Edgefield advertiser. (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, August 26, 1896, Image 4
His First Flea.
In a southern city a few years ago a
young lawyer undertook the defense
of an old darkey who had been arrest
ed as a chicken thief, and who in the
days of slavery had been owned by
the lawyer's father.
It was the young man's first plea,
and waa rot brilliant in either con
struction or delivery. The darky re
ceived a pretty severe sentence, his
guilt being well proven.
"Thank you sah," said the prisoner,
addressing the judge, cheerfully, when
tho sentence had been pronounced;
"dat's mighty hard, but it ain't any
whar near what I expected. I thought,
sab, dat between my charaoter and
poor Mars' Frank's speech dey'd hang
me, shore!"-Youth's Companion.
The Cheerful Idiot.
"They don't have tho melons now
that they did when you and I were
young," said tho landlady to the
Cheerful Idiot, and the Cheerful Idiot,
who always resents remarks about his
approaching middle age, said, sadly :
"I guess they don't have the sume
melons now, but I do think we have
the same butter."-Indianapolis Jour
nal
A Wc nd ?r ful Phenomenon,
The rn\n who should pass through life with,
out experiencing a twingo of indi gration,
might io fitly regarded at a wonderful phe
nomenon. We doubt if euch a privileged
mortal has ?. \vr exi-ted. If M>, we have never
oren him. Hut thousands fire known to be
daily relieved of dyspepsia by Ho?tetter's
Stomach bitters, the popular remedy for that
truly national complaint, as well an for fever
and ayue. debility, constipat'on, rheumatibin
andltidney troubles.
An ulcerated tooth caused the death of a
mxn of Hoboken, X. J., by producing blood
poisoning. _
"Penny wit* ?ind pound foolish" are those
who think it economy to use cheap soda and
rosin soaps, instead of the good old Dobbins'
Electric Soap; for sale by all grocers since
1365. Try it once. Be sure, buy genou.?.
A flash of lightning so terrified a lady of
Flemington, N. J., that she died of fright.
Feed
Your nerves upon rich, red blood and you will
not be nervous. Blood is made rich and pure by
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Tho One True Blood Purifier. All druggists. $:.
Hood's Pills are always reliable. 25 cents.
Foolish Women.
"I can't help thinking how foolish
women are," said the philosopher, with
a sad shake of his head.
"What's the tronble now?" inquired
his thoughtless friend.
"I was only thinking of the old
days when they used to walk soberly,
calmly and sedately along the street,"
explained the philosopher. "You must
remember those days. "
"Certainly. What of them?"
"The danger of a sudden and violent
fall was reduced to a minimum then,
and there was no necessity of guarding
against it or arranging to break its
force."
"Very true," admitted the thought
less friend.
"And now there is constant danger,
and serious falls are of common occur
rence," persisted the philosopher.
"Also true," admitted the thought
less friend.
"And they wore bustles then and
they don't now," asserted the philoso
pher.-Chicago Post.
WOMEN WANT TO KNOW.
TO WHOM CAN THEY TELL THEIR
.TROUBLES?
A Woman Answers "To Me"-Anxious
Inquirers Intelligently Answered-Thou
sands of Grateful Letters.
Women regard it as a blessing that
they can talk to a woman who fully
understands their every ailment, and
thus avoid the examina
tions, experi
ments and the
ories of incom
petent physi
cians, whose sex
deprives them
of knowing by
experience.
The end
less confi
dence placed
in Mrs.
Pinknam by
American
women,
prompts them to seek
her advice constantly.
Female diseases yield
to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Com
pound at once. Inflammation, ulcera
tion, falling and displacement of the
womb, ovarian troubles, spinal weak
ness and kidney complaints, all have
their symptoms, and should be " nipped
in the bud." Bearing-down pains, back
ache, headache, nervousness, pains in
groins, lassitude, whites, irregularities,
dread of impending evil, blues, sleep
lessness, faintness, etc.
Here is testimony right to the point:
44 Tho doctors told me that unless I
went to the hospital and had an opera
tion pe rformed, I could not live. I had
falling, enlargement and ulceration of
the womb.
441 was in constant misery all the
time; my back ached; I
was always tired. It^
was impossible
for me to walk
far or stand long'
at a time. I was
surely a
wreck. I
decided
that I
would give
your Com
pound and
Sa native Wash*
a trial.
441 took three bottles of Lydia EL
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and
used two packages of Sanative Wash,
and I am now almost well. I am
stouter and healthier than I have ever
been in my life. My friends and neigh
bors and the doctors are surprised at
my rapid improvement. I have told
them all what ? have been taking."
-Mas. ANNETTA BICKMSDXB, Bellaire,
Belmont Co., O._
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SPOILING J
HE crowd grew thicker
every moment, till it
became almost impos
sible to more in the
ball room. The char
ity on account of whioh
the entertainment was
bein.? held was a popu
lar one ; eome great ladies had taken
the thing np and made it a success.
And as many of the men and nearly
all the gir's wera in fanoy dress, the
scene was striking and brilliant.
Among the Henritta Marias, (he !
Amy Bobsarte, Flora McDonalds and
other characters that filled the rooms,
one girl's face took my heart captive
the instant I beheld it. She did not
look more than seve teen, though she
may have been a year or two older, fair,
slender, with sunny hair and a milky
white complexion. Sho was dressed
to represent the Snow Image of Haw
thorne's charming fantasy, and the
character suited her style of beauty
admirably. She was pale as the snow
wreath that crowned her head, and she
seemed almost os fragile os the icicles
that were her only ornaments.
The girl's beauty was indeed re
markable. Feop'e turned and looked
at her as she moved here and there;
and whenever sho stood still she wus
instantly surrounded by a small crowd
of men eager to get their names put
down on her programme. . I noticed,
however, that there was a sad, ab
stracted look in her eyes. Hex heart
was noe in the ballroom.
In spite of all my efforts I failed to
get an introduction to the girl who
had fascinated me. I failed even to
learn her name. But none the less I
had fallen in love with her-1 iko a
fool. I had fallen in love with a
stranger-a vision that in all likeli
hood I should never seo again, that
would be for me &= fleeting and unsub
stantial as the Snow Fairy whom shs
represented.
There was-one other person at the
ball who attracted my attention. This
was a tall,, dark man, with a thick,
short, black beard, a man considera
bly.over the middle height, and evi
dently possessing a strong will as well
as a powerful budy. More than once
this man approached the Snow Fairy,
and on each oocasiu.ii ?he seemed to
me to shrink Irom him, as if she in
somo way had cause to lear him. They
were evidently connected, bnfc what
the relationship between them was I
could not be sure, for the mau seemed
too young to be her father. Surely, 1
said to myself with a jealous pang,
surely he cannot be her lover?
The whole evening I pestered my
friends in the hope of getting, in some
indirect way, au 'introduction to the
girl who had fascinated me, but I wa?
quito unsucoessiul. . Once her eyes
met mme. What she read there I do
sot know, but she tuddenly turned
aside, her pale checks showing a sud
den glow of rose color. Vexed with
myself for making her blush, I turned
away in tho opposite direction, and 1
took care not to approach so near her
again.
The evening wore on, and it was
evident that my ambition was not to
be gratified. About 3 o'olock I left
the ball room and, muffled in my
thick ulster, wes making my way along
a side street which led to the main
thoroughfare where hansoms were to
be found, when I beard a. rash of fly
ing feet behind me.
I turned, and there, close to me,
stood the Snow Fairy, a white opera
cloak wrapping her from head to foot,
and her sweet, sad face looking out at
me from within a hood of swansdowu.
1 stood and stared, too much sur
prised to think or form a oonjeoturo.
"Is there a letter box near?" she
gasped out, for she was breathless, as
much from excitement, it seemed to
me, as from tho exertion of running.
''Oh, please, please tell me. "Where
shall I look for one?" sho went on,
without giving .ine time to collect my
thoughts.
"I don't know where the nearest
letter box is," I replied, "bat I eau
easily find out. If you will intrust
your letter to mo I will Eeo that it is
posted."
"No, I cannot; I daro not trust it
to any one. Do try to find out for
mo-"
The, words died away on her lips,
for she, as well as I, had heard the
noise of some one running up to ns,
and the next moment the man with
the Ehort black beard' stood over us.
Bago knotted the veins on his forehead
till they seemed to be near bursting.
Hage, for tho space of two second?,
kept him speechless. During those
two seconds the girl crept perceptibly
rearer to me, and something smooth,
stiff, thin, like a piece of thick paste
board, was pressed into my hand. I
slipped it at onee into the pocket of
my ulster.
"What are you doing here?" ho Faid
to the girl in a tono of suppressed
fury ; and before ;ho had time to an
swer he turned savagely upon rae.
"Bow dare youBpeak to my daughter,"
he demanded, advancing upon me in a
slow and threatening manner. I bad
just time to see a look of mute suppli
cation in the girl's eyes. She was en
treating me not to betray her.
"Really, sir," I said, with as much
coolness as I could command ; "really,
you must pardon me for saying bbat
you seem a little less than reasonable.
One is permitted to speak to a young
lady at a ball."
"In the open M;reet? In this clan
destine manner?"
"We were not ia great privacy, to
be sure, but that might be urged in
mitigation of the offence," I said, with
a smile.
"You shall not hoodwink me. What
was it that she wa? saying to you when
I came up?"
"If I have been guilty of an indis
cretion, the fault is mine, and I am
ready to answer for it ; but you can
not expect me to repeat whatever
trifles I may have permitted myself to
say tc the young lady, whom I fear I
may not have an opportunity of meet
ing again. No gentleman would be
guilty of such a thing, nor, I ara sure,
would you, if you had been in my
place."
I saw by the man's face that I had
achieved my object. I had led him to
believe that there had been nothing
more than a little foolish flirtation be
tween the young Judy and myself. He
^ SCHEME.
seized the girl's hand, tacked it ander
his arm, and marched off.
"A8for having an opportunity of
meeting her again, I will take precious
good caro that you don't," he ?hrew
at me over his shoulder.
Alas ! there could bu little doubt of
it* And the letter? I bad no doubt
thai it was a note to her lover. It
seemed just a little hard that, anxious
as I was to serve her, this should be
the particular service required of me.
At the first pillar box I came to I
took out the missive she had given mo.
It was her programme for the even
ing, a dainty card, folded bookwise,
arr? secured at the edges by a number
of postage stamps stuck all around it.
Ic was stamped with a penny stamp,
and addressed in ponoil. Of course,
I had no business to read the address.
I knew that well enough. It wap, per
haps, an ungentlemanly thing to do ;
but then my curiosity was greatly ex
cited. I hoped that the namo pen
cilled on the back of the programme
might be that of a woman. But I was
disappointed. By the light of a gas
lamp I read :
"Immediate. Arthur Bellingham,
Esq.,-Furnival's Inn, Holborn, E. C.
Bellingham? Bellingham? I seemed
to know the name. For a minuto or
two I 6tood trying to remember whom
it was I had once met that owned it,
but in vain. What did it matter ? The
affair was at an end. I dropped the
queer letter into the letter^ box and
went home to my lodgings.
A few months later I was strolling
along Oxford street, I heard my name
called out, and looking up I saw Ar
thur Bellingham standing before me.
I recognized him at once-a youug en
gineer whom I had mee once in a coun
try inn on a wet day in the Lake dis
trict. We had been capital friends for
a week, and I could not understand
how I had forgotten him when I had
tried to remember what Bellingham I
had known.
We greeted eaoh other warmly, and
he would have me go with him to his
chambers in Furnival's Inn and smoke
a cisar with bim.
.'Bellingham," I said, os I stood on
his hearth rn;r, "did it ever happen
that you received a letter written on a
ball programme?"
His eyes and mouth opened in puro
astonishment.
"What do you know about that?"
he ejaculated.
"I ought not to have known any
thing about it, but I plead guilty to
having read the address. I posted the
programme to you one night on my
way home from a bad."
My friend sprang up and wrung my
hand as if he would wring it off.
"My dear fellow," .he cried, "I am
infinitely obligod to you for your tact
and kindness on that occasion. If yon
had not posted tbat note it would
have meant min ta rae. Maud told
me how awfully good you were about
it,"
"Maud? Do yon mean-"
"Maud, my sister-the girl who
slipped the note into your hand."
"Is she your sister?"
"Certainly she is. It's rather nn
uncommon story. Shall I toll it to
you?"
"If you don't mind. I confess I am
burning with curiosity."
"The fact is, then, that some three
years ago my poor mother, who was a
widow, did what turned out to bo a
very foolish thing-she married again,
and married without making proper
inquiries. My stepfather, Mr. Mad
dock, turned out tobe a very bad egg.
My mother lost the greater part of her
fortune when she married him, and
we were for a time practioally de
pendent on my mother's uncle, an ec
centric old gentleman, rather fond of
money, called Hodgkinson.
"Maddock is neither more nor less
than an adventurer, and for a long
time it was the main business of his
life to exploit my great uncle. At last
he nearly succeeded. Maddook and
Home friends of his got hold of a bit of
land in South Africa, which they
wanted to sell as a gold mine. I don't
believe there was an ounce of gold on
the premises. But my great unole
said that he would buy it at the high
figuro they asked for it if I would go
out and see it, and send him a private
telegram advising him that tho gold
was there in paying quantities.
"0/ course, I was ready to go, and
I was to have sailed the very morning
after the night of the ball that yon and
Maud attended.
"Well, Maud happened to be in the
conservatory attachod to the ballroom,
when she heard two mon talking
rather indiscreetly. She was stand
ing behind some flowering shrubs and
heard every word they said:
"Tho two men were ?Jr. Maddock
and one of hie B.-oociates, and she heard
enough to make her anderstand that
tho thing was a fraud, and that I was
to bo made tho means of their swind
ling Uncle Jonas on a large scale. I
believe the plan was that they should
send a false telegram to the old man
in my'name, days before I could even
fee tho pretended mine. One thing I
know-if the thing had come off, Uncle
Jonas would never havo forgiven me.
He would h ava believed to his dying
day that I had been Fqnared. You
may imagine what a state Maud waB in.
She-"
The door opened, and "Maud herself
walked into tho room.
It seemed that her stepfather had
treated her so harshly on account of
her having spoiled his schemes that
she had been forced to leave his house
and take refuge with her brother.
For some time the old man refused
to believe that the reason Arthur gave
for not going to South Africa was the
true reusou, but in time he came
icund, and both brother and sister
are now a good deal at his house. I
go there occasionally myself, which is
not surprising, aa Maud and I have
bren engaged for tho last nix weeks. -
Cassoll's Journal.
Coln lu Balk.
A financial authority says that
1,000,000 standard gold dollars weigh
25,800,000 grains or 53,750 ounces
troy, or 4179 1-6 pounds troy, of 5760
grains each; or, 3G35.71 pounds
avoirdupois of 7000 grains each ; or
1343 "short" tons of 2000 pounds
avoirdupois each, or 1645 "long" tons
of 2240 pounds avoirdupois each,-St,
Louis Star-Sayings, .
Gifts.
Far better than a great gift granted,
Is, to roy thought,
A little (rift not asked.'not wanted,
From ono that owes ono naught.
Hart I the giving of some great gift,
It should be spent ,
On one with never a hope to lift
To aught so mnsrniflconr.
-Gertrude Hall, In McClure's Magazine
Sonj; of the Sower.
When sunshine nnd shadow sweep over the
fields brown ami har?
And tho chill of the north wind yet lingers
adiift in the air,
In springtime, advancing with rhythmical
mo;iou and slow,
I scatter the grain that shall bring to man
blessing or woe. _
, -'t aw. . -
I walk in tho way thal leads out from the old
to the now
And I lace .vi tho futuro, upsprlnglng, bap
tized with the deer,
Yet I iioar in my wake the swift oncoming
annies that sweep
On, on, till they rest at tho last, ia one In
finite deep.
Lo! tho Ildes ebb and flow, and tho winds
they aro never nt rest!
And the rases of men sask forever a way to
be blest.
Thought froides them, love sways them, be
hold, I am the Il?ht of the way.
And the bronl earth shall my arm In beauty
and virtue arrayl
For a part of that plan whose beginning and
.mdinjz ls dim,
I am one with the tlde3 as they swoop, with
the stars us they swim.
Ono with labor and love and tho lark's song
th;it thrills in the east,
And I know that tho sowor shall sometime
bo in at the feast.
-Charles W. Stevenson, in Independent.
liut Only Thee.
Lady, nlthongh thou art not wondrous fair,
In thy cloar eyes I soo
What make i h dimpled cheeks and sunny half
As naught to me.
For In thoir clear brown depths unwillingly
Llo mirrored holy truth,
Frank malden courage, delicate modesty,
And tender ruth,
A heart to love and love, a perfect mind,
And yet a spirit free,
Healthy nud sportivo as a mountain wind
Cn a bright lon.
So love I, lady, not thy tender lips
Although full doarthey be
Nor nny charin that feels time's swift eclipse* j
But only theo.
-F. Whitmore, in Harper's Mngnzine.
A Dreamer lu the Grass,
Far away tho tollers reap;
But iu grusses cool an' ('eep
Winds are slogln' me to sleep.
An' tho river, as it 3trcams
In the shadows an' tho gleams
Hippies music through my dreams. J
Far away the noisy town
Where tho clouds o' traffic frown;
Hero, the blossoms bendin' down.
Here the winds sweep o'er the plains:
Here the hes tho honey drains;
Here, the tinkle o' the ruins.
H*ire the waters as they p:isr
By the drtia ner in the grass
Aro tho Ii y's looking glass.
What's n city? Bricks and towers",
Whore they toll tho heavy hours:
Here's a kingdom In the flowers!
Here forever let me bo
Where tho river sings to sea.
With God's blue sky coverin' mel
-F. L. Stanton.
A Sea Chance.
Who am I that yesterday
Cut adrift from books and scholar?,
Fashion's round o. vain display.
Art and commarce, bills and dollars
Left oebinJ the murky purr,
Passo.l the grimly-frowning fort,
Gazea upon tho opon sea,
Chnnged into the present me?
Am I he who, In tho whirl
And the glamor of the elly,
Dcemod tho mariner a churl,
Hcauned the roustabout with pity?
Whom am I, ihss torn apart
From the counllug-hou3n and mart;
From tho superficial me?
I could vow I am not he.
Something strangely odd, yet real,
Liko a shadowy leeo'.leetlon,
Broods upon me till I feol
But an ancestor's reflection.
Dar-? 1 speak I should command
fl who feared to leavo tho laud!)
As the Yikings did of yore,
"Crowd on sall and steer from shore!"
Hai.! familiar scenes of old,
Hustling anils and heaving billows;
Plpine. gales, thal: for the bold
Scatter slumber o'er thoir pillows!
Hail! the- ugh!-h-h-ow very queer!
I'm ra-m-myself ag-g-gain. I f-foar.
Carse that f-rivolous maiden's m-mlrth
Steward, help-mo-to-my-b-b-borth!
-William 'J'. James, ia Contury.
The Ennaiia. "rr"
Something over twenty years ago a
New England skipper used to make
6evernl trips a year from Eoston to
the northern ports of Jamaica, and
would return to Cape Cod Bay, his
fleet schooner laden with bananas, for
which ho found ready and remunera
tive sale. Othor vessels were added
to the business, which grew and pros
pered, and soon became too import
ant longer to depend upon the uucer
taiu winds, and steamers replaced the
Echooners. Bananas were offered in
quantities greater than our Yankee
mariner, with his limited means, could
handle, and a company was formed in
1877 with a capital of $200,000 and
two steamers, and the business of sys
tematically growing tho banana for
erport to the United States com
menced. From such small beginnings
sprang tho American company which
now practically controls the fruit ex
port trade of Jamaica. Its present
capital is $500,000, and it has a sur
plus of $1,000,000, and employs
l;welve steamers. It ships to the Uni
ted States every year about 4,000,000
bunches of bananas, besides upwards
of 6,000,000 coooanuts, and quantities
of pimento (allspice), coffee, cocoa
and early vegetables. It employs
nearly two thousand men. More than
six hundred mules are daily in har
ness engaged in drawing to ports of
shipment its varied products. It owns
and controh more than twenty es
tates, comprising nearly 50,000 sores.
Free schools are provided for the chil
d ren of its employes. It has brought
great prosperity to a languishing
country and practically created an in
dustry; and its President, the man
whose foresight began all this great
work and whose energy is now push
ing it onward, ?3 commonly known
among tho Jamaicans as the Banana
King.-Harper's Weekly.
?Test rocket" Soda Water.
A curious apparatus for making soda
water at home is being shown by an
English concern. The method com
prises the compression of the liquid
carbonic acid at sixty atmospheres
into small Bteel pear-shaped cartridges
nbout five-eighths of an inch in diame
ter at tho largest part. Snob a car
tridge is plaoed in tho mouthpiece at
tached to a soda water bottle, and a
oap is dosed over it. In completing
the closure a tiny ebonite plug in one
end of the cartridge or "gas drop" is
punctured and the gas escapes into
the bottle, dissolving in the water.
Twelve of these drops weigh three j
Quuoes,- New Ideas,
Dreams About Horses.
Dreams, like girls, "are queer," and
dreams wherein horses figure largely
take rank among the queerest. I
dall give a few dream?, not of "fair
w >ruen," but of hoi s JP, told one day
bi tween heats. In the year eighteen
hundred and ninety something a gen
tl : m an entered a promising pacer for
a race to come off. some time during
tie summer. He was speeding the.
horse on the last of the snow, and
wrote to his wife, who was visiting in
a listant town, that his prospects for
a race horse were rosy. That night
the lady, although not especially an
admirer of horses, dreamed that she
trill sitting in the stand watching the
iii ish of the race wherein her hus
band's horse was to take part. Ho
pi ring to the letter she said that his
hcree would win the raco, the last heat
se /eral lengths ahead of a gray horse,
th 3 only other ono she saw in her
dream, and that the judge announced
th j time 2.20{. The letter oausod a
gc od deal of amusement in the family
dering the month previous to the race,
and finally when the day came five
heroes started, among them being a
dark Rray. The dream came true in
ev 3ry respect, the race being run m
three heats and at the fin:ah the gray
wes the only one in it, the rest just
co ning into the stretch ; time, 2.20;.
Tl is dream I can vouch for, as I eaw
th i letter weeks before the race took
pince, says Tony Beek in Trotter and
Pa uer.
Another gentleman who was sleep
in;: &t an inn beside the track where
hie horses were stabled dreamed that
he saw the window of the stall con
taining a valuable young horse being
stealthily opened from the outside.
Then fire flashed and fell among tho
shaw, revealing the horses in a state
of terror, pawing and snorting loudly.
The dream was eo vivid that he awoke
an 1 fancied that he could in reality
he ir the horso striking the walls of
hif stall. Ho partially dressed and
ran out, and not a moment too eoon.
So no miscreant hands had thrown a
ole th burning and soaked with oil in
thi ougb the window. This had ignited
th< straw, and in a few seconds more
th? horse must have perished, though
foitunately as it was ho was but slight
ly injured. ^^^^ -v -
Adaptation of Plauts. ~
l?o matter where plants grow, how
un 'avorable the soil or atmosphere,
th? y always manage to adapt them
s?lres to circumstances. Excepting
th? greatest ocean dept ii?, there 13 no
place in the world where vegetable
lift i does not exist. * Off Terra del
Fu2go, where the tremendous break
er: roar and orash against the rocks
th? y wear away, there floats on tho
sui face of this turmoil of waters aores
of i marine plant which rises from a
de]'th 200 or more feet, its roots i ru
be; der! in the ocean bottom. No force
shakes it loose. Its stem ie never an
inch through, and is round and slip
pei y, yet a few of them will snpport
an immense weight. Darwin, in writ
ing of the sensitiveness of the tip ends
of 1 he roots of plant, says they are BO
sns)eptible to external impressions
that they are, in reality, brains, and
direct the movements of the other
par ts of the plant. There is a plant
wh oh, by the opening and 'dosing of
its leaves, foretells rainy weather ; the
corn pass plant of New Mexico hos
lca-es so sensitive to magnetic cur
rents that the bewildered traveler can
tell from tho way it arranges its leaves
wir ch way is north. Great fields of
the sensitive plant in Brazil will, at
the tramp of a horse's hoofs, shiver
Sfcfj close up, the circles and waves
ove r the field while this is going on
bei: lg very carious. The Venus fly
trap is well known; the leaves ore di
vidid by the midrib into two halves,
which are set with bustles, and if a
fly >r insect alights on tho surface the
two halves instantly clap together and
hold the fly prisoner for life. While
there movements are automatic, there
are plants which seem to move when
ever they take a notion to do so. A
leguminous plant of the East Indies
puzzled spectators by moving lits
leaves up and down whenever it takes
a notion to do so. The sundew is an
other remarkable plant. The leaves
are covered with hairs, in rea'ity
glands, each tipped with a sticky fluid
looking like a drop of dew. Flies, at
tracted by the bright red color of tho
glands, and the seeming water, alight
for a drink and meet a sad fate, the
stioky fluid pouring forth, envelop
ing them and digesting them.-Chi
cago News_
... . Electric Sunstroke.
One of tho most extraordinary mod
ern diseases is a peculiar affection,
most aptly termed electric sunstroke,
which not infrequently befalls work
men employed in melting metals by
means of electricity. It appears from
observations mado at thc great Bteel
and iron works at Crenzot, France,
that the intense voltaic arc between
the carbon and the metal to be melted
emits rays which, even at a distance
of ten meters, produce a painful, hot,
pricking sensation, like that of a burn,
on such uncovered portions of the
body as tho throat, face, and, more
especially, forehead.
The skin of the paris affected be
comes either copper-colored or as
sumes a bronze hue; tho eye?, in spite
of black glasses, aro so intensely
dazzled as to be useless for somo min
utes, after whioh xanthopsia (yellow
vision) sets in, everything appearing
saffron colored, tho oonjunotive are
inflamed, and there is a gritty feel
ing as of sand under the eyelids. There
is frequently groat pain, accompanied
often by sleeplessness, and in some
instances, fever, says a writer in Pear
son's Weekly.
After a few days these symptoms
subside, the skin of the affected parts
peels, and tho patient is restored to
health.
Now, the remarkable thing about
all this is that very little heat is radi
ated from the electric aro used ; all
the trouble arises from the light rays,
and though it has nob yet been experi
mentally proved, there can be little
doubt that tho blue and violet, i. e.,
the ohemical, rays are to blame.
Temperature of tho Deep Sen.
Members of the United States H y u rc -
graphic Survey located at the Faroe
Islands have been making some inter
esting experiments in their efforts to
as certain the temperature of sea water
at great depths. At a depth of 400
fathoms (2400 feet) the uniform tem
perature was forty-five degrees, and
at 500 fathoms (3000 feet) it was thirty
two degrees. The most interesting
fast established by these inquiries is
that even at a freezinu temperature
there is an abundant variety of animal
forms-even greater than in the s hal
lo iv water where it is muoh warmer.
Family Circle Long Unbroken.
There is a family in Macon, Ga., in
which there has not been a death for
fifty years. The head of the family
is seventy-three, and his wife is sev
enty-two. They oelabrated their
golden wedding the other with their
ton children and twenty-two grand
children,-Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle,
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SHOP?i IN JAPAN.
J _.
AN 'AMERICA S WOMAN'S EX PERI?
EX CE IN THE ORIENT.
When a Certain Amount Is Purchased
f . the Shopper Becomes tho 31er,.
I ? chant's Guest-Tea, Gifts
I ' ' and Attention.
' . i. ~ .?,.*.'
i'tC~*Y HOPPING is safer ja Japan,"
^INL said a woman just returned
J^JJ J from the Land of the Ris
ing Sun, ns she escaped
from one of New York's big atores on
a bargain day. When she had recov
ered her breath sufficiently she said to
a Press reporter:
; "Jt is like going on a picnic to shop
there. It is one of the most restful
enjoyments I know of. When I was
tired out with work in my school I
used to tako a holiday among the
shops. Two or three days' shopping
would do wonders for my nerves. I
would return to my classes ia capital
trim for teaohing. I don't believe that
many of the teachers in the sob ooh
hero would start out for a day ou
Fourteenth or Twenty-third streets if
it wero rest they were looking for I .
"In the first place, people aro in DO
hurry in Japan. There is plenty of
timeand^thr.t simplifies shopping won
derfully. Shops ore cool and comfor
table and wide open. Tho whole side
of the building is doorway. Fires are
60 frequent and spread rapidly in the
light frame building that trades men
keep their goods stored away in kura
or fireproof buildings in thc rear ol the
shop?, whence they are brought out
when called for. ! This means a deJ.I ot
trotttmg to and fro. But thero is
-plenty of time.
"I did not know what to make of
my reception the first time I went
shopping. I wanted kimono, native
robes, and I went to Dai Maru, one oi
the great Tokio shops. As I enterad
every one bowed low, quite to the
floor, and called out "irasbai"-wel
come 1 I thought it all was for my
companion, who was of a distinguished
native family, or that they thought
me tha visiting Duchess of Connaught.
But, no, all the bowing was only the
ordinary greeting to any one that en
tered the shop. The good people had
never heard of oither of us before, and
did not know that tho Duohess of
Connaught was in town.
"We scarcely were seated on the
edge of the bamboo platform on which
tho clerks glido about with rolls of
doth in response to calls, when a
handsomo youth in bine-striped ki
mono, with a blue-back apron salaamed
before us and pushed toward us two
cups on tiny trays. He poured' tea,
and salaamed again while wo sipped
slowly and were refreshed. When wo
pnt down the cups of exquisito ware
he lilied them again, and with another
bow begged to know what he might
have the honor of showing ns.
"We said that I was tired of yo
fuku-foreign dress-and wished to
get a lot of silk kimono. He clapped
? his hands, and two youngsters clad
like himself answered with a shrill hal,
and dropped on their knee3 before
: him. He told them what to bring.
"In three minutes there was a small
mountain of silks before us, all of
such exquisite texture that it made me
faint to think that I could not par
chase everything. As I had deter
mined to be a regular Japanese in
dress, at least, I bought a pretty good
assortment. My bill was 101.15 Jap
anese silver dollars, and I was able to
give the exact change. I hada 100
yen bill, a silver "cart wheel" with a
chrysanthemum on one side, four 20
sen pieces, 10-sen script, a 5-sen nickle,
long brass pieces called terapa, with
square holes in them, worth eight l in
apiece, and a thin, round coin, also
with a square hole, worth fifteen
tenths of a rin.
"This paid for having the goodb
'made up,' fordoing which even the
cost of thread to be used was known
to a nicety. A clerk made out an
itemized biJI that measured exactly
eighteen feet, and having stamped it
with the great Dai Maru seal and af
fixed a revenue stamp, he pushed it
toward me, at the same time reciting
a speech liberally punctuated w.th
salaami*.
"I did not understand, but my gen
tle companion said it was the custom
of Dai Maru to invite all customers
whose purchases amounted to 100 yen
to dine on the floor above. The bob
bing clerk had been inviting me.
"I was charmed, of course, Jand
eager for the experience, but 1 couldn't
accept that afternoon. That made no
difference, I was told. If my 'August
ness would condescend to designate a
day on which I would partake of hum
ble fare in the unworthy upstairs room
the house would bo forever honored.'
My Augustness condescended t.nd had
a feast that was wonderful, indeed. I
was too n'jw to Japan to cari) much
for the food, but tho dishes on which
it was served were of priceless ware.
"The Dai Maru people noticed my
ecstaoies over the porcelain and when
I rose to go they urged me to tccep-t a
bowl as a momento. I couldn't do it,
but finally I compromised on a roll of
silk, snch as is used for ari under1 boah.
"A Dai Mrru jinriksha waa waiting
for mo and 1 was taken home Ni-rin
biki-that is with two maners, at a
rate of six miles an hour through the
crowded streets.
"Think of such treatment, and th'?n
think of the superciliousness ol sales
ladies of New York shops 1"
A Twc-IIuntfrod Foot A'rslr??.
John F. Cooley, oioo of Hornells
ville, but now of Rochester, who far
several years has been devoting hia
time and money in the hope of solving
the problem of aerial navigation, has
secured subscriptions amounting to
S800 to be used for the construction
of an airship. Mr. Cooley has signed
a contract to constru.ot an airship aud
make at least four ascensions during
the present year. Tho contract re
quires that the ship shall be 200 feet
long, with a sail area of 14)000 feet,
and capable of carrying at least six
persons. Six young men have already
been seleoted, and will soon go to
Charlotte to be instructed as to their
duties while on board. The ship has
been named the Aroc.- Rochester
(N. Y.) Herald.
Two Canning Rogues.
Two oily tongued adventurers re
cently played a very neat trick on the
people of Marseilles. When they ar
rived at the city a couple of weeks
ago, they said they were the sons of
Lord Douglas, and were at once wei?
corned as wealthy Englishmen. The
Sub-Prefect of the city, who had evi
dently not heard c: tho Ctecar Wilde
scandal, became very intimate with
the well dressed strangers, the result
being that one of them booame en
gaged to his sister. "When tho wed
ding day arrived, however, the bride
groom was not to be fouud, and in
vestigation showed that ho and his
friend had decamped, carrying with
them $16,000, which, under various j
pretexts, they had inveigled from tho
cenading res^entg_of th? oj ty, J
NEARLY A BILLION.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Hu a
Capital of $857,075,600.
In a recent number of Current Lit
erature au English writer asserts that
"the-greatest.corporation on earth is
the London and Northwestern Ballway
Company of Eogland, with its capital
of $595,000,000, a revenue of C6.500
an hour, 2,300 engines and 60,000 em
ployes, and repairs that cost $130,000
a month." The Northwestern Bail way
Company is no doubt a gigantic cor
poration for a little country like Eng
land, and worth bragging about, but
we have a bigger one here in the
United States that might absorb it
very easily. The Pennsylvania railroad,
for example, hos a capital of $857,075,
600, aud 15,430 miles of track, which
traverse thirteen states. It has 3,756
locomotives, which consume 20,000
tons of coal a day, and make runs
equal to the distance around the globe
every two honra. It has 3,935 passen
ger care, 154,000 freight cars, 350
Pullman cars and 241 other cars for
construction and other purpose?, mak
ing a total of 158,524 carp,which make
a journey equal to the circumference
of the earth in every eight minuten.
The locomotives and cars, if placed
noon a single track, would reach from
New York to Chicago, or ten times the
distance between Philadelphia aud
New York. The rails of the Pennsyl
vania railroad, if laid end to end,
would encirole the globe and overlap
about 4,000 miles. Tho total annutil
revenue of tho road is $135,000,000
equal to $372,506 a day and $15,525
every hour of the day and night
which is two and a half times os much
as that of the Northwestern of Eog
land.
fIho Northwestern boasts of 60,000
employes, but tho Pennsylvania com
pany has over 100,000, who, with their
families, mako np a total of about
500,000 persons dependent for their liv
ing upon the $60,000,000 it distributes
in wages every year. Last year the
Pennsylvania BailroadCompany moved
14,395,256,375 tons of freight per
mile and carried 1,577,891,050 passen
gers. The freight carried was equal
to a ton around tho world every min
ute of tho year. The money invested
in the property was equal to a doublo
lino of silver dollars 8,000 miles
in length. In 1895 tho Penn
sylvania- Company owned. five
per cent, of all the railway
mileage in the United States, 10} per
oent of all tho locomotives, Hi per
cent of all tho freight cars and had 13
per cent of all the railway employes in
the country upon its payrolls. It car
ries ll per cent of all the passengers
who traveled by rail during the year
1895, and its earnings were ll 2 5 per
cent of all the earnings of all the roads
in the country. Like the grc.it North
western, the Pennsylvania company
makes almost everything it uses, and
with its plant could build a locomotive
every day in the ypar if it chose to do
eo.-American Exporter.
Knew Enough.
'I suppoco you know all about the
financial question," said the intimate
friend.
.'I don't say that I know all abont
it," said tho candidate, "jut I know
enough not to talk about it."-Wash
ington Star.
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