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THOS. 1 ADAMS. PROPRIETOR. EDGEE?ELD, S. C., THURSDAY, APRIL 7, 1892. VOL. LVII. NO. 13. A HONBYMO #H, Ralph, all after noon? One whole afternoon aU alone without a soul in this terrible place to talk Can t von read, dear?" "Yes, and make my eyes and head ache. It's perfectly provoking of your brother to go and get sick just while we're on our honeymoon. He should have moro consideration. Ralph, there's the carriage; you'll make the horses .hurry, dear, won't you? Oh-" and *he poor little bride was a'one, with the prospect of a lonely afternoon to herself, which prospect, in a large hotel in a city where one doesn't know a sonl, and when one is a bride on o:ae's honeymoon, is not an enviable one, as any unbiased person will ad mit. The bride of three weeks sat down in a hopeless sort of way un the broad veranda overlooking tho hotel grounds. She wearily turned over tue list of guests, which an attentive waiter had put into her hand, without the least sign of interest in its con tents. Suddenly an exclamation es caped her. "Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Dunnols !" she said, half aloud. "Mrs. Dun nels! So that is the reason of bia silence, and here I've been torment ing myself about him-picturing his grief at my fickleness, his ancor, his despair-only to find him married, in the {ame hotel in which I am spending my honeymoou. Ob, Cliff, what n goose I've been to spoil my new hap piness by. worrying over you! I might have known that the affection of light gray eyes and fair hair wouldn't stand the test of two years' absence from the beloved object, any moro than-than a schoolgirl of sev enteen knows when ehe is really in ove. What fun it will be to meet him ? Some confusi?n on both sides -mutual congratulations-'Allow me to present rn/ wife'-*Mr. Dnnnels, my husband'-perfectly glorious I Oh, I can see it all !" And leaning back ^toohaC^*,-'''.N .i.L,. .ji m mi.,? . "io enjoy t?e scene in her mind, s eye. When she opened them again, the look of amused enjoyment gave place to one of surprise, for a few paces away from her, leisurely smoking a cigar, stood unmistakably the mac of her thoughts. Sjie started up. Turn ing at the eound? the object ot her gaze beheld the girl whom of all per sons on earth he was least anxious to see. Edith stepped towards him with outstretched han dp. "Why, Clifford Dunnols I" "Mis i Noble!" While on her face was a look of pleasure, anda gleam of mischief, loo, on his was expressed amazement min gled with embarrassment. Her quick eye and ear took in the situution at once. ' "I've one on you, dear old ohum !" was her mental ejaculation. "I know your little secret, and mine is safe until Ralph comes back." Mr. Dun nels, hastily throwing away his cigar, took her proffered hand, while the embarrassment deepened on his iaoe as sha gave his hands a goff pressure, and said with a well feigned little accent of tenderness, "Oh, Cliff, I cannot tell you how glad I am to seo you!" "Why, Edith, who in the world would have thought of seeing you here !" he managed to exclaim. "Ditto, sir; I'm overcome with astonishment. But I'm perfeotly de lighted to sae you, too. I'm all alone this afternoon. My guardian angel" -("if he wants^to think I mean my chaperon, it's not my fault," she whispered to her conscience)-"had to go and see a sick brother, and I didn't know what I could do to pass the time. But now.that fate has so kindly bent you in my way, you must, you positively must amuse me. And to think I haven't seen you for three whole' years ! I've so mach to tell, yon and ask yon that it will take hours! And these beautiful grounds have just the loveliest places, where we can be all to ourselves. Do you see that large linden? Let's go there." Dnnnels helplessly followed the pretty tyrant, with a remorseful thought of his bride loft alone up stairs with a blinding headache. He turned to his companion with an ex cuse at the end of his tongue, but now she was tripping ahead with the airy grace of a nymph, and crying gaily, "Hurry, Cliff! Do come and look! Here are some of the dearest little ducks. See, aren't they canning?" Her clear silvery laugh rang out with the musical ring he remembered so well, when the Kiri before him wa3 . a budding woman of seventeen, and he a slender youth of twenty, her de voted slave. The excuse died on his lips, and he joined in her laugh, as the mother duck, with angry, startled quacks, led her seminary of downy ducklings away to the pond, gleaming silver blue through the trees. "Edith, yon are as much of a child as ever. I thought three years would uarely make a young lady cf you." "Never ! I shall never be anything but a child, I fear. But come, sit down by me here ;" and then, as he sat down on the rusti? bench beside her, ."doe:-n't it seem like old times to be together once more? Now I am pre pared to hear all the news. Pray tell me, sir, what have yon been doing for the past three years-since I bade you a tearful farewell?" With genuine interest she followed the recital of his varied experiences battles hardly won, obstacles over come with difficulty, and ultimate tnccess; while Dunnels forgot time, place, circumstances, everything in the pleasure ot answering her eager questions, ind iu asking news of old ON EPISODE scenes and mutual friends. She lu!d him the history of her life during his three years' absence, carefully omit ting all that might lead him to suspect a change in her circumstances. As often as ho attempted to lead np to the faob of his marriage, wich her qniok woman's intuition of what was coming, she interrupted him with an other question. Never had she been so gay, so animated, and it was with out effort, too, for she really delighted in living over the past in company with her handsome old playmate. For some time their talk was merely such as might have passed between any two old friends, and they both enjoyed it thoroughly; but Edith did not intend to let her old sweetheart off without some punishment. Seeing his oarefnl avoidance of tender topics, she interrupted him in a description of lifo tn South ?frica, and then with a sudden chang9 of tone, ?aid : 'Tes, Cliff, you men hare much the best of it in a case of this kind." What kind, he waa left to infer. "When you are compelled to leave the girl you liko, though it may be a wrench at first, you have so much to do and to think about, your lives a:rs so full, that you have but little time to grieve ; while we poor women have to stay al; home with no absorbing work lo bury our selves and our troubled in, wit J noth ing to do but to oount the minutes and wish they would fly faster. Now while you havo been out in a far off land, like Ulysses, winning wealth and glory (and a coat of tan too, Cliff, which is very becoming!) I like poor, patient Penelope have been spinning-" "Yarns, PH wager 1" he interrupted, laughingly, "for they're the only things I ever heard of your spinning." She joined in his laugh, but added severely: "Your levity ?B unseemly, sir, when it spoils such a line compari son. But seriously, I do wonder sometimes," she went on, getting pathetic, "how I have stood the last throe years-withont yon, I mean. But I don't believe you have cared one bit, Cliff]" And B IO shot a challengo from he? blue eyes into his gray ones. tion of his position came to him, and he remained silent. "You say 'Edith' just as you used to say it when I tormented you so, when we were-childreu. 1 never used to like my name uutil you told me you thought it pretty. Than, .whenever you would say it, I ^lsed to think it was the very prettiest name in the world." She said all this with a little droop of her head which struct: a chill to Clifford Dunnel's heart. The conver sation wa3 plainly becoming danger ous. What should he do? Edith evidently believed in the reality of his attachment for her, and meant to re sume their relations at the point where they had been broken off when he went to South Africa, to seek the fortune which was to win the favor of her guardian. A year's absence had calmed his youthful ardor, and six months' companionship with the pretty daugh ter of his employer had given rise to another attachment which he realized was the grand passion of his manhood, and not the impulsive affection ot youth. There had been no corre spondence between himself and Edith, according to the mandate of her guardian. It would have beeu an easy matter to write her the news of his marriage, but to tell it to her with her eyes looking into his was a task before which he quailed. If she still loved him, how could he bear to see her radiant face overclouded by the story of his faithlessness? He stole a look at her, and his heart failed him. She was sitting on a limb of the linden, now, her hands at her side lightly touching the tree, and one little arched foot idly drawing figures on the ground, while a smile curved her rosy, wilful mouth. She wore a dark blue skirt, and a blue and white shirt waist, with high white collar and black satin tie; this, with a blue walking hat and natty feather belt, completed a rather masculine costume, which suited to perfection the trim, slender figure. The sunlight glit tered through tho,' branches, and gleamed upon her bronze colored hair, which waved in a wealth of ripples about her small, well-shaped head. Clifford felt the old witchery coming over him, when suddenly he seemed to seo che picture of r. dear form, tall and willowy ; one, who, womanly in everything, never affected the man nish mode of dressing, but preferred soft, t inging stuff* and dainty laces ; one who was the light and happiness of his life. In place of the imperious dark blue eyes he seemed to see a pair of warm brown ones, whose every glance told of a tender, affectionate nature. Then he said with a good deal of emphasis: "1 think it is one of the sweetest names in the world." "One of the sweetest? You used to say it was the very sweetest. Now, Cliff, I believo some one has wheedled you into saying har name is the sweet est. Villain, spe?.k !" with mock trag edy. Ho felt that his opportunity had come. "Well, you see, after the 'senior partner came out to Johannesburg I used to go to his house a good deal, ?nd he-you seo, had a daughter, And-" "I thought so ! What was her name, please ?" "Dorothy." "So ! And you consider that old fwhioned name prettier than Edith? 1 don't admire your taste, sir! Do yo a remember tho verses you scribbled on my autograph fan?" His golden opportunity for conies siC'B ? ts lost, and he looked down at her in a disheartened sort of way, M he answered abstractedly: "No, I've forgotten them." Her eyes glanced up at him with a world of reproach in their blue deoths. "Have you really, Cliff? And "they were so pretty." He felt compunction seize hin?, "Ob, yes, I do remember them liOwl" he interrupted. "Don't they go something like this? "3ho who comes (o me and pleadeth, In the lovely narnu of Edith, Shnll not full of what ia wanted. Edith means 'tho blessed'-thereioro All that sho may wish cr caro for Will, when bast for her, be granted." "There, 1 knew you couldn't hava forgotten them. Aren't they pretty? I'm so glad my name means 'tho blessed and really-her face lighted up-"it seems to fit in my case, -now, at any rate ; for I have always wished to travel, and here I am in this beauti ful place, with the one I caro for most on earth!" Hor eyes glowed, and Dnnnols, not dreaming that sho might refer to any one but himself, wai stricken with horror at having allowed her to make such a confession. He nerved himself with an effort, but Edith, pitying his confusion, and feeling that she had gone so far that explanations must in evitably follow unless sho mado a diversion, rose hurriedly aud said: "Listen, Cliff ! Don't you hear tho dinner gong?" Cliff did not, nor did she, bnt with out waiting for his answer sho hurried toward the hotel. Dunnels, cursing his evil genius, followed her. She had used this ruse as a means o: escape and felt rather conscience stricken for thetriok; but in a moment all her qualms vanished, for in a carriage just entering tho courtyard she perceived her husband. At tho same moment Dunnels, glancing towards the ver anda, saw his wife seated at one end, alone. She looked in caira surpriss at him and the girl at his side. Edith, noting the look, smiled to herself, and turning quickly to Dunnels, said,with a meaning glance toward the veranda: "You'd better hurry, Cliff; your wife is waiting for yon !" He started with amazement. "You knew, then?" "Yea. Wasn't I clever to. mislead you so?" Then, after another glance at Mrs. Dunnels: "Heatly, Cliff, I must admire your taste. She is a's sweet as-candy, i'm awfully glad for your sake, old chum ; let me con gratulate you. " With a world of relief on his face, Dunnels warmly grasped the hand she held out, but flushed hotly at her next words: "I'm very pleased and all that, you know, but I thick you might have let me know before. How long since?" with another interrogatory glance. He stammered. "Not very long-a few weeks-we're on our honeymoon now-" "Why, how odd!" she exclaimed in mock surprise. "Two bridegrooms in j M .'. I ' ' , |T>-r - handsome mau just getting out of that carriage? Well, he's on his. honey moon too." "Very odd !" Clifford began, when a look at her roguish fuco stopped him, and he finished by saying: "Why, Edith, you little hypocrite 1 I really believe you are-you must bc-" A wave of crimson swept over her face, and sho hastened towards the man who had just alighted from tho carriage; but as Duouelsstood staring after her, with perplexity written on every line of his face, sho threw a charming look over her shoulder at him. "You're right, I am," she suid. The Puritan. Wonders of Insect Fecundity. Away baok in 1850 tho peoplo of East Prussia had a little experience with an imported insect which re minds us of the growth of the English sparrow pest. There wa3 c. young entomologist living near Oberon who had exchanged some insect cocoons with a brother bugfancier. Those obtained in exctango by tho Cherou student were cocoons of tba insect known to the entomologists as Laparis monacha. In due course of time a male and a fomalo Laparis broke their silky coverings and came out to breathe the Prussian air. The young student.figured that in the future ho would go out and pick his own Laparis cocoons, and accordingly he gave the inseots their liberty. The patch of woods into whioh they were turned to pasture comprised 30,000 acres and was one of tho finest preserves in that country. It was April when Mr. and Mrs. Laparis tried their wings for the first time, but by September their progeny had so increased that the air was full of insects. By October of the following year there was not a live sprig.in that forest of 30,000 acres, the entire wood having been ccnveited into a desert covered with lifeless tree trunks. During tho eighteen months which elapsed between the time when the insects were turned loose and the last date mentioned, when tho forest was pronounced a complete ruin, the peoplo of tho vicinity had collected and burned GOO pound's or 900,000,000 single eggs, and had destroyed more than 3,000,000 fully matured moths 1 How is that for insect locundity? English Lawyers' fees. In England there are many fees to be paid by tho unhappy cheat of a lawyer that aro unknown here in America. There is a retaining fee, whioh is one guinea and a half-crown to tue clerk besides tho brief fee, which is moro important. Then there is the "refresher" of the leader and the "refreshers" of the subordinate lawyers. In England the leader's re froshor, which is due after live hour*, the brief fee being supposed to cover only the getting up of the ca3e, is ten guineas or a little over S50, while $'2? must bo paid tho lesser lawyers. A Queen's Pocket Pistol, There is a large old iTnu on Dover Heights, England, popularly known as "Queen Elizabeth's Pocket Pistol." It was cast at Utrecht in 1514, and was presented Dy tho States General to Qneen Elizabeth. It is twenty-four feet Jong, and finely ornamented with figures in bas-reliof. Precious Violins. During his entire career Stradiv?r ins mado from 0)00 to 7000 violins. Pew of these were sold for moro than $25 during his life. Now some ot' Mieut command $10,000 each. INDIA'S WOES. PLAGUE AND F AMIN JO ARK DE VASTATING THE COUNTRY. Millions of Victims-Disposition of tho Dead-A French Doctor's Remedy-Precautions In This Country. FAMINE is carrying off its mill ions of victims in India, and the plaguo is not only ravag ing that land, but is begin ning to cast its shadow over the world, Eays the New York Journal. In well-fed America wo can hear of the hungry millions with a pity not unmixed with satisfaction that we are otherwise. But no nation or class is above the fear of the plague germ. It can travel round the earth in a thou sand different receptacles, is insensi ble to climate, and, attacking invisibly, brings -wholesale death. Plague and famine are co-operating in a way that must make the best ef forts of officials and scientists seem hopeless. The irrigation tanks, very numerous in Northern India, have been reduced by drought to stagnant puddles, and these have been con verted by diseased men and animals into inexhaustible sources of conta gion. The prevalence of famine has forced the people to eat the most pu trid of iood, which is in many cases infe;ted by diseased rats and .insects. The native quarter of Bombay is practicaUy deserted. It is strewn with deserted bodies, and its condi tion menaces an epidemic in the Euro pean quarter. Tho death rate among the natives has grown so high that it is impossible to keep a reliable record. The country for hundreds of miles around Bombay is ravaged by plague and famine. Tho large port of Kara chi is very badly infected. Tho most borriblo spectacle in Bom bay is presented by the Towers of Si lence, the Parsee burial plaoes on the Malabar Hill. The Parsees are fire worshippers, and the most industrious TOWER OF SILENCE, BEST and prosperous native community in Bombay. When a Parsee dies his friends con vey his body to one of the Towers ot Silence, which arc clustered together in a garden. After the mourners comes a man leading a white dog, the emblem of faithfulness, followed by the priests. The procession ascends tho tower, in which a sacred fire is always kept burning. At the top is a plat form, on whioh the body is left. No sooner have tho people withdrawn than a flock of vultures, which have been hovering about descends. In ten minutes they pick off every particle of flesh, and at tho end of three weeks tho friends return and deposit tho bleached skeleton in a central well. The scenes on the banks of the Ganges, tho sacred river of India, are awful. In the neighborhood of Ben arcs, the metropolis of Brahmanism, they reach their culmination. To die here in the waters of the sacred river A HINDOO DOCTOR TREATING A PLAQUE PATIENT. is to make sure of future blessedness. Of the millions who are starving, ns many as possible crowd here to perish in the shrinking and polluted stream. Benares is famous for its burning ghat by tho river where where tho Hindoos cremate their dead, bot this has long been choked up. Among tho photographs of Indian scenes reproduced here may be noted tho Hindoo doctor treating a patient. Bis entire medical outfit is a small box which he curries in his hand, and Eu ropeans eay that he is worse than use less. It is announced that a remedy for tho plague has been discovered by a French physician. An antitoxic serum prepared on similar principles to that used in diphtheria has been employed with success. The Health Departments of New York and Brooklyn are now in posses sion of millions of germs of the plague. These aro capable of spread ing the disease throughout the land, but it is hardly necessary to say that they are properly secured. The bac teriologists of these cities have the bacilli and the knowledge necessary to enable them to prepare the anti-toxic serum, . Tho pioneer in the treatment of the bubonic plague appears to be Dr. Yersin, a physician in tho French co lonial servico. He is not thirty years orage, nud has perhaps performed a service which will rauk himambngthc greatest scientific benefactors of hu manity. The Bombay authorities havo requested him to visit ruatcity, audit is propablc that he will do so. A correspondent who hus just re turned from Cochin China describes Dr. Versin and bis work. Ile is-a man of interesting appearance, thin and of middle height. He has a lou.; face, wrinkled, by the East? era climate sad hard work ia the laboratory. His hair and beard are cut short, and ho is full of life, intel ligence and enterprise. Hero is Dr. Yersin's description of the plague from personal observation : "The.disease presents the chemical characteristics of the bubonio plague of the Middle Ages. The outbreak is sudden, after an incubation of four and one-half to six days. It is accom panied by complete prostration. The sufferer is attaoked by a high fever, often accompanied by delirium. The first day a bubo-generally ono only -appears. In seventy-five cases out of one hundred it is in tho groin, in ten cases out of one hundred in the armpit. "In the case of the plague reum a sterilized broth containing the dead bodies of the bacilli is used. This is injected daily into a horse, which in the 6pace of two weeks be comes immunized against the plague. The serum of the horse's blood is then drawn oil and serves as a preventative of Or remedy for the plague in man." Tho plague appeared in China in 18196, and Dr. Yersin immediately went there. Ho started at Canton, but the Chinese population did not wish to be treated by a European physician. But an accident won him the day. Three seminaries of tho Catholio mis sioo at Canton fell sick of the plague. DrJ Yersin treated them and saved all of them. He then went to Amdy, where he treated twenty-three persons and saved twenty-one. He had then no more serum, but he converted a large part of the population. When he left Amoy they gave him an ovation. The] Hon Pao, a Chinese newspaper, .devoted an article to the praise of Dr. Yersin and concluded by saying : "is not this a divine art? Who will dare to say that Hoa-to has not re turned to earth again?" Hoa-to, it, should be explained, is a celebrated Chinese doctor who lived 2000 years ago, and has been turned ?into a god. The first man in this country to re ceive a supply of the bacilli was Pro fessor J. T. Wilson, bacteriologist of IN (J PLA.OE CF THE DEAD. the Brooklyn Health Department. They were obtained from Dr. Yersin by a surgeon in the navy, who brought them to this country. Ia the Brooklyn-Health Department a Journal reporter had the satisfaction of examining a few dead bacilli of the plague under a microscope and of gazing at a patch of living ones re posing on gelatine in a test tube. What will be done to protect New York in case of the arrival of an in feoted ship is an important question. Dr. Alvah H. Doty, the Health Officer of the Port, says that he is fully pre pared for such an emergency. He has representatives at Suez, Naples and other ports, who will warn him by cable of infected ships. It will be hard for the bubonic plague to come into New York on the body or olothing of ony human being. This port has now the most perfect and modern disinfecting apparatus in existence. It would be impossible for the germs of any disease to pass through it and remain alive. This apparatus has been constructed under tho supervision of Dr. Doty. lt is installed on the steamboat James W. Wadsworth, which is stationed at Quarantine ready at any moment to get up steam and proceed to the dis infection of suspected persons or ships. Dr. Doty's principal assistants areDr. l'Eommedieu and Mr. Skioner. Disinfection is enforced on persons from abroad at the discretion of tho Health offioer. It will certainly be enforced on all coming from India or other ports from which the germs of the dreaded plague are liable to be carried. The Wadsworth is a marvel of sci entific ingenuity in its fittings. The upper deok is giveu up to the disin fecting plaat. A series of compart ments begins forward and ends aft. They are entirely lined with galvan ized iron, coated with white enamellod paint, and incapable of allowing any liquider other substance to escape? The man suspected of harboring germs en ters these chambers with all his porta A FAKIR SACRIFICING HI??SETiV 1 > THU j GODS TO WARD OFF FAMINE, ble belongings, and both of them emerge free from any germs which they may have carried ou them. There remains tho possibility, of course, thur tile mau may havo them in bim. The orew of the Wadsworth undergo thc earoo procesa o? disinfection as the crew and passengers of ' an infected ship. After the work of disinfection is over the compartments are washed out with copious water and a solution ot bichloride of mercury. AU tho drainings must ruc out through tho hole. A LIVE CANNIBAL KINS. Bis Residence a Structure Composed of Human Bones. Okirika is situated about twenty five miles from Bonny and in tho route to New Calabar, Africa. When the THE CANNIBAL- KINO OP OEIiUE.?., protectorate treaties were being signed, making tho deltas of the Niger a British protectorate, Ibanitsuku, the King, and his chiefs refused to countenance the terms set forth there in, and for several years gave Sir Claude Macdonald a vast amount of trouble from time to time, as the tribe held some of the principal oil markets in tho district. When the Bonny men or New Calabar men went to trade with the Okirikas their prop erty was frequently seized, and mur der invariably followed, the heads of the victims hoing carried off to adorn tho "Ju Ju"houso. Early last June Mr. Moor, the British Consul-General, sent them an ultimatum, says the Illustrated London :News, demanding tho King should be handed over to him, and also that tho "Ju Ju" house be destroyed, or ho would bombard their town. Up till the last day of the time allowed in the ultimatum they refused to come to terms, so Mr. Moor proceeded in the Government yacht Ivy. with 150 troops and three launches, to Okirika. After about twenty minutes' bomba chiefs came out in their . . white flags. Some troc * : landed, who, without c ?^^A?;3Li5l'^ . was then handed over, r. turned to Bonny with''- t < hours of thc time of d itsuku was made a stat' . . : conveyed to Degamu ^uo iiuiv?. ate's convict settlement), but later . succeeded in making his escape. The Okirika8 at present are assuming a more peaceful attitude and trade be tween them flourishes accordingly. Tho Oldest Poslmas'.er. Joseph Strode of Mifflin County, Penn., is the oldest postmaster in the United States. That is to say, the oldest in continuous service, for Mr. Strode has held his position of master of mails at Strode'a Milla since 1845, despite the ohanges of administra tions, political upheavals, war and the (diver agitation. Joseph Strode is in his eighty second year and is the pride aud the JOSEPH STRODE. (Oldest Postmaster in tho United States.) joy of the Postoffice Department in Washington, which placed his picture in the government display at the World's Fair. The Danger of Tuberculosis From Milk. The apprehension which exists in tho public mind regarding the danger of receiving the contagion of tuber culosis from infected milk seems to require that wc refer to the subject, i'hat the danger exists is no longer denied, bur tbat it is sometimes over estimated is also true. Thc danger is evidently greatest when the udder is atlee tod and it is then u very grave danger. FurtunateJy, tho cases in which tho udder becomes affected are not numerous; in only seven percent, of the animals coudemncd and killed by us was there any disease detected in tho udder. - Ueport of a Connecti cut Commission. First Geography, The first geography printed in this couutry was compiled hy Jedediah Moss, and publishe I iu 1791, for the i.'so of schools. The attempts at maps in this publication Avas extremely crude, and gave a very imperfect idea of the outlines of the countries they were supposed to represent. It is faid that only twenty-five or thirty opios of this work ero now iu existence. Boston G lone. Kew French Nickels. The new nickol coins to bo minted in Franco aro to bi piercod with a holt? through which they may bc struug like Chiue?o wh. Thc object is to prevent their being pawed on the iguoruut loi coiu of superior value, PET FIRE HORSE. CIJKVRUEST ANIMAL IN THE NEW YORK DEPARTMENTS flo Fell White Gotos to a Flro Ko? ceutly, Sustaining Permanent Injury-Somo of Ills Vur led Accomplishments. WHEN Driver George Burns of 10 truck, whose house is at Fulton and Cnurch streets, was off duty on Wednesday night, says the New York SUD, tue truck answered a fire call at Albany and Greenwich streets with the fire horses Frank, Sailor and Baby hitched to the machine- Just as the truck turned the corner sharply Baby lost his footing on the slippery pave ment and fell heavily on his left hip. The firemen got him upon his feet again with difficulty, and after a slow and painful journey, with Frank and Sailor doing all the work, tho track got back to the fire house. Baby was unhitched, and in obedience to Captain Binns's command laid down on the straw in the stall. Tho men bathed the iujurod hip with hot water, while the horse licked their hands nn.i rubbed his nose affectionately on their shoulders. TobiD, the big vrown collie that shared the same stail with Baby os sleeping quarters, and also shared his daily meal of soft feed, laid down near the stall and yelped mournfully. Baby was laid off after that as an invalid, and his place in active service was taken by Sniffles, a veteran flro horse. The firemen took turns in nursing him. The news of his injury lipread in the neighborhood, and hun dreds came to see him, for Baby is known to thousands of the residents of the extreme lower end of the city, and in the department he has the reputa tion of being the cleverest of all the splendid animals in the service. Everybody in the station house was disconsolate yesterday morning when Superintendent Myers of the training department of the Fire Department came down from the training stables ut Amsterdam aranue and Ninety ninth street and told Captain Binns that Baby would never again be able to do active service. He said that the horse's injury was a semi dislocation of the hip, and that while he hoped to be able to cure him so he oould walk, the animal would never be able to draw a truck again. An ambulance of the Society for the Prevention of Cru elty to Animals drove up and Baby was led into it and taken to the training department, where he will be put in a sling and kept in an upright position while the hip is set and knit ting. The treatment will take weeks to effect even a partial cure. orovde ' ?tonne; .'.>-; ir'.'.si' ?ioa?w j to yatch Baby-5 deparfcare. Wften be j . rm : i i?ho ?tos b&ok ..?.: -.Uiv ..i. citent i [Baby ????rd?v. 'IVA h .??,-" h? ! j.-<ffl>3 oraitilv "kscs r;,or<- than a great many men." Then ne told of Baby's accomplishments and winning ways. Baby waa a dapple gray, sixteen hands high, and was picked up at a sale at the Bull's Head Market. He turned ont to be what Superintendent Myers calls a lucky find. Ho displayed his affectionate nature immediately. He was numbered 621, and was re ceived by Captain Binns on November 25, 1889, and is now eighteen years old. His dooility was so greai that it was fonnd in a few days that it wasn't necessary to fasten him in the stall like the other horses, and he and Tobin, who goes to all the downtown fires, struck up a fast friendship. Everybody called him Baby from the start, and as he would answer to a whistle he soon got the freedom of the stables. He wandered around, rub bing np against the firemen, and often goiug out into the streets. He was very fond of candy, and one day he walked out of tho house and up to the oandy stand kept by an old man along side the railing of St. Paul's church yard. He ate up half a dollar's worth of sweets in the temporary absence of the standkeeper. The firemen made good this loss, and used to buy him candy regularly. Baby was fond of apples? too, and he was clever at catch ing them in his mouth when tossed to him. Firemen would stand ten feet away and toss them with considerable 6peed at Baby's head. Baby would catch the apples, no matter how fast they came or how hard they were thrown. He would lift his front foot and put it in a fireman's hand at the request to shake hands and would he down at word of command, and beoome mo tionless when ordered to "die." He wculd also kneel at word of command. He had the greatest affection for Cap tain Binns, who broke him in for fire service, and for Burns, his regular driver, and used to trot np to them and try to bite the buttons off their uniform coats. He did this slyly and thought it was great fun. Citizens used to visit the fire house regularly to feed him candy, and espe cially to get Baby to play ball with apples. A cigar dealer came every evening excepting Sunday with three carrots for Baby's supper. The women folks fed him lumps ot sugar. Baby knew r.11 these friends by sight, and used to walk out of his stall to meet them. If any of them came without bringing him anything, Baby would wait a while, anxiously, and when the expected gift was not forth coming, he would go np behind the visitor and strike him with his head as a reminder that he didn't want to be forgotten. Baby used to go out for exercise in Fulton street every even ing. He had his own idea of how fast he ought to go. A fireman used to walk ont with him. If he thought tho fireman set too slow a pace, he would push him in the baok. Some times for a joke the men would pur posely walk very fast. Baby wonld trot after them, grab them firmly by the shoulder and bring them to a standstill. He would stop them in this way over and over again until they settled down to what he considered J the propel pace for exercise. Tcachlug Under Difllunities. A married woman iu Calhoun Conn ly., Mich., teaches a district school al $10 a month, boards herself and doe? the janitor work, MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. 1 For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dys ea-1 texy, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In-1 fantum, Teething Children, Cholera { tlorbus, Unnatural Draina frorn^ the Bowels, Fains, Griping, Loca of. Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis eases of tho Stomach and Dowels. ! PITT'S CARMINATIVE 0 Jls the standard. It carries children over' the critical period ot teething, and( ls recommended hy physicians os. the friend of Mothers, Adults and' Children. It Ls pleasant to the fuste, ( end never fails to give satisfaction. A few doses will demonstrate its su perlative virtues. Price, 25 eta. peM A bottle. For salo by druggists. HOUSEHOLD AFFAIRS. ) HOW TO MEND CHINA. Take a very thick solution of gum arabic and water and stir it into plas ter of puris until the mixture becomes a viscous paste. Apply it with a brash to the fractured edges and stick them together. In three days the artiole cannot be broken at tho same place. The whiteness of this cement renders it doubly valuable. USES OP SULPHUR. Sulphur is one ono of the best pre ventives of mould. Mould is :? plant that should be killed as soon as possi ble, and when it is observed in pan try, kitchen or closet, shut tbe door tightly, put an iron ?pan or small pot in a large vessel of water, so there will bo no chunco of lire, and place them in the centre of tho room. Put a shovelful of hot coals in tho pan, then drop half a pound of sulphur over them and leave the room. Let the fumigating go on for two or three hours.-New York Tribune. KEEP IN THE PANTB? A few cans of good soup for emerg ency dinners. Fresh celery seed for salads, when celery is scarce. Canned mushrooms for sauoes and meat dressings. A nice sandwich mixture that can be quickly prepared with gravy stock ur batter for hasty luncheons. Canned lobster for salads and canned tongue for serving cold, and potted chicken for slicing or making sand A ,w ! -' /i " -' ' 5 and ohoso t-'--.ero-, shs Uwtypt?pi? WA', cr. nf :ait?? oakv?i ari p?V~<tl' . in? for * aijj-li 'ico*/ % >-t.' .; ,v .: ;.- i?jgan?>cs Vfora?h Ju tuu ii.'i.? jjt?iSa ? ll j ti?.'i?? -~ ?, .wigu bbcu house and purchased a quantity of the seeds known as Job's tears.--These grow in India and resemble sm?lt; pearly gray shells. These seeds she threaded upon gray linen spool thread, cut in lengths to reach from the floor to the small brass rod whiob extended across the upper part of the doorway. The seeds were pot on with spaces about one and a half inches left between. The needle must not be too coarse, because if too large an open ing is made through the seed for the thread to All, the seed will afterward slip. The thread should draw through the seed rather hard. Of course a knot was made to hold the first seed, after which they were simply strung in place, and as a string was finished it was tied to the rod, beginning at one side of the doorway. This pre vented the threads from becoming tangled by tying. i After a sufficient number of threads had been finished to fill two-thirds of the doorway, several shorter threads were strung and tied along the middle space. A pair ol horns was then placed above the middle of the door way and these shorter threads were caught ap ia a careless shower, over the horus. The effect was better than that usually attained by filling the entire doorway with full-length pendants. The strings did not tangle readily, as might be supposed they would ; the labor of preparing is light and pleas ant, and the result attained is in every way desirable.-New England Home stead. RECIPES. Stewed Chestnuts, Cream Sauce Remove the shells from a quart of larg? chestnuts blanch as almonds and cook in salted water until soft. Drain and pour over a white sauce made as foi the boiled cod, but minus the oyster.--. German Cakes-Creamholf pound ol sugar and the same of butter together : add the yolks of six eggs well beaten ; three-quarters of a pound of flour, and a tablespoonful of rose flavoring ; roll out, out in fancy shapes and bake in a quick oven. Frost if desired. Dnok Terrapin-Chop enough cold duok to fill two cups ; add one cold boiled sweetbread if convenient. Blend a quarter of a cup of butter with two teaspoonfuls of cornstarch, and pour over it oae oup of hot cream ; add saltspoouful of salt and dost of pep per; add the duok and sweetbread, and heat five minutes. Just before serv ing add the beaten yolks of two eggs. Orange Wafers-Two egg?, beaten, with one cup sugar ; add one-half cup butter, stirred to a cream, oue-half cup milk, the grated rind of half an or ange and one and one-half oops flour, through whioh one tablespoonful bak ing : powder has been sifted. Drop small spoonfuls on buttered paper and bake in a quick oven. When cold dip in the following glaze and lay on but tered paper. Indian Pound Cake-Sift haifa pint of flne yellow meal and one-fourth pint of flour with a teaspoonful of baking powder. Mix with it one-quarter of a grated nutmeg and a teaspoonful of cinnamon. 3tir to a cream one-fourth pound butter with one-fourth pouud sugar, add one-fourth teacupful milk. Baat four eggs very light, stir thom into the butter and sugar, a little at a time in turn with the meal. Bake oue hour and a hali. Excellent if eaten ix ssh.