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Danger In Roentgen Rays. A warning has been voiced by one of the leading English.medica] journals in regard to the too frequent use of the .Roentgen ray apparatus. It is interesting, no doubt, to obtain a series of photographs cf one's own skeleton, but if this is to be at the ex pense of such trifles as one's hair and . one's finger nails it seems hardiy worth the cost. One electrical engineer, who has often demonstrated the beauty of his own finger bones by placing one of his hands within the radius of the searching rays, lost all the nails from the fingers of that hand" while Mr. Sid ney Rowland, who is one of the leading experimenters in this direction, men tions several cases of similar character in the structural changes that occur in the bair and so forth of those who have been frequently shadowgraphed by this method. Thus, in the case of patients whose heads hav been subject ed to the influence of the rays, the hair has either turned white or has fallen ont entirely. It is suggested that these results are due to the electrical potency of what are called the ultra violet rays of the spectrum, though their precise action is at present by no means thor . oughly understood. One curious suggestion has already been made. It is a well known supersti .iaonTand one which has existed for gen erations, that people who sleep in the direct rays of the moon have 'their rea son more or less seriously affected. 3fow, it is said that these ultra violet rays exist in the moonlight, and hence a popular superstition may be founded upen scientific fact - Philadelphia .Ledger. The Clever Spider. *. "One of my friends was accustomed to grant shelter to a number of garden spiders under a vacant varan da and to watch their habits. One day a sharp storm broke out, and the wind raged so furiously through the garden that the spiders suffered damage from it, al though sheltered by the veranda. The mainyards of one of these webs, as the tailors would call them, were broken o that the web was blown hither and thither, like a slack sail in a storm. "The spider made no fresh threads, but tried to help itself in another way. It let itself down to the ground by a thread and crawled to a place where lay some splintered pieces of a wooden fence, thrown down by the storm. It fastened a thread to one of the bits of wood, terned back with it and hung it with a strong thread to the lower part of its nest about five feet from the ground. The performance was a won derful one, for the weight of the wood "sufficed to keep the nest tolerably firm, while it was yet light enough to yield *o the wind and.so prevent further in jury. The piece of wood was about 2y2 inches long and as thick as a goose quiiL "On the following day a careless servant knocked her head against the -wood, and it fell down. But in the course of a few hours the spider mend ed her web, broke the supporting thread in two and let the wood fall to the ground."-Our Animal Friends. Dublin Bootblacks, 17S0. Among the populace of Dublin in 17S0, says the University Magazine, the shoeblacks were a numerous and for midable body. The polish they used was lampblack and eggs, for which they purchased all that were rotten in the markets. Their implements con sisted of a thi-ee legged stool, a basket containing a blunt knife, called a spudd, a painter's brush and an old wig. A gentleman casually went out in the morning with dirty boots or shoes, sure to find a shoeblack sitting on his stool at the corner of the street. The gentleman put his foot in the lap of the shoeblack without ceremony, and the artist scraped it with his spudd, wiped it with his wig and then laid on his composition as thick as black paint with his painter's brush. The stuff dried with a rich polish, re quiring :ao friction and little inferior to the elaborated modern fluids, save only tho intolerable odors exhaled from eggs in a high state of putridity and which filled any house which was en tered before the composition was quite dry and sometimes even tainted the air of fashionable drawing rooms. Polish ing shoes, we should mention, was at this time a refinement almost confined to cities, people in the country being generally satisfied with grease. Hopeless Credulity. i **The gross superstition one occasion ally encounters among fairly intelli gent people is very disheartening," la mented a physician. "Some time ago I was called in by an upper class me chanic, a man who earns $G a day. 1 found him in a state of alarming nerv ous depression, and he complained of agonizing neuralgia in the head. I questioned him sharply, and he finally informed me that he had been 'con jured' by an old negro servant whom be had discharged, it seems he had found a small red flannel bag full of dough hidden under his mattress, rec ognized it as a voodoo 'charm' and had never been well since. Ile told me this in an awestruck whisper, and I made no effort to conceal my.disgust I told him he ought to be ashamed of himself for allowing an ignorant darky to play on his imagination, but 1 could see plainly that be was unconvinced. Fi nally I gave him some simple treat ment and in a few days he was all right But what sickened me was the dense, hopeless credulity of" "By the way. doctor," interrupted a listener, "what was it that you gave the man yourself?" "Oh, merely some bread pills." re plied the physician. "There was no use taking such a case seriously. What are you laughing at, anyhow?" "Nothiug." said the other demurely. -New Orleans Times-Democrat Rare Devotion. "Do you think Dolly's fiance loves ber?" "Indeed he does. Why, he went and made love to that pretty Allbright girl, Just to give Dolly a chance to cut her -out.'*- Collier's Weekly. j Lovely Little Pug Xose . f They are distributing au advertise I ment in Germany that runs thus: "A studio for improving the human face. "This studio is highly recommended to ladies and gentlemen who wish to possess faces in the present fashion. 'This is the best house in the world for improving and changing the eclor of the eyes, which cnn be rendered flashing and bright, deep as the sea or full of laughter. "This house must not be thought to have anything to do with any other es tablishment It possesses vast labora tories, and over 1,200 apparatuses are in use to change and improve the fea tures. "A great specialty is made of dim ples and of producing lovely little turn ed up noses. "Terms are moderate, and the strict est discretion and secrecy are observ ed." People in Paris are talking a great deal of this advertisement, writes a correspondent of madame, but except that the establishment is in Vienna, 1 have not been able to discover the ad dress of this most wonderful house for manufacturing eyes and noses. A Lively Barrel. An actor tells of a tragic experience he had while playing in a little town in southern Texas. In one of the scenes of the play, in which he acts the vil lain, he hides himself in a barrel, that he may listen to a conversation be tween the hero and heroine, whose fu ture well being he is trying to destroy. In the town hall there was little if any "property" material. A barrel would do to conceal himself in, so a "hired hand" was sent out to find one. He succeeded. The time came for the actor to do his part He slipped in the barrel with ease. The man and the woman ap peared, and while they were in the midst of an animated conversation there came a howl from the barrel that fairly shook the rafters. This was fol lowed by the eavesdropper crawling out with his hands to his face, and he in turn was followed by a swarm of wasps. The wasps got among- the stage people and those in the audience, which created so much confusion that the show was broken up.-Galveston News, Sensible Sarcey. Once somebody called the late Fran cisque Sarcey, the great French dra matic critic, "That imbecile, Sarcey." A kind friend rushed to him, waving the paper. "Are you going to challenge him?" asked the kind friend. "Certainly not" replied Sarcey. "1 owe him thanks. The public will forget the word imbecile and will remember to have read my name." Sarcey was for 40 years the chief dramatic critic of a nation that values style, yet he always wrote in a plain, blunt fashion. - He refused to be a member of the French academy lest dramatists who might become his fel low members might wish him to favor their plays. Her View of lt. The conversation had flagged a little, and he felt it his duty to say some thing. "In an address made in Boston," he remarked, "a reverend gentleman greatly deplores the use of arms." "Bostonians are so cold, anyway," she returned spiritedly, "that love making on that plan may satisfy them, but he fools himself if he thinks it ever will be popular elsewhere."-Chicago Post Dinnis McGuire's Whisky. Meagher was full of anecdotes of his famous brigade. One story is too good to be lost. He said he was leading his men to the front in one of the seven days' battles when an aid rode by and announced the news that our army had carried a certain strategic point and several colors. "D'ye hear that, boys?" shouted Meagher. "Our men have won the day and captured the enemy's col ors!" "Just as I said that," remarked the general, "a private who was plung ing along out of one muddy.hole into another, looked up at me and said, "Ah, ginral. i'd rather hev a pint of Dinnis McGuire's whisky now than all the col ors of the rainbow."-Donahue's Maga zine-. Wouldn't Wear the Crown. The late William Morris' views on the laureateship, as made public in Mr. MackaU's biography, were peculiar and interesting. Mr. Gladstone was willing to offer Morris the succession to Tennyson; but on being sounded, the socialist poet although pleased with the honor, declined unreservedly, stating that, in his opinion, the function of poet laureate was that of a cere monial writer of verse, and that the Marquis of Lorne, the languidly liter ary son-in-law of Queen Victoria, was the finest person to fulfill it Japanese Ideas of Women, The five worst maladies that af flict the female mind are indocility, discontent, slander, jealousy and silli ness. Without any doubt these five maladies afflict seven or eight out of every ten women, and from them arises the inferiority of women to men. A woman should cure them by self in spection and self reproach. The worst of them all and the parent of the other four is silliness!-Cornhill Magazine. Sweet Filling. Tommy-I'ze got de toothache aw fully. Visitor-You should bare the tooth filled. Tommy. Tommy-I did have it lilied. That's what makes it ache so. Visitor-I never heard of such a thing. Did you have it filled with gold? Tommy-No*m! Had it filled with gumdrops.-Chicago News. Looking to the Future. "The widow seems to take great in terest In old Gcldthwaite." "She thinks that if she takes interest now she'll have the principal later." Brooklyn Life. Savins? Silver at the Mint. Perhaps the most interesting scheme for the recovery of vraste silver at the local mint is that applied to the uten sils of the melting gang. The big iron stirring rods, the dippers, the strainers and the ladles that come in contact with the molten metal are laid aside at intervals and sent down stairs. They are-covered with what looks like brown rust, but is really oxidixod silver. Suppose, to digress a moment, one desired to get a coat of paint off the outside of a house. In such event the plan of scraping away the house and leaving the shell of paint standing would be regarded as somewhat eccen tric, yet that is substantially the meth od adopted at the mint. The imple ments are placed in baths of sulphuric acid, which attacks the iron or steel, but leaves the silver untouched. Little by little a strainer, for instance, will entirely disappear. That is to say, the original strainer disappears and leaves in its place a hol low silver counterpart, delicate as an eggshell. They are very curious, these fragile casts. Their surface is a sort of natural filigree, honeycombed with in numerable fantastic perforations. The reproduction of a bolt or screw is some times as perfect as an electrotype, but they are hurried remorselessly back to the crucible and thus pursue their cy cle until at last they find their Karma in a minted coin.-New Orleans Times Democrat. Wills cf Some Women. "Some women derive a great deal of enjoyment out of making their wills," remarked a lawyer the other day. "They change them as often as they change their gowns. It is only a few days ago that I came down to my office to find one of my fair clients anx iously awaiting me. She was in a great state of nervousness. " 'Oh, Mr. Blank/ she exclaimed, Tve come to change my will.' " 'What! Again?' I asked. " 'Yes,* she said. 'I discovered last night that Mrs. -, whom I had in tended to leave my diamond tiara to, has been saying spiteful things about my poor, dead husband-said he made his money out of green grocery and an off beer license-odious creature that she is. I could never rest in my grave if I thought she wouid benefit a farth ing's worth from my death. " 'Cross her off the will, please, Mr. Blank, and substitute the name of-let me see, now; whom can I leave the dia mond tiara to? Well, I'll think it over tonight and come and see you in the morning.' "And so on." continued the man of law. "That good lady changed her will six times in as many months, and the names in it would have filled a small directory, while the rest of it suggest ed an auctioneer's catalogue."-London Mail. Oriental Judgment on Mixed Bable . The Greek ecclesiastical authorities at Aleppo have been called upon to de cide a case which strongly recalls Solo mon's famous judgment. By a strange coincidence a woman and her daughter both gave birth to a female child at the same time. But the babies got mixed, and, as one of them was ugly and the other pretty and healthy, both mothers claimed the latter. The elder woman maintained that, as all her other chil dren were handsome, the ugly child could not be hers7 while her daughter claimed that, being young, handsome and strong, she could not be the moth er of a weak and ugly babe. The religious chief of the town set tled the affair in a summary way. Ile adjudged the beautiful child to the daughter on the ground that, it being her first, the occasion was not to be made one of humiliation and disap pointment, while the elder mother could afford to forego her claim since she had already had several handsome children.-Constantinople 'Malumat. A Wonder Flower. The Canadian Manufacturer reports the remarkable phenomenon of the dis covery of a flower incased in a hole in an old iron casting, the flower being in a perfect state of preservation. A work man engaged in breaking up old iron at a foundry in Ontario came across an old wheel that had done service on a stationary engine for many years. On breaking it he discovered in a crevice a flower blossom in perfect condition, its color being as fresh as the day it found Its way into its mysterious hiding place. It had evidently fallen into the casting when it was being poured, and in some manner escaped injury from the molten metal. As the cavity was perfectly airtight it naturally retained its freshness until exposed to view. A Georgria Bill of Fare. A southwest Georgia negro was dis covered in the act of chopping a mon ster alligator into steaks. "You don't intend to eat him, do you?" he was asked. "Dat's what I aim ter do wid Mm," was the reply. "Pretty tough-isn't it?" "Yes suh, he's tough, ez you say, but w'en you salts en peppers 'im, en suns 'im, he's fillin, suh-he's fillin!"-Atlan ta Constitution. A Bad Steer. City Editor-Mr. Strong has been in today, and he had murder in his eye. How in time did you come to speak of Mrs. Strong's "alleged husband" in that paragraph about her accident? J. Fresh-I did it to steer clear of a libel suit. You know you told me al ways to say "alleged thief," "alleged murderer" and that sort of thing.-Bos ton Transcript. And Then Kat Him Lp. OIK; day Tommy accompanied his motlier <>n ri shopping expedition, and, seeing a large candy man in a confec tioner's window, he paused in front of it with a wistful look; then, turning away, regretfully, he said. "Mamma, I could lick that fellow with both hands tied behind me."-Troy Times. Most people who rob Peter to pay Paul forget the last pp.rt of the con tract-New York News. It Ile ps tho Cashier. Odd bits of change thoughtlessly left ! by customers form no inconsiderable part of thc income cf cashiers in res I tanrants, saloons, cigar stores and sim ilar places where, during many hours of each day. there is a steady rush of patrons. "I get $15 a week salary/' said a cashier, " and I always count on an ad ditional $3. or 50 cents per day, through forgotten change. I do not consider that I am doing anything dishonest, either because I always make an effort to attract the customers attention to the fact that he is leaving his change behind. Nine eases out of ten I suc ceed, even ir* I have to send a waiter to follow the man clear out into the street. But there are enough of the tenth cases to make my receipts foot up all of the sum' weekly I have nam ed. The majority of them are people in a hurry to catch a train or car or to keep an appointment, and they haven't the time to return, even if they did dis cover their loss a sqcare or so away. The nest day they don't care, or at least the majority of f' "m do not, to speak about such a SIL... matter, the overlooked change seldom being- more than 5 or 10 cents, and I am just so much ahead. The proprietor get it? Certainly not It doesn't belong to him, and just so the money in the cash drawer balances with the register he is satisfied."-Philadelphia Inquirer. Piled It on the Princes . In China it is etiquette to regard one as older than he cr she really is. When the Prince and Princess Henry of Prussia visited Shanghai, they met a notable mandarin, one of whose first, questions to the prince-this being an invariable matter of Chinese politeness -was: "How old are you?" "A little more than CG." answered the prince, smiling. "Indeed!" said the mandarin. "Your highness appears 50." The mandarin then turned to the in terpreter-Herr Voight, a German and inquired the princess' age. She answered, "Thirty-two." The inter preter interpreted, and the mandarin made a remark in Chinese evidently in tended to be complimentary. The in terpreter blushed uneasily and hesitat ed to translate the remark. The prince saw the difficulty aDd laughingly com manded: "Out with it, Voight!" "He says." the interpreter then trans lated to the princess, "that your high ness looks like GO!" He had meant it well, and of course the princess had sense enough not to take it ilk 1 What' the U e of Bathing? '.Cleanliness is an excellent habit. It is not, however, an absolute essential, nor an essential at all to good health and mental activity. The healthiest man the writer ever saw is alive and well today at 94, and he took a bath only occasionally-once in the Mersey at Liverpool and again ^in the North river, 40 years after, both of which were accidental, the gentle man being slightly intoxicated when he fell. Almost all people who live to an ex treme old age are found to be those who are not overfond of ablutions, but who otherwise are careful in their manner of living.-Thomas J. Hiliis, M. D., in Medical Record. Died Cored. In some pans of Italy bleeding is still considered a sovereign cure for all kinds of sickness. A story is told of a mother who protested against the bleeding of her sick child. The doctor assured her that one more application of the cups would insure recovery, but when he came the next morning he found the child dead. "Madam." said the doctor, "be comforted by knowing that your child oleo cured." Canne For "Wrath. A correspondent of the London acad emy writes: "Many years ago a broth er of mine sent an old edition of Sir Walter Scott's novels to be bound, and to his wrath 'The Talisman' and 'The Lengend of Montrose' came home with these backings: 'The Tallish Man' and 'The Leg End of Montrose.' " A Strange Clock. A strange clock was made during the last century for a French noble man. The dial was horizontal, and the figures, being hollow, were filled with different sweets or spices. Thus, run ning his finger along the hand, by tasting, the owner could tell the hour without a light. That Second Chapter. The new pastor was preaching his first sermon. In the middle of it he stopped abruptly and asked: "How many of you have read the Bible?" Fifty hands went up. "Good," said the pastor. "Now, how many of you have read the second chapter of Jude?" Twenty-five hands went up. A wan smile overspread the divine's face. "That's also good; but when you go home read that chapter again, and you will doubtless learn something to your interest." There is only one chapter in the book of Jude-Guthrie (O. T.) Leader. A Croat Excuse. Mother to Frank-How is it that you're late home nearly every night? Frank-Well, no wonder; we've got such a big clock in our school. Mother-Why, what has the clock to do with it? Frank-'Cause it's so big it takes the hands an awful long while to get round it. If we had a clock like papa's little one, I'd get home a great deal quicker. Copying ink may be made by dis solving lump sugar in the common ink. used in the portion of one dram of the former to one ounce of the latter. Eier Lucid Reason. "Don't you wish," he asked, looking i soulfully into lier eyes, "that the tun I nel on this line was ten times as long?" "No," she answered. It struck him like a dash of cold wa ter in the face. Instantly it dawned j upon him that she no longer loved him. "They always light the car lamps ; when coming to the long tunnels," she 1 added, "and they don't for the short ones."-Chicago Post. Nobody Missed lt. Hicks-Barry made a bet that every person who came by his fence would touch it and he won. Wicks-Nonsense! How did it hap pen? Hicks-He merely stuck up the sign "Paint," and, of course, everybody con-_ sidered himself called upon to feel of the fence.-Boston Transcript Tile National Capitol. North and south are joined in the material of the national capitol. The central building is constructed of Vir ginia sandstone painted white. The extensions are of Massachusetts mar ble, and 24 columns of the grand cen tral portico are monoliths of Virginia sandstone SO feet high, and 100 col umns of the extension porticoes are of Maryland marble. Waites of Eggrs. If a child needs nourishment, one of the simplest forms in which it can be taken is by the raw whites of eggs. These are nutritious and easily digest ed. The white is broken into a jar with what milk is desired and the two shaken thoroughly together. A pinch of salt may be added before drinking if preferred. Would Go With Mamma. Little Girl (to visitor)-My papa's a good man. He'll go to heaven, won't he 7 Visitor-Oh, yes, indeed! And are you going to heaven too? Little Girl-Oh, no! I'm going with mamma! - Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele graph. A man with a family to support can never understand why all the old bach elors are not millionaires.-Atchison Globe. Selfishness is a disease for which sad experience is the remedy.-Dallas News. Call, see aod bay, embossed or floral Crepa Paper. H. G Osteen Co. Line Railroad CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Ic affect November 20th, 1898. SOUTHBOUND. No. 35 No blt Lv darlington, 8 02 am Lv Elliott, 3 45 am Ar Sumter, 9 25 arr Lv Samter, 4 29 aa Ar Crestoo, -5 17 am Lv Creatgc, 5 45 am Ar Pregnalla, 3 15 am Ar Oraogeburg, 5 40 am Ar Denmark, 6 12 am NORTHBOUND. Nc 32 No. Lv Denmark, 4 17 pm Lv Oraugebarg, 4 CO pm Lv Pregnails, 10 00 arr Ar Crestoo, 3 50 pc: Lv Creuon, 5 13 pm Ar Sumter, 6 03 pm Lv Sumter, 6 40 pm Ar Elliott, 7 20 pm Ar Darlington, 8 05 pm JDailv except Sunday. Trains 82 and 35 carry through Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping cara between New York aod Macon via Augusta. T. M EMERSON, H. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. Gen'i Pass. Agt J. R. KENLY, Gen 1 Manager. Atlantic Coast Lina WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND Ag GUSTA RAILROAD. Condensed Schedule. Dated April 17, 1393. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. No. 55 No. 35 p ra. Leave Wilmington *3 45 Leave Marion |6 34 Arrive Florence 7 15 p na. a. ic. Leave Florence *7 4V5 *3 25 Arrive Sumter 8 57 4 29 No. 52 Leave Sumter |8 57 *9 40 Arrive Coiumbia 10 20 ll 00 No. 52 ruos through from Charleston na Central R. R , leavioc Charleston 7 a. Ei. Lianes 8 34 a m, Manning 9 09 a m TRAINS GOING NORTE 5o. 54 No. 53 a. m. p. m. Lea rs Columbia 6 40 *4 00 Arrive Sumter 8 05 5 13 No. 32 a. m. p m. Leave Sumter 8 05 *6 06 Arrive Floreocc 9 23 7 20 a. ra. Leave Florence 9 50 Leave Marton 10 30 Arrive Wilmington 1 15 *Dailj. tDaily except Sunday. No 53 runs through to Charleston, S. C. v.a Central R R., arriving Mann.og 5 41 p TD, Lanes 6-17 p rr, Charleston 8 00 p m. Trains on Conway Branch leave Cbadnourn 5 35 p m, arrive Con way 7 40 p m, return ing leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Chad bourn ll 20 am, leave Ohadbourn ll 50 a m, arrive Hub 12 25 p m, returning leave Hue 3 00 pm, arrive Cbadbourn 3 35 am, Daily except Suoday. J. R KENLY, Gen'I Manager. T M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'1 Pass. Agent. (richman mw .Southron SUMTES WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. 'Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's and Truth's.' THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jnoe, JSftS Consolidated Aug. % ISSI. SUMTER S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 17.1899. New Series-ToL XTIII. No. 42