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TIP FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.’
VOL. III.
•Di^RLrsrG'li&K. SpyTH CAROLINA, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMJ3ER 7, 1892.
NO. 1.
Carlifr Purtne H«y
The valuf of the pea is now more
fully recognized at the South, both as
a forage and fertilizer (when sown
and turned under) than it has been
at any time in the lust thirty years.
As a fertilizerr—especially for wheat
or oats—it is certainly the cheapest
as well as one of the best. But as a
forage it is the best; yes, I add the
very b»st that we got; answering as
hay and solid food too. And I have
known mules and cattle to keep fat
on it without any solid food at all.
T* «*». .trouble h.^.r.
■ M m • . I rw: nc #vw> Vi
HISTORY OF SHAVING
ONCE UPON A
EVERYWHERE
TIME ALL ME
WORE REARD3.
Alexander of GreeSe I. Said te nirV
Been the riret Barber—Beard* Zlav.
Baen Cnoimnn During the Blutoiy'of
Barlleet llace.—Some Remark*. 2 . *
To rn* Editoii- <'au you teU a* when *hav*
InKcame iuto faaliiim, alw. aumethiuc ot I hr
bl.tory of lieanUf UltoWN AMD pottles. .
This question Is apropos. At this
period, when the Nineteenth century is
coming to the end of the division, the
Km has been put out in the box and old
father time has reversed thy wheels and
myself and with mV neighbors, too,
has been that it Is somewhat difficult
to cure them. The pea vine cures
slowly and being heavy lies close to
the ground, and if the weather is
either wet or cloudy, they are apt to
mould or rot before they can be suf
ficiently cured to store away.
The plan which I propose to recom
mend I p roc tired from the columns
of the Democral and tried it myself
last summer and which I tried so suc
cessfully, 1 desire to endorse most
heartily, so that every farmer who
has pea vine hay to cut need not be
afraid to try it, if they have any con
fidence iu my endorsement
‘TIere is the plan: Out your pea
vines and let them lie for two days
at least, and prepare stakes or poles
at least eight feet long, shape one
end so it will drive into the ground
and load np in a wagon with 2 body
on, and drive the wagon along the
field where tie stages are to be driven
and with mauls; or sledge hammers,
drive them down sufficiently deep to
support a stack of vines about four
or five feet broad. The stack your
vines around the stake, being careful
to round each stack nicely at the top
so it will turn rain and let stack re
main one, two or three weeks as your
convenience and weather will allow,
and then haul up and put in your
barn; and I will assure you your vines
will be well cured and sweet and
nonrishing—the sweetest forage yon
ever saw.—S. W. Reid, in Charlotte
Democrat
k Religious Courtship.
A young gentleman happened to
lit at church in a pew adjoining one
in which sat a young lady for whom
he conceived a sudden and violent
passion, was desirous of entering in
to a courtship on the spot, but the
place not suiting a formal declaration
the exigency of the case suggested
the following plan: He politely hand
ed his fair neighbor a Bible open
with a pin stuck in the following
text—2d Epistle of John, 15th verse:
“And now I beseech thee, lady, not
as though I wrote a new command
ment unto thee, but that which we
had from the beginii g, that we love
one an other.”
She returned it, pointing to the 2d
chapter of Ruth, 10th verse:
“Then »he fell on her face and
bowed herself to ■ the ground, and
said unto him, why. have I found
grace in thine eyes, that than shouldst
take knowledge of me, seeing that I
am a stranger I”
He returned the book, pointing to
the 12th verse of the 3d epistle of
John:
“Having many things to write un
to you, I would not write with paper
and ink, but I trust to come unto
you and speak face to face, that our
joy may be full.”
From the above interview a mar
riage took place the ensuing week.
KPip.*.
A good deal has been written In vari
ous quarters with regard to the little
Elizabethan pipes in' which the late
Charlee Keene took such great delight
1 cannot help thinking that the persist
ent smoking of these pipes most have
dene no little injury to hU health. The
pipe* were so short, they became so
charged with nicotine and he *o persist
ently smoked them at every opportunity
that I cannot help thinking he most
have absorbed a large amount of poison
into his system.
No one, nnlew he had smoked one of
Keene’s pipes, could have the leaet idea
of its strength. 1 remember trying one
at his studio one evening, and thongh a
pretty tongh tobboconalian 1 shall never
forget bow my head was affected and
all the pains 1 endured in consequence.
1 had all the symptoms of suffering
from the effects of a powerful narcotic
poison.—London Graphic.
A* Anpa*»«t -lMp*«*lbllltr.
The phrase “squaring the circle” ia an
other way at laying “attempting an im
possibility." The allualoB ia to the
mathematical question whether a circle
can be made which contains exactly the
same area aa a square, and the difficulty
is to find the precise ratio between the
diameter and the circumference of a
circle. Popularly it ia IMM, etc., bat
the numbers would go bn to infinity.
This problem has given rise to an amount
of labor only equaled by that bestowed
upon the equally impossible one of dis
covering perpetual motion.—Brooklyn
Jones or both, should arise and put this
nnestion. It is a fin do siecle question.
The first instance of shavingoriginated
from the necessities of war. in the late
autumn of the year GOO 0. C., the Mace
donians got their crops in early, and
after the celebration of the harvest home
things got pretty uninteresting in Mace
donia. It was too cold to lish and too
warm to skate, and the prospect for the
Macedonian on pleasure bent when he
fired up the baseburner and reflected
that skates hadn’t been invented yet was
uot a happy one.
Things continued to drag on until
Thanksgiving time, t)>)0 13. C., when the
Macedonians got together, sailed down
on the Greeks and did them battle. The
Greeks got the worst of it, and for no
other reason than that they sported long,
flowing beards. The marauding Mace
donians grabbed these Grecian orna
ments and yanked the poor Greek forty
ways for Sunday, leaving him a howl
ing mass' on the ground, it was this
incident that probably gave rise to the
couplet:
When Greek meets Macedonian
Then comes the tug of heard.
An old veteran by the name of Alex
ander saw at once the weak point of the
Grecian forces and he called in a loud
voice, •Off with every tieard!” That
settfed it. The next day a committee
called on the army with a ripsaw ami a
bucket of salve and amputated every
beard in sight. This is an account of the
first shave known to history. The rec
ord of the first harboring is a frontlet of
curls made for a princess in the east
8,000 years ago, now in the Uritish mu
seum. Homer has the first reference to
the razor in the Eighth century, C. C.
He says, with some feeling:
Dralli or lifo hIhihIh on a razor’H eri^e.
After the rape of the beards of the
Grecian army shaving became popular
with some, hut uot until a much later
day. and when Greece had started down
the toboggan slide of adversity, did it
become general. In fact it is a well
known fact among historians that the
fashion of smooth faces among the men
has marked the effeminacy, weakness
and final downfall of all nations. The
Homans were always partial to beards
until the Roman empire liecame too big
for its clothes and acquired a swagger,
when Hadrian set the example of a
smooth chin in IG1 A. D. and gave the
Roman barbers a boom. The first men
tion of barbers is by Pliny. Somewhere
along about a'J8 13. C. Scipin Africiuius
took a jaunt to Sicily and there saw
some barbers. They pleased him. and
he bronght 200 back to Rome and had
bis beard taken off.
Scipio was a good deal of a Ward Mc
Allister in his day, and the Roman
swells rapidly followed suit. After that
it got to be a common sight in Rome for
a row of men to sit until 13 o’clock Sat
urday night and listen for “Next!" But
this was only among the Four Hundred.
The bone and sinew of the Homan re
public swore by tbeir beards. All
through the orient short bair and beard
less chins have always meant a condi
tion of mourning ami servitude. A long
beard was priceless, and the Mohum
medans still swear by their lieurds. The
prophet Ezekiel, as early as 585 B. C.,
was directed to take a barber's razor
upon bis head and upon ins beard in
sign of the ruin to come ui>ou Israel.
The men wore set free, but were
ashamed to go to David with any of
their beard gone. He fonud them, how
ever, and sent them on a vacation to let
their beards 'trow out An old Greek,
known among bis friends as Zoilius.
who lived in 000 B. C.. anil was dropped
off a precipice for criticising Homer,
had a very long beard, and so solicitous
waa he that long hair on his head might
detract from the strength of the beard
that he kept his noddle clean shaven.
After Thomas More had taken leave of
his daughter at the foot of the scaffold,
in 1585. his chief anxiety was that the
beadsman might injure his beard.
The finest beard on record belonged to
Gillaume the priest, bishop of Clermont,
who founded the college for Jesuits at
Paris late in the Eighteenth century.
This beard waa long, wavy und*soft as
silk. Bat his beard was bis downfall.
His brother bishops became jealous of
it, and decided that it mast come off.
This was decreed at a secret conncil,
and the next morning when the priest
entered the chapel three men met him
with soap, hot water, a razor and shears
and laid hold of him. He bloke away,
skedaddled and took refuge iu a castle,
where he died of vexation.
The only exceptions where beards
have not been considered as advanta
geous appurtenances were among the
Germans, tbe Egyptians and iu the early
colonial days among the Puritans. The
ancient German youth was not allowed
to shave aut’l he had slain an enemy in
battle, and among the New England
Puritans long beards were sometimes
forcibly reaped, because the idea pre
vailed that pride lurked behind a vener
able beard. It was uot until the begin
ning of tho present century that the
long beard went entirely out of fashion.
Since then smooth faces have been on
the increase, and any person who will
take tho trouble to notice the men who
pass a given point for an hour on any of
the busy streets of Chicago will see bnt
a very few long beards. It is not im-
^ 1)16 that in another century, if the
is continually cropped, the long
beard will no longer grow and will be
come a thing of history and story books.
—Chicago Inter Ocean.
There is a man in Montezuma, Ga.
who has had his arm dislocated at the
shoulder thirty-eight times and his leg
dislocated at the hip eight times.
• * j v • ••
Major flltchaock'a Story oigt tCloae Call.
“I was ence Aentenced '^o, be blown-
from said Major, John Hitch
cock.. n Ihari long Yjeen a resident of
that laid of revolutions, Central Amer
ica. During one of the semiauuud po
litical upheavals I was captured by a
savage mob known aa' the army of San
Salvador and sentenced to death. In
the camp of my captors a 0-pound gun
was-fired at high noon by means of a
sunglass, and to the tunzzle of this an-
' liquated smoothbore I was strapped and
left in the broiling sun to await my
fate. Now, 1 have "faced several kinds
of death in my day, but that knocked
all the nerve ont of me. I could not
see the small, fieir spot made by the
sunglass, but} knonrlhat.it'v
gslowlyluR^yiethe,
e vbnt. -HnfsgmM f cotifabear the
powder hissing with the heat The
blazing sun beat down npon my bare
bead, blinding me and seeming to boil
the blood in my veins. 1 became hys
terical and prayed and enrsed by torn.
“The great clock in the cathedral was
on the stroke of noon, and 1 knew that
the concentrated rays of the sun were
pouring squarely npon the powder. The
troops were dozing in the shade. A few,
awakened by the bell, raised up on their
elbows and watched me with lazy inter
est, expecting every moment to see me
blown to shreds. One—two—three-
four—five—with maddening delibera
tion came the strokes of the bell, when
suddenly a harsher note was heard—the
roar <jf musketry. The camp was sur
prised. and my captors driven were back.
The cords were cut, and 1 sat down be
neath the muzzle of the gnu just as it
belched forth its midday salute.”—St
Louis Globe-Democrat
An American Abroad.
Many Americans abroad are exceed
ingly annoyed at their lack of skill in
the use of the European languages.
After a vain attempt touiake a Parisian
waiter understand French they swear at
him in English. But 1 haw always re
membered when traveling abroad the
art of the physician who put all the re
mains of old prescriptions into one bot
tle—the oil and the calomel and the
rbnbarb and the usafetida—and when
he found a patient with a “complication
nf diseases” he would shake up his old
bottle and give him a dose. And so 1
have compounded a language for Eu
ropean travel. 1 generally take a little
French and a little German and a little
English, with a few snatches of Chinese
and Choctaw, and when 1 find a stub
born case of waiter or landlord that
will not understand 1 simply shake np
all the dialects and give hit 1 a dose. It
is sure to strike somewhere. If you
cannot make him under, taud. you at
any rate give him a terrible scare.
1 never had the anxiety of some in n
strange land getting things to eat. 1
like everything iu all the round of diet
except animated cheese and odorous
codfish; always have a go,si appetite;
never iu my life missed a meal save
once, when 1 could not get any. and
knowing that “eine gcrostote riendlleisch
schicbe” means a beefsteak, “eine ines-
ser” a knife, and “eine gabel" a fork,
and “eine serviette" a napkin, after that
feel perfectly reckless as to what 1 can
or cannot get.—Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage
in Ladies' Home Journal.
Hard Work.
How many men like hard work? Many
of us are ready enough to tax our minds
or our muscles to the utmost for a cer
tain object, bnt it is tho object wo love,
not the labor, if we could obtain the
end we covet without exertion, which of
ns would toil and sweat as a matter of
choice? Horace Greeley, who was one
of the hardest workers of his day and
generation, used to say that uiuo-tenths
of those who profess to be enamored of
work are mere hypocrite!
Adam himself was an indolent fellow.
Had it been otherwise the cultivation of
the soil would not have been imposed
upon him as a penalty for his disobedi
ence. He was quite taken back when
told that he must live by the sweat of
his face. He would have preferred the
life of a gentleman of leisure, and most
of his descendants take after him in
that particular. Nevertheless wo toil
with an energy and perseverance that
do honor to our—shall we say to our
greed?
But mark our cunning. All the time
we are inventing labor saving machin
ery, manufacturing dumb slaves to do
our bidding, while we look on and ad
mire their energy.—Pomona Progress.
Medicul Knowledge In Novelo.
Wilkie Collins made a specialty of his
medical knowledge, and it was upon
this account that he was induced to un
dertake an antivivisectiou novel, which
he published under the name of “Heart
and Science.” The work was equally
unsatisfactory both to the iiersous who
inspired it and to the general pnblic.
Wilkie Collins' effort in this direction
was a complete failure, and his medical
men and his wonderful drugs could
never have existed outside of his own
imagination.
In Dickens’ “Tale of Two Cities,”
where Sydney Carton substitutes him
self for the condemned Evremonde, we
have premonitions of the chloroform
which was to he discovered fifty years
later—the chloroform of popular imagi
nation, however, and by no means the
CHCI of the “Pharmacopoeia."—British
Medical Journal.
Rabies have been obtained up to the
present time from the old beds of
1 streams, having been washed ont of the
rocks originally by tha water.
Brier Bool.
Brier root, of which pipes are made,
comes from the root of a kind of shrnb
that was formerly dng in great quan
tities in the south of France, bnt now
It comes mostly from Spain, Italy and
Algiers. In the mountain forests the
roots are sometimes fonnd bigger than
a man's body. Instead of digging them
ont after the old fashion they are torn
np nowadays with explosives.—Wash
ington Star.
By adopting the basic process of mak
ing steel castings there is less phosphor-
ons in the metal than when the acid
process is nsed, and the results are said
to be most satisfactory.
English and American Gam**.
A careful examination of the cata
logues of English deui«4» in game*
shows that the popular ga lies in Eng
land ore in every way identical with
those in the United Staten, and not a
single game could be found in any of
them that is not well known and cur
rent in this country,
SMB [RECOILED, BUT DIDN’T KICK.
* ' —————— ■_
Barnla Conduct of a Tall, Graceful Girl
at til* Supreme Test of Lot*.
Two tall, gracefnl girls strolled slow
ly along the beach earnestly conversing.
They were conspicuous in the throng,
and many an admiring glance was
turned toward them as they sauntered
to and fro. A cloudless sky was reflect
ed iu calm waters below, while scarcely
a breath of air was stirring.
The girl in the pure White blazer was
doing most of the talking.
“it is all very well,'' she was sayingi,
“to insist, that yon would die for tho
man yon love, but tbe sacrifice is quite
another thing.” ... ; .
The gid with the Mue yachting Jgn
'You speak," she observed, “like one
who had made the sacrifice.”
“I have the right so to speak."
Affecting recollections poured tumul
tuously over tbe soul of the girl in tho
white blazer. Her lips trembled and
the superb eyes lient npon the sand of
the beach glistened with the dew of
gathering tears.
The girl in the bine cap smiled hanght-
ily.
“indeed," she sarcastically retorted,
"how very interesting! And how docs
it feel to actually die for the man you
love?”
Reproachfully the girl in the white
blazer directed her gaze upon the girl
with the blue yachting cap.
“You shall not mako light of it”
“Forgive me."
For n time they walked in silence.
Both were deeply affected, the one filled
with remembrances of the past; the
other her resentment gone, with wo
manly sympathy.
“Tell me about it, Ethel."
Tlie girl in the blue yatehing cap was
tenderly jiersuasive.
“It was worse than dying for him.
Clara.”
With a quick movement the tears were
dashed from the superb eyes, and the
girl with the white blazer faced her
companion.
“It was at Easter, Clara. Yon re
member the dear, bright fellow 1 was
engaged to then. One evening but a
short while before he said he did not
believe I bore him the deep love I should.
I challenged him to name a sacrifice I
would uot make for bis sake. Wi:h an
insight into feminine character which
was Mephist«pheliaii in its subtlety, he
dared me to do that which causes every
woman's heart to recoil with horror.
But 1 did it.”
They had paused in their walk, and
were looking at each other fixedly.
“Ethel 1”
“Yes, Clara, 1 did it I went to cliurch
that Easter morning, sat in the very
front seat, and I never looked around
during tho service.”
The girl in the blue yachting caji
drew a deep, tremulous breath.
“Ethel!”
“Yes, Clara."
“Yon are a sublime heroine. Can yon
forget my hasty words?"
“I can. Clara.”
And the .ittle wavelets lapped the
snowy beach with drowsy sound, while
all the throng gazed in admiration at
the graceful girls.—Detroit Tribune.
Did Ike Ancient Jcwm Pluy Ball?
Herod tho Groat was the first Jewish
king who imported into his realm
Roman modes of “society life." His
theaters and arenas, after tbe Roman
style, were not to the national taste in
amusements, despite the fact that tho
former were, so to say, silently patron
ized by the Talmud in the saying, “Lot
ns be grateful to the Romans for their
establishment of theaters, as they keep
the pnblic from mischief, Which Satan
finds for idle folks.” Thu arenas were.
not patronized on account of the in
human performances given there. The
favorite Jewish national game at that
time was the kadur, or ball.
Whether it was played as a sort of
lawn tenuis or us national baseball is
not recorded. That the game was not
allowed by some rabbis to be played on
the Sabbath i.; a proof that tho game re
quired skill and lalior. That the game
waa patronized by tho Talmud we infer
from its uot being included among those
against which the Tulmnd opened a
crusade, condemning them as “gambling
games.”—Boston Transcript
Tlie Tlmndercr’s Suicide Dey.
A young Philadelphian, who has been
employed on the staff of more than one
newspaper in this city, wont abroad and
secured a position as reporter for the
London Times. When he was deemed
sufficiently broken in be was sent o-
one evening to write np the story of s
rich and beautiful girl who had taken
chloroform because her lover failed to
appear at the altar when due.
The young Philadelphian raced nim
bly about, gathering varions particu
lars and hurried back to the office in s
cab, after getting his copy into shape.
Not far from midnight he sped np the
stairs to the local room and turned in
his copy with apologies for bis unavoid
able lateness.
“It doesn't matter," said one of the
editors calmly; “this is Monday, yon
know, and we print suicides only on
Saturdays."—Philadelphia Press.
UncouftclouM Comment*
Mr. C. was particularly deliberate in
the matter of invoking the divine bless
ing upon the family meals, and when
the repast was unusually good this was
a trying ordeal to the three yonng sons
On one occasion there were strangers—
and chicken—at dinner, and this func
tion was longer than ever. At its con-
clnsion tbe three-year-old son drew a
long breath, and fervently bnt audibly
remarked, “That’s a good job done."—
New York Tribune.
Always Right Thar*.
The man who says the weather is too
hot to dance at the summer hotel com
promises by wearing a polka dot neck
tie and standing in the ballroom win
dow to keep as much air as he can away
from the dancers.—New Orleans Pica
yune.
The Author of an Old Campaign Song.
There is satisfactory evidence that the
words of “Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too,”
were writteq by A. C. Ross, of Zanes
ville, O. This was the original song.
The words then comprised only a com
paratively few verses. The song was
•uch a success that additions were made
to them in all direction. Here is an
instance in point. The Whigs unexpect
edly carried the state of Maine, electing
Edward Kent by a very small margin
for governor. Tins verse immediately
appeared:
Hare yon beard from Maine, Maine, Maine,
good news and true?
it went, hell bent, for Governor Kent, and
Tippecanoe and Tyler too.
And with them we’ll beat little Van, Van,
Van.
< Ob, Van is a “used np man," etc.
As regards the music, it was adapted
from a familiar air of the times, which
had the not very attractive name of
“Little Pig's Tail.” Henry Russell was
an Englishman, and at that period was
the most popular concert singer in this
country. He was a composer, bnt he
did not compose this tnne, and pro’-ably
would not have been very proud if ho
had been credited with its authorship.
It is altogether likely that the Whigs
engaged him to sing it in Boston, as ho
told onr correspondent that he did sing
it as he stood in a window near the cor
ner of Washington and Milk streets.
Mr. Rnssell must be a gentleman well
advanced in years by this time. It is a
great many years since he ceased to sing
in public in this country. It may be in
teresting to know that he is the father
of W. Clark Russell, the popular writer
of nautical novels.—Boston Herald.
Coins of Value.
“Some pennies are worth a good deal
of money,” said a dealer in coins. “If
you come across an old collection of
copper cents in an out of the way comer
you will do well to examine their dates
carefully. From the point of view of
the numismatist their value depends
largely upon their condition. For ex
ample, for a cent of 1799 in a fair state
of preservation we pay five dollars, but
for a specimen of the same issue in first
rate condition we would pay from ten
to twenty-five dollars, and for a perfect
cent of 1799—that is, as bright and sharp
as the day it was coined—we will pay
♦100.
“Do not attempt to clean coins that
are in fine condition. They should be
held only by the edges in handling them,
and ought to be kept wrapped carefully
in chamois skin or soft tissue paper or
laid on velvet. Gold and silver coins
may be rinsed, not washed, in hot water
and soap. Copper coins should be placed
in sweat oil only to remove grease and
dirt Acids and sconring will ruin any
coin of worth. Age does not necessarily
make value in coins. The old Spanish
silver pieces current in this country
from-1700 to 1800 are worth no (Oum rlM^*j, and to restrict as faros p6*ai-
,'and'tlie sameIs the case Me bis intercourse with h'
'BROTHERLY LOVE.
Tha Tandar Davotlon of * Colored Man
for * Sick -'liter.
Nothing moves the heart of the lov
ing sister of undemo: .strative brothers
so much as the unex oected exhibition
of brotherly love, say j a writer in tho
Housekeeper. Many a sister, whose
, brothers are all that > he could ask for,
In manliness, couragt and purity, would
be almost glad to exc range places, for
a little while, with tl e sister in the fol
lowing account, who: e brother not onfy
loved her, but was wi iling that all the
world should know a id feel that love.
A noble case of hr >therly love came
under my .observatic u recently, while
in one of the great g cenhouses of the
city. A little, middli -aged negro, with
a face like ebony, w -» overseeing the
making of a large b luquet, which the
young lady in attend: nee was skillfully
constructing of whit: carnations, dai
sies, etc.
“Now, put some ro es in,” he said.
“The roses aremuc 1 more expensive,”
remarked the clerk.
“It does not matte • about the cost;
she always liked rose i,” said the little
man, and going to t he cold closet he
selected Jacqueminr t, Marcchkl Kiel
and Niphetos buds, with a reckless dis
regard of cost. The 1, following me to
the door as I was leai ing, he spoke lov
ingly of the flowers t hat they could get
in the south, everywl ere, without pay
ing for them; of how the flowers grew
in their yard, and hoi / he used to see
his sister out every r lorning handling
and looking them o -er. “But she is
down with the typhoi 1 fever now, and
I am on the railway, and every time I
come to the city the £ i-st thing she says
is: ‘O, bring me son. a flowers!’ ” And
two great cr> stal teai 3 looked over the
rims of the little man' i eyes, and a great
white soul, full of bn therly love, shone
out through the bUok face, and my
heart cried out: “Oh happy sister, to
have such a brother!”
PRISON DISCIPLINE.
More Need of Rigor * :d Leu of Fllmij
Sentlmen atttjr*
If we cannot help t xe honest worker,
at least we can stop ] •etting and pam
pering the detected confidence man,
the thug of the dives and the enterpris
ing bnt unsuccessful burglar, says a
writer in Lippincott’ 1 Magazine. The
Howard association : ppcars to hit the
nail on the head in 1 rging “the neces
sity of rendering the rratmentof crim
inals less attractive” than that of the
law-abiding and indi strious poor. He
who lives by honest : oil should not be
tempted to envy tho scalawag who
preys on the community. When the
scalawag is caught, w hat we have to do
with him—If his offen :e is not legally a
matter for the noose- is to keep him
alive, safe and at wo 'k, to teach him
something useful it w 1 can (not neces
sarily Bhakwpeare 1 nd the mjisical
than tbeir face,'
with cents of 1798, 1803 and 1808, a* well
as with half dollars of dates between
1803 and 1885.”—Washington Star.
An Old Question Asked Anew.
The old question has been lately asked
anew. Why fill the infant mind with ;
images of cruelty and horror? Why!
suggest to innocence the dreadful vision
of ogres fattening captives like sheep
for their table? Why torture it with
that appalling cabalistic bloody invoca-
his kind, es
pecially separating 1 im, while young,
from those who wouh be his instructors
in crime. It is not e: sential, nor even
desirable, that he she aid enjoy his con
finement; it ought ne /er to be forgoten
for a moment that he is there for pun
ishment, that he is di ferentiated by his
own act from honest 1 nd decent people.
Short of inhumanity 1 e can and ought
to be made to feel th; t the way of tho
transgressor is hard; that honesty, or
what the law recogn:zes as such, is the
tion. Fee, faw, fuiu? Why permit the ' best policy. When t bles are turned,
hoary mnrderer Blue Beard to terrify when the knave boco nes distinctly an
tho young before in historical 'sequence unprivileged person, he may find oc-
they rea/.n Henry VIII, in no exten-
nating page of Fronde, bnt as the
grisly murderer and defender of the
faith of the older annals? And why per
plex the callow pilgrim scarcely em
barked on the journey of life, which the
reverend and the wise describe as a
moral warfare, by the rhyme which de
clares the greedy thief of a plum from
the copious pudding a good boy?
Why is a glutton who triumphs in his
gluttony to be commended in honeyed
measure as good, while nothing is said
in praise—nay, he is not even mentioned
—of the virtue of the unnamed com
rade, who was undoubtedly present and
who restrained his desire to pull out
plums, and who, so far as posterity
knows, not only had no plum, bat also
forbore tho sauce?—George William
Curtis in Harper’s.
casion to mend his ws ys.
THE ACTION OF DUST.
How It I* Forced Into House* When tho
Weather Indie itor Hlse*.
When the air aronm 1 us becomes con
densed—shrinks into* smaller volume—
it becomes heavier, j uts greater pres
sure on the surface of the mercury and
makes it ascend in t ae tube; then the
mercury Is said to ri: e. When the air
expands—swells into 1 larger volume—
it becomes lighter, ti e pressure on the
mercury sinks in the tube and the bar
ometer is said to fall. Therefore, every
change of height ol the quicksilver
which we observe is a sign and measure
of a change in the vol <ime of air around
ns. Further, adds th 3 Popular Science
Monthly, this change in volume tells no
less upon the air im ide our cases and
cupboards. When the barometer falls-
the air around it exp;, nds into a larger
volume, and the air in side the cupboard
also expands and fo ces itself out at
every minute crevice. When the bar-
Rallraad Speed and Obstructions.
Two years ago a cow was seen in the
middle of the Monon tracks in front of
a train. The engineer tried to stop, and
tho result was the locomotive was de- j ometer rises *Sraln He air inside the
railed and the engineer killed. A few ! cupboard, as well as < utside, condenses
months ago the writer was riding on an shrinks, and air i. forced back into
engine on tbe Chicago division of the the cu P board to equa ize the pressure,
Pennsylvania, and a herd of cattle got an< L along with the ai , In goes the dust,
on the track. The train was running The smaller the crevice the stronger the
almost forty miles an hour, bnt when
the engineer saw them he “threw her
wide open,” and went into them at full
seventy-five miles an hour.
No damage was done except to “mass
up” the engine extensively. The engine
man was asked why he had thrown on
the extra speed. His reply waa that
bad he been running slow it was eight
chances to ten that he would have left
the track.—Indianapolis News.
jet of air, the farth >r goes the dirt.
Witness the dirt track 3 so often seen In
imperfectly framed engravings and
photographs. Remember, ladies and
gentlemen, whenever you see the bar
ometer rising, that an additional charge
of dust is entering yo ir cupboards and
drawers.
Lynch Law Ai long Hats.
In the neighborhoo 1 of Burley the
other day, says the I eeds (Eng.) Post,
a gentleman looking < ver a wall saw a
dead hen in the field. Presently a rat
ran up, snuffed at t be defunct fowl
HU KxcuBe.
Patient—Great Scott, doctor, that’s
a frightful bill you've presented.
Doctor (with dignity)—Not so large,
sir, when you come to think that it is
my first case and 1 had to study up on
half a library full of authoritit*.—De
troit Fre* Press.
• Standing Bear.
A book could bo written about Stand
ing Bear. Properly speaking he is not a : with much sutisfactio 1 and went away
Sidux, but a Northern Cheyenne. With in some haste. The < nlooker, who is a
Crtzy Horse, Hunting Hog and old student of natural hi tory, knew what
Chief Gall he lias been at the head of th*t meant, and rem< ved the hen from
nearly all the notable Indian wars for the spot. In a minute o -two the rat came
twenty years. He routed the Pawnees i back with half a doze.i friends, with the
and once killed ten white men iu a lone- ' evident intention of 1 amoving the car-
some canyon single handed. On another ca8s tor future use. Arriving at the
occasion he defied and defeated alone B P°t where the fowl bad lain, the rat
thirty cavalrymen. It was Standing raised a loud squeak cf astonishment at!
Bear who under Sitting Bull routed the lta absence- In a trie i the other raU
tJlifted States forces when Custer died fen u P° n him 80 ****< dy that they left
on 'the Little Big Horn.—San Francisco him dead on the fleld 18 a warning not
News-Letter. to play practical Joke.' with hi* friends.
Revenge of Iltsej minted Rats.
In tho neighborho si of Burley the
other day a gentlcma a, looking over a
wall, saw a dead ben in the field.
Presently a rat ran up, sniffed at the
defunct fowl with 1 mch satisfaction
and went away in some haste. The on- |
looker, who is a student of natural his
tory, knew what tha t meant, and re
moved the hen from the spot In a
minute or two the rat come back with
half a dozen friends, with the evident
intention of removing the caraMS for
future use. Arrived i t the spot where
the fowl had laid, the rat raised a loud
squeak of astonishmt ut at its aheence.
In a tjiee the other r ts fell upon him
■o savagely that they left him dead on
the field as a warning not to play
practical jokes with his friends--Leeds
(Eng.) Evening Post»%
A Plain Statement.
A Hartford girl called on a physician
recently who is as plain in his speech as
his patient is in respect to her face. He
tried to cheer her; her ailment being
only a trifling matter, he said. “Oh,
doctor,” site groaned, “1 feel worse than
1 look.” Then, my dear young lady. -
there is no hope for you,” replied the
doctor.—Philadelphia Ledger.
American Tipi Too Large.
Frenchman—Vat you gif zat.wataire?
American—I gave tho wa 1 * *■ half a
dollar.
Frenchman—Mon dieul Zat ees not
von teep; zat ees von bribe.—New York
Weekly.
THE STRANGER’S CALL.
An Incident That interested the Miner*
at llomeslfk Diggings.
There were about two hundred men
of us at Homesick Diggings, and it was
the hour of noon on a summer's day
when big Jim Davis came over the hill
with his pack on his back and staked
out a claim. He came alone, and that
was why we noticed him so particularly.
He seemed to fight shy of us for three
or four days, and that is why we won
dered if he was all right. Big Jim had
got a squint at the face of every man in
camp before he thawed out and became
social. In a little time we found him
to be a good fellow, and so we gradual
ly came to forget our first suspicions.
We were still agreed, however, that
•there waa something queer sbout him.
.He appeared anxious and perturbed
whenever a new arrival was announced,
;and if a party of half a dozen came
along, Jim would go into hiding until
pie had sized them up. It was as if he
■suspected some one was trailing him
■down.
There were all sorts of men in tha
■mining camps in those days, and it was
'the rule to mind your own business.
1 As long as a miner obeyed the rules and,
'regulations laid down for the govern*
,ment of a camp he was looked upon as
all right What he had been in the past
'was nothing even to his tentmate.
-, There was a big shanty in the center
of our village which was occupied as a
store, saloon, bank and general rendez
vous after working, hours. I was in
there one afternoon just before the)
miners knocked off work, when si
stranger quietly entered. He had come!
by the trail and alone, but ho one had
'noticed him. He was a slim, light
weight man, and though clothed in
trough garb you could sec at once thaij
'he was not a miner. He was sunburned!
and nnkempt, but that was to be ex - ,
peoted out then*. He was talking with 1
the stoorkeeper as I entered—asking
[after just suon a man as Big Jim Davis.
[His face struck me pleasantly enough,
[but there was a something in his gray
|eyes to remind you of a wounded beast,
and a something in his voice to satisfy
[you that he would be a pitiless enemy.
1 He went out before I did. Where he
kept himself for the next hour I never
learned. The boys had knocked off,
•washed up and eaten supper, and about
twenty of us had lounged into the store
for a smoke and a talk, when the little
man suddenly show xl up. This, mind
•you, was three months after Big Jim’s
[coming. Jim sat on a box facing the
■door, which was open. I happened to,,
Ibe looking at him, and I suddenly saw [
.his face grow pale and his jaw drop.
I looked over to the door and there
stood the stranger. He had a leering
sort of smile on his face, and was look
ing only at Big Jim. In ten seconds all
conversation had ceased. We instinct
ively felt that the two were enemies,
and that the little man had finally ■
trailed Big Jim down.
It was fully two minutes before the
etranger moved or spoke. Then he
stepped forward until close to Big Jim
and said:
“It has been over two years, but I’vi
•run you down at last!” 1
Davis looked at him as one who sees *
specter, but made no reply.
“You have skulked and doilged like a
coward!” continued the little man in
the same quiet voipe, “but you’ll be a
man now, of course. The boys will see
fair play. Shall it be pistol or knife?”
If Big Jim’s eyes hadn't been wide
open we might have thought him a
dead man. You never saw terror more
plainly written on a human face.
“It’s a little affair of our own, gentle
men, explained the stranger, as he
turned to us. ‘Tve traveled thousands
of miles while looking for Big Jim. I've
been hunting him down, to kill or be
.killed. This world Isn’t big enough for
both of us. Arrange the details to suit
the crowd.”
Not one of us had spoken. Just as
the stranger finished Big Jim recovered
from his stupor and made a move for
his pistol. Like a flash of lightning the
little man had him covered, and then
he laughed a harsh, dry laugh and said>
“I ought to shoot you down like a dog,
but I’ll give you a show. Come out doors.
Shall it be this or that knife?”
Big Jim turned white again and re
lapsed into bis former state of dumb
ness The stranger surveyed him in dis
gust and contempt, and by and by
turned to us and said:
“Back in the states this white-livered
coward betrayed my confidence and
wrecked my home and my life. Even his
dead body would disgrace your diggings.
Come, Jim!”
He stepped back and beckoned to
Davis, who slowly followed, staring like
one who wa Iks In his sleep. The little
man backed to tbe door—out of it into
tbe moonlight, and then started up the
trail. Davis foil owed like a dog, never
looking to the right or to the left—mak
ing not the slightest move to draw his
weapon. It was as if he had been mes
merized. Something of that same feel
ing was upon all the rest of us, for wo
stood at the door, speechless and amazed,
and looked after the pair until they
were out of sight • It was like a dream,
and men rubbed their eyes as if heavy
with sleep.
Up the hill—around the great black
rock—past the tree on which we hung
Taylor for murder, and then they w<re
out of sight The stranger we never saw
again. A month later a prospector
found Big Jim's skeleton in a ravins
two miles away.—N. Y. Sun.
Fashionable Shoes.
With the exception of a few fine jet
ornaments or a small buckle of Irish
brilliants, all fancy decorations on dress
shoes and slippers have nearly disap-
appeared. Fine soft shoes of undressed
kid, most easy and delightful to wear,
are shown in many new shades to match
the costume. The dove-gray and pale-
tan models find the largest sale. These
tinted kid shoes do very well for a
change or to complete a suit of one
color entire, but for real elegance and
neat and refined appearance there is no
foot covering that can compare with a
perfect-fitting shoe of fine black French
kid. It suits all styles of dress, all oc
casions, and makes the foot look trim
mer and much smaller than a shoo of
any other description.—N. Y. I’osL
A SPRING IN A WATCH
AN IMPORTANT BIT OF STEEL THAT
FREQUENTLY BREAKS.
Watchmakers Say That Sudden Changes
of Weather Are Dangerone to These
Uncertain Pieces of Mechanism—Main
springs In Expensive Watches.
“Mainsprings are very much like peo
ple,” said a Broadway watchmaker the
other day. ‘ They are as susceptible to
extreme degrees of heat and cold as
human beings. When the thermometer
is hovering around the freezing point or
dancing away up in the nineties the lit
tle mainspring will give up in disgust
and uncoil itself and die, just as men
succumb to freezing or sunstroke.”
This uncertain piece of mechanism is
supposed to be adjusted to meet the
various degrees of temperature, but
when the change is very great and
comes with short notice there is nothing
that can.prevent them from snapping.
They are made in Switzerland of the
very finest quality of steel, absolutely
flawless. Very often the watchmaker
can detect a bad spring before putting
if in the watch, either by its color or
the softness of its spring. These have
been too highly tempered in the making,
and instead of being subjected to merely
a red heat tlie fire lias been bronght to
white heat, thus weakening tho strength
of the metal. The finest watches that are
handled by reliable dealers are put
through a “cooking and freezing” proc
ess before they are sold, for the purpose
of testing their reliability iu all temper
atures.
The watch is first placed in a little
metal box, which is made airtight.
Then a strong gas flame is turned on
the under surface of the box and is kept
there for two or three hours, so that the
watch is so hot at the end of that time
that it could not be touched with tho
bare hand. From this it is immedi
ately taken and put into another me
tallic box which is buried in ice. There
the costly watch is allowed to freeze
for an equal length of time, when its
torture ceases and the examination is
made. If during this excessive test the
watch appears to have ticked merrily
on without deviating a fractional part
of a second it is placed back iu the case
and marked “guaranteed for two years.”
The mainspring is the first piece of
mechanism that succumbs to the test.
If it survives nothing else need be feared.
Mainsprings are, however, about the
only part of a watch that the jeweler
cannot successfully diagnose. They can
guarantee any of tlie numberless little
wheels or pivots or balances that go to
make up the anatomy of the watch, but
the mainspring has as yet baffled the
most skilled makers of watches of all
countries. It is not so innch the severe
extremes of the weather that prove fatal
to the spring ns it is the process of
changing from hot to cold, or vice versa
Like the human frame, if the ribbonlike
little coil of steel can withstand the ef
fects of this change it may be considered
proof against breaking when the change
to normal weather comes.
Many people who have been possessors
of new watches but a short time oomo
into the dealer’s with blood in their eyes,
declaring that they have paid an enor
mous price for the timepiece and the
mainspring has broken after only a
week’s use.
“That is nothing,” remarked the jewel
er. “We have them snap in our case
before the watch has ever been shown
for sale.” Others imagine that they
might have wound the watch too tight,
bnt this does not harm it. It is rather
the jerky, hurried winding that will
eventually tell on the temper of the
metal. Every good stem winder has a
stop placed in the stem, which prevents
the winding too tight.
Damp weather has an ill effect on
mainsprings, and in England they do
not as a rule last as long as in this coun
try. A severe thunder and lightning
storm also frequently proves disastrous
to the durability of the spring. A dealer
who took in seiicnty-nine watches on one
day said that one summer on a day im
mediately following a terrific electrical
storm there were twenty-one watches
brought into his store witliin five hours
for new mainsprings. Tlie cost of a new
mainspring is the small part of making
such repair. It is the putting them in,
the labor expended, that costs. It costs
from twelve to fifteen dollars to put a
mainspring in the Jurgensen watch and
a little less in a Patek Phillippe, while
in a cheaper American make it may
cost only fifty cents or a dollar.
A man purchased a 1800 Jurgensen
from a leading dealer several years ago,
and shortly after he left for a tour
around the world. Ho was gone a year,
and when he returned ho went back to
the dealer with his watch and com
plained: "Here’s a watch I paid yon
♦800 for a year ago, and while I was
traveling abroad it lost two minutes.
You guaranteed it, and I want you to
make it good.” The watch was placed
In the window with this card be
side it:
“This watch lost only two minutes in
a year in a trip around the world. Price
♦800.” It sold within an hour.
It is said that one bar of iron costing
♦5 will produce $250,000 worth of main
springs.
Some springs are made in this country
by the manufacturers of cheap watches.
These springs are several feet long and
take nearly two minutes to wind up.—
New York World.
Saving to No Purpose.
It has sometimes happened that per
sons little deserving, and even rulers,
have reaped tho harvests which misers
have painfully sown. Tho life of Vau-
dille is a proof of this. This man iivixl
upon bread and milk, with tho addition
of a small glass of sour wine on Satur
days. At Ills death he left £800,000 to
♦he king of France. Audley, the com
monwealth miser, saved £400,000, all of
which reverted to tlie government.—
Cassell's Journal.
It Yields Bent Returns.
Totling—Do you know which is tha
most profitable metal to work?
Dimling—“No; whieh is?
Totling—Printer's zino.—Detroit Free
Preen . _
Time to Swear OflT.
The Rev. Dr. Primrose—I’m glad to
hear your husband lias given up melon
stealing. It is some comfort for me to
feel that perhaps my poor words have
had something to do with his reform.
Mis. Johnson—Dat wasn't do reasun.
sah. Yo’ see ob late do po' man wuz
gitin kotched ebery time.—New York
Evening Son. ^
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