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TILLMAN IN NEW ENGLAND. Speaks at Meeting of Bimetallic League at Providence. Providence. R. I.. Sept. 4.?The second meeting of the New England Bimetallic League at Crescent park this afternoon was very largely attended and representative Democrats from all the New England States occupied the platform. Resolutions declaring for free silver, against militarism and urging the nomination of W. J. Bryan for president were unanimously adopt~ .1 ?u. Senator Benjamin R. Tillman, ol Sotffli Carolina, was then introduced an1 his address was punctured with cheers throughout. He stated that the Spanish war was worth all it cost if it has proved nothing else than the south wilbvfight for the Stars and Stripes as eagerly, as well as the north. Tie declared that unless the policy of the government is changed soon the Republic is doomed and will become a government ol oppression of the many by the few, He praised New England for what it had done for the south, but called attention to the f*ct that there were people enough south and west of the Potomaeand the Mississippi to elect a president without the aid of New England. He said that while he believed and always would that the negro is not the equal of the white lyan, still he believed in giving him legal rights, barring the political side. He said the negroes did not know enough to vote and in South - Carolina the white people had succeeded in disfranchising them until they can read and write. Mr. Tillman asked: "If it was right to free Cuba because Spain was shooting Cubans to death, how is il to be reconciled with the fact that the U?h ted States which now owned the Philippines, was now shooting the Filipinos to death." He said that he believed the president is honest in his belief that he is doing his duty, hut claimed that he only looked at the one fact that the United States bought the Islands fiom Spain. He asked where the honor was in the Philippine war. The south and South Carolina will at any time send as many men in proportion to its population as any State to any war of decency and honor, but it will not send a regiment to the Philippines. PLAGIARY IN THE SENATE. College Men Would Spurn Outrageous Violations of Honor which are not Uncommon Among Certain Senators. *Strictly speaking, no man's name should go before the public as the author of a speech, essay or letter which is not the product of his own brain. The public must judge men by what they say or what they write. In college it would be regarded as an outrageous violation of honor for a sophomore to submit nT theme which he had hired some brighter man to prepare. And yet United States Senators not infrequently deliver speeches they would themselves be as incapable of writing as a camel would be of double-entry bookkeeping. One man who used to be in the United States Senate acquired a great reputation through the able speeches which he read carefully * \from manuscript. He was a rich man and employed a very gifted private secretary, who is now one ol the leading magazine editors of the country. There may have been nc connection between these two facts but when it was related 01.0 evening H to a certain President of the United States that this Senator had beer making a speech at the Capitol the President's first comment was thai the secretary in question, calling him by name%-must be on duty again Of course, the Senator's constituents estimated his ability from his * ' ? riu..:. speecnesy as puunsueu. mtru suspicions had not been aroused as had those of the President. One United States Senator to day has achieved a 7ery considerable reputation upor speeches that have been placed it: his hands for delivery. There art always promoters of a cause, q?>.iet Studious and painstaking, who art only too glad to have the results ol their study get before the world with the substantial backing of a United States Senator. In such a case the 1 ' Senator, in delivering the speech usually says, parenthetically, thai some of the data have been 6uppliet ^ to him, or that he is indebted to soand-so for a little assistance. Thai little assistance usually include* much more than the insertion o punctuations marks.?Washingtoi Correspondent of the New Yorl Evening Post. : District Appointments. PThe following are the appointment.1 for quarterly Conferences of th< charges on the Sumter District, S. C Conference, for Third Quarter o 1899: Sumter Ct Sept. 9, 1< Sumter Station Sept. 1< Thos. J. Clyde, P. E Keeping Up Appearances. A "licensed pawnbroker" who does j great deal of work in the west end o London lately gave to the writer par ticulars of a strange sort of pledging that has become common of late ant that often defeats men of his kind. Backing up his statement with actna names and dates, he said: "A bailiff and I enter a showy flat, ay, and my accostomed eye at one* falls on a handsome or at least a pre tentions piano. I say to myself thai ' this piano will sell for what I require. I go to it, but find that it i9 locked. ] ask for the key, and when this is reluc tantly produced I find that there is ii reality nothing but a case. All the in side of the instrument is gone. The facl is that people in difficulties who stil want to ke<jp up appearances can tor row money, while still apparently re taining their p^ano, by allowing th< lenders to take away the main part, on inside, of the instrument. One man ir the west end in particular does a considerable business by lending money or pianos in this way, "I suppose that when visitors wanl to play on an instrument of this kind the host pleads that the key is lost Anyhow I have in my own business had quite 50 examples of gutted pianos during the last two years, and I nevei mark a piano down in an inventory now till I have closely examined it"? London Answers. . FUNNY FRENCHMEN. I ; Remarkable Outbursts and How They Are Turned Aside. When Americans read of riots in ; Pans they suppose that the residents I are fighting for life hand to hand in j the streets, or sitting behind barricaded doors to escape mob violence, i whereas the majority of the citizens j know nothing of what is occurring | until they read it in the next morning's papers. An American whose daughter i? ! resident abroad is often in alarm aftei ! reading in home papers accounts ol ' French uprisings. The reply usual. ly is: 'I am so glad you keep me posted . on French news. I had no idea then had been a disturbance." So many of these riots originate with cliques in clitl^rent sections oi the city that they are hardly noted by the more staid residents. Noi ' infrequently, however, they are tin 1 outcome of some important politica difference. Chancing to be in Paris whei Boulanger was elected, I was alarmed by the noisy demonstrations am i expected each day the overthrow ol . the government-. Incendiary paper? r predicted horrors, mobs threatenec and students marched shoutinj. through the streets, which wen ; spread with gravel to prevent hasti [ ly driven wagons or dashing cavalr\ , from colliding on the smooth sur , face. Those unaccustomed to Krone! ' moods considered war declared ' while timid Americans fled across . the channel with their belongings , Election day was the time of expect ed culmination of strife. Each ol ! the two factions had HK) men hang i ing posters. Two of these, wit I [ their burdens of placards and buck . ets of paste, halted in front of tin opera house and mounted the step? 1 proceeded to work on the smootl stone terrace. One would slap dowi [ a poster favoring'Bouianger. (Juick as a flush the other, with a how and "your pardon. Monsieur," would 1 cover it with one of the opponent i They kept this up, much to tin " '*^0 ?\\ onf /\f oiuluvc llllti! aiilUdriJIUIIb "I ?y -r>nniM? I . their supply was exhausted. Foi ' weeks previous to election day ' which was Sunday?French elec: tions always take place on Sundayit had been rainy and dark, hut thai morning it cleared beautifully anti Paris emptied herself in the Hois 1 men quietly depositing their vote* t and hastening to join their families , on the picnic grounds. Next morn ( ing's papers announced hut one con flict, and that between two Englisl 1 coachmen over the division of f , loaf of bread. [ A recent issue of Le Matm con tains the following account of tin 1 disturbance at the Auteuil races ' when President Lou bet was threat I ened. It is Hardwin who writes: "The amusing part of it is that tin gentlemen who made the disturb ance were of high social standing and I tried to discover the cause o the manifestations. Approaching one very elegant young man whom J had seen crying I asked: '> "Why do you cry. Monsieur?" "To which he replied: "For the-dismission of all con nected with the Panama affair ant for the downfall of Loubet." "Will it offend you if I cry lviv< Loubet.'" "Not at all. Monsieur," he repliet with the most courteous mannei possible, 'opinions are free.' And we saluted each other as i enchanted. "What occurred at Auteuil signi fies nothing, as do all such disturb ' ances. It amuses these people t< think they are helping the machine to move, whereas it is not moving at all, and I am quite eonvincec ' that the moment has not yet arrivec i when the government will be over thrown by such demonstrations." Usually the students, if they d< not originate the distur!>anee, take 1 the matter in their own hands atic . fight for the fun of it. A party o , these unrulies from tlie Latin quar ter and a party from Moutmartre cot into a fight at Place Ptgale it ' front of the Cafe of the Dead Itat I The police failed utterly to put then r to rout and had ordered out tin militia, wj^^ the proprietor of tin ' cafe, wh^^^ets as a pawnbroker ' money-lender and friend in genera , to the students, being possessed of; r stentorian voice, succeeded in niak j ing himself heard. "Why do you fight my children?' 1 he shouted. i "Why do we fight?" was the reply t "Will not be interferred with." r "But no one interferes with you ' why do you fight?" "Tell our father Rat here why w< > fight," shouted one. j "Yes tell him!" cried another. There was a lull in the uproar, bq no one replied. ' "Why do we fight?" was asked oi I every hand. One of the leaders ex I claimed: "We do not fight." i And to this clay no one can tel how the trouble orig nated. ' On another occasion a party o ? demonstrators threatened the un ; fortunate, historical Vondome col f utnti. A guard municipal chancec ( to ride by. "Come., eentlemen" be said, humbly beg of you; it is a warn ? day. There are a numbei*of Strang* , and illustrious guests at the Hote t Vemlome here. They wish to tak< their morning drive. If you destrot the column you will make muci " noise and dust and interfere witl k their comfort," whereupon tlie rnol 5 withdrew and the column stil j. stands. We all know, however, tha it was once overthrown. This wai 1 some years before. Mr. Wash bun c was at that time our minister t< France. He was one day passing Piace Yendome with a lady whei the mob commanded him to hal and lend a band on the rope witl 5 which they were about to accom 3 plish their work of destruction. H* complied, protested that be was ai f American and that be had a lady i: charge. The leader of the mob re D leased the lope, announced that tin W gentleman present protested anc that if the work continued a Strang* lady would be seriously alarmed. Part of the crowd dispersed, hut ; * large party insisted upon escortinj f the strangers to their hotel, scatter - itig after cheers for America. Th* T column was not raised for severa j days and only then because then was no chance of diversion, j History assures us that the Fivncl mob can not always he diverted an* historians liken them to wolves, hu ' there are two sides to even this ap ' pa rent i.v ono-suieii question. Standing one day on tin* plaza ?> ^ the palace at Versailles, a wait in: the boom of the cannon annonncin: t the turning of waters into the mar - velous fountains, I exclaimed! j "'Poor Louis XVI, poor Marie An . toinette, what liemls the peopli ^ must tiave been !'' I The old French soldier beside mi smiled. "I)o you see that iron gateway nov open to the people?" he asked. "I i was closed iti two days. Througl : the grilled top from without couh be seen gleam of silk and jewels could be heard the clique of golden t heeled slipper and jewel-studde< sword hilt. These fountains tha ; will shortly give thousands of gal l' Ions of water, then ran wine furnish ed by these fiends of whom yoi speak, while they stood outsid< ^ starving. Women with dying hahe ' in their arms watched the wine ' their wine, flow for the amusomen ' of the weak king and his child wife . Down in the woods at the Swiss vil lage,tbe royal idlers played peasani I at a cost of millions of francs, while i the people who furnished the means . I of this sport had not so much as a | crust of hread. A well-fed, well-groomed man 1 whose mind is at ease for the future 1 has all the necessities of irentleman1 j liness. hut he who starves, seeing his j wife and babies starving, is insane and should he so adjudged." ?j The da.v of Mich possibilities is .'past, and 1 say, with Hardwin, the time has not yet arrived when the government will be overthrown by ? such demonstrations as those at Auteuil or Louj^ehamps. I Wm.i. Mott. ! WASHINGTON LETTER. i Postgrad onto Work For \Kriculturt I'j al Cisllose <; raduates?Machine | . (auikh For tlte Philippines. ? [Special Correspondence.] I The secretary of agriculture atWashi ington has about perfected a plan 1 ; whereby gradnates from agricultural I ! collet's can come to the department r and do postgraduate work. Many of j | the agricultural colleges throughout 1 tlie country are turning out every year r good men, who are often prevented ' from continuing the valuable lines of special work which they pursued while * | in college through inability to continue ' I their studies. The secretary's plan, ( ! which has received much careful ; thought and consideration, will make It I I possible for such young men to spend a year or two in Washington, working - under direction of the heads of scieur tilic divisions. It is not expected that ! they shall undertake any original work, 1 but carry on such investigations as " may be assigned to them. It is proposed to pay men of this kind a nom" inal salary, barely enough to cover ex! i penses. the pay being not so much to ; | induce them to come here as to afford I an opportunity for deserving young I men to advance in the special fields . they have chosen while in college. Some new lines of work are being in[ augurated by the secretary, and it is almost impossible to find men for these ' investigations. By bringing young men here and training them in these lines, l opportunity swill beafforded for broad| *ning such work in many directions. , Arrangements have been made with ? the civil service commission whereby 5 candidates for these positions are to submit a statement as to their standing while in college, their work since | graduation and a thesis on the special line of investigation in which they . may he interested. With this for a ? basis the secretary can make such , selections as he may think proper for - particular lines of work. This is one of the most important steps that have been taken by the gov~ eminent within recent years looking to f bringing the department of agriculture r into close contact with the colleges In [ various states. It is believed that there are facilities in the department equal to. if not better than, any offered abroad for study. The plan will unquestionably prove a valuable one both to the department and to the colleges. 3Xnchine Gun* For the Philippine*. Preparations are being made by the war department to increase the efficiency of the artillery force on duty in the Philippines. The Filipinos are terrorized by the terrible execution of the machine guns, and the department is making a series of experiments to ascertain the most effective weapon. On account of the miserable condition of the roads in the Philippines and the large amount of cross country work necessary, artillery is almost useless. General Otis has been using quick firing field guns and mountain batteries? that is, gnus of the mountain howitzer type, which can be transported on muleback. The department is turning its attention to light automatic or machine guns, which are quite different from the quick firing field batteries and which take horses to draw them. In guns of the automatic type small arms 1./% oil/l til ACP I auiuiuuiuuu cau uc ustu, ...uv j arms are so light that they can be j transported by their own crew of three . men. This was demonstrated in the field operations around Caloocan when ' Ensign Davis went ashore with one of the Helena's automatic guns. The work of tliis crew showed that the natives dread the small automatic guns , more than the larger shrapnel bata teries aud the rifle fire of a whole company of infantry. The Catling is the standard machine t gun of the army, and while it has proved an effective weapon it is much i heavier than is desired for the present - class of work. A fair trial will be given the other types of lighter guns. * Tests are being made at Sandy Hook I with the Maxim and the Colt automatic, which has proved an excellent gun for naval work, but is not reliable under all conditions on shore. It will j not be long before a decided reformation in the artillery service in the Philj ippines will take place, and before the ^ end of the rainy season the departa ment will determine which gun will be 1 used. a Xevr Soda Water Drink. , The Washington summer girl has ln1 vented a new soda water fountain i drink. Soda water in Washington is j a great favorite with the stay at ' homes, as it is elsewhere in the country, and no one enjoys the hot weather i so much as the druggists, for they t know it means a profitable run upon , their soda fouutaius. The new soda i water drink is called "Chocolate Frit day." Why this name was given to it ) no one can tell, although it is said the - young lady who first tried it did so on 5 that day of the week. The mixture is 1 not exactly a soda water drink, for it consists only of a large spoonful of ice ? cream, with a liberal supply of thick j chocolate simp poured over the top. Those who have tried it say that it is better than chocolate soda water, and. i I at any rate, it is very popular. J | Minister \rt-os Cordially Treated. i ne 1 ?uc ?VI'CU5> ?U1U uio aooioiuuvo are gratified at the reception they have ' received in Wash inert on and express with deep feeling their appreciation of the courtesy of the nation with which j their government was so recently at t war. It is true that special efforts have been made to convince the Due d'Arcos that there is no resentment or I prejudice on the part of the United States against any Spaniard in the r United States and that everybody is - clad that tiie war is ov<^. The duke has communicated this sentiment both - to his government and to his personal ' friends in Spain, and it will certainly be to the advantage of both countries. C'Ar.r. Schokield. I* I):ins?T? In Mercury. Mercury is a foe to life Those who 1 make mirrors, barometers or thermoin; eters. etc.. scon feel the effect o/ the nitrate of mercury in teeth, gums and j ; the tissues of the body t: -1 In Iceland men and women are in - j every respect political equals. The na1 tion. which numbers about 70,000 people. is governed by representatives elect* ed by men and women together. [ j A philologist estimates that of every . | 100 words in the French language 18 t are superfluous. FACTS IN A FEW LINES. At least 40 American lawyers are endeavoring to earn a living in Manila. English dictionaries are in greater demand than any other commodity in E'orto Rico. There are 242 German Itaptist rhnrehes In the United States, with *2,000 members. The Minneapolis mills make 14.000,XK) barrels of flour a year and consume >0,000,000 bushels of wheat. The capital of Herzegovina has a man named Gjugja who is 100 years old and boasts of 120 descendants. The production of wire rods increas?d in the United States from 270,709 :ous in 1880 to 1,071,083 tons in 1808. Hans aie being made for the projected canal between Berlin and Stettin, by which vessels of heavy tonnage will be able to reach Berlin. The Buddhists of Burma have subsoril>ed and paid $50,000 for the materials and fashioning of a golden casket inu-hir-h thfdrmost sacred relic, a tooth of Buddha, is to repose. The churches of the United States claim 20.000.000 communicants, being about one-third of the entire population. During 1897 the growth in church membership was G31.000. Two Virginians have patented a cigar In which a leaf stem is inserted in the center to impart its fragrance to the filler, the stem being withdrawn when the cigar is lighted, thus forming a passage for the smoke. A German railroad now building in eastern Africa, where the climate is most dangerous to white men, recently offered positions to civil engineers at $1,125 per annum, station masters $1,1)00 and locomotive drivers $900. A correspondent of the London Academy writes that a bookseller in a large provincial city discovered an assistant arranging four new copies of Walt Whitman's "Leaves of Grass" on the shelves devoted to books on gardening. The horticultural world is exercised by the mysterious transformations in color which the Japanese are able to effect in roses. By some unknown but natural process the flower changes from red in the sunlight to white in the shade or in darkness. In Toledo, a city of nearly 150,000 inhabitants, the death rate last year, according to the report of Dr. J. T. Woods, health officer, was only 10.3. In Erie, Pa., during the past three years the rate has varied from 10.53 to 10.94. After many years of public discussion St. Petersburg has at last established a fixed tariff for cabs. These cabs are much used, as the street car system is little developed, but they are small and uncomfortable. There are about 20,000 in use. In the north of Brazil, in the districts in the vicinity of the Amazon, are the forests containing the rubber trees, the amount of this product exported last year being valued at $50,000,000, and the supply as yet showing no signs of exhaustion. At an auction sale of the effects of the late Herrmann, the magician, two pairs of silk stockings, said to have belonged once to the Empress Carlotta of Mexico, were sold for $9. An expert who was present at the sale said the stockings probably cost $30 a pair. In%1861 the population of England and Wales was about 20,000,000. In that year 258 divorce suits were enTon mo r<a Inter there were 410 ICiUU* x VU J V * ? W suits among 23,000,000 population. In 18S1 there were G18 out of 20,000,000, and last year there were 822 out of 31,000,000. The storage of bicycles In Paris durng the winter months is expensive. So a great many Parisians pawn their nachines in the Mont-de-Piete, or state pawnshop. The interest paid on the advance of money is very small and is a great saving on what would be paid for storage. Rev. S. L. Sloggett of Houlton, Me., has a copy of the London Times issued in 1796. As compared with the newspapers of today it is a very peculiar looking sheet. It contains an able editorial on the work of General George Washington and gives his address of resignation. The Times of Cuba asserts that no visitor can obtain access to the Havana jail, even upon a written order from the authorities, unless he first grease the palm of the jailer with a quarter. "It costs money to get In," says the journal referred to, "and It costs more to get out" Compressed air has within a short time been introduced Into workshops as a means of doing many things laboriously performed of old by hand. Weights are lifted and carried from floor to bench, or lathe. Chisel work is done, also riveting. And there are ingenious devices for employing; this power of compressed air in many ways. A receut summary shows that 12 systems of mechanical traction have been - - - ? ^ ?11 aaoptea OU cue Bireei rnuwajs* ut i ana. | These operate 31 lines or routes, of | which G use accumulators. 2 a Combination of accumulators and overhead lines, 1 an overhead conductor and a conduit. 1 surface contacts and others compressed air, steam, etc. On a new railway line the overhead trolley will be used beyond the city limits and the underground conduit in the city. Sheep me naturally cold loving animals. Occasionally they shiver when penned up wet in a high wind, but it is the heat which really makes them miserable, and flies, which are worse to them even than the heat. If they were left untended in many parts of the country, however plentiful and good their food, they would soon die out, if only from this plague, against which they seem quite unable to protect themselves. M. B. Peavye, Brumville, Ga., writes: Dr. M. A. Simmons Liver Medicine cured my whole family of Chills and Fever. It alsocures Dyspepsia and Headache. I believe it stronger than Zeilin's and Black Draught. For sale by Hnghson-Ligon Co. i 0[w!l XjSn hb?mouq j 'its 'esaejj,, :iopddsat aq; o^ patio pa? 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One related experiences from his single whaling expedition. time and imagination having added greatly to their original attraction. Another told the story of a phantom ship, but did not vouch for it. A third told a late sea serpent story that he blamed on some newspapers, and then Captain Blank acknowledged that it was up to him. "People troubled with insomnia," began the captain, "try all kinds of schemes to propitiate Morpheus. Last summer I courted sleep by walking up and down the river at all hours of the night. Tills came off at midnight. I was strolling along above the bridge, when a little way ahead some animal dashed swiftly toward the river. It made no noise, but, as well as I could make out during its swift, long leaps, It had the head of a dog, while its lank, yellow body looked like that of a jaguar. It plunged into the river, disappeared for a time and came up 30 feet from the shore with a wheezy, gurgling barj*. followed by a deep growl as it caught sight of me." "Must have escaped from some meuagerie," suggested one. "You had gone too long without sleep, vaptain," said another significantly. "Sea lion." laughed a third. "Don't you think so, captain?" "Hardly. I knew all the time that it was that big St. Bernard of mine. lie was always with me on those sleep seeking cruises.?Detroit Free Press. Had More Than One Reason. 4 ? ?Mf T? /I r\n'f r*An .AllAIOUS .UU111C1??? UJ uuu t. jyjKi drive that bad boy away from your playground? (?6od Little Boy?It wouldn't be right. "Wouldn't it?" "No, ma. You see, that playground is public property." "Oh, so it is." "Yes, ma; and it would be selfish and dishonest to deprive any other boy of the right to go there." "So It would, my angel. I didn't think of that." "Yes, ma; and, besides, he can lick me."?Pearson's Weekly. Modest Man. "G'waii an talk t' yerself." "If Oi did. bedad, Oi'd be talkin to a sinsible man, an Oi'd be hearin a sinRible man talk!"?Nuggets. He Was Considerate. CInchly?Look here, old man, why don't you offer me back the $10 I let you have a year ago? Harduppe? Oh, I would if I hadn't been afraid of hurting your feelings. "In what way?" "Why, I didn't like to give you the impression that I thought you needed the inouey."?Philadelphia Record. Kept His Vow. The Lady?1 don't believe you would work If you could. Dismal Dawson?I'd do any kind of work that didn't Interfere with ?me principles. I had a chanst to be a waiter oncet, only I'd swore a solemn oath to never wear a spiketail coat.? Indianapolis Journal. An Article ot Luxury. She?I'll grant that your Income would be enough for us to marry, if only you didn't have such expensive fads. He?I? Expensive fads? What expensive fad have I? She?Me, for one.?Lustige Blatter. Machine Politics. First Citizen?I see the idea of voting by machine is gaining in popularity. Do you think the mass of the voters will easily learn how to work It? Second Citizen?I hope so. Heretofore the machine has always worked the voter.?Ohio State Journal. He Knew He Would. Spacer?I believe that if Shakespeare were alive at the present time and trying to live by his pen in London the comic papers would reject many of his best jokes. Humorist?1 know It. I have tried 'em all.?Boston Traveler. She Knew Him. "I'm going west for a little vacation with a lot of good 'fellows," he said. "What book will be of the most service to me in our ramblings about the country?" "Hoyle." was the ready reply.?Chi cago Post. Conditional. Little Edgar?Pa, is the a in Colorado pronounced as in maiden or as in gladden? Pa?It all depends on whether you want to make Colorado rhyme with dado or shadow.?Chicago Times-Herald. The Prlnoner'i Retort. "I see villainy in your face," said a Judge to a prisoner. "May it please your honor," said the latter, "that is a personal reflection." Metropolitan. Intemperance (n Drags. There is a source of nervous ailments entirely special to this age and the unexpected outcome of our present day chemistry and advertising. Intemperance in drugs is becoming more common. and it may possibly outstrip the abuse of alcohol in its evil results. The manufacture of new chemical products is supplying the public with endless carbon derivates of high molecular power and of imperfectly known physiological action Some are most dangerous, and their continued indulgence leads to confirmed neurosis or hopeless neurasthenia, and it thus comes to pass that as the therapeutic activity of the profession tends to abolish disease that of the public is manufacturing it.?Medical Journal l'laster of Pnrl?. The setting of plaster of paris may be retarded by the addition of 2 to 4 per cent of powdered althea root This addition not only retards the hardening of the plaster, but also enables it to be cut, filed, sawed and turned. An addition of 8 per cent retards the complete setting of the plaster for about an hour, so that the mass may be used for any purpose where it is to remain plastic during at least a portion of that tiina 3 Dreyfus. A man stood stained; Franco was one Alps of hate. Pressing upon him with the whole world's weight. In all the circle of the ancient sun There was no voice to speak for him, not one. In all the work! of men there was no sound l?ut of a sword flung broken to the ground. Hell laughed its little hour: and then behold. How one bv one the guaided gates unfold 1 Swiftly a sword by I'nseen Furies hurled And now a man rising against the world! Oh, import deep as life is. deep as time! There is something sacred and sub lime Moving behind tlm worlds, b?*yond our ken. Weighing the stars, weighing the deeds of men. Take heart, Osout of sorrow, and be strong! Titer*' is One greater than the whole world's wrong. He hushed before the high Benignant Power That moves wool-shod through sopulcher and tower! No truth so low but He will give it crown; No wrong so high but He will hurl it down. () men that forge the fetter it is vain ; There is a Still Hand stronger than your chain. 'Tis no avail to bargain, stteer, and nod, And shrug the shoulder for reply to God. ?Edwin MarKham, in McOlnres's for September. The Old Trundle Bed. Oh, the old trundle bed where I slept when a boy, What canopied King might not. covet the joy? The irlorv and neace of that slumber of mine, Like a long, gracious rest in the bosom Divine; The quaint, homely couch, hidden close from the light. Hut daintily drawn fmm its hiding at night. Oh, a nest of delight, from the foot to the head. Was the queer little, dear little old trundle bed! Oh, the old trundle bed, where 1 wondering saw The stars through the window, and listetHMl with awe To the sigh of the winds as they tremblingly crept Through the trees where the robins so restlessly slept. Where I beard the low, murmurous chirp of the wren. And the katydid listlessly chirrup again. Through the maze of the dreams of the old trundle bed. Oil, the old trundle lied! Oh, the old trundle bed! With its plump little pillow and oldfashioned spread; Its snowy white sheets, and the blankets above. Smoothed down and tucked round with the touches of love; The voice of my mother to lull me to sleep With the < Id fairy stories my memories keep Still fresh as the lilies that bloom o'er the bead Once^bowed o'er my own in the old trundle bed! ?James Whitcomb Riley. Cornering a Liar. He?This scene always makes me feel in love. She?In love? This is our first walk here, and you told me you never loved before. Explain yourself.?Pick Me Up. Bears and Lamlm. Stubb?One-half of the world don't Know what the other half is doing. Pnnn?Th.it'* because the other half Is doing them.?Chicago News. To Uncle Paul Krager. Keep your powder good and dry, Oom Paul; Never close your weather eye, Oom Paul; Have your rifle clean and bright, Look to fore and after sight, They are planning day and night? You will need to watch them all, Oom Paul, Oom Paul. Shoot to kill 'em when you shoot, Oom Paul; They are coming for the loot, Oom Paul; They'll be gathering you in, Just as sure as sin is sin, For they know you have the "tin"? You must battle for it all, Oom Paul, Oom Paul. Then get out your little gun, Oom Paul, For you don't know how to run, Oom Paul; Don't discus* about the right When a rattlesnake's in sight. And his pHen head shows fight Don't you do a thing at all. Not a thing to him at all, Oom Paul, Oom Paul. ?Pilot. Drnmmond Waa on Top. Professor Henry Drnmmond had a boyish spirit when a man, and at the age of 26 invented a game for some friends at a country house one rainy evening. He said: "They play it in America with bowie knives. Four men are locked in a dark room, each in a corner, and the survivor wins. We'll do without the knives; the door and the shutters shall be shut, each of us will stand in a corner, and the first who gets on another man's back will be the winner." Dr. Smith was in the game, and he says it was the most exciting one he ever played. "Nobody stirred from his corner for 20 minutes. Then I heard a c^nfflo hfltwpon two of the others, felt my way to fling myself on both of them, when Drnmmond pounced on me, and we all rolled in a heap, he, of course, on top. as he always was." The Knglixh For Canaille. During the Tichborne trial, where Mr. Justice Hawkins was opposed by Dr. Kenealy. in the course of a discussion whether equivalent terms could be found in English for French words, and vice versa. Mr. Hawkins was asked whether he thought the word canaille could be adequately rendered in our language. He answered without a moment's hesitation. 'Yes. 'Kenealy.'"? Green Bag. Inferiority of Nature. Visitor (at art store)?Here is a family group, now. that illustrates what I was talking about a moment ago. The figures are correctly enough drawn, but so utterly stitf and unnatural that 1 can't imagine where the artist got his idea. Dealer?My dear young lady, that is not a painting. It is a colored photo<*r:iTih from life.?Chicairo Tribune. v Japan's Area* The empire of Japan is composed of four large and 3,000 small islands, forming an arc of a large circle extending from the northeast within a few miles of Kamchatka, southwest about 2,000 miles, and. with Formosa nearly 3,000 miles from an arctic climate, to one of perpetual spring ana everlasting summer. ?Keystone. The British court is called the court of St. James because St. James' palaces, London, is its official headquartera A horse will eat in a year nine times his own weight, a cow nine times, an i ox six times and a sheep six times.- ' The Kdcrntcd Thief. "The testimony against you," said the police Justice, "is clear and conclusive. You spend vour time commit. .. * i tins petty tliolts. "Yes, your honor," responded the I prisoner, venturing to wink at the ' court. "I am an embodied protest against the existing condition of things. I 1 am a round robin, vour honor." I lint his honor was equal to the ernorj geiiey. "For the next ?Jo days, anyhow," lie ! said, frowning at the prisoner, "you ; won't be around robbin. You'll be a jail bird. Call the next ease!"?Chicago ; Tribune. Where Are These Anne*' lIor*e?? Now the seaside season is approaching we'll have to make up our minds to see a lot of funny sights by the sad sea waves. But where, we ask you, dear readers, will you see a more comic sight than on the parade, where the young fools of this stamp, who've never sat ou a horse in their lives, strut about got up in the above horsy fashion??Comic Cuts, Pleasant For Constant. Mrs. Chinner?Ernestine, my darling, do you expect Constant tonight? Ernestine?Of course, mamma. Why do you inquire? Mrs. Chinner?If he asks you to marry him.tfell him to come and speak to me. Ernestine?And if he doesn't ask me? Mrs. Chinner?Tell him I'm coming to speak to him.?Tit-Bits. Temporarily Patched l"p. "I hope," said the pastor and confi dential friend of the family, "you and .Mrs. Meeker have adjusted your diflicultics and are living iu peace and eoncord with each other again." "Well," answered Mr. Meeker hesitatingly, "we are not exactly on the old footing as yet. but?but we have established a modus viveudi."?Chicago Tribune. Prove* It. Billcins?Sniythe tries to make people believe tliat lie belongs to the "upper crust." Wilkius?Well, I should think he did belong to the "upper crust." Bilkius?In what way does he show it? Wilkins?Always short and easily broke.?Brooklyn Life. A Bad Cane. "There's the most absentminded maD In Michigan." said one guest at a party to another recently. "I noticed that he seemed oblivious of his surroundings at the table." "Yes, ami look at him over there. I just introduced him to his own wife, and he doesn't know her now."?Detroit Free Press. Descriptive Heading-. "I'm in trouble again," said the new reporter. "Here's a story of a debate at the Deaf and Dumb institute. What head shall I put on it?" "That's easy," suggested the snake editor. "Make it 'Hand to Hand Contest.' "?Catholic Standard and Times. Too Sure. * r ^ 1??1 -TMA M AO fAnm lYLrS. \\ ?1/iU *.VLi ?? i^^ico o^viu to be excited when be proposed to you? Mrs. Wiggles?No; he was so cool about it, and seemed to be so dead certain that I would have him, that the first time he asked me I refused him, ?Somerville (Mass.) Journal. Dauser. The Bank President?Are you aware the cashier has taken a half interest in a yacht? The Confidential Adviser?No. Perhaps we had better see he does not become a full fledged skipper.?Indianapolis Journal. Without Mercy. "Was Mr. Podger really cruel to his wife?" "Cruel? Why, he treated her all the time as if she were his partner at whist"?Chicago Record. Dramatic. Barnes Tormer? It is my art I love. It is not the sordid wealth I care for. Tighe Walker?Well, the little we get Is not worth caring for.?Indianapolis Journal. A Girl's Opinion. "Is young Mr. Willingham rich?" "I'm afraid not. He dresses just as if he thought it necessyy to make a fine appearance."?Chicago Times-Herald. More Appropriate. "And now," said the artist, "if I could but picture her beautiful voice." "Wouldn't a half tone do?" asked his intimate friend.?Cleveland Leader. Very! A certain ambitious young Briton ^ Came over the ocean a-flittin. "I'll show 'em what's what, With mv English built yacht," He observed, with liis molars a-grittin. But, alas, for ill fortune contrary, Not a "what" was exhibited?nary! For there's many a slip 'Twixt the cup and Sir Lip., Which is very unpleasant?yes, very, ?New York Journal. Hot Weather Diet. "It is a mistake," said a physician during the recent period of extreme heat, "to eat too little in hot weather, Just as it is a mistake to eat too much and the wrong things. Extreme hot weather is in itself very exhausting, and plenty of nourishment is needed to sustain the system. This nourishment should be of a simple and easily digested kind. For myself I find that milk and vichy taken at regular intervals of two hours, sipped rather than gulped down in a single draft, gets me through best on a very hot day, from breakfast to a G o'clock dinner. Then I take care to have a fairly hearty mcal^'?New York Post. Imprlitoiimcnt For Debt. A curious survival of barbarism is the fact that men arc still imprisoned for debt in New* York. By general consent this custom, has been generally abandoned in other r.tates along with the Hogging of criminals, but it continues in Now York in spite of repeated and notorious instances of its cruelty and injustice. Governor Roosevelt might earn his highest laurels by addressing himself to the abolition of this relic of rude times.?Kansas City Star. IT WAS NOT TOO LATE." A Story of European Diplomacy and Our Civil War. The Outlook gives an interesting itory of the Spanish administration, when, during onr civil war, the Emperor Napoleon formed the ingenious plan of uniting European nations in a chang? of the international law governing blockades. The admiralty law of the world at present extends the jurisdicj ticn of any nation for one marine league j from its shores. If, therefore, any blockj ade runner could get within three miles j of Jamaica, Cuba or Porto Rico, be j was safe from any interference from j our blockading fleet. I Napoleon proposed that, instead or , one league, the limit of local sovereignty | should be extended to three leagues from shore, and he persuaded the Spanish minister to come into his plan. Such an extension of neutral limits would have greatly hindered the operations of our blockading fleets. All the negotiations were conducted with great secrecy, but orders were sent from Spain to the West Indies, instructing authorities there to extend threefold the range of their dominion over the sea. These orders had already gone when Horatio Perry, the American secretary of legation, got wind of the treachery of our ally. Mr. Perry told his wife She told the Duchess of Montpensier, who hated Louis Napoleon, and the duchess told her sister, the Spanish queen. Then the queen sent for Mr. Perry and asked what it was all about. "You are injuring your best friends," said he after explaining the matter, "at the solicitation of this intriguer whom yon have reason to believe is your enemy." The qneen regent sent for her prime minister and interrogated him. He replied that her majesty had signed the order on such a day. "But no one told me what it meant,' said Queen Isabella. "No one told me that this is a heavy blow to my American allies." No one had told her! The minister was sorry if her majesty disliked it, but it was too late to help it. Why was it too late? Because a steamer had gone to the West Indian fleet with the orders which changed one league to threei Then said Isabella. "It is not too late for me to accept your resignations. But the senor don did not want to resign, and the other senores dons did not want to resign. So they found a fast steamer to take out orders rescinding the other orders, and the blockade was maintained for the next year. RUNNING A THEATER. The Big Salary Account That Hew _ York Houses Must Meet. The salaries of actors and actresses : vary so much that no fixed prices can be quoted. It may suffice to say that r; the salary list or a stocff noose zor performers will not come to less than $1,000 a week, and is often considerably v more. The salaries in the "front" are about as follows: Business manager, $60 to > $75 a week: box office man, $80; assistant , $15; two doorkeepers, $8 to $12 ; each; head nsher, $8; other ushers (three or four), $7; lithograph men (two). $15; night watchman, $10. The salaries of the attaches of the stage arh* all fixed at union rates. Furthermore, the manager must employ three men on a side?that is, three stage hands on each side of the stage, including the stage carpenter and his assistant?and two flymen, men who work the curtain and drops up in the "flies," the regions above the stage. The union rates are as follows: Stage carpenter, $80 a week; assistant, $25; electrician. $25; assistant, $15; property man, $25; assistant, $15; back, doorkeeper, $7; stage hands, $1.50 for each performance, $2.50 per day for putting on a play, 50 cents an hour for rehearsals and 62% cents an honr for all labor half an hour after the fall of the final curtain. Orchestra leaders get $40 to $50 a week, and the union rate for musicians is $25, except in operettas, when it is $4 a performance.? "The Business of a Theater," by W. J Henderson in Scribner's. Melancholy Thouarht. When a man really gives his thoughts up chiefly to eatables and drinkables, he generally ceases to think of anything else after awhile. It is related in an old book on French cookery that Fontenelle, a French author of the early part of the &. I /tantnrv holnnCPlTlff tfl thft CJ^lllQCUlU VOUIU.J WV<V?.Q._0 school of the precieuses, or literary ex- ^ quisites, was found one beautiful morning lying at ease on the slope of a hill In the valley was a large flock of sheep. They skipped about daintily, ! waiting for their guardian to take thein I home. A friend of Fontenelle surprised ! him gazing meditatively upon these sheep. "Ahal" said the friend "The amiable philosopher ponders without doubt upon the vicissitudes of life." ? "Y-yes," said Fontenella "I had been carefully looking over this flock, and I said to myself. 'It is possible that ; among these 200 sheep there is not one. ; tender leg of mutton 1' " Why Wood Crackle*. . Wood crackles when it is ignited be- # cause the air expanded by heat forces ! its way through the pores of the wood ! with a crackling noise Green jvood makes less snapping than dry because ' the pores contain less air, being filled with sap and moisture, which extin! guish the flame, whereas the pc-res of ' dry wood are filled with air, which : supports combustion. Very Different. "Snaggs and I have quarreled." said | Squildig to MeSwilligen. "Then when you separated of course you did not exchange assurances of diaj tinguished consideration?" "On the contrary, we exchai^fed asI inrances of extinguished consideration "?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. WILSON & SL'MMERTON R. R7 Time Table No. 1, to take effect v. Monday, June 13, 1898. TRA INS GOING NORTH. Lv Wilsons Mill 9 10 a m Ar Jordan 9 35 a in Ar DavisStation 9 45 a in ArSnmmerton 10 10 a ni Ar Millard 10 15 a m Ar Millard 10 45 a in Ar Silver 11 10 a nflfe. Ar Packsville 11 30 a rif"^ Ar Tindal 1155am Ar W. & S. J unction 12 27 p m 1 - Ll i? cm -- w. Ar nil nit tii ui TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Lv Sumter 2 00pm Lv W. & S. Junction 203 pm Ar Tindal 2 20 p m Ar Packsville 2 38 p m Ar Silver 2 50pm Ar Millard 3 05 p m Ar Millard 3 35 p ra Ar Summerton 3 50pm Ar Davis 4 20 p m Ar Jordan 4 45pm Ar Wilsons Mill 5 15 p m BETWEEN MILLAKI) & ST. PAUL. Ar Millard 10 15 am 3 05pm Ar St Paul 10 25 a m 3 15 p m Lv St Paul 10 35 am 3 25pm Ar M i 1 lard 10 45 a m 3 35 p m All trains daily except Sunday. THOMAS WILSON, President. - "V -. ; . r - - ?