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Jjumorous Ilrpartmrnt. A Cabby Stung. Foreigners often fall a prey to the unscrupulous wiles of the British cabby, who basely takes advantage of the stranger's want of familiarity with English idiom, coinage and locality. We have heard of the intelligent foreigner being driven about six statute miles in a Journe> from London Bridge to Charing Cross. That cabby got the best of the transaction, but a recent attempt to impose upon foreign credulity was frustrated cleverly by a son of Caul, whose taste for Joking led him to try to bamboozle a cabby into attomntine It with him. He demanded in exceedingly broken English to be driven to a certain place, the fare to which was exactly one shilling. It may be remarked that he really could speak English as well as he could his mother tongue. On arriving at his destination he asked, still in a struggling fashion: "Ow mooch 'ave I to pay?" "Five shillings." promptly responded the cabby. "And 'ow mooch is five shillings?" queried the traveler, taking out three half crowns and laying them across his j palm. "Them three's right," said cabby, pointing to the coins. "Oh!" said the Frenchman. Then, dropping his assumed Imperfect acquaintance with the vernacular. "Well, here's a bob for you," he said, and departed, leaving his erstwhile jehu standing with a perplexed expression on his face, which took some time to disappear.?Tit-Bits. Their Ancestry. Mrs. Donald McLean, president of the Daughters of the American Revolution. said of ancestry at a dinner in New York: "I think we would all, if we had our choice. Drefer to be well born. Good J children are more apt to come from good than from bad parents. Then, besides. good birth is a recommendation. In everything we consider the source. "It Is like the story of the school teacher. "There was a teacher, teaching In a very poor neighborhood, who received daily gifts of flowers from one of her pupils, a ragged little boy. "The flowers were of all sort, sometimes costly hothouse blooms, sometimes simple, old-fashioned garden flowers. As a rule they were somewhat faded. "One day fhe boy brought the teacher a great bouquet of mauve orchids. To be sure they were much wilted, but J none the less It could be seen that they had once cost a great deal of money. The puzzled teacher, as she took them, said: " 'Jimmy, where do you get all these flowers that you give me? You don't steal them, I hope.' " 'Oh, no, ma'am,' the youngster answered, father's an ash man.' "?Philadelphia Record. No Loss Possible.?A Phlladelphlan said of Miss Annan T. Jeans, who has given $1,000,000 for negro education in the south. "Miss Jeans is a splendid philanthmniat Tn a cnrwl cause she is sren erosity itself. Giving promptly and freely, she has no sympathy with niggards. I once heard her tell a story about a niggardly rich man of her childhood. "This man visited a school and made an address. At the end he called a little boy up to him and said: " 'My lad. have you a purse?' " 'No, sir.' " 'I am sorry,' said the rich man. 'If you had had a purse I should have given you a dime to put in it.' "This man was scheduled to speak again at the school the next month, and when he came the boys were prepared for him. An empty purse lay hid in every little pair of trousers. "And sure enough, at the end of his speech the man called another boy and said: "'Have you a purse, son?' " 'Yes, sir," was the eager answer. " '1 am glad of it,' said the other. 'If you hadn't I should have given you a dime to buy one with.'" Horse Deau.no.?Two or three generations ago Dr. Samuel Reed was one of the prominent physicians of Boston. His large practice included many patients outside of the city lim lis, fcLliu uitw lit; vinntru yi uis One day he bought a new horse, with which he was much pleased until he discovered that the animal had an Insurmountable objection to bridges of all kinds and could not be made to cross one. As at this period It was necessary to cross some bridges In order to reach any one of the surrounding towns, the doctor decided to sell the horse. He did not think It necessary to mention the animal's peculiarity, but was much too honest to misrepresent him and, after some thought, produced the following advertisement, which he inserted in a local paper: "For Sale?A bay horse, warranted sound and kind. The only reason for selling is because the owner is obliged to leave Boston."?Lipplncott's. Rails and Horsrs.?When the late George Francis Train was giving evidence before the Metropolitan board of Aldermen of London, in favor of his scheme for laying a tramway up Ludgate hill, a noble lord among his interlocutors suddenly fixed the old pioneer with his monocle and .said: "May I?ah?ask a question. Mr.? ah?Train?" "That Is what I ani here for, my Lord," he replied. "You know, of course, how very narrow is Ludgate hill. Suppose that when I go down to the Mansion house In my carriage one of my horses should slip on your?rails and break his leg. woufd you pay for the horse?" The reply came like a flash. "My I ?^ <# Mint i'm u. 11 ;uu cuuiu t??u? uur i?it uiai your?horse would not have fallen if the rails had not been there I certainly should pay."?Harper's Weekly. A Doi'bt.?"That was rather slighting:." said Senator Beveridge of a certain speech. *"lt was like the speech of the old Adams butler. "When I was a boy in Adams county, Judge Blank was taken very ill. The doctor called regularly, but the judge kept getting worse, and finally the crisis came. "The morning after the crisis the doctor rang the judge's bell at sunrise. " 'I hope your master's temperature Is lower than It was last evening?' he said to the butler anxiously. " 'I'm not so sure about that," the man answered. 'He died, sir in the night.'"?Pittsburg Press. ittisccUanrous grading. [*' do IN COUNTIES ADJOINING. Tl] dl< Newt and Comment Clipped From ab Neighboring Exchanges. su CHESTER. M) Lantern, July 23: Mrs. W. H. Smith. ne with two children of Rock Hill R. F. Jnl D., No. 5, who has been visiting: her grandmother, Mrs. James Lowry, in fo] Springsteln mill village, went to Low- ye ryvllle Friday morning to visit her A sister, Mrs. Smith Hudson Mrs. W. esl M. Kennedy went to Yorkvllle yester- . day to spend a few days with Dr. an Kennedy's parents Mrs. L. C. Street erT of Evans, died early yesterday morn- Ing. Funeral service was conducted by the Rev. M. Lt Banks at 4 o'clock yes- , t terday afternoon and the remains were buried at Old Purity. Mrs. Street was a Miss Smith from Rock Hill, and was ^ in her twenty-fourth year. She leaves four little boys. A nine-months-old CO! child died a short time ago, and two infants had died before Little Miss nri Corrle and Master Lindsay Miller, ^ children of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Miller of ^ R. F. D. No. 1, returned Saturday from 1 a visit to their aunt, Mrs. Joe Steele at Ebenezer, near Rock Hill. Mrs. Steele yo came home with them to visit her old * home and relatives in the Pleasant 5?l) Grove neighborhood Miss Hester Titman of Lowryville, left yesterday afternoon for the Jamestown exposition. From there she will go to New York to take a four weeks' course in music. On her return she will teach music at Burlington, N. C Mrs. Rebecca Hlcklin of Blackstock, who ? tei has been spending some time in Rock ^r Hill with her daughter, Mrs. Mary ^ Hall, accompanied by the latter, pass- ^ ed through Saturday on No. 33 on her return home. Her granddaughter. Miss . na Rebecca Craig of Blackstock, came up in the morning and returned with her. no Dr. J. D. McDowell and family and Mrs. McDowell's aunt, Mrs. J. B. . sh Crosby, left this morning for Hickory ab and other points in North Carolina to spend a few weeks Little Miss ^ Mary Jo and Master William Drakeford of Yorkvllle, spent last night at . Mr. W. H. Caldwell's on tneir way 10 Richburg to visit Mr. James Reld's _ ? re< family Miss Helen Abernathy of Fort Lawn and Mr. Frank McFadden ^ of Landsford. were married on the af- ^ ternoon of July 14, at the parsonage at Heath Chapel, by Rev. S. M. Jones. jv LANCASTER. lie News, July 24: Miss Jennie Vanland- (W Ingham of Charlotte who has been vis- up iting relatives and friends In this |n) county, left Monday for Wrlghtsville a Beach, to spend some time before re- fQ1 turning home Mr. and Mrs. J. B. an Mackorell and Miss Cornelia Elliott po spent Sunday and Sunday night with ar: Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Funderburk, In the wt Tabentacle section. Miss Bu.oh Fun- co derburk, who has been visiting Miss Elliott, accompanied them home. The be party made the trip in Mr. Mackorell's wj automobile Mr. Thomas Clawson, m( editor of the Wilmington, N. C., Star, po paid us a pleasant call Friday after- m( noon. He was on his way to Chester m( county to see his sister, who is quite thi ill. Mr. Clawson was editor of the old sa Chester Bulletin a number of years fle ago, and has many friends in Lancas- an ter, where he used to visit occasional- SO| ly. He was amazed to see Lancaster's ug development since he was here last, nii about twenty-five years ago. He re- he marked while here that this town has bri some stores that would do credit to |s any city in the south The editor fQi has received the lone apple grown this th< year on R. F. D. No. 3, referred to in pr our last issue. It was found in the or- (hi chard of Mr. F. E. C. Gainer, and ||g was kindly presented to us by the pop- tio ular and efficient carrier on No. 3, Mr. ca W. E. Pardue. "It is either," says Mr. bk Pardue, "of the horse apple variety or thi the kind that draws the appetite up if pr rations are scarce." By the way, if on Editor Bigham of the Chester Lantern, ] i? still hungry for fruit, we'll send our |jg much-prized apple over to him to Su smell, provided he'll promise to Fr put his teeth in his pocket while doing lec the sniffing stunt The annual In meeting of the Waxhaw and Shiloh tlx Bible society will be held at Shiloh th< church on Saturday, August the 10th. i3 The address will be delivered by the tyRev. W. C. Ewart of Yorkville, former- in ly pastor of the Lancaster and Shiloh Pr A. R. P. churches. Mr. Ewart, as our lio people well know, is a splendid speaker *fif and a literary treat Is assured all who Sv attend. Mr. Ewart will also conduct ab a series of meetings at Shiloh, begin- tht ning August the 8th Mrs. E. J. lai Brown, an aged lady who lived on the po plantation of Mr. J. M. McAteer In the dei Craigsville section, died Monday night. th< of cancer. She was the widow of Wil- ies liam Brown of York county, and was ba seventy-two years old. She moved to ed Lancaster from York, her native coun- ho ty. about four years ago. She is sur- mt vived by a grand-daughter, Mrs. Ern- ye est Cauthen. Mrs. Brown had been in Ur a helpless condition for eight weeks. . o She was a member of the Methodist coi church. The remains were buried yes- eai tcrday at Shiloh church. tin GASTON. bu Gastonia Gazette, July 23: At the ni( home of her mother, Mrs. E. Q. Line- bu berger. at the Clara mill, Miss Alice un Lineberger died Sunday morning at 6 o'clock from typhoid fever, aged about * ( ne 22 years. Following funeral services yesterday at the Lutheran chapel, conducted by Rev. John Hull, the body 8t< was laid to rest in the cemetery there. Miss Lineberger was an excellent ,a young: woman and had many friends who heard of her death with regret. Saturday was a big day at Spencer Mountain, it being the occasion of the annual picnic f?>r the operatives of the Spencer Mountain mills. The . operatives were given a holiday and a j big dinner was provided for them, be- j ing served in a grove near the mill. An address appropriate to the occasion was made by Mr. Z. B. Webb of Sailsb Aq paqsjujnj se.u aisniv \Unq string band. In the forqpoon Spencer Mountain defeated Rankintown at baseball. In the afternoon Lowell defeated Spencer Mountain by a score ^ of 8 to 6. There were several hundred ^ people present and the day was most enjoyably spent A social event of ^ interest to many people in the county ^ will be the marriage at Belmont toer night of Mr. N. Graham Todd and Miss aj3 I^aura Stowe, which will be solemnized at 8.30. The bride is one of Belmont's ^ most attractive and popular young la- ; dies while the groom is a young busi- an ness man of ability. Both number t,f their friends in the county by the score. Mr. and Mrs. Todd will drive to (las- mi tonia after the ceremony this evening su and will leave on No. 40 for a bridal It trip north. The best wishes of many da will go with them Miss Emily foi Love of Texas, who is here on a visit ke to relatives, says the boll weevil is do- ml ing immense damage to the cotton th> crop in the Lone Star state. Many en mers have been forced to replant Ice, as many of them have abanned their crops altogether Jas. > irner and John Motti, an .Italian ped>r. had a mix-up Sunday afternoon out 2 o'clock at the house of Lizzie | ister in the west end of town, the re- , It of which was that Turner gave , >tti an ugly cut on the head. Tur- , r also suffered some slight injuries j fllcted by a chair In the hands of the i iman. A warrant has been issued r Turner, but the officers have not . t succeeded in locating him ' marriage of more than usual intert to a large number of Oastonlans i II be that of Mr. Lloyd A. Slfford ' ?*'? fin.. ...kl?h uftll ho aril. |' a MISS MUry r.lll? n inv.. ..... ? inized at Greenville, S. C., the bride's me, tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock, ter the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Sifrd will leave on No. 40 for an exided bridal trip. Mr. R. J. Sifford, brother of the groom, and Mr. W. Y. arren of Gastonia, will attend the irriage. Mr. Sifford is a popular nductor on the Southern railway, In lich service he has won deserved omotlon. For several years he lived Gastonia and Is frequently here to e delight of his friends, who are mbered by the circle of his acquaintce. The bride-to-be is a popular ung lady of Greenville and the groom receiving congratulations on his ccess in winning the heart and hand his choice. LIGHTNING AND DANGERS. atistics That Show the Value of the Lately Scorned Lightning Rod. As with ballooning, so with pro:tlon against lightning, since the st identification of lightning with ,'ctriclty by Franklin, within two deces of the ascent of the first balloon, e art of protecting human life and bitatfons from its visitations has re lined about stationary- There is thing better today than the metal d. either of iron or copper, with arp points projecting a little way ove the object to be protected. The eat Washington monument has serv- ( for continuous lightning experimention and record under the auspices the scientific men of the weather reau. If there be atiy advance to 2ord in the protective devices against htning it is through the experience tained on the monument. It Is 555 it high and stands in the centre of t and well watered ground, precise- ( the combination of conditions beved to attract the lightning. About , enty years ago the lightning rods on it were re-enforced by connect- | ? the pyramidal cap of aluminum by ( network of copper wires, uniting the ur main copper lightning rods with | other and with the uprights suprting the elevator machinery, and | ming the whole system of copper ] res about the cap with some 200 i pper points distributed at a uniform < dance of about five feet. There had en one damaging lightning stroke i lich ieft its mark upon the monu- < mt. but since that multiplication of i ints and close connection with the- i ?tals in the interior of the monu- < int. not another one. In England < is year, owing to the recent whole- I ' * " I n tho 1 16 Killing UI CellHC cinu onctp in Ids, it is seriously proposed to equip y large trees so situated as to be rerted to commonly as a place of refe by cattle in a storm, with llghtig rods, which shall present, at a ight slightly above the highest anches, an array of metal points. It urged that the expense is trifling r such a precaution compared with s loss on the cattle. It is declared by of. Attfleld of England however, that s burying of cattle destroyed by htning is wholly a bit of superstl>us rusticity, and that if the carsses are promptly drained of their >od as in ordinary slaughtering, ere is no difference in the meat thus ocured from that obtained in the 3inary ways. It is believed that the mortality from htning is greater than is commonly pposed, since except in Germany and ance the facts are only partially colted and tabulated by governments. England they only ' estimate" as yet ? totals of lightning destruction, and ? number of cattle killed In the field placed at about 600 annually. Twen eight deaths were recorded in 1871, 1875 17, and In 1877 only 10. In ussla the number of deaths per miln of inhabitants on an average of teen years, is four: in France and eden, three, and in the United States out five. Our rate is higher than it of most countries owing to the ge proportion of our agricultural pulation. In 1898 the number of aths recorded by the statistics of i weather bureau was 867 and injuri 491. Nine hundred and sixty-six rns and 734 dwellings were destroynnd about 1.800 head of cattle, t rses, sheep and hogs?the approxitte money loss being $1,500,000. And t the authorities tell us that In the rlted States there are few flashes intense that good lightning rods of ntinuous metal well Inserted In the rth will not afford effective protecn. This Is not necessary in the city ilt in close blocks, with metal corses and roofs and spouts abounding, t in the country the same authorities ite in saying that good lightning Is, in good repair and with burnishpoints on the roof corners are emintly desirable things to be provided th. Tall factory chimneys and epics and all such structures as ,ver above their surroundings should ve their lightning rods as a matter of urse, and have them constructed >st carefully and inspected often to ep their joints intact.?Boston Transpt. Indians At Work.?It is only withthe last few years?more especialwith the last two?that the open? of the reservations has wrought y considerable change in the Inin's condition. He continued to reive his rations and lived in much e same way as of old. only in a cornrat Ive ly few instances improving his I < operty. With the entrance of the nMi.LU.nw.s r.^rui i iiuidii \ vMiiiiiir?niuiiri r luuvio > Leupp. upon office a radically dlf- ( rent policy was incepted. < This new movement aims at the i Institution of independence and free- I m for segregation and charity. Kvy inducement is being offered to the i le-bod)ed Indian to go out into the t >rld and seek work side by side with 1 b white man in the free competition 1 th him. It is the policy of labor < d citizenship as against the policy t rations and nonentity. < We are giving the redskins the white > in's chance and asking him to as- i me the white man's responsibilities, j is a bold experiment, fraught with ] ngers and difficulties, for us and | r our wards. Xo one can be more ( enly alive to these than the com- t issioner, but he has entered upon t e enterprise with a confidence and | thusiasm that deserves success. i A PRINCE OF IMPOSTORS. \ Sketch of the Extraordinary Caree of Balsamo, Count Cagliostro. The world has always taken an In terest In its great criminals, an Inter ?st no to be confounded with th Jesire xo protect itself against the! lepredatlons. Dat-lng and resolutloi never rail ro win aueimuu, a.tiu u these qualities, as Browning observes A crime will d As well...as to serve as a test As a virtue golden through am through. If a man has a way of making u his mind to do difficult things and the doing them, even when those thing ire wrong, most people are extreme ly anxious to know how he did them For this reason Cagliostro, the self dubbed Count Alessandro de Caglios tro, arch-quack and prince of impos tors, the most complete scoundrel o the eighteenth century, has a distlnc place in the annals of that centurynot an enviable place, but unques tlonably prominent. Nor Is it common curiosity alon that has sought to pierce the veil o mystery which has always hun about him. Carlyle spent a good dea of valuable time trying to find out th truth about Cagliostro. Dumas mad him the hero of a romance. Schille left an unfinished novel, "The Qeister seher," which was based on the ca reer of this charlatan. Goethe pon tiered so deeply over certain phase or inai career iriui n m naiu absolutely compelled to write hi drama "The Gross-Kophta" to fre himself from the obsession. Yet these men, even, knew littl about the man Cagllostro, the ma who sat at the center of the web h wove. All that is really known abou him comes from certain items in th French police records, a few letter of his preserved in the British Muse um, and a very wooden biograph written by some Roman about th time of Cagllostro's trial by the Hoi Inquisition. These state certain fact In. his history, but when the facts ar summed up and placed side by sld with what is known of the vogue h had, the followers he drew, Cagliostr remains a good deal of a mystery. His beginning was as humble as man's could be. His father was on Pietro Balsamo, a poor shopkeeper c Palermo, and Beppo, as they calle the boy, ran wild with the rest of th gamins who frolicked and fought an thieved in the byways of the old SI cllian town. He was born in 1743; before th middle of the century, the neighbor of Balsamo were predicting a bad en for Beppo. He seems to have been rat and vociferous boy, with a big ap petite, and the larder at home bein generally bare, it is easy to plctur him repairing the deficiency elsewher and thereby getting his first lessons ii crime. Later, his thoughts apparently turn &d to eccleslastlcism, for at the ag Df fifteen he entered the Convent o Cartegirone as a novice. The monk set him at work in the convent apoth ?cary, which, whether It had happen >d by chance or his own intentior gave him a fine training for the ca reer he was later to embark upor For here he dipped into the books o the chemists and the old alchemists watched the monks at their dlstllla tlons, and took with sharp ears th talks that went on concerning dlvin Ing-rods, treasure digging, the trans mutation of metals, and similar su p'erstltions of that superstitious ag? But his stay at the convent wa short. Being required to read aloui from a book of martyrology while th monks ate dinner, he enlivened hi task by substituting the names of bai characters of Palermo for the name af the saints. Of course, the horri tied monks ejected him, with a gooi flogging for a farewell. Pletro Balsamo had died, leavini Beppo's mother with several chlldrei ind nothing to feed them. Beppc :herefore, returning to Palermo, quar tered himself upon an uncle, and pro reeded to make the most of his nar row resources. What with a forger; >.. o four Hoff rnhherles. and sonv nvoluntiry visits to the Palernv prison, some months passed away. Meantime, Beppo was branchini >ut as a fortune-teller and getting i reputation as a sorcerer. His seconi leparture from Palermo was quite ab upt. He had told one Marano, a gold imith, in strict confidence, that witl lis divlnlng-rod he had located a vas reasure In a certain rock-chasm, am Marano had joyfully entered into i ;ompact by which he was to pay Bal iamo sixty ounces In gold for the soli ight to the treasure. But as Maram lent over his spade, on the appointe< light, in the lonely chasm, there carm iceomplices of Balsamo's, who bea ilm sorely and abstracted his sixt; lunces of gold, leaving him for dead Fie was not dead, though, and nex lay he appeared In Palermo with thi ruly Sicilian Intention of stabbini Balsamo. Balsamo had figured ii nany a street brawl, but he had n< aste for a stilletto In his back. There 'ore, as the Roman biographer put t, he "fled from Palermo, and over *an the whole earth." 1 -' -? w l? (V, iie was neuru ox ui racwnia, ui< aboratory of one Althotas; then jour leying with Althotas to Egypt. when he two made a small fortune selllni lempen fabrics which they had treat id to look like silk; then at Malta, a fuest of the alchemist Pinto, Gram Master of the Knights. In the coursi if his wanderings Balsamo grew s jeard and changed his name severa imes, till he finally entered Rome a Tount de Cagliostro, the name he al .vays afterwards bore. When, year ater, in the course of his trial fo omplicity in the affair of the queen'; recklace, the attorney-general o Prance asked him by what right hi issumed the title of count, he answer id: "I have gone all over Europe by thi lame of Cagliostro. As to the title o ount. from the education I have re eived, the attention paid to me br he Mufti Suleyman, the Sheriff of Mec a, by the Grand Master Pinto, Popi Element, and most of the sovereign; >f Europe, you may judge whether i s not more a disguise to conceal wha [ really am than a title of honor." The Count de Cagliostro was wel received in Rome, and he got a wifi here?one precisely suited to hi leeds. She had no fortune, but shi ,vas neauniui. ciever, iusciiiuuiik, am ;ompletely unprincipled. Just xvh; he fair Lorenza Feliciana marriei ^agllostro does not appear. He was ; squat and swarthy fellow, and accord ng to one observer utterly repulsivi n looks, though another reports tha le had a remarkably fine head. Hli jlographer says that he had "an oilj Plausibility." Perhaps this won Lo enza. At any rate, she was mart-let o him. and became his apt and doelh pupil He proceeded to instruct hei n the jargon of the alchemists and it the arts of the enchantera, and then pi they set out together to ravage Eu- a r rope. e< Cagliostro affirmed that he could . heal all diseases, that he could render ai . himself Invisible at will, and that the Ir P elixir vltae he offered for sale would tc r keep death and decay at bay. It Is ai strange to read that on these preten- e< f slons he gained a great following. E i; However, It was a credulous age. w Science was still young, shreds of Ir astrology clung to astronomy, many la d a doctor gathered his herbs In certain \v aspects of the planets. Over In Lon- tl P don the antics of the Cock Lane ghost b n could engage men like Samuel John8 son In deep and serious investigation, n " Considering that In this twentieth cen- a ' tury It Is not impossible for a quack h * to gain a following, it is perhaps not f< '* so strange that In the eighteenth the tl '* oily Cagllostro made people believe p lf him. t< !t He and his countess went first to Ir ~ Sleswlck, to visit their great predecessor In the art of making dupes, the e: Count de St. Germain, and to take a ii e few finishing lessons from him. Then S f for several years they traveled In Ger8 many and Russia, telling fortunes, ll and selling vast quantities of the elixe ir of life, taking In "Italian counts h e and French envoys." r Once they went to Palermo?a great mistake, for Cagllostro was promptly ^ " clapped Into jail on an old charge. " Then Lorenza proved herself a wife Q 8 worth having, for she sought the son t| 8 of the nearest prince, and so charmed y s him that he went and bodily belabor- j e ed the advocate for the plaintiff Into withdrawing the charge, and Caglios- p e tro was released. He never went to n Palermo again. Goethe, who visited ^ e the town some time afterward and . ll sought out the Balsamo family, gives b e a rather touching picture of the old 8 mother and her daughter and grand- fi son asking for news of the wanderer, _ r y who sends them no message and has e dropped their very name. y In 1776 Cagliostro, who by this .. 8 time had a Continental reputation. e went to England. A great deal has t( ? been written about his English expee rlences, but those who have looked In- ? a ? to the matter say most of It Is fabu- tj lous. It seems clear that he became o a involved with a nest of gamblers, no- ^ e tably one Scot, who posed as "Lord" t| Scot, and a Miss Fry, who passed as d "Lady" Scot. But whether he fleeced e them or they fleeced him Is rather a d moot point. tl I- He was jailed more than once In England, and left It poorer than he d e entered It. One thing of value, though. ^ 8 he gained there. Already, with his gj d leaning toward the supernatural, he ^ a had had an eye on freemasonry, and t< In some obscure lodge In London he c K was promoted through the three j. e grades of Apprentice, Companion, and e Master Mason, at the cost of Ave p n guineas. Lorenza also was made a Mason or Masoness. ^ Then In an old book-stall he chanee ed to find certain manuscripts belongt Ing to one George Cofton which treat- t( 8 ed of Egyptian Masonry. They sug gested a new plan to his fertile brain, Ij * a new means of duping people. He j '> would revive Egyptian Masonry, an nounce that he was going to free It ^ ' of magic, and through It renovate the f universe; he would promise to con- . duct his followers to perfection by h " means of physical and moral regenere aMon. promise to find the phlloso- . " pher's stone, and to give to all who ^ obeyed him eternal youth. Back on the Continent, he set the thing going. None knew better than 3 Cagllostro how to use all the access3 orles?the death's-heads, the screens S] e painted with hieroglyphics, the spa3 clous halls In shadow, with the beard- * 3 ed head of a supernatural Grand 3 Kophta just showing in the gloom? ** SI - how, In short, to work on the imagld nation. ? From city to city he went with his ff countess, founding Egyptian lodges " 11 everywhere, a .thing, of course, ' ? which involved expense. His follow ers, who grew to thousands, met the - expense gladly. It Is said they actu- w - ally believed that he held s certain V authority over the angels. Yet sped- c' e mens of his speeches which are pre- 8' 0 served show that they were the mer- s' est jargon. He seems to have carried 8< ? his plans through by pure audacity. w a Meantime, he and Eorenza did not 3 neglect the old trade of selling beauty - tor nnd the ollrlr nf His pockets were distended with ducats, ^ - he traveled with a train of servants, i and In nearly every city he stopped at t the most magnificent hotel, where he j 1 entertained the rich, and where the . i poor thronged to be "healed." He dls- ^ - pensed charity freely, and no doubt ^ b that made men think his nostrums ef5 ficaclous: that, and their Imaglna1 Hons. le e His progress was not always a trlt umph. In no place did his vogue last K long; frequently he was accused of be- C( fng the Antichrist; and in St. Peters- et t burg his thaumaturgy was overhaul- hi b ed and found wanting by the empress's S physician, and Cagliostro was igno- C( i minlously driven out of the city. vj 5 But news in those days did not trav- ?' I th - el very fast, and there was always a w s fresh place to seek when the last one ei - grew too hot for him. oi Lorenza, who was not more than b twenty-five years old when the pair w - settled in Strasburg, where they sc b reached the height of their career, ei S used to speak carelessly of "my son, c' - a captain in the Dutch service, Just tc s twenty-eight years old." Naturally, 1 all the ugly old women thronged to 01 b buy Cagllostro's beauty-water, hoping pj i it would make them young too. tl 1 It was in Strasburg that Cagliostro is 3 met the Prince-Cardinal de Rohan, 1,4 - over whom he gained a remarkable ^ 3 ascendency. De Rohan was one of ti r his firmest admirers, but It was B s through the cardinal that his down- ^ f fall began. When Strasburg tired of er ft Cagliostro he established himself in at - Saverne, where the cardinal resided. Those were fine days of feasting and ? merriment; and then Into the midst Q, f of them came the affair of the dla- ec - mond necklace, when De Rohan, pl f thtough his love for Marie Antoinette ? - and the cupidity of Mme. de la Motte, ft fell from his height and carried Cags liostro with him. For though there i t was no evidence to prove that Cagll- f t ostro was connected with the plot, as 1 Mme. de la Motte swore that he was, 1 I he and his countess, who was arrested e with him. went forth from their long s imprisonment In the Rastile pillaged i* of many of their possessions?worst I of all to them, of their Arabian manu- i V scripts, and of the powder of trans- I 1 mutation, with which Cagliostro had I i for so long tried to change base met- 4 - a is Into gold. 1 ft For a time the pair wandered about, J t but they never regained their lost I s prestige. They stayed for some I f months in London, where Cagliostro ' - composed his "Lettre au Peuple An1 glals" and his "Lettre fiux Franeais," | ft describing his sufferings at the hands { r of English lawyers, the governors of t the Kastile and others. That he still assessed a grim humor, is shown b curious challenge he issued to a litor who attacked him In his pape In 1789. Lorenza, pseudo-counte: nd Grand Kophtess, tired of wandei ig, persuaded Cagliostro to take ht t Rome, her old home. Six montli fterward the Holy Inquisition detect 1 Cagliostro founding a poor littl Egyptian lodge of freemasonry. H as Immediately arrested, and locke 1 the Castle of St. Angelo. His trli isted a year and a half, at the end < hlch time his manuscripts of Egyi an Masonry were sentenced to 1 onmmnn hnncmnn. ui nru Kfj me VV/1H...W.. As for Gleseppe Balsamo, as he wj ow called, It was declared that, belr freemason, he had Justly forfeitc is life, but "nevertheless he shall t irglven, instructed, and kept sal 11 death." He was kept safe in th rlson at St. Leo where four years a ;rward his dead body was found 1; lg in his cell. As for Lorenza she was allowed 1 scape a more severe punishment t nmuring herself in a nunnery.?T1 crap Book. FEAR OF PHANTOMS. inate Human Belief In the Theoi That the Dead Walk. Deep down In the heart of mt here abides a firm belief in the pow< f the dead to walk upon the earl nd affright, if such be their pleasur he souls of the living. Wise folk ersed in the sciences, and fortifle i mind against faith in aught thi ivors of the supernatural, says Llj lncott's, laugh ideas of the kind 1 corn, yet hardly one of them wl are walk alone through a graveyai i the night. Or, if one be found i old, he will surely hasten his too teps, unable wholly to subdue th ear of sheeted spectres- which mt Ise from the grass-grown graves < merge from moonlit tombs and folio n. For, strangely enough, the dea ! not actually hostile to the llvln re esteemed dangerous and dreadfi > encounter. It used to be the fashion to swet way all such notions by saying thi ley had their origin In the childhoc f the race, and that they sprang fro: ?ar of the unknown. This, unque lonably, was the easiest way to di ose of them, but was it fair? Ti ubject possesses intense interest for reat majority of mankind, an lough the existence of ghosts is ui roved, there Is undeniably a va AoHmAnv i n thnln hohdlf thi cai ui iconiiivuj in tiivn ws?w. .... eserves serious and respectful coi [deration. Fortunately, within tl ist few years the attitude of scien< >ward the problem has altogethi hanged, and, actuated by a new spi ; of inquiry, the wise men have bet ngaged, thoughtfully and withoi rejudice in studying it out. . While it cannot be said that ar nal and definite conclusions have t et been reached an Immense amoui f evidence has been sifted?enoug > show pretty conclusively, for or oint, that the traditional spectre < le Cock Lane School, with clanklr bain and attributes disagreeably suj estive of the grave, has no basis I ict. On the other hand, there ai srtaln phantoms, altogether dllTerei i their characteristics, in whose b< alf a mass of testimony is adduce > establish complete proof in any 01 inary case in a court of law. Not! \g short of absolute demonstratio 1 such a matter can be satlsfactor; ut the evidence in question certain! :aggers incredulity. One fear of phantoms appears I pring from a dread of the unknow nd the mysterious and the intang le. That it is a groundless terror roven by the fact that in many thoi inds of cases of alleged spectral ai earances subjected during the la iw years to painstaking Investigatic ot a single instance has been foun i which an injury was inflicted t le ghost upon the persons to whoi presented itself. So that, even e are to accept apparitions as ver ible, we ought to regard them wit Lirlosity rather than with appreher on; and, instead of trying to avol jch supernormal visitors, we shoul ;ek an opportunity for ourselves 1 itness phenomena so intensely ir 'resting. KOREAN WEDDING. fhen the Crown Prince's Bride Passe Tbrouah Seoul. A magnificent blaze of color was tt npresslon which we first received ( le procession of the bride-elect < le crown prince to the palace, saj le Korea Daily News. We expecte larger procession than we saw, bi jr disappointment was more than al viated by the splendor of the proces on and the populace. Greens, yel ws, pinks and blues, all in strikln mtrast and likely to be bizarre, form 1 themselves into a truly delical irmony. The procession passed up the bl reet at about 4 o'clock. The first t )me were a number of female set ints of the bride. They were mostl d women and their march was some ling to be seen. Following thei ime a number of palace "gisang ich one clad gorgeously and ever le carrying a pink parasol. Late ime the state chairs of the bride lere were two of them and the brid as in the second one. Meanwhil juads of soldiers were marching u ther side of the streets, and as tb lair of the future empress of Kore issed through the crowd stood bac > make .room. Following the chair of the bride wer any officials all on horseback. The colors were glorious, but th rocession could not have been mor lan a quarter of a mile long, whic a disappointment when we remem jr me inieriiiuiuuiiiiy ui ? iuikh "ocession. At 6 o'clock the foreign representa ves were Tecelved In audience. Th elgian Consul General M. Vlncar ie Doyen of the consular corps, dellv ed a congratulatory speech. Gen al Hasegawa stood near the empero id looked fierce. Subsequently ther as a soiree at the smaller palace a hich all the foreign representative id their foreign subordinates an eneral Hasegawa's coachman attend I. Neither the emperor nor the crow dnce was present. | Don't Push \ The horse can draw the JUS l\ load without help, if you JWtt \\ reduce friction to almost /flfjflj U nothing by applying I iMIea ^xje^l fegSIrease" m IK ftw viiu n iivvioi i \ ? No other lubri- VL ^Tr| cant ever made T JHjSgf wears so long I and saves so much j]Jm ^ lorse power. 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