The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 17, 1883, Image 1
TRI-WEEKLY EDITION.
WINNSBORO. 8. 0.. APRIL 17, 1883.
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BY AND BY.
There Is an angel ever near,
When toll and trouble vex and trj,
That blda our fainting hearta take cheer.
And whispere to us—“B; and by.”
We hear it at our mothera knee,
With tender smile and love-llt eye.
She grants some boon on childish plea.
In these soft accents—“By and by."
What visions crowd the youthful breast—
What holy aspiration high,
Nerve the young heart to do its best.
And wait the promise—“By and by.''
The maiden sitting sad and lone.
Her thoughts half uttered with a sigh,
Nurses the grief she will not own.
And dreams bright dreams of—“By and by.”
The pale young wife dries up her .ears,
And stills her restless infant’s cry,
To catch the coming-step, but hears.
How sadly whispeted—“By and by.”
And manhood, with his strength and will
To breast lile’s Ills and fate defy,
Though fame and fortune be his, still
Has plans that lie In—“By and by.”
IKE BULS-KT-PROOr MAN.
A bright, buruing summer day on
the border of the Sahara Deeert; the
huge bare cliffs of the El Kantarah Pass
banging like a cloud ou the northern
horizon, a quivering film of intense
heat along the line where the rich bine
of the cloudless sky met the hot, life
less, brassy yellow of the desert; and in
the fore-ground a group of Arabs, en
camped beside a tiny stream, in the
shade of the clustering palms tint over
hang it
S me w> re launching handfuls of
parched com, ethers were lying f fast
asleep, while one dried up old scare
crow with one eye, and a head like a
worn out scrubbing-brush, was droning
out some interminable Eastern legend.
The story did not appear to get on
veiy fast, however, which was not sur
prising, inasmuch ae the whole of it,
from beginning to end (if it ever had
anv), was pretty much in this styl •: _
••Now when the Prince Selim (may
his name be honored forever) came up
to the gate of the palace—ft gate higher
than the dome of the Kaabah (holy
place) at Mecca, and built all of marble
whiter than the whitest milk—lo! there
stood before it a giant, mighty and ex
oetding temble. Then was the Prince
of Gulls tan sorely amazed, and said,
“Never since I, Sehm, son of Mah
moud, son of Savid, son of Ali, first
wore a yatagt an (sabre) have I beheit
such a monster as this!
And so ou for another half-hour,
keeping poor Prince Selim waiting at
the gate of the palace.
Bat on a sudden an exclamation of
astonishment broke from one of the
group, and all eyes were turned to stare
at a spectacle quite as wonderful to
them as any of the marvels to which
tuey had just been listening.
Sauntering leisurely over the burning
plain, as composedly as if he were
lounging a-ong the boulevards of Paris
or St Petersburg, instead of traversing
ono ot the most dangerous spots in the
whole north of Africa, was a solitary
man coming slowly toward them
True, he wore the white mantle anc
huge many-folded turban of the East,
but he Was none the Icoo a European
as his fair complexion, well-trimmer
beard, and the jauntily ent pantaloons
sufficiently showed,
Instantly the universal listlessness-
changed to bustle and excitement. The
sleepers woke np, the lunch party
sook their dates and corn, the
teller and his hearers started
feet together, and all alike
ward to meet their
But to their turbo]
the strange visi
them whatever oe y° nd
rati Who can tell what he might do
to them? For every Arab had heard
the tame of the mighty sorcerers who
could make wagons run without horses,
ships go without salts, messages fly
along a wire through the air swiiter
than an arrow, little scraps of papej
serve as money, and other scraps of
isper, no bigger than a true believer’s
tnrban, show the whereabous of all the
wells, rivers, hills and caravan tracks
over an area of thousands of miles.
' Evidently this unknown gentleinm was
not a man to be trifled with.
“I am a magicianf” repeated the mys
terious guest, before any one could
speak in reply, “and I have come to
see if in the tribe of Ben-Asyr there be
another magician like myself, and to
try my power against his.”’
This challenge was followed by a
gloomy and general silence. Bnt sud
denly a conning twinkle showed itself
n the chief's small, rat-like eye. Per
haps this strange man was only boast
ing in order to frighten them. At any
rate, it might be worth while to see
what he was made of, and how mneh he
could really do.' fclo*the chief made a
very polite bow, and said:
“We are far from the tents of our
tribe, and none of our great magicians
are with us; but let the wise man of the
; franks show ns his power, that we may
behold it, and honor him as he de
serves.
Tiiat will I do, willingly,” answered
the stranger, with a readiness which
rather disconcerted the worthy chief.
“Look all of you upon this oin”—and
le held out a silver franc—“which
I have marked with a circle, as ye see.
Thinkest thou, U sheik of the Ben-Asyr,
hat thou oaust hold it too firmly lor
me to take it away?”
With the blessing of Heaven and of
the Prophet, I can,” replied the chief,
confidently.
“Let us try, then, said the stranger,
pressing the coin into the Arab’s ex
tended hand, which instjpatly closed
upon it as if meaning netiar to let it go
again.
“Presto! pass!” shouted the magician,
in a high, shrill yoioe; and the chief,
opening his band, found to his un
feigned dismay that it was emptv.
Amid the general silence and bewild
erment, the stranger pointed to a huge,
overripe date that lay rotting on the
ground at some distance, which one of
the A rab’s instantly handed to him. One
stroke of a knife laid it open, and out
tumbled the marked coin.
There was a visible movement of
surprise among the Arabs, and even the
chief himself looked not a little disoom-
fitted,
“For a warrior of the desert, thou art
easily conquered,” said the Frenchman,
jeeringly; “but it is no wonder that ill
fortune should come upon the tribe
Ben-Asyr, when their ehief himgir^
follower of the Prophet, oarpj^j. j or .
him the liquor which the P ■
bade.” /J the chief,
“What mean you?” cf'
“ jely. Mie other, as,
thrusting
let, he
it was no use running, so I decided to
face it out, and scare them a little in
stead. The next time you make a raid
through tlre^e parts, Colonel, take a few
conjurers with you; they’ll he worth a
whole battalion of infantry, take my
word for it.”
The Hero of Seu Jacinto.
An old comrade ot Srtr.uel Houston
writes os follows: When I first_&aw Gen-
Houston his second term oi office'as Pres,
ident of Texas bad not long expired. Of
course I had heard of Him. There was
□ot a human being in Texas wbo was not
familiar with his name, and from iny very
infancy I had been taught by my father to
honor and love him. When therefore,
one merBisg, as I was trudging along to
school, I heard General Houston wss in
town 1 determined to see him. The city
of Houston was at that time the proud
possessor of one bri® 1 * building, known to
ail as “the tmek office." It was a small
one- story house, containing two rooms,
the front one being nsed as a lawyer’s of
fice. Inquiring as I went along of eve-y
one I knew, i soon learned that my biro
was at the brick office. A. little child is
an unusual visitor in a lawyer’s office, buf
I knew this lawyer very well, and when
he asked me what I wanted in his genial
way, I answered promptly.
“1 want to see General Houston."
“But the General is engaged J'ist now
and I don’t think you can see him.’’ But
a voice, rich, sweet, sonorous, called out
from the back rom: “Who is it wants to
see met" “Only a little girl. General.”
Certainly I will see her,” and as he spoke
the realization of all my dreama—Roland,
Bayard, Wallace and Washington, all in
one—appeared in the doorway and came
toward me with outstretched hands. 1
introduced myself. “Ah! the daughtei
of my old tnead—my good friend I am
very glad to see you.”
•My father published a song
A Direr** Uf*.
day and once,
^for a long time, he
ry little progress
ry and expressed
rted with, ‘Try
i any better.'
me have your
' it myself.’ He
but I wasn’t
It on and w«nt
> 1 came up and
wn diving ever
“1 first began diving in 1863,” said
Captain Anthony Wiliams. It was on
shipboard, coming from Kingston, Jamal
ca “I was a wrecker then aud was rais
ing a sunken ship pff the Massachusetts
coast. I had working {or me a diver who
seemed a very lazy, cajeleas sort of fellow.
1 was paying him by tl
after being under waf
came up and reported
in his work. I was m
myself strongly. He
it yourself if you can
“All right,” said I.
diving dress and i will
thought I was only j<
He doffed the dress, I
t Ji«cbargea nnn
ha Vo been doing m;
since. '
‘•subsequently, however, I placed my
self under the instructun of a diver named
Scott, Wheo he thought me proficient he
said to me one day: ‘Tony, 1 think you
have learned about alkl can teach you.
Now I am going to puthrou to the test.’
Taking from a canvawbt^; five dollars in
small silver coins he ti rew them into the
sea. ‘Now go down an! bring those up.,
“As every schoolboy ; nows, a dime or
a half dime under watci looks as large as
trade dollar out of. rate*, so I did not
consider the task a verirdifficult one. Down
went, and up I Woe presently with
every coin, whereupoq Icott pronounced
my diving education tomplete. Poor
fellow, he was drowne 1 about five years
ago while bathing in tlq nver Magdalen,
in British Columbia. j
“Did you ever see
Then I will put mine
idea of one," and the
state room, wheuCe hi
in full divimr costumi
cast iron helmet, wh
company raised from
upon him, thus maki
Iviog dress? No?
and give you an
in retired to his
•esectly emerged
ixcept the heavy
several of the
te deck and placed
his outfit com
?ver to look in
ry thick leather
°P tlx,
Rain, when his
“1 said : “My lather publisned a song * lete The dress is |»lly two dresses,
about you.” “Indeed 1 .Can you sing it ?" one wilhin th9 other,' C h of India rubber.
Yes, sir; I came here to siag it to you. stockings, pants and skirt are all
Several gentlemen had followed the chief togetner as one arment, which the
from the inner room and my ingenuous diver enterg at the Ql c feet first. The
confession was greeted with a - isghter banclg are left bare, t > wristbands of the
which mortified me no little until, quickly j^ber shirt-sleeves ghtly compressing
looking up into my hero s face, 1 saw there lhe wrist8 _ T h ere i8 copper breastplate,
only apleased expectancy which convinced b8ann g uvoa its 0 »r, convex surface
me he only spoke the truth when he said : 8mgll which , adjusted through
“I am very glad. Come, now sit on my ho , eg m tbe neck ot ^ akirtt W ht cht by
knee and sing it all through. ’ which I m ean8 of nuts fastene ipon the scre^
did. It was only an adaption o “Bruce s ^ held ^ ^ ln p i^ 8 to render tbe
Address” to our „wn circumstances and entirc dregg| frora u^eck downwards,
k e 8 aD • absolutely air and wertigbt. Fitting
“'leSSI’ w^omHS8X*HM n ofteu < ie<L” d ’ with e( l ual closeness to us breastplate is
. ’ . , . . , the helmet meitiooeatbove. It com-
but uThadheai Sontag or Malibra/and P \ e / b \ y b ea f , SS e c^fi n ron 1 t 8 ftnd? Plie a < t
the song had been the most famous of 8 ^Tto ec-^^e f UU “
aria«, no more profound homage could have eacu . 8 "\ ™ pan- 0 f
been rendered than I and my simple piro- any airL ‘ a A f to i 8ce
dy received. Proud, happy, intensely
flattered, 1 prepared to go. “Won’t you gee,” said t
lie punished for being late at school f'^elmet had been remo/ed, after every-
asked the lawyer. “1 reckon so, bulXC^y had am pie time to criticise his ap-
seen General Houston I" was the^' ori ‘ I peanmee in it. “it takes about flfteeu
whereupon the trieud of Jacksp'“ UB88et! J ‘minutes to put those logs on, and when
gressman and ex-Governor /-tident of a the diV(jr ig n gg e d in them all but the
hero of San Jacinto and g‘ Te kim his ueltnet lnere are placed acro ts his shout-
Republic, asked someth with you, little ders sustaining two leaden weights,
bat and said: “V your excuses and ooe ban g in g at his back, the other at his
daughter, anffidme t» the school bouse ji e then goes down a ladder into
actually wei>a ready pardon for my late- ^ water up ^ his armpits, and then the
and obts r , , . helmet is placed on him, the glass in front
ness, hot see him again for nearly two I 8crewed j n place and when everything
.. when I met him on the street one reaC iy he is made aware of the fact by
,y and was instantly recognized by him & ^0^ 0 n the top of the helmet. He then
and greeted by name. All the circum-1 down . mean8 0 f a rope previously
stances of my visit to him were recalled lowem i hand under hand, to the bottom
as freshly te if 1 were a person of import- Qf lhe gea> Sometimes, in very strong
ance and he had had nothing else to think I urre j g neoe s8ary to make the
of since. Cinnot the reader see in thrae wei _ alg extraordinarily heavy m order to
two instances some of the causes of his liuj diver ,i 0Wn> notwithstanding the
unbounded popularity? He never forgets ^at the dress alone weighs ntary
name nor a face. At the time of my | iwq huadr e < i pounds, sud yet I do not
down among the
that of an ordl-
the water. It
bottom of the sea as I ever can under any
circumstances. While engaged in raising
the sunken schooner Dauntless in King
ston, Jamaica, on the 18th of August,
1880, I became so disgusted at the stupidi-
of the men above in answering my signals
that 1 took a book which I found in the
captain’s cabin, and sitting down, read it
for nearly an hour. I once knew a diver,
Tom Brintley by name, who, though a
thoroughly competent man and a good
fellow, was a little too fond of stimulants.
On one occasion he went down with a
pretty good cargo of spirits aboard, and
the men above,not knowing his condition,
became seriously alarmed when several
hours passed by without their receiving
any signals from him or any response to
tho«> they made to him. Another diver
was sent down to look for him, and found
him lying on his back on the bottom of
the ocean, sixty feet below the surface,
fast asleep.
“Wnat is the greatest depth I ever de
scended to? Well, about ninety feet, and
it takes me about three minutes to go down
that tar.”
“Must not s diver be a practical ship
builder, also?”
“Oh, yes, the diver who could do
nothing but dive would be of very little
use. He must be both a ship carpenter
and a boiler maker as well, that he may
repair sunken ships. Th« holus must be
patched and the water pumped out before
a ship can be raised.
“Sharks? 1 have often seen large
schools of them. They would advance to
within a feet of me and would then stop
and look at me in apparent wonder, as
though trying to make out what manner
of strange creature they were gazing at.
They are a most cowardly fish, however,
and the slightest menace on my part
would frighten them away. As I was re
pairing the schooner Shepherd in Kingston
one day, 1 felt something tampering with
my left-hand middle finger. Looking, 1
found a baby shark, evidently much too
young to leave its maternal parent, trying
to nibble it.
“The pay of a diver? That varies.
Divers generally work by the Job, and
when the do that they sometimes make it
pay very well. A diver will go down,
look at a vessel and then slate what he
wilt chargd to raise her. #1 raised the
schooner Dauntless in two days and re
ceived $760 for my time and trouble. The
steamer Meredith, ashore at Jeremie, in
Havti, l repaired with iron plates and
raised her in fourteen days, receiving
$7,600 tor the work, but I had to employ
two assistants. Frequently, however,
divers are paid by the day, and then the
average compensation is about $10 per
day of feur hours, clear ot all expenses,
the diver Iteing furnished with first-class
board during the period of his employment
But some divers arc not nearly so well
meat receive! only ten shillings a day.
“Instructions in diving? You will ex
perience great difficulty in finding a diver
who will give you any instruction in the
art. Most of us want to make all we can
and we don't want our occupation to be
come too crowded. Divers, as a rule, are
very much opposed to taking apprentices.
If you want to learn diving put on a dress,
go down into the depths and learn for
yoursel'.'’
I ootgear Of Actresses
A Macaroni Mint.
Six Italians assist Signor Scalchl in bis
macaroni manu factory on Baker street, be
low Seventh, Philadelphia. Three of the
liHuds are women, and four or five babies
are usually stacked up promiscuously in a
comer ot the second floor back, where the
pasty sticks are made. Sclralchl has the
reputation of making macaroni that never
can by any possibi’ity be mistaken for the
imported article. He produces cheaply
and pays his employees about twelve cents
a day each. His macaroni is of the most
unerthodox character aud quita unlike
what usually passes under that name. It
never gets beyond the Italian quarter in
the neighborhood of Carpenter street.
Scalchl once, Imbued with the idea of in-
creasiug his business called on a whole
sale grocer in this city and unfolded a
oag of samples of the best macaroni
ho could .make, carefully selected for
its symmetry and whiteness. He has never
since known exactly how it was, but he
found himself on the sidewalk, samples
and all That one kick, besides bruising
him. knocked away all his enterprise, and
he now carries on a desultory sort or trade,
employing no drummers.
A reporter recently picked his way
among Italians who were picking mgs
and, by a circuitous route reached the steps
of the house where is the Scalchi tenement.
A cunuus bundle oat on the second step
and the reporter strode over it aud was be
ginning to go up stairs when the bundle
arose and began to talk female Italian.
On the stairs were other bundles, which
snored and swore. After a time a door
was reached on which was painted (eyi-
dently with a finger dipped in ink) the
legend: “li. Scalchi, Macaroni Saloon.”
Scalchi himself jumped up as the re
porter entered the room. He is a small
man, writh a black beard aud diminutive
eyes. His myrmidons laid down their
work and stared vacantly, with eyes and
mouth wide open. Like a flash he grabbed
a broomstick behind the door and brought
it down with a sounding thwack on the
shoulders ot a miserable little Neapolitan,
who seemed only too glad of an opportun
ity to be idle.
“Worka, cobblestone, boarding house
dam,” he shrieked, or words to that ef
fect.
1 he effect was magical. The figures re
sumed their occupations It may be here
stated that an American hanger-on of the
establishment subsequently explained that
Bcalclu’s sentence was supposed to mean :
“Work, you leather-souled sons of Italy I”
This is all the English dcalchi knows and
he makes use of it from the fact that his
people think it a terrible imprecation.
On tbe middle of the floor was a large
crock of a sticky material, like paste.
From this the macaroni was being fash
ioned. The process in use was primitive
settco B —*— * tf—l-a.
iert vxsiore fiuger-markc, and commenced
FOOD FOR THOUGHT.
The only jewel which will not decay
is knowledge.
It is not a profession, but fruit that
glorifies God,
A sanctified heart is better than a
silver tongue.
Enterprise loses strength if its efforts
bear no fruit
not confined to any
in right than sno-
rlaud by a native
jf tnat country, named Bausr, who spent
a small couipentency in having it paten ed
and in trying to bnng it into use, but he
died a disappointed, heart-broken pauper,
benefit of bis
ueir
for-
itor.
amazement
no notice of
a slight bow
your
aud the u>-« “Peace be with you!
spoken 8°^ Arabic, though with an
npowstakably French accent Stepping
into the shade of the palms, he bent
down to the stream, took a long draught
of the cool clear water, and then seating
himself upon the bank took off his
turban, and began to fan his hot face
with a 1 alien palm ieaf, as if wishing to
show his coolness in a double sense.
The Arabs were completely taken
aback. They had seen men look pale,
“4
of the heebie.. I ^ hlraaeFf taught” me with bit, of coloted
ble Frer, ifrankl” roared the sheik, paper how te make a Texas flag.
_ fwOeae* •‘do
onr magical tricks upon a true behev- ^8^ j. ad lt Irom an Indian chief. 1 wish
ar? Take that!” I could give his very words instead of my
He snatched a pistol from his girdle, memo ry of them. “A long time ago.
an<f aimed it full at the oonjurer’s face; when the Spaniards overran and plundered
but it out, d«hod “ “d » he
dafthed it furiously to the ground, his ^ wlo Qrsnde, and not knowing what lay
unmoved opponent laughed disdain- before them entered upon the great salt
fully. marshes. They traveled many days and
“Do you Ihi ik, then, that I am to be I found but little sweet water or game.
hurt by mortal weapons? Try it again. T'be “‘'f* ^ ’Jitt'erem I Tbro-ugn a hose this sir passes lui-. the
f you will! o, tether let me led . 1 I o. hu helmet, emi om, ;u vieo.
toi for you, and you shall see whether 11 ren died of tumt. one day, after
ren died of thirst. One
am bullet-proof or no.” I man y weeks of weary walking, a party of
He drew a second pistol from the young braves k who had been sent t head to
8l Mt. el the eh*, ^“^,0““’.^°^".•“«.
astounded to object; and loaded it be- news put new hfe into their vein*
fore the eyes of the whole band, mark- I gnd slvh mgh nothing could be seen but a
inu the ball with bis knife just before dry, flat prairie, the scouts were standing
dropping it into the barrel. I sud. calling and beckoning to them and
“Firel” cried he, putting the weapon
in*o urn siieixa mnu. —
The chief fired, and for a moment
the smoke hid everything. When it
cleared, the stranger, with a mocking | ineledy to heaven. Beyond, “ e ^ en
smile on his face, was seen to let fall
they had seen men
at them pistol in hand; but a man who
paid no attention to them at all, and
who hardly seemed to know whether
„ _,, T8 there or not, was a thing
»hL tLy had never seen before, and the marked bullet from his month into
T^inot know what to make of it. his hand, and hold it np for every one
still calling _
pointing toward something apparently at
At length they reach the apofc where the
hraves are standing. Fiftyjfeet below them
the limpid waters of the Colorado sang
they di<* n °t , : ,
^ fa ^, like most men of their class,
^ be moment they encountered .a man
w *>ni they o,uld not frighten, they at
uoe began to be frightened themselves.
At length the chief, seeming to think
Inmoelt bound to set an example ol
courage to his followers, wa ked right
up to the stranger, while the test ap
proached more cautiously, very much
as a man approaches a strange dog
which may spring np and bite him at
any moment
‘Peace be with thee, my brother)’
to look at.
The dark faces of the Arabs turned
perfectly green with terror; but before
anybody had time to say a word a loud
thout was heard from behind, and np
•lashed three mounted French officers
with a score of light horseman.
Instantly the Arabs took to their heels
with a how! of dismay, never waiting to
see whether the new comers were real
men, or phantoms called np by the ter
rioie maginian. The spot was deserted
in a moment, and fa out on the plain
an Indian vision could reach, stretched
green expanse. The tall mesquite urass,
yielding to the breath of tbe gentle south-
wind, rolled in vast billows of verdure
under the art ent summer sun. Little
“islands'’ of mesquite tree* dotted this
grassy ma, aud herds of buffalo and deer
grazed in peacefu : ignorance of an enemy’s
approach. Forgetting hunger, fatigue and
even thirst in this delicious vision the red
men fall upon their knees and cry out:
“Tehssl Tehasl”
“Tehas” is the nearest approach I can
m ah« in English to the correct pronuacia
tlon of Texas, and it means—so the narra
tor exifiained to me—Paradise.
How LOU a U h Mile?
•aid the in a voice not quite so I might be seen a confused whirl of arms,
limbs and white mantles flying along
like dost irivep by the wind.
'Really, M. Houdin, you must be
more careful,’* cried the French Colo
nel, excitedly. “To think of your van
hiring alone among ail those cut-throats!
What a fright you’ve given us!”
“And somebody else, too, seemingly,”
said Robert Hondin -for it was, indeed,
the famous sleight of-hand artist—
glancing slyly at the dying Arabs.
“When I tint came upot them 1 knew
steady as it might have been.
“With thee be peace, oh, sheik
(chief) of the children of the desert!”
replied the unknown.
“What seeks the Frank (European;
chinf amnng the warriors of the tribe of
Ben-Asyr?”
“I am a magician,” answered the
stranger, quietly.
The Arabs looked at each other with
undisguised trepidation. A magician
mong them, and a Frank magician at
A nautical mile, or an English admi-
isHy knot, is 6,080 feet. The United
Stales Coast Sorvey, always roost ac
curate in such things, has adopter,
1,853.248 metres, .or 6,080.27 feet as
the standard mile, which is popularly
“a minute of latitude,” but more aocu
rately the sixtieth part of a degree on
the great circle of a sphere whose sur
face is equal to the surface of the earth.
A minute of 1st! ode, according to the
head of the Coast Surrey, would be
1,861.666 meters at the poles, and
1,842.786 meters at the equator.
One
leaving others to reap the
invention."
•Dan you breathe as freeiy in
diving dress as you can out of it ?
“Yes, indeed. When ten or twelve
fathoms under water my breathing is as
wholly devoid of effort as it is when I am
walking about on dry land. You know
by means oi an air pump, woriced by
two men, the diver is supplied with air.
a I
of
entrance is a spring valve for its escape.
This valve can be controlled by the diver,
but he usually sou it before going into the
water and seldom disturbs it afterwards
The pressure of the Mr being greater than
that o! the water a surplus o! the former
readily escapes. When thL valve Is not
sufficient the diver can open in his breast
plate a similar spring valve, intended only
i or suen an emergency. He cm also
regulate tne amount of air pumped to him
by signals upon the an' hose lo the m ;u
engaged in pumping. Ooe pull upou the
h'.»o means more air; two pulls, less air,
and two pulls and a shake, *1 want to
come up.’ Tbe signals on the air-hose are
generally used by ail divers, but each <one
of us has hts own private code of signals
on the Hie Hue, watch is always fastened
to tne diver’s waist, and by means of
which he is drawn np out of the water
These signals each direr writes down very
carefully aud gives to the man iu charge
ol the life line. By means of these we
can send up tor tools, material etc. When
a lengthy comiudulcati ns is to be made
we suid up for a slate sod write wj, #e
want to say. it is just as easy to tevi ao4
write under water as out of it.. One cau
See Very piaimj. allobj ots ueilig grcail;
magnified.”
‘Does a diver have any unpleasaut
sensations while at worst ’
“None, save a drumming in tbe ear\
and this will sometimes destroy the bear-
ing if the diver remains too long below. 1
Four nours—two in the morning and two
in the afternoon—coaUilute a day’s work,
aud it the diver restricts binueif to this
limit there ia little or no danger of his be
coming deal; but if he goes much beyond
it he is pretty sure to injure his Leariug. 1
once remained under waier for nine hours,
aud as a con* qvjnce completely lost the
use of my left ear for three months, dur
ing which time 1 suffered agony with ear
ache. Eventually, however, my hearing
became normal again. Aside - irosi thin,
“Talking of small feet, ’ said a dealer
in ladies’ fancy and theatrical shoes, re
cently, “I am making now two ot the
smallest pairs of shoes that were seen
upon a public stage. They are for the
Midgets, one pair tor each of them. They
wiii be No. UJ, infants’ size, and will cost
iil3apalr.
“Tnat will be rather more than $5 an
inch, won’t it ?’’
“Yes, the shoes will be about as long as
your finger."
“How small a size did you ever know a
full grown actress to wear <”
“I thin* a No. 18 is about the smallest
slipper that 1 ever had the pleasure of
selling to be flourished over the heads of
an orchestra.”
•‘What are the favorite shoes with
feminine stars just now?”
“Brocaded satin, either boots or slippers
and made with high Lonis XV. heels
The boots cost $26 a pair and the slippers
$12. Then there are hand painted slippers
imported from Pans. I do not think that
these, however, will stand stage use very
well snd they are not likely to be per
manently popular. Just now they are all
the rage. Then we have real dressed seal
skin low-quartered shoes, whicn are quite
popular. It makes very little differeuce
what character a lady assumes, she will
generally prefer a stylish modern boot to
one perhaos more historically correct.
The Sultan’s wife and the Utah settler’s
daughter ate each bound to OOSue QP. the
stage In the latest French slippers, lor the
reason that these look much smaller and
prettier and withal cense more palpitasios
in the region of the tr ont tow of the par
quellFor gentlemen, where the char
acters assumed will allow it, the gondola
slippers are very showy. They are made
of buff alligator skin and in the shape of
a gondola. Rob on and Ctane bought
K ondala* when they were here for the
•Two Dromios.’ Robson takes a No. 6,
which is small ior him.”
“How can the poorly paid subardinates
and chorus-girls afford to buy $26 satin
bo Re, which will quickly aid and spoil ?”
‘They do not. T«.ey buy wMe canvas
or jeans boots, which can Urea be o ivered
With silk, or even cambric, as desired
The canvas shoes will outlast several cov
and their first cost is only $2 or
to beat it about with two little sticks.
Then a child, apparently not more than
eighteen inches long, who looked like a
round ball, caught hold of a small pair of
bellows and began working them for dear
life. The air pumped by. the bellows had
1 through the stove and was hot.
Next the artist began to build his slick of
macaroni lengthways from the mouth ot
the tube, and as the hot air touched It it
became hard enough to retain the neces
sary shape. The pastry pipe had, of
course, to be constantly moulded by the
hands to prevent Us blowing out into all
sorts of sizes and figures. The process re
sulted in bundles of unequal aud badly-
shaped macaroni tubes, such as are never
seen In groceries, it was impossible to
find ont the exact composition of the paste,
but it appeared to bo made of coarse hour,
with a mixture of some thick meal. A.
pan of muddy looking water, in which
proportion of gum arable had been
mingled, was what the meal was moistened
with, bcalchi was, of course, unable to
explain the virtues of the different articles
or describe them by name, but he danced
around and grinned as if exceedingly
pleasca with his own ingenuity, every now
and then stopping to give & playful knock
with the broom handle to his associates or
break over their heads any shamefully
“botched" pipe of his national food.
In the' midst of the work, while the
leader ,of everything was putting ashes,
stale potatoes and other rubbish in the
stove instead of coal, there was a resound
ing yell and the child who manipulated the
bellows tumbled headforemost into the
paste. For a happy, sohtaiy moment the
boy stood perpendicular, wroi g side up, in
the heavy mass, then he toppled over up
setting everything on the floor. Bcalchi
lost his self possession for a second, but
was soon himself again. The small boy
sat in the middle ol the arena with eyes,
mouth, ears and lace plastered wuh dough.
Tne thick paste traveled slowly but surely
over the grimy boards. Dcaiehi uttered an
mmortal yell, waved his broomstick, nghu
ed the crock and in a minute every living
thing in the room, except the reporter and
the Iwy, was scooping up the paste and
tossing it into the earthen vessel The
stuff which adhered to the Infan' was
carefully scraped off and thrown in with
the rest.
Before leaving the reporter was shown
six large boxes of macaroni the color of
cigar ashes. There is very little romance
about macaroni-making, and Scalchi is the
most uninteresting 'person in the world
cringe,
$3" RPHpmRH
•"What do you cons-der a small foot i>>r
a Urge woman ?’’
“A large woman who can comfortably
wear a Mo. 3 may be said to have a smell
foot. 1 have, howev'ef, seen such wbo
only take a No. 1. A mediumn-sized
woman, to have a small foot, would re
quire about a No. 2, and a small woman
a No. 1 or No. If But you take the
smallest Udies, as they average, and not
ope in the hundred can wear a No. 1 It
is not once s week that we have a call for
a No. I, and very rarely indeed is a No.
13 wanted.
Happiness is
sphere of life.
Rather be beaten
oeed in wrong.
To laugh at roguery makes the ac-
toon doubly dishonest.
Love does not impute evil designs or
thoughts of others.
Gratitude, says some one, is the
meuorj of the heart.
The greatest truths are the simplest;
so are the greatest men.
Other men’s sins are before our evm
oiu own behind our back.
That man alone is worthy of a wo
man s love who has judged her worthy
ot ms respect.
Those who come to you to talk about
others are the ones who go to others to
talk about yon.
If we expect to achieve anything
worthy in this life, we must set about if
witn resolution.
J^Th 18 ^ U not recipro-
cated, it will flow back and soften and
purify the heart.
To be able to bear provocation is an
argument of great wisdom; and to for-
give it, of a great mind.
It matters not whether home is clothed
in bine and purple, if it is only brimful
of love, smiles and gladness.
Never reflect on a past action which
was done with a good motive, and with
the best judgment at the time.
Whatever exception occurs, it is a
great tenth that man’s body must be
sound if he is to be sound in mind and
in body.
Solitude is a powerful aid to reflec
tion and imagination. Tue brighter
faoalties necessarily dwindle in a perpet
ual bustle.
Nothing is easier than fault-finding.
No talent, no self-denial, no character
busffiS;* 1 40 " et UP the Grumbling
Envy ia a littleness of soul which
cannot be beyond a certain point, and
if it does not occupy the whole apaoe,
feels itself exe«i1«rit.
and not dimples.
Thera is nothing nobler in a man
than courage; and the only way to ba
courageous is to be clean-handed and
hearted, to be able to respect ourselves
and face our reoord.
A good woman i<» the loveliest flower
that blooms under heaven.
What we know here is very little, bnt
what we are ignorant of is immense.
The sileuoe of a person who loves to
praise is a censure sufficiently severe.
It is best to have yonr cake, says an
old adng-4, while yon still have teeth to
eat it with.
The man who can say all he has got
to say in a few words is an ngly ous
tomer to handle.
Use no hartful deceit; think inno
cently and justly; and, it yon speak,
speak accordingly.
Those who blow the coals ot others
strife, may chance to have the sparks
fly in their own faces.
The man who lives in vain lives worse
than in .vain. He who lives to no pur
pose lives to a bad purpose.
Men will wrangle for religion, write
for it, fight for it, die for it—anything,
bat live for it.
Christianity proves itself, as the sun
is seen by its own light Its evidence
is involved in its existence.
There is mnoh safety in the absence
of the bottle; and the abstinent father
is not a tempter of his child.
Whatever the weight of a reason
against fermented liquor, it is weightier
still against distilled spirit.
Cheerfulness makes the mind dearer,
gives tone to thoughts and adds grace
and beauty to the countenance.
Misfortunes come to man tnrough
excessive love of self. He misjudges
things •just, good, and beautiful, through
thinking he ought always to honor
to himself in preference
what belongs
to truth.
Rejoice not when thy enemy faileth,
and let not thy heart be glad when he
stumbleth. A benevolent eye, humil
ity of spirit, and a mind free from pride
characterize the true disciples of Abra
ham.
When yob have learned how to live
It appeared that the persons who make th* wp ;i t yon will know how to die well.
farinaceous article of food have to study
long and tediously be t ore tbcjr can success
fully work by Bcalchi’g method, which is
said to be one of the earliest kinds.
A Charming Ctucom.
minute of the equator would be 1,846.-] the sensations are delightful, and I feel
346 gretera, or 6,087,15 feet, 1 just as w^l, happy and contented at %
Avanoe is generally the last passion
of those lives of which the first part has
been squandered in pleasure, and (h*
second devoted to ambitlop.. that
silks under tbe fatym ot
wealth, lulls l^a age W*th 11
> bpquress of saying it.
There is a custom prevailing among the
iotia iltacts of the bandeman Islands,
which may throw a light upon the civilized
use of wedding cake. Waen a native girl
whose exceptional beauty bus brought her
many suitors is knocked down with a ciub
and carried off by her accepted suitor, the
wedded pair, within forty-eight hours ot
wedding, send a cup oi poison distilled
from the hulahula tree to each and every
one of the bride’s former admirers. If
any recipient feels that he cannot become
reconciled to the marriage, he drinks the
poison and dies; but If he decides that he
will survive the loss of hi* intended wife,
he throws away the prison, and feeu
pound m honor never to show the slightest
sign qf dlssappointmeni. By this admir
able system the husband is spared the
pangs of jealousy, and, able to live on
getting , -m _ .
Utq tT lrlA " friendly tenns.with. the surviving admirers
*M»NUe,
Be not sorry if men do not know you,
but bo sorry if you are ignorant of men.
Not to correct yonr fan its is to commit
new ones.
I am ooustitntionally susceptible of
noises. A carpenter’s hammer, in a
warm summer's noon, will fret me into
mow than midsummer madness. But
those unconnected, unset sounds are
nothing to the measured malice of
music.
The old in religion dies, the old
error, the oW dispensation, the old su
perstition, Tmt not the old religion.
This is forever new and forever fresh.
For this there io no decline, no decay;
for it is the life of God in the souL
Faith gratefully and reverently ac
knowledges and uses the past, but she
seta her face toward the future. The
outward form of truths held sacred by
men ia destined to be remodeied
the progress of knowledge; yet in
their dt iper essence there is a spirit
which will move energetically. *ith the
yto
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n
good
by th
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development of all that is most pre
cious and glorious in
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