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m idgef^M ^dtetliscc. . THOS. J. ADAMS, PROPRIETOR._EDGEFIELD, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 28, 1897. _ VOL. LXH. NO. 17. THE MEN WHO LOSB; Here's to the moa'who low! What though their work be e'er oo nobly planned And watched with zealous care, No glorious nalo crowns their efforts grand; Contempt ls failure's share. Here's to the men who lose! If triumph's easy smile our struggles greet, Courage is easy then; The king is he who, after fierce defeatj . Can np and fight again. Here'? to the men who lose! The ready pino Jits of a fawning world Sing swei't in victor's ears; The vanquished's banner; neve:- are un furled For them there sound no cheers. Herc's to the men who lose! The touchstone of true worth ls not succ?is; There is a higher test Though fate may darkly frown, onward to press, And bravely do one's best. Here's to the men who lose! It is the vanqu shed's praises that I sing, And this the toast I choose; "A hard-fought failure ls a noble thing. Hero's luck to them who lose." -George H. Broadhurst An Unusual Burglary. BI MART 3. P. HATCH. EOPLE are decry ing the sophist! cated state of the country, and by people I mean writ ers in particular. They say that there is little pictur esqueness except in the backwoods and ia districts far removed from the. en vironments of railroads and electricity, and that dialect peculiar to each lo cality ia being flattened into monotone by the omnipresent schoolmaster,who, they complain, has his way far too much in this proudly new world of ours. But if this be true, as a whole, there are delightful exceptions. A carriage drive of a few hours, or the whirl of one's bicycle an hour, brings one to the home of folk lore and pro vincialism capable of causing ecstatic thrills in the heart of the dialect-mon . ger. Such were my thoughts as I alighted from my wheel at nightfall, one cold autumnal day, and-rapped (there was no bell) at the door of a low-browed cottage, behind which clamps of bu-hes shut off the horizon und seemed to narrow the world down to the little house, the yard, and myself, with a heavy heart.Rtandmer before it. steady ing my * ' ' Prese? tiy na door, and mi, impress-, while t' - natnre . grejtii. .Do nig? >?**. i - val had . "We do and we don't," snereFi.*..., ."but yon can *ti y in weloome. S t np and eat with me if you hain't had no Bupper." .'I haven't," waa my reply;.and presently the old lady and l were dis cussing her homely bat toothsome supper? aud doing'it ample justice in the way of testing its qualities; at least I did. "My husband has gone to town," re marked my hostess, "and if yon hadn't come I should a ben here all alone to night." "Wonld you have been afraid to spend the night alone?" "Ob, nol But to-night I feel dit 'runt, for, you see, at last we're ready to lift the .nortgage. It's two hun dred and thirty-three dollars an' one cent. That last cent I got by selling an aig," ehe ?aid with a happy laugh, "and now it'6 altogether 'twixt the straw bed and feather bed in my room ; and husband, he's gonter pay it off to morrer-if he lives," she added, with the reverence felt by the old who have Been so many hopes fade and friends die that they never dare to speak even of almost certainties without an "if." "But are you not unwise to speak of yonr money to a stranger?" I asked as a warning. "Oh, no I" she said, laughing pleas antly, "I know an honest man when I see him, and I was glad theminute 1 see your face and knowed that you wafted to stay all night. 'Taint likely anybuddy would steal from me but stragglers. One has been teen 'round, and I feel a little mite uneasy." My hostess and I spent a pleasant evening together. She showed me many an heirloom which' had been handed tbrongh five generations from an ancestor who had been a great man in colonial days. There was a silver punch bowl and a gold snuff box, either worth more than the sum treas ured so carefully in the owner's bed ; but 1 suspect she would have parted with her life as quickly as with either of them. "They aro Jameses," she said, "or will be when husband and I are done with them. James is. my nephew, and be's out to Chiny now. He's had lots of pul' backs, James has, or he'd helped us. But you look tired, Mr.-" ..Bradley." "Mr. Bradley, you look zif you doughter be to bed. I'll light you up." Ascending the short flight of stairs, I learned that my room was exactly over the old lady's "settin' " room, as she called it. lhere was a sort of reg ister over it, through which the warmth straggled agreeabjy enough. How ever, I should have dosed it had not a sense of the old lady's unprotected 'situation impressed me, and so i re tired to bed and dreamland, where I wandered lazily until awakened by voices beneath. Evidently the first word bad roused me, for as I sat up in bed, wide awake in an instant, I heard the old lady say in a matter-of-fatt tone "Good-evenin'. Set up to the stove and warm ye." Peeping through the register, I Baw a ragged, unkempt man creep toward the stove, blinking uneasily. He had come np the cellar stairs, not through the outside door, which sufficiently evidenced his predatory intentions. However, had the old lady's visitors it ways made their entranoes tbrongh the cellar she could not have been more at ease than the appeared now at she bustled about, setting him a chair, putting wood into the stove, and other wise, mystifying her midnight caller by ber careless, friendly manner. Admirable as was ber acting, I kne? that she had not dared to retire ; and while regretting that I had not sus pected her intentions, it now seemed wisest to remain where I was unless she should need my assistance, as she probably wonld very soon, I reasoned. Cocking my pistol and otherwise pre paring mj self for the emergency, I sat down on the floor, where I could w&toh the conple without myself being seen. "lt's tumble cold out for a fall night, ain-t it?" "Yes, it is," eaid the man. "Wall, jest set here by the stove while I set the teapot for'ard and git yon somet?an' kinder warmin'. Mebbe you're hungry, too," she added. "Mebbe I be." "Wall then, I'll set onto the table somethin* to eat," she said, moving about the room with a pleasant, bust ling movement which must have filled the burjlar with wonder, as it did me. "There now," she remarked at length, "set right np and make yourself to home. Mebbe you'd Jike to wash, though. I'll git you some warm water outer theteakittle." M Twould seem good. I hain't washed for a week," he replied. "I wanter know 1 Ben trav'Jin' and h ain't had no chance, most like. Here's the soft soap, and there's a cake o' hard I keep for oomp'ny." ..i'll nse the comp'ny soap," said the man with a sardonic laugh. And then he sat down to the table. He must have eaten ravenously, for where I sat I could tee his elbows working rapidly, -?rhile his hostess remarked voluntarily, "Poor creturl How hungry you bel" "It's the first square meal I've had for six weekp," he said with his mouth full. "I wanter know!". And rising, his ?ostess brought from ths pantry a plate of cold meat and set it before lim. But at last the meal was ended, and ?he coupl? sut down by the stove on ipposite sides, she with her knitting, ind he fingering uneasily his old hat. "Say 1" he broke forth at last in the nidst of Eome friendly inquiry re garding the state ol the roads. "Quit 'our foolin'. Yon know what I've ome for. It's that money you've got dd in your bed." "How do you know I've got any here?'' she asked, without a quaver in er voice. "I see yon pack it awa- just before our husband left. Then I crept into be cellar when you wtnt to see him* ff, and here I be come for it. I've ben id there six hours. Come, bustle onad, old lady, and fetch it out, or I ball have to git it myself.." I " l?T 1-U-.x- - I? 1 _ naja , . iptt:a ti?nt V, ':? v tc "l ao? t kuus iin't pi aid for?" "No, and we've ben twenty years a >rapin' together two hundred and lirty-three dollars and one cent, on see Josiah's lame and can't earn inch, and I ain't so smart as I was nee, and we haf to live. The times ot hard jest the wrong time for us. rre used to have enough, and ?so we sed to take a child from tho poor ouso every fivo years and fetch him p. Four of 'em we got staited, and ll smart children, every one, and readful good to me and Josiah.'' "Why don't they help you?" "They'ro jest beginnin' to do for lieirselves, and we don't want 'em to. urnes is in Chiny, Eben's workin' his ray through college, Phihister's lerkin' down to the Corner, and lorace's jest married and cone m [ebt for a littlo place of his own. Jan't you get no work?" "No, I can't. I've tried for weeks, nd tramped miles ; but nobody wants tramp when there's them they know eady to work. " "That's so. I seo how 'tis. I wish couid do for you, but I don't Ree how can. 1 s'pose I might lead you our ick money." "-rick money?" "Yea. We've always kept laid away ifty dollars to bury us "with, which ever goes first, Josiah oi me; but wo Jon't like to speak it right out, aud so ?o call it 'sick money.* I could lend ron that." The man did not reply at first, but ifter awhile said in a strangely altered ;oue : "Do yon really mean that you ?vonld lend mo that money with the ex pectation of getting it back ?" "Yes, I would. I think if you can jet work you wiri pay it back sure." m "Maybo you'd like a not for it." "Of course! I 'most forgot that. Sere's the ink bottle '.nd Josiah's pen ind a half sheet of paper that's scarce ly got a mark on't. Set right here." a.nd the old lady pushed the dishes back into the middle of the table to give him a better chance to write. "You know, don't you, that I oould take the whole of that money yon've got hid between the straw bed and feather bed if 1 wanted?" "Yes, but yon won't, becanse you are too much of a man to steal irom two poor old creturs when you can borry it." "That's so, I be. You shall have that money back if I live, old lady, and int'rest too, I promise ye. 1 feel like a man ag'in, and it's you that made me." "Oh, . o! You was a man afore, but kinder unfortunate, that's all." "Well, hore's your note. I've wrote it to pay in a vear's time? if that will do." ..It will, 'less ono of ns should die, and then 'twonldn't bo aa if we hadn't got that note to show." The man laughed a laugh of amuse ment and relief. 1 watched bim as he went to the door, and this timo his head was up and his shoulders were square. In listening to the colloquy I had entirely forgotten or overlooked the fact that I had constituted myself the guardian of the old lady's slender fortune. What to do I did not know! The man seemed anxious to pay tho borrowed money, and she was ready to trust him. Perhaps I would better let the matter rest as it was, and in case he did not return to pay it in a year pay it myself as a lino for ray negligence, which wonld thea bavo been proved culpable, When I descende J, whioh I did aa poon as the man had been gone several minutes, I found the old lady to be very nervous. "Why!" she said, starting to her feet in alarm at my entrance, "I clean forgot there was anybuddy in the house but me." "So you wish I had oome down be fore and prevented the loan yon made?rt "No, I pitied the poor eretnr' so. He'll pay it back if be can, and if not it'll be jest another orphan we've helped. Most like bein' so old, both of us up'ards of seventy, we shan't do for no more as we have done, and we shall git buried soma way." "Don't worry. If he doesn't pay it I will," was my reply. "You needn't think nothin' about it. I've saved the mortgage money and given a man a lilt on the road to heaven, and I'd oughter be tatiafied. I be satisfied," she said fervently. "And you have reason to be," I said. We did not go to bed, either of us, and in the morning 1 returned to the city. But I did not forget the old lady nor the bnrglar. I felt convinced that he would return the money on the exact date when the noto was given, if at al!, and accordingly, in just one year, I made it convenient to visit tho old lady at her residence. This time I was so fortunate as to see her husband, and I immediately discovered that he was just such an other guileless person as herself. They were expecting the man to pay the note, and it lay ready for him on the mantel when I entered. Sure enough, at ten o'clock a firm, stalwart man walked up to the door, where the old lady met him with a cordial grasp of the hand. "You did git work," she said. "Yes, I did, and it was you that .aved me from crime. I had tried svery way to ?nd something to do un lit that night, and the fifty dollars put me on my feet square and firm. I jot a chance in a shop where I got rood pay, and here's the money and he interest." "The interest 1 I didn't ask you no merest." "But I mean to pay it." I do not know whether he ever heard . hat I was in the house that night or lot. It doesn't matter. I saw him everal times afterward, and he seemed >oth prosperous and honest, and I lon't doubt that he was. Tho fact did lot tend to make me neglect my hobby, rhich was that crime, when it is not a isease, is either the result of inherit d evil tendencies or of misfortune, nd that circumstances keep and make ome men honest and others dishonest, -Waverley Magazine. ome. Once there, Ford 60on found lat a foster mother must be provided >rthe infant, and so a frightened, rembling, bleating she goat was ronght to the house to take the place f the parent he so miased. It was nly after much combined force and ersuo8ion the goat could be induced 3 adopt as her own the unkidlike or* han placed in her care. But the ?me came when foster mother and aster child were as happy and con ant in their relations to each other as ! tho sight of a nimble-looted blue aired "nanny" suckling a clumsy ilack bear cub was of the most ordi iary condition of affairs. The bear, which was named Jack, raxed fat on goat's milk ; and a more locile, tractable beast never grew up mder the guardianship of a humaue md loving master. In the earlier lays of his adoption the baby was a >aby in truth, ile would not be left done. And it would have been a har sr heart than Fo:rd's that could have resisted the pitiful whimper of tho ittle fellow whenever he thought that ie was to be left alono within the louse. Had there been any to see it in those days they would have wit nessed a strange sight. The great, oroad-shonldered man following his 3ock as they grazed on the hunch ??rras8-sometimes five or ?ix miles [rom home-and us he walked the steep mountain side, where it was so almost perpendicular that it seemed that only tho goats themselves could gain a foothold on the rocks, he car ried the oub in his arms. When Jack grew older he was trained to herd the goats. Previously a num ber of dogs had helped Ford, but the bear and the dogs could not agree, and so the dogs had to go. Jack took their place well, and they were never missed. For several years the bear continued to help Ford, until the lat ter sold his ranch ar d prepared to go to his old home in Europe. Then a number of his neighbors tried to buy the bear. Ford refused to sell him, and said that ii ho could not take Jaok with him ho would not go. Tho difficulty about shipping the bear was overcome, and now ho and his master are living contentedly in the old coun try, enjoying the fruits of thir loner, lonesome stay in the California moun tains.-San Francisco Call. Canse a Rmi en Thermometers, "Exiremos in the weather," re marked a druggist who handles a large line of thermometers, "either in cold or heat create a run on thermometers, and though I had a rather large stook on hand, tho fall in thc weather which started on Sunday last nearly cleaned me out. On Monday, 1 think, I sold more thermometers than on any other day that I havo beo.1 in business. Or dinarily people givo but little atten tion to thermometers, but let a very severe change come and they will havo them,it matters not how much they CD- t. I don't exactly understand it, but it appears that many persons are moro thoroughly convinced that it io very oold or extremely warm when they read their own thermometers. Another thing is that they seem to enjoy see ing tho mercury go down or riso an I for that reason like to have the weather measurer in their possession. Trade was exceedingly dull in thermometers, but somehow, though, they are gen erally bought freely at Christmas time, thore were but few purchasers until about Monday last. Then it WM very active."-- Washington Star. ALASKA'S REINDEER THEIR IMPORTATION HAS BEEN A GREAT SUCCESS. ; How a Lapp Protects the Animals From Eskimo Dogs-Kelndeer Solved Alaska's Transpor tation Problem. THERE are reindeer in Alaska. So mach has been kc.own for tiree or four years, for thG Government bought them from the Siberian deermen and put them there. And the reindeer, are flourishing and multiplying. That is the report that comes from the far North from the men who were put in charge of the deer and told to teach the Eskimo how to use and raise them. This verdiot of suocess with tho rein deer is thought to mean great things for Alaska. Just now there's little to' cat in the biggest part of that big country up North. Get up above the Aleutian chain of islands that make stepping stones for giants half way across to Asia, or go over the mount* 1 ain wall that faces the const of South- < er a Alaska, and food must bo got fi om I tba outside, if it's to be had atall. Little ' or notbiog can be raised, wild animals 1 ore Bcarco and cattle couldn't live there 1 even if there was anything for them 1 to eat. 0 t But the reindeer pastures-they're' \ immense! There are 400,000 square ? miles of land covered with the fibrous i white moss, and all on earth it is good t for is to feed reindeer. The pasturo 11 lands run back a thousand miles or i two from Bristol bay and stretch across I the Yukon and far to the north-even r to the ever frozen region of Point Bar- v row. According to the calculations of t Sheldon Jackson, there is pasturage o for 9,200,000 reindeer on the Bad t Lands of Alaska, and as reindeer are worth SO or $10 apiece there is a a chance to do a very respectable busi- r ness in the stock-raising Imo in that f aska. He was an assisted immigrant and had to be protected ngainBt all sorts of dangers besides those found in his native country. The main dangers feared were from the Eskimo dogs, the hungry Eskimo himself and tho loss that would como from neglect of un skillful or careless herders. The Eskimo is little removed from a wolf. He is hungry and savage and the reindeer ?3 entable. Consequently there was trouble. The Eskimo dogs are thick about the station and Eskimo villages. Doge aro a part of Eskimo wealth, ao tho only pack animals of the frozen nort'a up to the arrival of the reindeer, but are easier to get than to feed. So wli2n the reindeer were brought to the Teller Reindeer Sta tion at Pert Clarence the Eskimo dogs made an attack on the herd. They wore ont for gam s and Lad to be driven off again ond again before they learned the lesson that it was not good to at tack the herd. Then they gave their attention to the sled deer that were kept about tho station for hauling. For a time even the presence of men failed to restrain them. One or two deer driven by themselves were too tempting, and for weeks they were liable to Le assailed by a howling pack of ki-yis. The station had brought a party of Lapps to take charge of the reindeer, however, and tho Lapp knows how to deal with dogs. The Lnpp carriec a knife with a blado ten or twelve inches lcng,and has a handy LOADING REINDEER. habit of tiring it.. A witness to the confliot telle how the Lapp deals with tho dogs : "Ihe lapp waB driving a pair of deer. A dozeu great Eskimo dogs thought Ihe time had come for fresh meat and gave chase. Before the Lnpp knew what was coming, Bled and reiudeer were surrounded and the dog? were leaping and barking before thu frightened creature?. The Lapp gave a series of tbouts that frightened ihu tioga lorn moment. Then in the juoment ol respite bo leaped from the hied, ran ro the heads of the deer and Shrew thom with their backs on the ground. Then straddling them and holding their heads erect with his left hand ho drew his great knife in his right. The reindeer could not rife. ?IlLKISa THE REINDEER. ;_ Tn their position they could hardly straggle, and tho Lapp was ready for battle. He had hardly got into posi tion, though tho operation had taken bat a moment, when the dogs were on bim again, eager for reindeer meat. With one sweep the Lapp cut at the Srst two dogs. There was a wild howl Jfpain, a dripping of blood and the iwo leaders lost interest in the right. The other dogs wore nothing daunted jy the fate of the first and still pressed 'orward. The Lapp swung his knife lack and forth with loud cries, and at ?very swing some.dog was yelping with jain and retiring to give his comrades i chance. By the end of a minute here were but two or three dogs on he active list, and with a final whoop he Lapp frightened them into retir pg to a respectful distance. The japp stepped aside and released the eindeers' heads ; in an instant they rere on their feet. He leaped into he sled once more and in a few sec onds only a oloud of snow flying into he air told where he had gone." In case the dogs pluok up spirit for pursuit after a first failure, tho Lapp epeats the prooess of disposing of his oes until enough have been killed or nospitat ?or wounded ipps were always victorious, and no f indeer were killed. After a round a battles and a proper amount of t i?bed skins had taught the dogs, that s indeer were private property there c is no more trouble* The dogs around . e present reindeer station pay no rther attention to them. As tho indeer enlarge their circle to reach her villages, however, the procet-s education has to be repeated. It ill take some years and a good many re hides to teach the canine popula on of Alaska that there is a close ason for reindeer. The herds are safe from the natives, be only reiadeer meat that has gono )wn their throats has come from a imber of reindeer that died /rom ckness. The Eskimo apprentices, not ?ing particular about tmch trifles ns ie cause of death, promply appropri ed the flesh and all else that was ?ewable about the deceased deer, and ade'a holiday feast. Five reindeer ere killed for food for the whites and ie Lapps in the first winter. The thors fared well. The danger of lack of food melted ?ray on the test. There is plenty for ie inorease of centuries. The troubles lat como from untrained herders is , eing gradually lessened. The Eski- | ios are skillful enough, but they learn ( .om the Lapps. Milking, however, , as a trick that the Eskimos had some , ifficulty in acquiring. Before tho ? lapps came some experiments had ( een made, and the first timo that the ( japps attempted to begin the opera ( ipn on a cow she started like a Mash, . saped tho fence, knocked down a , erder and ran away. On inquiry it } ras learned that tho customary way >f milking had been to lasso the se eded cow, throw her down and while bree men held her on the ground the ourth drew the milk. Tho cows had pparently acquired a prejudice againet ho operation, and it took nearly a year o convince them that milking was a larmiess, pleasant exeroise in no way o be regarded as a signal for a riot. According to the enthusiasts the lome8tic reindeer aro going to solve ?he transpoitation problem for Alaska is well as the food problem for the Eskimo. The dog teams are expensive ?arriera and not efficient either. Al iska is a land of magnificent distances, ?vith settlements hundreds of miles ipart. The dog toaras can travel only Eifteen to twenty-five miles a day, can jorry only a few hundred poundp, and as food for their support must be packed, they c.-innot make very long journeys. Beindeer can travel farther in a day, draw much heavier loads, ana in camp can forage for themselves. So the reindeer team, the sled and the Layland harness will soon become as tyjical of Alaska in tho front pages of the school geography as of Lapland. Bm just now there is a call for a few thousand moro reindeer. If they can be?ecured the herd will iucrease at n rodd rate. Just now it is slow, as thee are only five or six hundred cong at be stations. So it will bo some tine before the 9,200,000 reindeer will daiken the Alaskan 6nows and strain th( capacities of the Alaskan mo-s pas tuts.-San Francisco Examiner. - tm - Soston has a society of direct de HCftdauts of pa89tncfers on the luemor abe trip of the Mayflower to Plymouth, ltias already 118 membersaud pearl} 101 other persons havo been author ize! to file their pioofa of eligibility touembership. TUi? ?IODE KN PARLOR, Wlierola lt Dlflers From That of tho Past-Us Proper Furnishings. The improvement ia public taste iu this country during the past few years is shoMn in few ways more strikingly than in furnishing of the parlor. In thu olden times, when \ousea were heated with difficulty by open fire places or little wood stoves, it became tiie custom in winter time to ehut off the portions of the house that were not needed for living purposes for economy of fuel. The parlor waa not a necessary place for fumily use, as the household generally gathered for com fort in the kitchen or dining-room. Therefore the parlor waa the first room to bo closed on tho approach of winter, and tho last to be opened on the advent of ?ummer. It is tcarcely a generation ago, and weil within tho memory of persons of moderate age, that the par lor was darkened day and night, hold *?TiSTECTIVE VIEW. ing no attractions for members of the I < household. . The most crying fault in j ] the American house of moderate di- ( mensions is still that tho parlor is t made too formal, and is not given the f true home atmosphere. From the architectural arrangement } of most detached houses the parlor is \ rarely one of the best lighted rooms- 1 nor is there any need that it should be - -nor is it generally as well provided with artificial heat. For these reasons it isa mistake to furnish in cold tones, inch as white and gold. Delightful is the contemplation of such a room s, it ie not comfortable nor home ike, nor is it worth the time aud pa ience it rrquires to preserve it in the nidst of a full-fledged nest of young Lmericans, The color scheme is the most im ?ortant part of furnishing; there houid be a certain warmth in color . ng, and this will rarely be found in ;ilt papers or moquette carpets. If he rest of the house be simply fur i ii bed the parlor can still be elegaut "th matting and rucrs on the flnnr. . ew largo pictures hung tc??.?.. bove the liue of vision is tho usual reatraent-and the result is depress ing to a degree. The wall should be overod as fully as possible with pic VTP<!T 17.001!. tures, and plenty of small ones Bhould be interspersed in order to give diver sity and informality. The mantels should be weil rilled with objects of irt, and none of them should be triv al. Abovo all there should be plenty rf books in the book case ; not ponder ous gift books, blazing with gilt and {Umped leather, but books to read iud books that ar9 talked about. It .hould be remembered that there are no better aids to furnishing any living room, than a supply of prettily bound books. The accompanying plan provides a parlor of attractive shape and size that lends itself to the treatment indi cated above. The wood work is painted a deep cream and the walls, coral ; tho floor is stained a deep red brown, or cov ered with "old rose" or "dark copper" KECONT? FLOOK. felt, which helps to lighten or Bofteu ibo eileot of the decoration, and can be overlaid with ruga. The general dimensions of this de sign ar? : Width, thronch library and kitohen thirty-threw feet ten iuehes; depth, forty pix feet six indies, including veranda. BeijbtBO* stories: Cellar, Beveu feet; first floor, niuo feet six wobei; i-ecund floor, nina feet. Exterior materials ; Foundation, stone; first story, clapboards; second story, gables and roofs, shingles. Interior finish : Two coats plaster, hard white finish ; maple wood floor ing; trimming, North Carolina pine; staircase, ash. All interior woodwork grain filled and finished in hard oil varnish. A careful selection of colors for painting have been selected by the architects, the plan and accommoda tion being one of unusual merit. . The cost to build is 34000, cot in cluding manteb, range and heating apparatus. -Copyright 1897. A MODEL HAt?FKAU. Quiet TaMos and Domesticity of the Empress of Germany. It is stated by a writer who is in a position to know, that there is no snobbishness about Augusta Victoria, Empress of Germany. All through the German Empire the Empress is cited as a model hansfrau. She never interests herself in matters of State, but gives her whole attention to her large family of children. About the only affairs outside of tho royal home in which she interests herself are her charitable works, which she person ally attends to. Augusta Viotoria was not accustomed to luxury when she was a girl, and it is all tho more cred itable to her that Bhe bas not been 3poiled by her change in circum stances. Her father was Dnko Fred erick of Schleswig-HolsteinSonder burg. It was an obscure and shabby little conrt there, and Augusta and lier three sisters well knew how to practice all the little domestic econo- 1 nies which the families of impecuni- ! )us German nobles are BO often com pelled to resort to. Although a duke's ? laughter, she learned to bake and : iew and darn and make over her own rocks. I But, the day arrived when Prince ? gilliam, destined to become kaiser, fated the court of Primkenau. Prince . Gilliam looked with admiration on t n - EW FORTBA?T. OF THE GEB?IA?? EMPRESS. I ~\ ie modest and comely Augusta Vic- c iria. lt took him a short time to (. take up his mind that she would make ] n ideal wife. He returnfd for a seo- t nd visit, and was a suitor for h t and. They were married at Berlin Q mid pomp and display. She has now fl een married about sixteen years. ? ome of the moro brilliant women of j be royal German family, such us the ?mperor's sister, Charlotte of Saxe- ? leiningen, and his mothei, the Em- ? ress Frederick, regard Augusta Vic- ^ oritt as dull and stupid. But her ? mbition is only to be a devoted wifo nd mother._ c Highest Hotel m Hie World. The highest hotel in the. world is ir t he Himalayas of Western Thibet. It t s what is known as the Sevai at Zin- i ;rai located in tho Chang-la, a pass in i jadak or Western Thibet. The baild- j ng is over 16.00J feet above the level c if the sea. The extreme height of the j >ass in which it is located is 18,368 j eet. Villages are situated at either g ?nd of the pass. Chimary on the one t ide is 12,400 feet above the oe* level, t vhile Durgu on the otuer side is 14,500 y 16,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL. feet. Tho building is a square block with a central courtyard. The walls are of great thickness and built of massive rough-hewn and irregular blocks of stone quarried in the vicinity. Like most Oriental dwellings the roof is flat. Its surroundings are neces sarily cheerless, for it stands thou sands of feet above the timber line in a zone of perpetual cold and barren ness. _ _ ' A Costly Suit of Clothes. One hundred thousand dollars for a suit of clothes is tho latest yarn from Idaho. Five years ago Morris ?enzel, a taiior iu Moscow, in that State,made a suit of clothes for a miner, taking in payment 5U00 shares of Leroi stock, theu quoted at a cent a share. An English syndicate now wanta to buy the Leori mine, but refused to do so unless it could get all the stock is sued. Tho 5000 shares were advertised for, and sudden ;y it dawned on the tailor that he had them. He has de manded $20 a share for his holding. Cost of Garbage Buming. Tho city of Lowell, Mass., with a population ot about 80,000 inhabi tants barns its garbage for about eighty cents a ton. Tho cost ol operating i's plant for ono week, during which 100 tous of garbage wa* burnell, was $SA73. Burning at the rate of 10J tons par week, the cost of operatiog ?neu u luruaoo ia about $4200 per year. MOTHERS READ THIS. The Best Remedy. I For Flatulent CoHc, Diarrhoa, Dysen tery, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera In fantum, Teething Children, Cholera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from the Bowels, Fains, Griping, i0E3 0f Appetite, Indigestion and all Dis eases of the Stomach and Bcwclj. PITT'S CARMINATIVE e [ls thc standard. It carries children over the critical period of teething, and ls recommended hy physicians as toe friend of Mothers, Adnlts and Children. It fs pleasant To the taste, and never fails to give satisfaction. A few doses will demonstrate its BU? perlative virtues. Price, 25 ct?, per A bottle. For sale by druggists. WOEDS OF WISDOM. The way to get a better position is to moro than fill your present one. It takes a higher degree of courage co be laughed at than to be shot at. The man who rides a hobby thinks nobody else is making any headway. The man who knows himself well will know a good deal about other men. To sneer at religion is to make it that much harder for somebody to bo 50 od. A jury of ravens would not be long In declaring that a linnet could not ling. When self-righteousness gets up in he night to pray nobody else can ileep. The degree of every man's manhood s determined by how much he say t> no 0 himself. It takes baokbone to take any kind >f a stand that will loare a man stand ng alone. Religion is in a bad way where no Jody is being persecuted for right eousness's sake. Love is dead when the husband be fins to grndge the money it takes to upport his wife. More of that kind of religion is leeded that will make a man do right very day in the week. A much better thing for the church han star preaching is good wholesome ersonal influence.-Ram's Horn. Pnssy's Diuuer Flew Away. I umA. "ivt-k, 7. u thc* sn ? v,ua al* eady pretty thick and still falling, Jhico came into the kitchen looking Qigbty well fed, and bringing an ap >arently dead sparrow m his mouth. ?he cat had evidently made ' a pretty neal, but had an eyo to future con ingenoies, so he deposited the bird in ,n overturned basket in the corner ,nd went out. Presently he came in gain with another bird, deposited it u the basket and went ont, to reap >ear still again, loaded as before. In act, these trips kept up till ten or a lozen sparrows had been placed in the )asket, and then Chico curled up inder the stove to take a snooze. The kitchen is a pretty comfortable me and by-and-by things began to get cind of lively in the basket, as the ?eat got in its little work of restoring o life the half-frozen birds. First one hen another of tho sparrows turned ?eels under, stretched his stiffened egs, spread his wings and came to. ?resently the whole catch were up and int, fluttering about tho room, perch ng on the shelves, helping themselves 0 crumbs and feeling quite at home ;enerally. Indeed, they waxed gay, ind set up such a chirping that they ?.wakened Chico from his snooze, and ivben the big fellow arched his back, itretched himself and made for the jasket, thinking to refresh the inner :at with a toothsome sparrow, such a look of astonishment depicted itself jn his features as was never seen. But the birds wore by no means slow to take in the situation. At Chico's first move they began to txake themselves scarce, and before he recovered from his astonishment the last one had Hewn, trusting rather the ills they knew not than a catas trophe they wot of. But if ever a cat was fooled, Chico was. Ho stayed by the basket all day, and refused to be comforted because the birds tWre not there. No doubt the next time he linds a good thing he'll hold on to it, and let the "rainy day" look out for itself. m^m r Force ot tiraritr Varies. The variations in the force of grav ity have been studied by Herr Hel mert, a Prussian physicist, from ob servations at twenty-two stations along a line from Kolberg to the Sohneekoppe. The results show that an abnormal increase in the gravity can be traced to the presence of dense rock masses below the surface, and an abnormal decrease to the substitution of lighter materials. Certain assump tions make it possible to estimate the thickness of these subterranean strata. On the Pomeranian lake plateau a layer about 230 yards thick gives increased intensity, while near the Schneekoppe a decrease where the surface density is not lower is probably due to subterranean layers moro than 200 yards thick. The disturbing ele ments are probably not deeper than twenty or twenty-five miles.-Trenton * CS. J.) American. Pater's Strange Vehicle. Peter O'Shaughnessy, a prospector of Anaconda, Montana, while at work in Sheep Gulch last Monday, started a landslide at an elevation o? 4000 feet. With rare presence of mind O'Shaughnessy sat astride of his shovel and, with the exception of a few bruises, rode safely to the bottom - Salt Lake Tribune.