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- I ~ ~~tw~-' %~ ~2 - -. - - - ---'.-.---,? I r . -~---~ - ~ . . - F - f K K' ,/? I ~'0~~~ / /7 p A / - p .. : ~. / - I-' --I----., A hr ) awl trait -3 TM WEEKLY EDITION WLNNSBORO. S.C.~ JULY 19, 1900. ETABLISHED ~* __________ I ei't:urr awn A CHILD'S All the bells of heaven may ring, All the birds of heaven may sing, All the wells on earth may spring, All the winds oi earth may bring All sweet sounds tozethr: Sweeter far than all things heard, Hand of harper, tone of bird. Sound of wood at sundown stirred, Welling water's winsonie word, Wind in warm wan weather. a ted by J ' Ahont to entertain I U charming jgirl whoni he is anX loiininmpress and suddenly finds that w e exception of a few coppers, he s no money in his pocket, he may surely be forgiven the use of a few strong ejaculationis. Sueh was the plight of Everard Hamlyn at 10 minutes to 1 on a certain Saturday at ternoon. ie had been so a)sorbed in reuading the brief of an important case wlhill was to be heard in the courts on Monday that he had forgotten the emptiness of his pocket. At 1 o'Clock Alike Valentine, an American girl with whom lie had formed a deep frienu; ship, was coimi, to see what a har rister's chanmbers in the Temple looked like, and she was also to be taken out to lunch. The worst was that there were only 10 minutes to rectify the mistake. lie wrote out a check hurriedly, and then - remembered that time would not per uit to go to the bank to cash it. His clerk was gone and the Temple was wrapped in its u ual Saturday atter-, noon peacefulness. Without a hat he rushed over to liar court buildings to see if his friend Anderson was inl his chanfoers. He could rely upon' Lim for a couple of pounds. But the fates were against lamlyn. Anderson was out and the doors wer-e locked. p - l'ug that thert , as nothing for it bu..o go to the bank lie hurried along up the court into Fleet street. meaning to hail a hansom. But as he arriveu there the lock struck 1 and he knew that he coufld not get to the bank and back under 00 minutes. Alice would never forgive him if he was not at his rooms to rc-eive her. Suddenly his eye was caught Z>y the three brass Oalls hanging over a shop almost opposite. The sight suggested new idea to his mind, and he prompt W;AnVD acroess u mterr tnghe shop haiided his S-guinea hun ter ever the counter. "How much'" said. the clerk tyeing the hatless and breathless HaIlyn somewhat suspiciously. "Oh, 1 only wanted a fiver," replied Everard hurriedly. P "Have you got a card on you '" asked the clerk, thinking he was on the track of a swell inobsmaiin. Unsersed in the ways of pawlibrok ers, Iamlyn pulled out his case an handed him a card. *All right. sir " seeing the nam' ~d address and noticing it corre ided wiih the initials on thewaitch. -beg your' paird.n. sir." and lie hasillye filled up a ticket and counted out live p)ounds1. "Have you a penny for the ticket, leIase' Hamnlyn inipat iently threw down copper and fairly bolted out of the shop. The people in Fleet street stared at hiim wvith a mazeiment, and a guttel ar ab with whom he had collided. shouted, "Who are yer shovin of '' as lie crosatd the read. Now it happened that Alice Valenl tine w'as just at that moment passmli down Fleet street ou her way to the Temp~le. She imd itrrived somewhat earlier thani she had intended, for sh up~held the traditions of womanhood with regard to unpunetuality. "It would never do." she said to her self, "to be quite punctual. le wouhld So, timiisg he'rself to a1rriv'e ait the Te~mple about 157 o'clock. she was strolling leisurely aloug whleni she caught sight of H~amlyni rushing wihd ly out of a pawnb~lroher's shop'. For' a nmomnent the ludierouls side of the situ ation striet'k her ver'y forcibly. and she lauighed softly to herself. But gradually as5 she r'ea tized the full sg nilicance of the action, her amusemenit gav'e place to pity. --Poor boy." she murmured. "I had ..- not the faintest ideai that he was h-ird SAnd to thiink that I have let him spend :ueh a lot of money in taking me abot. I must get e'n with him somehow.' Thetre wva "ery tender spo t ini her heart for th 11. elever young b irT'1 ter wholmd' -hownm so plainly his prer erence for her a 'ove all other womeni. Alice Val'ntine and her aunt. Miss n-" Safford, weret making a tour' of tul rope, and had met Hlamlyn first of all * a hotel in -neva. HeI had ren N 1 dered themi a numnber' of civilities, and as he happened ro be doing the ca me round of' Switz/er'hud as they. for a month he was their almost daily comn panion. With the franikiness of Ameri can women. thley accepted his atten tions gr-a iou!sly. and. iindinig him a pleasant attendant, enrolled him m~ their services wvithiout furt her' ado. Miss Saffordi gener'ally accompaied KAlice wherever she wvent, and shiowen quite as mach eagetrness to "'do" ever y plIee thoroughly as her niece. It wa: only on rare occ'as-ions, when the elder -ly lady was ebliged to admit that sui wa too) tired for anythig." that Hamntynm had a chanice of taking Misz a Vlentinie out alone. The constant conipan ionsihip. how ev er. had brought abotut the usual re sult. Hl:anhyn was not an iillammalA mani. lle had reached the mtaturte ags ofl-not uuasought after-wi thou baring sucnmbed to feminine charms -AUGHTER. One thing yet there i,. that none, Hearing er1-. its chinws he n(e. Knows not Iell tihe sweetc-1 one Ifard ofr innn beneatlh the mnn, H oped in llien cii hwroafter': Soft ;.,1nd1 stirong and1( I-lnil d ind light, 'Very souind of Very li;ht. Hea rd froml morning's rosiest height, W'.hein the soil of all delight Fills a child's clearx hin1ghtec. -Algernon Charles Swiriurne. a Pawn. $ But there was something about the fair American that fascinated him in spite of himself. Today. as she caie iuto his rooi. a perfect vision of freshness and love liness in the gloomy atmtosphere ot the Temple. laimlyn was conscious ot a certain shyness iand reserve in her manner that he had not noticed be lore. "I don't believe I ought to come here by myself." she said as she closed the door. "I wonder what Auut Catherine wotuld say to it. "You are late." said Hiailyn. "I have been waitingiipatiently foryou.' "Am 1 really?" replied Alice. "What is the timie. then':" He pulled at his watch chain me chanically, forgetful of his escapade. and disclosed the bare swivel. Ile col ored slightly as he realized his mis take, and felt her eyes upon himl, but answered lilitly: "Ahout 20 minutes past 1. 1 faiy. She was walking round the room glancing at the ponderous-1)ti lin books and the papers tied vith pmk tape. getting. as she expressed iL. the atmosphere" of the p!ace. "It 1tuust he jUst lovely to Work here." she said. "Everything seems so old and historic. I believe I should only haive to sit here a few hours a day and I should hiecome a lawyer by breathing Ihle air. "iich riiids Ie." said Hlailyn. "that I have been brea'tliiig air <umte long enough and vant lunch. Where shall we go?" Alice Valentine hesitated. "Look here," she said at last. "t want to say something to you. You have b:'en taking mie about suchi a lot and I have done nothing for you. I feel real mean. I want you to let me stand you a. lunch today. He shook his head laughingly. "You forget." he said, "that you are my guest; but I want you to say where in Piccadilly, where she knew the prices were ruinous. "No." she said. "don't let us go tUlre. Will you take me to one of those litilie bohemian places you told me of w"here you get a table d'hote lunch for 16 pence. I should love to go. It would be a new experience. "You look too smart." he replied. glancing at her admiringiy. "but I tell you what I will do. We will split the difference and go to a kind of semi fashionable place wv'here you shall see all sorts and condition's of people and hear' a band." Once or twice du'iing lunch. when conersit ion dra'ugged, llamilyin noticen iga in tile thoughtful (expresi 01n her face. At last he took the matter "Tell me." he said. "w~hat you are thinking of." -1 was thinking." she replied slowl'y. 'of hiow~ I could help some one wh'lo has been very good to mie." "Not a dlitticutlt maitteir, surely-for' "It is very di iicult,"' shie said. "uni le' the c-irc-umstanices. TIhe per'son I wat to help is pum- and. '.ei'y 'PC:.: She was looking downi at tihe table (-lothI and1( studiously avoidiing his eyes. "Can 1 be of any assistunce?" he "You-whiy -" she la ughe-d. "Yes. perhaps youl cani. I wvill think about it and1( let you know." There wats ai netw symilpithy in liT voice and umi ar. u~nd ILamilyn felt a lal desire to ta ke hei' there an I hen in his arms and cover la-i face wvith kisses. Uut there was no opportutnity to tell her of his love. Imnmedliaitely aflt'r lunch they were ob liged to hurry off to meet 31iss Safford at a maitinee, iad Hiamlyn had no furthei' chance of' a tete--tte with Alice. biut lie arraing('d satisatorily a mieetinig for Mloniday~ aftenon, when he de(term'line'd to put his faite to the test. "You will not forget.'' lie saidl at part ig. "to let me help you in the miatter' "No." she ceplied with a singular look n her face. "1 will not forget." As Evera rd wvalked home lie r'ecaOled her tones. he(r face, the fair. thushied cheeks. sw~eet miiuth, eai'nest 1brows and (eyes' of softest lire. T1'here wats that in her look wvhich satistied him. He was awakened fr-om his reverie h ant urchlin imiujtirinig wvhat o'clieK it was. For' the second thne t hat day he mecha~nicalhly tugged at his watch chain. 'Confounid it:'" he exela iimed as In' re('lied his loss. "I never kinewv timt itwssuch a nutisanc&e to be w'ithbout a watch. must get it out tirst thing on. \Ionday morntinlg." The ur chin gr'asping the situation r~n aw1ay' grinninig. On Suniday Hamtilyn again huethotught himelf to the watch. I ha~d better study the ticket." he sid "and see whait I shaill have to He fumbled in his wvaisteoat po'ket: it ast not there. He~ tried the others w ith thi same result. \\ith growing une0 sies he si-nrehled in i-very plovdet of the clothes he had~ worn on the 8;at urdy, but the pawn ticket was not to .I e found. "I must have left it at ily cha lers." I)-.- declared :at i. t. "It is very L'areless of ine. I hope lily clerk Oll. 1in14 it." On1 Monbay Inlorinm hI( (rot 1p11ar -. th:ii usual and drove dovni to I ile iemple inl a hansom. Ilis (rk l:o1 alreiady arrived. 1la1inl search4-led all )ver the Lble carefu:lly. ihen in all the drawers. but could not tindI the ticket. Finally he suiuoned thi 3Ierk. "IIave you moved any papers':" he asked rather irritably. ".No. sir. I havei't touelled a thing. "You haveln't by :my ('lhan(ce loulli a ti(k(t, I suppose?" pursued Ilainlyn. "No sir. What kind of a ticket have you lost?" "It doesn't matter." he rellied iipai tiently. "it is of no i im portance. Puttinjg on his hat 11:1nlzyn Iiurried into F*l4et street to the pawnvii shop. "I want to redeem tle watch I left here on Saturday." he anniouni''c(ld. "Where is your ticket. sir'' said the umn. " I have mislaid it." replied Ilamiiityly, "but it is all right. you remieilber mie. I 'xpect. The watch belongs to m and I want it Iow'.-: I :tn very sorry. sirt-. t3eU ct have it witholt Iltie ti('ke't." Ham iilyn muttered all excailati'.ii ot imipatience. "But suppose I have lost it, what the!?" "I will give you I form of (1claration to be made before a miagistrate." "Is there no other way'" said 11am lyn. realizing t he trouble and annoya tie this would caluse. --No. sir-." said the pawnbroker, "1 amx afraid there is not." There was no time to waste lie had to be inl court carly. as his W.se was among the first on the lists. It was no use stopping to argue the matter. He must go before a magistrate and sign the declaration as sooi :s possible. Returning to his Chambers. Ie put on his ircbs and was soon lost in contemplation of the business in hand. About an hour after his visit to the pawnshop Alice \'aleitile drove up ill a Cab to the saie door. She had ,ound the pawn ticket lying on IIamlyn's table on tle Saturday afternoon aid had appropriated it, meaning to re deem the watch and send it hac:k to him as soon as possilhe. She was rather nervous at going into the shop, but she was not the kind of a girl to allow her feelings to stand in the way of-4L''y project she wished to carry throuUgi; so, putting on an air of un usual * 'h ente little " ut the7Wa-h1. please." shbe: Te pawnbroker's assistaint looked 1r u' and down carefully. When he lad, as it were, sized her completely. ie inquired dryly, "Where did you get this?" Alice flared up indignantly. "That s no business of yours, tell me what I lave to pay and give Ine the watch." "Not so fast." said the young mal, 'you uist answer one or two ques ;oins first." Ie went away. and after a whispered c-onsultation returned with a gray bearded (old man, wvho was polite btin "I anm sorry. moaan but I cannlot ~llow you to redeem tis Uledge ITTill you inform me howv this ticket came. into your possess5ion. "I found it." said Alice. "Allowv meitto iniforml you, then." sa it te' pawnbroker,' sternly, that you are comiiittng a very gr'ave offense. 1O attehti'ig to oltaini the wocht'l vou hay yorself open to ciinial proceeinigs. "But,"' said Al ice. "I am a friend or the genttlemian to whomt the watch be longs." "Come. comle, that won't do at all. A gentleman who called himselt Mr. 1 a mlyni was here aibout an hour ago endevorinig to get the watch himself.' "Mr. 11:1mhyn bee'n here this miorni ig" cried Alice. She had never ex pected that lie would be ale to re deemfl his watch so soon-. "Better sendit for a policemtanl," sug. gested the assisttimt. 'II old your tonigue."' sail his master. Thhen. t urn ig to Alice Valentine. lie said: "I do not wish to h.- hiarid iponi y'u butt I inistt uponil til (exhmiat ion. I will sendl ovemr to thle address on the ticket. and if your story is true Mr., Ihnnilynl w;ill corrohatte it. Iliarv'y. enl tie boyi over to QUeen's Belnch Walk and ask Mr. Hlamlyn to comet here immnedilately." "Mr. Ihamalyni coming here'." eled' Alice unlguardledly. "Oh. I miust go tt once." "I canniot allow it." said the pawn broker. "Y.ou must wait. If you re fuse I have 1no option but to call a PO 1f looks coubld~ kill the pawnbroii'ket would hatve died on the spot. as Alice with the tiir of a trtagedy (jlueen. 5u1. miitted to the indignity of being es orted to the bacek parlor. while It'arvey kept watch and watrd over hieir. A quarter of an hour later Everarc llamlyn jumnped out of a htansom tanc hlurried inito the shiop. 11 ( was ani un eu ious person and lie hadl not watitid to chanige his robes. bult had cone t'aight away ini wig and gown fron the law" c'ouirts. lHe was met in ti p~ssage by Harvey, who had bi'e1 awvaitig his arr'ival with keen int(er "There's a woman in here." lie stid pointing to the piarlor'. "w'ho says she' a friend of yours. and htas found you avl ticket. 1but I susper't - "Ouit of the way." m'ie'd H-amilyn thrusting the ottiius young man on ile and i'ushinig into the1 room1. Alice. by all 1tat's wonderful '' i xcl'aimed. amtl thin 5e'eing that he bosom wats heainali convlivei'ly. Ii ut his arm'i arounid her' and inquire tnderly what hiad happemned. --Thteyae 1b'een Si rude anid insul1 ig she sobb -d. Imani waited for no further e3 pljnationi. hut. spiiig Mirvey bt Mei thret. lie shook himii until the unfort', iite youth had not a breath i:ii Ibody. Th,1. tlirninig to the '.der n.0. he erled sierly: "What (10 You im'i by insultiigi this lady'? "Th pawnbroker. discoverilng Li.s m ~Iveas all apologies, bait 1!an -:per was :till up1). .' n could justify rudoness t(: ' lady. 1' said. and he in isted on , hjt aplogy from the crtlai asistanlt. Then he took Alice baeko his ro'm in the Temple. When they were alelv he put his arm around her and s-.( impiulsively: 'Ol. my darling. how sweet of you to try to get my watch back for im. lul you ldo it because you acare? T': moe daurling--l love you:" "it Was vcr y l ie. I know. she sawi, softly and slyly. "but I thought you were poor, and-oh-I vanted to help you." "1 :im not pour." he said, smilinly. "it least. not very poor. I have a thousanid a ye' -ar, and we mnlight m11an1 ;I- oil that." "It would not have mnttered." 1: wliispered. if you had been a P'>or iI; tooki wate and held it before her eyes. "I shall never look at It," he S.Th'i, "witliout thinking that I won yol through it."- A. E. Manning Foster, in the .Royal Magazine. - AT LAST SHE SPOKE Drtnner's Sad Experience wlh the Pret tiest Girl He Ever ,aw. "Anything wrong?" askved the hotel clerk of the New York mmer who had just got hoie frol. West. " was thinking," was the reply. "t rode from Toledo to Bufh1o with the prettiest girl I ever say." "But that didn't hurt' you. Who I was she'" "Can't tell." "You didn't introduce _'irself and get her card in return?.," "No particilar troule* eh?" solielt ously insisted the clerk. "Well, it was this way," replied the traveler, as lie braced up for the ex planation. "She sat opposite me, you know, an( I tried for an hour to catch her eye. She simply ignored mie and gazed out of the wilidow. Then I rose and handed her a magazine, but she declined with tha ks. Ten min utes later I bought tt latest novel out, but she said she., idn't care to tant nored ie when I t w her out ol imusi." "But you persiat -- "Oh. yes. That about to make another att ter into conversation when t to Ia halt at a town. and t mie over. I was there . ..- , ad with the_.U ta4siuile you ever !,w she asked ine if 1 would do her a slight favor." "With all my heart," I hastened to saY. 'Well, she said. smiling even more sweetly. 'suppose you leave the traiin here and take the next one that fol lows, for you have made me (lea tired. aind I feel like taking a nap.' "(;ood gr'acious!" whispered the clerk. "Yes. sir.' said the drummer, as he reached fo' a ('igair, "and I want to go up to my13 roomi and~ sit and thIink ad try to tigiir' it out. P'eri'.ps it S tie I left the' road and settled down at home." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. Before the French revolution uin paid1( peasants were compelled to tiog the ponds(1 all night to prievent the sop of the seigneorie fronm being dis turbed by the eroaking ofogs. The "stinginig tree' is a luxurious shrub of Queenslanid. Australia. andl is pleasing to the eye, but danigere u. to the touch. It grows from two or thr~e inhes to t('n or 13 feet in height, and sends forth a very disagreeable odor. A marilked pec(uliar'ily of the Indiana *coal fields is the slight depth at which ('oal is found. An area of 65i% square mileS. or niearlly one-tifthl of thu' total area of the state, is Known te he~ undermClinelld with (coal, at an aver age of 80 feet below the surface. W~aggon1 Hill, at Ladysmith, Souith Africa. taikes its name from the pecu liar formiationl of ai clump of trees on~ the top. which so ('losely r'esembiles a wagon ait a little distance'( as5 to (iC e'Ci'.' ainybody bult ant exper't. The *hill exteinds for about a mile in lengtb and is about 3001 feet high. Ernest Kr'uger'. a coimpositor em plyed inl a priintinig officeP in Leipzig, ;ermany, hias .inlsh comldet'd his 50tht year of serv'ice. and has heen occupied il setting type for oneQ look nearly all that tim1e0. 'The book is G rimmlt's G er man11 ditionary, and1( the first hatch ol m auci'ipt was turne~cd overl to t he compostor in 1851. Thlus far 32.000~ pages have been printed, and th( work is not yet half (lone. Quotationls from an English medical work published a centiury ago show 1'how narve&lou~s is thle advance whiel has been mlade~ in the knowledge o. pract it ioners. One sovereign remely f 01(den timel~s was that or "blhood let ting" in 'as"s of hemlorrhalg" of th( lungs. Another plan was to m'ak' rcoisumrptive patienlts live for a rev m fohsti ini a stable with cows. th( asuppoitioni being that the exhalation from theo anlimls would cure thosq a ffeted with puhnonary diseases People of rank and education sub :mitted to such treatmlent, MISHAPS TO MAGICIANS. THE BEST PLANNED TRICK3 OF CON JURORS OFTEN CO WRONC. An Anusing Catastrophy That Spoiled a Herrmann Performance-Why So Few Prestidilitateurs Employ Confederates -Fatalities Attending the "ullet Trick." Professional magicians are inivar' ably very smart and cautious indivil inils. Their tricks are generally well practiced in private before being intro duced to III public. which no d10oub)t accounts for the fact that they are, as a general rule, carried out succeSs fully. In spite of their elaborate pre cautions to avoid failure. however. some of the cleverest conjurers occa sionally meet with mishaps dluring ti:e course of their performances. and thl.: treat their audience to some startling or amusing unrehenarsed effects. lerrinann frequently introduiced into his entertainment the trick of producing two large goldfish howls. Advancing towards the footlights with a large shawl. he would wave the latter mysteriously in the air. and su denly produce from its folds a glass bowl filled with water. in which a number of live goldfish were comipla cently swimming. This lie woulu 6seion the table, and 1T.i waving motion with the shawl until he had produced another similar bowl of goldfish. A complete explanation of the worK Ing of this trick need not be given hire. says Tid-Bits. Suffice it is to say that it was accomplished by previously cov ering each of the bowls with an India rubber cover, which prevented th., water from escaping when the bowl was inverted. One of these bowls was concealed under each armpit un dernetlih the vest. The )owls were, of course. easily taken from their hid ing places under cover of the shawl. the India rubber cover being removed beneath the cloth before the bowl was exposed to the view of the spectators. The trick was a very effective ono and rarely failed to elicit a round of applause, but one evening a ludicrous mishap occurred, which -not only spoiled the trick, but aso resulted in the complete discomforture of Herr mann. On this occasion he had just succeeded in producing the first bowl when by some unfortunate mischer' the cover slipped off the second. witl1 the natural result that the contents of the bowl was -impartially distrib. uted about the luckljess performer" body, filling his shoes and thoroughly dent conetiided the evenings ,,or tainient so far as Ierrmanln was con erned. Few modern prestidigitateurs em ploy confederates during their pel formances, for although such assist I - can generally be relied upon t -t ' - satisfactorily. Yet It Iimes, througn ac fail to carry out their instruei ons. and so ruin instead of assist the trick in which they take part. Some years ago. for example. DeGrisy. a very pop ular performer. included in his repel tory a trick in which a confederate was instructed to hand up an 'imita tion gold ring when DeGrisy required it. The magician got through his per formance all right until he camue to the aforesaid mentioned trick. Step ig amiong the spectators he blandly requested the loan of a ring, taking care, of course, to seler-t the one o - fered by his confederate. With this ring he( performed an excellent tric'k, the details of which may not be de s'rihbed. anmd then smilingly handed the ring back to his c'onfederate. Tihe latter examined it with apparent surl pise, and. assuming an indignant air. asked: -What does this mean? I gave you a valuable gold ring, set with diamiomi and you return me a worthless imita' ion." The wizard was naturally astounided h this impudent assertion. but it was obvious that he c'ould not expose t in onlfederate without also exposlin himself. In an undertone lhe en treated the man to ('ease his foolisl conduct, but he would not be silenced until DleGrisy hadI re.inhuursed his sup iod loss. Thie c'onfedlerate the~n let1 the theater anid was never seen ther" again, but it afterwards transpiret that a riva1 magician had bribed th: man to thus bring abo~ut the ridicuh of De(risy. Among the whole category of mis hapls, however, none has prioved( fatau excepting those caused through lb chbullet trick," a sensa tionial conljuirini trick which has brought fame to dioz bns of c'onjurmers5 and dleathi to at leas six per~frmers''. i'or the benefit o those who have never witnessedl tii t'ick we had better exliain that it coin ists in the performer' loading a pista with ai leaden bullet amid allowing onl of the spectators to tire at him. whmei he catches the bullet between i teeti. Thue secret of t his tr'ick lies i tme fact that in hoadinig the pistol th miagician deftly subst itu 0s a butlbi made of hick lead for .ie leaden hu'i let: the bdlack leaid bhlct is crushedl t - a iodert~I with the ramrod. while th genuii" bullet is sec'retly slilpped int - conjul rev's mo' uthl as he wal Iks u Yet in spite of its simplicity accident will happenl. Only a fewv months ago a coluir wals presenitinig thet trick ini a pro-it ' theatre, andi. as usual. h'e h:m; the pistol to a young nam for the~ pu1 os of tirinig. Whbile the ean-1im wis returning to th" stage the' ma who was holding the pistol int"trdc' a mnother' bullet inito it. 'rie is~' i w' h'n (discharged., and the bullet cras~hu through the b:'ain of the unfortiuna conjurer. who fell deadl tupon tihe stag Mlan of the spectators faiinted at ti horr.uibl sight and the man who ha fireu the pistol was rested. but as hW 11cceeded ill (' viicing the jury that he as not aware that he was doing anything wrong 113 was acquitted. Still more tragiv was another c.(asc in which i Ingenious pt'erier re solved to introduce a variation of the bullet trick. Ile "niade ip to repre sent the historic William Tell. and each liht Ie wouhl shoot an apple from the liad of his son. the bullet b'ng found afterward imbcdded in the :ip ple. The fe-at vas of cours inoting more than a trick: but one c.vein through some horrible mistake. ti leaden hullet was tired from the gu't, the hoy on whose head thegipitple resti being killed outright. The unhialpy conjurer was sentenced to six month-' imprisonment for homicide, am1 short ly after his release lie died in a lia tie asyllinl. THE LAST OF THE B1SN. Even the Yellowstone Paik Herd Has Dwindled Away. In aiswer to a corre'4sp4oindent. a writer in Forest ind Sti(eai hnasthis to say regarding tile practical ext-rininia tion of the American bison in its wild state: "In 184;5. when Billy Hofer and my self miade the trip through thet Yllow tone park in the wvinter with the p1l posth of couiting the Iurfo. it was suppose<M hat there Were .'u pod buffalo left i: the Yellowstonie iark We could not feel i;.the lst sur- hat there were over 125 after we hid counted :ll tha t we e d ' imd oi b ha r o1. and then we felt that likely we had counted thie s. hi 101l more than once. Probably 13-th N 10) to 125 head in the park at li:t time. There were at that timi in i SlMusselshell country of Montana \1a eight or ten head of butfalo. whi: h were later killed by the Crecs. wiere also then perhaps a f':%v aniinais of a soiewhat mythical herd in til Red Desert of Wyoming. never csti mated at overi a dozen head. aid who-(e existence for the past ten year'; h'as been more than doubtful. Alscj tie saile could be said regarding the 'Lost park herd' of Colorado, whcre fo.lr a time, a half dozen or 4) buffalo were known to exist. There may havrd been a half doz!n of theimi in I1)5, but it is doubtful if ain' are alive now. -The buffalo of thei Yellow0 / park imet their fate the n -urig a by reason of the j'' idered out frolU imild winter t3f the park and were th we? men along the edge of tile kiledI Athey were picked up aui)cUt st th e N ca m te tult in to ld :i) i.' er Iiarket Lake precinets. it is un* h hal.4 any are l-t alive outsitte the park. Inside the park, at li-t a, counts, during the past year, there were only about 12 or 13 buffalo sIlP posed to be left, '"1'ere is not, in all likelihood. a single individual left of the Stak d Plains herd. out of which Buffalo I Jones eaught his calves in 1N8 to 1889. Up in the Peace river re.-;fl of the British possessions thln' eally is a herd of wood b n111 left. for .> my' fienid Norris. who was up1 thi lst yeur. tells me, and lie says thie Ind11ins know where they-3 ar~e. The numers of these are not known. aInd it would be' only guesswor0k to) stait them. s. indeed, it is nmore er h5 gueswork to state tigures as ;: 'I "On the face of all d isco reiLi 1' in: foratiitionl on1 this heaid, it is sal"' to say there are4 not a dozen11 live ',iid buffalo outside the Yellowstone p' ik in the United Staites, and if the-re is a single one 1 (10 not know whier:' it is Inside the Parik ther'e may Ix twety hieadl or so. "Thle Peaice rier hir'i, niot ini the Uniitedl States. amid alwalys !in 1r1 iA less of a famble, may03 ninbr14r a hun-il dred head. though it is by no: mentai1 likely. It is more apt to be the case that there muay 1)e only a sc'ore er 'o of these aniimnals wvhich1 hatve b4een all( to es5cape) the'. hunigry' Iidian or that torsaken r-egion.'' The Uses of Shopping. ie evident11y had been inveigled into th~t most foolish occupaitioni for a mce man. shopping with his wi!e. Fatigue. ennui i and i-ritabidlity wmre cx pressed in the droope of h15 isgur"'. 1 cx pressioni of' his fa-e awil the iiimul iess of his umanner'. lls ;'fe- on1 lie coltary, was lac(idh. aliert and14 a ppar e~tl' well satisfied with herself an114 the: . IHe lung from a s!ia p in I e c 1oded'( c'ar with :an ill gra:1'e. She umg to his armi for supp't. 1. n talk was a sort tfeestatie'romn114-uta:ry on pane velvet. Iiber4'ty sal11 in andl f'h r mysteries oh lab:'ic and14 dr ess mn tel'~iirede with allusions to4 the4 mferitS and( demer1its of lebmiish oaik. 1hanidi"' urnit ure an R11 ena issan''e luce'1 tiur The 11111 stitledl a gr'oanm oc4'asi44n: 13 but otherwise supprei'4ssedi all ixdie': tils of feeling and14 inmte-lligenmce. .\t t me end1 of several wear11y mliles. llow-1 ht youi wanit to buy. What is 12? - o of it' "But. Tom11. 1 kniow exalctly w'hiat I eairigz ginnted with different kindsl ccr.-New' Yok Press. 'Preltininary. Aranlg'imlt. ii"These photographts ore' my son'.e. niims of travel." *s"All these? WVell. -.Jll's -~ nit. yeen 8 b en e(xtenive~ travelerh1." "No. I ha'. ii t':eol-dt at al.1 - l'These are souv~eir o' f (thei tr'ave'ls 1-r going to travel wthen t marry. ne: Chicao NeWS. Trwo French ehem-ist- --vediScovered a process by whicli rubber may lie obtained from a vine known as landol tia. which grows wild and luxuriantly in nearly all parts of Africa. In view of native copperas near Montpella. the discovery has a high commercial importance. Copperas Is rarely found naturally formed in the rocks, but in a recent wini'ner of the American Geologist Dr. Otto Kunzte describes the occurrence of native coppers near Montpelier, Iowa. This is formed by the oxidation of iron pyrites, and is found under an overhanging cliff. but only at a dry season of the year. as the ease witil whichl copperas dissolves in water ivould cause it to be readily carried away at other times. If a load of coal is left out of doors, exposed to the weather. say a, month, it loses one-third of its heating quality. If a ton of coal is placed on the ground and left there .and another ton is placed under a shed, the latter loses about '5 per cent. of its heating power iand the former about 47 per cent. Hence it Is a great saving of coal to have it in a dry place, covered over andon allsides. The softer the coal the iiore heating power it loses, because the volatile and valuable constituents undergo a slow comibustioll. A highly interesting find of reains of prehistoric 1111n w:is made. says a German journal of anthropology, on the banks of the Krapina. a small stream in Northern Crotia. It consists oi pieces of lie humatan jaw bone with teeth. isolated teeth. parietal aitd oc -ipit:l fragments etc.. and chipped instruients of stone, associated with rhinoceros ti(horinulS. yi'nS 'A rsus spelaeus, sus. Castor fiber, etc. 'he thickness of the entire deposiL ures nearly 3W feet. Charcoal, mll rnt sand, stone implements d nents, a relatively large Inone remainsbeing human, p othe deposit, ex are found throu detaileri cept in its lowermost 10. and illustrated account of t t I be published. -- et of GeneVa, Professo' . s devised a simple ap 9 -- for decanting oxygen from air. A stream of air at ordinary pressure is passed through a tube of liquid air into a receirer, where the oxygen, nitrogen and carbon dioxide at once separate according to their specific .gravites and are drawn off accordingly- Thdl car3on dioxide -"o, -' 3a d .. the nitrogen is con verte qIent process into ni The 0xy gen. which is t ost vafuable .of the produe ined in gaseous form. It used with great economy either alone or mixedwith airfurnaces. Pro fessor Pictet is one of the two seien tsts who tirst succeeded Independently in obtaining liquid air, as long ago as 1878. though only in a vaporous form. SEARCH-LICHTS. New York Firemen Use Them to Save Lives on Dark Nighs. The new portable search-light that the ire department in New York has adopted for saving life on dark niights, and when smoke obscures the vision of the tiremen,. has already had its trial, and proved its servi(cieablnss. T'le search'l-lights are placed on either side of the driver's scat. anid, with 1-iclhbarrels and GINK canidle-pow~er each, they throw such a powerful[ glare upon a burning building that nothing excepit brick wvalls and wood en partitionls (enn stop) it. The light3 ienetrte the dleepesCt smoke that rolls up from a burning building, and the firemen have all the light they need to work by. By the old method lire men engaged on (lark nights in res ecing people in burning buildinlgs had depenid upon tihe feeble glare of th" hiters they carried. More thanl oce a brav-e tireman has uselessly sacrificed his life in searchiing rooms in the dlark thait contaiined no~ one; but & iti thain risk losing one life every -oon of a burning building muist be~ eaichdi. By' meitans of the new elec re lights the whole interior of a burning building is made as plim as daWligt, and liremenl can tell at a glnice from the widow-ledge' whieth er ther presence~ is needed inide~. The lights are made de'tac.hable~, so they can be taken froml the enigine aind set up on standards. They are also po ide vithi '.OO feet of tiexile conl duct ing-(-iblies. wivcith enhales the lire men to runii the sear-ligkhts out on a ie, 0or (een into a b~uildinlg. One4 of the great tfields for useftulnies or this new aipparatus is inl lighting up te iteriol of bioats whlen on tire. When a ship at the pier gets onl tire te darknless in thle 1hold mlakes ia difficult for the tiremen to conitrol thle fames. LDense volumes of smoke fur ter obscure the point where the tire su-ring. andii sonetimes ship :1nd( ea c4 are lost simpl~ly bica use tile tire men are ulnabhle to locaite thet ex-a' t place of the lire. Thie portable search light. which will sooni be re-enffored't by' similar incandescen'it lights for car 'iyig inl tile hanld, will make ti tgrhting at nighlt a miuch casier' matter' than in the past. Hleretofore tire safeguards hav e becen ' (conlsidered ciefly for the public: it is a wise move now to consider the tiremen.-Har per's Weekly. K'eephne ser-vice in the Uniteei States. There ar" 1.200.0010 mitles of eoppf'i wire used in telepilhn ser'v(in m V& Uited States, and 4.000.000 enls are recived daily in the telephoneC ex canges of tile country. The wire wowuld girdle thle earth at the equtor -O 48 times, or r'each from the earth to te moon five times.