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__ ^^^^^ ; ^ T1I0S. J. ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY. MAY 1, 1895. ~~ VOL..LX. NO. ? Mottled bricks are coming into use for building purposes. They give a house tho appearance of castile soap. One Kentucky feud has had what in tho opinion of the San Francisco Ex aminer is a happy ending. The oppos ing ?ides met recently, and there are no survivors. A feature of the House of the Fifty fourth Congres? is the number of young men.to take their seats. An old-time member said tho other day that it was a "congress of boys It is 6aid in th9 New York Mail and Express that there is to be found in the old furniture and curiosity shops o? Boston enough furniture that was taken out of the Mayflower to fill a whole fleet of such primitive craft. The popular idea that Kentucky has more distilleries than any other Slato is r. delusion, declares the New York World. The latest Government ab ?tract of statistics gives New York 1310, against only 811 for Kentucky. Finland must be a sportsman's para dise, opines the Atlanta Constitution. In ten years 93,000 domestic animal", ir duding 21,000 reindeer were de stroyed by wil I beasts, and in that lime 1100 bear?, 1200 wolves, 55,000' lynxes and foxes, 19,000 ermines, and 56,000 birds of prey, eagle?, hawks, etc., were kdled. According to a scientist who has been looking into the question, three times ns mach rain falls iu E isteru Kansas PS is required for the growing of bountiful crops. The problem is to conserve this moisture by means of deep plowing, mulching and pond building iu order to have it available for unusually dry seasons He finds that it eau be done and is being doue by a steadily increasing number ol farmers every yeer. In the last National election there were cast 12,073,057 out of 15,13 T,S89 eligible?. Out of the ascertained population in 1S90 of 02,622,250 tue number of church communicants was only 20,613,307. Allowing 3,500,000 as the number of Protestant voting .communicants, and 2,000,000 Catho lics, the total church vote, as estimat ed by the Atlanta Constitution, is a fraction over 5,000,000 out of 15, 000,000 voter.". It is a most refreshing view of Queen life that we are invited to by a foreign "Q?rrespondenf, when Queen Victoria cares of state in "plain, humble knit ting," and Queen Carola, of Saxony, is described as "arrayed in a big apron over her royal robes and engaged in making jam." But those are not the only queen-like women who have de lighted in these humble and useful oc cupa tioas, adds tho New York Mail and Express. Woman nature is e same the world over, whether in court or cottage. A Troy man now in Ojo Caliente, New Mexico, writes to the Troy (N. Y.) Times about the remarkable cli mate and powerful waters of that place. On three successive mornings thc mercury at Ojo Caliente indicated twenty degrees below zero, eighteen degrees below and four degrees below, yet by 9 o'clock on these mornings the therometer had risen to ten to twenty degrees above, and during tho middle of the day an overcoat was =uperflnou3. In fact, there have been but four days in several weeks when it was not possible to sit in the house with the door wide open and read or write in comfort. The air is very dry and crisp, and even when the mercury sinks below zero tho cald is not felt. But, while the climate is remarkable, it is nothing compared with the waters, which are particularly recommended to persons suffering from locomotor ataxia, paralysis and rheumatic troubles. The Trojan writes, and vonches for the truth of tho state ment, that a native placed a cowhide in a tub and let the water run on it during tho night, and in the morning it was found that tho skin had com pletely dissolved, leaving nothing but the hair. A person bathing in the water must use extreme care and can not stay in the tub more than fifteen minutes, for the water softens the skin so that scratches and cuts arc very ?asily received. Ratio Between Light and Heat. The Cuban firefly is the most per fect example of the production of light with the least amount of heat to be found. The percentage of light given is estimated at ninety-nine, with only one per cent, of heat. Tue sun gives thirty per cent, of light and seventy per cent, cf heat ; the arc lamp, ten per cent, of light and ninety per cent, of heat, while a candle or gas jet gives two per cent, cf light and ninety-eight percent, of heat.--Philadelphia Rec ord. _ The Toothsome Tinamon. The toothsome reed bird and quail will have a rival in a new claimant for popular favor. It is the tinamon, a native of South America, whence they are exported. Tba bird is described as being a little bigger thau a quail, but not as large as a pheasaut. It is a deep olive color, slightly and nar rowly banded with black, with a red rrown. It is decidedly gamcy in flavor, and sells for 86 a dozen. The bird promises to become a favorite.- PjjHi idelphia Record) ; A DOO OF WAR. CHINCHI CONSPICUOUS IN THE ! BATTLE OF 1'ORT ART H UK. A. Queer Little Animal Found by a Correspondent Guarding tho Body of Her Slain Master Brought to New York. t ? j HE adventures of Chiuchi, the I Jong-nosed, squirrel-tailed, kuuaan-eycd pug who was found guarding her dead mas ter's body in the outworks of Port Ar thur, ar"1, according to the New York Advertiser, becoming matters of inter national importance The Emperor of Japan has ordered (Ixe incident re corded in the "Book of Wnr." Chin chi has already become know to Lon doners through pictures in thc Graphic, and in New York to day i-he has been the topic of conversation. This is the history of Chiuchi : The battle of Port Arthur was fought November 21, 1891. Among the correspondents who were on the field was A. B. de Guerville, of ihe New York Herald and Frank Leslie's Weekly, With him was a Japanese AFTER TH photographer, sent ont to take snap bhots for tho artist of the London Graphic, who didn't like the noise. Field Marshal Oyama had just ordered a battery forward a bit, and tho cor respondent followed. As they moved forward and took position on the crest of a hill, overlooking Port Ar thur, they saw a man lying on his sida in a little hollow of thc hill. His head had been crushed iu, and he had evidently been dead for many hours. They knew him for a Chinese soldier in spito cf the fact that he wore civil ian clothes. "The Chinese officers and men alike." explained Mr. de Guerville, "threw away their uniforms and weap ons when defeated." The dead Chinaman had probably been an officer, or at all event.?, au official of some rank. Just behind where he lay was a tent, which had been looted. Nestled up against Ina breast, in a fold of his dead arm, lay tho little dog. She looked np and growled as they approached. Field Marshal Oyama and his staff, the correspondents and all, forgot all about the battle raging down the hill, feld "fffrgfjy^rjwryLJllf? fl^^-^^'tm tar;, her hand tc v.: tur . . ?>.<?. - ?..-i,;, ?t;, Ctiu^Yc" fag to her d' ?d :r,-x::-? ? .' jri-fufyt '0 br ed srig?teJicd THE POET ville told the Chinese photographer to take a snap fchot of the scene. Thc picture which appeared in tho Lon don Graphic, is reproduced here. Field Marshal Oyama, however, had no time for sentiment ; lie wanted r telescope for watching tho maneuver! of the Chinese fieet erected near thc spot, where tho dead officer and hit faithful little dog lay, and ordered f couple of coolies to remove the corpse. One of thc coolies grabbed the deac man's arm and Chinchi caught him savagery by the leg. Ho kicked bel away and drew his sword to kill her. At this moment Mr. de Guerville thrust the coolie aside mut snapped u\. the dog. She snapped at his hand; and wailed as though she were heart broken. He wrapped her in his coa1 and gave her to his Japanese servant When Mr. dc Guerville get back tc his tent that evening he found hi: Japanese servant und tho small dog lt was a long time before he coule mako friends with her. She mourned for her dead master and refused to bi comforted. Finally he persuaded he: to drink a little milk, but it was i month before she was over her fear o thc "white devil." She had never seei a foreigner before. She didn't kno^ what to make of a man without a pig tail, who wore breeches instea.l o petticoats and after they got a bit bet ter acquainted she used to sit anc watch him hythe hour, with a mix tun of friendliness and contempt. The) went back to Japan together on om of the troop ships. She had beei named Chinchi, which in Chines means Faithful. She readily lenruei her name. On the troop ship was a ?reafc dca of the loot of Port Arthur, includiuj two camels and u lot of ?trange bird which vere destined for ilia Entjwu!' .('hi' Japanese ofSowstrtec] fn parsnip Chinchi's owner to present ber to His Majesty, who had heard the story of the dog who was faithful unto death. Mr. de Guerville thought he would keep the dog, but promised, if Chiu chi ever decided to go in for a life of matrimony, to send back one of hex offspring. And so Chinchi came to America. By the time she reached Vancouver she was on terms of intimacy with tho "white devils," and didnotmindthem much, but when she got to the hotel a negro porter, black as tho ace of spades, suddenly appeared in her room. Chinchi nearly had a fit. Life was be ! coming altogether too cosmopolitan for her. What with "white devils" and "black devils" she didn't know what to make of it. The day before they left Vancouver .she and her new master went out for a walk. All of a sudden Chiuchi set up a wild yell and vanished round a cor ner. Mr. de Guerville followed and saw her cutting along the 6treer, her squirrel tail waving in the wind, while far ahead pattered a little, loug queued Chinaman in a purple blouse. Wheu she got near the Chinaman turned and faced her. She looked at < bim for a moment and then, howling dismally, ran back to her new master. E BOMBARDMENT-FAITHFUL UNI She howled and moaned all afternoon and during tho night when he woko < he could hear her sobbing softly on i her pillow. Mr. dc Guerville 6ays 1 she was thinking of her dead master, i tho Chinaman who lay ont on the hills by Port Arthur, over whom she had i watched so faithfully. i Mr. de Guerville, who had traveled i for a number of years in tho East, has 1 fitted up one of his apartments in the f Chinese fashion, and among tho red 1 and yellow screens, hangings, vaaes I and idols Chinchi felt at home. On ( her journey, however, she had con- ( traded a cold, which developed into a 1 serious attack of the grip. Her mas- 1 ter, who is a bachelor, felt, that she ' needed a woman's oars and seat her to f the houf-e of a friend in Weat Seventy- fl second street, where she recovered. I Chinchi is ten inches long and short t legged. She has long ears, a tail like a squirrel, a face like a fox terrier- c with a hint of tho enubbiness of a i spaniel-and her 6:>ft hair is white and I brown in beautiful markings. Her r eyes are large and tender, and re- c niarkably intelligent. Indeed, she ?3 * an extraordinary dog, and would be 1 noteworthy anywhere, even had she ngjjirac?d-herself-a.-heroine - a Jov^aL r ARTHUR 1)03. are three which were sent to London ? a few years ago hy the English Minis - ter to China. Chinchi ha3 fine quarters, and ie I as happy as a lady-dog with such a i "past" can be. Her only grief is 3 when iu her walks abroad she ! meets a Chiuara-.m. The common > laundrymen she hardly notices, but the i other day she met one of the attaches , of the Consol's office, and whether I i she thought he was her old master i j or the meeting recalled the old days . to her, shs was very unhappy that night. Her master think;) she re 5 called the night she spent by har deal ? i master's side, there on the hills a^ove > Port Arthur, while thc defeated . Chinese troup3 hurried past, and tho t noise of battle roared seaward. And whenever tho little heroine re ) : members Hiose cold and lonely hours, i when she lay there guarding tba dead . Chinese officer whom all his friends I and soldiers had deserte I, she crawls I ; into a corner and sob? liko a woman. ; j Chiuchi has a right to be numbered r . among tho famous dog*? of history, i She hus had wonderful adventures, I The little brown aud white spaniel i was the special feature of tho lecture r which Mr. de Guerville delivered in - the Madison Sqaare Garden Concert f Hall, New York. It was carried on - the stage by the lecturer, and was re i j warded with tumultuous applause for 3 its fidelity to the dead Cbiuamau in f far away Port Arthur. II Au Odd U<M Nugjje?. e There is on exhibition in Lumpkiu . County, Georgia, a large and beauti ful piece of gold in the shape of i leg 1 I less duo/. It was purchased from a i j mail who found it a few year* ago fl I whils mining, mi theChestatee River, , j nea: 0;?hlni!?<gn;-- Chicago Timen !- ; Herald, First Laif ot France. France's tai:net' President was born under a lucky star, and nothing in his MADAMS FAUBS. sventful life was luckier than his win ning of Mlle. Marie-Mathilda Eelluot, who became Mrs. Faure on July 10, ?0 DEATH. L8f>5. She was a niece of Senator 3uinot, of Arahoise, in the D?part aient of Iudre et Loire, and it was in that pretty town that he saw and fell in love with her. She wars not ouly one of the helles of j kmboise, but waa celebrated for her .vit, her grace and her perfect mau lers, all of which have brought her 'urther renown in her trying situation ts "first lady of the Republic. " Mme. ?aure has presented her husband with .wo charming daughters, the younger )f whom is the wife of Couseillcr-Gen iral Berge, of the Seine Inf?rieure, ftie elder, Mlle. Lucie, is as bright as 1er mothar, and often acts as her nt lier's secretary. She has a talent or verses, and shares with Mme. Berge i talent for entertaining that has jrought back all the old lifcandgayety o the Elysee receptions. Thc home of the Fames at Havre is >n the Boulevard Maritime, coiuiuand ng a superb view of tho sea snd )oastiug a beautiful garden. It stands text to the Villa Marie-Christine, >wned by the Queen of Spain, and tear the Saintc-Addres3o villa, built ry Sarah Bernhardt. ^^JG^etoUag?,. a.tJPWd ham.. ? THE POET'.S COTTAGE. Mr. Ford expected to dispose of the cottage to a syndicate that would pre serve and treasure it as a relic, but he was disappointed, and at length placed it in Ihn market. It lay va cant for months. Hundreds called for thc key at Mr. Boss'? o?iice and after going through tho cotiagc once occupied by thc author of "The Baven," went away with everything portable as souvenirs, aud always with the key. Mr. Haffen's new map of the Annexed District, which calls - for the widening of Kingsbridge road, takes uwoy three-quarters of the house, and Dr. Chnuvet will move it back to the rear of the lot and usc it for au oflice. -New York World. _ "Ju(lgc,.s"?voltiti(molllieraw:iI;r?l;cr. CHILDREN'S WEAR rKETTY COSTU.MICS .SUITABLE FOE; SPRING AND SUMMER. ? j ?_, . Sugestiona Vuluable to ' Mothers Mnrcrlals and Styles That Will B? in Vogue-Some Stylish " '. Neck Garnitures. /"VEOWN-UP members of the. I Community do 'not entirely VJ^A.'- m?Qopolize tho pretty things of the season. " Never were the little ones more, gracefully or ar tistically; clad. The -blouse waist is seen everywhere, developed in all sorts and varieties bf material, and for tote wl??se ages range from two to eight ^ears skirts barely reach to the bend ojf-f he knee. Sleeves aro large -puffld, shirred and rosetted quite as elaborately as those worn by the mammp.and big sisters. In hats tho Kate Greenaway styles are still'in favor. They are-always gathered on to wires and trimmed with lace.Jedgcd frills or bows of rib bons. Blacksand red combined are popular for litt???^girls, and solid^ colors'.ave almost ^driven the "mixed effects" from the; field. ' Small; boys and girls-those who need n^trrsery gates-have fortunately an abiding fashion ia their clothes. Both sjexos dress alike, in whito nain sook, r?til three years, 'when tho boy gives phd first cold shoulder to frocks - by geeing into kilts of pique, serge, 1 or tfaaijel, Svith a blouse waist of the s same ind a re?fer jacket for out-door t wear.. r. Gir|s of threo years attest their ad vancej'from babyhood by wearing n muchFvshorter dresses of nainsook, a with |>thers of chambray, fine ging- v hams.Und dimities. The little misses s of thib-tonder a?0 aro so attractive in r themselves that they are snperior to e dress,Vand it is the wise mother who mali e?lhe little frocks of very simple do- \ esignifor general wear. If the small c gingham and cambric morning dresses o ere mode open in the back, to be but- I tonecfcfco the hem, their laundering will t be mjich simplified, a point worth con- o siderfng when a half day's wear, some- a times less, sends each to tho tubs. For J tho pique, chambray, and nainsook c . ? . . ? ' suouiuer. xueso mo unie yoKO or l guimpo dresses, with a wide, point?d t cape collar of tho material, edged with embroidery from two to three inches deep, put on just full enough to keep from puckering ; this is fin- { ished round the neck with a plaiu ? cord, and is hooked or buttoned with ^ a single button beneath the neck fin- . ish of dress or guimpc, as the case ( may be. s Older girls who arc well dressed arc simply dressed. So long as short t dresses are vorn, there is not enough f of plain fabric shown to make a back- j ground for elaborate trimmings, and 5 much ornamentation of these small t dresses violates thc canons of taste iu ( dress as well as gives undue ( prominence to a subject of minor im- ( portauco to a child. Especially docs j the averago American mother err in < this respect in preparing tho ward- ] robe for her little girls for their sum- . mer vacation. Then, if over, should ( they havo simple and serviceable i frocks; instead then, more than ever, f for materials arc cheap aud loug days j give time for sewing, arc they apt to , be over-dressed. j There are, of course, mauy pretty models in tasteful designs for tkoso who do not care to confine thc dresses . to severe simplicity. Ono illustrated i in the large cut is of printed duck, I white, with a pin-dot of light blue; I tho long, full sleeves arc fiuished with ; cuffs of blue duck, pin-dotted with white, and folds of tho same material start from the armholes and are caught down in the front of thc bodice by two rows of round pearl buttons. Another model illustrated is of pale pick pique, tho chemisette trimmed with rows of narrow feather-stitch braid, white, and a wide rtifile ol em broidery, double-pointed revers of the pique forming a sort of color, which is tied in front with a bow of white lawc. A model for a cashmere or crepon dross has the skirt trimmed with long linos of baby velvet ribbou of har monizing or contrasting color ; these oullino the seams of thc gored skirt and radiate from thc neckband in a circular yoke effect ou thc round bodice, each line on waist. Tho sleeves and collar band aro similarly finished, and frills of lace drape the shoulders. The short French skirt, falling just below tho kuce, remains in favor among fashionable mothers tor girls j from three to ten year?, and is even ? worn up to twelve years by girls not full size. The skirts from teu to four- ! teeu years now Hare decidedly, with full plnits in the back, quite like their mamma's gowns. The little women, in fact, copy most of thc effects in the older women's fashions in big Bleeve?, Drrectoire sleeves, fi olin and blouse effocts, and tho rage for fronts aud emslie*, as th*? stock collara are familiarly railed, Qnimpea remain iu j fa YOI1 fot g?rl? ot ?iii aisse*, though ilia i gilli) filioye .volvo JPMW iwwfif ^ ? c!are a preference for frocks without them. STYLISH NECK GABN?T?RES. libere seems to be no abatement to the fancy for showy vest fronts and decorative collars. Probably because it is so easy to pnt on your best bib ind tucker over a last season's gown, ind feel quite satisfied with your ap pearance. 'Caffs, collars and vests of lawn and A GROUP OF FASHIONABLE COLLARS. ace will be so ubiquitous through tho pring and summer that tho many ingers are already busy over their (reparation. Vf ry pre try and generally becoming ;re the lawn collars which turn over t the throat, and cuffs to match finch turu back at the wrist. For a lender thront tho three-cornered lieccs which turu over beneath the era are the most becumiug. A group of fashionable collars is lictured, Hie upper ono being mado if gauze muslin ia a pointed yoko utlined with nn insertion of silk em- I iroidery, from which'falls a flounce o correspond. The yoke of the eec- , nd collnr is of flue muslin laid over colored silk foundation, and bor lered with a band and frill of stiletto unbroidery. The third collar of tho ...".uciy ana leather stitcu ag. All of these collars may close ab ho back with satin ribbon bows. NOVELTIES IN" HEADGEAR. f Art, as far as millinery is con? I ] icrnecl, is in advance, far in advance, I t >f nature this season. Not a bud, nor I < )lade of grass, nor the faintest allur- : 1 ng suggestion of spring is out-of- ] loors, and indoors in fashionable i hops a perfect riot of blossoms in j riumphaut profusion proclaims the : lews that spring millinery has arrived 1 < rom Paris and Vienna. What elogaut < jerveraions of last year's modes dcz- i ;le one. La6t year's small, unimport- < mt flowers aro magnified into largo ! i ;ditions in straube colors. Already a ] derer observer has 'discovered that ! i ?ve. hiug in the millinery line run3 ii a trio this season. Of course a j 1 mord of three notes is necessary for j : larmouy in music, and ia red, yellow i ' ind blue makes a perfect chord in j 1 jolor and certainly in the queer twists j 1 ind shapes and oddly interwoven : straws, and the variety of materials I that are conspicuous features of head- :1 jear now, there should bo a harmoniz- . ing element. Three is the magic nam? ? ber that preserves accord in what at : first glance appears startling discord. 11 Feathers como in bunehes of three; . colors are mashed in triple shades, ' i flowers aro arranged in threes and tho ? 1 brims oE hats form three distinct pleats or three terraced effects Uko I that shown in the illustration. It is a ' moat springlike combination, being of i STRAW WITII CERISE RED ROSES. coarse pleated straw, greeu as tender young grass. Cerise rod roses and cyclamen form the decoration either side, and rising like ribbon grass from tho flowers are three loops of glace ribbon of a very pale shade of green. This is jauntily tipped up in the back, the flutes in the straw being ornamented with greeu bows. An old Colorado woman who playa a hand organ on Denver's street? hw been found to bo irorlh over ?SI 00,000, f\nd (n porn M ht^li tu* $9 n ttoy? JERUSALEM, A CITY INTERRSTING APART FROM SACRED ASSOCIATIONS. ?. Place of Surprises-No One Sirius and No One Laughs-Even the Children Do Not Play The Walling AVall. ^ ? y HE altitude of Jerusalem is al j i ways a surprise to thc visitor who comes here for the first "ii time, says an article on "The [literary Landmarks of Jerusalem," hy Laurence Hutton, in Harper's Maga sine. Ho knows, of coarse, lhafc it id a nonntain city, and that it was built ipon Mount Zion and Mouut Moriah; >ut he does not realize, until he makes :he gradual ascent, that it is about ?600 feet above the level of tho Med iterranean, and nearly 4000 feet above ;he surface of the Dead Sea. As high m the one side as the Catskill Moun ;ain House ; as high on the other as he crater of Mount Vesuvius. Jeruaalem is a city of surprises. It s, apart from its sacred associations, m intensely interesting spot even to ?ravelers who are already saturated V'th the hitherto unfamiliar and sur prising charms of Cairo, Athens and Constantinople. Its size can bes': bc ixpressed by the statement that the ourney round about the outside of its vails may be made by an ordinarily ?apid walker in the space of an hour, its houses are small, irregular in ihape, squalid and mean. Its streets, f streets they can be called, are not lamed or numbered ; they nre steep, ?rooked, narrow, roughly paved, nevei deaned, and in many instances they ire vaulted over by the buildings on jach side of them. Never a pair ol vheels traverse them, and rarely is o ?orse or a donkey seen within thc valla. The halt, the maimed and the dind, the leprous and the wretchedly loor, form the great bulk of the pop dation of Jerusalem, and with the .ingle exception of ibo Hebrews, they ire persistent and clamorous beggars. Trade and commerce seem to be con ined to the bare necessities of life, md to dealers in beads and crucifixes. Chere is but one hotel, and that not a food hotel, within its walls ; und one Turkish merchant, who displays in his ittle windowless, doorless shop a small issortment of silver charms, trinkets md bric-a-brac to tho gaze of the msser-by, is almost the only vender >f anything like luxuries in the place. Iis custrmers, of course, are the pil grims who come to see, and not tc vorship. Jerusalem is unique as a city in rh ich everything is serious and solemn .nd severe. It has no clubs, no bar ooms, no beer gardens, no concert tails, no theatres, no lecture rooms, io places of amusement of any kind, io street bands, no wandering min trels, no wealthy or upper 0^3353, : layor, no Alders . - , .>'.'> one sin? nc tnjigha : ? . mv*2 ii ri cu mm'jr ?guia in tue noyal City of their kings ; hey simply und silently and patiently Tait. The Wailing Wall of tho Jews, ?O wonderfully painted by Vercstcha jin, is, perhaps, the most realistic light in Jerusalem to-day. In a small, paved, oblong, unroofed enclosure, jome seventy-live by twenty feet in .xtent, and in a most inacces3ible*por ;ion of the town, is the mass of ancient nasonry which is generally accepted is having been a portion of the out side of the actual wall of the Temple itself. Against these rough stones 9very day of the week, but especially an Friday, and at all times of the day, ire seen Hebrews of all countries, and 3? all ages of both sexes, rich and poor, ilike, weeping and bewailing the deso lation which has come upon them, and upon the city of their former glory. Whatever may be their faith, it is beautiful and sincere ; and their grief is actual and without dissimulation. They kiss the walls, and beat their breasts, and tear their hair, and rend their garments; and the real tears they shed come from their hearts and their souls, as well as from their eyes. They ask for no backsheesh ; inquisi tive heretics and Gentiles pity while they wonder at them. They read the lamentations of Jeremiah and the mournful words of Isaiah ; thoy wail for the days that are gone ; and they pray to the God of Abraham, tho God of Isaac, aud tho Ged of Jacob, that they may get their own again. A Barrister's Bureau ot Information. The waste of time involved in long and often fruitless interviews with clients is one of the annoyances inci dent to a lawyer's life. Much of the cost of legal advice arises from this needless expenditure of valuable time. Another difficulty which a busy law yer frequently meets is involved in a sudden call for a legal opinion on some state of facts submitted by a client at a time when other duties occupy the time of the lawyer. Various methods of meeting these difficulties have been devised from time to time. Legal writers or associations have offered for moderate fees to give to lawyers information on points submitted. A "Barrister's Bureau" has recently been organized in Philadelphia to as sist lawyers in preparing cases by fur nishing memoranda of authorities or arguments upon questions of law. Tho fees aro high for lawyers having cli ents of moderate means, but when en gaged in important litigations coun sel may at times find it convenient to have such a means of securing the authorities on some question which has suddenly arisen on the trial of a case.-New York Tribune. Shoes in Japan. Japanese shoes vary for the use. Mud stilts four inches high keep them up in sloppy weather. Wooden clogs aro ordinarily used, but big straw sau dals, costing onlyaoeut for ft pair, are ueod in walking. ^Sfttl .FfftROluiW m ^REGULATOR j \ Th? Old Friend And the best friend, that never fa?3 you, ?3 Simmons Liver Regu lator, (the Bed Z)-that's what you hear at the mention cf this excellent Liver medicine, and people should not be persuaded that anything else will dp. f? It is the King of Liver Medi cines; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It act3 directly on the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to tho whole sys tem. This is the medicine you want. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to be taken dry or made into a tea. ?"EVERY PACKAGER ?M tho Z Stump in red on ivmppui-. J? H. ZE.Ii.liV & CO.,Phil?Jelp?,i!^,S^. With the Caravan. In the sandy deserts of the north of Africa, where journeys are made so much by night, the feeling of mel ancholy is often found to prevail. On horseback or by mail cart, on the long, straight tracks through the sand, one seems to be perpetually following some star in the heavens, to which one gets no nearer. If one stops lo rest no sound falls upon tho ear save perhaps, the groans of a camel being loaded for the night march or the creak of a Persian wheel raising the water on the river's brink. It is a relief to pass the strings of camels bearing their rich burdens of silk, asafetida and grapes from dis tant Cabul to the Indian cities of the plains. In a long string, led by tiie bearded and travel stained driver, who is well fortified by opium for the weary and mountainous journey, they emerge suddenly and silently, like phantoms from the nocturnal gloom, and gliding noislessly by quickly disappear again. Japanese Footgear. There are advantages in the appar ently clumsy J ap??ese footgear. From its tabi. or mitten like socks the Jaoanese babv is wAmnf->j : - -, In the late3t reports of tho local Industrial Union mention is made of a process, claimed to be entirely new, for manufacturing floor mosaics from Wood pulp, an innovation which is expected to produce important re sults. It is claimed, says the New York Engineer, that this process is distinguished from the known pro cesses of manufacturing sectional or mosaic floors by reason of the fact that sections made according to it aro not liable to any change of tem perature, and are not like stone, but similar to wood in all essential qual ities. WILLIAM K. CROWDER lives in Greencastle, Ind. So does William Fisher; and so does a hog, valued at $7, owned by Crowder. One day Crowder let his hog out. Almost simultaneously Fisher left the gato of a nice new hogpen on his place open. As it was the hog's day off it determined to seo all that was to be' seen and so it strayed into Fisher's hogpen. Just afterward Fisher de cided to close his pen, which he did, remarking: "Great Scott, I've gota hog! Well, findin's is keepin's." Pretty soon Crowder demanded his hog. Fisher replied: "I ain't gob yer hog;" and the hog, with that inJ gratitude characteristic of his spe cies, grunted approval. Then Crowder went to law; but the jury was hung. Costs on Crowder, $89. Nothing daunted he brought suit) again. Several lawyers and about a hundred witnesses on both sides; also thumping big costs. The trial lasted three days. Finally the jury brought in a verdict of ono cent and the hog for Crowder. Fisher and bb friends are mad ; so also aro Crowde: and his friends. The only being that seems to be contented is the hog. ACCORDING to the Electric Review the Western Union Telegraph com pany collected about $1,500,000 last year for telling the time of day. "The company has a telegraph desk in the naval observatory at Washing ton. Four minutes before noon the wires of the system all over the country are cleared of business, and the instant the sun passes the seventy-fifth meridian electricity carries the news to every city." It is only in trying to realize a fact like' this in all its bearings that we can get some idea of the way modern life is beinc regulated by science. IT is announced that .Tapan has ordered two modern first class battle ships of English make. The news is significant as an intimation of the position which Japan expects to take as one of the world's great naval powers. Japan has the advantage of being able to afford these luxuries inasmuch, as we presume, as China will be exDected to nav for them. IN summing up tho faults of others it is well to remember that every ?U> man being ])88 uto thw of imperte? tim