germany. The authorities of Lisbon recently took a strange step to relieve the Port uguese capital of loafers and beggars. These children of leisure were gath ered together, dumped into a steamer and deported to the Portuguese col onies in Africa. The mayor of Stcubenville, Ohio, has adopted a unique method of settling what he calls "petty clothesline" quar rels between women. He has estab lished a "fighting room," in which he locks the women who quarrel over back yard fences. After an hour's abuse of each other they run down. Then they invariably become recon ciled. It is claimed that the largest chains ever made in the United States for se curing ship's anchors were made in four sections, or "shots," each com prising 900 feet, so that the total length of the combined chains is near ly 4000 feet. Each link averages not less than 105 pounds weight, an aver age of about 100 pounds to'the running foot, making the total weight of each anchor section nearly 50 tons. When the chains were tested, the testing ma chines broke at a strain of 500,000 pounds, but none of the links were affected. When the inhabitants of Sidestrand, near Cromer, Eng., awoke one morning a few weeks ago they were surprised to rind that a large portion of a cliff on the seashore had sunk into the sea. Thi'i ty thousand tons of earth had fallen and with it the wall and a portion of the graveyard of old St. Michael's church. The ancient church tower itself is now in jeopardy, for during the day following the slip a further portion of the cliff crumbled away, leaving only a few feet be tween tho tower and its ediges. A grewsome feature of the slide wa? the unearthing of many long buried cofflri9 and the scattering of human remains far and wide. By -Edouard ITH lii?st cities lire begins Ht thc ground door (collars, sewers and electric lillies ill ways excepted) and ends at the top story, but in Paris, while.busi ness ls being profitably conducted in the bright sunshine of the loftiest etage, it is also being as profitably pursued in the darkness of the depths below, far beneath even the sewers add the famous Metropolitan Railway of which the Parisians arc so proud. For Paris ls honeycombed with sub terranean vaults and passages. It is literally built upon columns and walls, and If one fine morning the world dWoke t? learn that the bottom had failed' btit df the Gay ?.ip'itrfi ?ind lt had crumpled up like a house bf caril? It^vpuld be.no surprising thing \o those familiar with the underground world of-Paris. It would seem as though the former Inhabitants had devoted theif efforts to hewing out a place wherein they might seek refuge in CM&?f dire necessity, for, though few aijp aware of the fact, tho entire popu lation of Paris could hide itself be neath the city. To build the city we know so well to-day past generations delved and ddg^beneath it for the coveted stone. V?jhatthen were quarries have now be COILS*.-caves, portions of which have been . converted into catacombs and c?tht?in the bones.of.tho dead; while others/are used for the very mithda'ne purpose of growing mushrooms-those s-tfeet, tasty little champignons with out which no ragout is complete and which one never falls to find on a Frenph menu. The mushroom is a comestible particularly favored by the French. , Wagon-loads from near and fa?.'find their way into the central ariret? of the city every day ih the r, and the annual consumption by Parisians of this vegetable repre its a value of over a quarter of n lliori sterling. Both beneath the city Itself and outside it these' strange ? mushroom-caves extend for .miles in all directions; and in them hundreds of mers who often never see daylight IHE FARMER DESCENDS TQ TUE "liOWER BEGIONS." from morn till eve, pass their lives iu cultivating the champignou. I was told that I should find these "under-boulevards" of the great city well worthy of a visit, and in a weak moment of curiosity I accepted the offer of an Influential friend to obtain permission for myself and a photog rapher to descend Into the bowels of the earth and learn something of the art of underground mushroom-grow ing. We departed one fine morning, the photographer and I, for Malakoff, on the outskirts of Paris. We found tin naushroom-farmer on his farm await ing iis-a well-built, bluff, hearty speci men of French fermier, M. Burvingt by name. I looked around for signs of ?a-p?s; but failed to find them; nor did I see any hills in the neighborhood under which they might be. In an swer tb a question I was informed that they were just fifteen metres under Dur feet! "This shaft leads right into them," said the farmer, indicating a covered similar hole in the grouud I had not hitherto noticed. He pulled the boards away and I looked down, shuddering, for I looked only into fathomless dark ness. How we were to get down puz zled me; how the photographic ap paratus was going to fare worried the photographer, and Ave were both im mensely relieved to learn that t li Is ?haft was not the entrance, but only the place where they pitched the manure down. I still liad hopes of gaining entrance other than by de scending a shaft-a gentle slope or something of that sort was what I wanted-and I felt convinced that this would be the case when our guide said we had rnther a long walk before us. j It proved a good three-quarters of ah hour's journey, over fields and down country lanes, ere he stopped suddenly before a small square fence and told us we had reached our destination And we had been following the lim of one of the underground passages all the time! Opening a gate, tin farmer revealed H. shaft. After om /urde had disaunearcd over the leds? - Caves of Pons? & i GHflrieS; j? -??? and reached the bottom trie.photog rapher followed ulm. When the prim itive ladder oscillated no longer be neath his weight I went slowly and I silently down.'.landing Wifely in about three inches of mud. It had beru 120 degrees in the sun above, for the day was particularly tine. Down here 't was cold, damp, dark and uninviting; so cold that I shivered in my shirt-sleeves, foi I had l?ft my coat above. Our guide shout ed, and his voice, being in keeping THE ROUND WHITE DISCS ARE LNG HERE IS ABOUT THREE with his stature, filled the blackness, rumbling away down the many arteries leading from where we were standing anti coining b?ck again from a dozen different directions. Iii answer td lils call there presently (lanced in the dark void ahead of us a couple of lights.. They b ern I do d the approach' of n couple of champignonnistes, who, emerging from their habitual gloom, disclosed themselves as short, dark individuals, of none too prepossessing appearance, attired, with but scant re gard for the temperature, in blue cot ton trousers, blouses aud wooden shoes. Provided with light-. .iall round colza-oil lamps fixed on the ends of sticks-and encumbered with tho photographic materials, we moved for ward, and then the real torture of the experience began. We formed a weird and ghostly pro cession ns we moved forward through tile inky blackness,- the silence broken only by our footstep's as we splashc'd along through the puddles, the solemn drip; drip of water from the walls and roof, ari exclamation now and then from myself as I nearly tripped over one of the mushroom-beds, and strange mutterings from the man who was to work the camera. The famous mushroom-beds were at our feet. Wc were, in fact, walking in the narrow spnee between them-a path perhaps a foot in width. They ran along thc caves in rows, two against tho sides and a pair down the centre. They seemed to be banks of sand sonic two feet in height, and in clining up from a two-foot base to a rounded top. The soil was clammy and crumbling to the touch, and inlaid with round white discs, varying in | circumference from the dimensions of a shilling to a small-sized saucer-the precious champignons. "Is there much of this?" I asked cf the fnrm?r leading us, who seemed prepared to walk oil lure Ve?. ''Seven or eight kilometres." lid air swered, unconcernedly. Wc had arrived at a bend. How long I had been creeping onwards, bump ing now my head and now au arm, stumbling, sprawling and saying things. I know ndt; but my back ached frightfully, and I appreciated iripre than ever before the comforts of being a short man. It seemed we had walked for ages. "We will take a photograph herc," I said, which brought the party to a halt. A blue, blinding glare went up. illumining the space around with such a light as it had never seen before, and showing up plainly the trio of champignonnistes crouched down as they worked, and scaring a million flies and spiders and goodness alone knows what other insects and vermin. The light died down and went out, and again the lamps sprang into life and shed their flickering, welcome gleams around. After securing some pictures we gladly sought thc upper world again. I had no ambition to explore the caves in their entirety, but only to get my cramped spine once more into its nor mal position* to sit down and gather mushroom knowledge from the lips of the grower himself. Fifty years be fore, he told mc, these caves had been open to the broad light of day. Tiley . WING "C H A M TI G X O N XI ST KS" AT . viere the scene of great activity, rc ! sounding continually with the explo j sions of gunpowder, for there men ? were quarrying the stone that helped r to build Paris. Later on they had been ? abandoned and covered in. to b?? filially taken over bj Hip cultivator Of muri) rooms. This is ihe history of Didst ol the caves which arc now used for thl? purpose, not only in thc neighborhood of the capital, but throughout France. Btlt ?ll are net of the genre I hart just described, Thc famous caves "1 Issy-los-Motilineaux, owned by cham pignonniste' Sauvngeor. are i? decider' contrast to those* previously vis:!-.-.-!: large as the others wei"J small-thirty feet in height at least. And there was no ladder to descend; one walked straight into the tunnel from the day light.' for. it pierced a bill, a chalk hill whence bad been quarried thousands of tons of chalk ot t!?e quality that makes acquaintance with the tip? of billiard cues. The main tunnel, cutting dean into the hill for a distance of not less than 230 .'?vds, would have YOUNG MUPHrtOOMri-THE CEIL FEE? FROJ? THE FLOOR. easily admitted a carriage and pair carrying another vehicle on top. As mushrbom caves go it was certainly n handsome one, but just as cold and damp ns any other, with a switchback sort of road lending from the entrance lo the botteni Qt the eaves. Here there was spac? for six ?Btfs of mushrooni lieds to wend their irregular ways side by side, as will be seen in our photo graph: In no cave of such dimensions are all the mushroom-beds in the same stage of advancement at once. While some thousands of metres are in full bloom, others are not so far advanced, and in some passages the beds are only just being laid down, while in others the work of clearing out old and useless beds is being carried on. Scrupulous cleanliness is nu absolute sine qua non ere a new bed can be laid dowu. Tlie cave must be cleared of the old bed entirely; not a particle of it must be left, for with all the mushroom's aptitude for lightning growth it ie Something of a dandy In the vegetable world. New beds are laid down every five or six' m?nths?; and as they do hot beat until three month's have passed the harvest heed be a rich one', for the average cost of a bed ere it shows signs of produce rs two and a half francs per metre. First the manure has to bo secured, and then, ere it can be used, it has to be prepared, the work taking from three to six weeks. When ready it is carried into the cave or shoveled down a shaft as d'et^ion re quires. The building of the beds is a peculiar and laborious process. Sitting astride i?io portion of the bcd he has first made the worker gathers arm fulls of manure and.presses thc material down to an even height lu front of him. Thus he is always provided with a seat. Ere ihe spawn is sown the temperature of the beds must have reached about twelve degrees to fourteen degrees Fall. The spawn sown, the manure is covered with sand? and then every two or three days the' beds must be liberally watered. At the end of three months the "buttons" poke their beads through, then gradually the beds become cov ered with white hood.-..- which on at CASKETS Or FRESH-G ATII EKED MUSH ROOMS AWAITING COLLECTION. faining the required size are collected for ma. Kef. Unless, however, a metre yields four kilos of mushrooms at tin least the proprietor of the cave has little occasion to lie cheerful, for iti creation and care account for an out lay of three francs, while the harvesl only fetches a franc per kilo. Winter is the best season for tb? champignonniste. Then. M. Sauvageol told me, he sends to market no fewei than one hundred baskets a day. wbicl means 1100 kilos, while during th< other seasons of the year forty basket! ot 440 kilos is tlie daily output. In tl? production of tIiis perennial barres1 thousnuds of workmen lind employ ment round Taris alone-men who pas: their days in damp and darkness, will only spiders and (lies to keep then company, and yet seem to experienci no evil effects as tlie result o their strange surroundings.-Tlie Wid World Magazine. Thc rope. Should the Pope live till inn;* lie wi; celebrate his diamond jubilee as Bishop, Iiis golden jubilee as a Cai diual and his silver jubilee as a Pope. X-K iv Cure. The Territorial Board of Health ? Hawaii is to begiu a serie.-- of exper incuts lo determine ?tie value of X-raj i-i the treatment of leprosy. STONY POINT rmimi? ?ii?t?Ti of Cen. .trayns'* Kxploit AMilch? tinda thu Spiif rammt* The surprise" 6n4 eitpture of Stony Point by "Mad" Anthony Wayne or* the night of July 15-lC; 177k was dc scribed by Gen. Charley Lee in * let-' ter to General Wayne as "not only lue* most brilliant, in my opinion, through Out the whole course of the war on - ?ither side, but that it is the most brilliant I am acquainted with in his tory. Tho assault of Schweidnitz by : Marshal Laudun I think inferior to lt," When ch? British were driven out ol , Boston on Maren 17, 1776, ft became apparent that they would turn their at tention to the conquest ot ivcv/ York, but Genera? Washington atstisinateJ this by sending aye regiment? aniS some artillery to Manhattan Island and going there himself afterward, in spection" Of the approaches to* New York demonstrated the advisability* o? possessing Stony Point, but such a movement w as not at OBcfl undertaken. On June 21, 1779, General Washing ton gave General Wayne command ot the light infantry posted near Fort i Montgomery, and wrote him a letter j In which he ?fg<wi the possession of Verpl?nck's and Stony Points. Gener al Wayne reconnoitred Stony Point on j July 2, after-ward telling General Washington that white siege or storm would u8 impracticable a surprise might succeed. General Washington then went in person to inspect th* desired position, and in a Jong Ietter adVised the plan of surprise, suggest ID g a Very dark or rainy night as most propitious for the strategy. Without acquainting his troops with the wdfft he had in store for them,. General Wayf?? held a review of his force at noon on July 15 at Sandy Beach, 14 miles north of Stony Point. They were freshly shaved, Vf?tt pow dered and fully equipped and ra tioned. Instead of dismissing them at thc close of inspection, General Wayne started them marching southward. They halted about 8 o'clock in the evening at SpringSteel's farm, a mile and a half west of Stony Point, and there the order of battle, the first in timation they ?au of a contemplated" assault, was read to them. Pieces i? white paper were fixed on their hats' i to distinguish them from the enemy in the confusion of conflict, and in two columns aggregating 1150 men the troops started foi- the assault. While the Americans advanced the British garrison, numbering 700 men, slept with 15 pieces of artillery about them. The American troops had consider able difficulty in gaining the peninsula, having to ftade marshes and toil up the slopes. Only One detachment, the one in the centre, was permitted to load its guns, and this, as soon as the British discovered the approach, be gan a nd??y demonstration to maleer the British think- that this was the' , main attacking forc?, The right and the left columns advanced cautiouslTV and soon the British were amazed toflnd them at the threshold of the works. They poured down a terrific fire upon th? Americans, but Wayne's men were not td be deterred. They pressed on, tere th???* Way through thc lines of abattis, gained the breastworks, and after mounting the parapet entered the fort at the bayonet's point, shout ing: "The fort's our own!" the pre ?i ranged watchword. The left column entered at once fr?Vi the ?tirer bide, and <ne triumph was complete. During the assault, Wayne was wounded in tile? head, but strug gling to his knees, cried out: "March On. Carry me into the fort. Let me die fit the head of my column." Wayne's fround, however, proved to be a slight one. The total loss of the Americans was 15 killed and 83 wounded. The Brit , ish placed their losses at 20 killed and 132 wounded and missing. Wayne, however, reported that he had killed 63, wounded 61 and captured 575 prisoners. Only one of the British garrison escaped. Upon securing possession of the fort, th? Americans turned the guns on Verplanck's Point, but without ef fect. The British ships slipped their cables and dropped down stream. -9 i Old-Time <iiain<>K. Many of tile? eames which diverted ? our forefathers have fallen not only in : (to desuetude, but into a state of obliv ion. People have vague ideas about bull-baiting and cock-fighting, but they know little of the many other Sports which entertained their ances tors, and which by reason of their in i humanity arc not nov.' countenanced j by sportsmen. A writer in "Bainley's Magazine" rc I vives the memory of some of these 1 games. He quotes an advertisement I which appeared in 1682, announcing j that, "at the King's bear garden at J ' o'clock in the afternoon, will be a horst \ baited to death of a most vast strength ' and bigness, being between 18 and 12 hands high." Then we ?re iold ol I "goose riding," a sport in which a live goose was tied by thc feet to a high rope stretched across the court, ; where men rode at a gallop striving ito pull on the head of thc goose as . they raced underneath it. i I Pig hunting consisted in turning ? loose a pig with tail cut short and j well soaped, and then giving chase, the winner being that man who could lay firm hold of the difficult tail ard I keep the pig prisoner. Cock throwing j was a game where the unfortunate ' rooster, tethered by one leg to the ? ground, was made the target tor j broomsticks thrown from a distance ot twenty-two yards. The article gives other instances, and it should be read by humanitarians as a pleasant testi mony ito the steady civilization of our popular English pastimes.-London Globe. Formo** ?nltj the l*icti?i'. The people of Formosa are begin ning to cut their hair. That sounds like an idle announcement, but it means a great deal. It means fina! abandonment of the life of an outlaw. From many districts news cf the re moval of the pigtail is that the change has been brought about by t:io exten sive operations undertaken against the rebels. The people of Formosa have been wearing the pigtail for 300 year?. -Japan Mail,