Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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TIIOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR VOL. LX. NO. 18. _1 The emigration from Ireland last pear is tho lowest recorded since the ?ollection of returns commenced ia 1851. _ A conservativo estimate in the Now ?ork Post puts tho number of men, women and children who will ride bicyclists this season in New York Oity at 200,000. One of the most striking things in iho truly remarkable Eastern war is I he success of tho medical and surgical treatment of the Japanese troops. Tho Surgeon-General reports a death rat9 of only four per cent, among rho wounded who were brought under ino care of tho surgeons. There is a pretty sharp point in an illustrated squib in thc Harlem Life. A well-dressed lady and gentleman, the lady with a bird on her hat, aro walking along a country road. Ou a branch of a tree sits an oriole, with several young orioles by her side. And as sho secs the lady sho is represented as saying: "Look, my children! There goes the monster that wears I your poor father !" The Massachusetts Board of Concil iation and Arbitration reports that the strikes in that State last j-car were numerous, but generally unsuccessful, and that those called successful en tailed moro loss than gain to tho workmen. The results of arbitration were favorable to all concerned, but it seems that both parties to a labor controversy will seldom agrco to so calm and reasonable a method of set tling a dispute. It seems by tho following extract i from thc Union Signal that Mrs Cleve- j laud, thc wife of th? President, is a I "loyal friend of tho temperance cause," but not a member of thc W. C. T. IL : "Thc announcement tele graphed by somo unauthorized person to tho effect that Mrs. Cleveland has joined tho W. C. T. U. is, so far as om President knows, utterly without foundation. Mrs. Cleveland is a loyal friend of thc temperance cause, but wc have never heard of her joining any organization." In the Baltimore N^ws it is esti mated that thc South spends annually $100,000,000 for products, horso and mules, which could bc raised with greaier profit in that section than elsewhere. Tho bulk of this vast sum : goes to thc West to pay for grain and J and an agitation has bee a started to return to that custom. If less cotton wero produced and more acreage de voted to other crops, tho finances of Southern farmers would bo in better shape at the end of a season. . W. T. Harris, United States Com missioner of Education, says in Har per's Magazino that in all thc schools of the United States, public and pri vate, elementary, secondary, and higher, there were enrolled in thc year 1S94 about fifteen and one-half mill ions of pupils. This number includes all who attended at any time in tho year for any period, however short. But the actual average attendance for . each pupil did not exceed ninety days, although the average length of the school session was 137. Sixty-nine pupils were enrolled out cf each 100 of the population between tho ages of live and eighteen years. At this rate of attendance thc entire population is receiving on an average a little less than four and cnc-half years' school ing of 200 days e?cK J.a. some States this average falls as low as two years, and in others it rises to nearly seven years (as in Massachusetts). Out of this entire number deduct the private and parochial schools of all kinds, ele mentary, secondary, higher, and schools for art, industry, and busi ness, for defectivo classes and Indians, and there remain over thirteen and one-half millions for thc public school enrolment, or nearly eighty-eight per cent, of thc whole. In thc twenty four years since 1870 thc attendance on tho public schools has increased from less than seven millions to thir teen and one-half millions. Tho ex penditures have increased somewhat more, namely, from sixty-three mill ions to one hundred and sixty-three millions of dollars per annum, au in crease from $1.04 per capita to $2.47. Magnetic Sand tor Cars. An experiment has recently been made near Orange, N. J., on the Sub urban Traction Compauy, with mag netic sand from thc oro separating works at Ogden. Edison had an idea that tho sand would have more effect in preventing slipping of tho wheels than thc ordinary saud. The experi ment was tried during a snow storm on tho Eagle Bock Hue, where tho grades are excessive and the difficul ties of operating in snow aro enor mous. Tho experiment proved a com plete success, the saud making a per fect electrical connection with tho rails and no slip being noted.-Wash ington Star. The (?rook Colony in Georgia? A Greek colony has been established nt Eden in Effingham Couuty, Georgia. They have purchased eighty acres of laud from Mrs. Bahn, and about a dozen of them are already there and others are expected soon. They will raise vegetables and other farm products, but their principal obj oct is to raise fruits aud grapes. They are a thrifty, hard-working lot of ; people.-New York Journal. FAMOUS BEDROOMS. ?riilt SLBKriXG APARTMENTS OF S031H NOTED W03IISN. Cj;:cca Victoria's Bedroom Is a Sim ple Ap.-rtmcnt-Mrs. S. Vr, R, Cramer's Couch is Like a (?rc;it White Swan. "V1 CTT-ICTORrA, Queen of England, \ / is said, according to the New Y ?ork World, to be very par ticular about her bed, and to have a deep-rooted objection to changing from ono couch to another. Ber bedroom is a very simple, unpre tentious ono, anti almost any -woman in the hind can boast a sleeping apart ment quite as good as that of the Queen of Great Britain and Empress of India. The heavy bcd, with its canopied top and curtains, for keeping out fraughts from the royal sleepers, sev eral chairs, a thick warm rug, a great table of carved mahogany, some good pictures, including a portrait of Princo Albert, completo the apartment in Buckingham Palaco in which Her Majesty slumbers. Mrs. S. Van Rensselaer Cruger, of New York, who is Julien Gordon in thc literary world, has one of the most artistic bedrooms in America. The crowning glory of thc room is the bed, which is a representation of a swan. Each, feather is exquisitely carved in thc while enamelled wood by hand, and the proportions arc won derful in their exactuess. A canopy of white silk falls from the tall, slender neck, adding to the beauty, concealing nono of the lines j THE GREAT WHITE SW ? and carving. The coverlid is of rich ? white satin, milled with filmy lace. I Mrs. Cruger has pillows on her pretty ! bed, and these have day slips of satin ; much befrilled with lace. The heavy : monogram on the coverlid and pillows is dono in white, and there is not a ' touch of color about the whole affair, j Thc color scheme of the room is dull pink; the walls, carpets and hangings are of this exquisite tint. The dressing table, with its quaint chair, tho fra ni ; ing of the tall cheval glass and the carved woodwork of the colonial man , telpiece are of glistening white cnam , oiled wood. A few choice water ! colors and some bits of rose-flecked chinagive a homelike looktothe room. Lillian Russell rejoices in a sleeping apartment which suggests nothing so much as a great pearly pink seashell. Her little single bcd is of brass, but scarcely a trace of the glittering metal can be seen, so much of mother-of pearl has been used. Not only in in lay, but to cover the pillars and bars ; has thc gleaming substance been used. The draperies are of white silk bolt ing cloth, painted tu pink morning ! glories and delicate arbutus, lined with palest pink satin. Soft white lace over pink satin forms the covering for the bed and for tho hard, round bol ster, and falls on both sides almost tc tho white velvet carpet. The dressing table is of pink enamel inlaid with wreaths and cupids of mother-of-pearl, with faint tracries of gold. The oval-shaped mirror is framed in a wreath of porcelain morn ing-glories, tho hand mirrors aro of mother-of-pearl, set with jewelled monograms. All of the brushes and toilet belongings are of gold and the exquisito sheeny pearl-liko substance. The dressing chair matched tho toilet table in coloring and ori:amentation. It is a quaint little affair, with cush ions soft as down. Thero is no back, of course, so that the maid can brush Miss Russell's golden curls with all case and dispatch, but tho arms aro broad and curving, and upon these tho singer rests her dimpled elbows and avoids much of thc fatiguo of toilet-making. Mrs. Frank Leslie's sleeping-room is almost Puritanical in its exquisite neatness and plainness. Over the lit tle single brass bedstead hangs a crucifix of ivory, which is a work of art in its matchless corving. A rug of soft silky Persian weave covers" the floor of tho tiny apartment, and a sin gle chair completes the furnishings. Tho toilet table and all of its belong ings aro in thc little dressing room which opens off from tho bedroom proper. On certain anniversaries Mrs. Les lie's dainty brass bed presents a som bre appearance, for it is draped in black ; tho sheets, down coverlids and pillows are all covered with silk of inky blackness. Mrs. Burton Harrison, the writer, who was Miss Constance Cary, of the famous Virginia family, has her bed room furnished with the quaint old mahogany furniture in which her great-grandmother delighted. Thc roomy old bed would make twu i?l any modern creation, and tho four tai! carved nosts reach almost to tho ceil ing, l'y the bcd stand tho quaintly carved steps, which used to bo neces sary to -success in reaching tho soft embraces of the feather bed. A tall chest of drawers surmounted by a small looking glass, 6omo quaint old spindle-back chairs and pictures a hundred years old and more, complete this quaint room. Miss Cameron, the eldest daughter of Sir Roderick Cameron, has a most perfectly appointed suito of apart ments in her father's country house, Clifton Berley, on Staten Island. Tho bedroom is a perfect example of tho First Empire style of furnishings, and the mahogany bed, dressing table, chairs and desk show the beautiful ehnpc and decoration of that pcrioJ. - irji i - Electricity as a l'oison Detective. A new method of determining the presence of metallic poisons in the body after death is to pass a current of electricity through it, discomposing tho torsion and depositing tlo metal on one of the electrodes. It is said that in cases of antimony, lead, cop per, mercury, etc., this method will detect tho presence of as small a quan tity of the metal as one-thousandth of a grain.-San Francisco Examiner. - Remarkable CoUoolio:i ot Shoes. The Queen of Italy is said to havo a remarkable historic collection of shoes, it includes tli3 shoes worn by Mary Stuart on her way to execution, tho Bhoesof Joan of Ave, Marie Antoinette. Ninon do L??elos, Queen Louise, etc. ; also a collection of shoos of various countries which has an ethnographic value. -New York Post. AN BED MADE FOR MRS. S. VA! A Sovel Sulky. A horse lover in Hartford, Conn., according to the Courant of that city, has devised a sulky that may accom plish wonders in the development of speed in trotting horse3. It is a rather odd-lookiug arrangement, as may bo seen from the picture printed here with, but its conception is based upon several very important considerations. In running against time tho horso should havo as nearly absolute free dom of wind and limb as possible, bo sides being relieved of draught. In other words, ho should bc as nature designed him, and the inventor of this sulky claims that it more nearly accomplishes that end than any device yet mado known. As shown in thc cut, thc driver's seat is over the horse's hips, with the wheels a trifle in advance of the middle of the animal's body. Tho central upright, extending from the wheel to the seat, is ou a slight incline and must necessarily help propel tho wheels, thus reducing tho draught to the minimum. A surcingle supports and steadies tho shafts, and straps running from it to thc pockets that inclose the ends of thc shaft keep tho sulky from running faster than thc horse. THE OnD LOOKINO SULKY. Thc only necessities in the way of harness aro thu breastplate, tho sur cinglo and tho bridle, leaving thc ut most freedom to thc shoulders and the chest, as well as to the lungs by reason of less tightening ot the girth. If the horso rears or otherwise mis behaves, tho sulky must go up with him, and if ho makes a sidewise move ment, he mast laud tho sulky where he lands himself, with no danger of dishing the wheel. Tho inventor says that no "training down" of overweight will bc neces sary when his vehicle is used, as thc heavier the weight, within a reason able limit, thc more easily the vehicle will be propelled. ile also says that a horse ma;' bo more easily controlled from tho new location of tho scat than when the driver sits back of und a trifle lower than the horse. Ono ci these sulkies is now build ing, and se*?ral horsemen, who have seen tho plnne, think very favorablv of it. Placed end lo end in n continuons line the streets of Loudon would <.:.: tend from the Mansion Moa-;? acrosfi the entire continent of Buropu and beyond the Ural Mountains iu\o Asia. GOTHIC HOUSES. Plans for a Residence In This Stylo of Architecture. (Copyright 1895.) Tho Gothic or pointed and Grecian or horizontal are really tho foundations of all styles of architecture ; when wo speak of buildings being Swiss, Ital ian or Gothic, or any of the numer ARCH ITCCTS.N.Y. ons well known styles, wo mean that thc spirit oE a particular class has been seized upon and not that thero has boen a slavish imitation of dis tinguishing peculiarities. One of the most interesting of all of thc styles is tho Gothic. Highly as this is revered now, and greatly as tho early cathedrals are ad mired, it was at ono time held to be an unworthy departure from tho strict ly classic standard. The word Gothic itself was first used by the architects of tho Renaissance as a term of re proach for all medieval styles. It was a synonym for barbarism. The stylo was a natural growth, a modification ff RENSSELAER CRUGER. of older styles and an adaptation tc changed conditions. Various poetic explanations of iti origin havo been given. It was said tc FIR5T n_OOR., have boen copiod directly from nature, and people pretend to see in its pointed arches and tho ribs of tho vault an imitation of tho overarching branches of trees. So, too, they say, the pillars of the Gothic aislo were suggested by tho trunks of an avenuo of stately trees. Appropriately enough, the first Gothic building erected in tho United States waa a church-famous Trinity Church, Now York, built in 1840. Since then it has been the prevalent style for church architecture. Tho design illustrating this article is a modified Gothic, and a detailed description of it is as follows: General dimensions: Width, ex clusivo of veranda, 37 feet 2 inches ; depth, not including veranda and par lor bay, 51 feet 2 inches. SECONDFLCOR. Heights of t-i-.n c.?; Cellar, 7 feet; jfir.-t story, 10 ?pt, second stony ?J i f?et ; attie, S Joel, ?< inches, ' m Exterior materials: Foundation, first and second Btories and gables, brick. Roofs, slate. Balcony floors covered with leaded tin. Interior finish : Three coats plaster, hard white finish ; soft wood flooring and trim. Main staircase, oak. Kitchen and bathroom, wainscoted. Pictnro moulding in principal rooms and hall of first story. Panel backs nuder windows in parlor and diniog room.' AU interior woodwork grain filled, stained to snit owner and fin ished in hard oil varnish. Colors: Trim, including cornices, casings, veranda and balcony post?, rails, etc., dark green. Sashes, red. Brick work painted buff and pencilled and speckled to imitato mottled brick. Veranda floors and ceiling and out side doors oiled. Ac?bmodations : Tho principal rooms and their sizes, closets, etc., are shown by the floor plan?. Cellar under whole house with inside and outside entrances and concrete floor. Two rooms and ball finished off in attic; remainder of spaco floored for storage purposes. Inside Venetian blinds to all windows of first and second stories. Bathroom with full plumbing in second story. Brick-set rangO; sink, and boiler in kitchen. Largo bay window and open fireplace in parlor and bclroom over same. Cost, SG200, not including mantels, range or herder. Tho estirn.ato is based on Nf-.w York prices for materi als and labor. In many sections ol the country the cost should be less. Feasible modifications: General dimensions, materials and colors may be changed. Cellar may bo reduced in sizo or wholly omitt?d. Three washtubs may be placed in laundry in cellar. Double sliding doors may bo made to connect dining room and hall and parlor and dining room. Addi tional bedroom may bo finished off in attic, or attic may bo left unfinished but floored for storage purposes. This design is presented as an ex emple of what may be dono in the em bellishment of a residenco in Gothic or pointed style. - m The Height ol Clouds. Tho very highest clouds, those called cirrus and cirrostratus, rise to tho average height of about 30,000 feet. A second class keep at a height of from 10,000 to 23,000 feet abovo the earth, while thc lower clouds usu ally float at a height seldom exceeding 5000 feet. In tho case of the last-men tioned class of clouds thc lower sur face maybe at a height not exceeding 3000 to 4000 feet, whilo their tower ing summit will be removed from the earth by not less than 1G,000 feet. Professor Moller says that tho vertical dimensions of a cloud will often ex ceed 10,000 feet, and that ho has ob served thoso which ho had evory rea son to believe wore , not less than 25, 000 feet thick. -St. Louis Republic. j Kow York Drinks a River ft Day. .?The volume of water that flows through Now Y,ork City every day via .t.b?i new. acmedaot is equul to a river "j lou-ivrl Wiuo-uvrU' ,^:W' leO-T.u,., r running at the rate of a milo an hour. If the full capacity of the aqueduct were used it would represent a similar river 165 feet wide.-New York Weekly._ North Carolina's Rig Gold Nugget. For a small colored boy to pick np a chunk of gold weighing eight pounds, or about that, worth just about $2000, is rather unusual good fortune. That is exactly what Jupiter Debarry, of North Carolina, did a week or so ago, and the nugget is now in Wall street, says the New York Journal. Moreover, the boy's regular occupation is picking up nug gets. A littlo syndicate of Wall street speculators got hold of a pi eco of property in North Carolina last winter, where nuggets of pure gold lio around loose on the ground, and they have people employed regularly, on daily wages, picking up thc valuable metal. This particular one, shown in tho picture, is tho largest found up to date, but Jupiter Debarry and the other colored youth in Stanley County aro vastly excited over the prospect of finding more and bigger ones. There are plenty of smaller ones found from time to time, but they only servo to keep np tho excitement. The picture is an exact outline sketch of the remarkable Debarry nngget. It is as rough on top and on the bo ttom as it is along thc edges, and the outline Bhowd how rough that THE MOXSTEi: NTGOET. is. It weighs 101 ounces and is more than ninety per cent, pure gold, eo that, gold being worth $20 an ounce, the value, roughly speaking, is al most 82000. The shape is too irrogular to de scribe, but tho measurements are easily taken. Tho nugget is a littlo over rix and A half inches in length and five and a half inches in width at thc widest place. Tho broader end is also thc thicker, and measures three and three-quarter inches from top to bottom, whilo thc smaller cud is only about au inch thick. Originate 1 tho "One Trice." System. John A. Warren, tho old Boston dry goods merchant who died on last Fri day, is said to have been the first dealer in that city to adopt tho ''one price" system of Kelling goods. Il was considered n great innovation, and everybody predicted that Mr. Warrol, had made n ni ?sink". Previously each merchant had set Iii.-; uwn price For an article; and ibe customer mid to pay it OJ beat him down.---New York SuuJ HATS AND PARASOLS DEOAD EFFECT J THIS 8 MASON'S FEATURE IN MILLINERY. Large Hats Arc Stylish.-Fashionable Colors on Feminine Headgear -Dainty Sunshades-Odd Skirts and Waists. j M y HE tendency in the milliner's I efforts thisseason is all toward J broad effects and tho trim <f" ming of nenrly every style of hnfc .or bonnet leans that way. The tiny Dutch bonnets set so far back on i thc head that they seem lost in front are worn at teas and receptions and in tho evening for young maids and ma trons, too, thc . natty Napoleon, trimmed toward the back or front, as fancy dictates, is a favorite. The large hats aro stylish to a degree and a model in black satin braid, had short thick plumes falling on either Bide, one resting on tho edge of tho brim toward the front. A band of velvet with rhinestone buckle ond bunch of violets at tho back and un derneath the brim a cluster of roses completed thc trimming. Tho demand for made hats admits of ccnsidorablo originality in tho manipulation of the straw braid and with the kind known as patent leather exquisite jet effects may be obtained without tho weight of tho real article. Black and white and black and brown aro frequently found combined, tho tint of the latter used being Havana. Butter color fancy straw is also fashionable, espe cially for young girls' hats. Ribbons and Howers for the mont part form the adornment of tho spring hat, the Dresden and striped effects in tho latter being especially handsome, while tho flowers aro tho most perfect imitations of nature's productions, some of tho makers going so far as to imitate dying nature, and withered leaves, and dying roses are among tho seasons novelties. A'bcautiful model for a hat is of white laco and net, tho brim slightly projecting aid trimmed with soft net and sprays of orchids, and another is quito a flower toque, velvet pansies being combined with the lace. Tho bonnet pictnrod here with is in marron fancy straw, trimmed with roses, shaded from pink to green A BONNET TRIMMED WITH ROSES. and natural foliage, plaited marron ribbon and jet ornaments. The cen ter in front forms a point, resting on tho hair. To be worn with or with out strings. Theso dainty millinery adornments and their fair wearers must be shadod from the sun's rays, and tho parasols arc on par with tho prevailing beauty in the season's fashions. The sheer chiffon is lace and self-rufiled in vari ous styles, and the Dresden comes severely plain and with a ruffle or two and bow on top. The shirred chiffons in light tints arc lovely, thejfilmy fab ric being a favorite, and a model in accordion pleated black chiffon won many admiring comments at a recent exhibition. For carriage uso the much trimmed ones aro carried, but the styles for street aro very handsome, plain satin with insertion of heavy lace being among them. FOR STREET WEAR. For street wear brocaded silk mo hairs, bcrege poplin, Venetian cloth and illuminated serges will bo much worn, with cr?pons in exquisite weaves of mohair and silk and all silk for call ing and reception gowns. In the first mentioned stylo a beautiful model was seen in mohair of a gray shade, with old rose figure and glints of green through the weave ; the skirt was ex ceptionally full, tho godet plaits stand ing out beautifully and large rosettes ornamenting the side ; the bodice was trimmed with a full collar of heavy Russian embroidery and the full effect was obtained by looso straps of old rose satin caught at tho neck with rhinestone buttons; tho plain high collar of satin has loops well toward tho cud. Tho sleeves wcro of mohair with full puff to elbow. Theso mohairs como in all varieties of colorings and tints and in plain ef fects. In the poplins brown and white is found beautifully combined and a taking stylo shows tho soft front of thc bodice of whito mousseline do soie, embroidered in buttonhole stitch, and intended to bo worn with or without au Eton jacket. Tho cloth gowns, w hellier tuilor-madc or trimmed bodice, are beautiful, the exquisite texture of the fabric showing to excel lent advantage and trimmed with heavy grass linen embroidered in all manner of styles or plain silk Tuscan and ornamented with buttons of rhinestones or cut steel they aro ex tremely handsome. ODD SKIRTS AND WAISTS. As old waists and skirts are the feature of tho season new ideas in both are constantly cropping np. This stylo is now standard, and will con tinue for time indefinite. Tho Hum mer promises to bc the biggest cotton ?vaist season yet known. Now wo aro wearing them of laco or net. over silk ; ch ilion, gauze or crape over silk or sal in ; velvet, lue soft finished liberty salin, (driped and figured changeable tall?las und a few plaids in velvet and .ilk. AU colors and combinations aro 1 wnruiu lids ii?-efii! garment. Sleeves ?re j < to tlie vrisi or elbow au 1 very large, j i fancy collard and ribbon belts aro 11 irorn. Guipure lace yokes and epau let ruffles abound, and in many in? itances a tiny fur edging finishes tho ace trimming. Velvet and chiffon aro :ombined with any material. Jot and ribbon are commonly used trimmings. Some of the combinations are silk vaist, velvet sleeves, narrow belt and ?ollar and yoke of lace vandykes. An ther has pink chiffon over pink silk, vith pink satin ribbon bretelles and >ows, as well as belt, anda light green ;ollar. Mink edges the collar and intlines the bretelles and belt. Black ihiffon, net or gauze waists are made iver colored silk and trimmed with YOUNO GIBIi'S WAIST. ilack satin ribbons and a colored vel et collar. The waists are full in of act, though mado over a boned lining, lix yards of silk are now allowed for waist and the same of chiffon. TAILOn-MADE GOWNS. Nothing looks 60 decidedly proper s a tailor-made gown, either for burch or shopping. Now that dress- I lakers control tho gowns once more I he tailor-made ones are no longer I ilain and severe. Whipcords and ightweight cheviots aro the very hing for a shopping gown. For in tance, a light mouse-gray whipcord, lade with a skirt, a godet, not too rido nor overstiffened with horsehair, in ed throughout with a good quality f 6ilk and perfectly plain. The lodice fits tight to the back, the ronts are open and rounding, with a ittle basquine ali around. USE OF BRAIDING. j An enormous amount of braiding ?aterial is being used, or woven goods hat so closely resemble braiding, that | he effect is precisely the same. Vests, icket bodies, the lower portions of i he sleeves, the wide bands that are rom over the tops of the sleeves, and,. ideed, portions of the sleeves them? slves, are of this material. MRS. STANTON'S QUEEB EXPERIENCE. In spite of her eighty years, Eliza? still, and appreciates agood story "as much as the youngest of her friends. The other evening she related an ex perience that befell her while lectur ing in a Western city. She had re tired shortly before midnight, and wat just falling asleep when she felt a cold touch on her hand, and at tho same time heard a voice that sounded dis tinct though faint saying : "Save me, mother!" More curious than alarmed, Mrs. Stanton rubbed her eyes, got up and lighted the gas, and searched every where through the room, finding ab solutely nothing. Then, concluding that it must have been an hallucina tion, she went back to bed again. But again the phenomenon .vas repeated, with the same icy touch and the same voice, that sounded nearer now, and repeated the singular words : "Save me, mother 1" AH through tho night at intervals this strange manlfestion was repeated, ELIZABETH CADY STANTON. and once it seemed to her that she was held in a strong embrace, while the voice sounded close in her ears. The next morning she repeated to the landlord the strange happenings of tho night, and learned to her amaze ment that twenty-four hours before, in the very same room a young man had died of delirium tremens, and all through tho hours of his agony he had called out, sometimes with moans, sometimes with shrieks: "Savo me, mother!" Now, if any ono eau explain this Dccurreuco Mrs. Stantou will bo glad to hoar from him, for she admits Frankly it is beyond hor comprehen sion._ Wear and Tear. Thc front gato before Mary Ellen jad a beau. Two weeks later. A room has been sot apart in the British House of Co ?ti mons for tho iorvenience of members desiring to nako use of typo writing machines or :o dictate to their secretaries. REGULATOR The Old Friend And triebest friend, that never fails you, is Simmons Liver Regu lator, (the Red Z)-that's what you hear at the mention of this excellent Liver medicine, and peoplo should not be persuaded that anything else will do. *: . It is the King of Liver Medi cines; is better than pills, and takes the place of Quinine and Calomel. It acts directly on the Liver, Kidneys and Bowels and gives new life to tho whole sys tem. This ?3 the medicine you want. Sold by all Druggists in Liquid, or in Powder to oe taken dry or made into a tea. aa-EVEUY PACKAGE: "tra Una tho Stamp In red on tvranm(v J. H. ZKI LIT* & CO., Philadelphia, Pa. HUNTING FOR MONAZITE* ft New Industry In the Piedmont Seo? tion of North Carolina. The enthusiasm with which the search for monazite is now being prosecuted in the Piedmont section bf North and South Carolina is some thing remarkable. Men, women and children talk about it, dream about lt, search for it, and would perhaps eat it if it could be prepared so that j it would be palatable. For 200 years i the planters on tho coast stumbled over phosphate rock, which had been brought to the surface, and consider ed it of no value. Finally, after the late war, a man of scientific turn of mind began to investigate this rock, and as a result an industry has sprung up that now amounts to mil lions of dollars annually. In like manner gold miners year after year in their search for gold along the streams of this Piedmont section have been finding in their pans a heavy yellowish sand, which they cast aside as worthless. This has all been completely reversed in the last twenty months, and nowa days a prospector will cast aside fair specimens of gold while prosecuting his search for monazite. Io obtain monazite from the hundred little streams that are found in the mona zite belt the .prospector sets out pro vided with shovel and pan. With his shovel he scoops. out a hole "in the bed of the stream, or near by it. He* goes>throiighv ^he', alluvial.- deposit and washes it out, carefully examin ing quantity and- quality. After prospecting in several different places he is able to decide whether . the "branch," as these small streams ' are called in the South, is worth J j working. If it promises well a trial ; is made. The top soil is 8tripped.ofi from a small area until the monazite stratum is reached. That sand is taken out and carefully washed, and if the results are satisfactory then work is begun. Contractors do most of tho mining, taking leases and paying a royalty of from one-seventh to one-fifth. Occa sionally tho monazite privilege is bought straight out, and in some in stances $200 an acre has been paid. Sometimes, however, the owners work their own lands. Common, unskilled laborers are employed to do the work. "Strip pers" are the hands who clear away the top soil, removing all timber growing thereon. Tho gravel gang comes next. They carefully lift out all of the monazite sand and turn it over to the washers, who get out all gravel, silver and clay, leaving a mix ture of heavy material behind. This goes through a second washing, and the material left is marketable mon azite. The washing is done in a wooden trough from 12 to 18 feet in length, 12 inches wide and 12 deep. There is a cast iron perforated plate at the upper end of the box, through which the monazite drops, while the lighter stuff and clay float away. A stream of water flows through the box. Ex pert washers receive $1 a day, but there are plenty of men who do this work fairly well and are anxious to work at G5 cents per day. Overseers and timekeepers receive $1.50. Thia is considered fair wages down South, where there is little demand for day labor now. The sand is about as current aa gold dust, six cents a pound being the average price. It is estimated that a group of well managed hands will make twice their dally wages. Letters of inquiry come from all countries seeking information about monazite, and, judging by the num ber and character of these received by the geological survey from various European countries, the industry and the amount of money brought into this Piedmont section for mona zite this year, will hardly amount to tess than $100,000. Monazite has boen found in small quantities in Russia, Norway, Bohemia, and in rjold washings in Brazil and in the mica veins at Quebec, but nowhere has it boen found in such enormous quanties ad in this bed. A Gloucester, N. J., company ia the only concern manufacturing monazite in this country. The value of sand depends upon the rare metal, thorium, which it contains, which is separated from the associated mate? rial by very complicated chemical processes, which are kept secret from everyono except those who manipulate tho operations. It is then used in tho manufacture of incan descent gas burners of different forms. Tho finding of monazite is the best thing that has ever occurred for the poorer people of the section in which it is found. Hundreds of day labor ers are now feeding their families with the money made in this in? dustry.