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. 1 _ _ _ __ ^ VOL. 3. ABBEVILLE, S. C., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, I887. NO. 18 TO SLEEP. Ptmfr to me oowl O come! benignest Bloopl Arid Told me up as overling doth a flower, 1-Yom tuy vain s?lf, and vain things which lmv? power Upon my soul to make me smile or weep. And when thou cvuiasL oh, lllco denth be drept ?>'o dreamy Ikkju I of thee to crave, More than may pome to hJm that tn his grave In becdlons of the uigbt winds how they swwsp. 1 hare uot in me half thai cauno of sorrow Which Ls in thousands who must not oomplntn; And yet this moment, if it could bo mine To )up*o and pans In sleep, and so Resign Ail tbnt must yet bo borne of joy aud jeda, 1 .Hcaroely know If I would wake to-morrow. ?Patrick Proctor Alexander. |. TM& ABSENT-MINDED SECRETARY. | X?t?r RenlMerod, Except In Tims of UMttlfr? Doflnltlou of War. A fow days before ho went to Georgia to get married Socrotary Lamar hud occasion to speak of his alleged absentmindedness. His friends, who say ho " -intended to invite his family and friends to his wedding, but forgot to send out tho invitations, recall what he said then. "It's nil bosh." paid Mr. Lamar, "to call mo absent-minded. I was never nbeent-inindod nor bewildered in my life, except in battle. In official lifo I can keep as straight and regular as a clock. But I'll own up to getting bewildered in battle. I never knew where I was nor where the enemy were. After I had been In two or tliree fights, I concluded thnfc I irniHh In V Hrwrn enmn rlnfinito of conduct- in a fight to which I could hold mysolf, for if I did not, I could not tell whoro nay bewilderment might 601110 day take me and my regiment. I deoided that no matter what happened I would always go ahead in a straight line just as far as circumstances and the enemy would let' xne. At the battle of Williamsburg I followed this rule so far that it nearly coat our, people the servioes of myself and regiment. If it had not been for A. P. Hill my first extended acquaintance with the north would have been made from the slender coign of vantage to be load in a military prison. I charged ahead so hot and so fast that when 1 halted my entire regiment was through the enemy's lines and in their rear. Hill, however, came up on e-.ich side of my regiment and drove tho enemy back. As he rode up to me he said: CoL Lamar, do you know where you are?' I had to acknowledge a very limited amount of information an that point, and was never more surprised in my life than to learn that I had gono through the enemy's lines. Gen. Hill told me to take my regiment to the rear and lot his men go on, but I begged to bo permitted to go on,, and so my regiment was put in line with Hill's brigades and & went on. "I used to tbkik," Mr. Lamar wenton x to say, "before I saw much fighting, that the slaughter must be frightfuL I could not soo how, where so many bullets were flying, there was any chance at all for men to escape being hit. Hut I f. . . eoon wondered how anybody was hit at all. My men that day at Williamnhurir o ? * shot themselves all out of ammunition % twice. When we went into liivouuc at night I went about ariltin^ the boys how jtfi tiiey felt. I met one big Miasiisippian from my own town. % " 'John, did you ftro off all your .-.I' powder?' C '*' " 'No,' ho said, 41 tried hard all day, < colonel, to do my best, and I didn't Are fiut twice. All day long I didn't draw bead on a Yankee but twice. I've got my ammunition here,' and he tapped his a cartridge box. 44 4You fired twice?* I said. 4Did you hit 'em those timen?' ?<{ ? iVotl ?1??1 " ^v.. - f? uuf IAJ u?u wio Truifij A missed one Yank, and I'm in doubt about tho other.' gp; "That illustrates war," said the secretary. "A lot of men jnarcb out and proceed to create a lot of Occidents. Tho . aide that can produce the most accidentR ?]' ' for the greatest number of consecutive hours wins tho day."?"Wufiliiugton Cor. Now York Sun. ' Kgfgm Prom Across tho Ocotn. "We assume that all friends of tho *\ ' American hen aro not aware of the fact fy~""" that the yolks and whites of eggs are imported separately in immense quantities Wi duty freo. This busiftoss only began about five years ago, and is assuming a;,larger proix>rtions everr rpur t* iol f stated that everv Gorman steamer brings over do2ens of barrels of egg yolks and ' hundreds of tin-lined, air-tight cases of ? ?gg albumen, or the white of eggs. The jj\ albumen Is cousumed chiefly by candy ?- ; manufacturers and confectioners. Ithns O'--} .'' tho quality of making the candy swell Sgi. up and appear one-third larger. The * manufacturers say this albumen 1 'aerates'' I r the candy. It makes it dry and sponge>0 t like, and candy made of it tastes as if it S.ft * was infused with carbonic acid gas. ^ Formerly, tliere was a duty of 20 per '"< cent, levied on egg yolks, out the mov rocco and kid leatlier niauu/acture, working through the grocers, got the duty removed, on tho ground that egg yolk was a food product and a necessity of life. %v i Germany sends more of tills egg than all other countries combined. The yolks are liquid in form, mixed with about 12 pier cent, of salt. A barrel of egg yolks ???' '., t will weigh 600 pounds. The wholesale ' price of the product is fourteen cents per ? V*. pound. Indead. fho _ .? 9 9 vMf j VCl lllUitS K . manage to ship the whole ?g& over bore. |4y shell and all. The shells are ground and ?W&,!- '. mixed with pipe clay, and the admixture of rtiells gives the clay a peculiar gloss r; and finish.?Boston Budget. Pjjjjfefo The presence of wild geese !n the north* - em part of Nebraska at this season is, ae'r Wording to ,Jtho oldest inhabitant," in V -ClcMWyut a nl'iort winter. SOME QUEER OCCUPATIONS. Olid Wa,m of Making a Living That Some New Yorkers Hare Adopted. Now York has not attained tho unique distinction recently boasted by Paris ol maintaining a l>eggar factory for maiming little children, bo as to render them objects of pity. Neither has it yol reached tip to London in the possession ol "rieccssarv stores.'' whoroirt evnrv north. ly thing m u.so by man is kept on sale. But, Kflor all. Now York is big enough to supply m*iiy ingenious persons with very curious occupations. Tho scheme of our "clean towel company," nowly started for supplying business offices with clean towels and soap, we ought not tc boast- of. since we borrowed their notion from Clucago. We are alone, however, in patiently permitting an audacious Teuton near Chatham square to koep hand organs in mischief by repairing them. He assume* to replenish them with now : tunee, but, of course, that is a fiction; ' for no hand organ was ever heard to play any but bald beaded and middle agcrl musiu. Now York maintains, also, at least one establishment for fitting little j children for the stage and ballet. Two courageous New Yorkers follow the useful but unpootic business of banging their fellow citizens. They are not prejudiced in faror of New Yorkers, hut are easily fiersuaded to hang men elsewhere throughout tho Union. It is always pretended that no one knows theii names and that only the sheriff of this county has their addresses. One is a Hebrew, dubbed "Isaacs," and the other is a Germmi, called "Menzesheimer;" but the city always lumps them both under the one name of Joseph B. Atkinson, and under that name they draw their pay. Thov rie the callows ?nrl finally cut the ropa. One other sanguinary citizen, in Twenty-third street, swings a shingle declaring him to bo "The Destroyer of Moths. v Four prosperous citizens earn their livelihood as doctors for the Jap dogs of rich womon. Ah a ruhv, the only medicine tlvy use is starvation. Thoy fling the dotix pets into barrel boxes and deprive them of food for four days, having found out that the usual trouble with pet dogs ia that thoy are fed extravagantly and improperly. Just east of tlte Bowery, in a tenement house, resides a man whose business it is to rent himself and his Punch and Judy show to children's parties in the brownstone wards. A person on the Bowery keeps six or eight girle busy framing wreaths and pictures ol tombstones, whereon are set forth the virtues of deceased New Yorkers, lie follows where the death notices in the papers lead him, and works upon tho feeling* of the grief stricken families. A rich Italian employs a horde of hla countrymen to trim or balance the loada upon the scows of our street ewcoplng department. These trimmers save for him Jill the rags, fat, bono, metal and oilier convertible refuse fitmg into the householders' ash barrels. Another man is making a fortune by carrying off aH the waste and refuse the city will not remove, . such a* builders' leavings, dirt from cellar diggings and eo on. The builders pay him to take it, and then he sells it in the suburbs for filling in sunken lands. Only one man la town pretends to keep photograph* of all the notable persons in the world. There is not room for two in the business. Another citizen sells to public men and corporations clippings from ali the newspajtera that nientiou them at five cents a clipping, addod to a suljscripJii'n fee each year. Yet another oltizen hunts up coats of arms and pedigrees for all thoee who think theirs have been overlooked, or that they n..ay get them from families of the seme, or nearly the same, names as their own. This is quite English and therefore popular. It is said that the carriage makers ore giving away coo.tr, of arms like chromcw. Lawyer Ed. Price, the ex-pugilist, has a nionojxily as the attorney for tho Chineso. The laundryinen nil seek him when in troublo, and" always pay him in silver dollars. The trade in painting black eyes with a mixture of six parts white paint and one part red now boasts several establishments. It is not popularizing the black eye. because it only covers up the scandal wttbout removing the recollection of tho accompanying "licking." One New Yorker has posted himself about all the unclaimed estates in Christendom nnii fhlio Kw O IMotrnnon ?? - ? ?? |r. M ?? VdUtlUOO liiUlC generous than most folks imagine. Another Now Yorker searches the streets at eight with a lantern for coins and purses dropped during tho evening. A woman, near tho city hall, takes oaro of the babies whose widowed mothers have gone out to work, and who check them, like umbrellas, in the morning and call for them in the evening. Many women in the east side tenements take care of a baby or two for their neighbors, but this downtown one is, I think, the only regular baby snfe deposit company or storage warehouse in town. There is no matrimonial agency or husbands' exchange newspaper hero just now. There have been many but all h$ve failed. That scheme is not so profitable as that of a man I met tho other day who told me he trained valuable dogs to aeine straight bock to him as often as he fold them. ? Julian Ralnli in Ma 51 imrt P.ynmsa To Ab*orb Vibration*. To absorb the vibrations from the blow of a hammer when the sound from a work bench is felt in every part of the building, set each of the legs of the bench in a box of dry sand and allow the undu lation from this disturbing element to churn quartz for a while, which will not leave vibrating energy enough to pass beyond the floor of tab work boncb.?Boston Budget. MUSIC'S EFFECT ON NERVES. I Blow Muntc Kxcrtn n Calming Influence, llow to House the Splrltn. , The fact remains that music <lues ae! t powerfully on the majority of nervout . i sy6toms, and there is roason to think thai , ' tlio braiu is not alono affected. For ex; ample, the movement of the lower limbs, both in dancing and in marching, arc distinctly influenced by music, independently of the consciousness. When tho brain at first participates in the ex( citement produced it may Ijccoiiio en( grossed with other matters,and rhythmical muscular movements of the extremities, , and in a lesser doirreo of thn tnmlf. will , bo continued automatically in harmony l with the music. Direct impressions on the cerebral cen. ters ajre probably transmitted througli the auditory center. Thus monotonous and slow music will exert a calming in lluence, provided it be not too slow to b< . in harmony with the nerve habit of the individual, as in that case it may irritate. 1 It is also essential to the success of any endeavor to bring the brain under con, trol of music, that it should first arresl the attention either by its power or sweetness, and then gradually conduct the . organism into harmony with itself. A measured cadence of the sort, likely tc ; calm the mind is more likely to augment . than to allay irritation, unless it begin . with a powerful appeal to the brain in o . koy wliich accords with that in which , the cerebrum is at tho moment itsell t working. This has not, perhaps, beer . sufficiently well understood in some at1 tempts which havo been mado, experi; mentally, to use music as a remedial measure. So w ith ondeavore to rouse the spirit [ by music, tho opening needs to bo plaint ive and in the key of melancholy which k liarmonizes with tho brain state of tin . patient. The attention boing arrested and tho cercbrum reached through the auditory center, tho koy must be grad W.- nj vjiiui^cu U11\I iUV WIU1C ill such manner as to change the brain state. . No great progroas will be incdo with the ! employment of Bound, and form and . color C3 remedial agents, powerful as these agents really are, until wo dismiss the unscientific idea of "mind," and begin to regard the brain as an organ j which, like all other parts of tho body, , obeys physical laws and performs its fmictions by purely physical processes,? L London Lancet. i The Craa? for th? Stage. i And you, every year brings up ite Soup of ambitions young American lies, tenderly nurturod beings, who doi Giro to "go on tho stage." Tliey generally corao off again in a year or two, and conclude that plain sewing or school teaching would be paradise aa compared to tho life of a "lady actreaa." If she goes off with a distinguished nctress like Modjcaka shots not allowed tc stop at the tunxo hotel with her; that ia not eti?{ueLto. She may bo allowed tc play soiiio very inferior part, and be hissed for hor pains for doing it badly. Sho is put under tho care of t,,e old woman who plays tho part of "The Dowager" do olegautly, and finds that her guardian is a vulgar old person who driii]ca too much. But we will suppose her to be a pliiloeophio and patient girl, capable of living down all these disagreements of tho first year; but she has has learned, alas! that the play looks bettor before tho footlights than it does behind it; thot sho lias stopped on the wrong side of the illusion. It is not alone that tinsol reigns instead of gold, or that looking glasses are made of muslin. It ia not tho rouge or the pearl powder, or tho ugly company of ropes and pulleys, dust and dirt everywhere; it is not alone olw* U l U ,1_ !i1. -?? s?it*v nnw uiUOk 1UU IIC1 UOUV10 W1U1 ClUUlk at emery movement, elBO they look black. No. Sho learns that she has stopped into another world whence all the "fun" of Iirivnfre theatricals has vanished. She earns that sho has stepped into another world where all that she learned in her own world goes for nothing. Her refinement and education, her ladylike air and pose, which sho thought would fit her for the portrayal of ladylike characters, these are all worse than useless. She lias been obliged to raise her voice and discord her manner, for the trainer has pronounced both ineffectual. However, sho has conquered her awkward stago walk, and has learned that the stage runs down hill. She has reasoned that the primer of any language is full of diflicultit*. fihft Rnvn fr? Vi^r self that sho will succeed, "that H is weak to be discouraged, that only cowards run away."?Mrs. John Sheldon in New York World. CUm of Monntaln Lion*. Mountain Hons attain a prodigious size. Specimens arc often killed measuring nine feet from tip to tip and weighing not far from 2/50 to 800 pounds. Many more, measuring from ten to eleven feet, are frequently bagged, and occasionally a monster reaching twelve feet in the dear and perhaps longer is brought down by some lucky and daring hunter. The hide of this animal makes an excellent rug. Scarcely a ranch in the wholo Rocky mountain region is without a mountain lion skin on the floor. One cattlo ranch on Powder rivor has everv room carpeted with handsome skins of this animal. The hide is a bright brown on the back and rump, but fades away into a soft white brown towards the sides and beoomes almost a pure white under the belly. The toil is tipped with white and the head, eyes, ears, nose and features are on exact reproduction of tho domestic cat on a larger acalo. The feet and claws are like those of ' Tom and Maria."?Montana oor. Philadelphia Times. m |||^|jj |jjj^ ' . / || SHOOTING AN OIL WELL. Carton* Spectacle* Incident to Xaturnt Ga? rrcitncllou?DnitRcrouH WorU. 5 For two hours recently I stood in a , : bleak wind to witness tho process of 5 I "shooting" an oil well. This is acconi. j plished by lotting down with a strong j wire, on n windlass, tin tubes alxnit threo , I inches in diameter and fourteen feet long,. . ; filled with nitro-glvcerine. Each of these t ! tubes will hold al>out twenty quarts of . j the liquid. If the blast is to be mado at . j the bottom of tho well, then the first can I I or uu>c is iei aown to rest upon the l>ot| toti. but it' tho stratum of rocks which it [ is desired to "shoot" bo above the bottom, r i as is frequently the case, then smaller tul>es are fastened upon the first charged . tuLe for a support. These may be thirty l or fifty feet long, or even more. Tho , lower ond of this tulx?, of course, rests on . theJmttom of the well, and sustains tho , charged tubes, which are carefully let , down oue upon tho other until sixty, eighty, or even a hundred quarts ai-e thus r deposited. In doing this every movement tnu^t b? made with the utmost caro, and is attended with great danger. The liquid weighs alxnit four pounds I j to the quart, hence a great weight must be provided for. On (lie upper end of tho > topmost tube an explosive cap is placed. The charge k; exploded by dropping an t iron slug, called, in the nomenclature of k the oil country, a "go devil." Cautious t persons keep at a good distance. Tho operator gives tho alarm and lets the slug l drop. In a well 2,000 feet deep, filled . with gas or oil. the weight may l>o twen. ty or even twenty-flvo seconds in de[ seending. If tho well is clear of course its d<*rent is more rapid. The first scn sation one feels is a heavy thud, like tho dropping of a great weight on tho rocks. l The next a trembling of the ground, and > then a rushing roar, followed by a hoarse, [ .weird, prolonged whistle, ending in a , slight explosion, and a stream of sand. oil, water, pulverized "go devil," and L tubas, nnd black gas goes shrieking into tbo sir In a dense column 100 feet or , more, nnd all is over. I If tha blast is an effectlvo one it In imi mediately followed by a flow of oil or i gas. Often a dead and worthless well [ will at once begin to flow after the shook. t One we'd near Butler that was dead and thought worthless was nwakened to aci tivity byi r heavy blast and rewarded tho owner with a flow of 700 barrels of oil daily. A sixty quart blast costa the owner of tho well nl)out $100 including tho labor , of placing it. This labor, as h;is been ( said, is attended with great danger. Sometimer, when the well la full of gnu, the torpedo, after descending a few hunI dred feet, will l?e driven violently out of I the well. In that case it i3 certain to exL plode by hitting the timliers of tho derrick or when it reaches the ground in its ; descent. In either case general destruc, tion of everything i3 certain. , Sometimes, ujx>n tho explosion of a ! torpedo in a well, n largo volume of oil is , thrown into the air. This is often a sight of surpassing beauty, tho oil breaking as it falls into countless drops and each drop | IxK-oming a prism to reflect the 6un's rays in matchless coloring. So far tho gas wells and oil wells are treated alike.?Chicago Tribune. A Sevan Y??rit' Underground Fire. A matter which should be of interest has recently been brought to light here. This is the fact that firo has been found Binolderinjr on the 1.(100-foot lov?l r>f th? California that has endured ever since a fire broke out in that niino about seven years ago. At that time the part of tho mine in which the fire occurred was sealed up by means of bulkheads. A drift now shows that tho firo is still alive. The old timbers have been slowly charring, and in places where covered with a great weight of rocks and earth they have been converted into what presents the appearance of a fair article of bituminous coal. This seems to be on account of pitch in tho wood. Some years ago there was brought to this city a piece oC pitch pine taken from an ordinary "coal pit, ono end of which appeared to tie genuine bituminous coal. This has been formed where there was no great amount of pressure upon it. When 6o small an amount of fire as is in the California mine is found to endure for seven years, should we be incredulous when assured by men of science that the center of tiio earth, once a molten mass of rock, still remains in a molten state after untold ages? How many years the small bunch of fire in the California will still remain alive it is impossible to say. The drift that cut into it has been securely closed, and it will probably bo allowed to smoulder on for another terra of years.?Virginia City (Nev.) Letter. Wrctchec1n?M la London. The depth of London's misery was illustrated by two scenes witnessed recently. Ono waa at Billingsgate, where Pl'fttllitnua iliaWhntlnn r\9 fnA.1 r- *vww .win mndo, unci the distributors were wisely intrenched hchind iron ban*. Brawny men fought and struggled against the bars for sodden pudding and muddy soup until they were torn and bleeding, while women and children, who wore unable to get' near, sat on the curbstone and cried hopelessly. Another was at a dinner given by the St. Giles Christian mission, where the criminal classes were invited to come and satisfy their hunger. At the door scores of honest men, who had never seen the inside of a prison, accu.-*ed themselves of crimes of all sorts in order to gain admission, only to be ejected by the attendants, who were not slow to discover the story of fraud by tho hungry, honest facett and horny bands.?London Letter. ?- V. DCATH IN A TURKISH BATH. Tlw l,oii<t(iu C;ise Not No !< ? littlou or Ohuho iiihI KfTVcl. Tho recent rase of death in a Turkish bath, really "from exeesBivo drinking, reported hy The- Loudon Daily News, was recently the text for a long article in your Sunday edition, in which were many reflections based more on imagination than solid facts. There may bo ! danger in sleeping in a temperature of 120 deir.s.. but it is T"?/^ J wo hesitate to go to sleep because tho I night is very hot? By no means. There } is, however, great danger in the habit of excessive drinking, whatever tho person may do afterward, whether it be going to the Turkish bath or to church, but tho hath would bo the safest place, to go at that time. The habit of the bath i* a most laudable one, and is to be encouraged at all times, as it tends to the welfare and betterment of the community? to elevate and not degrade man. It is on the side of virtue and not of vice. Because some may at times use it to get relief from their excesses is no more the fault of the bath than is the fact that peoplo will sin during the week and go to church on Sunday to get absolution the fault of the church. People are not made weaker or debilitated by the bath. On tho contrary, they are made stronger i aud more vigorous, and more able to use I what strength they have. Disease ; nd bad habits most certainly weaken, but the bath never. Let us look a little further, and not hastily say when a man dies that the last thing ho touched killed him. There is too much reasoning from the surface. Is tho sun to be blamed for bringing noxious air froi* undrained swamps? If 0110 takes a Turkish bath to-day and to-morrow is attacked with rheumatism or other diseases, is that the fault of the lxith? Emphatically no! If it is a fact that tho bath is weakening, how is it that, persons weakened and debilitated by disease* can take ono or two baths a day and rapidly recover? Agaiit, how ia It that tho attendants have worked in tho heat of tho bath several hours daily for years and not lost a day from sickness? A fact most prominent in relation to these attendants is that they invariably improve in health and strength after commencing that kind of work. Mr. D. Urquhart, to whom modern civilization is indebted for the revival of the ancient ottoman, or Turkish bath, a3 it is now called, states, in the "Manual of the Turkish Bath," that tho best shampooing ha over received was from c. man 80 years old, who had been a worker in tho luith aince he was 8 3*ears of ago. The frequent use of tho Turkish bath, instead of being killing, is enlivening and helps to prolong life and increase its vigor. A person who is given to excrss in drink and who makes frequent u.->e of tho Turkish bath is therefore more likely to live longer tlian if he did not uso tho bath. The daily uso of the bath has been found in many cases of great advantage to persons in ordinary health, By that means they aro fortified against dis u!w>o sum ineir systoms toned up ana invigorated. Death has como to man in the pulpit, on the ferryboat, at the table. Is it at all wonderful that it uhould couie to one while in tho bath, when ho has taken the surest eou?*se, by dissipation, to bring that condition about! Rest assured the bath, in and of itself, is not tho thing to hasten that time.?Charles H. Shepard, M. D., in Brooklyn Eagle. Rilling Paupers In Inrndon. The business of killing paupers in the London workhouses goes on merrily. Of course no account is made to the public of those who are starved to death, but no less tlu?n five cases of death from cruelty or neglect have been uncovered within a fow weeks. Epileptics in one institution were allowed to roam about unattended, and qno fell into tho flro and was cremated. Nurses bound tho hands of an old blind woman to save themselves a littlo trouble, and tho poor creature was found dead in her bed with her wrists tied tight together. Injuries by nurses caused the death of a helpless paralytic. An imbecile, very old, was beaten with a strap so that he died. A man, 60 years old and feeble, was given a cold bath, was seized with a chill and died before the two attendants who murdered him ftnnlrl awt. him rm<- nf f.Vin w?f/?T The deaths that result from similar treatment that are never heard of must outnumber by scores thoso which aro made a subject of inquiry. Of each fifteen deaths that occur in the city of don, one is in the workhouse, ami of each nine, one is cither in the workhouse or hospital. The inmates of tho workhouse are fed on spoiled meat, decayed vegetables and bread which "would answer woll for modeler's cluy," as one daring guardian expressed it. Of course, a lot of people are getting rich on tho contracts for supplying food.?London Letter. rri. . /v? . - a? ? - AUV Muiucr AgroQinoni* Tho queen mother of Spain has ^made agreement with her creditora by which she keeps $200,000 of her revenue and they take the remaining $120,000. Her life is heavily insured.?Chicago Times. An Onyx Qnnrry. There is nil onyx quarry at Now Suisin, Cel., and 100 tons of it were KhlppOd to < New York lately to bo made into mantels, bureau tope, etc., while some of it will be worked into jewelry. The coet of introducing a girl into society in New York and carrying her nuo- , cessfullv tltmmrh Ann OMOA" io -v.*!"""4"'1 J ? ? v?.W kAJUUVtl IO VOV1UXUWLI at $1,608. It ia estimated that over 500,000 alliga- 1 tore oro killed annually for their skina. n?r?a???b??i??a?n??i THE ANSWER OF PARIS. Sly Helen. witl? 1j- prand Greok oyes, Made by heaven most |niro anil wise. Thou ?lost bid the winds <>f j?>y Whisper thee of Ion* lost Ti\?y! My llelon, with thy prove (Jroek lips i Carved in drnth'Hlast sxveot. euiipso, Thou dost l?Id thi' inunn'rous sea Tell Troy'B burial plnco to thpoi" I)cop In northern snows two meet. Two whoso love iu full, completes Anil beneath a southern kuh, Two whom love hath innilo as ono. My IIel?'n! I/?t me touch thy hand Wliero love dwells?still Troy doth stand. ? Fannin Aymar Mathows In Home Journal. THE SAFE DEPOSIT VAULT. How "Wraith Tries to Make Afitmranco Doubly Sure?Locks and Safes. It is a long way, in fact, from tho simple contrivances of classic times for protecting ready wealth to the coffers and money chests, tho secret drawers and guarded treasuries of Florence and Venice. And from them it is still a longer ono through the clumsy sp.fcs and rude locks of the last century to the present almost perfect troasuro vaults, proof against fire or llooil, against both sharp edged tools and any charges of ]>owder or dynamite that a burglar may safely use. The present safety vault has of course grown out of tho old safe, and is really oidy a porfcctcd modern bank safe on an enlarged plan. The average safe is an iron and steel bos, some four to n'x feet in height by four feet in breadth and depth. It has a tliick door, made in half a do>:on lavers of unequal size, heavily I bnltnrl tocrnMmr ?.?-! 1 .?auw.u., u.m u^v.113 UJ U tion of movements on an exterior knob. Tho safo dejKwit vault is another big box, also of steel and iron, some ten feet in height and twelve feet in length, built in, like a prisoner's cell, with a heavywall of brick, mortar and cement, and opening by a door almost a foot in thickness into a larger room which contains it. All that ingenuity can do has been dono to make the body of tho vault impregnable and to put the secret of tho intricate lock beyond chance of guessing. Tho cell insido is lined with drawers and boxes, each lockod and bolted. The wholo thing is a safo within a safo, making afisuranco doubly sure at but slightly higher rates for nervous aud cautious dejxwitora. Safe doposit vaults are built by only few of tho large safe makers. The metal used for the walls of tho vault is a mbcturo of iron and steel, melted together at high heat and tempered throughout as finely and evenly as possibly. The result is a homogeneous, almost flawless surfnc.o. which defies aliko the burglar's tools or the flames of a Life fire. A wall three inches in thickness is laid on in nlates with heavy bolts of the same material, and tho wholo side is then shut in' with a stout covering of fire "proof brick and a finely mixed cement. Particular care, of course, is taken with the door, which is tho only part exposed after the outer wall is built. The plates are doubled, bruccd and re-braced, of various sizes according to tho layers, over lapping and falling short, but all so piled and blended together that while one holds all will hold and the treasures within will still be safe. Tho lock combination is made so intricate, too, that it needs one man's mind working all the time to keep up with it. Th? ^ ^ 1 ? inuAW iswuipuruitveiy smoll now, but the raakoro agree JthSt ' there will be a large increase in the number used beforo ten years pass. People are just l>eginning to realize what mental relief it is to have one's valuables absolutely socuro from accident or theft, and that comfortable feeling is sure to spread even if it entails the building of costlier safety vaults than those wo have now.?New York Tribune. DifTunton of Wealth, Twotifv milliAno . VI UUWUB 111 U VlilUgU does not make that village rich if it is all owned by two mon; but if that amount is spread evenly all over the village then it ia different. Money in the hands of one or two men ia liko a dungheap in a barnyard. So long as it lies in a mas3 it does no good, but if it was only spread evenly on the land how everything would growl Money is liko snow. If it is blown into drifts it blocks up tho highway and nobody can travel, but if it lies evenlv distributed over all the ground it facilitates every man's travel. Wealth ia good if diffused, but not if hoarded.?Henry Ward Beecher. Ofttlng Up False Fnooa. * A number of men, women and children make a living by getting up false faces, which find a ready Bale during the Koll ~?1 J - v?? uviiouu aiiu uiwimu wirisimua umSi It requires no littlo ingenuity and artistic skill to make these groteaque combinations of paint and cardboard which dolight the children, and 6erve to lighten up the graveyard gloom of the ordinary public mask ball. The beet feilso faces, however, come from Franco, and are coated with wax before being painted.? New York Journal. * nocographlng r lying (lull*. An example of the speed with which pictures can now bo produced 5m afforded by a photograph of a number of flying puns taicon at aoutnporc i?y a local photographer, Mr. Mall in. Tho various attitudes of tho birds arc curious. Most of them have the winga aprond In tho orthodox manner, but some of them aro caught in that curious position with tho wings hanging down, which, from the shortness of the time during which it is maintained, the eye does not appear to catch. About sixty birds are shown quite sharply and distinctly.?London Times. 3