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i * HERALD. “IF FOR THE LIBERTY OF THE WORLD WE CAN DO ANYTHING.” VOL. III. DABLINGTON, SOUTH CAKOLInI, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBEK 19, 1892. NO. 7. The Master’s Velee. {From •• Uonahue'n Magazine." The waves were weary, aud they went to sleep, The winds were hushed, The starlight flushed The furrowed face of all the mighty deep. The billows, yester eve so dark aid wild, Wave strangely now— A culm upon their brow— Like that which rests upon a cradled child. The sky was bright, and every single stai, With gleaming face, Was in its plat*, Aud looked upon the sea—so fair and, far. And all was still—still as a temple dim— When low and faint, As mourner’s plaint, Died the lust note of Vesper hymn. A bark slept on the sea, aud in the bark Slept Mary’s Son— The only One— Whose Face is light where all, all else is dark. His brow was heavenward turned, His face waa fair, He dreamed of me, On that still sea— The stars be made gleamed through His hair. And kd a moan moved o’er the mighty deep. The sky grew dark! The little bark Felt all the waves awaking from their sleep. The winds walled wiki, and wilder billows beat; The bark was tossed; Shall all be lost? But Mary’s Sou slept on, sereue and sweet. The tempest raged In all its mighty wrath, The winds howled on, All hope seemed gone, And darker waves surged round the bark’s lone path. The sleeper woke! he gazed upon the deep! He whispered: “ Peace! Winds—wild waves, eease! Be still!” The tempest fled—the ocean fell asleep. P ElhOX DISCIP LINE. More Need of Klfor aid Less of FIImj SeitlaeiUllty. If we cannot help the honest work er, at least we can stop petting and pampering the detected confidence man, the thng of the dives and the enterprising but unsuccassfnl burg lar, says a writer in Lippincott’s Magazine. The Howard association appears to hit the nail on the head in urging “the necessity of rendering the treatment of criminals less at tractive” than that of the law-abid ing and industrious poor. He who lives by honest toil should not be tempted to envy the scalawag who preys on the community. When the scalawag is caught^ what we have to do with him—if his oMense is not legally a matter for the noose—is to keep him alive, safe and at work, to teach him something useful if we can (not necessarily Shakespeare and the musical classes), and to restrict os far os possible his intercourse with his kind, especially separating him, while young, from those who wonld b; his instructors in crime. It is not essential, nor even desirable, that he should enjoy his confinement; it ought never to he forgotten for a moment that he is there for punishment, that he is differentiated by his own act from honest and decent people. Short of inhumanity he can and ought to be made to feel that the way of the transgressor is hard; that honesty, or what the law recognizes as such, is the best policy. When tables are turned, when the knave becomes dis tinctly an unpriveleged person, he may find occasion to mend his way. What The Silver Qaeities Is. A correspondent asks for “a com- mousense every-day school boy ex planation of the silver question.” The ‘•silver question” at present is whether the mints of the United States shall coin silver dollars weigh ing 4121 grains as frvely as they coin gold money. Any owner of gold bullion can take it to the mint and have it coined into gold twenty, ten, five and two and a half dollar pieces at his option and to any amount The same “freedom” is sought by the sil ver men for the holders of sib si* bul lion. The objection made to this free coinage of silver is that 4121 grains of silver are not now worth 25.8 grains of gold, as they once were. In other words, the quantity of silver it is proposed to put in the s'lver dollar—whose coinage is to be mads free—is not now worth 100 cents, but is worth only 66 cents. All free coinage bills make the silver dol lar of 4121 grains legal tender in payments of debts for 100 cents—an obviously unjust thing to do. If free coinage, as advocated in Congress, . ... . ,.v whatever to suppose that death is a meint putting 100 cents worth or . „ , * ^ , . .. T , more painful process than birth. It silver—over 500 grains—in a dollar .. , nobody could object to it, but there 18 bec “ Ulie ’ ‘ n a cert,t,n P r0 P 0, tl0 “ of ; - j - i j . 1.:-.- au cases, dissolution is accompanied by a visible spasm and distor'ion of the countenance that the idea exists, but it is as nearly certain as anything can be that these distortions of the fac'al muscles are not only painless, but take place unconsciously. In many instances, too, a comatose or semi-tose state state supervenes, aud it is altogether probable that more or less complete unconsciousness then prevails. We have, too, abundant evidence of people who have been nearly drowned, and they all agree in the statement that, after a few mo ments of painful struggling, fear and anxiety pass away, and a state of tranquility succeeds. They see visions of green fields, and in some cases hear pleasing music, and so far from being miserable, their sensa tions are delightful. But where per sons have been resuscitated, they de clare that resuscitation is accom pauied by physical pain and acute mental misery.” is decided objection to making 66 cents’ worth of silver to pass for 100 cents. The silver men insist on the free coinage of, the light dollar.— Baltimore Sun. Lei Ike Expesitfew beVpei Sh- day. Let the Oolumbian Exposition pro claim by the hush of all its varied traffic and machinery—no wheel turning, no engine moving, no booth or counter open to buyer or seller, no sign or sound of busiuess through all its long avenues, and better still, by its doors closed till the morning hours of every Sunday are ended— that the American people believe in a day of rest. But if there be those who would rather seek its precincts to look, it may be, more closely at the handiwork of man, to study the progress of the race in the story of its artistic and in4ustrial and me chanical achievements, and to recog nize thus, it may easily be, in the study of such achievements, with Job, that “there is a spirit in man and that the inspiration of the Al mighty giveth him understanding”— that o rtainly cau be no unworthy use of some hours of our America’* rest day. If study makes plain to us the valne of a day of rest, of worship, and no less of a cheerful and msnly exercise of our Christian liberty in things indifferent in the observance of such a day, we may wisely con sider whether a Sunday wisely guard ed for such uses is not the bed Sun day, alike for Exposition times and for all times.—Bishop Potter, in the October Forum. ■•■e, Sweet Heae. London Tid-Bits recently offered a prise for the best definition of “home.” Five thousand answers were sent in. Here are some of the best The golden setting in which the brightest jewel is “mother.” A world of strife shut out a world of love shut in. An arbor which shades when the sunshine of prosperity becomes too dazzling; a harbor where the human bark finds shelter in the time of adversity. Home is the blossom of which heaven is the fruit Home is a person’s estate obtained without injustice, kept without dis quietude; a place where time is spent without npentance, and which is ruled by justice, mercy and love. A hive in which, like the industri ous bee, yonth garners tha sweats and memories of life for age to meditate and feed upon. The hast place for a married man aft r business hours. Home is tbs cosiest kindliest, wee test place in all the world, the scene of our purest earthly joys and deepest sorrows. The only spot on earth where the faults and failings of fallen human ity are hidden under the mantle of charity. The place where the great are sometimes small, and the small often great The father’s kingdom, the chil dren’s paradise, the mother’s world. The jewel casket containiug most precious of all jewels—domestic hap piness. Where yon are treated best and you grumble most The center of our affections, around which our hearts’s best wishes twine. A popular but paradoxical institu tion, in which woman works in the absence of man and rests in the pres ence of woman. A working model of heaven, with real angels in the forms of mothers and wives. Prosperous Farmers. Says the Medical Journal. “Many people have an idea that death is necessarily painful, even agonizing, but there is no reason Vines On Walls. In a recent report of the Secretary of Agriculture it is asserted that the common notion that vines covering walls tend to produce or promote dampness is so far from being true that the contrary is the case, such covered walls being drier than those exposed. A moment’s reflection would suggest that a thicket of leaves acts like a thatch, throwing off rain and keeping walls dry. They also have the further effect of preventing walls from being heated by the son. so that in case of dwellings where the wall* ase covered during the summer the rooms are preoeptibly cooler in consequence. The ivy in c" suited to it, is probably tSe evergreen for clinging to and cover ing the walls, but the persistency of its foliage has been objected to, in asmuch as it prevents the sun from warming the walls duriug clear days in winter. A vine which jtossesses an abundance of fohage in summer aud becomes deciduous in winter is therefore to be preferred, and the best plant to meet these requirements is the Japan ivy. This plant is near ly allied to the Virginia creeper, which adorns aud enriches the wood with its rich antnmn columns.— New Orleans Picayune. Flourishing Negroes. The negroes in Oklahoma seem to be flourishing and contented in spite of recent reports to the contrary. A traveler who has just passed through that region says: “The negroes in and around Guthrie are industrious aud prospering. In the city we see quite a number of negro merchants, some of whom carry very nice stocks of goods, groceries mostly. In the surrounding country are scores of negro farmers. They generally cul tivate small patches of from ten to twenty acres, from six to eight families often occupying one claim of one hundred aud sixty acres. They seem to be very successful growers, and raise vegetables for the Guthrie market They use the spade freely in their patches, and raise tine crops of turnips, sweet potatoes, melons, etc. There are five negro officials in this, Ix>gau, county, one being a jus tice of the peace, one or two con stables, one a member of the board of education, and another a member of the city council of Guthrie. There are also several negro lawyers and doctors in Guthrie.”—From the Chi cago Tribune. Business Methods Waited. Daniel F. Devoll: “Ask the av erage farmer to show youiir ,books; he hasn’t auy. AsUiim how much any of his products cost him to raise and he will reply, ‘I don’t know; I have no account of only what I take in and pay out.’ Now this is all wrong. The farmer should be ns competent to tell what it costs him to produce a quart of milk, a bushel of potatoes, as the manufacturer is to tell what it costs him to produce an articb from the raw material. A AMAZONIAN FLOODS. Though agriculture is terribly de pressed owing to unjust laws, there are some prosperous farrasre-in this section and they are the most non- spicnons examples of the beneficent effects of diversified farming. Ask , farmer ought to know what it ooste them the secret of their success and him to produce a bushel of corn, a they will tell you it is due to the dozen of eggs or a ton of hay, and I practical policy of raising bread and believe that not one in ten caI) ^ meat on the farm. We see them in town sometimes, but th come to buy provisions, (here were more of them, should there not Weekly. y. do not within 25 per cent.” FEATURES OF THE ANNUAL DEL UGE OF THE GREAT RIVER. Then the “Wild Bog Elver" Beeomee a Persdlae of the Swamp Lovln( Brutes. Floating Ulaade Filled with Refugees of the Brnte Creation. The worst inundations of Louisiana and eastern Arkansas are bnt spring freshets compared with the monster floods that visit the Amazon valley every year with a regularity equaled only by astronomical events and tax collections. The rainfall of northern Brazil is about three times that of the webfootiest coun ties of Oregon, and in midsummer the thunder showers that drench the woods every afternoon resemble a daily cloud burst. On the Northern Pacific no other word wonld be applied to an atmospheric waterfall, darkening the air like a Lon don winter fog for hoars together, and swamping a house, if the roof should leak, through an aperture of a few square inches. Rains of that sqgt are apt to occur day after day .for a series of weeks, and their effect on the lowlands can be only im perfectly indicated by the fact that the Amazon river drains an area of more than 2,000,000 square miles. The Mis- nseippi, See, drains half the eastern slope of a country larger than Brazil, bnt its largest affluents are dwarfed by the tirird class tributaries of the South American father of waters. \ Not such flowing lakes only as the RF> ; Negro and the Madera, bnt the Purus, the Yavari, the (junta, the Hingo, the Papajos and downs of other streams rarely mentioned on this side of the isthmus, enter the main river through a delta miles in width and deep enough for the largest rivW steamers of the St Lawrence. Abont the middle of summer these itreams begin to rtee, those from the southwest first, those from the north west and north a few weeks later, and a fortnight after the arrival of the second supplement the valley of the Maranon, the “wild hog river,” as the early colonists called tha Amazon, becomes a paradise of swamp loving brutes. The tapis, the pdeeari and the fish ottes cele brate the ptenic season of their summer life, and htrds of wild deer begin then westward wsodn*. Near Monte Boira. in the prsyinee (now state) of Ifotto O rosso, the woods in mMsnmmssRget full of game at a hundred years agd the foothills of the Sonthern Alleghenies swarmed With wild pigeons whoa the forests of the north were buried in snow A more, than nsnally sodden rise of the flood cuts off many of these fugi lives, who are thus reduced to the alter native oftdwldng for the highest acces sible gimsAd, farther east, tiU every knoll besotaes a MU of refuge, crowded with tipifl brutes whose snrvival de pends dp-their escape from thegiantcats and hoaa who may approach their strong hold by swimming, if the water should have submerged too large a portion of the contihnens forest. Abont two months after the begin ning of the rainy season the deluge of the lowlands reaches its maximum. Thousands, of square miles are sub merged so effectually that canoes can be paddled thteagh forests apparently free from underbrush, sine* only the taller tree*, with their network of climb ing vineip rise like Mauds above the surging waters. The swollen rivers have found n*w currents; the broad gurgling-streams twist and eddy through the leafy wilderness, tearing off whole groups of trees, with all their roots, hut making amends fay depositing hillocks of driftwood; which •soon get covered with tufts d new vegetation. The preamre of the surging flood against tbsna monads of alluvium soon becomes suonnous, bat the deep rooted stems of ithe ad anaemia and the canolio tree may t-esist tiU new deposits 61 drift wood consolidate a nnmber icf monnds, thus forming good sized islands, with a down stream base of perhaps half a mile, bnt a narrow head deflecting the cur rent left and rigKt, like the wedge shaped front of a atoot bfUge pier. At the time of their ineipiescy. these new islands may he tenanted o«ly by river lizards, hot necessity is the mother of snccessful exploration, aSwell as of in vention, and a week after Its birth the driftwood hill Swanns with>aaiaml refu gees, hogs, de*r and espyboris Ipstling each other ii their struggle form base of operations; thus often gattieg noiey enongh to attract the prowling car nivora. The climbing talent of the grsgt cats saves them the trouble of emigration The jaguar and the ocelot beosiie en tirely arboreal, traveling like monkeys from branch to branch, and making themselves at home in the tree tops—so much indeed that some of them go to housekeeping and raise a litter of cubs in the cavity of a hollow tree. Their larder is replenished by all sorts of pheasants and wood hens, who make their headquarters in the underbrush, but who are now obliged to take up lodgings on the lower branches of the unsubmerged trees. By elimfasng around the stem and rising suddenly in view an ocelot can scare a roost of gallinaceous fowl out of their wits and strike down two or three of the clumsy youngsters before the whole floeh contrives to take wing.—San Francisco Chronic.la And wl?*• Sublime language does not render ^ebgfcr’g a man holy and just, but a virtuous life makes him dear to God. P>O0*r Ksssm. Whether it is well to keep a single name in a family for generation after generation may be doubted from sev eral points of view, bnt certainly this multiplication of Georges and Williams is confusing and ofsmall ntility. Young George and old George Invariably re-, suit from the fond parent’s dseire to perpetnate his own name, and no special good comes about in a majority of cases. Let us have a more reasonable selection that is now customary. We need a Matthew Arnold to inveigh against our “uninteresting” personal names as well as those of oar towns and cities. The mental mediocrity and laziness that has scattered Jenkinsvilles and Jonestowns, Homers and Virgils indiscriminately over the map of the United States is simply on a par with that which seems to take the name that comer handiest for the individual of every succeeding generation. Away with Angelina and Gladys on the one hand and with Mil- tiades and Gershom on the other, and let ns have instead the good old English names of Arthur and Harold perhaps, and tbs BibHeal names Esther and Bath. HProvUeftc* Journal. ' w A WOMAN CAUGHT A THIEF. It Was on ghlphonrtl. and She Nsarlf Scratched Blc Eyes Out. When yon can’t set a thief to catch a thief the next best thing to put on his trail is a woman. A woman who has recently returned from Rio Janeiro tells with great glee how dnring the voyage to this port she canght a thief who had beyn pilfering all the passengers’cabins, and until she took him in hand had sne- sewfully eluded the detective tactics of the entire crew, from the captain down tothe cabin boy. f We had about thirty passengers on 'Id when we left Rio,” said this ama- detective, “and a very nice lot Of they were too. For the first two days out everybody was so busy seasick that we hadn’t time to of anything else. H after that, when we were com- ng to revive a bit, first one woman then another wonld come on deck a face ns long as yonr arm and re- that srtme one had been in her cabin the night and had stolen some of jewelry. For a day or two t..c cap tain pooh poohed the idea, bnt finally thrcomplaints became so frequent that was no gainsaying them. The if, whoever he was, seemed to have don for ringa. the end of the first week there scarcely a woman on board except ilf who wasn’t monrning the loss of it one. A watch was set and every possible precaution taken, bnt without theelightest effect. Every morning at least one passenger wonld report another loss. The men fared scarcely better than the women. At last things reached snch a pass that every woman on board nsed to go to bed at night with all her jew- elry on. “One fat old Spanish woman, whose husband owned a gold mine somewhere, used to go to bed in a regular blase of glot-y. Her fingers and arms, almost np to her elbows, wore covered with gems, and she used to pat on her diamond cor onet and then wind a towel abont her brow, so that the robber conldn’t possi bly drag the coronet off without taking henhead as well. I nsed to hear the poor old thing groaning all through the night. She mnst have been dreadfully uncomfortable. Well, finally one night my turn came. I had a cabin to myself and had taken the upper berth from choice. One night I awoke and felt cer- tairnl heard some one moving about the room. “Ity right arm was hanging over the side; of the berth when 1 woke np, and by this time I waa in snch a stage of fright that I didn’t care to move it. 1 don* believe I moved amnscle. And all Oils time, mind yon, 1 felt instinc tively that this man, or whoever it was that was in the room, was gradually drawing nearer and nearer. Suddenly 1 fAt a hand touch my hand and poll gently at one of my rings. For abont an instant I thought I’d die. Then all of a sudden something inside of me seemed to say, ‘Scream and scratch!’ Just then the man let go of my hand for a mo ment. “Tho rings, ho evidently saw, were a pretty tight fit, and it would take some time and skill to get them off without waking mo. I waited breathlessly, say ing my prayers to myself over and over. It mast have been fully five minutes be fore he touched my hand again, and during that time, in spite of my fright, I had sense enough left to comprehend that if 1 wanted to catch the thief 1 mnst scratch first and scream afterward. And that’s just what I did. I waited until lie had got his operation well under way again. Then I nerved myself. “1 know the direction in which bis face was, because I conld feel his breath on my hand as he leaned over It. I drew a long breath, and letting my band fly ont I scratched him with all my might across the face, and then shrieked with' all my lungs. The next instant every body came tumbling into my room, bnt the thief had vanished. We could not find so mnrh as a trace of him. After the excitement had subsided 1 took the captain aside and told him to look ont for a man with scratches on his face the next morning. At breakfast everybody turned np except one very engaging young man, who had been qnits the lion of the ship. He had been suddenly taken ill, the steward said. "The steward also reported that he lay in his berth with his face turned toward the wall. “ 'Ah, hat’ said the captain, tipping me the wink, “I'm something of a doctor. I think Til go and have a look at this yonng man.' “Well, he went, and there on his face, sure enough, were the soratches, four of them, and fine long, deep ones the cap tain said they were too. Snbssquentl. the young fellow broke down and made a confession, and restored all the articles he had stolen. He was pat in irons and handed over to the police as soon as we arrived here. By this time 1 suppose the poor fellow is in Sing Sing.”—New York Evening Sun. Securing a Young Walter de Umfraville, son of Gilbert, had left a widow, Emma, pre sumably in the very blush of her charms. Peter de Vanx had fallen at her feet, hat he declined to obtain her in border fashion, and this fact is the earnest pledge of the chivalry of his love. If he would not steal her he was hound to buy her, and coin with the de Vaux was always a scarcity. So he of fered the king five palfreys for her, “if she wished it,” aud with what would read as a graceful acknowledgment of the borderer's pare chivalry, John abso lutely drops the commercial from his re ply and simply orders Robert Fits Roger, the sheriff, “to permit it to he done.”—Gentleman’s Magazine. The Snail’ll Eyes. The little black spots on the end of the snail’s horns are the animal’s eyes. He can see with them very little, but they serve to distinguish for him light from darkness and enable him to ob serve objects at a distance of an inch or two.—Exchange. A big patron of the shoe market is Allen Milton Browning, of Huntington, W. Va. He has led six wives to the altar and is the father of sixty-seven children. The municipality of Vienna has 600 clocks, regulated from four main cen ters, so that standard time is assured in all parts of the city. THE PALACE CAR. WHAT IT COSTS AND HOW IT IS USUALLY EQUIPPED. A Combination Hotel on Wheels In One Car or a Train of Several Cars—If You Have the Money You Can Take Your Ease—Linen for Palaee Cars. It costs only $50 a d ry to hire a com pletely furnished and palatial dwell ing house on wheels, containing seven teen beds. In front is an “observation room.” Next come two drawing rooms, both fairly spacions. Behind these is a dining room twelve feet long. The middle part of the car is occupied by berths, which are comfortable sofas during the day. In the rear are a good sized kitchen, a china closet, a pantry, a bathroom and a cold storage closet. All linen for table and beds, tableware, crockery and every other necessary are supplied. Three servants are provided also withont extra charge—-a skilled cook, a waiter and a porter, who are un der the orders of a ten ant. Heating and lighting are thrown in. After ten days the rental is five dollars lees per diem. Thus luxuriously housed, the occnpant can travel wherever he wishes all over the continent by paying the railways eighteen fares for transportation. How ever, if more than eighteen passengers are carried in the cat, so many extra fares mnst be paid, lie can stop at whatever points he desires and have his car side tracked, making his home in it daring his stay. * If he chooses he can bring along his own servants, linen, tableware and wines. He is at liberty to fnrnish the commissariat himself, or the company will supply everything in that way for him, charging only 16 per cent, over and above cost and rendering to Mm the bills. The latter is by far the better plan, inasmuch as trouble is saved and affairs are attended to more satisfactori ly by the company, which understands the business and can bny food cheaper besides. The cook is always a capable person, and, having a time schedule for a journey across the continent, he will telegraph ahead to various points for snch Inxnries as may be obtainable at )he markets in different cities, thns ar ranging for fresh fruits, butter and eggs, and even for a newly ent bouquet to be pnt on the table every morning at breakfast All of this is susceptible sf variation. One can engage an ordinary sleeping car for $40, a sleeping car with bnffet for $46, or dining and observation ear combined for $40. A banting car, provided with kennels for dogs, racks for guns, fishing tackle, ete., costs only $85 a day. Service and all incidentals are in every ease thrown in. Bnt one can do better than this if he has plenty of money to spare. He can hire a complete traveling hotel for $210 a day, in the shape of an entire train, consisting of four sleeping cars, a dining car and a buffet smoker. An obser vation car may be added at an expense of $40 more. The buffet smoker repre sents in some respects the highest de velopment of the modern parlor car. It inclndes a bar, a barber shop, a bath room and a library, wherein can be found books, writing materials and the newest magazines and pictorial and daily papers. In short, it is a small club on wheels.' There is no other country in the world where luxury in traveling is so highly appreciated as it is in the United States. Abroad it is said that the only people who go by rail "first class” are the nobility and the Americans. Of conns the person who charters a whole train must pay the railways for transporter tion at least eighteen fares per car, though west of the Mississippi the minimum rate is nsnally fifteen fares. No car can be rented for the prices above given for less than three days. It has recently become the fashion for actresses to travel in private can. Now adays a conspicuous star usually insists on being provided with such a convey ance as part of the contract for the tour which she signs with her manager. Bernhardt always carries a small men agerie with her, which could not very well be accommodated in a public vehi cle. Theatrical companies very com monly hire one or more cars while trav eling, that being a convenient and agreeable method of transportation. Dining can are usually owned by the railways and are managed by the palace car companies. Ordinarily they are run at a considerable loss, being attached to trains merely as an attraction to pas sengers. The expense of condncting them is enormous. Arrangements made between the pal ace car companies and the railways re garding sleeping can vary very much. Sometimes the latter pay as mnch as two or three cents a mile for the use of each sleeper, where, as is particularly apt to be the case in the south, the passenger traffic is not snffleient to repay the oar companies. In such cases a railroad is often obliged to provide the necessary convenience at a loss to itself. The item of washing is a very costly one in the running of sleeping care, inasmuch as no piece of linen is ever used twice with out going to the laundry. A sleeper, on leaving New York for Chicago or St Louis, receives a “stock" of 120 linen sheets, 120 pillowslips and 120 towels. This gives change for two nights. Fif teen or twenty clean towels’are always kept on the washstand. The washing it done in New York, Boston, Buffalo, Chicago, St. Lonis and other cities, being given out in great quantities at the low rate of one dollar per hundred pieces. An equipment of linen lasts abont one year, at the end of which it mnst be re newed. It is purchased by wholesale— $50,000 worth at a time.—Philadelphia Times. • A Londou Detective. There (s no limit to the audacity of the Londou private detective. One of the most enterprising of these worthies acknowledges in an advertisement the many “invitations he has received to stand as a parliamentary candidate,” and says he has been unable to aoknowl- edge “same individually iu consequence of the many delicate matten requiring his personal attention.”—Chicago Her ald. The average length of life is greater in Norway than in any other country on the globe. This is attributed to the fact that the temperature Is cool and nnl- XogftjfeKOghMl ttl YMTilMPlISiid' - *-1 FAST OYSTER OPENERS. Workmen In N.w York City Who Tske Oyster. Out of Their Shell.. The crack oyster openen of New York can easily hold their own against the rest of the world as “lightning opera- tore," as they are called. One of the veterans is Dick Balmer, who has opened 9,000 oysten in a day of twelve houre, and he can now average 7,600 in a day of twelve or thirteen houre’ work. Mike Foley, who may well be termed a lightning operator, and is now in his fifties, has opened as many as 9,600 oysters in one day, and on ordinary days, if he pashes himself, he can easily get away with 8,000 oysters. Of coarse the oysters opened are large and small, jnst as they come, as if they were all small and round the opening could he done mnch more rapidly. John Lahey is good for an average of 8,000 a day, and so is an opener known among the oystermen as “Deaf George.” In a trial of speed in opening 600 oysten John Lahey probably cannot be beaten To open oysters rapidly of course re quires a great deal of experience in handling them, bnt there also seems to be a knack about it that every oyster- man cannot acqnire. Some men, for in stance, can only open 4,000 oysters a day and they will not go much above that after years of work in this line. The twenty-seven men employed by Alex Frazer on the North river will average 5,000 oysters a day, wMch is a much higher average than is reached by the majority of the crews around New York. These men also can turn ont, when required, 150,000 oysters a day in all, wMch is 15,000 oysten above the average of 5,000 a man. There are very few oyster scows in the market can equal this average from week to week. It most also be considered that on some days work begins at 5 o’clock in the morning and on others at 6 or 8 o’clock. There was an oyster opening match about a year ago between Mike Foley and Jack Gillon. The match was to de cide which man was the quicker at opening 1,000 oysters. Gillon won in 57 minutes, beating his opponent by only seven oysters. Foley has opened 11,200 oysters at one sitting. Dick Balmer has appeared in sixteen oyster opening matches and lost only two of them. Most of the contests were over the opening of 100 oysters. At one time Balmer opened 100 oysters in 4 min utes and 22 seconds, which is now the best “straight knife” record. Balmer has also opened 1,000 oysters in 55 min utes. The two matches in which he was defeated he lost to John Gillon. The first match was best two ont of three records in opening 100 oysters, bnt owing to a dispute Balmer retired from the contest, leaving the match to Gillon. At the second match Balme( was beaten by eight oysters. Among the lightning operators on Wil liam Foster’s scow the most conspicuous undoubtedly is “Black Frank," as Frank Barrett, who is as white a man as any other white man in this country, is dabbed by his associates. Mr. Barrett has spent a good many years in the sonth, and from his association there in a business way with the darkies he came to be called “Black Frank.”—New Y'ork News. Discarded ladle Rubber Utilized. It is a matter of common knowledge that India robber goods even of the highest quality are perishable. A1 though not subject to any great wear and tear the time comes when the rubber loses its elasticity and becomes soft and rot ten. Hitherto snch perished robber has represented a waste material for which no use could be found, bnt by a process recently invented the perished rubber can he made, it is said, once more serv iceable. By incorporating the waste rubber with certain hydrocarbons and with a proportion of Trinidad asphalt, by add ing to the mixture certain vegetable oils and submitting the prodnet to heat, there is produced a substance to which the name of “blandyte” has been given It can be made hard and dense or soft and pliable by modifying certain parts of the process, and it seems to be appli cable to most of the various purposes for which pure rubber is used.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat The Cutaway Coat. The entaway frock coat may bq worn at any time dnring the day, and is really the most nsefnl all aronnd garment in the vocabulary. The man in the black entaway of dull finish cloth is dressed for any emergency that may arise dur ing the hours of the day. It is suitable for the afternoon tea and for the morning stroll. It has been worn with excellent effect with the top hat at the noon wed ding—indeed its efficacy and becoming- nesa is so apparent that many of the more conservative swells have been de terred throngh their fealty to this gar ment of semidress from pinning alle glance to the more distinguished but trying lines of the long tailed donhle breasted frock.—Clothier and Furnisher. A Valuable Clock. There is no further need for the noisy little alarm clock, for a Swiss has just invented a clock that talks. It is much pleasanter than the grating br-r-r-r of the bell that always rings ton times as load as necessary, to have a clock that will stand at the head of the bed and re mark: “There are eggs, and a nice jnicy steak, and a cold melon and milk and toast and fried potatoes and coffee down stairs for you, John Henry, and this is the day when Archimedes Mo Gonigle promised yon the twenty dollars he has been owing yon so long. Besides day after tomorrow is Sunday, and you can finish yonr sleep then.” That's the sort of a clock to have in the family.— Brooklyn Eag)e. All the Adventages of m Hotel. A sea water bath in our own homes haa long been a commonplace privilege, hut now we are approaching a day when th« ingenuity of man will make possible that trinity of Inxnries—the salt water, the sea air and the glorious sunburn after it, all within one's own bathroom, for the new electric light bath browns the complexion of the bather while it in vigorates his system almost like the real article, which involves a hotel hill ol alarming size. It is evidently only a matter of time when we may all enjoy a gammer vacation on the penny-in-the- alot plan withont even {laying car fare. •-New York Sq^ Senatbl. Words About Rating. Perhaps popular medical literatnre is partly to blame for the growing habit of overnursing organs which are-quite able to stand ordinary work. Health articles are written by doctors, and these, seeing people only when they are ill, forget 'hat the papers they write for—the ' ‘family journals”—are read by men and women, especially women, who are perfectly well. “Avoid pastry,” writes -he doctor, thinking of the confirmed dyspeptic who left his consulting room half an hour ago, and thereupon a hun dred folks who were never a whit the worse for their tarts avoid pastry con scientiously and take to unending sago puddings, whose monotony their weary palate loathes. If we were to renonnee all that we see or hear condemned as overstraining or misusing onr digestive apparatus, we should prol»bly take noth ing hut pepsin, with perhaps a little milk to exercise it on. There are times when^after a too rigid dieting the most matnre of us longs for the green apples and raspberry tarts of yonth, and such a longing is an honest rebellion of the digestion against a reg imen which keeps it weak for lack of proper exercise. To give a fair and reasonable consideration to the food we eat is a matter of common sense, but to make ourselves mentally the parallels of the monks of Mount Athos and concen trate onr attention on all that we should avoid, is to lay ourselves open to the chance of indigestion^as mnch as if we indulged every day in the banquets of a Lncnllus.—London Hospital. Franklin’. Exercise. At a time when so much attention is given to physical education, it is of interest to remember that Benjamin Franklin told John Adams that he made it a point of religion to exercise. When sixty-six years old, Franklin wrote to his son as follows! “Exercise to prevent diseases, since the cure of them by physic is so pre- tarions. “The quantum of each kind of exer cise is to be judged by the degree of warmth it produces in the body rather than by time or distance. “There is more exercise in one mile’s riding on horseback than five in a coach, and more in one mile's walking on foot than in five on horseback; more in walking one mile np and down stairs than in four on a level floor. “This last may be had when one is pinched for time, as containing a great quantity of exercise in a handful of minutes. “The dumbbell is another exercise of the latter compendious kind; by the use of it I have in forty swings quickened my pulse from sixty to 100 beats in a minute, counted by a second watch, and 1 suppose the warmth generally increases with quickness of pulse.”— Youth's Companion. The Prises of Literary Work. When not long ago a statement was made in The Author that there were fifty men and women in Great Britain and the states who were making £1,000 a year and upward by writing novels, the statement was received with derisive 'aughter. Fifty novelists making £1,000 a year? Impossible! Preposterons! The statement, however, was made by one who knew what he was saying. It is a true statement; it represents the real prizes of the profession. There are in London alone, it is said, 15,000 people who in some branch or other exercise the literary profession. Fifty of them by writing novels make over £1,000 a year. The nnmber of men who actually live by the production of original work, apart from journalism in any of its branches, is comparatively small. There are half a dozen drama tists; about a hundred novelists; a few snccessful writers of educational books, which are indeed a mine of wealth if one can succeed, and a few publishers' hacks. The greatest prizes are those of the dramatists. —Walter Besant in Fo rum. Sir Boyl. Roche’s Famous ''nulls.’’ Sir Boyle Roche, too, whose bulls made him famous, on one occasion assured a wonder stricken body of voters that, if elected, he would put a stop to smug gling practices in the Shannon by “hav ing two frigates stationed on tho oppo site points at the mouth of the river, and there they should remain fixed, with strict orders not to stir, and so, by cruis ing and cruising about, they would be able to intercept everything that should attempt to pass between them.” Another time, when on the hustings, he observed, “England, it must be al lowed, is the mother country, and there- 1’ore I would advise them (England and Ireland) to live in filial affection together like sisters, as they are and ought to be.” This was only equaled by his-- when opposing his antiministerinl mo- iion—wishing the said motion “was at ihe bottom of the bottomless pit.”— London Standard. Mountain Peasants in New York. The mountaineer peasants of northern Italy and the Tyrol are unusual among the immigrants to this country, but one now and then encounters them upon the streets of New York, where they are easily recognized by their great stature, sturdy legs aud shoulders, hard, sun browned features and felt bats, creased in imitation of Kossuth’s headgear, and ornamented with the scimitar like cock’s feather. Their footgear, too, is dis tinctive, being coarse legged boots, with pointed toes and high, tapering heels, such an article of apparel as it seems no man would dare venture out with in a region of difficult footing.—Philadel phia Ledger. A Chance for a Sore Tongue. Mrs. Foots—What are you looking so glum about? Foots—Oh, there’s a confoundedly tender spot on my tongue from resting against a broken tooth. “Humph! You’re always grunting r.txrat something. Funny I never have anything like that the matter with my tongue.” “Nothing funny about it. Your tongue is never at rest.”—Texas Siftings. I’eiTsctljr Burnt lens. Lady—I hear you fought a duel with Mr. Meyer yesterday. Gent—That is so. Lady—But did you not feel afraid when standing before a loaded revolver! Gent—Not in the least when Mr. Meyer holds it, for he is my insurancs agent—Gevyt rbeblatt, _