Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Oh, the pine, the green pine, Let Its praises be mine! I sing of its beauty when south winds are sweeping, S( When partridge-vine under its shadow comes creeping, a When wood-roses blow in the sunflecks below g And Hip fprns nresenfc arms in a riotinz rOW, Oh, the pine, the green pine, d Let its praises be mine! s S' Hail the evergreen pine. Let its praises be mine! < Ci I sing of its courage when north winds are si blowing, Ci Of its power of greenngss in freezing and' snowing. ** In the bloom of the rose or the weight of li the snows, si When the pine-siskine builds or the last songster goes, Hail the evergreen pine, 11 Still its praises are mine! 0 Sighs the evergreen pine, J1 "Countless uses are mine! 13 Lo! the masts of great ships where vast oi oceans are spreading; g The floor and the stairway that dear feet are treading; a The table and stool, and the windlass and u spool; w Lo! the last snug, strong box of the king h and the fool; J These gifts are all mine," tings tne evergreen pine. u w Hail the pine, the green pine, For its God is still mine! .With its delicate beauty in summer winds s< sighing. . " st With the strength of its verdure in winter . undying, J Let us stand, let us rise, let us reach to ci the skies, ... w Be glad in our growing if life sings or ^ sighs; And for purpose divine % r< Trust the God of the pine. ?Edith Willis Linn, in Christian Reg- w iater. t< d H?f] j THE SOW'S EAR ^ f Hp firnrna Reiner lWarip I W W ? ? ? ^ w* j? Into a Silk Purse. j tl Vi9??oe?Q?C??Ma<?? J " "I don't care nothin' about style, b myself," observed the man with the is tobacco-stained bosom to the perfect v stranger who sat opposite to him at p the table. "Because I drop a fork on t) the floor ain't no sign that it's goin' to poison me. It's all poppycock a bringin' on another one. After the o tip, that's what he is." v "It's quite a simple matter to wipe ti it off on your pocket handkerchief, of w course," observed the perfect stran- o ger. d "Sure?if you want to," said the tobacco-stained man. "When Income e: . Into a restaurant I come for some- s: thing to eat." a "It's the primary object, certain- c; <y," agreed the perfect stranger. y "You bet your life it is," said the o tobacco-stained man. "There's some, though, that seem to want style, it They don't care what's brought on t< so long as the dishes is all right. My ii wife's that way, but I ain't. She's a e: holy terror for style." . si "Indeed?" said the perfect stran- e ger. b "Yon bet you," said the tobacco- ic stained man. "That's where her an' w me disagree. 'You can give me my b chuck on a tin plate if you want to,' ti I tell her. I'd as lief eat my gravy tl with a steel-bladed knife as a silver f< plated one with a pearl handle, so o long as the gravy's what gravy ought p /-'to be. I don't want no change o^ p plates to eat my pie, either." ^ b "It simplifies housekeeping to eat a all the food from one plate, natur- , ci ally," said the perfect stranger. si "You bet your life," said the to- tl bacco-stained man. "What's the use & o' messin' up half a dozen kinds o' iishes at one meal? Does it make the food taste any better? I'd like > to have you tell me how." u "In some countries they just bring f) on the kettle and let everybody fish ' In it to suit himself," said the perfect etranger. "Then there are no dishes y to wash at all." t] "They haven't got sense enough to do that in this country," said the to- j bacco-stained man. "There wouldn't ^ be style enough about it. What peo- c pie in this country want is style. Look at the things we've got in our ^ houses. There's another thing? we've got to have our chairs uphols- 0 tered in plush an' velvet an' tidies over the backs of 'em an' centre tables an' vases on the mantelpiece an' fuss an' fixin's wherever you turn. I have to stand for it, bein' a married man, but I don't take no stock in it." "It was luxury that led to the r downfall of Rome," remarked the perfect stranger. "I don't know about that. I D wasn't never South," said the tobacco-stained man. "I know what's the ^ matter with Chicago, though. What's a house for? It's to live in. ain't it? As long as there's four walls an' a ^ rArtf nrlioi mnro /1A mnnf 9 P ?*?/> ** i vvi n ut*i iuuic uu j u u uaui; uivc _ me a bed to sleep on an' a table to eat off of an' a chair to set in an' an- a other one put my feet on an' a cuspidor an' that's all I'll ask of you." "You evidently believe in the sim- * pie life," said the perfect stranger. "If I believe in it I don't get it, by a long shot," growjed thfe tobacco- c stained man. "Yes, ,1 believe in the ? simple life an^ I belieVe in solid comfort an" I believe in common sense, c an' that's what a woman don't believe a in. My wife don't, anyway. What a she wants is style, an' she ain't satis- c fiecJ with being stylish herself, but ? she wants me to be. I tell her that's . all right, but if she works on me \ from now to Rosehill she won't get v me no different to what I am." "You can't make a silk? Ahem!" "What's that?" asked the tobaccostained man. s "It would seem to he a little too 1 much to expect." * "Clothes." resumed the man with ? the tobacco-stained bosom. "There's s clothes. What do I want of stylisli c clothes? I wear clothes to keep m c . warm, don't I? Ain't that what ,J clothes are for? I don't care if they i ain t the latest cut as long as they're 1 j warm an' comf'table." * "If you had a perfect covering of t bristles you wouldn'twantany, would c ? you?" said the perfect stranger.? ? |r Chicago News. I 1 p An Important Distinction. j I "That dog with a new muzzle acts as if he were mad," said the timid citizen. ^ "No," answered the man of precise 1 ' speech; "not mad. Only indignant." 1 i?Washington Star. * if / ' 1 j Structure of Hailstones* By CLEVELAND ABBE. There are three plausible hypothees as to the origin of the snowy ice t the centre of a hailstone. (a) The hailstone may have be un with the formation of a ball or now, and the clear ice may be a eposit of cold water, frozen a few econds later by the cold of the urrounding atmosphere. In this ase the air that is mixed with the nowy ice at the centre would be ompressed by the freezing of the urrounding clear ice, and would be berated as a bubble when the hail:one is melted under water. (b) The nucleus of the hailstone lay have been at first a large drop f water, containing dissolved air, hich is forced out by the process of eezing, precisely like the bubbles f air that are seen in cakes of articial ice. Cold water can dissolve a appreciable percentage of its volme of air, all of which is eitruded hen water freezes; a bubble of ighly compressed air might thus be )rmed at the centre of the hailstone. [ such a hailstone be melted in cold ater slowly, all of this air will be ^dissolved, and no bubble will be ?en to rise to the surface, if the :one be dissolved in hot water rapidr, or especially if the stone be rushed forcibly and quickly under ater, the air may escape as a buble without having had time to be ^dissolved. (c) A hailstone formed of pure ater that has had no opportunity > absorb or dissolve air cans be reuced to a temperature far below reezing, but will eventually turn to :e, at which moment its temperaare will rise to thirty-two degrees 'ahrenheit, and it will assume a rystalline structure, so as to reliable snow. Such a hailstone has, lerefore, a snowy nucleus without lclosed air, and on being melted nder water will, of course, show no ubble. In fact, the central space ? occupied, not by air, but by the apor of water only, and as the ressure is very small, we may liken lis to a partial vacuum. All these three forms of hailstones, i nd other forms as yet unthought f, are possible; and if we could inent methods of distinguishing beveen these three kinds of hailstones e should have a better knowledge' f what goes on in the upper air uring the formation of hail. Those who have proper conveniaces will find that the study of hail- j tones under polarized light gives dditional information as to their rystalline structure, but has not as et told us much about the process f formation. As ice is a poor conductor of heat, : is worth while to make some effort ) determine the temperature of the iterior of a large hailstone. The xternal surface may safely be asumed to have the temperature of vaporation or the average wetulb temperature prevailing in the >wer thousand feet of air through rhich the hail1 has rapidly fallen, ut the centre must be at a temperaire more nearly corresponding to lat at which the nucleus was jrmed. There is, therefore, a state f strain that should be revealed by olarized light. The average temerature of the whole hailstone may U tJaiiij auu uucLLi; uctcimmcu uj llowing hail to melt within a alorimeter, where the heat conumed can be determined, and then tie temperature be computed.? lonthly Review. Quite Safe. "John, love," said the young wife, you oughtn't to have any' secrets rom me." "Well, Tootsie?" "You go to lodge meetings, and ou never tell me anything about aem." "They wouldn't interest you, dear, don't mind giving you the password, bough, if you'll promise never to dislose it to a living soul." "I'll promise never to tell it td anyody." "Remember, ,it's- to" be repeated j nly once and very rapidly." "I'll remember. What is it?" | " Aldaborontiphosciphorniosticos." "What? Please say it again, a litle slower." "Have you forgotten the conditions . lready? I said 'only once and very | apidly." " (Tearful pause.) "O, dear! I Avish you hadn't told ; ae! "?Chicago Tribune. Drinks One-seventh of His Income. A German physician, Dr. Hirschield, has been computing the quanity of alcoholic drink consumed in . Jerlin. Berlin possessed three years j go 12,892 drinking shops?one for ilO inhabitants?in addition to 301 I t-here wine only is sold. During the i leriod the Berliners consumed 438,139,532 liters of beer. 24,704,525 liers of brandy and 19,956,062 liters if wine. This works out at an avrage annual consumption a head oi he population of 236% liters of aloholic drink, at a cost of 100 marks, l mark being one shilling. As the iverage income of the Berliners, inluding women and children, is! .bout 683 marks, it may be said that he Berliner spends a seventh of hia ncome in intoxicating drinks.?Lon-1 Ion Globe. The Craving For Notoriety. "The late Joel Chandler Harris," ] aid an Atlanta clergyman, "used to augh at the way everybody seemed o want a free advertisement of some iort from the editor. It was th6 iame, he would say, with the physi :ian?everyuony wants iree auvice >n the health question from him. i "I once heard him tell about an edtor who served ten days in jail foi icking the mayor. The warden reated him very kindly, and at the en days' end, escorting him to the loor and shaking him by the hand, iaid: "W*U, goodby and good luck, ed, ^nd, a&y, would you mind giving the ail a puff?"?Washington Star. The provincial government oi shantung is building a new telegraph ine along the Yellow River, both to jetter the present service and aid in jiving flood warnings. I SEGREGATION OF VICE.. 2vGs5 Maude Miner, of Nigh Court, Favors This Svsten "Cadets live on the earnings o prostitutes; almost every woman o the street is supporting some man and the worst taunt one of them ca; give another i3 that her cadet ha nthpr wnmsn_ It is a fact that man cadets have five or six women work ing for them. The cadet follows hi woman in the streets, sees how mucl she takes in, takes it away from her beats her and threatens to kill her i she tells of him in the courts." The School of Philanthropy re served its most dreadful problem ti the la?t, and prostitution, considerei at its closing session, formed a sor rowful climax to the long array o scenes from the underworld whicl have been unrolled on the top floo of No. 105 EastTwenty-second street Miss Maude Miner, probation offl cer at the night court, was thi speaker. "It is exceedingly difficult," sh< continued, "to get any girl to testif; against the cadet who has had her ii bondage. She Is afraid of him. It i verv verv hard to eet anv man sen tenced *'ho has been living on thi earnings of such a woman, and whei he is it is only to sii months on thi island. I have known a girl to bi driven to the street by her cade within three weeks after the birtl of her baby by threats of exposure t< her parents, from whom she wai carefully hiding the sort of life shi was leading. I had turned over t< my care last night a girl who wa soon to become a mother. She wa ill and miserable and needed care yet she was soliciting on the street I induced her to take me to he home, and found that she was sup porting a man who had driven he out to work. Some white women ari supporting negro men; some Italiai men are living on the tainted earn ings of Jewish girls, and some Jewisl men on those of Christian girls. Th< number of foreign men who are tak ing up this kind of life is astonish ing, and it is extraordinarily difficul to convict them." Miss Miner unqualifiedly con demned the probation system fo these women, excepting in one in stance?that of the young girl ar rested absolutely for the first time who can be sent back to home, par ents or friends by the probation offi cer. "There are girls who have been ar rested twenty times and never sen away," said she; "instead of benefit ing them, that is harming them. Th only thing they really fear or care fo is imprisonment in a reformatory o elsewhere. I don't know that tha would reform them, but it would pre vent great numbers of young girl entering the life. As it is now, th gir! of the street tells the workim girls that there is no danger; sh won't be 'sent away.' Certain impri sonment for every arrest would dete great numbers of girls from enterin] the life. It is also almost impossibl to get a bond forfeited. Some mai puts up a bond for the girl's good be havior. If she goes back to th street he should be made to forfei that bond, but that rarely happens It all tends to make the girl despis the whole court system. rrJT.Tr, vrMl JLUUU5 S11 *3 Will IsUUllUUC tu cu ter this .life as long as so many mei are going about the smaller towns t get girls into the life. This is a plaii fact with which we are confrontei every day. The girls are induced t come to New York, sometimes to ge work or better wages, sometimes fo a good time. One girl of seventee; was put under my care who at four teen had been invited to a roadhous near a small town. She was kept ; prisoner for a few days, and whei she came out ruined it was only t come to New York and go into th life." Miss Miner declared strongly ii favor of segregation of vice. "In the last .three years prostitu tion has spread alarmingly in the ten ements," she said. "It is because o the activity of the police in raidin; the houses of the Tenderloin. I hai one girl who rented a room in a tene ment flat occupied by a man, wife am four children, and the children un derstood the whole matter. The scat tering of these women through th tenements horribly increases tempta tion to young girls." "Mis3 Miner, can a man help at al in this work?" asked one of the mei students. "Why, certainly,'' she replied, "li the whole cadet side of the questioi a man can be infinitely more usefu than a woman. How can the womai probation officer secure evidence ti convict those men? And what can do with a girl when I know that thi instant I let her out of my sight twi or three men are just waiting to ge hold of her, in order that she ma; be forced to syipport the one tha gets her? The duty of men whi want to help is to root out the cade system." More even than cadets, however Miss Miner found low wages and lacl of earning capacity at the bottom o the evil. "If I could offer the girls anythini more attractive," said she, "it wouli be an easier matter to get them ou of the life. But their standards o life have been raised. They have be come used to better clothes, food an< rooms. They hate to go back to thi little dark rooms they lived in whei they worked. They can hardly eari more than $12 or $14 a month a housework. They are not skillei workers at anything. They havi never had any mental, moral or in dustrial training. They cannot mak a living. A few of them are mental ly deficient. Most of them, while no uencieni, are stupid. 'i'lieir lgnor ance of everything is amazing. Man; of them are girls who earned only $1 a week in the sewing trades, and having no friends to live with, o course could not live on that suin Most of them are not dangerous? that is, not actively or intentionall; so. They are poor, stupid, ignoran victims. The bright street girl i . dangerous. She is the one who rob men, and the cadets are all thieve and teach the girls how to steal ii safety." closed the discussion. "New Tork i* i to be congratulated that it has n J ^ woman of Miss Miner's ability who will give her life at this forlorn out1 post of the social battle," said she. h "I don't know any other city in the . TTniforl QJ-otoc that hne Qliph ? wnmail. f She isn't going to do much to prel vent the social evil, but she i$ going ^ to learn some facts about it and tell s the rest of us. In her story we see Y the summing up of all the bad conditions we have mentioned this suras mer, the mentally deficient left at k large; the girl left without any training to make a living; wages too low j to live on; a condition of society in which no honest work a girl can do . will give her the good food, clothes , and housing that she can have in this j way. Here we see the relentless re. suit of it all. And when we know f how disease and vice are spread j through society and inflicted on unr born children, we see the frightful menace of the girl who is developed 1 physically and undeveloped mentally, e morally and Industrially."?From the New York Tribune. \ I SKILFUL AUSTRALIAN FISHERS. a s Their Dexterity in Use of Hard Wood Spear?Landing a Catch, e The aboriginals of the Australian i coastal regions, like most of the nae tlve South Sea Islanders, are extremee ly clever fishermen. In the case of t the Australian native tackle is often i confined to a slenderhard wood spear, 3 grotesquely carved. 3 Armed with such a weapon, the b "black fellow" will take a perch upon ?-???w- ftrtTiTTnmVnf wonlr o n A rrnrv ef ^ SUlliC UU11VCU1CUI/ X won. auu ga^c oi.caus ily into the wonderfully transparent s blue water. Intuition and Ions observation seem to supply an almost uncanny, knowledge as to the habits r and haunts of different fish at stated - times, and it is no uncommon feat? r for this type of fisherman to rise e suddenly to his feet and send his rude a spear hurtling through thirty feet of - space before it enters the water to i pierce clean through the body of a e big schnapper, a fine mullet or a jew - fish, almost as long as the fisherman - is tall. t Then the native leaps into the water and wades or swims ashore, - dragging his prize after him by the r gills.?London Standard. Change of Air. !, Some time ago the Virginia State j - line was altered so as to include a - patch of territory heretofore belong-'! ing to North Carolina. A section of the land thus transt ferred included a tumble-down cabin, - whpre dwelt, an aeed neero woman. e An inquisitive neighbor, calling to r see how the negress enjoyed the idea r of becoming a Virginian in her old t age, began the conversation by aski ing: s "How is the rheumatism, auntie?" e "Bettah, praise the Lawd!" was g the reply. e 'And the neuralgia?" "All gone. Clean depa'ted." r "And the stiff knee?" g "Frisky as a li'l colt!" e "Why, auntie, how on earth do q you happen to be so much better all i- of a sudden?" e "Well, miss," replied auntie prot foundly, "ah always done heah dat i. Virginny climate's a heap healthiahr e dan de climate of No'th Ca'lina. Ah reckon dat sho* counts fo' ma change - ro ae oetan.?i\ew xoric worm. Q o The Prince of Wales, a The Prince of Wales is not a strika ing figure; there is nothing heroic or o regal about him. Physically, he is a t duplicate of the Czar, his cousin. He r wore the full dress of an admiral of a the fleet. He is a smaller man than - one supposes from his picture, not so e broad of chest nor as full of face, a His hair and beard .border on the a tawny, and his eyes are light blue and 0 none too piercing, with deep wrinkles e beneath them. He appeared nervous throughout, constantly tugging at his a collar or toying with an order at hia throat. He was as perfectly groomed - a man as one could hope to see. Not - a wrinkle could be found in hisvtightf fitting uniform, nor, of course, a fleck 5 of dust on gloves, boots and regaiia. 1 When it came time for him to reply to the greetings of the Premier he read 3 his address in an uninteresting, col orless voice, making a better impression when he used the French tongue e than when he did his own.?Quebec - Correspondence Springfield Republi can. 1 * rj Why He Married. If? a You don't like a woman a And have "got it in" for her, 1 And want to "get even" with her, i Why, marry her. 0 That was John E. Black's system, 1 and, according to the woman he marq ried, it worked like a charm. Mrs. d Black says he reversed the usual rule t and married her because he disliked y her. t Mrs. Black filed suit for divorce 3 from Black yesterday in the Circuit t Court. She was divorced from him once before. But she declares in her - bill, "through spite and to get even t with her," Black married her again, f Then, according to her story, he treated her cruelly, humiliated her in the ; presence of her friends, and otherwise i made her life a burden, t "He married me to get even with f me and he made a good job of it," _ said Mrs. Black.?Chicago Interi Ocean. 6 j The Reason For Divorce. j Lawyer (to woebegone, moth ? catcu luuiviuuai ocaica in ms> uiuuc) | j ?"And why do you wish for a diB vorce? They are very expensive, you know." e Motheaten Individual (taking a dirty piece of paper out of his pockt et and handing it to the lawyer) ? "This is a bill for my wife's hat. If y I get a divorce I won't have to pay it. j The lawyer's fees will be about onefifth the price of the hat. See!"? j Puck. The Limit. y "My wife went shopping to-day, t and she had exactly $32.19 when she ctarforl rmt" s "How are you so sure she bad just s that much?" n "Because when she came back she / fme that was the amount she had ' Kidneys a la Beurre. Skin and split some fresh sheep's kidneys. Pat them in a cold frying pan over a brisk fire. Cook them for six minutes, turning them to prevent burning. Have ready some squares of hok buttered toast. Place each kidney on a piece, and put a pat of sweet butter in the middle of each kidney. Serve very hot. This is an excellent way of cooking kidneys. The chief thing is to have a cold frying pan and no fat.?New York Press. ? ? Trout a L'ltalienne. One good-sized trout, two chopped shallots, one teaspoonful chopped parsley, four tablespoonfuls of tomato or brown sauce, salt, pepper and nutmeg. Clean, wash and trim the fish. Well butter a fireproof dish. Failing that, a pudding dish will do. Lay in the fish, season it well with salt,, pepper and nutmeg. Shake over the parsley and shallot. Put a few small pieces of butter on the top. Bake in a hot oven for about eight or ten minutes, according to the size of the fish. Baste them frequently. Boil the sauce; see that it is well seasoned. Pour it over the fish and serve in the dish it was cooked in.? New York Press. v Stew of Venison. While we cannot all afford a roast saddle of venison, there are cheaper cuts that, rightly treated, make a most delicious stew. Cut the meat into small pieces, dredge with flour and fry in pork, drippings, bacon fat or butter, until well browned. Add to the fat in the pan a tablespoonful flour, two small onions, chopped fine; a clove of garlic, and when lightly browned pour in sufficient hot water to cover the contents of the kettle. Simmer gently until the meat is tender?it will take-about an hour; then . take from the pan, arrange in a hot dish and serve without delay. A half teaspoonful meat sauce is deemed an improvement by some cooks, while others insist upon a few .gratings of lemon peel. Serve with an accompaniment of currant or wild grape .telly, celery and corn bread.?WashI ington Star. | ?? j Eel a la Vincent. Skin and clean a good eel, split and bone it, cut It into eight or ten pieces; flatten them out with a knife, occasionally dipping it into cold water. Season the pieces of efel with salt and black pepper. Then stuff them with the following forcemeat: Put one heaping tablespoonful of bread crumbs into a basin, add one tablespoonful of finely chopped parsley, one finely chopped shallot, two finely j chopped mushrooms, yolks of. two I eggs, seasoning of salt, pepper and paprika, and a tablespoonful and a half of melted butter. Mix and spread a portion on the inside of each piece of eel, roll them up, dip them in flour, th6n brush over with beaten egg and roll in fine bread crumbs. Fry for five minutes in smoking hot lard.?New York Press. Haddock a la MilanAisc. One large, fresh haddock, four tablespoonfuls of Lucca olive oil, one lemon, three teaspoonfuls of chopped parsley, fonr heaping tablespoonfuls of crated Parmesan cheese, two eggs, eight tablespoonfuls of bread crumbs, one cupful of brown caper sauce, salt and pepper. Fillet the haddock and divide each fillet into three. Lay these on a dish, pour over the oil, strained'lemon juice and a little salt and pepper. Beat the eggs, mix them with the parsley. Mix together the cheese and crumbs. Lift the fish out of the oil, etc., and dip each piece in the crumbs and cheese. Then brush them over with egg and crumb them again. Press the crumbs on lightly. Fry the fillets in plenty of smoking hot fat till a golden color. ' Drain en piece ol paper. Serve on a hot dish on a lace 1 Yvri + t* frioH Y\ Q f Q 10V | jmpci gaiuioucu rntu in&u pai0ie;< Hand with this dish hot brown caper sauce.?New York Press. Hints for. the "Housekeeper, ^SSSISZ*^ Aji ordinary lemon is most useful j in the house. Squeeze it into a glass of water every morning and drink with very little sugar; it will keep your stomach in the best of order. If you have dark hair and it seems to be coming out, cut off a slice of lamnn onrt -rnh it intr? vnur soalrv it will stop that little trouble promptly. If you have a bad headache, cut the lemon into slices and rub these along your temples. Th^ pain will not be long in disappearing, or at least growing easier to bear. If a bee or insect stings you, clap a few drops of lemon juice on the spot and you will find yourself the easier for it. Fresh lemon juice is the best remedy for scurvy. From the peel is distilled the essential oil of lemon, which is used as a flavoring agent in confectionery, in perfumery and also in medicine. The peel is also candied and used in confectionery. Add five drops of juice to the water with which you brush your teeth. It will remove the tartar and sweeten the breath. Salt ami lemon juice will remove rust stains without injury to the fabric. Dried lemon peel sprinkled over coals will destroy any disagreeable odor about the house. Mix equal portions of glycerin and lemon juice to moisten the lips of a fevered, parched patient. A refreshing and appetizing dish for an Invalid is made by mixing the juice of one lemon with the wellbeaten white of an egg, to which has previously been added two teaspoontuls of powdered sugar. k ! There are 10,000 varieties of fish. The greatest two power development projects In the world are undpf way In Colorado, where two companies plan to furnish 150,000 electrical horsepower for the industries of the State. ' It costs $4,000,000 a day to feed New York. i Chicago has a novel organization in the Bartenders' and Saloonkeepers' Total Abstinence Society, which is now said to have 2000 members. Two aunts of James S. Sherman spell their name "Shearman." The Japanese cotton yarn guild in Shanghai has asked the cotton manufacturers in Japan to reduce their production by one-half this year. ; "Pat" Bane, of Greene County,.Pa., tallest man in the Union Army in the Civil War, measuring seven feet four inches, on being told by the surgeon at the Soldiers' Home at Dayton? Ohio, that he must be vaccinated, disappeared. > It requires the services of 400 ' 'longshoremen to load an ocean liner. Brazilian railroads In operation at .the beginning of 1907 had a total length of 10,776 miles. In addition there were 1902 miles under construction and 4177 miles being surveyed or already approved, making the total mileage about 16,855 miles. Soap bubble film is 2,500,000th part of an inch in thickness. [ Near Washington, Pa., lightning struck a tree, driving a splinter through the house of John Mesick, some distance away, part of the splinter passing through Mesick's cheek, knocking out his teeth. Another piece of the splinter fractured Mrs. Mesick's skull. The cost of living in British cities Is but little over half the corresponding cost in American cities, and wages are proportionately lower. Tfiffaponn waa hnrn arid nn July 4th. In France doctors are prohibited <by law from inheriting property left , to them by their patients. The city of Vienna is trying to secure control of mines in Moravia. , The* reasons given for the purchase , are the high price of coal and the difficulty of securing a steady supply for i the municipal gas and electric plants. i ? r : THE LADY AND THE UMBRELLA. Not Every Woman So Lucky as the Heroine of This Tale. In the storeroom that every rail: road maintains for the safe keeping of lost articles left in its cars by forgetful passengers there are always to ? ! ho found hundreds of umbrellas. But ; not every umbrella left in the cars is : lost long enough to find its way to the lost department; it/may fortunately ' I be recovered sooner. 1 I Here was a woman who had just ' stepped from an elevated railroad i train to find it raining, and thus re ! minded: j "Oh! my umbrella!" she said, and turning to the train, which had al^ . ;eady started along, she added: 1 "Wait a minute!" a request by the 1 train unheeded. 1 And yet this woman recovered her ; umbrella in a moment. "Here it is," said another woman, ( who was traveling with her, had got off the car after her, and had gath' i ered up her friend's umbrella with j her own as she came along, j So this forgetful passenger recov! ered her umbrella promptly, but not all are so fortdnate; thousands of umbrellas left behind by passengers go to the lost departments every year.?New York Sun. I | Honrs Commit Suicide. Suicide has become epidemic j among Clayton dogs. Chafing undei | the restraint of muzzles, many of 1 them tore them from their heads and i ! were in danger of being shot by the j ' dog killer. In consequence they had to be chained. -I R. B. Shupard, proprietor of Hotel | Clayton, went fishing recently and | tied a valuable dog in .the barn. The animal whined piteously for more .than an hour, then climbed on some boxes, threw itself over a horse man! ger and was hanged. A valuable ! hound belonging to Grant Smith was found this afternoon hanging by the neck on a paling fenca, but was rescued by a lady in time to save its life. ! It jumped ud on the fence again and put its neck between the same palings . ' and hung there until it was tied up. ?Clayton (N. J.) Telegram to the Philadelphia Inquirer. Handshake Breaks Arm. j As the result of a vigorous hand' shake Jeremiah Berger, aged sixty, is at the Delaware Hospital suffering | from a broken arm. j Berger is a powder worker for the Du Pont Powder Company and lives at Henry Clay. A few days ago he . met Patrick Dougherty, a hotel proI prietor, and the two clasped hands in ] a hearty shake, as it was the first | time they had met for several months. A few days later Berger's arm began to pain him. He went to the hosj pital to consult a physician and was then told a bone had been broken. Berger declares that he will be careful hereafter to whom he extends his hand in greeting.?Wilmington ,(Del.) Telegram to the Chicago Inter; Ocean. I \ \ Vva.),.;: J&; I A FABLE. j|||j The hen remarked to the muley cow, ;1 As she cackled her daily lay, ' : jj (That is, the hen cackled) "It's funny hoiff Vs. ' I'm good for an egg a day. I'm a tool to do it, for what do I get? \ My food and my lodging. My! But the poodle gets that?he's the houa?? hold pet, And he never has laid a single egs yet? _ - ' \ ?3ot even when eggs are nigh." The muley cow remarked to the hen, As she masticated her cud, (That is, the cow did) "Well, what then! ^ You quit, and your name is mud. "HAS*" I'm good for eight gallons of milk each day* And I'm given my stable and grub; But the carrot gets that much, anywayAll she can gobble?and what does sha pay? ' Not a dribble of milk, the dub!" J JKBSi But the hired man remarked to the pair, ' ?' "You cet all that's comin' to you. The poodle doe3 tricks, an' the parrot kisl swear. Which is better th'n you kin do. ,/wP You're necessary, but what's the use 0' bewailin' your daily part? i You're bourgqoil?workxn s your only ex? yM cuse;' I I You can't do nothin' but jest produce? J What them fellers does is Art!" ! ?Musician's Chronicle, j Wigg?"Old Gotrox is simflv roll- * Ing in wealth." Wagg?'T should . j'\ think he might find a better use for. it."?Philadelphia Record. "You have done your best to enforce the blue laws?"' said one offl- , cial. "Yes," answered the other, |>. y'. "but the police were color blind."? 1 Washington Star. "The paper states that a girl's pres- ; ence of mind averted a panic." I "How?" "She sang, and the audience quietly sneaked out."?Louis- . .!' )? ville Courier-Journal. Just a bit of "moonshine," Just a bit of song, Just a big policeman?and It's time to "move along." I ' ?Chicago News. Jiggsby ? "How well Shakespeare _ described this apartment of ours." Snagsby ? "How do you mean?" d|H Jiggsby?"Weary flat, stale and unprofitable."?Cleveland Leader. Kifl Callowhub?"I think youTl haver tEH to do tbe cooking again, dearest." VI I His Own?"What for?" Callowhub' ?"The doctor says that I am eating ^ too much."?Chicago Daily News. Mrs. Wiggs ? "Your daughter 6eems to be suffering from the heat." Mrs. Dlggs?"No; she's just home from college, and she's prostrated by, the family grammar."?Philadelphia Inquirer. "Can your automobile really go more than a mile a minute?" "Can she? Well, the leading undertaker in the city has offered me a half in- < terest in his business."?Baltimore American. . i' He swore sbe was a perfect peach And held her to his heart. : But when he wed the lass he found She was a little tart. ?Paul Cook. "I started to tell my wife about a woman who made her own fall gown." "Well?" "She,capped my, story with one about a man who made I a million dollars."?Louisville Courier-Journal. 4 "I am no weather seer," he mlirmured, as he examined the lovers' end of the veranda, "but the way this hammock is put up seems to me to be the sign of an early fall."?Baltimore American. Mrs. Binks?"My daughter is tak ! Ing French lessons of Professor Henri ; Dev6re." Mrs. Minks (of the adjoin* ing suite)?"Oh, is that it? I thought it was a cold in her head."? . Cleveland Plain Dealer. ) Friend?"Halloa, Pat! I scarcely i knew you with your whiskers off," . y A. j Pat?"The same wid me, me bhoy; I didn't know meself when I looked into the glass, except by my voice."--; . Philadephia Inquirer. ' , I Jeweler ? "Yes. that engagement ! ring is plated, but it is warranted for I ten years." Purchaser ? "Haven't ! you got anything cheaper, warranted ' . for about ten weeks?" ? Cleveland . ! Plain Dealer. > : ? ; j- Just Natural Gas. r i Thft late Colonel Sellers would turn ' over in his grave If he could listen for a few minutes to the talk of Mr. ( " ( J Alexander A. Eberson, of St. Louis, | reported in a New York Herald desJ patch from London. ; Mr. Eberson and his clients, ^ho ' own natural gas wells in the Indian | Territory, "see no reason why It J shouldn't pay" to lay pipe lines to\ thi3 city and from here across the Atlantic to Europe. He thinks "it may not be many years before London, Paris and Berlin are lighted with Oklahoma gas and trolley cars * and workshops in these cities driven > by the same power." We regret to note that Mr. Eberson confesses that his scheme "is as yet in an embryonic sJate." His imagination, however, fairly eclipses one of those Oklahoma "gushers" be deecribes as yielding "5000 barrels of oil a day and an absolutely inexhaustible suDoly of gas." ?' An Expatriated Story. On board one of the Scottish steamers, which have been built with exceedingly light draught to go over the frequent shallows of one of the rivers in Scotland, a Yankee tourist remarked to the captain, a shrewd old Scotsman: "I guess, skipper, that you think nothing of steaming across a meadow when there has been a heavy fall of dew." "That's so," replied the captain; though occasionally we hae tae send a man ahead wi' a watering can."? Tit-Bits. in i roaoic. Little Newcan's mother had faithfully tried to answer fis questions io regard to death anci the future life, and he had been told that when he died just his soul would go to Heaven. One day he came running in from his play, and in excitementt said: "Mamma, if just my soul goes to Heaven, what am I going to button my pants on to?'"?Delineator. Manhattan is the most densely populated island in the world, 99,15?. persons to the square mile.