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VOL. IV DAKLINGTOM, S. C M FRIDAY, JUNE 29, 1894 NO. 30. TO-DAY. la not thla day enough for all onr powers If its exactions were but fairly met— It not one Unpaid debt Were left to haunt the peace of future honrs. And sting us with regret! Unbounded blessing lieth in To-day, If we but seek we find it hidden there; It is the golden stair, Lending, it may be, by an unknown way To all we hope or due. From sun to sun let us this lesson learn; Upon To-day our fairest chances wait. And, whether soon or late, Onr destiny upon its hinge may turn— To-day, sweet friends, is Fate. Annie L. Muszey in Youth’s Compan ion. Tnftfit’s Hsiiti. It was at Lady Horsham’s regatta at Dippington that Gordon Melrose met Lady Selva on his return from Japan after an absence of nearly two years. Lady Selva was the youthful widow of a sexagenarian peer, and Gordon Melrose — well, everybody knows Gordon Melrose. The two were old friends—but friends who had seen very BIBo of one another for years. Swbto wis alpioet t ,*plce of strange ness to season tn'e friendship. Melrose secured a dapee and beg ged that they might sit it out. “The terrace la beautifully cool,” he said, "and this, room is so terribly hot—>and, tru,th'to tell, I am no great dancer." And Lady Selva consented readily •bough.. ■ f Aad so, when the time came, the pair left the noise and riot of the ballroom for the fragrant silence and daiknessof the terrace. “How very dark it is 1” said the heiutlful widow after atrhile—and she peered out at the night and its thousand frets of tire. They were seated at tho end of the, terrace, which overlooked tho bay, where in- numernble flotilla of yachts lay smoothly at anchor under the mid night sky. “I love darkness,” replied Melrose. “It is like the enchanter’s wand, which can invest with beauty and _ mystery even the most commonplace of things. I remember once, in the Tavundra Valley, some engineering person had run an iron bridge across. Commonplace people call this a tri umph of something or other. But to me it was a mem modern abomina tion. clumsily shaped In iron, a night mare of rivets and girders, destined to end in mere rust—that Is, by day, But at night—when tho magician waved his wand—the clumsy brick towers stood out like giants on the heights, and they seemed to be swinging huge chains across the abyss for Titans to skip to. It was n Wonderful sight. I never sliall' for get it.” Roused awhile, and then con- “But there Is one dark place on this earth which is not made beauti ful by darkness, and that is the cor ner where they keep the reasons why women do unaccountable things.” She shot a glance at him, but his face seemed inscrutable in the dark- uess. “What do you mean?” she de- mapded. “I will tall you a story.’ If you hare heard it before, or don’t like It, ( §top me. Once upon a time—it is a fairy tale, only a fairy tale, you un derstand—there were a man and a girl—1^ Japan. The girl was the most HetUUfUl thing that the world had everjfeen—a fair, delicate flower g»*YB in the very garden of Venus’s own self. And the man was devoted to Iter; T1 " tis" 1 “For one touch of her I wovild give Balkh.I would give ftatnark- Bo ytotjdw fr!” The Bnlbul sang be- “ iioee efmresweetness. Hhirin! Shiriu!” ‘Is that the way you used tq talk the Japanese ladles?" that way. In the lirst .would not be worthy, man —— M '■ he a beautiful thing, too?’ struck In Lady Sesva with a sarcastic fdatir*** P r l n#e fcir y- “lifc He was a man. N 0 t like me, you understand, who am not real, however attractive, but a real man, who did things, and wished to do things—the kind of man I like, though I don’t do things myself— and who fell in love like a raging madman—of six feet two, with a mus tache—furiously. unreasonably, wa vering between breaking somebody etse’shead and blowing out his own brains on the slightest provocation— or none, forbhoice—quite regardless of thg inconvenience to others. Does the story bore you?” “No.” replied Lady Selva, in faint voice. “for three months he was the de voted slave of the girl, now madly exulting in tho belief that he was loved, and anon thrust down in the blackest gulf of despair, when be thought he was being played with. I know this because the man had one friend, whom he confided In and even consulted—though only with the ▼lew of rejecting advice—and this was an aged man, who lives on the slopes of the great mysterious moun tain Fuji—in a flab—and he mentioned the story to me.” “Continue,” said Lady Sciva, in hashed tones. “This man Tradegar came to m—my ^ agei friend one day, and said, with a nastly face and eyes that glittered ke points of ice, and a voice like the •pectre of a dead voice, ‘It is all over. She has sent me to the right about. Led me on, encouraged me in every we/, told me that ebe loved me In everything but actual words, and now she tells me that she cannot marry me, and Is going to marry old Lord—,’ that Is, a great Daimlo, who was potent In wealth and vener able in years. It was a terrible scene. Tradegar was nearly mad. His friend watched him closely, took him home, and remained with him hours till the fit had worn itself out by Its own efforts. There was the awful dread of suicide.” "Aht” gasped Lady Sciva. "Yes. Tradegar himself suspected at last, and he swore solemnly by all he held sacred that he would never lay a linger on himself. ’I am tired of life,’ he said: ‘1 have bid adieu to the world, but I promise you that. Still look on me as dead.’ Two duvs after that he left England, and the next heard of him was a paragraph in the papers telling of lire slaughter of a handful of English by the Khan- du Khor. “His name was in the list of dead. It seemed, too, that he might have escaped, for his horso was better than the rest and unwounded; but he stayed behind to pick up a wounded comrade, and he was the first to be speared by the savages. If ho had lived he would have had the Victoria Cross, but ho died—and then I un derstood#’ “Wbat?” “That he meant to be killed. He would not take his own life, but he threw himself in the way of death— and that Is all.” Lady Sciva had pulled at the lace of her fan until it was torn in several places, but she seemed not to be aware of this ruin. When Melrose had finished—and it was strange to note how all the levity had vanished from his voice and manner—site turned to him abruptly. "Why did you toll mo this horrible thing?” she demended with fierce in tensity. "Do yon mean to fix the guilt of his death on ” "On no one. Believe me. The guilt, if there is any, lies with the dead—may he rest in peace tiow! For I hold that no one human being has a right to hung his life on the favor of another, and blame the other when the support gives way—by time, or natural change, or ” “How little you know!” she in terrupted passionately. “ The sup port did not give way.” “Indeed!” replied Melrose, With slow deliberation. "The aged man did not tell me all, it would seem.” “Ho told you all ho knew, perhaps, but the girl toid me ” “A curious proof of telepathic power,” murmured Melrose, “for tho girl, of course, was In Japan.” 1 ’The man was a very si ngular man, ” continued Lady Sciva, “ passionate, mpricious, excitable, in some respects almost like a woman, In others almost a perfect man—so the girl said. She was young, you understand, and knew little about men. Sho fell in love with him at first sight, and from that moment she wasentirely swayed by his influence—lived only in the thought of him. I have said that he was capricious. “One evening ho would dance half the night with her and tho next morning would pass hor In tho stroet with an expressionloss face uni a distant movement of tho hat. He would be with her several times in the day for awhile, and then would not be soon for a fortnight, perhaps. He would ask her if she would be at home at such an hour, and when lie come would talk to her mother, or sister, or friend—any one rather than her. Oh, the tortures she went through! for she was in love with him, you must remember. “If she hud not been so much in love, she might have managed him better, but she »vas like the foam on the wave which is tossed and buf feted between the sea and tho storm, until at last it is dashed on the rocks. Then the old man—what did you call him?” “The Daimlo — which means ■Lord.’” “The Dalmio!” echoed Lady Sciva, with quivering lips. "The Dniiuio was kind to her—always kind; and when Jack—I mean the man—was unkind, she went to the Daimio, be cause sho Could trust him, and she thought that no one could say a word, as ho was so old.” “What I cannot understand,” re plied Gordon Melrose, with a judicial air, “is, why, if sho loved him, didn’t she accept him—the man I mean?” “Why I because he never asked her!” "Never asked her? But he said she had refused him.” “He never said a word to which she could give either refusal or con sent, Ho had told her again and again, in voice and manner, and above ail with his eyes, that lie loved her; but never said so, and he never said a word that could be construed into a proposal of marriage. Could she ac cept him before be hud asked her? That would have been rash, wouldn’t it?” and the beautiful lips curved in a wan smile. "But what happened at that last Interview, then?” cried Melrose, whose face betokened bewilderment. “There was no regular interview. He came to her suddenly at a ball. She had not seen anything of him for days before, and ehe was indignant with him. He asked her for that dance. She told him, trying to speak coolly, that she was engaged. He said, ‘Are you engaged to the Dai mio?’ Npw it happened that it was the Daimio’s dance, and so she said ‘Yes.’ “He was then very strange, made gome very rude remarks, and finally ordered her to throw Daimlo over. She was very angry with him by this time, especially at the way in which he epoke of her dear old friend, and she told him decidedly, ’No,’ He flung away without a word, and she never saw him again. That was all.” “I begin to see,” said Melrose. "Ho must have heard or Imagined that the girl was going to mftrry the Daimio. This drove him half mad, and when lin found that she could not give him that dance he asked her point blank if she were engaged to the Daliflio, meaning to marry him, and ehe replied, ‘Yee,’ meaning for the dance. They were at cross-pur poses all through, and that little mistake killed poor Tradegar.” “And nearly killed the poor girl,” cried Lady Sciva, with paeslonate in tensity. "When he went off in that sudden and heartless fashion, people said the cruellest possible thirigs about her. Ob, It was a sin and a shame I Because the poor girl had no brother or father to ptotect her, and a man had treated her badly, and eveijr one seemed to think they might do the same. Oh, the agonies she suffered H And that was why she married—literati y to get a protector, one who could really take her part, and hold her bead np again to the world.” “ It seems to me terrible,” said Melrose. "This happiness of two lives Wrecked by one little mistake —and that mistake due, no doubt, to some envious woman’s tongue.” At that moment the opening bars of a brilliant waltz came pealing through the tall windows. “Perhaps so,” replied Lady Sciva hastily, and she rose to her feet. “And now you must take me back to the ballroom quick. I am engaged for the next dance.” Gordon Melrose gazed at her -*n astonishment.. There was a joyous note In her voice which confounded him. Silence he was prepared for— the sHence of sorrow which is too deeep for words, or the passionate complaint of a deeply injured woman. But not this. “Come, Mr. Melrose. I can’t go back to the ballroom alone!”, she cried impatiently, and sho moved to ward the open windows. Melrose sprang to his feet at once and escorted her back to the ballroom. At the window a tall, handsome man claimed her. “I am sorry,” Melrose heard her say as she went off on the stranger’s arm. . “I got up the moment the mu sic began, but my partner dawdled and I couldn’t fly In alone.” As they whirled off in the crowd of dancers Melrose caught a mo mentary glimpse of her face. It was radiant as if transfigured. The man was bending over her, whispering in her ear, and his lips approached lien hair. - - - “Who is that dancing with Lady Sciva?” inquired Melrose of another man. "Oh, that’s Jack Darkness, of the Rifles, He’s a lucky dog I When old Lord Sciva died he left his widow all his property absolutely. Sho must be worth some twenty thous and a year at least, and has a house in G'rosvenor place and a fine place in Derby shii-e.” “But what lias Lord Seivo’s will to do with this Mr. Harkness?” “What! Don’t you know? Why, (hey are to be married at the end of the month.”—[London World. Trsss Gloss to Buildings. While it is very desirable to have both fruit and ornamental trees about the house and farm buildings, yet their too close proximity is positively detrimental, as with trees that ex tend their branches against a build ing or overhang the roof. In the lat ter case, if of shingles, the shade from leaves and branches prevents rapid evaporation, the portion thus affected will need replacing year! be fore the remainder. Not only this, but the leaves and litter stop up the gutters, rendering the cistern water filthy. Thick foliage also renders the rooms under its influence dark and damp. Of course no one plants trees with the above detrimental ob jects in view, yet it is always best to look a generation or more ahead in setting trees in any locality, and im agine how a well-developed specimen of the same species would look in botli height and expanse, for if the little slip now being planted should live, it may develop wonderfully. Neaer set trees about a builaing ex pecting to remove a certain number of them in ten or fifteen years, for you will not do so, or will remove them very reluctantly. You may crowd some trees on the lawn, but give the buildings a wide space for air and sunlight.—[American Agri culturist. Proposed Ship Canals. THE JOKER'S BUDGET. IESTS AND TARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. In tho Anarchist Club-- Not for Pub- licatlon--Whpn Skillfully Dene-- Tho Right Mi)*, Ete., Eta. IK TH|S AWARCHIST CLUB. Inner Guard (to Head Center)— You ordered bepn for every man in the room? » Head Cent*c—Yes. Inner Guard—Well, there’s a little repleaded man who says he never drmm beer. * ‘w •’ Head Centor^-Confiiflon, we are discovered!—[FWrson'p Weekly. NOT FOR wfBLICATION. Suspicious Mamma—Ethel, what detained you so long at the door just now when Mr. Spoonomore went away? Ethel (smoothing her rumpled hair) Nothing to speak of, mamma.—[Chi cago Tribune. WHKN SKILLFULLY DONE. Sympathizing Friend—It must give one a queer feeling to have one’s pocket picked. •Victim—You don’t feel It at all. That’s the misery of it.—[Chicago Tribune. THE RIGHT MAN. Clara—I wish I knew of a good dentist. Maude—I can recommend you to one, dear. They say he makes splen did false teeth. PROFESSIONAL INSTINCT. * She was engaged in conducting a department for a magazine, and her mind was very much with her work. "Did you receive my letter?” he asked. r ' “Yes.” “The one asking you to be mine?” “Yes.” “Then,” he said almost fiercely, “why did you not auswer It?” “Why, William,” and there was both surprise and reproach in her voice, “you know you forgot to send stamps for reply.” — [Washington Star. SCARCITY OF SILVER. Guest (facetiously)—There are two spoons in my teacup. What is that a sign of? Hostess’s Little Son—That’s a sign that somebody else hasn’t got any spoon.—[Good News. A GRIEVANCE. "I’d like to know what ails these spectacles!” grumbled Mr. Skinn- phlint. “I’ve always taken the very best care of them, but they’ve begun to fail me. I can’t see through them well any more.” “Why don’t you take them back to the man you bought them of?” asked Mrs. Skinnpblint. “I would if I could,” he rejoined savagely, “but he died fourteen years ago.”—[Chicago Tribune. TRIALS OF GRADUATING. ' Uncle George (sympathetically)— So you are getting ready to graduate, Hettie, and I suppose you are full of work. Hettie—Indeed I ami The dress maker is here every day, and it really seems as though it were nothing but trying on from morning till night. — [Boston Transcript. AN OLD ONE. “Talk of killing that elephant in Central Park reminds me of a baby that was fed on elephant’s milk and gained twenty pounds in a week.” “Goodness gracious! Whose baby was it? ” “Tho elephant’s.”—[Hallo. APPARENTLY ALL HUMP. The cyclist with an ambition to be mistaken for a racing man rode up to a wayside watering trough, steadied himself by putting one foot on it and called out to the farmer on the other side of the fence : “Can you tell me how far it is to the next town?” “ I can’t teil which way you’re travelin’, ” replied the farmer, “un less you raise your head so’s 1 can see where it’s fastened on. I’m a leetle near sighted.”—[Chicago Tribune. PRICELESS. Her eyes, like purest diamonds, sparkle full of light; Like rubies were Ijer lips; her teeth like pearl. I think you’ll all admit that I am in the right When I contend she was a jewel of a girl.—[New York World. ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONS. Surveys are to be made for a ship canal from tho lakes to the Ohio river, probably by way of the Erie and Pittsburg; the agitation in favor of the Chesapeake and Delaware ship canal is growing, and the revival of the project cf the Philadelphia and New York canal has revived interest in the Cape Cod canal project, which would greatly shorten the waterway between New York and Boston. There are no physical difficulties in the way that could not be surmounted by engineering skill; the question as to each canal turns mainly on the cost and possible revenue. It is con ceded that such a chain of canals would be of great advantage to ths Government in case of war. and that tho canals would repay in value, di rectly or indirectly, all that might be expended upon them, provided they should be ciuricd to completion.— [Philadelphia Ledger. Since 1719 there have been, accord ing to Hirsch, 5-to epidemlas of dys- •ntsry, Hungry Higgins—See this here sign in the winder? Weary Watkins—Of course, “Bathing suits.” Hungry Higgins—I jist wish to remark, comrade, that it don’t suit me.—[Indianapolis Journal. STRICTLY FORBIDDEN. Choliy—Have a stick of chewing gum, ole chappie? Fweddie—Naw, thanks. My physi cian says I have got to quit my blawsted dissipating.—[Chicago Tri- buue. HE LOOKED SO. “Dobson claims to be a self-made man.” “He looks like an amateur job.” A MODERN MATCH. Employer—Want to marry my daughter, eh? And next, I suppose, you’ll want your salary raised so that you can support her! Employee—Oh, no, sir! I shall expect you to support us both.—• [KaU Field’s Washington, VERY TIGHT, “Money’s awfully tight, isn’t It?” “Yes; I haven’t even any loose change.” THE SUBSTANCE OF IT. Judge Guffey—What passed be tween yourself and the complain ant ? ” O’Brien—I think, sor, a half-dozen bricks and a piece of pavin’ stone.— [Baymond’s Monthly. THE WAY GIRLS DO. Harry—Has Mabel’s engagement, been announced yet? Ethel—No; but she blushes furi ously every time his name is men tioned and says she just hates him.— [New York World. EVER WITH HER. . “Is this the smoking car?” she asked in choice Bostonese, as she peered through her girlish spectacles into the uncultured conductor's face. “No, miss,” he answered, with a glad, joyous feeling that for once he was getting even with a woman; “it is not.” She disappeared into the interior of the car, but in a few moments came out livid with rage. “You—told—me,” she said in icy tones, “that it-was not a smoking car.” “It is not, miss. None of our cars smoke. It is the smoker’s car.”— [Detroit Free Press. KNOW THYSELF. Teacher—You have named all do mestic animals save one. It has bristly hair, is filthy, likes dirt, and is fond of mud. Well, Tom? Tom (shamefacedly)—That’s me! HE TALKED TOO MUCH. Mrs. Meekers (during the spat)- And why don’t you explain what kept you so late last night? Mr. Meekers—I will, but— Mrs. Meekers (sobbing(—You won’t, oh, you know you won’t. You’re cruel. Mr. Meekers—Now, Emily— Mrs. Meekers—And fsobj you treat me terribly, and I wish we’d never been married— Mr. Meekers—Emily, I want— Mrs. Meekers—There you go again, evading my question, ns though I had no rights at— Mr. Meekers—I want to say— Mrs. Meekers—And talking so I can never got a word [sob] in edge wise. [Dissolves into a flood of tears. ]- [Chicago Record. MAKING SURE. Waiter—I expect you to pay in ad vance. Guest—What do you mean, sir? Waiter—No offense, sir, whatever; but the last gentleman who ate mack erel here got a bone in his throat and died without paying, and the guv’nor took It out of my wages.—[Spare Moments. A MODERN IKE. Now doth the would-be fisherman Begin his yearly wishing; While night and day we hear him say He’d like to go u-fishing. At night he looks his tackle o’er, Caresses reel and rod, Then lays them by, and with a sigh Goes out and buys a cod. —[Boston Courier. ’T IS SAD, BUT TRUE. Johnny—I tell y. i, my mother Is •just lightning when she gets after you with a slipper. Tommy—Naw; you’re off! Light ning never strikes twice in the same place.—[Puck. ALREADY THAT WAV. Tom—I believe I’m becomingdiill. Fred (who means to be comforting) —Nonsense. It’s positively absurd to speak of your becoming so.—[Chi cago Record. SMALL CHANGE. Conductor (to lady passenger)— Haven’t you anything smaller than this dollar? The Lady—Why, of course. How stupid of me! Here is a five-dollar gold piece.—[Truth. SHORT METRE. Say, Swoller—Why is one o’ your arms so much shorter than the other —Hu? Swoller—I uster be a short-hand writer.—[Puck. AN ANALOGY. “Doesn’t it seem a pity to cut these roses, from their stems just to deco rate a room ? They only wither and die.” "Well, they’ll wither and die any how ; and for my part, I hope that when I wither and die it will be after having been plucked from the parent to decorate a household. ’’—[Harper’s Magazine. A PRESENT FROM PAPA. “What did your pa give you for your birthday, Johnny ? ” “He had me hair cut.”—[Hullo. FROM EXPERIENCE. Bingham—There goes a man who has a strong pull ? Wilber—What is he ? A politician? Bingham—No. A barber.—[Inter- Ocean. A Keystone Bey’s Romance. Twenty years ago Joseph Brown, then a lad of twelve years, ran away from his home in Larimer, near Greensburg, and stowed himself away in the hold of a sailing vessel. Tho ship was wrecked, and he was sold in Africa as a slave. He escaped two year* ago, and on Monday returned to Greensburg, where he made him- •elf known to his parents, who are •till living.—[Oil CUy Derrick) FARM AND GARDEN. REMEDY FOB ONION MAGGOT. Half a pint of kerosene is well mixed with a pailful of some dry ma terial, preferably wood ashes, but sand, sawdust, or even dry soil will do fairly well, aad after the plants are well up and the trouble is at hand a sprinkling of this mixture along the rows about twice a week during the time the fly does its work will be found a sure pre ventive. —Scientific American. FOOD THAT DRIES THE MILK. A good cow will not be hurt in her milking by any of the ordinary foods in use, if given in moderation. Bat there are cows that will rather turn their food into fat than into milk, and each cows may be dried by overfeed ing such strong food' as cornmeal or other grain. Bran will hot be apt to dry a oow under any circumstances, and thus it is a safer food than meal for such cows as are too apt to fatten when well fed. Every owner of cows should carefully test each one to dis cover her character in this direction, for it is very true that a large propor tion of cows do not pay for their feed ing, and ot course such cows are not profitable. More cows of this inferior kind for milk and butter will be found among the shorthorns and other breeds commonly fed for beef, than among the special dairy breeds, as the Ayr shire, the Jersey and the Holstein. — New York Times. curruia OATS. Oats should ke cut fur fodder at about the same stage of growth that other grasses are cut, which is when in bloom or very soon after, writes a correspondent. If cat tou early the fodder will bo hard to cure, and if cut after the kernels have attained much size the fodder will be poorer, beside being liable to much injury from cats and mice in the mow in winter. This rale holds good for time of outtiug oats, barley, millet and wheat for fod der. Bye should be cut before it blooms, as it becomes tough and un palatable very rapidly after it reaches the blooming stage. When the weather is favorable I have found it well to let these cearse, heavy fodders lie a day or so to wilt after catting before putting in the tedder. It hardly pays to handle green staff of this kind till part of the water has had time to dry. out. Never ent when the dew is on. —New England Farmer. MAKING AN ASPARAGUS BED. Of all the crops for the market gar den, especially if conveniently situat ed to a large city, asparagus is one of the most satisfactory, because it is easy to cultivate, easy to gather and easy to sell. The land should be heav ily manured and worked up to a depth of at least ten inches. Trenches are then opened up to a depth of nine inches with a plow. The plants should be set about three feet apart in these trenches, and enough earth packed about the roots to cover thorn well, and the harrow will complete the job, throwing in a little additional earth upon them as it is drawn lengthwise over the rows. This work may be done in the fall or spring. At the end of the season the trenches will be partially covered in and during the 'it year may be cultivated level, .ving the roots eight or nine inches uelow the surface of the ground. Every spring the whole snrfaoe should receive thorough cultivation with the plow and harrow, and be well ma nured. Mr. Garfield, of Michigan, who has had eminent success in grow ing asparagus, states that he applies stable manure and refuse salt al ternate years, the former at the rate of thirty-two tons per acre.—Canadi an Horticulturist. PREVENTION OF POTATO DISEASE. Experiments in the prevention ot potato disease were made at the Albert Farm, Glasnevin, and at Garryhill, County Carlow, Ireland, in 1892. According to the recently published report of the Agricultural Depart ment, the Flounder, a variety ex tremely ’liable to disease, was select ed, and tho experiments were made with a view to ascertain whether the mycelium of fie fungus reached the tubers through the tismes of the plant or by miaus of theupores falling upon the earth and then washed down to the surfao of the tubers in the soil. The ground was covered early in Jnne beneath the plains with cot ton wool, carefully placed around the stems, with the object ot filtering out the spores that might fall upon the ground. The disease appeared in July and the leaves of the plants were bad ly affected. When the potatoes were lifted in October it was found that there were no diseased tubers beneath the cotton wool, but a, considerable amount of disease in the unprotected ground. Hence, it is provisionally in ferred by those in charge of the ex periments that disease spores reach the tubers by passing through tho soil, but further experiments are nec essary before stating definite conclu sions. If this point be established, the advantage of high moulding, as advocated by Mr. Jensen, in provid ing a layer of earth of sufficient thick ness to filter the rain water as it descends through the earth, and there by arrest the spores before they could reach the tubers, will receive further proof. The potato crops iu County Dublin are generally more free from disease than those grown in other parts of Ireland. This comparative immunity is attributed to the earlier •planting of the crop, keeping tho land Tree from weeds, and the general sys tem of changin b he -.tied from which the crop is grown year by year. China lias 400,000,000 inhabitants sad but forty miles of railroad, PRESIDENT CARNOT KILLED. An Assassin Murders the Head o! the french Republic. President Carnot of France was as sassinated in Lyons Sunday. He waa stabbed to death by an Italian anarch ist named Santo and died at 12.45 p. m. He had gone to Lyons to attend the Exposition, and was riding in a car riage to a theatre when Santo leaped into the carriage and stabl'cd him iu the abdomen. How to Smell (he Rose, It takes half a lifetime to learn how to do anything perfectly. Few know how to inhale the perfume of a flower. The idea should bo to capture “ths fine fugitive first of all” sioma by ths slightest and most delicate possible in halation. If you jam your nose down, into the flower you miss the essential attar and get a rank smell of the petals or leaves, a very different thing from the fragrance secreted by the glands at the base of the stamens and pistils. —Boston Transcript. _ Blue.Eycd Men. Bine-eyed men are the most senti mental of the species. At least, this is what an eminent physiognomist says. They are peculiarly susceptible to the influence of the opposite sex, melt under the warmth of one ardent glance, have emotional, mercurial af fections and are found by the co quettes to be easier game to bag than hold.—San Francisco Chronicle. New York City.—Fifteen people were drowned by the capsizing of steam launch iu the Hudson river Sunday. FIFTY-THIRIMJONGRESS. \ The Senate. 182d Dat.—The Senate disposed of tho Woo’.en schedule and nearly all of tho silic schedule of the Tariff bill. 133d Dav.—The last two schedules of the Tariff bill proper were passed. During the discussion Mr. HIM. of New Yorlr, moved to place coal on the free list. It was defeated, only seven votes being cast for It. 134th Day.—Rapid projress was made with the free list of the Tariff blU, twenty pages being disposed of. Tho Finance Com mittee sustained its lirst defeat. It canae at the close of the day’s session, when there were more absentees on the Democratic side of the chamber than was consistent with as sured victory on that side. The subject of It was quicksilver, which the oommltteo had placed on the f-ee list. On motion of Mr. Perkins, It was placed on the dutiable list at seven cents n pound. • I35th Day.—Mr. Jons* movodthat twenty- six paragraphs of the Tariff measure as re ported from the Finance Committee be elimi nated, and in the absence of objections this was agreed to. These twenty-six paragraphs comprisetheso-calledadministrative features of the Oorman compromise. Considera tion of the free list was finished. Mr. Allison introduced a joint resolution re questing the President to negotiate a treaty with the Government of Great Britain pro viding that for a perio l of twenty-ffve years All differences or disputes between the Gov ernments of the two countries that cannot be adjusted by diplomatic means shall bo referred to arbitration. 136th Day.—The income tax section of the Tariff bill was taken up, and Messrs. Hill, Higgins and Hoar spoke against It. The don ate voted to limit the operation of tho tax to the first day of January. 1000. A graduated income tax was rejeeteu. Just before ad journment the reoorts of tho Sugar Trust In vestigating Committee were presented. Mr. Hill objected to their reception. 1S7th Day.—The bill appropriating $40,- 000 for Investigations and tests of American timber by the forestry division of tho Agri cultural Department was passed ; siso Sen ate bill making the first Monday in Septem ber of every vear (Labor Day) a legal holi day. At 10.80 o'clock the Tariff bill was taken up, the question being on the income tax ssetions. An ar gument in favor of the principle of an Income tax was made by Mr. Kyle. Mr. Vest, ou behalf of the Finanoe Committee, presented a substitute for the amendments neretofore offered in relation to mn’ual in surance and benefit associations. Also an amendment reducing the exemption from $4000 to $3*00 a year. Also an amendment for the reduction in the assessment of banks, railroads and other corporations of the “actual operating expenses, interest on bonded debt and losses.” The measure waa then discussed by Messrs. Hill, Sherman, Aldrich and Hale. The House. 152d Day.—The provision of the Indian Supply bill to remove tho Indian supplies warehouse from New York to Chicago was defeated. The bill was then passed. 153d Day.—Consideration of the Hatch Autl-Optlous bill was begun. The Housfl passed the joint resolution to extend the appropriations of tho year ending June 30 until the appropriation bills for the coming year are passed. 154th Day.—The Secretary ot the lotsrior was directed lo sell at public auction 100,003 acres ot pine land In the Chippewa Reserva tion, Minn., and to eurrender to the city of Newport. Ky., for park purposes, tho old site of tho Newport Barracks. The day was chiefly spent In general debate ou the Hatch Anil-Option bill, speeches against it being delivered by Messrs. Coombs and Al drich, and a speech In its favor by Mr. Sib ley. 155th Dat.—The debate on the Hatch Anti-Option bill was continued ail day. 166th Dat.—An agreement was reached to close debate on the Anti-Options bill at one* Discussion of tho measure lasted all day. 157th Day.—Speaker Crisp was still una ble to come up to the Capitol, and when the House met Representative Bailey again took the Chair. Favorable reports were made on bills to establish a National park on the battlolleld of Shiloh, and to in crease the pensio of survivors ol the Mexican and Indian wars and tboli widows. The House then went Into Com mittee of the Whole on the Hatch Anti-Op tion bill, two hours being reserved for amendments and discussion under the five- minutes' rule, and one hour lor the nuthor of the bill in which to close debate. Au amendment offered by Mr. Aldrich to include flour in the list of articles that may not be dealt in under theblll was agreed to—98 to 33. An amendment offered by Mr. Cox was agreed to—107 to 21—excepting from the operations of the bill aales lor fu ture delivery by the owner of tho property, or by an agent of tho owners, with a proviso added, on motion of Mr. Lacey, that where delivery of goods sold was provented by fail ure of transportation or other ault oi the car rier the penalty of ths bill (.hall not apply. Tho vote was then taken on the passage of tho bill. It was announced as yeas, 1501 nays, 87: present and not voting, 1. Mr. Bayers moved that tho House resolve Itself into Committee of the Whole to consider the General Deficiency Ap propriation hill. Ac reed to, and Mr. Bynum took the. chair. After n brief explanation of the bill by Mr. Sayers, the committee rose, and at 5 o'clock the House took a recess un til R o'clock. At the night session the House, in Committee of tho Wuole, con- eiUrrod flfteeu private pension bills and, at 19,80, adjourned,