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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. Insurance of crops against fire, flood and tornado is n popular new wrinkle in the breeze belt of Kansas. The word mugwump has been adop ted in England. London Truth had a doggerel entitled "Moan of tho Mugwump." Ic proportion to population Ger many raises nearly ten time? as many potatoes as the United States and finds them a profitable crop. Von Hartman proposes to graduate taxes,especially income taxes,so that \ bachelor shall have fire times as much bo pay a9 the father of five children. Andrew Carnegie has got Great Britain down on him by comparing the equipment of their railroads nu? favorably with that of. the Americaa roads. '"'_ Charles Dudley Warner says that the newspapers are in dancer of losing their influence, through the prevalence nf fake news, worked up by unscrupu lous news gatherers. Australia bas a population of less than five million, but economists de alare it could support a hundred million with ease. As a means of sho Br ing how far the world is from being overpopulated they assert that the en tire population of the United States could live comfortably in the single 3tate of Tex*?. Trade between the Pnget Sound re gion and Central and South America ha., developed vory largely in the lasS year or so, and several new lines of steamships have been put 0:1 between the two. Another new line to run be tween Tacoma, Wash., Panama, and South American ports, has just beeu established, and will commence sail ing this month. Co-operative stores aro making headway in France as well as England. The value of sales of the 306 societies in France is e ver $12,000,000 a year, and the total number of members is about 300.00C. In addition to theie societies in France are the farmers' syndicates, in which about 900,000 persons are concerned. The svndi. oates buy fertilisers and other chemi cals for vine culture, maintain labora? tories for analysis of soils, publish monthly prion lists and perform other services for the general benefit. A oharcteristically feminine affair was witnessed at a German picnic in New York the other day, relates the New Orleans Picayune. It was during the performance of the Japanese acro bats. One of tho performers, a five year old boy, was on the top of a thir ty-five foot ladder, balanced by a man below. The man lost control of the ladder and the boy began to fall. All thought that the boy would meet a horrible death, but an old woman ran forward and caught tho youngster, saving him from being killed. When the audience was relieved of the ten sion a murmur of applause went up and the plucky woman fainted. Is steam ont of date? asks Farm, Field and Fireside. Prominent rail road men say that the days of the steam locomotive are numbered. Be fore long the noise, smoko and cin ders which make a railroad journey so unpleasant will become only au un pleasant memoiy. The genie whioh is to accomplish this marvelous change is one with whose works we are all be come familiar. His name is electric ity. Electric locomotives run by pow erful storage batteries have been suc cessfully tested by a number of dif ferent roads. The steam locomotive is expensive to build, expensive to run, and entails a large constant cost for repairs. Tho running cxpensos average at least twenty-five cents a mile, which is many times the cost of running a locomotive with a storage battery. The batteries are made to carry a train about a hundred miles and can be changed in a shorter time than is necessary foi taking coal and water. The Pennsylvania Railroad is said to be about to make the change from steam to electricity and other prominent lines have the matter under advisement. Were it not for the vast amount of capital in locomotives the change would have been made before now._ Hare Faces Ll xe .Ha-, ks. Aoters' and actresses' faces are of great interest to the? physiognomist. An actor's art must of necessity in volve the stimulation of both the mus cular and trophic faotors of expres sion. Not only has he to emphasize the facial movements whioh are ap propriate to his part, in order that his expression may be plainly seen by the pit and the gallery, but he is as a rule obliged to ohange his role fre quently, and to assume a succession of oharaoters requiring very different fa oial renderings. As a result all his expression mus oles are exeroisod as thoroughly as are the body muscles of au athlete who is undergoing a systematic course in a gymnasium. Hence, in a typical ac tor's face, when seen at rest, no one group of expression muscles oitpulls the others, and as a consequence of this state of muscular balance there is about it a peculiar aspeo. Suggestive of a mask. Morec-Ver, this impassive ind almost wooden look is enhanced in marry cases by" an even layer of sub cutaneous fat-the result probably ol emotional stimulation of a constantly varying ??M*msv^kw'woo?'e Mag" HOUSES FOR FOOD. AN* KQUIN'K SLAUGHTER HOUSE IX CHICAGO. Sorry Lookin?; Victima Turned Into Stoat for Human Consump tion - A Flourishing Western Industry. CHICAGO lefter to the New York Herald pars: The slaughtering of horses for human food is now a recog nized Western industry, md the au thorities hnve chown no disposition to interfere with it. In fact, the City Health Department of Chicago says bor?e meat, from a sanitary point of .view, is Hiperior lo that of beef for the reason that horses do not have tuberculosis. There is a horse slaugh ter bouse nt Hammond, Ind., and sev eral in that vicinity, and there is also one here, the mo.-t extensive of the lot. The main cause of complaint against the Chicago abattoir J3 that the horses slaughtered there are broken down and emaciated animals, and many of them are said to be jifflicted with disease. Comparatively little of this meat is sold here, the WHERE HORSES ARE SI bulk of it going to Europe, and, as a consequence, tb? Consuls represent ing Germany, Belgium and France have made complaint to the State De partment. The slauahter house in Chicago is a den of horrors, foul and ill-smelling. The very atmosphere can breed noth? ing but disease, and even though the meat were sweet after killing it conld not remain so amid such surround ings any length of time. There is j^acticaHy no attempt at cleanliness. HOW THE HOBSES ABE KILLED. and the odors that arise from the place are beyond the powers of defini tion. The victims are invariably ringbened, spavined, decrepid in every way, weak from hunger or dis ease. From this inferno are sent out barrels of meat for the people of Bel gium, Antwerp, Paris and other cities THE PACK of the continent. As the slaughter house is located just outside tho city limits of Chioago the city authorities can do nothing, even were they so in clined, while there is no State law on the matter that can be invoked in pre vention of the business. Only the Government of the United States can interfere. This Chicago packing establishment is located on the open prairie and con sists of two large, unpainted build ings and several Bheds. One of the large buildings is used as a stable and the other is the abattoir proper. The stable is not used for the care and comfort of the animals that are to be slaughtered. They simply lie 01 stand around until death claims them. There ie no danger of their getting away. Many of them cannot stand, and running would be an exercise far beyond their powers. Death is a wel come relief to most if not all of them, .nd never a whimper or a whiffny ie heard. One hundred horses per week are slaughtered here, and they are bought for $1, $2 or $3 each, the ma jority of the purchases being made at auction. Huddled together in a cor ral these miserable oreatures await the sharp blade of the axe that puts an end to their sufferings forever. The meat is packed in barrels and then sent beyond the sea. A moro uninteresting place than this slaughter house cannot be im agined. It is simply a long, low1, on? story shanty ne?r?y due hundred feel in length and kb??t f?rfy feet ic width, divided into tW? rooms by \ light wooden partition. In one ol these rooms, the one to the west, the horses aro killed, skinned, dinmem Ifcrtiti tad Imug ntf, lt is urt un ?n viting apartment, but on the contrary is one calculated to destroy a man's appetite forever, so far as eating meat is concerned. The floor is slippery with blood, while all around lie parts of animals that havo been slain await* ing tho hanging up process. In the centre is a rack on which are con stantly hanging innumerable quarters of horse meat, with portions of equine skeletons disposed everywhere. The actual slaughter of the horses is little short of absolute murder. An incline leading from the outside runs into the shed, the floor of which is fully three feet higher than the ground, and the victim walks upon this until he is well inside. He then posses under araised platform of the crudest nature, con-, sisting of a few s'cantling and boards enough to moko a sure footing for the feet, whereon stands the executioner,! a brutal, low browed, unemotional' man, who swings a phnrp, heavy axe with skill, precieion and force. As the horse approaches this plat form a small blanket, or sometimes a gunnysack is thrown over his eyes, to prevent his seeing tho axe, and as he reaches r> point immediately under the man with tho weapon, :he latter comes down upon his forehead with a crash, the blade sinking deep into bis brain. There is no need for a eesond blow, AUGHTERED FOR FOOD. for the firf-t is sure and deadly, and the poor, starved animal falls dead in his tracks. Another man with a sharp knife slits his throat and ho is ready for the skinner. In a few moments his hide is off, the knife and cleaver soon dismember him and he is then food for human beings. As the quar ters hang upon the hooks they are not distinguishable from thoss of beef, and undoubtedably pass for such in more than one butcher's shop, particularly any of the meat comes in here. In the east room of the slaughter house are three great iron kettles, each of three hundred trull ons capacity, and in these paris of the meat aro boiled, but for what purpose there is a diver sity of opinion. Martin and his em ployes say the kettles aro used for boiling those parts of the dead hoTses out of which glue is made, the result being sold to the gluemakers. One man told me the vats contained the necks of horses, which was made into "beef extract." A suitable brand is then put upon the extract, and there are doubtless thousands of persous who sip the concoction and think it is beef tea, when it is nothing more th m boise gruel. Another man thought it was soup stock, and yet another st.id he was certain that saloon iree lunches were supplied out of the kettles. The beef tea theory, however, is the more probable, and the one generally ac cepted. Connected with the north side of the slaughter room is a small shed, enclosed, on the principle of the "lean to," which is designated as the cool ing and packing rcom, Here the vis itor will find, behiucl a railing, half a ton or so of ice, with piles of quarters near it, in the process of cooling. It is rather apriiniiivo arrangement, as ING HOUSE. compared with the various cooling processes at the stock yards' packing nouses, bnt the proprietor is authority for the statement that none of the meat leaving his establishment is bad. After it is sufficiently cooled it is packed in barrels and shipped across the ocean and otherwise disposed of. A Kew Illuminant. Some day wo shall, perhaps, settle on a universal domestic illuminant. Will it be acetylene? If so, wo shall want a shorter name for it, but that can be shelved for the present. Ace tylene is said to p^ive a flatno ten or twelve times brighter than an ordi nary gas jet, or four and a half times brighter than the very host gas burner can yieid. Moreover, acetylene gives out much less heafc than gae, and very much less vapor. Add to these advan tages the fact that acetylene can bo liquified with ease, and kept in liquid form, and you have the claims of ace tylene in the rough. It is curiong that acetylene has become commer cially possible as an illuminant by de velopments in electricity with which it will now have to competo.-New York Journal. Andrew Fields, a Kentucky day laborer, who can remember Jackson*! victory iu New Orleans and whe worked for Henry Clay, and Unole Charley Basco of Pond Creek, W. Va., claim the age of 105 and 103 respec tively. _ Place a box of ashes and ono o' charcoal in the pig pen. Experiment! show that pigs are more thrifty when they have thf.se substances than whoo utyi.reU tn then* t FASHION FANCIES THREATENED RESURRECTIO OF THE IIOOPSKIRT. 1 A Tendency to Individual Ideas as i What to Wear-Kali Wrap? and Capes-Black Horse hair Hats. IV T 0 longer doubt it, writes \ Paris correspondent; woma X \ bas issued her person " (T declaration of independenci A revolution is at hand. The slaves < the tyrant fashion are toiling, and tb dressmaking dynasties tremble in the; shoes. They are to rule no longe* It is the strictly personal style whici is to be the fashion. The movement began in England wheie women have always been al lowed a free choice concerning tb! style of their dress. Some fair youn/| i W>H ; if Ki THE HOOPSKIRT OF 1850, WHICH TB dame with a vein of originality con ceived the idea of tho picture hat, built after the fashion of some famouB painting, and wore it, notwithstand ing the fact that it was not mode. This Blight departure from established rules spread far and wide, and it has now come to Parif? Frenchwomen are quite open to the suggestion of individualism in fash ion, and women in prominent social positions who are fair, clever and ad mired have become advocates of the hew thought. They are now taking ingwafm'r^ ies. The great masters, whose works decorate the Louvre, are made the ar bitrators of what is woru. The rule is to try the various styles, and when one is accepted, it should be worn at least two seasons. Another chronicler of fashions as serts that tho hoopskirt is bound to be with us again before another six months. We can only hope, adds the Chicago Times-Herald, that the first woman to reappear in one will not share the fate of her unfortunate sister who woro one in the streets of New York in 1810. She was arrested by the po lice. TAHL WRAPS. It seems such a pity to be obliged to cover the pretty bodices of this season with a wrap of any sort, and were it not that the wraps are so very enticing the fashionable girl would be apt to shiver ulong the avenues with no pro A NEW FALL CAPE. tection from the winds, says the New York Recorder. The capes are perfect loves, and keep right in the first rank of favor with women in general, for there is, nor can there be, no more comfortable covering than a loose cape. The sleeves are still tremendous, one of the most marked features of tho fall bodice, and a jacket, even with tho fullest kind of a sleeve, seems orampy and out of order. One hates to crowd and push a lovely big sleeve, all soft folds and puffs, into a coat sleeve, no mat ter of how big proportions ; there is sure to be more or less crushing. Velvet is, as was predicted, in espe cial favor for fall wraps-but more of this later ; there are no end of lovely confectious already seen in this rich and universally becoming fabric. The sketch shows one of the ne* capet) in a dull, slate-colored Lyons velvet, with f-uch a wonderfully thick pile, and showing such beautiful white lights. It is circular in cut, falling from the shoulders in rich folds, and bordered with straps of cream white Broadcloth. Broad revers and e. high rolling coiiar of white hav? stripped edges. A double clasp of pearl orna ments the front With this is worn a flat, Haring brimmed hat, of warm, t&n-culored biaidf Minyip butmodfahif ?immed with long, epikey wings of bronzed greens and reddish browns, rbis toilette is made complete when vorn with a frock of cream-colored jroad-clotb, as is shown in the sketch. fi CHIC HATS FOB AUTUMK. The fall hat differs from the sum ner one in one particular very strongly. Whereas the summer hat had to bo picturesque or lose all claim to dis* ;inction, autumn headgear has to be nerely chic. Broad brims, crowns of nany indentations and the like are ;abooed, and the trim little shapes rfiich are most capable of developing into the "chic" beneath a skilful milliner's touches have taken their places. WOVEN HORSEHAIR FOR HATS. "Wovan horsehair remains a rage for aats, and figures largely in the milliu sry notions for fall. Black horsehair chapeaus are trimmed elegantly with [RI ATENS TO RETURN TO FASHION. a?. ... --- rhinestone buckles and a single perky up-flare of dowers. In-many cases theUjtrimming is very simple, but in throat nf this material that the artist presents here the trimming ia abun* dant. First, there is in front a large Louis XV. bow, made of rose pink rib bon overlaid with black guipure whose fancy edges extend beyond the rib HAT OF WOVEN HORSEHAIR. bon. Tba bow has double loops on each side that droop over black rib bon arranged in puffs on the brim. In front a few malmaison roses with buds and foliage show. CLOTH GOWKS. While fashionable tailors will use rough-surfaced fabrics-tweeds, chev iots and boucle cloths-for the greater number of gowns, they will adhere to the smooth lady's cloth for thoir more elaborate dresses, as they have always done. The tailors who were slow to adopt large sleeves and very wide skirts aro now loudest in their praise, and in sists on commending them for winter use. Certainly their long lines are most suitable for tho cloth and velvet dresses made by tailors, where draper ies and flounces would not be effective. The coat-waist will be used for gowns of these heavy fabrics, though round full waists will not be abandoned by the small slight women who find them becoming. An effort will be made to do away with the godet back of these coats, commonly known as the "ripple back," and substitute fiat fanlike folded pleats. The back is to be very short, falling only a few inches below the waist, and is to have but few seamp, though it is closely fitted. The front may bo lapped slightly to allow the use of very elegant buttons, or else it falls open straight and a belt is passed around tho waist, going out side the back but slipped inside the under-arm seams, and fattening under the open front. Square long tabs are ou theso fronts, and they are merely edged with fur. A novelty that is very effective on fitted single-breasted waists is double revers, tho lower revers cut in slender points that lap in fichu fashion. The trimmings for cloth gowns are revers and vest of doth of a contrast ing color, bias bands of the cloth of the dress stitched on in rows or in a design, narrow bands of fur, and fin ally the very rich braiding in gold and other metals in whioh tailors ex cel.-Harper's Bazar. TK^.'\TNQS. Passementerie waist trimmings are imported, and are very handsome and expensive. There is a standing collar of points, the entire sections for covering the shoulders and tops of the sleeves, with a long point for the front and sides shaped like an Eton jacket, with a complete back ox the garniture. A railroad trestle 1600 feet long, with double tracks ond a steel draw bridge, has just been completed OTW ?oigarto Or?, ont Aiutyi&nUi WORLD'S CHE-S CIIAJIPIOX. Career of the Young: American Who Bent the World's Best Tiayers. Henry Nelson Pillsbury, of Brook lyn, N. Y., wlio won the international chess masters' tournament at" Hast ings, England, has up to the present H. PIILL3BUBY, CHESS CHAMPION. enjoyed only a local reputation. His career as a chess player has not been of the brilliant order, but rather one of constant advancement. Pillsbury is twenty-two years old, and his chess playing dates from his sixteenth birthday, when he first learned the moves of the game at which he has now proved himself to be the inter national champion. Addison Smith, a leading member of the Boston Chess Club, becarao in terested in the yotng man shortly after he began to play, and Pillsbury was not slow to take advantage of Smith's valuable experience. He be came an active member of the Boston Chess Clnb, and enjoyed a reputation among Boston enthusiasts as a coming player. Pillsbury's first important success was gained over Champion Steinitz, who unsuccessfully tried to concede him the odds of pawn and move. He was entered in 1890 in tho American Chess Congress, receiving odds from Burrille and other leading players. Young Pillsbury defeated Stone at evens with a score of 5 to 2. He also played a match with Barry, a strong New England player, winning by s score of 5 to 4. All of the leading devotees of th? game played at Hastings. The cham pion Lasker, Tschigorin, Blackburne, Burn, Bird, Gunsberg, Tarraseh, Ver gani, Tinsley, Von Bardeleben, Teich mann, Al hin, Mason, Janowski. Pollock and several others, arnon; them Walbrodt, also a very young man, like Pillsbury, played* Laskei ner, with Tschigorin, Ste'nitz,' burne and Tarraseh as dangeroui rivals, while Pillsbury and the othen were in the dark-horse category. Pillsbury's v'ctory against such ai array of talent is therefore the mon remarkable, as he was pitted againsi men whose experience in tournament! and matches was calculated to at leas' overcome the younger and less ex perienced players. Pillsbury U au active member o the Brooklyn Chess Club, and on hil departure for the scene of his grea victory was the recipient of a cordia I demonstration at tho hands of thai I organization. He Was Puzzlci'. Every expression of the child showec eager curiosity. On the way down town the boy frequently and persist ently asked questions. Finally tue car passed Baldwin's and the youngster caught a glimpse o a locomotive boiler outside. "Papa, papa, what is that?" h cried. "That's a locomotive boiler, m; ion." Thus answered the juvenile was los in reverie. He was thinking it over "Did you say that was a locomotiv boiler, papa?" he suddenly blurte out. "Of course, I said so." "Well, then, why do they boil loco motives?"-Philadelphia Call. A Land ol Windmills. Western Kansas is entirely unlik Holland because of the ?carcity, al most absence, of water, but is becom ing very like the Dutch lowlands i the great abundance of windmill which are becoming so numerous as t fill up the landscape. In the town o Wilson a traveler counted seventy-tw windmills in view from the hotel ver anda. There is an excellent wate supply a few feet below the surface i that region, and every man has an ii dividual supply, raised by the wind mills.-Chicago Tribune. A HOUSELESS CAI it carr"? ' ""is, says the Di York ,; tor delivering goods. A powcx and its maximum speed is si clainiR tba' the wagon's running ex; iz ke; \ icg o- & h-Hr se. IM-?-gon't appearance does ni employed, [he engine in concealei 16S0J?! to be nlrnor-t noiseless. A crt acy and ti;reo brakes keep it under VrcVftun in JUUIJ frtttuou una tsiuh How a Great Steel Kin? Was Made. The steel ring for generator No. 3 at the Niagara Power Company's new plant is now at the shop of the West inghouse Company, and is attracting a great deal of attention from steel men, as well as from electricians. It is regarded as one of the very finest pieces of work ever turned ont. It was forged at Bethlehem, Penn. The ring is considerably tho largest of the kind ever casi It is eleven feet seven and one-eighth inches in diameter, about five feet high and weighs 27,000 pounds. It cost over $8000. The making of the ring was au ex ceedingly difficult task. A nickel steel ingot four and a half feet in di ameter at tho bottom and six and a half feet long was cai'?. A hole was then bored through ii lengthwise. A block of the proper weight was then cut from the ingot, and the cylinder thus obtained wae heated, and, under a hydraulic pressure of 14,000 tona was expanded to the present size. Ii would ba just like cutting from a lead pencil a see+ion half an inch long, bor ing the lead out of it and then expand i i ing the wood to a ring an inch in di ameter. The ring had to be forged to a per fect circle, and in such a way as tc prevent the possibility of weakness in any part, for, when the tremendous pressure of Niagara is brought to beal on the turbine, which will turn the ring, it will revolve around the arma ture at the rateof 250 revolutions per minute. The electrical energy thus obtained will be 5000 horsepower. Pittsburg Dispatch. A Large Tooth. While workmen were excavating t ditch in a swamp on the farm of C. E. Percival, in the southeastern part o Champaign County, a few days agp, they dug a huge tooth which has at tracted considerable curiosity and th? attention of scientific people. Th< tooth measured ten inches in length, four inches across the face of thj crown and weighed seven and one-hall pounds. When it was brought to this city it was compared with a plaetei cant of a mastodon's tooth in the Uni versity of Illinois, and it was .found tc correspond almost exactly with it. Burlington (Iowa) Hawkeye. Richest American Woman. An interesting sight for the people of Bellows Falle, Vt., the past summc-i was to watch Hetty Green, the womal whose fortune is way up in millions returning from a shopping tour witl a small package of tea, a pound o HETTY GREEN'. crackers and a bag of flour in he j j arms. They considered Mrs. Green i good citizen, and said that she pai her taxe3 with commendable promp ness, but she would not submit to tb slightest extortion. She had the wat? cut off from her bouse at the cost c L great personal inconvenience becaus she thought she was charged too muc 1 for it. e _mnt d Will Uss Molasses. It is said a French chemist prc - poses to make a substitute for indi rubber from the same ingredients t are used in the manufacture of prim ers' roilers, i. e., a mixture formed i variable proportions of glue, glycerir e and molasses. This composition is < 1- covered with canvas, ordinary rul i- ber or "other suitable material," 1 n protect it against humidity, great her s or mechanical action. -Boston Glob o ^ _ ,f Cold Water a Valuable Stimulant. o Dr. Lauder Brinton declares th ir oold water is a valuable stimulant n almost everybody, and will often ser i- the pulse from seventy-six to a hu I- i dred when sipped, a wineglassful at time. ililAGE IN KEW TURK. itroit Free Press, and ie used hy a N petroleum air engine provides mot; ixteen kilometers an hour. The inven: pens?e' daily is less than half that requii Djt differ materially from that of thoe? n i in ? square wooden bo? ia the rear s ink in front guides the vehicle with ace control. The tires are of rubber and i Are you taking SIMMONS LIVER REG ULATOR, the "KING OF LIVER MEDI CINES?" That is what our readers want, and nothing but that I: is the sam? old friend to which the old folks pinned their faith and were never dis appointed. But another good recom mendation for it is, that it is HETTEB THAN PILLS, never gripes, never weak ens, but works in such an easy and natural way, just like nature itself, that relief comes quick and sure, and one feels new all over. It never fails. Everybody needs take a liver remedy, and everyone should take only Sim mons Liver Regulator. Be sure you get it. The Red. Z is on the wrapper. J. H. Zeilin & Co., Philadelphia. BOARDING-HOUSES FOR PLANTS. Fiowors Cared for While Owners Ar? Out of Town. Boarding-houses for plants are a novel institution, designed for the housing of plants for families whc close up their city houses for several months during the summer. Every woman who loves flowers is at her wits' end to devise a means of hav ing her plants cared for when she goes away. In the case of a large and valuable collection this becomes a serious matter. It is up on Columbus avenue that the plant boarding-houses abound. Often in the spring and summer any one passing a florist's may see in bia window a strip of painted glass, or some other sign bearing the words: Boarding House for Plants, 50 cents apiece." A few of the estab lishments offer accommodations for 25 cents. This price covers a month's noard and lodging for a single potted plant. None of these boarding houses seek winter patronage, as the florist would hardly be paid for his trouble in car ing for other people's plants, since at. that time they would occupy hot house space-which could be turned by the proprietor to greater i.dvant- _ age in raising flowers of hin own. ?A-^s^^., iJt[? II i-i ? ji .. i of the fioYisTfEo put in a stock of ho* house plants for sale, that being the time when most flower fanciers think of increasing their collections, and naturally the profits on sales ia larger than could be expected from thee? frail boarders that require unusual watchfulness on chilly days. In summer, however, the rate of board is an ample return for the small out lay of time and attention, when plants need only such trifling atten tion as being supplied with water. Sometimes it happens, the men in the business sa}-, that the caretaker finds that the soil in which one of his boarders stands rooted has be come impoverished. In such a case he immediately sets to work to repot the plant. All such bits of necessary care are undertaken without extra charge, being covered by the regular board bill. There is also a boy, whose duties consist in walking up and down among the bonders and seeing that they aro not molested by bugs. 'I'd much prefer to keep a flower sanitarium," says a caretaker, "than to perpetually have to follow up that boy aud see that he isn't napping. It would'ntbe half the trouble. And those boys are all alike. But it's a class of work that only a boy would consent to do. However, on the whole, I must con Tess that the plant boarding house business ie rather too good to give up on account of so insignificant a drawback as a lazy boy, especially when it; furnishes occupation and income in what would otherwise be a dull season for the florist.' The House Penn Built. One of the oldest buildings of the number of anti-Revolutionary struc tures that still remain standing in Philadelphia occupies a conspicuous position on the northeast corner of Second and Walnut streets. The old building is nearly, if not quite, 200 years old, and it is claimed by sorao authorities that it was built by William Penn. John Penn, it is claimed was born in the house. For many decades it has been occupied by a gunsmithy and fishing tackle establishment, as long ago as 1815 such business having been started there. The business is now con ducted by John T. Siner, who has been in the store since 1848, and he is himself one of the most picturesque figures of the neighborhood, hale and hearty at seventy-four. He has in his possession a deed dated 1884, In which the owner of the corner build ing guaranteed the use of the party wall for the erection of the building adjoining on Walnut street, which ls also still standing. One Way to Pay Old Debts. One of Skowhegan's brightest young attorneys received a few days since a lot of bills for collection. Among them was one for 28 cents, the debtor living in a distant town, and it was sent oct with the others. A few days later the attorney re ceived a large shoe box by express. Charges upon it had not been pre paid, but the lawyer had no sus picion, and paid about 28 cents in all to havo the box delivered at his office. lhere an investigation of tho cdntentsWas undertaken, ?rfd in the course of the day. after an endless unwinding of twine and removing of paper wrappers, the kennel was reached-28 cents in the copper of the reala.