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? ? Autumn. Oh the wheat is wearing whiskers And the corn is wearing silk. And the stocks are wavingjtassels all so fair, And the berries blush for pickers, And the cows give buttermilk. And the thistle down is .floating in theair. And the argus-eyed new tater Is a-peepiu'from the hill. And the flax says, won't you twist me into twine? And the ghost-dust covered ini 1 lei Is a-grinding at the mill. And the punk'in is a-pullin' at the vine. And once more 'tis Indian summer u'notbavV tlilnbv 1' U J I lie r:?irviicri o oiiiwu j iV ^ And the little ones are swinging on the gate. The melon ami the cucumber Arc both making much ado. Anil tire oflteeseeker's seeking oYi the State. And we hear the loud exhorters. For 'tis now camp-meeting time And the ehickensjaie a laying very low. And the harvest moon -gives quarters To all those without a dime, And lovers stroll where gentle breezes blow. And Jack Frost Iris nest has fea. thered, . And the squirrels are in glee, 4n.d the thresher's hum is h?arc 5 \ throughout the land, And the nuts will soon he gathered And we'll have a husking hee. .. And nature's music heats the Kosss hand. And tire eider press is grinding All tire nectar from tire fruit. And the fa mer takes his swine unti ^ ' the fair, ^Aful we see the gourd a-cliinbing While the prices follow suit, And the thistle down is floating ir the air. ?From Bede's Budget. LAY ASIDE THE PISTOL. Example and Precept Against Carrying Deadly Weapons. Dr. James H. Carlisle, the honored president of Wofford College contributes the following article tc to The Spartan: Many years ago a young man of good family and high personal character (who afterwards adorned the Bench in our State), was* a student in Union An officer came one day to arrest him for a trival offence. The young man playfully pulled out his pisto] and said he would not be arrested thinking the officer would understand it. But the officer leaped from his horse declaring he would carry out his purpose at the risk of his life The young man afterwards said, at that moment, his whole nature be came suddenly changed, and he neti.?t hu wmilii have shot thf IIC ? VIKVV ??V ?? - officer if he had rushed on him. He ever afterwards saw the great foily and danger of going antied. In another county two men, representing excellent families, had some difficulty that strained their friend - ly relations. In an excited interview one used words which seemed to embody the two terrible words sc insulting to an ordinary man, "Yoii Lie." A pistol was instantly drawr by the other and presented witli words amounting to "Take that back or fc?ke this." The- pistol was discharged with Xata! effect. The unfortunate man who had been passionately charged by a former friend with untruthfulness, was now charged with murder by the court. Years of imprisonment were assigned him. At that tiir.e an accused person could not give his testimony. But lie told his lawyer that he did not intend t<i fire the pistol, but to hold it so that explanation might follow, but in the excitement of the moment he pulled the trigger. The Governor remitted a portion -of the sentence. But through life the man slayer must have bitterly rued the moment when he put bis pistol io his pocket that day. Tho man who ha ?itually goes armed now, habitually goes prepared in a sudden gust of passion, tc take the life of a human being for a real or supposed offense. Instead ol beginning the day with the the humble petition, "Bead me not iul< temptation," he goes deliberately into temptation. The custom ol carrying deadly weapons does nol encourage the feeling and spirit of a truly brave man. Several years before the civil war there was a time of angry discussion in the {Senate of the inireu statesOur Senator, James H. Hammond was advised to keep a loaded pistol in his desk, as the reign of violenc* ..imght be suddenly ushered in. He wrote to a friend afterwards, "I kept it in my desk f??r a few days, until 1 found it was making a onward of me and I got rid of it." Witnesses could be summoned from penitentiaries jails and from common life to-day who will say with sobs and tears "How I wish I had never formed the hahit of carrying a pistol." William M. Evarts. secretary ol state under President Hayes, mad* perhaps the best and his worst puns from railway platforms while travel ing with the presidential party. They had ascended Mount Washington by a steep cable road, and other tourists, gathered from all pirts of the country, called for ? speech. "We are not strangers," said Mr Evarts, genially ; "we have all beet born and brought up here." No man ever thinks he has attained his proper position in the world until he is able to look down or somebody. An axiom goes without saying Would that earthly bores wenaxioms. Even when they make a long story short, very few people leave out the scandal. Figures may not lie, hut they are suspiciously active in politics. If you want work well done, and without heart-bnrningand bitternes* do not got dear friends or n lutivej to do it. Five hundred dollars invested in Wall street will keep an American family on muccaroni almost indefinitely. What a man says in an after-dinner speech should not he charged against him, but generally credited to some one else. Nothing embitters failure so mueli as reaching it through the advice ol some one else. Tl e men who succeed with intelleotual women do not tell them they admire them for their intellects. Too many people in this world do things for the sake of an encore. The <r??v?rft.tiher_of all men should be worldly wise. There are not enough persons who are willing to be honest it it loads to rags. True charity originates in the heart and esc:t;?? > by way of the pocketbook. When some people feel run down they acquire the bicycle habit and run others down. The ups and downs in a man's life include his efforts to get his income up to his expenses and his expenses down to his income. Most of the wonian who visit dryfcoods stores in summer arc looking for a blue in cotton goods that will wash. I OIL MILL MEN MEET. Some Talk of Building a Central Refin1 ery. The cotton oil mill men of the state who are outside of the trust held a i meeting at the Columbia hotel last night. As is always the ease the i members of the association were extremely reticent as to the purposes of the meeting. They disclaimed : any intention to meddle with settled j values of seed and the product. j Some vague hints were made about j building a central refinery, but no of* i fieial information about it was given out. Mr. L. \V. Floyd, of Newberry, is president and Mr. A. C. Phelps, of ? Sumter, is secretary.?Columbia Record, Sept. 29. I A CHICAGO ART STORY. . j The number of artists in Chicago j was increased recently by the arrival ! of one from a distant city who during his leisure moments strolled about the down town streets seeing the sights. Passing a store where a number of paintings were displayed in the windows, he stepped inside to look about. . Standing before a landscape about 10 by 14 inches in size, he assumed the manner of an admirer of art and awaited the approach of the proprietor. The latter advanced, smiling and I rubbing his hands. He greeted the visitor cordially and said: "You are an admirer of paintings, I see." 1 "Yes, to some extent," was the reply. "That is a pretty bit of scenery," the dealer returned, "that you are looking at there, that little clump of green 1 trees and the red house. It has a charming atmosphere about It. Don't P...,,,,., a* ?t yOU Uliliii. .' H nu ilie name, j uoi uo iv ( is, we are asking only $15 for it That over there is a companion piece, same size, same frame. Now, if yon would like to buy the pair," he continued, becoming very earnest, "we could let you have them for?let me see. Take them along for $25." * "Well, it's evidently a fair price, but the fact is 1 don't want to buy. 1 am a painter myself." "Oh, you are an artist!" smilingly re' marked the dealer. "Well, perhaps I you would like to do some painting for us?" ] "Oh, 1 don't know; perhaps so. But . what do you pay for a canvas like i that?" indicating the small picture un: der discussion. ^ "Well." replied the dealer, becoming ' confidential and stepping up close to his caller, "that is a cheap painting, ! and if you can paint them fast you can make good money." t "Well, what do you pay?" asked the artist impatiently. "For that size we are paying ! cents." b Whea Willie Had tbe Measles. When 1 had the measles, year ago, ; Ma she said, "Now, Willie, dear, you know You've got the measles, so you must be good An stay indoors a3 all sick children should." I Gee, I was good! - The fellers used to call 1 An yell for me, but I wouldn't go at all, > Because I had the measles. Jes' broke out I As speckled as a turkey egg, about. I ! An ma, she fed me on ras'berr, ?am, *At we only have for company, an Sam? Sam, he's my brother?didn't git none. Cake An chicken pie an all good things she'd bake. But bread an butter an bacon, like Sam had, I didn't, 'cause my appetite was bad. | Oh, nothin was too good for me, you know, When 1 liad the measles, year ago. ' An sometimes, when ma said I could, I took The great big fam'ly Bible down to look I At pictures?Moses in the rushes, jes' | A little baby in a basket?yes, , An David choppin up the gi-unt. Then There was old Daniel in the lions' den. With growling lions, crouchin in the dark, Ten times as many as at Lincoln park. When I had the measles, year ago, Gee, I lived high! An one day Sam, d'ye know. He blubbered some 'cause he'd had 'em once. An I felt sorrj\~ Pa mys he's a dunce. But I guess not, for thinkin of the jam All locked up tight. I quite agree with Sam? 1 Worst thing 'boot havin measles is that when You've had 'em once you never can again. ? ?Chicago Record, k f Why Billingsgate? Bailey (eighth edition, 1787) calls a ? "Billingsgate" a "soolaing, impudent slut,1' and Pope and other writers use the word in much the same connection. " When did this notoriety first attach to Billingsgate, and is vituperation a distinguishing characteristic of all dealers | in fish? (Vide Chambers' English Dio. tionary, 1872.) There seems no reason . why profanity should be more closely I associated with Billingsgate market than with Covent Garden or old Smith' field. But may not Billingsgate have : suffered for the sins of others? Between Billingsgate and the old bridge was the j favorite haunt of the riverside rough. All the down river tiltboats started and arrived. at this point, and rascaldom , reaped a ricxi Darvesc at ima paruuoiar I spot. The space swarmed with 44 b'low bridge" watermen, the worst specimens of their class, f De Foe has left on record his unfavori able impressions of the tiltboat men, ; and in Dr. Johnson's days the slanging and swearing of Thames watermen, and indeed of many of their fares, had become a riverside nuisance. The stream j was crowded with merchant vessels. | Men-of-war were moored off the market The whole neighborhood was often in commotion, as press gangs arrived with i fresh consignments for the tender off the tower. Thus blackguardism seemed naturally to gravitate toward theneigh borhood of the market, though not ' necessarily to the market itself, of 1 whose frequenters it may in all charity be inferred that they had the average low class Londoner's disregard for the ' delicacies of speech.?Notes and Queries. ( Shah and Csar. What more dramatic than the con, trast between the swift and bloody death of the successor of the monarchs whose I kingdom had already grown old when ; j Caesar's galleys first touched the shores ; I of Britain, and the triumphant inanguJ ration of the reign of the ruler of the ,; youngest or hiuropean powers, witn i princes, ambassadors and nobles bowing ! before the throne, an armed host around I him and a dazzled and bewildered na. I tion shouting in their madness, "It is I the voice of a god and not of a man!" I In still more vivid dramatio contrast stands the shining figure of the young i czar in the central pavilion on the Khodinsky plain, surrounded by a gay crowd of laughing women and obsequious courtiers, while the bands play ; Glinka's "Life For the Czar," and, j within sight and hearing rolls toward 1 j Moscow the long line of wagons laden ! with the corpses of 8,000 of his sub! jects?poor dumb animals slain by the ; carelessness, cowardice and imbecility i of his officials. "Ave, imperator, morturi te salutant!" The catastrophe will, in a country so ; grossly ignorant and superstitious as Russia, overshadow the whole reign. . Why had no care been taken to propitij ate a hostile fortune? Why, as in a Roi man triumph, had no slave been placed ! in the chariot of the victorious general j to whisper in his ear that he was mortal??Nineteenth Oenturv. At 2S a man's ambition is to enter j the White House. At78 his ambition is to keep out of the poor house. Educate Your Bowels With Cuscarets. i Candy Cathartic, cure constipation forever. JOe, '25c. If C. C. C. fail, druggists refund money. WASHINGTON^ LETTER. The Dethroned Queen?Statue of Oliver P. Morton?The Isthmian Canal?Capital Notes. C Lllluokalani, former monarch of the Sandwich Islands, has decided to establish herself permanently at the C American capital, and. although her heart often longs for Hawaii, her dusky highness will speud the rest of ; her life in Washington, where the leg- i t islators of the country will occasion- | (_ ally hear from her regarding the wrongs she has suffered at the hands v of an ungrateful country and through t the connivance of Uncle Sam. L i ?-*.> ol??i Jo M'l'iNPornntlv t VJlievu liii, uo 10 ii i v . ^^| v called here, has not surrendered her i] royal prerogatives without a struggle and still insists upon the ceremony v that surrounded her when she was on s the throne. No one is allowed to sit \ when she is in the room until he re- v ceives a signal from her to do so. She is invariably addressed by her attend- I h ants and friends as "Your majesty" ii those who neglect this title being an- u grily reproached for so doing, and n every one is expected to back from her q presence. A young colored girl who e applied to Queen "Lil's" lady in wait- t ing for the position of maid to "her i majesty," on tteing told all that was e expected of her. said indignantly: "No, e miss: no. miss. Had 'uuf to work for t a darky, anyhow, but a darky dat 1 spects all dat?not ef 1 knows it. not f ef 1 knows." o Statue of Oliver P. Morton. t Indiana will place a statue of one of I her most eminent sons, Oliver I\ Mor- d ton, in the hall of statuary at the capi- t tol as soon after the couveniug of con- f gress as practicable. The statue, of < ' heroic size aud made of Italian marble, a is the work of Charles II. Niehaus and a represents Indiana's war governor in I the act of delivering an oration. The e family of Senator Morton have taken 1 the deepest interest in the statue, his 1 youngest son and namesake, the late 1 Oliver P. Morton of Chicago, having * been one of the committee which ar- v ranged for it. and they regard it as an s excellent likeness and a most satisfactory piece of work. Coming home c one evening during the war" from a long, forced ride. Mr. Morton was * stricken with paralysis, from which he never recovered and until his death used crutches. With these evidences of his lameness he is invariably asso- v ciated by those who knew him in later c lne, but there is no hint of this infirm- * ity in the Niehaus statue. The sub- * ject stands erect and firm in the full * vigor of his prime, wearing a long ^ beard and dressed in the "pigeon tailed" coat worn by statesmen before and * during the war. * The iiithmian Canal. * It looks as if another session of con- * gross would go-by without action on ^ the isthmian canal. At least, Profess- 1 or Emory R. Johnson, a member of c the recently appointed isthmian canal ( commission, who is now in the city, * expresses his belief that no formal re ' port of that commission can be pre * sented with a twelvemonth. The pres- s ident especially impressed It upon the 1 commissioners that they should make * their investigation so thorough as to N leave no question open for future ex- ' amination. This takes time. They ? might present to congress a preliminary * report before the coming session was far along, but this would be unsatisfactory. It Is claimed that there has been altogether too much preliminary information on the canal question and 1 uot enough of the other kind. It is N 1 reasonably certain that the opponents 1 of the canal will be able to fight off any * action which would have to be based t on an advance report. Mr. Hepburn s of Iowa, however, says that he shall 1 Introduce his bill at the December c' sessiou. Dixie For a Training Ship. li The auxiliary cruiser i;ixie is iu w converted Into a training ship for the 1 practical education of landsmen in the c navy. It is estimated that it will cost 0 about $,">0,000 to put her in condition {u for such use, but those who favor the plan say that the results to be obtained ? will justify the expense. There are many naval officers, however, who feel ? that the present system of naval training of enlisted men is an expensive luxury. An officer who takes that view says that the government could put a landsman through Harvard university ^ for the same money that it expends to \ prepare him for service in the navy, j He added that the worst feature of the whole matter is that, in spite of the T vast sums of money spent on their t education, only about 5 per cent of the $ naval apprentices remain in the nary, s preferring to employ their knowledge Y in better paying civil pursuits. p Arrangements have been made t through the regular diplomatic chan- t nels for the resumption of commercial relations with Spain. To this end Min- c ister Storer at Madrid has been In- *e structed to take such steps as will lead t to the usual commercial treaties between this country and Spain. He has reported that there is every Indication of the speedy settlement of the various questions involved, and he expects no difficulty in arranging the treaties. President McKinley has decided not to take any extended western trip. He will go to Chicago next month to be present at the laying of the cornerstone of the government building and may run up to St. Paul, but will go no farther. Mrs. McKinley's health is assigned as the reason for cutting off the far western trip. She has returned from the summer vacation feeling much better, but is manifestly not strong enough to endure the strain of a long railroad trip. 13 When General Shafter retires as a hricadier creneral in the regular army t. next month, he will be continued as a u major general of volunteers as a reward for his services around Santiago. The vacant brigadier generalship will probably go to General Lawton. Carl Sciiofield. ( Cornering? a Liar. 0 He?This scene always makes me feel in love. v She?In love? This is our first walk v here, and you told me you never loved before. Explain yourself.?Pick Me s Up. a Bears and Lambs. e Stubb?One-half of the world don't I }l Know what the other half is doing. Penn?That's because the other half Is doing them.?Chicago News. f 3 To I'ncle Paul Krusrer. Keep your powder good and dry, Oom fiui; | Never close your weather eye, Oom Paul; | Ha\e your ride clean and bright, j Y Look to fore and after sight, They are planning day and night? i , You will need to watch them all, Oom Paul, Oom Paul. ! ft Shoot to kill 'em when you shoot, Oom Paul; | They are coming for the loot, Oom Paul; They'll be gathering yeu In. 1 Just as sure as sin is sin, For they know you have the "tin"? You must battle for it all, Oom Paul, Oom Paul. 6^ Then get out your little gun, Oom Paul, tl For you don't know how to run, Oom Paul; pi Don't dteoai about the right e(; When a rattlesnake's in sight, And his piun head shows fight Don't you do a thing at all, Not a thing to him at all, 1( Oom Paul, Oom Paul. ?Pilot V )EMOLISHED BY DYNAMITE, low CIiinn*H Great Wall Will lie I ls?ed to Build Modern CitieM. It took 2,000.000 men working for ; en years to build the great wall of i 'hina. Even then many parts of the wall rere already there for the men to link ogether. The earlier sections were milt 2,222 years before the birth of hrist. The tinal wall was completed U 204 B. L'. Now, more than 2,000 years later, the rail is to be blown up by dynamite to uit the modem idea of progress. It rill be destroyed in a twinkling. It ras built in 30 centuries. An interesting und^striking object esson in China's whimsical transition n a few years from superstitious staglation to practical advancement is furlished in the proposition to blow the ild wall into ruins. The proposition manates from the new ruler of China, he dowager empress. She is a remarkable old woman, this dowager nipress, to have been evolved by a ountry like China. The wall has been he pride of the Mongolians all their ives. They have been reared on it rom childhood. It has been a part f their religion. Up to two years ago he bare idea of removing it would nave stricken the little yellow people lumb with indignant horror. Even tow had the suggestion come from a oreiguer they probably would have Tied out for the white devil's blood ud called upon the empress to banish .11 unbelieving dogs from the wall's rotection. But it came from the great mnress herself, who could cut off the leads of a thousand or two of the poor ittle chaps If they dared to raise so uiich as their eyes In dissent, and so he beloved wall must come down, vith all its precious traditions and acred charms clinging around it. It will be like pulling the old empire >ut by the roots and building a new mipire of things on the ruins.?San Francisco Examiner. World's Largest Grapevine. La Para Grande, the biggest grape*ine in the world, has reached the end >f its long outdoor life and will soon >e cut down. Seventy-five years it las been growing on a ranch in the doutecito valley, near Santa: Barbara, ?al., but it has shown signs of dying, md so the owner, Albert Magee, the ^ittsburg stove manufacturer, has orlered it removed. From the pride of he California vineyards the vine will >e turned into a museum curiosity. The Santa Barbara Chamber of Comnerce will preserve it as a specimen >f what the soil of Santa Barbara ounty is able to produce. La Para Irande has a trunk, or main stem, SY> | eet in circumference, and the trellis, ngher than a man's head, on which the ipreading branches of the vine are sup>orted, measures nearly six feet in inch direction. In its prime this single *ine produced full four tons of grapes n a single year. Those days of its rlory are, however, long past.?St. ,ouis Post-Dispatch. Two Rapid Reader*. Perhaps the fastest reader the world wer knew was Gladstone. He could ead and digest a novel of 50,000 vords, a scientific work as large or arger, a political treatise or a history >5' merely glancing at the leaves as he urned them over. His eye and mind eemed to photograph with the rapidiy of an instantaneous camera. His ye was the lens, his mind the sensiive plate. In his reading he was omtivorous to the last degree. The most rapid reader we ever bad q this country is John G. Carlisle, foraer senator from Kentucky, speaker f the house and secretary of the treasiry. Joe Blackburn says that Carlisle 3 the most remarkable man he ever aw; that he can tell the contents of a >ook without looking at it and give the ynopsis of an argument ofc being told he name of the author.?New York >res^. Your Wife'* Silk Dresa. Silk dresses are objected to by some msbands, and to such there is interest u the recent decision of a New York udge: "If a husband allows his wife to rear articles in his presence and with ii3 knowledge which he would orlinarily be liable to pay for as necesaries and he makes no objection, he rill be liable to pay for them, for his permission to her to retain and enjoy hem without objection is equivalent o ratification of the purchase." Under this ruling a dressmaker seured payment for a silk dress furnishd to Mrs. Schleimer without her hus>and's knowledge. What Worried Him. Beggar Woman?This cough bothers oe so. Pianist?Bothers you? It bothers me aore because you cough an octave too ilgh.?Fliegende Blatter. A Sntlden Affluence. "1 have returned." As he spoke i^e handsome and bronzd stranger brandished in the face of he girl he loved a Gladstone bag stuffd with bonds. "When you refused me because I ras poor." he said, "you little knew rhat 1 was capable of." The tirst question on her lips after he had properly thrown herself in his ruts was to inquire how he got it. "For the last three weeks," he said xultingly, "1 have been head waiter i a summer hotel."?Brooklyn Life. Couldn't Spring That on Them. "Now, children." said the visitor who ; ras addressing the Sunday school, "let * ; j ie give you a simple illustration of rliat faith is. You see my watch chain, 'oil would not have the slightest hesiltion. now. In asking me what time it >, because you have faith that I have watch." ' "Not uuless we see the works," re- , lied the children as one boy.? Chicago . 'ribune. < In Iceland men and women are in i rery respect political equals. The na- 1 on. which numbers about 70,000 peole, ie governed by representatives elect* I by men and women together. I < A philologist estimates that of every )0 words in the French language 18 , e superfluous. ] short"news stories. When Mr. X. Was ,4Dade" ? Empreaa Kept Out by Soldiers?Beaten nt IUm Oviu Ganic, A man prominent in the politics of this part of the country had an opportunity recently to show his nerve, says a Washington correspondent, and the manner in which he stood the test won him many warm adherents among those who had mistaken his peaceable qualities for cowardice. Visiting a small town in Virginia, Mr. X. was delayed long beyond traintime by his business. It was necessary, therefore, for him to remain during the night. He made arrangements accordingly at the village tavern for his accommodation, and. being tired and worn out from a long and hard day's work, he went promptly to bed and to sleep. Some time in the night Mr. X. was awakened by a bright light shining in his eves. Looking up, he espied a huge black negro sitting before the lamp on the table in the center of the room, his arms folded and his great eyes, which seemed to be all whites, gazing intently at him. A look of horror overspread the darky's face as Mr. X. opened his eyes, and when he sat up in bed and demanded in a fierce voice, "What in the devil are you doing in my room?" the negro sprang from his seat, panic stricken, and, darting from the room, shouted or rather gasped out: "Yo's dade, mister; yo's dade! 'Deed, yo's dade!" The vistor did not move; but. turning over, so he says, went comfortably to sleep. Asking for an explanation of this strange iucideut in the morning, Mr. X. was told that one of the regular boarders of the hotel had suddenly died the evening before. After the body had been prepared for burial the porter was directed to watch beside it until morning. The superstitious negro went reluctantly to his post, and, mistaking the room, he set himself to watch Mr. X., who was peaceably dreaming. EmpreNi Kept Oat by Soldiers. Discipline in the German army is very strict. Not long ago the empress, returning from a walk with a lady In waiting, was stopped at the park gate by a sentry, who refused to let her enter. In vaiii the lady represented she was the empress. The soldier told her he did not know her and could not let her pass till he could get some one to ideny REFUSED TO LET HER FASS. tify her. This was eventually done by another soldier, and only then did the sentry allow his sovereign's consort to enter her own gates. The man has siu<;e had a special message from the emperor highly approving his steady adherence to orders. Beaten at Hla Own Game. "A good, strong bluff at the propel time is a very good thing, but it may fall flat," said a well known traveling man who is at present visiting Washington. "It was at one of the best hotels in Kansas City a few days ago that one of the guests stepped into the lobby to leave bis umbrella and, not desiring to go to his room, thought he would try a scheme to prevent some one from walking off with it. "Taking a slip of paper from his pocket, in huge black letters he wrote the following notice: 'Beware! The man who owns this umbrella weighs over 250 pounds and can strike a ten ton blow. He will be back in 15 minutes.' "It was not long thereafter that some one was attracted by the sign, and he feared not the consequences of the dire threat. Quickly taking the coveted umbrella, he removed the paper and, turning it over, wrote on the back as follows: The man who took the umbrella weighs less than 150 pounds, but can walk ten miles an hour. He is never coming back.' "When the big fellow returned, he read the reply courteously, but he did not desire even to look for his unknown friend. The drinks were on him, and he did not murmur. He had been beaten at his own game."?Washington Post. No Shoes to Pit Him. Booker T. Washington, the leading colored educator of the United States, arrived on the St. Louis. He said he liked Paris, but thought the exactions of fashion in that city amounted to tyranny. "When I went into a store a few weeks ago to purchase a pair of shoes, I could not find any large enough to be comfortable," he said. "I was gently told by the storekeeper that it was not the fashion to wear large shoes in Paris."?New York Letter. Fitthes For a Master. A Minnesota man captured a kingfisher when it was young, made a pet of it and trained the bird to capture fish and lay them at the master's feet In summer the bird Is taken to the river, where tish are known to abound, and set at liberty. It poises high in the air and. suddenly dropping, grasps its victim and promptly delivers the fish to its master. A Feat of Horsemanship. M. Charles Cottu, the son of Baron Cottu. has ridden from Vienna to Paris in 12 days and 14 hours on his mare Irish Lass. This is a record, the best previous time being that of a Hungarian officer. Lieutenant Zubowitz, who accomplished the journey in 14 days and 5 hours. Both the rider and his mare finished in excellent condition, considering the swiftness of the journey. Quite a crowd of enthusiasts welcomed the horseman on his arrival, and numbers of cyclists on their steeds of steel went to meet hint. Medical Value of Sun's Rays. Professor Sinclair, a high authority, says we are on the verge of great therapeutic discoveries concerning the value of the sun's rays. It can cure j face ache, nervous debility, insomnia, weak lungs and chilliness. It is a finer stimulus than wine, electricity or massage. The sun's rays must shine long on the parts affected. Experience. Deepin Love?What is the best day In the week to get married on, old jhapV Hadder Knuff?Friday, my boy; then you'll have something to blame It on ifterward.?Tit-Bits. STAGE GLINTS. Andy Mackay is filling time for "Natural Gas." with Kddie Girard as the star. George Richards and Eugene Caulield will reappear again this season in "The Teitiperanee Town." It is announce*! that Robert Edeson will soon retire permanently from the stage in order to engage in business in Porto Hieo. Pauline Moran, the really clever burlesque and variety show performer, has made a hit with her act at the Alha in bra. London. Edward Irenaeus Stevenson Is to lecture in London on "The Relation of Music to the Dramatic in History, f iction and the Literary Theater." Lee Harrison. Jeanuette Bageard, Carrie Elberts, Editli St. Clair, Georgia Caine and Peter Curley will be the cast of the Rogers Bros.' new play. Willie Edouin will appear in "Floradora." the new musical comedy by Owen Ilall and Leslie Stuart to be produced at the Lyric theater, London, on Oct. 2T>. Theodore Spiering announces his withdrawal from the music school with which he has been identified for the last year and also states that his assistants, Otto ltoehrborn and William Diestel. as well as the 'cellist Herman Diestel. will retire with him from the institution. Robert Downing, who recently entered the realm of vaudeville, is quoted as declaring that he has decided to turn comedian. "I have up my sleeve," he says, "a plain pastoral play of life in Indiana which, while it is mostly comedy, rises to some intense if quiet climaxes, and to that I will pin my principal hopes for next season." In ^Kag Harbor Folk" James A. Heme will present on the stage as truthful and artistic a dramatic picture of tln? shoremen of Long Island as he did of farm and seaside life in Maine in "Shore Acres." All the scenes will be laid in the picturesque little town of Sag Harbor, and for every character he has selected an original from among the quaint people of this once thriving whaling port. THE TROTTING CIRCUIT. Joe Patchen is simply unbeatable on a half mile track. Page, 2:09%, is stepping fast on the New York Speedway. Woodburn farm retires from the breeding business this fall. Heir at Law's (2:05%) broken leg is doing nicely, and he will recover. Much Ado, 2:13%, relishes split heats and has never yet won a race "off the reel." Bush, 2:091,-?, may be seen at the races later. She recently worked a half mile in 2:13%. J. D. Callery, the Pittsburg road rider, has bought the fast stallion Russellwood, 2:14%, by Atwood. Lord Vincent, 2:08%, now priced at $20,000, cost George Tod of Youngstown, O., just $1,000 last winter. Eula Mac, 2:27%, the first 2:30 2-yearold trotter of 1899, is by McKinney, 2:11%, out of Balance All, 2:29%, by Brigadier, 2:21%. The 4-year-old trotting filly Neeretta, who won in 2:12% at Santa Rosa, Cal., Is the first foal of her sire, Neernut, 2:11%, by Albert W. Joseph II. Ake and Daniel Wise of Sykesville, Pa., have purchased the promising green pacing mare Alice Ake from John H. Patchen of Patchen ville, Pa. Governor Pacheeo,' the brother of Palo Alto, 2:08%, bought by J. J. McDonald of Cuthbert. Ga., at Hon. W. J. White's recent sale, is to stand in Kent uckj' next year. The Maid, 2:05%, was timed a half in one minute and three-quarters in 1:31 in the $5,000 Nepouset purse at Readville, but was unplaced, although the best time was but 2:08%. Fearful breaks destroyed any chance that she might have had. WHAT THE SHOPPER SAW. Net robes and allovers patterned tastefully with large paillettes in cuirass designs. White ostrich feather boas, in which mink tails of the softest variety are intermingled as reliefs. Mousselines de soie and plisse chiffons in shades of cornflower blue, mauve and automobile red. Beautiful grenadines for winter evening wear, on which antique designs are wrought with tinsel or silver traceries. Velvet stock collars showing appliques of steel beads, from which a pretty fringe depends over a chiffon front. Bodice garnitures composed of Jet with pendant fringes, in which variously shaded jewels are tastefully interspersed. Large picture hats ornamented with some tissue material, long ostrich plumes, jet ornaments of various deRiens and tulle strines.?Dry Goods Economist. DO YOU KNOWThat simple massage prevents baldness ? That palm oil is the best and cheapest corn cure? That the use of dental floss prevents the teeth decaying? That lavender oil rubbed on the face prevents insect biting? That orris root and powdered soap make the best tooth wash? That lemon juice and salt remove ink stains from colored goods? That the smallest wound should be washed with warn) water and carbolic acid? ' That five minutes' rest guards ' against nervous prostration, since a stitch in time.?Ladies' World. Buying Birds to Free Them. Miss Marie Dalroyde, the London actress who recently inuerited a large 1 fortune, created a sensation on a thor- < ougiifare of that city last week. While * passing a stall where a bird dealer had ' a large stock of wild birds in cages 1 she purchased a dozen linnets, opened I the doors of their cages and let them 1 fly away. ? rinding she had not money enough * [ in her purse to procure freedom for all I ! the warblers, she returned home for 1 1 X J*! *.U . 1 C inure auu, revisiting me man, purcuaised and liberated every wild bird in his * Btoek. An immense crowd of people ^ gathered, and many of them warmly commended her kindly act. 2 Quite the Reverse. ^ Osmond?Well, you've never seen 1; me run after people who have money. Desmond?No; but I've seen people run after you because you didn't have ]< money.?Baltimore Jewish Comment. \ tl The most celebrated battle steeds of C the civil war were Cincinuati, Traveler b and Winchester, the favorite charges L of Grant, Lee and Sheridan. 8j ? st The first postoffice was opened In Paris in 1402; in England In 1581; In ^ America in 1710. ( x WOMAN AND FASHION. A Tailor Made Cloth Costume?Lnr?e Flowers For Ilais ? Gown For Little Girl. The costume represented is in Swedish beige cloth, ornamented with stitched hands and ground of white cloth. The bolero corsage is cut low, and the yoke above is of white cloth I TAILOR MADE CLOTH COSTUME. stitched all o\?er. The bolero buttons down the side of the front with three steel buttons. The skirt is a tunic over a ground of white stitched cloth and Is edged with stitched bauds of the same cloth.?Paris Herald. Large Flowers For Late Summer Hutu. It is not considered extravagant to decorate a hat with live or six clematis blooms, each measuring four inches or more across. Sometimes they are chosen all of one shade, but the most effective arrangements are in graduated shades of mauve and lilac or mauve, lilac and white. Other goodly sized blossoms that some milliners are affecting are the arum and Japanese lilies. The first is shown in white and yellow, sometimes with a black pistil, or in black with a yellow pistil; the second in white only. The most approved method of arranging them Is to lay them along the edge of the brim, whereas the blossoms of the clematis are generallv arouDed at the side against the crown or upturned brim. Some few milliners affect a taste for sunflowers, but as in its full blown condition this is rather garish looking it is imitated In its earlier stage, when the petals, just unfolding, exhibit their under sheath of green calyx. None of these flowers are mounted with their owu foliage. Iris leaves knotted In bows or otherwise after the manner of ribbons or else in the form of couteaux come in nicely as an addition to such decoration. If these leaves are considered too dark, ribbons are substituted. Gown For a Little Gtrl. The sketch pictures a smart little pelisse in scarlet serge which will be found both useful and beautiful for cool autumn days. It is cut all in one, with the bodice portion opening from FOR AUTOMX 'WEAR, neck to waist in stylish revers, revealing a vest of white cloth trimmed with diagonal lines of scarlet soutache braid. The collar baud is also of the white cloth, enriched with lines of braid. A big collar of the red serge adorns the back and, together with the refers, is bordered with stitching. The skirt portion fastens at the left side of front under the white cloth belt. striped with red braid. The 9leeves have a little fullness at the shoulders and are adorned with cuffs 3f white cloth lined with scarlet braid. ?Philadelphia Ledger. The output of sardines on the Maine ?oast is likely to be increased from ;XX),000 cans in 1893 to 2.000,000 this rear in consequence of the introduction )f a new canning mtchine. Nlffhtrobea For Brides. Trousseaus contain nightrobes of svlilte silk, and young women who can ifford this sort of thing are having :hem made in all conceivable shades of ight silk. Delicate blue and pale yelow silks make exceedingly pretty jowns. They may be elaborately trimned with lace if one desires. The jowns for brides are made with short lowing sleeves, the revers and collar >elng embroidered with flowers traced u their natural colors. Lace is used is a yoke, the silk falling in graceful olds. Ruffles of silk edged with fine ace are a popular form of finish. There are now published In Paris :,585 periodicals, nearly 100 more man vere Issued at the corresponding date ast year. Bride Betains Her Name. 1 There was a curious marriage at To- j do a few days ago. The bride was iiss Lydia Kingsmill Commander, and be bridegroom the Rev. Herbert N. 'asson. By prenuptial agreement the y ride is to retain her own name?Mrs. ( ydia K. Commander; Mr. Casson will :ill be known as Mr. Casson. It is not c ated whether the fntnre members of i le family will be Cassons or Com- t landers or half and half.?New York a ribnne. a i i HUMOR OF THE HOUR. One of Detroit's wealthiest men has a big farm out in the state and runs It on business principles. lie lias a nephew with plenty of money, but no ambition. The uncle called this young man into the olliee and told him he would do well to get away for a time from his present associations. "Why not go out to my farm for awhile and take charge of one of the departments?" "Departments?" "Yes. I have a man at the head of the farming department, one in charge of the dairy, a head stableman, a chief gardener, and so on. Every man makes regular reports. There is a bookkeeper, and 1 know to a cent how things are going. Try it. You'll have a change, it will be healthy, you'll acquire regular habits, and you may be come interested in the business." The novelty of the thing attracted the young 1nan, and he went. "I'm the water board," the nephew telegraphed within a few days. The uncle replied, asking an explanation. "I look after the water supply," came by return mail. "If the river or wells run dry, I'll notify you at once. Meantime I'm a political machine. Every man on the place is pledged to vote as I direct. They think that because I'm the 'governor's' nephew I'm the boss, with power to promote or advance." The uncle is out at the farm now, wrestling with the situation.?Detroit Free Press. Reflections of a Bachelor. The first requisite of a bride Is a large capacity to be foolish and not care if she is. A little boy is nine-tenths, devil and one-tenth angel. He would be bad enough if the proportion were the oth: er way round. The girl who wants to get married and can't may deserve pity from somebody, but the girl who can get married and won't deserves the admiration of the world. If women weren't so dead setr on doing the things men don't want them to do, probably they'd be Just as contrary not doing the things men want them to do.?New York Press. The Wise Cop. "Now, young feller,*w'y will you cry? Do try to remember your name. It can't be so long ago since you "Woe christened."?Scraps. * Abaentminded. The Professor (on his summer vacation)?My. dear, this is where our railway journey ends. We shall wheel the rest of the way on a smooth turnpike. The Professor's Wife?I know it, but where is our tandem? I didn't see the baggageman put it off the car. The Professor?The tandem? Sure enougn: l Knew i nau lurguueu buuic thing!?Chicago Tribune. Reflection on the Father. "See here, Aloike," said an aged Irish citizen to his grown son, "Oi be afther hearin this mornin that yez broke up th' meetin at th' hall las' noight an carried on with a high hand. Th' nex*. thing yez know yez'U be draggin yer ould father's name into yer're scrapes by causin people to say that yer're a chip offen th' ould block."?Ohio State Journal. Deserved to Be Kicked. "Barlow is a fellow who has abso lutely no tact." ^ ... "What has he done?" "I took him around to call on the Frost girls the other night, and he sat there and fanned himself all evening ^ and declared at least a dozen times that he never knew It to be so hot before."?Chicago Times-Herald. Now She's Got Him! "Harry tells me that his father died, of Indigestion," said the bride of a month. "I'm awfully glad I found it out." "Why so?" asked her dearest friend. . "Because," was the reply, "Harry will never dare refer to the bread and pies his mother used to make."?Chicago News. The Gate Is the Goal. "The race for the Golden Gate between the soldiers and the reception committee is very exciting," said Mr. Bloom field. "Both parties have struck their very best gait, no doubt," added Mr. Bellefield.?Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. The Noble Animal. Trader?Don't you want to sell that horse? Farmer?Naw. 1 keep him extra to haul broken down automobiles back to town.?Indianapolis Journal. Caefal Literature. "What Is your idea of 'hammock literature,' Aleck?" "Any book that's big enough to keep the flies off my face."?New York World. i Hie Heart All Right. ?^ "You are all right," said the doctor * after he had gone through with the regulation thumping and listening with his patient. "Not a trace of heart disease. Fifteen dollars, please." The patient drew a long breath and remarked: "1 am sure now I have no heart disease. If I had, 1 should have dropped dead when you mentioned your fee."?Boston Commercial Bulletin. It Seemed Uneless. "I'm a good deal interested in the . new planet they are preparing to study," remarked the man who finds relaxation from business in astronomy. "A new planet!" echoed the trust magnate reproachfully. "What was ;he use! We don't own all the earth ret!"?Washington Star. Something Noteworthy. "What has he ever done to make ivorld remember him? Nothing?absolutely nothing. He has never"? "Hold on, now. You're getting ahead >f the subject. He's made enough noney to keep his heirs fighting and A ds name in the newspapers for years ifter he is gone."?Chicago Times-HerilcL - /