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A BLUESTOCKING; ROMANCE REALITY. By Miss Annie Edwards.1 CHAPTER Z. The Llberta. Miss Theodora Is throws Into a per fect flutter of surprise and agitation on hearing of the evdden stroke of good fortune that has befallen Daphne. ?n Invitation to dine ou board a yacht? a large steam yacht, too? Mnl trs Audre, shipping his potatoes st the new harbor, saw the Llberta enter tho roads, and has already brought full particulars of her rig and tonnage to Quernac. Quite impossible to say what an Introduction of the kind way lead to. I "Although as far as introductions go," says Theodora, "I entertain no manner of doubt that our papa was on terms of intimacy with the Jorning hnui family. I recollect, as though it .were yesterday, hearing him speak of them? Jorningham, was it. or Blenkln. sop? ?omc name, st all events, of the kind? and in his youth there was a question, even, of his marrying one of the daughters of the house. Now, just to complete the chsin of coincidences, .we must look up Lady Lydia." One of Theodora Vanslttart's harm . lesa esirmvagaiices ii an annual shil ling Peerage; a volume you would think, not much in request at Fief-de .la-Relne, and yet from whose columns of thickly strewn dates, cspitsls and abbreviations Theodora manages to ?extract the keenest interest of her ex istence. As long as we remain living human creatures we cling, of necessity, ?to some Ideal of hspplness. Miss Theo dora's Ideal to the last will be a famil iar ty with dukes, lords, honorsbtes, and a knowledge of the families into which they may choose to marry. Looking up her Subject with a dex terity born of habit, her finger soon rests upon the page that sets forth I?ady Lydia Jorningham's credentials. "Jornlnghain? Lady Lydia Tsbitha daug. of the sixth Karl of Killaloe, lH>rn 1854, mar. 1875, Peter George Jor uiugham, Esq." And tben tlio vital question of aris tocracy set at rest, comes the minor one of how Daphne shall be conveyed to the acine of her approaching gran deur. "Daphne will do one of two things," Kays Aunt Hosle, with her accustomed trenchancy: "walk to the harbor, a matter of close upon :our miles, with the thermometer at seventy-eight, or ride there in the spring cart. For her complexion's sake, if Jean Marie has finished br.se-ing the upper field (Aunt Hosie's agricultural phrases are of a strictly composite order), aud if Maltre Andre has no better use for the mare 1 should advise the spring cart." "The spring cart!" echoes poor Theo dora, almost with tears "Well, well!? before people of one's own class, I sup pose, one may afford to make a show of poverty. If Mr. Jorningbam's wife were the daughter of a cotton lord, we must hire the barouche. Lady Lydia will look upon the spring cart in the light of an eccentricity." Accordinglj', shortly after 7 o'clock the "eccentricity" stands ready before the porch; Jean Marie in his meeting house black; Lisette, the stout, old Normandy mare, who does the united Avork of i.alf a dozen peasant farms, in her best harness. Itaphne is dressed in a plain Holland suit, aud the straw hat. trimmed with white ribbon that she wears on Sun days at the village church; her adorn ment a little nosegay of clove pinks worn in her waistbelt. As she turns to nod a last farewell to Paul before starting. Aunt Hosle cannot choose but think? n new romance ever present be fore her mind? of that evening four years ago when the girlish figure tripped forth through the summer twi light. the girlish heart, creduiouH of all things save wrongdoing or deceit, went forth to meet its doom. "It was a matter of certainty that people would find us out in time," ob serves Theodora, gazing regretfully at the conveyance whfch Is to bear'toer niece Into the sacred neighborhood of an Karl's daughter, marveling wist fully it any one could mistake Jean Marie for a gentleman's servant out of livery! "Likelier than not Lady Lydia Jorningham will invite some of our family to accompany them when they leave, aud If I am wanted as a chaperon, little as I like the sea, I shall feel it a duty to go. Of course one would want a yachting suit," muses Theodora. "But a doaen yards of serge at one-and-slxpence and a couple of pieces of this fashionable white braid would not be ruinous." "Me go. too," cries Paul with one of the fine intuitions of his age, connect ing the word yachting with burnt al iuouds. "Me go with Mamse.v mid the grapd Mussleu blonde who loves Mum M?y and little Paul." The grand Mussieu blonde Is no where to he seen when the spring cart and Itsvoccupants? hot, dusty and un it ristocra tic? reach the harlioi'. In his place is Heverne, with a Imot mid row ers ready In waiting to convey Mrs. I'lieRter to the Llherta. Daphne jumps down. nothing nxhumed. from Jean Marie's side, and, turning to Kir John, asks at what time a dinner party that begins at eight Is likely to finish. Lisette will not, of course, be taken out of Maltre Andre's stable again to night; but Jean Marie, by Aunt Hoslc's special orders, Is to walk In from Flef-de-la-Itcnle to meet tier, and "^n Marie will do no.hlng of the All Quna to ?? Reslghtcd. Plans arc bring: drawn In the bureau of ordnance at Washington for the re nlghtlng of all the guns In the United Statea navy. The cost of this work will be tremendous, but Its necessity was roadlly realised when called to the attention of the president and the orders hare already been Issued. An Improved variety of alght will be used And the work will be pushed with all the rapidity practicable. For the rapld-flr* guna a teleaoofclc sight wjll be used, o I a kind that will permit of contlnuoua aim. Nearly all of the *iim art In need of righting. kind." aaya youf Serene quickly. "Dinner parties on beard yachts never come to an eai at ray stated hour. On board the Ltberta, I should shy, they never end at aft." ? "And I an to stay there for the re mainder of my aataral life? Thanks." "You are to stay there antll yon have had eaoagh of- the entertainment, or of yobr satertainers, or both. After that 1 shall wslk back with you to Flef-de-la-Belae. It lies directly be tween the barber aad my hotel." "Three English miles out of your road, calculate It which way you will.'' "1 never calculate abopt matters of necessity, Mrs. Chester. It Is Impossi ble for you to return home at mid night, or later, with no better protec tion than Jean Marie's!" But Mrs. Chester Is obdurate. Jean Marie shall await her on the harbor; Jean Marie alone shall escort her bark to Quernac, be the hour of the night or morning wha; It may. The least vain of women, the least arrogant aa to the power of her o#n charms. Daphne at heart is a very woman still, and the experience of the last few hours make her shrink from the prospect of a lonely starlit walk with Severne. His manner, after three years* separation, of meeting Miss Hardcastle, his looks, his voice, a thou sand of the little nothings which to feminine Insight are th> most import ant things In life, have awakened her to a possibility of whicti. until to-day, she never dreamed. And with all the horror of a gener ous, simple nature, she recoils from the barest notion of Severne's disloyalty. Ills liking for herself, if It exists, must be rootless, s boyish fancy, born of accident, that a week of absence 'must dispell. Never by word or ac tion of hers shall this liking be fos tered Into love. She owes Sir John Severne everything? she owes him Paul, and feels, poor Daphne, It were but a little thing to die for his hap piness! His happiness must tie iu truth, in honor, in fidelity to his plight ed word, and her part, the part of a devoted friend, is to strengthen him in these, cost what it may. And that it will cost her something, certain sharp heart twinges, a certain Jeal when Clementina will be all to him ousy as she looks forward to the time and she nothlug. already warn her. They reach the yacht without ad venture and find Mr. Broughton aud Miss Hardcastle its only occupants. The cousins are on deck, enjoying the evening breezes and the soft art of doing nothing with a thoroughness pleasant to behold. Clementina recllues on a low deck chair, her dress simple white? by sim ple I naturally mean the most elabo rate complication of muslin, ribbon and lacea that the heart of clothes ar tist could desire. Lazily she furls and unfurls one of the big Spanish fans upon which South Kensington has set the crowning 'seal of fashion. Felix Broughton smokes a delicately perfumed cigarette at her feet. Their thoughts may be engaged on sentiment, scandal, science? probably 011 panteologicai science, as is their wont. And still, judging from the ex pression around Clementina's lips, one cannot but suspect that some lighter matter than common may have made its entrance unawares among the Ty ro-rtienician or Mesogothic strata about which they discourse. "The question of whether we are In (line or not dine is delightfully solved l>y your arrival," says Cousin Felix, as he rises to receive the newcomers. "No one belonging to the Libertn, our hostess Included has been heard of since the morning, but with n party of four? all people who suit each other." adds Mr. Broughton, with his cheerful optimism? "It would be folly to think of waiting. And so Scveruc. met you on the quay, Mrs. Chester? I was sure of it. That is iny luck. 1 never yet got a happy opening In life f?ut some energetic fellow or another has stepped In and utilized it before my very'eyes." "You have been spared the agony of expectation at all events," says Daphne gayly. "I was live minutes be hind time. Think what you would have had to suffer during those five ndnutes if you bad really been on the lookout for me!" A feeling too delicate, too ingenuous, to be termed coquetry, prompts her to smile on Felix Broughton. wllllngest recipient, let what will betide, of any pretty woman's smiles! Sir John and Clementina, absolved from the neces sity of being lover-like, find plenty of themes In common as old acquaint ance, and the little dinner party of four passe? off brightly. Fair facei, youth, soft summer twi light, viands from the hand of an art ist?all the needful "property" for con vivial success Is surely present at the feast, whatever jarring elements may be latent In the destinies of tho feast era. They dine, they take their coffee afterward on deok. Toward eleven o'clock, and when Daphne Is beginning to think of Jean Marie and of her four mile walk to Quernec, the sound of voices, the splash of oars, was heard approaching through tho stillness, a minute later, and the missing mem bers of the yachting party step upon the scene; five people, never beheld by Daphne save amid the Rembrandt like effccts of this oue midsummer Chefoo, By Cable.? Chinese who left Dalny report that batched of wounded were panning through Dalny. They report atqo that during the recent bat tle many soldiers passed, going to the front. It Is said the Japanese killed or wounded In front of Port Arthur during the last three months approximate 40,000. There are per sistent ruftiors that the Japanese have occupied the forts of Rlhlung Moun tain and certain forts of the Keekwan Mountain group, but well-Informed Japanese consider these rumors as un true. The Japanese, howerer, are confident that the end of the Russian occupation of Port Arthur la fast ap proaching. light, |?t iiHaii. by vfcrtae of tkdr very MfttlM, to stand oat rtfkl l?ak> ?ad Mood IIWIIMHtlH fkw the CM* ?as of bar ataocy fonnr. Lady Lydia Jornlngham flnt ? tlay Irishwoman. dreaaed Mke a child o f foartoea? pretty. dcapito imgilaHtjr of (Mtv*. tknwfh her ?cm of Ml* ?nation. her Itiack friigti, Iron graj ?yes; a tiny witch of a wo? a after lag, pell-mell. in a ftae west coaatrj brogue, whatever seaoe or aoaaeaat it is mostly noasenss nay chance to eater Jier wild Hlberalaa bead. Next, Mrs. do Mauley. Lady Lydla'a deareat (momentary) friend, a widow bland and blonde, ten yean older tban bcr booteea, and ten time* more dan geroua? tbo same designing creatnro wbo, according to Clementina Hard rattle, would conduct Mr. Broaghton to Jail In a fortnight did she wed him. And tben the budding novelist, the writing woman In search of materials! An emancipated win tor of twenty-nine, with a cavalier hat worn distinctly, even for the days we live In, over one ear, with a rakish-looking double eye glass, a can, and? or so Daphne dreams? a palpable odor of Havana smoke clinging to her gentlemanly yachting jacket, and short clipped, gentlemanly hair. - 80 far the ladles of the group, well supplemented. In mstter of pictures queness, by "Man and the Arab." The former is in a rough pilot shit, with regulation buttons: a weather- tanned, red-bearded man of seven or eight and thirty, called by his Christian name, and gentrally regarded with a fetch and-carry kind of agectiou by every one on board. The Arab Is sallow and solemu, wears loose-fitting garments, a spun-silk shirt, yellow leather shoes, attar of roses and a huge signet ring. It seems to Daphne as though she must have beheld him in some long-past, sleepy winter evening, when, pillowed in Aunt Hosle's arms, she used to hear weird stories' of magicians, traveling merchants and genii, freely reudei-ed from the "Arabian Nights' Entertain ments." Mr. Jornlngham is still nowhere. In deed. It may as well be said, once and for all, that as regards this little dra ma Mr. Jornlngham. from the rising of the curtain till Its fall, successfully plays the part of Madame Benolton. "My conscience tells me that some' body or another ought to make an apology," cries Lady Lydia, Sir John Seveme and Daphne having been put through the sketchiest imaginable form of Introduction to their hostess. "It cannot be me, for I never knew what o'clock it was till we were fin ishing dinner at Letacq, seven miles the other side of Sark *' "Jersey," interposes Mrs. de Mauley, In n creamy voice. "We have been iu Jersey since this morning. Hark is the place we left the day before yesterday, my dearest Lyd." "Oh, well, Jersey. As Jong as you are iu the Channel Islands, where is the difference between one reef of rocks and anotber? Sure it must be your fault. Max. Why did you not " "Remind Lady L^dla of the Llberta and her belongings? 1 had forgotten them myself," says Max, smoothing down his tawny beard with an air of contrition. "Now, If the Arab??" But the Arab, it can be substantially proved, has slept and smoked by turns during the whole latter portion of the day; he Is. therefore.* absolved by the general voice on grounds of moral ir responsibility. At last some one by chance remem bers Mr. Jorninglinm's existence. "Of course. Everything is Jorning ham's fault," says Cousin Felix, grave ly. "Is not absence In Itself, and ac cording to all codes of civilized juris prudence. a sign of guilt? We apolo gize in Jorningham's name, and ban ish him from our remembrance. Will there be time for Mrs. Chester t6 hear a little music before she leaves us. Lady Lydia?" The question originates in no per sonal aptitude or predilection for mu sic on tho part of Mr. Hroughton. He says of himself. frankly, tlint be does not know one tune from another by tlie sound, but ran Jus-, distinguish allegro from andnnte by the increased bodily effort* of the performers. And still he unfailingly supports the exer cise of the art at social gatherings. Systematic noise? this is his theory while It promotes general conversa tion, liberates the Individual from the exertion of coming ideas; it also acts as a wlillesoino restraint or counter irritant upon persons inclined to dance ?under many circumstances of a man's life a more onerous exertion still! On the present occasion, however, theory breaks down under the test of practice. Max trolls out two or three of Dlbdln's sea songs at the top of a fine, slightly crazy tenor voice; Mrs. de Mauley sings "A Vingt Ans" pas sably well under the Influence of tho hour, and with the mellowing adjuncts of air and water, though not In Paris* lan eccents, and with just half a tone of sharpness running through tha upper notes. Then Lady Lydla, jump ing suddenly to her feet from the heap of shawls and cushions on which, up to the present moment, she has been colled, declares that she Is falling asleep and must dance. Not dances enough? Felix Brougb ton having weakly put forward the ob jection. Why, there arc enough and to spare. Does not all the world know that the Arab can dance and play that instrument of his at the same time? And If It comes to the worst. If It conies to one of the ladies, doing wall-# flower. Is not she. Lady Lydla, com-* petent to perform the national dance of her country, partnerless, and In a remote corner of the deck, for her own diversion? To be Continued. Safety pins are peculiarly American. The United States uses 144,000,000 of them each year. The alse of the smokestack* of somo of the steamships which leave New York Is an interesting topic among folks akmg shore. A convincing proof of their size is seen im this comparison: The new East River tun nel, which the Pennsylvania railroad is about to build, is about the same dlamctor as the fumiels of the Lu caala and Campania, that Is, 21 feet It seems hard to realise that two trains of cars could run aide by aide through the atacka ef either of theae veaaela if they were laid flat. The Italian election allows g nlde di vision of sentiment, . , . n o! Esquimau Children. M O&t aartharn of all Uncle ftui'i children are the Ee? qilUT who lira around Mat Barrow, which juta o?t Into the Polar Sea be yona tne Arctic Circle. There it Is night all winter long and day all ram mer long. So far from becoming gloomy be cause of their dreary surroundings and their long nights, the Point Barrow children are particularly bright and lively and fall of mischief and play. One of their pastimes In winter is to dance to the Northern Lights. They are warmly clad in garments made of the skin of the Northern deer or the Arctic fox. There Is an upper, garment something like a sweater with* a hood to it, skin trousers and deer skin boots coming to the knee. They wear deerskin mittens, snd when they sing their song to the Au rora Borealls and dance with it. they * frequently attach the tall of a blue or white fox to their belt behind. Each dancer clenches the flat, and, bending the elbows, strikes them against the sides of the body, keeping time^o a song and stamping vigorously with the right foot while springing up and down with the left knee. The song has a large number of stansas and be | gins "Kioya ke. kloya ke." which means "Hall to the Northern lights." When the aurora Is bright and in an especially dancing mood, the children will often keep up the song and dance for hours at a time. In winter the Point Barrow children have a snowball game which they plsy with their feet. They wet some snow and make a ball about as big as two fists. The cold is so Intense that the ball immediately becomes solid ice. Then the ptayer balances the ball on the toes of one foot and with a kick and a Jump throws ft to the other foot, which catches It snd throws it back. Some of the players are so expert that they will keep this up for a number of strokes without letting the ball fall to the ground. The children of this tip-end of Uncle Sam's land also amuse themselves in winter by sliding down the steep banks of frozen snow which form under the cliffs along the shores of the frozen sea. Tliey use no sleds or toboggans, not even boards, in this sport, but slide down the steep declivities on their knees. Kneeling down and sitting well back, with their hands grasping their ankles, they go shooting along down great steep hills of snow, laughing and shout ing, and now and then losing their bal ance and getting a tumble which sends them rolling in a heap to the foot of the snow hill. Both boys and girls at Point Barrow are fond or playing football, but they seem to have no order or system. They simply get an old mitten or old boot, and stuff It with bits of waste deerskin or rags, and then kick it about with merry shouts and in great confusion. The children are very fond of danc ing, and if they can get hold of an old tin can which some whaler has left they are happy. Beating the tin cm for a drum, they improvise dances for themselves and invent songs to ac company them. The little Esquimaux of Point Ear row have a most mischievous little in strument which they call n "mitigll gaun." It is to the Esquimaux boy what the bear trapper is to the white boy. It is made of a piece of stiff whale bone about eve incliea long and half an inch -wide. It is narrowed off and bent up about an inch nt one end. On the upper side of this bent up end is a little hollow large enoug'j tr? hold a small pebble, and the other end is cut into sharp teeth. This is pure ly r.n Instrument of mischief, and many a little Esquimaux boy is com pelled to retire with his mother into one of their now huto for a painful interview because of t!io reckless man ner in vrliich he uses his pebble snap per. The cLlldrer. who frolic by tlie chores of the frozen cea ond dance with the Northern Lights even have mechanical toys among their play things. Ono is r. wooden doll repre senting n man dressed in skins. He holds a dru:n in one hand and a ctick in the other. The arms are made of whalebone, and by pressing then to gether at the shoulders the figure can be made to move 03 If beating the Crrtr. "hen they have little toy Itolaks, or canoes, in which are seated dolls with paddles In their handr. Ey pulling a string the doll Is made to move its head from one side and make a mo tion as 1 1. paddling. Tho girls are very fond of playing eat'o craClo. Two little girls will sit In one of the r.nderground houses, or in one of tho huts made of frozen snow end, by the light of a stone lamp, make all rorts cf complicated figures with the ctrlng. The favorite figure, and a difficult one, is the representation of a reindeer which, by moving the fingers, Is made to run down hill from one hand to tho other. Lieutenant Itay, who was in charge of the Government station nt Point Barrow, says that the children are so polite that they would take pains to mispronounce native words in the same way as he did so as not to hurt his feelings by appearing to correct him bluntly.~New York Sun. Honey." Electricity in all Its phases Is en tering into a great variety of opera tions, but In one startling report nt least its use seems to be given rather undue prominence. "Making Honey by Electricity" Is the caption of this report, and as we read we find that In New Jersey Is an apiary; that the bees are fed on glucoss; that the glucose Is manufactured at Edgewater; that $4, 000,000 Is Invested In the glucose plant; that the dally output Is 12,000 barrels, and that electric machinery Is used In Its manufacture. Hence "Making Honey by Electricity." wotiAOt or -onoccg Let m ? p>QM tkat tl? winter rtlna ut over, ud that tke plains are green with the joang rising corn. Plowing and work are ftnlshod for the jeer, and within the circle of brown tents some two dozen In. num ber? all Is life and activity. Men and women are gathering together the few household goods thej possess, or pull ing up the pegs thst hold their teut dwelllng In place. Pots and pans of tinned copper ok* rough red earthen ware are piled about, and strips of matting are being rolled up. The children are chasing the fowls to and fro In their endeavors to capture them ; the flocks and herds browse near by. tended bj sunburst shepherd boys, nnd everything speaks of an early move. Then the teats themselves sre struck and rolled up, and the loading of the beasts of burden commences. Every anlmal capable of bearing a load is pressed Into service. Cows and bul locks. mares, mules, and donkeys even men and women? share joyfully In the labor, for spring is come and the s^ade of the giant cedar trees awaits the shepherds and hunters? and cattle thieves. Life for the Ber bers commences then, and for a few months. In the Impenetrable hills and forests, they can pass their existence unhampered by Arab neighbors and far beyond the reach of grasping offi cialdom. Then a move is made, nnd one and all. singing as they go. the procession starts ofT. Men on horse back? their wiry little steeds as mud stained and ragged as the saddles they bear? lead the way. Fine little creatures they are, with all the grace of movement found only In the savage. Their long, toga-like "balks" nnd straight heavy white cloaks add not a little to their picturesque appear ances. Nor are their features devoid of beauty, for. though the suns of summer and the tempests of winter score and mark their faces at an early age. they fail to obliterate the pleasant smile and glittering eye that ore so typical of the race. The woman fol low on foot, or perhaps on donkey back, strange, undergrown, huddled up figures, wrapped In long striped shawls, and with their heads tied in handkerchiefs of many colors, and gaiters of knitted wool or leather on their legs. What little beauty nature has bestowed upon them they manage most successfully to conceal under the strange dicta of Berber fashions. Their complexions are stained nnd striped with Ted "henua" dye; their noses and chins are tattooed in pat terns of dark blue, and even the anti mony with which they encircle tlielr eyes Is so carelessly and coarsely put on as to give the appearance of a recent scrimmage. Untidy, unkempt, and none too clenn, the Berber women offer few of the attractions apparent In the men, who. though often sadly In want of a washing, are handsome, frank, and full of spirit, with a mirth that Is infectious. With the women are the children, half-naked little savages, some tied on to the back of a friendly cow, some running races by the roadside, and others, again, still at the breast. And so to the forest.? From "The Berbers of Morocco," by Walter Har ris, In Scrlbner's. DUn't Trap HIui. Stories of surprises in cross-examina tion were exchanged in n small group of men the other (lay. and the follow ing was sprung by nu Illinois man: "icars ago one of the prominent law yers of centr... Illinois was D. CJ. Tun nicliff, afterward Justice of the State Supreme Court. Ttronicliff was a great wit and a very smooth article on cross-examination. He did not often get the worst of It from anybody. He seldom attempted bnlldozlug in cross-examination, but could back an unwary man into almost any admis sion. One day Tunnicliff hud an old mau named Dave Brown on the oppo site ride, and the value of the old man'a testimony depended upon his claim that he could not read. It wus believed that he could reud a little and TunnlclIC tried to trap him. After several adroit efforts, which old Dave neatly sidestepped, the lawyer changed the subject and wandered away from the leading question. Suddenly he asked: " 'Have you a dictionary iji your home, Mr. Brown?' " 'Yes, sir? a dictionary. Had it for years.' " 'I'm glad to hear that. Every man should have a dictionary In bis home. You r.se your dictionary I hope?' " 'Yes, sir; I use It regular.' " 'That's right. A man should use his dictionary often. About how often do you use your dictionary?' " 'Every morning, sir,' said the old man, with apparent interest. " 'Every morning. That Is commen dable. And what do you use your dictionary for In the morning?' " 'To strop my rasor, sir.' Seattle Post-Intelligencer. Milton'* Tomb. There aro probably innny, even among the subscribers to Milton's sta tue who will be surprised to hear that the body of the great poet was once on view at a charge of threepence a head within a few yards from the site chosen for this splendid tribute to his memory. It was In 17!K), after a little carousal, that two overseers and a car penter entered the Church of St. (Men, Crlpplegate, where Milton lay burled, and, having discovered the leaden cof fin which contained his body, cut open Its top ,wltb a mallet and chisel. "When they disturbed the shroud," Neve *ays, when telling the story of the ghoulinh deed, "the ribs fell. Mr. Fountain confesned that he pulled hard at the teeth which resisted until some one hit them with a stone." Foun tain secured all the fine teeth In the upper Jaw, and generously gave one to one of his accomplices. Altogether the scoundrels stole a rib bone, ten teeth, and several handfuls of hair: and to crown the diabolical business, the female grave-digger afterwards exhibited the body to any one willing to pay threepence for the spectacle Westminster Gazette. A Pennsylvania fisherman has dis covered that bullfrogs act as sentries to fish, and that It is useless to try to catch bass when a deep-voiced, bellow* lng frog It watching. . CAROLINA AFFAIRS Oceurr?nc?j of Interact In Varleua Parte of tha State. Oanaal Cotton Market. Galveston. easy ..9 1-1C New Orleana. easy 9% Mobile, steady 9% Savannah, easy 9 7-16 Charleston. quiet 9 5-16 Baltimore, nominal 9.50 Now York, dull 10.00 Boeton. nominal 10.05 PMladelphla. quiet 10.25 Houston, steady 9 9-l? Augusta, steady 9 11-16 Memphis, quiet 9 9-16 St. Ixxils. quiet 9 9-16 Louisville, firm 97? Charlotte Cotton Market. These figures represent prices paid to wagons: Good middling 9.55 Strict middling 9.55 Middling 9.55 Strangled Himaelf. Columbia. Special. ? Philip Maltry, the proprietor of the Wright's hotel barber shop, strangled himself to death aome time Tuesday night. The first Intimation that any one had of the aw ful occurrence was when the dead man's wife m-ent Into his room yester day morning to awaken him. lie had been in ill health for several years and lately was despondent. Mrs. Maltry found him with a heavy string around hlr. neck in which was a piece of wood. He had atrangled himself by twisting the wood around In the string after the manner In which a physician twists an improvised tourniquet In or der to check the flow of blood from a severed fcrtery. Coroner Green was summoned and called in Drs. S. B. Flahhurne and John H. Burkhalter. There was no neceaslty to hold an In quest. the coroner so considered, as the evidences of the manner in which the deceased met his death were so ap parent. Maltry had at one time a good business and seemed happy and prosperous. He had.- It is said, lately been on bad terms with former friends. He had but one barber at the time of his death. It is surmised, although this is merely rumor, that certain re cent occurrences made the dead man very despondent. A Splendid Gift. Spartanburg. Special. ? Mr. S. M. Mll likcn. the New York millionaire and mill man. who Is Interested in many of the cotton factories of tho Pied mont section, recently presented a me morial window to the memory of his late friend. Capt. John H. Montgom ery. This window has arrived and is being placed in its proper position In the splendid edifice of worship of the congregation of the First Baptist church, by an artist representing the firm of Jones & Co.. of New York, de signers of memorial windows. This gift Is one of the most beautiful works of the kind perhaps, in South Car olina. It cost $3,000. Complete, includ ing the three parts, the window's di mensions are 10x6 feet, and on either side of the largest panel is a smaller one. each of similar size. The side win dows arc separated from the main panel by a narrow wall. On the largest of these side windows Is a reproduction cf colors of Hoffman's masterpiece "Behold. I Stand at the Door and Knock.*' Homeseeker* Coming. Commissioner Watson has received mi announcement from Mr. T. B. Thackston. land agent of the Southern railway, that a large number of the people of the west are taking advan tage of the "homeseekers' rates" to come to ihe south and look Into the condition of the country. The number, It Is stated, is so large that there is difficulty in securing accommodations for the visitors that desire to secure sleeping accomodations. Some time ago the railroads of the south com menced ?? systematic canvass of the west with the intention of bringing as many of the visitors to this part of the country as possible. It is now thought that because of the efforts of Commis sioner Watson in behalf of this State to Interest those coming In thiR partic ular section that the majority of them will come here. Injured by Wild Horse. Vorkville. Special. ? During the sale of a lot of wild horses, auction off by Mr. Stony Kimball of Rock Hill, at the lot of Mr. Walker Jackson one 'horso rather wilder than the others plunged across a buggy in which a farmer was sitting, knocking the man down and considerably injuring him. The horse got away and was last seen leaving town "like a whirlwind.' Who Gets the Reward? Gov. Ifeyward has another proposi tion to settle In the matter of paying reward?. H. P. Dyches of Ram well county captured James Walker, wanted in that county for murder, and recently sentenced to life Imprisonment. Dyches puts in his claim for the re ward which had been offered, and Sheriff Creech makes the statement that Dyches arrested and delivered the prisoner. On the other hand, Cahs. Garfunkle, superintendent of police In Savannah, makes a statement that one of his policemen, J 0. Harpe. made the nrrest. Gov. Hey ward Is usually govetnmed in matters of this kind by the, statement of the sheriff. Hunter Accidently Killed. Swansea. Special. ? A sad and fatal accident oecurred about ten miles east of Swansea Thursday evening about 5 o'clock. Vand.v Savior, white, and Welton Glover, colored, were out hunt ing and by some accident young Say lor's gun was discharged at short range the entire load taking effect in Welton Glover's back in the region of tho right spinal column. The wound was two and a half or three Inches across. ttVlton died In IS hours after the ac cident. In ante-mortem statement Glover said that it was an accident. Newt In Paragraphs. Columbia is to have another build ing and loan association. The petition ?re for a commission are W. J. Mur ray, L. T. Levin, William Barnwell, W. R. Mutter, Jno. M. Graham. T. K. Fish er and Wm. Melton. The capital stock witt be $200,000, payable <n monthly Installments of |1 e year. The new company will take the place of a com pany who?e stock Is now maturing. The secretary of state last week granted an Increase of capital stock to the Columbia league Baseball club. The Increase la from f 1,500 to 92,500. OOU?TFUL WEATHER FllWIflt AImji T?U Much of the current faith In the ba rometerM ? .weather prophet la. It appears, misplaced. Because a storm la generally threatened when the fall of the barometer Is great and sudden# i and vice versa when It suddenly rises. It hss been for years the practice to make barometers with "fine." "change* able" and "storm" marked on them, and such Is the confidence placed In these by many people who own tbem that they grow ludlguaut at the weatb er If it dares to rain when the Indies tor say* "fair" or to l?e clear If It says "storm." All that a barometer shows la the pressure of the air upon the earth'* surface at the point where the burome ter Is when the reading la made. The pressure does. Indeed, vary continual ly with the weather conditions, but It varies also with tlie elevation of the point of observation above the sea level, and It takes an expert to tell whether any ;;iven variation is tin usual or abnormal, and if so. what it means. A barometer adjusted with weather signs for the seashore may often predict great storms there, but if taken to another and higher alt! tmle the marklugs are wholly unreli able. even for making guesses. T. F. Townsend. at the head of the Phila delphia Weather Kureau. is frequent ly called on by people who know this much to adjust their barometer for thj? level In which they use it. but he In always careful to point out why. even after such adjustment, the indications are not reliable.? Philadelphia Record. KorM'i Voadtn. I.lttle Korea has Its own "seven won ders." The first Is a hot mineral spring which is claimed to have miraculous healing properties. The secoud Is two springs, fnr distant from each other, but connected by a subterranean pass age. When one spring is full the other Is always empty. All the water seems to tlow from one spring to another, yet one is bitter and the other sweet. The third wonder of Korea is the Cold Wind Cave, in which there is al ways a breeze strong enough to take a strong man off his feet. The fourth Is a pine forest, in which trees arc continually sprouting, no matter how the roots are mutilated. The ttfth is ;t limiting stone. It is a large, Irregulart cube which seems to l?e resting on thel^ ground, yet a rope may be passed un der tlie stone without touching it. Tin sixth wouder of Korea is the "hot stone," which for ages has been almost at white heat. "A drop of the sweat of Ituddha" is the seventh wonder. This is kept In a temple, and for thirty paces around It no grass, flower or tri'ti will grow or animal will go near. One Hun<lr*?l and Ten. It is an utterly mistaken though popular idea thai a man is necessarily superannuated when he is sixty or seventy years old. Thinking men are fast outgrowing the idea, rooted for centuries in the brain, that mau is on the tlireshold of old age at fifty, and that "the lean and slippered pantaloon" awaits him at threescore und ten. It is now an ac cepted law of i hi* animal kingdom that the duration of life is normally live times the period of growth, which, being twenty-one .Years in man, makes the limit of his years 10T?. Sir Benja min Richardson, an eminent Knglisb physician, expresses the opinion that the normal period of human life is about .110 years, ami that seven out of ten persons could live to that age it" they would conform to the laws of health. MetschuikotY. th" great Rus sian biologist, holds that: we should live 140 years. A mau who expires at eighty, he says, "is the vict..n of acci dent, cut down in the flower of hi* uays."? Home and Farm. Paper From ICagH. It Is not a pleasant thought that th# brilliant white note paper which your hand rests upon may have in it the libers from the 111 thy garment of some Egyptian fellah after it has passed through all the stages of decay until it is saved by a ragpicker from the gutter of an Egyptian town: and yet it is a fact that hundreds of tons of Egyptian I rags are exported every year into America to supply our paper mills. At Mannheim on the Rhine the American importers have their ragpicking house* where the rags are collected from all over Europe, the disease Infected Lev ant not excepted, and where women and children, too poor to earn a better living, work day after day, with wet sponges tied over their mouths, sorting these filthy scraps for shipment t?i New York. Our best papers are made of these rags and our common ones of wood pulp, which Is obtained by grind ing and macerating huge blocks from some of our soft-wooded forest trees.? David (J. Falrchlld. in the National Geographic Magazine. Australian Mine 3000 l'??t J)Np. What in believed to be the deepest gold mine in the world Is being worked at Bcndlgo, Australia. The mine ir question, which i.? called the New (.'hum Railway Mine, has sunk Its main shaft to the depth of 3000 feet, or only sixty feet short of three-quar ters of a mile. The chief problem It how to keep the tunnels and general workings cool enough for the miner# to work In at such a depth, it I? usually about 108 degrees, and, to en able the men to work at all, a spray oi cold water let down from above has t<? be kept continually playing on tin bodlos? naked from the waist upward ? of the miners. Kven then they canno' work hard, or they would faint from 1 exhaustion. ; Their Only Kltell KIM), Ex-Jdstlco Julius Mayer Is a great lover of things that come out of tin sea, and while In Chicago, III., attend Ing the Republican convention, in sought to Indulge his taste In a well known rcstauraut. He ordered little neck clams, and the colored waiter In formed him that they wero out of then* Tho Judge thought that, in the ab senco of clams, a broiled lobster might do; but the lobsters, likewise, were out. Soft-shelled crabs were his next choice, but the waiter regrotfully informed him that tho crabs were alio anion* the absent. "Then why do you keep these things on the bill? Have yot any shellfish at all?" the Judge de manded. "Only eggs, sab," replied Uii jTAltcr. i - - - ~ ? *